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An honest submission: I am a confirmed capitalist. Socialism holds no allure for me; it is a recipe for certain disaster. Let me spell it out right at the start, lest readers jump to the conclusion that I am a socialist sympathiser from the rest of the article. For that is my precise submission: Arvind Kejriwal's policies are nowhere near being socialist. In fact, the entire brouhaha around his policies points to a rather unfortunate selfishness of the Urban Indian Citizen. This article may hurt many readers of my blog, and perhaps drive some away; but I have always called it like I see it.
It is time for a reality check on our so-called tremendous growth from 1991. And one figure – only one figure is all I require to make my point. The per capita income of the bottom 20% of India's population has not changed (as a percentage share) since 1978. That means, the bottom 20% of our population has not benefited at all from our economic boom. This means rising inequality and skewed income patterns. From a society point of view, this reality is a sure recipe for disaster. You cannot have such a large section of the population being left out and hope to reach developed status. The trickle down effect does not seem to be working! This is also confirmed by consumption patterns: with the consumption by the bottom 20% of the population being static @ between 0 – 1%. While in the 1990s, India's Gini Coefficient was 0.32, it has now gone up to 0.38. The top 10% now make 12 time the bottom 10% – as opposed to 6 times in the 1990s.
The above is a cause of some serious concern. The development we have experienced so far has, by-and-large, left the underprivileged sections of our society by the wayside. This has serious long-term repercussions both on the economic side as well as on the social side. It points out that our development model is unsustainable, and not long-term. Unless we can get the entire population to benefit from development, we can never reach our goal of being a developed country. Not only that, the current situation will also, over the long term, lead to serious social unrest. This is not a price that we can afford to pay.
Another very serious cause of concern is our record on Human Development: we are ranked among the bottom in the list of HDI – 137. On most parameters like Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality, Education, Gender Inequality we lag behind even stalwarts like Sri Lanka. In an earlier article on my blog about an year ago, I had argued (Brazil – Russia – China… Vs India) : "What nonsense are we talking about? Gender Equality, Primary Schooling, Life Expectancy, Infant Mortality, Literacy are all basic indices that indicate quality of life and governance. And in each, B/R/C are ahead. We compare ourselves with China in terms of Freedom of Expression… good, that we should. But then we should also compare all the other parameters of pertinence. And why aren't we benchmarking ourselves against Brazil – a country similar in size and challenges? Even Sri Lanka is ahead of us
We look at economic indices and worry… perhaps it is high time that we looked at these basic indices – for the very simple economic reason that a healthy, literate, Well-schooled and taken care of population will be more productive. Dont believe me? Well, Per Capita Income of these countries is Russia 14561, Brazil 10162, China 7476, India 3468, and Sri Lanka 4943!
What is the quality of governance that we are giving our people? More to the point, how sustainable is our model of growth if the basic needs of the majority of the population are not addressed? This is indicative of a deeper problem within us: unless the changes initiated in the past 20 years are not drilled till the grass-roots levels, the figures are not going to be very different. We are creating an urban rural divide within us wherein the rural population will lag behind. And unless literacy levels go up & mortality goes down you cannot expect productivity to significantly improve"
If you look at Arvind Kejriwal's policies, it can be readily seen that this is the precise area that he is addressing. How does that make him a socialist? Has anyone else shown the foresight and the courage to come out with a plan to address this, the most important challenge that is facing India? Furthermore – considering that Arvind Kejriwal's support base is largely Urban, this is a bold move – one that shows his commitment to development. He is consciously abandoning his existing support base among the Urban youth of India by addressing this serious problem facing India.
The numbers show one thing with startling clarity: the fact that governance has totally failed to deliver in India. We have been unable to ensure even the most basic of facilities and supports to a very large segment of our population. It is high time someone tackled this reality head-on. How does empowering Gram Sabhas etc make him a socialist? That is being a hard-core democrat! Yes, some of policies need toning down – I have myself stated that in my analysis. But rejecting his policies outright as socialist is being excessively negative. Again, as I had observed last year, Let us take an example: farm productivity. It is among the lowest even in the developing world. Dont you think that an educated farmer will be more amenable to and willing to accept the advances in agriculture? Will he not be better aware? Will that not translate into a better output? We are talking about infrastructure… to my mind, these basic indices are equally important for development and need to tackled on a war footing. The evidence that they impact development is omnipresent. What is required is our will and effort.
The alternative is continue on the current road map. We are doing fairly well… 7 -9 % (now 5-6%) GDP growth isn't bad. But this top-heavy model of development will increase the Rich-Poor and Urban-Rural divide and create further wedges in our socio – economic fabric. Unless the advantages of growth trickle to all levels, the full benefits will not be realised. In short, it is simply not sustainable. For it to be sustainable, most critically, each strata of society should be in a position to take advantage of it.
This is not a communist viewpoint- I am talking pure economic sense. Unless basic indices are in place, the people will not benefit fully from any development simply because their awareness levels will not enable them to grab the opportunities that come. And, if they lag, the effects of their backwardness on the economic productivity of the nation are too worrisome to contemplate… at no point does Arvind Kejriwal advocate Government Ownership of productive assets. In fact, he advocates private enterprise; all he does – or is trying to do – is ensure that the people from whom the land is taken participate in development. He is increasing the bargaining power of the poorer sections of society. Why does that notion disturb us? It is a matter of documented record that the economically weaker sections are no better of today than in 1991 – if you consider any of the numbers above! The figures of BPL alone are not the only index to judge the well-being of a nation. Are we saying that if a person is not in BPL list, then he has participated in growth? What about these other factors pointed out above? Can we ignore them? High time Urban India wakes up to the ground realities.
Wake Up, India. We are not doing nearly as well as we think we are…. we need to get out act together.
In closing, I would like to re-iterate my earlier observation from my blog @Reflections
"Had real change been around the corner, the seriousness would have shown up in the educated classes, who currently rise only when it impacts them. It would have been evident in increased civic consciousness in society, in more number of proactive steps taken to tackle the issues. The continued absence of a national dialogue on all the major issues of importance on even social media, let alone the national news, is a cause of concern. It is leading me to wonder: Young / Educated India: A Myth or Reality? I wonder…'
UPDATE: from http://www.quora.com/Tushar-Katira
"But looking at contemporary India from another angle, one could equally tell the following—more critical and more censorious—story: "The progress of living standards for common people, as opposed to a favoured minority, has been dreadfully slow—so slow that India's social indicators are still abysmal." For instance, according to World Bank data, only five countries outside Africa (Afghanistan, Bhutan, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Yemen) have a lower "youth female literacy rate" than India (World Development Indicators 2011, online). To take some other examples, only four countries (Afghanistan, Cambodia, Haiti, Myanmar and Pakistan) do worse than India in child mortality rate; only three have lower levels of "access to improved sanitation" (Bolivia, Cambodia and Haiti); and none (anywhere—not even in Africa) have a higher proportion of underweight children. Almost any composite index of these and related indicators of health, education and nutrition would place India very close to the bottom in a ranking of all countries outside Africa."\
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Aapas mein ghum baante jo ham phir naa rahe aise sitam kehane ko insaan hain woh insaniyat kahaan hai
Par Humnein Baatnaa seekhaa hi nahi… yeh numbers padh kar toh yehi lagtaa hai. Maaf karnaa agar baat buri lage…
Jaago Sonewaalon………


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10 Downing Street was the residence of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and seat of the government of Great Britain, and later the UK from the 17th century to the early 21st century.
History Edit
10 Downing Street was badly built on shallow foundations by a crooked speculator, Sir George Downing, in the 1680s.
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil was the last Prime Minister to refuse to use 10 Downing Street as his official home. (AUDIO: Upstairs)
The Eighth Doctor claimed to have chained Emmeline Pankhurst to the railings outside Downing Street. (PROSE: Casualties of War)
In 1974, the Third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart met with the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street to discuss the approaching poison cloud caused by the Zircon. According to another account, it was the Fourth Doctor, Joan Brown and General Maxwell-Lennon. (COMIC: Doomcloud)
As the Ninth Doctor recalled, a Mr Chicken owned the property and lived there. By 1991, the Cabinet Room was almost impregnable for the safety of government officials when three inches of steel was installed into every wall of the room. During the Slitheen takeover of 2006, it was destroyed by a harpoon missile. (TV: World War Three)
The explosion levelled the building and killed all but one of the Slitheen within the Prime Minister's office. (TV: World War Three, Boom Town)
Just before the explosion occurred, the Twelfth Doctor arrived through a rip in time (narrowly avoiding a run-in with his past self) in pursuit of the time flies operated by the Time Reavers. (COMIC: A Stitch in Time)
By the time that Harold Saxon took office in 2008, it had been re-built. Saxon, who was in reality the Master, considered the Cabinet to have displayed disloyalty in abandoning their own parties to jump on his winning band wagon and so gassed them to death in the Cabinet Room. (TV: The Sound of Drums)
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The exterior of 10 Downing Street featured in a promotional teaser for Meet the Thirteenth Doctor, with the number 10 on the door changed to 13.

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Jan. 23, 2001 -- That haze hanging over your city isn't just depressing and foul. The pollution may also be affecting your child's health -- and schoolwork.
According to researchers from California and North Carolina, an increase in air pollution resulted in an almost 83% jump in school absences related to respiratory illness. The results, published this month in the journal Epidemiology, is the first large study to measure increases in missed school days in relation to a rise in air pollution.
"Because the effects of air pollution on school absences are likely to be due to increases in respiratory illnesses, respiratory illness-related absenteeism can be an important and relatively specific integrative outcome for the assessment of the effects of air pollution on children," writes study author Frank Gilliland, MD, of the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine.
Air pollutants include ozone, noxious gases such as nitrogen dioxide, and microscopic pieces of soot called particulates. Ozone, long known to adversely affect health, is formed when the sun cooks nitrous oxide escaping from vehicle exhaust pipes and factory smokestacks. It can damage breathing by infiltrating the soft tissue that lines the lungs and noses, and it can also harm eyes.
In the study, scientists measured ozone and particulates along with nitrogen dioxide levels every hour in the 12 southern California communities where they conducted the study. They then compared these levels to the reported school absences from respiratory illnesses in more than 2,000 fourth graders.
Besides the increase in school absences from generalized respiratory illnesses, the researchers found an astounding 173% increase in students staying home because of lower respiratory illness characterized by a wet cough. The rise in absences for those with a lower respiratory illness with wet cough, asthma, or wheeze increased by more than two-thirds.
This is not completely out of the blue, though. According to government health officials, five million American children have asthma and they miss 10 million schools days annually. Experts call the incidence of asthma in this country an epidemic, and death from asthma and other respiratory ailments is on the rise.
Children are especially susceptible to the lung-burning gases and tiny particles that lodge in the airways. "The younger the child, the greater the risk they have because their immune systems and organs are not developed," says Reynold Panettieri Jr., MD, chief of the asthma section of the pulmonary, allergy, and critical care division at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia.
Though Panettieri tells WebMD that pollution levels in many areas of the country have been reduced in the past 20 years, the rates of respiratory illness and asthma continue to climb. And he says scientists have yet to explain why the breathing difficulties haven't declined also.
Even though overall pollution is less, that doesn't matter on hot, muggy days when any existing pollution is at its worst. "Pretty profound epidemiological evidence exists that as the air quality declines, emergency room visits for respiratory illnesses increase," Panettieri says.
Mark Mallard, MD, medical director of Baylor University Medical Center's Asthma and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Center in Dallas, says that children in lower income urban areas suffer the most from respiratory ailments, especially asthma. There are a number of reasons for this, he tells WebMD, but certainly a major factor is their exposure to air pollution. In addition, these children are often in contact with more dust mites, molds, and roach droppings in their homes, and that contributes to breathing ailments.
"There's no place to hide," Mallard says of the risk of breathing distress, because in urban areas the hot summer temperatures make pollution risks even more acute than elsewhere. "Some of my patients parody the song 'Summertime, and the breathing is harder, fish are jumping, and the ozone is high.'"
Saira Rahim, RRT, coordinator of education and advocacy for Children's Medical Center of Dallas' Respiratory Care Services, echoes Mallard's concern for inner city children.
"The biggest [asthma] population is inner-city kids who are exposed to more pollutants," she says. "The best thing is to keep the child in and away from exposure."
But keeping a kid indoors is not always easy or practical. Mallard and his colleagues researched another option. They conducted a study in eight Dallas schools in which school personnel administered an inhaled steroid to asthmatic youngsters twice a day. This relieved the inflammation and tightening of muscles that narrowed their airways that causes the disease's characteristic coughing and wheezing.
They found that the attendance rate for those treated morning and afternoon with the drug rose to 92%, compared with 78% for children with asthma who were not treated. Not only did this allow the children to stay in school; it also allowed them to participate in activities that may previously have been impossible.


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On Saturday, May 3, Israeli forces broke up a peaceful demonstration of Palestinian journalists at the checkpoint of Beit El near Ramallah on World Press Freedom Day. That same day, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCRH) released a report stating violations against Palestinian journalists include being shot at, killed, wounded, beaten, home invasions, confiscation of press badges and equipment, arrests, and being thrown in prison.
As Palestinian journalists gathered to protested restrictions on their freedom of movement across the occupied Palestinian territories, the Israeli military proceeded to throw sound grenades and tear gas into the crowd.
Israel frequently prevents Palestinian journalists from doing their jobs by not allowing them to reach towns and neighborhoods where violations are taking place (such as house demolitions; Israeli forces surround the home preventing press from documenting events as they occur , video 1:10).
In commemoration of World Press Freedom Day 2014 the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) organized events in Ramallah and Gaza City on Sunday calling for "accountability for the 22 Palestinian journalists killed since 2000" also using the occasion to launch a campaign "Towards Reform of Media laws in Palestine", to advancement a "media law draft" to help Palestinian journalists "achieve their ambitions."
MADA, There is now a real opportunity for a substantial change in media freedoms,
The general director of MADA, Mr. Mousa Rimawi, declared that this day was the occasion to commemorate media workers killed by the Israeli occupation forces in Palestine while performing their professional duty, adding that the fact that the perpetrators of these crimes were not held accountable contributed to the continuous violation of journalists' rights.
This year witnessed a rise in violations against journalists, while last year saw the largest number of Israeli violations since 2008 [partially documented here – ed.]in the West Bank, with 151 cases. MADA calls the international community to show solidarity with Palestinian journalists and exert real pressure on the Israeli Occupation Authorities so that they end their violations of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reports the Arab Press Sport Union condemned Israeli actions against Palestinian journalists, as well as violations against Palestinian athletes.
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Kent Farmer's Market
- j 60 North Main Street (across from the Fife 'n Drum Restaurant), Kent, CT
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Here's a list of some of the vendors joining the Kent CT Farmer's Market this year:
Birdseye & Tanner Brooks Farm ~ Saturdays. USDA CERTIFIED GRASS FED, grass-finished, pure bred, registered Galloway beef and pure bred Icelandic lamb. Their animals have the best view of the county, overlooking the valley and Mohawk Mountain! Nothing is wasted; in fact, the farm uses every bit of each animal that we possibly can from the meat, of course, to the wool to make SAMS natural, undyed wool, skins and horns. Offering: Beef: sirloins, roasts, ribs, brisket, filet mignon, rib eye, hamburger, flank, hanger Lamb: loin chops, rib chops, shoulder chops, legs of lamb, riblets, ground lamb, sausage, shanks.
Northstar Botanicals ~ Delighting in the Bounty of Your Backyard and Beyond
Buck Mountain Herbs ~ Organic potted herbs until the July 4th weekend. This week we are excited to offer you 8" - 12" herbal clay pots; Thai Basil, Lovage (a celery substitute); Silver Edged Thyme, Lemon Thyme, Chocolate Mint, and of course, Patty' s Parsley!
Mountain View Farm ~ Fridays. Beans (Green, Yellow, Purple, Haricot Vert) ~ Organic Heirloom tomatoes ~ Cucumbers ~ Summer Squash ~ New Potatoes ~ Kale ~ Lettuce Mix ~ Arugula ~ Garlic Scapes ~ Shallots ~ Herbs ~ Garlic ~ Local Honey ~ Eggs ~ Maple Syrup ~ Strawberry Jam ~ Pickled Scape. Visit us on Facebook
Ridgway Farm ~ Fridays and Saturdays. Blueberries ~ Sunflowers ~ Peas ~ Onions ~ Summer squash ~ Carrots ~ Beets ~ Salad greens (baby lettuce, head lettuce, spicy mix) ~ Broccoli ~ Radishes ~ Garlic ~ Kale ~ Swiss chard ~ Sugar snap peas ~ Hanging baskets ~ Potted geraniums ~ Cut flowers - snap dragons & zinnias ~ Maple syrup ~ Rebecca's farm note card. Visit us on Facebook.
Village Farm ~ Fridays and Saturdays. Sweet corn from Dykeman's farm in Dover, N.Y. ~"Lively" Salad mix ~Arugula ~Beets ~Superfood! Green & dinosaur kale ~Green, yellow & zephyr summer squash ~Pak Choi ~ Green cabbage ~Scallions and garlic scapes ~"Just a pinch", small bunches of fresh herbs for a just a dollar ~Colorful mixed Zinnia bouquets ~Our own strawberry and black raspberry jams ~Baguettes from Berkshire Mt. Bakery in Housatonic, MA ~ Fresh goat cheese from Stone Silo Farm in Woodbury, CT. Visit us on Facebook.
Annie Bananie Ice Cream ~ Fridays only. Locally made ice cream, delicious lemonade and refreshing iced tea/coffee.
Spring Lake Garden Design ~ Fridays only. Original container designs, plants grown from seed for cutting gardens, and miscellaneous other plants to get your summer garden party-ready. Visit us on Facebook or HOUZZ.
Beckerman Photography ~ Fine art photographs of local organic and sustainable livestock and agriculture. Sustainable greeting cards and organic clothing apparel. All contain imagery from the fine art series. Visit us on Facebook and Instagram.
NEW LOCATION: 60 North Main Street (across from the Fife 'n Drum Restaurant) in Kent, CT.


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Lars Sullivan has been a force since debuting on the main roster by attacking famous wrestlers, and now "The Freak" says it's only a matter of time before he's WWE Champion.
Sullivan made the prediction on Instagram while answering a fan in the comments who asked when he'd become WWE Champion. "Within 18 months is my realistic goal," he replied.
One fan was quick to point out that Lars is now in Roman Reigns yard, but that didn't faze the new SmackDown Superstar. He answered, "I'll take a dump in his yard."
As you'll recall, Sullivan debuted on the main roster during the Raw after Mania. Roman Reigns was moved to the blue brand during the SuperStar Shake-Up.
Think Lars has a shot of becoming WWE champ in that timeframe? Tell us in the comments below.


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Leaving for a trip always gives me a flutter of butterflies in my stomach. You never know what you're going to find in the days and miles ahead. Adventure? Love? Friendship? Surprises? No matter where you're headed, you never quite know how your life may change when you travel the world.
With summer just around the corner, wanderlust is certainly in the air. It's time to pack your suitcase for that amazing trip you've been planning. Or hey, even if you don't have an IRL trip planned, there's plenty of travel you can do through reading. No matter what your summer plans are, there are plenty of books out there that show how truly life-changing a trip can be. Some of these books deal with unrequited love, others with heartbreak, and others with family relationships. But all of them are about discovering the people you love in unexpected places. For journeys of the body, spirit, and mind, look no further than these 10 books about the one trip that changed everything.
As you pack your bag for your summer holiday weekend, make sure to include one or two of these books in your travel bag — you won't regret it.
'The Summer of Us' by Cecilia Vinesse
Rae and Aubrey have been dreaming of their Euro trip since they were kids. But it's finally the summer before college, and the backpacking trip they're about to embark on is way more complicated than they could have imagined. Aubrey's dating Jonah, but she may have accidentally kissed Gabe. Meanwhile, Rae's crushing on their friend Clara, but Clara isn't into girls. As the five make their way through Europe, it all adds up to one unforgettable trip.
'Starry Eyes' by Jenn Bennett
Zorie and Lennon used to be best friends until a falling out at last year's homecoming dance turned them into enemies. But when a camping trip goes awry, the two find themselves stuck in the wilderness... alone.
'Just Visiting' by Dahlia Adler
In this exciting road trip book, best friends Reagan and Victoria embark on a trip to visit colleges before their senior year of high school. But as the trip progresses, and they stumble upon romance and adventure, they each learn that maybe everything they've always wanted isn't for them after all.
'Stranger Than Fanfiction' by Chris Colfer
From Glee star Chris Colfer, this book follows Cash Carter, the star of the hit show Wiz Kids. When four fans invite him along on a cross-country road trip, he surprises everyone by agreeing to come. But as the group set off on the road together, they discover that Cash is hiding some deep secrets.
'Love & Gelato' by Jenna Evans Welch
Lina is reluctantly spending the summer in Tuscany, only because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her estranged father. But when Lina is given a journal that belonged to her mother during her time in Italy, she begins to retrace her mother's footsteps, and uncovers a magical world—along with a secret that changes everything.
'Two Steps Forward' by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist
Every year, thousands flock to walk The Chemin (a.k.a. Camino de Santiago), a centuries-old pilgrim route that begins in France and ends in northwest Spain. Zoe, mourning the loss of her husband, has journeyed from California to walk the route. Martin, reeling from a messy divorce, has come from England to do the same. As the two set off, they find challenges and surprises every step of the way.
'Wanderlove' by Kirsten Hubbard
Eighteen-year-old Bria has always wanted to be a world traveler, so she signs up for a guided tour of Central America. But she's shocked to find that the tour isn't quite the adventure she was expecting, filled with middle-aged, fanny-pack-wearing tourists. But when she meets Rowan, a devoted backpacker and dive instructor, she jumps at the chance to join him off the beaten path.
'The Summer of Broken Things' by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Avery and Kayla used to be friends as kids, but now they barely know each other. So when Avery's dad invites Kayla on their family trip to Spain, Avery is less than thrilled. But when the two girls uncover a secret their families have been hiding from them, suddenly everything is different.
'And We're Off' by Dana Schwartz
Seventeen-year-old artist Nora Holmes can't wait to embark on an all-expenses-paid trek across Europe, funded by her painter grandfather. But everything seems to be ruined when, at the last minute, Nora's controlling mother decides to tag along. Now Nora's solo adventure has turned into a mother-daughter trip, and she just can't quite handle it.
'Layover' by Amy Andelson and Emily Meyer
Of course, one of the most important moments in travel happen when things don't go according to plan. Step-siblings Flynn, Amos and Poppy's lives are changed forever when they purposefully miss their flight and embark on an adventure in LA.


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Lilian Hedley, who is well known as the UK's number one North Country traditional quilter, is teaching a retreat soon at The Royal, Bridlington, at the end of March. We went on her course there two years ago and it was brilliant! Apparently there are a few places still available, so if you are interested, contact Fiona at The Royal asap. Lilian learned how to design in the North Country traditional from some of the 'old school' quilters, including Amy Emms, so this is a unique opportunity to learn from a living tradition.
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The Cheyenne is a very traditional style of 3-season bag. It's roomy; has a substantial shoulder baffle, that has press studs as well as a drawcord to ensure a snug fit; a good hood that is easily adjusted with a separate drawcord; and it comes in a traditional style compression sack that really cinches it down for carrying. But it's heavy – the test sample came in at 1280g – and with a quoted comfort of 2°C, it's not providing that much insulation for its weight. Like many of the bags tested here though, I suspect it would go lower quite comfortably. The insulation is provided by 500g of 550 fill power down, and this is trapped in a polyester fabric, which is soft on the inside and tough on the outside, and it has a full length zipper that pulls up and down easily with no snags. At £190, it's the cheapest of the full-on 3 season bags tested here, but it also offers the least warmth for weight. It is backed up by Vaude's excellent green credentials though.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Fractions and Pi
It's been a long time since I did anything with fractions, and I've certainly never taught anyone anything about fractions. The concept of coming up with a common denominator in order to do anything with fractions was a hard one to teach. I didn't remember all that stuff either until I saw the example in the book. Ah, it's all coming back to me now...
I created numerous examples for Miguel to work through just for addition of unlike fractions. He wasn't grasping that he had to use the same number on the numerator that he used on the denominator, he kept wanting to use different numbers. We went over it and over it until I wanted to hit him over the head with the book. (I probably should never change professions and become a teacher).
I found a website for fractions, but it was in English. I retaught myself a few things about fractions, but that didn't do much to help Miguel.
Finally I drew circles - one ended up with 24 segments. But it was a light-bulb moment for Miguel. Ah ha - he learns better with pictures than with words (words made out of Spanish and English, no less). Off he went to work on the exercises, drawing his own circles to come up with the answers.
He went to school and worked with the teacher. He is moving along in his book. He moved away from pure fractions into area, radius, diameter, and Pi. Good grief, the only Pi I've thought about since high school is cherry Pi.
But the book had an example, and the answer was in the back of the book. Knowing the answer I'm striving for helps me put the right pieces together. I figured it out, we did the exercise, and Miguel went back to the teacher for additional help. He returned with these departing words from the teacher - "Pi = 3.14, now, and for the rest of eternity". For ever and ever...
Yesterday he sat out on the front terrace all day long, doing his schoolwork. In the afternoon he asked for some help. Lord, if it wasn't a tunnel of 10 arches, 20 m in length. They wanted to know the 'area', what I would call 'circumference', of one arch. Somehow we worked it out, Miguel actually did as much as I did to come up with the right anwser. Yeah!
Last night he was not tired, so I went up to bed and left him studying. About midnight he came up and said he'd been stuck on one question. He wasn't settled in for more than 15 minutes, as I was drifting off to sleep, when he spoke out loud - "OH! It's thirds, not quarters! Yes!". Lying there, away from the books, his mind came up with the answer to the question that was puzzling him.
The mind is a strange thing - it continues to process after we've given up. At times I've been stumped on a programming problem, only to wake up at 3 am with the answer. But I will never have to wake up at 3 am with the answer to "what is Pi?". It's 3.14, from now until eternity.
6 comments:
- Life's a Beach! said...
I personally like banana creme pi. Good for Miguel! I don't envy all the work he's having to do.
- September 20, 2009 at 9:43 PM
- jeanie said...
Sue what is the word for Pi in Spanish? I have never talked math in any other language.
- September 21, 2009 at 1:28 AM
- Sue said...
Beck - I don't envy him either. But he seems to be enjoying the learning, guess he is motivated.
Jeanie - Pi is Pi here in Mexico too - just pronounced 'pee' because here the 'i' is an 'ee'.
- September 21, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- Islagringo said...
Good for him! Math is the hardest by far.
- September 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Bennie said...
Oh NO! Math again... I already have a headache. I am with you about the Cherry PI. Let me see.. Cherry Pi * 3.14 what does that end up?
You are a much better teacher than you give yourself credit for. I was one of your students before and you never hit me on the head with a book. You may have thought about it - but you never followed through. That's a good thing in a teacher.
- September 21, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- Sue said...
Wayne - I agree.
Bennie - maybe I did think about it, you'll never know. Because we worked remote, I couldn't have clobbered you anyway, even if I'd wanted to (and I'm not saying I wanted to, I'm just saying...)
- September 22, 2009 at 7:19 PM


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Plasma 5 Applets 39 comments
The solution to your problem is to long click on it, or long hover it when the graphical components are unlocked. A column at the right should appear with the resize, rotate, remove, and configure options.
Enjoy ! :) - Apr 30 2018
I personnaly uses it to control my set top box, when I'm too lazy to grab the remote ;)
And thanks for the tip about Squeezeboxes, that's exactly what I was looking for without knowing it :) - Jul 25 2015
As for the reloader animation (if in fact that's what you were talking about), yes, I can and will add it in the options.
But as usual, I don't know when I'll work on this, so please be patient. It will come, but I don't know when :) - Jun 19 2015
Sorry for the delay of the response, I must have missed the notification.
For the issues with reload, I never had any issues for the delay or for the fact that it reloaded or not. Are you sure that it's not a paint issue ? It seems there are some issues in KDE and/or plasma and/or webkit that prevent displaying an updated version of the page until the desktop/action bar is repainted.
To confirm that, you can try to move the page before reloading. When it reloads, it should display the page at its initial position, so you can see that it reloads effectively every minutes. Try also to move the page after it has reloaded, it may repaint it. And keep in mind that reloading takes a few seconds.
But I will nontheless check that.
I choosed a minimal time of one minute to avoid overloading some websites, but I will consider going to a 30s increment and maybe 15s. I really don't think going lower would be a good idea (I don't consider lower than one minute is one too, but it's not harmful anyway).
For the bug reporting, I agree it would be easier, but it doesn't seem to be the rule on plasmoid.
So I choose to instead put the link to the GitHub repository at the top of this page. On GitHub you can post bugs reports, and also participate in the code ;)
I don't know when I will be able to adress all of this, but I will !
Thanks again ! - Jun 07 2015
I named my plasmoid Webslice because it was the successor of the other one, but I didn't expect it to show in the search result in KDE 4.X.
Thanks for bringing back the answer ! - May 17 2015
Like I said, it seems to be in the plasma-widgets-addons package, but I can't be sure, neither test it for you because I don't have a machine running KDE 4.X now...
Those infos should be enough. In any case, I don't have more. All I can do is continue developping my version which won't work in KDE 4.X, sorry. - May 17 2015
- If 0.3.0 works for you, and does the job, having v0.5.0 isn't worth the hassle.
- This plasmoid is in the "Plasma 5 plasmoid" category, because it's using API from Plasma 5.X and KDE 5.X. There are a lot of similarities between APIs in KDE 4.X and KDE 5.X, that's why some things might work for you, but it's only by luck, and nothing else.
- Upgrading KDE to be able to use this plasmoid isn't a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I'm flattered, but upgrading KDE from 4.X to 5.X is a *BIG* step, and it's not worth it if it's only for this plasmoid.
- And finally, I created this plasmoid because in KDE 4.X there was one that I used massively, but not in KDE 5.X. It's not made by me, or maintened any more, but it does the job, and I'll recommend that you use it. I think, but I'm not sure at all, that it's in the package plasma-widgets-addons. - May 17 2015
I'll put them up immediately ! - May 07 2015
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Plasma 5 Weather 28 comments
1/ Open at the top left of the widget, even if the widget is at the top left corner of the screen, which means the popup appears offscreen
2/ It appears on the primary monitor when the widget is on the second
3/ I can alt+click the popup to move it, but it doesn't remember its new position
Fixing all three would be ideal :) - Jan 07 2019
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- First, it's a great job you did here ! Awesome !
- Don't provide borked translations. I rather have it fallback to english, than having a (very very) bad translation in french.
- If you want users to translate for you (and I'll be willing to do it in french), provide a single file of strings to translate. Use maybe Transifex. And to manage all your files, look at how http://i18n.kde.org/ do it. In any case, keep in mind that your translators probably won't be developers. So keep it really, really simple. And in any case, most of your strings are probably already translated in KDE.
- If you are aware of issues with some tools, don't include them in the release.
- Package for deb and rpm. Use Alien if you have to. And include all your "depends" in them.
- Maybe, maybe, separating this tool in several would allow more modularity. A tool by "Folder" would be awesome (for example, I could install only "Security" and "SSH" and nothing else). But that's only my point of view.
And a couple of bugs :
- Even empty, the "Dropbox" folder is still present in the context menu
- If you have "SSH - Saved servers", it appears also in the "Dolphin" folder. Painful, especially when this folder is supposed to be empty
- Adding a timestamp to the name of file didn't work for me. Added just '-' at the beginning of it.
In any case, keep up the good work :) - Jul 12 2016
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In the settings, adding a title bar in the table could help avoid that mistake.
Also, the possibility to edit the values directly in the table would be welcome, and would remove the need of a popup.
Anyway, thanks again ! - Jun 25 2015
But for me, the text above the temperature doesn't appear, and so the plasmoid take a lot of place, but is almost empty.
Could you look into that also ? - Jun 24 2015


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For H. Hoover Hall III sports have been an essential part of every stage of his active life. Like many athletes looking at the world of professional sports, H. Hoover participated in basketball, baseball and football from little league into college. After college he changed his involvement in sports from that of player to a coach and official. He also volunteered, coaching youth girls and boy's basketball, softball and baseball teams in public high school and elementary schools. After college graduation he began developing his knowledge of collegiate and professional sports, Mr. Hall knowledge is not limited to sports and athletics. While working as Academic Director for private school he learned and taught key economic management principles to teachers and young students. He also gained an appreciation for the importance of equipping young people with financial tools necessary to handle new found earnings when they are blessed with career opportunities after college and in their professional lives. As a Business consultant for large international business Mr. Hall developed skills in identifying and defining client needs; identifying and acquiring resources to address those needs and negotiating with multiple parties to best meet the needs and interests of his clients. His efforts in managing projects locally and across the nation have been recognized by clients, managers and his peers. H. Hoover is also a husband and father of four children. All four have participated in athletic competition from an early age. After working with young athletes as coach, official, mentor and Dad, he understands the hours of work, commitment, discipline and personal dedication needed to succeed as an athlete. Growing up in a single parent household, he learned early that it is not just where you come from but where you are going that determines your direction and ultimately whether your journey ends in failure or success. As a qualified sports agent, H. Hoover Hall works to educate, develop and direct the professional careers of talented young men and women.
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California Chrome a horse of a uniting color
by bill - 2014-06-06 - ( culture / sports / horseracing )
They have a 77-year-old trainer who thought his big-time days were over, and a jockey who grew up afraid of horses.
They pulled California Chrome's name out of Coburn's cowboy hat. If not for the luck of the draw the horse could have been named Seabisquick.
California Chrome a horse of a uniting color
Here's hoping he wins!
The race is tomorrow, Saturday, late afternoon Eastern time, usually on NBC.
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We can't overemphasize the importance of building codes. This dense and complicated set of guidelines on mundane things like insulation and glazing requirements isn't fun leisure reading. But they are one of the most important tools local governments have to reduce energy use in homes and businesses — and to take action on climate.
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Dickinson, Poindexter and the rest of the Basalt code task force rolled up their sleeves and got to work on updating their Sustainable Building Regulations (SBR), a green code addendum that holistically reduces the carbon footprint of buildings. A year of hard work later (June 2018), Basalt Town Council unanimously adopted the new SBR, putting Basalt on a path towards achieving their climate action goals.
Susan Philp, Town of Basalt (left) and Amanda Poindexter, Full Circle Construction (right) are using building codes to create a more sustainable world
Action on climate = green building
Basalt's green code, the SBR, has been in place since 2009. Last year, when they made the jump from the 2006 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) to the 2015 version, they knew they had to kick it up a notch with their SBR too.
Together, the 2015 IECC and new SBR go a long way towards reducing emissions: according to a report by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, a home built to Basalt's current energy code (IECC 2015) uses 33% less energy than the standard home constructed to the 2009 energy code. This puts a dent in Basalt's greatest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, it's buildings.
How does SBR affect green building, anyway?
Building energy codes address how buildings use energy. This focus on energy is essential, but there are other considerations to drive low impact building.
That's where the green code comes in. It complements existing code by introducing a whole system approach to addressing a building's sustainability and goes beyond what's included in traditional construction code. Green codes integrate elements around water conservation, recycling and reuse of construction materials, connectivity to public transit, how to position a home to maximize solar gain, and more.
Highlights of Basalt's new SBR include:
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- Permit discounts: LEED and Zero Energy Ready Homes qualify for a discount of up to $5,000
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The updated SBR is part of the steady drive towards greener buildings and the national momentum towards net zero energy use. CORE's Program Director, Marty Treadway recognizes this progress: "ultimately the goal is that all of our buildings produce as much energy as they consume over the course of a year. Basalt has taken an important step toward that goal by adopting their new SBRs." Energy codes and green codes can help net zero buildings become the standard approach.
Learn more about Basalt's Sustainable Building Regulations at one of the two upcoming FREE information sessions on July 25 from 11:30 to 12:30 and on August 6 from 5:30 to 6:30 at the Town of Basalt.
* Keep an eye on CORE's Green Events calendar for opportunities to beef up your energy knowledge


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ek wrote:EDIT: Replaced an instance of "bowline" with "figure eight" where "figure eight" was originally intended. ("well, you know how long it can sometimes take to untie a figure-eight")
Are you reading On Rope, 2nd Edition? That is the most current edition.
I have the version copyrighted in 1996, has an autograph in the binder from 1997, so I doubt its the 2nd edition? I figured the bowline was used for the same purposes as the figure 8 and you are right, untying the figure 8 is a pain in the ass. After taking a few whippers rock climbing, untying the 11mm rope from the harness is a royal pain after your fingers are burnt out from.
Thanks for the info.
When you tie off to a tree, for an anchor to rappell into a pit, do you tie a bowline around the tree, or do you simply wrap the rope around the trunk a few times then clip the end back onto the main rope. I always figured a fig8 or bowline around the tree is what people did, but people I know wrap the rope around the tree. Either way works fine I guess?


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Sunday, February 18, 2018
Update on acquiring my UK call
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I guess I am a bit late to this debate but I don't think you should have to sit the UK examination if you hold a full Canadian licence. Take a look at this link http://www.erodocdb.dk/Docs/doc98/official/pdf/TR6101.PDFReplyDelete
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Actually I did think about the fact that you normally operate QRP and therefore really only need to get as far as the Foundation licence!
What part of the U.K. are you considering to live?
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Good morning Keith I was thinking the same thing but I would like to acquire my top licence if not for the knowledge challenge but you never know in the future if I may want to get my feet wet outside of the QRP sandbox.Delete
My wife family is from Yarm in Stockton on Tees. It is in the north part of England and we are thinking about settling up that way. We were looking at the south but it's very pricy down there.
I live in the city of Lincoln, which is on the eastern side of the country, having moved here from Cambridge ON in 2011. Prior to Cambridge we lived in Ottawa, Montreal, and the delightful (??) suburb of Scarborough ONReplyDelete
We were in Preston - just off Eagle on Laurel near the retirement home! Remarkable coincidence!ReplyDelete
My daughter still lives in Preston - just behind the Preston Public Library off King. I was there last October for a couple of weeks and will be visiting again some time this year.ReplyDeleteReplies
Very nice that you are getting back to Canada and we will be doing the same as we have 3 kids to visit. I do have some questions regarding your move to England and will give you my email if you could email me there so we can talk about the move. ve3wdm At hotmail dot comDelete


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Orville Higgins | Send all kids to prison!
If you're like me, you are no longer surprised at the alarming crime statistics in Jamaica. Over the years, we have become numb to the news of murder and mayhem.
It is clear that our politicians are unable to do anything about it. They all seem not to have a clue. We hear the grandiose speeches in Parliament. We hear the many plans. We hear about divine intervention. We hear tongue-in-cheek comments about obeah. Ministers and police commissioners come and go. It makes absolutely no difference.
My first idea is to send every Jamaican child to prison! Sounds odd? I am not suggesting carting off youngsters to prison because they commit crimes. I am saying, send them to view and observe prison conditions when they are still at an impressionable age, maybe between eight and 10.
In my generation, trips to the zoo or the National Pantomime were standard. Those trips stayed with us for a lifetime. I am hereby suggesting that we make prison trips mandatory to all young children. Let them see the suffering. Let them witness the conditions. Let them see how much the prisoners regret being there. You wont stop crime immediately, but I guarantee that a large portion of those children will grow up realising that a life of crime isn't worth it.
Too many of our youngsters take on the badman persona without really thinking or knowing the conditions that ultimately will await them in our penal institutions if they don't die first.
The Government should make it mandatory that every child visit General Penetentiary (Tower Street) or Horizon or Prison Oval! A few of them may be traumatised, but so be it. If it proves a deterrent to a life of crime. That's a small price to pay.
Sports competitions
The other obvious solution is sports. It sounds simple, but my long experience has taught me that communities that are involved in active sports competitions are less likely to be at war. One of the benefits of sports is that it teaches youngsters to accept the decision of the officials. Of course, there are times when players openly protest and even rebel against a referee or umpire's call, but there is no other human endeavour that promotes healthy rivalry and respect for authority as does sports.
The Government should start a corner league or a T20 cricket league or a basketball competition in all the troubled communities. Indeed, they could do them back to back. The more time spent on a playing field or a court, the less time planning to start a war with your neighbour.
A lot of these murders we are told is over 'turf'. This patch of land belongs to X crew and that patch belongs Y. Sports would go a far way towards curbing the mayhem. Teams have to travel around, the youths would be far less likely to see a street or a lane as their enemy.
The Government may claim that it can't afford it, but the real question is, can it afford not to? I venture to say that the cumulative cost of crime is far greater than would be the cost of putting on sports competitions.
We all talk about how the Reggae Boyz experience in the lead-up to 1998 caused crime to drop in these inner-city communities, especially on the days when a game was at the stadium. People could coalesce around a common cause. Class and race and creed didn't matter. We all behaved as one. The same thing happens with the jubilation surrounding our athletes during the Olympics and World Championships.
Use sports as a tool to get the youngsters together, to parade their skills in front of their fans. Use sports to get the youths to play hard, but also to respect their opponents as well as the officials. Use sports as one avenue through which they could channel those aggressive tendencies into something more socially acceptable.
Sports won't solve all our crime problems, but it would go a far way to minimise the rot.
- Orville Higgins is a sports journalist. Email feedback to email@example.com.


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Galway has jumped seven points to 21st place in the latest survey from the Irish Business Against Litter group securing its current status as the cleanest of Ireland's four main cities.
While the report praised Galway city for showing the "way for other cities in Ireland" there was also much praise this week for the street cleaning crew, with Galway City Tidy Towns committee chairperson and city councillor Niall McNelis describing them as "magicians". The Labour councillor also cited the dedication and sense of pride in the area shown by groups within the business community.
The results of the IBAL survey released on Monday show that Galway city is again "clean to European norms" and is now in 21st position in the ranking of 40 areas surveyed, a major step up from the 2013 survey which saw the city rank 28. Kilkenny and Cavan were named Ireland's cleanest towns and were among 18 towns to be deemed cleaner than the European average.
Inspectors praised Galway city for having "so many top ranking sites", adding that the majority of these sites were "not just clear of litter but nicely presented and maintained". However, there were two areas given grade C and found to be "seriously littered". These were the Galway courthouse building and environs where a wide variety of food related litter and cigarette butts were discarded and the recycling facility behind Joyce's Shopping Centre in Knocknacarra which was in a "pretty poor state". Joyce's Shopping Centre itself was given a grade A rating with a "virtual absence of litter" and clearly marked car parking spaces.
Sixteen other areas within the city given grade A ranking (clean to European norms and virtual absence of litter ) include Shop Street; St Patrick's Primary School; Franciscan Abbey, Francis Street; Town Hall Theatre; Court House Square (residential area ); the NUI Galway Corrib Greenway (a walk/cycle path along the banks of River Corrib ); the playground off University Road; NUI Galway campus; University Hospital Galway; Crestwood, Coolough, Menlo; the approach from Lackagh Quarry to the junction with Dyke Road; Eamonn Deacy Park; Dyke Road recycling facility; Galway Shopping Centre; Dunnes Stores Terryland car park; and the R337 from Threadneedle Road to Joyce's Shopping Centre in Knocknacarra. The six areas to receive grade B (moderately littered, scattered small amounts of litter ) include St Nicholas Collegiate Church; Bridge Street; Bruach na Corrib boardwalk; the John Behan sculpture 'Equality Emerging' and environs (opposite the Cathedral ); the car park at University Hospital Galway; and Terryland retail park.
Commenting on the survey, Cllr McNelis said Galway city had "really upped its game" and was only three points away from being deemed cleaner than European norms.
"We're the cleanest of the large cities which is excellent when you consider that just €1.5 million is being spent on street cleaning by Galway City Council, compared to the €3.5 million spent in Limerick and just under €7 million in Cork. The council staff should be complimented. They come into the city in the morning and transform the place, like magicians. There are a number of groups in the business community who also spend a lot of time cleaning and show pride in their area," said Cllr McNelis.
View our interactive map to see how IBAL inspectors graded each area in Galway.