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The iconic bridge of Star Trek: The Next Generation was famously destroyed for the production of the Star Trek: Generations movie when the saucer section of the Enterprise-D crashes onto the surface of Veridian III. At the time, the destruction of the production set that had served the TV show for over seven years seemed practical--after all, the crew would be getting a new bridge set for the Enterprise-E that would debut in Generations' follow up, First Contact. Additionally, the production team had already built several replica bridge sets for various purposes, including a traveling museum exhibition and the Star Trek: The Experience amusement ride at the Las Vegas Hilton.
But today, no standing Enterprise-D bridge set exists. The Star Trek museum exhibition, now permanently settled in Orlandao, only houses an Original Series bridge (though it does have a Next Generation Engineering set) and the Las Vegas attraction shuttered it doors in 2008. Pieces of the original and replica sets have since been auctioned off to private collectors and shopping mall developers, with little hope of assembling them back together for public display. That was until late this summer when a fan announced that he had acquired a significant portion of the Exhibition set, with the intent of restoring it with the help and support of The Next Generation's Production Designers.
I spoke with Huston Huddleston, organizer for the Enterprise Bridge Restoration Project and learned how he came into possession of the bridge set components, what the restoration work will entail, and how fans can contribute to the endeavor.
Let's start at the beginning. How did the idea for the restoration come about? Who along with you is directly involved, and what are your backgrounds?
I'm a writer for TV and some film, comedy mostly. I found out from a friend who worked at Paramount that this set had been sitting outside for 5 years and was going to be destroyed. I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but I knew it had to be saved. If I didn't do something, I knew I'd live to regret it, because something like this comes MAYBE once in a lifetime. After months of trying to partner with a "rich cat" to restore it--and having no luck--I went to the annual Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and found inspiration from some major producers who were also fans, such as Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga. I had a eureka moment and screamed "I'M GOING TO RESTORE THE BRIDGE!" So basically, this stemmed from sleep deprivation and possible insanity. Brian Uiga who helped restore the screen used Doctor Who TARDIS and Herbie The Love Bug and KITT is doing most of the design work, and Rusty Harrell is restoring our Picard's Captain's Chair. We also just launched our Kickstarter, which is going until Dec 18.
Why did you want to restore the TNG bridge specifically? Are there parts of other bridges from the other ST shows that were possible to restore?
It was the only bridge available. 90% of the Enterprise-D Bridge Set was laying there, in pieces. It's made mostly of fiberglass and metal, and considering the set originally cost $600,000 to make in the 1990's, it was in darn good shape. We actually also found pieces from Star Trek: The Original Series bridge, which we hope to someday build. I told someone recently "It's not like I turned my living room into the bridge, I literally brought the bridge into my living room."
How does the Enterprise-D bridge set you have differ from the ones built for the now-defunct Star Trek: The Experience ride in Las Vegas?
Ours is not the Vegas bridge--it was a third Enterprise set that was built for display and traveling around the time the Vegas sets were built. [Production Designers] Herman Zimmerman and Michael Okuda oversaw all these sets to make them as screen accurate as safety regulations allowed. All [these replica bridges] were missing were the "side chairs" connected to Troy and Riker's computers and the pull-out chairs in the back. The ramp in the back was also lower in the Vegas bridges to comply with the Disabilities Act. Since we're not a "ride" [like the Vegas sets] we're making ours as close to screen accurate as possible, which has never been done before. Plus we're making all the computers real touchscreens which is also a first.
What happened to those other Experience bridges after the Vegas attraction was shut down? Who owned them and what was the original plan for them?
The whole thing was totally destroyed, in pieces and left outside (are you seeing a pattern here?) When the Las Vegas ST Experience company lost their license with Paramount, they had to get it out of the Hilton as quickly as possible and everything was gutted. Parts of it were sold at auction--we have a few of the Vegas pieces: the walls, Data's Chair, Riker and Troy's chairs and computers--the rest was either thrown out or went into people's homes. There were rumors about re-opening the ride in Vegas, but it was probably just wishful thinking.
What is the current condition of the bridge and how much needs to be restored?
The floor needs complete rebuilding, which is good because the ramp was the wrong size. Worf's Horseshoe needs a new base--it was damaged and was the wrong size (due to Disabilities Act compliance). We need a new Ops chair and computer. All the doors are missing, some of the walls need rebuilding, and little touch ups are also needed. We have three of the five rear computers, all heavy metal frames, and quite a few of the Isolinear Chip panels. All in all, it's about 90% complete. The ceiling is massive, heavy and expensive, and if we didn't have that, we wouldn't have the set. The ceiling is the reason no accurate fan film ST TNG set has ever been built.
Are you working with set builders or anyone who worked on the show or ride to rebuild it?
Rusty, who is restoring the chair, started on it months before I knew I was going to be restoring the entire bridge. He did it out of love for Star Trek, since he knew I had no money. Brian has some brilliant people on his side who helped restore his Movie and TV cars. Basically we're restoring what we can afford to restore, it all depends on the fundraising. We all have day jobs, and we're all doing this in our spare time. For some of the heavier, larger pieces, we'll need a warehouse and a crane, and as many volunteers as we can find. But, if all goes well, we should stay on schedule and be completely finished by the end of 2013.
Are you using any of the original production blueprints or design documents to assist in the restoration?
We have some of them, but since Paramount was sold to CBS, not everything is as accessible as it used to be. Most of our set is complete, albeit "not perfect condition". But thank God original Bridge creators Herman Zimmerman, Doug Drexler, Michael Okuda and Andrew Probert are helping us, or we'd be sunk!
Can you detail some of the improvements you plan on making to the bridge set using modern technology?
We'll be using LCD Lighting wherever possible, and real touchscreen computers that work like they did on the show. We're super excited about that, and we have several brilliant computer guys helping us to make it a reality, all programmed like the LCAR Okudagrams as seen on the show. They won't just independent computers; they will all work together, so [the idea is that] when the captain goes to red alert, the entire bridge and all the computers will respond. It will be unlike anything that has ever been done anywhere. We're presently trying to get Apple, Microsoft and other companies to donate computers and technology to make this happen, after all, a lot of their technology have origins in Star Trek...
Let's talk about the Kickstarter. Where will the $20,000 you aim to raise go? What kind of contributions have you received as rewards for supporters?
$20,000 is the lowest we can go to get anything done. The set personally cost me quite a few thousand just to have shipped from the warehouse, and Brian and Rusty are saving up receipts until our Kickstarter is over. Even in pieces, the set is huge, mammoth. It took three guys all day, in a full-sized moving van just to get it here. To do everything we want [with the restoration] and then rent a building or even have a place to store it and move it, with electricity costs--it's going to be closer to $240,000. That's even a low ball figure. We're basically trying to create a several-million dollar project on a shoestring, with favors asked of every electronics company we can find. There are so many Sci-fi and Star Trek fans, even if they just gave one dollar each, we'd probably have half a million or more before we blinked.
What are your plans for after the restoration is complete? Where will the set live and will it be open to the public?
We're doing a "Grand Opening" tentatively end of 2013. Our Bridge will be completely set up in a soundstage in Hollywood, where we'll be conducting all the Kickstarter Incentives such as Dinner, Party, Movie, and the infamous, "Romantic Evening for Two on the Bridge." After that, we don't know where it will ultimately end up. Worst possible scenario is it will stay in a warehouse until it has a permanent location, with chairs being shipped to various conventions for display and photo ops. Best possible scenario, a museum or city government will help us set it up to put on display for everyone to see. The problem with Smithsonian is they would want our bridge "behind glass" which defeats the purpose, and Seattle Sci-Fi museum doesn't have the room. Like I say in the Kickstarter video, we want it to be in a city that can get the most people as possible to see it, and experience the joy of this set. Once it's up, we also want to help the Make A Wish program and Habitat For Humanity, two groups I feel personally close to.
Thanks to Huston for sharing the story of the Bridge Restoration project, and best of luck to his team on their efforts. You can find more photos of the pieces collected for this project at the NewStarship website, and get updates on its progress on Kickstarter and Facebook.


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On August 6th all of our collecting (dare I say hoarding) of backpacking gear was finally put to good use and we hiked to Upper Loch Leven Lake in the Tahoe National Forest. For our first loaded outing it was a hell of a hike, and we learned some valuable things.
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Where did the summer go?! (and a PSA)
Awhile ago I swore up and down I would start blogging as soon as summer rolled around. And then summer rolled around… and we went to the water park, the library, and David started scuba diving courses. We spent quite a bit of time up at Tahoe when he did various dives. Then I decided that I too would become scuba certified. So as of this past weekend I am now open water certified with NAUI. David… well he went a little crazy with it all and he's now a certified rescue diver with NAUI. We have yet to go backpacking, but we have 2 in the works before fall hits (along with more dives, naturally).
The girls are slowly ramping up their homeschooling, and only whining about it roughly half the time. As stated before that slice of hell will be documented more in depth on my homeschooling blog, where I can assure you I will have a colorful metaphor laced vocabulary.
I'm really hoping to be in the swing of things soon though, and hopefully I'll have pictures of some of our adventures to share!! 😀
As for my PSA…
I was cruising around on Pinterest, as I do often, and came across a recipe I decided to look at. In the comments section someone commented how their food didn't look the same as the picture. The blogger made a remark about how it took a long time to fashion the food for pictures and that's why it likely doesn't look the same. While I am a photographer and I understand the whole concept of food styling I frankly don't have the time nor the energy to spend forever making my food look picture perfect.
The pictures I post are of the food I am actually about to put into my face. Sometimes the lighting is sketchy, and if I'm really hungry you're likely to get a picture from my iPhone. What you see is what you get.
The place setting you see is what is at my table that moment. Sometimes I may angle it if it's totally heinous non-coordinating. Although maybe I shouldn't since most of the time that is care of my 8 year old setting the table to look beautiful.
I'm all for people who do take their time to be meticulous for their blog, but that's not my style. If you enjoy that much reality in your face on a food blog, then yay! If not, that's cool too. 🙂
Finding my Groove
I realized not too long ago that I actually miss blogging. I miss trying new things, taking pictures, and sharing it with others. Between getting a job, being struck down by my GI disease and having part of my colon removed due to it, getting married, kids, my husband being back in school, and actively losing weight to reverse other things I've been diagnosed with in the last 24 months (PCOS and Hashimoto's) … I have been worn out. I'm trying to get back into making as many things homemade as I can.
We (by we I mostly mean I) decided to homeschool this coming school year, and that slice of irreverent chronicling will take place over at Coffee Until Wine. Please be aware that my use of colorful metaphors there is substantially higher. There are a lot of homeschooling blogs that are very faith based and I am kind of the antithesis of all that. In an effort to keep Gingham Apron a little more friendly, with fewer colorful metaphors, I have created the separate blog for homeschooling. 🙂
Since things will be changing a lot for us with me ceasing to work in order to homeschool I have to hop back on the frugal make-all-the-things-at-home train. I've already begun making my own laundry detergent again, and I'm trying a new dishwasher detergent recipe as well. Food wise I have been filling my pails with gamma seal lids full of dried goods, and making more things from scratch – sourdough crackers, sourdough english muffins, sourdough pancakes, bread, yogurt, kombucha, "refried" beans, ricotta .. and pretty much anything else I can do on my own to cut costs.
Between now and summer I want to post once per week. Once traditional school it out I hope to post more often. I just need to find my groove in all this craziness.
I'm back!
Kind of.
We got all the big stuff moved on Saturday and slept here for the first time that night. Sunday was spent in part getting the last of the big stuff upstairs while we still had the appliance dolly. The moving truck was returned around noon. David made another run with the van on Sunday to get the electronics, and I've done smaller runs the last 3 days as well. There is perhaps another small-ish van load worth still in the garage, and a few things in our bedroom left to grab and then we are done moving stuff out!
Tomorrow with the help of my parents (again) I will start cleaning the old place. I don't want to leave the evil bag in the office any reason to charge us. Though due to how much she hates me I'm pretty sure she will anyhow, but I'm going to photograph everything so if she tries to come at me I will be prepared.
David is not loving his longer commute. I on the other hand already feel so much more relaxed at home even with the moving mess still *very* evident pretty much everywhere. The girls are loving their own rooms. I have made dinner every night since Sunday, and I am loving all the extra kitchen space I have. We've had to improvise a bit on some things – like not having an actual pantry, and our bedroom being too small for David's desk. I was hoping for a desk free living room, but that didn't happen. I'm sure I'll get over it. He did put my computer on the desk as well, so I get to use the proper computer chair, so really I can't complain too much. 😛
Once I've got all the crazy tamed I'll post pictures. It may be a few weeks. Girl Scout cookies arrive on Friday, science fair projects are due in just under 2 weeks, we have to officially be out of the old place on the 28th, and the very next day cookie booth sales start for my troop. Somewhere in there I'm going to squeeze in a sunrise shoot with some of the most awesome photographers I've had the pleasure of becoming friends with.
Speaking of… please click the picture below to see my photography blog and our most recent Photowalkers adventure. 🙂
Parenting Win
In a previous post I mentioned how Nola has been giving me some major proud mommy moments recently. She's done things like starting to play Imagine by John Lennon on her ukelele, loving music and reading that totally make me feel like we're not doing nearly as bad at the whole parenting thing as I once thought. Because I'll be honest, I've wondered a time or twenty if we (and by we I mean specifically me) haven't somehow fucked up our children for life. It would seem that my fears are unfounded. *knock on wood* We're not into the teen years yet, so I could end up having to eat my words.
That said, it was recently Marten Luther King Jr. Day, and afterwards Nola's class watched a video about MLK Jr. and what he helped to accomplish. We had just left school and as per usual I asked them both how their day was, and Nola told me about the video and explained some of what she learned from it. My 9 year old 3rd grader was baffled at how people could have been so hateful. She knew that the way people were treated back then was unacceptable. The separate drinking fountains and not being permitted into certain stores, she couldn't wrap her head around it. She questioned the adults that permitted it to happen, and knew that it was based purely in ignorance.
How does a child have more wisdom than quite a number of adults I've met? Perhaps we would be well served by listening to our children when it comes to tolerance and acceptance. While I know there are some children who themselves are perpetuating and fostering hate, because I was bullied by such kids, I think that there are a lot children out there just like my daughter. We just need to sit down, shut up, and let them show us what we're not seeing.
I don't know that I was so damned smart at 9. Maybe my parents would say I was, but I don't remember being so in touch with humanity. Nola has a great head on her shoulders, and a huge heart that I know will lead her to do great things in her life. Yeah, so she isn't a huge fan of math. She would rather have her headphones on and attempt to knit, crafty kid after my own heart. The last few months have slowly begun to show me what an awesome girl she's turning out to be, and I couldn't be more proud.
Now to get the sibling rivalry, selective hearing, and occasional tantrum to come to and end… 😉
All is love- even math
There is a blog post going viral right now. It's been all over my Facebook feed in the last 18 hours. It needs to be read. Go read it… I don't even care if you come back here, just go read it.
Momastery – Share This With All the Schools, Please
I had read this story last night. I've since read it two more times.
Sophia was laying in bed with me this morning and telling me how no on wants to play with her at recess. I asked her if she ever asked anyone to play, and she waffled a bit as to if she did or not. She's afraid of asking one friend to play because she plays with her brother, and she's unsure about the brother. I asked about another friend who has recess with her now and she tried to explain why she doesn't really ask if she can play. She said she's asked others and been told no. I told her that sometimes others will say no, and that's okay, but at least she asked.
The thing is that while recess may not seem like a big deal to adults it is a HUGE deal to a 6 year old. It's something she felt she needed to talk to me about during our special snuggle time in the morning while Nola showers. She's not typically a shy child, and she seems to do just fine in the classroom both socially and academically.
What is the disconnect at recess?
Is it not as bad as she says?
Does her class aide see this?
Does it need to be addressed?
I had a moment of hesitation in considering having a talk with the aide, but after really letting the message of this viral blog post sink in I will be talking to the aide after school today. Sure, it's just recess, and sure it could be a 6 year old being a little overdramatic … but it's impacting her. As adults we so easily shrug things off, and we need to remember what it was like when we were kids, and how the things that seem inconsequential now were devastating as a child.
I sent the blog link to the assistant principal of the school, and hopefully she will share with the teachers. Luckily my girls attend a school that for the most part is very open and diverse, so things like clothes and lunches are not typically made fun of. Not like when Nola was in 1st grade and refused to take her favorite foods or wear her Keen sandals to school because kids ruthlessly made fun of her.
As a person who was bullied as a child I think that teacher is truly helping children in ways that would have helped me immensely. I applaud her, and I hope that anyone who cares about the well being of children will help ensure all educators see this Momastery blog post.
2014 in 2014 Update #3
Well, it looks like moving day is getting bumped up. I'm in no way upset by this obviously. David's brother will be in town and able to help out the day after we get the keys. So that means we officially start the move a week from tomorrow.
This is me right about now…
My purging is starting to kick into over drive now. Yesterday I had a cute 2 digit number on the whiteboard on the fridge. Tonight it's a 3 digit number. I fully intend on having another 3 digit number day tomorrow too.
Before I get into specific numbers I must say that Nola went through her clothes and her toys and came back with 25 items for me. Since I know 9 year old do not relinquish personal property easily this is a proud mommy moment for me. It's just one of many she's been gracing me with lately, which I need to post about soon, because she's seriously turning into an awesome girl with a damn good head on her shoulders.
Last time I was at 1,869 items left to go.
My white board count from the last few days is 433 items!
I guessed 200 on a large amount of items. I folded down the back seats in my van, and then filled 3/4 of it, though some was not mine, so I didn't count that. I also likely underestimated when I cleaned out a tote of random bits. So it surely evens out, if I'm not actually shorting myself. There was other stuff, like purging my cookbook shelf, Nola's self regulated purging, and cleaning my bathroom.
1,436 items left to go // 578 items purged!
I'll be back soon…
Today I am turning in the deposit for a duplex we were approved for!!
So, I will be continuing to purge things and keep track as much as I can as to how many items it is for my 2014 in 2014.
If you don't hear from me for a couple of weeks that's what is going on. I need to buckle down because the next 2 weeks or so are going to be crazy, but a totally good crazy! 😀
3 bedrooms … so the girls will have their own rooms finally!
2.5 bathrooms … no more "I have go soooooo bad, can I use your bathroom mommy?!!?!?"
A window in the kitchen!
A kitchen faucet that doesn't drip non-stop.
A back yard. It's all dirt, but it's bigger than our patio.
Oh and a park .2 miles from our front door. The girls are excited to have picnics, ride their scooters, and most importantly ride their bikes.
The Crud, iPods and Reflections
Ever since the first day of winter break my home has not been able to catch a break. Sophia started off on December 20th with a fever of 103. By the time she felt better Nola was down for the count. They were both doing better just in time for school to start on January 6th, but then shortly after that David got sick and even came home from work early. He spent 2 more days home from work before going back. Shortly after he started feeling better I was knocked down with some level of whatever had been floating around, though I managed to avoid the fever that everyone else had. I just have a bit of a cough and now a possible mild sinus infection.
Because all 4 of us getting taken down in the span of a month isn't enough Sophia woke up yesterday morning with a croup like cough. *sigh*
If she gets bronchitis again like she did this time last year I'm going to lose my mind.
In other news, the gift of an iPod for both girls has been very well received…
Nola was getting into singing Gift of a Friend yesterday. ❤
My own new favorite song of the moment is actually one I picked up for free on iTunes the other day… MisterWives – Refelections
I'm tempted to spend the $3.99 to get the EP, because I actually really like their sound. — Scratch that, I bought it before I could even hit the publish button. 😉
Pardon me while I gloat…
Not unlike almost every single parent in the country keeping up on household tasks is an exercise in futility. I say almost because some people are either just too damn organized or they have paid help. I'm neither organized nor rich enough to have someone do my dishes, so that task is largely left to me. I am the stay at home parent, so unless I want to figure out how to cover rent with my good looks (lol) then dishes are mine.
I have never made it a secret that I generally loathe cleaning (see the "About" link). So when I really bust my ass cleaning I think I totally deserve a pat on the back. Four people make quite the mess. There's 3 longer haired girls, 2 Rainbow Looms, 2 children who are bottomless pits and need a drop cloth to eat plus we live in a dusty desert… My floors are disgusting, dishes are always dirty, and my vacuum is sure to get clogged by rubber bands soon.
In an exceedingly rare moment around here I am totally caught up on dishes. I even "Fly Lady'd" my sink last night! I cleaned it out, and then dried it. The faucet leaks so one side is not so dry… But it's empty!!!!!
And since I am more than willing to abide by the internet rule of "pictures or it didn't happen"…..

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text: Over the last couple of years I've been using some alcohol inks on certain jewelry items. I'm currently doing some real-world testing on finishes that I hope will seal the ink and keep it from fading or wearing off the metal. As this process continues, I still enjoy looking at my color samples arranged on display. Sort of a styrofoam cake of my entire cast of characters. The alcohol inks are nice in their pure colors, and nice when gently combined. I'm also enjoying taking the color off with a steel brush wheel, and starting over with a fresh surface. Works in process.


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In memoriam: Earl R. Thayer, 1922-2017
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Largs and its surrounding villages are very Conservative in nature, and we have a very elderly population here, not great factors for a movement in our area that wanted to push the potential that independence could bring. The No campaign targeted the +65 demographic so successfully with fear stories on their pensions that when the vote took place, some 73% of this age group voted No, by far the biggest group, with those aged 54-65, approaching pensionable age, being the next largest group at 57%. No doubt on top of this the old feelings of British identity were much stronger, something which contrasted sharply with 16-17 year olds, the devolution generation, for whom 71% voted Yes. With the exception of the student age range (18-24), which showed 52% in favour of No, the pattern was that the younger the age group, the more pro-Yes they were (Source: Lord Ashcroft Polls: http://lordashcroftpolls.com/2014/09/scotland-voted/).
On the referendum night the final vote came in, showing Yes at 45% and No at 55%. So on this occasion, we lost - but we certainly put the fear of God into Westminster. Despite this defeat, I am very proud that our work, along with the work of other groups in North Ayrshire, saw us deliver a 49% result for our area, despite the odds. The eventual resurgence in the No campaign has been attributed by many to a last minute pledge given by the three main Westminster parties just a couple of days before the day of the vote, which vowed that Scotland would receive more powers if a No result was given. A timetable was given by the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that he said would begin yesterday to deliver on this. Not only has that promise already been broken (yesterday came and went without the first promise fulfilled on that timetable), the three Westminster parties themselves are now disagreeing about the way forward, with the Labour Party in London even trying to kick it into the long grass at the end of next year, after the next UK general election. They never learn. So, for the Yes campaign, my feeling is that the referendum result has simply bought the union a little more time, and is merely the end of this current act. Another referendum will come, perhaps as soon as within the next 5-10 years, when the circumstances and demographic of the population have again changed, and most importantly, amidst the political circumstances in what I suspect will be a failure of Westminster to deliver on its promises - though time will tell.
On a personal note, I have thoroughly enjoyed participating in the greatest democratic exercise this country has ever seen, so much so that I have now joined a political party for the first time. On the referendum day itself I worked at three poll stations as a polling agent for the Yes side, with much good humour on the day exchanged between myself and my opposite numbers on the Better Together (No campaign) side, and I also had the privilege to attend the subsequent count in Ardrossan for North Ayrshire. I've gained a lot of experience of the political process, and hope to contribute further in the years ahead. As of next week, I become a full-time family historian again - not that I stopped as one throughout, mind! I have kept a diary throughout the campaign for my kids, and have kept copies of some of the key documents and literature from both sides to show them in years to come.
In addition to the great folk of the Yes Largs shop with whom I worked, perhaps the biggest highlight of the last few weeks was last Wednesday, when I unexpectedly got a chance to meet our First Minister Alex Salmond in Largs, and grabbed a chance to get a selfie with him. Sadly he has now announced that he will be standing down soon, but the selfie shows a real joie-de-vivre that to me just summarises the optimism that we all had.
The Yes campaign will be back - after a short intermission - but Scotland will never be the same again. We tasted sovereignty for a few hours, and developed a liking for it. So stay tuned...!
First Minister Alex Salmond hits the streets of Largs
With actor Peter Mullan (Sunshine on Leith/Braveheart/Trainspotting)
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visits the Yes Largs shop
With fellow campaigners in the Yes Largs shop
Yes will return....!


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Evans Head
Evans Head is an ideal holiday destination to get away from the hustle and bustle of a busy lifestyle.
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Broadwater is a convenient stopover point when travelling the Pacific Highway.
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Woodburn & New Italy are located on the Pacific Highway, making for an easy and accessible stopover point when travelling along the east coast.
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In this vibrant town, the activities and attractions offered will seduce all generations!
Only 5 minutes away from Campsite El Torres with it´s wild beach, green landscape and peacefulness, there is Benidorm, the town that never sleeps and where there is allways something to do day and night!
This modern and atypical town has got lots of leisure activities: bars, restaurants, cabarets, pubs, nights clubs, theme parks, concerts and festivals. But it is also a beautifull old town and magnificent beaches with many sport activities.


text: I am currently pregnant. And the past few months weve had some rough patches of fighting. But recently, weve better our communication and I thought things were getting better. Yesterday, he went out with his friends to a fight. No big deal. Im not one to blow him up with texts or stress. When he got home around midnight he said that his friend was coming to pick him up- again nothing I found suspect cause his friend has been having issues with his girl and they talk often. Normally they are only out for half an hour and he was gone for two. Again, not freaking. I fell asleep for an hour heard him come home. And it was off, it was three and he was showering. I drifted asleep and woke up about thirty minutes to go to the bathroom. And noticed that the shower was wet and I was a little more worried. Out of curiosity, I checked his underwear (TMI) and there was blood in the crotch and thigh area, which made me think he maybe had sex with someone on their period as Ive seen it before with us before. I confronted him about it calmly and he got defensive and said it was gross but weve done it before. Now Im just worried that I over reacted. But I cant help but feel that I may be right.. thoughts?


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A new report from DigiTimes suggests that Apple will unveil two models of the next generation iPad at the Macworld|iWorld conference on the 26th of January. The iPad 2 would be pushed down the product line to become the entry-level model and compete with the Kindle Fire, while the two new models would focus on mid and high-range segments.
The report goes on to dismiss possibilities of a 7.85 inch iPad:
Instead of the previously-rumored 7.85-inch, the upcoming iPad models will still feature 9.7-inch screens but come with QXGA resolution (1,536×2,048 pixels), the sources indicated. Dual-LED light bars are designed for the new iPads to strengthen the brightness of the panels, the sources added.
In addition to a retina display, the new iPads would reportedly house the A6 chip, feature improved camera sensors (8MP and 5MP) and have a greatly improved battery life (6,500mAH->14,000mAH).
The most unlikely claim in this report is Apple's return to Macworld. Apple pulled out of the conference in 2008, primarily because it didn't want to involve any third party during product launches. It's last appearance at the conference was in January 2009.
Since the sources DigiTimes cites are suppliers, it's very likely that they are misinformed about which events would Apple launch their devices. However, their knowledge about specifications of future Apple devices have better chances of being right.
DigiTimes has been on fire lately, with four reports about future Apple products in the past three days. The site doesn't have a very good track record when it comes to Apple rumors. MacRumors statistics peg DigiTimes' accuracy rate at 55%.
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Bharathidasan University Tirchy Assistant professor and professor jobs 2012
Are you looking for latest professors recruitment 2012 announcement by Bharathidasan University Tirchy? Here is the information for you! Get the latest notification updates of Bharathidasan University of faculty jobs 2012 including online application form, scale of pay and eligibility criteria.
Bharathidasan University Tirchy Assistant professor and professor jobs 2012
Bharathidasan University Tirchy is inviting applications for various faculty positions in the University Departments as mentioned below.
Scale of Pay : As per UGC scales Pay Band III of Rs.15,600 – Rs. 39,100 with AGP of Rs. 6,000)
Educational Qualification : As per UGC/AICTE/NCTE norms. It implies that candidate should have secured a minimum of 55% marks at the master's level and in NET, or SLET/SET.
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For more information on other posts please check the website!
Please note that candidates will be short-listed for interview based on their qualification and contributions towards his stream. If the candidates are form abroad, interview will be through video-conferencing.
Last date for Submitting Application form: 17.09.2012 by 5.00 P.M.


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Story Hour in the Library Student Reading
Reading - Literary | May 4 | 5-6 p.m. | Doe Library, Morrison Library
Student Reading
Story Hour in the Library is a monthly prose reading series held in UC Berkeley's Morrison Library. In May the program features our student reading.
Story Hour in the Library celebrates the writers in our campus community with an annual student reading. The event will feature short excerpts of work by winners of the year's biggest prose prizes, Story Hour in the Library interns, and faculty nominees.
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People live a huge portion of their lives in the digital sphere, so most people will have their sensitive information stolen at some point, if not multiple times. It may be as small as noticing a few dollars of unauthorized activity on your credit card or as damaging as someone stealing your identity and trashing your credit as a result. No matter what might happen, everyone should be prepared for the possibility of becoming a victim of fraud and responding accordingly.
Preventing fraud or identity theft is extremely difficult, because the reward for stealing someone's information is too great for thieves to be deterred by laws and security measures. As depressing as it may seem, there are very few people you can trust with your personal information, and even some of the people you're closest to could potentially betray your confidence. Whether they find stealing enjoyable or can't resist the temptation of abusing positions of power, pretty much anyone can commit identity theft.
1. Hackers
Obviously, these are the people everyone fears, but only so many people have the tech skills to hack sensitive information stored online. Then again, companies don't always make it difficult for hackers to access such data. Beyond worrying about getting hacked, you have to think about all the people who might take advantage of you.
2. Your Mom
Sadly, it happens. Parents have access to their kids' Social Security numbers, and if they've trashed their own credit, their children's identities can be irresistible clean slates.
3. A Friend
It's probably not a good idea to leave your checkbook lying around in your apartment for anyone to see, even if you could never imagine your friend taking it.
4. A Government Worker
Crimes of opportunity are especially prevalent among people who handle documents bearing information like your name, address, birthdate and Social Security number.
5. Bank Tellers
A group of five New York bank tellers were recently charged with stealing customers' identities to make fake IDs and checks. It's not the first time something like that has happened, though.
6. Debt Collectors
Scammers impersonate debt collectors because they think they can intimidate you into giving them money or your personal information, but there was recently a debt collector sentenced to 14 years in prison for using his business as a way to steal debtors' identities.
7. Your Employer
Think about all the information you give a company when you apply for a job. You don't really know what happens to an application after you've submitted it, so whether you're hired or not, there's a risk of that paperwork ending up in the wrong hands. If you're looking for a job, you're probably not going to question such information-gathering practices, which is exactly what one woman counted on when she posed as an employer in order to defraud job seekers.
8. A Nurse
Caretakers get a bad name from people who abuse their positions in the lives of the elderly and disabled, because it can be easy to get away with using the identity of someone who isn't capable of defending him or herself.
Similarly, people who work in healthcare sometimes have access to patients' personal information. In August, a New York nurse and her boyfriend were sentenced to prison for stealing her patients' identities in order to fraudulently apply for credit cards.
9. Your Neighbor
Anyone with access to your mail could swipe a pre-approved credit card application or any sort of identifying document and use it to open accounts in your name. You may never know you're missing a piece of mail, so make sure you check your credit report regularly for any unauthorized use of your identity.
10. A Facebook Friend
People put lots of personal information online, making social media a vehicle for identity theft. You don't even need to fall victim to a scam to experience this (though it increases the likelihood), because if you share enough publicly, there's someone out there who can use it to their advantage.
11. A Drive-Thru Worker
As serious as identity theft is, there's no denying some stories about it are funny. For example, there was the Taco Bell drive-thru worker who was accused of stealing people's credit cards earlier this year. No one expects to grab a taco and have their identity stolen along the way.
12. Satan
OK, this one is a little out there, but a blogger once made the case that the devil concocted the first phishing scheme (see: Bible, Book of Genesis, chapter 3).
13. Court Employees
If you end up in the court system, there's a lot of information about you in the hands of court workers. As if dealing with litigation isn't bad enough, you might end up ensnared in an identity theft case, like some people who encountered a rogue court clerk in Florida last year.
14. A Police Officer
People like to think they can trust the police, but just like court workers and government employees, there are some people who abuse their privileged access to sensitive data.
15. Your Accountant
This one is pretty bad: The owner of four H&R Blocks in Virginia pleaded guilty this month to using her clients' identities to open lines of credit for her personal use. Such news does not help the reputation of doing taxes.
16. Security Workers
A man employed by a shredding company to destroy sensitive documents from a VA hospital was arrested on the suspicion that he did not shred the papers and instead used them to steal 34 veterans' identities.
17. Restaurant Servers
There are very few situations in which consumers allow their credit cards to leave their sight when making a transaction, but it happens at nearly every restaurant. As a result, it's not uncommon for credit card fraud to lead back to a restaurant employee who developed a nasty habit of copying card information before returning checks to customers.
Pretty much anyone can steal your identity. While it's important to make smart decisions that will help protect you from fraud, trying to avoid all risks is a sure path to paranoia, which isn't a helpful strategy for anyone wishing to interact with others. Think about it: You pay for things, fill out forms and share your data with others every day, and short of unplugging and living in the woods, you can't avoid doing so. As a result, it's crucial to keep tabs on your accounts and credit history, so if fraud happens, you can quickly act to minimize the damage.
To do so, you should pull your free annual credit reports from the three major credit bureaus, as well as check your credit scores regularly. You can get two of your credit scores for free with updates every 14 days on Credit.com.
More on Identity Theft:
- How Can You Tell If Your Identity Has Been Stolen?
- What Should I Do If I'm a Victim of Identity Theft?
- How Credit Impacts Your Day-to-Day Life
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Shakhrisabz "Green City" is one of the most ancient cities of Uzbekistan is located in Kashkadarya region, 80 km form Samarkand and 410 km from Tashkent. The city's population is 53 thousand people. Altitude above sea level is 622 meters. In ancient times the ...Read more
Karakalpakstan is sovereign Republic within Uzbekistan, located on the Turan lowland. There is Kyzyl Kum Desert in the north-east side and Karakum Desert on the south –west. Karakalpakstan territory also includes the southern half of the Aral Sea and the...Read more


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The Beef Cattle Research Council and Alberta Beef Producers invites letters of intent (LOIs) for research projects as well as LOIs for technology transfer and production economics projects. The application deadline for these separate but concurrent calls is August 9, 2019 at 11:59 PM MT.
The purpose of these two targeted calls is to achieve specific objectives in the Canadian Beef Research and Technology Transfer Strategy and the National Beef Strategy. These calls for research and technology transfer LOIs, expected to occur annually for research and bi-annually for technology transfer and production economics, are made possible by the recent increase in the Canadian Beef Cattle Check-Off in most provinces.
Approved projects, funded by Canadian cattle producers through the Canadian Beef Cattle Check-Off, will be required to use the industry funding to leverage additional funds from government or other funding organizations to fulfill project budgets.
Through extensive consultation with research teams and industry stakeholders to identify critical needs and key areas where the BCRC and ABP can have the greatest impact, target outcomes have been clearly defined for both calls. Please refer to the target objectives listed within the documents linked below before deciding whether to submit a LOI. Continue reading


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Pleasant enough but never quite as emotionally gripping as a coming-of-age story about acceptance can be, Troop Zero scores a handful of memorable moments when…
Pleasant enough but never quite as emotionally gripping as a coming-of-age story about acceptance can be, Troop Zero scores a handful of memorable moments when…
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Theo Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
A look ahead at 20 films we're excited to see at this year's Sundance Film Festival.
Theo Angelopoulos' Landscape in the Mist is a work of art that comes from the feelings, the dreams, the sorrows, and the flashes of life…
The new movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch is a total fantasy. This in spite of being shot on the streets of the New Jersey city in which it is set, and for which the movie itself and its lead character are named. It's as much of a fantasy as Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus," another great film about a poet that was at least partially set in the "real" contemporary world. It's maybe not as much of a fantasy as the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
The movie's protagonist, played with spectacular attention to detail and what feels like a genuine sense of affinity by Adam Driver, is named Paterson, and he drives a New Jersey Transit bus around the New Jersey city of Paterson, where he also lives. Paterson, New Jersey was once an industrial center of the United States—a storied manufacturer of silks and textiles—that fell into a kind of ruin by the time this film reviewer moved there, to live, in 1978. It has undergone several not-quite-revivals since that time. Its main fame today is in its being the ostensible subject of an epic modernist American poem by William Carlos Williams, who lived in nearby Rutherford. "[A]nd so to man/to Paterson," Williams wrote in the Preface to that work, underlining an ambition that was potentially pantheistic.
The Paterson inhabited by Paterson is not a ruin but it is a largely quiet, sometimes haunted-seeming place. Paterson the man (whose first name is not given, or is perhaps nonexistent) is a fellow of routine. For the most part he gets up at the same early hour every morning, summoned by what his wife Laura calls his "silent alarm watch," a Casio of retro design. Paterson's marriage is also a little retro (some critics have derided it as retrograde, politically, a claim I find not pertinent). Laura, played by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani (who's in Kiarostami's "Shirin" and Farhadi's "About Elly") is more or less a housewife. She bakes delicious cupcakes, dubious dinner pies, is unfailingly sweet, and decorates the couple's small house with bold black and white patterns, which also distinguish her cupcakes. She has some whimsical seeming ambitions that Paterson either indulges or helps her with, depending on how you want to look at it. But aside from muse functions, she has little to do with her husband's daily routine, which, aside from driving a bus, is devoted to poetry. In his neat notebook Paterson writes, in a neat hand, plain-spoken poems celebrating what the Surrealists called "the marvelous in the everyday." These poems were actually written by Ron Padgett, a still-living poet with roots in the "New York School" which of course was influenced by Allen Ginsberg and his mentor Williams and whose most famous member was Frank O'Hara.
The plain-spoken poems here bear a slight resemblance to the work of James Schuyler, only minus Schuyler's anxieties and tortured longings—they seem to come from a place of contemplative contentment. Paterson's nearly rigid approach to life, love and work, seems deliberately designed to produce that state of being. His other muse is, of course, the Paterson Falls, where he sits on his lunch hour and at other times.
His nemesis is an English bulldog named Marvin, who belongs to the couple but is clearly not crazy about Paterson. Every night, though, Paterson walks the growling, grumbling beast, and leashes him outside a bar. There, Paterson has precisely one beer and talks things over with bartender Doc (Barry Shabaka Henley), discussing Doc's Paterson Wall of Fame (featuring Lou Costello, Floyd and Jimmy Vivino, and others) and contemplating life and love. Paterson gets food for thought on his bus, too; he overhears a teenage girl explaining Italian anarchist Gaetano Bresci to a fellow student, say, or two construction works discussing (in incredibly polite terms) their potential amorous conquests, which they say they're too tired or preoccupied to follow through on.
This is the third of Jarmusch's fictional films in which he concocts a fantasy realm in which he, the image-maker and aesthete, could lead a comfortable and productive existence. In 2009's "The Limits of Control" he posited the imaginative realm as one in which an individual could not just escape political oppression but also effectively obliterate it. In 2013's "Only Lovers Left Alive" he explored the state of vampirism as a way of building a realm in which one could stay not just forever young but forever young with fantastic taste. Here he constructs an idyll out of orderliness and a circumscribed mode of engagement. Paterson and Laura have no onscreen social life to speak of (the bake sale for which Laura creates dozens of delicious looking black and white cupcakes is not depicted), and no nosy or imposing family members. Paterson has not published his work, and does not even deign to copy it out of his notebook. And yet there's a sense of interdependent gears at work here. The man, the bus, the passengers, the bar patrons, all pouring into the poetry.
But if the movie were merely an exercise in Jarmusch's fancy, it would be a pleasurable thing. It is a meticulously composed movie, shot beautifully by Frederick Elmes; every frame is a beauty. "Paterson" is ultimately more than a whim. It is a movie that actually grows more enigmatic on a second viewing. Asked at one point why he doesn't carry a smart phone, Paterson responds that it would feel like a leash. And yet he hardly seems a person who would stray. At one point in the movie, Paterson, who maintains a stoic countenance in most circumstances, is forced to intervene before an act of violence is committed. His bearing in the aftermath is odd; he laughs, with a kind of horror. His calm surface disturbed, he reveals he's fighting something within himself in order to maintain his equanimity. After that, we are shown a photograph of Paterson bearing military medals (the shot is a real picture of Driver during his time in the Marines). The film feels like one in which nothing is happening, but it's not happening beautifully, and then there finally is a galvanic event that's both heartbreaking and comical. And what happens after that is moving, and instructive. "I breathe poetry," a character Paterson meets at the end of the film says to him as they both sit and look at the falls. That is ultimately the very real thing that the movie is about: the conviction that if you can live at least part of your life breathing poetry (and that poetry is not necessarily a verbal thing), you can make your life more worthwhile.
The 2020 Oscar nominations.
A review of the new Netflix crime docuseries about former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.
A review of Netflix's Dracula, from the creators of Sherlock.
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As fall rolls around, parents and young people are preparing for a new school year. So too are teachers, school administrators and, in many places, school-based police officers and school resource officers (SROs). In its 2015 report on public school safety and discipline, the National Center for Educational Statistics estimates that there are more than 43,000 school resource officers and other sworn police personnel working in the nation's 84,000 public schools. With such a significant presence of law enforcement within our educational institutions, the time is ripe to re-examine and reimagine their role.
In 2013-14, 13 percent of all public schools reported at least one serious violent incident, and 2 percent reported at least one physical attack or fight with a weapon. Fifty-eight percent reported physical attacks or fights without a weapon, and 56 percent reported threats of physical violence (9 percent of which included a weapon and 47 percent that did not). Overall, the rate of serious violent incidents per 1,000 students was 0.5.
Regardless of how one might answer the question of whether the presence of police officers in schools is, or is not, a deterrent to serious violence, it is clear that since the 1999 Columbine school massacre, we, as a society, have been unwilling to accept the risk of violence. But increasingly, school-based police officers and SROs are being charged, not only with addressing violence, but also with removing from schools those children who are deemed to be disruptive to the educational environment. Across the nation, children are subject to removal, and even arrest, not only for things they do but oftentimes for things they do not do, including subjective infractions such as "defiance" and "noncompliance."
We all remember the 2015 video recording from a South Carolina school where a girl was put in a headlock and thrown to the ground by a male police officer who had been called because she refused a teacher's order to put away a cellphone. Not only was the excessive force shocking, but later, when the totality of the girl's circumstances came to light, the system failure was even starker. At the time of her arrest, she was undergoing several familial challenges and was in foster care. Though it is impossible in hindsight to say whether those challenges were responsible for her refusal to cooperate that day, what is clear is that in an ideal world, an inquiry into her personal circumstances would have at least been made.
Among the children excluded from schools each year, an estimated 50 to 75 percent have behavioral or mental health needs and some estimates say as many as 70 percent have cognitive or learning challenges that may make school settings unreceptive, or even hostile, places for them.
Additionally, there are children whose home and family circumstances make it difficult to attend school on a regular basis, focus and perform up to standards when they do attend, or respond appropriately to teachers and other authority figures. Other children may be victims of abuse or other trauma, making them more likely to be triggered by the rules, strictures or approaches that are typical of the school environment.
At the very least, these data suggest that we may be overusing and misusing the most extreme tool at our disposal in an effort to preserve the peace in our learning spaces. In Philadelphia, following many years of experience in the police department, and after rising to the level of deputy police commissioner, Kevin Bethel began to suspect as much.
As deputy commissioner, Bethel and his officers found that too often, children arrested in schools were no real threat to the public and were certainly not "delinquent." Instead, they were more likely to be "defiant," "insolent," "belligerent" and in some cases "disruptive"— adjectives that, in the most benign interpretation, could be considered accurate descriptors of normal adolescent behavior, but could also be seen as indicators of a need for supportive social services.
With the cooperation of law enforcement, the juvenile courts and, perhaps most notably, the Department of Human Services, in 2012, former Deputy Commissioner Bethel began to reimagine the role of law enforcement in the School District of Philadelphia.
After developing memoranda of agreement and a process with his partners, Bethel started small — rather than arresting students for minor, nonviolent offenses, school-based police officers and SROs would divert these children and give them and their families the option to receive case management and support services.
In the first academic year (2014-15) of the Philadelphia School Diversion Program, arrests declined 54 percent and there were 1,051 fewer behavioral incidents in the schools. And just as important, through the program's intervention, hundreds of children and their families gained access to services they might not otherwise have received.
The Philadelphia experience reinforces what we already know from the data — that children funneled into the juvenile justice system are often not "bad" but rather in need of services, and that, all too often, schools become a pipeline to prison rather than a pathway to success. By simply reimagining the role of law enforcement in our schools, and by refocusing their presence toward helping students and their families, we might just restore our youth, our schools and our communities along the way.
Marie N. Williams, J.D., is senior program officer at the Stoneleigh Foundation. Before that she was immediate past executive director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice and a longtime advocate for social justice causes.


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The Ajanta Cave is the 29 rock-cut Buddhist caves which are dated from 2nd century BCE to 650 CE and that is situated in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra. It is one of the UNESCO world heritage sites in India. This cave includes the paintings and rock cut sculptures of Indian art which describes the emotion of gesture, pose and form.
Places to Stay
There are budget hotels available for the tourists near this place such as Hotel Padmapani Park (Tariff – Rs. 760 onwards), Agrawals Restaurant & Lodging (Tariff – Rs. 999 onwards), Hotel View Point (Tariff – Rs. 1,344 onwards), Anjanta Tourist Resort (Tariff – Rs. 12,420 onwards) and others.
The official language of Ajanta is Marathi. Hindi and English are also understood by most of the people in the city.
The important festival celebrated each year in the month of November is Ellora Ajanta Aurangabad Festival. The other festivals celebrated here are Ganesh Chaturthi, Banganga Festival,
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The best time to visit this place is from November. This place is familiar with the cave called Ajanta Cave; many people visit this place to fall in love with the architecture and to have a heavenly peace. Few places to be visited near Ajanta Cave are Kailasanatha temple (1 km from the city), Jain Caves (1 Km from city center) and many.
How to Get There:
The nearest airport to Ajanta is Chikalthana Airport of Aurangabad which is 97 km away from the destination. There are also regular flights available from Jaipur, Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, and Udaipur to Aurangabad.
Jalgaon railway station is the nearest railway station that is situated at a distance of 60 Km from Ajanta. Bhusaval is another nearest station to reach Ajanta; major cities of the country are connected by this station.
There are frequent buses available to connect major cities like Pune, Indore, Aurangabad, Mumbai, Delhi, Udaipur, Jaipur, Hyderabad, and Nashik. TicketGoose, India's leading online bus ticketing portal is always at your service, book the bus tickets anywhere and at any time.
Chhegaon is a city that comes under the East Nimar (Khandwa) district of Madhya Pradesh, India. It is located 15 km away from Khandwa.
Places to Stay
There are good budget hotels close to Chhegaon. Some of them are Narmada Resort (Tariff – Rs. 1100), Shree Radhekrishna Resort (Tariff – Rs. 800) and Geeta Shree Hotel and Restaurant (Tariff – Rs. 650).
The local languages of Chhegaon are Bhil and Hindi.
Some of the important festivals of Chhegaon which are celebrated every year are Holi and Diwali. Numerous fairs are also organised throughout the year.
Places of Interest
Some places of tourist attraction close to Chhegaon are Omkareshwar Mandhata and the caves of Adi Guru Shankaracharya (located in Omkareshwar - 53 km away from Chhegaon). Other places that are all worth a visit are Mandu, Melghat Tiger Reserve (118 km away) and Indore (119 km away).
How to Get There
The nearest airport to Chhegaon is the Indore Airport. It is located at a distance of about 121 km away from the city.
The nearest railway station to Chhegaon is the Ajanti Railway Station (10 km away). Bhusaval Jn Railway Station is the nearest major railway station (110 km away).
There are frequent bus services to Chhegaon from Amravati and Jalgaon. Hans Travels is a reliable bus operator that offers good services to passengers. It is easy to get online bus tickets due to the increase in the number of travel websites.


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- Waitingbee57
- 6 years ago
- Wedding: October 2014
I am having a terrible time running in the winter. My throat gets sore and I just feel terrible after running. What are your suggestions?
I am having a terrible time running in the winter. My throat gets sore and I just feel terrible after running. What are your suggestions?
Winter wear. Warm up. Do a propper cool down, and take a steaming hot shower immediatly after finishing. Stay hydrated.
i don't have any tips really b/c i've been whimping out and going on the treadmill..
I can't really help because I love running in colder weather. I wear layers though and a hat and gloves. I also usually end up running my first couple of miles much slower until I am fully warmed up and maybe even stop to do a few stretches during thsi time. I also usually have a cup of hot water with lemon as soon as I get back from my run.
I am also a HUGE wimp when it comes to cold weather, and usually just hit up the treadmill. But hey, I still get my miles in, and I get to wear shorts which is nice 🙂
Upstate NY bee here so I am very familiar with the cold weather! I run a lot outside. I find a headband or hat really helps and layers of shirts- one cotton, one wicking.
I got Avalanche fleece lined leggings from TJMaxx and they CHANGED. MY. LIFE!!!
I don't run under 25deg for what it's worth!
This thread is so shocking to me. I'm arthritic and I run outside till the windchills dip the temps sub 0 LOL.
@dewingedpixie: I have done all three. Seriously it was 10 degrees out this morning and I went and whimped out after 13 minutes because of what it did to my lungs.
@li612: I just put a wanted add on free cycle for a used one. I could really use one of those about now. I just started jogging 5 times a week less than 2 weeks ago when it was still warmish and was in love with it…but today it really did suck.
@Kir32: Hmm maybe I will start running with a canister of hot water during my run for when I walk for a moment ( I alternate jogging and walking as I am still getting used to the whole running thing) As for layers, today, I wore winter leggins, sweat pants, a tank top, and active longsleeve shirt, a hoodie, a pair of gloves, and a hat. It wasnt cold at all it was breathing in the cold air that took the life out of me.
@infinitykindaluv: I am hoping to get a treadmill before the end of winter.
@lealorali: hmm see it hits anywhere from -7 – 15 degrees out in december in chicago land (unless you factor in last weeks freak weather of over 50 degrees)
@dewingedpixie: I am overweight (260) out of shape, and getting back into the running I was in when I was in highschool. I need to lose weight and have decided to change my lifestyle habits. I am not fully running ( I guess I should have disclosed this) I am light jogging to powerwalking (I am hoping to build my stamina back up to where it used to be and start actually running) I am having a hard time breathing in the cold air. I have the stamina to jog so that is not the problem. I feel that the cold weather is messing with my lungs.
@Waitingbee57: I am overweight and just starting running (I do intervals) in October. I have a hard time breathing when it's really cold out too, but also indoors at times. This might sound weird, but in the gym I bring lukewarm water isntead of cold with lemon in it. I think it helps a lot! After running outside I take a hot shower as soon as I get in. I will still cough for a bit, but not as bad as the times I haven't. I don't try to run really fast…I'm doing it for weight loss too and know that the harder the impact, the worse it is for joints. I do a 13 min mile which is so slow but I started at 14.5 from doing intervals because I felt like I couldn't catch my breath at times.
@orchidblooms: My mile is like 14:58. I got it up to 12.5 (just walking REALLY fast) I am getting good at intervals. My work outs are only 30 minutes. I start out jogging for 2 minutes, then I walk for 2, then I sprint for 30 seconds, than I repeat until it is time for me to go in. I will make my intervals a little better once I get better at jogging. If I job for more than 2 minutes my heart beats way to fast. (I have Mitral Valve Prolapse due to my weight gain) so instead of taking medication I am (under doctors supervision) doing more exercising and eating a tad bit better.
@Waitingbee57: My big focus has been on distance…5k on Thanksgiving and a 4 mile this weekend. The 4 mile is going to kill me. I don't care if I'm slow as long as I finish lol. I feel like I have never been fast and like there isn't a fast bone in my body, but it does feel good to do it and I actually break a sweat which I don't do often with other exercise.
@Waitingbee57: It's really the breathing that messes me up too – I live in MN and it gets DANG cold here (the windchills are a little ridiculous right now) and I just can't get myself to run outside. It's slippery and my lungs just can't handle it.. Sounds like you and I have the same problem – we're ok figuring out what to wear for layers, but can't figure out how to combat the freezing lungs…????
I think it will get better as your lung function improves. I had the same issue in the cold last year but I noticed that as my fitness improved, it became much less of an issue. I actually prefer cold weather running now. Just keep going!
@orchidblooms: I am going to push myself to do those next year. I just started running 2 weeks ago (it was in the 30 – 50s here over the last 2 weeks) and I am still building my stamina. I just want to get to a healthy weight in a healthy way.
@E_Lynne615: I am going to continue to run outside (I think the windchill today when I ran was -2 🙁 and yesterday -14. Yesterday went way better than today though (I think it had a lot to do with the fact that I had eaten and dont everything throughout the day and it wasnt the first thing I did in the morning. I hope tomorrow goes better.
@Fluffmallow: That is my plan. I will not be stoping…
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Modern social drama has plenty of targets but is awash with complacency at a time when we badly need riotous debate, writes Tiffany Jenkins
POLITICAL theatre has a long and honourable tradition, reaching back to Ancient Greece when playwrights satirised the existing system to powerful effect. More recently, in the 1970s and 80s, political theatre was alive with attacks on the Thatcher regime and capitalism. At its best, it was vibrant and uncompromising. Most importantly, it had bite.
Today, over three years into the age of austerity, and political theatre appears to be in rude health. Its boom is suggested by the success of Theatre Uncut, formed in 2010 in response to public spending cuts and with the intention of encouraging debate and action. Leading playwrights have responded to this contemporary vehicle for short work made available for free for anyone to perform for a limited period. And they have done so in their thousands – so far, more than 3,000 people have staged these plays in more than 17 countries across four continents. This Saturday, there is a Mass Action Day where people will simultaneously stage seven new works written in response to the provocation: "Do we all get more right wing in hard times?"
There is a lot on show. Appearances, however, can be deceptive, because despite all this activity – the multiple productions, prizes, plaudits and the applause – there are limitations to political theatre today. These are in part due to certain inherent difficulties with it – it can easily veer into didactic agitprop, which is boring – but there are also more profound problems with the politics at the heart of the works, and the state of affairs that they inadvertently reveal. Taking a closer look at political theatre today – what is on offer, who it is for and what it says – and you find a complacent body of writing that flatters the audience and is devoid of critical thinking.
Theatre Uncut aims to create a conversation about important everyday issues, a laudable purpose, but the work staged is very much a singular view of the world, and notably black and white. The objects of criticism and those who are to blame are cynical politicians, greedy capitalists and racists. One such play is Church Forced To Put Up Gates After Font Is Used As Wash Basin By Migrants, written by the comedian Mark Thomas. It's about a right-wing newspaper owner who used to publish porn, who is obsessed with depicting immigrants as "shit", the EU as "shit", and the BBC as "shit", and who thinks everyone who works for him is "f****** useless". He is taken hostage by women in balaclavas who threaten to kill him unless he prints a pro-migration editorial.
If this work contributes anything to political debate, it's cliché. Because we have heard this before – there is nothing surprising, complex, or nuanced in this play or the others it accompanies. Most of them are cartoon depictions of nasty right wing people and lovely lefties who think the right kind of thoughts. Frankly, most of the plays are just long rants. It is clearly assumed that audiences know better, and are thus reassured about their views and can go home contented having been congratulated. It's all very safe.
The problem with the pantomime visions of what is effectively the opposition is that they just don't ring true. I say this not as a right-wing newspaper owner or as a capitalist, but as someone who is interested in working out what is wrong today, and it's really not as simple as how things are depicted in works such as Church Forced To Put Up Gates After Font Is Used As Wash Basin By Migrants – in which there is a lot of profanity but little insight.
Take another of the plays being performed this week, The Wing by Clara Brennan. One of Brennan's main characters is Mick, a white working class bloke who reads The Sun (there is a repetitive theme in the plays which depicts tabloids as disgusting and their readers as scum), wraps himself in a "light blood-spattered St George's flag" and who dislikes immigrants. His daughter, Kerry, is a right-on thinking woman who had had her picture taken for Page 3 in order to later reveal that at the very same time as she was getting her bits out, she was by then already pregnant by a "brown person".
In The Wing, there is no attempt to persuade those that may not think or feel the same, and no attempt to understand people who do not agree. It also feels out of date, just repeating the politics of the 1980s and 1990s, refusing to address the present. And this is why is has no bite, no power: it doesn't aim to win hearts or minds, and it doesn't address the present with any urgency.
The political theatre of the past tried to influence, the political theatre of the present assumes things will never change. What The Wing also and unintentionally shows is the contempt some of these playwrights have for the white working class, the social group habitually blamed for everything, but who were once an important social force in politics.
There is nothing wrong with going to see a dramatisation of opinions with which you agree, but for the work to be effective, to have an impact, it needs to challenge those who come from shared outlooks and try to understand those that don't. Indeed, some of the best work has done just this – John McGrath, founder of the Scottish popular 7:84 theatre company, is a case in point. McGrath always said that political theatre should avoid agitprop and confront the audience, make them feel uncomfortable and question their own positions.
Political theatre today should be a place of riotous debate. Even if the playwrights and producers are singing from the same hymn sheet – and they usually are – there is plenty to discuss and argue about. I am not advocating that people tear each other apart, but suggest that constructive questioning is needed in the cause of clarification.
If we do not take ourselves and audiences out of our comfort zones, and try and persuade others, political theatre will continue as a dampener to debate, a sedative rather than a spur to action. It is time to stop applauding and cheering. This sort of political theatre doesn't deserve an encore.


text: It's been a very busy and enjoyable few weeks in the studio working on the new ILLUMINAE album, my new collaboration with Agnieszka Swita and featuring special guests Steve Hackett, Craig Blundell, Luke Machin, Troy Donockley and Gonzalo Carrera. It's been great to be immersed in the production and hearing the songs develop with all the tracks now in an advanced stage of recording. Agnieszka has been doing some great work on vocal arrangements and has been in the studio to start laying down the vocal tracks. We're both really excited by the album! Luke Machin recently finished recording his guitar parts for the album – some really special moments there. We'll be bringing you more ILLUMINAE updates soon.


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Curriculum Matters: December 7, 2014
Faculty About Town: Liz Allen
So, I was honored when asked to be on the Advisory Board forScience from the Start, a program that the Sciencenter is launching over the next two years. They were awarded a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for their plan to use a community-based approach to work with all preschoolers who are attending either a Tompkins County Head Start program or the Downtown Ithaca Children's Center (DICC). The Sciencenter's goal is to enhance preschool exposure to inquiry-based science activities and concepts with developmentally- and age-appropriate science curricula.
The Advisory Board consists of a representative from Head Start, Franziska Racker Center, Child Development Council, Strong Museum of Play, Philip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Miami, and EACMSI. In addition to an open dialogue of sharing and brainstorming, the Sciencenter staff was specifically asking me how I tailor content and activities for varying ages and abilities. They will be observing my classroom and I will be observing some of the workshops and other preschools.
The planning process will be completed over the next few months and the first science workshops will be in March and April 2015. The teachers from Head Start and DICC will receive hands-on training on a specific science unit along with the parents and caregivers. The plan is to empower people: not just give them the tools but more to give them the experience and the confidence to discover new things. A new unit will be presented each month or six weeks.
With the help of outside consultants,the Sciencenter will continually evaluate and improve the Science from the Start program during the two-year grant period. Ideally when this phase is over the Sciencenter will continue and expand this program.
Science from the Start Project Vision – Parents, caregivers and educators are science literate and engaged in science education for their children from an early age, leading to children who are science-ready by kindergarten, with problem-solving and reasoning skills, creativity and curiosity necessary for a lifelong love of learning.


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Wrote Ernie Pyle from France:
We drove into the tiny town of La Detinais, a sweet old stone village. . . . As we stood there talking in the lonely field a soldier in coveralls ran up breathlessly and almost shouted:
"Hey, there's a man alive in one of those planes across the road! He's been trapped there for days! . . ."
We ran to the wrecked British plane, lying there upside down, and dropped on our hands and knees and peeked through a tiny hole in the side.
A man lay on his back in the small space of the upside-down cockpit....
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