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1. There is no evidence to show that, by agreement or otherwise, the accumulation of water is limited to a certain quantity; and that when the water rises to a given height, the defendants, or the plaintiff, or the plaintiff's zemindar, is bound or entitled to open a passage for the escape of the surplus.
2. The Munsif found that the plaintiff had entirely failed to prove any right to cut the bund: and we must say that, in our opinion, it would require very strong evidence to establish such a claim as that put forward here, not on the part of the zemindar acting on behalf of the cultivators of his estate, but on behalf of each individual ryot according to his own judgment, to cut down the bund of a neighbouring zemindar, seeing that it is well known that the consequence of so doing would be that, when the water once begins to flow over the bund, the bund must give way, and the accumulation of water, which is absolutely necessary for the cultivation of land, must be lost.
3. The Judge has gone off from the facts of the case, and has based his judgment upon a construction of law derived entirely from English text-books. Now, the law as laid down in English text-books is, no doubt, a very useful guide; but it must not be taken to override the customs of this country–customs arising from the extreme necessity of preserving water and thereby preserving the means of cultivating large tracts of land which would otherwise lie waste.
4. In the present case we have a long-established bund unchanged in its condition with certain outlets for excess water. Prima facie the defendants have a right to maintain the bund in its usual condition, and the right of the plaintiff to cut that bund down is one which we think must be proved most unmistakeably. The Judge does not go upon proof at all, but merely upon his view of the law. Now, that view of the law, as it will presently appear, cannot be supported.
5. The case of the Madras Railway Co. v. The Zemindars of Carvate-nagarum L.R. 1 In. Ap. 364 decided by the Privy Council, was a case the converse of the present. It was for damage done by the bursting of an artificial reservoir. The principle, however, is the same. Their Lordships there field that storing of water in this country is an act of necessity; that it was not for the benefit of the proprietor of the land only, but also in order to enable a large body of cultivators to live by the cultivation of that land. They further held, that the damage which was caused by an unusual flood and the consequent bursting of the embankment of the tank by which the railway was washed away was not one for which the owner of the tank could be charged.
6. In addition to this, there is a recent case, Nichols v. Marsland L.R. 2 Ex. D. 1. This was a case perhaps much stronger in point, because it was not even a case in which water was preserved for the benefit of a large section of the public, but merely for the pleasure of a particular owner, who had formed an ornamental piece of water by embanking a stream passing through her own lands, and then through the lands of the plaintiff. Eventually on an unusually heavy storm occurring, and a great rush of water coming into this reservoir, the banks proved insufficient to support the pressure, and the lands of the plaintiff, which lay lower down the stream, were injured in consequence. It was held there by the Court of Appeal that the case was distinguished from that of Rylands v. Fletcher L.R. 3 H.L. 330–also cited in the Madras case before the Privy Council in 1 Indian Appeals, page 364–in this, that it is not the act of the defendant in keeping this reservoir, an act in itself lawful, which alone leads to the escape of the water, and so renders wrongful that which but for such escape would have been lawful. It is the supervening vis major of the water caused by the flood, which, superadded to the water in the reservoir (which of itself would have been innocuous) causes the disaster.
7. They also came to the conclusion that, as the jury had found that all reasonable precaution had been taken, the defendant was not responsible for the damage done.
8. This case seems to us to apply distinctly to the present. It appears from the judgment of the Judge, that the damage in the present instance was caused by an unusual inundation, which he describes as bringing down four times the ordinary quantity of water. It must be taken that the damage was caused by the act of God, and not by the act of the defendants, who are not shown to have failed in making provision for properly dealing with such quantities of water as might reasonably be expected to accumulate.
9. The suit must therefore be dismissed. We reverse the judgment of the Judge and restore that of the Munsif with costs.
10. Special Appeals, Nos. 619 to 623, will be governed by this judgment.


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Taal Onbepaald Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a vast global problem where the cynic exploitation of fellow human beings is limited only by the exploiter's creativity and cruelty. This paper looks upon the phenomena of THB from a law e ...
Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a vast global problem where the cynic exploitation of fellow human beings is limited only by the exploiter's creativity and cruelty. This paper looks upon the phenomena of THB from a law enforcement perspective, thus defining and problematizing it as a crime against humanity and a crime against international and national laws. Consequently, understanding the complexity of the crime enables the investigator and prosecutor to better conduct criminal investigations to uncover, prevent and prosecute the crime of THB. Norway is a recipient country, and to some extent also a transit country, which means that the victims of THB in Norway are mostly from foreign countries. However, the numbers on THB are not reliable when it comes to describing the reality of victims that have yet to be identified by Norwegian authorities. Thus, the majority of THB-cases reported, investigated and receiving convictions, are THB for sexual exploitation. Trafficking for other types of exploitation is widely underreported. At the same time, research on the field of trafficking in Norway has focused mainly on sexual exploitation. However, this paper does not distinguish between the different types of exploitation. Rather, it focuses on how the police investigate the phenomena in order to be able to prosecute the traffickers. As such, this paper is based on a qualitative study where police investigators and police prosecutors from 8 different police districts in Norway have been interviewed about their knowledge and experience in investigating cases of THB. The study aims to answer the following approach to the research topic: Tracking the Trafficker? A qualitative study of the investigation of trafficking in human beings in Norway. The research findings suggest that there is a severe lack of competency in THB in general in the Norwegian police and that this affects the outcome of THB-‐cases in several ways. The police does not initiate THB-cases themselves, rather they are to a large extent recipients of information from others – especially the victim. This leads to a highly victim-‐oriented approach to the investigation, placing much responsibility on the victim to provide the investigation with sufficient information to identify the trafficker or other important part of the exploitation they have been exposed to. Furthermore, the victim itself is considered a great challenge in the investigation of THB‐cases. The findings also indicate that the organisational structure of the police districts, combined with how THB is prioritized with regard to resources and personnel, may have some affect as to how the investigation is conducted in the different police districts.By Lone Charlotte Pettersen


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Green and Jenks
Business Address: Green and Jenks Gelato House, 11 Agincourt Square, Monouth, Monmouthshire NP25 3DY
Country: Wales,
About Green and Jenks
Green and Jenks is a family dairy business that has been re-launched in 2015 following a gap of just a mere 58 years! Frederick Green, born in 1838, the son of a flour miller from Hampshire, established our family dairy business in 1888.
Frederick moved to London as a young boy and worked in a variety of jobs ending up working for a dairy company in Hammersmith.
He saw the opportunity to have his own business in the rapidly expanding coal and shipping city of Cardiff. In 1888 he established the Roath Park Dairy Company at 1 Albany Road, the center of the busy Victorian suburb.
The dairy collected milk from farms from the rural areas around the city such as Rumney and St Mellons. The milk was pastuerised and processed into milk, cream and butter in the back yard of the premises.
The milk was delivered to households, first by horse and cart and then by vans. The company also had a thriving shop at the front of the premises, which employed around 20 people in total.
The Green's had five daughters and the eldest, Lilian, took over the running of the business with her husband Hubert Jenks.
They had four children, the eldest Norman Jenks continued to run the business after studying Engineering at Cardiff University. He met his wife Mabel who worked at the shop and they had one daughter Shirley Jenks, who is now part of the family firm.
Shirley's youngest daughter Gilly is now running the business, the fifth generation of the company.
Our new name is based on the names of our ancestors, Green & Jenks.


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Your Guide to Using the Galatea Template for Joomla
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The template features a versatile and diverse catalog of particles, to enrich your site content. New with Galatea is the Owls Carousel particle, alongside template integrated enhancements for preexisting particle types.
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Sometimes you just need to take a moment with your partner to really understand one another and reconnect. One of the best ways to do that is to take a trip together. It gives you that chance to step out of your daily routine and the hustle and bustle of daily life. It gives you the chance to spend some quality time together and experience something new and exciting. Making the memories to last a lifetime. But where should you go? While being based in Las Vegas gives you the fabulous city on your doorstep, there is more to see and do. I thought I would share with you some of the US states you should consider. I hope it gives you the inspiration you need to book your next couples getaway.
Michigan is a Midwestern state bordering four of the Great lakes. It also has a further 11,000 inland lakes, meaning there is plenty of picture perfect opportunities here. The largest city is Detroit, but the capital city of this state is Lansing. For a different location to see why not head to Saginaw? Wirth accommodation options like SpringHill Suites Saginaw you have the perfect place to explore without feeling like you are in a busy city like environment. Michigan has a lot to offer, so definitely should be considered as a place to go in the future.
If both of you are big kids at heart, then I guess Orlando in Florida is an obvious choice to have a fun filled couples vacation. However, I also understand that you may want to do something a little different and Florida is not to be discounted. You have the city of Miami, offering a Latino and Cuban influence and stunning art deco buildings to explore. But you also have some of the best beaches around at Fort Lauderdale and Clearwater. Experiences like heading to the Florida Keys and The Everglades could also be added to your itinerary.
Maybe you want a different type of vacation, perhaps a road trip or just a chance to explore a few destinations in one vacation, then look no further than the state of California. Los Angeles and San Francisco are the two main big cities you will want to add to your bucket list. But you also have some fabulous laid back coastal towns that can offer you a different type of pace on your vacation such as Laguna Beach, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara.
Finally, Texas is one of the Southern states near the border of Mexico. It may not be on your hit list of holiday destinations but there's so much to see and do you should definitely consider it. Austin is famed for its live music scene and Houston gives you the chance to explore Nasa. San Antonio is the place to go for a more relaxed vibe, allowing you to explore the riverwalk and enjoy the cafes dotted alongside it. Finally, you may not think Texas is known for its coastline, but South Padre island offers a 34 mile stretch of beautiful white sandy beaches.
I hope that this has given you some food for thought in terms of holiday destinations to consider as a couple.


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Hosting is a critical service every website needs, without it your website won't be going anywhere fast. So you have to include this in your annual budget. A lot of well-known WordPress hosting providers give special discounts to Nonprofits, which is great. But you might also care about other aspects of their service, such as how […]Continue Reading
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Nothing is ever simple. Everything is made infinitely complicated and challenging by the most incredible thing to ever have evolved from the primordial ooze all those millions of years ago…the human brain.
It has limitless potential, incredible power, and the capacity to change the world with a single thought. It's a biological computer controlling every part of your body, but is simultaneously able to be controlled by, essentially, itself. It can be commanded to consider specific information, focus on a task, put certain information to one side and work on different information. It does occasionally have problems, like giving you a headache while trying to blog about the brain, while using said brain it to write said blog and asking deep philosophical questions to myself such as "does it control me or do I control it?" in order to make the content of the blog, which takes up quite a lot of brain power to consider…
Hang on, I need a coffee to get my head round this…
Right, that's much better. Ok, where was I? Ah yes, the brain.
The brain can do many amazing things. It can create, it can order, it can destroy, it can build and structure, it has the capability to write poetry or construct space stations, it can calculate the number of potential chess moves and positions (10 to the power of 120 if you're wondering, which is said to be more than the number of observable atoms in the universe, which is between 4×10 to the power of 79 and 10 to the power of 81) and it can edit it's own memories.
Every persons brain is totally unique in it's construction, wired up in a specific way that makes us individuals (To quote Monty Python's Life of Brian "Yes! We're all individuals!). The power of the brain, is however subject to this unique wiring, with certain abilities being more powerful than others. For example, I have dyscalculia, a form of dyslexia related to numbers. I have a real problem with maths and number comprehension. The flip side is that I'm really good at reading words out loud at speed, which is a problem for many people with dyslexia. My dyscalculia also affects my logic abilities, and by extension, my ability to organise things, so pulling together all the information I need to create an international event, featuring dozens and dozens of speakers, in a foreign country, while staying on top of all the industry news, stocks and shares (bearing in mind that numbers are an issue), call schedules and everything else to do with everything ever related to work is…to say the least…a challenge.
The way my brain works, or at least the way i think it works, is mildly similar to Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. All the information is stored in a big building in my brain, filled with rooms full of filing cabinets of information, some of it work related, some of it personal, some of it good for pub quizzes and some of it that I will keep locked away, never to see the light of day. In 'Sherlock', Holmes accesses his mind palace, starting with a single word or image and then examining every single link connected to that word or image until he secures the information he needs. He works his way through the corridors until he finds the room that holds the information he needs.
My mind palace is, however, compromised structurally thanks to my dyscalculia. It's more of a bouncy castle than a palace, where I start off on solid ground with my word or image and then bounce around off the walls, ceilings, floors, crashing into rooms of information that, whilst interesting, is entirely unconnected as to what I need to find, but is spread all over the place, spilling out of filing cabinets and fluttering about in the air. This makes it difficult to get hold of what I need and get smacked in the face with stuff I don't need, further preventing me from the 100% focus required. It does however lead me to interesting things that maybe I had not considered, and then apply these ideas to my work. It keeps my brain ticking over and active, refocusing intensely for a period of time and then relaxing and then refocusing again. The brain is a muscle and needs time to rest.
For example, while writing this blog I have read an article on the emerging trend on social media interaction with patients by pharmaceutical companies, scheduled a call with a scientist and sent some emails to colleagues. Now, these are undoubtedly work related and reasonably on task.
As well as this I have read an article on a man who punched a shark in the face, tried to remember what city Machiavelli was born in, begun to construct my new fitness regime, considered the ballistic complexity of trying to shoot out a high speed boat engine from a helicopter while both travelling at speed over the ocean, and pondered who is going to walk away with the Academy Award for Best Film.
This is the challenge of my brain. This is also a good insight into my own personal interests, but that's another blog.
With orphan drugs, there is just so much information relating to so many different factions, sectors, organisations and companies. Honestly, trying to get a handle on it all was going to be a really big challenge and it's one I'm still wrangling with.
I've built on an extra wing to my bouncy mind palace, to cope with this new part of my life. Storing the majority of information from my research calls, emails, desk research etc let alone from the event side, the theme and decor, the agenda, the speakers I want, and on top of that the bigger concepts of making the event relevant, informative, provocative and hopefully deliver solutions that will save lives. It's optimistic to say the least. I do have note books and files and colleagues and a boss who can help with tracking it all, and I'm reliably informed that my current phase (the 'Research Phase') is the most intense. I can see what I want the event to look like, what the images are on the projector screens, the dinner, the sights and sounds. The challenge is making it all happen as well as fitting it all into my brain, and on paper and online. To say that I've got my work cut out for me is an understatement.
I have to consider pricing, reimbursement, regulation, registration, advocacy, policy, the past, the present, the future, stocks, shares, acquisitions, communications, networks, geography, biology, chemistry, gene therapy, questions, answers, discussions, debates, problems, solutions and pretty much everything connected to ever facet of the orphan drug and rare disease world…and from this, I get my event. It's like a premium alcoholic spirit, distilled time and time again until it is as pure as possible…and that thought has just given me another idea for another blog topic…thank you brain.
So, how does this relate to the broader orphan drug and rare disease sector? Well, coming from me and based on what I've heard, there needs to be a great balance of perspective and priority. Everyone is doing their own thing, considering and working with only the things relevant to them and I would go as far to say that there is systemic ignorance to the wider sector. 100's of thousands of people are involved in the orphan drug/rare disease world. Everyone operates from their own side, doing it from their own perspective, whether that be a financial one, an advocacy one, a regulatory one or a scientific one, as is their prerogative. This perspective does however lead to issues, placing certain self serving priorities over the needs of others. Whilst I appreciate that everyone has their own priorities, from what I've heard, there is a lack of understanding from how other links in the orphan drug chain see things.
This is a problem for everyone. This is going to lead to more divisions, more time until cures are found and further problems unless the rare disease world start to unite and work together instead of working on their own, without the mutually beneficial and communicable relationships that are needed to succeed. We are all responsible for curing the rare diseases in our own way, but we need to unite, put aside our own priorities and reconcile everyone's interests in order to succeed.
We need to see everyone else's mind palaces so we can truly advance and develop for the greater good.
If you enjoyed this blog, please do visit the website here for more information on the World Orphan Drugs Congress.
If you'd like to get in touch, my email is email@example.com and I'm also on Twitter @HBlackstaffe.
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Billy Peterson: Minneapolis Groove Master
"Groove is everything. you've got to make everybody feel good," Billy Peterson says via phone from Minneapolis in the midst of his nearly nonstop gig schedule. Peterson's dynamic playing has been featured on recordings and tours by artists such as Bob Dylan, Steve Miller, and most recently, the Dave King Trio.
Peterson's sense of swing was instilled at an early age by his parents, who had already made musical marks of their own. "I got into playing bass because my mother and father were unbelievable jazz musicians who were on staff at CBS Radio in Minneapolis," Peterson explains. "My dad used to bring me down to the live music studio and sit me next to Gene Krupa's bass player, Biddy Bastien, who played upright on all of the shows. So, I developed a great infatuation with the upright bass. In the early '60s, my dad discovered Midwestern musicians like Wes and Monk Montgomery. At that time, Monk was playing not only upright bass, but also a lot of electric bass. Soon after, an electric bass showed up at my house—a Kay electric that my dad got from Sears. There were always instruments in my house set up to play, because everyone in my family was musical." Peterson's musician siblings include sister Linda (singer/pianist), Patty (vocalist), Ricky (keyboards with David Sanborn, John Mayer, Stevie Knicks, etc.), and Paul (bass and vocals). "And while I grew up playing jazz, I was totally taken with R&B and funk, too. So, from the time I was 14, I became a jobbing musician."
Peterson would soon be working with the top musicians of the day. "Around 1967, when I was 16, I got hired to work with the Righteous Brothers. They used to travel without a band, so I got called not only because I could read music, but also because I had a big Ampeg B-25 bass amp. Being able to play the electric bass and read music was a big commodity in those days. There weren't a lot of musicians that could read and swing on upright, and also sight-read and play electric. That was my first introduction to rock & roll. Soon I was working six nights a week."
One of your most acclaimed associations was with Bob Dylan on his famed album Blood on the Tracks. How did that come about?
I used to work at a cutting-edge Minneapolis studio called Sound 80. Bob Dylan heard about the studio from his younger brother, the producer, singer, and songwriter David Zimmerman, who I worked with often. One morning in 1974, David called me to come to the studio to cut some stuff. I walked in and there was Bob Dylan! I backed out of the studio and said, 'David, what the hell is going on? That's your famous brother sitting out in the studio, man!' David replied that Bob hated half of the album Blood on the Tracks, which was cut in New York, but that he also loved half of it. David gave me the opportunity to bring some of the musicians I worked with into the studio. Dylan was totally open to our suggestions. I remember we even changed the key on one of the songs. I thought it would all end up on the cutting-room floor. But as history decided, the greatest hits from that album were done in Minneapolis: "Tangled Up in Blue," "Idiot Wind," and "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts." In 2016 we got inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for that record, 41 years after it was recorded.
You're also known for your two decades plus as a member of the Steve Miller Band.
In the case of Steve Miller, in 1977—a few years after working with Bob—I was back in Sound 80. Prince was there working with producer David Rivkin [a .k.a. David Z] on the demos for his first record. David introduced me to the great pianist, songwriter, and singer Ben Sidran. He was looking for a crossover bass player who could play funk, R&B, and swing, too. Soon after, I started working with him. Later, when Steve Miller heard us, he took us on the road as his band. I toured with Steve for 24 years, from 1986 to 2010, and I'm still working with Ben Sidran—I just got off the road with him.
Most recently, you've been touring and recording with the Dave King Trio, whom many people know from his work with the Bad Plus. What's new with that group?
Dave King is like the poster child for modern drumming. He's an amazingly great player. I'm his dad's age, but I grew up playing with the pianist Bill Carrothers, who is my little brother Paul's age, and Bill was a friend of Dave's. The first time I got a call from Dave was to record with him and Bill around five years ago. I had never even played with him, but we all worked in similar circles in Minneapolis. We recorded an album for Sunnyside Records called I've Been Ringing You. That record got great reviews, and not long after, ECM Records founder Manfred Eicher fell in love with the band and signed the Dave King Trio. We have a new record coming out soon.
You're known as a player with unwavering time and feel. Is that where everything starts for you musically?
Absolutely. My early influences on bass were Ray Brown, Sam Jones, James Jamerson—cats with grooves that were Jacques Cousteau deep. If it ain't grooving, nobody's gonna have a smile on their face
Dave King with Bill Carrothers & Billy Peterson, I've Been Ringing You [2012, Sunnyside]; Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks [1975, Columbia]
Bass GA Nelson 5-string, '68 Fender Precision, 150-year-old Juzek e upright
Rig Gallien-Krueger
Strings GHS, Thomastik-Infeld Spirocore Light orchestra gauge


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Link, link is a verb, linkpost is a doing word November 6, 2015Posted by dolorosa12 in linkpost.
Tags: academia, aliette de bodard, alyssa wong, annalee flower horne, australiana, fred clark, isabel yap, joanna russ, jrr tolkien, leila rasheed, librarianship, m sereno, medieval literature, natalie luhrs, no award, people of colo(u)r destroy science fiction, rebecca merkelbach, rochita loenen-ruiz, salem witch trials, samatha shannon, tell them stories, the bone season, the song rising, the toast
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It's been a while, but I'm back again with links: links that are important, links that made me think, links that made me smile.
Firstly, and most importantly, the fundraiser for Rochita Loenen-Ruiz is running until 9th November. Please support this if you can. Rochita is a wonderful person, and she and her family are going through a very difficult time.
The rest of my links are going to be grouped under headings, as it's been some time since I made a post of this nature.
Reading, writing, history, community
Submissions are now open for the People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction anthology.
This is an unbelievably powerful essay on the Salem witch trials. The line that stood out to me was this one:
But what rings most dangerously prophetic about Salem is the ideology that suggests imagining the most helpless and vulnerable in our communities as the most powerful, in a kind of 1984-esque doublethink that provides a rationale for causing as much harm as one wishes to that group.
Aliette de Bodard on 'History, Erasure and the Stories that Need to be Told'.
Annalee Flower Horne and Natalie Luhrs on the continued relevance of How To Suppress Women's Writing by Joanna Russ
Leila Rasheed on diversity in children's publishing.
Fred Clark on 'communities of misconception', unchallenged default assumptions, and how to respond when your assumptions are challenged.
Isabel Yap on Filipino monsters.
Tolkien's annotated map of Middle Earth has been found.
We have a title and a release date for Samantha Shannon's new Bone Season book: The Song Rising will be published in November, 2016.
Books I want to read
Kate Elliott talks about her new epic fantasy novel, Black Wolves, as part of John Scalzi's 'The Big Idea' series.
Poetry and Short Fiction
'Reasons I checked out of the diversity discussion du jour' by M Sereno (content note for colonialism, homophobia and racism).
'Song of the Body Cartographer' by Rochita Loenen-Ruiz.
'Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers' by Alyssa Wong.
Rebecca Merkelbach on outlaws, trolls and berserkers.
A bit US-centric, but I loved this article on the changing of librarian stereotypes throughout history.
No Award on imaginary Australia YA adaptations. (Caveat: I do not share their dislike of the Tomorrow series, although I can understand their perspective, and I also feel ambivalent about adaptations of stories that were/are meaningful to me. I still enjoyed the post.)
'A Day In The Life of a Brooding Romantic Hero' at The Toast.
I hope you all have fabulous weekends.
Meet her at the linkpost parade September 11, 2015Posted by dolorosa12 in linkpost.
Tags: aliette de bodard, amal el-mohtar, athena andreadis, british folklore and mythology, cindy pon, ghostwords, indigenous australia, kate elliott, leticia lara, mahvesh murad, no award, serpentine, sophia mcdougall, sorcerer to the crown, space hostages, tade thompson, the toast, those who run with wolves, zen cho
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The linkpost is early this week, as I'm going to be absolutely flat out all afternoon, and then away on various workshops and conferences. Oh, the glamorous librarian life!
I'll start with a few reviews and posts about books I loved, or books I'm very much looking forward to reading:
A joint review of Space Hostages by Sophia McDougall, at Booksmugglers.
Amal El-Mohtar reviews Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho.
Zen Cho chats with Mahvesh Murad about the book.
She talks more about the book here.
Cindy Pon talks about her new book, Serpentine.
SFF in Conversation is one of my favourite columns at Booksmugglers. In it, various groups of writers sit down to discuss topics that are important to them. The most recent features Aliette de Bodard, Zen Cho, Kate Elliott, Cindy Pon, and Tade Thompson, and I highly recommend it.
This is the first part of a BBC radio programme about British folklore, monsters, and the landscape.
The reviews continue to pour in a Those Who Run With Wolves. Recent reviewers have been Leticia Lara, Athena Andreadis, and Aliette de Bodard.
Ghostwords has returned with a vengeance! The latest post sports a cornucopia of links, leading the reader off on an internet treasure hunt.
I very much appreciated this post on No Award about Indigenous (and other) seasonal calendars.
In case you missed it, I reviewed Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear, The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de Bodard, and The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine. I loved them all.
Men Wearing A Military Helmet and Nothing Else in Western Art History: The Toast is a gift.
I hope your weekends are filled with as much fun stuff and opportunities for learning as mine will be.
I don't care, I link it August 28, 2015Posted by dolorosa12 in linkpost.
Tags: academia, aliette de bodard, bogi takács, dahlia adler, emma newman, galactic suburbia, hugo awards, kate elliott, kindness not fear, libraries, liz barr, no award, nymeth, representation matters, sophia mcdougall, sumana harihareswara, tell them stories, tricia sullivan
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Slightly flippant title, wildly inaccurate characterisation of my reasons for doing these linkposts. Over here I am gearing up for a much needed long weekend, after one of those weeks that just seem to go on and on and on.
Kate Elliott wrote a great post on 'Diversity Panels: Where Next'. I would encourage you to read (most of) the links that follow, particularly the panel discussion at The Book Smugglers, which I included in a previous linkpost.
Some (unintentionally Australian-centric) Hugos follow-up posts:
Liz Barr of No Award livetweeted the Hugos.
Galactic Suburbia did a podcast discussing the results.
On a less awesome note (in the sense of this needing to be said at all), Sumana Harihareswara responded to the use of the Hare Krishna chant in the Hugos ceremony in an extraordinarily open-hearted and giving way.
A lot of people were sharing this (old) 'How to (Effectively) Show Support' by Dahlia Adler. This part particularly resonated with me:
There is a really big difference between being a person who only rages and a person who both rages and makes a real move for change. And maybe people don't realize that. Maybe they don't get how. But I'm tired of seeing raging with no support counterbalance, and I'm tired of people thinking raging is enough without backing it up in a meaningful way. I'm tired of people not realizing how limiting the effects are when all you do is talk about who and what is doing things wrong and not who and what is doing things right.
(Incidentally, I think the first person I saw sharing the post was Bogi Takács, who very effectively shows support with regular roundups of #diversepoems and #diversestories recommendations.)
Aliette de Bodard has set up a review website, designed to host reviews of 'books we love, with a focus on things by women, people of colour, and other marginalised people'.
Here's Sophia McDougall doing a podcast with Emma Newman. My poor, Romanitas-loving heart hurt when Sophia talked about one particular scene in Savage City involving the Pantheon. (I know at least one friend is currently reading the series for the first time, so it might be wise to avoid this podcast until you've finished – it's mildly spoilery.)
More on the invisibility of older women authors, this time from Tricia Sullivan.
Ana has gathered some great, library-related links at Things Mean A Lot.
'Breakthrough in the world's oldest undeciphered writing'.
These photos of the world's oldest trees are really amazing.
I hope you all have wonderful weekends.
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Well, it's been a while.
Chinelo Onwualu talks race, speculative fiction, and Afro SF.
Sophia McDougall's new book Space Hostages is out! I have my copy ready to read on my upcoming holiday! There is a book trailer, tumblr post and author interview!
Rather than linking to individual stories and essays, I'd like to simply direct you all to the latest issue of Uncanny Magazine. I've thoroughly enjoyed everything in it so far, in particular E Lily Yu's short story and Natalie Luhrs' column.
Two tables of contents for what look to be excellent anthologies:
To Shape the Dark (ed. Athena Andreadis).
Apex Book of World SF 4 (ed. Mahvesh Murad)
Here are two great Storifies on dealing with rejection, from authors Nalo Hopkinson and Elizabeth Bear, Rachel Manija Brown, Aliette de Bodard, Tobias Buckell, John Chu, Shveta Thakrar, Beth Bernobich, Jeremiah Tolbert and others. Rochita Loenen-Ruiz made both Storifies.
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz has revamped her books blog. The first post is a guest post by editor Didi Chanoch, talking about a new press he's launching.
This is a great interview with Aliette de Bodard.
I really appreciated this column by Renay about gatekeeping, fannish history and the SF 'canon'.
I also appreciated this interview with Kate Elliott.
I also loved Athena Andreadis' thoughts on Mad Max: Fury Road.
More on Fury Road: No Award's guide to Australian slang. That blog is a national treasure.
I hope you are all feeling wonderful.
My linkpost is like footsteps in the snow June 25, 2015Posted by dolorosa12 in linkpost.
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Canny readers will have noticed that today's post contains three weeks' worth of material, and is posted on a Thursday instead of the usual Friday. While I have no excuse for skipping several weeks' posts, I should explain that I will be spending most of tomorrow on a train, and felt it would be easier to post today instead.
Amberlin Kwaymullina: 'Let the stories in: on power, privilege and being an Indigenous writer'.
Here is a Q and A with African writers of science fiction at Omenana. I found some of the questions (from students at Simon Fraser University, Canada), to betray some rather ill-informed assumptions on the part of the questioners, but all of the answers were illuminating.
Tansy Rayner Roberts' Continuum 11 speech: Fantasy, Female Writers & The Politics of Influence.
'In The Rustle of Pages', a short story by Cassandra Khaw.
I loved this poem, 'A Visit With Morgan Le Fay', by Sofia Samatar.
Via my partner, this review of the new Channel Four show Humans.
Aliette de Bodard has begun posting regular 'Shattered Wings Thursday' posts, which consist of related content for her upcoming novel House of Shattered Wings. Keep an eye out for upcoming posts in this series.
One of my former academic colleagues, Myriah Williams, who works on medieval Welsh manuscripts, has written about the rather surreal experience of having her research attract wider attention in the mainstream media.
YA Books Central is running a giveaway for Serpentine, Cindy Pon's latest book.
No Award posted about Australian kids' TV show themes (Lift-Off forever!).
'The Definitive Oral History of How Clueless Became an Iconic '90s Classic'.
Linkpost makes the world go 'round January 30, 2015Posted by dolorosa12 in blogging, linkpost.
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Welcome to what I hope will become a regular feature here at the Geata: weekly posts of links to wonderful things. There are no criteria for inclusion: the links will just be things that have caught my eye in any given week, but I'm trying to focus on positive and/or thought-provoking material from a diverse range of perspectives. This is all part of my goal of collaborative and community-building writing for this year.
It was a great week for SFF podcasts. I particularly enjoyed Amal El-Mohtar and Natalie Luhrs on Rocket Talk with Justin Landon, talking about all things blogging and reviewing.
Fangirl Happy Hour is a new project by Ana of The Book Smugglers and Renay of Ladybusiness. Their second podcast is on sex and romance in science fiction, nominations for the Hugo Awards and The Very Best of Kate Elliott (which has rocketed to the top of my wishlist).
Renay also wrote a fabulous, heartfelt post about being betrayed by stories that the rest of your community has universally praised. Read the comments too.
A. Merc Rustad's short story 'How To Become A Robot In 12 Easy Steps' is something I didn't realise I'd been wanting until now. Almost anything I could say here will be a spoiler, but I feel I should provide a content warning for depictions of depression.
Amal El-Mohtar's short story 'The Truth About Owls' hurt my heart in the best possible way.
No Award is not a new blog, but it is new to me, and is a breath of fresh air. I'm often frustrated by the US-centrism of the online conversation on media and social justice, so I'm thrilled to find a blog by a pair of Australians tackling these issues from an Australian perspective.
Finally, I really appreciated Foz Meadows' epic blog post on Teen Wolf. I don't agree with all her conclusions, but I am particularly happy about her comments on Scott McCall, whose gentleness, kindness and adoration of powerful women goes against all the usual stereotypes about boys raised by single mothers.
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|Adding resources
|Master-slave resources
|Ordering & grouping resources
|Resulting configuration
This howto will show the different steps that can be followed to create an operational iSCSI cluster of two nodes in failover mode. By coupling DRBD synchronization and Pacemaker, this will build a redundant shared storage system that is also cheap.
This howto will also teach you the basic commands to use to start successfully with Pacemaker.
Initializing the cluster
Before launching the Pacemaker cluster, we need to set its basic configuration parameter in the /etc/corosync/corosync.conf. This file is organized in various sections :
- totem : this goes about the multicast configuration used by all nodes to exchange information like configuration, quorum, hearbeat, …
- service : which cluster framework to launch together with Corosync
- aisexec : execution parameters (which user, …)
- logging : how, where, what to log
Here is our configuration file :
totem {
version: 2
token: 5000
token_retransmits_before_loss_const: 10
join: 1000
consensus: 2500
vsftype: none
max_messages: 20
send_join: 45
clear_node_high_bit: yes
secauth: off
threads: 0
interface {
ringnumber: 0
bindnetaddr: 192.168.20.0
mcastaddr: 126.96.36.199
mcastport: 5405
logging {
fileline: off
to_stderr: no
to_logfile: yes
to_syslog: yes
logfile: /var/log/cluster/corosync.log
debug: off
timestamp: on
syslog_facility: daemon
amf {
mode: disabled
aisexec {
user: root
group: root
service {
name: pacemaker
ver: 0
use_mgmtd: yes
use_logd: yes
In bold, the most important parameters. The mcastaddr and mcastport are the multicast address and port you will use to let the nodes of the cluster communicate to each others. It must not be overlap with the one of another cluster that may be running on the same network.
Bindnetaddr is the address of the network where the nodes are located.
Then name will be the name of the cluster service to use. In our case, only pacemaker can be used.
The last step is to start the cluster with /etc/init.d/corosync and to be sure that this script is launched automatically at each boot :
# chkconfig –-add corosync # chkconfig –-level 3 corosync on
This configuration file must be manually updated on each node taking part into the cluster. This is the only configuration that must be done on all nodes. Once this file is created and the cluster service started on each node, the configuration is done by talking to cluster daemon on one node, using the crm command. There is a cluster daemon that manages automatically the distribution of the configuration to all nodes of the cluster.
Once the cluster daemons are running, you can check the status of the cluster by launching the command crm_mon on any node.
At this stage, our cluster is "empty", but you can already use the crm configure show command to display the current – empty – configuration.
To end the initialization of the cluster, we will set some global properties of the cluster :
# crm configure property stonith-enabled=false # crm configure property no-quorum-policy=ignore # crm configure rsc_defaults resource-stickiness=100
What we set by doing so are, in the same order :
we disable the use of STONITH device (Shoot The Other Node In The Head – in case of fail-over, a mechanism to send a command to completely shut down the other node to be sure that I will be well deactivated)
by default, the quorum state is lost when a number less or equal to the half of nodes stay in cluster. In our case of two nodes fail-over cluster, if one node disappear that automatically the quorum state is lost (only 1 node survive, which is equal to the half of the total numbers of nodes – 2). And a cluster who loose its quorum state won't switch the resources anymore. So we need to ignore the loss of quorum to be able to switch the resources, hence this setting.
By setting a certain positive level of resource stickiness, we ensure that after a fail-over, the resource continue to run on the node who survived and are not re-switched to the returning failed node. (switching resources stops them and increase the risk of problems).
Lastly, we will have to create at least one DRBD filesystem (this happens outside Pacemaker) like described in this other howto.
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Adding resources to the cluster
In Pacemaker, the resources will be management by the resource agents (RA). These are scripts that the cluster will execute to perform tasks like starting & stopping service, requesting status, check, ...
To see which classes and providers are available for your resource agents, you can do :
# crm ra classes heartbeat lsb ocf / heartbeat linbit pacemaker redhat stonith
In the output, the first word of each line is the name of a defined class on your cluster.
The names after a / (slash) are the name of the providers defined on your cluster.
To see which resource agents (ra) are available in a given class/provider, you can do :
# crm ra ocf heartbeat
This will list all resource agents scripts
To know more information about a resource agent (accepted parameters, default value, mandatory parameters, description, …), you can do :
# crm ra meta ocf:heartbeat:IPAddr2
All OCF resource agents are scripts installed under /usr/lib/ocf/resource.d directory
Now that we can see with RA to use, we will add the resources needed to build our iSCSi cluster. The RA we will use are :
ocf:heartbeat:IPAddr2 to assign a (virtual) IP to the node where the iSCSI target will be running
ocf:linbit:drbd to manage DRBD (launch the synchronisation, do the promotion to primay or the demotion to secondary, …)
ocf:heartbeat:iSCSITarget to setup the iSCSI target
ocf:heartbeat:iSCSILogicalUnit to bind our DRBD partition with the iSCSI target (because we can bind more than one LUN to a target, the configuration of them has been split into 2 RA's)
The sequence of commands to create the resources with each RA will be :
# crm configure primitive iscsi-drbd ocf:linbit:drbd \ params drbd_resource="iscsi" \ op monitor interval="30s" \ op start interval="0" timeout="240s" \ op stop interval="0" timeout="100s" # crm configure primitive iscsi-ip ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \ params ip="192.168.20.122" cidr_netmask="32" \ op monitor interval="30s" # crm configure primitive iscsi-target ocf:heartbeat:iSCSITarget \ params iqn="iqn.2011-11.begetest.net" tid="1" \ op monitor interval="30s" # crm configure primitive iscsi-lun ocf:heartbeat:iSCSILogicalUnit \ params target_iqn="iqn.2011-11.begetest.net" lun="2" path="/dev/drbd1"
With the keyword params, you specify the parameter and its value, each pair separated to the next one by a space. The parameter name is the one that the crm ra meta <ra> command display.
With the keyword op, you change the default values for the defined operations (like starting, stoping or monitoring the resource). These operations and their default values are also shown by the crm ra meta <ra> command.
Once the resource is defined, you can modify a given parameter of it by using the following commands:
# crm resource param <resource> set <name> <value> # crm resource param <resource> delete <name> # crm resource param <resource> show <name>
to respectively:
- add a new pair parameter / value or change an existing one,
- remove a given parameter
- show the value of a given parameter
Master-slave resources
Until now, with the use of the "primitive" configuration directive, we are defining a resource which will be started or stopped on one node by the cluster. And such a resource can only be started on one node and stopped on all the other nodes.
As you may guess, for DRBD, it should be slightly different. Indeed, there must be a DRBD resource running on both node of the cluster, one being primary and the other one being secondary. And when a switch or fail-over occurs, it is not a matter of starting or stopping the resource but to promote or demote it.
In Pacemaker, this can be achieved by using the so-called "master-slave" (ms) configuration stanza. For our cluster, the command will be :
# crm configure ms iscsi-meta iscsi-drbd \ meta master-max="1" master-node-max="1" \ clone-max="2" clone-node-max="1" notify="true"
In our command above, iscsi-meta is the name we will give to this resource, iscsi-drbd being the primitive name that must be configured as a master-slave resource. The second line specify how many master (primary) can be run at the same time. Obviously, in our two nodes setup, we only need one primary in the whole cluster.
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Ordering and grouping resources
As you see, to run an iSCSI target into our cluster, we need to define 4 primitives and 1 master-slave resource. But all these resources when started must run together on the same node. There is no point to run the iSCSI target on one node, and the DRBD primary on another one.
Also, some resource must be started before others : DRBD must be primary before we setup the target and the logical unit on it. The target must be started before we start the logical unit.
Ordering will be configured with the configuration stanza order :
# crm configure order ip-after-iscsimeta inf: iscsi-meta:promote iscsi-ip:start # crm configure order lun-after-target inf: iscsi-target:start iscsi-lun:start # crm configure order target-after-meta inf: iscsi-meta:promote iscsi-target:start
The first value is the identifier we give to the ordering pair. Then we have the advisory-score of the order. In this case we use inf: for infinity, meaning that this order is mandatory.
Then we have the first resource to start then the second one.
Then we need to tell Pacemaker that all resources must be kept on the same node when started or in the primary role for the master-slave resources :
# crm configure colocation ip-with-iscsimeta inf: iscsi-ip iscsi-meta:Master # crm configure colocation lun-with-meta inf: iscsi-lun iscsi-meta:Master # crm configure colocation target-with-meta inf: iscsi-target iscsi-meta:Master
The first value is the identifier we give to the grouping pair. Then we have the advisory-score which is here infinity (meaning mandatory). Then the resources (with its state after the colon) that must be grouped together.
Like explained in the help of the crm command, I've also tried to use more than 2 resources with the order and colocation stanza, but it did not lead to the same result as using only a combination of pair ordering and colocation.
I still don't know why.
And that's it, we have now configured all we have to let the cluster runs our iSCSI target in a fail-over mode.
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The resulting configurationWith all the above actions realized, the resulting configuration of the cluster (you got it by doing crm configure show) at the command prompt, will be :
node storage1 \ attributes standby="off" node storage2 \ attributes standby="off" primitive iscsi-drbd ocf:linbit:drbd \ params drbd_resource="iscsi" \ op monitor interval="30s" \ op start interval="0" timeout="240s" \ op stop interval="0" timeout="100s" primitive iscsi-ip ocf:heartbeat:IPaddr2 \ params ip="192.168.20.122" cidr_netmask="32" \ op monitor interval="30s" primitive iscsi-lun ocf:heartbeat:iSCSILogicalUnit \ params target_iqn="iqn.2011-11.begetest.net" lun="2" path="/dev/drbd1" primitive iscsi-target ocf:heartbeat:iSCSITarget \ params iqn="iqn.2011-11.begetest.net" tid="1" \ op monitor interval="30s" \ meta target-role="Started" ms iscsi-meta iscsi-drbd \ meta master-max="1" master-node-max="1" clone-max="2" clone-node-max="1" notify="true" target-role="Started" location iscsi-prefer-node-1 iscsi-meta 100: storage1 colocation ip-with-iscsimeta inf: iscsi-ip iscsi-meta:Master colocation lun-with-meta inf: iscsi-lun iscsi-meta:Master colocation target-with-meta inf: iscsi-target iscsi-meta:Master order ip-after-iscsimeta inf: iscsi-meta:promote iscsi-ip:start order lun-after-target inf: iscsi-target:start iscsi-lun:start order target-after-meta inf: iscsi-meta:promote iscsi-target:start property $id="cib-bootstrap-options" \ dc-version="1.1.2-f059ec7ced7a86f18e5490b67ebf4a0b963bccfe" \ cluster-infrastructure="openais" \ expected-quorum-votes="2" \ stonith-enabled="false" \ no-quorum-policy="ignore"
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MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2015 in Barcelona is getting closer by the day, it is less than two weeks away at this point. The Congress kicks off on March 2nd and closes its doors on March 5th, but several manufacturers will hold pre-MWC events on March 1st. HTC and Samsung will showcase their new flagship devices on said date, the HTC One (M9) and Samsung Galaxy S6, though the One M9 Plus and Galaxy S6 Edge are also a possibility. Anyhow, we've seen a lot of info regarding both of these handsets, and we'll focus on HTC in this article considering new information just surfaced.
Twitter leaker, LlabTooFeR, usually somehow manages to get his hands on exclusive HTC information before anyone else. He was the one that leaked the first alleged HTC One (M9) wallpaper, which will reportedly come pre-installed on that handset. The leaker also promised that he'll release additional wallpapers (actually he said he'll release one every day until the phone launches) after that, and he definitely fulfilled that promise. We've seen three wallpapers leaked thus far, and today the leaker shared the fourth one via Twitter. You can check out this new wallpaper below this article, and if you like it, you can download it full size on this link. Speaking of full size, this wallpaper comes in 2160 x 1920 resolution, just like the previous ones, which once again suggests that the device will ship sporting a 1080p display instead of the QuadHD panel.
That being said, this device is expected to feature a 1080p display which will be over 5-inches in size along with 3GB of RAM and various internal storage variants. Qualcomm's 64-bit Snapdragon 810 octa-core processor will allegedly power on this device along with an Adreno 430 GPU for graphics. The device is expected to feature a unibody metal shell once again along with HTC's well-known front-facing BoomSound speakers. The 20-megapixel camera was also mentioned in the previous leaks. There you have it folks, the device's unveiling is very close at this point, are you excited?


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- Year-to-date reported operating income down 6 percent. Year-to-date comparable currency neutral operating income growth of 9 percent, exceeding our long-term growth target.
- Second quarter reported EPS was $0.88, up 44 percent versus prior year. Comparable EPS was $0.92, down 9 percent versus prior year reflecting negative currency impact.
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If you've been following my blog since about 2011, you should know that Camarillo Humans vs. Zombies is the biggest, open, Nerf related even in Southern California. Every Summer and Winter, a group of volunteers organize and host day long Humans vs. Zombies games in Mission. I helped organize the Winter 2012 HvZ games, and I'm helping organize these Summer 2013 games. That's partly why I haven't been uploading as much videos or posting on here as much.
The Summer 2013 game dates have been decided!
The first game is on July 13th, A Saturday, at 9 AM.
The second game is on July 21, a Sunday, at 9 AM.
Search "Mission Verde Park, Camarillo, CA" on Google Maps to get the location and directions to the event.
Check out the Facebook event page here. You can discuss the event there, and please RSVP if you plan on going. Below, I've also linked music videos to two previous events that I've been to.
Winter 2012 Music Video Recap
Music, P.O.D. – Goodbye for Now
Summer 2012 Music Video Recap
Music, Maroon 5 – Harder to Breathe (The Cool Kids Remix) (Video blocked in Germany)


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About 80 kms from Punalur is an important pilgrim center is situated. A famous temple name Sastha temple is situated here in the amidst dense forest. The idol of Sastha is supposed to have been installed several centuries before the Christian Era. Mandala Pooja (December-January) and the festival held at 'Revathi'(January-February) are the two inportant festivals of this temple. The two notable features of the festival are the Therotam (chariot festival) and Pushpabhishekam (offering of flowers). In no other temple of the South India are flowers offered to the deity so lavishly as at Achencoil.
At 26 Kms from Kollam City Alumkadavu is located which is near the lakeside of Kollam-Alappuzha National Water Way. The "Green Channel Back Water Resort" at Alumkadavu makes itself a tranquil location for both foreign and Indian Tourists. Blue green's scenic beauty stretches of serene back water and rambling gardens of hundreds of coconut palms give the Green Channel Resort an incomparable beauty.
Located at 110 kms from capital of Kerala. It is a realisation of the ancient Indian ideal "the whole world is one family" (vasudhaiva kutumbakam). By bus or train: Kayamkulam (12 km north of Amritapuri) and Karunagappally (10 km south) are the major cities to reach. By air and taxi: The two closest airports are in Trivandrum (110 km south of Amritapuri) and in Cochin (140 km north).
Aryankavu is situated about 73 km's east of Kollam. It is one of the most important pilgrim centers of the district. It was an important trade route for merchants from either sides of western Ghats from very early days. Shrine dedication of Lord Sastha is the chief attraction of Aryankavu. The temple has some fine sculptures and mural paintings. During the Mandala Pooja in December thousands of pilgris flocks of this temple. All trains towards Shencottah have a stop at Aryankavu. About 5 kms away from Aryankavu there is a big waterfall known as Palaravi meaning river of milk. It is one of the well-known waterfalls in the south India, falling from a height of 300 feet. It is situated 66kms from Kollam on Kollam-Shencottah road.
Ochira is situated near 32 km's away from north of Kollam on the Kollam Alappuzha National Highway and on the boundary of Kollam district. It is a unique pilgrim center. The peculiarity of the temple here is that there is no temple building as such nor is there any idol. All classes of people workship the presiding deity the parabrahmam. Oachira draws thousands of Pilgrims for Oachirakkali, a festival held annually in June. It is also an important handicraft center where fancy articles of screw pine mats are manufactured.
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Are duras.ifrance.com and Société Marguerite Duras really the best the web can do for Marguerite Duras pages? Goodness. This is woeful. I needs to sort me out my minisites and knock something decent together for Ms Duras asap!
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For years, Facebook's mobile development has been oddly haphazard. From the painfully inconsistent upgrades to its flagship app to the random release of various apps for an array of different needs (Pages, Photos, etc), it has felt more like the mobile team at FB was divided up into about 20 different divisions all operating with complete autonomy. Most recently, they came up with Paper, a stylish new app designed to leverage shared links and provide a more news-based interface for the social network. Even the name echoes the idea that this is like reading a newspaper, not a social media website.
The first and most obvious change with Paper over the traditional Facebook app is how it looks. Built to take advantage of upgrades in iOS 7 (this is only available for iPhone currently), it has a modern look and feel with a smooth workflow. The main screen serves as a cooler looking Timeline with updates split between a lower series of panels that look like flash cards and a larger space above that has more graphic content. Like most apps, you swipe through the spaces to see various updates and touch them to get more info.
There is even a way to store items for later, a particularly handy function for when you just want to flip through updates without having to browse content in long form at the moment.
It also has some of the basic Facebook features like notifications, messages and viewing profile pages. You can make status updates as well and share items with friends. The game changer -- at least for some -- is how it handles trending topics.
If you haven't been paying attention, Facebook has gotten into the trending topics game. Much like Twitter, Facebook now shows its trending items in the right column of the website through the browser interface. And, much like Twitter, it is able to be broken down by category. Paper takes advantage of that by allowing users to create categories of news and updates like sports or music. Think of it as Facebook's answer to Twitter's "lists" but instead of following users, you are following topics.
From an information gathering standpoint, it's rather unique because it shows what people are interested in at any given moment in a number of different categories. It is a quick and easy way to check the "news" of the day.
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There are currently 19 categories provided by Facebook ranging from "Headlines" to "LOL" and "Cute." Some are topical like equality and gay pride while others are specific to urban dwellers or interests like sports or photography. The problem is that the categories are strangely specific without covering certain obviously broad areas like music (which is wrapped into "Pop Life"). If you are really interested in following topics about, for example, politics, you'd have to view all news topics to see those. An RSS feed this is not.
No "most recent" view of timeline items.
Probably the most annoying characteristic of Facebook in general is its desire to steer me away from what people posted recently and focus me instead on what its algorithm considers the stuff I will find to be the most interesting or important. This might work for someone with relatively narrow interests or only a couple dozen friends, but anyone with 100-plus friends or a diverse base of interests will miss a lot. At least in the app and through a browser, you can choose Most Recent (though it defaults to Top Stories). In Paper, you are stuck with whatever Facebook deems most important even if it is a post more than a week old you've already read.
This is the one thing that means, at least for me, that Paper is generally worthless. If I can't decide what posts from my friends I want to see, I don't really care to use the interface. I can certainly see its benefits for looking through various categories of trending interests, but as a standalone Facebook app, it has a long way to go.


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"Gunkan jima" is the island that looks like battle ship. The characteristic is small square overflowing with a lot of buildings. Japan has some this type of island and most famous one is "Hajima" which is placed on Nagasaki prefecture. This island with much Japanese architecture used to be a busy one, based on mining. It acted as model for "Dead city" in "Skyfall".
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This is not text messaging and it's not even on the Zune itself. This is just a document illustrating how the Zune Social networking features will work in the software on your PC. You're sending messages—pointers to songs or albums—with your own notes to your friends, which are shown in the inbox portion of the software. No new features we haven't seen yet, just a doc showing how it'll work. We've sent Haroon to remedial reading comprehension school in the mean time. -J.C.
As some of our astute readers have pointed out , the Zune 2 looks like it will support a Wi-Fi text messaging service. The extract from the leaked support document details an inbox feature, which "is where customers can send and receive text messages with other Zune users." The added functionality would sure make the social a lot more social, but the exact details are not clear. Apparently, there are three types of messages, including text, artist or album. What the artist and album message formats will allow is not clear. (Simply a message with the information seems unlikely, but anything beyond that also seems a little unlikely). What has not been touched upon is a method for text entry; we sure hope there is some form of a solution to make this doable. Given the hardware infrastructure we cannot see a solution, but we'd love to be proven wrong. [Zune Scene via Zune Boards]