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In the last of a series of posts examining perceptions and attitudes about the gendered nature of domestic violence, EYE consider the argument that championing male perspectives on domestic violence can cause a detriment to female victims of a crime predominately perpetrated by men.
EYE recently supported Fathers4Justice's complaint about the above poster by promoting a petition asking for it to be withdrawn. Over the next few posts I've outlined why I believe this was a worthy and worthwhile exercise but I want to end by exploring the perspective of a group of (mostly) mums who don't.
The Nope Bench
One of the last things I did to promote the petition objecting to Greenwich Council's poster was to post an invitation on the dadsnet section of mums net with some background detail and a link for anyone who wanted to support it.
To say that the invitation was unwelcome would be an understatement, with approximately a hundred mumsnetters taking the time to leave a message and one by one declare their intention to sit firmly on the opposing 'nope bench'.
Men's feelings are more important than women's lives. That's the message of this petition. Mumsnet User
In retrospect, it may have been incredibly naive of me to expect any other outcome but while I'd anticipated something of a mixed reaction I genuinely expected a much more diverse spread of opinions from users of one of the most active forums about parenting. Especially in the dad's section.
One user openly supported the petition and very kindly shared it with a pioneer of the early women's refuge movement Erin Pizzey, so it wasn't entirely a wasted venture but I have to say that if there are many dads lurking around mumsnet then they certainly weren't putting their head above the parapet on this particular subject. That is unless you count a few vicarious votes voiced by their more vocal partners, which struck me as slightly ironic given the subject matter.
I have subsequently discovered that there is a completely separate website called dadsnet which describes itself as 'like mumsnet but with fewer users and less radical feminism', so I guess that says something about something.
In fairness to the heavily populated nope bench though, even if there was a bit of 'What about teh menz?' rhetoric flying about, the discussion thread was generally populated by predominately polite people who clearly felt very felt strongly about the subject matter under discussion. Many of them shared some very personal and extremely harrowing stories about their own experiences of violent men, as well as citing evidence which very clearly shows that the population of violent offenders in this country is almost exclusively comprised of men.
Statistics show domestic violence is overwhelmingly MALE: (CPS) 93.4% of those convicted were MALE. Mumsnet User
The general consensus seemed to be that the vast majority of incidents of domestic violence are caused by men and any objection to Greenwich Council's necessarily direct public information message should be considered at best petty, or over-sensitive, and at worst downright dangerous.
Dangerous because it detracted from the victims of domestic abuse who are overwhelming women, dangerous because it makes excuses for perpetrators who are almost always men and dangerous because by criticising services trying to support them, you are ultimately exposing victims of domestic abuse to more risk.
Just once, I'd like to see decent men stand up and say "These other men, these deadbeats that don't bother to support their children, that don't bother to help raise their children, or that abuse their partners and their children, these so-called men are not acceptable. They need to be called out in public, they need to understand how unacceptable they are." And then those men need to follow through with it. They should push for stricter laws and better child maintenance enforcement (one that doesn't cost the resident parent money!!). And socially shun those wretched men that do these things. Not sit back with a beer while they commiserate about how their wife doesn't know her place and just let it stand. Challenge them. Support women that are struggling with this and show that it's not men against women it's nonabusers against abusers. Mumsnet User.
Clearly I wasn't going to win any popularity contests by attempting to expand on why I think the petition serves a genuine and meaningful purpose but having elicited such a negative response to my initial post I felt I had some responsibility to at least try.
So I acknowledged that women are much more often injured or killed as a consequence of intimate partner violence and clarified that the last thing I wanted to do was detract from the terrible experiences of many women, quite the opposite in fact.
I also proposed that personal experiences (including my own) may have a bearing on how people view this issue and that because 'men' may be more likely to commit violent crimes, it does not follow that most 'dads' are violent and Greenwich Council could have just as easily promoted a more effective and balanced message without having to demonise dads.
Despite this the mums netters stood firm and the nope bench just got longer. Observations included that my perspective clearly did 'detract from the terrible experiences of many women', that I was incredibly naive, that I couldn't or wouldn't understand statistics, that I should read up on the concept of 'not all men' and ultimately that clearly the vast majority of dads wouldn't think the poster was speaking to them, so perhaps I needed to have a good long think about why it touched a nerve with me.
I remember lying in bed screaming for help whilst my dad kicked the shit out of my mum. Whilst he bit her. Whilst he burnt her with cigarettes. I remember flinching every time he walked past us because he thought it funny to slap us on the back of the head for fun. I remember him sticking a hot teaspoon on my hand and holding my head in the washing up bowl. I remember him throwing my mum down the stairs. I remember him telling her and us that we were lucky he didn't kill us fucking cunts. I remember the police turning up and asking him to leave the house "for a few hours". I don't remember him doing any of that to my brother. Think I'm gonna sit on the no bench dickhead. Mumsnet User
It's impossible not to be moved by such responses, potentially swayed even. At the end of the day I can only speak my own truth and given the direction of travel of the thread, I quickly began to feel that participating in a lengthy debate with the members of the nope bench would probably be a relatively unproductive exercise for everyone involved.
I also sensed that it might be in some way disrespectful to the victims of violence who had posted their personal experiences to extend a debate that was already 100 more posts longer that I had ever intended. One users repeatedly asked me to tell the group what I'd learnt from the nope bench's perspective but I left that question unanswered and retreated from the thread.
I'm a firm believer in instinct. My instinct is hardwired to be protective towards women and I have enough respect for mother nature to respect the fact that there is a reason for that. But my instinct also tells me that this debate is not so one sided as it can easily appear on the surface, especially if we are to believe the domestic abuse professionals who promote the perception that the proportion of domestic violence incidents reaching courts really only scratch the surface of a much larger and still largely hidden problem.
Some will argue that this only serves to exacerbate the point the mums netters were putting forward but to the very best of my understanding research just doesn't support such a one sided perspective.
In a previous post I considered the proposal that a great deal of cherry picking appears to go on when the relevant research is considered but, to be honest, to argue how heavily the victim or perpetrator chips stack up on any particular side distracts from my most immediate concern about this debate (or lack thereof).
It's not about men against women, to a fair degree it is about nonabusers against abusers but even then when the research also points to reciprocal cycles of dysfunctional behaviour, first and foremost it should be about focussing on finding solutions for people that need help regardless of who you are or what your sex, or (perhaps more significantly) your political opinion might be.
I agree, even in the so-called enlightened 21st century, dads are still looked down upon to a great extent. And the non-physical grief that some of the dads have had on here from their soon-to-be-ex-wives is surprising. We can all be good or bad, dishing out labels isn't helping anyone. Dadsnet User
The reality is that women and men are both capable of extraordinary cruelty. The reality is, in my humble subjective opinion, domestic abuse is not a gendered issue, it's a human rights issue. The reality is that if we promote the myth that women are always victims and men always oppressors then it is our children that will suffer the most.


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Making Unique Format or Seal Design for Architectural Presentations
A sheet starts with a format and ends surrounded by it. A good format is one which depicts concept/theme of our proposals by it design/colors and is Unique. Sharing here workflow in photoshop tutorial of format or seal design for architectural presentations.
Here I present workflow of sheet format/seal design of my thesis project New Vidhan Sabha at Uttarakhand.
Let me share what I had in my mind. My designs driving words were Mountain within Mountains and therefore from my conceptual stage I was sure that my building will be playing with lots of triangle shapes representing mountains. Moreover the site for building was surrounded by beautiful hills.Hence I finalised that the format should display various triangle shapes.
Mimicking green and blue shades of distant hills, the triangles will have hues of green and blue. Also, I knew due to lots of solar panels and lots of greenery, blue and green will be dominating my presentation sheet colors. Therefore I finalised variety of triangles at bottom of sheet in hues of green and blue.
The steps below will tell you how to easily achieve the above mentioned thought into graphics with Brush Engine in Photoshop.
Step 1: Defining Brush.
Set Up new sheet A2 size. You might have a triangle shape brush but if not then define it. With Lasso Tool(L) and feather set to 0, make a triangle. When you see marching ants/selection Do foreground fill(Alt+backspace) to color it black {if foreground color is black(D)}. Now select EDIT>Define Brush Preset. Enter you desired name, triangle in this case. Now select brush (B) and scroll down to see your new defined brush.
Step 2. Setting Brush Panel.
Brush panel helps in customising the way our brush works. Select Windows>Brush or Press F5 or Click Brush Panel Icon . Click Brush Tip Shape. Increase brush spacing or else you will get a bold line instead of triangle shapes.
Select Shape Dynamics. It helps in giving variations to triangle sizes. I used this to imitate mountains having different heights.
Size Jitter tells amount of variation in brush size and minimum diameter sets the limit of variation. Also tick Flip X Jitters so that triangles flips at some places.
Angle jitter will rotate triangle at different degree's which I din't desire and roundness will distort shape which too was not desired.
Now select Color dynamics. This will give various hues of green and blue to triangle. Change the foreground color and background color to green and blue. Set foreground/background jitter to 50%. Reduce Hue jitter to 0% else you will see lot of colors with blue and green.
Select Transfer. Transfer helps in giving opacity to triangle shapes. This will amplify triangle feeling in format. Our brush is now ready for use.
Step 3. Applying Brush.
Make new layer. Rename to mountains. Apply brush(B) from left to right straight(pressing ctrl makes brush works in straight line). Now you can see, as soon as you stroke your brush,you see beautifully colored triangles in different size and opacities. If you are unsatisfied with spacing, color, opacities or sizes then change values in brush panel. Now duplicate (Ctrl+J) the mountain layer, transform (Ctrl+T) to flip horizontal. Then reduce the opacity to 30%(press 3) and move this duplicate layer below original layer. This gives effect of mountains which are behind. Merge down (Ctrl+E) layer and move to bottom of canvas.


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But to me it was a big deal.
And like I always do, big deals that promise be large blessings, morph into a huge burden.
It was called Raising Generations Today. A Friday to Saturday overnight at a nice hotel amazingly the next town over. With Christian speakers, many who were fellow bloggers, some local and wonderful, some "big names" in the blog world of writers I greatly admire, speaking about motherhood and Christ.
So why the stress?
Why the heavy sighs with dark grumbles: "I should of never booked to go" that increase with vehemence as the date draws near?
Well, several annoying things happened, because life is filled with annoyance, but mostly because I over-think things. I over-think because I am desperately insecure.
I am beginning to understand we all are, really, and that helps.
Even though The Truth of the Bible resonates deep and real with me, sometimes an unexpected source of truth and comfort lands on my lap. This time round it was my checked out library book; neglected for three weeks and buried away forgotten in the library basket under a pile of Bailey Kids chapter books and Lady Bug Girl picture books.
The book title:
Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking by Susan Cain.
This post is not a summation of this book. You can check out the link if your interest is piqued.
I will say that this highly researched and secular book was beyond a shadow of a doubt, a gift poured from heaven, just when I needed it.
You see, I was slowly getting filled with worry and anxiety that I may end up going alone to this conference since the two friends who were going to go could not make it. These women events are always filled with mobs of close friends and seemingly ridiculously happy groups aren't they? Like the flocks of over-hair-sprayed and lipsticked chummy girls that wound its way through your high school halls and descended in one giggling, whispering accord into the girls bathroom. It is not that I was even excluded in school, I simple did not fit. I puzzled over myself for really, not wanting to fit, yet felt the pang that said
"jeeze, they all seem to be so much happier than me".
And so, a thick, careful, if not always conscious, layer of hardening began to be self applied.
It looks a lot like confidence and independence.
Like snobbery and "nerdery".
And in some ways it is.
In some ways it in my very DNA to be so.
And yet.
It always came with an ache.
Long story short: this book, after only a single chapter completely validated and liberated my conflicted self image dilemma that over the years has morphed into a scary monster than only comes out of its closet on dark, dark days.
Long story short: my sister *surprised the tuna salad out of me* by agreeing to come last second because she miraculously had the weekend free. {She has seven children and is not a spur of the moment kinda girl, and never, never has a weekend free}.
Long story short: the message, set like a secret code set on repeat all weekend was:
you are not alone…
every one feels like you…
everyone is scared,
and feeling guilty about it, on top of the other 77 things we feel bad about on any given day…
And yet.
We have this HOPE in Christ
our anchor,
our forerunner,
our high priest.
We have each other if we only ask, if we only will slow down and decide to deliberately listen and make time for others
to anchor us
to run with us
the intercede with us
Because He is in us, and isn't that something?
So thankful for the sweet, tiny September McCarthy with a giant heart and ferocious passion, who I know prayed long, holy prayers over this event because His presence was strong.
So thankful for the obedient, Spirit-led, genuine, Lisa Jo Baker who flew in and was the event's other keynote speaker.
24 hours in a hotel 20 miles away is not that glamorous or exciting but when God shows up with a story to tell I think it is about as good as this life can get.
Linking up for the first time with the writing group:
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* the expression "surprised the tuna salad out of me" is not my own, though I wish it were. I just use it ever so often, it's especially fun to text. It belongs to Mo Williams, writer of the hilarious children's "Pigeon" Series.


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The desert has a beauty all its own,
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BRUSSELS – Turkey's ambassador to the European Union says Ankara would be willing to modify its anti-terror law if the changes do not impede the fight against terrorism and if Turkish citizens are guaranteed visa-free travel in Europe.
Ambassador Selim Yenel told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that "it's very difficult to change the legislation, but we're not closing the door."
He said that "as long as it doesn't affect our fight against terrorism, in all its forms, then we can look at some wordings."
The EU wants Turkey to change its definition of terrorism and what constitutes a terror act to ensure that journalists and academics are not arrested.


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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The ruling could resurrect many detainee lawsuits that federal judges put on hold pending the outcome of the high court case. The decision sent judges, law clerks and court administrators scrambling to read Kennedy's 70-page opinion and figure out how to proceed. Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth said he would call a special meeting of federal judges to address how to handle the cases.
And here's Scalia's version of judicial "wisdom":
Scalia said the nation is "at war with radical Islamists" and that the court's decision "will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed."
Shorter Scalia: FEAR blah blah blah FEAR blah blah blah.
And the article also reminds us of how the Republicans have subverted the constitution every chance they got:
The court has ruled twice previously that people held at Guantanamo without charges can go into civilian courts to ask that the government justify their continued detention. Each time, the administration and Congress, then controlled by Republicans, changed the law to try to close the courthouse doors to the detainees.
They won't get away with that this time around.
The disposition of Omar Khadr's trial will likely be affected by this decision as well and the fact that we've now learned that notes about his detention were destroyed and that the judge handling his case was most likely dismissed because he ruled against US government lawyers should be more than enough for our Conservative government to stop stonewalling on bringing him home. It should be but since they don't even care that he was a child soldier when he was picked up - the first to be charged with war crimes - I'm sure we'll just keep getting the same "let the legal process play out" talking point in response to these developments. Like it was ever a legitimate legal process to begin with.


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You know how that second glass of wine somehow makes you believe you have tapped into a world of WISDOM and INSIGHT? Apparently one too many days in consumer-driven frenzy can make you believe you are The New Wrapping Czar. I thought I was channeling the spirit of Martha Stewart in my bedroom over the last couple days and I HAVE WRAPPED. Wrapped and wrapped and wrapped. Bizarre, hitherto unknown combinations of wrapping materials. I am The Iron Wrapper.
Oh yes. There is a big pink gerber daisy on a present for my dad. He's going to LOVE it! And those cute jingle bells on Penny's present? Oh, they will be a nice, unabating accompaniment on the NINE-HOUR DRIVE up to Redding* tomorrow. Luckily Fred & Ethel will be so drugged they won't hear the constant ringing of holiday cheer in the trunk.
Normally I am a crappy wrapper (wow, that's a horrible sentiment divorced from present-giving context).
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But something took a hold of me and all of a sudden I WAS ON WRAPPING FIRE.
And now my poor family and friends have to pay the price of my fervor. Ah, how I love to give!
*Or, The 'Ding, as my sister calls it. Where I get no celll reception at the 'rents. So e-mail is my lone connection to the real world for the next week, aside from trips into town for Starbucks or take-out or last-minute mall purchases. Really, though, sounds heavenly. Yay, vacation!


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Delta Exhibits its Latest Energy Storage Solutions at Energy Storage India 2017
Delta Exhibits its Latest Energy Storage Solutions at Energy Storage India 2017
Featuring leading technology in Li-ion Batteries, High-efficiency Power Conversion and Energy Management
Gurgaon, Haryana, India – Business Wire India
Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions, participated in the Energy Storage India Expo-2017 held at Nehru Centre, Mumbai from 12th– 13th January, 2017. Delta exhibited its latest state of the art technology in Lithium-Ion Batteries (Cell, Modules and Racks), Energy Storage Solutions (Containerized Storage), Power Conditioning Systems and Energy Management Systems at this premier show. Delta has acquired the lithium-ion battery technology through its acquisition of MHI (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) lithium-ion division which brings in a batch of patents along with the cell to module to system level capabilities.
Delta's energy storage solution range starts from standalone modules (2.6kwh) which can be used in series and parallel to build cabinet of 41 kWh up to MWh scale:
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CG Wins USD 105 Million Order from PT PLN Indonesia
CG Wins USD 105 Million Order from PT PLN Indonesia
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India – Business Wire India
- Critical equipment for a project to improve the Indonesian transmission grid
- Transformers to be manufactured in CG's world-class facility in Indonesia
- To be installed at more than 100 substations and power plants all over Indonesia
Avantha Group Company CG has won a significant order of USD 105 million (INR 720 crore approx.) from PT PLN, the state-owned electricity company of Indonesia, to manufacture and install Power Transformers ranging from 30 MVA, 70/20kV to 500 MVA, 500/150kV. CG's power transformers will be installed across PT PLN's transmission network, spread over multiple substations and power plants in Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and the Papua islands of the Indonesian archipelago.
The contract was secured through a highly competitive open book bid that involves passing through stringent quality checks. CG was selected for this prestigious project due to its successful track record in Indonesia, backed by a global recognition of its technical expertise in manufacturing and supplying state-of-the-art products and solutions. The scope of the project includes site survey, design, manufacture, transportation and installation of the transformers. The order falls under a project funded by PT PLN to enhance the performance of the Indonesian transmission grid, which is critical to PLN's 35 GW Fast Track Programme.
This order also reinforces the existing strong relationship between CG and PT PLN. Since 1993 CG has excelled in meeting power transformer needs of PT PLN locally and this seventh consecutive order in the open book series, reinforces the strong relationships that CG builds in all markets that it serves. CG's High Voltage Switchgear manufacturing plant that will come in production later this year, further endorses CG's commitment to play a vital role in the growing South East Asian market.
Commenting on this prestigious win, Avantha Group Company CG's Managing Director & CEO, Mr. K. N. Neelkant said: "We thank PT PLN for this significant order that reaffirms their trust in CG's manufacturing expertise. At CG we have consistently built on our reputation as a quality provider of indigenously built products that meet both global standards, as well as local conditions. Our technological edge makes us well positioned to support utilities in their network strengthening goals and we look forward to many more similar collaborative efforts".
About CG
Avantha Group Company CG is a global pioneering leader in the management and application of electrical energy. CG provides end-to-end solutions that meet all electrical needs of its customers. CG's offerings include electrical products, systems and services for utilities, power generation and industries.
For more information on CG, please visit: www.cgglobal.com
About Avantha
The Avantha Group's entities in diversified sectors include Crompton Greaves (power transmission and distribution equipment and services), BILT (paper and pulp), The Global Green Company Limited (food processing), Biltech Building Elements Limited (infrastructure), Avantha Power (energy), Avantha Business Solutions Limited (IT and ITES), Jg Glass (glass containers).
With a global footprint, the Group operates in 90 countries with more than 25,000 employees worldwide.
For more information on Avantha, please visit: www.avanthagroup.com
700 V CoolMOS™ P7 Family from Infineon for Quasi Resonant Flyback Topologies
700 V CoolMOS™ P7 Family from Infineon for Quasi Resonant Flyback Topologies
Munich, Germany – Business Wire India
Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) developed the new 700 V CoolMOSTM P7 family to serve today's and tomorrow's trends in quasi resonant flyback topologies. These new MOSFETs offer unmatched performance improvements compared to currently used superjunction technologies. Soft switching topologies like smart phone and tablet chargers but also notebook adapters profit from this advantage. Additionally, the new CoolMOS supports fast switching and high power density designs for TV adapters, lighting, Audio, and Aux power. The new family conveys an improved form factor for very slim designs.
Compared to competitor parts the new 700 V CoolMOS P7 technology delivers reduced switching losses (EOSS) from 27 up to 50 percent. In a flyback based charger application the technology leads to up to 3.9 percent higher efficiency. Furthermore, the device temperature is reduced by up to 16 K. In comparison to the previous 650 V C6 technology it offers a 2.4 percent gain in efficiency and 12 K lower device temperature.
The integrated Zener diode ensures an increased ESD ruggedness of up to HBM Class 2 level. Customers profit from an improved assembly yield which leads to less production related failures and finally saves manufacturing costs. Additionally, the 700 V CoolMOS P7 shows low losses due to its very low RDS(on)*Qg and RDS(on)*EOSS. Compared to C6 technology as well as to some competitor devices, the new family features an additional extra 50 V blocking voltage.
Keeping the ease-of-use in mind, the technology has been developed with a VGSth of 3 V and a very narrow tolerance of ±0.5 V. This makes the new P7 family very easy to design-in and enables the usage of lower gate source voltage, which makes it easier to drive and leads to less idle losses. Especially in price sensitive segments, the new 700 V CoolMOS P7 offers an attractive price performance ratio that helps customers in taking further advantages in competitiveness.
The 700 V CoolMOS P7 family is available with the most relevant RDS(on) package combinations including 360 m? up to 1400 m? in IPAK SL, DPAK and TO-220FP. The RDS(on) range of this superjunction technology will be complemented with additional variants and combined with new package innovations from Infineon soon. More information is available at www.infineon.com/700V-p7.
Azure Power Commissions Largest Solar Power Project (150MW) in North India
Azure Power Commissions Largest Solar Power Project (150MW) in North India
New Delhi, Delhi, India – Business Wire India
- Largest solar power project in north India
- Azure Power is the largest owner and operator of solar power plants in Punjab
Azure Power (NYSE: AZRE), a leading solar power producer in India, announced that it has commissioned the largest (150 MW) solar power project in north India, in the state of Punjab in December 2016. For this project, Azure Power had signed a solar power implementation agreement with Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) under its Solar Policy Phase III. The 150MW solar power plant represents a portfolio of three projects of 50MW each. The weighted average tariff on these projects is INR 5.63 (US$ 8.5 cents) per kWh and the company will supply power to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for 25 years.
Spread across 713 acres of land in Punjab, the project was commissioned ahead of the contracted scheduled date. By leasing project land, Azure Power has created discretionary long term cash flow for the local community. The solar power plant will help in electrifying the nearby areas and will create an estimated 1,000 jobs in the locality.
Commenting on the occasion, Inderpreet Wadhwa, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Azure Power said, "We are pleased to have started 2017 with the early commissioning of our largest project. Our ability to complete projects ahead of schedule and at scale is a testament to our efficiency and reliability as a trusted solar power producer. We continue to demonstrate our strong project development, engineering, and execution capabilities and are delighted to make this contribution towards realization of our Hon'ble Prime Minister's commitment towards clean and green energy, through solar power generation. Our sincere gratitude to the Hon'ble Deputy Chief Minister and the State of Punjab, for all the cooperation and support, extended."
Azure Power has a long history of operating solar power plants in India and currently maintains a leading position in the state of Punjab. Starting with the Awan 2MW project in 2009, Azure Power now has a total solar portfolio of 225 MW in the state, currently making it the largest owner and operator of solar power plants in Punjab.
About Azure Power
Azure Power (NYSE: AZRE) is a leader in the Indian solar industry and has developed, constructed and operated solar projects of varying sizes, from utility scale to rooftop, since its inception in 2008. Azure Power has a strong track record in delivering solar power projects, from the construction of India's first private utility scale solar PV power plant in 2009, implementation of the first MW scale rooftop under the smart city initiative in 2013, to the largest solar plant (100 MW) under India's National Solar Mission (NSM) policy in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. With its in-house engineering, procurement and construction expertise and advanced in-house operations and maintenance capability, Azure Power manages the entire development and operation process, providing low-cost solar power solutions to customers throughout India.
For more information, visit: www.azurepower.com
Photo Caption: Azure Power Solar Power Plant Jodhpur, Rajasthan| 100 MW


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The Joy of Bocce Weekly
In This Issue:
Vol. IV, Issue 29 - August 8, 2005
Notes from the publisher
Bocce product of the week
Bocce news & readers' feedback
Non bocce product of the week
Photos of the week
Tournament update
Notes from the publisher
The weekly Ezine for bocce aficionados everywhere
Volume 4, Issue #29 - August 8, 2005
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Hello bocce aficionados,
This week I took my bocce posse to the North End of Boston to play their regular bocce crew. Only a handful of the North Enders showed up (I don't think they were ducking us because those that did show up "spanked" us pretty good).
They're still playing the backboard live there, but at least they were aware of the fact that much of the country is playing it dead. As a courtesy, they even played a game or two with a ball that hit the backboard being declared dead unless it first struck another ball. {Although, I still think it's fair to play the rules of the home team. If we visit them, the backboard is live. If they come to our venue, the backboard is dead.}
The courts were newly surfaced with Har-Tru and played fast and true. They "broom" the courts often and material tends to pile up at the ends, creating a little incline. So, with the pallino a couple feet from the back wall, all you had to do was hit the end board with medium speed and let your ball trickle down hill to the object ball. Not a very difficult shot, and one that makes a good argument for playing the back wall dead.
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"I am a volunteer at the Colorado History Museum in Denver. I do data entry in the Decorative and Fine Arts department. I catalog incoming donations and, if possible, I like to research items on the internet. I am currently cataloging a set of four metal bocce balls with two small red wooden balls. The bag the balls were in is leather, specially made in Korea for Wings, if that means anything. There are also two towels with 'Bocce Metalliche and Bocce Sintetiche' printed on each. Last are two probably score cards, both alike and printed in Italian.
Searching the internet I do not find anything on metal balls...is there any way that you can help me?
They were donated by an Italian gentleman who used them in a tournament. I appreciate whatever help you can give me. I am
{Hope readers can help...speaking of metal balls...click the image of my nailed boules collection above right to view Herbert Wegner's comprehensive site on nailed boules.}
We got some pretty good ink for our sport in the Boston Globe last week. Globe Correspondent Joyce Pellino Crane interviewed me by phone and attended our bocce group's last practice session. You can read the well crafted article at
Under the heading Believe It Or Not...
Our Monday morning bocce is at Dave Bettencourt's Baseball Instructional School (we set up our temporary bocce courts on the Astroturf there). Bettencourt is a successful high school and college baseball coach who runs camps and individual coaching sessions at this indoor/outdoor facility.
Former Red Sox great Carl Yastrzemski is an occasional visitor (he lives nearby) and is happy to offer some batting tips to any youngster who will listen.
Bettencourt related to me an incident that I still have a hard time getting my mind around.
Evidently, one of the parents in attendance, a youth league coach, kept interrupting Yaz, correcting him on various hitting techniques. "That's not the way we teach it...we do it this way..."
What could this guy be thinking? Um...is HE a Hall of Famer? Is there any wonder why youth sports are out of control with this kind of adult running programs?
I'll be heading down to Gotcha Bocce (Louisville, KY) from August 15 - 18. If you are going to be in the area, please stop by and say hello.
I'll be visiting with Gotcha Bocce owner Bob Valvano and hope to help promote the game and the facility while I am in town.
Last week we published a link to a column from the Courier-Journal in which Valvano made a particularly perceptive point...
"People say, 'Bocce? What is bocce?' Or, 'Oh, bocce! I love bocce!' I don't think I've ever heard anyone say, 'I hate bocce.' They either don't know it or they love it."
This is right on. People either enjoy the sport or they don't know what it is. Moreover, virtually everyone we introduce the game to likes it. It's a "can't miss" for huge growth in the USA once it gets a little TV exposure.
ITALIAN TO ENGLISH TRANSLATION PLEASE (last week's request)
Jim Vaughan of the Bargetto Winery sent a copy of my new bocce book to Signor Daniele Di Chiara (historian for the Federazione Italiana Bocce in Rome, Italy). Signor Di Chiara wrote back in Italian what appears to be a positive review can anyone translate? I see the words bellissimo and bravissimo, so I figure it cant be bad.
ho ricevuto il libro di Pagnoni : è bellissimo! Sono contento di vedere citata la mia opera e ti ringrazio per il tuo interessamento.Fai i miei complimenti all autore del libro che è una vera miniera di notizie ed informazioni, penso proprio unopera unica al mondo. E stato bravissimo.
Ciao. Daniele.
This week's responses...
Got this translation from Maria D'Agostino of Franklin, MA...
"I received the Pagnoni book. It is beautiful! I am happy to see my work mentioned and I thank you for your interest in it. Give my compliments to the author of the book. The book is full of news and information. I really think that it is a unique work in this world. He did a good job."
Got a similar translation from one of my bocce playing buddies whose wife is fluent in Italian...
"I received Pagnonis book. It is beautiful! I am so happy to see my work cited there and I thank you for your interest. My compliments to the author of the book. His book is one true mine of news and information. I think it will be a unique work all over the world it is really great."
Didn't get to see the Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) article by reporter Matt Volke on handicap accessible bocce (mentioned last issue). Can any reader send me a copy or a hyperlink?
Bill Wenzel writes...
"I am on a committee at a retirement community near St. Louis, MO looking into installing 1 or 2 bocce courts. We now play on the lawn which is fun but the grass is uneven, has dips and holes and no framing. We are considering courts made of synthetic turf and wonder if you have any suggestions for us. We need low maintenance and something that will enhance rather than detract from the appearance. Any ideas for us?"
{Good luck with this project - synthetic courts are great because they require little maintenance. An outfit called Sports Courts supplies the Astroturf surface (John Molori -
is a distributor ). You may want to talk with Dr. Angel Cordano who is retired in Florida and swears by synthetic courts {email address sent}. Another expert in court installation is Michael Grasser {Michigan - email address sent}.
Best of luck, and please consider sending photos when you are up and running.}
Do you know about Chris Pfeiffer's portable courts?
Photos of the week
This weeks photos come from Joy of Bocce Weekly friends Richard and Barbara Heisler (Zio Riccardo & Auntie Miye).
What a treat for all of us to see these photos from the left coast and what a special treat for me to have the pictures and text submitted so ready for print. Many thanks Zio Riccardo and Auntie Miye.
Italian Benevolent Society 124th Annual Italian Picnic
Open Rules Bocce Tournament
Sunday, June 5, 2005 - Italian Picnic Grounds, Sutter Creek, CA
Sutter Creek is one of the old gold mining towns of the Southern Mother Lode of California, located on highway 49 approximately midway between Placerville and Angels Camp. Placer gold did not last long there, but deep quartz mining was begun by 1851 and over the years yielded more than $40 million in gold ore. Logging and tourism are the main sources of income today. The Amador County wine country has become a great place to sample great Zinfandels.
The history of the area is on display in the local museums and mine tours as well as Columbia State Park (an entire mining town preserved). Jamestowns branch of the California Railroad Museum features steam train rides and shop tours. I have also never seen so many antique shops in my life.
Since 1881 the Italian Benevolent Society has been hosting its annual Italian Picnic on their extensive grounds. It runs for three days and includes a parade, food, art and souvenir booths, a carnival with games, a Ferris wheel and many other rides, music, dancing, cotton candy, a Saturday dinner for 400 people and much, much more. Saturday the courts were open to the public and competitors alike with signs all over the grounds announcing Learn bocce for a Buck. This allowed anyone to play a 7 point game for $1/person. Beginners were given instruction, coaching and refereeing by IBS members. The rest of us were supposed to know better.
My main attraction, of course, is the Sunday double elimination bocce tournament. This is run on three beautiful courts of synthetic putting green material over poured concrete. They are some of the fastest surfaces in No. California, rivaling the polyurethane courts at San Rafael and Waterloo. Even the eventual winners seemed to have trouble adjusting to it with an early loss which put them into the losers bracket. Adjust they did, however, with consistent pointing by the whole team and spectacular raffa shooting by Paolo Pro which gave Four Wins (Doris Perez, Paolo Pro, Andrew Loi and Giuseppe Moeri) a stunning comeback to win twice over the Sopranos (Tony & Colleen Randazzo with Vern & Sharon Cooper) in the finale. Third place went to Bocce for 4 (Gary & Norma DePouli with Dorothy & Armand Cevasco) who beat out Girls Rule (Toni Nicholas, Bev Wright, Pat Kinsel, & Mari Grillo).
The morning began cool but sunny with warm and breezy weather expected. The 20 teams breakfasted on pastries and coffee while pairings were drawn and court assignments made. With the tournament running in a double elimination format, Tournament Director Rick Wagstaff and USBF president John Ross kept busy as they tried to minimize gaps between games. After the morning rounds, a fabulous lunch of oak barbecued beef tri-tip fueled everyone for the long afternoon ahead.
As it turned out, the afternoon ran on into the evening, with the finale only being decided after 9pm. Tournament bocce can be an endurance sport as well as requiring a touch of athleticism to come out on top. The board members of the IBS were so impressed, they are offering to put a roof over the courts.
Kudos to Rick & Teresa Wagstaff and the other volunteers, as well as the Italian Benevolent Society for making it all possible. It was a monumental effort and we hope that by the time you read this, all those responsible are fully recovered.
Text by Richard (Zio Riccardo) Heisler. Photos by Richard & Barbara (Auntie Miye) Heisler
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Bocce product of the week
Bocce Court Maintenance Tools
Ive seen all kinds of home-made court maintenance brushes and scrapers. Two things have always struck me about them. 1 they look like they are home-made and 2 they tend to be HEAVY.
7' Drag Brush
Manufactured by Lee Tennis (makers of the Har-Tru surface), this court maintenance tool created for tennis courts works exceptionally well for bocce courts.
The 7-foot drag brush is light-weight and, even if you have a 13- or 14-foot wide court, you can smooth it over with just two passes. This is quick enough to do between games without players standing around waiting very long. Bristles are 4 ½ inches of synthetic fibers and the strong but light-weight frame is aluminum. Retails for $139.95 plus shipping.
This strangely named 30 wide device is actually two implements in one. It is an all-aluminum combination tool for scarifying, leveling, and removing loose court material.
Strong and sturdy, the tool is light enough to handle with ease and is excellent for spreading new material during top-dressing. The concave shape of the 30 wide blade allows the tool to float along the surface without digging in. Use the serrated edge to scrape material from high spots, then flip the tool over to rake and smooth that spot and drag the loose material to fill in a lower point.
Retails for $50.95 plus shipping.
Besides a heavy roller, the lute/scarifier and 7-foot drag brush should be all the maintenance tools a bocce court owner needs.
Click for more on lute/scarifier and 7' drag brush...
Non bocce product of the week
Are you into the Texas Hold 'Em Craze? If so, check out Nevada Poker Chips and accessories.
Our non-profit group (
) purchased chips in 2004 and ran three poker tourney fund-raisers which grossed a total of nearly $60,000. In Massachusetts you must be a non-profit group in existence for at least two years. If you meet these criteria you may run three events per year.
Check out the regulations in your area...consider this fund-raising idea while it is still hot!
Click to view Nevada Poker Chips etc.
Tournament update
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Please - anyone running a tournament - do me a favor - put a notice near your tourney bracket board informing players that they can go to
and "opt in" for my FREE Ezine on bocce. Click the logo to the right to opt in if you do not already receive this ezine every Monday.
Lots of tournament action listed - please consider designating someone as "official event photographer" and directing that person to send snapshots for us to reproduce as photos of the week. Our readers love seeing bocce action from around the continent.
August 13, 2005 - ABA Open Championships 4 person Team - TBA - MUST HAVE ABA CARD. Contact Traci Peters @ 916-456-7169.
August 20, 2005 - Michigan - Palazzo di Bocce - Open Tournament. Contact Bryan Sanborn at 248-371-9987 x13 or email
August 20, 2005 - California - South San Francisco - Orange Ave. Mem. Park. Womens Tournament - Open 4 person team - MUST HAVE ABA CARD. Contact Rose Viscuso @ 650-871-7732.
August 21, 2005 - California - Los Gatos - Campo di Bocce - Juanito Cuneo Memorial Tourney - Volo 2 Players. Contact Marco Cuneo @ 415-713-5939.
August 21, 2005 - California - ABA Volo Championships (MUST HAVE ABA CARD) contact Traci Peters @ 916-456-7169.
August 22, 2005 - California - San Martin - 5-star Auberge Resort, The Lodge at CordeValle. Fund-raiser to benefit the El Camino Hospital Foundation. Contact Gigi Lugonja @ 650-988-7691.
August 26, 2005 - Massachusetts - Boston - North End FIERI Bocce Night (Commercial St.) beginning at 5:00 PM. Visit
August 26 - 28, 2005 - Ohio - Wickliffe - Wickliffe Italian & American Club. 4 person team entry fee $120 - contact Wayne Farinacci at 440-461-6471 or Gino Latessa at 216-789-6393.
August 27, 2005 - California - Crockett - ABA Singles Raffa Championship. Contact @ Dick Gomez 707-554-9916 or e-mail:
August 27, 2005 - California - Sacramento - East Portal Open 4 Players - Sector Championship. Contact Rick Wagstaff @ 209-296-6151.
September 10-11, 2005 - California - Monterey - Santa Rosalia Tournament - Open 4 person teams - Monterey Bocce Club Charter House - does any reader know the contact person for this event? Please REPLY.
September 16 - 18 - Canada - Ontario - Windsor - Ciociaro Club - 3 person teams - $6,000.00 guaranteed first place. Contact Remo Incitti @ 519-965-7799 or 519-969-4825.
September 17, 2005 - California - Los Gatos - Campo di Bocce - raffa men singles (ranking) - contact Ben Musolf @ 408-395-7650.
September 18 - 25, 2005 - Michigan Orion - World Bocce Championships Palazzo di Bocce, 4291 S. Lapeer Rd, Orion, MI 48359. Contact Bryan Sanborn at 248-371-9987 x13 or
September 18, 2005 - California - San Mateo - Open 4 person team - 1 must be a woman - Contact Adriano Undorte @ 650-591-3318.
September 24, 2005 - California - San Francisco - XXX Italian/American Games - Raffa 3 person team - contact Alvaro Bettucchi @ 650-871-9278.
September 24, 2005 - Californai - Martinez - Open - Battle Of The Sexes, 2 person (Mens winner vs. Womens winner). Contact Tracy Benetti or Jessica Benetti @ 925-372-5327.
October 1, 2005 - California - San Rafael - Open 4 person team - Marin Bocce Federation, 550 B Street. Contact Diana Pellegrini @ 415-454-4483.
October 8, 2005 - California - San Francisco - Volo 3 person team. Contact Alessandro Bettucchi @ 650-583-9936.
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"Whistleblowing" :-
is the act of drawing public attention, or the attention of an authority figure, to perceived wrongdoing, misconduct, unethical activity within public, private or third-sector organisations. Corruption, fraud, bullying, health and safety violation, cover-ups and discrimination are common activities highlighted by whistleblowers."
Whistleblowing has some negative connotations but what does it really mean: how safe would you feel to raise concerns or speak out about issues that worried you?
Why would you want to speak up? We've all seen the headlines about Whistleblowers feeling they have been treated badly by employers for speaking up about concerns or heard others suggesting it's easier and better to keep your head down and not get involved.
What if you do that – keep your head down and not get involved? What would you say if something happened that you think or know could have been avoided – would you just say "I could have told you that was going to happen?"
If you could tell something was going to happen, why don't you?
Don't we all have a responsibility to get involved in the NHS to ensure patient safety and high quality care ?
There are reasons why people don't speak up, mainly because they don't feel safe to do it. NHS Dumfries and Galloway's job is to make it safe… not just talk about it being safe but genuinely to make it ok, to make people feel glad they had the courage to speak and to hear and act on the message.
First of all it's important to understand when a concern becomes Whistleblowing or – to use the legal speak a "qualifying disclosure". Put simply a qualifying disclosure is a concern raised by a member of staff where they have a genuine and reasonable belief of wrongdoing in one the following categories:
- A criminal offence
- A miscarriage of justice
- An act creating risk to health and safety
- An act causing damage to the environment
- A breach of any other legal obligation or
- Concealment of any of the above
We have all heard examples of where things have gone badly wrong in health and social care, resulting in serious injury or death.
Whistleblowing is a means to reduce the chances of something like this going undetected.
In many cases staff knew there was a problem or had a concern about safety, however the culture of their organisation meant they didn't speak up.
Whistleblowing provides a mechanism to allow individuals to speak up about something they know is wrong or dangerous
By having two independent whistleblowing "champions" at hand staff can be assured that they can raise their concerns in private (which can be over a cup of coffee and 'off-site') whilst knowing their anonymity is fully protected.
It doesn't happen everyday.
Whistleblowing issues are not a daily occurrence; often staff concerns can be raised with their manager and resolved however you can also speak to your trade union or professional organisation for advice.
Whisltblowing is not an avenue to take simply because you disagree with your manager or feel you haven't been listened to (there are other formal HR policies that apply in these situations). Whislteblowing is there to allow staff to raise concerns as highlighted above in a confidential manner so that issues around safety and security can be looked at to assess whether there are real concerns.
NHS Dumfries & Galloway also has two members of staff who you can go to for advice, that's us and our contact details are:
Graham Stewart Alice Wilson
email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com
01387 244033 01387 272789
What would make it safe for you?
If you feel safe to speak up that is really positive; in the last staff survey 57% of the staff who responded said they felt safe to raise concerns but that leaves 43% of the staff who responded who didn't say they felt safe (Staff Survey return rate for the Board was 41%)
Tell us:
- What makes speaking up safe?
- What prevents you from speaking up
We'd like to hear from you, either directly or through someone else, if there are things we could do to help staff speak up
Alice Wilson is Deputy Nurse Director and Graham Stewart is Deputy Director of Finance at NHS Dumfries and Galloway


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6 TED Talks All Marketers Should Watch (to Stay Creative and Not Sell Out)
When an email campaign, new blog, or other marketing activity gets great engagement, my first thought is AWESOME. We did something right! My second thought is SHIT ... This means the next one is going to have to be even better. It's gratifying when other people respond to our creative efforts, and the beauty of digital marketing is that it's easy to measure and possible to iterate successes. But sales and marketing pros alike want to see the growth curve tilt up and to the right. The steeper, the better. The goal is growth, and that train doesn't stop. These specially curated TED Talks will help you stay creative and focused on the goal.
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I love analogies. Analogies help people understand complex ideas, especially ones where they have low familiarity. Marketing and sales intelligence is a concept that could benefit from an analogy. Even...
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During the middle age, the astrology was generally divided into natural astrology, the science which predicts the motions of heavenly bodies and eclipses of the sun and the Moon and judicial astrology, which studies the influences of readings of men and empires. To put quite simply, astrology is the study of stars. The stars as referred to in astrology with respect to the planets, the sun and the moon. Astrology has been used throughout history as a form of entertainment, a part of religion, and a part of daily life.
Astrology begins with the mapping of the planets, including the Sun and the Moon. This map is called as horoscope chart. Most often the horoscope chart is designed by astrologers according to child birth. To determine the position of planets the sun and the Moon for horoscope chart the astrologers need to know the exact location of the birth, the time and the date of the birth of the native.
The planets found on the astrological(horoscope)chart are the sun, themoon,Saturn,venus,Jupiter,mars,mercury,rahu,ketu,Neptune,Uranus and Pluto. The earth is not considered because it is the point in the universe from which we view the other planets. The sun and the Moon are considered planets in astrology, which is difficult for normal people to remember an astrological phenomenon.
The astrological (horoscope) chart consists of twelve houses. Each house represents an aspect of life, such as romance, career, family etc. Since there are only nine planets in Indian astrology and each astrological chart will may have few vacant houses. Vacant houses represent aspects of life which, for whatever reason, the cosmos don't feel one need to work on. In other words, the astrologer may have to master this aspect of life while reading astrological chart.
The position of the sun determines your Sun sign. This is the first aspect of astrology studied on the based on astrological chart. Next the positions of planets are studied in relation to their influence on the sun sign. Finally the Moon sign and position is studied in relation to the rest of the astrological chart.
The readings of the astrological (horoscope) birth chart as a whole will depict the picture of the original personality of the native. The horoscope chart found thorough astrology later in life may not appear accurate. This is due to the fact that the other astrological phenomena in conjunction with life events alter the personality over time.
Astrology is the study of the horoscope chart as well as the prediction of the future based on how other astrological phenomena might influence the original astrology readings. The readings of the astrological chart are also a large part of the art of astrology, and are necessary for accurate astrology readings.
The use of astrology in horoscope readings is considered an art for a reason. Not only must the astrology expert make readings the horoscope chart and the current astrological phenomena, but the astrologer must also interpret any astrological phenomena that may have altered the personality of the individual over time.Amazingly, life changing events can often be seen using astrology readings from the time of the event.
Many major events in history can also be marked by astrology readings. For example, the fall of the Roman Empire was marked by astrological phenomena. The error of 9/11 the destruction of the twin towers was also awaited by those who study astrology. Even the birth of Christ was also marked by astrology readings.
Indian astrology has come of age in the nineties in a new ways is a statement that must be made now. Known as 'Jyotish',it is that sacred knowledge which had remained in the ashramas of the great rishis of ancient times who give predictions to Indian kings. We see instances of Narada, Garga and many other seers in the Puranas, The Mahabharata and other religious literature telling kings what would happen in the future
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My mum requested to see her grandkids, I mean, grandcats. You miss their goofy looking faces, Umi?
Here's Olly, back from his morning wander.
"What? I'm home, aren't I?"
Then there's Ifa, who just moves from one warm spot to another, all dayyy loonngg. I had to nudge her to get a photo.
"What? I'm up, aren't I?"
Not the prettiest cats I must admit. But it's not from my side of the family. Ahem…
And then, Olly saw something he doesn't quite approve.
"Hang on… What's going on here?"
"Ahhh… what a comfy spot, eh Olly?" (stretcchhh)
The tension's building as Olly strolls over almost nonchalantly.
Oh bugger! Here we go!
"I was here first!"
"No! This is my spot!"
I broke it up before someone lost an eye.
"Now say sorry to each other…"
"Sorry Olly." (mumbles) "Sorry Ifa." (grumbles)
Olly still isn't too happy about it.
Doesn't help that Ifa seems to be rubbing it in his face.
But everything settles down. Ifa curls up under the dining table in her little sunny spot, which is fading rather fast. Not really the smartest cat in the house.
Olly, on the other hand, stretches out and bathes in the warm sun, quickly forgetting the drama that broke out just minutes ago.
What's the moral of the story, folks?
=) Funny cats!
I love seeing this – sometimes I wish we could get Puddy a friend to play with – but I don't know whether she'd attempt to eat the other cat. That would be a problem. 😛
Why so serious, Olly? I remember you calling Ifa 'dumb'. I think she is just being a 'woman'.
Thanks you so much for the pgoto shoot. The boys will definitely be overjoyed to look at them.
Grandcats for grandcildren? That's a scary thought indeed.
Oh the drama!! Does Ollie always stick out his tongue? 🙂
Preow! My imaginary kitty says "Meow hello" to your kitties! I do wish I had a cat, but my family has too many alergies! *sigh* Vicarious cat ownership just isn't the same! lol


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Confrontations and interactions
With its objects and its environment, St Stephen's Park in Budapest encapsulates the ways in which recent history was monumentalised in Hungary by various ideologies. - This introductory essay is a fitting hors d'oeuvre to the essays revolving around cultural memory, edited by a team of scholars at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
In the very busy thirteenth district of Budapest there is a park with a playground called Szent István park (St. Stephen's Park) that seems to be immune to the incessant flow of cars, buses, trolley-buses outside its gates. The park is very popular with young parents in the area because of its spaciousness, and the ideal combination it offers of freedom for spontaneous movement and order: nearly geometrical, it radiates a pleasurable sense of security within the cast-iron fences. It is a perfect "cultural space" which as a national lieu de mémoire contains the sediment of time. Cultural spaces often have topographical reality; we encounter them in our everyday lives but seldom if ever do we become conscious of their complex reference to our shared histories. The park actually encapsulates the several ways in which recent history as a sequence of events recollected is monumentalised and memorialised, thus it also anticipates most of the main arguments of the essays which follow. Several myths, developed from the historical records by the cultural memories of various communities or disseminated by political power groups, manifest themselves in the objects of the park and its environment. As ideologies – wishful images of the future and nostalgic reveries of the past – have succeeded each other, emblems of intentional remembering have been placed in the park over the past sixty-three years, and, something quite exceptional in Budapest, have been left to stand where they are.
Walking from north to south one first encounters a stone statue in the typical socialist realist style, the Stevedore by Zoltán Borbereki Kovács, erected in 1948. It was shaped both by the local demand for art representing the ethos of the working people and by the memory of Meunier's eponymous bronze statue which is housed in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Next there is a monument in limestone by Ferenc Kovács from 1970 which is dedicated to Szir, the partisan "who together with his group fought heroically against the German occupation and its local accomplices". Further south there stands a statue in bronze, the Serpent Slayer, an athletic naked male with one hand holding the throat of a snake, the other high up in the air ready to smite it with a stick while one of his legs pins down its body. The statue is dedicated to the memory of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat and humanitarian who saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews between June 1944 and February 1945 in Budapest. The buildings, established as Swedish territory, in which a hiding place was found by a great number of Jewish Hungarians, were scattered through the nearby streets. The area around the park is permeated by the memory and the presence of Jewish cultural traditions. Wallenberg was taken into detention by the Soviet army after they entered Budapest and the circumstances of his death remain unknown. A few months after the liberation of Budapest – when nothing was known about his whereabouts – a Wallenberg Committee was established, which commissioned Pál Pátzay, one of the leading artists of the time, to design a monument as a token of the city's gratitude to the Swedish diplomat. When, however, the statue had already been erected in St. Stephen's Park and the date of the ceremony of its unveiling was set for 17 January 1949, on the instruction of the Communists (who, after merging with the Social Democrats in June 1948, were soon to take full control of the political life of the country) it was dismantled under cover of the preceding night, and later moved to Debrecen to stand in front of a pharmacology factory where it was resemanticised: Pátzay himself had defined it as symbolic "of the victory over fascism", but in its new milieu it was seen as a fi gural representation of the victory of medical sciences over sickness. In 1999 the Metropolitan Council of Budapest erected a new pedestal – this time designed by László Rajk Jr., the son of László Rajk, the Communist politician executed in October 1949 after Rákosi's most dramatic show trial – and placed a replica of Pátzay's statue on it. Not far from the Serpent Slayer there stands a larger than life-size statue in bronze of György Lukács, whose involvement in the political history of preand post-war Hungary is one of the most intriguing questions of twentieth-century Hungarian intellectual history. The statue, which was erected on the site in 1985, is the work of Imre Varga, who had been a student of Pátzay, and whose own monument in honour of Wallenberg, commissioned by an American diplomat, and unveiled, after lengthy negotiations with Kádár, in 1987 in the second district, evokes the memory of the Serpent Slayer. Varga's figure of Wallenberg stands between two huge granite blocks which display the outline of the statue on their inner sides: thus it is a monument of disjuncture which commemorates remembering and forgetting simultaneously. At the end of our walk we reach András Sándor Kocsis's bust of Ferenc Fejtő erected in 2008. The political philosopher, historian and literary critic, Fejtő contributed to the journal Nyugat and co-edited with the poet Attila József the anti-fascist literary journal Szép Szó. In 1938, following a sentence of six months in prison for an article criticising the pro-German stance of the government, he left Hungary for France. During the Second World War, he took part in the French Resistance. After the trial and death of his friend László Rajk, he severed his ties with Hungary to return only after 1989 for short visits as a welcome guest. After his death in Paris he was buried in the National Pantheon in Budapest.
Close to Fejtő's bust you can s ee several hundred small rose plots with roses developed by a Hungarian floriculturist, Gergely Márk, who has defined his roses by a nomenclature that was apparently devised to create a text of memory which can be read as a narrative of all the different individual ambitions and collective endeavours that have made up the history of the country. The name tags attached to the plots carry topographical, historical, literary and religious names. Most of the appellations have very intensive emotional associations, like the name of the Transylvanian town in Romania, Kolozsvár/Cluj, and – connected with the history of the town – the name of the Renaissance king Matthias Corvinus, an easily available source of national pride. The nineteenth-century poets, János Arany and Sándor Petőfi have their own roses. Arany's present stance in the critical consciousness is the result of heated debates initiated by the journal Nyugat, the main intellectual force that created modern Hungarian literature; whereas Petőfi is very deeply imbedded in the Hungarian mind as the poet who laid down his life in the name of what he called, using a typically nineteenth-century term, "the liberty of the world". A small plaque in one of the plots carries the name of the actress Róza Laborfalvy, celebrated leading lady of the National Theatre. She was the wife of the novelist Jókai, whose historical novels are probably still defi nitive in terms of what Hungarian means for a lot of people. Another plaque evokes the memory of the actress Éva Ruttkai, the most popular icon of femininity in the 1970s. Her relationship with the actor Zoltán Latinovits – who figured famously in multicultural events, like innovative post-1956 fi lms and poetry readings that attempted to sensitise the public to the necessity, indeed the ethical imperative, of doubt and self-quest – is one of the legends of the modern Hungarian theatre. A new species of rose is dedicated to Antal Szerb's memory who was a novelist, essayist, literary historian and a representative of the transnational values of the journal Nyugat. Late in 1944 he was deported to a concentration camp, and was beaten to death there in January 1945. And there is another new species bearing the name of the disturbingly popular Transylvanian author, Albert Wass, whose work conveys a belief in Hungarian cultural supremacy and instigates nostalgia for the pre-Trianon boundaries of Hungary. Wass was sentenced to death in absentia for war crimes by the Romanian People's Tribunal in 1945.
On three sides it is the façades of buildings erected in the 1930s, the most vigorous period of the urbanisation of this part of the district, that serve as backdrop to the park. The fourth side of it flanks the Danube: from the park benches you can see the international liners cradled by the waves. For centuries the Danube corridor has mediated the encounter of the different cultures in the Danubian basin; it has been submitted to both the idealisations of the multicultural character of the area, and to one-sided lamentations of national wounds. In the Hungarian literary memory the river is associated first and foremost with Attila József, who, in one of the greatest poems of remembrance in twentieth century Hungarian poetry, "By the Danube", looks at the river as a memento of history. In his contemplation, private and collective memories are fused, and in the final stanza he reaches out towards the hope that through creative work and a realistic assessment of the traumas of the past, the antagonisms between the nations of the region, "the miseries of the small Eastern European states" as István Bibó called them, might be pacified in the collective memory. At the same time, in a desperate effort, he conquers "the hopeless sadness within him", to use the words of one of the Proust essays of Walter Benjamin, and psychological equilibrium is attained:
The Danube, which is past, present and future
entwines its waves in tender friendly clasps.
Out of the blood our fathers shed at battles
flows peace, through our remembrance and regard…
(Translated by Peter Zollman)
Although this vision of peace still seems utopian, recently the park has been the venue of demonstrations of reconciliation: in February this year the liberation of Budapest from the Nazi occupation was commemorated here, and in May a mass rally organised on Facebook was held in the park to protest against racial ideologies, and to demonstrate solidarity with the Roma.
The two concepts, Confrontation and Interaction, are collocated in the title of the present volume to create the intellectual context in which each of the individual essays in the collection can find its place. In 2007 The New York Times published a profile of the novelist, dramatist and essayist Péter Nádas under the title "A Writer Who Always Sees History in the Present Tense", in which Nádas is defined as a writer and thinker who has been concerned with the obligation of the writer as well as the political citizen to confront the consequences of their own compromised morality, and is quoted as claiming that this confrontation is exactly what Hungarians, among others, have not done. Some of the essays published here are concerned with "what amounts to trans-generational haunting"; with the moral conundrums of private and collective memory, with the duty to mourn. The traumas of the twentieth century "need, as in the relationship between patient and analyst, to be worked through by acts of talking and of listening, acts of writing and reading" (Alistair Davies).
Confrontation is also used with reference to the boundary between different cultures, which can be crossed in the bold act of translation, transposition or allusion: the translator or borrower has to confront what Percy Shelley called "the burthen of the curse of Babel". The transposition of literary items is recreation "according to another cultural heritage […] from a new perspective, hence, with a difference" (Péter Dávidházi). This difference generates a productive interaction between the two cultures, in other words, a semantic enrichment of the original and the target tradition at the same time.
And finally confrontation also describes the attitude of innovators in all fields of culture who are aware of the needs of the consumers of culture and create spaces of collective contemplation where knowledge can be possessed or repossessed, tradition can be assessed and redefined, or tradition can actually be established. The new paradigm emerges in an interaction between the memory of the past and the pressures of the present, it is the outcome of "an act of recovery and an act that marks a decisive rupture with the past" (Richard Cronin).
The term cultural memory in the title is used in what is proposed by Astrid Erll as a provisional definition: "the interplay of present and past in socio-cultural contexts." Such an understanding of the term has allowed the inclusion of a broad spectrum of studies ranging from essays on the historical processes of transmission, reception, appropriation, i.e. the problem of cultural border-crossings through which traditions on both sides have been altered; on monuments of collective remembering which face or replace each other as collective truth has been asserted or subverted over the years; and on texts of national memory with its invented traditions, which are often rooted in trauma. Most of the articles are the outcome of discussions triggered by their authors' presentation of their material and hypotheses at a conference organised by the Department of English Studies at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, in September 2010. The response elicited by the questions raised at the conference, as well as editorial comments in a later phase in the development of what constitutes the contents of this volume, have resulted in a degree of intertextual restructuring so that eventually the individual essays cohere into more or less congruent arguments in five overarching themes.
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Pathos formulae of memory
- the rhetoric of emotional intensity
Alistair Davies: British culture and the memory of the First World War. . 21
Katalin G. Kállay: "Memory believes before knowing remembers" . . . . 35
László Munteán: Under the urban skin: Counter-monumental
configurations of the bombing of Budapest in the Second World War. . . 43
János Kenyeres: 1956 in cultural memory: The testimony of literature . . . 59
2. Cultural border-crossings: intertextuality and translation
Elinor Shaffer: Affinities and antagonisms: The processes of reception . . 71
Péter Dávidházi: "Can these bones live?": "The Waste Land,"
Ezekiel and Hungarian Poetry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Gabriella Hartvig: Shandean originality and humour
in Ferenc Kölcsey's "Foreword" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Géza Kállay: A stain of blood as cultural transmission: Lady Macbeth
and János Arany's Goodwife Agnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Benedek Péter Tóta: "the cud of memory": British literature
and cultural memory in Seamus Heaney's poetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Veronika Ruttkay: In other tongues: "Tam o' Shanter"
and translatability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Éva Péteri: "Older than the rocks": On Lajos Gulácsy's Lady Playing on
an Ancient Instrument and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's La Ghirlandata
and Lady Lilith . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
3. Social framework of memory: the ideology of remembering
Ágnes Péter: The Romantic myth of Milton in Hungary:
Mór Jókai's Milton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Géza Maráczi: László Cs. Szabó on Dickens: A case study
on a "Western Hungarian" perspective. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Zsolt Czigányik: Readers' responsibility: Literature and censorship
in the Kádár era in Hungary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Natália Pikli: Teenagers in focus – classic/popular Shakespeare?:
A case study of present-day Hungarian reception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
4. Multimedia constructions as sites of remembering:
stages, maps, cemeteries
John Drakakis: Acts of memory and forgetting in Shakespeare's Hamlet . 259
Eglantina Remport: Re-imagining Shakespeare at the beginning of
the 20th century: Edward Gordon Craig, Sándor Hevesi, and
William Butler Yeats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Máté Vince: 'The one single story falls to 1956 pieces': Papp & Térey's
Kazamaták and the memories of the Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Andrea Hübner: The role of medieval maps in the interpretation of
the New World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Andrea Velich: The cemetery as a space of remembering and forgetting:
The pollution of burial grounds in England and Hungary . . . . . . . . . 327
5. Psychology, aesthetics and the sociology of memory
Richard Cronin: The 'history-ful' and the 'history-less':
Deep and shallow time in the Regency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Zsolt Komáromy: Memory and the "Pleasures of Imagination": Problems
in eighteenth-century aesthetics demonstrated by Akenside's poem . . . 353
Andrea Timár: The poetics and politics of memory
in the Romantic period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Veronika Végh: Reinventing Romanticism: Postmodern Byrons . . . . . 383
Andrea Kirchknopf: Post-Victorian narratives of the Crystal Palace:
The case of Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 393
Confrontations and Interactions. Essays on Cultural Memory
Edited by Bálint Gárdos, Ágnes Péter, Natália Pikli and Máté Vince
L'Harmattan: Budapest, 2011
Bálint Gárdos, Ágnes Péter, Natália Pikli, Máté Vince eds.


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In History Pockets—Ancient Greece, Grades 4—6, you'll find nine memorable discovery pockets. The introduction pocket gives an overview of the civilization. The other pockets give a comprehensive view of life in ancient Greece.The book includes the following pockets: Introduction to Ancient Greece--city-states, map, and time line, Military Power--Persian Wars, hoplite soldiers, and Alexander the Great, Daily Life--mosaic tiles, weddings, and Knucklebones, Government--art of persuasion, jurors' ballots, and Socrates, Religion and Mythology--gods, goddesses, and myths, Work and School--at the agora, coins, schools of thought, Art and Architecture--frescoes, amphorae, and the Parthenon, Language and Literature--Greek alphabet, theater masks, and lyric poetry, Sports and Entertainment--banquets, pentathlon, and the Olympics. In each of the pockets you will find: a reproducible pocket label, a bookmark of short, fun facts about the subject, an art reference page, a fact sheet of background information for teacher and students, arts and crafts projects, plus writing activities. Evaluation forms are provided at the end of the book for teacher and student assessment purposes.
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The Texas Open Angel Network is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to educating angel investors on how to invest in startups. It's a non-profit so there's no profit incentive to promote investment opportunities or sell services. I launched the program in Austin and held monthly lunch and learn meetings. Speakers with experience in consumer product goods, gaming, life science, technology and more came to the group and shared their experience with other investors.
In taking the program to the rest of the state, I encountered a scalability problem. The physical meeting format was difficult to maintain in multiple cities. I decided to take the education series online and captured the content in the form of podcasts which I listed until the program name—AngelConnect.
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|Tory Burch's pattern on pattern blue family room (above)
Today, I am putting fashion mogul Tory Burch and interior design maven Thom Filicia in a fierce face off. Family rooms where the walls match the furniture. Tone on tone monochromatic or pattern on pattern – you must decide which is best.
Above, Ms Burch took an azure-blue tree print fabric from Clarence House and upholstered her walls and sofa and chairs in the same pattern…a pattern play that really works.
Below, Mr. Filicia gives texture and a low luster gleam to a library den with cobalt blue walls that match the blue sofa. Uniform monochromatic. I like.
|Thom Filicia's den with Venetian plaster walls in a cobalt blue and matching blue sofa with piping (above)
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No makeshift cattle market in Dhaka this time: Home Minister
22 Jul 2018, 17:27
Dhaka: Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday said no makeshift cattle market will be allowed to be set up in the capital ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha.
'This time all the cattle markets will have designated boundaries, which cannot be expanded,' the minister said while talking to reporters after holding two back-to-back meetings with law enforcement agency officials at the Secretariat.
This year, Asaduzzaman said, 22 cattle markets will be set up in the capital under Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) and Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC).
Besides, the minister said, no cattle market will be allowed to be set up in residential areas, near rail lines and/or on highways.
Asaduzzaman added there will be one police camp for each of the markets, while constant supervision and security will be ensured by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) through closed-circuit television (CCTVs) surveillance.
Security personnel will also be deployed near all the shopping centres, commercial areas and places where Eid prayers will be offered to ensure security for all.
Several 'money squads' will also be there in the markets for those who may hesitate to travel with huge sums of money.
The entry points, known for distribution of illegal medicines and steroids to bulk up cattle, along the border will be sealed off in addition to all the points known for smuggling cowhides.
According to statistics provided by the ministry, Muslims across the country sacrificed some 1.15 crore cattle during last year's Eid-ul-Azha.
Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the country, will be celebrated in the country on August 22 this year, subject to moon sighting.
Representatives from Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) were also present.
The meeting asked all the banks to remain open in industrial areas on the day before Eid so that the wages of workers may be disbursed seamlessly by RMG factory owners.
The Home Minister urged them to pay the RMG workers their wages and festival bonus before the Eid, and introduce duty shifts for their workers in order to ease traffic jams.
In response to the BGMEA and BKMEA requests, the ministry decided that setting up of new factories and industries will now require a clearance from the Ministry of Commerce other than having the approval from trade bodies.
A letter in this regard will soon be sent from the Home Ministry to the Commerce Ministry, Asaduzzaman said.
In another meeting with law enforcement officials, the minister discussed security measures over the upcoming 43rd National Mourning Day to be observed on August 15.