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Review: Wish Upon
ByJaskee Hickman
Joey King looks to be an up and coming young actress who has found herself in a few different feature films due to her talent. Even with that being the case, it appears as if one of her main genre at this point could be horror. With a movie like The Conjuring on your résume, that's an understandable move if that's the case. You just hope the ones that she does in the near future are better than Wish Upon.
The drama and frights begin for Clare Shannon (Joey King) after her father (Ryan Phillippe) brings home a mysterious music box that promises to grant wishes. After seeing its powers first hand, the young lady sees this as a chance to improve on her difficult and awkward life both in and out of school. While it all seems great at the start, she comes to understand that the price of each wish that she makes comes with bloody consequences.
Movies like Wish Upon always disappoint me. Not only because it's another horror movie that ultimately fails to excite, but they missed out on an opportunity to make this a decent movie. From my perspective, all that needed to be done was turn this into something that's less serious. It would have been hard to make this great, but there was potential just by shifting the tone.
Since it comes with a rating of PG-13 and stars a number of teenagers, Wish Upon is something that I'm assuming is geared toward youngsters as well as adults interested in these kinds of scary movies. With that, you can lighten it up a little just to make it more engaging and palatable. Instead of doing that, they chose to take this and turn it into an R rated type of movie with no blood, gore or really anything else that you may expect from that kind of thing.
Something like The Conjuring is different when speaking about PG-13 movies since it's based in a world where gore isn't needed and the main characters are adults. This on the other hand, is closer to something like Ouija. While that one isn't great by any means, it's light enough to the point where you don't need or want to take it seriously. Because of the way they laid it all out, that movie was successful enough to spawn a sequel that more than a handful of critics and fans alike actually enjoyed.
Because Wish Upon is taken so seriously, it ends up becoming a semi-decent comedy. You can also say that the bad dialogue also helped accomplish that as well. Although it's not a good horror movie, this has at least a few solid things going on that makes the movie watchable at least once. You'll likely finish it thinking you wasted your time, and I wouldn't be able to disagree with that. However, Wish Upon is something that you can laugh at even though much it's usually for the wrong reasons in most cases.
I'm hoping that Joey King and the rest of the cast get more chances to do movies of better quality in the future. It's clear that they cared, and they deserve opportunities to continue to showcase their talents. Hopefully, the other projects that they get to do both inside and outside of this genre are things that are made by people understanding the need to be aware of your audience and how you want to pull them in. IN reality, I think it's really that simple. Doing so here could have prevented this from failing as much as it does.
Director: John R. Leonetti
Ki Hong Lee
Mitchell Slaggert
Shannon Purser
Alice Lee
Kevin Hanchard
Film Length: 90 minutes
Distributor: Broad Green Pictures
Score - 3.5/10
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Q. Can you talk about how Adam impacted this game on both ends?
Fran McCaffery: He was spectacular. I mean, seemed like in the one stretch we were struggling a little bit offensively and he got offensive rebounds, and then when we really needed a stop he got some big defensive rebounds. Did a great job on Williams. I was worried because he got in a little bit of early foul trouble and I knew we were going to need him, but boy, was he great. He was great.
Q. Talk about Mike's missed shot, offensive rebound there, they had the smarts to call a time out there with a fresh shot clock.
Fran McCaffery: Yeah, he had a couple buckets right at the end of the shot clock. I'm tell you what, he played like an experienced guy should, a guy that understands how to play, and I've told you all along, this guy has got unbelievable understanding of the game. He's one of the most cerebral guys I've ever had, and he impacts the game that way. It's nice to see him get a double double and be recognized a little bit more than he is sometimes, and I just make sure that I continue to recognize him because I know the value that he has on our team. But boy, he was a monster today.
Q. In a game that's physical, and it seemed to be as physical a game as you've played all year, how important is he to that?
Fran McCaffery: He's going to be physical no matter how the game is. That's him. So I mean, if anybody wants to get physical, he'll be right there with you. You don't have to worry about him. You just have to worry about him not getting in foul trouble sometimes because he's going to bang you.
Q. How have you dealt with this team in terms of there's been so much made over the second half dropoff?
Fran McCaffery: You work on it. Like for example, you'll do situations, end of the half, start of the half, we're going to run a set, we're going to run motion, what are we going to be in defensively. And that's going to change a lot of times based on who we're playing. You know, I thought we had some crazy turnovers there at the beginning of the second half that was very uncharacteristic. I mean, we handled the ball extremely well in the first half, we handled the ball extremely well the last 15 minutes of the game. That one five minute stretch we got a little sideways, and then we got a lineup on the floor that really settled everybody down.
Q. Aaron seemed to show a can't lose attitude there in that stretch. He was virtually unstoppable.
Fran McCaffery: Well, you know what was, I think, interesting, he got his third foul, I think the first possession on the second half, and I took him out. He didn't want to come out. He was angry. He wanted to stay in. He was angry at the call, he was angry at me taking him out. I said, just sit tight, and what ended up happening was he ended up watching the same thing you were watching, and sometimes that perspective is a little bit different than if you're out there. And so when it got to the point where I had to start doing something, I said, get in there, take over. Boy, did he take over.
Q. I guess we haven't really seen that for that long a stretch of time, a guy putting a team on his shoulder like that.
Fran McCaffery: Well, he played with great energy at both ends. He was disappointed in himself in the last game defensively, not offensively. He's got tremendous pride, and he's a winner, and he wants his teammates to be able to rely on him, and you knew that today was going to be different, and boy, was it ever.
Q. On six consecutive trips up the floor he was attacking, hit a shot late in the clock.
Fran McCaffery: Well, it's exactly what you have to do when a team is playing defense the way they were playing. That was a decision they made. They were going to be up in our space, the Xs on the O. You've got to drive the ball. You've got to put it on the deck and drive it. You can't make a pass because the guy is in the passing lane. You can't feed the post because the guy is in the passing lane. You've got to go. That's what he did.
Q. Did Pete hurt his hand on that play?
Fran McCaffery: Yes. I don't think it's real serious, but we'll check him out.
Q. Is it his shooting hand?
Fran McCaffery: I don't remember. Sorry.
Q. What does this do for you confidence wise knowing you guys have given up leads in the second half, to give up a little bit of a lead but still finish the game strong especially going into the Kohl Center on Tuesday?
Fran McCaffery: Keep in mind, we gave up some leads in the second half and we still won, like we did the other night. It's great confidence. I don't look at it like that. I look at it like this: We beat Ohio State twice. That's pretty good.
Q. Coming out of the UNI game, looking ahead to the Big Ten, maybe 4 1 would have been a pretty optimistic approach. How has this team kind of started over and found itself in this stretch of the season?
Fran McCaffery: You know, I don't know if it was that. I just think that they're very businesslike in their approach. We're very businesslike in our approach, and it's just on to the next game. We're 4 1, we're not sitting here patting ourselves on the back. We've got to go to Wisconsin and Purdue, the next two games. The league is brutal. So you can never get too full of yourself. You never can get too down on yourself. Like I said the other day, Minnesota is 0 5. If you woke up two weeks from now and they were 5 5, who would be surprised? I mean, every team has got good players, every team has got a good coach, and you've just got to stay healthy, stay humble, move the ball, share the ball, be unselfish. Our team is a little bit different. Uthoff and Olaseni weren't as impactful today as they have been. Well, they've got to be just absolutely thrilled for the guys that came in and played in their place, and they are. And that's, I think, what makes our team special. They're not looking and saying Coach didn't play me as much, I should have got more shots, I should have got more touches. When Gabe is killing, Woody is happy for him; when Woody is killing, Gabe is happy for him.
Q. Have you ever had a player who's been misunderstood as much as Woodbury as far as contribution to his game?
Fran McCaffery: No, never. Never seen anything like it in my life.
Q. Irritate you, upset you?
Fran McCaffery: Yes, in a big way, because it's unfair. All that kid does is work his tail off every facet of everything he does, and he's got unbelievable character, represents the institution, his family, and he gets criticized unfairly. You know, he is who he is. And I'll tell you what, I'll take him on my team any day.
Q. It seems like he talks a lot out there, and even on the sideline he doesn't sit down.
Fran McCaffery: You know what's important about that is a lot of guys talk, okay. What are you saying? You know, you hear the guy bah, bah, bah, bah, b b b b; we talk none of that. If you're going to say something, say something that's meaningful, all right, and if you're going to be in the back of a defense, whether it's a zone or it's a man and you're talking and you're telling this guy to do this and that guy to do that, you'd better be right because I don't need you telling the wrong thing to the wrong guy, and that's the beauty of him. When he's talking, he's right. And they do what he says, and they listen to him. The way that that impacts your team defensive concept is immeasurable because they can't hear me but they can hear him.
Q. When you put White back in the game in the second half when they started their run, I'm sure you didn't expect you were going to get 12 in a row out of him.
Fran McCaffery: I hoped we would.
Q. Why did you decide to make that move?
Fran McCaffery: I knew he would come in and be aggressive. We needed aggressiveness at that point, and like I said, he had a chance to watch it, and we weren't aggressive. They were the aggressor. So he went in and he became the aggressor.
Q. Uhl came off the bench and gave you some real key minutes, especially late in the first half
Fran McCaffery: Yeah, I felt bad. I should have played him more in the second half. He deserved to play more.
Q. He has seemed to grow and become more of a contributor on almost game by game basis.
Fran McCaffery: Well, he's really smart and he's skilled, and I think what you're seeing is a guy that is figuring out the complexity of the game in this league in terms of physicality. And so he's playing a little differently now. He was always kind of a finesse guy, move it on, drive and kick, but he's playing a little more smashmouth, which is what he's going to have to do, and he's good enough to do that, and he's only going to get better because he's going to get stronger.
Q. It certainly helped to get a 9 0 lead right out of the gate.
Fran McCaffery: That's always a good thing, absolutely. I thought our defense the first three possessions, I mean, they couldn't get into anything, and then we wanted to run, and we've got a run out three by Uthoff. 9 0 start, you're absolutely right, it changes everything. It just changes the whole complexion of the game. It was great to see, and the crowd was unbelievable.
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NOTE: This story has been updated with comments from Eric Cumba.
There are two varsity football head coaching jobs in Dover, and Eric Cumba has filled both of them.
Cumba, who spent six seasons as the head coach at St. Thomas Aquinas, was hired as Dover High School's head coach earlier this week. He spent the previous two seasons as an assistant at Dover under Ken Osbon — his father-in-law — who resigned last month after serving as the program's head coach for 27 seasons.
"We ran my offense last year," Cumba said. "The kids are used to my voice.
Cumba, 33, said he was offered the varsity job on Tuesday and met with his players on Thursday.
"It happened a lot faster than I thought it would," he said. "The hard part was keeping it quiet until I could tell the whole team at the same time.
"I think right now the program is in a really good spot. We'll have a small senior class this year, but I think we're on the upswing numbers-wise."
Cumba was an offensive lineman at Don Bosco High School and then at the University of New Hampshire from 2005 to 2008. He guided St. Thomas to the Division V championship in 2011 and the Division II title in 2015.
Dover hasn't qualified for the playoffs since 2011.
"My plan is to keep the entire coaching staff assuming they want to stay," Cumba said. "Now the work begins."
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5/12/2014�� This video shows you how to install a shower curtain liner. I believe that everyone should use a curtain liner in their shower because it ensures that the water stays inside of the shower as... If I choose to let the shower curtain hang straight, then I hang the shower curtain liner and the decorative shower curtain on the same rod, and they move back and forth together. This is pretty standard, as it�s the same thing we all do with the store-bought shower curtains and liners.
To swag your shower curtain and add some drama to the design, you will need to install a hook on the wall about half way between the shower rod and the floor or even a little bit lower. Using a coordinating rope or fabric tie, gather the fabric to one side and wrap the tie around it and tie a loose knot. Secure the tie to the hook. You may have to fluff up the curtain a little bit to get the... Place one end of the measuring tape to one end of the shower curtain rod. Draw the tape across the rod toward the opposite end until the length measurement is reached. Mark the location all the way around the shower curtain rod with a marker.
I use two rods because I find when using only one, the liner has a tendency, when wet, to want to tangle and cling to the side of the curtain to which it shares the rod. Either way, I love the look of curtains/draperies in the bathroom. It's much less spartan.
I like the look of a double shower curtain hung at ceiling height. Having two curtains pulled apart lets you show off your shower tile with nice symmetry. Hung to the ceiling, I think it makes the room look taller and more grand, just like when you hang standard curtains high and wide on a window.
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In light of the continued extreme cold weather event we are experiencing, there will be no Sunday GKHAT training. Temperatures are forecast to be -20 or below in the morning and are not forecasted to warm up until mid afternoon. Sorry GKHAT families, but Mother Nature is winning the battle this week.
The Black Dogs have made some changes for the Nancy Greene event on Feb 2/3.
If you have registered, please be aware of these changes and check with us if you have any questions (info@gkhat.ca or Facebook).
The race was originally scheduled for Feb 2 and 3. It is not only being held on Feb 3.
It is still for U8, U10, and U12 athletes.
It will be a GS race only.
Some families are still going to attend Saturday to free ski. We are assessing this for coach attendance and we are checking with Black Dogs for the use of their gates for training.
Again, due to the timing of this change, please be sure to check your email, the gkhat.ca website, and Facebook for communications.
Here are a few reminders that you should be sure to be aware of. These have deadlines, so be sure to review them!
1. Deadline for signing up for U12/14 Kimberley Zone race is Sunday Jan 13. Please sign up here.
2. A reminder for ordering GKHAT hoodies and hats. Please place your order via this link.
3. Deadline to sign up for Kimberley Nancy Greene Festival is Sunday January 20. Please sign up here.
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Criminals in khaki
Fair trial must in Gujarat encounters case
THE charge-sheet against three IPS officers — D.G. Vanzara, M.N. Dinesh and R.K. Pandian — and 10 other policemen by the Gujarat CID (Crime) in the fake killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh is a shocking reminder of the increasing rot and decadence in the police.
Couples in combat
Till divorce do us part
THE growing divorce rate can be viewed both as a sign of progress and as a sign of the increasing strain on the institution of marriage. In the 19th and early 20th centuries romantic fiction and films were about tempestuous love affairs that invariably ended in marriages and the couples "living happily thereafter"
Nowhere Front
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Sanjay Gandhi – Mark II
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India's win in '65 war
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It's 9 per cent
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Predicting a 9 per cent growth for the economy this fiscal, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has stressed on taking hard decisions like controlling external debt, allowing further rupee appreciation and emoving bottlenecks to corporate acquisitions abroad. These all make sense.
Fading saffron
BJP after the setback in UP
by Amulya Ganguli
A defeat invariably undermines the position of the party chief. Nor is it unusual for inner-party groups opposed to him to take advantage of his discomfiture to run him down. There is nothing surprising, therefore, if the BJP is experiencing this debilitating process after its setback in UP. However, these virtually routine developments are complicated in the BJP's case by the involvement of a powerful outside agency, viz. the RSS. So, the first visit which party president Rajnath Singh made after the conclusion of the recent national executive meeting was to Nagpur to consult his mentors at the RSS headquarters.
Coorg: the Indian Walden
by Suchita Malik
We had gone to Coorg for our summer holidays this year; Coorg, that the british claimed was the "Scotland of India". Nature, they say, had been partial to scotland in bestowing abundant, and unparalleled verdant beauty. One has to see it to believe or it may even be beyond one's paradigm of beauty. At least, that is what we thought until we visited Coorg in Mysore this summer.
Rethink MSP to ensure food security
by Bikram Singh Virk
THE procurement season of wheat is over and the government is a worried about the food grains situation, especially with regard to wheat. Despite a bumper crop and increase in the procurement as compared to last year, it has fallen short of the procurement target.
So who really does the talking?
by Deborah Tannen
It's no surprise that a one-page article published this month in the journal Science inspired innumerable newspaper columns and articles. The study, by Matthias Mehl and four colleagues, claims to lay to rest, once and for all, the stereotype that women talk more than men, by proving – scientifically – that women and men talk equally.
Defence Notes
by Girja Shankar Kaura
IAF impresses at Gloucestershire…
Winning comes easily to the young 'Rhinos' of No. 30 Squadron, flying the Sukhoi-30 MKI. And it was not just friends that they won from air arms around the world at the annual 'Royal International Air Tattoo' held over the weekend at United States Air Force (USAF) 420th Air Base Group at Fairford in Gloucestershire – some 70 miles west of London. They also won the challenging BAE Systems' "The Graviner Spirit of the Meet Trophy."
THE charge-sheet against three IPS officers — D.G. Vanzara, M.N. Dinesh and R.K. Pandian — and 10 other policemen by the Gujarat CID (Crime) in the fake killing of Sohrabuddin Sheikh is a shocking reminder of the increasing rot and decadence in the police. According to the 700-page charge-sheet, Sohrabuddin was pulled out of a Hyderabad-Mumbai bus with his wife, Kauser Bi, on Ahmedabad's outskirts and shot by a joint team of Gujarat and Rajasthan police in November 2005. The policemen later killed Kauser Bi and burnt her body to destroy the crucial evidence. A third person, Tulsiram Prajapati, is still missing. Presently in judicial custody with other accused policemen, Vanzara dubbed Sohrabuddin as a terrorist planning to kill Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He thought shooting a "terrorist" would help him gain "promotion and personal gain in career".
If policemen, that too, senior IPS officers, have no respect for the law, compromise their professional values, forget the training imparted to them, and indulge in fake encounters, they must be punished for their barbaric behaviour. The reckless manner in which they executed the operation shows their total lack of respect for law and humanity, and also a smug belief that they would be protected by the Narendra Modi government, whatever the consequences. The style of functioning of Vanzara, the suspended DIG, is repugnant to all the principles for which the IPS stands for. Mr Modi's blue-eyed boy, he had risen fast up the ranks. He is a star of many encounters and he used to take his orders from the "highest levels", often bypassing his immediate superiors.
Now that the accused have been charge-sheeted, a fair and speedy trial is a must. This is particularly important in the context of Additional Solicitor-General Gopal Subramaniam's doubts about a fair trial under Mr Narendra Modi's dispensation. As the amicus curie in the case, he told the Supreme Court on Monday that the CID charge-sheet was riddled with loopholes, providing "a gateway for the accused to walk out". This must not be allowed to happen. Apparently, Ms Geeta Johri, IG (CID), has done a good job despite many hurdles in her investigation. Since the Supreme Court is monitoring the case, one hopes that justice will triumph finally. The ends of justice will be met only if all the accused are handed out severest punishment.
THE growing divorce rate can be viewed both as a sign of progress and as a sign of the increasing strain on the institution of marriage. In the 19th and early 20th centuries romantic fiction and films were about tempestuous love affairs that invariably ended in marriages and the couples "living happily thereafter". Today films and fiction are more about infidelity, aged men falling for nubile girls and women having multiple partners. Vows that man and wife will remain united "till death do us part" and the mantras that are chanted when the couple takes the seven rounds of holy fire are increasingly losing their relevance when more and more couples are approaching courts, familial and judicial, to seek divorce. Kerala, which recorded a 350 per cent increase in divorce cases during the last 10 years, leads the nation in this sphere too.
The reasons are not far to seek. Take the case of Kerala where literacy among women is the highest and where a larger percentage of women are in the workforce. The economic independence emboldens them to stand up against the kind of injustices in the family their mothers and grandmothers would have uncomplainingly suffered. Even the church that considers marriage as a sacrament, rather than a social contract, is increasingly veering round to the view that separation is a better option when irreconcilable differences crop up between a husband and a wife. Divorce is a reality from which the church is unable to escape. Ditto for communities where divorce is an easy option for the partners who can no longer cohabit.
Couples aspiring for legal separation are on the increase but the law has not kept pace with the changing times. Mutually agreed divorce is a little easier to come by but the law is still heavily loaded against those who seek separation. This is because the law is more concerned about the continuance of the institution of the family. Yet, the practitioners of the law have begun to interpret it liberally to make separation easier for couples in combat. In all this, there is one group that suffers the most - the children of divorced couples. Quarrelsome parents do not engender the best values in children. Nor do separated ones who often leave their children traumatised and unfit to face the challenges of life. In other words, children pay the price for their parents' divorce.
Predicting a 9 per cent growth for the economy this fiscal, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council has stressed on taking hard decisions like controlling external debt, allowing further rupee appreciation and removing bottlenecks to corporate acquisitions abroad. These all make sense. The growth rate is not exaggerated as the CII too pins its hopes on 9.2 per cent. Last year the price rise and the subsequent RBI's key rate hikes had created fears of a slowdown. The rupee's appreciation against the dollar and the uptrend in the global oil prices had strengthened those fears. But the growth rate is proving the sceptics wrong.
The possibility of a sharp price rise remains this year too though former RBI Governor C. Rangarajan, who heads the council, expects inflation to stay at 4 per cent. The price rise, which hits the common man the most, is largely due to the shortage of food items. This year too the wheat prices are on the rise. Traders and speculators can exploit the shortage of pulses and oilseeds to push up prices, while the RBI is more concerned about keeping the money supply under control. If the rupee is allowed to appreciate further as has been suggested by the Council, the exports are bound to get hurt.
There are two major challenges that have to be met head-on to sustain growth. One is sluggish agriculture and the other inadequate infrastructure. The present high growth is fuelled by manufacturing and services with a constant inflow of foreign investment, but it cannot go on without revitalising agriculture and putting in place reliable infrastructure. A fair distribution of rewards of growth is also necessary to keep the public faith in economic policies. Poverty is on the retreat, but the urban-rural divide is growing. A recent prosperity index of 50 nations placed India at 46 largely due to an extreme deficiency in health, poor education and a high cost of bureaucracy.
Ambition, in a private man a vice,/ Is in a prince the virtue. — Philip Massinger
The BJP's reverses in UP mean that the entire game plan of the RSS, in which Mr Rajnath Singh is a key figure, has started unravelling. And since there are only two years before the next general election, Mr Singh and his patrons have no time to lose to re-establish their credibility. Yet, no immediate corrective measure is in sight if only because the RSS has purposefully, if unwisely, restricted the options before it. What is more, the head of the Sangh Parivar has so openly become involved in the affairs of what is commonly believed is its political wing that it cannot beat a retreat.
The RSS could have taken such a course earlier when it pretended that it was no more than a cultural organisation and had no direct control over the BJP - or the Jan Sangh before 1980. But those were the days when no one believed that the saffron outfit would ever gain power at the Centre. Since the mid-nineties, however, the stakes have become too high for the RSS, for it has seen that the seemingly impossible can be achieved.
Its only problem is that the BJP has become too moderate for its liking. Not only that, the RSS's tunnel vision has convinced it that the BJP's defeat in 2004 was the result of its moderation. A more assertive, pro-Hindu line, the RSS believed, could have ensured its victory. It isn't only the Nagpur bosses who believe in this recipe for success, but also the VHP. Hence, the latter's publicly expressed disdain for moderates like Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee and the failed rathyatri L.K.Advani. Hence also the RSS's decision to use Mr Advani's pro-Jinnah speech in Pakistan, which smacked of moderation and, even worse, secularism, to remove him from the post of party chief and install Mr Rajnath Singh.
So far, so good. But now that the UP defeat has hurt Mr Singh, what next? Even the RSS must have realised that Mr Singh's belief that he could lead the party's baraat (wedding procession) to Delhi in 2009, which he expressed at the party conclave in Lucknow before the elections, wouldn't be fulfilled. But there is no replacement in sight. Reinstating Mr Advani may enthuse a section of the BJP supporters, but there are several disadvantages, of which the age factor is the least important.
One disadvantage is that it will be a huge blow to the RSS's prestige and no one knows what will happen to the Parivar if the paterfamilias loses his grip. As it is, the RSS is worried about the falling attendance in its shakhas. Now, if the BJP goes its own way and that, too, along the path of moderation where it will have to dilute its Hindutva agenda, then the dream of establishing a Hindu rashtra will have to be abandoned. Besides, if one member of the family asserts his independence, so will others like the VHP unless the RSS makes the VHP its new political wing.
However, a serious rift between the RSS and the BJP will be unthinkable for the true blue - rather, true saffron - members of both organisations because of their longstanding guru-shishya relationship, which is exemplified by the annual payment of gurudakshina by the BJP to the RSS. Although there have been murmurs of protests by Jan Sangh presidents going back to Mauli Chandra Sharma in the early fifties about the RSS's interference, they have always managed to settle the disputes, usually by surrendering to the RSS. It will be difficult for the members to take any other course.
The other problem with Mr Advani's return to a position of formal authority is that it will set off factional feuds not only between him and losers like Mr Rajnath Singh, but also with GeNext, which includes Mr Narendra Modi and his long-time friend, Mr Arun Jaitley, who saved the Gujarat Chief Minister when Mr Vajpayee was about to sack him in the aftermath of the 2002 riots. This group obviously believes that the future is theirs and not Mr Vajpayee's and Mr Advani's. It is for this reason that Mr Modi has been focussing on Gujarat's development and trying to play down his and his party's role in the riots.
But for the RSS, this change of tack is tantamount to revisionism, to use a communist jargon. Normally, Mr Modi should have been a hero for the RSS because of what the VHP described as the 'awakening' of the Hindus in 2002. But Mr Modi probably realised that if he wanted to be upwardly mobile in an essentially pluralist country, he could not carry the albatross of the riots round his neck all the time. He also angered the RSS as also his opponents in the party in Gujarat by becoming too arrogant after his success in the 2002 elections. Perhaps many in the BJP also know that Mr Modi is too acerbic a personality to be a success at the helm at the Centre since it will mean keeping the NDA with its 'secular' components together. So, Mr Modi is out and, with him, Mr Jaitley.
It isn't only that the BJP has no one of stature (apart from the two old warhorses, Mr Vajpayee and Mr Advani) to lead it, the party has also become unsure of its communal-ideological moorings. Nothing showed this bankruptcy more starkly than the fact that Mr Kalyan Singh, its chief ministerial candidate in UP, didn't even speak at the last national executive meeting. Yet, at the earlier conclave, he was one of the most vocal speakers with his anti-Muslim rhetoric, telling an appreciative audience to remember that it was only the Muslims who gave shelter to the terrorist infiltrators from Pakistan.
Mr Kalyan Singh's speech provided the backdrop to the vicious anti-Muslim compact disc which the party first issued and then disowned when its contents proved too embarrassing even for it. It was obvious then that the BJP hoped to ride to power with such venomous declamations, apparently drafted by the RSS. But the party has fallen silent after the defeat, not even mentioning Afzal Guru. Any hope that the BJP might have had of a rift in the UPA, especially between the Congress and the Left, has been belied. The Congress has managed to keep the coalition running - or limping, as some might say - by often bending over backwards to keep the allies, usually the Left and the DMK, in good humour.
Instead of the UPA breaking up, it is the NDA which has suffered an erosion, with even the Shiv Sena of the extended Hindutva Parivar charting its own course in the presidential election, ditching the BJP veteran, Mr Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. Among others who have drifted away is Mr Chandrababu Naidu, although he is now in the company of 'Maulana' Mulayam Singh Yadav, whom many suspect of having secret ties with the BJP. The saffron camp, therefore, is evidently in considerable disarray and is unlikely to be interested in advancing the 2009 election, as Mr Jaitley had suggested after its victories in Punjab and Uttarakhand. It also knows that a second successive defeat in a general election will be disastrous for its cohesion.
After Cauvery darshan, as we descended through the road, we saw the sangam of three rivers (a confluence), with river Kanika on the left, river Sujoti in the centre and Cauvery on the far right. As we drove through Mercara to one of the private coffee estates of Coorg, thickets of bamboo appeared by the roadside, pronouncing the onset of lush terrain for which Coorg is famous. We meandered through the narrow roads with neatly lined coffee plants and shrubs of cardamom, pepper and poinsettias and came upon quaint little cottages built right in the middle of the estate surrounded by silver oaks and rosewood trees.
The cottage where we were supposed to spend the night was a delight, in the midst of solitary and serene nature, totally undisturbed and untamed by man. The environment was fresh and green and the world appeared washed and laundered to the naked eye.
We experienced, first hand, the humming and singing of the crickets and birds, the nocturnal insects and animals and the lightening bugs glistened against the dark green foliage. A stream gurgled nearby and we sat munching peppered rice-pancakes and sipped tea under one of the open thatched huts, looking at the raindrops clinging to the straw covering the huts. Ferns and bushes had sprung up all around in the wild with specks of lavender flowers dotting the estate.
Our reclusive cottage was a little haven right in the lap of Nature; nature as it should be, and not perfectly manicured, and trimmed. Coffee stems had been used liberally in the furnishings inside the cottage, including the mirror frame on the wall and even the tiny lamps were made of coffee wood.
As we got ready to take pictures of the heavenly scenario with the sunlight glinting off the wooden pillars and panels, my mind went back to the writings of the famous American transcendentalist, Henry David Thoreau and his living experiment in the solitude of Nature on the shore of Walden Pond. His symbolic retreat from the world to "move away from public opinion, from government, from religion, from education, from society" was also aimed at meeting "myself face to face".
The lesson that he learned and left for others was one word, i.e. "Simplify", which meant that one should simplify one's needs and ambitions and learn to delight in the simple pleasures that the world of nature offers, a philosophy also proponded by Wordsworth in his famous poem, The Tintern Abbey.
It look me a trip to Coorg to understand this simple philosophy that could seem so bookish in real terms. Perhaps, we need not go to Walden to experience that "simplicity" as we have it in abundant measure in our own hill resort called "Coorg".
Many factors have contributed to this impending food crisis. The buffer stock of wheat, which stood 32.4 million tonnes in 2002, had fallen to 17 million tonnes in the beginning of 2007. Post-procurement it has slightly improved to 23.3 million tonnes on July 1. The government this year procured a total of 11.5 million tonnes of wheat, which is higher by 21 per cent compared to last year. But it still falls short of the 15 million tonnes target set by FCI.
The stocks are falling mainly because of increased demand of wheat as a more preferred consumable food grain over rice, especially in the southern parts of the country. This shift is due to changing food habits of the people and increased purchasing power after the IT revolution. 13 million tonnes of wheat is needed for PDS this year.
Thus the government is left with the only option of importing the foodstuff from foreign markets. The prices of wheat in the world market range between $320 to $370 per tonne. Last year the government had purchased the same wheat in the range of $ 265 to $ 302 per tonne. Imported wheat at the prevalent prices shall cost the government around Rs. 1400 per quintal, C&F.
The increasing global prices are the cumulative effect of increasing demand, falling production due to weather problems and changing cropping patterns around the world. Due to erratic weather in the US and drought in Russia and Ukraine, the world wheat production has fallen to a 30-year low.
Much of this production loss is due to global warming, According to experts, every 1.4 per cent increase in global temperature will lead to 10 per cent fall in the food grains production. It is estimated that by 2030 there will be 30 per cent decline in the world wheat production.
In India, though wheat production and procurement were up compared to last year, it is still not sufficient for the needs of the country. Due to unattractive price of wheat and better prices of other cash crops, more and more farmers are moving to alternative crops. The MSP regime has been very unfair to the farmer and most of the time he is not able to recover even the costs.
The huge loss due to a deficient MSP can be gauged from the fact that it has remained much lower in comparison to the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) in the past. The WPI was 100 in 1980-81, when it was taken as the base year; the MSP of the wheat was fixed at 117 Rs per quintal. WPI rose to 243 in 1990-91 and the wheat price, which should have been Rs.284 based on the index, was fixed at Rs. 215 per quintal.
The farmers of Punjab contributed 4.3 million tons (73 per cent) to the central pool and suffered a remuneration loss of Rs 490 crores. The total loss due to a lower MSP till the decade up to 1990-91 amounts to more than Rs 5000 crores. However the MSP in 2000-01, which should have been Rs 576 based on WPI, was fixed at Rs 580, giving the farmers a marginal positive remuneration of Rs. 4 per quintal. But in the subsequent years, it again became deficient. In 2005-06, an MSP based on WPI should have been Rs 724 per quintal, but was fixed at Rs 640 instead, causing a loss of Rs 84 per quintal to the farmer.
Punjab contributed 9.5 million tons to the central pool and was underpaid by Rs 798 crores. The cumulative loss of less than WPI based MSP, if calculated for these 25 years, crosses Rs 20,000 crores. Roughly, this is the amount of debt owed by the farmers of Punjab to various institutions.
Establishing the Multi-Commodity Exchange (MCX) in November 2003 and legalising future trading in wheat and rice led to the proper price discovery of wheat, and it traded at around Rs 1000 per quintal last year in the open market. The government was forced to ramp up MSP to Rs 850 per quintal this year from Rs.650 of the previous season, giving the highest ever jump of 31 per cent in the history of MSP regime. Still, the price if calculated on the basis of input costs is not very attractive. The real return to be termed as remunerative shall accrue if the MSP is fixed close to Rs.1100. International prices also point in the same direction
Another alarming situation, which may hit the country's food security in a big way in coming times, is the fact that farmers are leaving farming en-masse. The hard labour and comparatively poor returns are forcing him to find alternative occupations. Though reliable statistics are not available, 65 per cent of the farmers are ready to leave farming if given an alternative choice.
A random survey conducted in some villages around Kapurthala showed that persons of below 40 years of age are difficult to find in the agriculture profession. Each family is exploring alternative choices for their children. The government shall have to think seriously if it wants to retain them in farming and protect the food security of a billion plus people. A simple alternative could be to pay its own farmer what it is paying in the international market. Let the Indian farmer be nurtured by making the MSP regime more rational and farmer-friendly.
The writer is a senior lecturer in commerce at the NJSA Government College, Kapurthala
The notion that women talk more was reinforced last year when Louann Brizendine's The Female Brain cited the finding that women utter, on average, 20,000 words a day, men 7,000. (Brizendine later disavowed the statistic, as there was no study to back it up.) Mehl and his colleagues outfitted 396 college students with devices that recorded their speech. The female subjects spoke an average of 16,215 words a day, the men 15,669. The difference is insignificant. Case closed.
Or is it? Everyone wants to know who talks more, but the answer can't be found by counting words.
So concludes a forthcoming article surveying 70 studies of gender differences in talkativeness. (Imagine – 70 studies published in scientific journals, and we're still asking the question.) In their survey, Campbell Leaper and Melanie Ayres found that counting words yielded no consistent differences, though number of words per speaking turn did (and men, on average, used more).
You have to ask: What's the situation? What are the speakers using words for? I was addressing a small group in a suburban Virginia living room. One man stood out because he talked a lot, while his wife, who was sitting beside him, said nothing at all. I described to the group a complaint common among women about men they live with: At the end of a day she tells him what happened, what she thought and how she felt about it. Then she asks, "How was your day?" – and is disappointed when he replies, "Fine," "Nothing much" or "Same old rat race."
The loquacious man spoke up. "You're right," he said. Pointing to his wife, he added, "She's the talker in our family." But he explained, "It's true. When we come home, she does all the talking."
The "how was your day?" conversation typifies the kind of talk women tend to do more of: spoken to intimates and focusing on personal experience, your own or others'. I call this "rapport-talk." It contrasts with "report-talk" – giving or exchanging information about impersonal topics, which men tend to do more.
Studies that find men talking more are usually carried out in formal experiments or public contexts like meetings. For example, Marjorie Swacker observed an academic conference where women presented 40 percent of the papers and were 42 percent of the audience but asked only 27 percent of the questions; their questions were, on average, also shorter by half than the men's questions. And David and Myra Sadker showed that boys talk more in mixed-sex classrooms – a context common among college students, a factor skewing the results of Mehl's new study.
Many men's comfort with "public talking" explains why a man who tells his wife he has nothing to report about his day might later find a funny story to tell at dinner with two other couples (leaving his wife wondering, "Why didn't he tell me first?").
In addition to situation, you have to consider what speakers are doing with words. Campbell and Ayres note that many studies find women doing more "affiliative speech" such as showing support, agreeing or acknowledging others' comments. For women and girls, talk is the glue that holds a relationship together. Their best friend is the one they tell everything to. Spending an evening at home with a spouse is when this kind of talk comes into its own. Since this situation is uncommon among college students, it's another factor skewing the new study's results.
Women's rapport-talk probably explains why many people think women talk more. A man wants to read the paper, his wife wants to talk; his girlfriend or sister spends hours on the phone with her friend or her mother. He concludes: Women talk more.
Yet Leaper and Ayres observed an overall pattern of men speaking more. That's also a conclusion women come to when men hold forth at meetings, in social groups or when delivering one-on-one lectures. All of us – women and men – tend to notice others talking more in situations where we talk less.
The writer is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University.
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Already known to be among the best in the world, the IAF fighter pilots impressed all at the air tattoo, which is one of the world's largest military air shows and is held annually in support of the Royal Air Force (RAF) Charitable Trust. The show witnessed as many as 320 aircraft from 24 countries representing 34 international air arms, with nearly 2,600 aircrew and ground crew converging at the venue.
The youthful quartet of Squadron Leader PK Garg (Team Leader) and Flight Lieutenants S. Mishra, M. Gera and R. Panwar, all Su-30 MKI pilots from the Pune-based No. 30 Squadron, were winners of the trophy awarded to the crew making the most outstanding contribution to the success of 'The Meet'.
…at Waddington…
Earlier curtains finally came down on the second Indo-UK bilateral air exercise – Indradhanush 2007 – at Royal Air Force (RAF) Waddington. The exercise that began with a series of one-to-one sorties, reached its crescendo with a highly complex scenario of a six-to-six aerial combat involving four Su-30 MKIs, four F3 Tornadoes, two Typhoons and two GR9 Sea Harriers of the Royal Navy.
Also airborne was an IL-78 air-to-air refueller and an E3D Sentry AWACS aircraft in the vicinity of the exercise. This was the first time that the IAF carried out an exercise anywhere in the UK. The visit by the IAF team also coincided with the Waddington International Air Show where it won the trophy for the best static display.
...and en route
When the Indian Air Force (IAF) Jaguars flew to Alaska during their first overseas joint air exercise Cope Thunder in July 2004, the newly inducted Ilyushin-78 MKI 'air-to-air' refuellers of the IAF heralded the newly acquired strategic reach capability.
However, this year the IAF further displayed its enhanced strategic reach capability by flying two IL-78 MKIs of the 'Valorous MARS' (No. 78 Mid-Air-Refuelling Squadron) from Agra along with the six Su-30 MKIs that flew from Pune airbase in India to Royal Air Force (RAF) airbase at Waddington (UK).
This was the fifth overseas assignment for the IL-78 MKIs. By the time the fighters reached Waddington they would have flown nearly 19,000 kms each, tanked eight times and transferred nearly 225 tonnes of fuel mid-air, spread over 28 flying hours both ways, with stopovers enroute at Doha (Qatar) and Tanagra (Greece).
Neither abstinence from fish or meet, nor going naked, nor shaving the head, nor miring the body with mud, nor sacrificing to fire will cleanse a man who is not free from delusions. —The Vedas
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. —Mahatma Gandhi
There is no limit to God's works, no ends to his gifts. — Guru Nanak
God's doings are beyond any count. — Guru Nanak
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Q: Is there any option for Glide if url is changed then cache will be cleared otherwise load with old image? i am using glide for showing loading images, and in my app image will be changed frequently, is there any option for clear cache when new image or image will be edited otherwise load old one?

A: try this:
 whenever image changes the cache will remove

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A: I have used the below code to achieve the same that you have mentioned in the description above.
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It's just an extension for the imageview and you need to use below way wherever you want this in your app.
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Local Literature: Manchester
It may be famous for football and music, but Manchester's got an incredible literary legacy too. Here's some of our highlights...
"The centre of Manchester is noisy, shiny, brash, successful, flaunting its money as it always did from the moment it became the engine of England. Travel out further, and the changing fortunes of Manchester are evident. The decent rows of solid terraces have been slum-cleared and replaced with tower blocks and cul-de-sacs, shopping compounds and gaming arcades. Most of the small shops are boarded up, lost on fast, hostile roads."
Manchester-born literary legend Jeanette Winterson wasn't lying in her 2011 memoir; the recession has hit Manchester hard. But with true Manc resilience, it's holding its own. And it's still got goods galore to offer anyone with a love of books or badass babes.
Manchester's got a rich literary legacy that includes none other than iconic suffragette sista Emmeline Pankhurst (originally from the notorious neighbourhood of Moss Side; read all about her upbringing in her 1914 autobiography My Own Story, available for free for Kindle or online via Project Gutenburg), The Secret Garden author Frances Hodgson Burnett (although her family emigrated to the States when she was sixteen, she was born in Cheetham Hill), and Salford's sweetheart Shelagh Delaney, author of classic kitchen sink drama A Taste of Honey.
Contemporary women writers currently based in the big bad city include the likes of Emma Jane Unsworth, author of Hungry, The Stars and Everything (as seen live at the last For Books' Sake birthday bash) and Rosie Garland, author of five volumes of poetry, award-winning short stories and a much-acclaimed debut novel, The Palace of Curiosities. (For bonus points, catch her performing as her vampire queen alter ego Rosie Lugosi as part of Manchester's booming burlesque scene.) And we've even got Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy as Professor of Contemporary Poetry at MMU.
The recession has hit Manchester hard. But with true Manc resilience, it's holding its own. And it's still got goods galore to offer anyone with a love of books or badass babes.Local independent publishing legends Comma Press are responsible for bringing attention to many more Mancunian voices, including Zoe Lambert (featured in our anthology Short Stack, and author of The War Tour), Gwendoline Riley (whose début Cold Water won a Betty Trask Award) and Jane Rodgers (author of recent short story collection Hitting Trees With Sticks).
Manchester literature organisation Commonword coordinate workshops, events and competitions for writers, including supporting queer writers' collective Young Enigma and curating the Black and Asian Writers' Conference, which this year featured incredible women writers including Desiree Reynolds, Malika Booker, Stephanie Dogfoot Chan and Shamshad Khan, who organises the monthly Levenshulme performance poetry night Hard Rain.
Still want more? Time your visit to coincide with the annual Manchester Literature Festival, which in the past has seen Jeanette Winterson lecture at Manchester Cathedral, Ali Smith read her poem on Pussy Riot, afternoon tea with Jackie Kay and much more besides. Or for live lit a-go-go all year round, check the listings at 3MT and The Castle.
Meanwhile there's many more women's stories to be explored at Salford Zine Library, The People's History Museum and The Working Class Movement Library. Or if it's book shopping you're after, there's Magma and Travelling Man for comics and graphic novels, or a rummage through the second-hand treasure troves of Paramount and Shudehill Book Centre. If you don't mind trekking out of town, options beyond the city centre include E.J. Morten in Didsbury or the industrial warehouse that's home to Sharston Books.
And as well as all this literary loveliness, Manchester's got loads of other women-centred wonders. Take a workshop at LGF, get serenaded by She Choir, catch a bout by the Rainy City Rollergirls, laugh your socks off with the Laughing Cows (who this year curated the UK's first ever Women in Comedy Festival) or get your riot grrrl on with Typical Girls. Let us know when you're on your way and we might even come down for a dance.
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Sarah Jones says:
It is not fair or accurate to say that Manchester has been hard hit by the recession or is a 'big bad city'. Manchester is absolutely thriving, with a population growth of working people ahead of the national average, with Media City UK being based here and with the literary offerings of festivals like the biennial Manchester International Festival et al; and this isn't just the city centre either, regeneration has been remarkable over the last few years in areas like Salford and East Manchester, with expanding public transport networks and huge investment in architecture. You should also mention the female writers' events at places like the Anthony Burgess Foundation and John Rylands Library.
Jane Bradley says:
Thanks Sarah, I love Manchester and have lived here for most of my life, so I'm aware of the recent regeneration and agree that much of it has been a welcome addition to the city.
However I disagree when you say it isn't fair or accurate to claim Manchester hasn't been hit hard by the recession – while the city may be fighting back, lots of small businesses in and out of the city have closed as a result of the economic downturn over the past few years, and the recent arts funding cuts meant losses of over £800k for Manc arts orgs, with casualties including Greenroom (now closed completely), Royal Exchange Theatre (lost over £170k), local publishers like Commonword and Carcanet and many more.
Thanks for mentioning Anthony Burgess Foundation and John Rylands though – I've been to several great events at both but none (so far!) that focused on women writers, so I'll definitely be checking their listings for more on those.
Heloise says:
Worth mentioning @UoM's Centre for New Writing, with J Winterson, MJ Hyland and others http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/centrefornewwriting/events/
Personally I deplore the demise of the bookshop. Morten's is a sip in a desert; but only a sip
Lucy Rock says:
Great article and you're absolutely correct to mention Manchester's suffering under the recession. As well as the deplorable job market (now happily on the up – slowly) the loss of places like the Greenroom has been a tragedy. Nice plug for Sharston Books as well, hurrah! Manchester city centre is seriously lacking in the bookshop department.


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Julia Bullock Webster
July 28, 2016 Penticton Art Gallery
Julia Bullock Webster, 1826-1907
Born: England, 1826
Three Mountains, 1894, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 25.1 cm, 1983.02.01. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Cawston Bench NE, 1894, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour, 17.5 x 25.1 cm, 1983.02.02. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Looking East from Ashnola), 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.2 x 34.8 cm, 1983.02.03. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Looking South to Cawston), 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 25 cm, 1983.02.04. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Mountains with Cloud Cover), 1896, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 17.5 x 25 cm, 1983.02.08. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Path Down to the River, Keremeos, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 22 x 30.1 cm, 1983.02.05. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Bullock-Webster Home, 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25 x 35.3 cm, 1983.02.06. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Similkameen River Coming from Left), 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.2 x 35.3 cm, 1983.02.07. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Three Trees in Hedley), 1896, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 22.5 x 32.5 cm, 1983.02.09. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Fenche Valley), 1896, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 32 x 21.7 cm, 1983.02.10. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Looking From Similkameen), c. 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 20.1 x 29.4 cm, 1983.02.11. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Died: England, 1907
Julia was in her late sixties when she travelled by train from Oxford (her home) to Liverpool, England; thence by steamship to the St. Lawrence River. She crossed the Canadian Prairies by rail, following the route taken by Catherine Schubert thirty years earlier. Once in British Columbia, she boarded a paddle steamer and travelled down Lake Okanagan. Finally, she caught a stage coach to meet her sons in Keremeos.
She wrote a meticulous journal of her two-year stay, detailing day-to-day domestic chores and comparing the relative sophistication of English Middle Class life with her experiences in the sparse wilderness of the B.C. Interior.
Julia painted watercolour sketches of the abundant local flora as well as many scenes of the Lower Similkameen Valley.
Scarlett Gilia, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.3 x 25.2 cm, 1983.02.13. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Yellow Bells, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 23 x 14.8 cm, 1983.02.14. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Purple Flowers, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 23 x 14.8 cm, 1983.02.15. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Yellow Lily, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 22.6 x 16.3 cm, 1983.02.17. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Pink Shooting Star, 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, 1983.02.17. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Claytonia Carolianum, Doderatheon Jeffrey), 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, 1982.02.18. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Pink Daisies, 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, 1983.02.19. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Purple Flowers), Julia Bullock-Webster1895, watercolour on paper, 25.5 x 35.5 cm, 1983.02.20. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Yellow Erigiron Daisies), 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 24.9 x 35.5 cm, 1983.02.21. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Purple Phacilia), 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 24.9 x 35.5 cm, 1983.02.22. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Leptontaenia, Multifia), 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 25.2 cm, 1983.02.23. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Fireweed, Sedse, Brown-eyed Susan), 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.3 x 25.3 cm, 1983.02.24.
Gathered in Cloverfields, 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 25.5, 1983.02.25. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Untitled (Thimble Berry Rubus Nutkanus), 1895, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 16.3 x 22.7 cm, 1983.02.26. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Autumn Tints of the Willow Herb, 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35 x 24.5 cm, 1983.02.27. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Wild Gaillardia, 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper. 35.5 x 25.5 cm, 1983.02.28. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Red Hemp Nettle, 1871, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 27.1 x 18.9 cm, 1983.02.29. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Corn-Cockle, 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 27.5 x 20 cm, 1983.02.30. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Rush-Scabious- Marshcinquefoil, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.6 x 25.3 cm, 1983.02.31. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Jeff Head - Stitchwort - Buttercup, 1842, Julia Bullock-Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 25.2 cm, 1983.02.32. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Portland Sparge - Pea Feverfew, 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 25.8 cm, 1983.02.33. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Mountain Rose - North Wales, 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 25.3 cm, 1983.02.34. Gift of Mrs. Barbara Steel.
Common Century and Golden Rod, August 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 cm x 17.5 cm, 2003.02.03, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Tea Holly and Persicanna Aberdovey, July 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 28 cm x 18.5 cm, 2003.02.04, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled, 1888, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 22 cm x 13.7 cm, 2003.02.05, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
On the Road to Aberdovey, N. Wales, August 26 1841, 1841, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 26 cm x 18 cm, 2003.02.06, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - Light Purple Flowers), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.6 cm x 25.3 cm, 2003.02.07, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Gathered by self, (illegible) Oct. 1871, October 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 cm x 17.5 cm, 2003.02.08, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Wall Pennyworth June 1871, June 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 27 cm x 19.1 cm, 2003.02.09, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - Leaves in Red and Brown), n.d. Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 23.2 cm x 15 cm, 2003.02.10, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Back of botanical painting), n.d. Julia Bullock Webster, pencil on paper, 23.2 cm x 15 cm, 2003.02.10, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Grassy, (illegible) Side, (illegible), May 23 1871. 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.5 cm x 18 cm, 2003.02.11, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Snow Flake Oxford 1887, 1887, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.4 cm x 25.5 cm, 2003.02.14, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Purple Iris), n.d. Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.2 cm, 2003.02.15, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - Yellow Flowers), n.d. Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.3 cm x 25 cm, 2003.02.16, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - Pink & Blue Flowers), n.d. Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35 cm x 25.2 cm, 2003.02.17, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Snurze Wort and Burnet River Dovey August 1871, August 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25 cm, 2003.02.18, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Money Wort from the road to (illegible) July 30 1871, July 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35 cm x 24.8 cm, 2003.02.19, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Stage Home Moss Mountains Behind Pennal December 1871, December 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 25.7 cm x 35.4 cm, 2003.02.20, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Rare Orchid - Aberdovey 1873 (unfinished), 1873, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.2 cm x 25.2 cm, 2003.02.21, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Blackberry leaves- Harvested by Julia, work to be exaggerated October 20th, 1871, August 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.6 cm, 2003.02.23, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
St. Johns Wort - Aberdovy June 1873, June 1873, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.2 cm x 25.6 cm, 2003.02.24, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical), n.d,, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.6 cm, 2003.02.25, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - 3 Purple Flowers), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.4 cm x 25.1 cm, 2003.02.26, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Mountain Dog Rose - Aberdovey July 6 1873, July 1873, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.3 cm x 25.1 cm, 2003.02.27, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Sea Star Wort - Glandovey Sept 1871, September 1871, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.7 cm, 2003.02.28, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled (Botanical - Pink & Yellow Flowers), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.6 cm x 25.2 cm, 2003.02.29, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Wilfahinium variegatum Zyandeneus Venenasus, March 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.4 cm, 2003.02.30, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Erigiron Philadilfhium Trontinum, June 1895, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 35.5 cm x 25.4 cm, 2003.02.31, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Ansell nearly 6 months old, June 5, 1852, 1852, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 9.2 cm x 13.5 cm, 2003.02.32, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled Sketch (front - portrait of woman), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 8" x 6", 2003.02.33, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Untitled Sketch (back - city scene), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 8" x 6", 2003.02.33, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Hambed's Church, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 7" x 10", 2003.02.35, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
L Cambed's Bridge, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 7" x 10", 2003.02.36, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Merionetshire, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 7" x 10", 2003.02.37, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Old church close to the sea, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 7" x 10", 2003.02.38, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Rock of the Arrow. Inland Lake - Laubode - Merionetshire, c. 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 7" x 10", 2003.02.39, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Cardigan Bay, Crirceith in the distance, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4" x 6 1/2", 2003.02.40, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Cardigan Bay (illegible) in distance, July 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4 1/4" x 10", 2003.02.41, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Valley of the Artro, Ilaubeds (?) Marionetshire North Wales, August 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 6 1/4" x 9 3/4", 2003.02.42, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Moccars, Smuden (?) in the distance, July 9 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4 3/4" x 8", 2003.02.43, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
The same, another view 1874, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4 7/8" x 10", 2003.02.44, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Wreck off Harleck, North Wales, September 1878, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5" x 7", 2003.02.45, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Harleck Castle - Interuden (?) in the distance, 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 1/4" x 8 5/8", 2003.02.46, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Harleck Castle 1874, 1874, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 5/8" x 4 1/8", 2003.02.47, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
On the Artro, Daubeds (?), September 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 5/8" x 4 1/8", 2003.02.48, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Harleck Castle, 1878, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 1/2" x 9", 2003.02.49, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Ann's Cottage on the Artro, 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 3/4" x 7", 2003.02.50, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Kingfisher Walk - Artro. Danbeds (?), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4 7/8" x 7 7/8", 2003.02.51, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Old farm, Cumbacken Lake - Merionethshire, 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 3/4" x 9", 2003.02.52, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Old stone footbridge. Cum Naucle - Daubeds (?), September 1879, Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 1/2" x 9", 2003.02.53, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Stone in the Middle of the Artro. Daubeds (?), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 4 1/2" x 6 1/2", 2003.02.54, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
View from our Windows at Groqufryn (?) - Daubeds (?), n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 5 1/4" x 9", 2003.02.55, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
Festiniog. N. Wales, n.d., Julia Bullock Webster, watercolour on paper, 6 3/4" x 9 3/4", 2003.02.56, gift of The Grist Mill at Keremeos
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Share this Story: Maimonides transfers COVID-19 patients, but advocate says more work needs to be done
Maimonides transfers COVID-19 patients, but advocate says more work needs to be done
Closing the geriatric centre's hot zone still might be enough to contain the virus, daughter of resident says.
A resident is put into an ambulance at the rear of the Maimonides Geriatric Centre in Côte-St-Luc on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. The Family Advocacy Committee of Maimonides Geriatric Centre is calling for emergency measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 at the centre. Photo by Dave Sidaway /Montreal Gazette
Twenty of the 30 residents of the Maimonides Geriatric Centre with active cases of COVID-19 were moved Sunday from the "hot zone" of the Côte-St-Luc long-term care centre to other institutions and the remaining 10 residents, after being evaluated by a physician, are now back in their rooms.
The hot zone, located on the seventh floor of Maimonides, has been temporarily closed in a bid to "break the cycle of infection" that led to the outbreak, a senior official of the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal said in an email to families of residents on Saturday.
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Eighteen of the 20 residents transferred were transferred to Hôtel-Dieu Hospital and two were transferred to the Jewish General Hospital, wrote Barbra Gold, director of the Support Program for the Autonomy of Seniors at the CIUSSS West-Central Montreal, which administers Maimonides, along with the Jewish General and several other institutions.
"We hope that this action will lead to a faster resolution of the outbreak as it will decrease opportunities for exposure. This strategy has been used in other countries with success," she wrote.
Gold said the residents transferred would be accompanied by the nurses and patient attendants who have been caring for them and would be "supported" by a manager, an infection-control professional, an adviser in nursing care and a physician.
The daughter of a Maimonides resident said she welcomes the transfer, but is concerned the move might not be enough to contain the virus.
"I'm glad that Dr. (Lawrence) Rosenberg made this decision, but I'm concerned that the nurses and orderlies who have been caring for these residents are moving with them," said Joyce Shanks, a member of the Family Advocacy Committee. "There is already a shortage of personnel and this will make it worse."
There should be more testing of people who work at Maimonides, she said. Testing is available, but not currently mandatory.
"We may be seen as a thorn, but we want to collaborate in the care of our loved ones," she said.
Gold said in her Saturday email the decision to close the hot zone temporarily was made after consulting with public-health authorities, infectious-disease specialists and other health-care professionals.
She said further evaluations and consultations with these specialists have led them to believe that factors contributing to the outbreak include "a high density of very contagious individuals in a relatively small area (the seventh floor) that has not been built to accommodate them."
She said a virtual town hall meeting with families of residents would be held "shortly."
During the pandemic's second wave, eight Maimonides residents have died of COVID-19. As well, 18 staff members and seven caregivers have tested positive for the virus.
On Thursday, the advocacy committee outlined its concerns at a news conference. Later that day, Maimonides announced a new measure requiring all caregivers to present proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken within the previous two weeks. The requirement comes into effect Dec. 7.
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Peter Barr (born 7 October 1950) is a Canadian rower. He competed in the men's double sculls event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Motion for Class Certification in Lawsuit Against J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. Over Alleged Market Manipulation Scam Granted in Part by Court
A district court has granted in part the motion for class certification in the securities fraud lawsuit against J.P. Morgan Clearing Corp. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. involving an alleged investment scam with Sterling Foster & Co. The alleged scheme involves the manipulation of the the market for ML Direct Inc. securities during and after an IPO. The JPM entities are named in their capacity as Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. and Bear Stearns Securities Corp. successors.
The court says that one day after the IPO's start, ML Direct stock's price more than doubled because Sterling Foster had bought most of it. The firm then sold over 3.375 million ML Direct at about $14 to $15 a share. Because only 1.1 million shares in the IPO were for sale, the court says that Sterling Foster sold 2.3 million more shares than it owned. The other available ML Direct shares were held by insiders, who had a lock-up agreement barring them from selling their shares within the first year of the IPO unless they obtained underwriter Patterson Travis Inc.'s consent.
Sterling Foster and the insiders allegedly became involved in an undisclosed agreement that allowed the brokerage firm to buy the insiders' stock at the $3.25/share offering. Sterling Foster then bought their securities, which were delivered to Bear Stearns. The court says that as a result, the brokerage firm made a $24 million profit.
The plaintiffs are saying that the offering documents misled the investing public into thinking that significantly less ML Direct shares were being offered and that the market had set the $13 to $15/share price when Sterling Foster had artificially created it and then bought shares from insiders at the lower share price. The plaintiffs claim that Bear Stearns, as Sterling Foster's clearing house, knowingly took part in the investment scam.
The plaintiffs moved to certify a class so they could pursue their Section 10(b) and Section 20(a) claims. The court granted the motion as to the Section 10(b) antifraud claims but denied the latter, which involves claims for control person liability.
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The other single-vineyard Tempranillo is the 2011 Malleolus de Sancho Martín, always the more backward of the two. It is sourced from a small (0.84-hectare) single plot of vines planted in 1964 on chalk soils that provide more austere wines. It went through malo in French barriques, better suited for wines from chalky soils. Like the rest of the top of the range, it matured in French oak barrels for some 18 months before bottling. Although it feels a little reticent, it slowly develops notes of minerals, red and black fruit, spices and nicely integrated oak. The palate also shows good integration, balance and elegance, with chalky tannins that are very fine and a finish where the oak-related flavors are intermixed with subtle minerality, giving it a little salty sensation. It will be much better with some time in bottle. Only 2,500 bottles produced.
Mind. 22 Monate in französischen Barriques ausgebaut.
Malleolus de Sancho Martin ist der rare Top-Wein von Bodegas Emilio Moro. Der Rebberg Pago de Sancho Martin wurde 1964 angelegt und umfasst rund 1.7 Hektaren. Überwältigendes, komplexes Bouquet, Heidelbeeren, Cassis, Kakao, asiatische Gewürznoten und eine fantastische Mineralität. Am Gaumen herrlich kraftvoll, konzentriert und doch elegant und ausgewogen mit sehr viel Tiefe. Ein perfekter Trinkgenuss.