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William Woodman (Old Customs of Morpeth, Procs. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, 1892) says that at the hiring fair on the eve and day of Ascension Day: "The stalls were more numerous and of a better class than now. Some came year after year...a stall for ballads and a great number for toys and gingerbread, Billy Purvis's, and two or three penny shows."
Woodman implies that Billy attended regularly at Morpeth Fair.
William Purvis was born at Auchendinny in 1784, the son of a tailor. The family came to Newcastle when he was two, and settled in The Close.
In 1794, he became a drummer in a regiment of Gentlemen Volunteers. At 16 he was apprenticed to a carpenter and joiner, and became resident drummer at the Theatre Royal, progressing to call-boy and assistant carpenter. People in those days often had several jobs and taking an afternoon off was not a problem.
He learnt dancing, singing, speaking and acrobatics from watching performers. He also took part in amateur theatricals, performing the standard repertoire of the time, Venice Preserv'd, Douglas, Love-à-la-Mode, etc.
It was usual to finish with a lightweight piece. Billy wrote a pantomime, Harlequin Woodcutter, in which he took the part of Clown. A showman, Mr Ord, saw him at North Shields and asked him to be his clown at Newcastle Races on the Town Moor.
Billy was married and he and his wife lived with his parents. To them, amateur theatricals were alright, but being a mountebank was not. Old Mr Purvis was so incensed that Billy resolved not to go near the races. But he changed his mind, played the clown, and next day met a storm of abuse. His wife threw the guinea he earned, equal to a week's wages, into the fireplace.
He retrieved it and clowned for Mr Ord again; going to Monkseaton to entertain colliers, and to Stagshawbank Fair, Mr Ord paying him well.
Billy's father was also door-keeper at the Assembly Rooms, and in 1808 Billy took over from him. Dances were like country dances, couples dancing in line and performing intricate manoeuvres. Billy never had lessons, but quickly learnt the steps and was so proficient that some men intending to get up a Christmas ball begged him to teach them. The following winter he opened a dancing school and soon had three classes running through the evening.
He was invited to become Drum Major in the Hexham Local Militia, took employment there with Mr Nicholson, joiner, moved his family to Hexham, and again opened a dancing school. Having the only suitable room in town, he lent it free to conjurors and other entertainers in return for teaching him their tricks.
In 1815, following the Battle of Waterloo, he made an effigy of Napoleon and paraded it through Hexham, with a band playing 'See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes', repeating it at Corbridge and Warden, where 'Boney' was duly burnt. It was a great success, but Mr Nicholson was ill-pleased, and Billy left in dudgeon.
A showman called Powell asked him to be his drummer at Stagshawbank Fair, and at the age of 31, Billy turned professional.
At Corbridge, Powell's clown left abruptly, and Billy took his place. They visited Blanchland, Chapel, Wolsingham, Newcastle, Newbiggin, Blyth, Bedlington, Morpeth and Stamfordham, where they were parading through the village to advertise the show when: "They were saluted by a number of young gentlemen from the Rev. Mr Rawe's boarding-school, who were accompanied by the Rev. gentleman himself and his Usher.
"The parson being much taken up with Billy's local manners and his style of canvassing the lottery tickets, paid their establishment a visit. Billy sang local songs, gave comic recitations, and the strains of his pipes being quite new to the company, the night went off successfully."
Billy's pipes were union pipes, bellows-operated like the Northumbrian pipes, but bigger, more complicated, and played sitting down. Our picture shows him playing the Northumbrian pipes, but this is incorrect.
They travelled to Edinburgh. On the homeward journey, Billy left the company at Etal, returned to Newcastle, and re-opened his dancing school for the winter.
"Summer returning, and the dancing school over, he again took to rambling, going to Kirkley Thorn and Belsay Red House. Here, after a prosperous performance, a ludicrous event occurred. He was entertaining a few friends...when a loud rap came to the door, and a party of four gentlemen appeared on horseback, including Mr Flint, steward of Belsay Castle. Billy...readily consented to gratify them with a few tricks."
One gentleman, Mr Frazer: "interfered so much that his conduct became intolerable. Billy happened to whisper, that 'if he had the lock put upon his jaw it would serve him right'. One of the party said, 'Well Purvis, if you can play him a trick, do so; he has boasted all the way from the fair of being able to make a fool of you'.
"Billy watched his opportunity, and after repeated interruptions he requested the company's attention to a new and never before attempted trick; to mark a penny, place it in Mr Frazer's mouth, then command it into the pocket of any gentleman he might wish. Mr Frazer disputed the possibility, nevertheless he marked the penny, placed it edgeways between his teeth, but refused to allow Billy to give it the magic touch.
"After repeated refusals, he yielded. The position of the coin kept his teeth apart, one side being inside his mouth, the other outside. Billy began, 'Hocus-pocus conjurocus cockleorumjig', and touching the penny, instantly Frazer's cheek was bound hard and fast with the 'padlock'.
"Feeling the temporary lockjaw, he cursed and swore. Billy bolted through a door, which snecking only from the inside, the other could not open...his rage knew no bounds, he kicked, and flung, and hammered, till with a crash in went a panel of the door.
"After much trouble Mr Flint and his friends got the bear's anger cooled, who, getting into somewhat better temper, sent for Billy to unlock his jaw, which was quickly done."
Billy adds: "We now adjourned to another apartment, and at the expense of Mr F's friends I was treated to sundry glasses of grog, concluding the evening harmoniously."
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Mrs Kim Bibby-Wilson for information on the union pipes.


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One of the major lessons I learned while househunting a few years ago was that I do not like to go into strangers' homes. Even when they're cleaned up for showing, there's something bizarre and slightly creepy about walking into a lived-in house while the owners are away, then wandering through their things, judging everything. Of course, some people's ideas of the definition of "cleaned up" might have something to do with this. Also, there was this odd phase in Alaskan home-building (1968-1992) where everyone wanted saunas in their homes. Then they decided to stop sweating in the privacy of their own homes and either started storing things in there (guns, food, shoes) or carpeted them and pretended they were normal rooms (they aren't).
Also, most people don't have books. [insert sad, slightly bewildered face here].
There is one kind of space that I like to peek at, though, and that's the places in which writers work. My fellow Carina Press author David Bridger posted a photo of himself in his work space, and a bunch of us are following suit. Following is a picture of me working inside my carpeted sauna.
Just kidding. Claustrophobic here. That would never work.
Here's my work space. (Sorry for the photo quality) I didn't really clean it up but believe me when I say that every single thing on that desk has a purpose, down to the oxidized metal elephant.
And here is me in said workspace. I mostly work on the laptop, and the desk is usually behind me. I am joined here by part of the kitteh known as Lola. She is, in this very moment, sinking her claws quite deeply into the flesh of my thigh, hence the stilted expression.
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While upside-down cake shouts good times, it also invites thoughts of panic about 'the moment' of turning said cake on its head, and brings to mind the need for specialty baking pans, which you probably don't own and would have to run out and buy in order to make it.
Stop. Stay where you are. All you need to bake this cake is… a frying pan. That's right, gyrate on into the kitchen and whip out your skillet. It's baking time.
I made this cake for the first time to serve to guests — a daredevil move I generally advise against — and was wowed by how simple it turned over, and turned out to be.
This recipe is also an excellent foray into baking with rhubarb. Rhubarb is in season and the long stalks can been seen stretching out all over greengrocers and markets of the farmer and super variety. The stalks range in colour from dark pink to light green (I point this out to allay fears in anyone who saw the photo and thought I baked a celery cake) and the hue doesn't affect the taste. If, like me, you don't like your desserts super sweet, the mellow tartness of rhubarb is an ideal starring ingredient.
Upside-Down Rhubarb Cake
Adapted from: Desserts: Over 200 Classic Recipes from Around the World
At first glance this book appears one you'd pass up — it looks glossy in a generic way, there's no known chef attached, and it's published by the rather staid Reader's Digest. I received it as a gift and have been impressed by the recipes I've made so far, and appreciate the clear instructions and multitude of photos. Choosing an international trio of authors makes sense for a book promising recipes from around the world. The recipe quantities are even given in metric and imperial figures.
The book's introduction asks: "Have you ever wished you could wave a magic wand at the end of a meal and produce the perfect apple pie...?"
Disney-style magic isn't going to get this done for you, but some basic ingredients, a frying pan, and a little Diana Ross playing in the background sure will.
1/4 cup (60g) unsalted butter
1 cup (200g) firmly packed light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
12 ounces (350g) trimmed rhubarb stalks, cut into 1-inch (2.5cm) pieces
1 1/3 cups (200g) all-purpose (plain) flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)
1/4 teaspoon of salt
3/4 cup (180ml) buttermilk
2 tablespoons sour cream
2 large eggs
1/3 cup (90ml) vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract (essence)
2 tablespoons candied ginger, finely chopped
Preheat the oven to 350F (180C/gas 4). Over medium heat, melt the butter in a frying pan (recipe advises using a 9.5 inch/24 cm pan but I used an 11 inch pan and was happy with the results. Make sure the pan is overproof, including the handle).
Stir in the ground ginger and 1/2 cup (100g) of the brown sugar, stirring constantly as this mix cooks for a few minutes. Take off the heat and topple the chopped rhubarb on top of this carmelised goodness making sure it's somewhat evenly distributed.
In a medium bowl mix together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In another bowl use an electric mixer fitted with a wire whisk to beat together the remaining brown sugar with the buttermilk, sour cream, eggs, oil, and vanilla extract, then stir in the candied ginger. Beat in the flour mix, on low speed, until thoroughly combined.
Pour the cake mix on top of the frying pan ingredients, and smooth out the surface.
Pop the frying pan into the oven and bake for approximately 30 minutes. It's ready when the cake is golden brown and feels springy when you touch the center. Cool for 10 minutes.
Now for the exhilarating part! Run a knife around the edge of the cake. Place a big plate, or dish on top, making sure it covers the entire pan well. Now quickly flip the pan over. Et voila, your cake is upside down, and the glimmering rhubarb and brown sugar glaze is on show. Delicious served warm with ice cream or if left to cool, with a dollop of whipped cream.
Love your Leftovers: The stickiness of this cake keeps it from drying out. Place in an air tight container or under a cake dome and enjoy it for a few days.


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SUICIDE SQUAD Meets THE BANANA SPLITS, More In DC/HANNA-BARBERA Crossover Titles
DC Comics' burgeoning Hanna-Barbera line is pulling in some DC heroes for a series of one-shot crossovers, while also sneaking in some additional animation characters into the mix. Four annual are scheduled to be released on March 29, 2017, mixing DC and Hanna-Barbera heroes: Adam Strange/Future Quest Annual #1, Booster Gold/The Flintstones Annual #1, Green Lantern/Space Ghost Annual #1, and Suicide Squad/The Banana Splits Annual #1.
As part of that, each will have a back-up story featuring a returning Hanna-Barbera property, ranging from the Jetsons to Top Cat, Ruff & Ready, and Snagglepuss.
And interesting enough, the wording on one of the book's descriptions place it firmly in DC's "Rebirtth" continuity.
Written by Marc Andreyko and Jeff Parker
Art by Steve Lieber
Backup Feature: TOP CAT
Written by Dan DiDio
Art by Phil Winslade
Following the events of the DEATH OF HAWKMAN miniseries, Adam Strange is blasted through multiple dimensions only to land on Earth! But instead of super powered beings and legendary crime fighters, he encounters a boy adventurer and his scientist father – and they're the only ones who can help him return home. Jonny Quest, Hadji, Dr. Benton Quest and Race Bannon have a plan, but it's going to involve a dangerous trek through Dino Boy's Lost Valley of prehistoric threats!
And in the backup feature starring Top Cat, breaking out of prison is challenging enough for an anthropomorphic cat, but what happens when it means stumbling through a cosmic portal to planet Earth, right into the hands of Batman?
Written by Mark Russell
Art by Rick Leonardi and Scott Hanna
Backup Feature: THE JETSONS
Written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti
Art by Pier Brito
Welcome to the 25th Century, where the Earth is a polluted, post-industrial nightmare, most animals are extinct and reptilian aliens are invading cities across the planet! In their time of need, the world's citizens turn to the time-traveling Booster Gold to save the day. To learn why these aliens are attacking Earth, Booster dives deep into the prehistoric past to see what happened when they first came to the planet. In this bygone era, Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble must help Booster learn the truth and return to his own time armed with the information that will bring down the invaders – if Booster can convince them to help him out.
Harley Quinn's Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti put a new twist on an old twist about our future in THE JETSONS! The Jetsons live in a world of robotics and gadgetry. But how does dying change when grandma's brain can be digitally imprinted onto a housecleaning robot?
Written by James Tynion IV and Chris Sebela
Art by Ariel Olivetti
Backup Feature: RUFF AND REDDY
Story and art by Howard Chaykin
Trapped in a strange rift in time, Green Lantern and Space Ghost are forced to battle a variety of foes – and each other! And even if they manage to survive, they will be thrown into a world with no concept of interstellar travel – or even what an alien is! Stripped of their weapons by a xenophobic culture, the duo will have to battle to regain them – but what happens when Space Ghost dons the Lantern Ring and Hal Jordan puts on the Power Bands?
Iconic writer Howard Chaykin puts a modern spin on one of Hanna-Barbera's earliest animated animal teams! Ruff and Reddy were once the toast of nightclubs, variety shows late night chat fests and Broadway. Learn how they became the comedic duo of yesterday… Before they hit rock bottom today!
Written by Tony Bedard
Art by Ben Caldwell
Backup Feature: SNAGGLEPUSS
Written by Mark Russell
Art by Dale Eaglesham
"Suicide Splits" pairs up Saturday morning's animal rock band with Amanda Waller's Task Force X, the dirtiest players in the game! Mistaken for metahumans and thrown into the bowels of Belle Reve Penitentiary, the Banana Splits are recruited by Amanda Waller for a secret mission: Save the Suicide Squad! What follows is quite possibly the weirdest team up ever; how will Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snorky stand up to Harley, Deadshot, Katana and Killer Croc?
Mark Russell brings his hilariously satirical style to this backup feature, where Snagglepuss is a Southern gothic playwright working with an ensemble cast of cultural figures, exploring an intensely creative time in the New York City theater scene of the 1950's.


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Analyst Ming-Chi-Kuo of KGI Research has a new note out today on the products he expects Apple to announce through the end of the year.
As 9to5Mac notes, Kuo has a decent track record predicting future Apple gadgets, but his timing is often incorrect.
However, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said we can expect new products this fall and into 2014, so Kuo's report seems pretty realistic.
Let's break it down:
New iPhones
Kuo says to expect an iPhone 5S, or a device that looks like the current iPhone 5 but with improved internal hardware, this September. The device is likely in production now, but Kuo backs up some recent reports that Apple is experiencing supply issues. He says not to expect supply of the iPhone 5S to improve until October or November.
Kuo also backs up reports that Apple will launch a "budget" iPhone with a plastic shell. That phone should launch in early September. (We think it's unlikely that Apple would release the budget iPhone a few weeks before the new iPhone 5S though.)
New iPad
Apple will redesign the full-sized iPad this fall to look more like the iPad Mini's design. It'll be thinner, lighter, and will presumably have faster internal hardware.
It looks like Apple will push off a new iPad Mini launch until next year, according to Kuo. That also backs up some older reports.
New Macs
Finally, Kuo says Apple will release a new MacBook Pro in September and iMac in August that run on Intel's Haswell processor. Haswell processors are extremely powerful and energy efficient. This summer, Apple released a new MacBook Air with a Haswell processor


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Our longevity is mainly based on good workmanship, speedy turnaround of work, and the fact that, centrally based to the major airports in the UK, we can have engineers onsite within a couple of hours of a call.
RHE Southern Limited are major suppliers of new and used aircraft jacks and other associated ground support equipment.
We have a purpose-built testing centre and workshop for overhauling, repairing and testing of aircraft jacks.
Our jacks are available for hire and sale.
We maintain equipment for major companies such as: Thomas Cook, Air Asia, Singapore Airlines, Boeing Defence UK, FR Aviation, Boeing, ST Aerospace, Thomson Airways, Airbus Industries, Ryanair, Marshall Aerospace of Cambridge, Thales Simulation as well as numerous smaller airlines and companies.
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Hill Climbing and Interval Training Classes
Winter/Early Spring 2017 indoor classes with coach Ed Sassler
Improve your fitness and efficiency with Wheelworks' Indoor Cycling Classes. Harvard Cycling Coach, Ed Sassler, has developed a progressive series of classes to address position and develop efficient use of a cyclist's muscles for improved fitness and performance.
This is a sequence of classes, from pedal stroke 101 where the concept of muscle group isolation is introduced to intervals where it's put into action. As with any learning process, each part is built on the part before it, so it's best to take both pedal stroke classes. The hill and interval sessions are fitness based and may be too early in the season for some, but a good understanding of what the workouts should be like is always a good start.
Hill and Interval Training Classes:
This is a four week program that brings high intensity to your winter training to prepare you for the season!
Cost: $20 for each class
Size: 5 riders per class
Week 1: Hill Climbing 101 - TBA
Week 2: Hill Workout - TBA
Week 3: Interval Training 101 - TBA
Week 4: Interval Workout - TBA
Time: Show up at 6:30pm, on the bike warmed up by 7:00pm, riding until 8:00pm
Hill climbing 101: There are four ways of getting up a hill, in the saddle using the big muscles to generate torque, in the saddle geared down and spinning, out of the saddle standing on the pedals and out of the saddle sprinting. This class goes over those four methods and the pros and cons of using each one.
Hill climbing workout: This is a real workout. The point of this workout is to simulate a hill that's too hard to use just one method of climbing, forcing the rider to switch methods. There will be changes in resistance (or gear - it's on a trainer) and changes of tempo.
Interval training 101: The advantages of high intensity interval training are well documented, but the real trick is doing them while staying efficient on the bike. This class takes the basics of the pedal stroke 101 class in breaking down the pedal stroke into large muscle groups, but now we're adding them together to produce maximum power.
Interval workout: In terms of effort/time, this is the hardest workout you're going to do. It's a series of 30 second zone 5 efforts followed by recovery periods that will seem far too short. There will be two sets with 5 intervals per set - that's a total of 5 minutes of hard work, but doing these will make a huge difference in your recovery from hard efforts.
Register: By calling 617.489.3577 - ask for Indoor Cycling Class Registration
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Note: This class is intended for riders with multi-geared road bikes with drop bars. As fit on the bike is extremely important, Ed will ask to check the fit of your bike before the class begins, and if necessary schedule a complete fitting in advance of the class.
Details: Riders should be on their bikes and warming up by the start time. Trainers are supplied by the shop, but to get the most out of the class it's suggested that each rider own or purchase a trainer. Riders should bring what they ride in (you probably don't need the helmet), a towel, a water bottle.
What you will need for classes:
1) Your bicycle
2) Trainers are provided for the class, but you may want to purchase a trainer for home use to practice/train.
3) Cycling Clothes
4) Water Bottle/Hydration
5) Towel
Ed Sassler - Program Coach
Ed Sassler was a competitive cyclist from 1978 to 1993 and is best known for his climbing ability as a junior. In 1985 he started working at Wheelworks and began training with John Allis - 3 time U.S. Olympian and 1974 U.S. National Road Champion. In 1998 Ed started coaching the Harvard cycling team. His riders have found success on the regional and national level.
Location: Belmont Wheelworks - 480 Trapelo Road, Belmont
Register: By calling 617.489.3577 - ask for Indoor Cycling Class Registration
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What our clients are saying about DynaSCAPE's professional software solutionsDon't just take our word for it, find out what industry leading companies are saying.
What the pro's are saying about DynaSCAPE
Three of the landscape industry's top professionals weigh in on how DynaSCAPE has significantly impacted their business in the most positive way!
It [Manage360] has been an incredible tool for our business. Not only from a sales perspective, but also from a job costing and production perspective. … It's a heck of a program. I honestly wonder how we ever operated without it.Mark Maslow
The team over at DynaSCAPE are incredibly intelligent and really know the Landscape industry. I own and manage a $5 million dollar commercial landscape company in California. Not only are we in one of the most competitive markets in the country but we are located in the hub of technology, the Bay Area. If you don't have the right software working within your business you will be out bid and outsmarted every day. We on-boarded DynaSCAPE [Manage360] in March of 2016 and as we close this year out, I couldn't be happier with the software. We have grown our company 75% over the last 12 months, about 60% since bringing on DynaSCAPE [Manage360]. I estimate the total amount of labor hours saved each week averages about 8. Our gross profit per job has increased by 10% since bringing on DynaSCAPE [Manage360]. These are some really great Key performance Indicators that your software can really help in more ways than one. It has also improved the accuracy of our bids and more importantly, provided us with a real understanding of our costs to complete each project. Their overhead recovery methods are something that will benefit any size company. So many people make the mistake of not recovering their overhead correctly and it could result in not hitting your profit margins or not getting the job. With DynaSCAPE's estimating tools you will have a clear understanding of what your costs are, what your overhead is, and how much profit will be made on each project. This product also allows you to develop a very large material and plant database, you can attach production rates to each material which makes estimating a breeze. We have four full-time estimators and consistency is a constant struggle, with DynaSCAPE [Manage360] we have been able to provide our clients with consistent and competitive bids no matter who the estimator is. I would recommend DynaSCAPE [Manage360] to anyone that wants to streamline their estimating process and make more money.Justin White
Love the transition from AutoCAD to DynaSCAPE! The Sketch3D warehouse and plugin made my life so much easier!Alma Lebaron
I would definitely recommend it [Manage360] to anybody. The earlier you start, the easier it is to modify and tweak and understand it. And to run a business these days without having some kind of software, to be honest with you, I don't know how people would do it.Bill Banford
My production manager and office manager are all on board [with Manage360]. They log in, they update stuff, so they don't even need to talk to me. I always wondered how some companies were doing more business than we were, because I wouldn't even want it. I was so used to everything funneling through me, and I literally did not want to grow. It was too much to carry. But now, I can see that with a system like this, you could do it, because it's not all funneling through one person. There's no bottleneck. It sets up a structure to grow within.Brian Shernce
The sooner you implement it [Manage36], the more profitable you're going to be as you grow… The earlier on you can do it, the better it's going to make your company long-term.Jarod Hynson
We finally purchased DynaSCAPE after researching available software since 2008 and after years of trying to develop our own computer design system. We've drawn and rendered our landscape plans by hand since the company's founding and we've become very efficient. Now, with the program we're able to create drawings in color much more efficiently, with a high level of accuracy for production crews, and with great ease of revision to best fit clients' needs.Tony Orband
I spent a lot of hours just entering data, and the whole time I was doing it, I knew that it was going to be of benefit, and also I was learning a lot about our own company. It [Manage360] requires you to look at things through a bit of a different light than if you just keep plugging away with your head in the sand.Brian Shernce
We purchased the DynaSCAPE program about a year ago. Before purchasing the program we did our homework and believe that this is the best program out there. The graphics are beyond comparison.
We inquired within DynaSCAPE and were lucky enough to have a training session "in house" with Patrick DuChene on our DynaSCAPE programs. I would highly suggest that if you purchase the DynaSCAPE program you consider to have some training. First of all, Patrick is a professional landscape designer himself and owns his own business. This means he doesn't come from the academic standpoint, but rather from a practical side. Patrick gives lessons that easily apply to the typical designer. He makes the program easy for the novice to digest. Within one whole session, we were up and running. An amazing guy. We look forward to furthering our education with our DynaSCAPE program because there is so much more to learn and use.Dona Rawson
I recently had the pleasure of having a personal training session with Patrick DuChene of Duchene Design Solutions for DynaSCAPE Design and Color. I want to first personally thank him for a professional and well-rounded training session. Patrick was able to help familiarize myself with many of the in's and out's [the software] and set me up to be successful in the Landscape Design process. I think Patrick is well versed in the program and was able to give me many of the in's and out's of the program and show me some shortcuts and quick notes. I
To give you a quick background of myself, I am a 30 y/o Landscape Designer who is in pursuit of my Landscape Architecture License. I have worked the past 8 years doing Architectural/Civil Engineering plans, with emphasis on commercial, industrial, and residential layout design. Much of my previous software knowledge had been in AutoCAD, Microstation and Vector Works. I had no previous experience with Dynascape. Patrick had asked that I give some feedback between the different programs and offer some suggestions as to what Dynascape does well and what the other programs do.
Right off the bat, I feel DynaSCAPE is tremendous in the focus for Landscape Design professionals. It's simple/basic set-up enables users with no previous knowledge of CAD programs to have success working through the software. I enjoy the access to the landscape library (also with pictures) and how fast you can add up plant totals. The process of bringing a drawing into DynaSCAPE Color and being able to update so fast is an essential part of time management.
Now granted I have only been using DynaSCAPE for 3 weeks, but I have already done close to 10-15 drawings, so I have had some use on it. Granted, some of these features may be available, I just have yet to learn them. Like most programs, I'm sure DynaSCAPE will always be evolving and trying "everyday" to get better and better and meet more and more "Requests" from its users.Will Sewter


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Forewarned is forearmed?
Published time: 10 Mar, 2016 10:39
Knowing your enemy is critical for defending any country, but given the media tendency of turning terrorists into celebrities, how much do we really know about those pledging to harm us? And even when the knowledge is there, does forewarned always equal forearmed? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Marty Martin, the former head of the Osama bin Laden unit at the CIA.


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This panoramic photographs shows the timekeepers for the Fuller Construction Company. The men are in civilian clothing. Fuller Construction must have been one of the construction companies building Camp Funston, which was established at Fort Riley, Kansas, after the outbreak of World War I. Work began on the camp in the summer of 1917. There are a few structures in the background. The camp was named after Brigadier General Frederick Funston who grew up in Iola, Kansas, and who became well known for his role in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
Date: Between 1917 and 1918
Item Number: 226889
Call Number: 1990/004/03
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226889
Business and Industry - Construction
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Date - 1910s - 1918
Military - Facilities - Camps - Camp Funston
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Military - Wars - World War I
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What is Bhamashah Card?
Bhamashah card is issued under the Bhamashah Yojana. The Bhamashah Yojana was introduced by the government of Rajasthan with an aim to transfer financial and non-financial benefits of governmental schemes directly in a transparent and clear way. The Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje launched the scheme on 15 August 2014 in Udaipur. The scheme is named after the Bhamashah a famous minister, financier and general who helped Maharana Pratap.
The Bhamashah Financial Inclusion scheme was initiated way back in 2008. In fact, it was the first Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) programs of the country. However, due to various reasons, it went into hibernation for 5 years. With the pledge that was made to the residents, the Scheme was revamped, reactivated and launched on 68th Independence Day of India in 2014.
This initiative was a big step towards the Women Financial Empowerment. The project is expected to give financial freedom to around 1.5 crores women all over Rajasthan with a key goal to create a strong foundation of society by making the women of Rajasthan independent, empowered and capable. The project is expected to mark a new beginning in making women self-sufficient. As part of the arrangement, financial benefits from Government's other projects will all be deposited in the same bank. Rajasthan government will be investing Rs.600 crores on Bhamashah Project.
How to apply for Bhamashah Card?
If you wish to apply for Bhamashah card then that can be done online. Follow the step by step instructions mentioned below to apply.
- Visit the official website of Bhamashah Yojana through the link given http://bhamashah.rajasthan.gov.in/index.aspx
- Scroll down the page and on the bottom right you will see the option of Bhamashah Enrollment.
- Click on it and a new page will be displayed.
- An application form will be displayed. Fill in all the details asked for name, address, family name, a mobile number on which you will receive the verification code etc. Make sure you fill in all the details correctly; otherwise they would have to be rectified later.
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On Saturday, we went to a friend's house in Hermosa Beach. He was moving to New Zealand and leaving all his things behind. My mister and I were up very early in the morning, drove there in a truck and hauled all the stuff to where we live an hour away. He was starting a new life in NZ with only a suitcase and new dreams with him and nothing else. How exciting is that? He is a very generous man who gave us not only material things but also knowledge, love and hope to become better human beings. I still have a lot of work to do on that part but what matters is that I want to become a better person, everything else is just up to time and effort.
On Sunday, my twin daughter's friend turned 15 and we were invited. They wore pretty dresses, flowers on their hair and had the chance to ride in a limo for the very first time.
We stuffed ourselves with good food and hung out with lovely people. The place was breathtaking, it was held at the country club overlooking the snow capped mountaintops. I couldn't stop looking at the beautiful view. I realized that some of us become way too busy doing other things that we forget to look up at the beautiful blue sky or the star-filled sky at night. I am so guilty of that.
We often forget to look around us and see how beautiful our surroundings are. The world is so beautiful, people are beautiful. I challenge you to drop what you're doing and look around you and just be thankful that you are alive. Life is beautiful, no matter what we are going through, every day is a gift!
Happy Monday to you, whoever you are. If you are new here, I'm glad you found me and if you have been here before, I'm glad that you're back.


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When: Tomorrow (matches 9:20 a.m.-5:48 p.m.) and Sunday (9:30 a.m.-5:22 p.m.)
Teams: Pool A (South Africa, Australia, USA, Canada); Pool B (New Zealand, Kenya, France, Uruguay); Pool C (England, Samoa, Scotland, Japan); Pool D (Fiji, Argentina, Wales, Mexico)
History/overview: This will be the third annual event at Petco Park. The San Diego event is part of the eight-stop IRB Sevens series that also visits the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Australia, England and Scotland.
Tickets: One-day tickets start at $21; two-day tickets start at $42.
Sevens rugby: The sport is played on the same size field as traditional 15-player rugby, but with just seven on a side. It is a faster-paced, high-scoring game, with prelim matches lasting about 14 minutes, or about 65 minutes less than a standard rugby match; second-day matches are longer at 22 to 25 minutes, with the Cup Final 30 minutes.
9:20 a.m., Fiji vs. Wales; 9:41, Argentina vs. Mexico; 10:02, England vs. Scotland; 10:23, Samoa vs. Japan; 10:44, New Zealand vs. France; 11:05, Kenya vs. Uruguay; 11:26, South Africa vs. U.S.; 11:47, Australia vs. Canada; 12:13, Fiji vs. Mexico; 12:34, Argentina vs. Wales; 12:55, England vs. Japan; 1:16, Samoa vs. Scotland; 1:37, New Zealand vs. Uruguay; 1:58, Kenya vs. France; 2:19, South Africa vs. Canada; 2:40, Australia vs. U.S.; 3:21, Wales vs. Mexico; 3:42, Scotland vs. Japan; 4:03, France vs. Uruguay; 4:24, U.S. vs. Canada; 4:45, Fiji vs. Argentina; 5:06, England vs. Samoa; 5:27, New Zealand vs. Kenya; 5:48, South Africa vs. Australia.
Sunday Quarterfinal pool play begins at 9:30 a.m., with matches all day until the Cup Final at 5:22 p.m.
New Zealand's All Blacks rugby squad will break into its haka war dance. UC Santa Barbara's female ruggers will cheer from Petco Park's front rows, donned in red, white and blue bikinis (weather permitting).
Faces in the stands will be painted. Rugby jerseys will be a fashion statement. Beer will flow.
A party atmosphere will prevail at Petco Park tomorrow and Sunday as the USA Sevens tournament descends upon the Gaslamp District for the third consecutive year.
But down on the Petco pitch, the action will be tantamount to a job interview. Five members of the United States' national team have used the sevens games as a platform to sign professional contracts in Europe and South Africa.
Takudzwa Ngwenya (France), Todd Clever (South Africa), Chris Wyles (England), Paul Emerick (Italy) and 20-year-old Thretton Palamo (France) are all playing the game abroad on club teams in the more lucrative 15-man rugby.
The sevens-to-15s route unfolds internationally, too. Before he became one of the game's greatest 15s players, New Zealand's Jonah Lomu strutted his stuff in sevens. Lomu is regarded as a global superstar.
"The sevens game," said Emerick, "it's a chance to express yourself, to show your individuality in a team structure."
Fifteen-man rugby is played on a grass surface a little bigger than a football field. Sevens unfolds on the same-size field. Fewer players in the same amount of space means more open-field, nonstop action, the ball – and bodies – flying.
It's like a nonstop Cal-Stanford ("The Play") football finish, minus the band.
Matches last 14 minutes, so play is frenetic from the start. And with only seven players to a side, the athletes must possess a variety of skills.
"What's great about sevens is it gives you all the basic, fundamental skills required in rugby," said U.S. coach Al Caravelli. "It's the one-on-one tackling ability, the one-on-one running ability to beat your man. You've got to have ball skills and it's your (angles) running."
Dan Lyle, a former captain of the U.S. 15 team and now the USA Sevens tournament director, summed up the game succinctly.
"There's no hiding place in sevens," he said.
And in the United States, there's little money.
U.S. players are paid $100 a day during training camps and the eight International Rugby Board Sevens World Series tournaments. Not much, but $100 more than players earned four years ago.
Contrast that with Ngwenya's first contract with his Biarritz team, a reported $29,272 per-month, nine-month deal, not counting a comped apartment and Peugeot.
One of the fastest players in the world, Ngwenya, 23, a Zimbabwe native, won't be running the wings for the U.S. Eagles this weekend. Biarritz's club director refused to release him to the U.S. team for the tournament.
In 2006, 2007 and 2008, Biarritz lost players to injuries suffered at sevens tournaments in New Zealand. Understandably, Caravelli wasn't pleased.
"It just became such a nightmare dealing with them," Caravelli said.
Clever, the heartthrob, long-haired, muscular captain of the U.S. 15s team, will also miss this weekend's tournament. He's playing for his South African club team.
Wyles, 25, is the United States' leading scorer and the third-leading scorer in the IRB series with 13 tries (similar to a touchdown). His background is different than most U.S. ruggers.
Born in Connecticut, Wyles picked up the game at 12 when he moved to England. He was already playing professionally in England but was unable to crack the country's national sevens side when he tried out for the United States.
His impressive play last season enabled him to land a more lucrative contract with another English team.
Emerick, 29, played football and wrestled in Iowa before focusing on rugby. He carries one definite rugby trait: a trail of scars stretching from his scalp, where scrapes required stitches or staples at least four times, to his eyebrow and down to his lips.
"I don't know how many stitches I've had," Emerick said. "Kind of makes me wish I'd kept count."
At 6-4, 254 pounds, Palamo represents America's rugby future. The game is in his blood, his father having captained Samoa's national team.
Palamo reportedly runs a 4.6-second 40-yard dash and turned down football offers from Utah and Washington to play for Biarritz's club team.
Asked which would give him more satisfaction, scoring a try or delivering a knockout tackle, Palamo sounded very much like a rugger when he said, "The big hit.
"I've always wanted to be a player you have to fear defensively. Samoans are generally known for knocking somebody out. I guess it's in me to want to hit somebody."
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Changing Tigers Mid-Stream
1. Formulating the problem
India has been taking part in a worldwide effort to eliminate illiteracy. Since the largest single set of illiterates are in India, this is seen as uniquely our responsibility. The high numbers stretch our resources and turn sarva-shikshaa into an abhiyaan. Private sector profit-makers are not interested. Only the government, NGOs and the traditional NGOs known as religious missions are making an effort to eliminate illiteracy. These players have accepted the premise that certain categories, such as girl children, are at risk and that accordingly the system must be tweaked to accommodate those categories. This system implies that scheduled caste and scheduled tribe children get classified as needy and thus receive larger quantities of assistance. It does not imply that those in charge of the system wish to rethink the medium of instruction.
India has at the same time been trying to adjust its educational system to the needs and rights of children as individuals. The efforts that go into this type of realignment are very hard to combine with the large scale mass campaign methods of 'Education for All'. Research has shown that if we wish to enforce the educational rights of individual children, then we must provide primary schooling in their first language (usually called their 'mother tongue'); any other arrangement causes cognitive harm to the children. But there are several factors preventing us from doing this in the special case of children speaking languages that are called 'tribal' in India (in other countries the term 'indigenous' has become normal, and the word 'tribal' is seen as derogatory). Let me mention four such factors.
First, the teachers available for what is typically seen as the thankless job of teaching tribal children do not know the languages, and cannot be given this knowledge on a platter – for most of the languages, teaching and learning materials don't exist; teachers willing to learn the languages are forced to learn the language on their own.
Second, administrators in the government and NGOs are frequently convinced that schooling in tribal languages is not a sound idea.
Third, in some schools, the demographic pattern poses a specific problem: each tribal language is spoken only by a small number of children. Even with great goodwill and resources, in such places it becomes impossible to provide optimal pedagogy, and compromises have to be found.
Fourth, many children's parents are convinced that tribal language medium education is a conspiracy hatched by the elite to keep tribals underprivileged.
These difficulties mean that tribal languages are a special case and need separate consideration. In the present study I focus on the more widespread problems for first language medium education in the better established 'regional languages' like Marathi, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Bangla, Odia. I hope that readers who deal with tribal language medium education will be able to make the adjustments necessary for their own contexts. I do not wish to underestimate the severity of their difficulties, or the fact that there are no known solutions to their problems as yet. However, what is said at the end of this study will strike some of you as walking half-way to meet the specific challenges faced in the tribal context.
This first section of my paper sets itself the task of articulating in a national context the linguistic problem faced by primary and secondary educators. I am using the expression 'changing tigers mid-stream' in order to describe what we have to do during this transition. For we are moving out of an English-based and macro-socially conceived educational system; we are beginning to face the challenges of a system that takes India's regional languages seriously on their own terms and seeks to meet the needs of individual children. We have been riding on the back of an English tiger, without however ever allowing ourselves to see clearly just how dangerous this beast is. As we prepare to change our vehicle, fully aware of the dangers of the new tiger – the challenge of teaching in Indian languages – we must also take cognizance of the dangers of teaching in English, and develop strategies to address them.
We all know that regional language medium teaching systems keep a niche reserved for literacy in English and make continuous efforts to expand this niche. It is important to realize why English medium teaching systems need to make corresponding efforts to make room for literacy in Indian languages; they must do this not to satisfy mass demands, but to meet deeper needs. The importance of these deeper needs is not yet widely understood by middle-class parents and ordinary educators. But a narrow circle of educational experts do understand how important these needs are. We must inform the public about these needs, and think about how to satisfy them, before it is too late to repair the damage our educational system has been inflicting on our poor and rich children alike.
This was my two tiger articulation of the problem we face. In the rest of this study, there are short sections devoted to specific aspects of the matter. We end with a combination of theoretical and practical suggestions.
2. The 1986 'solution': Navodaya
Obviously it has long been clear that education in India is in a parlous state. Major efforts to address it began in 1986 with the National Policy on Education. That policy document affirmed that the teaching community in India had failed; it proposed a special intervention sponsored by the state, knowing that this could only rescue some children from the inadequate existing system of schooling. For this purpose, the document suggested the establishment of a network of innovative schools; in due course, this was indeed done, and these institutions were called Navodaya schools. The 1986 document held out no hope for all children; it implied that the nation could not afford to even try to save them all.
In a perspective shaped by UNESCO's Millennium Development Goals, now that India has committed itself to the complete eradication of illiteracy, does it make sense to simply upscale the Navodaya solution so that we can deliver the currently promised Education For All?
Alas, we cannot even imagine such an upscaling. For there never was a Navodaya solution in practice, or even in theory. Other than equipping its teachers with the standard normative competence that government funding can buy, the Navodaya schools have not distinguished themselves by creating a new path. The 1986 policy was fundamentally flawed.
It should not be necessary to say this; all commentators should have realized long ago, and should have told the government and the public, that 1986 had left the mimicry syndrome unaddressed. But unfortunately our elders standardly assume that – even though rote learning, mimicry, clerical reproduction and other features of our faulty study methods have been the acknowledged bane of most Indian schoolchildren – these features are just a side issue. Standard commentators have been tirelessly saying that the mimicry syndrome will vanish once we eliminate private coaching; once we train the schoolteachers according to the perfect syllabi of B.Ed. and M.Ed. courses; once we give the schools enough money to consolidate their buildings and secure the pay packages of administrators and teachers; once we achieve the other perfections repeated in every election manifesto. While the pundits are aware that obvious factors persistently keep these goals out of our reach, they nonetheless assume that the mimicry syndrome is not a separate nut to crack, but will automatically dissolve as we make progress on these other fronts.
Alas, those commentators are grotesquely wrong. The mimicry syndrome manifests mechanical hierarchy – the core malady afflicting our culture. We in India are orthodox; we want babies to grow into children who mimic, and children to grow into adults who mimic; for only mimicry guarantees mechanical obedience to hierarchically transmitted instructions. In short, we are afraid of personal independence; this is our core malady. No approach to education can succeed if it fails to address this pathology of ours.
I am embarrassed, as a professional linguist, to observe that linguistics does have a uniquely effective set of tools and can help address our core malady, but that in practice our linguists have allowed themselves to be stampeded into accepting the current state of affairs. So I dare not invoke linguistics at this point in this exposition; I shall return to its virtues and vices in a later section.
At this point, it is perhaps most useful if we categorize the major inadequacies of the National Policy on Education of 1986 in terms of three types of deficit:
Educational deficit: A serious education stimulates students, enabling them to blossom as children and to flourish as adults. The 1986 policy simply missed the point. It was not an informed educational policy at all.
Psycholinguistic deficit: Psycholinguistic research has shown that, for the languages in which a child needs to operate seriously, schooling will have to equip her with competence of two types: first, basic interactive proficiency; then, building on that foundation, cognitive-academic language proficiency (CALP), in the context of the intellectual content of secondary schooling. Given this research, we must evaluate each educational system in terms of whether it imparts CALP in the child's first language and in the language or languages of wider communication. The 1986 document evinced no awareness of the issues, and was in any case finalized at a time when these results were not widely known.
Sociolinguistic deficit: India as a polity rests on an innovative linguistic deal, built as it is around the notion of 'linguistic states' that constitutionally guarantee the rights of minority languages. Any serious educational system that intends to follow the rules must do what is required not just in order to implement constitutional provisions, but to educate each child about the linguistic rights and responsibilities of all children, on the way to an adult understanding of what is involved in being a citizen of a uniquely multilingual republic. For adults to fully participate in the public space, education needs to prepare them when they are young, connecting them with the terms of public discourse. The Indian educational system has never been seen in these terms; certainly the 1986 document did not try to do so.
Why am I spending so much time on the National Policy on Education of 1986? Writing so many years later, is it not more appropriate for me to comment on the NCF 2005 document's remarks on language and education instead?
3. Deepening democracy
I would have liked to see the NCF move away from the 1986 document towards democracy; this did not happen; hence my decision to focus on what it takes for an educational policy to direct itself towards the cultivation of the arts of democracy.
Ours is a culture of hierarchical instruction. Even democratic intellectuals write mainly (or only) in English, hoping it will all trickle down, which is a hierarchical hope. This style of theirs is more than bad pedagogy: it is a case of democratic intent subverting itself.
This subversion needs to be condemned in unequivocal terms. I have found that readers do not understand subtle prose. Let me therefore speak more explicitly.
India's elite, since independence, has kept trying to win approval from old masters in Britain and new masters in the United States. Even when we were following a political and economic path that opposed Anglo-America's geopolitics, our elite did not make the slightest attempt to set itself credible goals on a basis truly independent of Anglo-American perceptions. All efforts – including those that tried hard to look oppositional – took Anglophone norms for granted. Our radicals kept emulating their radicals. Even intellectuals working in Indian languages have stayed in an exclusive asymmetric translational relation with English as the unique reference discourse. 'Knowledge texts' are translated from English into Indian languages; it is assumed that there are no 'knowledge texts' in Indian languages that need to be translated into English and thrust under the nose of the members of the white Herrenvolk out there in the west – despite the long demonstrated gross incompetence of white 'linguists' in the domain of learning the languages of the global 'south'.
To defend this as a rational strategy on the basis of claims about the global reach of English would be to miss the point. The point is that India's Anglophone intelligentsia have chosen to avoid reading each other's work; to marginalize the enterprises of Tagore, Gandhi, Aurobindo; to push Indian language focused inquiry into provincial ghettoes; to miniaturize our historical memory down to a twenty-year time-span (okay, thirty); to belittle access to other global communication channels like French, German, Russian, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese; and to keep these grotesque choices out of sight by pushing screaming headlines into the forefront of everybody's attention. Few intelligentsias in modern times, with such access to resources, have let their public down on such a spectacular scale.
Our badly designed educational system, and our half-hearted efforts to tweak it, are only some of the effects of the pathological choices our elite has made for itself and has with some success imposed on the rest of our social order.
One place that can in principle enable us to identify the pathology and to come up with an antidote or two is linguistics. This discipline has the resources to constrain the power of the authoritarian imagination embodied as grammar. Now, the global hierarchy associated with the grammatical embodiment of the authoritarian imagination can be said to treat ELT as one of its central enterprises. Given the terms of reference of linguistics as a discipline whose putatively scientific pretensions should delink it from the authoritarian imagination, one would have expected the best linguists writing today to be engaged in a critical counter-enterprise, or at least to keep ELT at arm's length. To our dismay, we find instead that linguists have been in bed with ELT.
Those of us who want to improve the cultural and educational scene can respond to this predicament by taking it upon ourselves to help establish an authentic linguistics – one that proposes to articulate and address the needs of serious pedagogy – in a contestatory marginal location. For reasons to be emphasized soon, I am visualizing such a location on the edge of the poisonous systems currently prevalent, not a position of exile that would render us impotent.
In the early twentieth century, linguists were steeped in a spirit of moderate democratic reform of cultural institutions. That impulse has long been abandoned and was in any case associated with a linguistics of codes, of languages seen in terms of codifiable grammars and dictionaries even if scientific linguists did not agree with the way in which authoritarian codifiers had been doing their codifying. In our more accountable times – sensitive to human rights and to the desire of the objects of social analysis to speak for themselves as much as possible – carrying out a transition from that hierarchical linguistics of codes to a democratic linguistics of discourses is a task with two dimensions to it, social and academic.
On the socio-political axis, the point is to challenge the forces that have been keeping the authoritarian imagination in place.
On the intellectual plane, scholars carrying out the unfinished academic struggle against the residues of colonial rule have diagnosed our pathology (including the mimicry syndrome described earlier in this paper) in terms of a particular kind of colonization. Those scholars have called it the colonization of the 'life-world' by the 'systems'. (I am mentioning these technical terms just to help some readers to identify the type of analysis I have in mind; other readers unable to follow this thread of the discussion should please ignore it.)
The linguistics of discourses does not simply jettison the work done in the older linguistics of codes; the point is to turn the codifiers into servants rather than masters, reversing the arrow of colonization, and to put in place the constituent assembly of authentic popular articulators – who have to learn how to make these servants serve their true masters, the public.
The task, so visualized, needs to be translated into a concrete programme so that workers of different types can contribute to the common cause without getting in each other's way. From this point onwards, I shall make brief and focused points about such a programme of action in a series of capsules.
4. Long-term goal: perspectivism
David Bleich's (1988) double perspective vision [Bleich, David. 1988. The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations. Evanston, IL: Northwestern U.P.] may inform our updating of the pedagogic cuisine we inherit from Gandhi, Tagore, Aurobindo, Krishnamurti – perhaps with bits of Freire and Illich thrown in as tokens of the need for 'south-south dialogue' on our way to a democratic linguistics of discourses whose practitioners can work in partnership with educational activists at a global level. Bleich proposed that for every binary (men vs women, blacks vs whites, urbanites vs villagers, savarnas vs dalits, etc.) the task of education is to teach children from each side to take on board the point of view of the other side as well. Bleich devised specific educational techniques that show young adults how to do this. Our long-term goal is to build similar techniques into schooling. I mention Bleich because he has created a theory-praxis dyad in his work and explicitly begins to fashion a democratic linguistics of discourses.
5. But series of short-term targets first
On the way to such a target, we need to set interim targets. The long-term goal presupposes robust adult dissent led by articulate bahujans/ girijans/ women/ LGBTs/ PWDs and 'other others'. I propose to call such dissent Ceteropolitics, avashishtavaad. To organize cetero dissent is an essential step in the transition from a politics of codes (most clearly articulated in identity politics, whose leaders concede the cushy territory to hegemons and are content to grab ghettoes of one's own which they get to codify) to a politics of discourses. Cetero dissenters openly contest hegemony, staying in margins in order to do so without developing vested interests; note that margins are not positions of exile. To exile oneself is to step out of the code and thus to indirectly acknowledge the code as a legitimation device.
6. Why short-term target serials?
The reason for setting up a series of short-term targets is simple. Children, for whom education must be designed, cannot wait until adults in those perfectly chosen marginal niches successfully pursue their contestations and manage to triumph. For the good of the children, education has to be upscaled right now, under conditions acknowledged to be oppressive, with admittedly ill-trained teachers who are in unrelieved distress and cannot expect speedy relief. In order to keep long-term goals in view, in order to continue to improve our understanding of these goals and our capacity to work towards them, we need to set ourselves short-term targets, serially. A nation addicted to TV serials can do this. If you are looking for a slogan, my working draft is Naraanii taaliim (a blend of nayii with puraanii). If you can do better than this draft, please go ahead.
7. From old tiger to new tiger
Setting serial targets will land us in an unmanageable mess only if we do not come up with a way to handle the big jump that is now in progress – the jump from the back of the English medium tiger that we've been riding to the new, multilingual saddle we hope will accommodate us on the capacious back of the tiger called India. This big jump is happening and will be completed whether we like it or not, whether we manage it well or not. Let us try and do it gracefully and with full awareness.
As we leap from one tiger to another, we exchange old risks for new. We obviously want to understand the new risks first, postponing for later a full post mortem of the main difficulties with our English medium tiger. Here we only have the space to summarize rapidly. The main danger of the multilingual educational system is the malady usually called 'Balkanization'. Denial or escape is not an option. One way to face up to this danger and handle it intelligently is to review the experience of the actual Balkan states – to inquire how they have handled their predicament. In this context we encounter the use of Esperanto as a bridge language. The state of Croatia has sponsored translations of the Croatian children's classic The wonderful adventures of apprentice Hlapić through the Esperanto bridge translation into Bengali and other foreign languages whose speakers are extremely unlikely to learn enough Croatian to do the job from the original by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. Slovenia and Croatia have used European Commission funding to get other children's classics from the Balkan region – and an Italian children's classic – translated into Bengali in the context of cultural exchange. If even the Balkan states have found ways around Balkanization, surely we in India, forewarned as we are, will know how to avoid the worst rigours of that danger; we too can use the bridge language Esperanto and other resources, all of them drawn from the domain of translation. We are not using 'multilingual' just as a label for the situation we face; the education we are proposing also is a multilingual cuisine, and translation is an essential part of the work of fashioning it.
8. Build triple embedding vision into education
Even conceptually, independently of the demographic realities of the republic of India, it is no coincidence that the resources that most immediately come to mind should pertain to translation. Translation is the most obvious next-door neighbour of the perspectivism goal and the differential imagination exemplified in David Bleich's enterprise. As we visualize our short-term interim goals one by one, we will have to embed (1) differential imagination into translation, (2) translation into language teaching, (3) language teaching into subject teaching. This third step will involve making the teaching of technical terms individually (and the art of terminology more generally) vivid and processual. Connecting (3) to (1) will involve showing one's students that one must constantly translate back and forth between technical terms and the ordinary language explanations on the basis of which we grasp them.
Perspectivism requires bridging distances: in some of our implementations, we will find it appropriate to thematize the bridge language Esperanto. Not only the Balkan example will lead us to do this; even in China, I am given to understand by friends based there, some ELT courses teach a little bit of preparatory Esperanto en route to the initial teaching of English. Esperanto is not just a bridge language that helps translators and educators dealing with the 'subjects' part of the curriculum rather than the 'languages' part; it helps language teachers as well, even in systems where the final goal is the learning of some other language.
9. Transregional pedagogy: a long-term global need
Friends based in China also tell me that the Chinese authorities, disappointed with the actual results of their massive ELT effort, are planning to do some downscaling. If China really downscales ELT in its educational system from 2020 onwards, as is apparently envisaged, then obviously they won't seriously try to teach everybody Chinese instead. Their exit will simply spell the end of English as a global lingua franca without any replacement; nobody in or outside China imagines a world in which Chinese has become the unique global lingua franca; and the United States itself will be less well placed to propagate English over the next few decades, as the Hispanic population keeps expanding and speaking far more Spanish than English; by 2050 it is expected to overtake the Anglophone population of the United States. Once the notion of a unique language as the major global verbal currency bites the dust, which is going to happen in the lifetime of children now in school, the world will need a fully elaborated transregional pedagogy to be put in place soon. It is up to us to notice that India as a 'transnation' is best placed to help everybody by "turning the crisis itself into a solution".
10. Turning the crisis itself into a solution
That 'crisis into solution' quote is from Lev Vygotsky's book Thought and Language. His approach to psycholinguistics was distinctive – and, now that it is being discovered by educational theory and practice all over the world, remains distinctive – for at least the following reasons. His paradigm (a) places the affective and the cognitive on the same screen; (b) frames the scene of instruction (the classroom or whatever setting serves as the location of teaching, often a cybernetic site in contemporary contexts) in the parameters of the technological and industrial development of society, especially in its conceptualization of secondary schooling; (c) allows for the heterogeneity and unevenness of social development in a multilingual federation, keeping pre-capitalist and even pre-feudal social formations in view; and (d) articulates the pioneering notion of a 'Zone of Proximal Development' (ZPD) as a model for teacher-student partnership. These features make Vygotsky's work a vital ingredient for the cuisine we need in India.
Vygotsky's approach views a student's capacity for learning in terms of its fullest realization made possible under the stimulation of an effective teacher. The microsocial space that such a teacher creates, enveloping the teacher-student dyad and giving the student an opportunity to go beyond her current standalone ability and to approach a full manifestation of her potential, is the ZPD. Vygotsky achieved the vital insight that in order to understand how far a student has been able to travel an evaluator must consider not how well she can perform on her own – for a young person's solitary performance at a given point of time never adequately manifests what she has attained up to that moment – but what she is able to grasp with the help of the minimal, necessary urging that an effective teacher can provide.
Even this limited presentation of one aspect of his approach may suffice to indicate the affinity between Vygotsky and Bleich. Vygotsky, unlike many other Soviet thinkers, did not assume that the Soviet Union should keep applying to the Asiatic republics the methods of political and cultural domination that the Russians ruled by successive Tsars had been using; he wanted the children of every school in the Soviet Union to be treated as growing human beings with a right to stay rooted in their own cultural milieux, some of them 'tribal' milieux if we use the vocabulary still current in India. Unlike many psychological theorists who likewise believed that the way to achieve a unitary psychological paradigm was for one method to defeat all others in the field, Vygotsky proposed that psychology's crisis, its multiplicity of theories, should itself be seen as the beginning of a solution – that the way to unify the paradigm was to accept its necessary plurality.
As this reasoning renders apparent, a crisis can begin to look like a solution once we change our perspective. As long as some of us are openly predatory and the rest of us directly participate in this rapacity – or (like the relatives of the bandit Ratnaakara [who turned into the sage Vaalmiiki]) indirectly benefit from the thefts and robberies and ask no questions – our attitude remains wholly controlled by the parameters set by conquest and greed. Once we make the transition to an acceptance of the imperatives of peace and sustainability, it becomes clear to us that we must all take part in the actions of sustaining for the new paradigm to work. It is in that changed perspective, moving away from conquest, that we begin to understand, with Gandhi, that the world has enough for everybody's need, but not for everybody's greed.
11. Conclusion
It is time to conclude. We have chalked out the main points of a serial unpacking of the Bleich-Vygotsky agenda. For colleagues who would prefer a more technical and rigorous exposition we can only say very quickly that the architectural foundation for the crisis-to-solution cuisine deploys the paradigmatic axis. The syntagmatic style of linguistic theorizing that has been dominant since the 1950s is associated with ideas of conquest; bringing material under the umbrella of a single syntagm is an annexational gesture. A balanced biaxial perspective that gives the paradigmatic axis and the syntagmatic axis equal importance incubates serious thoughts of durable peace; for one country to learn how to leave other countries alone is to learn how to dream responsibly, not to dream of enlarging its own syntagmatic boundaries, but instead to dream of harmonizing its existence with the cross-border independent existence of others, without colonizing or being colonized.
This technical point can be presented as an unpacking of the struggle against the behaviourist approach to psychology and education. That approach is akin to war. While the generative school that has shaped the most widely known toolkit of contemporary grammatical theory in linguistics can be given credit for having pioneered the struggle against behaviourism and for whetting our appetite for better psychological and educational theories, a serious overcoming of the behaviourist malady must work with tools that take us towards social peace and personal flourishing. Such an enterprise, which is vitally needed if India's educational reform efforts are to succeed, lies beyond the intellectual, aesthetic and moral horizons within which the enterprises of generative linguistics and its close cousins have been working. I say this with immense respect to their practitioners.
For friends dealing with or belonging to tribal communities, I can offer only a hint as to the way to use these remarks as a basis for developing locally valid solutions in the contexts in which their work has to move forward. The hint is as follows. The formula of turning the crisis itself into the seed for a solution applies a fortiori to tribal language workers. The very absence of a 'rich' and massive archive accumulated through thousands of years of history, instead of being viewed as a lack or a handicap, needs to be seen as an asset. A non-massive archive, encapsulating tribal wisdom in a relatively manageable quantity of discourses that individuals can hope to master without unimaginable decades of effort, is a portable archive. In this electronic day and age, when children of industrial and historical-archive-endowed societies are shedding the burden of heavy individual memories and working with a portable personal archive of the few records that one individual can hope to cherish, it is a wonderful advantage for a tribal child that she can hope to share a portable archive with the rest of her tribe. A lightweight archive known by all members of the tribe gives her collectivity the option of leapfrogging over steps in development that the discredited, heavy, lumbering, obsolescent forms of thought once taught us to regard as compulsory steps. The tribals who learn how to take advantage of archive portability will leap over the 'modern' phase of history directly into electronic postmodernity.
To overcome despair, one has to find ways of turning it into hope, and to do so without telling lies.
This paper was first presented at a seminar on 'The right to education and the future of our languages' organized by the department of linguistics, University of Mumbai, 9-11 March 2015. The educators I met at that seminar, many of whom have been teaching tribal children and learning their languages under conditions that most educators would have found intolerable, manifesting standards of resilience and speeds of learning that lie far beyond at least my personal capacity, proved to be iconic pioneers. Exposure to them would humble most of us in the much hyped 'professions' of linguistics and psychology; I hope there will be more opportunities for mutually beneficial exchange between such educators and 'professionals' like us.


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Australians return home after Community Project & Trekking in Nepal
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Some 20 Australians return home after successful Nepal Community Rebuild Project and Trekking initiated by Canberra charity REACH for Nepal Foundation (RFN).
Founders Lachhu Thapa and Lou Nulley started the foundation in 2015 following the earthquakes in Nepal centred on the Gorkha district. This is the second year they have been planning these fundraising trips to Nepal, which is a major fundraising platform for the foundation.
With two, 12-person trips planned for October 2018 almost booked out already, Lou says the experience allows people to directly assist on a project that fulfils the objectives of the foundation, which are reflected in the acronym REACH – Rebuild, Educate, Assist, the Children/Communities (giving) Hope for Nepal.
"So far at a school in Gorkha, we've built a water tank, two classrooms, an amenities block, a wall to make the playground safe, a library and computer room," says Lachhu.
"It's very rewarding and fulfilling, and I'm also able to work closely with my brothers in Nepal, Raju our trek guide and the in-country director Shiva.
"It's an amazing feeling to be able to execute all that and to be successful at it."
REACH for Nepal has formed connections with the University of Canberra, Canberra Grammar School and other Canberra institutions, and is planning trips and ways to support Nepal with them, says Lou.
They also have an agreement with Singapore Airlines to ship limited donated goods for free for their projects.
The tours are organised by the Hungry Buddha's travel arm The Buddha Odyssey.
Source – CityNews
Canberra charity REACH for Nepal determined to make a difference
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A Canberra charity set up in the wake of the 2015 earthquakes in Nepal is quietly raising money for much-needed restoration work and giving Australians the chance to work on local community projects, the Canberra Times reports.
Founded by Canberra trekking enthusiast and yoga teacher Lou Nulley and Nepalese-born Lachhu Thapa from The Hungry Buddha restaurants in Curtin and Belconnen, REACH for Nepal has also just finalised a sponsorship arrangement with Singapore Airlines to carry a limited amount of donated goods to Nepal for free when volunteers travel for a project.
The charity has also appointed 2016 Olympic gold medallist Kim Brennan as its first ambassador, a position she is "incredibly proud" to hold.
Entirely run by volunteers, REACH for Nepal's priority is supporting people in remote, isolated areas of Nepal who have not been reached by other agencies. The areas are often only accessible by foot.
Anyone who participates in the trips treks for five days and spends three days working on a community project.
Each participant pays their own way and all money raised goes directly to projects for the Nepalese people. The trip participants are also asked to raise at least $250 to go towards a project.
On-the-ground work planned for this year includes building classrooms and helping with the production of school bags by people with disabilities in Nepal.
"There are not too many things in life where you can make a real difference, but this is one of them," Mr Nulley said.
"It's a fairly intense eight-day period but the experience is so rewarding. The people there are so grateful for the work that we do."
"Almost without exception, people describe it as a life-changing event," he said.
REACH for Nepal, meanwhile, stands for Rebuilding, Education, Assistance, Children/Communities (giving) Hope for Nepal.
Source – Canberra Times
Reach for Nepal Foundation – Introduction & Vision
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The REACH for Nepal Foundation was established after the devastating 2015 earthquakes of Nepal provides practical and financial assistance to rural Nepalese communities affected by the earthquake.
|Rebuild areas affected by the 2015 earthquakes, and provide support to other schools and villages that need assistance.
|Educate – Provide school textbooks and tuition, as well as scholarship programs and vocational training to improve employment outcomes.
|Assist – Ensure that projects benefit the lives of children and their communities, while also stimulating the local economy by employing locals to assist in community projects.
|Children/Communities – Our focus is to improve the livelihood of both children and Nepalese communities who have been worst affected by the 2015 earthquakes and other events.
|Hope – Give hope to communities that have lost family members, homes, schools, income and opportunities as a result of the 2015 earthquakes, or who are otherwise in desperate need of assistance.
Enable villages to become more self-sustaining
The Reach for Nepal Foundation encourages and facilitates opportunities for Nepalese people to complete vocational training through local providers. This will improve employment outcomes, create jobs and improve stability and harmony in remote villages. With in-demand skills, people won't need to travel to the Middle East or India looking for work.
The Reach for Nepal Foundation also works with villages and schools to provide facilities so that residents and students have access to clean drinking water.
Assist local communities to rebuild schools and libraries
With abundant local knowledge, the Reach for Nepal Foundation identifies schools in Western Nepal that need help rebuilding classrooms or other facilities. These projects are funded through fundraising activities in Australia.
In all rebuilding projects, we use local labour and materials. This creates jobs and stimulates the economy by investing funds locally.
Provide education scholarships and student support
The Reach for Nepal Foundation, with the support of its Nepalese director, uses local networks to identify students in remote Western Nepal that would most benefit from an education scholarship.
When undertaking school projects or visits, the Reach for Nepal Foundation donates used Australian textbooks to students. If you have school textbooks in good condition that you would like to donate for distribution in Nepalese schools, contact us.
Enhance the skills of local teachers
The Reach for Nepal Foundation encourages qualified Australian teachers to travel to Nepal and volunteer to pass on their skills and share their knowledge with local teachers.
Extend participation in sporting activities
Children who grow up in Nepal are often told to study hard. A good education helps graduates find jobs and provide a better future for their families, but it is only one part of the equation. At the Reach for Nepal Foundation, we believe that sports participation is also beneficial to school-aged children.
Sport is a common language throughout the world, as it connects people. Participating in a sporting activity helps to:
- Develop decision making abilities
- Develop communication skills
- Build self esteem
- Provide safe and supportive community spaces for women
- Improve quality of life for people with a disability through participation and social integration
The Reach for Nepal Foundation encourages grassroots programs in villages with sports including cricket, football, soccer, badminton and table tennis. In the initial phase, the Reach for Nepal Foundation distributes sporting equipment to the school administration. We are always in the lookout for schools who want to travel to Nepal on such sporting and community projects.
For more information contact the foundation directly here.
The Buddha Odyssey is set to organise their third Yoga, Trekking & Community Trip to Nepal in 2017
- Dec 01, 2016
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Yoga Pathways & The Buddha Odyssey are again coming together in Oct 2017 and organizing another trip to Nepal from Canberra.
The trip will again focus on the Community Project in conjunction with Reach for Nepal Foundation, while also providing travellers the experience of trekking the Annapurna range & Hatha Yoga wherever possible.
Lou Nulley, yoga instructor at Yoga Pathways & co-founder/director of the foundation leads such a trip each year to Nepal alongside Odyssey tour leader Raju Thapa. Over the years, Lou and Raju have developed a special working relationship and delivered very successful trips.
Lachhu Thapa, the co-founder/director of the foundation is also keen to join the tour group this year. Lachhu is excited to be going back to Nepal with family and finish off the project in Annapurna village.
The travel group raises funds for the project before they head off to Nepal.
The tour starts in Kathmandu, with sightseeing of major attractions of a 2000 year old valley. We then head to picturesque Pokhara where we spend another couple of days. From there we embark on a trek which sees you walking up to 5 hours a day on a route that's less popular with tourist – making the experience more authentic whilst absorbing the mesmerizing views of the Himalayas.
The 5 days trekking leads you to our Community Project where you will spend another three days working on the project and spending time with villagers, school teachers and students. Yoga is incorporated on the trip where ever practical. We then head back to Pokhara and fly out to Kathmandu for last minute shopping before our flight back home.
Historically these trips are fully booked, as participants enjoy the blend of trekking the Himalayas at a relaxed pace, making a real difference in the lives of many people through the community project and maintaining a sense of equanimity through regular yoga sessions.
The cost of the trip is around $3790 (to be confirmed around Jan 2017) including international airfares, accommodation and most meals.
To lock in a spot please contact us by filling this form
Lachhu Thapa
Successful first ever mo:mo: & trivia night in Canberra
- Nov 25, 2016
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Last night The Hungry Buddha Nepalese Restaurant, Canberra hosted a Mo:Mo: night to raise funds for the Reach for Nepal Foundation.
The event which was booked out in just under a week back in Aug 2016, raised around $1650 for the foundation. The event was organised to support Lachhu, Ben and Yog's quest to raise money by doing a Rickshaw Run in India in Jan 2017.
There were four kinds of mo:mo:'s on offer –
- Chicken,
- Lamb/Rosemary,
- Potato/Spinach &
- Pumpkin/Cauliflower/Pistachio
The event was a huge success with local community coming together for a wonderful cause, and is sure to be not the last one.
We would like to thank family, friends, patrons, staff and wonder MC Gordon Scott.
Lachhu Thapa & The Hungry Buddha Team
Trekking4Nepal to organise trip to Nepal with Reach for Nepal Foundation
- Nov 11, 2016
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James Tatham, Canberra
Next April marks two years since my maiden trip to Nepal and I'm going back! Yes, that's right I'm going back. I've been longing for a trip back ever since the earthquakes caused the widespread devastation.
This time rather than the Annapurna Region, I'm heading to the Solu Khumbu Region to conquer Everest Base Camp (5,380m), Island Peak (6,189m) plus and a community rebuild project in Pokhara to support Reach for Nepal Foudation.
What's better… this trip is open to Trekking4Nepal supporters. I want you to come! So many people tell me they wish they could go to Nepal. Here is your chance.
So here are the rough details at this early stage –
What: 16 days trekking Everest Base Camp, Island Peak, plus 3 days community rebuild project, plus two days leisure with The Buddha Odyssey
When: April/May 2016.
How Many: 6 person minimum.
How much: Approx $2700 USD pp includes the 16 days trekking Everest Base Camp, Island Peak, sherpas, equipment, food and the trekking permit. Plus approx $360-$400 for flights from Kathmandu to Lukla. Plus international flights ($1200ish). Total price = $4,300 USD
Bonus: There is opportunity for the fee waived for 7th participant. So the more the merrier which will lower costs for everyone else.
I think we could do a fundraiser for this event to subsidise some of the costs too.
If you are interested, put your details in this google form
Reach for Nepal Foundation Fundraising Dinner 4 Feb 2016
- Feb 10, 2016
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Our first ever Reach for Nepal Foundation Fundraising Dinner was organised on the 4 Feb 2016. Together with amazing patrons of the Hungry Buddha we raised a staggering $5,060.
The community came together by donating goods and services for the live auction which raised up a significant amount on the night.
A big thank you to everyone who donated goods and services to the auction, including:
- World of wellbeing, Phillip donated a package of 10 infrared treatments worth $590, auctioned for $310
- Terry Freebody donated 8 hours of electrical works worth $600, snapped up for $400
- Armando Corvini donated a rock climbing package worth $450, snapped up for $260
The next of the fundraising dinner will be held on Thursday 5 May. Tickets can be booked here.
Thanks everyone for making the night a success. The money raised will be used to construct a water tank at a school in Gorkha District, Nepal.


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Monster Truck Injures 3 in Stands During Labor Day Weekend Show
(HARRISBURG, Ore.) -- Three people were injured at an outdoor sports complex in Oregon when a monster truck struck a barrier and plowed into the crowd during a Labor Day Weekend show.
The injured, whose names and conditions had not been released, were taken to the hospital in Eugene, Ore., for treatment. Deputies with the Linn County Sheriff's Office said the victims' injuries were not life threatening.
Dan Mills, owner of the Harrisburg MotorSports Complex in Harrisburg, where the accident occurred, said he believes the truck's hydraulic steering went out during a race, causing the driver to lose control of his vehicle.
More than 1,000 spectators were on hand to see "Monster Air 2012″ on Saturday.
Despite the accident, Mills said a show scheduled for Sunday would go on as planned, however as an added precaution, spectators would not be allowed in the area where the accident occurred.
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Fishing is not just an activity in the Eastern Sierra, it is a passion. You'll find scores of lakes, rivers, and streams populated by brookies, browns, rainbows, cutthroats, and the occasional golden trout. Fly-fishing, spin casting, and bait fishing - from a boat, float tube, or the shore are all popular in Mono County.
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Fishing Season in Mono County is from the last Saturday in April to November 15 of each year. Topaz Lake Fishing season is from January 1 to November 15 each year.
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LDS ear rings usually cost around $6.00 a pair if you buy them already assembled. That adds up fast when you'd like to give ear rings as gifts to your whole presidency or a class.
I've recently added do-it-yourself earring kits to my store here, and on Etsy, and you can make a pair of ear rings yourself for less than $4.00 a pair. If you can pinch a pair of pliers, you can make your own ear rings. It really is that easy.
Step One – Gather Materials
Our LDS jewelry kits include two charms, two french hooks, two jump rings, and two silicone stops. You can buy the charms separately and use your own hooks or backs. Our ear ring hooks are a lead-free/nickel-free alloy, but you may want to use your own hooks if you have a metal sensitivity.
NOTE: If you are making CTR ear rings, you will need two pairs of pliers. All other sets just require one pair of pliers for assembly.
Step Two – Open the jump ring
Skip this step if your charm does not have a jump ring attached to it.
It's important that you open the jump ring properly. DO NOT PULL the ring apart, or it will become distorted, and your charm will hang funny. Instead, twist the ring open by twisting each pair of pliers in opposite directions.
Step Three – Attach the Hook and Close the Jump Ring
Slide the loop on the ear ring hook on to the charm and jump ring.
Close the jump ring with a pair of pliers. If you opened your jump ring properly, you'll see something like this when looking down on the jump ring through the split:
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It's so cute, and you made it!!!
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Now, this may not bug you, but I like to have my ear rings facing forward when I wear them. If you don't follow this step, the charms on your ear rings will face out, slightly to the sides when completed. If you are like me — no worries — you can twist the ear ring hook and cause the charm to face forward like this:
Grip the top loop (the one on the ear ring hook, not the jump ring) tightly with your pliers. Twist it until the charm is facing the direction you prefer.
It takes about 2 minutes to complete one pair of ear rings.
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July photoshoot
This July we celebrated our Country the United States of America, our Freedom and the Rescue our adorable furry foster kitten friends. We also helped save the earth and used recycled July 4th decorations in our photo shoots. We used this awesome red, white, and blue table runner (that was originally purchased for our kitchen table) from our favorite store Target. It is a mock-up of the US flag. We draped it over our home made L shaped foam core photo table, and began luring the kittens over for some playtime! Here is our favorite funniest image from the shoot. In this photo little Almond kitten was balancing on her back legs, and reaching up for the feather teaser. As she was doing so, we made a noise, that she paused to look at with her paws down – and at that very moment we will able to snap the shutter and get this amazing shot. She is so funny and cute! She forgot she had the bow tie on because she was so focused on playtime.