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Come Experience 'Bright Lights' on Saturday and Sunday
'Bright Lights: Celebrate the Season' Continues Through December 18
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum's third annual holiday event, Bright Lights: Celebrate the Season, continues on Saturdays and Sundays through December 18, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, and on Thursday, December 22.
Thousands of warm-white lights illuminate the trees and walkways, and the exterior and interior of the Vanderbilt Mansion, along with wreaths, garlands, guest rooms, dining room, the family's living quarters, the garden that overlooks the bay, behind the Mansion.
The event will include Candlelight Tours of the decorated Vanderbilt Mansion, visits with Santa and friends in his workshop, a children's scavenger hunt, and a 15-minute Holiday Laser show in the Reichert Planetarium. In addition, the Stoll Wing and Habitat wild-animal dioramas and the Hall of Fishes marine museum will be open for visitors. Also open: the Vanderbilt Café and Gift Shop, located in the Planetarium lobby.
Elizabeth Wayland-Morgan, Executive Director of the Vanderbilt Museum, said, "We are thrilled to invite everyone to kick off the holiday season and celebrate with us. The decorated and lighted Mansion and Estate become a winter wonderland. Bright Lights offers evenings of family fun for all."
This year's huge lighted Courtyard tree, a 30-foot Norway spruce, was donated by Susan and Abel Oonnoonny of Centerport.
All-inclusive tickets: adults $25 | Members $20; children 12 and under $15 | Members $10; children 2 and under FREE.
Progressive-Era Comics: Childhood Visual Culture
On Thursday, December 8, the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum will host Lara Saguisag, a heralded comics and children's literature scholar from New York University, for Incorrigibles and Innocents, an evening lecture on the visual culture of childhood at the turn of the century. The lecture will take place at 7:00 pm in the Museum's Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium.
The Progressive Era (1890-1920) was a period of intense social activism and reform. Committed citizens from this period sought to address a wide variety of problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption. Although their efforts ushered in profound change, greatly improving the living conditions of the politically excluded or marginalized, culture at large expressed significant anxieties over the new social codes emerging alongside this rapid transformation of everyday life.
For decades, academics have noted that cultural preoccupations play out in the visual culture—comics, movies, photographs, etc.—of a period. When trained correctly, it is possible to "read" these forms of entertainment to develop a more nuanced understanding of what goes unstated in other texts. To better understand the Progressive Era, Lara Saguisag's research examines the proliferation of comic books headlined by children during that period, including Hogan's Alley, Buster Brown, The Katzenjammer Kids, and Little Nemo in Slumberland.
Saguisag suggests that popular representations of children in these strips reflect the emerging social codes of industrial society while also prefiguring public expectations about the future boundaries of citizenship, particularly along the lines of race, class, and gender. Saguisag's study is a tremendous contribution to comics scholarship and an important work for understanding the processes by which social dynamics evolve.
Incorrigibles and Innocents received the Charles Hatfield Book Prize from the Comics Studies Society, the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Book from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, and an Eisner nomination for Best Academic/Scholarly Work.
Lara Saguisag is an Associate Professor and the inaugural Georgiou Chair in Children's Literacy and Literature in the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU Steinhardt. She earned her Ph.D. in Childhood Studies from Rutgers University-Camden; MFA in Creative Writing from The New School; MA in Children's Literature from Hollins University; and BA in English from the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Saguisag served on the Board of the Children's Literature Association from 2019-2022.
'A Child's Life at Eagle's Nest' for Grades K-4
The Vanderbilt will offer A Child's Life at Eagle's Nest, a program for children in grades K-4, on Saturday, December 10, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Learn about life at the Vanderbilt mansion, play games, listen to the music of the 1930s, and make a dreamy snow globe.
Beth Lazer-Limmer, Associate Director of Education, said, "children love having the mansion all to themselves. They play games in the halls and listen to old radio shows and jazz and make something that will remind them of the fun they had."
Long Island Chamber Music: Bach, Ravel Under the Stars
Long Island Chamber Music will present a performance by a string quartet on Friday, December 16, at 7:30 pm in the Vanderbilt Reichert Planetarium. The program will include pieces by Bach, Ravel, Sibelius, and others.
The music will be accompanied by beautiful panoramic imagery of the stars projected onto the 60- foot planetarium dome.
LICM was founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife team Eric Huckins and Gergana Haralampieva alongside composer Nick DiBerardino. Their mission is to make world-class classical music readily accessible to Long Island communities. The group provides classical music concerts, educational programs, and private lessons for communities across Long Island year-round.
LICM musicians are drawn from Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect, the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Astral Artists, and several other of the country's most prominent musical institutions. In addition to being leaders in their artform, LICM musicians are teaching artists, entrepreneurs, and socially minded advocates for classical music.
Give Vanderbilt Museum Memberships as Gifts
Looking for gift ideas? This holiday season, give the gift of discovery, exploration, and Gold Coast wonder – an individual or family membership to the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.
Benefits include unlimited admissions, Mansion tours, and Planetarium shows.
Winter Solstice: Fun Workshops for Children
Children in grades K-4 can have a lot of holiday fun in two Winter Solstice Celebration workshops offered by educators at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.
Beth Laxer-Limmer, Associate Director of Education, said, "Children will learn about the winter solstice and how animals (and people) adapt to fewer hours of sunlight.
"We'll explore the gardens, and collections and get creative to light up dark nights and cold days. Winter is a magical time. The Vanderbilt's workshops celebrate the beauty and activity in nature as winter begins."
Workshops are offered from 10 am to 12 pm. Fee: $20 / $18 for members.
Tuesday, December 27: Solstice Lantern & Planetarium Show
Wednesday, December 28: Bulb Botany and Winter Blooms
Storytime Under Stars: Books with Winter Themes
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Q: $H^{1}(G,M)$ for an infinite cyclic group $G$ Let $G$ be an infinite cyclic group with generator $t$, and $M$ be a $G-$module. I need help with the following problem (of MacLane's book Homology) : Show that
$$H^{1}(G,M)\cong M/L$$
where $L=\{tx-x:x\in M\}$
My aproach: by definition is $H^{1}(G,M)=Der(G,M)/InnDer(G,M)$. It is natural to define $\rho:Der(G,M)\rightarrow M/L$ by:
$$\rho(\phi)=\phi(t)+L, \text{for all} \ \phi\in Der(G,M)$$
It is easy to proof that $\rho$ is an homomorphism of groups such that $Ker(\rho)=InnDer(G,M)$ but I can't see why $\rho$ is an epimorphism. If $v+L\in M/L$, for $v\in M$, it is natural to think that $v+L=\rho(\phi)$ where $\phi$ is determinated by $\phi(t)=tv=(t-1)v+v$ but I can't proof that $\phi$ is a derivation.
Note: the solution of the problem must to be obtain without use projective resolutions.

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Biden Targeted by Fact Checkers for Inaccurate Economic Statements.
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Critics of President Biden's recent address in Virginia are questioning his claims of the administration's success in the economy.
At least 18 Americans have been killed in three mass shootings in California recently, prompting President Joe Biden to urge Congress to ban assault weapons on January 24.
On Sunday, President Biden issued a presidential memorandum on what would have been the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade to protect access to abortion medicines across the country.
Shocking: D.O.J. Agreement to Keep F.B.I. Away From Document Search
An unexpected report that the Justice Department made a deal to keep F.B.I. agents away from the search, President Joe Biden displayed the demeanor of a man who believes he is invincible, smirking and laughing in response to reporters' questions about the classified documents stashed at his Delaware home.
Merrick Garland Accused of Allegedly Protecting Biden.
When U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland swiftly appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur as the special counsel to investigate the astonishing discovery of classified documents found at President Joe Biden's Delaware home and his office in Penn Biden Center, many were pleasantly surprised.
Here's What You Need to Know About the Chinese Link to the Classified Documents Scandal.
Those following the Biden influence-peddling scandal know that Joe Biden was promised an office in China in exchange for his influence. This revelation has diminished the Democrats' ability to differentiate themselves from Trump's administration.
Bidens Border Visit: Texas Governor Abbott Hands Over Scathing Letter
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The Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, handed a scathing letter to President Biden on Sunday as Biden arrived in the state for his first visit to the U.S.-Mexico border since entering office.
Pete Buttigieg Flew His Husband to a Dutch Sporting Event in a Military Aircraft on Taxpayer Money.
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According to a leaked internal calendar, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, flew on a military plane to Europe last spring so that they could attend the Fifth Invictus Games.
Details Of New House Probe On Joe Biden's Administration And Possible Impeachment
The Republican House is set to pass some proposed rules on January 3, including a resolution to establish a subcommittee to investigate "the Weaponization of the Federal Government" during President Joe Biden's administration.
A Staggering 4 Million Border encounters Since Kamala Harris took office.
Since Vice President Kamala Harris was tasked with fixing the primary cause of the border crisis over two years ago, more than four million migrants have flooded the southern border.
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Mommsen, (Hermes xix (1884) 232 n. 3) took the view that n.avg stood for N(uminibus) Aug(ustorum), while observing certain British examples, (though not all, e.g. RIB 2040), in which the singular nvmini avg(vsti) is plainly meant. In an abbreviated form, however, the sole means of distinguishing between the Numina of two or more reigning Augusti and those of deceased emperors treated collectively would be to use for the former the normal avgg or avggg, and for the latter avg with the plural nvmina. aavvgg clearly refers to Severus and Caracalla on RIB 627 (Greetland) dated to a.d. 208; and the frequent examples of such plurals might suggest that when it was desired to dedicate to more than one reigning emperor care was taken to state this unambiguously, as Roman ritual practice would enjoin. This may explain the difference in treatment.
[RIB + add.] In support of the expansion n(umini) Aug(usti), Fishwick has maintained against Mann (Brit. 2 (1971), 313) that only singular numen could be attributed to an Emperor, whereas numina (plural) requires either at least two living Emperors (avgg etc.) or a combination of the living Emperor and deified Emperors. See Fishwick, Brit. 25 (1994), 127-41, and Fishwick, Brit. 20 (1989), 231-4, and his earlier discussions cited therein; and for Mann's rejoinder see Mann, Brit. 22 (1991), 173-7.
[RIB + add.] Translate numen here and elsewhere as 'Divinity' [not 'Deity'], since it is a quality possessed by deities as well as by Emperors.
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How Macron Circumvents His Own Ministers
Much was said during the campaign about Macron's lack of political experience and not enough about his intimate familiarity with the real levers of power in France, which are found not on the village marketplaces where politicians distribute their tracts but in the back offices of the various ministries. And now that he is in power, Macron has devised an efficient method of circumventing the politicians, including his own ministers, and reaching directly into those back offices in order to influence how the levers are pulled. His method is detailed in this article in Le Monde. I have long maintained that government in France is effective only when the chief executive forges an alliance with the top administrators. Conservatives used to know how to do this. The Socialists had something of the knack in the early Mitterrand years, when many young énarques in the ministries brought left-wing sympathies with them into the administration.
Macron knows from experience how the sausage is made. It's the secret of his effectiveness so far. He inspires all those departmental directors. Meanwhile, it's said the luster has begun to wear off for many REM deputies, especially those who came from the private sector. They are said to feel "useless." In their previous jobs they were VIPs, decision-makers, movers and shakers. Now they're legislators, who must sit all day day in the hémicycle just to raise their hands. I feel their pain.
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Macron Turns 40, Hardens His Heart
Emmanuel Macron is celebrating his fortieth birthday at the Château de Chambord, surrounded by hunters chasing wild boar. It's an injudicious choice for a president who has made much use of the power of symbolism, unless of course he wants to project a Jupiterian power ensconced in a proper seat, or throne.
Meanwhile, he is projecting power of a different kind, cracking down on refugees in makeshift shelters and welcome centers, which the immigration police have allowed themselves to enter for the first time. He would prefer, however, that we refer to "migrants" rather than "refugees." Because apparently the president's policy on immigration is that France remains a "land of asylum" but only for those officially classified as "refugees" before entering Europe. The rest are unwanted migrants who are liable to arrest and deportation.
So while Angela Merkel labors to persuade her reluctant European partners to share the refugee burden more equitably, Macron is setting a very different example, demonstrating that on his watch France is going to take a very tough stand indeed. Which can only encourager les autres to defy Merkel as well. This--far more than the reform of the labor code--is the unattractive side of Macronism.
Meanwhile, François Bayrou, who has kept a low profile since his ouster from government, is apparently plotting a comeback as--listen well!--"the left wing of Macronism." Yes, you heard that right. Bayrou, Monsieur le Centre, sees himself as the left wing, the "social" wing, of Macronism. He is certainly right that such a thing is needed. Perhaps this refugee crackdown will give a chance to show what he means when he says that Macronism needs a social wing. Le Macronisme à visage humain remains to be defined.
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In Excel, you can add a comment to any cell. This could be a note to yourself, a reminder, a correction, a question – anything that is useful. Using Excel comments is particularly useful for workbooks that are used to share information and to collaborate on projects. At times though, you might want to go beyond the basic comment format and give your comments more character.
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Angolas nationalförsamling (portugisiska: Assembleia Nacional) är den lagstiftande församlingen i Angola. Den har 223 ledamöter och väljs för en period på fyra eller fem år.

Struktur
Nationalförsamlingen är arrangerad som ett enkammarsystem med 223 (alternativt 220) ledamöter, där 130 väljs genom proportionell representation, 90 väljs genom de provinsiella distrikten och 3 av angolaner bosatta i utlandet. Enligt stadgarna skall val hållas vart fjärde (ibland vart femte) år och därmed även nationalförsamlingen bytas ut med samma regelbundenhet. Efter det första valet, som hölls 1992, dröjde dock ända till 2008 innan nästa val hölls. Däremellan fortsatte det angolanska inbördeskriget fram till 2002, varefter ett fredsavtal skrevs och en ny författning drogs upp.

Referenser

Politik i Angola
Afrikas parlament

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Cine Monumental may refer to several cinemas:

Cine Monumental (Buenos Aires), in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cine Monumental (Rosario), in Rosario, Santa Fe

See also

 Monumental (disambiguation)


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Safari for iPad offers a nice Split Screen View feature that allows you to view and read two websites side-by-side in the Safari browser, visible when the iPad is oriented in horizontal landscape mode. While entering into Safari Split Screen view on iPad is pretty easy, many users find that exiting and closing Split Screen View in Safari on iPad is less than obvious. This leads some iPad users to be thoroughly confused by Safari split screen mode on their tablet and think it's either stuck enabled or can't be escaped from, but rest assured you can close Safari Split View and leave the split web browsing mode fairly easily.
This tutorial will show you how to exit out of Safari split screen view on the iPad, which effectively turns it off. We'll also show you how to close out of tabs that are in Safari Split View, and also discuss how to stop the iPad screen from splitting into two screens in Safari when it the device is rotated from portrait to landscape orientation.
Once you merge the tabs, the Safari Split Screen window will be closed and you'll be back to a regular single Safari browsing view on iPad.
You can also choose "Close All Tabs" if you don't want to keep the tabs open in Safari split screen, which will also exit out of Safari Split View on iPad by closing the tabs in the split panel you chose.
This is the simplest way to exit Safari Split Screen mode, which is also about as close as iOS gets to turning off Safari Split Screen and disabling the feature (until it's used again anyway).
Nonetheless there are other way stop escape out of Safari Split Screen by closing the tabbed windows in a Safari split screen panel.
* Note all approaches to exiting Safari Split Screen mode on iPad rely on showing the Safari back and forward navigation buttons first, as they must be visible on screen to access the other options.
If you want to close the tabs that open in Safari Split View as well, you can also exit and leave Safari Split View by specifically closing all the tabs that are open in the Split View panel of Safari.
The close tab button in Safari Split View can be difficult to find, not only because it's quite small and being a light faint grey color, but also because it's not visible unless the broader Safari navigation options are visible as well.
The only way to stop Safari from splitting into two screens when the iPad is rotated is to exit and leave Safari Split View mode on the iPad.
To accomplish that, you can use either set of instructions detailed here on this page, either by merging the tabs and closing Safari Split Screen View on iPad, or by manually closing the Safari Tabs that are open in one of the split view panels.
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Listen: Froy's new single 'Fix Me'.
Froy has released his sophomore song, 'Fix Me' - a follow-up to 'Sideswipe'.
'Fix Me' is an upbeat, electronic pop anthem - an impressive second single, sure to set Froy up for greatness as he embarks further along his musical career. But don't mistake the happy melody for a happy song - Froy delves deep, singing "I lose my mind for the hell of it / Can anyone relate?' and crooning "I'm too scared to live but I'm more scared to die," begging for someone to fix him.
Listen to the new song 'Fix Me' below, and check out our interview with Froy about his first single here.
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The London Majors got a win and a loss over a holiday weekend that included a celebration of team alumni.
It started with a 7-2 Friday night win over the last-place Burlington Herd. Dylan Brooks was the winning pitcher and Majors batters racked up nine hits.
Things didn't go so smoothly at their annual Canada Day home game. Wearing throwback London Pontiacs jerseys, the Majors were beaten 14-2 at Labatt Park by the Barrie Baycats. Joan Montero took the loss while Barrie batters put up 14 runs on 15 hits.
London didn't get on the scoreboard until the ninth inning of the Canada Day loss.
After the 1-1 weekend, the Majors (11-7) are in third place in the Intercounty Baseball League. They're next up Tuesday night against Hamilton.


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What is good and poor mental health?
How do I start a conversation about mental health?
The importance of acting early
Back to school – young people
Back to school – parents & teachers
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Emergency help – I need help NOW!
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Our life can bring new challenges. You may feel down, have lack of sleep or worried about the future. There is help available and looking after your physical and mental wellbeing is important for your resilience. Find below information on mental health themes that may be relevant for you or someone you know.
You can find additional information in our Get help for yourself, Get help for your loved ones and Get your body and mind health sections.
Many people in the UK are currently experiencing increased levels of anxiety due to COVID-19. Whether this is related to fear of the virus, changes to our income or for other reasons, there is help available to get you through these challenging times.
We know that anxiety affects people in different ways, so to provide support to all, we have pulled together a list of available resources for our residents in south east London.
Visit the sections Get help for yourself and Get support for your loved ones to find out more.
For more information, visit the links below:
Healios
NHS Mental Health and Wellbeing
Thrive LDN
If you have lost a loved one due to coronavirus or another reason during lockdown, we understand how difficult the situation can be.
Restrictions on entering hospitals and limits on the number of people that can attend funerals, has prevented many people from being able to say goodbye to their loved ones.
If you are struggling with bereavement, view the support options available below and reach out to a friend, family member, or a healthcare professional.
Cruise Bereavement Care Greenwich
Whether face-to-face or online, bullying can severely affect our wellbeing and stay with us for years to come.
The first step to stopping bullying is to report it. We know this can be very difficult but there are support and anonymous help options available.
Review the resources below to understand the best course of action for you. The earlier you act, the better you will feel in the long term.
Anti Bullying Alliance has a list of helplines and websites that can provide information and support for children and young people who are being bullied.
Bullying UK (part of Family Lives), Non-judgmental support helpline that can provide advice with Family Support Workers available through Live Chat or via the confidential helpline. Family Lives is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They can be contacted about any family issue, big or small. Tel: 0808 800 2222
Child Line – – Information about bullying. Tel: 0800 1111
Direct Gov: Bullying explains bullying and the law in and outside school. Gives a definition for bullying and how to report it.
EACH has a freephone Action line for children experiencing homophobic bullying. It's open Monday to Friday 10am-5pm. Tel: 0808 1000 143
Young Minds – The voice for young people's mental health and wellbeing. Online information and support available.
Easy read information
Change can affect our feelings. It can sometimes make us worried and anxious.
To stay well we must look after our feelings as well as our bodies.
This guidance is about things we can do to stay well.
Studying for exams during lockdown, alongside the uncertainty around results, can cause stress and impact our mental wellbeing.
If you need specific grades to gain entry to your chosen sixth form college or university, we understand that the pressure of exam performance can be heightened.
For tips on managing exam stress for you or a loved one, visit Get Help for yourself or visit Healios and The Mix.
Counselling for student mental health problems
Student stress: self-help tips
Tips on surviving exams
Help your child beat exam stress
Since the UK was placed under lockdown in March 2020, the government has introduced many financial schemes to support the country's workforce. While this has benefited many people, especially those in office-based employment, it has left those in other professions, such as hospitality and small business owners, without the financial support that they need.
We understand that this can have a dramatic impact on those on low paid jobs and those without savings. Basic commitments such as rent and food can become difficult to pay for yourself and for those dependent on you.
If COVID-19 has affected you financially, there are a series of support options available for you to access in south east London. View the list of resources below or contact your GP if you have any medical concerns caused by stress:
Get support for your loved ones
Employment and benefits support
COVID-19 has caused many people to experience increased levels of stress and anxiety. Financial worry has been one of the biggest knock-on effects that Londoners have had to deal with, and in turn, housing.
Although the government has said that landlords cannot evict tenants for three months, we understand that that doesn't stop people worrying about how they are going to pay their rent in the months to come.
To help, we have pooled together a list of resources below on the financial support options available to south east London residents:
ReThink Mental Illness
As the UK has continued to be placed in lockdown due to COVID-19, many of us have seen changes to our mood.
At first, there could have been feelings of happiness in having time away from work and seeing more of our loved ones. But as time has gone on, we might be feeling anxious – about our children returning to school or the impending threat of an economic recession.
Whatever affects your mood swings generally, these can be heightened in a time of worry. If you have noticed that you or a loved one are experiencing increased changes in your mood, view the resources below to see what support is available in your area.
Spending an increased or decreased amount of time with your partner and family during lockdown? It might be changing the dynamic of your relationships.
For some, this extra time has amplified existing issues in their relationships and created new pressures to deal with such as childcare, changes to household income and working from home.
There has also been a sharp rise in domestic violence for both men and women who feel they can't escape a relationship and are confined to their homes.
If these situations apply to you, a friend or family member, view the available support options below or contact your GP to arrange a confidential consultation.
Sleep is something so basic to humans and vital for our bodies and minds to function. But why is it that during times of stress and uncertainty we find it so difficult to sleep?
With thoughts running through our head and worries of how we will pay our bills, insomnia can keep many people awake at night.
For help getting a restful night's sleep, view the below resources or make an appointment with your GP to discuss further.
Goodthinking.
Good Mental Health Matters
In times of stress, we can often let things build up until they reach a pressure point and boil over. Getting to this point can lead to depression and affect our physical and mental wellbeing.
Coronavirus has escalated stress levels in many people and affected our daily lives. Knowing how to recognise the signs of stress, and being able to act quickly, can have a huge impact on our mental wellbeing, including being able to avoid depression.
For help, view the list of resources available in your borough or speak to your GP if you feel like you need medical assistance.
Students against Depression
Support for non-English speakers
If English is not your first language and you feel more comfortable sharing your experiences in your language, there are groups to support you. For help, view the list of resources available below or speak to your GP if you feel like you need medical assistance. Your GP will be able to offer an interpreter for your visit.
African Society for Relief and Development plays a significant role in influencing and shaping UK's East African community, focusing more on the Somali Community living in south London. They work to empower individuals and families experiencing multiple disadvantages. Call: 07375061959
Asian Women Lone Parents Association works to support Asian women who are lone parents, and their children, by providing services which enable them to improve their lives and wellbeing. Call: 0207 700 0675
Chinese Mental Health Association – CMHA provide a diverse range of services with the aim of serving Chinese people who suffer from mental health related issues and problems. We also provide support for their carers whom may not be familiar with all the nuances of traditional Chinese culture.
Indoamerican Refugee and Migrant Organisation provides Latin Americans (and other Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities more widely) with tools and information in an empowering process to build fulfilled, independent and integrated lives in the UK. Call: 02077339977
Latin American Disabled People's Project -The Community Mental Health and Wellbeing Project promotes a good state of wellbeing and mental health within the Spanish and Portuguese speaking communities living in London. With particular focus on the state of being healthy, feeling positive and connected, being safe and reducing social isolation. For advice on how to access the project please call 020 7793 8399 or email us at wellbeing@ladpp.org.uk
Latin American Women's Aid LAWA – Latin American Women's Aid (LAWA) apoya a mujeres y niños saliendo de situaciones de violencia doméstica a través de la asesoría, el consejo y un refugio de emergencia. Empoderamos a las mujeres para que lleven una vida independiente, conozcan sus derechos y provean a sus hijos de un futuro esperanzador. Latin American Women's Aid Refuge (LAWA) is a UK charity that supports Latin American and other black and ethnic minority women and children experiencing domestic violence to start a new life and play a fuller role in the community. They do this by offering emergency accommodation along with a range of services designed to ensure high quality of service provision.
Latin American Women's Rights Service offers a counselling and psychotherapy service.
Lewisham Multi Lingual Advice Service offers free and impartial advice, assistance and advocacy in different languages. Our main languages are Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, French, Italian, Kurdish, Portuguese, Spanish, Somali, Turkish, Polish & Vietnamese. If a language not available we may be able to accommodate through one of our volunteers. Open 10am to 3.30pm Monday to Wednesday.
Polish Counselling – Polish registered charity based in London 'Polish Psychologists' Association'-their mission is to provide free psychological support to the Polish speaking community in the UK.
South Asian Community Mental Health Service – A Community based assessment, treatment and advice service for people in the South Asia community, aged 18-65, who have a range of mental health and complex social care problems.
South London Solidarity Association They help members of the community who are of Cypriot, Kurdish or Turkish descent with asylum, immigration, money, debts, welfare benefits, housing, health, culture & education and training & employment. Call: 07947 564277
Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers has specialist staff to support client's mental health needs and run drop-in group therapy sessions for men and women.
Telefono de la Esperanza offers free counselling, telephone crisis support and workshops to Spanish and Portuguese speaking residents and families. Call: 0207 7330471
Vietnamese Mental Health Project provides services to people from Vietnam with mental health difficulties and to their families.
Waterloo Community Counselling offers to support psychological health and wellbeing for people in need. The objectives is to provide a free, time-limited, mother-tongue counselling service. They work with BAME and migrant referrals, and people who may not be entitled to access statutory services beyond primary care. Call: 0207 928 3462
ZamZam Counselling – Private counselling for Muslim women. Zamzam Counselling has been set up to make professionally delivered, faith sensitive counselling accessible for all women, irrespective of their location or financial situation. Call: 07799 485059
Taking care of your health and wellbeing has never been so important. There have been huge changes to our daily lives in recent months that have affected basic things like exercise, personal grooming and to some extent, our freedom.
We can't go to our favourite bars and restaurants, to see a film at the cinema or even get a haircut at the barbers. Taking away the things we love can often leave people with an increased amount of time to dwell on the negative things in their lives or uncertainties around our current situation.
To avoid this happening to you, act early and view the resources available to help take care of your wellbeing.
Mind Apples
MindEd
South London counselling service
Wheel of Well Being
Urgent medical help
Lockdown can be an incredibly lonely place for some people or a dangerous place to others.
If you are concerned about the medical welfare of a friend or family member or know that someone, even yourself, has been self harming, there is urgent medical help available.
View the resources below or call 999 if it's an emergency.
Help on a crisis
Samaritans, help for carers
SLaM mental health support line
The South East London CCG is part of the South East London Integrated Care System.
NHS South East London
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Calls for Derby City Council leader Ranjit Banwait to resign over accounts failure
Members of the public grilled councillors during the meeting at Derby's Council House
Repeated calls for Derby council leader Ranjit Banwait to resign were made by Conservatives at Wednesday night's full council meeting over the council's failure to have its accounts signed off on time.
Matters came to a head over the main item of the evening - which was to approve an action plan that would show Derby City Council 's auditors how the local authority proposes to ensure the accounts for 2015-16 and 2016-17 will be ready to sign-off by the end of the year.
The Derby Telegraph reported last week the council had been given less than a month by auditors Ernst & Young to come up with the action plan by Friday, July 21 and had warned delays could affect the authority's ability to make "informed decisions in respect of public funds and assets".
The debate began with a lengthy statement on the situation by Councillor Baggy Shanker, cabinet member for finance and governance, who explained the background to the situation the council.
Councillor Ranjit Banwait, centre, during last night's meeting, with council chief executive Paul Robinson. left, and Councillor Martin Rawson, right. (Image: Zena Hawley)
He explained that accounting issues were brought to light in September 2015 but despite a review of financial controls, he said: "Ernst & Young are of the opinion that insufficient progress has been made in addressing their concerns. It is clearly a source of some embarrassment and disappointment for the authority that our auditors have seen fit to write to the Secretary of State.
"The delay arose from the provision of inaccurate estimates of property valuations and a poorly documented framework of internal controls."
This led to a failure to sign off the 2015-16 accounts, which had a "significant amount of errors", and an agreement to spend £550,000 employing external experts to help with the valuations. This has also affected the preparation of the 2016-17 accounts, which will not be signed off until December this year.
Mr Shanker said: "So we are making progress in addressing these problems but to ensure the timescales are met we need the commitment and support of all elected members. We've significantly strengthened the role of the audit and accounts committee. I must shoulder my burden of responsibility but also committed to ensuring the action plan is implemented in full."
Derby City Council leader Ranjit Banwait blames former officers for report's scathing findings
Throughout the council debate, concerns were expressed by councillors that not enough time had been given for them to consider the plan and that it was not robust enough.
Among them was Tory councillor Steve Willoughby, who has had 25 years in auditing, saying the proposed plan was "light on detail" and "does not respond to problems". He said: "The audit and accounts committee needs to urgently to scrutinise the situation and (Ranjit) Banwait needs to do the honourable thing and resign."
This was echoed by Councillor Chris Poulter, who said: "The leader of the council is accountable. Last year, you said the issues were historical. The truth is it happened on your watch. Officers have gone but no councillors have been dealt with. Resign now and save the public the need to vote you out next year."
Lucy Care, who spoke at the meeting, speaking at an event earlier this year.
Councillor Nicola Roulstone added her voice to calls for Mr Banwait to resign and said: "Mr Banwait should assure the public he knows where every penny of the council's money has gone. His actions have cost the council its reputation and cost millions.
Councillor Lucy Care, who is on the audit and accounts committee, said that some parts of the action plan were very tight on timescales and concluded it was "not good enough" to enable the city to be able to gets is accounts signed off and fellow Lib Dem councillor Mike Carr added about the action plan: "We are setting ourselves up to fail".
Another Lib Dem councillor, Ruth Skelton, said she feared the auditors "were losing patience".
Derby North MP Chris Williamson thinks there could be an alternative to community-run libraries
An amendment asking that the audit and accounts committee be more involved in overseeing the progress of the action plan was voted down and the plan was finally voted through. But, throughout the debate, which concluded with the action plan being voted through, Mr Banwait remained silent and after the meeting did not agree to be interviewed.
Instead, Mr Shanker spoke after the meeting and said that calling for Mr Banwait's resignation was "predictable" and added: "I am confident the action plan will work. We need to work together."
Tory leader Councillor Matthew Holmes also remarked on a lack of response generally from Mr Banwait during the meeting, when a motion on party leaders getting together to create a framework for neighbourhoods was discussed at the end of the meeting. He said: "I am disappointed that Mr Banwait has said nothing in the meeting or on this motion and it's a great shame not to get together on this because everyone will lose."
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Sergi Canos extends Brentford loan
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Sergi Canos has had his loan spell with Brentford extended until the end of the season.
The 18-year-old has made a big impression with the Bees and has featured regularly this term in the Championship.
The Spanish winger was handed another start by Brentford on Boxing Day during the goalless draw with Brighton.
Dean Smith's side are currently 9th in the Championship, just four points off the play-offs.
Speaking to Brentford's official website, their head coach Smith said: "I have been really pleased with Sergi and he has been progressing really well.
"Even though he is only 18-years-old, he has quite an old head on young shoulders.
"He has impressed me so far. He wants to learn and he wants to get better. He is enjoying himself here and he gives us something that we haven't really got here in terms of his direct running and enthusiasm.
"It is encouraging to have a player like Sergi here for the rest of the season."
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Alex Inglethorpe signs new contract as LFC Academy manager
Harvey Davies signs Liverpool FC contract extension
Match report: U23s kick off 2022 with PL2 victory at Derby
LFC U23s return to winning ways with victory over Leicester
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I've always enjoyed the music of Rod Stewart and I'd love to see the man himself in concert one day. In the meantime though I'll happily settle for a good tribute act. I've been to see The Rod Stewart Experience twice now and thoroughly enjoyed both occasions. Garry Pease really does look the part as Rod Stewart. He has the hair (real too and not a wig) plus the looks, obviously he's got the outfits too, so it's easy to think it's really Rod Stewart at a glance.
Whilst a tribute act that looks the part really helps with the whole make-believe experience, it's all for nothing if there's no substance there. In this case that means being able to sing like Rod Stewart. This isn't so easy to achieve. As we all know Rod Stewart has a very distinctive, husky, raspy voice. Rod's songs and performances are so well-known that it's not just die-hard fans that would be able to pick out any holes in the act. It's very difficult to fault Garry's performance and he even repeats many of Rod's trademark moves or performance quirks, like encouraging the audience to join in during I don't want to talk about it. Just in case you were in any doubt, just about everyone was singing along.
There's no live band though, only backing tracks for The Rod Stewart Experience. Whilst this would take something away in a big venue, it doesn't really cause a problem on a smaller stage as to be honest I think a big band would just prove a distraction from the main event which is Rod and his songs. He's a solo performer after all so it makes sense.
Overall I'd recommend going along to see The Rod Stewart Experience if you have the opportunity. If you enjoy the music of Rod Stewart you'll have a good night out.


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John Watson, 50, Killed, Chelsea Harris, 22, Injured in Felton Car Crash on Irish Hill Road
Millsboro, Del: Injuries Reported in Two-Car Crash on John J. Williams Highway near Wawa
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John Watson Killed and Chelsea Harris Seriously Injured in Two-Car Crash in Felton
Felton, Delaware (July 6, 2017) – A 50-year-old Woodside man died Tuesday evening following a two-vehicle crash in Felton, Delaware State Police reported.
The incident took place at about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 4, on Irish Hill Road.
According to the report, John Watson was westbound on Irish Hill Road when, for some reason, he lost control of his vehicle and veered into the opposite lane, while approaching the slight curve near Canterbury Road.
A Ford Focus, driven by 22-year-old Chelsea Harris of Felton, was heading eastbound on Irish Hill Road and struck the passenger side door of Watson's car. The impact of the crash sent Watson's car down an embankment.
Watson was pronounced dead at the scene.
Harris was taken to Bayhealth Kent General Hospital for serious but non-life threatening injuries.
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Ukraine – the situation (June 20, 2022)
Uwe Parpart
https://asiatimes.com/2022/06/ukraine-the-situation-june-20-2022/
Will Russia Shift to a War Strategy?
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https://sonar21.com/will-russia-shift-to-a-war-strategy/
Douglas MacGregor On Ukraine
Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues
http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/06/douglas-macgregor-on-ukraine.html
RT — Question More (Russian state-sponsored media)
Lithuania changes tune on Kaliningrad blockade
https://www.rt.com/news/557504-lithuania-kaliningrad-transit-ban-explanation
Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)
Retired Polish General Recommends Shooting Down Russian Missiles Over Western Ukraine
https://sputniknews.com/20220620/retired-polish-general-recommends-shooting-down-russian-missiles-over-western-ukraine-1096498613.html
Tryzub: The National Revolution Fantasized by Ukranian Nationalists
Laurent Brayard
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/tryzub-the-national-revolution-fantasized-by-ukranian-nationalists/
Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairs
Right between the eyes: Putin to the West at the St Petersburg Economic forum
Gilbert Doctorow
https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/06/20/right-between-the-eyes-putin-to-the-west-at-the-st-petersburg-economic-forum/
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These three picks are all up more than 10% so far in 2019. The three themes are LNG, specialized healthcare, and small banks. The yields range from ~5% to 10%, all with strong coverage. They all issue 1099s - no K-1s.
Even preferred stocks got discounted in the general downturn, sending them far below their $25.00 call values. Such was the case with the Dynagas LNG Partners LP, 8.75% Series B Fixed To Floating Rate Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Units, (DLNG.PB), which we added to the HDS+ portfolio on 12/31/18, at a deeply discounted price of $17.99. Some healthcare stocks vastly outperformed the market during the 2018 pullback - Medical Facilities Corp. (OTCPK:MFCSF), is an HDS+ portfolio holding which held up much better than the market during that dark period. Umpqua Holdings Corp. (UMPQ) is a holding in our legacy DoubleDividendStocks.com service's portfolio. We've owned many community banks through the years, and UMPQ cleared the hurdles we usually look for - a Return on Assets above 1X - (UMPQ's is 1.21X), a moderate payout ratio of 58%, and an attractive yield of ~4.77%.


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Mighty Determined Sellers
FLOYD NORRIS
In real estate, there is such a thing as a motivated seller who wants out even if he must accept a very low price. That can produce bargains for buyers. Or perhaps the determination to sell means the seller knows something the buyer does not and wants out before others catch on.
This week Wall Street witnessed two motivated sellers determined to sell shares. What they have in common is the determination to take what is available now, rather than wait and hope for a more receptive market.
In many ways, the sellers could not be more different. One specializes in sex-oriented content and warns that some governments deem its products to be immoral. The other is the United States Department of the Treasury.
Prospectuses for stock offerings always list risk factors, but each of these has one that you don't see in an ordinary offering. One seller has trouble finding a bank to take its deposits. The other may be exempt from complying with securities laws.
Said the prospectus from FriendFinder Networks: "Many companies that provide products and services we need are concerned that associating with us could lead to their becoming the target of negative publicity campaigns by public interest groups and boycotts of their products and services." Some American banks and credit card companies will not do business with FriendFinder, although foreign financial institutions are less queasy, at least so far.
The prospectus for shares to be sold later this month in the American International Group, the big insurance company whose reckless behavior might have destroyed the financial system had the government not bailed it out in 2008, said this: "The selling shareholder is a federal agency, and your ability to bring a claim against the selling shareholder under the federal securities laws may be limited."
In other words, if it turns out the prospectus is full of lies, you can't sue the seller. Thanks to sovereign immunity, such a suit "would likely be barred."
You have to admire a government that thinks rules should apply to everyone except itself.
FriendFinder Networks, the publisher of Penthouse magazine and the operator of numerous Web sites, has been trying to go public for three years. The first time it wanted to raise $460 million. Last year, it tried to get $240 million. This year, it settled for $50 million.
It was still more than the market would bear. The company went public on Wednesday at $10 a share, and began falling within seconds. By Thursday's close, the price was $7.44.
The marvel is that the shares sold at any price. This is a company without growth in anything except debts. Sales in each of the last three years were around $350 million, while annual losses held steady at over $40 million. It has a half-billion dollars in debts on its books. Its largest asset, by far, is good will. Even counting that, it has a negative net worth.
Management says it has been trying. At Penthouse, the company "softened the magazine's pictorial content to improve newsstand positioning," but revenue continues to decline.
Its most popular Web site is AdultFriendFinder.com, which proclaims itself to be "The World's Largest Sex & Swinger Personals Community," but the company has many other sites. One is intended for seniors — which it defines as people over 40 — and another is described as a "Christian dating website with searchable Bible passages." The senior site and the Christian site each have about 1 percent as much traffic as the sex site.
The company has no shortage of litigation. A fraud suit filed by Robert Guccione, the founder of Penthouse, was delayed after he died, but is expected to be continued by his estate. Last month, Facebook Inc., not pleased to see FriendFinder using the term "face book of sex," sued the company for copyright infringement.
The money taken in from the offering will go to pay down debt — about a third of it held by corporate insiders. Senior executives will also get large raises consistent with the "increased responsibility" of running a public company. The company won't have any more cash for operations, but the bosses will do quite well.
A.I.G. is, of course, in another league. Its bailout in 2008 looked like a sure loser for the government, but the company has sold some operations and took the name A.I.G. off its property casualty unit. In 2010, the share price rose 92 percent, more than all but five of the other 499 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500.
By early January, the share price, under $10 a couple of years ago, was above $60. It was in a position to pay back the money it had borrowed from the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department arranged to convert its preferred shares into 1.665 billion common shares — a 92 percent stake — and to begin selling them. The company thought things looked so good that it decided to install a poison pill to keep anybody from buying a 5 percent stake.
As part of that deal, a fractional warrant to buy more shares was distributed to all shareholders except the government in late January. Someone who bought at the peak and sold both share and warrant on Thursday would have lost 41 percent of their investment.
Why the decline? In February, A.I.G. had to raise reserves by $4 billion in mundane areas like workers' compensation and asbestos insurance. The Japanese earthquake and tsunami seem likely to cost it at least $1.3 billion. And perhaps some traders, who had bought the stock expecting it to rise on the news of paying back Uncle Sam, fled when it did not.
This week the Treasury said it would go ahead with selling 200 million shares by the end of May. The company will sell 100 million shares in the same offering.
The sale will not bring the big profits Washington expected a few months ago, but any price above $28.73 can be called profitable, and profits could make bailouts more palatable to voters. A.I.G. closed Thursday at $31.17.
That price may be of scant comfort to people who owned the stock before the financial disaster. Adjusting for a reverse split in 2009, an investor who bought A.I.G. a week before the collapse would need a price close to $400 to break even, even taking the warrant into account. But a couple of years ago the idea that the Treasury might get out whole would have seemed laughable.
These two stocks have one other thing in common — a huge overhang of shares. At FriendFinder, roughly four times as many shares as were sold this week are held by insiders. In six months, the same insiders who got cash from this deal will be in a position to seek more, assuming there are willing buyers.
At A.I.G., the overhang is also large, but at least the company is profitable and investors seem confident. The share price rose 5 percent in the two days after the sales plans were announced.
Most of Wall Street is on board to try to sell the 300 million shares on offer. The brokers will need to find a lot of new investors, since there are currently less than 140 million shares in nongovernment accounts. Even when the offering is completed, there will be just over three shares held by the Treasury for every one owned by anyone else.


The farmer and the cowman should be friends, Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends. One man likes to push a plough, the other likes to chase a cow, But that's no reason why they cain't be friends.
A previous post explained why it is inappropriate to naively impose historical common carriage regulations on broadband ISPs. The notion of common carriage simply doesn't match the nature of the statistically multiplexed broadband resource. However, that doesn't mean all is well. There are real unresolved problems of fair and equitable access to that resource, and these are a source of legitimate disquiet. Whilst today one side of that 'neutrality' conflict is angry and fearful, the cycle will continue, and at some point the roles will switch.
I have been continuing my discussion with Dr Neil Davies about why the 'telco supply farmers' and 'user demand cowmen' are at loggerheads. Neither side is able to hear and empathise with the other side's pain, nor are they able to resolve their differences outside of law courts. This process is ultimately damaging to all parties. Everyone needs to make a living from the same shared fertile communications territory. In the long run, the farmers and the cowmen both have to succeed, and not at the expense of the other.
How can they become friends again?
Many years ago, I came across a 'thinking tool' by Eli Goldratt called the Evaporating Cloud. Goldratt taught that "every problem is a conflict, and that conflicts arise because we create them by believing at least one erroneous assumption." Thus any route to resolution of this conflict requires the surfacing of erroneous assumptions of one or both sides.
Both the telco farmers and user cowmen are, in my and many others' experience, generally people of good intent. They even share the same over-arching goal and need: a large and thriving broadband-enabled digital economy. They are all wholly dependent on the vitality of that ecosystem and their shared communications land. Yet there is bitter division between them. Why so?
The conflict that exists between them is due to the way that they have framed the nature of broadband as a resource, and their erroneous assumptions about its capabilities and costs. The telcos are not realising the full potential of the broadband networks they creating, and users are hoping broadband will do things that it can't do.
They are a shared, and thus contended, resource.
That contention cannot be destroyed, only re-allocated.
That implies networks are trading spaces (and at all timescales). This is because when you grant access for a shared resource to one source of demand, you implicitly deny it to everyone else. There are no exceptions! Even a lowly FIFO tail-drop queue is doing trades, whether or not consciously observed and managed.
Networks are more like derivatives exchanges than 'pipes': there are 'buyers' and 'sellers' of present and future contention, based on an underlying physical 'information translocation' resource.
The 'neutrality' issue is at its heart about control over this trading space to access the resource. The conflict gets its poisonous energy because both sides reason about broadband through analogies and metaphors, pejoratively couching the other side's framing as manifestly wrong. Yet neither side has engaged with the true nature of the system under discussion!
So what is each side's relationship to the trading space, and the false assumptions they have?
The telcos have tried (and often failed) to use traffic management and QoS mechanisms to help them make better resource trades. Their ability to configure these mechanisms to meet a particular performance or cost outcome is relatively weak. Indeed, they construct and run multiple (single class of service) overlay networks, delivering voice, video and Internet access. This prevents any dynamic trades between these statically allocated resources.
They also fear political or regulatory punishment for 'unreasonable' traffic shaping that exploits trades, as they become lightning rods for the inherent tensions in the broadband model. The idea of creating new advanced assured services that exploit resource trades is seen as highly controversial, and may indeed be actively discouraged by some regulators.
As a result, they feel there is no alternative to getting a return on their investment other than good old fashioned way: exploit any termination monopoly available.
What they don't realise is that the trading space is far richer than their networking textbooks tell them, which only hinted at the trades on offer. The QoS mechanisms their vendors supply only expose them to a small proportion of the possible 'good' trades.
Indeed, much of the focus in network research and development has, erroneously, been on making contention disappear. This defeats the purpose of packet networking, which is to enable more intense resource utilisation through sharing. It is the equivalent of building roads to ensure there is always capacity to avoid a jam. As a result, they are only squeezing out a fraction of the value-creating capability of their networks. Their capital is grossly under-utilised because of the way they have constructed and configured the trades.
Meanwhile, users are frustrated with the poor performance of important applications, and many would be delighted to get new services that deliver experiences they can't get using commodity Internet access. There just isn't any appropriately formed wholesale market yet where the access providers, CDNs and applications can create the necessary supply chain.
The users and their policy representatives often have a naïve view of the network trading space. There is an entitlement culture that believes that users should receive the experience of the wide open country where no other cowmen (and their associated livestock movements) will ever get in their way. Any failure to deliver is down to mean and evil telcos 'degrading' their experience and failing to invest in the network to create artificial scarcity.
The user cowmen believe that any kind of 'trades' will be exploited by the telco farmers to their disadvantage. After all, the telco farmers have a long and inglorious history of exploitative monopolistic behaviour: they erect fences to enclose the land, and assert ownership over unused territory, forcing it to lie fallow even there are others who could eke out a meagre existence upon it.
Therefore the user cowmen endlessly demand more capacity to reduce contention effects, for which they are not prepared to pay any premium. They too seek to defeat the point of packet networking, which is to intensify the use of a shared resource. Telcos find this economically unsustainable, and thus ultimately must refuse to play the game.
As a result, users they feel there is no alternative to getting a decent experience other than good old fashioned way: call in the regulator to prevent the telco from exploiting its natural termination monopoly to fund the users' own unsustainable demands.
What they don't realise is that there are ways of constructing networks that can exploit the trades, but don't turn the telcos into exploitative toll keepers. Control can be kept with the users, individually and collectively.
The regulator is left in an impossible situation. On the one hand, they are being tasked to promote the development of broadband. That means raising capital, for which telco farmers must get a good return to ensure the land gets improved. You can only get a good return if you deliver valuable experiences (which means good performance and dependability), and have low costs.
On the other hand, they are being told by users and broadband campaigners that they don't want to have the telco involved in any way in helping to create those good experiences and manage the costs.
To come to some kind of reconciliation, everyone is going to have to align with a non-negotiable broadband reality: there is a shared resource, and a trading space for its allocation. There is only one land, and they both have to extract their livelihoods from it.
Both sides want good application outcomes (revenue to telcos, good experiences to users), and high resource use (makes it profitable to telcos, and lowers prices to users). The only way to achieve this is to make lots of good resource trades.
What resource trading capability should be created?
How do they get offered commercially?
At that point we're in a rational universe of discourse, and reasonable people (and even their regulatory lawyers) can negotiate based on a shared and reality-based understanding of the resource in question.
We can see that there is only one long-term way of resolving this conflict: to understand and embrace the trading space, not to try to make contention disappear. This means a polyservice network that properly exploits the trades. This should not come as a shock, since every Internet Protocol packet has bits reserved in its header in anticipation of such a thing. It's just up until now some basic misconceptions about the nature of the network as a trading space have gotten in the way.
One you have such a network, which can offer differential levels of quality and assurance, you can then begin to talk about terms of access. What you care about is the ability to contract to some kind of outcome for service assurance in a non-discriminatory manner.
'Network neutrality' is a category error, because it misattributes the equality to packets. What matters is equality between network users, and their fair access to whatever services the network offers that exploit the trading space.
After all, if broadband networks are trading spaces by their nature, then they are also naturally marketplaces. The telco farmers can produce crops of high performance, which gets sold to the user cowmen to feed their application stock; those animals in return help fertilise the land with dirty old cash. Everyone gets to eat a feast of great customer experience beef at the end of the day, washed down with profit-infused beer brewed from the farmers' crops.
Once that happens, everyone can be friends again.


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Mawana is a city in Meerut district in the Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is 26 km from the district headquarters Meerut. Its name comes from the  word "Muhana" which means gateway. It is supposed to be the Muhana of Hastinapur kingdom. Hastinapur is a Mahabharata period town situated 9 km from the city center.

Geography
The river Ganga is 10 km from Mawana. NH-34 joints Meerut to Mawana then Mawana to Bijnor.

Administration
Mawana is a Nagar Palika Parishad city in district of Meerut, Uttar Pradesh (India). Mawana city is divided into 25 wards for which elections are held every five years.

Demographics
As of 2011 Indian Census, Mawana had a total population of 81,443, of which 43,029 were males and 38,414 were females. Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 11,426. The total number of literates in Mawana was 49,395, which constituted 60.6% of the population with male literacy of 66.6% and female literacy of 54.0%. The effective literacy rate of 7+ population of Mawana was 70.6%, of which male literacy rate was 77.8% and female literacy rate was 62.5%. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes population was 8,347 and 48 respectively. Mawana had 13566 households in 2011.

Work profile
Out of the total population, 23,562 were engaged in work or business activity. Of this 20,728 were male while 2,834 were female. In the census survey, a worker is defined as person who does business, job, service, and cultivator and labour activity. Of the total 23,562 working population, 84.02% were engaged in main work while 15.98% of the total workers were engaged in marginal work.

Festivals and fairs
Mawana hosts an annual fair named Shaheed Chadrabhan Pradarshani. The founder of Shaheed Chandrabhan Samiti is R. Singh (ret. DSP and freedom fighter). Mela Makhdumpur is famous for Ganga-Snan festival.

Notable people
 Amar Pal Singh – Former Member of Parliament, Meerut

Mawana tehsil - Meerut

This is a list of all towns and villages in Mawana Tehsil of Meerut district, Uttar Pradesh.

References

Cities and towns in Meerut district


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Album reviews – John Ellis: 'Sly Guitar' ("a playful magpie interest")
John Ellis: 'Sly Guitar'
A skilled and flexible working guitarist since the early 1970s (travelling through punk, post-punk, pub rock, rhythm-and-blues and progressive rock in no particular order), John Ellis has never curdled as a musician. What he's avoided doing up to now is making a player's album. Generally he's been content to tweak a song's architecture as a team member (in The Vibrators and the mark two Stranglers) or as a flexible, innovative sideman (delivering fanged electric churn for Peters Hammill and Gabriel, or airship noises and roaring-Twenties fanfares for Judge Smith). Even when left to his own devices, he's stayed away from guitar heroics – often, away from the guitar itself. He's fermented semi-ambient hubbub for art galleries, filtered Victorian Japonisms through electronica, and taken strides into multimedia, but left the protracted strutting and soloing alone.
On 'Sly Guitar', however he returns to (and lays into) his main instrument with a sharp-clawed and swaggering stylishness. It's the kind of performance that suggests he's ripped the tail-fin off a 1950s Cadillac and carved a new guitar from it. Things are different this time. In some respects, the key to appreciating 'Sly Guitar' is knowing about John's participation in a 2007 art prank, when he helped to fake a lost Hendrix rendition of the Welsh national anthem. While this particular stunt got his playing onto 'Newsnight' – and was originally a joke about co-opting celebrities into random causes – viewed from here, it's as much about the puckish and gleeful enjoyment which John gets out of playing guitar. Aspects of Ellis wit might show up on the records he's worked on (qv. the intuitive bite of those Hammill albums, his thoughtful tricks with Smith, or the raw horse-laughs in his own rare solo songs), but a sense of liberated fun doesn't always make it across. On 'Sly Guitar' it does.
I said "player's album" – I'm also suggesting that this is the record on which John Ellis finally lets it all hang out. That's a little misleading. Discreetly virtuosic yet always understated, John's technique is marked out by the lean, sharp economy he's learned from years of punk and art-rock. There are also plenty of examples of his taste for bouncing around inside delay units, and for the blocky synthwork and drum loops explored on 2008's 'Map of Limbo'. The music's also liberally slathered with John's beloved EBow sustainer, transforming notes into assorted hoots and stuttering violin chugs, or pulling them out into taffee-lengths.
These in turn blend in with ideas from all over the place. Fun notwithstanding, John's art-school training consistently underlies his current approach (one track, with all irony intact, is called I Remember Futurism). He picks up odds-and-ends from the fashions and fads he's seen pass by and reinterprets them with a playful magpie interest. The results blend an edgy and brittle flair with fastidious design, offset with a mischievous, practical form of musical adapt-and-reclaim.
Many of the tunes on 'Sly Guitar' have much in common with old pop-instrumental albums. There are tinges of Joe Meek and of perky surf-guitar capsules from the '60s; and of those meticulous prog-tinged jingles from the '70s. But this is just part of an overall collage effect which plucks inspiration from Hendrix, Hank Marvin and John Williams, from Robert Fripp and John Martyn; even from the likes of Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser. It also suggests that over the years John has copped a listen to everything from 'No Pussyfooting' and 'Temple Head' to On-U Sound and Moby. At the least, he's caught their echoes as they've seeped through airwaves or were circulated alongside technology.
Certainly John's thinking hard about latterday pop and accessibility; insistent club beats and nods to old crowd-pleasers drive much of the album. Pieces like Levitation and the eleven-minute title track sit on funk grooves with sleek flicks of rhythm guitar and curved, humming chromium lead lines. Snappily and space-ily rendered, the latter are recorded close enough to hear the speaker cones jumping and flattening while wellings of EBow sustain stack up behind like a pile of moonlit clouds. In the chop'n'chat of Farud Gets Electricity, John mixes a Latin loop and a dash of Stray Cats rockabilly into the recipe. Futuro's leisurely boom-bat, wood-clack beat and clipped industrial framing recall a slimline version of Tackhead's industrial hip-hop. Making the most of the album's pop-up digital production sheen, it's fleshed out by jawharp synth boings and fake horn stabs; its smoulder-point guitar lines hanging in the middle distance like burning ropes.
The beats may be familiar, but the tweaked and ruffled electrophonic timbres which John uses to build up the tunes are less so. Pedalo is as rhythmic as anything else on the record (gliding atop a cavernous trip-hop loop and cracking dub snare) but its body is made up of a mongrel set of slotted-in guitar voices – fanfare tones of firefly and conch; power-growls of distorted fuzz; a pitch-shifted shrill of parade melody teetering on top. All of these come together in spite of themselves, an ill-matched platoon who've learned to march in step. Under a skywriting blast of EBow sustain, I Remember Futurism interweaves a rippling set of arpeggios, passing them between a calm sky-blue organ and a guitar which sounds like a harp made of iron girders.
Embedded deep in the mix of the latter are the tinkling, caught-up accents of Brazilian cymbals and bells, and other pieces probe even deeper into worldbeat. Walking in the footsteps of Jon Hassell's Fourth World Music, and of Transglobal Underground, John brews up vividly staged polycultural blends in which the frowning lines between ethnology and fraudulence, sympathy and exploitation might perhaps blur into irrelevance. His cyborg guitar tones counterpoint the eerie ornamented leaps of the Middle Eastern music he sources, undercutting its spiritual passion with impressionist sound-builds recalling insect swarms, oppressive heat, or the spine-crawling sense of secret surveillance. Hollowing out a Nile processional (on Don't Be Misled By Your Eyes), he repacks it with drilling mosquito sounds, duetting Arabian slide lines and choral synths. The leisurely Levantine trip-hop of Flies elevates a souk-call vocal sample like a dreamy kite, but then subtly pollutes it with hovering swarms of static guitar buzz.
These last are much like the withering drones employed by Robert Fripp on 'Exposure' back in 1979, painting threatening sonic portraits of decaying industrial landscapes. You could only speculate as to whether John's applying these same ominous atmospherics to the torn cities of the Arab spring; the idea hangs heavy. Initially The Bowl Maker of Lhasa (framed by temple bells and further baleful Frippish insect buzzes and pitch-collapses) sounds as if it's going to do something similarly politicized for Tibet. However, it rapidly returns to clear hip-hop and funk sources – the sleek dancing duel between stinging clean guitar and EBow whistle, the playful way it lifts and reshapes a sly quote from 'Freddie's Dead' in the middle of its drum-machine swing. While there are a few left-field touches (such as a timbral shift which refracts the familiar street beats into something with a twist of copper and stained glass), perhaps it's better just to enjoy the imaginative, enthusiastic sound-painting; and not to over-freight the pieces with too much extra meaning.
The remaining tracks, though, bypass the club beats for a deeper exploration of John's textural art-rock side. The brief roundabout of Echoplexing presents a bone-and-wood clatter of choppily-strummed flamenco guitar: echoing off to the sides of the soundfield, it joins stinging treble guitar lines and zipping insect sounds, stitched together by a child-chant organ part. The loop-and-splay Infanta shows John at his purest both as player and as music processor. Dialling up a sparkling silvery electric guitar tone, he begins the tune with Spanish classical inflections nestled in a sharp snappy reverb before abruptly leaving them to pulse and circle inside a loop-hang while he gets on with other business. He goes on to juggle a section of Hendrix jinks and transfigured rock'n'roll quotes; a countrified oud tone; elegant touches of shading, slurring and EBow elisions; a razor buzz bouncing in the background.
Elsewhere, March Of The Kitchen Taps floats a cluster of hovering, uneasy guitar parts (floats, wails and squeals) against swishing electronics like ventilation fan-blades, and against massed samples of metallic taps and bangs which flutter, slice and nail the pulse down. Cue jokes about everything-and-the-kitchen-sink: Crow On A Dying Dog eggs these on further, blending even more twiddling kitchen metals with a bagful of plastic electronics – bass twangs, burbling random-pitched vocalise, synthesized big-band swing and blaring horn-guitar parts. As a flight of sampled rooks flap past, it sounds like a weird and wilful collision between suitcase synth-pop and bleak mediaeval soundtracks.
It's these particular pieces, in fact, that seal both the fate and triumph of 'Sly Guitar'. Forks and taps aside, it is a kitchen-sink album: one which flea-jumps enthusiastically between slick beats and toy noises, easy funk and experimental chop-suey, clippable music and idiosyncratic personal sketches. John may have finally turned in his "player's" album, but even this far along in the game he refuses to play it straight. Dipping in and out of formalism and fooling around, coursing around plug-ins and unravellings, he's turned in an album which celebrates and fans out his plurality as a musician. Having mastered a humble, low-key chameleonic wilfulness – in which the appropriate art and the immediate idea directly shapes the method – he's let it become part of him, even when he's flexing free.
Chanoyu Records, CHA002
CD/download album
Released: 6th May 2013
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Categories 2013 music, album reviews, art rock, crossover, cyberfunk, dance, electronic, experimental music, funk, hip hop, improvisation, industrial music, instrumental music, loop music, post-punk, reviews, rock, sampledelia, world & indigenous music, worldbeat
Album reviews – John Ellis: 'Spic'N'Span' ("a minor treasury of passing ideas")
John Ellis: 'Spic'N'Span'
The lifespans of pop musicians are usually measured in five-year units – generally just one each before they're inserted into the "where are they now?" file. But for every ten who went into hostelry, college lecturing or millinery, one adapted and carried on the journey as best they could and perhaps saw how their talents and ideas could fit into the next stage.
As guitarist, songwriter and sound-shaper John Ellis is hardly a household name, but his work and adaptability have both been consistent. He's already discreetly chameleoned his way through three decades of music. A founder member of The Vibrators during the punk era, he went on to play an integral role in the Peter Hammill and Peter Gabriel bands over the cusp of the '70s and '80s. Links with Jean-Jacques Burnel eventually led him (along with Paul Roberts) into the post-Hugh-Cornwell Stranglers line-up; he developed an electronica sideline via his digressions into gallery music, There's even a touch of prog beyond Gabriel and Hammill: John also plays guitar for Judge Smith's ongoing "song-story" projects.
John's journeyman credentials are unquestionable, and to each position he's brought his own supporting voice and particular marks. However, always being the lieutenant means some of your ideas bounce off the boss (or the inflexibility of circumstances) and get stashed away. 'Spic'N'Span' corralls together unheard odds'n'sods from John's curvy journey through music, and consequently it's a musical scrapbook rather than an album.
A third of the tunes are the kind of thing that many working musicians knock out for TV music library discs – bright jingles and "we're going somewhere" music, executed on cupboard synth orchestras. The synthetic Euro-funk/perky testcard tunes of Wild Talent and Tune-O-Matic fall into this category; as do the flying-over- mountains melody of Early Riding Daddy, the New Age-y pop march of The Needs Of The Soul and the rather more ambitious baroque-jazz stylings of Running Through The Trees. Still… behind many of these you can hear little pop chicks trying to hatch out of the multi-track demos, hoping to drop into the collective lap of an '80s boy band, to do that five-year round; and to then cheat death by popping up in a nostalgia DJs record box, taking a ride on a revival. It might not have actually happened, but then the business of selling songs has always been a bit of a lottery.
Another third of 'Spic'N'Span' is a set of genuine '80s pop songs. All of these are produced in the squeaky-clean studio fashion of the time; but all are executed with the restraint, intelligence and puritanical zeal of post-punk. The pin-sharp shimmy of John's guitar is the linking factor – wailing away on E-bow sustain, sparking off claw-hand finger-picking, or adroitly yanked from note to note.
Three of these songs are sung by Alex Legg – his spooky vocal resemblance to Peter Gabriel shows us how things might have been had Gabriel and Ellis joined forces and run off together into the showy pop territory eventually colonised by Tears For Fears instead. The Space Between Us (a soulful, regretful R'n'B lament of hostility, injustice and enmity) could easily have fitted onto an album like 'So'. Similarly, Joe Jackson would have been proud to have written the pumping Monopoly (the biting list song of an abusive marriage, a woman's increasingly desperate attempts to escape it, and the grim consequences). Off on its own, the John Greaves-ish piano song Mumble Jumble (pointing up the Ellis art-school/art-rock background) ponders the confusions and blocks of language.
Two more songs are sung by John himself. Giving Up The Ghost, with its airbrushed console-blues sound and phantom horn section, strives after the authenticity of roots Americana only to arrive as a Eurythmics B-side instead. But the glinty, polished Elevator Man (which sounds more like Steve Harley doing J-pop) works better, capturing the arch giddiness of stardom from a slight but crucial degree of separation. "I went from rags to riches, from riches to rags. / I was an overnight sensation."
Then there's a third section: a couple of tunes which seem to be trying for the early '80s link between electro, hip-hop, and primitive British synth pop. Such is the buzz and piping of Stutter Gun with its earnest, uptight vocal samples and its synaesthesic theme: "it's beautiful… the colours will flash… the sounds will embrace you." Jimi Jam studs its gurgling electro with little sampled Hendrix asides – "Hey, what's happening?… Oh no, I think I'm out of tune." Discreetly decorated with wobbling wails of clean sustained feedback, it's so cheerfully plastic when compared to Hendrix's controlled brinksmanship that it has to be a piss-take.
There are also a couple of genuine, delightful misfit chunks in the stew. The panoramic zither chug of One Way Street walks in step with Trans-Global Underground in its mess of world beats, the spine-shivering harmonies of crowd hums from old Lomax recordings, and the Republic serial dialogue snippets ("All the streets are one way!"; "What better way to commemorate the dead?"). John performs a solo joke on The Best Part Of The Cabbage: woozy slide guitar and sleepy voice shambling out a ramshackle joke-blues on cannibalism. ("Looking at you, I lick my lips…") The sensuous laziness of the tune offsets the wonderfully appalling humour: "If you ain't got a fridge yet, there's not much on a midget – / a mouthful, or two."
A minor treasury of passing ideas, 'Spic'N'Span' will never be more than a curio, but one that remains open and friendly throughout.
Furious Productions (no catalogue number or barcode)
CD-only album
Best obtained second-hand: this was released as a very-limited-edition run of 50 copies, so it's extremely rare.
Tags: EBow, electric guitar music, intriguingly mixed bags, John Ellis, London (England), The Stranglers, The Vibrators, twangy guitar
Categories 1999 music, album reviews, art rock, electronic, experimental music, instrumental music, pop, post-punk, reviews, rock, sampledelia