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7 Stressors to Say No to When You are Overwhelmed
Fall is such an exciting but very busy time which can create feelings of being overwhelmed or stressed. Even if the busy season is filled with all good things, the joy can be smothered by the never ending to do list. This is especially true for us working moms. Fall is the time of year that the kids' schedules are full, job responsibilities might be at peak times and we are all starting the holiday planning. So what does a hands-on-goal-oriented mama suppose to do?
Hit the backspace button.
Press delete.
Stop and pause.
You have the ability to say no, not yet, or maybe later. No does not feel like an option to most of us but it is a valid option and is often needed. So here's my list to help you pare down those ever expanding demands. Hopefully you will feel a little less overwhelmed and a lot more joy!
- Eliminate anything that is not a passion project. If a work or home project is not something you are passionate about and something that is not job dependent (in other words, you won't get fired if you don't do it) then say no to it or delegate. You need to keep your time free for the things that matter the most!
- Back out of those extra social activities. Some activities are ones we look forward to and some we do out of obligation. You can say no to those. Say no in a polite way but get out of it. In the book, Essentialism, the author suggests a way to kindly say no. Instead of just no, offer another option. Think win win!
- Stop volunteering for too much. Service is wonderful and needed. The giver needs the act of helping just like the receiver needs the aid but you are just one person so make sure you carefully choose how you give your time.
- End meaningless time wasters. Now you want to say yes to free time, time to do nothing and brain break activities but learn what is claiming your time each day that isn't productive and gives you nothing in return. Cut those things out!
- Say no to not relaxing. You need a moment to recharge. Our phones and electronic devices have to do it so why wouldn't we? Relaxing is as productive as working. Go find a place to just be.
- Stop making excuses to not eat healthy and exercise. Formula for meltdown: (Stress increases + sugar/junk food increases) + (exercise decreases + sleep decreases) = no energy, fussiness and higher stress. When in a high stress time, the best thing to do is increase those healthy habits so you will feel at your best.
- Say no to putting off planning. You get so busy that you just start running in survival mode and go without direction, handling things as they come up. You end up extremely busy and exhausted with nothing accomplished. You keep this up and you will only feel more frustrated on why you are working so hard. The goal is not to stay busy and accomplish nothing but to stay intentional with careful planning so you are doing the things that matter.
You are doing great mama! What other things do you eliminate when life gets to be a bit too much?


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Well, it had to happen sooner or later. I am back at work, slaving over a hot course outline.
Teaching is not an easy job, and I don't think the profession would be well staffed if they reduced the holidays at all, but damn it's good to have a lengthy break over summer. I suspect that it is one of the motivating factors to enter (and stay in) the profession for many teachers. The year is so busy, and so much of your life is taken over by teaching, that you need the break away from it to recharge.
So, another year of teaching commencing. It shall be interesting to see how it all goes. I shall say at this stage that I am quietly optimistic, and slightly worried. I know the two don't go together all that well, but there we have it. I think the teaching side of this year will go more smoothly (though I am teaching 3 new courses, so will have to spend a lot of time preparing materials). I think the management aspect will be fine once I've climbed onto the tiger's back.
Must get back to work. Course outlines don't write themselves...
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In 1992 Andrew established Shaws and then became national tax managing partner of Begbies Traynor Group Tax (BTG Tax) when it acquired Shaws in 2008. BTG Tax was then acquired by Smith & Williamson in 2011.
Andrew specialises in advising high-net-worth individuals on international tax planning and structuring their finances in a tax-efficient manner.
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Description: Green Angel Seaweed with 6 Essential Oils Night Cream.
Contains: Borage Seed Oils, Sweet Almond Oil, Chamomile, Lavender, Comfrey & Ginseng Extracts, Juniper, Neroli, Lavender, Sandalwood, Chamomile and Frankincense Oils, Irish Seaweed Extracts (Bladder Wrack, Toothed Wrack, Carrageen, Knotted Wrack), Sea Lavender Extract, Vitamin E.
Size: 50 ml
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Size: 50ml
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Contains: Cucumber and Sage Extracts, Soya Oil, Vitamin E, Irish Seaweed Extracts (Bladder Wrack, Toothed Wrack, Carrageen, Knotted Wrack), Sea Lavender Extract Size: 200ml
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Additional Information: Made in Ireland
Description: VOYA's ultra-soothing eye mask is formulated specifically for the delicate eye area. Enriched with Sea Heather which helps to strengthen & protect, whilst reducing inflammation, while extracts of Green tea, Camomile and Pomegranate work in harmony to soothe, hydrate and support the eye area, reducing the appearance of fine lines. The ultimate treatment for even the most sensitive of eyes.
Size: 15ml
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- Hydrates, nourishes and revitalises.
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Description: Balance is a fine misting facial spritz formulated to refresh, calm and clarify the skin. Balance delivers hydration, improves skin health, balances sebum production and reduces skin pollution in a formulation that is blended with deep sea Irish magnesium, amino acids and herbal extracts.
Size: 80ml
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Voya Maskerade Facial Mask€40.50
Voya Maskerade Facial Mask€40.50
Description: Voya versatile moisturising face mask containing Irish seaweed, pro-collagen extract, and other antioxidant-rich organic ingredients is formulated to calm and nourish both irritated and dry skin. VOYA's special blend of hydrating seaweed and soothing chamomile extracts will leave your skin feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.
Size: 50ml
Directions for Use: Apply a moderate layer evenly over the face as well as the neck and décolleté, if desired. leave on for 10 minutes then rinse off with warm water and a VOYA Organic Muslin Face Cloth and pat dry skin. Remove any traces with a splash of VOYA's Ritzy Spritzy toner.
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Size: 125ml
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Size: 50ml
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Size: 50ml
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Voya Mens Cooling Shave Gel€25.00
Voya Mens Cooling Shave Gel€25.00
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Size: 125ml
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- Mild cleansing agents gently wash away impurities.
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- Excellent for problematic skin
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I've had quite a few people recently ask me how to make coconut butter since I seem to use it in a lot of my desserts. Which is completely true. I definitely use it a lot. Because this stuff is like liquid gold. It's so sweet and rich and creamy and delicious! Just thinking about it makes me want to go sneak a spoonful from the pantry right now!
What is coconut butter? Basically, it's pureed coconut meat. Think almond butter, but using shredded coconut. Now I bet you're wondering what to use coconut butter with if you haven't tried it before. Well, I suggest starting with a massive spoonful right in your mouth for starters. Then start putting it on top of everything:
You name it and coconut butter will make it taste amazing. Coconut butter is also great for creating recipes. It's solidifies at room temperature or when cooled so it makes it great for recipes that you want to harden. If you want to make it liquidy, just warm it up! I love using it in my recipes because it adds a creamy texture and just a little bit of sweetness which helps when I'm trying to make sugar-free desserts!
You can find coconut butter in the grocery store, but it comes with a hefty price tag. If you have a high-speed blender, it's much more economical to make it yourself. With my Vitamix, it only takes about 5 minutes to make! If you don't have a high-speed blender, you can still make coconut butter at home, it just may take upward of 30-45 minutes and a lot of scraping down your blender or food processor. You'll get the best results with a high-speed blender, like a Vitamix.
I love making coconut butter and storing it in my pantry for whenever I have a craving for something sweet! I hope you enjoy it too!
Now that you know how to make your own coconut butter, what are you going to use yours for? Tell me in the comments!
Coconut Butter
Did you know you can make creamy coconut butter at home? It's easy to do with a high-speed blender!
- 4 cups shredded unsweetened coconut
- Process shredded coconut in a high-speed blender or food processor for 5-10 minutes. Scrape down the sides frequently.
- The coconut butter will go from clumps, to paste, to liquid goodness. Be patient and take breaks when needed in order to not burn out your food processor.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature. Mason jars work great for this.
Recipe Notes
Follow my pictogram below to see the different stages of coconut butter. I didn't get a picture of the liquid stage because I was so excited by that point to get it into my jar that I forgot to take a picture of it in the blender! You'll want to keep processing a bit after the picture i step 3, it will get a bit more liquidy! When in doubt, scrape those sides!


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Change your locks whenever you undergo a serious life change.
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A time-tested approach to know your home is protected while you're not there is to let your neighbors know you're going away. They can keep watch over your own home to make sure nothing is happening which shouldn't be. They will additionally collect flyers, newspapers and mail for you, all of which may alert burglars that you simply're not home. The easiest way to make your property appeared occupied if you are away is to have a housesitter look after your own home. But when a housesitter isn't obtainable, you may enhance your own home security by installing timers in your interior lighting. Use the timers to make the lighting appear natural, by putting in them in each room and varying the on and off occasions.
These will only open if one in all your family members is there, ensuring that nobody can break in thanks to a key they've found, choosing the lock or foiling a lesser grade lock.


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Watching Hollywood celebrate "The Artist" as last year's best picture on Sunday was reassuring and reminiscent of "The Hurt Locker's" win in 2010. Both films are refreshing evidence that the movie business is not always about catering to the least common denominator.
In fact, I was so moved by that prior Oscar winner that I traveled to Germany last summer to hang with real-life ordnance disposal workers. Unexploded bombs are still a big business in Germany: An estimated 10% to 15% of the two million tons dropped there during WWII never exploded.
"Here, put these gloves on first. We must have rules"
Ordnance expert Peter Ewler grinned, then allowed me to dip my hands into a bin of high explosives and lift out a 50-lb., unexploded shell. The rusted thing, from WWII, was of Russian origin and found near the Polish-German border. If my hand slipped, the concrete storage bunker we were in probably would go up.
In Brandenburg alone -- the place near Berlin I visited and the most infested of Germany's states -- around 350 tons of unexploded munitions are destroyed annually, including grenades, mortars, artillery shells, mines and aerial bombs. Some are found in fields, others in residential areas near homes and schools built after the war.
Wilfried Kramer, who oversees Brandenburg's War Ordnance Disposal Service, operates with an annual budget of 13 million euros, 8 million of which goes to private subcontractors, the rest to a staff of 66 field workers and technicians.
How do they find the bombs? Two-thirds are identified using old US and British air reconnaissance photos taken after bombing runs during the war. Telltale blips near large craters show where aerial bombs -- especially heavier ones -- may have landed but never exploded. The most dangerous were set to detonate hours after landing to create prolonged chaos. Problem is, many landed in the wrong position for the "long-delay" fuses to work properly, and are still live.
Heino Borchert is responsible for Oranienburg, a particularly problematic area. Because the Allies thought Nazis were developing nuclear bomb parts there, raids by US and British aircraft blasted the place. The theory was that even if Germany didn't complete an atomic bomb, Russia might capture the area before the Allies and acquire the technology.
Borchert took me to a residential area with unexploded bombs still in the ground. One 550-lb. and two 1,100-lb. US monsters had already been found and detonated. Large craters filled with water marked the holes. But two more nearby are still being hunted. I walked over and stood on a site full of grey plastic pipe probes, knowing something that could take out half a city block likely lurked 25 feet below me. It was unsettling, and within a stone's throw of nearby houses!
When a bomb is judged stable enough for transport, it is brought to a central munitions complex in Kummersdorf. Some dismantling is still done there by hand, but more often now detonator and fuse removal is achieved using remote-controlled saws. We watched on video camera from a separate control room as a Russian grenade was successfully sliced in half.
When enough ordnance accumulates (35 tons), the facility stages detonations. Guido Kuschinsky, who runs Kummersdorf, says his wife is always worried and "makes me call after every detonation." Despite bravery, these guys don't show up on rich lists. The average senior "fire worker" earns 30,000 euros annually.
Kuschinsky led me to a concrete bunker where the live bombs are stored. First I signed a paper releasing authorities from liability should one explode. Kuschinsky told of a friend he lost in this very room when a small device went off. Asked if he has had close calls himself, he shook his head, said he didn't want to talk about it.
For the last part of my trip, I drove to the Polish border to meet with Ewler, who was waiting in a grassy field near the Oder River. One of his workers was busy surveying the ground with a metal detector. Suddenly he stopped and began digging--carefully. Sure enough, a few feet below a small rusted device was visible. Ewler pointed out that the fuse was missing but not the detonator, making it unstable for transport.
A plastic explosive was buried along with the mortar shell. We retreated 275 yards. After a short countdown, a radio sent the signal. In a magnificent show, the shell--along with other ordnance found earlier--shot earth and smoke 100 feet into the air. I finally began to feel like Jeremy Renner in the "The Hurt Locker." But when Ewler, 47, told me he lost three friends in 2010 when a 1,100-lb. bomb blew in Gottingen, I quickly realized this wasn't Hollywood.
Even though WWII is 67 years gone, it's never over for these fire workers. As technology improves, so do methods for bomb detection. While thousands have been found, many more lie in wait. And the longer they wait, the more dangerous they become. TNT never decays, but the stabilizing agent in the explosive does. Left to their own devices, the bombs eventually explode.
It's happening already. Phosphorous ordnance will ignite spontaneously, causing wildfires. Fire departments sometimes won't go in for fear of other bombs exploding, too. Germany is still at war -- but this one is with time.


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March 2006 Notes from Todd Rusk
March 23, 2006
Notes from Todd Rusk
To do this spring:
- Sump pump water
- Need another flexible connector, 1 1/2″ x 1″
Continue to observe water flow in channel between black pipe outlet and swale
Consider: Is a meandering water channel between black pipe and swale (i.e. to bring extra moisture somewhere) advantageous?
Settle on final shape of path and fill with coarse rocks, i.e. from driveway, and cover with straw
- Downspout water – get barrels for rain catchment
- Pruning experiments with nanking cherries, if it's not too late
- Identify and maybe transplant more of the mysteriously bountiful grassy allium
- Set up annual vegetable breeding plots
- Plan annual vegetable crop locations
- Trellises for viney things – hops
- Garden boundary
- Annual plantings to condition areas for spread of bamboo, i.e. mulch, annual crop, border/boundary…
Create short term border/boundary using annual grains/grasses
3/14/06 – 1 hour
Observation: Someone reattached the pipes with a lot of duct tape, and a section of the wall of the house was saturated with water>
- Foiled! Connector I needed not available at Sunnycrest True Value and Do-It Best is not answering phone
- Dug a small channel across garden path near bench to convey sump pump water into swale, then filled the trench with branches and straw. Channel is basically a straight line.
- Detached the pipes again to protect the house and left a friendly note written in purple crayon explaining that they're not yet ready to be connected
3/13/06 – 0.5 hours
- Purchased a 1 1/2″ x 1 1/4″ clamp on flexible connector from Sunnycrest True Value, $5.00
- Installed connector between 1 1/2″ sump pump drain pipe and 1 1/4″ pipe into garden, now a lot of water backs up onto house because of the increased pressure drop –> another connector is needed between 1 1/2″ sump pump drain pipe and 1″ pipe coming out of house – I left the pipes disconnected to protect the house
3/10/06 – 2.5 hours
Observation: Lots of water from sump pump is flooding strawberries and herbs near house.
- Said hello Rita, Mariana, Katlyn
- Rob pruned the fruit trees
- Rob and Todd trained the curly willows in the swale
- Todd rescued a nanking cherry from chicken wire entanglement
3/9/06 – 1.5 hours
Activity: Transplant & consolidate chives – finished 1 area
3/7/06 – 1 hour
Activity: Transplant & consolidate chives
3/6/06 – 1.5 hours
- Steaming compost
- Wheel barrow has a flat tire
- Tie up loose ends of mesh around compost bin
- Remove bricks from around compost base, stack by garage
3/4/06 – 2.5 hours
- Tire tracks in grass south of garden. "Dude, wanna do some donuts?"
- 2 partial compost piles, stinky
- Some scattered plastic trash & debris in garden
- Chives stands, tasty & mild
- Pick up trash
- Attempt to balance compost pile: consolidated into 1 pile, added hay from around yard, watered
- Collected hops seeds for Love Pond green tunnel
- Removed steel frame thing holding hops vines
- Inventoried miscellaneous stuff around site
- Talked to Rita, met Mariana
Inventory of miscellaneous stuff around site
- 5-gallon bucket (Nasty) 2
- Asphalt shingle (Sheet, 2'WxLong) 1
- Bat (Waffle ball) 1
- Brake drum (Car) 2
- Building bricks (Red) Pile
- Chemicals (Nasty) Assortment
- Chicken wire (3'H) Roll
- Cinder blocks (Various sizes) Few
- Flat (Seed starter, various) Few
- Garden tools Basic assortment
- Lawn chair (Functional) 4
- Lawn chair (Broke-ass) 2
- Lumber (Various) Some
- Metal frame (Rectangular 4'Wx6'Lx3'H) 1
- Metal pole (Long) 9
- Metal thing (Artistic, strange) 1
- Metal tub (Probably leaks, 2'dia x 1'H) 1
- Metal wire (Wavy, thick gauge, 6′) 1
- Painting (4'x2′) 1
- Plastic mesh (like compost bin – Black, 3'H) Small roll
- Plastic pipe (Various dia, long) Few
- Plastic tarp (Green, gray) 2
- Platform (Carpeted, wood frame, 3'Wx7'Lx5″H) 1
- Play sand (Blue) 40 lb bag
- Pots (Terra cotta) Few
- Radiator (Car) 1
- Rim (Bicycle) 1
- Seat cushion (Blue) 1
- Tire (Bicycle) 4
- Tire on rim (Car) 4
- Tomato cage (Metal) 5-ish
- Toys (Various outdoor, plastic) Bagful
- Trash can (Metal) 1
- Tub 15 gallon (plastic) 1
- Wire rack 3'x3′ 4
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The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
Volume I. The Bastille
Book 1.V. The Third Estate
Chapter 1.5.IX. The Lanterne
The Fall of the Bastille may be said to have shaken all France to the deepest foundations of its existence. The rumour of these wonders flies every where: with the natural speed of Rumour; with an effect thought to be preternatural, produced by plots. Did d'Orleans or Laclos, nay did Mirabeau (not overburdened with money at this time) send riding Couriers out from Paris; to gallop 'on all radii,' or highways, towards all points of France? It is a miracle, which no penetrating man will call in question. (Toulongeon, (i. 95); Weber, &c. &c.)
Already in most Towns, Electoral Committees were met; to regret Necker, in harangue and resolution. In many a Town, as Rennes, Caen, Lyons, an ebullient people was already regretting him in brickbats and musketry. But now, at every Town's-end in France, there do arrive, in these days of terror,--'men,' as men will arrive; nay, 'men on horseback,' since Rumour oftenest travels riding. These men declare, with alarmed countenance, The Brigands to be coming, to be just at hand; and do then--ride on, about their further business, be what it might! Whereupon the whole population of such Town, defensively flies to arms. Petition is soon thereafter forwarded to National Assembly; in such peril and terror of peril, leave to organise yourself cannot be withheld: the armed population becomes everywhere an enrolled National Guard. Thus rides Rumour, careering along all radii, from Paris outwards, to such purpose: in few days, some say in not many hours, all France to the utmost borders bristles with bayonets. Singular, but undeniable,--miraculous or not!--But thus may any chemical liquid; though cooled to the freezing-point, or far lower, still continue liquid; and then, on the slightest stroke or shake, it at once rushes wholly into ice. Thus has France, for long months and even years, been chemically dealt with; brought below zero; and now, shaken by the Fall of a Bastille, it instantaneously congeals: into one crystallised mass, of sharp-cutting steel! Guai a chi la tocca; 'Ware who touches it!
In Paris, an Electoral Committee, with a new Mayor and General, is urgent with belligerent workmen to resume their handicrafts. Strong Dames of the Market (Dames de la Halle) deliver congratulatory harangues; present 'bouquets to the Shrine of Sainte Genevieve.' Unenrolled men deposit their arms,--not so readily as could be wished; and receive 'nine francs.' With Te Deums, Royal Visits, and sanctioned Revolution, there is halcyon weather; weather even of preternatural brightness; the hurricane being overblown.
Nevertheless, as is natural, the waves still run high, hollow rocks retaining their murmur. We are but at the 22nd of the month, hardly above a week since the Bastille fell, when it suddenly appears that old Foulon is alive; nay, that he is here, in early morning, in the streets of Paris; the extortioner, the plotter, who would make the people eat grass, and was a liar from the beginning!--It is even so. The deceptive 'sumptuous funeral' (of some domestic that died); the hiding-place at Vitry towards Fontainbleau, have not availed that wretched old man. Some living domestic or dependant, for none loves Foulon, has betrayed him to the Village. Merciless boors of Vitry unearth him; pounce on him, like hell-hounds: Westward, old Infamy; to Paris, to be judged at the Hotel-de-Ville! His old head, which seventy-four years have bleached, is bare; they have tied an emblematic bundle of grass on his back; a garland of nettles and thistles is round his neck: in this manner; led with ropes; goaded on with curses and menaces, must he, with his old limbs, sprawl forward; the pitiablest, most unpitied of all old men.
Sooty Saint-Antoine, and every street, mustering its crowds as he passes,-- the Place de Greve, the Hall of the Hotel-de-Ville will scarcely hold his escort and him. Foulon must not only be judged righteously; but judged there where he stands, without any delay. Appoint seven judges, ye Municipals, or seventy-and-seven; name them yourselves, or we will name them: but judge him! (Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 146-9.) Electoral rhetoric, eloquence of Mayor Bailly, is wasted explaining the beauty of the Law's delay. Delay, and still delay! Behold, O Mayor of the People, the morning has worn itself into noon; and he is still unjudged!--Lafayette, pressingly sent for, arrives; gives voice: This Foulon, a known man, is guilty almost beyond doubt; but may he not have accomplices? Ought not the truth to be cunningly pumped out of him,--in the Abbaye Prison? It is a new light! Sansculottism claps hands;--at which hand-clapping, Foulon (in his fainness, as his Destiny would have it) also claps. "See! they understand one another!" cries dark Sansculottism, blazing into fury of suspicion.--"Friends," said 'a person in good clothes,' stepping forward, "what is the use of judging this man? Has he not been judged these thirty years?" With wild yells, Sansculottism clutches him, in its hundred hands: he is whirled across the Place de Greve, to the 'Lanterne,' Lamp-iron which there is at the corner of the Rue de la Vannerie; pleading bitterly for life,--to the deaf winds. Only with the third rope (for two ropes broke, and the quavering voice still pleaded), can he be so much as got hanged! His Body is dragged through the streets; his Head goes aloft on a pike, the mouth filled with grass: amid sounds as of Tophet, from a grass-eating people. (Deux Amis de la Liberte, ii. 60-6.)
Surely if Revenge is a 'kind of Justice,' it is a 'wild' kind! O mad Sansculottism hast thou risen, in thy mad darkness, in thy soot and rags; unexpectedly, like an Enceladus, living-buried, from under his Trinacria? They that would make grass be eaten do now eat grass, in this manner? After long dumb-groaning generations, has the turn suddenly become thine?-- To such abysmal overturns, and frightful instantaneous inversions of the centre-of-gravity, are human Solecisms all liable, if they but knew it; the more liable, the falser (and topheavier) they are!--
To add to the horror of Mayor Bailly and his Municipals, word comes that Berthier has also been arrested; that he is on his way hither from Compiegne. Berthier, Intendant (say, Tax-levier) of Paris; sycophant and tyrant; forestaller of Corn; contriver of Camps against the people;-- accused of many things: is he not Foulon's son-in-law; and, in that one point, guilty of all? In these hours too, when Sansculottism has its blood up! The shuddering Municipals send one of their number to escort him, with mounted National Guards.
At the fall of day, the wretched Berthier, still wearing a face of courage, arrives at the Barrier; in an open carriage; with the Municipal beside him; five hundred horsemen with drawn sabres; unarmed footmen enough, not without noise! Placards go brandished round him; bearing legibly his indictment, as Sansculottism, with unlegal brevity, 'in huge letters,' draws it up. ('Il a vole le Roi et la France (He robbed the King and France).' 'He devoured the substance of the People.' 'He was the slave of the rich, and the tyrant of the poor.' 'He drank the blood of the widow and orphan.' 'He betrayed his country.' See Deux Amis, ii. 67-73.) Paris is come forth to meet him: with hand-clappings, with windows flung up; with dances, triumph-songs, as of the Furies! Lastly the Head of Foulon: this also meets him on a pike. Well might his 'look become glazed,' and sense fail him, at such sight!--Nevertheless, be the man's conscience what it may, his nerves are of iron. At the Hotel-de-Ville, he will answer nothing. He says, he obeyed superior order; they have his papers; they may judge and determine: as for himself, not having closed an eye these two nights, he demands, before all things, to have sleep. Leaden sleep, thou miserable Berthier! Guards rise with him, in motion towards the Abbaye. At the very door of the Hotel-de-Ville, they are clutched; flung asunder, as by a vortex of mad arms; Berthier whirls towards the Lanterne. He snatches a musket; fells and strikes, defending himself like a mad lion; is borne down, trampled, hanged, mangled: his Head too, and even his Heart, flies over the City on a pike.
Horrible, in Lands that had known equal justice! Not so unnatural in Lands that had never known it. Le sang qui coule est-il donc si pure? asks Barnave; intimating that the Gallows, though by irregular methods, has its own.--Thou thyself, O Reader, when thou turnest that corner of the Rue de la Vannerie, and discernest still that same grim Bracket of old Iron, wilt not want for reflections. 'Over a grocer's shop,' or otherwise; with 'a bust of Louis XIV. in the niche under it,' or now no longer in the niche,-- it still sticks there: still holding out an ineffectual light, of fish- oil; and has seen worlds wrecked, and says nothing.
But to the eye of enlightened Patriotism, what a thunder-cloud was this; suddenly shaping itself in the radiance of the halcyon weather! Cloud of Erebus blackness: betokening latent electricity without limit. Mayor Bailly, General Lafayette throw up their commissions, in an indignant manner;--need to be flattered back again. The cloud disappears, as thunder-clouds do. The halcyon weather returns, though of a grayer complexion; of a character more and more evidently not supernatural.
Thus, in any case, with what rubs soever, shall the Bastille be abolished from our Earth; and with it, Feudalism, Despotism; and, one hopes, Scoundrelism generally, and all hard usage of man by his brother man. Alas, the Scoundrelism and hard usage are not so easy of abolition! But as for the Bastille, it sinks day after day, and month after month; its ashlars and boulders tumbling down continually, by express order of our Municipals. Crowds of the curious roam through its caverns; gaze on the skeletons found walled up, on the oubliettes, iron cages, monstrous stone- blocks with padlock chains. One day we discern Mirabeau there; along with the Genevese Dumont. (Dumont, Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, p. 305.) Workers and onlookers make reverent way for him; fling verses, flowers on his path, Bastille-papers and curiosities into his carriage, with vivats.
Able Editors compile Books from the Bastille Archives; from what of them remain unburnt. The Key of that Robber-Den shall cross the Atlantic; shall lie on Washington's hall-table. The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker's apartment; no longer measuring hours of mere heaviness. Vanished is the Bastille, what we call vanished: the body, or sandstones, of it hanging, in benign metamorphosis, for centuries to come, over the Seine waters, as Pont Louis Seize; (Dulaure: Histoire de Paris, viii. 434.) the soul of it living, perhaps still longer, in the memories of men.
So far, ye august Senators, with your Tennis-Court Oaths, your inertia and impetus, your sagacity and pertinacity, have ye brought us. "And yet think, Messieurs," as the Petitioner justly urged, "you who were our saviours, did yourselves need saviours,"--the brave Bastillers, namely; workmen of Paris; many of them in straightened pecuniary circumstances! (Moniteur: Seance du Samedi 18 Juillet 1789 (in Histoire Parlementaire, ii. 137.) Subscriptions are opened; Lists are formed, more accurate than Elie's; harangues are delivered. A Body of Bastille Heroes, tolerably complete, did get together;--comparable to the Argonauts; hoping to endure like them. But in little more than a year, the whirlpool of things threw them asunder again, and they sank. So many highest superlatives achieved by man are followed by new higher; and dwindle into comparatives and positives! The Siege of the Bastille, weighed with which, in the Historical balance, most other sieges, including that of Troy Town, are gossamer, cost, as we find, in killed and mortally wounded, on the part of the Besiegers, some Eighty-three persons: on the part of the Besieged, after all that straw-burning, fire-pumping, and deluge of musketry, One poor solitary invalid, shot stone-dead (roide-mort) on the battlements; (Dusaulx: Prise de la Bastille, p. 447, &c.) The Bastille Fortress, like the City of Jericho, was overturned by miraculous sound.


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Schoolgirl Reese Fenton's Experience Barnsley design is icing on the birthday cake
Schoolgirl Reese Fenton's prize really is the icing on the cake after winning a competition to design a poster to celebrate the fifth birthday of Experience Barnsley Museum.
It was made into the topping of special birthday cake to mark the occasion at a VIP party at the venue inside the iconic Town Hall.
Reese, aged 10, of Cawthorne CE Primary School, won the museum's poster competition which was judged by the then Mayor of Barnsley, Coun Jeff Ennis.
Her design itself features a birthday cake, covered in candles, with images representing Experience Barnsley including the Town Hall tower and display items such as artefacts from a a recent Ancient Egypt exhibition.
All the elements were used on Experience Barnsley's publicity material in the run-up to its landmark anniversary.
The event was hosted by Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust – a charity set up to raise funds and safeguard the future of the borough's five museums, also including The Cooper Gallery, Elsecar Heritage Centre, Cannon Hall and Worsbrough Mill.
Barnsley Museums, run by the council with charity fundraising support from BMHT, is showcasin all five of its free entry museums as part of its first week-long Experience Barnsley Festival.
The Festival culminates on Saturday - June 30, 10am to 4pm - with a History Day in the Experience Barnsley Museum. For more information visit www.experience-barnsley.com.
READ MORE: Experience Barnsley Festival 2018 celebrates town's past, present and future with week of special events - CLICK HERE.
Experience Barnsley, the town's social history museum, has hundreds of exhibits donated by local people, from a prehistoric axe head, coal and glass industry artefacts to Dickie Bird and Arctic Monkeys memorabilia. It has attracted almost half a million visitors since it opened in 2013.
The Cooper Gallery, with its art collection by the likes orTurner and Wadsworth; Elsecar Heritage Centre, boasting a full size working steam railway, restored workshops and shops; Cannon Hall, a Georgian country house, currently hosting a Rembrandt masterpiece in its Dutch Golden Age exhibition and Worsbrough Mill, a 17th Century working water mill where visitors can take home flour as it was made 400 years ago.
For more information, including links to all the museums, visit www.barnsley-museums.com.
To make a donation to Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust visit www.bmht.org.


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Make sure to take some time this weekend to eat, drink, and be merry (and maybe catch up on your reading, like our good pal Snoopy here).
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Caldwell Masterworks Set # 1 - DSM3106 - Dragon's Blood - Female Fighter By Clyde Caldwell
Sculpted by Dennis Mize
Matt really did an outstanding job on this piece. Clyde really liked what Dennis did with the Dragon head. On the green we used some poster putty to stick the weapon arm on to provide a rough look on what the miniature will look like put together. Dennis had to turn her head to ensure no mold lines down the face.
Painted by Matt Verzani
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text: Kenya has been praised for its policies regarding agriculture, but investment could improve things further.According to All Africa, the continent is facing severe land degradation due to poor agricultural practices and deforestation.However, private sector investment in tree-based restoration technologies could help reverse this issue.The international investment forum, Mobilising Private Investment in Trees and Landscaping Restoration in Africa suggested that restoration techniques could offer income from for private sector investors.Frank Place, head of impact assessment at the World Agroforestry Centre in Kenya, commented: "The emphasis is on identifying specific technologies suited to the environmental and market context that will also generate private benefits to [small-scale farmers who own land]."[But] planting trees of almost any type can have a positive effect on the environment in terms of soil health improvement and support for biodiversity."Kenya has already made a "bold policy move" by requiring its farmers to dedicate ten per cent of agricultural land to trees.


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Progress and Poverty (George)/Chapter XIII
Chapter XIII The primary cause of industrial depressions[edit]
There is a cause, not yet adverted to, that must be taken into consideration to explain fully the influence of material progress upon the distribution of wealth. That cause is the confident expectation of the future enhancement of land values which arises in all progressive countries from the steady increase of rent and which leads to speculation, or the holding of land for a higher price than it would otherwise bring.
We have hitherto assumed, as is generally assumed in elucidations of the theory of rent, that cultivation extends to less productive points only as opportunities at the more productive points are fully utilized. But in rapidly progressing communities, where the steady increase of rent gives confidence to calculations of further increase, this is not the case. The confident expectation of increased prices produces, to a greater or less extent, the effects of a combination among landholders and tends to the withholding of land from use in expectation of higher prices, thus, forcing the margin of cultivation farther than required by the necessities of production.
This may be seen in every rapidly growing city. If the land of superior quality as to location were always fully used before land of inferior quality was resorted to, no vacant lots would be left as the city extended nor would we find miserable shanties in the midst of costly buildings. These lots, some of them extremely valuable, are withheld from use or from the full use to which they might be put, because their owners, not being able or not wishing to develop them, prefer, in expectation of the advance of land values, to hold them for a higher rate than could now be obtained from those willing to develop them. And in consequence of this land being withheld from use, or from the full use of which it is capable, the margin of the city is pushed away so much farther from the centre.
But when we reach the limits of the growing city - the actual margin of building which corresponds to the margin of cultivation in agriculture - we shall not find the land purchasable at its value for agricultural purposes, as it would be were rent determined simply by present requirements; but we shall find that, for a long distance beyond the city, land bears a speculative value based upon the belief that it will be required in the future for urban purposes; we shall find that, to reach the point at which land can be purchased at a price not based upon urban rent, we must go very far beyond the actual margin of urban use.
Effects of land speculation[edit]
Given, then, a progressive community in which population is increasing and one improvement succeeds another, land must constantly increase in value. This steady increase naturally leads to speculation in which future increase is anticipated and land values are carried beyond the point at which, under the existing conditions of production, the accustomed returns would be left to labour and capital.
Production therefore begins to stop. There is not necessarily, or even probably, an absolute diminution in production; but there is what in a progressive community would be equivalent to an absolute diminution of production in a stationary community - a failure in production to increase proportionately, owing to the failure of new increments of labour and capital to find employment at the accustomed rates.
This stoppage of production at some points must necessarily show itself at other points of the industrial network in a cessation of demand which would again check production there and thus the paralysis would communicate itself through all the interlacings of industry and commerce producing everywhere a partial disjointing of production and exchange and resulting in the phenomena that see to show over-production or over-consumption, according to the standpoint from which they are viewed.
The period of depression thus ensuing would continue until (1) the speculative advance in rents had subsided; or (2) the increase in the efficiency of labour, owing to the growth of population and the progress of improvement, had enabled the normal rent line to overtake the speculative rent line; or (3) labour and capital had become reconciled to engaging in production for smaller returns. Or, most probably, all three of these causes would cooperate to produce a new equilibrium, at which all the forces of production would again engage, and a season of activity ensue; whereupon rent would begin to advance again, a speculative advance would again take place, production be again checked, and the same round be gone over.
Conflicting explanations[edit]
These seasons of depression are always preceded by seasons of activity and speculation, and on all hands the connection between the two is admitted - the depression being looked upon as the reaction from the speculation, as the headache of the morning is the reaction from the debauch of the night. But as to the manner in which the depression results from the speculation, there are two classes or schools of opinion.
One school say that the speculation produced the depression by causing over-production and they point to warehouses filled with goods that cannot be sold at remunerative prices, to mills closed or working on half-time, to mines shut down and steamers laid up, to money lying idly in bank vaults and to workmen compelled to idleness and privation. They point to these facts as showing that the production has exceeded the demand for consumption and they point moreover to the fact that when government during war enters the field as an enormous consumer brisk times prevail
The other school say that the speculation has produced the depression by leading to over-consumption, and point to full warehouses, rusting steamers, closed mills, and idle workmen as evidences of a cessation of effective demand, which, they say, evidently results from the fact that people, made extravagant by a fictitious prosperity, have lived beyond their means and are now obliged to retrench - that is, to consume less wealth. They point, moreover, to the enormous consumption of wealth by wars, by the building of unremunerative railways, by loans to bankrupt governments, etc., as extravagances which, though not felt at the time, just as the spendthrift does not at the moment feel the impairment of his fortune, must now be made up by a season of reduced consumption.
Neither over-production nor over-consumption[edit]
Each of these theories evidently expresses one side or phase of a general truth, but each of them evidently fails to comprehend the full truth. As an explanation of the phenomena, each is equally and utterly preposterous.
For while the great masses of men want more wealth than they can get, how can there be over-production? And while the machinery of production wastes and producers are condemned to unwilling idleness, how can there be over-consumption?
When, with the desire to consume more, there coexist the ability and willingness to produce more, industrial and commercial paralysis cannot be charged either to over-production or to over-consumption. Manifestly, the trouble is that production and consumption cannot meet and satisfy each other.
How does this inability arise? It is evidently and by common consent the result of speculation. But of speculation in what? Certainly not of speculation in things which are the products of labour - in agricultural or mineral productions or manufactured goods, for the effect of speculation in such things is simply to equalize supply and demand, and to steady the interplay of production and consumption by an action analogous to that of a fly-wheel in a machine.
If speculation be the cause of these industrial depressions, it must be speculation in things not the production of labour, but yet necessary to the exertion of labour in the production of wealth - of things of fixed quantity; that is to say, it must be speculation in land.
The check to production[edit]
All trade, let it be remembered, is the exchange of commodities for commodities, and hence the cessation of demand for some commodities, which marks the depression of trade, is really a cessation in the supply of other commodities. That dealers find their sales declining and manufacturers find orders falling off, while the things which they have to sell, or stand ready to make, are things for which there is yet a widespread desire, simply shows that the supply of other things, which in the course of trade would be given for them, has declined. In common parlance we say that "buyers have no money," or that "money is becoming scarce," but in talking in this way we ignore the fact that money is but the medium of exchange. What the would-be buyers really lack is not money, but commodities which they can turn into money - what is really becoming scarcer is produce of some sort. The diminution of the effective demand of consumers is therefore but a result of the diminution of production.
This is seen very clearly by storekeepers in a manufacturing town when the mills are shut down and operatives are thrown out of work. It is the cessation of production that deprives the operatives of means to make the purchases they desire and thus leaves the storekeeper with what, in view of lessened demand his a superabundant stock, forcing him to discharge some of his clerks and otherwise reduce his demands. And the cessation of demand (I am speaking, of course, of general cases and not of any alteration in relative demand from such causes as change of fashion) which has left the manufacturer with superabundant stock and compelled him to discharge his hands, must arise in the same way. Somewhere, it may be at the other end of the world, a check in production has produced a check in the demand for consumption. The lessening of demand without want being satisfied shows that production is somewhere checked.
People want as much as ever the things the manufacturer makes just as the operatives want the things the storekeeper has to sell. But they do not have as much to give for them. Production has somewhere been checked and this reduction in the supply of some things has shown itself in cessation of demand for others, the check propagating itself through the whole framework of industry and exchange.
The real obstacle[edit]
The industrial pyramid manifestly rests on the land. The primary and fundamental occupations, which create a demand for all others, are evidently those that extract wealth from nature; and hence, if from one exchange point to another and from one occupation to another we trace this check to production, which shows itself in decreased purchasing power, we must ultimately find it in some obstacle that checks labour in expending itself on land. And that obstacle, it is clear, is the speculative advance in rent, or the value of land, which produces the same effects as (in fact, it is) a lock-out of labour and capital by landowners.
This check to production, beginning at the basis of interlaced industry, propagates itself from exchange point to exchange point, cessation of supply becoming failure of demand, until, so to speak, the whole machine is thrown out of gear, and the spectacle is everywhere presented of labour going to waste while labourers suffer from want. Though custom has dulled us to it, it is a strange and unnatural thing that men who wish to labour, in order to satisfy their wants, cannot find the opportunity. We talk about the supply of labour and the demand for labour, but evidently these are only relative terms. The supply of labour is everywhere the same - two hands always come into the world with one mouth; and the demand for labour must always exist as long as men want things which labour alone can procure.
We talk about the "want of work," but evidently it is not work that is short while want continues; the supply of labour cannot be too great, nor the demand for labour too small, when people suffer for the lack of things that labour produces. The real trouble must be that supply is somehow prevented from satisfying demand, that somewhere there is an obstacle which prevents labour from producing the things that labourers want.
Denial of access to land[edit]
When we speak of labour creating wealth, we speak metaphorically. Man creates nothing. The whole human race, were they to labour for ever, could not create the tiniest mote that floats in a sunbeam - could not make this rolling sphere one atom heavier or one atom lighter. In producing wealth, labour with the aid of natural forces but works up preexisting matter into the forms desired and must therefore have access to this matter and to these forces - that is to say, to land. The land is the source of all wealth. It is the mine from which must be drawn the ore that labour fashions. It is the substance to which labour gives the form. And hence, when labour cannot satisfy its wants, may we not with certainty infer that it can be from no other cause than that labour is denied access to land?
When in all trades there is what we call scarcity of employment, when everywhere labour wastes while desire is unsatisfied, must not the obstacle that prevents labour from producing the wealth it needs lie at the foundation of the industrial structure? That foundation is land. Milliners, optical instrument makers, gilders and polishers are not the pioneers of new settlements. Miners did not go to California or Australia because shoemakers, tailors, machinists and printers were there. But those trades followed the miners. It is not the storekeeper who is the cause of the farmer; it is the farmer who brings the storekeeper. It is not the growth of the city that develops the country - it is the development of the country that makes the city grow.
If men now unemployed were given the opportunity to produce wealth from the land, they would not only be employing themselves, but would be employing all the mechanics of the city, giving custom to the storekeepers, trade to the merchants, audiences to the theatres and subscribers and advertisements to the newspapers. I do not mean to say that every unemployed man could turn farmer or build himself a house, if he had the land; but that enough could and would do so to give employment to the rest. What is it, then, that prevents labour from employing itself on this land? Simply, that it has been monopolized and is held at speculative prices, based not upon present value, but upon the added value that will come with the future growth of population.
Let the reader remember that it is only the main causes and general courses of industrial depressions that we are seeking to trace or in fact that it is possible to trace with any exactness. Political Economy can only deal, and has only need to deal, with general tendencies. The derivative forces are so multiform, the actions and reactions are so various, that the exact character of the phenomena cannot be predicted. We know that if a tree is cut through it will fall, but precisely in what direction will be determined by the inclination of the trunk, the spread of the branches, the impact of the blows, the quarter and force of the wind; and even a bird lighting on a twig, or a frightened squirrel leaping from bough to bough, will not be without its influence. We know that an insult will arouse a feeling of resentment in the human breast, but to say how far and in what way it will manifest itself, would require a synthesis which would build up the entire man and all his surroundings, past and present.
The social phenomena which all over the civilized world appall the philanthropist and perplex the statesman, which hang with clouds the future of the most advanced races and suggest doubts of the reality and ultimate goal of what we have fondly called progress, are now explained.
The reason why, in spite of the increase of productive power, wages constantly tend to a minimum that will give but a bare living, is that, with increase in productive power, rent tends to even greater increase, thus producing a constant tendency to the forcing down of wages.
This explanation is in accordance with all the facts.


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OSLO, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Norwegian Finance Holding (NOFI) , which is part owned by Norwegian Air, plans to launch banking services in Europe outside of the Nordic region, it said on Friday.
NOFI said it has set up a European banking operation jointly with HBK Holding, the investment firm controlled by Norwegian Air Chief Executive Bjoern Kjos, and it will apply for a banking licence in Ireland.
Operating under the brand name Bank Norwegian, NOFI has seen rapid growth since its 2007 launch and now has a higher stock market value than the airline from which it was created.
"The bank's existing business and customer growth in the Nordic region is very strong and continues to be positive. We will now increase our efforts to export the business model to other markets in Europe," NOFI's CEO Tine Wollebekk said.
The banking services operation is registered in Ireland and called Lilienthal Finance Limited, of which NOFI will initially own at least 40 percent.
Lilienthal will have the same rights to use Norwegian's brand in Europe outside the Nordic region as Bank Norwegian has in the Nordics.
Norwegian Air is NOFI's biggest shareholder with a 16.4 percent stake.
"We have entered into an agreement that allows the bank's shareholders, including (Norwegian Air) itself, the opportunity to capitalize on the values associated with the Norwegian brand along with efficient operations and digital banking solutions," Bjoern Kjos said in a statement.
NOFI's shares rose on the news to trade up 6.6 percent at 70.8 crowns by 1000 GMT. Norwegian Air, which fell sharply on Thursday following weak November traffic data, rose 6.4 percent. (Reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Susan Fenton and Gareth Jones)


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Author : Major Saras Tripathi
Publisher : Manas Publications, New Delhi (2015)
Price : Rs. 995
pp. : 375
This is an intriguing name for a book, especially when its contents are the observations of a recently commissioned young army officer on his first posting to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in the midst of a raging proxy war. The combination of passion, curiosity and professionalism is rarely seen in one so young, but Major Saras Tripathi of 6 Maratha LI (then a young lieutenant) has succeeded in doing so. Many books have been written on the proxy war being waged in J&K that has now entered its third decade, and there is seemingly no end in sight. While 'Holy Sinners' is all about the proxy war, two aspects that are different stand out. Firstly, it is down to earth and as realistic as possible, as it deals with what I call the 'business end of counter insurgency (CI) and counter terrorist (CT) operations', viz., sub-unit and small-team operations. The focus is more on the planning and conduct of such operations, about which very little has been written. The reason is that most writings about the problems and the on-going proxy war in J&K are penned by persons far removed from the action, and most touch on issues at the historical, policy and strategic levels. Secondly, the events or rather episodes covered relate more to the human aspects rather than to a war-fighting perspective, which of course is what one usually reads about in newspapers, magazines and books.
It is also not a book regarding the rights and wrongs of the continuing struggle, but looks at the turmoil in the minds of the three dramatis personae. These three are 'the army and other security forces', who are bravely fighting a difficult battle; 'the highly motivated and indoctrinated insurgents/terrorists' and the 'majority of people of J&K', who find themselves caught in the middle.
The book is in two broad time-zones. The first is during the period 1992-94, when the insurgency was at its height in the Srinagar Valley and the author was involved with 'search and destroy', 'raids', 'area domination patrols', 'screening suspects' et al. The second period relates to his tenure on the Line of Control (LoC) in one of the forward most picquets in the Uri Sector during the period 1997-99, when he was an experienced company commander, albeit still with only six/seven years of service under his belt.
There are a total of 14 chapters in the book, of which 12 deal with operations against insurgents, and only two relate to the management of the LoC. Each chapter is self-contained, dealing with a particular episode from beginning to end, containing actions as well as observations of a young army officer. Some of these are highly profound.
The first chapter is about five hard core terrorists, who were killed in a chilling and long encounter. The other episodes of note are the bravery and sacrifices of two brave soldiers, Sepoy Roundal Bajirao, later decorated with Shaurya Chakra; and Havildar Shivaji, later decorated with a Kirti Chakra, both posthumously; and chapters devoted to a hapless mother yearning for her son; the cunning 'Salafi Baba' and a simple grandmothers' dilemma. As the author writes in the prologue – 'the book is a strange mix of the love bestowed on him, alongside the undeserved hate thrown on him for doing his duty, along with the pain of the Kashmiris'.
Inevitably, the importance of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is highlighted, along with the self-imposed restraints by the army hierarchy to ensure that fair play prevails and only minimum force is used. The episodes described bring out these aspects clearly, as opposed to those who though far removed from the scene, pontificate on the removal of this enabling law, without understanding it.
There are two common threads between the two periods. The first is the perfidy of Pakistan, whether through insurgents trained in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (POK) or through Pakistani Army personnel posted on the LoC The second is the human aspect of the tragedy of Kashmir, and how the common people are coping.
This book needs to be read not just by soldiers or the people of Kashmir or analysts and political leaders, but all right thinking persons who appreciate the bravery and courage of the men and women of our military, especially the humble jawans and young officers involved in a thankless job for the nation, and who empathise with the people so cruelly caught in the vortex of violence.
This book was released on 12 January 2015 by Gen. (Dr.) V. K. Singh, Minister of State for External affairs and Overseas Indian Affairs, and (IC) Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation.


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The Philadelphia Eagles claimed their victory over the Carolina Panthers in a 28-23 showdown, now progressing to 5-1 on the season.
Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz overshadowed Panthers counterpart Cam Newtown, despite the Eagles having a slow start to the game.
Wentz had a huge game, throwing for 222 yards and scoring three touchdowns against one of the top defensive teams of the NFL.
The Eagles, fired back turning two interceptions deep in Carolina territory into 15 points, going on to score two touchdown passes by Wentz and Zach Ertz. Wentz later added a 24-yard scoring pass to Nelson Agholor late in the fourth quarter.
Eagles coach Doug Pederson commended Wentz's performance despite stil being new to the big league.
"He's a great leader of this football team, even in his second year," said Pederson.
Panthers quarterback Cam Newtown managed to throw three interceptions for Caroline, with the first to being inside the teams 20. His third interception by Jalen Mills came with only 3 minutes and 6 seconds left on the clock, leaving no chance for a break in the scoreboard.
Panthers middleliner backer Luke Kuechly was put into concussion protocol after his body crumpled, due to a collision with Eagles pulling guard Brandon Brooks. Due to concussions, Kuechly has missed nine games over two seasons.
Panthers Captain Munnerlyn told Sports Illustrated that Luke's absence on the field had been felt by the team.
"Luke is a big part of what we do, " he said.
As the next round in this years season approaches, the Eagles are set to host the Washington Redskins on October 23, while the Panthers are set to meet the Chicago Bears on October 22.


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