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Three astronauts safely returned to Earth today after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station. The Soyuz capsule with astronauts from Canada, Russia and the United States landed in the steppes of Kazakhstan.
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A Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule descends about 150 kilometers (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
A Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule descends about 150 km (90 miles) south east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Three astronauts safely returned to Earth on Tuesday after spending more than six months aboard the International Space Station. Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP
A fire of the Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule breaking engines goes out as it lands about 150 km (90 miles) south east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP
The Soyuz MS-11 capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, lands in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool via REUTERS
The Soyuz MS-11 capsule carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency, lands in a remote area outside Zhezkazgan Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool via REUTERS
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A Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule stands on the ground after the landing about 150 km (90 miles) south east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP
A search and rescue team works on the site of landing of the Soyuz MS-11 capsule after the landing about 150 km (90 miles) south east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP
Russian space agency rescue team help Russian cosmonaut Оleg Kononenko, center, to get from the capsule shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-11 space capsule about 150 km (80 miles) south east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Alexander Nemenov/Pool Photo via AP
Soyuz MS-11 crew member, NASA astronaut Anne McClain, undergoes a medical check Picture: Alexander Nemenov/Pool via REUTERS
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Expedition 59 Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques is carried to a medical tent Picture: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS
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Expedition 59 NASA astronaut Anne McClain is helped out of the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft Picture: NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS
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I feel very at home in India, and I am charmed by the hustle and bustle, bright colours and warm faces.
Here are a few photos of my first trip in India, just because I am feeling a little nostalgic.
Day 10 in Pondicherry J bought me a beautiful beautiful antique box. It has so many little compartments inside for my special jewelry. We bought it off the side of a road from a lovely man. You can see below the stall and the man that sold it to us. He was just so happy and it made me think about all the people that earn so much more than him but are less grateful. This man sent out rays of sunshine to all that spoke with him.
The second highlight of this particular day was the dog family we came across in the street. I wanted to take them home with me. Just look at those faces.
The man you can see below is a milkman. They ride around Pondicherry with little tanks of milk attached to their bikes. It's so charming.
Vintage glasses from Pondicherry, India.
I bought a lot of wonderful things to wear, cook with and for our home in Pondicherry. These glasses are just some of them. Aren't they wonderful? My favourite is the one with the lady in the bathing suit. I got them from the shops next to La Maison Rose in Rue Romain Rolland in Pondicherry.


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On October 9, 1962, Wilson Greatbatch received patent #3,057,356 for the cardiac pacemaker. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., Greatbatch's innovation was selected in 1983 by the National Society of Professional Engineers as one of the two major engineering contributions to society during the previous 50 years. Greatbatch established a series of companies to manufacture or license his inventions, including Greatbach Enterprises, which produces most of the world's pacemaker batteries. In 1986, Greatbatch was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Rozane Mara is an early period pattern introduced by Roseville Pottery in 1905. The Mara pattern was decorated with exquisite rainbow tints that resemble the lining of seashells. The pattern was introduced as a response to Weller�s Sicard line. It is very rare and valuable today. Roseville Mara was typically marked with a Mara wafer, but some examples are unsigned. The 1907 catalog shows six Mara vases and one ewer.
RARE and estate fresh circa 1905 Roseville Pottery Mara red lustre vase decorated with fruit and leaves. Superior color and stunning Weller Sicard style glaze. CLEAN and MINT CONDITION. No chips, cracks, damage or repair of any kind. Bottom marked with 13. Vase stands an impressive 6" tall and 7 1/2" wide. One of the best examples of this elusive pattern that you find!


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Just over an hour's drive from Geneva, Les Gets has become an extremely popular mountain village in the vast Les Portes du Soleil ski domain.
Our team of local advisers are on hand to answer any queries you may have about this project.
Upmarket yet unpretentious, this family-friendly resort is a winter sports paradise and a major hub for mountain biking, meaning it's active throughout the year. As a result, the Les Gets property market can be competitive.
A family friendly resort that exudes Savoyard charm
We have decades of experience in finding our clients their dream property in Les Gets, helping them through the entire buying process. Explore our curated selection of properties for sale in Les Gets, including the very best ski chalets and the most stylish apartments.
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"An authentic and welcoming village, Les Gets is a true dual-season resort with access to one of the largest ski domains in the world and with a lively summer season."
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Le Chalet du Château Chalet - 5 Sovrum 407 sqm 3990000
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Le Confidentiel & L'Essentiel Studio 33 sqm 330000
Le Hameau du Rocher 4 Sovrum 163 sqm 1800000
Le Gîte Blanc 2-3 Sovrum 55-99 sqm 586800 - 1275600
La Ferme des Pistes 1-5 Sovrum 53-142 sqm 465000 - 1743000
Le Vieux Chêne 3-4 Sovrum 77-138 sqm 758500 - 1823000
Stella 1-5 Sovrum 50-156 sqm 486000 - 2107500
Chalet 1839 1 Sovrum 53 sqm 635000
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The Pearl 4 Sovrum 154 sqm 1848000 - 1907000
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Buying a Property in Les Gets with Charles Antoine Sialelli, Destination Adviser, Athena Advisers.
Les Gets is one of the most popular ski resorts in France for various reasons. The first reason is the size of the ski domain. Les Gets is part of Les Portes Du Soleil ski domain which is a very large ski domain with more than 600 kilometres of ski runs across France and Switzerland.
Another reason why Les Gets is very popular is its proximity to the airport. The drive is between one hour and one hour and 15 minutes which means it is very convenient, especially for weekend trips when you want to come at the last minute.
Then, it is one of the rare resorts with a proper dual season. The summer here is very nice. "We are very proud to offer a very, very long summer season. We begin at the end of the month of May. Of course, during the summer, we have the opportunity to welcome all the families because Les Gets has a lake with a Wibit (water park inflatables). We have an 18-hole golf course and much more to discover." (David Chabanal, Director, Les Gets Tourist Office). Most of the main lifts are open in Les Portes Du Soleil which allows you to do summer activities, like mountain biking, hiking and paragliding.
Compared to many ski resorts, Les Gets has been very preserved in terms of architecture, making properties for sale in Les Gets very attractive to investors and second home buyers. The village has grown around the historical centre preserving the local architecture, so that it is why in Les Gets you don't see any big blocks, like '70s blocks with big flat roofs like you would find in purpose-built ski resorts.
The village is organised around a long main street with shops, restaurants and bars and everything you need, and then higher up, halfway up the mountain, you have two main areas. One is called, La Turche, which benefits from direct access to the slopes. The second one is called, Les Chavannes, with the same access to the slopes and ski lifts.
Les Gets is perfect for clients who are looking to buy a chalet or apartment for sale in a large, dual season ski domain which is very close to an airport.
For more information, please read our Complete Guide to Buying Property in the French Alps.
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Our team of property experts have found the very best chalets and apartments for sale in the popular French Alps ski resort, Les Gets. With a modern-minded approach we apply to everything we do.
There is a fantastic array of ski properties for sale in Les Gets. Those who want to be close to the heart of the action should consider looking for a property in the village centre as this will enable them to have the best selection of shops, restaurants and amenities on the doorstep. Ski apartments can be mainly found in the village centre, all of which are built in a beautiful chalet-style – no high-rise tower blocks here. Some ski apartments also come with excellent communal facilities such as Kinabalu which has a swimming pool, a spa and a concierge service.
As space is limited in the village centre, spacious chalets for sale in Les Gets tend to be located just outside of the centre in one of the resort's charming slopeside neighbourhoods such as the Gibannaz area. It is in this calm neighbourhood where you'll find the six-bedroom Gibannaz 3 which boasts ski-in ski-out access and offers panoramic views over the valley, Mont Chéry and the slopes.
An authentic and welcoming village, Les Gets is a true dual-season resort with access to one of the largest ski domains in the world and with a lively summer season. From golf and mountain biking to paragliding and watersports, there is something for the whole family to enjoy in the summer.
This not only makes owning a property in Les Gets an excellent lifestyle investment, but it also means that property owners have the opportunity to generate strong rental yields throughout the year.
Read our Les Gets ski property market update (April 2021) for more information and insight.
With superb skiing and an excellent array of summer activities, owning a property in Les Gets is a fantastic lifestyle investment for those looking for a home away from home in a dual-season resort. Plus, as Les Gets is active throughout the year, it is possible to generate rental yields year-round – not just during the ski season. According to the figures in the 2020 Summer in the French Alps report, Les Gets has an estimated occupancy rate of 50% in the summer.
Additionally, those who invest in a new-build property in Les Gets will also have the option to reclaim 20% VAT from the property purchase price if they choose to rent out their property on an ongoing basis and certain conditions are met. This incentive is very popular with our clients with around 80% of those who buy an Alpine property from us taking advantage of this programme. If this is something of interest, please do get in touch and our experienced in-house team can help you with this process. See our complete guide to renting out your ski property in the French Alps to learn how to maximise your rental income and the key factors you need to take into account.
A true dual-season resort, Les Gets is very active in the summer months and a great destination for those seeking a sporty holiday surrounded by breathtaking Alpine scenery. In the summer, swap your skis for hiking boots and explore the many hiking and walking trails of Les Gets which range from the challenging Les Crêtes du Mont Chéry route to easier paths designed for families with young children.
For golf with a view, head to 18-hole Golf Les Gets on the Chavannes side of the village. Facing the Mont Blanc, each hole of this challenging course offers a different stunning vista.
Lac des Ecoles is a must-visit for families during the summer. Monitored by lifeguards this Alpine lake is perfect for swimming whilst the grassy banks are an ideal spot for sunbathing or picnicking. On the water, you will also find the action-packed Wibit park which comprises around 40 inflatable obstacles, including a giant slide. There is also an easier obstacle course designed specifically for children aged between five and eight.
Les Gets is a superb destination for mountain biking enthusiasts as it is home to the largest MTB park in Europe which comprises more than 128km of marked trails that cater to all abilities. Les Gets also hosts the MTB world cup finals and in 2022 the resort will host the DH and XCO Mountain Biking World Championships.
Les Gets is constantly improving its offerings on and off the slopes to help it better compete with its fellow siblings in Les Portes du Soleil. For the 2019/20 ski season, Les Gets opened two new pistes, a dog sledging experience for children and Les Sources du Chéry, a chic wellness centre with a 1,000 sqm adults-only spa and fun children's area.
Some €7m has been invested in improving the resort's snowmaking capabilities and the new facilities have upped snow coverage from 35% to nearly 50% for the 2019/20 ski season. Once the project is complete, snow coverage will reach 75%.
Les Gets opened its first chair lift back in 1938 and welcomed the first Ecole du Ski Français soon after in 1940. Since the opening of the Mont Chery lift in 1954, the ski resort has steadily grown and now boasts 47 lifts.
However, the origin of the village stems back to the 12th century and before Les Gets evolved into the popular ski resort it is today, it was a dairy farm community. For a taste of what life was like back then head to La Fruitière des Perrières, a fromagerie with a restaurant which is more than 100 years old.
The village today
Part of the vast Portes du Soleil ski domain, Les Gets has 650km of groomed pistes on the doorstep and is conveniently located just over an hour's drive from Geneva which makes it perfect for weekend visits or last-minute trips. Les Gets is a great destination for mixed ability groups as it has a diverse array of slopes with 38 green runs, 131 blue runs, 105 red runs and 32 black runs.
Novice skiers should check out the nursery runs near the village centre and the Mappys area in the Chavannes area which has four gentle runs with a snow cable and rope to help new skiers practise. There are also several ski and snowboarding schools where you can attend group lessons or one-to-one sessions. Seasoned skiers will enjoy the steep black runs of Mont Chéry and the Yeti mogul field.
Well-deserving of its Famille Montagne Plus label, Les Gets is a fantastic resort for families as it boasts plenty of activities to keep little ones amused such as the Grand Cry Territory, a fun themed ski area, and the Milka slope.
Les Gets offers plenty of activities away from the slopes too. In the village centre, you will find an outdoor ice rink, a cinema, a bowling alley as well as plenty of restaurants and a handful of bars. There are also several spas for unwinding and resting ski-weary legs including the new Les Sources du Chéry spa.
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Yu Gi Oh Duel Links Yami Yugi is a Starter Duelist that can be selected at the start of the game. Early on you will learn the Skill Power of Dark, allowing for an easy Fiend or Spellcaster Deck to be built using this character.
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The third and final book of Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy is a wonderful conclusion to one of the best fantasy series ever written. For the uninformed, His Dark Materials is the story of Lyra and Will, two young teens from two different worlds who must choose sides in a war between Lyra's father, Lord Asriel, and the Authority, or God.
As I mentioned before when I reviewed the second book, Pullman is no fan of Christianity, or at least no fan of the Catholic Church, who in his opinion has committed far too many atrocious acts over the ages in the name of God. Yet despite Pullman's personal belief's I wouldn't call the books anti-Christian by any means. They're books of fantasy. They're not books of religion. If it bothers you that leaders of the Church are villainous murderous, then perhaps this isn't the book for you.
The characters are pure magic and include talking polar bears who wear impenetrable armor, witches, angels (both good and bad), small people who ride dragonflies and attack normal-sized adults with poison-tipped spurs, ghosts,and the list goes on and on.
Pullman is a master of world creation, and since His Dark Materials feature so many worlds, the read is a fascinating one. It makes you wonder how one person could have an imagination so immense. Comparisons to J.K. Rowling are fitting. Like Harry Potter, His Dark Materials is sure to delight anyone hoping to escape into a yet imagined world of wonder.
A brilliant book and a fascinating read.


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Q: Password validation java I want to set up validation for a password field where the password entered must be at least 6 characters long and can contain letters and numbers
private static final String PASSWORD_PATTERN = "^[A-Za-z0-9]{6}";

Then I have a validate method to validate the password.
  public void validate() {

if(!password.matches(PASSWORD_PATTERN)) {
        this.addFieldError("password", "Password must contain 6 characters or more");
}

A: {6} means exactly 6 characters, use {6,}. I would also remove ^ from regex because it is redundant. Also note that there is \w predefined character class which is a shortcut for [a-zA-Z_0-9] if you are OK with _ in the password. All in all it could be "\\w{6,}"

A: Quick google revealed, that what you want to do, is somewhat common problem and people have given it try before.
For example, see http://examples.javacodegeeks.com/core-java/util/regex/matcher/validate-password-with-java-regular-expression-example/
They also use regex to validate password, but it is a bit more complex. It might give some nice ideas how to improve your code, once it turns out, that alphanumeric 6 symbol passwords are not enough.

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Food For The Half-Grown
by Deonna Kelli Sayed
Deonna's essay appears in episode 13 of the Dirty Spoon Radio Hour, which originally aired on August 2, 2019.
My 17-year-old son, Ibrahim, decides that he wants to cook for a friend. He pulls the small, cheap grill out of the closet. After a winter in hibernation, the grill is now missing a leg, but this is not a deterrent.
"What are you cooking?" I ask.
"Steak," he says. He's very serious. His body language is charged. He is, dare I say it, acting manly.
"Steak? You bought steak?" I ask.
He bought steak with his recent paycheck from a catering gig with the French Chef that is also one of my many part-time jobs. We recently worked a wedding, and now, Ibrahim is holding two raw T-bones purchased with his tip money. He is ceremonial. The opportunity to cook meat over an open flame has unearthed something primal.
Outside is too humid, even in early evening. He wipes sweat from his face. "I know how to cook steak," he says. "After all, I am Afghan."
Ibrahim is half-Afghan, to be exact. The other half is me and American. Our kitchen is global fusion. Some of his friends, the tall blond ones who drive the family SUVs, are amazed that we cook entire meals from scratch.
Ibrahim likes to tell a story about the summer he spent in Saudi Arabia with his father. Ibrahim had carefully pan fried a steak until exquisitely medium rare. He had adopted a particular philosophy about beef. He had learned by watching cooking shows on YouTube.
"This is raw!" His father exclaimed. Then his father put a perfectly seared piece of steak into the microwave.
"When it came out," Ibrahim later shared, "the meat was just…gray." This travesty, often retold, represents the differences my son has with his father: differences around religious practice, identity, and the right way to cook meat.
"My father knows nothing about the world," Ibrahim decides while bent over the small grill, now propped up on one-side with a brick. He stokes the charcoal when he looks up and asks,
"How long do I wait before I put the steak on?"
Food is the map for how far I've traveled from my origin story.
I grew up on pork chops and grits in the Florida Panhandle. As an only child, I rode my little Honda 50 motorcycle up and down a rutted country dirt road. Grandma lived on the other side of the field, within hollering distance. Food functioned as a communal experience; everyone I knew ate the same things. This was evident at every family reunion, every church supper, every holiday meal: Mamie's Sweet Potato Casserole, Gracie's Veg-All Casserole, Aunty Linnie's Banana Pudding, Uncle Archie's ham, Big Momma's fried chicken. I could go on.
My childhood was a certain very delicious, and predictable menu, locked in place by Southern tradition. I was 12 years old before I tried Chinese food, and I had to go all the way to Jacksonville to do it.
At Ibrahim's age, I entered community college with a GED. I lived in Tallahassee where I encountered hummus years before it would become available in plastic tubs at grocery stores. I ate grape leaves and Pad Thai. Still trapped in the Florida Panhandle, I used food to take me to places I couldn't yet go.
I eventually married a man from Afghanistan and away I went.
I lived in Azerbaijan during my pregnancy. My cravings raged from the Azeri MacDonald's cheeseburger that reminded me of home, to the street food, Qutab, a savory pancake filed with meat and spice. I grew fat on Russian Honey Cake during my last trimester. Ibrahim entered the world in Baku's Old City. Even in the womb, I was splitting my son's tongue between continents, ensuring that his culinary cartography would be more spacious than mine.
Even in the womb, I was splitting my son's tongue between continents, ensuring that his culinary cartography would be more spacious than mine.
During my marriage, food marked my husband's restricted view of the world. I wanted endless possibilities; Ibrahim's father wanted to be right. He insisted on eating halal meat, an effortless endeavor when we lived in the Middle East. This preference doesn't indicate religious rigidity by itself, but he doubled down once we moved to a small Southern city where halal food was difficult to find.
The kind of meat we consumed functioned as an identity boundary: we ate halal meat to mark us as different from those who did not.
My ex kept a book of other prohibited items, like Styrofoam. I pondered: Styrofoam is awful for the environment, and therefore, unethical?
That wasn't the logic. Apparently, a lubricant of beef or pork fat might be used in some brands. But you don't eat the Styrofoam cup, I wanted to shout.
I know Ibrahim occasionally slips pig into his mouth. I know that he is drawing his boundaries with food, too, trying to chart who he wants to become.
Oh, the long wail of summer. The thick ripe heat of it, like a tomato about to burst.
We are always bursting in this life of ours.
My independence is now contingent on my Ibrahim's part-time job in fast food. We share one decrepit car. He is a rising senior student and acts like he is all grown up. I have to remind him to gas up the car, to take the trash out, to wash his bed sheets. He texts to ask, "When is dinner?"
I confront him about his low grade in French when I get his final report card; the grade he hid from me because "he knows how I am." Of course, I overlook the high marks he made in the harder, more advanced classes.
I yell at him. I tell him he needs to figure out who he wants to me. I tell him horrible, cliched things, like if he doesn't take things more seriously, he will be flipping burgers the rest of his life.
Ibrahim has one more year of high school. I am 45 years old and live paycheck to paycheck. We are still delicate creatures, the two of us.
Last summer, Ibrahim spent three weeks in Afghanistan without his father, in the company of cousins and uncles. This was his first real visit to the country; a time he would actually remember. This time, he tried hashish. He and his uncle endured vicious food poisoning from a street vendor's shour nakhud, chick peas in a mint and coriander chutney. When Ibrahim returned to America, he informed me that he had gone to the hospital in Kabul. "Just for fluids," he clarified, as my face turned pale with this new information.
"The food over there is so good," he exclaims, "and everyone wants to feed you!"
Now, he has one hand in the Indian store's ice cream freezer as he reaches for a pistachio kulfi when he asks, "Hey, what's that dried lamb called?"
"Lahndi." I surprise myself by instantly recalling the name in Dari (Afghan Farsi) of the dense, salty meat traditionally cured for winter months Afghanistan. I can't describe the taste – there are no words in English – it has a deliciously gamey, chewy, concentrated flavor, something almost holy. Lahndi is the one true Afghan meat, something borne in the steppes of Central Asia.
I remember the first time I tried landhi. Ibrahim was still small, maybe six years old, and we sat Indian style on thick floor cushions in Peshawar. It was winter — the dried meat is a cold weather food – and a long blue dress cloaked my legs. By the end of the meal, my hands would be slick with grease from landhi and rice heaped high on a large platter. Ibrahim's paw prints would dot my dress to stain it forever.
I felt so complete at that moment, catching fragments of Dari and speaking back in almost full sentences. Look how far this Florida girl has traveled! I failed to taste the approaching decay. Three years later I would leave the marriage, the meat, and the modest dresses for an uncertain, very American future.
Ibrahim holds up a creamy, cold kulfi stick from the freezer: pista he says in Dari. Pistachio? He rarely speaks Dari with me. When I try, he protests.
Ne, I shake my head. Um, I say.
"Um…what?"
"Mango. The Dari word for mango is um."
I remember names of food. I remember that he is only 17 years old. I remember he has always been his mother's child. He didn't sleep in his own bed until he was six years old. He slept next to me, first wrapped tight around my hair, his breath tethered to mine.
Ibrahim chooses the pistachio.
Memory and language live on the tongue.
Where do they go when they leave?
I started working for the French Chef during the Christmas season when Ibrahim was thirteen years old. Desperation rolled like smoke in my mouth. I stank of it. I was recently unemployed, fired from a position at a mental health clinic.
A friend suggested the French Chef might be hiring seasonal help.
It was for Ibrahim that I worked cocktail parties and limped in pain after, too poor to buy good shoes. I would cry in gratitude while driving home, a bag full of leftovers in the passenger seat, sometimes with extravagant things like beef tenderloin and dark chocolate mousse. We managed to eat for a month from the holiday excesses of the rich.
I was so fragile that winter, almost broken and always scared. Ibrahim never knew that I felt ruin waiting around the next corner.
Four years later, Ibrahim has mastered steak and chocolate chip cookies, an American miracle invented by two female chefs in 1938. Even the French Chef is impressed with the cookies. The recipe Ibrahim uses is from a cookbook called A Taste of Home. An Afghan boy perfecting the American chocolate chip cookies…it is wonderful.
In a year, Ibrahim will be unleashed into the world. This is a very American rite-of-passage, to send our children away to college as half-formed things. I cannot recall the last time I told Ibrahim that I love him. Instead, I remind him to wash his sheets. Instead, I say things like, "Did you eat?"
These days, I return to the Middle East at least once a year. Ruin feels like it lives a few blocks away. It is at more of a distance, at least.
I can remember the Persian word for life, zendagi.
Everything real decomposes, like food and unused language. Even our stories shatter to ripen again. Oh, the long wail of life, the thick heat of it. Ibrahim and I, we are always growing up. May we burst from the delight of it all.
Custom artwork by Garnet Fisher.
About Deonna Kelli Sayed
Deonna Kelli Sayed is an author, TEDx speaker, and award winning podcast producer. Her essays appear in Love, Inshallah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women and Faithfully Feminist: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Feminists on Why We Stay, and in various online publications. Her fiction is featured the anthology, Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction From a Small Planet, Volume III.
She is the also the author of Paranormal Obsession: America's Fascination with Ghosts & Hauntings, Spooks & Spirits, a cultural studies exploration regarding why ghost stories matter.
Deonna is the Membership Coordinator for the North Carolina Writers' Network, and the Festival Coordinator for the Greensboro Bound Literary Festival. She is currently working on a memoir about feral faith, self-love, and ghosts. Learn more at www.deonnaiswriting.com and find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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How did life begin? Was it spontaneously by chance – millions of years ago in a nutrient rich sea?
Of recent time Microbiologists have found that all life perpetuates itself by means of the DNA Molecule. This Molecule contains the entire Genatic code for the reproduction of the organism. Here we see graphically portrayed the various ladder units of information of the DNA Molecule.
Now as we think of the origin of life – let's consider the simplest form of living matter today. Scientists speculate that it contains 6,500 units – or ladder steps in its DNA Molecule. Bearing this in mind — and assuming the ancient seas were crammed with the base units of which DNA is composed — what would be the probabilities of all these units aligning themselves in the exact relationship of one to another to spontaneously form the simplest living organism?
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Alexander Hay (12 January 1820 – 4 February 1898) was a South Australian merchant, pastoralist and politician.

Early career

Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, as a young man he gained free passage to South Australia when working as a "wharfer", arriving in May 1839. After working for only two years for the South Australia Company, he could afford to purchase his own land to farm at Gumeracha. He soon acquired or invested in extensive pastoral land holdings throughout south-eastern Australia. He opened a grocery and hardware store on Rundle Street in the Adelaide city centre, specialising in supplying tools and equipment to the new copper mines and the booming building industry. He also became a proprietor of the newspaper the South Australian Register, a director of two insurance companies, two banks, a gas company and a wharf company. He served as vice-president of the Adelaide Zoo, president of the YMCA, an Adelaide City Councillor. He founded the Caledonian Society of South Australia, and was its Chief 1881–1883. He was married to Agnes Kelly in Adelaide in 1845, with whom he had eight children (only four survived to adulthood, a son and three daughters).

Political career
In 1857, Hay was elected to the district of Gumeracha in the South Australian House of Assembly. He almost became Premier in 1868, after a collapse in support from farmers resulted in the dissolution of the existing ministry. The Governor invited Hay, as the leader of the liberal land reformers and the only candidate with a clear policy, to form a ministry, but Hay refused. He was asked again the following month, and accepted but was unsuccessful in securing sufficient support.

Except for a five-year break between 1861 and 1866 during which he took his family on a trip to England and had his Beaumont home, "Linden", rebuilt, he served the Parliament until 1890, being elected to the Legislative Council in 1873 and again in 1882.

He is remembered for his commonsense, his support of industry, farmers, and young entrepreneurs, and his steadfast support of free primary education. He is particularly noteworthy for his role as proposer and chairman of the Select Committee on Education in 1868, which recommended a secular and compulsory system (which became law seven years later). He was also a noted supporter of an Adelaide to Darwin railway.

Agnes Hay died in 1870 and was buried in West Terrace Cemetery. Hay married Agnes Grant Gosse in 1872, with whom he soon had four more children.

Later life

Hay began building a summer residence at Victor Harbor in 1879. In 1881, the Mount Breckan mansion, one of the largest residences in Australia at that time, was completed.

Hay died at Mount Breckan in January 1898. A memorial window in St. Augustine's Church, Victor Harbor, was erected in his memory.

Children
Alexander had twelve children, eight between 1846 and 1858 by his first wife Agnes, née Kelly (1818–1870, married 1845), and four between 1873 and 1877 by his second wife Agnes Grant, née Gosse (1837–1909, married 1872).

Agnes Kelly
Agnes Kelly (1818–1870) was a bonnet maker in Balhannah in the Adelaide Hills. She had arrived in South Australia in September 1840. In 1845 (aged 27) she married Alexander Hay. Within a short time they had eight children. As was very common in those days, four of their children died before their third birthday. Agnes Hay died on 3 August 1870, aged only fifty-three. She was buried at the West Terrace Cemetery where four of her children had already been buried.

Their children were:
Peter (1846–1848)
Agnes (1848–1849)
Margaret (1849–1916) married  John Henry Luxmoore on 10 November 1870. They lived at "Saltram", Glenelg
Susan (1850–1851)
Mary (1852–1891)
Agnes (Aggie) Hay (1854–1933) married William Christie Gosse on 22 December 1874. William Christie Gosse was the brother of Alexander's second wife Agnes Grant Hay née Gosse. Aggie and William had 3 children:
William Hay Gosse MC (1875–1918) was killed in action in France. He married Muriel, née Davidson, who died in 1920. Their son George Gosse (1912–1964) was awarded the George Cross in 1946;
Sir James Hay Gosse (1876–1952) married Joanna Lang, daughter of Tom Elder Barr Smith – they had a daughter and four sons; and
Edith Agnes Gosse (1878-)
James (1855–1908)
Helen (1858–1861)

Agnes Grant Gosse
Agnes Grant Gosse (1837–1909) married Alexander Hay in March 1872 (aged 35). He had been introduced to Agnes Gosse at a function in 1867 at which the Gosse family had also been present.

Agnes was the eldest daughter of Dr William Gosse (1812–1883) and Agnes née Grant (1811–1891). Their six children were:
Agnes Grant Gosse (1837–1909) – married Alexander Hay – 4 children
William Christie Gosse (1842–1881) – in 1874 married Aggie Hay (1854–1933), his sister's step-daughter – 3 children
Mary – married Alexander Melville
Charles Gosse (1849–1885) studied medicine – married Mary, daughter of Hon. G. C. Hawker
David – married Emily Fenn
Henry – married Elizabeth Clark

As well as being Hay's second wife, and having the benefits of the Gosse family heritage, Agnes Grant Hay was an author. Her works include:
After-glow memories by Anglo-Australian, London : Methuen & Co., 1905 NLA catalogue entry
Malcolm Canmore's Pearl by Agnes Grant Hay, 1907
Archibald Menzies, mystic by Agnes Hay Grant, London : John Milne, 1908 NLA catalogue entry
Ober-Ammergau, and its great passion drama of 1900 by Agnes Grant Hay : Elliot Stock, 1902, (illustrated) 1903.NLA catalogue entry
Footprints: A Memoir of the Late Alexander Hay, one of the Fathers and Early Colonists of South Australia by his widow. London : Elliot Stock, 1899. NLA catalogue entry

Works written about her include:
A Lady at Sea : the adventures of Agnes Grant Hay by Anthony Laube, 2001

Hay and his second wife had four children:
Gertrude Hay (1873–1952) married Dr. Philip Gosse on 14 July 1908. Philip was author of The Pirates Who's Who
Alexander Gosse Hay (1874–1901)
William Gosse Hay (1875–1945) was an author. He married Mary Violet Williams, daughter of Rev. Francis Williams on 26 October 1901.
Helen "Dolly" Hay (1877–1909), the youngest daughter, and her mother, second wife Agnes Grant née Gosse, were lost at sea on the ill-fated .

A reversible lectern was erected in St Augustine's Church, Victor Harbor, in memory of Agnes Grant and Helen Hay.

References

External links
Images of Alexander Hay held in the Mortlock Library:
Portrait ca.1860,

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Spirituality Lite in 'The Da Vinci Code'
Though it challenges us to 'seek the truth,' there's not much truth to pursue in this movie.
With as much hype as any movie in recent memory, "The Da Vinci Code" has finally hit the screens. Making a film from a complicated novel with a variety of controversial and complex themes is no easy task. Add to that the scrutiny this story has received, and the hill to climb gets higher; in this case, it was probably too high in the first place. The result is not a bad movie--just an average one.
The film's primary flaw is that for viewers who don't already know the story, the first 30 minutes come off like an MTV video, flashing quickly from scene to scene with no context or explanation for what is taking place. All of this makes for what seems like a set of very loose ends, as the key characters, the Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and the French cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) are introduced.
The opening was so convoluted that I almost fell asleep toward the end of it. Hanks plays a too-subdued Langdon, someone who stumbles into his predicament rather than someone curious and passionate about the pursuit of symbols and their deeper meaning. He and Sophie never connect, except as two people caught in a wave of events sweeping them along their quest. There is little humor to the story, and their pursuit of answers is oddly understated.
Things pick up only when the eccentric Grail enthusiast Leigh Teabing enters the mix. Ian McKellen's Teabing is the key to the movie--an almost-wacky character, whose over-the-top nature reinforces that the story is fiction. However entertaining, though, his excess makes the story far less "believable" as an action thriller. It is hard to connect with someone acting so strangely. But his character helps pick up the pace and drama of the story, rescuing the film from disaster and helping to make the experience more entertaining. So much for "The Da Vinci Code" as a movie. But this story has a dual character--there is the plot and then there are its religious messages. Those messages are still present in the movie, only slightly toned down. Summing up the crux of the matter that they're investigating, one character asks, "What if the greatest story ever told was a lie?" Those who challenge the church's truth are the "keepers of the proof of the true past." As the story is spun of Jesus having a child and his descendant emerging from a surprising place (I will not give away more of the story), the characters repeatedly comment on history and religion: "God uses us all"; "Jesus is a human inspiration"; "As long as there has been one true God, there has been killing in his name"; "So dark the con of man"; and finally, "The only thing that matters is what you believe."
Here is pop-ideology stripped of the supernatural, other than to note that it is there to be molded by our own perceptions and distortions of it. This secular version of Proverbs--presented in one-sentence words of "wisdom" that appear up throughout the movie like popcorn--is empty when it comes to spiritual issues. It translates even less convincingly when it is on the screen than on the page.
Most of the novel's hotly debated issues and claims remain in the movie. Jesus was married and had a child. We are told this fact thanks to "evidence" from the gospels of Philip and Mary, some of which Teabing explains in a lively scene in which he begins to lay out the rationale for the pursuit of the Holy Grail as a human being and not a cup. Present is the claim about a human Jesus, but it is stated with more ambivalence and subject to more debate than in the novel. Gone is the book's claim that 80 different gospels once existed, and the Council of Nicea is hardly noted aside from one set of remarks. Maybe the debunking books had an impact.
But Opus Dei still looks very sinister, as does the Catholic church. The divine feminine also plays a role, as does the issue of sacred sex (handled briefly and discreetly by Ron Howard). These ideas are rather loosely strung together in a way that seems more odd on screen than in narration.
The film offers an awkward, secular attempt to grasp for a type of faith without divinity, whose message is, essentially: All that matters is to believe something, even if that something has nothing to do with truth and lacks any real substance. Ads for the movie challenge us to "seek the truth," but in the end, there is little truth worth seeking in the story's groping for a coherent spiritual message. An average movie, "The Da Vinci Code" offers nothing more than spirituality lite.
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Villager rips out illicit artificial turf grass but still facing $1,300 in fines
A villager tore up illegal artificial turf grass in her home but still faces fines of $ 1,300.
Earlier this year, Shirley Schwartz made local headlines when she appeared before the Community Development District 6 Board of Supervisors in a public hearing to save the artificial turf grass she was using without the blessing of the Architectural Review Committee. The CDD 6 Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 and ordered her to remove the artificial turf.
This turfgrass was laid at Shirley Schwartz's Edgewater Bungalows.
Villager Shirley Schwartz has replaced her lawn with stone in her house in the Edgewater Bungalows
After months of fighting with the CDD 6 Board of Directors, Community Standards, and the Architectural Review Committee, Schwartz has finally eased off and removed the artificial turf that cost $ 4,000 to put in her home in the Edgewater Bungalows. She replaced the artificial turf with stone.
Fines were fined $ 50 per day during the trial. Schwartz said those fines had reached $ 1,300.
She reached out to the CDD 6 board asking for the US $ 1,300 fines to be forgiven.
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On the Trail with Bump Postlethwait
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Just as the Buckeye tree plants its roots in Ohio, Bump Postlethwait, a natural-born cowboy from Byesville, plants his in rodeo. Born Raymond Postlethwait, or JP as his mom liked to call him, was given the name Bump when his dad heard the bump, bump sound of his heart beat while his mom was in labor. She passed away when he was only eight but, "The name's stuck with me ever since." Though raised in southern Ohio Bump now resides in Adrian, Mich. with his wife, Andrea and their four kids Chelsea, Haley, Hunter and Ayden.
Following in the footsteps of a man he's always admired, Bump took to rodeo at a young age watching his father. "I grew up around it, I wanted to be like him." His father who placed 16th in the world at the RCA was one of Bump's biggest supporters growing up and always helped him along the way. Starting at nine years old, Bump rode his first amateur bull then at fourteen he was doggin' steers. He went to a clinic held by his friends who taught him how to bull dog and when he went to his first rodeo he placed. "I never really had to work at anything, never practiced much. I've just always been able to do it. If I wanted it I went and I did it." The Buckeye Rodeo Company was a rodeo was where his dad went and where he grew up. Today, Bump competes in all three rough stock events: bull riding, saddle bronc and bareback as well as team roping and bull dogging.
What started out as a fun, family affair soon turned into a job for Bump. He won all-around four years in a row in high school and did so well he qualified for a scholarship to Martin, Tenn. His rodeo career was doing well and as he continued to succeed he turned down the chance for the scholarship, "I was making good money and it was easier not to go to school."
It was while riding horses at a horse sale he met his future wife who was looking at horses to buy. In 2008 after dating a few years, Bump married Andrea and welcomed her four children as his own. "It's hard when she's not at the rodeo with me," Bump explains. "She keeps the horses warmed up and ready for me. She makes my job a lot easier." Andrea is his backbone and what he does couldn't be possible without her support. As for his kids, "Hunter," Bump says, "wants to go on with it more than the others."
Full story available in our May 1, 2015 issue. Read online!
Winning the saddle bronc riding on one of Painted Pony's great horses – Casey Martin Photography
Bump and his wife, Andrea
Bump leaving the APRA finals with the All Around and Saddle Bronc Championships – Casey Martin Photography
he best bulldogging horse Shawn has ever sat on, Grey – courtesy of the family
Bulldogging off his horse, Grewy, with Tim Slater hazing. – Casey Martin
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Идеа́л (от ) — многозначное слово:

 Идеал в философии и многих других областях — представление о высшем совершенстве чего-либо.
 Идеал — специального рода подобъект в некоторой алгебраической структуре.
 Идеал — село в Аларском районе Иркутской области.
 Идеал — посёлок в Ардатовском районе Нижегородской области.
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Notebook of Asiya Jeelani: Survivor and witness to the violence of 2004 elections
The notebook in which Aasiya Jeelani jotted her notes on the fateful day of her killing. | Pictures by Freny Manecksha
'Minors voted in 2004 elections in Kashmir' - A notebook entry by Aasiya Jeelani.
Journalist and author Freny Manecksha revisits 'the longest day in the history of Kashmiri activism' by sifting through Aasiya Jeelani's notebook and bringing out the memories of the day through people she left behind.
It is a simple notebook, the kind journalists and activists would use on the field, before the advent of the voice recorder. Pockmarked with a perforation that goes right through its innards, this notebook is a wounded "survivor" of the IED blast on April 20, 2004, at Lolab, in which a Sumo cab was blown up. The driver of the vehicle, carrying members of an election monitoring team, Ghulam Nabi Shaikh was killed on the spot. Khurram Parvez, the activist, received horrific injuries. Two other volunteers were also hurt. Tragically, Aasiya Jeelani, the owner of this notebook, grievously injured, succumbed to her injuries a few hours later.
Gingerly I open this notebook, given to me by advocate Parvez Imroz of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS) who initiated the election monitoring exercise, anxious not to damage it further. On the first page, in Aasiya's handwriting, is the dateline Lolab and the date but the month has been erroneously scribbled as March instead of April. As I go through jottings and observations made by this young woman activist of JKCCS, I realize the importance of this notebook as the witness, not just to the violence of the voting exercise, but to the "flawed conception" of the election process as a demonstration of democracy.
The Indian state, anxious to showcase elections as part of a free frank exercise, had claimed the 2002 assembly elections, were a step forward in initiating the political process. But, JKCCS effectively repudiated that premise. Its crucial report highlighted how coercion, threats and retaliatory tactics by the intimidating deployment of army, paramilitary, police and other forces like the STF and SOG, could not legitimise the election process. The report illustrated how there is more to elections than mere voter turnout. It wondered if, it was at all possible, to claim elections as a democratic process when even the most fundamental right to live in dignity and exercise civil liberties had been denied to Kashmiris. Well received in international circles, a similar exercise was planned for the 2004 parliamentary elections, for which Aasiya was a team member.
The premise of the monitoring remained the same: whether a formal procedure of election intrinsic to democracy could be imposed on a real and existing undemocratic structure.
Recalls Imroz, "We asked for volunteers and some Indian groups joined us. We decided to set up a makeshift control room in our office in Srinagar." He recalls how mobile phones had just come into use which would make it easier for various groups to coordinate and be in touch.
"I was in Kupwara with a team from Punjab when news came in of the landmine blast. I heard that the driver had been killed on the spot and Aasiya was seriously injured but, still, I did not think she would die. I had initiated this crucial fact-finding. I expected some detentions, maybe some beatings but, nothing of such horrific violence."
Khurram Parvez, whose leg was amputated following the blast, can vividly recall details of 20 April, 14 years ago. He says he was surprised at seeing Aasiya early in the morning in the office. She had been ill and he thought she would not come. "I chose to go to Lolab the most remote region and she said she also wanted to join our team, dismissing concerns of her ill health."
There were seven people in the ill-fated Sumo. "Ghulam Nabi Shaikh, from my area was the driver. He was known as Guljaan and we also had with us two local volunteers Abdul Ghani Tantray and Ghulam Mohiuddin Reshi. Then there was Kumar Buradhikathi from Bengaluru, Jalees Andrabi and Sadiq Ali."
It was at Shumrial village, after Kupwara, that the team began hearing accounts of intimidation. People had been threatened that if the indelible ink mark was not seen on the finger it would be chopped off. They also heard how people had been forced to vote because they had been threatened that the development plans of the village would otherwise be held in abeyance.
It is interesting to note some of the jottings in Aasiya's diary that bear witness to these threats and retaliation that Khurram talks about.
"My son is imprisoned. Army has punished us." Or then "Nobody wants to vote." Or "1 lac youth have been killed. How can we vote?"
On one page is her observation "Children voted." Khurram elaborates on this jotting. "It was in Sogum where, in contrast to other places, there was an almost mela (fun fair) kind of atmosphere. Many people were enthusiastically casting their vote for the local candidate. Then we noticed children had also voted and we asked them to show voting slips."
Aasiya became visibly upset, notes Khurram. She felt deeply about this fraudulent exercise and the contrast between this village and the coercion in the other. Whilst getting into the car she asked if she could sit near the window and exchanged her seat with Khurram.
Shortly after they set off, four army vehicles passed them on their way to Chandgam. Then a little later they had to wait as the army vehicles began to turn around. Barely a few minutes later a huge explosion took place.
"The car went up in the air. I tried to open my eyes but they were filled with dust. When I could open them I saw blood spattered everywhere. Sadeeq and Andrabi who had been sitting at the back were trying to pull us out of the wreckage. I saw that my leg was stuck and a huge portion of bone was missing. I had to cradle my leg in my hands and try to lift it and hoist myself out of the car." There were army personnel at the scene but they did not help. When some villagers gathered around the site, Andrabi and Sadiq began to shout angrily. Their reactions sprang from the fact that they believed the villagers had been participating in a fake election even as the team had risked all and people were now dying. Ghulam Nabi Shaikh had died on the spot. Aasiya was calling out loudly for her mother as others kept trying to reassure her.
After about half an hour the ambulance from the Sogam PHC (Primary Health Centre) arrived. At the Sogam hospital, the doctor said that Aasiya would not perhaps survive. She was put into a Sumo that then sped towards Srinagar. But somewhere near Narbal, she breathed her last.
Meanwhile, another vehicle took Khurram and the others to SMHS in Srinagar. Khurram recalls how he was desperately searching for a signal on his mobile so that he could call home and speak with his mother. From SMHS he was transferred to SKIMS because of a serious head injury. "By then I could sense Aasiya was no more even though people tried to keep the news away from me."
After 17 days he was sent to Delhi for treatment of his leg injury.
For Imroz, it was the longest day of his life. He shuttled between various hospitals, trying to handle the events of the ghastly day. Aasiya was lowered in her grave under grey skies and pouring rain. Her mother was tragically not at home.
For many years it was believed that the explosion had been triggered by the militants. But, in 2006 the mysterious death of Captain Sumit Kohli moved the needle of suspicion in a totally new direction. Kohli was the whistle-blower who had raised concerns about a fake encounter of "militants" that took place on the same day as the blast and in the same region. A CID probe is taking place.
The blast brought utter devastation for JKCCS and others. The election monitoring exercise had been abruptly halted on that day. There was tremendous fear but, later, with a firm resolve, monitoring efforts for the next phase of electioneering were resumed and the report published. It is dedicated to Aasiya and Ghulam Nabi Shaikh.
In his tribute to Aasiya, Imroz remembers her strong sense of commitment. "She came to our office after apprenticing with a leading daily in Delhi. Perhaps initially she just wanted the experience of working with a human rights organisation to be part of her CV but she grasped the reality of Kashmir very quickly through her interactions and documentation work and became really active."
Khurram recalls her intense involvement with the stories she documented. Her understanding of gendered violence was acute and she could see the layers of suffering that women were undergoing - not just by the state but by patriarchal structures too. She liked to be photographed with the women and children when she went to the villages. "Their suffering is in my heart but I want to preserve their faces, their histories."
Ironically these photographs are now history. They preserve the memories of Aasiya's, one of Kashmir's brave woman activists and her contribution to the resistance and women's struggles.♦
About the Author(s):
Freny Manecksha
Freny Manecksha is an independent journalist from Mumbai, India. She is interested in human rights and gender based issues. Her first book 'Behold, I Shine: Narratives of Kashmir's Women and Children' was published by Rupa Publications in 2017.
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Tinana's Ellison Maxwell on his farm which has moved away from cane and is now planting cotton.
Growing trend: Cane farmers cottoning on to new crop chance
Carlie Walker
22nd Jul 2020 3:30 AM | Updated: 10:07 AM
FOR the first time in about 130 years, Ellison Maxwell's Tinana farm isn't being used for growing cane.
Instead, he and his family have chosen an unlikely replacement to complement the pineapples they grow all year round.
Maryborough was the first place in Australia to grow cotton in the 1860s but has long since been largely grown inland.
Mr Maxwell, who has owned his farm for 26 years, decided is was still worth a shot.
He is not the only farmer in the region trying their hand at growing cotton. He says there are two others on the Fraser Coast who are giving it a go.
With MSF Sugar looking to offload its landholdings in the region and the decreasing viability of cane, he expects to see more farmers diversifying.
Many, he says, are already growing crops in addition to cane.
Mr Maxwell said financially it had made sense to explore other options.
"We started going out of cane, three, maybe four years ago, to phase it out," he said.
"It's just not economic anymore.
"We're fully irrigated down here, so with the asset of water, which not everyone enjoys, you've got to be utilising it to the full extent."
The first year of growing cotton at the Maxwell farm was a big success, with high quality and a good yield.
The second year has been more challenging, with a little bit too much rain impacting on cotton quality.
But Mr Maxwell is determined to go ahead with another crop this summer, believing that continuing to diversify and growing more profitable crops is the best way forward.
"I think it's almost a sign of the times that this area, this sort of area, we've got to be switching over to high value, more intensive crops."
So why cotton?
"Our main crop now really is pineapples," Mr Maxwell said.
"We diversified back about 20 years ago into pines.
"It's an interesting thing cotton.
"Maryborough was the very first place in Australia that ever grew cotton.
"Back in the 1860s, from what I have dug up about it, it was in the corner of Five Mile Rd a and Teddington Rd and Tinana Creek.
"It's interesting that this is the first place it was ever grown."
Cotton was vulnerable to the coastal weather, which was a drawback, Mr Maxwell said.
"But it is possible for it to be a crop here.
"Last year it behaved quite good.
"This year we got all that heavy rain in February and that caused problems on the quality issue.
"Cotton is more than just yield, the colour of the lint comes into it, the length of the fibres come into it and you're paid accordingly."
This year the crop wasn't as profitable, but they will persevere, Mr Maxwell said.
"It's very much still in the learning from experience phase," he said.
"There are things I think that growing here are unique to growing on the coast as opposed to further inland.
"Each year you're addressing what you can to get the most out of it."
Geraint Hudson is the managing director of TTQ Agriculture, which supplies equipment for farming needs.
They haven't had demand from Maryborough cotton farmers yet, as it is still early days for the growers.
Mr Maxwell's equipment was purchased second-hand after being used on inland farms.
But Mr Hudson keeps a close eye on cotton growing operations across the world and he is impressed by what he is seeing on the Fraser Coast.
"In recent years cotton has expanded," he said.
"These guys are looking for a new use for their country.
"It's a very valuable crop, very high yield and very sustainable."
Mr Hudson has seen cotton crops from around the world and he says Maryborough's quality is right up there.
"They've grown some very good cotton this year," he said.
"It might be only year two or three, but these guys are doing it better than people doing it for years two or three hundred."
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Every image has a story and the story behind this one is toxic, which made it the hardest photo I have ever touched, the hardest image I have had to look at, and the hardest image I have had to remember.
I remember this moment well. This is where promises and lies intermingled, creating an illusion of hope and a stable future.
Three years stuck. Stuck in a loop of love, pain, and destruction.
But this photo represents much more to me now. It serves as a reminder.
Don't fall for the same traps.
I find myself coming across men who would rather feign interest and friendship in order to use me for their own gains and personal pleasure.
I am tired. I am broken. I am done.
Why do we continue to let pain in? The constant apologies? The lies that at first weren't lies, but became them?
I needed healing for sanity.
Editing this photo was an odd way of therapy. His face represents every man that has hurt me, used me, betrayed me. Whether they were family, friends, lovers or someone random. They've become strangers to me now. Faces I wish to erase from my memories.
I am in a constant state of recovery.


Dr. Thomas Vaughan is a professor with tenure in the Departments of Radiology, Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Vaughan administers the Engineering Core of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. After receiving two B.S. degrees in electrical engineering and biology at Auburn University, Dr. Vaughan went to work for NASA at Kennedy Space Center. Following the first Space Shuttle launch, Dr. Vaughan was recruited for a DOD project at Texas Instruments in Dallas before continuing his graduate education and employment at the University of Texas Southwestern. Here he worked as the RF Engineer on a project to construct the first 2T human NMR system begun in 1984. In 1989 Dr. Vaughan took the post of Chief Engineer for a University of Alabama – Philips Research Labs consortium to build the first 4T system sited in the U.S. Dr Vaughan received his doctoral degree in Biomedical Engineering from the UAB in 1993, after which he accepted the positions of Assistant Professor at Harvard University and Assistant in Physics and Director of Engineering at the Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Center. Following a four year term at the MGH to help commission a 3T system and launch a 7T program, Dr. Vaughan accepted tenure at the University of Minnesota in 1999 where he continues his work at 4T, 7T, 9.4T and beyond.
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Advancing the state-of-the-art in neurological, cardiac, and breast imaging through high field NMR.
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There are two pathways that put you into the role of a victim.
With the first pathway, an event occurs in which you perceive that you have been wronged. However, it is a perception that is based on your "story" of how the events "invaded your boundaries." Still, there is a high chance that the event that triggered the perception in you was not a "real wrong." Still, whatever thoughts or imagery exists in your mind is your current reality.
An example might be that a close friend did not invite you to a big party. Maybe he or she was mad at you or just forgot to invite you. Either way, you were not physically harmed. Your perception or "story" of being wronged can set off your anger cascade.
The second pathway is that you were wronged. Someone robbed you. You were not listened to at the last doctor's visit. You had a surgery that ended up with a severe complication. You don't have enough money to put food on the table. You are a victim in the truest sense.
Whether the victim role is just a "perceived role" or that of a true victim, the anger response will be about the same. The imagery in your mind from the perceived wrong will still elicit a full anger response.
There is an important similarity and difference. The similarity is that the resultant anger is equally as destructive to your mental health. The difference is that when you are truly a victim, it is much harder to let it go.


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"My office will conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the operations and practices of Monroe City government," Auditor Galloway said.
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