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The Associated Press reports that the news has sent the British pound plunging to a 31-year low as the results become clear.
Update: Millions of voters are heading to the polls today to determine whether the United Kingdom will remain a part of the European Union. Ahead, a look at the referendum and what it could mean.
This story was originally published on June 17, 2016.
Voters in the United Kingdom are poised to make one of the most important decisions in a generation on June 23, when a public referendum will decide whether the U.K. leaves the European Union. Campaigning by those for and against a so-called "British Exit, or "Brexit," was in full force until yesterday, when a young female lawmaker was brutally murdered while meeting with her constituents.
Labour MP Jo Cox, 41, a mother of two who represented Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire, was stabbed and shot by an attacker on Thursday. She later died from her wounds. A 52-year-old man who allegedly sympathized with the neo-Nazi National Alliance, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, has been arrested in connection with her death.
Many people, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn, have expressed their condolences and support for Cox's family following her death.
The death of Jo Cox is a tragedy. She was a committed and caring MP. My thoughts are with her husband Brendan and her two young children.— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) June 16, 2016
The whole of the Labour family, and indeed the whole country, is in shock and grief at the horrific murder of Jo Cox pic.twitter.com/obic5pOCS3— Jeremy Corbyn MP (@jeremycorbyn) June 16, 2016
British voters' choices are likely to have a big impact on the rest of the world, too: The population of the E.U. is more than 500 million, or about 7.3% of the world's population as a whole. Any British, Northern Irish, Welsh, and Commonwealth citizens older than 18 years of age, along with U.K. nationals living overseas who are on the electoral register, can cast a ballot.
The vote could go either way, as the latest polls show the country to be pretty evenly divided on the issue. Everyone from the Church of England, which has offered a prayer for the referendum, to the Cornish Pasty Association seems to have an opinion on the matter. (And in case you're unfamiliar, Cornish pasties are like England's empanadas — and the association is voting to stay).
But what would Brexit mean for the U.K., Europe, and the U.S.? Refinery29 breaks down the basics and what's really at stake.
Both sides are now operating on fear — of economic risk for Remain, and of 'uncontrolled immigration' for Leave. Other arguments seem to have exhausted themselves...
The E.U. came about after World War II, when several European nations wanted to come up with a plan to help ensure that they would never again be at war with each other. The first step was economic interdependence, because countries that traded with one another would both have something to lose if conflict broke out — at least, that was the thought.
The European Economic Community was formed in 1957 with six countries. But it wasn't until 1973 that the U.K. joined. The scope of the E.U., through various treaties, includes internal policies as well as external relations such as trade, security, and migration. Today there are 28 members of the E.U., with several more "candidate" countries that hope to join — such as Turkey and Serbia.
"Britain is different, no question," than other E.U. countries, New York Times London bureau chief Steven Erlanger said. "It has always seen itself as apart from the Continent — in government, law, and habits — though obviously tied to it, too, for trade and security and much else, especially in these globalized days… [But] having won both world wars, with American help to be sure, Britain also doesn't feel the need or the comfort other European countries have in the protections of shared and limited sovereignty."
The European Union doesn't moderate British influence — it magnifies it… The U.S. and the world need your outsized influence to continue — including within Europe.
U.K. Prime Minister Cameron is chief among those who would like the U.K. to remain an E.U. member. Many of the political parties agree with him, as does the Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. The Treasury believes that upon an exit, the U.K.'s GDP would be 6.2% lower and families would be worse off to the tune of about U.S. $6,200 a year.
Voters are concerned about immigration and security, too. British Secretary of State for Defence Michael Fallon believes that shared intelligence with Europe benefits the U.K.
And more than 250 celebrities, including Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, signed a letter in support of remaining, stating: "From the smallest gallery to the biggest blockbuster, many of us have worked on projects that would never have happened without vital E.U. funding or by collaborating across borders. Britain is not just stronger in Europe, it is more imaginative and more creative, and our global creative success would be severely weakened by walking away."
The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign highlights their concerns about leaving the E.U. here.
we were being asked to remain in an E.U. that was unabashed, unrepentant, undemocratic and, above all, unreformed.
Justice Minister Michael Gove, the right-wing U.K. Independence Party, along with the former London mayor Boris Johnson, are among the biggest voices arguing the U.K. should go its own way. Johnson has told voters: "We were being asked to remain in an E.U. that was unabashed, unrepentant, undemocratic and, above all, unreformed." Johnson and others like him want to be free of E.U. regulations and to take back British taxpayers' dollars to spend on other things like healthcare and education.
The for-leaving camp also thinks it would be better for U.K. security. Richard Dearlove, a former head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, has argued that the U.K. would benefit if it had greater control over immigration coming from the E.U. "Britain is Europe's leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return," Dearlove wrote in Prospect magazine.
The divorce with the E.U. would start with a two-year negotiation about the new conditions of the relationship — and it's "unlikely to be amicable," Erlanger wrote in The New York Times.
The Vote Leave campaign for exiting the E.U. breaks down more concerns about staying here.
Britain is Europe's leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return.
While the rest of Europe has become skeptical of the Brussels-based union, most countries think that if Britain does choose to leave, it would be hurtful to the 28-member bloc, according to the Pew Research Center.
The countries feeling the strongest love for the institution are Poland and Hungary, where 72% and 61% of the population, respectively, are in favor of the E.U., while in Spain, France, and Greece those numbers drop to 47%, 38%, and 27%, respectively.
Millennial voters between 18 and 34 years old are more inclined to like the E.U. than those aged 50 and older. Similarly, those on the left of the political spectrum are more favorable toward the body than those on the right, Pew found.
Discontent with the E.U. is associated with its handling of economic problems as well as its management of the refugee crisis. Overwhelming majorities in all 10 of the countries surveyed reported dislike for the decisions made on the refugee crisis.
For his part, President Barack Obama has spoken up in favor of staying in, writing in The Telegraph: "The European Union doesn't moderate British influence — it magnifies it…the U.S. and the world need your outsized influence to continue — including within Europe."
But ultimately, in this heated campaign, facts are playing only a small role.
"It is deeply political — hence emotional — and having, sometimes, only a vague connection to the facts. Both sides are now operating on fear — of economic risk for Remain, and of 'uncontrolled immigration' for Leave. Other arguments seem to have exhausted themselves, and it's gotten quite repetitive, and also personal," Erlanger said.
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Conservative government believes that upon an exit, the U.K.'s GDP would be 6.2% lower and families would be worse off to the tune of about U.S. $6,200 a year. The study cited shows it is the Treasury that believes this. Refinery29 regrets the error.


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Last Resort SS14 line creates handmade headwear pieces in association with Global LAB
A few weeks ago, I was approached by none other than the young, amazing, talented, 5'2 giant who curates and lives by the fact that "gangta rap made her do it" — Ashley Outrageous. If you haven't heard of her, I'm assuming you've been hiding under a rock since 2008 when AshleyOutrageous.com first dropped. Ashley Outrageous has been your go-to girl when it comes to the latest music and culture news, along with scoring exclusive featured content from interviews, reviews and events. AO! reps MIA but has recently made the big move to the city that never sleep and stays on its grind, NYC.
Anyway, AO! contacted me in regard to a friend's line entitled, Last Resort which is a collection of stylish handmade headwear. Its spring/summer 2014 collection was said to be out for immediate release but first, she needed to get opinion from trusted sources in the fashion, lifestyle, blogging and online publication fields and so, I was honourably chosen as one of those "trusted sources".
Upon viewing Last Resort's S/S 14 collection, I was immediately hooked. I read what they're all about, read the journal section by Akeem Joseph (which I loved— it gave a nice personal touch and took me on a little adventure throughout the read), scoped out the blog and read on their association with a charity called Global LAB. Everything about this brand is positive, uplifting and of course, on point with style. The collection is perfect for Spring/Summer 2014 — The colors couldn't have represented the sun, water and sand more perfectly as it plays on airy, whimsical hues of yellow, sky blue and tan.
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Is there a way to mask the true address without running afoul of G and other SEs?
Example, with fictitious names;
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Typical blog page: www.ExamplePortal.com/Mikesblog
URL for Mike's friends to use (made possible by a 301 redirect, approved by G): www.ExampleMikesblog.com
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We know life on Earth cannot exist beyond the thin blue line of atmosphere (unless you are on a Mars expedition or space shuttle).
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This recipe is not one that I had planned out making. It kind of just happened. I bought some sirloin to make this delicious sounding recipe I found over the weekend and then I lost the recipe… Typical. Beef is not something I normally cook, mainly because I just can't get it right, it's either too rare or too
burnt well done. It usually just seems like too much of a hassle and waste of money when all is said and done. When I do cook with beef it is generally a stew or a stroganoff type of deal that can't be messed up by the doneness of the meat. I can totally screw it up in other ways, but it won't be the beef's fault. Since I lost my original recipe, I turned to the internets. I am currently obsessed with Google's recipe search that lets you filter by ingredients. It's genius. I mainly filter by everything I hate first (celery is always the first to go) and hope that the end results turn up something good. That's where the inspiration for this little gem of a recipe came from.
It also seemed rather autumnal (I'm still using it every chance I get!). I think my effort to force fall into existence is slowly working. It was below 70/21 yesterday for the first time in as long as I can remember (I will just ignore the fact that it's going to be way above 80/27 this weekend…). If I cook it, fall will come!
This is just a random aside, but important in cutting down the amount of time preparation might take. I never understood why so many vegetables are sold pre-cut until making this. Do yourself a huge favor if you are going to make this; buy a pre-cut butternut squash. Prepping this took nearly an hour (53 minutes to be exact)! I had never cut up a butternut squash before, so that was half the battle. If you have been reading my blog with anything vaguely resembling regularity, you might also remember that knives and I do not have the best working relationship and I seem to be losing fingers or limbs on a fairly regular basis. So the butternut squash also had to be approached with great caution. Even though I still look down on most pre-cut vegetables, the pre-cut butternut squash has forever earned a place in my heart.
Beef and Butternut Squash Stew
- 1½ pounds lean stewing beef, trimmed of excess fat
- 1 medium butternut squash
- 1 large onion, sliced
- 8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced
- 8 ounces baby carrots left whole
- 2 (14.5) ounce can diced tomatoes
- 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- ½ Tablespoon smoked paprika
- ½ Tablespoon garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried thyme
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- Brown beef in a nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray. Put to one side. Peel and half butternut squash, then cut into 1-1½ inch pieces. Place vegetables and browned beef in a 4 or 5 quart crockpot. Add crushed tomatoes, Worcestershire sauce, paprika, garlic, thyme and oregano. Cook on low for 8 hours.


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My friend Kathryn Gallant is the American CEO of a British company specializing in market research on global healthcare. In her work, she has spent the past 25 years interviewing hundreds of people as a professional applied social science field researcher.
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Today's guest post is jointly authored by members of the 2016 cohort of the History Museum Fellows Program—a partnership between the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) that engages students in studying the challenges related to the underrepresentation of communities of color, American Indian Nations and other marginalized groups in historical organizations, museums, and public history graduate programs. Diversity and inclusivity is a strategic priority for the Minnesota Historical Society, and through this program MNHS hopes to train potential future museum workers and leaders and provide an opportunity for these students to effect change from inside the museum.
As the population in the United States continues to grow in size and become even more diverse, and as people push for visibility and validation of issues such as the reality of police violence against marginalized communities, Indigenous Treaty rights, the right to clean water and transgender acceptance and protection under the law continue to, museums must grow their depth of understanding of and response to segments of the public that have traditionally been excluded. The future of museums in the United States depends on the institutional embrace of a diversity and inclusivity that is socially responsible and socially responsive.
The Department of Inclusion and Community Engagement at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is modeling this behavior with their History Museum Fellows Program (HMFP), which is a partnership between the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the Minnesota Historical Society. The program consists of a semester-long course, which introduces Fellows to general museum concepts and critical thought around museums in relation to diversity and inclusion; a paid, summer-long internship or externship; and a work trip to Washington D.C. during which Fellows visit national museums and meet with museum professionals from various backgrounds and departments. The hope is to inspire these students to be interested in the museum field and to build allies for museums amongst diverse and underrepresented communities. Our cohort—the seventh since HMFP began—recently wrapped up the program on August 29, 2016.
|HMFP 2016 Fellows Collaborating
Throughout the summer Fellows led seven projects that centered on diversity and inclusion. One project researched the development of Learning and Development modules designed to teach MNHS staff skill sets needed to execute the institution's diversity and inclusion initiative. This training included recognizing the difference between cultural appropriation and appreciation, transgender language and policy sensitivity, and emotional intelligence. Fellows also researched, designed and prepared the launch of a pilot program for TEACH (Traveling Exhibits to Amplify Community History), an initiative to share stories from marginalized communities in more accessible ways. This project was based on oral interviews and community relationship-building amongst a local African American community, a population that has been previously underserved by MNHS. Fellows also led the development and execution of Waryaa, a cultural exchange program between Minnesota's Hmong community and Sweden, and Summertech, a multiweek long program for Latino students in the Twin Cities in which they learn skills such as library research and website development while researching a topic of their choosing (this year's topic was the Brown Berets).
Rachael Goins, 2016 HMFP Fellow recounts her experience with yet another project, the Black Liberation Movement (BLM):
"The project that had the biggest impact on my experience was a collections project focused on Black Lives Matter initiated by the 3D collections department. Four fellows were brought on to assist the collections department in finding objects that belonged to community members and activists within the BLM movement in MN. I was excited to be a part of the project but also felt that after learning about the lack of connection the Minnesota Historical Society has with the black community I, along with the other fellows, became more and more skeptical that MNHS was in fact ready to take on this collections project."
|Members of the 2016 Cohort
Fellows involved in BLM pushed to change the goals of the project from a traditional collections approach to focusing more deeply on genuine community relationship-building. Concurrently in the institution there was a discussion about the possibilities of digital archives in the vein of Documenting Ferguson—a free resource created by Washington University in St. Louis that preserves and makes accessible the digital media captured by community members following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 9, 2014. As a result of both these conversations, Fellows were brought in to act as consultants and co-creators in refining of this new idea and determining community outreach plans. MNHS now has a cross-departmental project development team, one that has support from top leadership at the institution, devoted to creating what could become a digital archive documenting aspects of Black life in Minnesota. Digital archives as a form of nontraditional collecting is a new endeavor whose success could bolster Minnesota Historical Society's relevance and name recognition in communities that were previously underserved by the institution.
Museums must pursue endeavors that may at first be uncomfortable for the dominant majority if they wish to retain social and cultural relevancy. This includes responding to the social factors that are influencing the publics that the museum serves. Museums can practice responsiveness by keeping informed by their diverse publics and by welcoming marginalized/oppressed peoples to the conversation
Through the History Museum Fellows Program, MNHS is practicing social responsibility and responsiveness by providing an avenue for those who traditionally fall outside of the engaged museum audience to get inside and push the internal culture of museum in new and critical ways.
Submitted by the members of the History Museum Fellows 2016 cohort:
Brianna Wilson
Makiki Reuvers
Nora Abdelal
Ian Marquez
Ibrahim Abdi
Shirley Saldivar
Rachael Goins
Elizabeth Johnson
Thidasavanh Crockett
Mary Kristen Craver
Neng Vue
Quentin Rouhoff
|Credit: Minnesota Historical Society


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Waitomo Boutique Lodge
Waitomo Boutique Lodge Farmstay is Waitomo's hidden gem, offering a five star farm holiday stay in a stunning setting, close to all the central North Island's major attractions, and a stone's throw from the action of Waitomo Caves.
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Welcome to Waitomo Boutique Lodge & Cosy Cottage, your luxury Waitomo farm holiday retreat.
Waitomo Boutique Lodge Farmstay is the home of the Miln family, who have cared for this large traditional working farm for three generations. The family's hospitality is famously generous and guests are welcome to participate in farm activities or make the most of the absolute comfort, quiet and relaxation of this wonderful estate.
Montrose is a working farm. Guests can enjoy a farm tour, walks & picnics by prior arrangement. The farm also has 120 hectares of original natural bush with good walking tracks – enjoy a day out & be back at the estate in time for dinner. There is also hunting available with guides available by arrangement.
Physical address
Waitomo Boutique Lodge, 256 Waipuna Road, Mairoa, Waitomo Caves, Hamilton - Waikato, 3985, New Zealand.
Opening times
- Business hours:
- 8am - 8pm 7 days.
- Months of operation:
- All months of the year
Facilities and Features
- BBQ Facility
- Breakfast
- Children Welcome
- Dinner
- Gymnasium
- Internet (Public Use)
- Laundry
- Luggage Storage
- Lunch
- Playground
- Room Service
- Safety Deposit Box at Reception
- Sky - communal
- Spa Pool
- Swimming Pool
- Proximity to airport:
- Hamilton Airport - 1.15 hr Drive
- Proximity to coach terminal:
- Waitomo - 30 minutes
- Proximity to town:
- The closest town or service center is Te Kuiti or Otorohanga (20km) There is no service station to buy petrol in Waitomo
- Number of rooms:
- 6
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|$350.00 - $2,415.00
- Other charges:
- Dinner available by prior arrangement only
- Further pricing information:
- Book the four-bedroom Manor, the entire estate or just the cosy garden cottage. Whatever your needs, we can accommodate you. Excellent farm meals cooked on site can also be provided. The 1200 hectare farm is spectacular and guests are welcome to explore rare and beautiful native bushland, take part in farm activities, indulge in excellent trout fishing or hunting. The family is committed to an environmentally sensitive approach and takes pride in its care of the land and sustainable practices.


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Pumps aboard ship outnumber all other auxiliary machinery units. They include such types as centrifugal, rotary, and jet pumps. In the following section we discuss these different pumps and their application to the engineering plant.
Centrifugal Pumps
Aboard gas turbine ships, centrifugal pumps of various sizes are driven by electric motors to move different types of liquid. The fire pump and seawater service pump are two examples of this type of pump.
A basic centrifugal pump has an impeller keyed to a drive shaft, which is rotated by an electric motor. The drive shaft is fitted inside a casing, which has a suction inlet and a discharge
Figure 9-1.-Centrifugal pump.
outlet. Figure 9-1 shows the arrangement of components in a centrifugal pump.
CENTRIFUGAL PUMP CLASSIFICATION.Centrifugal pumps may be classified in several ways. For example, they may be either single-stage or multistage. A single-stage pump has only one impeller; a multistage pump has two or more impellers housed together in one casing. In a multistage pump, each impeller usually acts separately, discharging to the suction of the nextstage impeller. Centrifugal pumps are also classified as horizontal or vertical, depending on the position of the pump shaft.
Impellers used in centrifugal pumps may be classified as single-suction or double-suction, depending on the way in which liquid enters the eye of the impeller. Figure 9-2 shows singlesuction and double-suction arrangements of centrifugal pump impellers. The single-suction impeller (view A) allows liquid to enter the eye from one side only; the double-suction impeller (view B) allows liquid to enter the eye from both sides. The double-suction arrangement has the advantage of balancing the end thrust in one direction with the end thrust in the other direction.
Impellers are also classified as CLOSED or OPEN. A closed impeller has side walls that extend from the eye to the outer edge of the vane tips; an open impeller does not have side walls. Most centrifugal pumps used in the Navy have closed impellers.
CONSTRUCTION.- As a rule, the casing for the liquid end of a pump with a single-suction impeller is made with an end plate that can be removed for inspection and repair of the pump. A pump with a double-suction impeller is generally made so one-half of the casing may be lifted without disturbing the pump.
Since an impeller rotates at high speed, it must be carefully machined to minimize friction. An impeller must be balanced to avoid vibration. A close radial clearance must be maintained between
Figure 9-2.-Centrifugal pump impellers. A. Single-suction. B. Double-suction.
the outer hub of the impeller and that part of the pump casing in which the hub rotates. The purpose of this is to minimize leakage from the discharge side of the pump casing to the suction side.
Because of the high rotational speed of the impeller and the necessarily close clearance, the rubbing surfaces of both the impeller hub and the casing at that point are subject to stress, causing rapid wear. To eliminate the need for replacing an entire impeller and pump casing solely because of wear in this location, most centrifugal pumps are designed with replaceable casing wearing rings.
In most centrifugal pumps, the shaft is fitted with a replaceable sleeve. The advantage of using a sleeve is that it can be replaced more economically than the entire shaft.
Mechanical seals and stuffing boxes are used to seal between the shaft and the casing. Most pumps are now furnished with mechanical seals; mechanical seals do not result in better pump operation; but, they do provide a better environment, keep bilges dry, and preserve the liquid being pumped.
Seal piping (liquid seal) is installed to cool the mechanical seal. Most pumps in saltwater service with total head of 30 psi or more are also fitted with cyclone separators. These separators use centrifugal force to prevent abrasive material (such as sand in the saawater) from passing between the sealing surfaces of the mechanical seal. There is an opening at each end of the separator. The opening at the top is for "clean" water, which is directed though tubing to the mechanical seals in the pump. The high-velocity "dirty" water is directed through the bottom of the separator, back to the inlet piping for the pump.
Figure 9-3.-Centrifugal pump flow.
Bearings support the weight of the impeller and shaft and maintain the position of the impeller-both radially and axially. Some bearings are grease-lubricated with grease cups to allow for periodic relubrication.
The power end of the centrifugal pump you are to work with has an electric motor that is maintained by your ship's Electrician's Mate.
OPERATION.- Liquid enters the rotating impeller on the suction side of the casing and enters the eye of the impeller (fig 9-3). Liquid is thrown out through the opening around the edge of the impeller and against the side of the casing by centrifugal force. This is where the pump got its name. When liquid is thrown out to the edge of the casing, a region of low pressure (below atmospheric) is created around the center of the impeller; more liquid moves into the eye to replace the liquid that was thrown out. Liquid moves into the center of the impeller with a high velocity (speed). Therefore, liquid in the center of the impeller has a low pressure, but it is moving at a high velocity.
Liquid moving between the blades of the impeller spreads out, which causes the liquid to slow down. (Its velocity decreases.) At the same time, as the liquid moves closer to the edge of the casing, the pressure of the liquid increases. This change (from low pressure and high velocity at the center to high pressure and low velocity at the edge) is caused by the shape of the opening between the impeller blades. This space has the shape of a diffuser, a device that causes the velocity-pressure relationship of any fluid that moves through it to change.
A centrifugal pump is considered to be a nonpositive-displacement pump because the volume of liquid discharged from the pump changes whenever the pressure head changes. The pressure head is the combined effect of liquid weight, fluid friction, and obstruction to flow. In a centrifugal pump, the force of the discharge pressure of the pump must be able to overcome the force of the pressure head; otherwise, the pump could not deliver any liquid to a piping system. The pressure head and the discharge pressure of a centrifugal pump oppose each other. When the pressure head increases, the discharge pressure of the pump must also increase. Since no energy can be lost, when the discharge pressure of the pump increases, the velocity of flow must decrease. On the other hand, when the pressure head decreases, the volume of liquid discharged from the pump increases. As a general rule, a
Figure 9-4.-Nonpositive-displacement pump.
centrifugal pump is usually located below the liquid being pumped. (NOTE: This discussion assumes a constant impeller speed.)
Figure 9-4 shows that when the pump discharge is blocked, nothing happens because the impeller is hollow. A tremendous buildup in pressure cannot occur because the passages in the impeller (between the discharge and suction side of the pump) act like a built-in relief valve. When the discharge pressure and pressure head are equal (as in this case), the impeller is allowed to rotate (slips) through the liquid in the casing.
NOTE: Centrifugal pumps used for intermittent service may have to run for long periods of time against a blocked discharge. Friction between the impeller and the liquid raises the temperature of the liquid in the casing and causes the pump to overheat. To prevent this, a small line is connected between the discharge and the suction piping of the pump.
When a centrifugal pump is started, the vent line must be opened to release entrained air. The open passage through the impeller of a centrifugal pump also causes another problem. It's possible for liquid to flow backwards (reverse flow) through the pump. A reverse flow, from the discharge back to the suction, can happen when the pressure head overcomes the discharge pressure of the pump. A reverse flow can also occur when the pump isn't running and another pump is delivering liquid to the same piping system. To prevent a reverse flow of liquid through a centrifugal pump, a check valve is usually installed in the discharge line.
NOTE: Instead of two separate valves, some installations use a globe stop-check valve.
With a check valve in the discharge line, whenever the pressure above the disk rises above the pressure below it, the check valve shuts. This prevents liquid from flowing backwards through the pump.
MAINTENANCE.- You must observe the operation and safety precautions pertaining to pumps by following the EOP subsystem of the EOSS-if your ship has EOSS. If not, use the Naval Ships' Technical Manual (NSTM) and/or the instructions posted on or near each individual pump. You must follow the manufacturer's technical manual or MRCs for PMS-related work for all maintenance work. The MRCS list in detail what you have to do for each individual maintenance requirement.
Mechanical Seals.- Mechanical seals are rapidly replacing conventional packing as the means of controlling leakage on centrifugal pumps. Pumps fitted with mechanical seals eliminate the problem of excessive stuffing box leakage, which can result in pump and motor bearing failures and motor winding failures.
Where mechanical shaft seals are used, the design ensures that positive liquid pressure is supplied to the seal faces under all conditions of operation and that there is adequate circulation of the liquid at the seal faces to minimize the deposit of foreign matter on the seal parts.
One type of mechanical seal is shown in figure 9-5 Spring pressure keeps the rotating seal face
Figure 9-5.-Type-1 mechanical seal.
Figure 9-6.-Stuffing box on a centrifugal pump.
snug against the stationary seal face. The rotating seal and all of the assembly below it are affixed to the pump shaft. The stationary seal face is held stationary by the seal gland and packing ring. A static seal is formed between the two seal faces and the sleeve. System pressure within the pump assists the spring in keeping the rotating seal face tight against the stationary seal face. The type of material used for the seal face depends on the service of the pump. When a seal wears out, it is simply replaced.
You should observe the following precautions when performing maintenance on mechanical seals:
• Do not touch new seals on the sealing face because body acid and grease can cause the seal face to prematurely pit and fail.
• Replace mechanical seals when the seal is removed for any reason or when the leakage rate cannot be tolerated.
• Position mechanical shaft seals on the shaft by stub or step sleeves. Shaft sleeves are chamfered (beveled) on outboard ends to provide ease of mechanical seal mounting.
• Do not position mechanical shaft seals by using setscrews.
Fire pumps and all seawater pumps installed in surface ships are being provided with mechanical shaft seals with cyclone separators. The glands are designed to incorporate two or more rings of packing if the mechanical shaft seal fails.
A water flinger is fitted on the shaft outboard of the stuffing box glands to prevent leakage from the stuffing box following along the shaft and entering the bearing housings. They must fit tightly on the shaft. If the flingers are fitted on the shaft sleeves instead of on the shaft, ensure that no water leaks under the sleeves.
Stuffing Box Packing.- Although most centrifugal pumps on gas turbine ships have mechanical seals, you should be familiar with stuffing box packing.
The packing in centrifugal pump stuffing boxes (fig 9-6) is renewed following the PMS. When replacing packing, be sure to use packing of the specified material and the correct size. Stagger the joints in the packing rings so they fall at different points around the shaft. Pack the stuffing box loosely and set up lightly on the gland, allowing a liberal leakage. With the pump in operation, tighten the glands and gradually compress the packing. It is important to do this gradually and evenly to avoid excessive friction. Uneven tightening could cause overheating and possible scoring of the shaft or the shaft sleeve.
On some centrifugal pumps, a lantern ring is inserted between the rings of the packing. When repacking stuffing boxes on such pumps, be sure to replace the packing beyond the lantern ring.
The packing should not block off the liquid seal line connection to the lantern ring after the gland has been tightened.
Figure 9-6 shows how the packing is arranged. Notice how the lantern ring lines up with the liquid seal connection when the gland is tightened.
Renewing Shaft Sleeves.- In some pumps the shaft sleeve is pressed onto the shaft tightly by a hydraulic press. In this case, the old sleeve must be machined off with a lathe before a new one can be installed. On others, the shaft sleeve may have a snug slip-on fit, butted up against a shoulder on the shaft and held securely in place with a nut. On smaller pumps, new sleeves can be installed by removing the water end casing, impeller, and old shaft sleeves. New sleeves are carried as repair parts; they can also be made in the machine shop. On a large pump, the sleeve is usually pressed on; the old sleeve must be machined off before a new one can be pressed on. You must disassemble the pump and take the sleeve to a machine shop, a repair shop, or a naval shipyard to have this done.
To prevent water leakage between the shaft and the sleeve, some sleeves are packed, others have an O-ring between the shaft and the abutting shoulder. For detailed information, consult the appropriate manufacturer's technical manual or applicable blueprint.
Renewing Wearing Rings.- The clearance between the impeller and the casing wearing ring (fig, 9-7) must be maintained as directed by the manufacturer. When clearances exceed the specified amount, the casing wearing ring must be replaced. On most ships, this job can be done
Figure 9-7.-Impeller, impeller wearing ring, and casing wearing ring for a centrifugal pump.
by the ship's force, but it requires the complete disassembly of the pump. All necessary information on disassembly of the unit, dimensions of the wearing rings, and reassembly of the pump is specified by PMS or can be found in the manufacturer's technical manual. Failure to replace the casing wearing ring when the allowable clearance is exceeded results in a decrease of pump capacity and efficiency. If a pump has to be disassembled because of some internal trouble, the wearing ring should be checked for clearance. Measure the outside diameter of the impeller hub with an outside micrometer and the inside diameter of the casing wearing ring with an inside micrometer; the difference between the two diameters is the actual wearing ring diametric clearance. By checking the actual wearing ring clearance with the maximum allowable clearance, you can decide whether to renew the ring before reassembling the pump. The applicable MRCS area readily available source of information on proper clearances.
Wearing rings for most small pumps are carried aboard ship as part of the ship's repair parts allowance. These may need only a slight amount of machining before they can be installed. For some pumps, spare rotors are carried aboard ship. The new rotor can be installed and the old rotor sent to a repair activity for overhaul. Overhauling a rotor includes renewing the wearing rings, bearings, and shaft sleeve.
Operating Troubles.- You will be responsible for the maintenance of centrifugal pumps. The following table is a description of some of the problems you will have to deal with together with the probable causes:
Article Sources : CLASSIFICATION OF PUMPS


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I first saw this "redesign" of USA Today when I was staying in a hotel a couple of weeks ago. With a quick glance I thought it was a cheap local giveaway paper and didn't bother to pick it up. Now I find out it was the redesigned USA Today. Granted, USA Today was in need of a refresh but this is the wrong direction. A large circle for the logo? Is there something I'm missing? Maybe some important element was not printed along with the circle? Some hidden meaning to the circle?
I'm all for minimalism but this is just plain lazy design. Isn't a circle a bit too simplistic and trite? Who thought of this boring design? How many millions were wasted on this? USA Today deserves better.


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Girl's antisemitic poem on PA TV: "Jews defile Jerusalem"
by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
Dec. 21, 2017
Girl's antisemitic poem on PA TV:
"Jews defile Jerusalem"
"Why did you bring the Jews to us, who defile Jerusalem and its great mosque?"
PA TV interview of Jerusalem Arab: Jews are "thieves ... the world's stench"
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
A Palestinian girl recited a poem on PA TV, which included antisemitic hate speech about Jews. The girl presented the poem in response to US President "Trump's decision [that] Jerusalem is the capital of Israel."
In her poem the girl stated that Jews "defile Jerusalem and its great mosque."
The poem addresses former British Foreign Secretary, who issued the Balfour Declaration in 1917 that Britain supported "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people:"
"This poem is because of [US President Donald] Trump's decision that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel:
[Former British Foreign Secretary] Balfour, you vile person, what did you do to our people?
Is your conscience quiet?
Go in your grave toward the blazing fire
You are the one that expelled us, do not ask for help
You drank our blood from a goblet, and brought this fate down upon us...
You brought to our people those who orphaned small children
You have turned the best of our people into Martyrs and prisoners
Why did you bring the Jews to us, who defile Jerusalem and its great mosque?"
[Official PA TV,
Giants of Endurance
, Dec. 15, 2017]
Palestinian Media Watch
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taught to despise Jews
as the "most evil among creations."
Official PA TV likewise broadcast a statement of an Israeli Arab man in Jerusalem expressing antisemitic views at a demonstration against the American recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, stating that Jews are "the world's stench":
PA TV interview with Israeli Arab in Jerusalem
: "[The Jews] are thieves. They are robbers, who were brought [here] from around the world - robbers. Little by little they entered the country until they brought all of the world's stench here and established a government."
[Official PA TV,
The Occupied Capital
, Dec. 11, 2017]
Following the US President Trump's decision, PA and Fatah officials
compared Trump to Balfour
, naming both "one who is not the owner" who "gave to one who has no right."
The Balfour Declaration
of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in 1947 and the establishment of the State of Israel.
US recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel
- On Dec. 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and instructed the State Department to begin preparations to transfer the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump added that the final borders of Jerusalem will be determined during negotiations.
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Well, Jon gave us a lot to think about yesterday. Two things in particular were very clear to me. First, that we all seemed to find a lot of common ground in our own pre–dystonia experiences and in how we deal with our symptoms. I saw lots of heads nodding in agreement as Jon spoke. Another Forum Member said quite eloquently (and with some emotion) that "you described my life exactly", and I think we all felt that way. The second point was this: His recovery was primarily based on a conscious shift in ATTITUDE. At a certain point he was able to observe how attitude and negative associations with playing and practicing affected his dystonia. And he took the necessary steps to change them. He seems to prove that in terms of TSFD, you are what you "think".
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Sew New to Me VQB - July
July was Gretchen's month for the Sew New to Me Virtual Quilting Bee. This was a great month because the design of the blocks was left completely up to us. Gretchen only told us that these blocks were for a beach quilt, so to make them "beachy". Up to our interpretation. At first I had no clue what to do. But inspiration struck and I decided to do a miniature version of the New Wave Quilt from Oh, Fransson!
All was going great at first. Rather than pieces that are 6"x9", I cut 2" x 3", with 1" wide white stripes in between. Some of you probably already know this, but when you are dealing with such small pieces, that leaves little room for error. Especially with this many seams and points.
Originally this block had 6 columns of waves. But the squaring up process required me to remove 2 of them. I think it still works though, and I love how the green and blue sashing turned out. I hope Gretchen likes her block, it was a blast to make!


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A Brief History of Convergence
On the outset of starting in 2004, we felt strongly about a few things—church should be uncompromisingly relational. We also felt that life with God should saturate all of life–not just an additional "God" area to a compartmentalized life. We used "merging God and life" language to get our head around all of life being God's. These passions were enough to gather a few of us together to do community.
With a bent toward the contemplative–together, we explored an ancient faith that many of us had only sparingly accessed prior to our coming together. Reading, praying, listening, seeing the world, the other all began to take on a greater depth. We had awoken the voices of older Christ followers–mystics, desert fathers and mothers – we were discovering new language that resonated with us.
The arts–creativity and beauty, authentic expression of the deeper things of life–were shaping our coming together as well. Oklahoma City was in a renaisance of culture–and many of us felt it. We saw it a priveledge to meet, encourage, and follow local artists getting their start in a city not exactly known for openness and creativity (a perspective of outsiders—but, we know OKC is so overflowing with amazingly creative people). Convergence as a music/art venue emerged, giving reality to what we saw as a tangible way to encourage the arts in our beloved city. We only recently closed down our venue – in order to simplify our work. However, we are still a part of the arts – and seek to continue to encourage creativity in our city.
Relationships, an inward life, the arts, were all shaping us and completely reworking our understanding (or lack of understanding) of the church. We had a great conviction for the margins–the forgotten, avoided, the other. As a small community, we launched into a work that took us to the Himalayas–northern India. We also began to see life in our city differently–movement toward hospitality and solidarity was being forged in us. We solidified our city focus when we moved into a space in the Plaza District. A neighborhood in need meets a budding arts district and we had the priviledge of forging community life right in the middle of it all. Ideas and ideals now became faces and names that we would learn from, encourage, and simply make room for. Hospitality, welcoming the stranger as a family member; Solidarity, reshaping your life to feel deeply the life of others; and Awareness, a full-bodied seeing, knowing, sensing, and doing (Ron Martoia); were terms that became foundational to our language. It was at this time that the dream of caring for families and building solidarity through a high quality "free retail shop" was born. Currently, RETHREAD is taking a break – however, we are excited about seeking continued ways to care for and live alongside those in need in our city.
Through the years we have struggled with the identity of church. Not because we are ashamed or overly critical of it. It just seems that the idea and organization of "church" as it is generally experienced and understood leaves us longing for so much more. The church, we are confident, isn't the center stage—it isn't what we should burn our life out committing to. The debate on what church is and isn't is of little concern to us–I guess it takes us back to the heart of why we began. It was, and is, about relationships colliding in ways that are transforming—and this is the God work (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) inherent in shared life and the work of awareness.
We grow increasingly uncomfortable with the limits of a 'belief as the highest goal' focus. Ron Martoia describes a spirituality that is obsessed with the right information going in, believing the right kind of life change will result, due to what he says is a spirituality shaped "in the mechanical, cause and effect, technology-has-a-fool-proof-answer kind of world."
As we continue to forge forward we are continually shaped by the notion that love and grace must be our mark. We gather together, still, believing that a conversation–listening to others (including those who love us and those who don't like us, those we understand and those we don't, those we see as friend and our enemy) can always be transforming. We come together hoping to live as ikons of a . . .


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For emergency responders around the country, the memory of 9-11 in 2001 is still fresh in their minds years after. For Vic Mercaldo of Valparaiso, he remembers the moment he decided to travel to New York City and the sleepless days at Ground Zero that followed.
"I had enough, I said to myself I need to be there," Mercaldo said. "I literally packed my gear, jumped in my vehicle and went to N.Y. I wasn't there five minutes out of the subway and bystanders were grabbing my gear. I spent five days on the pile down there. Something that no one ever needs to see, ever."
Looking back on that time, Mercaldo, a firefighter and paramedic in Porter County, can hardly believe the rebuilding the city has done over what he remembers as an absolutely disastrous scene. When he went back to see Ground Zero with his family, he was in awe.
"Things I'll never forget," he said. "Was there for two days before I realized I hadn't slept. We were ancillary staff. We would relieve the fireman doing their jobs and we helped. We ran pumps, gathered equipment, we were gophers, doing everything possible there. I left on the last day when they changed it from a rescue to a recovery. The smell of the fires, they burned for weeks, and they don't realize a twenty-two-story Marriott and five to six ancillary buildings fell too. I look back on photos now, I can't believe it. I've been back since then and seen the new building, it's amazing."
However, Mercaldo isn't the type of person to wear a gold medal for his heroics, or to even see it as any more than doing what he felt was right.
"I don't pat myself on the back for it, I just felt it was something I needed to do, and even just for my own healing, watching it happen," he explained. "I feel that I made a difference and it is what it is. My wife, even today, says she can't believe I was there. I couldn't sit here any longer and watch what was happening on the television. I don't even think about it. When anniversaries come, I do what thousands of others did during that time, too."
After departing from New York after 9-11, Mercaldo brought back video and photos. His children at the time were in elementary school and Mercaldo spoke to the class assembly to explain what happened and showed the kids some of what he brought back, including a piece of the building. A teacher named Mr. Karris has written a book since then about his class and how the day Mercaldo came to the school affected him.
"I didn't realize what just talking about it did for so many people," he said.
Mercaldo's life is worthy of the big screen, even if he humbly thinks quite the opposite. From disaster scenes to delivering babies and saving lives thousands of feet in the air, Mercaldo's professions have taken him places he would never have imagined.
Currently, Mercaldo's full time employment is with City of Portage Fire Department as a master firefighter and paramedic.
"I'm coming up on my 20 year mark with the department," Mercaldo said. "I also work as a Paramedic throughout the county for Porter Hospital. One day I may work in Hebron and the next Chesterton, then Valpo; it depends where they have a need."
Because of the fire department's long hours, Mercaldo said many of the staff are plumbers or electricians to supplement their careers. Mercaldo continues his work as an emergency responder as a part-time paramedic for Porter EMS, coming up on his 26th year of service to the county.
"I love the profession as a paramedic," Mercaldo said. "I hear people say, 'you saved my life.' I never remember names, I remember accidents or events- but only because of the tens of thousands of patients I've seen over the years. I don't take credit for saving anyone's life. I don't believe in that. I believe my job is to ease suffering and that's how I do my job. Whether it's to give you a blanket, give you oxygen, or a medication to make your heart beat, I want to ease your suffering. I've seen too much in my career to explain, with my faith and all that, that's how I break it down."
Mercaldo recently celebrated his 30th year as a paramedic in his life-long career. In the past, he worked as a flight paramedic for Air Angels, Inc. for almost six years and as the managing director of Wheatfield EMS for a year.
"It's the greatest," Mercaldo said. "I honestly feel I've never worked a day in my life, I actually love my job and not many can say that."
With the many dangers firefighters face, there's nuisances, too. For example, nothing is worse when Mercaldo, also his station's cook, whips up some delicious cuisine only for sirens to blare in the ears as soon as they put fork to plate.
"You cook this beautiful meal and sit, and within two minutes the tone goes off," he lamented.
Among his passions are teaching classes to new students as a paramedic preceptor.
"I've had a full career, worked in the emergency room, worked on the helicopter in Chicago," Mercaldo said. "I've had a pretty wonderful life with the exception of one tragedy, I lost my daughter nine years ago. I've changed so many lives, and when it came back to me, it didn't turn out the way it was supposed to happen. I've always felt that if I can help one person, and someone else didn't need to go through that, if I could mold one more student to do what I've done to have this exciting wonderful career that I've had, it's worth it all."
His interest for his work began far back in his early years, as a kid watching T.V. Mercaldo was born and raised in the Philadelphia-Jersey Shore area and is now a Valparaiso resident.
"When I was young, I know this sounds crazy, there was a show called 'Emergency 51' and I thought it was the greatest thing," Mercaldo said. "I never thought I could do something like that but it happened and I did it, it was the best decision of my life."
Yet Mercaldo feels a change coming to his line of work, as he plans to switch professions and become a registered nurse. He currently is attending Ivy Tech full-time to obtain his nursing degree, due to a special person's influence in his life.
"My wife works as a nurse and has inspired me to pursue that," Mercaldo said.
His next step is finishing up his studies at Valparaiso University after he transfers. From there, he plans on working at the University of Chicago giving air critical care when a patient must be transported by a helicopter.
When Mercaldo worked with Air Angels in Chicago, around the same time his daughter passed away, the helicopter he worked on crashed. He lost three good friends and the patient in the crash. Unfortunately, the company dissolved afterward, but Mercaldo still wants to go back to emergency air care.
"I feel like that's what I'm supposed to do," Mercaldo said. "That's my niche. Last thing you want when something tragic is happening is someone who's frantic. Helicopter is critical care, it's the worst of the worst. If they call a helicopter, it's not a good situation, it's a bad thing. I've been trained to a higher skill level and that's what I feel most comfortable doing. I couldn't work on the floor, I'd have to be in the ER or the ICU, I couldn't work a regular floor in the hospital. I feel I have a gift, and I'm lucky I have that. I feel it's what I'm supposed to do."
With six children, Mercaldo and his wife are all about family and love to travel and adventure together.
"We like to take the kids around the nation to show them," Mercaldo said. "We've been to so many places in the last five years alone. We've gone to Disney, Washington, New York, Times Square, the Liberty Bell, and I showed them Ground Zero. We travel and do things. I work a lot so we can play a lot."
Being a family man is in his blood, growing up in a populous, close-knit home. Since Mercaldo's long hours call for him to miss holidays and birthdays, when he is with his family he makes the most of it.
"I'm one of five children and we had a big Italian family," he said. "Every Sunday, we do the big dinner with everyone there at Mom's house. We all sit around and talk about our week. We're very into the family part. Family is everything to me, that's why I work."
Mercaldo also has another family, who he spends days on end with, on and off the clock.
"My fire department, I consider them family," Mercaldo said. "We work together and play together. Our kids play together. We live there, our stations are like our homes. We cook together, eat together, go on calls together and relax together. That's what they do, one little thing and they'll all go over."
And while life has had its big up's and low down's, Mercaldo has always pursued what he loves the most, and plans to continue doing so.
"I get to go out and make a difference," said Mercaldo. "I get to see people at their worst and at their best. I see a lot of tragedy and see a lot of people pass away, I've delivered five children. You get to see the good and the bad…The profession itself, I've done every aspect, I've worked everywhere. I've worked on helicopter, literally every aspect I've dabbled in and have come full circle with it now. I guess I'll always be a paramedic."


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I am a Maverickbird, a solo woman globetrotter from India. Born and brought up in the laidback, bohemian city of Calcutta, it was not much of a shocker that I turned out to be a firebrand, which is typical of women from there. However nobody much expected a Calcutta girl to zip around the globe solo or with a little baby in tow, traveling to exotic off beat destinations, doing wild adventures and love being a single gypsy mom. When I say nobody, I don't only mean my fellow countrymen but also a lot of people all across the world.
I have faced too many mistaken identities (nationality wise), incredulous looks and funny, at times bizarre questions. Some questions have come from fellow travelers, locals of places I had visited and most of them had been borderline ignorant, rude even. But traveling opens the eyes and minds, and long back I had learned that it was not smirking rudeness which evoked such questions but the fact that they did not know any better.
So over the years I have gathered patience, tolerance and taken the responsibility of busting myths of the solo Indian woman globetrotter
So over the years I have gathered patience, tolerance and taken the responsibility of busting myths of the solo Indian woman globetrotter. My Russian name also contributes much to the fun and coupled with my mixed ethnicity, I have drawn many hard, confused stares. It is most entertaining to try getting away with identifying myself as diverse nationalities across the world.
I share a warm skin tone with millions of people (mostly real and some tan store bought) across different countries on earth, and on many boring, annoying days I have played the game of guess where I am from. A solo, woman globetrotter always attracts attention and as one whom you can't really place to any particular continent, the curiosity gets more avid. This game had brightened many traveling moments, at a lot of places-while waiting for delayed flights, trying to break monotony, or want of anything better.
Incidentally the first question everybody asks a traveler is to which country he/she belongs to and immediately you know that the global citizenship is still a fictional concept. It was George Bernard Shaw perhaps who had mentioned something similar as borders create wars and we create borders and traveling reveals this unfortunate glaring truth. Is it curiosity or thirst of learning something unfamiliar which makes us humans seek out differences among fellow earth citizens, I do not know, but I have noticed that the more exotic you are, the better you are accepted.
In this strange game of creating human borders I have passed myself of as Cuban, Latina, Egyptian, Turkish, East African, Australian, American with Indian ancestry and the amusing list is endless and have always gotten away with it. It's strange how it is only a small book and not the actual human, which creates rifts, the bloody segregation and wars-a small man made book called passport which separates people, treat some as gods and some as animals and which most of the times seem as bad as branding. Although security issues, global situation in the hands of terrorism, make global citizenship a nearly lost dream, I cannot help but wonder, if as curious humans, we really ever wanted assimilation.
Traveling to more than 50 countries had made me into a sponge, which has soaked up as many experiences as possible but can get fatter and it has made my daughter grow up faster than her biological age. It has taught us humility, street smartness and made us immune to differential surprises.
Practicing patience has also come in abundance with myriads of incidents across the planet. From being begged to dance to Bollywood numbers in ski suit (it was winter) at an obscure ski resort in Murmansk city (north of Arctic circle), singing Bollywood songs to a taxi driver at Atacama, Chile, showing my photos in saris to Cuban guajiros (cow boys) at a nameless village in Bay of Pigs, Cuba, the crazy demands of the Bollywood awed world on an Indian woman solo globetrotter have been quite fascinating.
Bollywood had bailed me out every time and nowadays I have actually started carrying some new Hindi movies to give away to the star struck people around the world
Bollywood had bailed me out every time and nowadays I have actually started carrying some new Hindi movies to give away to the star struck people around the world. My most awesome travel memories all involve people- people from different cultures, corners and walks of life, all curious to know about this ancient civilization trapped in a young dynamic giant of a country; Which in most people's eyes is still full of beggars, snake charmers and elephants and what can be better than a solo Indian woman who travels alone, is young and apparently is seemingly adventurous. I have been bombarded with questions-about why we wear dots on our foreheads, if we actually dress in sexy saris like Bollywood actresses in real life, my thoughts on caste system and arranged marriages, my English proficiency, my apparent wealth (polite way of asking how I could globe trot when mythical millions of Indians are dying from hunger) and on virginity.
While most of them had been fun encounters, some however had been pretty invasive. I remember an Austrian guy asking me why I was not accompanied by my spouse, since I was an Indian woman, born and living in India and obviously should be a hand baggage of my husband. I have been often questioned if my single mom status has made me ostracized from my family and Indian society, and the most intriguing one had come from an old Kiwi couple.
They had actually clucked sympathetically because they sincerely believed that my being upset over breakfast was due to some unspeakable atrocity committed by some male member of my family on me. I had received a call from my father that morning that my dog had died and it had made me break down at the table. I was on a Serengeti group safari and was having breakfast with other group members.
Incredibly enough I was asked if my father was forcing me to marry a much older man for gold, because they had a relative in United Nations who could stop that. Initially I had no idea of what they meant when finally it dawned to me that they were trying to ask me about arranged marriages and dowry, and completely believed that I was treated badly by my father because I was born a girl. That situation took a lot of effort to not say anything mean or nasty to them and I could manage to walk away to grieve over my dog in peace.
The hardest part was however answering-"So why are you traveling alone?" And I could never manage more than, "Because I can."
All of these are a part and parcel of my solo traveling because solo Indian woman backpackers are not what you see everyday wandering through foreign cities. The hardest part was however answering-"So why are you traveling alone?"
And I could never manage more than, "Because I can."
Author – Svetlana Baghawan (aka Maverickbird)
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Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia. It is the national and official language of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, and official language of several northeastern states of the Republic of India, including West Bengal, Tripura, Assam (Barak Valley) and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Although Bengali is an Indo-European language, it has been influenced by other language families prevalent in South Asia, notably the Dravidian, the Austroasiatic, and the Tibeto-Burman families, all of which contributed to Bengali vocabulary and provided the language with some structural forms. Dictionaries from the early 20th century attributed slightly more than half of the Bengali vocabulary to native words (i.e., naturally modified Sanskrit words, corrupted forms of Sanskrit words, and loanwords from non-Indo-European languages), about 45 percent to unmodified Sanskrit words, and the remainder to foreign words. Dominant in the last group was Persian, which was also the source of some grammatical forms. More recent studies suggest that the use of native and foreign words has been increasing, mainly because of the preference of Bengali speakers for the colloquial style.
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And in the 21st century, I lost the plot a bit when it came to Lloyd Cole. He purposely moved away from making rock 'n' roll music: as somebody who was always too self-conscious about aging, he thought he was too old to rock, even though "rocking out" was never something anybody ever associated with Lloyd Cole in the first place.
So while I liked some of the stuff he put out in that period, there wasn't a whole record that I liked from start to finish until 2013's Standards, which — of course — didn't come out here until 2014.
Recorded with his eternal core of Matthew Sweet, Fred Maher and Blair Cowan, Standards was easily his best record since The Negatives, and ended with the loping "Diminished Ex," which had some nice Quine-like lead guitar (long after Quine was dead, of course), and the usual wit in the lyrics.
Maybe I was a little over zealous
But that was such a long long time ago
It wasn't me made a fool of your fella
He didn't need any help from me
"Diminished Ex" was just one more reminder that Lloyd Cole still could churn out a crazy catchy pop-rock song with a great melody, interesting lead guitar and smart lyrics seemingly at will.
And while I'm not holding out hope for more albums like Standards, I still can't imagine a point in my life where I'm not going to be interested in the next Lloyd Cole album.
"Diminished Ex"
"Diminished Ex" performed live in 2013
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