Living in Canada, our growing season starts a little later than some other places. However, I'm feeling really late on the vegetable garden. You'll notice I haven't shared an update on the garden since my last one when I said I was trying to stay away from the garden. Unfortunately, I've been fairly successful at staying away, and I'm quite behind on the vegetable garden.
Everything starts with weeding. I got the raised beds around the perimeter and one of the quadrants completely weeded last weekend. Another of the quadrants still has our winter rye cover crop, so I'll just keep mowing it. That means there's roughly half the garden to go.
As I'm weeding, I'm planting because if I wait until the garden is weed-free we won't grow anything.
I put in our potatoes a few weeks ago. So long ago that I need to go back and weed them again and then hill up the plants. Between the rows I've laid down some black rubber to try and smother the weeds.
I planted four new grapevines.
All of the eight vines I planted last year are alive. I'm not sure I can take credit for this, but I'm still proud to see them growing. We now have four Somerset (red), four Sovereign Coronation (blue) and four Lakemonts (green). All seedless table grapes.
I also ordered five blackberry bushes to add this year. We have a thriving row of red raspberries that I got from my parents last year (they're that bushy mass in the background of the photo below).
I could easily do two rows of raspberries–I've thrown out hundreds of canes as I've weeded the garden–but variety is the spice of life, so I'm trying these Prime Ark Freedom blackberries. The canes seem pretty healthy, even though they mostly look like sticks for now.
While I was picking up my grapes and blackberries I noticed blueberry bushes for $4 each. Regularly these cost $12-$16. I'm usually a fairly plannful gardener and don't buy things on a whim, but $4 is too good of a deal, so four blueberry bushes came home with me. Two are Jersey and two are Brunswick.
I love the way the outer raised beds are shaping up. They are going to be home to perennials (mostly fruits and a few herbs). There is our asparagus (still small, but thriving).
Then there's our dozen grapes, followed by our rhubarb. I've left room for us to add more rhubarb plants when this one is ready to split.
Coming around the garden we go into the blueberries. There are also lavender, sage, thyme and chives. I may plop some basil, dill and rosemary in here, even though they're not perennials.
We have some sprouts in the house, but they're still pretty small–our theme of starting everything late this gardening season applies to everything. I want them to hurry up and grow because they really could go outside. But the garden isn't quite ready for them, so I don't mind them taking their time.
I still have plans to get some old hay bales from our farmer so that we can put a deep mulch on the garden. Hopefully that will mean I don't spend all of gardening season weeding.
For now, even though I'm behind, I am very pleased with how things are looking. This is our third year with our garden and our second with it officially laid out with raised beds and trellises. It's really taking shape.
How is your garden growing? Are you ahead or behind or on schedule? Have you added any new plants this year? Do you have any tips for growing blueberries?
My husband knows me well. He found this wild turkey egg while he was walking Baxter and carried it home for me.
Little things like this bring both of us so much joy now that we're living on the farm.
It's broken, and it's so early in the season that I don't think we have a little poult running around. But perhaps it's still early enough that a mama turkey may be out there somewhere on this Mother's Day weekend.
Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms–human, avian or other. I hope that you have a special weekend.
Illinois is soggy for Sarah these days, so her gardening is on hold. But before the flood arrived, she got a great start on planting. She's sharing some of the progress in her update today.
Julia may be "tiptoeing into the vegetable garden" at her house, but we have to wear muck boots in our garden right now.
And they are predicting constant rain for the next 48 hours for our area with a total of 5 to 8 inches according to our local weather. So all of our gardening has been put on hold.
However, I want to share what we accomplished before the rain began.
We like to get our potatoes in the ground on Good Friday, and we were only a day late. On that Saturday we were able to plant potatoes, carrots, radishes, lettuce and kale. The next day we got a hard rain. We didn't get much volume of water. It just fell hard.
I am learning every day about gardening and farming, and what I learned is the rain somewhat compacted the top layer of soil in the garden and then it dried. So when I went back to check on what I had planted a few days later there was a "crust" of soil on top of the seeds.
The radishes were able to break though but the more fragile plants like the carrots and lettuce were not able to break through the "crust." It looks like we will be replanting those crops.
About a week later Steve and I got several more things in the ground.
We planted two holly trees.
Two cherry trees and four grapevines. Steve set three poles for our grape vines that we will eventually string with cable. Of course right now the vines are about 12 inches tall so not much support is require yet.
Then we planted cucumber, sugar snap peas and new asparagus crowns in the garden.
I have planted trees before, and my mom has always taught me the importance of watering. In fact, she has told me, "water every day for a week, every week for a month and every month for a year." So every day after work I made sure to do that.
Of course, I get a little break right now with all of this rain.
When it does dry up, I have a few plants ready to go.
I have some cabbage, bell peppers and tomatoes sitting near my window. I try to start tomatoes from seed every year and as I have mentioned before I really struggle with it. I had bought Black Krim and San Marzano seeds, and I have starts that are about 3 inches tall but they do not look very healthy.
A family friend of ours starts hundreds of tomato and pepper seeds every year and gives us nice healthy plants. I told her of my struggles and she said that she does use grow lights but she also plants by the moon. That is something that I have heard of but never attempted myself. I think I should really rethink that though when I look at her plants.
This year she brought Celebrity, Early Girl, Better Boy, Rutgers, Roma, Orange Slice, Sunny Boy, Jet Star, Brandywine and a cherry tomato.
We divide all of the plants up between my parents and my brother, so I have a small selection to plant at our house. I hope to mark all of the varieties clearly so that I can keep somewhat of a record of which varieties I like best. I love that she not only gives us strong healthy plants but also we get so many to choose from.
My mom also brought me a couple of Mr. Stripey tomato plants for my garden so we are going to have a rainbow of tomatoes to choose from this year.
Of course that is if we ever see dry ground again.
Oh, Sarah. That's a ton of rain. Good for you for making so much progress, though. You have so many great plants. Hopefully the weather cooperates for you this year and you harvest a ton of great food.


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A somber Christmas decoration decks the Capitol steps
Home-made garland commemorates Wisconsin residents who have died from COVID-19
Erik Gunn
Every ring in the chain represents someone who has died from COVID-19 in Wisconsin. The rings are inscribed with the names of the counties where people have died. (Photo by Erik Gunn)
Christmas Chain 2020
Volunteers made a construction-paper chain and displayed it Wednesday at the state Capitol to commemorate the more than 4,000 people in Wisconsin who have died from COVID-19. (Photos by Erik Gunn)
Outside the state Capitol building on Wednesday, incoming state Rep. Francesca Hong addresses the volunteers who made the commemorative chain. (Photo by Erik Gunn)
For about an hour on Wednesday, a construction paper chain made up of nearly 5,000 interlaced rings — red, green, yellow, white and blue — bedecked the steps outside the state Capitol building.
Each ring bore the name of one of Wisconsin's 72 counties. Each county had one ring for every one of its residents who died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic.
It was the sort of chain that schoolchildren might make to decorate a Christmas tree. Indeed, it was a Christmas tree, or rather two of them, that inspired Kate Walton to organize the project.
Walton is an emergency room nurse who has watched in growing frustration for months as the state Legislature didn't meet and didn't meet, and its Republican leaders publicly attacked Gov. Tony Evers for statewide health orders that were issued to try to rein in the spread of the coronavirus.
Then, after Evers said that this year the state would not erect an official Holiday Tree in the Capitol rotunda because the building has been closed to the public in the pandemic, Republican state Reps. Shae Sortwell (R- Two Rivers) and Paul Tittl (R- Manitowoc) defied the state Department of Administration and put up their own tree on Dec. 1. After it was removed, they put up a second tree Dec. 15.
Kate Walton, an emergency room nurse, organized Wednesday's display of a commemorative paper chain marking those in Wisconsin who have died from COVID-19 during the pandemic. (Photo by Erik Gunn)
"Honestly, I got mad about the whole Christmas tree debacle," Walton says. "The GOP wanting to put a Christmas tree up and throwing a temper tantrum about it when people are dying. You know, it's just ghastly that that's their biggest concern — whether or not they get to sing Christmas carols and put up their tree, when there's families that won't be able to spend their holidays together."
And it was more than just deaths from COVID-19.
"Not only the people that have died, but people that are hospitalized right now," Walton says. "People who are quarantining. The people who can't travel because of the pandemic. The people in health care: I'll be in the hospital tomorrow and Friday, taking care of people. We have so many bigger things to worry about than whether or not we can put up a tree."
The project came together over social media. Some wondered about getting the names of every person who had died of COVID-19, but concern for privacy and the lack of public records led them to simply name the counties. They used the county-specific numbers that the state Department of Health Services (DHS) posts every day in counting up how many rings to make. About 10 people took part, says Walton; one volunteer made 1,000 rings herself.
"We had more volunteers than we ended up needing, because this just speaks so powerfully to people, resonates so deeply with people," Walton adds. "So many people, I think, are so frustrated by the lack of action that people are happy to be able to do something tangible."
Volunteers array strands of an 833-foot paper chain on the steps of the state Capitol Wednesday, commemorating Wisconsin residents who died from COVID-19. (Photo by Erik Gunn)
The data chain is frozen in time as of Monday's DHS report, when there had been a total of 4,425 deaths from COVID-19 reported in the state. "We couldn't keep up, which is also a sad reality of this pandemic," Walton says.
In a notice composed to announce Wednesday's paper-chain-protest, Walton wrote: "GOP state legislators have put up more Christmas trees (two) than they've passed COVID relief bills (zero) since April. Meanwhile, the pandemic is raging out of control in Wisconsin. Their inaction and obstruction have contributed to the spread of COVID and to the consequential suffering of Wisconsinites impacted in so many ways by the pandemic."
Volunteers arrayed the chain — roughly 833 feet long — on the corner of the Capitol facing State Street. The paper loops meandered up the steps, down again and back up, occasionally draping over fixtures on the staircase.
THE MORNING NEWSLETTER
The organizers presented the chain to incoming state Rep. Francesca Hong (D-Madison), who will take office in January.
"As I stand in front of you today, we've reached 4,882 reported deaths from COVID-19 in the state of Wisconsin," Hong told the group scattered over the steps. "Over 250 days since lawmakers in the Capitol have passed a bill. Zero COVID relief bills since April. That's the harm of this pandemic."
Hong criticized Republicans in the Legislature, for whom she said "our government only works to serve the rich," and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) for "obstructionism and callousness" in the pandemic and for acting "as a roadblock for the governor and for our state's COVID response."
"We have the best tool in fighting injustices: in remembering our shared humanity," Hong said. "We cannot accept the status quo. We cannot accept that for many in our state, inadequate health care, financial insecurity, racial inequality, and many more structural inequities have literally cost them their lives."
The organizers had considered making the chain a "gift" to Vos, or asking Hong to do so. Might they have hung it on the GOP's contraband tree in the building — if it is even still there?
"It's really tempting," Walton allows. "In the short term, that would be great, because it would literally bury the tree."
Instead, though the chain went to Hong for safekeeping, and perhaps a longer life.
"It's a very, such a powerful statement that preserving it to travel and continue to show people — just the tangible reminder of what we've lost — I think makes more sense," Walton continues.
Volunteers gather up the chain after displaying it. (Photo by Erik Gunn)
"I just keep coming back to it doesn't have to be this way. You know, there are things that we could have done that could have kept so many of these people alive, and we didn't do it. You know, we did it for a month. But then our legislators literally threw their hands up and said, 'Well, there's nothing we can do.' And that's just not true."
Of course, Walton says, the chain by itself isn't enough.
"It's important that we don't just memorialize the dead, but that we try to get justice for those people that are still living, on their behalf," Walton says. "It's our job as the survivors to make sure these people aren't forgotten and to make sure that we're not continuing to add to these names, as much as that's possible.
"And there's a lot we can be doing to make that more possible."
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Senior Reporter Erik Gunn reports and writes on work and the economy, along with related subjects, for the Wisconsin Examiner. He spent 24 years as a freelance writer for Milwaukee Magazine, Isthmus, The Progressive, BNA Inc., and other publications, winning awards for investigative reporting, feature writing, beat coverage, business writing, and commentary. An East Coast native, he previously covered labor for The Milwaukee Journal after reporting for newspapers in upstate New York and northern Illinois. He's a graduate of Beloit College (English Comp.) and the Columbia School of Journalism. Off hours he is the Examiner's resident Springsteen and Jackson Browne fanboy and model railroad nerd.
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A somber Christmas decoration decks the Capitol steps

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Transnet reports throughput growth
South Africa's government-owned logistics company, Transnet, recorded a 6.1% increase in throughput in the 2017/18 financial year, handling 4.67m teu.
The company also recorded a 6.5% increase in railed automotive and container volumes, and attributed both sets of growth to the deployment of new-generation locomotives on the network and continuing progress towards the road-to-rail strategy.
Transnet has ordered 1,064 locomotives at a current cost of R30.1bn (US$2bn) as part of its push to move freight from road to rail. A total of 402 units are now in operation, while a further 16 have been delivered and are currently undergoing testing.
The volume growth at Transnet's port arm, Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), helped to boost its revenue, which increased by 12.7% to R11.7bn (US$814m), while the revenue at Transnet's terminal operator subsidiary, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT), rose by 11.1% to R12.4bn (US$863m).
Transnet handles containers at facilities in Durban Container Terminal (DCT), East London, Ngqura, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. The Port of DCT is South Africa's and sub-Saharan Africa's largest container port, and TNPA and TPT recently announced plans to increase the throughput of Pier 2 from 2.4m teu to 2.9m teu.
This work, which will deepen Pier 2's berth to 16.5 m and lengthen them to 1,210 m, is expected to begin later this year.
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In Florida, no matter how clean you keep your house, you will be visited occasionally by cockroaches. They are so common that Floridians have a polite name for them – "water bugs" (as in, "excuse me, I believe a water bug just skittered across your kitchen floor"). This is the story of how one particular "water bug" named "Cocky" played a critical role in cracking a severe case of obsessive compulsive disorder.
As with all the cases I will describe henceforth, patient-identifying factors will be altered to protect privacy, but the essential details of what happened are presented as they occurred.
A very wealthy couple and their son flew across the country to see me in the context of a well reputed intensive OCD treatment program. A crippling fear of germs had gained a foothold in their son's life after he finished high school and he had retreated to the family compound thereafter. In an effort to keep him comfortable, his parents had been purchasing brand new towels and sheets for him – daily – for many years. His parents obviously loved him and meant well, but did not realize that when life is allowed to conform to a patient's fears, it strengthens and locks in the fear response. This particular patient – let's call him David – was 26 years old, living in near-total isolation in his own wing of the family mansion for several years due to pervasive contamination-type OCD.
I wondered, what approach could overcome the strength of David's fears?
Before jumping into treatment, I spent 3 hours over 2 days interviewing David, hoping to generate a possible answer to this question. I learned several things.
1) First, I learned that David was once able to make friends and connect with others his age. I found him very likable. So, he was not socially avoidant by nature – rather, the OCD was the primary cause of his isolation.
2) David wanted to go to college but felt that he would never be able to make it given the strength of his fears. Again, the OCD was the primary obstacle.
3) Finally, David had a strong interest in film-making and his greatest dream was to attend film school in New York City, but once again, the OCD had limited his travels. He had a particular issue with "crowded city germs" especially as he thought about taking the subway.
Just how strong is the social facilitation effect? Strong enough to get David onto a subway in New York City four weeks after we started treatment.
Here is what I proposed – David and I would collaboratively create a list of "germ-ridden" things to interact with, leading up to biggest challenge - holding a live cockroach by the end of week 3. We would film the process as he actively confronted his fears. He would be allowed to keep the footage of how he overcame his fears, ultimately accomplishing something most people would not be able to do – to hold a living, moving cockroach in his bare hands. (This was before the days of "Fear Factor" but I suspect the same social facilitation effect applies. Also, what is interesting is that aside from myself, there were no other observers – however, the implied "audience" that might view the footage in the future was a powerful catalyst for change in David's case).
Holding a cockroach was defined as the final treatment program challenge before taking the therapy into New York City. That is, we agreed that once he had succeeded in all of the challenges we set for a three week period, he would then film himself travelling to New York City, riding the subway, and touring some of the film schools he might want to attend in the future.
We met with his parents and without knowing our plan, they agreed that if he wanted to travel to New York City in 4 weeks, they would happily foot the bill for the trip to tour film schools. (Based on their past behavior, I was fairly sure that they would have booked David a ticket on the Concorde for a world tour if he could overcome his fears).
What I could not have predicted is that once we had the therapeutic narrative in place, "Cocky" the cockroach would take on such an important role. I just knew that my job was to find a cockroach, support David as he challenged his fears, and hold the camera steady.
A sizable "water bug" helpfully scuttled into my house at the beginning of week 2. I trapped him in an old Tupperware container and brought him to my office. I encouraged David to see Cocky as a "co-therapist," a friendly (if disgusting) support in helping him get his life back. David named him "Cocky" and observed him at close range over several days. Cocky, in turn, witnessed David bravely march through his fears, ultimately progressing to being able to hold him gently in his palm, sweat dripping from the tiny aperture in his loosely curled fist.
And, just as we planned, he (David, not Cocky) then went on to New York City and rode the subway. I got a letter from his parents a few months later to relay that he was in the process of applying to film schools.
So, what made this approach effective? Certainly, it was based on an empirically supported behavioral approach to the treatment of OCD – exposure and response prevention. Narrative therapy also played a role. However, I think the strongest factor was tapping the power of social facilitation in a way that reflected David's biggest dreams and strongest motivators. This is the essence of free-range psychology.
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Christel de Laat (Schijndel, 14 juli 1966) is een Nederlandse cabaretière, actrice en presentatrice.

Biografie
De Laat werkte vanaf 1996 in een Brabantse feesterij. Daar begon ze al snel tijdens feestjes op te treden als het typetje Nel, waarmee ze ook op Omroep Brabant te zien was. In 2000 ging ze als zelfstandige aan de slag, waarbij de ze onder andere te zien was in televisieprogramma's Ook dat nog! en Toren C. Ook was ze te zien als actrice in een aantal series en films. Sinds 2019 presenteert ze op zaterdag van 12.00 tot 14.00 uur samen met Jordy Graat het radioprogramma Graat & de Laat op Omroep Brabant.

Op 18 april 2020 kreeg ze tijdens haar radioprogramma de commissarispenning uitgereikt van commissaris van de Koning Wim van de Donk.

Sinds 2017 toert ze met een avondvullende show langs theaters in en buiten Brabant. Na het succes van de eerste show, "Vijftig jaar lief en leed" volgde "Zijn daar nog vragen over?".

Filmografie
 Wolfseinde - Ma Kersjes (2008-2010)
 Toren C - Wilma (2008-2016)
 New Kids Nitro - Tourguide (2011)
 De Raad - Mevrouw de Bakker (2012)
 Kankerlijers - Psychiatrisch verpleegkundige (2014)
 Wiplala - Politieagente (2014)
 Smeris - Barvrouw (2015-2017)
 Adios Amigos - Gehandicapte vrouw (2016)
 Dokter Tinus - Betty van den Oetelaar (2016)

Nederlands cabaretier
Nederlands filmacteur
Nederlands televisieacteur
Nederlands radiopresentator

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What causes left-sided painful in tongue and swelling in neck after drinking alcohol?
Question: I am not a regular drinker. I drink once in 15 days. Usually I drink whisky. The next day after drinking, when I eat, I feel pain at left side of my tongue and then followed up with swelling on left side of neck below the chin. This started happening since few months only. The swelling goes after 12 hours or so and then everything is back to normal. It may be something to do with my salivary glands. I am also a smoker. Is there anything I can do about this?
You are having salivary glands inflammation following drinking.
I have read your query & understand your concerns .
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[CAPE TOWN] Reduced primary food production by microscopic plants in the Indian Ocean resulting from rising sea surface temperatures is contributing to a drop in marine life, according to a modelling study.
Researchers from France, India, South Africa and United States say that a decreasing trend in phytoplankton blooms — a component of ocean food webs — could be impacting the greater ocean ecosystem and food security.
In the study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters this week (19 January, the researchers identify a 20 per cent decrease in marine phytoplankton, microscopic plants, in the Indian Ocean over the past 60 years.
"If this goes on, the availability of nutrients, biomass and then primary production of fish will decrease."
Marchello Vichi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
"These trends are driven by atmospheric warming captured by the ocean and inhibiting natural mixing from vertical upwelling [rising of seawater]," says a co-author of the study, Marchello Vichi, an associate professor at the Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Using climate projection modelling, supplemented with satellite observations of ocean chlorophyll concentrations and dating back to 1997, Vichi and the research team were able to analyse data from over 50 years in the western Indian Ocean.
They found historical simulations indicating that marine phytoplankton has decreased 20 per cent in the past six decades. Additionally, recent satellite data showed that the decline was up to 30 per cent over the past 16 years.
Marine phytoplankton are microscopic plants in the ocean that sustain the aquatic food web. They help drive the marine ecosystem and impact the global fisheries catch.
Phytoplankton bloom with the benefit of monsoons, which drive ocean water away from the surface, and recall nutrient-rich water from below. These nutrients then get to the most illuminated area of the water column, allowing for phytoplankton to grow and feed the marine ecosystem, Vichi explains.
"Despite an increase in monsoon circulation, ocean warming is creating conditions that are not favourable to upwelling," says Vichi. "If this goes on, the availability of nutrients, biomass and then primary production of fish will decrease."
According to the researchers, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN estimates that 20 per cent of the global tuna catch occurs in the Indian Ocean, with a previous study showing that over the past 50 years, tuna catch rates have declined by 50 to 90 per cent in the region.
"Any decline in the marine ecosystem could affect food security in the Indian Ocean Rim countries [including India, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Tanzania], and will have an effect on economies and markets," says the study's corresponding author, Mathew Koll Roxy, a climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology.
"Our modelling should provide a framework to develop policies to limit both over-fishing and greenhouse warming," Roxy says.
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In South Africa, such policies are on the government agenda, says Sean O'Donoghue, acting manager of the climate protection branch of the Environmental Planning and Climate Protection Department in Durban, South Africa.
While South Africa's Indian Ocean coastline is different from the western region in the study, O'Donoghue says climate change impacts a number of global industries.
"Our strategy is to put communities and ecosystems at the centre of our climate change response," O'Donoghue explains, asserting: "With strong political leadership, a new mandate in the COP 21 Paris agreement, national legislation on the horizon and partnerships with local governments, the potential for implementing effective adaptation measures is good."
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The dacoit challenged the police with an encounter, said – even if dead, it will be hated for 1000 years
Omvir alias Laden Gurjar, a notorious dacoit of ten thousand in Dhaulpur district of Rajasthan, has challenged the police administration by making videos viral on social media. This video of about 2 minutes and 5 seconds has been viral on social media.
In the video that went viral on social media, the dacoit laden is expressing his anguish on one side and on the other side is also threatening the police about the encounter.
In the viral video, the dacoit laden is also accusing the Bari MLA of the district Girraj Singh Malinga for pressuring the police against him. The dacoit laden is talking about the encounter that killing Omvir aka Laden is not a small thing. Even if he dies, his hatred will last for a thousand years.
Significantly, the dacoit Omvir alias Laden became active again in the world of crime after being released from jail. Recently, the dacoit Omvir alias Laden took viral video on social media on 25 November 2020 by taking a young man hostage and brutally beating him with waste material in Kanchanpur police station area. After that, the employees of the canal contractor in Basedi police station area were beaten up and demanded extortion of Rs 10 lakh.
In Dholpur district, about a dozen prosecutions have been registered against the dacoit laden in the serious sections, about which the district police has declared a reward of 10,000. The dacoit laden was also involved in the incident with the Keshav gang in an encounter between the dacoit Keshav gang and police in Basideang police station area. In the information received from the sources, the police is searching for the dacoit laden and the young man who made the video viral. The police are also combing continuously in the ravines.
In this regard, SHO Lakhon Singh of Kanchanpur police station told that Omvir alias Laden, a prize of ten thousand, is making the video viral to bring fear to the people. Investigation is being done in this matter.
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Although paella is known throughout the world and considered by many to be Spain's national dish, it actually is a regional one, from Valencia, which is an area found on the east coast of mainland Spain.
However, its history goes back centuries and originates in the medieval state of Al-Andalus, which was a Muslim controlled area including parts of Spain, Portugal and France.
It was the tradition, back then, to prepare large pans of rice and fish with various spices, for such things as large family gatherings and religious festivals.
Thus was established the custom of eating rice in Spain.
The large pan used to prepare it was called a paellera and, in around 1840, the name was shortened to become the actual name of the meal itself.
If you thought that the ingredients of this dish were a touch exotic today, think again. Very early paellas used water vole (honestly), eels and butter beans. As people became more prosperous, ingredients began to get a little more upmarket.
Thus, there was the inclusion of such things as rabbit, chicken, duck and even snails on occasion.
As you can see, there is no seafood on this list. Many people's idea of paella is a rice pan crammed with such things as prawns, mussels and shrimp. Indeed, this is a type favoured by those Valencians situated right on the Mediterranean coast, but the main type is meat.
The rice which Valencian chefs generally use is called bomba, a short grain variety grown in the area of Calasparra, a municipality found in Murcia, a region just south of Valencia. This is the most suitable because it absorbs more of the broth than other rices.
In a true paella, there has to be a layer of toasted rice at the bottom of the pan. If the dish is cooked on an open wood fire, this happens automatically. If cooked in an oven, the pan must then be placed on an open flame to achieve this effect. This toasted rice is considered a delicacy.
Today, there are three different varieties of this dish - Valencian, Seafood and Mixed.
You're literally given free reign as to what goes into one of these. The only stipulations appear to be salt, saffron and garlic and tomatoes (plus the rice, of course!). Thus, you may find any of the above ingredients, plus such things as chorizo sausage and red peppers.
As is the case with so many dishes like this, there are hundreds of regional variations. You may have seen one with black rice. In actual fact, this is not strictly a paella and the title "black rice" is also a misnomer. The rice is, in fact, normal white colour and the blackness comes from the cuttlefish ink that is part of the recipe. Taking a look at that image, I'd have to admit that it's not for me!
This ubiquitous dish can often be found, being prepared in a huge pan in the open air, during one of Tenerife's many festivals. All the attendees of the festival tuck in and help themselves. Communal dining!


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Remembering "Landslide" Clyde Picht
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Clyde Picht had an uncanny nose for misconduct, and he always pointed it out without any niceties. In a 2006 Weekly cover story, Picht — the former Fort Worth city councilmember who died Friday at age 87 — called out then-Mayor Mike Moncrief for awarding city contracts to oil companies that were directly profiting Moncrief.
"If he gets any money from them, he sure as hell shouldn't vote on those issues," said Picht, who served on city council from 1997 to 2005.
History has vindicated Picht on many of the issues he took hard stances for and against. Calling out the influence of Big Oil on local politics is a common trope these days, but many elected officials at the time failed to see the Barnett Shale for what it was and continues to be: a shell game.
Early into the development of Panther Island, the $1.2 billion development on the North Side by the Tarrant Regional Water District (TRWD), Picht questioned the motivations behind the "flood control" project.
"We don't have a flooding problem in the areas just north of downtown now," he told the Weekly in 2011. "These parks get a little flooding every now and then but nothing like you will see if the bypass channel is built. It is just basic engineering. Move water into a more compact and shorter waterway, and those downstream will get more water coming their way."
The bulk of federal funds appropriated for Panther Island have yet to materialize, and the project has effectively stalled, although TRWD directors see a bright future for the project.
News of the former councilman's death has saddened friends and family who admired Picht both for his lifelong service to his country and refusal to denigrate those he disagreed with.
Layla Caraway, who knew Picht the last 12 years of his life, said the former city councilmember had a penchant for "speaking the truth, even when most didn't want to hear it."
Online comments from people who held different political viewpoints than the conservative Picht have been respectful or even full of praise, she said.
"I think that's a pretty good legacy to leave," she said.
Picht was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was active in the Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts. After earning a BS in Forest Management from Utah State University, where he was also enrolled in the Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps, he worked for the U.S. Forest Service fighting forest fires and managing recreational areas. A subsequent 22-year career in the Air Force saw him reach the rank of lieutenant colonel after several stints overseas, including a combat tour in Vietnam that earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart.
After retiring in 1978 from his post at Carswell Air Force Base (now Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth), Picht began a second career as a flight instructor for American Airlines. He retired in 1996 after 18 years of training flight crews.
Picht then turned his attention to civic endeavors and public service, first as the president of the Wedgwood East Neighborhood Association, then as city councilmember for District 6. Picht won his council seat by a scant 10 votes, which earned him the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Landslide Clyde."
In his last year in office, Picht won the Weekly's staff choice for Best Elected Official.
"During his long council career, Picht was about the only one in City Hall who stood up against all the massive tax breaks being handed out like candy to the rich," the Best Of issue read. "Don't expect him to be on the sidelines for long — he's taken the first steps to run for a spot on the board of Tarrant Regional Water District, which will oversee the biggest potential tax-grab of our time," Panther Island.
In 2006, Picht ran against and ultimately lost to Jim Lane in his bid for a seat on the TRWD's board, and he lost a three-way mayoral race to Moncrief in 2009. Throughout his tenure at City Hall and well after, Picht was a constant source of insight into the inner workings of local government. When Weekly reporters had questions, Picht laid bare the facts as he saw them.
Ahead of several 2012 proposals that aimed to weaken the city's code of ethics, Picht reminded our readers what was at stake.
"The ethics code," he said, "was created to hold city officials in check, not to protect them, so to have the city attorney, whose salary is set by the city council and who serves at the pleasure of that council, rewrite the city's ethics code … well, I'm not sure that the city attorney is the best person to write the code meant to keep those officials in check."
As recently as June, the Weekly republished a past quote from Picht to illustrate the city's permissive approach to governing the Fort Worth police department's Crime Control and Prevention District (CCPD), which is fueled by a half-cent city tax. Fort Worth city councilmembers have governed the roughly $85 million annual fund since 2010 — the year Moncrief disbanded independent citizen oversight over the tax funds. Many civic-minded individuals and groups are calling for the restoration of independent oversight of the CCPD.
"A large part of the crime district budget has just been […] for just buying things" that the police wanted, Picht said in 2004, referring to how the CCPD is viewed by critics as a slush fund.
Caraway said the world won't be the same without Picht.
"His spirit, wit, integrity, and sense of humor were unmatched," she said. "His drive to right wrongs and call out cronies was an extension of his military career, which was the stuff of legends. To many, he was a hero. To me, he was a dear friend, and I miss him already. As he would say in closing, 'Cheers.' "
Picht's wife of 65 years, Emeline "Tru" Picht, died in June from complications related to Alzheimer's. Picht is survived by his four children — James Picht, Renée Thelin, Wendy Picht, and Steven Picht — as well as three grandchildren. The Picht family plans to hold a memorial for him when it is safe to do so publicly.
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It continues. Rep. Adam Schiff remains insistent that there was Trump/Russia collusion that needs further congressional investigation. He cites Trump campaign folks giving Russians confidential voter data, Trump family members taking a meeting in Trump Tower where they expected to get dirt on Hillary Clinton, and Robert Mueller's failure to interview Trump. Democrats are also blasting Trump for seeking revenge on those involved in the probe.
The GOP calls for Schiff's resignation, and the Democrats close ranks, claiming that Trump wants Schiff out because Schiff has the goods on him and blasting Trump for seeking revenge on those involved in the probe.
How petty. Can't we just move on?
Moreover, the leaks are starting, claiming that there are ambiguities in both the obstruction and the collusion sections of the Mueller report that indicate Attorney General William Barr is engaging in a cover-up. Whether this will get old or provide a basis for more of the same from the usual suspects remains to be seen, but Democrats and the media are still at it on their anti-Trump theme.
Exhibit A is the latest from Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on the Jusiie Smollett matter. While Emanuel moves to set the stage for suing Smollett to recover the costs of the hoax (Smollett's folks are threatening their own lawsuit for what they claim is defamation of character by the Chicago Police Department), he also needed to shore up his Democrat identity politics/victimhood/anti-Trump bona fides. He actually blamed — you guessed it — Trump for the whole thing, because Trump "created the toxic atmosphere that played a role in the Smollett hoax." No, I'm not making that up.
The last week or so have seen any number of media anti-Trump spins. Does anyone recall when Trump promised to eradicate ISIS, which the media portrayed as the all-powerful mutation of the radical Islamic terror movement that was destined to establish the next caliphate and controlled huge chunks of territory in Iraq and Syria? It was a truism that if the gloves were off, the U.S. military could defeat ISIS. But the idea of yet another war in the Middle East didn't ring anyone's chimes.
Still, what was needed was the political will to find a way to get rid of ISIS. Trump turned the military loose to organize a coalition and provide support. And what was thought to be an unachievable dream became the utter destruction of the ISIS caliphate in less than two years.
But when Trump portrayed the effort as a total defeat of ISIS and the recapture of all of the previously controlled ISIS territory, the media called him a liar because he used the words "total" and "all." The media backed this up by showing video of a handful of ISIS fighters cornered in the only few square blocks left of the caliphate. There was also an interview with an ISIS woman, seen holding a small baby, who vowed never to surrender and raise her child to fight on.
This was supposed to be evidence that Trump exaggerates everything and that while he may have liberated some territory, ISIS remained a real ideological threat — as if Trump doesn't know that. Makes you wonder if these guys would have denied a U.S. victory because six Japanese were still holed up in caves on Iwo Jima.
Late last year, a Florida man built and mailed 16 bombs to prominent Democrat targets like Hillary Clinton, George Soros, John Brennan, Joe Biden, and, for some inexplicable reason, Robert De Niro. The perpetrator was identified and arrested shortly therefore and charged with 30 counts of using weapons of mass destruction, illegal mailing of same, and other federal crimes.
Last week, he pleaded guilty to 65 felonies. While fair and balanced news outlets like The Wall Street Journal reported the fact that the "Mail Bomber Pleads Guilty," the mainstream media in the form of The New York Times, Washington Post, and leftist cable television all included the modifier "Trump supporter" or "Trump fan" in their headlines.
As I've said before, if it were proven that without draconian measures the world would end from man-made climate change in 12 years, I would be at the front of the line demanding the worldwide elimination of fossil fuels and whatever else it took to survive. But contrary to what Beto O'Rourke assures us is the unanimous conclusion to that effect by "climate scientists," no such evidence exists.
Nevertheless, every prominent Democrat embraced the Green New Deal, which is the ultimate socialist manifesto and government power grab disguised as a planet-saving roadmap. But when the GOP put the Green New Deal to a vote, not a single Democrat supported it. Almost all, including the 2020 wannabes, voted "present" and blasted the vote as a GOP scheme to embarrass them.
It's baffling how going on the record to support the plan that every Democrat lauded as the way to save the world could embarrass anyone. Shouldn't it be a badge of honor? It's the height of Democrat hypocrisy, yet the media hopped on the GOP-dirty-trick bandwagon with both feet.
The economy continues to roar along, and if history is any guide, it will provide the single biggest boost to Trump in 2020. But the New York Times is doing its part to spin this in the opposite direction.
Using front-page real estate, the Times informed us that "experts" see an economic slowdown coming, and if it results in anything less than the 3% GDP Trump has promised, his reelection will be nuked by disappointed voters and unfulfilled expectations.
The point was repeated multiple times in the article that Trump is trying to take credit for the economy and so he must take the blame when growth drops below 3%, which apparently the Times now views as the new bar after eight years of less than 2% growth. Clear now?
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Q: How to check for nested square brackets? I have the input string below:
[text1][text2][text3]...[textN]

and I want to apply the following validation rule using regular expression:

The ] and [ cannot be included in other [].

For example, the next input strings are not correct:
[test1][test2[][test3]
[test1][test2]][test3]
[test1][test2[lol][test3]
[test1][test2]lol][test3]

I need to validate the input string because I am going to split it on [] groups (again using regular expression).

A: If you really want a regexp here is a quick one :
^(\[[^\[\]]+\])*$
Works on your examples
The principle here is for each bracket pair (\[.*\])* to contain any text that does NOT contains a bracket [^\[\]]+
In case you need to be able to have [test1][test2][][test3] working change the + with an * to allow the empty string to match

A: This should do the trick:
^(\[\w*\])*$

It means

*

*^ start with

*[ a [

*\w* multiple word characters (\w matches [A-Za-z0-9_])

*] a ]

** multiple times

*$ end of string

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Experts: Smartphone Apps Alone Can't Protect Children
Filed Under:Android, Android App, AppCertain, Beth Blecherman, iPhone, iPhone App, Julia Roberts, MamaBear, Phone Apps, Robin Stern, Smartphone Apps, Smartphone Safety, TechMamas.com, Technology
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) — Some new apps allow parents to use smartphones to protect their children but experts say you shouldn't rely on technology when it comes to family safety.
Beth Blecherman, founder of TechMamas.com, said there are a growing number of apps that not only track children, but can also restrict which apps kids can use.
"You can actually track your child thru the device. You can put on web filters. You can control access for them not to download any apps at all, you have to approve it," said Blecherman.
Other apps, such as MamaBear and AppCertain, will tell you what your kids are exposed to online through their phones and who they add as contacts. They will also let you limit their access to the devices.
"With AppCertain, you can actually set curfews for digital devices for the kids and I think that's really important 'cause kids have a hard time managing their screen time," said Blecherman.
Some apps monitor kids offline, using GPS to pinpoint their location.
Julia Roberts, a mother, said she wants to know where her children are at all times and counts on a locator app called Life360 to give her peace of mind. The app has other features including one that alerts her to the whereabouts of sexual predators.
"One of the reasons I do it is just so we can monitor their safety," said Roberts.
But some experts say the monitoring of children can only go so far and when it comes to keeping them safe, there's nothing more valuable than face-to-face communication.
"No new innovation in technology is going to take the place of those important conversations about 'what do you do when you're confronted with a stranger, online, across the street, in the supermarket?'," said Robin Stern, associate director of Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence.
Experts also say that it's important for parents and children to agree on the use of apps. Otherwise, children will find ways around them.
Still, Roberts said she is sold on her electronic oversight, adding that her kids think twice about what they do because of it. Her 12-year-old daughter admits that's true.
"I think of being more careful because my parents would know what I'm doing," said her daughter, Quinnlin.