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If you look forward to put in money in the L Zone Delhi, here are some crucial pieces of information that you must remember. As needs of accommodation in Delhi are rising, the DDA has come up with the L Zone, a region situated in South-West Delhi as a part of the strategic division of Delhi into 15 zones.
This area covering 22,840 hectares will hopefully bring momentum in the presently quiet real estate in Delhi with projects like Revanta Heights Dwarka L Zone. Its location between Gurgaon and Dwarka, and proximity to the IGI Airport, gives it an edge over other zones in investment and housing. As soon as the DDA has approved the policy, it will take over 40 per cent of the land area for civil developments such as drainage, roads and sewerage.
As a part of the new policy of Delhi Smart Cities, the L-Zone has become a center of interest among home seekers, for both land and homes. While most investors have already purchased land, there are several who are awaiting the final approval from the authority. You must closely read the policy before buying a home. Moreover, make sure that the developer has all the required approvals just like Revanta Heights Dwarka.
According to the L Zone News, although the policy stands notified, some projects are still awaiting approval. So, ensure the authenticity of the concerned developer, and be ready to wait for a while before your plans with the investment can be implemented.


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Disney Around the World – For Students K-3rd Grade, June 10-14 Get your passport stamped each day as we explore music from Disney productions around the world. We will conclude with a Showcase that will include music, dance and acting from the week. Broadway Rocks – For Students 3rd-8th Grade, June 17-21 Grades 3 through 8 will embark on an epic adventure through shows that ROCKED Broadway like School of Rock, Camp Rock, Jesus Christ Superstar and more! We will conclude the week's camp with a Showcase of the things we learned throughout the week. Madigral Dinner Theater – 7th-12th Grade, June 23-29 Come enjoy dinner complete with an amazing show as the CGFAA presents Madrigal Dinner Theatre a show that will surely entertain all audiences. Students from Grade 7 through 12 are invited to attend this week long intensive camp that will present a complete Dinner Theater experience by Saturday. Students will also present this production Saturday June 29 and then again December 5th, 12th for local senior communities and 2 additional dates to be announced at a Historical building downtown Indy. Sarge's Diner Dinner Theater – 7th-12th Grade, July 14-21 Come enjoy dinner complete with an amazing show […]
5307 Skyline Ln Greenwood, Indiana 46143
Adventure Camp includes a backyard zip line, swimming, canoeing, fishing, horse riding, crafts, hiking, challenge course, archery and more! All outdoor action packed fun! Specialty Camp activities vary by camp. We offer Art Camp, Archaeology Camp, Maker Camp, Science Camp for Girls, Science Camp for Boys, and Photography Camp. Camps are in a unique environment, with well-trained, skilled staff. Dates: May 28 – August 2, 2019, Specialty Camps: June 3-July 26, 2019 Hours: 8:30 AM – 3:30 PM * Early drop off and late stay options are available Ages: Adventure Camp: 5-15, Specialty Camps: 8-12 Gender: Male and Female
13400 Allisonville Road 46038
Summer Art Camps at Mass Ave Toys! Suess Camp – June 24-28 from 1-3pm (ages 6-8 ) About Face / Portrait Camp July 15-19 from 1-3pm (ages 8-10) Narnia!/ Mythical Creatures and Lands August 12-16 from 1-4pm (ages 10-12) Plumb Arts is an Art Studio offering on and offsite quality art classes and Summer Art Camps for kids of all ages in Midtown, Meridian-Kessler and Sobro areas of Indianapolis. For more information or to sign up soon go to www.deborahkolp.com Summer Art Camp spaces still left!
4550 Central Ave. Indianapolis, Indiana 46205
SpringHill Day Camps makes it easy to find the right summer experience for kids that provides a variety of experiences all in one. We bring the perfect week-long experience to kids right in their community with lots of fun activities, friendships, mentoring, character development, and spiritual investment, keeping your kids engaged and energized all day to make it the best week of their summer. Dates: Varies by location, Monday-Friday0pm Monday-Friday; before and after care available Ages: Completed Kindergarten through 5th Grade Gender: Male and Female Activities: Through an integration of faith and fun, SpringHill helps kids learn deep truths while experiencing a variety of fun and energizing Hi-Adventure and water activities, archery, paintball targets, friendship building, mentoring, crafts, camp songs, character development, and games. Special Needs Offered: Inclusion program for both physical and behavioral disabilities
Multiple Locations around Indianapolis
Summer U offers camps and academic workshops for passionate learners in grades 1-12. Our programs include everything from study skills, robotics, rocketry, computer gaming and development to theatre, visual arts, creative writing, world languages, and sports. Our mission is to expand the hearts and minds of students and to nurture excellence through academic, creative, and physical achievement. Dates: June 3-28 & July 8-26, 2019 Gender: all welcome! Hours: 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., dependent on camp, with extended hours for before and after care. Ages: Grades 1-12 Activities Included: Academic enrichment, fine & visual arts, world languages, STEM, sports
2825 W. 116th Street, Carmel, IN 46032
The Rock Camp is an all-summer, all-day camp for kids entering grades 1-5 that runs May 28 – July 26 run by Community Church of Greenwood. Between the hours of 6:30am and 6:00pm every day, your kid will experience endless fun activities, field trips, and a feeling of safety and love. The Rock Camp is not just another daycare alternative but a safe, creative, and dynamic summer experience. Date: May 28 – July 26 (with an optional additional week) Hours: 6:30 am – 6:00 pm Ages: Entering grades 1-5 in fall 2019 Activities: water games, field trips, class and large group teaching, arts & crafts, sports, large group games
1477 W Main St. Greenwood, IN 46142
Topgolf Seasonal Academies are the perfect way to get the most out of your child's school breaks – and we offer several throughout the year. These academies are jam-packed with fun and learning for kids ages 6-12. Dates: TBD Hours: 9am-12pm Ages: 6-12 Activities: Fundamentals of golf/learning
9200 E 116th Street, Fishers, IN
A Children's Habitat Montessori School offers 5 weeks of themed camp fun for children ages 4-10 years old. These multi-age, Montessori-based experiences offer child-centered activities in our Outdoor Classroom, led by experienced Montessori guides. Restrooms are indoors and indoor classrooms will be used during inclement weather days. Dates: June 3-7, 10-14, 17-21 and July 8-12, 15-19 Hours: Monday through Friday, 9 am–noon Ages: 4-10 Activities: June 3-7: Dinosaurs / June 10-14: Cooking / June 17-21: Harry Potter / July 8-12: Bees / July 15-19: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math)
801 West 73rd Street, Indianapolis, IN
Our mission is to help prevent drownings by working with the community to provide a standard of excellence in teaching children and adults water safety. With years of experience. At Aqua-Tots Swim Schools, we follow seven core values in our interactions with our customers, our employees and the communities we serve daily. These core values are the fabric of our company.
4825 E 96th Street Ste 1000 Indianapolis, Indiana 46240
Summer art camps for children ages 7-17. All-day and half-day art camps available. Indoor and outdoor activities. Campers will be introduced to a variety of art materials and techniques. Come ready to get dirty and have fun! Dates: June-July Hours: 9am-4pm Ages: 7-17 Activities: Art, including outdoor activities
225 West Hawthorne, Zionsville
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Our Program recognizes that children learn through play. Play fosters total development and should be interwoven in everything children do. During camp, the children will experiment and explore by using all five senses. Our campers will thrive on creativity, exploration, discovery, spontaneity and lots of love! Dates: Session 1: June 3 – June 28; Session 2: July 1 – July 26 Hours: Flexible hours. Half Days/Full Days Early drop off as early as 7:30 am and late pickup anytime up until 6 pm/5:30 pm on Fridays Ages: 12 months+ through 5 years+ Activities: Weekly creative themes, arts and crafts, water fun at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Aquatic Complex for 3's 4's and 5's. Water play for 12 months through 2's. Music/Creative Movement, Entertainment, Field Trip Fridays for 4's and 5's.
600 W 70th St, Indianapolis, IN 46260
Bishop Chatard High School offers a variety of camps that encourage 1st through 8th-grade students to explore new interests, challenge their imaginations and hone current skills. Athletic and enrichment camps appeal to students interested in theatre, technology, music, sports, community service, art and more. Half and full-day camps are available, or your child may bring a lunch and experience different camps in our morning and afternoon sessions. Early-bird and multiple camp discounts are available. Activities: Theatre; Community Service; Robotics; Coding; Art; Cooking; Improv Comedy; Creative Writing; Basketball, Baseball; Softball; Football; Lacrosse; Volleyball; Wrestling; Soccer; Cheerleading; Ceramics Dates: June 10-13; June 17-20; and June 24-27, 2019 Hours: 9 a.m. to Noon; 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.; 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ages: 1st through 8th grade
5885 Crittenden Ave. Indianapolis, IN 46220
Camp AYS offers fun adventures focused on science, art, health and the environment. Lots of active games, new friends and new experiences make Camp AYS the place to be this summer. Camps are located in Marion County. Dates: Varies depending on school district Hours: 6:30 am-6 pm Age: 5-12
Various Locations
Fly from the zipline, create a clay pot, ride horses or dirt bikes. Build your confidence and self-esteem as you join campers and staff from around the country and the world in a camp family where all kids are Accepted, Challenged and Empowered. ALL new cabins built in 2014. Dates: June 2-July 26 Ages: 7-16 Activities Included: Horseback riding, dirt bikes, robotics, nature, arts & crafts, archery, climbing tower, riflery, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, soccer, basketball, mountain bikes, mountain boards, woodworking, radio station and more.
2034 Outer Lake Road Princeton, Indiana) 47670
For over 100 years Camp Crosley YMCA has been strengthening individuals, families and communities through our residential camping, outdoor education and groups and retreats programs.
165 EMS T2 Lane North Webster, IN 46555
Camp Invention's all-new summer curriculum, allows children in grades K-6 to create a vehicle of the future, design a mechanical robot dog, and build futuristic dream homes. Visit campinvention.org or call (800) 968-4332 to register. Use promo code Ideas25 to save $25 (expires 3/23) and Ideas15 to save $15 (expires 5/4). Ages: Kindergarten through 6th grade Dates: Vary based on location
Multiple locations throughout the greater Indianapolis metro area
CampJCC offers experiences geared to each child's stage of development: adventures and friendship-building through games, nature and science studies for K-1; exploration and development of special interests for grades 2-5; and more autonomy and responsibility for grades 6-9. Kids have the best time playing on our 40-acre campus and Eskenazi Water Park. Extended care, pre/post camp available. Dates: June 3-July 26 Gender of Campers: Boys and girls Hours: 9 am- 4 pm Ages: Grades K-9 Activities: swimming, arts/crafts, cookouts, indoor/outdoor sports, singing/dancing, citizenship
6701 Hoover Rd, Indianapolis, 46260
Camp Manitowa is a small, family owned camp that offers 1 & 2 week sessions. We offer a range of adventure activities, water sports, land sports, theater, arts, outdoor living skills, and more. Our counselors are kind, caring, and experienced and lover working at camp. We provide individual attention for each camper and the best customer service for families. We give kids a summer of a lifetime! Dates: June 10 – August 4 Gender: Girls/ Boys Special Needs: extra support and 1 on 1 advocate available for special needs campers Ages: 7-15 Activities Included: Water Skiing, swimming, sports, zip lining, arts & crafts, hiking, GA GA, camp fires, ropes course
12770 North Benton Road Benton, IL 62812
Campers from around the country and throughout the world have enjoyed fun-filled summers at Camp Newaygo Girl's Resident Camp for over 90 summers. Our 101-acre camp rests along Pickerel Lake which is snuggled in the Manistee National Forest region, near the town of Newaygo, Michigan. If you like spending time in the outdoors and making lifelong friendships, Camp Newaygo is the place for you! Gender: Female Dates: Week long sessions June 23- August 3 Hours: 4 day, 1 week, 2 week, up to all summer Ages: 7-17, Mom and me programs starting at age 3 Activities Included: Archery, High Ropes, Zipline, Swimming, Wilderness Tripping, Canoeing, Sailing, Stand Up Paddle boarding.. AND MORE!
5333 South Centerline Road Newaygo, MI 49337
We host Camp Riley, a camp for youth with physical disabilities and other medical conditions. Children can attend one of eight sessions over a nine-week span catered to their needs. We also offer an Environmental Explorers camp for those wishing to have an amazing time exploring the outdoors! Dates: May – August Special Needs Offered: Wide Range of Physical Diagnoses & Medical Condition Ages: Varies Activities: Therapeutic Horseback Riding, Climbing Tower, Alpine Tower, Canoeing, Swimming, Adapted Recreations, Music, Art
5040 State Rd 67 N Martinsville, IN 46151

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Direct air routes deemed key to Viet Nam-India tourism cooperation
Direct air routes are key to boosting tourism between Viet Nam and India, according to Joint Secretary of the Indian Ministry of Tourism, Suman Billa.
A recently signed agreement between India and the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport will serve as an important legal framework to facilitate the development of their transport infrastructure, Billa noted at a tourism promotion event held by the Vietnamese Embassy in New Delhi on March 24.
He said that India is one of the two countries that have had the most tourists going overseas in the world, and encouraged Vietnamese people to visit. He also suggested that if promotional activities are conducted effectively, Viet Nam will be a magnet for Indian visitors because it possesses a multitude of attractive destinations, a rich culinary culture and many shared spiritual and cultural similarities with his country.
General Director of the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism, Nguyen Van Tuan, said numerous measures have been taken to strengthen bilateral cooperation, particularly in tourism, since Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit to India last October.
Following the decision of India's second biggest carrier, Jet Airways, to open a direct air route to Viet Nam, the Southeast Asian country's national flag carrier Viet Nam Airlines is also planning to launch a direct route to India. This will fuel tourism between the nations, Tuan claimed.
Minister Counsellor of the Vietnamese Embassy, Tran Quang Tuyen, said India has seen the world's fastest growth in the number of citizens travelling overseas, from 4.4 million in 2000 to 17 million in 2013, up by 13 percent per year on average. The figure is expected to hit 50 million by 2020.
Although Viet Nam welcomed 55,000 Indian tourist arrivals in 2014, a surge from 12,000 in 2007, the number accounted for only 0.07 percent of the total foreign visitors to Viet Nam and 0.03 percent of Indian tourists who spent their holidays overseas.
Meanwhile, only 12,000 Vietnamese people visit India every year, with the majority heading to Buddhist relic sites such as Gaya, Varanasi, and Kushinagar, he noted. He said that this proves tourism cooperation is far behind where it should be.
Tuyen urged for both countries step up tourism promotion and open more direct air routes as soon as possible.


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ASWEGAN, Pearl M. 1901-1989
Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 1/3/2016 at 09:52:04
Services Held For Pearl M. Aswegan
Funeral services for Pearl Aswegan were held at the First Presbyterian Church, Grundy Center, on Monday, February 27, 1989, at 10:30 a.m. The Reverend Glenn R. Dieken officiated.
Connie McBride sang "Amazing Grace" and "One Day At A Time." The accompanist was Mrs. Raymond Hinders, who also played selected numbers for the prelude and postlude.
Casket bearers were Gordon McDowell, Allen McDowell, Craig Diamond, Tony L. Diamond, David Harms, Donavon Ash and Paul Ash.
The ushers were Paul Slinker and Jack Bienfang. Mrs. Paul Slinker and Mrs. Ernest Blythe were in charge of the floral arrangements.
Interment was in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Grundy Center.
Pearl M. Aswegan was born on October 3, 1901, at Allensville, IL, and passed away at 3:30 a.m., Friday, February 24, 1989, at the Oakview Nursing Home in Conrad. She attained the age of 87 years, four months and 21 days.
She was the daughter of John L. and Margaret Blackford Ash. Pearl and her family came to Grundy Center when she was five years old. She grew up in Grundy Center and attended school there.
On February 9, 1919, she was united in marriage to Fred Aswegan in Grundy Center. After their marriage, they farmed in Grundy county for 20 years and in 1939, they moved and made their home in Grundy Center.
Her husband, Fred, passed away on January 4, 1973.
After the death of her husband, she continued to make her home in Grundy Center until 1981, when she moved to Eldora and lived there until February 15, 1983, when she became a resident of the Oakview Nursing Home in Conrad.
She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and a faithful mother.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and by 10 brothers and sisters.
She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Ray (Bertha) Diamond of Eldora and Mrs. Robert (Frieda) McBride of Conrad; four sons, Harold of Des Moines, Raymond of Ft. Madison, Earl of Sparks, NV, Fred, Jr. of Rolla, MO; seven sisters, Mrs. Susie Gideon and Mrs. Ellen Aswegan both of Grundy Center, Mrs. Hazel Pepperling of Iowa Falls, Mrs. Margaret Aswegan of Stout, Mrs. Bernice Bransted of Klemme, Mrs. Mary Swenson of Lake Mills and Mrs. June Jacobson of Mason City; 17 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.
A memorial fund has been established.
The Engelkes-Abels Funeral Home in Grundy Center was in charge of the funeral arrangements.
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 2 March 1989, pg 3
Grundy Obituaries maintained by Tammy D. Mount.
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Pinky, there is no need to do this and leave. We need all players and especially the old timers here. What I am not going to do and nobody else is going to do is beg you to stay here.You can block me, ban me, remove all my posts. Moving on.
Been fun guys. Best wishes to all.
Vmax is in charge but in charge of what? Does he still take directions from SK? Why has Player not been punished? That's the question. He runs off players with his disruptive team switching and nothing ever happens to him. He doesn't give a shit about the game or any of the players here yet he seems to be untouchable.Pinky, there is no need to do this and leave. We need all players and especially the old timers here. What I am not going to do and nobody else is going to do is beg you to stay here.
However, lets ignore this guy and have some patience. Do you bring up a good point, Yes. Is it a make or brake moment , No!
Lets give Vmax a little latitude and the process he is in charge of. I get it your frustrated, but if everyone else just quits because they got a little frustrated there would be no gaming on BFV. You want tough love and prison time for everyone who breaks a rules and that's not going to happen here.
I think you can get through this Pinky , I really do. But to start you need to take a deep breath and let it go.
If you are implying that I said he was not a good admin, you are incorrect. I consider Vmax a friend. Maybe he doesn't feel the same, got me. But the server needs a serious shot of something to keep it going and letting Player switch teams willy-nilly, with players bitching about it for years, is not the solution.In my experience Vmax is a good admin, an he plays well too. He helps out with advice, suggestions and tips. I've never had any problems with any Hello admins till date. I enjoy playing on this server since many years. BFV & Hello Forever!
Pinky , this is true. We all have requests and complaints and blah , blah ... But the reality is this forum is run by people who are volunteering their time.All I'm going to say at the moment is that all of this is far below Vmax's pay grade, so to speak. He works very hard to keep things running, and, whether or not you agree, he works very hard to keep as many people as possible happy with the game. Pinky, you post a million threads a week and I hate to break it to you, but Vmax is not beholden to drop everything and pat you on the back the moment you make another demand. Please try to understand that decisions are not made overnight and changes are not implemented at the drop of a hat. You are only going to foment ill will if you continue to levy accusations of negligence and incompetence against our admins without giving them ample time to even reply to your initial concerns.
~The Deadliest Warrior
It really ruins the game with people like baki bringing teams in unbalance.Funny how you talk about Bitching Pinky.
If you look at the posts you have posted and when you don't get your way you get upset and leave like a little angry kid.
We sure are going to miss V-max as Admin. Hope he continues to play.
I admins have to deal with these issues all the time its no wonder they get fed up with it.
Just play, Have fun and follow the rules. Its actually very simple.
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It is known that horse racing was common in ancient Greece and India. The earliest references to these tests date back to 1000 BC. Competitions in chariots drawn by fours were the basis of the ancient Greek Olympic Games. In ancient times, horse racing was a great success and held a special place in the life of society. Winners of equestrian competitions received fame and recognition worthy of true heroes. Even more popular racing became thanks to the participation in it of the great emperors – Nero, Caligula and Domitian. With the fall of the Roman Empire, the popularity of horse racing declined, although there were still competitions in Europe. In the Middle Ages in Europe a variety of equestrian tests were also carried out, which were successful among the population. A new round in the development of horse racing began in the XVII century. Then in England a special breed of horses was bred, possessing the best abilities for horse racing.
At the beginning of the XIX century was created high-speed thoroughbred breed. The appearance of such horses contributed to the reduction of race distances. The previous running distances of 6.5-9.5 km were reduced to 5 km or less. So the horses had the opportunity to maximize their speed. In the 18th century, major hippodromes were opened in such cities of Great Britain as Epsom, Ascot, Newmarket and Doncaster. Later, hippodromes began to appear in France. Longchamp became the most famous French hippodrome, where horse racing is held today. Horse racing has been regulated by the National Rules and Regulations since the 18th century in England. Here was organized the first jockey club which has the authority to control the conduct of equestrian competitions. It was the British who first began to record horse racing records and record the nicknames of horses.
At the turn of the XVIII and XIX centuries, horse racing acquired the status of a prestigious occupation. To become a competitor, the horse owner himself could sit in the saddle, or put in his place an acquaintance or a stable employee. In those days, the color of the winner's stable was recorded in a special book. This tradition is still followed during the races of thoroughbred riding breeds. On other races colors are recorded that belong to the jockeys, and not to the stables. In Germany, horse racing has spread only in the XIX century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the first German hippodrome was built in the city of Mecklenburg, where horses were brought from Britain. In America, horses appeared in the 15th century thanks to the Spanish conquistadors. In America, the Mustang breed was bred – unique horses that appeared from the crossing of American breeds with Arabian horses.
Great interest in horse racing has always been observed in high society. Kings, dukes, courtiers and other noble people had the opportunity to maintain their own stables. Often they themselves participated in competitions. The mass development of horse racing was obtained in the 17th-19th centuries, which is associated with an improved selection due to the industrial revolution. More perfect breeds of horses appear, and people have more money and free time – the European middle class begins to emerge. At the same time, many hippodromes are opened, on which (first illegally) sweepstakes appear. The possibility of winning repeatedly spurred interest in horse racing. In many countries, restrictions were imposed on sweepstakes, up to a total ban. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for the decline of love for horse racing. But the main thing in which they were inferior to the newly emerging sports, so it is in entertainment. Jumping, triathlon, dressage and other modern types of equestrian sports are clearly superior to monotonous jumps, which are now referred to as standard tests of the horse for speed and endurance.
What are the races: horse racing tips before you start
There are certain differences between horse breeds. They determine the type of races in which they will be used. There are some types: smooth; still chase; endurance race.
- Hurdling. In horse racing, horses must overcome various obstacles – water or sand breaks, hedges. The most widespread stipple-chase is in Ireland (the place of origin of this sport), the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Canada and Australia. The races are held at a distance of 4-7 km, up to 30 obstacles of varying difficulty can occur on the track. Racing through barriers originates from sport hunting. Aristocrats enjoyed popular horseback hunting for foxes, hares and wolves in the open country, but with natural low-growing vegetation common on the island. The most famous obstacle race has been held in Liverpool since 1836; its prize pool exceeds £ 1 million.
- Gambling racing. Probably, horse racing was the first sport that brought wealth not only to participants, but also to spectators. It is known that in the first millennium BC, horse races with bets on the winner were organized on the Arabian Peninsula. But the development of totalizator system is already at the present time. In a number of countries, races with a tote are under full or partial prohibition. So in some US states, a law was passed to ban the sweepstakes in 1951. But in many states, stakes are not easily resolved, but they are also a significant proportion of the local budget. So the Hong Kong hippodrome brings in more than 25% of tax revenues to the treasury of the city. And the total global tax collection exceeds $ 100 billion annually. At the same time, a significant part of totalizator incomes remains in the shadow sector of the economy.
Dangerous sport: horse racing fixtures
Since high speed develops in races, this often leads to bad consequences. So the research conducted by the Center for Medicine at the University of North Carolina, reported that over 60% of jockeys have injuries and health problems. Moreover, 20% have serious complications in the form of head and neck injuries. We also managed to find out that for every 2000 starts there are 3 horses killed. In 2006, in New York alone, 600 horses were killed in competition. And the number of non-lethal cases and not entailing culling the animal even more. This circumstance as well as the opinion of a number of human rights organizations on cruelty at the races led to a serious campaign against this type of equestrian competitions. In particular, the use of the whip, fishing, and other traditional methods of controlling a horse is criticized. Some players, by the way, put exclusively on the first few numbers in the handicap. And this strategy works fine. But the horses from the last lines do not win so often. Handicaps are divided into six classes. The first class (Class 1) is the highest; these are the highest quality horses. The sixth grade (Class 6) is the lowest. A horse can start with low handicap classes and gradually climb up.
- Class 1 is the cream of the British races. These are the very jumps that the whole country watches and discusses, on which the greatest bets are made. What is interesting, inside Class 1 also has its own "ladder". The first class is divided into Listed, Group 3, Group 2 and Group 1 races.
- Listed level rides are a transitional stage from simple handicaps to the prestigious Group 1, 2 and 3 races. It is honorable for any horse to speak in such a jump – it says a lot about his talents. And if you win in Listed, you will break into the Group level races and win hundreds of thousands of pounds.
In barrier jumps, the picture is similar. As in the smooth series, here, too, most of the races are handicaps, and they are divided into six classes. There are also maiden and listed jumps here. Well, for the highest level races in barrier races, instead of the word "Group", "Grade" is used. The highest level of British barrier races is Grade 1.


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For this year's (2012) 60th cherry blossom lantern lighting ceremony the Japanese Lantern will be sporting a fresh new look.
Set back a little from the waterline and behind the trees on an area of grassy lawn, the Japanese Lantern has always looked a little lonely.
If the lantern looks old and weathered, it's because it is. It was carved nearly 400 years ago in Japan. Although it weighs over 4,000 pounds, it was shipped to Washington in 1954 as a gift to mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of peaceful relations between Japan and the United States and also as a symbol of rebuilding relations in the wake of World War II.
Each year, the Japanese Embassy appoints a Cherry Blossom Princess to light the lantern during the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The lantern itself hasn't changed this year–it's still in the same spot and looks as old and weathered as ever.
But it has a new walkway winding to it from the sidewalk, is now surrounded by several large stones for decoration, and has a new, small paved area at its foot. On the other side of the paved area is the plaque commemorating the planting of the first cherry trees.
It has all been very nicely done and is a long overdue upgrade to one of Washington's lesser known monuments.
If you'd like to see the lighting ceremony for yourself, it will take place at an event at 2:30-4pm on April 6, 2012.
Virtual Tour
Here's a 360° perspective.
Want to Help Support DC's Cherry Trees?
If you'd like to help support the care and upkeep of the cherry trees around the Tidal Basin, the Trust for The National Mall has launched an Endow a Cherry Tree Campaign. Donations go to the official Cherry Tree Endowment, which will give the National Park Service additional resources to fund the care, maintenance, and possible replacement of the cherry trees. You can find more information here.
The Trust is dedicated to marshaling private support for maintaining and improving the history National Mall area. I'm not affiliated with the Trust--just an admirer of their efforts.


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Writer Debra Daley's first TV script, Universal Drive, was adapted from her short story about growing up in the car culture of West Auckland. She went on to write for Gloss and Open House, and create "money and greed" TV thriller The Shadow Trader. She later published novel The Strange Letter Z (1995) and worked as an assessor for the NZ Film Commission. Daley divides her time between London, France and Ireland.
It was a big deal for me as a working class girl to be able to find a way to bring where I came from to life. Debra Daley, on Universal Drive
Growing up in one of New Zealand's many convent schools before they were reordered by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, was an experience many found tough. This documentary explores the stories of the girls who endured the nuns' strict rule, including interviews with Ginette McDonald, Moana Maniapoto and painter Jacqueline Fahey, plus some of the nuns themselves. They discuss discipline, education, their thoughts on becoming nuns and how despite all the rules, they wouldn't have changed it for the world.
This stylishly high camp melodrama from directors Stewart Main and Peter Wells won acclaim, after debuting at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. In the imaginary 19th-century town of Hope, draper Dorothea Brooks (Jennifer Ward-Lealand) is desperate to save her sister from the clutches of opium, sex and the dastardly Fraser. She begs hunky migrant Lawrence Hayes to help; but complications ensue. Inspired partly by 1930s and 40s Hollywood melodramas, Desperate Remedies was sumptously shot by Leon Narbey (Whale Rider). Richard King writes about the film here.
This is the first of a two-part "money and greed" morality tale set in a Rogernomics-era 'New Auckland' of property deals and horse racing. Working class lass Tammy (Annie Whittle) and art consultant Joanna (Miranda Harcourt, fresh from Gloss) are an unlikely duo who inherit a racehorse and a greasy spoon cafe (instant coffee rather than cappuccino). Brit import James Faulkner plays a shady developer whose scheme is blocked by the duo. Murder, underhand unitary plans, yuppie love and old gambling debts complicate life for Tammy and Joanna.
Set in a Rogernomics-era 'New Auckland' world of property deals and horse racing, the second part of this 1989 mini-series sees the brassy odd couple Tammy (Annie Whittle) and Joanna (Miranda Harcourt) in deep water. The working class battler and the art consultant have done up their inherited greasy spoon, but they're the "only fly in the ointment" of the 'Vision 2000' scheme of a nefarious developer (Brit import James Faulkner). Girl power meets utopian unitary planning as the duo find bones in the basement, and get too close to the secrets of Huntercorp HQ.
"I get around. I know everything. Except your name." Kevin Smith made his television debut (in a speaking part) on this episode from the third series of Gloss, playing smirking DJ and man-about-town Damien Vermeer. Keen to rise above his working class origins, the character sets his sights on rich brat Chelsea Redfern within moments of meeting her. Smith left work at Christchurch's Court theatre for the role, when the decision was made to up the show's male quotient. Mikey Havoc also appears in this scene, as a member of his real-life band Push Push.
This two-part mini-series is set in an 80s 'New Auckland' world of mirror glass and murderous corporate conspiracy. British actor James Faulkner (latterly Bridget Jones' Uncle Geoffrey) plays a shady developer with a smash and burn approach to urban planning. Blocking his utopian waterfront scheme is a cafe. The inheritors of the greasy spoon — and a racehorse — are a duo of feisty femmes: working class Tammy (Annie Whittle), and art consultant Joanna (Miranda Harcourt). The Shadow Trader marked an early producing credit for Finola Dwyer (An Education).
Gloss was a popular Kiwi television drama series made by TVNZ that screened in the late 80s; it combined a wealthy family, the Redferns, with a lucrative high-fashion magazine business. Yuppies, shoulder-pads and méthode champenoise abound in this cult "glamour soap". New Zealanders wanted to see themselves as less bottom of the world and more "here we come and we are sailing" (as the infamous Cup campaign song warbled), and Gloss was just what the era demanded.
Peppermint Twist's pastel-tinted portrait of 60s puberty floated onto New Zealand television screens in 1987. Despite winning a solid teen following, it only lasted for one series. Set amongst a group of teens in small town Roseville (in reality the outdoors set on the edge of Wellington, originally used for Country GP), the show's stylised look and sound had few Kiwi precedents — though its links to American perennial Happy Days are clear. Peppermint made liberal, and increasingly confident use of period music, with each episode named after a pop song of the day.
Peppermint Twist's colourful, stylised portrait of 60s puberty floated onto NZ screens in 1987, winning a solid teenage following. Something of a homegrown homage to US sitcom Happy Days, Peppermint was set amongst a group of teens in small town Roseville, and made liberal use of period songs and arrangements. This episode involves mounting rivalries over a typically pressing issue: an upcoming limbo contest. Further nostalgia value is provided by real-life 60s music show host Peter Sinclair, who makes a cameo as compere of the contest.
This 38 episode series revolved around the ups and downs of a community house run by Tony Van Der Berg (Frank Whitten). The series was devised by Liddy Holloway to meet a network call for an Eastenders-style drama that might tackle social issue storylines. It was the first drama series to put a Māori whānau (the Mitchells) at its centre. Despite being well-reviewed, it was perhaps the last gasp of Avalon-produced uncompromisingly local drama (satirised as the 'Wellington style'), before TV production largely shifted to Auckland to face up to commercial pressures.
Sean's prize possession is a 1958 red and white Ford Fairlane. His sister Annie works in an auto paint shop. But Annie is sick of playing shotgun, while her brother drives. What she wants is Sean's trust, and the chance to use her spraypainting talents to give the Fairlane a new look. After the Fairlane is stolen, the pair find themselves caught up in an adventure which tests their relationship. Writer Debra Daley based the script on a short story she had written about growing up in the 'car culture' of Henderson, in West Auckland.


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Representative Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, a third-term congressman who has pushed for a "new generation of leadership" in Washington, declared his candidacy for president on Monday, becoming the 19th candidate to enter the Democratic primary field.
"I'm running because I'm a patriot, because I believe in this country and because I've never wanted to sit on the sidelines when it comes to serving it," Mr. Moulton said Monday on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Mr. Moulton, 40, garnered attention in November when he helped lead a group of rebellious Democrats who had sought to deny Speaker Nancy Pelosi the gavel in the new Congress. The effort was unsuccessful, and Mr. Moulton ultimately voted for Ms. Pelosi. His online biography paints him as something of a disrupter, noting that he was "the only Democrat to unseat an incumbent in a primary" in the House of Representatives when he was first elected in 2014.
Mr. Moulton, a Harvard-educated Marine veteran, has also focused on recruiting veterans to run for Congress as Democrats, including a handful who campaigned and won in 2018 promising not to back Ms. Pelosi.
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"We need to restore our moral authority in everything we do. Whether it's appointing a Cabinet member, negotiating a treaty or signing an executive order, I will always uphold America's values," he said in a video announcing his campaign.
"I'm running because we have to beat Donald Trump. And I want us to beat Donald Trump because I love this country."
During his time in Congress, Mr. Moulton, who represents a district in northeastern Massachusetts, has passed bills aimed at improving the way health care is delivered to veterans and making government travel more efficient. Given his background as a veteran, his campaign is likely to concentrate on national security and foreign affairs — areas that have received relatively scant attention from other candidates, who have focused more heavily on domestic issues such as health care and the economy.
By focusing on his military service and his relative youth, Mr. Moulton will seek to draw a contrast to President Trump, who is 72 and received several draft deferments during Vietnam.
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They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. But they never said that those words would be something you would want to hear. Or see. There are beautiful works of art, like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or van Gogh's Starry Night, that once you lay your eyes on them you will never forget. There are stunning photographs, like those taken by the Hubble Telescope of the distant universe, that will stay in your mind forever. And then there are unsettling and disturbing pictures, like the following photos from unsolved mysteries, that you just can't unsee.
Admittedly, unsolved mysteries are fun. You can spend hours getting sucked into the black hole of the internet, jumping from Wikipedia article to Wikipedia article, learning about a vast array of strange and mysterious incidents — from grisly and shocking murders where the killer was not caught to unbreakable codes left behind by an unidentified corpse. These kinds of cases are fascinating. But reading a bunch of articles only won't give you all of the information. Words are great, but until you actually see photos, something is missing. And because we don't want anything to be missing, we found 15 of the creepiest photos from unsolved mysteries around and put them together for your viewing pleasure.
15 The Allenstown Four
Between 1985 and 2000, four unidentified female bodies were discovered at Bear Brook Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire. In 1985, the bodies an adult woman and a young girl were found in a large metal drum near the ruins of an old store. The cause of death appeared to be blunt force trauma, but they remained unidentified. In 2000, two more young girls were found deceased in a similar metal drum close to the first site. DNA evidence eventually revealed that the adult woman and two of the young girls were somehow related, but the third girl's relationship to them was undetermined. In January of 2017, it was announced that a man named Robert Evans, a convicted murderer who killed and dismembered his wife, was the father of the girl who was unrelated to the others. Police feel confident that Evans murdered the Allenstown Four, but since he died in prison in 2010, it is hard to know for certain.
14 Who Put Bella In The Wych Elm?
In England in 1943 four young boys were trespassing in Hagley Wood in Worcestershire and came across the body of a woman stuffed inside a wych elm tree. The forensic examiner on the case determined that the woman had been killed at least eighteen months prior to her discovery, putting her time of death around October of 1941 or earlier. Since England was dealing with this little thing called World War II at the time, identifying the body was a bit tricky. Nonetheless, two somewhat credible theories surfaced. One was that a man named Jack Mossop and a friend of his had put the woman in the tree after she passed out from drinking too much as a way to scare her out of her alcoholic ways. Mossop was sent to a mental hospital because of recurring dreams about a woman staring at him from a tree where he died before the body in the wych elm was discovered. Another theory was that a prostitute named Bella, who worked near the body's discovery site, was the victim. Ever since the botanical corpse was found, the phrase "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?" (sometimes misspelled "witch elm") has been repeatedly graffitied on the Wychbury Obelisk.
13 The Lead Masks Case
In 1966, two electronic technicians from Brazil died under extremely strange circumstances. A young kite-flying man came across the pair of bodies on August 20 of that year in Rio de Janeiro. Both men were wearing a suit, a lead mask, and a waterproof jacket, and police found an empty water bottle nearby, as well as a notebook containing a rather odd message. The English translation of the message states, "16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal mask."
No one is exactly sure what that message means, how exactly the men died, or what exactly they were trying to accomplish. A friend of the two men said they were "scientific spiritualists" and believed that they could contact aliens by ingesting various drugs. That would more or less explain things, wouldn't it?
12 The Black Dahlia
The murder of Elizabeth Short, also known as the Black Dahlia, is so insanely gruesome that we can't actually show you the worst pictures from that crime scene. Seriously. They are the stuff of nightmares. In 1947, Short's body was discovered on a vacant lot in Los Angeles, California. She had been horrendously mutilated and completely drained of blood. Her face had been slashed open from the corners of her mouth to her ears — kind of like Heath Ledger's version of the Joker — and her body had sustained numerous cuts, specifically on her thighs and breasts. Oh... and her body had been cut in half at the waist. If you look closely at the photograph above, the shape of the blanket covering Short's corpse gives that away. The murder caused a major media frenzy, but her killer was never caught.
11 The Hinterkaifeck Murders
On the evening of March 31, 1922, four members of the Gruber family, who were farmers in a small community north of Munich, were lured one by one into the barn and slaughtered with an axe. The killer next went into the home and brutally murdered the Grubers' two-year-old son and their maid, Maria, who had just been hired that day. The axe murderer lived in the house for the next few days, eating their food and feeding their cattle.
In the days leading up to the crime, Andreas Gruber, the family patriarch, told his neighbours that he had seen footprints leading to his farm from the edge of the nearby forest. He also heard footsteps in their attic and found a newspaper on the farm that was unfamiliar to him. And six months prior, the Grubers' maid quit, claiming that the place was haunted.
To this day no one knows who killed the Grubers or how long s/he had been stalking the family.
10 The Boy In The Box
The Boy in the Box was the moniker attached to a young murder victim found naked, wrapped in a plaid blanket, and left in a cardboard box in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1957. Despite the best attempts by the police and widespread media attention, the true identity of the boy has remained a mystery. He is also known as "America's Unknown Child" and his beat up body showed signs of malnourishment when it was discovered. In fact, he was in such bad shape that investigators were unsure of his age, giving a range between three and seven years old. Suspicion initially fell on a nearby foster home, but it was cleared of any wrongdoing. In 2002, a woman only going by "M" told police that her extremely abusive mother purchased the boy in 1954 and accidentally killed him by slamming him into the floor. Unfortunately her claim has never been proven or disproven.
9 The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Mountains have a long history of taking the lives of those who chose to climb them, but few have done so in the strange, unexplainable way that the Ural Mountains killed nine hikers in 1959. Theories have ranged from an avalanche to a Yeti to aliens or Soviet death rays. You know when the theories stretch from natural phenomenon to extraterrestrials that the circumstances were pretty freaky.
A number of the hikers were found stripped down to their underwear and appear to have died of hypothermia, which makes sense seeing as being naked in the mountains is a good way to freeze to death. But the other victims seem to have died from physical trauma, including one who had brain damage but no external signs of trauma. One female hiker's tongue was missing. Investigators finally settled on an "unknown compelling force" as being the cause of their deaths. So, really, no one has any idea what happened to them.
8 The Atlas Vampire Case
In Sweden in 1932 a prostitute by the name of Lilly Lindestrom was found super, super dead in her apartment in the Atlas area of Stockholm. And we when say, "super dead," we mean it. Lilly was discovered naked and appears to have engaged in some sort of sexual activity before her death, which makes a lot of sense considering her profession. She also had a pretty nasty case of a crushed skull and most, if not all, of her blood had been drained. Hence the "vampire" moniker. And to add another level of the creepies to this case, investigators found a gravy ladle next to the body, which they suspected was used to drink Lilly's blood. So if this was a vampire, it was a very proper vampire who didn't just jab his fangs into someone's neck and hope for the best. No, this vampire used a ladle to delicately imbibe his victim's blood.
7 The Tamam Shud Case
We recently went into a lot of detail on the Tamam Shud Case and all its bizarre details. Honestly, it's hard to sum up in a short paragraph or two, but we'll give it a shot.
In 1948, the unidentified body of a middle-aged man was found on a beach near Adelaide, Australia. The coroner couldn't figure out exactly how he died, but found a secret pocket in his trousers containing a piece of paper with the words "Tamam Shud" printed on it. The paper, it turns out, was torn from an extremely rare edition of a book of ancient Persian poetry. When police finally found the book, it contained a mysterious code that no one has been able to crack, as well as an unlisted phone number, which led them to a young nurse, who acted really weird but adamantly denied knowing the dead guy.
Add a strange suit case, rumors of Russian spies, a number of suspicious deaths close to the case, the unusual clothes worn by the cadaver, and a whole variety of other oddities, and you've got yourself one of the strangest unsolved crimes in recent memory.
6 The Disappearance Of Tara Calico
On September 20, 1988, nineteen-year-old Tara Leigh Calico disappeared while on a bike ride near her home in Belen, New Mexico. It is assumed that she was kidnapped or murdered, but no one witnessed anything and no evidence of her, living or dead, has been found... with one exception.
On June 15, 1989, several months after Tara vanished, a woman found a disturbing Polaroid photo, pictured above, in a convenience store parking lot in Port St. Joe, Florida. The photo shows a young woman and a young boy bound and gagged on a bed. The woman in the picture strongly resembles Tara, including having a scar on her leg that matches one Tara received in a car accident. The boy has remained unidentified to this day.
5 The Jamison Family Deaths
Father Bobby, mother Sherilynn, and daughter Madyson were on their way to look at a plot of land near Red Oak, Oklahoma that they were thinking of buying, when they disappeared on October 8, 2009. The bodies of the Jamison family trio weren't found until November of 2013, but the medical examiner was unable to determine their cause of death or who caused it.
About a week after their disappearance, their truck was found abandoned with plenty of valuables and over $30,000 in cash inside, as well as the family dog, who was malnourished but alive. The photo above is allegedly the last photo taken of Madyson, snapped on the day before they vanished. Evidence suggests that neither Bobby nor Sherilynn took the picture... so who did?
To make things even weirder, in the months prior to their disappearance, the Jamisons told their pastor that their house was haunted by spirits, leading to speculation that witches or the occult may have been involved in their deaths.
4 Death Of Elisa Lam
Elisa Lam was a student at the University of British Colombia whose body was discovered in the water tank on the roof of the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles, California in 2013, several weeks after she was reported missing. Police released security footage of the last known whereabouts of Lam from an elevator in the hotel. The young woman was acting erratically, exiting and entering the elevator several times, talking to unseen entities, and looking very distressed all the while. While some have speculated that her behavior was caused by the bipolar disorder that she was known to suffer from, others have offered more outlandish explanations, ranging from paranormal forces to murderous conspiracies. Officially, the coroner concluded that Lam's cause of death was accidental drowning, but the strangeness of the circumstances surrounding her disappearance have many wondering what really happened.
3 The Spontaneous Combustion Of Mary Reeser
The death of Mary Reeser is one of the most notable cases of suspected spontaneous human combustion. When her body was discovered in July of 1951, there wasn't a whole lot left except ash. Her backbone remained, as well as part of her left foot, and her skull was still intact, although it had shrunken noticeably. The FBI investigation officially denounced the possibility of spontaneous human combustion, claiming instead that Reeser's death was caused by the wick effect. Since the woman used sleeping pills, they suspected she fell asleep while smoking a cigarette, which lit her clothing on fire and subsequently her body, which had enough fat and other flammables to ultimately destroy the body. However, the rest of the room she was in was more or less unscathed by the flames, which would have been extremely hot in order to cremate her body. Also, physical anthropologist, Wilton Krogman, who regularly consulted for the FBI on similar cases, strongly refuted the FBI's conclusion. Ultimately, we really don't know what caused Mary Reeser's fiery death.
2 The Ocean's Severed Feet
For some reason, starting in August of 2007, severed human feet in running shoes have been popping up along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington, USA. Since then, sixteen separate feet have been found, and only five (belonging to four different people) have been identified. Only two pairs are among the sixteen feet, and all of the rest of them are, bizarrely enough, right feet. No individual left feet have been discovered.
While it is common for bodies (of murder victims, suicide victims, or sufferers of unfortunate accidents) to eventually decompose and separate underwater, the fact that only feet have been found is considered quite the anomaly. Some have suggested that many of the feet could belong to victims of the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed hundreds of thousands of people. In theory the bodies (or parts of bodies) could have circulated throughout the Pacific Ocean for years before washing up on the coast.
1 The Max Headroom Broadcast Interruption
On November 22, 1987 someone hijacked a television signal in Chicago, Illinois. Twice. The first interruption took place during football highlights, but was mostly unsuccessful. Later that evening, during a broadcast of Dr. Who, another interruption occurred, lasting for about a minute and a half. The interrupting signal was a pre-recorded video of a man in a Max Headroom mask saying some truly strange and disturbing things, while occasionally moaning or screaming in pain. He gave the camera the finger, crushed a Pepsi can while uttering a Coke slogan, and was, at one point, accompanied by a woman in a French maid outfit, who spanked him with a flyswatter while he shrieked. During the 90-second freak show, he also sang, hummed, farted, made a reference to Michael Jackson, laughed, and mocked a WGN pundit named Chuck Swirsky. Unlike most of the other items on this list, no one died, but for some reason, this stunt is just as unsettling.
Sources: mysteriousuniverse.org, dailymail.co.uk, gizmodo.com, crimefeed.com,


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The great paths are those which are formed of not one but two conventional paths. In this way 4 and 7 may be viewed as either generated only from the circuit or as that which generates the circuit. The synchronicitous nature of the shape of the synthesis of the two numbers would suggest a certain reciprocity in this regard.
The circuit of the great paths as such involves two ordinary paths, those of the empress and of the sun (beth and resh) and four great paths. The circuit moves from chaokmah to binah in the empress, the into the lovers (zayin) to lust (teth), lovers and lust in this way though should be perceived together as one great path. This then descends deeper into a path formed of the hanged man (mem) and the chariot (tzaddi) this energy then becomes that of the sun (resh) which now ascends through the tower and art (peh and samekh) which in turn becomes the hermit and then the emporer (yod and heh).
There is a sense here to be unfolded, an accretive tale to dislose, parts of which are obvious and parts of which are not. The empress clearly is approached by the emperor through chaokmah. The lovers is clearly their love, lust is clearly their lust. This lust reveals the child which is the hanged man suspended in the womb. This child will be the hero of the chariot. The hero is the sun, the christ solar god who comes close to us (the physical sun above malkuth) and offers (in christianity) redemption, but the intensification of the sun is its destruction (the tower) through power (the art); this is the synthesis of these two. These parts of the tale are more opaque. The opacity retreats in the final stage as the hermit masters this power and transforms himself into the emperor who in turn seeks the empress and so on.
The mediating points of the sephiroth themselves must not be forgotten. The emporer is flowing up to create chaokmah, but when this energy emerges is female. It the enters binah and when it leaves it is hermaphroditic and lustful of itself. From fate and destiny emerges the child hero. This bright new energy is the essence of communication and thought, the logos is only possibility under the sun, the sun shows the beings as they are and as we may name them. Love destroys this principle. Analysis fails, communication at the level of logos is inappropriate for this emotional sphere. The irrational emotion of love is the key to magick. Love here is a creativity. Love is the law love under will. This is gevurah, the sphere of will which bends magick to end. The master of this, the hermit, the ascetic is master and thus becomes emperor.


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LEGO Shipbuilding Day
Saturday, March 7, 2020, 10am-3pm
5th Annual LEGO Shipbuilding Day
LEGO enthusiasts of all ages and skill-levels are encouraged to visit the Copeland Maritime Center for this FREE LEGO Shipbuilding Contest!
Great Prizes * Free Play LEGOS * Face Painting * Food Truck
LEGO Ship display * Children's Activities
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Did you know: That today's Kalmar Nyckel is a re-creation of a three-masted, square-rigged, gun-armed merchant ship?


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Winter flight schedule 2008/2009 – Aeroflot keeps its strong market position
Moscow, 21st October 2008: Aeroflot presents its actual flight schedule for winter which is valid from 26th October 2008 to 28th March 2009. Passengers are offered connections to new destinations, higher flight frequencies as well as even more Codeshare flights with our international partner airlines.
94 international destinations Aeroflot flies to 47 countries around the globe, 5 of which are member countries of the CIS (Azerbaijan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan). Of 94 existing Aeroflot destinations, 38 are in Europe, 5 in America, 2 in Africa, 5 in the Middle East and 10 in Asia. Aeroflot offers 38 connections to Russian destinations: Anapa, Astrakhan, Barnaul, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Kemerovo, Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Mineralnye Vody, Nizhnevartovsk, Novosibirsk, Norilsk, Omsk, Perm, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Samara, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Surgut, Tyumen, Ufa, Vladivostok, Volgograd und Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Aeroflot connects Moscow to 6 cities in CIS countries: Baku, Bishkek, Yerevan, Kiev, Simferopol and Tashkent.
Due to the ongoing financial crisis, Aeroflot is going to employ petrol saving A320 family aircraft (A319, A320 und A321) during the winter flight schedule 2008/09. Some of the more cost-intensive Tu-154 will be put out of action. The following routes will henceforward be operated on Airbus: Moscow – Antalya – Moscow (A320), Moscow – Budapest – Moscow (A319), Moscow – Oslo – Moscow (A320), Moscow – Bucharest – Moscow (A320), Moscow – Zagreb – Moscow (A319);
In the Middle East: Moscow – Beirut – Moscow (A319), Moscow – Damascus – Moscow (A320);
In Russia: Moscow – Irkutsk – Moscow (A319, A320), Moscow – Krasnoyarsk – Moscow (A320, A321);
In the CIS: Moscow – Kiev – Moscow (A320). Flights to Tokyo and Shanghai will be operated on the brand-new A330, as soon as it will be delivered in November 2008.
We will operate 71 destinations with our partner airlines via Codeshare (to 50 international and 21 Russian cities).
Aeroflot's winter flight schedule will see farther intensified flight frequency as well as strengthened cooperation with Russian airlines, predominantly Aeroflot subsidiaries, and with international SkyTeam partner airlines.
Routes that have been introduced with the summer flight schedule 2008 are going to stay operative: Moscow – Bratislava – Moscow, Moscow – Khabarovsk – Moscow, Moscow – Norilsk – Moscow, Moscow – Tyumen – Moscow, Krasnoyarsk – Norilsk – Moscow.
Aeroflot offers an enhanced number of weekly flights on the following routes: Moscow – Amsterdam – Moscow (from 7 to 14), Moscow – Antalya – Moscow (from 3 to 7), Moscow – Istanbul – Moscow (from 14 to 21), Moscow – Karlovy Vary – Moscow (from 1 to 3), Moscow – Prague – Moscow (from 14 to 21), Moscow – Warsaw– Moscow (from 9 to 11), Moscow – Havana – Moscow (from 3 to 4), Moscow – Shanghai – Moscow (from 6 to 7), Moscow – Cairo – Moscow (from 3 to 4), Moscow – Dubai – Moscow (from 7 to 14), Moscow – Krasnoyarsk – Moscow (from 7 to 21), Moscow – St. Petersburg – Moscow (from 44 to 55), Moscow – Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Moscow (from 2 to 5).
Through the SkyTeam alliance membership our passengers are able to enjoy extended service offers, the whole SkyTeam flight network and better connection times. The enlargement of the fleet enables additional increases in flight frequency on the most highly demanded routs as well as more intensive cooperation with our partner airlines.
From the winter flight schedule 2008/09 Aeroflot Russian Airlines and China Southern, alliance partners within the framework of the jointly signed Codeshare agreement, are going to offer the new connection Urumqi – Moscow – Urumqi.
Our subsidiary "Aeroflot Cargo" flies to 7 airports around the world: Hahn, Helsinki, Tokyo (Narita), Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul. These flights are going to be operated with Aeroflot's own "RCF/SU" code on MD-11 aircraft.


text: This November, we will be blessed with yet another classic Air Jordan III colorway, the Black/Cement. This is one of Mike's classic colorways from '88, and is generating tons of buzz already. There were rumors circulating that this release would feature a nubuck upper, rather than the classic leather, but those rumors have been proven false. rmkstore hits us with these new, detailed photos of the release. Check them out here and let us know if you will be picking up a pair of these classic kicks.


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Ignou MA Rural Development Admission 2018 – The Indira Gandhi National Open University's School of Continuing Education (SOCE) has developed the master degree programme namely Master of Arts in Rural Development. It has been developed to serve the academic needs of the learners who want to pursue their higher education in the field of Rural Development.
The programme code for this discipline is "MARD". The University offers admission to this programme to the students from all over the country and abroad.
The university has applied the two tier approach to study this discipline which means the examination for Ignou MA Rural Development courses will be held only after one year i.e. the students who takes admission to this programme in January session can appear for the examinations in December month of same year and the students who will take admission in July session can appear for the examinations in the June month of next year.
If the student is unable to complete any course in the any particular term end examination then he/ she may appear in the examinations which will occur in next six months.
Important Links:
- MARD admission procedure
- MARD Courses & Syllabus
- MARD Study Material
- Prospectus
- Date Sheet
- Hall Ticket/ Admit Card
- MARD grade card
- MARD result
- MARD previous question papers
Programme Objective:
The main objective of Master Degree in Rural Development (MARD) is to provide an opportunity to the learners from all over the country to study the development issues related to rural society.
It is very helpful for the people working in the various organisations such as Government Departments/agencies, NGO's, cooperative banks and other institutes which are engaged in rural transformation.
After completion of this programme, the learners can further go for higher studies or they can apply for jobs in the related field.
Medium of Instruction:
The programme is available in both English & Hindi medium which means learners can choose any of the medium of instruction to study and write the Tutor Marked Assignments (TMA) and Term End Examination(TEE).
Admission Eligibility:
The candidate must be having Bachelor's degree or higher degree in any discipline or equivalence from any of the recognized university.
The university hasn't set up any minimum and maximum age limit to apply for admission. He must only satisfy the minimum eligibility condition i.e. Graduation to apply for admission.
Duration of Programme:
The minimum duration to complete the Master of Arts in Rural Development programme is 2 years whereas the students has been allowed the maximum duration of 5 years to complete all the courses to be eligible for receiving the master degree certificate.
Programme Fee:
The total fee is Rs.9,000/- which is required to be paid year wise @Rs. 4,500/- per year.
Note : The programme fee may change in future, so please check the latest fee with the Regional Centre or see latest prospectus.
Programme Coordinator:
In case of any query, you can contact the coordinator of the discipline at below mentioned contact details:
- Name: Ms. Santosh Tanwer
- Email-Id: [email protected]
- Phone No: 011-29572955


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September 26, 2018
This is a three-part blog series with lessons Net Friends learned from Hurricane Florence:
Below are the important dates regarding Hurricane Florence and Net Friends' corresponding emergency response:
With great humility, it is so clear to me that we were not prepared in so many ways for this Hurricane. Setting the stage was the alarming media coverage that kept us whipped up all through the point when Florence made landfall on September 14th. I wish we didn't allow the shifting forecasts to cause countless alterations to our plans, rendering hours of effort moot again and again.
However, an essential part of emergency planning, which we didn't fully appreciate, is planning for potential unexpected events and situations that may arise. We tried to anticipate as much as we could, but a few elements of surprise still popped up in the midst of the hurricane's approach, the event itself, and the aftermath.
What we didn't see coming:
1. Our internal emergency response procedures weren't where we wanted them to be on Monday, September 10th, when we started the work week.
2. We were developing and adapting – far more than executing – a strategic emergency response plan, which created avoidable stress and error. We didn't calibrate our communications well as a result, and thus over-communicated in some areas and failed to communicate in others.
3. We planned so much for the hurricane itself, we failed to prepare for the aftermath (as did the rest of Durham!)
To elaborate on the 3rd item above that we didn't see coming, we were caught flat-footed by the flash floods left in the wake of Florence. That it was raining heavily barely registered for those of us who live in Durham when we first woke up on Monday morning, September 17th. It wasn't until the first tornado warning Emergency Alert went off on our phones at 7:35 a.m., warning us to seek cover, that it was clearly not a typical day. Another Emergency Alert went off soon after 8:00 a.m. after rotation was spotted over downtown Durham. Flood waters were rising, after up to 9" of rain fell within the span of a few hours in the early morning.
Because we relaxed our guard over the weekend as Florence rolled out of town, we already had some staff report into our offices before the tornado warnings and we were focused first on alerting our staff to take cover. Once the tornado threat passed, we ventured out and discovered just how many roads were impassable due to swollen rivers and downed trees. By now, most of our staff was already actively commuting to work. While I'm proud that we put safety first and our communications were high quality, we felt a step behind all day.
For the last and final blog post, Hurricane Florence: Planning for the Future, I'll share with you some ideas we had based on these lessons that we want to have in place.
What precautions and planning did you do to prepare for Hurricane Florence? Did you learn any lessons from this storm? What emergency response procedures do you plan on having in place in the event of another emergency like this one? We'd love for you to share.


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Muffinhead - I really really feel for you in this, and I hope that you will take care of yourself first and get through this difficult time. I agree with the previous posters that the deception is probably the most unforgiving part. This kind of deception takes so many forms, but it's always so shocking to discover that someone you've gotten close to and trusted in hasn't been honest to you. I really feel for you, and I hope that we can give you some advice and encouragement to get you through this.
We don't know that he was having sex with men DURING their relationship. That wasn't specified in the initial post, so I think most of the posters so far have assumed that he's been doing this prior to their relationship.Originally Posted by InBruges


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Take Me Along is the ideal spring tonic currently being offered by the Irish Repertory Theater. The 1959 Broadway tuner with music and lyrics by Bob Merrill and a book by Joseph Stein and Robert Russell is based on Eugene O'Neill's only comedy, Ah, Wilderness! an affectionate portrait of a turn-of-the-century New England family. The musical relocates the Miller family to 1920 and the tunes invest the homespun tale with a sweet acceptance and a warmly comic spirit.
The appealing cast unite in an agreeable ensemble performance. William Parry is the understanding family patriarch. He pairs for the shows buoyant title tune with his blowzy brother-in-law and sings the poignant reflection of the aging process with Staying Young. Parry has a wonderful moment when he attempts to tell his restless son the facts of life, and he invests the scene with amusing caution and restraint.
Teddy Eck provides a good account of the bookish self-righteous teen and offers a witty assessment of courtship with I would Die . Beth Glover is grand as the spinster aunt and she really has the most telling musical moments of the score. I Get Embarrassed is a coyly sweet confessional and Promise Me a Rose reveals harbored sentiment that Glover expresses with telling emotional candor.
The petulant Muriel is sweetly conceived by Emily Skeggs, with pert and pouty innocence and Anastasia Barzee offers a saucy account of the local tart. Don Stevenson enacts the genial tipsy Uncle Sid with a kind of rakish charm that perhaps takes a little getting used to. This is the role originated by Jackie Gleason in the Broadway production, and subsequently acted by William Bendix.
Charlotte Moore has staged the musical on the tiny Irish Rep stage with extraordinary flourish and finesse. Barry McNabb's politely confined choreography steps and struts lively despite the limitations of the small stage.
The set design as created by James Morgan boasts a fanciful comic book design of a cozy Connecticut village with its shops, town hall and church steeples. The period costumes as created by Linda Fisher, right down to the high button shoes, recall the stylistic charm of a Currier and Ives print.
It's all so very warm and accessible, and a palatable nod to Broadway's golden age.
For the record, Ah, Wilderness, was musicalized on the screen in 1948 by MGM with a score by Harry Warren and Ralph Blane. The cast included Mickey Rooney, Gloria DeHaven, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Morgan and Walter Huston.


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Answers in Genesis is now making Answers magazine available in a digital version! It is phenomenal—looks just like a magazine. You can turn the pages like a magazine—but it is digital and right on your computer screen.
We expect many people will subscribe to both the digital and print edition, but we also believe the digital edition will be excellent for overseas subscribers. For those in other countries, postage costs and mail delivery reliability are two major factors that cause problems. Now, with the digital edition, people from any country can subscribe and receive their Answers magazine as soon as it is available.
For the first issue of the digital version, we are giving anyone who wants it a free copy—and we also urge you to email the digital version to your friends.
Late yesterday afternoon we sent a very special email to everyone on the AiG email list to give them the opportunity to share a free digital copy of Answers magazine with anyone, anywhere in the world, family and friends, missionaries, and anyone else—anywhere. Our prayer is that hundreds of thousands more people will know about Answers magazine within just a few weeks.
As I've shared here before on this blog, Answers magazine is exceptional, and it's not just me saying that. In fact, it has won numerous awards in the last couple of years and keeps getting better and better. Every issue has a number of excellent creation articles, plus current events, science & culture news, a biblical authority Bible study, special columns for teens, and even a great eight-page Kids Answers mini-magazine.
There's nothing else like it—nothing else that even comes close to it—and it's all written by today's best and most articulate creation scientists and Christian leaders.
I've been told by literally hundreds of people just how much they love Answers magazine, and when you've got something that honors Jesus and glorifies the Creator the way this magazine does, you want others to share in it. So, we sent a very special email to tens of thousands of AiG supporters, and we hope to see many people around the world click into the free "digital edition" that we have put up on the web.
Even if you did not receive the special email, you can read it now, and then click the "Forward to a friend" button to make sure that everyone you know has a chance to read this full, 96-page magazine. It's the "Creation Vacations" edition that was mentioned in the Washington Post recently and many other newspapers across America.
Funny Bone to Be Tickled Tonight
Last night we had a great time with a well-known Christian comedian who goes by the name "Nazareth." He entertained a group of us and shared something of his background, including his fascinating Middle-Eastern heritage and the time he heard me speak in Southern California over 15 years ago.
He will be bringing one of his comedic routines to the Creation Museum later today (Friday). There may be some last-minute openings; tickets are only $5 in addition to museum admission)–watch a video clip of Nazareth here.
Find out more about this very funny man and his unusual background (including how he got his name) at NazarethUSA.com.
Heart burn within us while He talked
(Luke 24:26–27, 32) Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. . . . And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
Our hearts burn within us when the Lord Jesus Christ speaks to us and shows us that all the Scriptures have one central theme of Himself, His Cross & His Glory.
Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,


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Who Is Allison Carr On 'Homeland'? Berlin's Chief Of Station Has Her Sights Set On Carrie
It's that time of year again: After a pretty darn stellar Season 4, finally (finally!) Homeland is returning for Season 5. The new season has a lot going for it — like last year's Islamabad-set story, it looks like the team is shaking things up again, both geography-wise, cast-wise, and even time-wise. Season 5 will jump ahead two years, be set almost exclusively in Berlin (which, according to the New York Times, gives the show a new Cold War-esque rhythm), and it will feature — count 'em — four new series regulars. Among said new characters? Australian actor Miranda Otto, who will play Allison Carr, aka Berlin's Chief of Station, as reported by Deadline.
Otto joins the cast along with Sarah Sokolovic, Sebastian Koch, and Alexander Fehling, and her character Allison will factor pretty heavily into the new season. She'll be working closely with fan favorite (and ultra-deft death-dodger) Saul Berenson, as they try to uncover the latest espionage plot mounting against them, in which one Carrie Mathison (now a civilian working in private security) is a prime suspect. Yep, after what Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair refers to as "an Edward Snowden-esque data leak," Carrie's relationship with a reporter linked to the leak leads her former CIA bosses to think she's the mastermind behind the disaster — so Saul and Allison quickly go on the defensive.
Oh, and as if that wasn't already enough of Homeland's signature brand of drama, the (largely positive) advance reviews of the first couple episodes also imply that Allison and Saul's relationship may even be of the romantic variety — so keep your seat belts firmly buckled for that possibility.
For her part, Otto (whom you may recognize as Eowyn from The Lord of the Rings trilogy), seems excited to be joining the popular Showtime drama and her intriguing character sounds like she'll make a nice addition to our team of old Homeland stalwarts. As she said to Sydney's Daily Telegraph,
It's a great role. I got very lucky on this one ... She's very much on the front foot and she's ballsy, definitely. She is very in control and very, sure of what she's doing.
Excited yet? There are a lot of reasons to look forward to the new season (after all, Season 4 effectively left us dangling off of several cliffs) and now we can add Berlin CIA Station Chief Allison Carr to the list.
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A few weeks ago, I suggested that John Layman and Rob Guillory, the writer and artist of Image Comics' remarkably odd Chew, were due a slightly more balanced review than what I felt like delivering at the time. Well, every once in a while, I like to try and come through with one of my notions.
In the first issue of Chew, which I bought for a buck at a previously unknown comic shop in Sandy Springs, the duo presented one of the neatest examples of world-building that I can recall in a funnybook. Expertly, they created a world where, thanks to a bird flu epidemic (or so they say), chickens are illegal and the FDA has become the most powerful police force on the planet. Newly drafted into their arcane and mysterious ranks is Tony Chu, a "cibopathic" detective with the ability to pick up powerful psychic impressions from anything that he eats.
I was impressed enough with how densely the creators packed the opening chapters, and the first collected edition shows how well they've repeated that success. Taster's Choice compiles the first five issues of the series for only $10 and it is a doozy. So much goes on in this book that my head was swimming by the end of it.
Guillory's style remains a little unpalatable (sorry) for me, but he and Layman work out some really impressive tricks with pacing and storytelling. While I don't care for the character designs - Savoy, in particular, looks less like a really big guy and more like a John Kricfalusi cartoon bear - the way that he depicts action is constantly surprising and funny. There's a scene where characters open a cremation urn in front of a desk fan, and I can think of a dozen ways to lay out and illustrate that scene, all of them miles inferior to the way Guillory does it.
But I think what impresses me most is the way that the creators balance episodic, high-concept adventures with a larger, even-more-high-concept series of overarching subplots. Each individual story is immensely satisfying on its own, with bizarre incidents and black comedy, and each makes it clear that there is a very large, thunderously weird story at play behind Chu's casebook. The fourth chapter, in which the FDA investigates an unbelievable misappropriation of tax dollars at an observatory, and by the end of this mess, Layman and Guillory have thrown three gigantic new blocks atop the misshapen pile that forms the plot.
In case it's unclear, I'm of the opinion that, when done well, the most entertaining stories fiction are the ones where the plot goes from A to B by way of every other letter in the alphabet. The plot in Chew seems to be taking in a few numbers and pictograms along the way. This book is gross, sick, nauseating, thoroughly batty and recommended wholeheartedly.


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While the USPS currently has a fleet of 163,000 right-hand drive delivery vehicles, the design is dated at best. The familiar "Long Life Vehicle" design was created 27 years ago and it's age is showing. As the vehicle's age they are increasingly expensive to maintain, to make matters worse, these trucks average only about 9 or 10 miles per gallon. In 2014, the USPS spent well over a half billion dollars on gasoline alone. The USPS is now taking bids from companies for a new, updated delivery vehicle.
… on January 20, 2015, the postal service asked companies to submit bids for new delivery vehicles at $25,000 to $35,000 apiece. Considering that they are looking to purchasing 180,000 of these vehicles, this will be a government contract worth $4.5 to $6.3 billion to whoever wins it. Needless to say, they have received bids from several big automakers: Ford, Nissan, Fiat Chrysler, etc… But they also received a bid from a company called Workhorse Group Inc. (formerly AMP Holding). Developed in conjunction with the University of Cincinnati, Workhorse's bid offers an all-electric truck… that also has the ability to launch drones.
This electric truck design, also called "Workhorse" carries an octocopter drone named "Horsefly". Horsefly can be launched from the truck and used to deliver the mail. It is able to carry a 10 pound package and travel at a top speed of 50 mph. However, one of the drawbacks of small electric drones like Horsefly is their relatively short battery life (of 20-30 minutes). Workhorse has overcome this hurdle by giving their truck the ability to recharge the drone once it returns from a delivery.
While not the first drone based postal delivery service, the Workhorse team seems confident of the value proposition their solution can offer.
"We feel very confident that our integrated drone technology on top of our electric truck is the best solution for the Postal Service as well as give them the lowest total cost of ownership for their truck needs and their future drone needs," said Duane Hughes, director of sales at Workhorse Group, Inc.
How cost effective is an all electric delivery vehicle? How cost effective is an electric/drone hybrid delivery vehicle? According to a recent Drone HQ article on the subject:
- Delivery cost via diesel-powered delivery truck: about $1 per mile
- Delivery cost via electric-powered delivery truck: 30 cents per mile
- Estimated delivery cost via Horsefly aerial drone: 3 cents per mile
The likelihood that the USPS will go with a company like Workhorse over Ford or Nissan is slim to none, but fact that an all electric truck, capable of drone delivery drone deployment, is even in the mix is amazing.