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Water Bell in Begusarai Government Schools
This is how WATER BELL started in Begusarai Goverment Schools
I am pleased to inform you that the Water Bell Concept is going to initiate for the very first time in our school MS Bihat, Barauni in the state Bihar with the permission of H.M. Sir Ranjan Kumar.
Other than this, this process is already running in states Kerela, Karnataka, and Telangana. The concept started from a primary school in Kerela.
The idea of Water bell has emerged because of the rise in diseases among the people due to less intake of water.
In India, doctors say that children especially girls, avoid drinking water due to lack of clean and adequate toilet facilities in the schools. This often leads to complaints of mild dehydration and in many cases urinary infections.
There is no official order to implement this initiative.
Water Bell is mandatory once in a day, other than regular days of school. (If there is exams or any other important activities going on in the school)
Daily Timings of Water Bell
1. 1100
2. Before MDM
Benefits of Drinking Water
• Carrying nutrients and oxygen to our cells
• Flushing bacteria from our bladder
• Aiding digestion
• Preventing Constipation
• Normalizing Blood Pressure
• Stabilizing the heartbeat
• Cushioning Joints
• Protecting organs and tissues
• Regulating body temperature
• Maintaining Electrolyte (Sodium) Balance.
Warning Signs of Dehydration
It includes weakness, low BP, dizziness, confusion, or urine that's dark in color.
Parameters of Water
I am going to explore and build discussion more about Parameters along with Baal Sansad, Baal Sabha, & Meena Manch members concerning below elements permissible limits in drinking water.
Color, odor, pH, total dissolved solids, hardness, alkalinity, elemental compounds such as iron, manganese, sulfate, nitrate, chloride, fluoride, arsenic, chromium, copper, cyanide, lead, mercury, zinc and coliform bacteria.
Facts and Suggestions
• 60% of body weight is made up of water.
• 3.7 liter for men; 2.7 liters for women;
• 8 glass of water a day.
• Students shouldn't be forced by teachers to drink water during the water bell.
Things to ponder upon WATER BELL for BEGUSARAI Government Schools
The above document was the first draft of the process. Within the period of a fortnight, the water bell was adopted by 15 plus government schools of Begusarai.
REAL-LIFE INCIDENTS SHARING
Sharing real-life incidents were my major support while describing the benefits of drinking water to the students. It was easy for the students to connect with me & vice-versa.
EXPERIENCE I
 I told my school days incident, that I was the one among the girls who fainted in assembly two times in 11th standard that was due to irregular intake of water or unawareness about the permissible quantity should be taken.
 While recalling the above occurrence, Questions were asked in the assembly itself who has ever felt it. There were several responses to every school's assembly. Girls kept on fainting on every other day, It can be because of less water intake or might be because of any other reason which we can't able to figure out so easily. Why not we can take care of our water intake? So it was very easy for them to come on the same page as I was.
 From every school, there is one teacher mostly PT teacher who used to explain the uses of drinking water correctly at a particular temperature, at a particular time. These teachers help a lot the water bell to be adapted as a process by the students.
EXPERIENCE II
 I along with my block partner Ajay went to the school, Middle School Maidabhabangama, Barauni. The headmaster was aligned with our process. But as soon as we approached the girls' class to tell about Water bell, after an interaction with girls of 9th class, we came to know that there was no functional toilet in that school. Teachers also stated the same thing. I also observed the toilet areas, that day (second time). It was in pathetic condition. Only boys use that space, that was too open.
 We talked to Headmaster sir, Sir it is one of the main criteria of the Water Bell Process that your school should have a separate toilet for girls and boys. Let's forget about the water bell, Toilet is one of the basic requirement of school infrastructure. And we should also think about the female teachers in the school, The school strength is approximately 1100.
 I also told my earlier experience in that school in the assessment when I need to leave from the school as there was no functional toilet (Ist time). After listening to the girls along with me and teachers, Sir promised that Toilet will be constructed at their earliest convenience. And separate Toilets were constructed in January with the help of the most impeccable tool of our organization ie Influence without Authority.
EXPERIENCE III
 When I was doing my second School Ecosystem Immersion (SEI), ie. The first process of Gandhi fellowship. I was observing Chaturmasa fast at that time. So I was having one meal a day & I need to balance my soul and body together with the help of water intake.
 At that time it was a very bad experience for me to not use the toilet because of the non-functionality of the toilets in that respective school (Middle School Kankaul, Begusarai). Most of the time I need to leave school when there is an urgency to go to the toilet.
 After a week, I thought of talking to the headmaster as he was having a toilet keys with him. After talking to Headmaster I was able to unlock girls' toilets in the school, but that was too in vain as there were no water taps in the washrooms and handpump was too far from the washroom, was in front of Headmaster's office.
 Twenty days pass by this way, in that school. When the water bell concept was discussed with some of the school teachers. I can correlate with the pain, female teachers have to go with no functional toilet in the school premises. School Ecosystem Immersion process helps me a lot to build an understanding of what a teacher, student, and headmaster need to go to while being in school to cater to their roles and responsibilities.
EXPERIENCE IV
 When I told Cluster resource coordinator Rakesh Rajak Ji about the process, he immediately responded with a big yes to implement it in both demo schools. This was the first time when I was approaching a CRCC for this purpose, as Middle School Baro's Headmaster was on leave for her daughter's wedding.
 There were several rumors were spreading in the school because in the past week several girls fainted during assembly. These casualties might be because of any reason but students have connected them to ghosts. CRCC sir invited me to tell you about the benefits of drinking water for the school students. I along with Ajay went there and told about the water bell process. Rumors vanished in a week. Now students were more conscious about water intake intervals and the benefits of drinking water.
What Water Bell Incorporates along with it?
 Functional separate toilet for girls and boys
 Potable water facility in every school premises which adopted the process
 RO + UV water purifier to be installed in some schools soon
 Students leaving classrooms for drinking water, this time can be utilized in studies
 Causalities caused because of mild Dehydration can be minimized
 General awareness about daily water intake with the right approach
Proud Moments
 Middle School Gadhara, distributed water bottles to students who forget to bring a water bottle in the water bottle in the initial days of the newly adopted process.
 Middle School Maidabhabhangama, constructed toilet separate for boys and girls with the effect of the Water Bell process.
 Students in their respective communities started creating awareness about drinking water.
 Middle School Bihat got recognized on the national level by NCERT for incorporating Water Bell as a school process along with other commendable works of the school.
 Water Bell in Bihar begged first-page space in the National newspaper, Times of India.
Link: https://m.timesofindia.com/city/patna/water-bell-for-begusarai-schoolkids/articleshow/72390239.cms
 The process was started in winters as Phase I. After the successful incorporation of the process I want to work on it in Phase II ie in Academic Year 2020-2021.
 In India, doctors say that children especially girls, avoid drinking water due to lack of clean and adequate facilities in the schools. This often leads complaints of mild dehydration and in many cases urinary infections. This small initiative will lead to Equality in future.
 During a meeting with Begusarai District Magistrate (Arvind Kumar Verma ), This process gets a clean chit to be implemented in all government schools of Begusarai. I am willing to work on this along with some other new ideas when schools will be re-open after the pandemic caused by Covid-19.
Priyanka Kaushik
Gandhi Fellow (Batch 12), Begusarai (Bihar)
Piramal Foundation for Education Leadership
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As translators often like to get sucked into Wikipedia or other world-knowledge-accumulating online resources, they do not need a hefty reason for it. The time of the year will do. And as we all know, the darkest time of the year on the northern hemisphere brings along a chance to catch a glimpse of Santa's minions, the Christmas elves. And, boy, do these guys have an interesting history! The following is a summary of my brief dip, turned several hours, into the Nordic terminology of the stalking yet helpful, tiny yet powerful bearded creatures, and to the concept of what is now known as Santa Claus.
For a long time, the folks in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland have lived with little fellows coined tomte, nisse and tonttu. Back in the day, these guys used to inhabit farms with the farmers and keep an eye on the farm dwellers' behaviour. The hobs displayed temperament and powers sufficient to guard the farm workers' work ethics. The Swedish name tomte is allegedly derived from tomt, a plot of land. Why? The gnome of the farm was apparently seen as an embodiment of the spirit of the original farmer who had cleared the plot. With the equivalent Finnish words being tonttu and tontti, the Swedish motivation for the term also makes perfect sense to Finns.
As for nisse, encountered in Denmark and Norway, it is an interesting question whether the name has its roots in nixie, a shape-shifting water spirit (näkki in Finnish). The term nisse is also in use in Finnish. In the Christmas song Nissen polkka, the term most likely refers to a farm hob. Kielitoimiston sanakirja (The Dictionary of the Finnish Language Office) includes two definitions for nisse: a young assistant waiter in a restaurant or a gingerbread man.
Later, brownies took over the Christmas gift delivery duties in households, and — fused with the English 16th-century Father Christmas tradition that swept over the Nordic Countries — yielded the job titles jultomte, julenisse and joulutonttu. Due to this blending, the Swedish term jultomte appears to be reserved for Santa Claus, while the members of his staff go by the name tomtenisse. The new distributor of presents eventually replaced the Yule Goat, which was known as julbock in Sweden and must have done a pretty bad job, as a giant straw figure of a goat, erected on the first Sunday of Advent, is burned down in Gävle every year. In Finnish, a mirroring term joulupukki is still in use, but it refers to Santa Claus himself.
Speaking of gift giving — Santa Claus, elves and goats were preceded by Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century Greek bishop living in the part of the Roman Empire which is now known as Anatolia, the Asian part of Turkey. He became known for his knack for spreading joy in parcels large and small. He is merited as the prototype after which Sinterklaas and, ultimately, the present-day Santa were modelled.
The concept of this enlightened Christmas chap is a remarkable example of conceptual blending that integrates layers of several cultures, traditions and terms, all contributing new properties to the mix — a mix that continues to confuse adults and fool children. This whirlpool of a concept that is Santa Claus keeps on absorbing new structure as people elaborate on the concept. St. Nicholas probably never saw a reindeer in his life and farm brownies were allegedly only under a metre tall, but we have no problem with Santa arriving on a flying sled and entering through the chimney in some cultures — despite his waistline now equalling the length of a few elves.
It should be stressed that the collection of terms and traditions covered in this piece of bloggery is by no means exhaustive and that the sources referred to during its drafting were Wikipedia and Kielitoimiston sanakirja (on-line version). For more on conceptual blending, see The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind's Hidden Complexities by Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner (2002).
If you wish to share your knowledge related to these Christmas traditions in your native country, feel free to leave a comment. Regardless of whether you believe in Santa Claus or not, have a merry Christmastide, or happy holidays, as they say.


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👋 Good Friday morning!
Yesterday brought the second blow of the week for investment giant Morningstar, as a group of Republican financial officers from 17 states sent a letter to the company claiming its environmental, sustainable and governance scores system is "deeply infused with anti-Israel bias" in "apparent alignment with the Boycott, Divestment [and] Sanctions (BDS) movement."
Morningstar has come under scrutiny in recent months for the ESG products provided by its subsidiary, Sustainalytics. The company has pledged to implement reforms, while denying that it supports the BDS movement.
"Many of our states have investments in Israel, and we view Sustainalytics' practices [as] a direct attack on those investments," the letter, obtained by Jewish Insider, reads. "As Americans who strongly support Israel – a close democratic ally of the United States – we are also deeply disturbed by a corporate culture at Morningstar that would allow researchers to rely on sources aligned with the anti-Semitic BDS movement."
The letter alleges that state contractors "rely upon Morningstar and other firms for unbiased financial research" and that "as state financial officers, we have a fiduciary duty to ensure that the financial research our respective states rely upon is based on sound financial principles rather than BDS movement tactics."
The letter follows our scoop earlier this week that Arizona's state treasurer — one of the signatories to the most recent letter — notified Morningstar last week that she intends to blacklist Morningstar under anti-BDS legislation, the first state to do so. Some of the signatories to the Thursday letter are responsible for maintaining their states' respective anti-BDS registries.
The BDS-related criticisms of ESG investing come amid a recent broader push by Republicans against ESG and other manifestations of "woke capitalism" — what Bloomberg describes as an effort to "to wipe ESG off the financial map."
The group that organized the letter, the State Financial Officers Foundation, a group of Republican state officials, has been critical of ESG investing more broadly, as have some of the individual signatories.
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Auburn hoops coach Bruce Pearl: 'Even in the midst of 1,000 rockets, we felt safe'
Head coach Bruce Pearl of the Auburn Tigers celebrates by cutting down the nets after their 77-71 win over the Kentucky Wildcats in the 2019 NCAA Basketball Tournament Midwest Regional at Sprint Center on March 31, 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.
In March, Auburn University men's head basketball coach Bruce Pearl was asked during a press conference if he and his team would be joining the pledge started by Stanford University women's head basketball coach Tara VanDerveer to donate $10 to Ukraine for every three-pointer sunk during March Madness. His answer, which was ultimately a "yes," was given by way of a semi-long-winded explanation of the Purim story. In a nutshell: Queen Esther saved her people despite being safe herself in the castle, so he too would give help to Ukraine, despite not facing the same threats at home.
The connection between Purim, Ukraine and sports may not have seemed abundantly clear at first, but for Pearl, Judaism and basketball have long gone hand-in-hand. A strong supporter of Israel, the Boston native has visited the country on several occasions — often as part of Jewish-Christian interfaith missions, but most recently with his team from Auburn, where they both toured the country earlier this month and faced off against Israel's national teams, Pearl recalled during an interview with Jewish Insider's "Limited Liability Podcast."
Bringing the Bible to life: "It very much brought their Bible alive. And if it wasn't their Bible, it was their mom's Bible or their grandmother's Bible, somebody in their family is a churchgoer, and they got to see and feel [that] themselves," Pearl said, referring to how the trip touched his players. "And then the next day, it was the Western Wall, and it was the City of David, and it was Yad Vashem. And we focused on some of these Jewish, historical, religious sites, and they got that."
A passion for Israel: Seeing his players in Israel was important to Pearl not only as their coach, but also as someone with deep love for the country. Pearl told podcast co-host Rich Goldberg that one of his passions is gaining allies for the Jewish people and for Israel.
Teaching positivity: "I'm not trying to change the hearts and souls and minds of the people that hate us, because they hate us. They've been taught to hate us and it's really hard to change those minds. But there are a lot of people that don't know, that haven't been affected yet, that may be on the fence or that someday are going to face and see some real antisemitism, or experience some Israel hate. And now these kids are going to be in a position to handle it a little differently," he said.
'Let them experience it': "Honestly, you don't need to do much persuading. Just let the kids, let people see it, let them experience [it]. Let them see how much the people there love the land, love their history, love their country," he added.
Read more and listen to the podcast here.
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The Irish Jewish activist hoping to be the youngest state senator in Massachusetts
Sydney Levin-Epstein
Growing up in Western Massachusetts, Sydney Levin-Epstein had a unique weekend routine. Each Saturday morning, she went to Shabbat services in Springfield, a nod to her father's religion. When the service ended, she would wait with her rabbi for her parents to pick her up and take her to Irish dance classes — a hobby inherited from her mother's culture. Now, after several years away in Washington, D.C., the 27-year-old Levin-Epstein is back in her hometown of Longmeadow, Mass., mounting a bid for the Massachusetts state Senate.
Relentless approach: "Being raised in a Jewish household with Irish practices gave me this brutal and relentless attitude to life. I really can handle anything," she told Jewish Insider's Gabby Deutch over coffee in Boston, the city where Levin-Epstein hopes to work — and to disrupt — as a politician from the oft-forgotten western part of the state. Central to Levin-Epstein's campaign is a strongly held belief that Western Massachusetts is too often forgotten by the state's power brokers on Beacon Hill, leaving much of the state isolated from the economic and cultural power in Boston.
In his shoes: Levin-Epstein, a Democrat, hopes to follow in the footsteps of Eric Lesser, her longtime neighbor and the district's current state senator, who bowed out of his seat to run for lieutenant governor in the Bay State's Sept. 6 primaries. Lesser, who also grew up heavily steeped in the Jewish community around Springfield, was first elected at age 29.
It's personal: For Levin-Epstein and her family, the economic issues she hopes to fight are personal. Her family owned a sporting goods store that shuttered when she was in high school due to the opening of big-box stores such as Walmart and Dick's Sporting Goods. Her father closed the store when the family could no longer afford health insurance. He got a job as a TSA agent at the nearby Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. She wanted to go to school out of state, but needed to save money first. She spent a year at a community college in Springfield while working odd jobs that included babysitting and even a stint in a Tweety Bird costume at Six Flags New England in Springfield. She then transferred to The George Washington University.
Jewish roots: Levin-Epstein quickly got involved in Jewish life at GW, and in particular pro-Israel advocacy on campus. Her father had made aliyah and served in the Israel Defense Forces after he graduated from college, but "I didn't have an appreciation of this until I started to just deepen my understanding of what it means to be a Zionist, and to be a Jewish woman in the political space," she said. "I found my voice by advocating for the U.S.-Israel relationship as an undergrad, and it helped me understand the political landscape through different trainings that were available to college students," she said, noting that she spent time with the campus chapters of both AIPAC and J Street, and on the student board of GW Hillel.
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In Basel, World Zionist Organization to mark Herzl's vision 125 years on
The Zionist Congress was established in 1897 by Theodor Herzl as the supreme organ of the Zionist Organization (ZO). (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
More than 1,200 philanthropists, leaders, politicians and entrepreneurs from 38 countries will gather in Basel, Switzerland, on Sunday and Monday to celebrate 125 years since Theodore Herzl convened the first World Zionist Congress there and set in motion a movement that would result in the modern-day State of Israel, Lev Gringauz reports for eJewishPhilanthropy.
Past, present, future: "Words cannot describe the excitement and emotion," Yaakov Hagoel, chairman of the World Zionist Organization, which is hosting the conference, told eJewishPhilanthropy. "We're not only going to be dealing with the historical facts, but we are going to be looking into the future…of the Zionist movement." Hagoel sees Jewish unity as a defining issue for this year's conference, alongside concerns about antisemitism; encouraging Jews worldwide to learn more Hebrew and move to Israel; and countering what he sees as Jewish assimilation and loss of identity.
Back to the beginning: The gala for this year's conference will be held at the Stadtcasino Concert Hall, where the original World Zionist Congress met. The rest of the conference features a variety of panels and speakers, ranging from Yossi Cohen, former director of the Mossad and current head of Israel investment for the Japanese firm Softbank, to Judge Ruchie Freier in Brooklyn, dubbed the "hasidic superwoman of night court" by The New York Times.
Still relevant: Another speaker, professor Yedidia Stern, president of the Jewish People Policy Institute, will explore the lessons that Jews should take away from Herzl's original congress: namely, how to address widespread divisions in Israel and the broader Jewish world over matters of Jewish identity, Zionism and politics. Herzl managed, "despite all the disputes, to reenergize the idea…that Jews can act together to achieve their goals," Stern said. 'The main lesson is commitment to democracy, commitment to rules of the game in an era of disputes."
🛫 Kingdom Come: In the Wall Street Journal, David Shuker, who fled his home country of Saudi Arabia in 1948, makes a public plea to be allowed to visit the kingdom while he is still physically able. "After the State of Israel was established in 1948, the Jews were called by the king's representatives to gather in the main square. A convoy of camels was waiting there for 260 people, mostly children like me. I was born in 1944. Our families' belongings were loaded onto the camels and before sunset we began walking toward the Yemeni border. As my 80th birthday approaches, I long to return, to see my parents' home and pray at the graves of my ancestors. I am eager to refresh the memories of my happy childhood, to taste once again the sweet dates, and to see the 'Qasr al-Yahud,' Castle of the Jews, in a city that has expanded and developed dramatically since we left. It was painful to learn about the missiles launched by the Houthis against Najran in the last few years, and I'm glad to know that most of the damage has been repaired." [WSJ]
🎭 A Passion Play for Today:The New York Times' Michael Paulson visits Oberammergau, Germany, which has staged a passion play roughly every decade since the early 17th century, though some central themes, depictions and restrictions have changed in recent years. "All the male Jewish characters, whether they support Jesus or oppose him, wear skullcaps. (At a dinner this month, Passion Play actors and American Jewish college students traded tips on how best to keep skullcaps from falling off.) Jesus recites several blessings in Hebrew, and, in an innovation first introduced in 2010, the entire Jewish community — meaning hundreds of actors onstage — sings Shema Yisrael, the quintessential Jewish prayer. The blood curse has been dropped, and Jesus' death sentence is pronounced and performed by the Roman government — at one point, Pilate is shown making a slashing motion across his neck as he floats the idea to high priest Caiaphas — with support from some, but not all, in the Jewish community." [NYTimes]
🗳 Center Lane: The Washington Post's James Hohmann assesses the state of the Democratic Party following Dan Goldman's primary victory in New York's 10th Congressional District, which saw the impeachment attorney running against incumbents who lean to the left of the party. "Goldman does not have the standard profile of a Democratic congressman from Manhattan. An heir to the Levi Strauss fortune, he invested $4 million of his own money to outspend his nearest rival threefold in the world's most expensive media market. Financial disclosures put Goldman's net worth as high as $253 million. That's a lot of blue jeans. But his relentless focus on stopping Trump — now or later — made up for any shortcomings on ideology. All this suggests Democrats see an advantage in a more moderated message — away from the socialist fringe that seemed fashionable after 2018, and toward a center that can lure independents and Republicans offended by Trumpism." [WashPost]
🇪🇬 Tough Neighborhood: Haaretz's Zvi Bar-El considers the challenges facing the Israel-Egypt relationship, amid Israel's evolving relationships in the region and against the backdrop of recent tensions between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. "Every time Egypt is asked to mediate between Israel and Palestinian organizations in Gaza, the fragile balance between Islamic Jihad and Hamas, and between them and Israel's pressure and threats, is put to the test – as are Egypt's diplomatic abilities. Maintaining this balance always exacts a price, whether it means promises to invest in Gaza, issuing more work permits, making it easier for construction material and other goods to enter Gaza, or releasing prisoners." [Haaretz]
⚖ International Incident: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is facing a lawsuit in a U.S. court from survivors and families of victims of the 1988 government crackdowns overseen by Raisi.
💪 Strong Defense: Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz, at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for the first visit by a sitting Israeli defense minister to CENTCOM, said Washington and Jerusalem will "continue to expand cooperation in the face of Iran's aggression."
🕍 Homecoming: The Jewish community of Helena, Mont., closed on the purchase of the state's first synagogue, built in 1891 and eventually sold to the city before coming under the ownership of Helena's Roman Catholic Diocese.
🎞 Great Escape: Oscar-winning director Aaron Schneider will helm "Untold," which chronicles the life of Holocaust survivor Rudi Vrba, the first prisoner to escape from Auschwitz.
🎥 Arthouse Buy: Cohen Media Group announced the acquisition of HanWay Films.
🚀 Marching Orders: Militants in Rafah in the Gaza Strip held a parade in which they displayed life-sized replicas of rockets and posters of slain commanders, weeks after a military conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
☢ Vienna View: Mossad head David Barnea said that a revived nuclear deal with Iran would be "a strategic disaster" for Israel.
✍ Militant Indicted: Israel filed terror charges against Bassam al-Saadi, a senior member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad who was arrested earlier this month in the West Bank.
💼 Transition: Herbie Ziskend, who has served as a senior communications advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris, will join the White House as a deputy communications director.
🕯 Remembering: Political scientist Howard Rosenthal, who taught at Princeton, NYU and Carnegie Mellon, died at 83. Sports agent Howard Slusher, known for his stubborn negotiating tactics, died at 85.
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Students from the YULA Boys High School, a yeshiva in Los Angeles, line up and celebrate teacher Julio Castro (center), as they surprise him after raising $30,000 to buy a new car for Castro, who normally commutes by bus or scooter.
Freada Kapor Klein, left, and her husband Mitch Kapor are photographed at the new Kapor Center on Thursday, July 14, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group) (Photo by MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images)
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Q: Using adb shell command to test apps, how to make it continue even one of the test fails? I am testing an Android app using command like:
adb shell am instrument -w -e class net.mandaria.test.TippyTipperTest,net.mandaria.test.TippyTipperTest2,net.mandaria.test.TippyTipperTest3 net.mandaria.test/android.test.InstrumentationTestRunner

However, when one of the tests fails, the entire test execution stops. For example, if the first test "net.mandaria.test.TippyTipperTest" fails, I got this output:
net.mandaria.test.TippyTipperTest:INSTRUMENTATION_RESULT: shortMsg=junit.framework.AssertionFailedError
INSTRUMENTATION_RESULT: longMsg=junit.framework.AssertionFailedError: shows enter
INSTRUMENTATION_CODE: 0

My question is:
how can I make it continue to run all the tests, even if the first one fails?

A: If you use AndroidJUnitRunner:
$ adb shell am instrument -w -r   -e debug false -e class com.example.MyClass com.example.test/android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner

and if some tests fail the result is printed at the end
...
FAILURES!!!
Tests run: 4,  Failures: 2

INSTRUMENTATION_CODE: -1

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Synthesis of graphite monolayer stripes on stepped Ni(771) surface
Shikin A.M.1, Prudnikova G.V.1, Adamchuk V.K.1, Soe W.-H.2, Rieder K.-H.2, Molodtsov S.L.3, Laubschat C.3
1Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
2Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3Institut fur Oberflachen- und Mikrostrukturphysik, Technische Universitat, Dresden, Germany
Выставление онлайн: 19 марта 2002 г.
Graphite stripes on stepped Ni(771) substrate were grown in-situ by cracking of propylene followed by annealing at optimal temperatures between 450 and 590oC. The samples were studied by means of C 1s and Ni 3p core-level photoemission and high resolution electron energy loss spectroscopy. The C 1s spectra reveal dominant graphite-like character. The phonon spectra measured in the direction parallel and perpendicular to the steps display certain differences, which can be explained on the basis of size-limited effects. This work was supported by the Program "Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters" and performed in the term of the cooperation between the St. Petersburg State University, the Freie Universitat Berlin and the Technische Universitat Dresden.
F.J. Himpsel, J.E. Ortega, G.J. Mankey, R.F. Willis. Adv. Phys. 47, 511 (1998)
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Contemporary cottage style houses could become the best for you for providing you with the contemporary style of house. Yes, nowadays many kinds of contemporary house style are appearing along with the need of the people. Contemporary style is becoming the choice since the the simplicity and nice environment that is provided for you makes the house could also become the best place for spending the time with your family. Various kinds of contemporary cottage are also could be chosen here. Many kinds of designs would be displayed here so that you should see some kinds of designs below!
Then, for making up your contemporary cottage style houses, you should also consider about the exterior design of your house since it would be the point for the appearance of your house. As you have known many kinds of ways could be used for designing including the design of garden, swimming pool, also the house gates. As you could see in the current picture that the swimming pool with minimalist design makes the house become more complete there. Beside that, there some ways for making the interior design, such as in designing the living room design.
Living room is the center of home interior design since it is the place for welcoming your guests. Because of that, considering about the living room design is a must so that your guests would feel comfortable there. As you have known also that in contemporary design, the color choice is usually having neutral color, such as having the cream of maybe soft brown color that would give the warm atmosphere there. As you could see in the current picture that the living room design is having wide room design with some kinds of minimalist furniture, such as sofa, table, also the window designs there.
Contemporary cottage style houses could also make the design of kitchen and dining room design. In this kind of home style, having the open kitchen design would be really good choice since it would combine the kitchen and dining room design also it would make you feel closer to your kids and family. Many kinds of room in the interior home could be designed in contemporary ways that would give the warm, elegant, also simple atmosphere in the home interior design. So, what do you think about having this design?
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If you have ever been evicted, meaning that a landlord took over possession of where you had been living, you may be surprised to learn that a lot more than that actually gets included in the eviction definition. Read on to learn the full meaning of eviction and what it means for you when facing one, either presently or after the fact.
(c) uses other means to deny the tenant full use of the property they'd been occupying.
"Depriving a person of the possession of his lands or dwelling." Technically, the dispossession must be by a judgment of law; otherwise, it is considered an "ouster." However, in modern usage "eviction" is commonly applied to dispossession in any manner. And not every eviction is a legal one.
This is where the terminology can get a little confusing. As you can see from the examples below, not every "eviction" is the result of a legal judgment where a court has granted the landlord the right to retake possession for lawful reasons, such as non-payment of rent.
Some kinds of evictions may be considered unlawful actions by the landlord, and the tenant may then turn the tables. Under some circumstances they may have the right to bring an Unlawful Eviction action against the landlord, rather than the other way around, as might happen under any of the scenarios described below.
Eviction may be total or partial.
Total eviction takes place when the possessor is wholly deprived of his rights in the premises.
Partial eviction takes place when the possessor is deprived of only a portion of them; as, if a third person comes in and ejects him from the possession of half his land, or establishes a right to some easement (right of way) over it, by a title which they claim to have held first.
A partial eviction may be actual or constructive.
Actual eviction is where the tenant and their possessions are physically removed or barred from the property.
Constructive eviction is "wrongful interference" that seriously impairs the enjoyment of the premises. For example, in one Massachusetts case the erection by the landlord of a permanent structure, which rendered two rooms in the rented house unfit for use, was held to be a constructive eviction.
However, remember that where an eviction happens AFTER a landlord has gone through a legal eviction process, and obtained a court judgment against the tenant, it is always a lawful eviction — and this kind of legal judgment will show up in a Public Records search during many kinds of background checks.
It often happens that the landlord has a verifiable, valid reason to oust the tenant, such as breaking key terms of the lease, late or non-payment of rent, etc., and this may lead them to pursue a court order for the eviction.
Landlords are required follow a certain process before they can legally enforce a tenant's physical removal from the premises.
What is included in the eviction process?
Cure or Quit Notices are typically given after a tenant violates a term or condition of the lease or rental agreement, such as a no-pets clause or the requirement to refrain from making excessive noise. Usually, the tenant has a set amount of time in which to correct, or "cure," the violation. A tenant who fails to do so must move or face the possibility of an eviction lawsuit.
However, in some states, landlords may use Unconditional Quit Notices for transgressions that would require Pay or Quit Notices or Cure or Quit Notices in other, more tenant-friendly states. In these strict states, landlords may extend second chances if they wish, but no law requires them to do so.
Even after receiving notice, some tenants won't leave or fix the lease or rental agreement violation. If the landlord still wants the tenant to leave, they must begin an Unlawful Detainer lawsuit by properly serving the tenant with a court summons and complaint for eviction.
If the landlord wins the case they receive a written court order for the eviction, and usually within 30-60 days the judgment is entered on your public record. This record is then view-able by future landlords, most often as part of the official credit report they run on prospective tenants. It can also diminish your credit score by several hundred points.
Landlords may usually use a 30-Day or 60-Day Notice to Vacate to end a month-to-month tenancy when the tenant has not done anything wrong. Many rent control cities, however, do not allow this; they require the landlord to prove a legally recognized reason for eviction ("just cause") of tenants. Tenants facing such evictions should check with their City's office that handles housing policy about how and whether rent control works in your city.
If the tenant decides to mount a defense, it may add weeks — even months — to the process. A tenant can point to mistakes in the notice or the eviction complaint, or improper service (delivery) of either, in an attempt to delay or dismiss the case. If the tenant has complained to the landlord that the rental unit is uninhabitable (overrun with insects, broken plumbing, black mold issues, or essential things like that which affect health or basic usability) and it looks like retaliation, this shifting of blame can sometimes sway a court in the tenant's favor.
As noted above, if there are issues of habitability with the premises, the tenant should be sure to keep a written record of their communications about those with the landlord. If there have been other sources of friction, keep notes about those and how they were handled.
Check with your city about rent control or other ordinances designed to protect tenants from landlord violations.
Keep on friendly terms wherever possible, and try to look at the issue from the landlord's point of view before deciding where and how much blame to assign. For more tips on preventing an eviction, click here.


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Lampard: Ancelotti capable of coaching anywhere
Frank Lampard backed Carlo Ancelotti to bounce back at the top level after Napoli sacked the experienced Italian on Tuesday.
Ancelotti was dismissed three hours after leading the club to a 4-0 victory over Genk, which confirmed their place in the Champions League knockout rounds.
Poor results in Serie A and rumours of discontent at Stadio San Paolo had placed pressure on the ex-Milan head coach for a number of weeks.
Links to the vacant posts at Everton and Arsenal have already emerged and Blues boss Lampard, who played under Ancelotti at Stamford Bridge, suggested the 60-year-old would have no trouble finding another high-profile position.
"I have huge respect for him, I am very sorry for him," Lampard said after Chelsea's win over Lille.
"I know it was a tough job for him lately. I saw his interview before the game and I thought it was a very typically classy interview in what seemed a very tough time for him. He always handles himself brilliantly.
"I think he can work anywhere in the world at the top level, of course."
Ancelotti is a three-time Champions League winner as a coach and boasts league titles in Italy, Germany, France and England, but his most recent jobs have produced mixed results.
He spent just over 18 months in charge of Napoli and leaves with the club sitting seventh in Serie A.
Former Partenopei player Jorginho said: "I didn't know about it. I'm really sorry. I never met him but I heard a lot of good things about him from my former team-mates.
"They told me he is a great man and manager. I'm sorry for everything that is happening in Napoli. It's a difficult moment for them.
"I hope that they will be back at the top as they were for years until this bad moment. I'm really surprised. I was not expecting Napoli [to have] trouble and I'm sorry, because I'll always love Napoli."
Napoli are expected to name Gennaro Gattuso as Ancelotti's replacement.
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Harry Maguire is honoured to have replaced Ashley Young as Manchester United's captain, with the England defender claiming it is a "dream come true".
Young ended his eight-and-a-half-year stay at Old Trafford on Friday, with the England international joining former team-mate Romelu Lukaku and United loanee Alexis Sanchez at Inter.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer confirmed in his news conference ahead of United's clash with Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday that Maguire – signed from Leicester City for a world-record fee for a defender in 2019 – will take the armband, despite having only been at the club since August.
Maguire has since expressed his excitement at having taken over as club captain, while former United skipper Wayne Rooney also congratulated the 26-year-old.
"[It's a] dream come true to be named the Man Utd captain," Maguire wrote on his official Twitter account. "Proud moment and a huge honour. Just want to wish Ashley Young all the best at Inter."
Young, meanwhile, penned a heartfelt goodbye to United's staff, players and supporters.
"To Man Utd, you gave me the chance to play with legends, to win trophies, to work under the greatest manager [Alex Ferguson] in history and to be your captain. Thank you for letting me be part of your story for eight-and-a-half years," the 34-year-old, who signed for United from Aston Villa in 2011, tweeted.
"To the United fans, every time I walked on the pitch wearing your shirt I gave you my all. Thank you for your support during the highs and the lows. I leave as one of you, see you again in an away end soon."
Derby County have confirmed they will contest the breach of spending rules they have been charged with by the English Football League (EFL).
The Championship club are accused of recording excess losses over a three-year period ending June 30, 2018.
However, Derby insist the charges – which relate to the £80million sale of their stadium Pride Park to the team's owner Mel Morris and the club's amortisation policy on player contracts – are unfounded.
According to a statement on Derby's official website, the EFL agreed to the sale of Pride Park and have not previously raised an issue over player amortisation.
"As a matter of law, the EFL is not entitled to bring either of the charges, having previously agreed to all of the arrangements surrounding the stadium sale and never having raised the issue of player amortisation before," the statement read.
"At all times, the club has acted transparently with the EFL and, in respect of the charges above, had received written approval for all of its submissions in respect of this legislation. No allegation has been raised to the contrary by the EFL. Rather, the EFL now claims that it made a 'mistake'.
"Had the EFL not given the green light in writing in respect of both charges, the club would have reacted accordingly. The club cannot re-trace the steps of the actions it legitimately took in good faith as a result of EFL approval of both matters.
"The EFL can choose to correct what they now see as an error in their decisions. However, it cannot punish the club for its own errors. The club shall therefore vigorously contest the charges and the EFL's legal right to bring them."
An independent disciplinary commission will hear representations from the EFL and Derby.
Last season, Derby's fellow Championship club Birmingham City were docked nine points following a similar charge from the EFL.
The Rams – who last year secured the signing of former Manchester United and England captain Wayne Rooney – sit 10 points above the relegation zone.


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Q: While parsing Json using JsonReader I am getting SSLProtocolException I am trying to parse a json response with JsonReader so that I can directly use Inputstream to parse it.
But I am getting a exception.
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02-04 18:30:54.515: W/System.err(1695): javax.net.ssl.SSLProtocolException: Read error: ssl=0x36d690: Failure in SSL library, usually a protocol error
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.NativeCrypto.SSL_read_byte(Native Method)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.OpenSSLSocketImpl$SSLInputStream.read(OpenSSLSocketImpl.java:765)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.readLine(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:660)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.http.ChunkedInputStream.readChunkSize(ChunkedInputStream.java:77)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.http.ChunkedInputStream.read(ChunkedInputStream.java:45)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at java.io.InputStream.read(InputStream.java:157)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.fill(InflaterInputStream.java:225)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInputStream.java:178)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at java.util.zip.GZIPInputStream.read(GZIPInputStream.java:174)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:255)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.fillBuffer(JsonReader.java:825)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.nextString(JsonReader.java:1045)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.nextValue(JsonReader.java:784)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.objectValue(JsonReader.java:766)
02-04 18:30:54.525: W/System.err(1695):     at com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader.peek(JsonReader.java:380)

How can I resolve this.


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SAN ANTONIO – Janet Gutierrez, a senior from Our Lady of the Lake University, lives in two different worlds. Some don't see her as a mom, but she is older than she looks. Gutierrez is a non-traditional student, considering that she is 25 years old as well as a single mother to a six-year-old daughter named Sofia. Relatedly, Gutierrez comes from a family of six children, and despite being the fourth-born, she is the a first-generation student.
Before attending OLLU, the senior took several dual credit classes in high school at San Antonio College and has an Associate's Degree in Applied Arts. Gutierrez is extremely passionate about equality and social justice, a factor that led the soon-to-be graduate to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work.
In terms of campus involvement, Gutierrez is a remarkable student and has been on the Dean's List at Our Lady of the Lake three semesters in a row, as well as the recipient of the President's Volunteer Service Award (silver and bronze) and the Rising Leader Award. "I have been co-chair of the Oiga Mí Voz LaTeena Youth Conference twice, co-chair of the Hunger Banquet, inducted into Phi Alpha Honor Society and the National Society of Leadership and Success," said the student. Similarly, Gutierrez is included in the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, President of Worden Social Work Organization, and LIFE Program Mentor.


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Zrobiłem **pierwszy krok** w celu prowadzenia bloga tzn. założyłem go, jest to dla mnie sukces, ale przede wszystkim początek bardzo ciężki drogi.

Posty, które będą się pojawiać *(mam nadzieję regularnie)* będą głównie dotyczyć programowania aplikacji webowych z wykorzystaniem **C# / .NET**, **JavaScript** *(React, Angular, NodeJS)*, (No)**Sql**, **Azure** i szyn danych. Na pewno nie zabraknie wpisów o czystym kodzie i przydatnych wzorcach przy tworzeniu skalowalnych systemów.

W tej chwili będę pracował nad rozpisaniem sobie kolejnych tematów wpisów jakie będą się pojawiać na blogu. Jeśli uda mi się zrozumieć jak prowadzić bloga i coś mi wyjdzie to na pewno się tym tutaj pochwalę.

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Pozdrawiam i dziękuję za odwiedzenie bloga !


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About David A. Curry
Using C on the UNIX System
UNIX System Security
UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4
East Ramapo Central School District Issues
ERCSD §310 Appeal
ERCSD Universal Busing
Building a Rubens' Tube
Rubens' Tube Parts List
For the first ten years of my career (and a few years before as a college student), I was a UNIX systems programmer. This was during the 1980s and early 1990s—back when you needed a somewhat expensive license to even run UNIX, and a really expensive license if you wanted to look at the source code. There was no Free/Open/NetBSD, no Linux, no Sourceforge. With only a few exceptions, you couldn't buy third-party software, because nobody sold it for UNIX. There was some free software, but because even the least expensive desktop workstations cost several thousand dollars, it was mostly limited to what came out of research universities and government labs. For the most part, when you needed new functionality, you wrote it yourself, because nobody else had done so yet.
Most of the software that I wrote was specific to the needs of my employers -- it solved a problem unique to them, or relied on the particular systems environment they had. There wasn't much point in sharing it, because nobody else would have had a use for it. However, I did write a few programs that were generally useful enough to share with the world, and I gained some degree of fame (or notoriety, or something) for them. I've tried to collect the major ones below. If there's something else you've heard I wrote that's not listed below, please contact me and I'll see if I can dig up a copy.
NFSwatch
Version 4.3, 12 Feb 1996
NFSwatch monitors all incoming network traffic to an NFS file server and divides it into several categories. The number and percentage of packets received in each category is displayed on the screen in a continuously updated display. I originally developed this software while working at the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science at NASA Ames Research Center, and continued to maintain it after I left. Later, Jeff Mogul of Digital Equipment Corporation made enough significant contributions to the software that I chose to give him credit as a co-author. This is the last version of NFSwatch that Jeff and I released; it ran on SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.0-2.3, DEC OSF/1, DEC Ultrix 4.2 and later, Silicon Graphics IRIX 3.2-4.0, and AT&T System V Release 4. In 2005, Christian Iseli offered to port NFSwatch to Linux, and take over its support; he has made it available through SourceForge here.
ifstatus
Version 1.4, 28 Jan 2001
Ifstatus checks all network interfaces on the system, and reports any that are in debug or promiscuous mode, which may be a sign of unauthorized access to the system. I originally wrote this software back when network packet sniffers were all the rage in the hacker community; its purpose was to identify systems that were potentially being used in this way. Version 1.2 was the last version of ifstatus that I supported; once I started working at IBM, where they used token ring networks, I no longer had access to ethernet-connected systems with which to develop it. Rob Thomas took over support for it at that point, and made two more releases. Rob gets all the credit for "fixing" it after it broke when Solaris 7 switched to a new network device driver model. Ifstatus is probably not of much use today, both because hackers have moved on to other methods, and because it's full of hard-coded knowledge about specific types of hardware most likely no longer in use.
getethers
Version 1.7, 13 Oct 1998
Getethers runs through all the addresses on an ethernet (a.b.c.1 - a.b.c.254) and pings each address, and then determines the ethernet address for that host. It produces a list, either in ASCII or in the binary format for an Excelan Lanalyzer, of hostname/ethernet address pairs for all hosts on that network. Generally you could do the same thing by pinging all the addresses and then dumping the ARP table, but at the time I wrote this, some systems didn't maintain ARP tables big enough to hold all 254 addresses at the same time. This version, which was the last version released, ran on SunOS 4.x, Solaris 2.x, IRIX 4.0.x, AIX 3.2, 4.3BSD (VAXen), OSF/1, and Ultrix.
xpostit
Version 3.3.2, 17 Nov 1995
XPostIt allows you to create small notes to yourself in windows on the screen, and save them in disk files. This is generally neater than having numerous real Post-it notes stuck all around the edges of your monitor. The notes resemble paper Post-It notes in color and shape (although there are a lot more sizes and shapes nowadays than there were back then). This is the last version that I released; it ran on X11 Releases 4, 5, and 6. The Debian community continued to move XPostIt forward until about 2010; the various results of that effort are available here.
Version 1.0, 10 Apr 1992
Xsat is an X11-based satellite tracking program. It simulates the orbits of satellites around the Earth and displays the results of the simulation both textually and (optionally) graphically. Facilities are provided to select the satellite, city that visibility information is calculated for, and maps to display ground tracks with. I wrote this program for fun when one of the space shuttle astronauts had taken some amateur radio equipment into space with him and was transmitting to hams back on earth. I made exactly one release, this one, and then frankly, lost interest. After that, another ham, Terry Friedrichsen, took over support for it, and made four more releases. His version is available here.
A long, long time ago, before forums, chat rooms, wikis, Yahoo! and Google groups, and RSS feeds were developed, communities of people on the ARPANET used to discuss things via mailing lists. And because resources were scarce (and mail reading programs were primitive), those mailing lists were moderated, and messages were sent out in batches called "digests," each digest containing the day's group traffic. When I started moderating one of these lists, the programs for making the digests were all running on TOPS-10/TOPS-20 and ITS systems. I needed a UNIX version, and so I got to roll my own. As far as I know it'll still generate standards-conforming digests, although I have no idea what you'd use them for; a forum or a group is a much nicer solution.


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Lake view 4 mile walk
Built near the 13th-century Augustinian priory, our Elizabethan manor house is set in a tranquil ancient landscape. Towards the end of this walk there are lovely views of Canons Ashby across the fishing lakes. Take care as there may be livestock in some of the fields on this route. Dogs are welcome, but please keep them on a lead. Please note: the Oxford lane can get extremely muddy and churned up at times.
Route details
Canons Ashby, Daventry, Northamptonshire NN11 3SD
Time 1 hour 30 mins - 2 hours 15 mins
Distance 4 miles (6.4 km)
Map Landranger 152; Explorer 206, 207
Dogs allowed Dog friendly
Canons Ashby Northamptonshire
A special view of Canons Ashby National Trust
Facilities and access
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Car park at Canons Ashby, grid ref: SP577506
From the main entrance to Canons Ashby House, carefully step over the iron chain and walk a few steps to your left. Watching out for traffic cross the road which runs parallel to the House. Go through the gate into the field signposted the Macmillan Way. Head diagonally right across this and the next gated field. In the third field head diagonally left until you come to another gate in the far left corner of a field by a hedge.
In this first field are the remains of a medieval village
There were around 41 houses and you can still see the lumps and bumps which show where these and other structures used to be. The village declined during the black death in the 13th century and then due to land enclosures in the 14th century.
Start of the north and south walks from Canons Ashby house National Trust/Helena Avery-Clarke
Go through this gate and the gap in the hedge over a little bridge. Ignore the path across the field ahead and turn left onto the track, keeping the hedge and ditch on your left, this is the Oxford Lane. Continue along the Oxford Lane, crossing a private tarmaced track after about 250 metres and carry on past the wooded copse on your left until you come to a road.
The Oxford Lane National Trust
Turn left (towards Woodford Halse) onto this quiet rural road, with a lovely wide grassy verge, following it for one kilometre (ignoring the left hand turn to Canons Ashby).
Take this road for one kilometre National Trust
At the footpath sign on the left (by a very wide metal barrier), go through the gap and continue straight ahead, keeping the field boundary hedge on your left. Continue to follow the field boundary as it bends to the right going down into a dip.
Turn left by the wide metal barrier National Trust
At the bottom of the dip turn left following the Public Footpath sign on the tree, into the right hand field.
Look out for the footpath sign on the tree National Trust
Continue along this footpath, passing by a large pond on your left where Emperor Dragonflies can often be seen in late summer. Follow the path with the hedge on your left until you reach the woodland edge ahead of you.
Pass the large pond on your left National Trust
At the woodland edge where the main track bears left, turn right. After about 200 metres follow the path to the left alongside a field. When you come to a gap in the hedge ahead, look out for a way marker on your left and go diagonally across this field.
Follow the path to the redundant stile National Trust
As you walk across this field Canons Ashby House and the Priory Church Tower will soon come into view across the fishing lakes.
At the field boundary pass through the hedge following the footpath signs and then turn left on the road towards Canons Ashby Car Park and a well earned cuppa in the Stables Tea room.
End of the trail National Trust
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A four mile circular walk through the lovely countryside to the north and west of Canons Ashby following sections along the Oxford Lane. There is a modest section along a rural road, but this is more than compensated for by the lovely views across the lakes towards Canons Ashby, near the end of the route. Sturdy footwear, water and appropriate clothing are essential.
Please note: the Oxford lane can get extremely muddy and churned up at times.
Email: canonsashby@nationaltrust.org.uk
Website: http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/canons-ashby/
Directions via Google Maps
Banbury 10 miles (16.1km)
Access from M40 J11 at Banbury; take A422 (Brackley), after 2 miles (3.2km) turn left onto B4525, after 3 miles (4.8km) turn left onto unclassified road signposted to Canons Ashby. Access from M1 J16; take A45 (Daventry), at Weedon crossroads turn left onto A5. After 3 miles (4.8km) south, turn right onto unclassified road through Litchborough and Adstone.
The Macmillan long-distance footpath, 3 miles (4.8km) on country lanes from Woodford Halse.
Bus routes to Woodford Halse between Daventry and Banbury
NCN Route 70 passes near Canons Ashby.
Mobility parking is in the main car park 200 yards from the house
The garden has loose gravel paths which may make it hard for wheeled transport to navigate. There are steps and grass slopes to lower terraces
An accessible toilet is available (opposite house entrance)
There are baby-changing facilities in the outer area of the ladies toilets available to all
Hippy chic side hip carriers avaiable for loan
Enjoy freshly prepared food in the Stables tea-room
There are picnic tables in the paddock area to enjoy your own picnic
There is a natural play area in the paddock
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In the summer of 2002 we agreed a 10 year deal with Unique pubco, which after a short while extended to a 30 year voyager lease in view of the positive business relationship, within a short period of time we decided to invest a substantial amount into developing the business further, using family savings and business bank loans thus committing to long term trading at the premises.
After increasing the barrelage considerably our BRM/RM tenant relationship continued in a positive fashion.........That is until a bombshell !! our RM informed us that he would be leaving as he could not agree with the policies of the new company who had just taken over Unique pubco he then introduced us to his replacement, just as we were becoming acquainted she then informed us that she would be leaving and introduced us to her replacement who after a short while took sick leave with a nervous breakdown !! In between this our new landlords informed us brulines were coming to install their monitoring equipment, so after our short few year honeymoon period the real face of pubco tenant relationship exposed itself.
We then had a new senior regional area manager who was a much use as ...........anyway lets move on, after agreeing to a full cellar refit we advised brulines to hold back for a couple of weeks as we were having a full refit, in their wisdom they chose to ignore this advice needless to say that they immediately turned up at the premises unannounced demanding access to the cellar, on doing so they were quite rude and arrogant whilst accusing us of sabotaging their equipment regardless of the fact that it was quite obvious the cellar techs had cheerily snipped away at all their monitoring equipment and dumped into a corner of the cellar.
For around four months after the new "upgraded" brulines installation we received several unpleasant visits from brulines engineers and enforcers who used extremely sarcastic andaccusatory attitudes to continually accuse us of tampering with their equipment, looking back it would appear that this was the beginning of the end of our "business partnership" with our new pubco landlords, we had no choice but to defend ourselves from the unpleasant accusations thrown at us, during the previous few years there had never been any question of wrong doings until this time.
After witnessing the demoralising effect the visits were having on staff and family I undertook a thorough assessment of the premises and what could be causing the discrepancies to warrant their aggressive and arrogant behaviour towards us.........Bingo !!!! I found the cause in their installation mistakes the brulines monitoring system had been wired up to an old metered pump circuit which meant after turning lights of at night it switched off their system. We had been verbally abused and frequently accused of buying out and also tampering with their system because brulines had not researched the property, had they done so it would have been obvious that the accusations of blocking their system most weekends and bank holidays was self explanatory due to the Industrial estate location of the premises and their installation mistakes.
Our new area manager took extended sick leave then left leaving us with a new female RM who also moved on returning us back to the senior regional manager, who persuaded us to open a neighbouring premises on a TAW, a long and complicated episode but one that almost resulted in my death due to an incident relating to faulty electrics "after their inspection" several emails at HQ in the midlands on file for this we eventually handed the keys back for this one without issues or compensatory penalties. This building has since been sold along with almost all our neighbouring pubs. The new owners are frequently offering a FOT deal without building responsibilities which we are seriously considering as we can redirect all the majority of existing customers to this.
Eventually we are introduced to yet another area manager who turned out to be quite resourceful and helpful even to the point that he recognised that we were the only pub left on his books for that area and would be recommending it for disposal, also that we should register our interest in the building, great news we thought !!!!!!
for the first time during our tenancy we came unstuck due to seven coaches turning up unexpectedly, because of this we emptied our cellar of stock and called in favours of people we had lent to in the past, we received our previous stock back plus more, something that had gone on from day one with the knowledge of our BDM except on this occasion the amount was more, we eventually balanced it out, unfortunately brulines refused to accept this and treated it as a breach of the agreement, we sent emails and letters denying their findings and refused permission to access our account, needless to say they did so anyway, the premises has since fallen away and is only trading to survive, the property has now been de listed for disposal and without an active retail partnership and with dis incentivised tenants it has simply stagnated.
Almost immediately this RM was transferred to another area leaving us without a dedicated area manager with which to continue our business discussions, after a short while we were eventually introduced to our new RM who instantly took sick leave with a nervous breakdown leaving us with yet another temporary RM, our new RM resigned under suspicious circumstances with our Divisional Director shortly to follow. The premises is in serious need of decoration, has crumbling and dangerous stairs to the cellar, faulty electrics, leaking roof, broken drainage and faulty ventilation in the gents basement toilets, customers regularly complain or abuse staff.
We end up with a temporary area manager who informs us the main focus of his job is in estates disposals, this does not bode well for any retail partnership, the discussions breakdown and he becomes evasive and restrictive even refusing us permission to redecorate, we then get a new Divisional Director ex JD Wetherspoons and eventually another new RM ex Marstons who also instantly recognises our other premises as a recommendation for disposal, he was experienced and resourceful and knew the area from his Marston days, unfortunately he too moved on, leaving us back to the temporary stand in RM from estates disposals ex Punch. Eventually frustrations take over and we request a meeting to discuss future and past issues, during this meeting it is revealed that the stand in disposals RM actually intervened to put a stop on any progress six months previously, so in effect we had been subsidising their building with our savings as unpaid caretakers whilst being restricted from full trading opportunities. This was a severe body blow and needless to say, emotions took over and we let him know our feelings of disgust that we had been manipulated in this way.
Within a few weeks the new Divisional Director set up another meeting during which he informed us that he had decided we would be given the opportunity to go back to the original deal offered the previous year on a five year non assignable tenancy, we agreed to consider this subject to appropriate compensatory measures for the lost opportunities as unpaid caretakers.
for the next few weeks we experienced several unannounced bruline visits to calibrate their equipment at both premises, the engineers both commented on our cleaning methods of using keg bottles direct as opposed to the cleaning cups on the ring main, a system we have always had in place, at both pubco premises the brulines engineer contacted their HQ indicating that there would be huge variances in their "findings" due to the continued use of individual keg bottles at the premises. One even told us that he hed been instructed to find evidence of tampering, he informed HQ there was no evidence of tampering and he signed the premises off as such then upgraded the premises to a brulines phase tamperproof 2 his final act was to re calibrate the flow meters, on doing so this revealed a massive increase in the number of pulses being used to measure volume through flowmeters since the last calibration which also would create unreliable readings. This resulted in a surprise visit from our stand in manager and the original Brulines officer who accused us of tampering with the original equipment some years ago for which we are still awaiting an apology and thanks for finding the fault in their installation which lead to the accusations.
On this occasion I allowed full unsupervised access whilst I made our feelings known to the RM responsible for the breakdown in business discussions, his only interest was in administering a brulines fine, they both left the premises laughing ! several weeks later they both arrived unannounced again so on this occasion it became very hostile so we contacted a business advisor who was nearby and is an ex brewery chairman. The RM became agitated and fidgety, constantly shouting and demanding glasses of water, the Brulines officer again inspected the cellar and again could find nothing, this time he was observed and his actions, or lack of, indicated he was only on the premises to issue a fine in his possession, once back in the bar area he too was becoming hostile and agitated whilst waiting for our business advisor.
Almost every product was scrutinised and a look of disappointment pointed at our RM each time he could find no evidence, our business advisor was disgusted at the hostility shown towards us knowing how we had been treated so badly for so long, some members my family were in attendance including my wife who had pressures of her own to deal with and lost her brother the following day, my daughter and grandchildren, finally both the brulines officer and the RM left and we were all flabbergasted at what had just happened and the manner in which it had. it was a hostile and intimidating experience for everyone, one can only imagine how some tenants would crumble under such intimidating tactics if they were subjected to a similar experience but without witnesses to protect them.
This is a premises that has a history of failed tenants due to excessive overheads, the previous tenant left evidence of letters to their RM pleading for assistance finally resulting in a long drawn out legal battle they ended up giving in and stopped paying any rates, utilities, VAT, rent, etc there is reference to tens of thousands of pounds in brulines fines and several references involving Gosschalks and court cases for buying out plus re possession proceedings, the premises has stagnated for a considerable time without providing any revenue to the pubco it beggars belief that the current RM has only further contributed to to this and has yet to offer one positive to support a retail partnership.
The premises in comparison to neighbouring outlets of the same pubco has, according to the business pub fact information document, has identical trading volumes over the previous six years and has been the lowest volume during current trading yet the rates valuations at the VOA is more than double placing considerable strain on finances, tie release fees offered is also more than double that offered to neighbouring outlets. By comparison we pay over £2000/month for rent and F&F TAW rental plus £1645/month rates yet similar premises nearby are offered £4/month rent and nil £ F&F rental plus almost 60% less rates and 50% less on a tie release fee offer. The busines pub fact sheet shows similar volume in trading patterns over the previous six years.
The rates appeal is dragging on and shows no indication of being realistic or sympathetic, our constant pleas to the pubco to be treated fairly and equal to it's neighbouring premises appears to falling on deaf ears, other nearby licensees of the estate have become aware of what has been happening and are also becoming demoralised at their own lack of support especially when learning of our experience and what appears to be preferential treatment given to others with exceptional deals of £1 weekly rent plus rates paid whilst refusing to offer any support to existing tenants.
The experience of just one tenant with so many changes in management including two who had to leave due to mental pressures of the job, one forced to leave because of his dislike of company practices, one forced to re locate, one advised to take early retirement, another who commented on the excessive pressures placing too many restrictions on his job requirements he too left.
Serious questions have to raised at the manner in which brulines is being abused to intimidate tenants, we have evidence that the system in our case has not been reliable and had they informed us immediately of any anomalies the situation would have been addressed at the time, instead it has been allowed on each occasion to build up over several months to increase quantities to issue a level of fines enough to justify their existence, this practice can only lead to breakdown in trust and demoralise tenants, questions also have to be raised in the severe damage that the VOA is doing to the industry with it's methodology used in valuing premises, just how many premises are closing and is this being engineered to cull the trade ?? how can similar trading premises in terms of profit related volumes and trading areas have such huge variances in valuations.
The frequent comparisons of failed and successful operators show no understanding of the truth behind why some with the right support levels and operational costs succeed and others without any support levels and unnecessary and excessive operational costs fail.
Corporates by their own nature are only focused on liabilities to shareholders and bondholders hence the impersonal and dismissive attitudes towards the lifeblood of the companies, it is the Tenants who provide the revenue streams to make it possible, by alienating them it only lights the fuse of the ticking financial time bomb which is set for self destruction.
In truth the failed fiscal wizardry of recent years which abused the revenue streams and the business model which built up the estates has created a meltdown of the industry, even adding to the recent methodology used by the VOA to give false property valuations forcing closure on many. The VOA is now inundated with appeals, there is real danger of this new methodology changing attitudes within the industry and many will fail in the appeals process due to this. The traditional Pub ( not gastro pub or pub restaurant ) is and has always been an important part of the local communities, mostly they sustain local employment, services, rates, suppliers etc tenants are the lifeblood of this sector of the industry, by comparison managed houses do not use local supplies with many bringing in employees from outside the premises catchment area and supplies delivered from national distribution centers, the longer this is allowed to happen the stronger the management sector will become which in turn will add further pressures to the future of the tenanted sector.
One of our other premises has a rates bill of £1375/month whilst another premises 40 yards away with a higher volume has a rates bill of £46/month ( no that is not a type error ! ) and larger trading areas.


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Marvel's Ant-Man Will Be Directed By Peyton Reed
Director Peyton Reed at the premiere of "Yes Man" at Capitol Cinema, Dec. 11, 2008 in Madrid.
Carlos Alvarez—Getty Images
By Sam Frizell
June 7, 2014 2:30 PM EDT
Ant-Man's director troubles may finally have come to an end as Marvel Studios announced Saturday that director Peyton Reed has been tapped for Marvel's upcoming superhero epic.
Reed (Bring It On, Down With Love and The Break-Up) will direct a cast led by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas. Writer Adam McKay will also contribute to the film's script, Marvel said.
Rudd plays Ant-Man, a con-man who has the power to decrease in size but increase in strength. The film will track his mission to protect the Ant-Man suit from a new generation of threats and helping his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, who will be played by Douglas.
The film has struggled from staffing issues — one-time director Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) stepped down in May, citing creative differences. Adam McKay (Anchorman) was nearly set to replace Wright, but he backed off from the film before officially becoming part of it.
Marvel's Ant-Man is set to hit theaters July 17, 2015, provided the directorial dilemma doesn't cause any delays.
What Wandavision Means for the MCU


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'Girl Rising' Premieres in Nigeria … Celebrates the Nigerian Girl Child
In order to shine the spotlight on the transformative power of girls' education across Africa and the world, the groundbreaking feature, 'Girl Rising' was screened for the first time in Nigeria at the Silverbird Cinema, Victoria Island, Lagos as part of the celebration to mark the International Day of The Girl Child. The Nigerian Premiere was co-hosted by the United Nations Information Centre, Lagos (UNIC), Zonta International Clubs in Nigeria, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), and Nigerians Report Online.
The event brought together 350 girls, boys and young women from primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, members of the press, civil society and representatives of the Deputy Governor, and the Lagos State Commissioner of Education. Also present were several partners and sponsors of the event including The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC), Zonta International Clubs in Nigeria, The Kudirat initiative for Democracy (KIND), Nigerians Report Online, Kiddies & Brands Company, and Cool FM. The Girl Rising Nigerian Premiere was also proudly supported by the British Deputy High Commission in Lagos; Silverbird; MTN Foundation; Educare Trust; Queens College Old Girls Association; Peter Zion Nigeria Ltd; and Rite Foods.
The partnership is part of a global movement to educate girls and empower them to be world changers and to believe in their dreams.
'Girl Rising', apart from being a ground-breaking feature, is a movement dedicated to empowering and achieving educational equity for Girls around the world. The film spotlights the stories of nine unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances; the film captures their dreams, their voices and their remarkable lives.
The event brought together members of the Private sector, Government dignitaries and members of Civil society, to raise global visibility about the importance of educating girls.
In her welcome address, the President of Zonta International Club of Lagos 1, Ms. Shade Bembatoum-Young, restated the commitment of the organizers to empowering the girl child in Nigeria.
"We, the co-hosts of the Nigerian Premiere of Girl Rising, believe in the power of education to change not only a girl, but the world." she said.


Almost a quarter of regional businesses (24%) say that they would be put into financial difficulty if interest rates were to rise by one percentage point in the next 18 months, according to a new report by insolvency trade body R3.
The latest Business Distress Index found that 7% of businesses in the North East, Yorkshire and Humberside felt their operations would be put into serious financial difficulty by a 1% rise in the interest rate before the end of 2015.
A further 17% said they would face some financial problems if this occurred.
One in five regional firms (20%) did, however, say they would benefit from an interest rate rise of 1%, a figure that is significantly ahead of the 7% national average.
The remainder of the regional firms surveyed (56%) said they wouldn't be affected one way or the other by an interest rate rise.
Allan Kelly, chairman of R3 in the North East and a restructuring partner in the Sunderland office of Baker Tilly, said: "A one percentage point rise in interest rates is expected to be at the upper limit of increases in the next eighteen months, but policymakers should bear in mind that many businesses still feel they're close to the edge of their comfort zone.
Research by R3 in November last year found that 6% of UK businesses could be classed as 'zombie businesses' although this was down from 9% in November, 2012.
Kelly continued: "The good news is that some businesses that might have expected to struggle after 2008 have been given extra time to put their finances in order, but there is still a big chunk of businesses that will struggle once 'normal' conditions, such as higher interest rates, return.
"Businesses should not expect their bank to absorb any interest rate rises, as they have not been applying nearly as much pressure on their commercial customers when it comes to basic business lending as they were after the early '90s recession.
Trade body R3 represents 97% of the UK's insolvency practitioners.