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South Lakeland is a local government district in Cumbria, England. The population of the non-metropolitan district was 102,301 according to the 2001 census, increasing to 103,658 at the 2011 Census. Its council is based in Kendal.  It includes much of the Lake District as well as northwestern parts of the Yorkshire Dales.

The district was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972.   It was formed from the Kendal borough, Windermere urban district, most of Lakes urban district, South Westmorland Rural District, from Westmorland, Grange and Ulverston urban districts and North Lonsdale Rural District from Lancashire, and Sedbergh Rural District from the West Riding of Yorkshire.

In July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, Cumbria will be reorganised into two unitary authorities.  South Lakeland District Council is to be abolished and its functions transferred to a new authority, to be known as Westmorland and Furness, which will cover the current districts of Barrow-in-Furness, Eden and South Lakeland.

Governance

Elections to the district council are held in three out of every four years, with one third of the 51 seats on the council being elected at each election. No political party held a majority on the council from the first election in 1973 to 2006. However, after winning a majority at the 2006 election the Liberal Democrats controlled the council. As of a set of by-elections in 2021 the council is composed of the following councillors:-

The council was fined £120,000 in February 2015 after two women were killed in separate incidents by reversing rubbish lorries. An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive found they had failed to tackle the risks from reversing vehicles.

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References

External links
South Lakeland District Councillors
Lakeland Walks
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Furness
Non-metropolitan districts of Cumbria


A furious fight between two street beggars in Jinan, capital of Shandong province, on Saturday ended with the winner robbing the loser of all his belongings.
A bald beggar, in his 50s, who had no feet, started the fight, claiming that the other beggar, a dwarf in his 40s, had stolen 600 yuan ($90) from him. The dwarf denied this. A passerby, surnamed Zheng, said the bald man snatched a 30-centimeter-long knife from the dwarf, beat and robbed him. The "trophies" included a portable DVD player, Zheng said.
The police later confiscated the knife from the bald man and launched an investigation.
We'll get back to the dwarf reference, but first a digression. Nearly every newspaper article I've read in China identifies someone by his surname only. In this case "a passerby, surnamed Zheng". This is an example of preposterous non-identifying identification. It points to a curious issue about names in China. A few millennia back in time, the common people--not just the royalty -- finally took on family names. Initially there were thousands of family names, but over time, a lot were lost or simplified. Today, a small fraction of the original names cover the bulk of the population.
Right now, 85 % of the Chinese people -- a billion or so -- share the same 100 family names. Wang, Zhang, Chen, Li, and so on. So, you can imagine the mix-ups. Even narrowing the pool by adding in a generational middle name to sets of siblings or cousins, and even a first name, goes only some distance. Another more effective tactic (at least among your friends-and-family circle) is to identify people by their profession. We say Mrs. White, Colonel Mustard, and Professor Plum. But the Chinese love to call people by their professional labels and use many all the time: like Nurse Wang, Teacher Meng, Driver Fang, Engineer Li.
I still don't understand the point of identifying someone as "a passerby, surnamed Zheng," which could be any one of tens of millions of people in China. (Zheng, unlike Zhang, is not one of the top 100 names, but the point still applies.) And anyway, a person who is a "bald beggar, his 50s, who had no feet" is much more identifiable, even without a name.
The real story here is about the situation of dwarves in China. Airen, 矮人, or small people. When we lived in Shanghai a few years ago, I happened to be walking behind a dwarf, on a lane near where we lived. Everyone coming our way slowed down to point and laugh at him. Later many people explained to me that laughing is the behavior of embarrassment, and that the Chinese were uncomfortable and embarrassed at seeing someone who looked unusual and so different from the norm.
I asked around a little about dwarves in China. One of most interesting comments came just today from a young woman in her 30s whom I would describe as a modern, youthful, savvy nationalist. She said she thinks the reaction to dwarves is part of a traditional mindset where beliefs run deep, even subliminal. It's about Buddhism, she said. Doing good in this life is rewarded. Doing bad is punished, in this lifetime or the next. Maybe, she said, seeing a dwarf makes people wonder for the briefest instant whether this diminished stature is somehow "deserved," and makes them uncomfortable because of the negative history that might be attached to such a person.
I don't know. It is darkly curious that this explanation was even proferred.
Deborah Fallows, a linguist, is the author of Dreaming in Chinese. Her site is here.


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UK Black Lives Matter protesters block Heathrow airport road
Edward Smith

Activists lay on the road outside Nottingham Theatre Royal as they attempt toshut down part of the city centre tram and bus network in Nottingham, England Friday Aug. 5, 2016 to protest for social justice movement Black Lives Matter. Activists affiliated with the U.S.-based group Black Lives Matter have blocked a road leading to Heathrow Airport, and Nottinghamand city centre and in other British cities (Edward Smith/PA via AP)

LONDON (AP) — Activists linked to the U.S.-based group Black Lives Matter blocked a road Friday leading to London's Heathrow Airport and held protests in other British cities.
Organizer Joshua Virasami told the BBC that the movement — founded to protest the killings of black people by American police — was needed "in Britain and all over the world."
U.K. Black Lives Matter said in a statement it was holding a "shutdown" of roads in London and other cities to "mourn those who have died in custody and to protest the ongoing racist violence of the police, border enforcement, structural inequalities and the everyday indignity of street racism."
London's Metropolitan Police said officers arrested 10 people blocking a road leading from a main highway to Heathrow on Friday morning, including six who were "locked" to one another.
Photos showed police moving a group of people attached together lying across the road beside a banner saying "this is a crisis."
Police said one lane of the road was open but traffic was backed up getting into one of the world's busiest airports. Heathrow said it was not aware of passengers missing flights because of the protest.
In other protests, a small group of demonstrators in the central England city of Nottingham disrupted public transport by lying down on tram tracks, and police removed protesters from a road near Birmingham Airport, 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London.
The protesters said they were marking the fifth anniversary of the death of Mark Duggan, a 29-year-old black man shot by London police under disputed circumstances on Aug. 4, 2011. The killing sparked Britain's worst civil disorder in decades, several nights of rioting that spread from London to cities around the country.
Activists say black men in Britain are unfairly targeted by law enforcement and disproportionately represented among prison inmates. According to official figures, 26 percent of inmates in England and Wales are non-white, compared to 12 percent of the overall population there.

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Agents of SHIELD – The Writing on the Wall Review
"IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING"
By: Mike Miersen | TV Reviews | November 13, 2014
"The Writing on the Wall" continued Agents of SHIELD's strong second season this week. And what an explosive addition it was. And dark. Well ABC dark. Also, we're treated to a couple solid answers to mysteries that, for a show based on the mystery box concept, is a little surprising. It was also a cool episode if you're into Iowa. Weirdos. Anyway, Hydra be damned, lets get on with it.
So in this episode, Phil's compulsion to carve the Alien Writing has grown much much worse and he's closing in on the point of no return. More troubling, a serial killer is now murdering recipients of the GH formula and carving the writing into their flesh. The race is on to find the identity of the killer and stop him before he kills again. Meanwhile, Ward continues down his dark path, meeting with Hydra and evading May and That Bickering Couple. He eventually shaves and puts on a suit. How nice!
The Writings on the Wall
So lets not beat around the bush here. The biggest development is obviously the reveal of the Alien Writing's meaning. It's a blue print. To a city. Attlian, right? Right, you guys? The home to the Inhumans? It's gotta be. I mean so much evidence pointing to the Inhumans is piling up, it HAS to be Attilan! Maybe. A few things give me pause. For one, this show has a habit of trying to throw you off the trail. This could be Atlantis for all we know. They could be saying alien, but it's really an Atlantean. Or something new. Something made up for the show, who knows. I mean the Inhumans movie is still four years away. Attlian is a big piece of the Inhumans puzzle. Not only is it a bit early to bring that out, it's also a big piece to reveal on a TV show. However, I hold out hope. It was such a satisfying reveal that genuinely took me by surprise. I would love for a arc spanning the rest of this season and beyond dealing with the Agents trying to locate this city first. Learning more about the culture of the Inhumans or whatever they turn out to be. It's a really cool goal with a lot of places to go and mysteries to solve. Think about it. You could uncover a whole secret history of aliens visiting Earth. That could include a ton of Marvel history! The other issue this actually brings up is Skye's father. He clearly knows a lot about the situation, and now that we do too there are a ton of more questions. Has he been to this city? Is he from it? Lot of questions. This also opens up the possibility of a bunch of new story directions. Meeting characters from the city. People who've seen it. Brought back artifacts. People who worship it or guard it. It'd be great! My only critique is that we got all this so quickly, without any of the promised outcomes. Well that's not true. Skye pulls a gun on a Crazed Coulson. Which is close, but not really the whole cigar, you know? May was set up for a confrontation far more than Skye was. She was only let in on Coulson's Condition a couple episodes ago. Meanwhile, May and Coulson had a whole talk about putting him down. What's more, Skye and Coulson's confrontation ended pretty quickly. Just a quick trick and that was it! No real stalemate, no emotional plea, nothing. Not once did I think anyone is in any danger. Then we head on over to the last guy where the serial killer has conveniently already arrived and a fight ensues. It cleans itself up pretty nicely and lo and behold: the last guy had figured out the equation. Or at least given Coulson the clue he needed to figure it out. I'm not sure. In any case, it was pretty convenient. I'm glad it happened, but with a slow build like that I was hoping it'd have more of an intricate pay off.
Alien Prejudice, Fitz on the Fritz, and Ward the Ronin
There was a strange subplot with Mac hating on aliens for some reason. There's a moment where he's in a car with Skye and he's laughing at the preposterous idea of having a leader that's half alien. He makes it brutally clear that having an alien hybrid on the team is weird and kind of wrong. In a way I can see how someone could get there. I mean aliens did wreck a ton of New York only a few years ago. It's not hard to believe that Mac lost someone to it. Even simpler, it could just be that people are now kind of on edge when it comes to aliens. Humanity's first "official" contact with them and it's a full scale attack fleet. That's gotta leave a bad impression. However, it's a weird view to just THROW it in this episode. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool idea. Skye would struggle with the possibility of her being half alien a lot more if people were really against aliens, and that could make for some really cool moments. Still, no one has really voiced this opinion yet and they've faced both alien artifacts and actual aliens before. If this xenophobia was a prevalent as Mac thinks it is (assuming Skye would be against an alien hybrid boss too), then surely others on the team should have shared the same idea. I mean how long does it take for a person to reveal themselves to be racist? Not long, right? It just feels artificial. Like they're trowing this in now for something to give Skye drama. Speaking of drama, Fitz is going to try and fix his brain with the Memory Machine, right? Right? I feel like that's the obvious set up. What with the talk of backup brains and reshuffling. Will it work? Who knows. This show likes to kick you in the gut with Fitz. Maybe it'll make him worse. Maybe it's temporary and we get a Flowers for Algernon situation going. Regardless, if anyone can make it believable, Iain De Caestecker can. He continues to be one of the most convincing, most hard hitting actors on the show. Lets talk about Ward for a minute. I like the way they're going with him. It's more interesting than your generic bad guy. He's becoming a wandering warrior with a loose moral code and deadly, deadly skills. It's awesome. A 200 percent increase over the generic Ward we got at the beginning of the first season. There's just something off about his character I can't quite put my finger on. I think it may be his nebulous motivations. He's not really evil, if I understand, he was just working with Garret because he was raised by him. Now that Garret is gone, he wants to work for SHIELD? Or at least he wants to work against Hydra. But why? Why work for anyone? It's not like he had strong convictions, he was simply doing as he was told. I'd like to believe he's actually a text book psychopath and is using whatever excuse allows him to kill the most people with the least amount of consequence. That'd be nice.
Alien Writing Question Answered
Memory Sequence
Spy Games with Ward
Rushed Answers at the End
Semi-Artificial Anti-Alien Subplot
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21-year-old Scottish DJ, producer and songwriter Conor Donaghey had developed a passion for music from an early age. Growing up listening to the likes of Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim and Armand Van Helden, he has always had an addiction to House Music in particular. Watching DJ sets and listening to music at a young age inspired Conor to become a producer and DJ.
See our exclusive interview with him below:
The older music I made was the future and deep house. I took a break from music for a couple of years and now I am making the music that I want to make, honing my new, heavier tech house sound, to fit in with my gigs. I would describe my sound like an underground tech-house with a pumping bassline.
Because I used to make a future house, I felt like I needed a change as I was not listening to that genre any more and I didn't really enjoy what I was making. After releasing the tracks all within the space of a year, I hit a creative block and started questioning whether I even wanted to make music anymore. So I took a couple of years out and took a step back from the scene, stopped doing gigs and left everything behind-until recently.
Last year, one of my DJ friends invited me to come along and play b2b at his weekly residency, playing house and tech-house. From then on, I started playing gigs again and finally got back in the studio. I then realized I needed to start making music that I enjoyed listening to and making. It also helped that my new approach fitted in with the music I was playing at shows.
I have always enjoyed performing more than anything else. There is nothing better than people enjoying the music I play – even better when it is one of my own tracks. I like making tunes too, it's always a great feeling when I manage to finish a track.
In one of my recent sets, I was trying out my newest release 'Famous Girl' and one of the people at the gig was so into it, she did one of the strangest dance moves I have ever seen!
Couldn't pick an all-time fav but my favourite just now would be Planet Giza – Added Sugar. Such a well-produced album.
I have lots of gigs planned in my hometown in the near future. Production-wise, I've got loads of new music and a lot of half-finished tracks I will get around to. I've also got plans to start my own event in Dundee in the Summer.
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Q: Handling large amount of SSE subscribers coming in a short time window in Spring Flux Here is the problem case. When sse client (either web browser or mobile) is behind some specific network infrastructure with a certain proxy/firewall rules, it seems can't keep "long" connections. As a result it constantly keeps reconnecting to sse end-point "GET /sse" and hence subscribing to the same thing over and over again, multiplying subscribers count on server. There can be a bunch of reconnects per second from the same client which adds a bunch of new subscribers to a Flux. By the look of it, what happens is that the client "thinks" that connection was dropped and subscribes again,  server  adds a new subscription but do not release the previous ones from this client, since subscribers count only grows. What would be a proper way to handle/control such a flooding? My guess is to add to the flow chain doOnSubscribe() method and check if this client already has an active subscription, and in the case it does - cancel a new subscription. The question is how it could be checked. Or is there any better way? Thanks for any ideas!
Using Spring Boot (v2.0.0.M6) and Flux sse end-point.
Here is the relevant code:
    @GetMapping(value = "/sse", produces = MediaType.TEXT_EVENT_STREAM_VALUE)
    public Flux<MyMessage> appMainChannel() {
        return Flux.from(httpReactiveSource)
               .filter(...)
               .limitRate(1)
               .map(Message::getPayload)
               .cast(MyMessage.class);
}

@Bean
public Publisher<Message<String>> httpReactiveSource() {
    return IntegrationFlows.
            from(mainPubChannel())
            .channel(mainSSEOutChannel())
            .toReactivePublisher();
}

Under other circumstances, i.e. in the network without those specific rules, all looks good.

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// Licensed under the MIT License.

package com.azure.cosmos.spark

import com.azure.cosmos.spark.diagnostics.LoggerHelper
import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.{Scan, ScanBuilder, SupportsPushDownFilters, SupportsPushDownRequiredColumns}
import org.apache.spark.sql.sources.Filter
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
import org.apache.spark.sql.util.CaseInsensitiveStringMap

// scalastyle:off underscore.import
import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
// scalastyle:on underscore.import

private case class ChangeFeedScanBuilder
(
  session: SparkSession,
  config: CaseInsensitiveStringMap,
  inputSchema: StructType,
  cosmosClientStateHandles: Broadcast[CosmosClientMetadataCachesSnapshots],
  diagnosticsConfig: DiagnosticsConfig
)
  extends ScanBuilder
    with SupportsPushDownFilters
    with SupportsPushDownRequiredColumns {

  @transient private lazy val log = LoggerHelper.getLogger(diagnosticsConfig, this.getClass)

  log.logTrace(s"Instantiated ${this.getClass.getSimpleName}")

  /**
   * Pushes down filters, and returns filters that need to be evaluated after scanning.
   * @param filters pushed down filters.
   * @return the filters that spark need to evaluate
   */
  override def pushFilters(filters: Array[Filter]): Array[Filter] = {
    filters
  }

  /**
   * Returns the filters that are pushed to Cosmos as query predicates
   * @return filters to be pushed to cosmos db.
   */
  override def pushedFilters: Array[Filter] = {
    Array[Filter]()
  }

  override def build(): Scan = {
    ChangeFeedScan(
      session,
      inputSchema,
      config.asScala.toMap,
      cosmosClientStateHandles,
      diagnosticsConfig)
  }

  /**
   * Applies column pruning w.r.t. the given requiredSchema.
   *
   * Implementation should try its best to prune the unnecessary columns or nested fields, but it's
   * also OK to do the pruning partially, e.g., a data source may not be able to prune nested
   * fields, and only prune top-level columns.
   *
   * Note that, `Scan` implementation should take care of the column
   * pruning applied here.
   */
  override def pruneColumns(requiredSchema: StructType): Unit = {
    //   Column pruning is not really applicable for change feed
    //   there is no way to push down column-pruning to the backend
    //   so entire json documents (including previous image for full fidelity)
    //   will be retrieved from the backend and any column pruning would only
    //   happen on the client
  }
}

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Water Injustice and the Abrahamic Faiths
Posted by: Salahuddin Mazhary Tags: africa,capitalism,climate change,drought,environment,global warming,Poverty,religion Posted date: May 6, 2016 | Comment
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How corporate exploitation and virtual water are at odds with human rights and the basic teachings of Abrahamic religions
Before approaching the topic of water injustice, it is worth highlighting how deeply ingrained water is in the imagery and cosmology of Abrahamic faiths. The Qur'an, Bible and Torah clearly establish that all living things were created out of water and that it is the single most important element to plant, animal and human life. As such, water is mentioned 63 times in the Qur'an and 722 times in the Bible.
Interestingly, the oft-disputed term 'shariah law' once meant the law of water. It should therefore come as no surprise that some of the most important Islamic rituals centre around water. For instance, Muslims use water regularly when ritually purifying themselves for the five daily prayers. Likewise, in Rabbinical sources, water is a metaphor for the Torah itself, and in Biblical Hebrew there are 10 words for rain, eight words for cloud, and a number of different names for spring, wells, cisterns and aqueducts.
In Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's teachings and life exemplify the highest ideals of water justice. Indeed, water conservation is deeply embedded in the sunnah, the Prophetic code of practice. For instance, Prophet Mohammed eschewed the wasting of water "even if at the banks of a flowing river''. Additionally, he instituted the harim, a protected conservation zone that prohibited the development of areas such as riverbanks to protect watersheds. He also made it very clear that each human being has a common share in "grass, water and fire" (Musnad Vol. 2, Book 22). Since water is a matter of life and death, it can be argued within the Jewish tradition that the act of providing clean water for everyone fulfils Pikuach Nefesh, a principle that emphasises saving human lives above all else.
The current global status quo of inequality regarding access to water violates the basic human rights to water, food – and ultimately, life. Not only are these rights enshrined in multiple religious scriptures, but they are outlined in UN international law. One of the biggest forms of water injustice is the monopoly of water sources by multinational bottled water corporations such as Nestle. Water is a matter of life and death and, therefore, should not be in the hands of organisations whose sole purpose is profit instead of the public good. Indeed, the Nestle CEO asserted that water is not a human right, but just another foodstuff with a commercial value attached.
Across developing nations such as Ethiopia, Pakistan and South Africa, Nestle has seemingly unlimited access to fresh water supplies, leaving millions of people who cannot pay high prices in thirst and squalor. The fact that over 1 billion people worldwide drink from water sources contaminated with faeces is perhaps of little concern to money-driven corporations. As well as reducing water for municipal water supplies, Nestle have paid very little in return for their rapacious extraction of water. It is estimated that in many places Nestlé pays just $3.71 for every million litres of water it pumps from the local watersheds.
The virtual water trade is another important example of a worldwide status quo of global water injustice. Virtual water is the water that is embedded in all the food and clothes that we consume. Considering that our western lifestyles depend heavily on produce from developing countries, naturally they generate an enormous water footprint. Peru's export of asparagus to developed nations including the UK is a key case in point. In recent years, 9 million cubic metres of water, the equivalent of approximately 3,600 Olympic swimming pools, were consumed in growing asparagus destined for UK markets. The large-scale diversion of water resources to grow asparagus in one of Peru's driest regions has generated a massive water deficit that deprives local farmers and their families from meeting their basic and economic water needs. Already, two wells serving over 18,000 local people have dried up and local people are forced to consume only 10 litres of water per person per day, much lower than the recommended 50 litres by the World Health Organisation.
As people of all faiths and none, we cannot tolerate a pernicious state of affairs where entire areas of developing countries are effectively vegetation colonies for richer countries at the expense of local people. Such systematic water failures have also endangered the food security of billions of the poorest people worldwide. It is not surprising that most of the 3 billion people expected to be born by 2050 will inherit countries crippled by water shortages. The situation will only worsen as global warming begins to have a catastrophic impact on the African continent where 80 to 90 per cent of all families in rural settings rely on water to meet their basic food needs. Amid this unfolding disaster, we are increasingly becoming accustomed to droughts as the global norm; currently 36 million people are facing hunger as the worst drought in decades persists across eastern and southern Africa.
As a Muslim, I feel obliged to combat this increasing 'comm-eau-dification' as it endangers the Haq al Shafa, an inalienable human right within Islamic law to access affordable, safe, clean water to quench one's thirst. Considering that religious scriptures sanctify saving lives above all, it has never been more important for the Abrahamic faiths to join the conversation and movement to tackle the scourge of water injustice. Given how accelerating climate change is affecting diminishing water supplies, the moment must be now.
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Salahuddin Mazhary
Salahuddin Mazhary has a BA in History and Geography from SOAS and King's College London. He plays a very active role in MADE's eco-ambassador scheme and is an emerging activist, passionate about issues of social, political and environmental injustice, as well as cultural fashion.
Kazim Mehdevy
Excellent article . Very easy to read, am very pleased that we have amongst us researchers/ writers who are extending their fields and dealing with issues other than purely religious matters. Keep up the good work and thanks a lot indeed
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