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Gallery|Climate Crisis
Photos: Ladakh herders struggle on the frontier of climate crisis
The Himalayan region's sparsely populated villages witness shifting weather patterns, altering people's lives through floods, landslides and droughts.
Dolma Angmo, wife of nomad Tsering Angchuk, attends her Himalayan goats in the remote Kharnak village. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Nomad Tsering Angchuk promises to stay put in his remote village in India's Ladakh region.
His two sons and most of his fellow villagers have migrated to a nearby urban settlement but Angchuk is determined to herd his flock of fine cashmere-producing goats in the treeless Kharnak village, a hauntingly beautiful but unforgiving, cold mountainous desert.
The 47-year-old herds 800 sheep and goats and a flock of 50 Himalayan yaks in Kharnak. In 2013, he migrated to Kharnakling, an urban settlement on the outskirts of Leh city but returned a year later, not because his old home had become any better, he said, "but because the urban centres are getting worse and there are only menial jobs for people like us".
Nestled between Pakistan and China, Ladakh has faced both territorial disputes and the stark effects of climate change. The region's sparsely populated villages have witnessed shifting weather patterns that have already altered people's lives through floods, landslides and droughts.
Thousands of Ladakh nomads, known for their unique lifestyle in one of the most hostile landscapes in the world, have been at the heart of these changes, compounded by border conflict and shrinking grazing land. The changes have forced hundreds to migrate to mainly urban settlements, while others work to make it a more habitable place.
Mountains near the remote Kharnak village, in the cold desert region of Ladakh [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Angchuk's sons did not return — they do not want to be shepherds, he said — and settled in Leh. One became a construction contractor and the other works at a travel agency, part of the region's burgeoning tourism industry.
With 300-plus days of sunshine, the desert is in the rain shadows of the Himalayas and receives only about 100mm (4 inches) of precipitation annually.
At an altitude of 4,750 metres (15,000 feet), temperatures can fall to minus 35 degrees Celsius (minus 31 degrees Fahrenheit) during long winter months. But it is getting hotter.
There is no word for mosquito in the local Ladakhi language, but the region has lots of these insects now, said Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer working on solutions for sustainability at his Himalayan Institute of Alternative Ladakh.
"These are all coming with the viability of climate for them," he said.
Ladakh's thousands of glaciers, which help give the rugged region its title as one of the water towers of the world, are receding at an alarming rate, threatening the water supply of millions of people.
"This year we had an unprecedented melting of glaciers," said Professor Shakil Romshoo, a leading glaciologist and earth scientist.
Romshoo said his team has been studying seven glaciers in the Himalayas for nine years but "this year shows the maximum ablation", referring to the amount of snow and ice that has disappeared.
Drung-Drung, Ladakh's second largest glacier, melted 5 metres (16.4 feet) in its thickness this year compared with an average of 1 metre (3.3 feet) annually in the last few years.
The melting, experts say, has been exacerbated by an increase in local pollution that has worsened due to the region's militarisation. Black carbon or soot from the burning of fossil fuels on the glaciers absorbs sunlight and contaminates waterways, threatening the region's security of food, water and energy.
The pollution is "a huge environmental onslaught", engineer Wangchuk said. "Most of it is due to heating shelters that can be easily replaced by non-carbon-based heating systems."
He said Ladakh today is "probably the densest militarised zone where the civilian-soldier ratio is 1:2". The ongoing standoff between India and China has witnessed the deployment of tens of thousands of additional troops in the region.
"Climate change is a global mismanagement, while pollution is a local mismanagement. We are witnessing devastating effects of the mix in Ladakh," Wangchuk said.
A shepherd herds his flock on a mountain in the remote Kharnak village [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Herders say with access to the usual breeding and birthing grounds blocked by militaries on either side, newborn goats and sheep are perishing in the extreme cold of higher elevations.
Shepherds roamed these pasturelands atop the roof of the world along the unmarked borders with China for centuries where the harsh winds cause the goats to grow their super-soft wool.
Cashmere takes its name from the disputed Kashmir region, where artisans weave the wool into fine yarn and exquisite clothing items that cost up to thousands of rupees apiece in a major handicraft export industry.
"None of the other products gets as much revenue as what they produce and they are the true generators of wealth in Ladakh," Wangchuk said about Kharnak nomads. "They are the most precious but they are the most neglected lot."
The nomads live gruelling life and follow a strict round-the-clock routine. They milk and shear their animals twice a day, maintain stone-walled pens, weave carpets, collect and sun-dry manure for fire and cook food. Shepherds also shuttle their animals from place to place more often than usual in search of greener grazing areas.
But there is almost no healthcare, school or proper irrigation system.
"It's a whole-year work here, no holidays. Even if you are sick you have to tend to animals," Angchuk, the nomad, said. "In a decade or so, I think there won't be any Kharnak nomads, although our people will be around. We will be history."
Authorities say they are doing everything they can to stop the flight of nomads. Today the village has solar panels for electricity, government-built prefab huts and water taps. Some parts have telecommunication coverage.
But the herders say it is not enough.
Tundup Namgail, Leh's district sheep husbandry officer, said all facilities notwithstanding, the nomads need to be "lured back on practical terms, not by romanticising their lives".
"[The] only way to keep them there is to improve their profitability. Make them rich somehow," he said.
Other solutions are emerging. Ice stupas, an artificial glacier made by villagers and named after a type of sacred Buddhist structure, are becoming an alternate water source. In winter, villagers store water in the form of conical-shaped ice heaps that dribble down as the temperature warms.
In the region's Kulum village, this method has partially worked.
Some eight out of 11 families in the farming village migrated to other areas after a catastrophic drought followed deadly flooding in 2010 that dried up Kulum's water.
A decade later, villagers and a team of environmental activists, including Wangchuk, formed an ice stupa up in the nearby mountain. Last year, some families returned as a trickle of water from the man-made glacier irrigated some patches of the village field.
Still, experts say the climate change-induced flash floods and droughts have disrupted the hydrological system of many villages.
"It's a kind of a blessing in disguise that lesser people are doing farming now," Wangchuk said. "People who are not farming are in a way helping those who are farming by making available the little water that now comes."
Kharnak herder Paljor Tundup nevertheless worries he could be the last generation of shepherds in the region.
"Our children don't want this life," he said as he picked up a hank of wool to pass on to his daughter weaving a carpet nearby. "Honestly, we also don't have much to argue with them in favour of this kind of life."
Tsering Angchuk, right, sits with his wife, Dolma Angmo, inside their mud-and-stone house in remote Kharnak village. Angchuk is determined to herd his flock of fine cashmere-producing goats in the treeless village, a hauntingly beautiful but unforgiving, cold mountainous desert. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A nomad fetches water from a hand pump in Kharnak. Thousands of Ladakh nomads known for their unique lifestyle in one of the most hostile landscapes in the world have been at the heart of changes caused by global warming, compounded by border conflict and shrinking grazing land. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A hardy goat which produces cashmere stands outside a house made of mud and rock. Cashmere takes its name from Kashmir, where artisans weave the wool into fine yarn and exquisite clothing items that cost up to thousands apiece in a major handicraft export industry. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Nomad women weave a carpet in Kharnak village. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A young girl carries a child on her back as she passes through a street in Kharnakling, near the town of Leh. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Indian army vehicles move in a convoy in the cold desert region of Ladakh. Nestled between Pakistan and China, Ladakh has not just faced territorial disputes but also stark climate change. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A nomadic herder shepherds his cattle flock on a mountaintop in the remote Kharnak village. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
Black smoke rises from a chimney at a hot mix plant for blacktopping roads in Kharnak village. An increase in local pollution that has worsened due to the region's militarisation has exacerbated the melting of the glaciers in the region, experts say. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A row of solar panels for electricity has been set up in Kharnak. Authorities say they are doing everything they can to stop the flight of nomads, such as setting up solar panels for electricity, government-built prefab huts and water taps. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
A woman fetches water from a glacial trickle in Kharnak village. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]
'Climate change is a global mismanagement while the pollution is a local mismanagement. We're witnessing devastating effects of the mix in Ladakh,' said Sonam Wangchuk, an engineer working on solutions for sustainability at his Himalayan Institute of Alternative Ladakh. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]


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Wait Until Evening
Wait Until Evening by Henrietta Buckmaster (novel). The title comes from a quote from Sophocles' Oedipus Rex: "One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been." The title gives hope that the protagonist, Catherine Mills, will find solace at the end of her challenging ordeal. We are pulled into this story as Catherine stumbles in shock from a terrifying car ride and accident. The dark, foggy British heath is a match for the confusion in her mind as this American instinctively follows a light to a house where she might find another human. She is literally dumbstruck and has trouble remembering anything, including her own identity. Or maybe she's just not talking. As clearer images distinguish themselves from the mist, we discover that she has put herself in the competent hands of a Danish chemist and that she came to England on a mission to help her son, who escaped from an explosion reminiscent of the Weatherman bombing of a house on 11th Street in Manhattan.
Catherine is a writer, and one of her reflections seems to me to represent Henrietta Buckmaster's own thought about her writing. The Dane asks her why she is a writer:
" 'It's me. It's what I am, what I divine. What I reach for. It's everyone I think about. It's time and it's no time. It's the notches of my growth. It's a way of giving and receiving that I
can't do without.' She moved abruptly and then sat down by the window, frowning at the wind. It's a long journey to the beginning. It's always a new birth. "
Flight to Freedom, The Story of the Underground Railroad

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Wow, is that right? Did the Ala Moana location of Build-A-Bear close down? It seemed like we were just there! The Build-A-Bear store locator shows the nearest location is either San Mateo (2386 miles) or Santa Clara (2400 miles away).
Oh well, at least we have Luna Lamb and Ovejita.


WASHINGTON, D.C. – March 25, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin announced that all the individuals involved in a violent home invasion in July 2014 on Forsyth Street in Providence that left two individuals injured have pleaded to their roles.
Miguel Perez (age 21) of Primrose Avenue, Providence, pleaded guilty Thursday before Superior Court Justice Robert D. Krause to burglary, conspiracy, weapons and assault charges. Perez was sentenced to 40 years with 20 years to serve and the remainder suspended with probation, non-parolable.
Evan Waston (age 24), of Tobey Street, Providence, pleaded guilty before Judge Krause on March 12, 2015 to burglary, conspiracy, weapons and assault charges. Watson was sentenced to 40 years with 30 years to serve and the remainder suspended with probation, non-parolable.
Three other individuals have pleaded guilty to their roles in the home invasion and are waiting to be sentenced. Tommy Ngo, aka Tommy Bun, (age 24), of Union Avenue, Providence, pleaded guilty before Justice Krause on January 30, 2015. Vypatda Sophan (age 23), of Whittier Avenue, Providence, pleaded guilty before Judge Krause on March 20, 2015. Venessa Potter (age 23), of Fuller Avenue Central Falls, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Justice Netti C. Vogel on August 7, 2014.
Had the case proceeded to trial, the State was prepared to prove that on July 11, 2014, looking for money, Watson, Perez, Ngo, Sophan and Potter conspired to burglarize a residence on Forsyth Street in Providence. Sophan and Potter knocked on the front door while the three men, armed with a .9 mm, a .22 caliber and a BB gun and wearing masks, hung back. As the owner of the residence opened the door, the three men rushed the door, forcing the owner inside the residence.
Once inside, the three masked gunmen forced the owner, his wife and his daughter into the living room where the gunmen attempted to tie them up. A scuffle ensued and Perez and Watson fired their guns with bullets striking the owner in the foot and his daughter in the backside hip. Finding no money, the three gunmen fled the scene. The homeowner identified one of the women who knocked on the door.
The investigation led the Providence Police to identify the other four as suspects. On July 17, 2014, Providence Police located and arrested Watson, Perez and Ngo, where they seized two of the firearms used in the burglary and a third firearm, a .22 sawed-off rifle.
Providence Police Detective Jonathan Primiano led the investigation. Special Assistant Attorneys General Joseph McBurney and Sara Tindall-Woodman prosecuted the case on behalf of the Office of Attorney General.


Afew months back the now faded Socialite Judy Anyango was the talk of town courtesy of her mammoth booty that many men drooled to have a taste of.
As time went by her glory and fame started fading and according to speculations, Judy is broke and is currently trying to revive her lost fame. I happened to stumble upon these screenshots of judy trying to look for potential 'sponsors' in a dating site.
The petite lass seems to be desperate and appears to be looking for someone to shower her with cash and rock again in the show biz industry.
Here are the photos she has been posting on the dating site.


Smith kicked off his set with 'Nirvana', before surprising fans by welcoming Nile Rodgers on stage for a rendition of 'Together'.
"This is really surreal for me right now to have all these people here," Smith said in response to the size of the crowd, before playing 'Leave Your Lover'.
He then continued with new single 'I'm Not The Only One', 'Restart' and chart-topping hit 'La La La'.
However, it was a performance of 'Lay Me Down', one of Smith's earliest tracks, that received a massive response.
Smith rounded off his set with his number one single 'Money On My Mind' - interpolated with a segment of Cece Peniston's '90s dance anthem 'Finally'- a stripped down rendition of his Disclosure collaboration 'Latch', and his global ballad 'Stay With Me'.
The Killers will headline the Virgin Media stage at V Festival in Chelmsford this evening, while Justin Timberlake will top the bill at Weston Park, Staffordshire.


Colmán Ó Raghallaigh is the author of many children's books in Irish and a highly successful series of graphic novels.
An Sclábhaí (2002) was the first graphic novel to be published in Ireland and is a gripping account of the young St Patrick's capture and escape. In May 2002 it won a prestigious Bisto Merit Award and was followed by An Tóraíocht (2003), An Teachtaire (2004) and An Táin (2006).


Cavities are one of the most widespread chronic infectious diseases among children in the U.S. — six in 10 children experience a cavity by age eight. Dr. Koster uses silver diamine fluoride (SDF), a simple, safe, low-cost option to painlessly treat cavities in children who can't cope with getting traditional fillings. SDF is a sort of 'fancy fluoride' that can help stop decay and treat small cavities noninvasively. The SDF remains until a final restoration is completed or the baby tooth falls out.
This treatment is best for very young patients with dental anxiety or those who don't have the physical or mental ability to sit for a restorative procedure. The application of SDF helps stop the decay process from worsening and can be applied every six months while waiting for patient cooperation to improve. It is not considered final treatment and restoration is recommended when a patient is able to tolerate it.
Dr. Koster says, "Prevention is our number one priority, but if a child does have a cavity, we need to treat it before the child develops pain and infection. However, we also want to make sure they have a good experience at the dentist, so this is a good way to do both." She works closely with her Orthodontic colleagues in ARCH's Stoughton office to provide a comprehensive, comfortable experience for patients and parents. Dr. Koster completed her undergraduate work at Stonehill College and earned her dental degree at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.


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Addiction to opioids can take hold quickly and can happen to anyone. The same is true of withdrawal symptoms, even if you're using a legal prescription. Symptoms occur regardless of whether or not you received the drug from a medical professional.
Common symptoms of withdrawal from opioids include anxiety, rapid heartbeat, nausea, abdominal pain, and vomiting. This addiction and withdrawal can make everyday life feel far more difficult. Sometimes people who abuse prescription opioids get them for free from a friend or family member who did not use their full prescription. This is why it is important to immediately and properly dispose of unused opioid prescriptions. Learn more about safe disposal here.
Opioid users can develop a tolerance to the drug over time. This actually INCREASES the likelihood of an overdose, as users often take more than intended while trying to produce the same effects.


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We are available for viewings as well as general contact until 8pm weekdays and at weekends.
We pride ourselves on genuinely being First for Service & First for Price.
We maintain a database of properties available to rent and of prospective Tenants and their requirements. As properties become available, our first action is to contact waiting Tenants on the database, whose requirements match the property. Typically, properties to rent become available about two months before occupancy date, so where possible it is advisable to start looking early.
If you are planning to move in the near future, please register your details with us as soon as possible, as we get new properties all the time and can ensure that you get to see them first! We'll notify you as soon as a property that meets your individual requirement becomes available.
Having identified a potentially suitable property, we will arrange a viewing. This will be at a time to suit you, and could be at evenings or weekends, subject of course to the Landlords permission. All viewings will be accompanied by your personally assigned staff member, who will be able to provide immediate advice and answer any questions you may have.
Having decided on a property, you will need to complete a holding deposit form. At this time any details or requirements can be provisionally agreed, such as occupancy date, duration of the letting, etc. On application, a Reservation Deposit will be required. Assuming the rental proceeds, this will be deducted from the Fees due before occupation as outlined on the enclosed sheet. If we or the Landlord decline your application it will be refunded. It will however not be refunded if you decide not to proceed for any reason, if the tenancy fails to proceed due to incomplete or inaccurate information provided in the tenancy application or your references prove unsatisfactory.
We will take references on behalf of the Landlord. Normally these will include your employer, your bank, any former landlord and a character reference. In addition a credit check will be undertaken by us. Where a Tenant is unable to meet the required income or credit checks, the Tenant may have a Guarantor agree to underwrite any rent liabilities.
A deposit is required prior to occupation. This is normally equal to one and a half times the monthly rent, but may be more in exceptional circumstances.
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Should a guarantor be needed a fee may be payable by tenants of £60.
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HomeInformation-Rich or Poor? Do you know what is real in a world of alternate realities?
Information-Rich or Poor? Do you know what is real in a world of alternate realities?
Has this happened to you yet? Where you are exposed to a news story and you are not quite sure what to believe? When information gives you pause, do you look more deeply to find out the source of the article?
Let's try this out together. In my Facebook Timeline, I saw an article someone posted that said that D.C. high school marching bands were boycotting playing at the inauguration. The same day, someone said to me, "Did you hear how the D.C. band are refusing to play at the inauguration?" I now had two pieces of information that have been presented to me within 24 hours time. It kind of sounds possible, but the news article came from a partisan website and many of my friends probably live in the same media bubble of information. So, is this true? How do we find out?
In going to Snopes.com, where they fact check potential rumors and fake news, I found a Fact Check: Fake News article on this. According to Snopes.com, the schools did not apply to play, but they are not officially boycotting. For more information check out the whole article: Did every single school marching band in D.C. just boycott Trump's inauguration?
Information-rich AND Information-poor. We certainly live in an information-rich world where we can access information from many sources ranging from: "Alexa, tell me today's news," and "Hey, Siri…what's the weather," or satellite radio news from around the world or 24-7 CNN news coverage, to moment-by-moment coverage on Twitter or personalized news streams in our Facebook feeds and YouTube channels. Despite being information-rich, we can end up being information-poor if we are unable to decipher point-of-view, bias, or propaganda vs. verifiable, research-supported information.
So what does this mean for educating our students?
How do we help them to be critical analysists of information?
The first resource I'd direct you to would be the Stanford History Group, who conducted a study of civic online reasoning from January 2015-June 2016, where they administered 56 tasks to students across 12 states, collecting more than 7,800 student responses from middle school, high school, and college students. Despite our students growing up digitally, the researchers found that the students had difficulty determining the differences between sponsored content and a news article and the students often would accept the information presented without verifying its source. To get a better sense of the tasks and results, please review this link to their executive summary of their results.
How would your students do?
Home Page Analysis: Students identify advertisements on a news website.
News on Facebook: Students identify the blue checkmark that distinguishes a verified Facebook account from a fake one.
Facebook Argument: Students consider the relative strength of evidence that two users present in a Facebook exchange.
Evaluating Evidence: Students decide whether to trust a photograph posted on a photo-sharing website.
Comparing Articles: Students determine whether a news story or a sponsored post is more reliable.
Article Evaluation: In an open web search, students decide if a website can be trusted.
Research a Claim: Students search online to verify a claim about a controversial topic.
Website Reliability: Students determine whether a partisan site is trustworthy.
Social Media Video: Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Claims on Social Media: Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information.
Next Steps: How do we teach civic online reasoning?
When was the information on this site updated?
Who created the information at this site, and what is this person's level of expertise?
Where can I go to check the accuracy of this information?
Does the website present one side of the issue, or are multiple perspectives provided?
Check your emotions. Fake news strive for extreme reactions.


We analyzed all of the data from the 5,896 esports jobs we posted in 2018 to produce an infographic that is the most representative of the industry's hiring scene to date.
Long-time users of our website might remember in when we released a half-year infographic in July that showed a detailed look at the industry's hiring scene. Well, we're taking things one step further now with our entire year infographic, which lays out all the data from the whopping 5,896 esports jobs that we posted in 2018.
The result provided concrete data on some really interesting areas of the hiring space. For instance, the number of esports opportunities has been steadily increasing throughout the year, something we can attest to from our busier mornings! The proportion of females using our website to look for esports jobs has also rose at a noticeable rate, which you'll be able to see in one of our graphs below.
We'll stop talking now though, as the beauty of an infographic is that all the information is there for you to see yourself!
We were particularly happy to see that 77.86% of the jobs we posted last year were paid, with close to 65% of all roles being full time careers in esports! A staggering 1,184 different companies advertised at least one esports job, with opportunities existing in 45 different countries.
As we mentioned, the proportion of female esports job hunters rose throughout 2018. In fact, in the first six months of 2018 women averaged just 11.17% of our users. This percentage rose to 15.50% in the second half of 2018, showing an increase of 4.33% across the two halves of the year.
It's been a smashing year for esports jobs as well as our website, and we need to take some time out of this post to thank all of our supporters who have stuck with us through 2018. It's crazy that in the start of the year we were a plucky jobs website looking to level up the way esports jobs were presented, and now we're the de facto place to go for companies and candidates in esports alike for all of their hiring needs. You can expect us to keep pushing the boundaries of what we offer candidates & companies in 2019, and we're hyped to see what the scene's numbers look like this time next year.
Anyone wanting to use our materials to report on the growth of esports jobs in 2018 is welcome to do so, as long as we're credited. To source additional graphics, quotes or anything else, feel free to email cam@hitmarkerjobs.com.


Shenseea is once again in the Dancehall history books after gaining one million followers on Instagram.
Shenseea has once again made history in Dancehall!
The multi-genre recording artist became the youngest Jamaican entertainer to acquire one million followers on Instagram.
Shenseea is now the third Dancehall artist to reach the million mark and joins the ranks of fellow Jamaican entertainers, Spice and Popcaan, who clocked 1 million followers earlier this year.
The "Love I Got For U" singer is no stranger to setting records in the Dancehall industry.
Her manager, Romiech Major previously declared that she was the first female artiste to score four major corporate sponsorships in a calendar year, including Pepsi Jamaica, Campari Caribbean, Flow and recently Western Sports.
Shenseea also recently celebrated her music video for "Pon Mi" after it racked up 8 Million views on YouTube in less than two months.


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AiClay - a Haven of Miniature Food: A mooncake is not like a cake?
That's why I was debating over where I should file these photos in my Flickr, in the Miniature Cakes group or the Miniature sweet pastries. I chose the latter in the end.
So! It's been 2 days past the actual date (12th September) but still, happy Mid-Autumn festival! 中秋节快乐!
Miniature traditional mooncakes, with lotus paste and salted egg yolk centre.
I made this batch of miniature mooncakes as a commission order, and they are already en route to the lovely customer. :) Commissions have been keeping me really busy these days, so please pardon my empty shops!
I must say that I'm rather proud of Chinese festivals and their traditional customs. There are a few stories behind Mid-Autumn Festival, and you can read them all here. But basically, there is a woman with a rabbit (Jade Rabbit) living on the moon and she is separated from her husband (Houyi, living on the sun). So every year, on the night of the Mid-autumn festival, they reunite thus the fullness of the moon.
Also, if you peer really closely at the moon, you can make out the shadow of the Jade Rabbit!
One important custom (to greedy ones like me!) during the festival, is to get your hands on every kind of mooncake out there and polish them off.
Mooncake fairs would be seen in every shopping mall during the month of August and September, and it'll boast of snowskin mooncakes, traditional, hongkong-style, shanghai-style etc.
The miniature yellow and purple mooncakes here are snowskin mooncakes, in the flavours of durian and yam. The latter has a generous filling of bean paste and white chocolate truffle centre.
hi..where did you get the mooncakes mold??
Hi! Oh I designed it myself. :) You should try that, it's a bit hard but it's quite fun!


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Top Ten New Year's 2012 Concerts
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1 – Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band, OKC
The Flaming Lips hosted their fifth annual Freak Out in Oklahoma City, this year expanding it to two shows. Phantogram opened on New Year's Eve, Neon Indian opened the next night and The Plastic Ono Band were special guests at both shows. Oklahoma City honored Yoko Ono, proclaiming New Year's Eve "Yoko-lahoma City Day" (see the official certificate here). Likewise, Yoko pronounced January 1st "as LOVE day!!!" Wayne Coyne explained, "Buy a ticket or if you have a ticket you can bring someone you Love for free"…
https://twitter.com/#!/irreversibility/status/162196795835957250
Thankfully George Salisbury – and his Flaming Lips-associated visual arts collective DeloCreative – filmed the shows. Check out Wilco's Nels Cline joining the Lips for an epic cover of The Beatles "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" – above (you can also download it at The Steam Engine.net). Neon Indian joined the Lips for "Is David Bowie Dying?" – the opening track from the EP the two artists released last March. Watch that pairing here:
The Lips and POB played "Give Peace a Chance" together, followed by "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" at midnight – watch at top. For a special encore, the fearless freaks played a John Lennon tribute set: "Strawberry Fields Forever," "A Day in the Life," "I Am The Walrus" and a nearly 16 minute version of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" with Nels Cline (playing these shows as a Plastic Ono Band member). After repeating the end of the latter to a hypnotic, trance effect, then abruptly stopped and left the stage. They returned for a second encore though, state rock song, "Do You Realize." Check the full set list and other details here.
https://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay/status/153495989334974464
Photos via flickr.com/sufjancarney
2 – Phish, NYC
"Ask any Phish-obsessed fan what the [NYEE] highlight of the show was, and they'll tell you it was "Piper" into "Twist" in the second set. If you don't know why that's a big deal, I'm with you… But I do know that that's when the music started feeling extra drone-y and psychadelic… Later, the funk salute of "David Bowie" gave way to covers of Stevie Wonder's "Boogie On Reggae Woman" and Led Zeppelin's "Good Times, Bad Times," a succinct summation of 2011."
– Evan Schlansky, americansongwriter.com
Phish start 2012 with a bang at Madison Square Garden, via spin.com
Almost ever year that they've been an active band since 1995 , Phish has played several nights at Madison Square Garden leading up to New Year's Eve. This year's four shows from December 28th through 31st were webcast at livephish.com: "a 10-camera, high definition shoot with high quality audio mixed" for $13.50 – including access to the archived show afterwards. Though some "phans" complain this was the least experimental of Phish's annual NYE at MSG runs, "the community" agrees they brought a party befitting the most festive night of the year. From time-honored opener "AC/DC Bag" to the "Wolfman's Brother" it segued into, to the "Auld Lang Syne" tease in Trey Anastasio's "Fluffhead" solo, and finally closer "First Tube" and encore "Slave To The Traffic Light" – they kicked out the jams on the last night of the residency in celebratory mode.
As if to drive the point home, Phish opened the second set with "Party Time," followed by "Light > Golden Age" (TV on the Radio cover). The climax of the evening – musically and otherwise – was "Steam > Auld Lang Syne > Down With Disease." As the band kinetically grooved on "Steam," acrobatics emerged, flying over the audience as the 2012 countdown began. Watch the entire extravaganza – ripped from the official webstream – here.
WATCH Phish 12/31/11→1/1/12 at Madison Square "Steam→Auld Lang Syne→Down with Disease" http://t.co/gYXU6XaP More info: http://t.co/IKR9aiXB
— The Future Heart (@TheFutureHeart) January 1, 2012
While some phans were quick to dismiss the acrobat routine as a "gag," others viewed it as "a powerful, and philosophically driven skit that delivered the poignant message that we are all eternal souls dancing together forever." In anycase, both sides tend to agree, in theatrical terms – lighting, balloons and spectacle that is – this was arguably the most impressive show of Phish's career (the very reason some begrudge it).
"The first Cavern set-opener since 8/8/98 kicked off a third set that was notable mainly for its stunt: as the band sang of a soul "join[ing] mine as steam," pieces of their equipment–Page's keytar, Trey's cabinet, Mike's bass, and Fish's vacuum–were lifted into the air in a cloud of mist. Shortly thereafter, some dancers scattered around the arena, dressed as fans, were similarly elevated, dancing in mid-air in a surreal display. Following the countdown, near the end of Disease's jam, Mike and Trey were lifted on platforms some 30 feet skyward, and the stunt came to a close." – Guy Forget, onlinephishtour.com – photos by Dave Vann
The official NYE soundboard recording can be downloaded for $12.95 and up (depending on file format) at livephish.com. Bootlegs can be downloaded/ streamed here (and here). Highlights from the previous nights' shows include:
"the first ever "Free" to open a show" – quoting jambands.com – and the jam in Talking Heads' "Cities" on the 28th;
"Mike's Song → Chalk Dust Torture → I Am Hydrogen → Weekapaug Groove" and "You Enjoy Myself" on the 29th
the "Piper→ Twist" and "2001" jams on the 30th
Phish also chose New Year's Eve to announce their next archive release: December 31, 1991, a turning point for the band. "Tweezer→ McGrupp And The Watchful Hosemasters" from the upcoming release streams here.
http://twitter.com/#!/FutureHeartDay/status/152510543553499136
In other Phish NYE news: remember the Young at Heart chorus? They're a group of senior citizens that sing rock songs (as documented in this acclaimed 2007 film). For their New Year's show at Northampton, Massachusetts' Smith College on Saturday night they covered Phish' "Free"…
3 – Stardeath and White Dwarfs "secret show" and New Fumes, OKC
Womb organizer and co-owner Rick Sinnett had big plans for New Year's weekend at his psychedelic art gallery (which he runs with The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne and Jake Harms). Acclaimed "thinking man's" poster artist Emek was scheduled to kick-off the festivities Friday night with his final Poster + Retrospective & Book Signing of 2011. The week-end-long Freak Out festivities were set to culminate with a NYE After Party featuring "electric symphonies until sunrise" by New Fumes and Stardeath and White Dwarfs in the wee first hours of 2012 – open to all of the 1,500 fans at The Flaming Lips/ Plastic Ono Band concert. Though all three of those artists got to do their thing – the exact plans were altered after The Womb got shut down by the OKC Fire Marshall.
https://twitter.com/#!/STARDEATHontour/status/152822703974391808
Since both Stardeath and New Fumes were scheduled to play Freak Out #5's official after party at the Womb, they're grouped together on this list (even though they were two separate events, in different locations). New Fumes relocated to the local Farmers Market, where he created a "paranoid soundscape" interpretation of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (aka the epic theme music from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey)…
Stardeath played a "secret show" down the block from the Womb: a jam on Stravinsky.
https://twitter.com/#!/waynecoyne/status/153296142749274114
4 – Polyphonic Spree, Dallas
The Polyphonic Spree played a reunion show of sorts at Dallas' the House of Blues. They brought back members of yore for a full, eccentrically spectacular sound: Joe Butcher on pedal steel, Rick Nelson on orchestral strings, Toby Halbrooks on theremin and Ricky Rasura on harp. Fittingly, they also expanded their set list. Centro-matic opened.
http://twitter.com/#!/PolySpree/status/151361180571668481
5 – Lights Out Festival, Dallas
https://twitter.com/#!/Lightsallnight/status/153391761773965312
The Lights All Night Festival at Dallas Convention Center hosted Neon Indian, Girl Talk, Ghostland Observatory, MSTRKRFT and others December 30th-31st. Neon Indian also opened The Flaming Lips' New Year Freakout #5 on New Year's Day…
pegasusnews.com: "The convention center was the perfect choice of venue, with three massive rooms for each stage, a ton of space for walking/dancing around, and short lines at all the restrooms. Attendees had little to complain about with the set-up and organization, and certainly nothing to complain about when it came to the music."
6 – Patti Smith, NYC
Besides Phish at MSG, there's several NYE gigs NYC has come to expect: a covers-heavy Gov't Mule run at Beacon Theatre, Chuck Berry at the B.B. King Blues Club, and Patti Smith at Bowery Ballroom, December 29th through the 31st. As in year's past, the final of Patti's three shows was broadcast on SiriusXM (The Loft – channel 30) and Michael Stipe was in attendance. This year Stipe took the stage with Patti's band to sing "Wichita Lineman" – which he had previously covered live with REM, and released as 1996's "Bittersweet Me's" B-side.
The NYE set was dominated by classic Patti Smith Group material ("25th Floor," "Space Monkey," "Redondo Beach," "Because the Night," "Pissing in a River," closer "Babelogue/ Rock 'n' Roll Nigger") and covers (Dylan's "Drifter's Escape," Nat King Cole's "Around the World," Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away, and "U2's "Until the End of the World" – which they live debuted on the 29th). Stipe first came on stage to pour champaign as 2011 became 2012 – in the middle of "People Have the Power/ Auld Lang Syne" (watch at top of entry). After midnight the band launched into a mini-set-within-the-set of the sort of '60s artyfacts guitarist Lenny Kaye compiled on the legendary 1972 garage/ psych-punk LP, Nuggets: The Strangeloves' "Night Time," The Blues Magoos' "(We Ain't Got) Nothing Yet," The Seeds' "Pushin' Too Hard," The Who's "My Generation," etc…
Although Patti announced from the stage this would be the last of her New Year's residencies, Kaye clarified to the New York Times after the show, "the band would still perform, but at some other location. 'It's just time to move on…'"
nytimes.com: "For 14 years, the three-pack of shows by Patti Smith and Her Band in the final week of December has proved to be a reliably exhilarating way to usher out the old and ring in the new. If it's not the Allmans at the Beacon Theater, it's in the same area code. It's cozy: the smallish Ballroom accommodates fewer than 600. It's egalitarian: tickets are general admission, mostly standing room and reasonably priced. And it's personal: the shows always include one on Dec. 30, to celebrate Ms. Smith's birthday (she turned 65 on Friday)."
Photos by Perry Julien – see more at pastemagazine.com
https://twitter.com/#!/ThatEricAlper/status/153941938695962625
http://twitter.com/#!/CrystalPortland/status/152229870192173057
7 – Talkdemonic, Portland
In the past few months, viola/ drums acoustic-electronica-rock duo Talkdemonic has brought their music to larger audiences, jammed with Kliph Scurlock and released this breath-taking music video. The Portland group's October release Ruins – the debut release on Isaac Brock's Glacial Pace record label – wasn't just among the most sonically inventive albums of 2011, it was the must-hear album for any and all music freaks who assume it's all been done. Yep, it was a huge year for Talkdemonic – and they ended it accordingly: with Brock joining them at their NYE show first for the Modest Mousey "Ending The Orange Glow," and then, in the closing moments of the 2011, with "Revival." Brock stuck around to kick-off 2012 with his beloved group, covering Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams"….
8 – Dawes, Minneapolis
The Dawes ended their VH1 crossover year with two shows at Minneapolis' Varsity Theater. Consequence of Sound said of the new year's eve eve show: "Even though Dawes doesn't vary its set list much between shows, the band always makes an effort to reach into its back catalog of influences for a few covers. This time, drummer Griffin Goldsmith led the band on a cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy", emphasizing the song's guitar work instead of the original, more melancholy pianos. When Taylor Goldsmith sang Neil Young's line, "So I stop when I can, find some fried eggs and country ham, I'll find somewhere where they don't care who I am," you hear the direct inspiration behind songs like Dawes' "Little Bit of Everything", in which a man finds solace in a buffet line. Goldsmith's version of "Albuquerque", along with guitar solos on tracks like fire-and-brimstone "If I Wanted Someone" that segue without missing a beat into folk ballad "That Western Skyline", remind me that Goldsmith is one of the best guitarists of our generation."
Check out the setlist from the show they rang in 2012 with below, or download it here.
1. My Girl To Me
2. If I Wanted Someone
3. When You Call My Name
4. Kodachrome
5. Love Is All I Am
6. How Far We've Come
7. The Way You Laugh
8. Hula Hula Boys
9. Moon In The Water
10. Coming Back To A Man
11. Fire Away
12. NYE Countdown
13. Time Spent In Los Angeles
14. Million Dollar Bill
15. Peace In The Valley
16. Encore Break
17. Strangers Getting Stranger
18. A Little Bit Of Everything
19. When My Time Comes
9 – Wanda Jackson and Best Coast, Los Angeles
Wanda Jackson at LA's Club Nokia, via spin.com
10 – Tie: Ween, Denver and Further, San Francisco
Bob Weir and Phil Lesh continued the Grateful Dead's New Year's traditions with Furthur – their latest band, now entering its third year. The show was on familiar-turf, San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and broadcast live on SiriusXM Radio's Grateful Dead channel (23). A rip of the broadcast can be downloaded here (there's also a bootleg stream here). It features plenty of flashbacks for long time Deadheads, including the Dead's new year anthem, "Sugar Magnolia."
Further's crowd-pleasing set was full of songs revered equally by concert veterans ("Cosmic Charlie, Shakedown Street > Viola Lee Blues" and "Morning Dew" in the first set; a lengthy "Dark Star" that wove together "I Know You Rider," "St. Stephen," "Fire On The Mountain" and more in the second set)…
…and folks that only own Skeletons from the Closet (the third set proper opened with "Playin' In The Band > Uncle John's Band" …they even opened the show with "Golden Road")…
Watch their Dragon countdown below: huge dragon's head with red LED lights and smoke blowing out its mouth – built from all recycled cardboard and aluminum… and "Sugar Magnolia" in the first minutes of the 2012.
Ween fans rejoiced last month, not just because their group was playing their first New Year's Run since 1998, but also because they announced intentions to set a record for the most songs they've played during a three-night stand. Calling Denver's Fillmore Auditorium home December 29th – 31st, their New Year's Eve set -webcast on ustream.tv – spanned their career and included covers of Neil Young's "Ohio" and David Bowie's "Let's Dance." The latter underscored the celebratory mood of the night, as did the segue that immediately preceded it, connecting 2011 to 2012: "Your Party > Little Drummer Boy > Countdown > Aude Lang Syne." Afterwards, as brown balloons brown balloons imprinted with band mascot "Boognish" fell on the new year, Gene Ween summed up the atmosphere on stage, "feels like The Flaming Lips"…
Hear that comment, and the rest of the set here.
jambands.com: "Dean Ween showed off his bass skills on "Don't Laugh I Love You." While we are not sure if Ween succeeded in setting the record for the most songs they've ever played during a three night stand (as they promised on their website), the group covered a lot of ground."
Full setlists and other details for both of these shows – plus moe., Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee and others – is at Glide Magazine – plus, bootleg download links here…
Vinnie Amico, moe.'s drummer, invited his ninth grader daughter Marley on stage to play the sax solo on Pink Floyd's "Money" – watch it on YouTube.
For details on other New Year's Eve 2011-2012 shows check The Future Heart New Year's Eve Concert Guide, here – Primus, X, Gov't Mule, moe., Wooden Shjips, The Black Lips, Meat Puppets and more…
Gogol Bordello at New York's Terminal 5, via spin.com
Video: Watch Weird Al, Steven Tyler and Alice Cooper perform "Come Together" in Hawaii on New Year's Eve: http://t.co/A6OGSvQW
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 2, 2012
https://twitter.com/#!/BeatlesUpdate/status/153876502134521857
Click here to read the New Year's Resolutions and 2012 Wishes of Yoko Ono, Mercury Rev, Dawes, Yuck, Brendan Benson…and Woody Guthrie!
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The Hill, January 26, 2021
Afghanistan should be wary of a government with power sharing
The Afghan government has never been able to rule widely at the local level, leaving power brokers to enjoy certain autonomy and administer economic activities, counting on informal consultative bodies, such as community councils, and tribal law and customs
By Patric Karam
While the peace talks in Afghanistan are stalled until the administration of Joe Biden takes new action, calls for more power sharing mechanisms to represent manifold groups in the political system are gaining momentum. This is a tempting idea, and Afghans have had a taste of power sharing in recent years, starting with the appointment of Hamid Karzai as president with the diverse ethnic cabinet, and then the deal between Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah after an election dispute.
But the dangers of this consociational idea outweigh the benefits. Look no further than the disaster that befell Lebanon. In 1975, the Lebanese state all but collapsed and the country spiraled into civil war, in many ways due to entrenchment of society divisions in politics. Belligerents such as state elites, proxy actors, and militia groups exploited these sectarian identities through violence, cleaving society along communal lines in the pursuit of strategic interests. The rounds of massacres, kidnappings, assassinations, revenge killings, ethnic cleansing, and sexual violence were conducted in the name of sectarian identities across Lebanon.
Without a working state, Lebanese warlords carved out sectarian fiefdoms of communities they claimed to defend. Issues such as education, health care, postal service, electric power, and refuse collection became subject to the sectarian militias. By providing basic services, the militias extended coercive control of their communities. Instead of uniting the country, the 1989 Taif peace deal institutionalized the sectarian dynamics of the war by recalibrating the consociational system created at independence in order to accommodate the main Christian and Muslim sects in Lebanon. It also increased the number of seats in parliament, divided them between sects, turned the Maronite Christian president into a figurehead, and made the Sunni prime minister responsible to the legislature.
It let sectarianism be the bedrock of state and society relations, leaving a door open to renewed conflicts. Peace was achieved with the apparatus that ensured none of the groups could dominate the state. The Lebanese system of government today is built around this model with the spoils of public office and state resources doled out to sectarian elites based on a dark system of patronage. Ministerial and government posts are divided among leaders who use these roles as the basis for political favors within their own constituencies and also their own gains.
The Lebanese state has been unable to deliver satisfactory public services and social welfare. For instance, electricity provision is the fourth worst in the world. The system, abused by an elite that rebranded itself from militia to political party, permeates the public and private relations, and this elite has ensured continued access to power in the patronage networks. It has come under fire in national protests for corruption and mismanagement, as the country endures its worst economic recession and has to recover from the recent devastating blast at the port of Beirut.
As Afghanistan considers its future, it should seek to avoid the perils of sectarianism. The talks between the Taliban and the government are the best chance for Afghans to end the violence, reach a durable settlement, concur on the system of government, then move forward. Lebanon and Afghanistan are pluralistic, but management of pluralism in Afghanistan, which still has a fighting chance, should allow for cultural security while establishing a national identity. Afghanistan can only be built on what its constituents have in common to achieve consensus.
The Afghan government has never been able to rule widely at the local level, leaving power brokers to enjoy certain autonomy and administer economic activities, counting on informal consultative bodies, such as community councils, and tribal law and customs. While a strong central state is essential, greater administrative devolution of power tailored to the needs of the country will ensure its sovereignty.
But while the future of Afghanistan should be sensitive to and inclusive of informal institutions and representative of the diversity of its own people, enshrining differences in power sharing structures will be harmful not just for efforts to build the government but for its survival.
Patricia Karam is regional director of the Middle East and North Africa at the International Republican Institute that works to promote democracy.
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package com.badlogic.gdx.physics.bullet.dynamics;

import com.badlogic.gdx.physics.bullet.BulletBase;
import com.badlogic.gdx.physics.bullet.linearmath.*;
import com.badlogic.gdx.physics.bullet.collision.*;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Vector3;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Quaternion;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Matrix3;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Matrix4;

public class btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2 extends BulletBase {
	private long swigCPtr;

	protected btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2(final String className, long cPtr, boolean cMemoryOwn) {
		super(className, cPtr, cMemoryOwn);
		swigCPtr = cPtr;
	}

	/** Construct a new btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2, normally you should not need this constructor it's intended for low-level usage. */
	public btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2(long cPtr, boolean cMemoryOwn) {
		this("btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2", cPtr, cMemoryOwn);
		construct();
	}

	@Override
	protected void reset(long cPtr, boolean cMemoryOwn) {
		if (!destroyed)
			destroy();
		super.reset(swigCPtr = cPtr, cMemoryOwn);
	}

	public static long getCPtr(btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2 obj) {
		return (obj == null) ? 0 : obj.swigCPtr;
	}

	@Override
	protected void finalize() throws Throwable {
		if (!destroyed)
			destroy();
		super.finalize();
	}

  @Override protected synchronized void delete() {
		if (swigCPtr != 0) {
			if (swigCMemOwn) {
				swigCMemOwn = false;
				DynamicsJNI.delete_btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2(swigCPtr);
			}
			swigCPtr = 0;
		}
		super.delete();
	}

  public void setTypeConstraintData(btTypedConstraintDoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_typeConstraintData_set(swigCPtr, this, btTypedConstraintDoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btTypedConstraintDoubleData getTypeConstraintData() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_typeConstraintData_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btTypedConstraintDoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setRbAFrame(btTransformDoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rbAFrame_set(swigCPtr, this, btTransformDoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btTransformDoubleData getRbAFrame() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rbAFrame_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btTransformDoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setRbBFrame(btTransformDoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rbBFrame_set(swigCPtr, this, btTransformDoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btTransformDoubleData getRbBFrame() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rbBFrame_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btTransformDoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearUpperLimit(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearUpperLimit_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearUpperLimit() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearUpperLimit_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearLowerLimit(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearLowerLimit_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearLowerLimit() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearLowerLimit_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearBounce(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearBounce_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearBounce() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearBounce_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearStopERP(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearStopERP_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearStopERP() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearStopERP_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearStopCFM(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearStopCFM_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearStopCFM() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearStopCFM_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearMotorERP(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMotorERP_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearMotorERP() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMotorERP_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearMotorCFM(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMotorCFM_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearMotorCFM() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMotorCFM_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearTargetVelocity(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearTargetVelocity_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearTargetVelocity() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearTargetVelocity_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearMaxMotorForce(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMaxMotorForce_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearMaxMotorForce() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearMaxMotorForce_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearServoTarget(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearServoTarget_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearServoTarget() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearServoTarget_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearSpringStiffness(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringStiffness_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearSpringStiffness() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringStiffness_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearSpringDamping(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringDamping_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearSpringDamping() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringDamping_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearEquilibriumPoint(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEquilibriumPoint_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getLinearEquilibriumPoint() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEquilibriumPoint_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setLinearEnableMotor(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEnableMotor_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getLinearEnableMotor() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEnableMotor_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setLinearServoMotor(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearServoMotor_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getLinearServoMotor() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearServoMotor_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setLinearEnableSpring(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEnableSpring_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getLinearEnableSpring() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearEnableSpring_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setLinearSpringStiffnessLimited(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringStiffnessLimited_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getLinearSpringStiffnessLimited() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringStiffnessLimited_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setLinearSpringDampingLimited(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringDampingLimited_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getLinearSpringDampingLimited() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_linearSpringDampingLimited_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setPadding1(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_padding1_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getPadding1() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_padding1_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setAngularUpperLimit(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularUpperLimit_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularUpperLimit() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularUpperLimit_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularLowerLimit(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularLowerLimit_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularLowerLimit() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularLowerLimit_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularBounce(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularBounce_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularBounce() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularBounce_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularStopERP(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularStopERP_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularStopERP() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularStopERP_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularStopCFM(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularStopCFM_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularStopCFM() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularStopCFM_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularMotorERP(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMotorERP_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularMotorERP() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMotorERP_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularMotorCFM(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMotorCFM_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularMotorCFM() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMotorCFM_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularTargetVelocity(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularTargetVelocity_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularTargetVelocity() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularTargetVelocity_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularMaxMotorForce(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMaxMotorForce_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularMaxMotorForce() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularMaxMotorForce_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularServoTarget(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularServoTarget_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularServoTarget() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularServoTarget_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularSpringStiffness(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringStiffness_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularSpringStiffness() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringStiffness_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularSpringDamping(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringDamping_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularSpringDamping() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringDamping_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularEquilibriumPoint(btVector3DoubleData value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEquilibriumPoint_set(swigCPtr, this, btVector3DoubleData.getCPtr(value), value);
  }

  public btVector3DoubleData getAngularEquilibriumPoint() {
    long cPtr = DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEquilibriumPoint_get(swigCPtr, this);
    return (cPtr == 0) ? null : new btVector3DoubleData(cPtr, false);
  }

  public void setAngularEnableMotor(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEnableMotor_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getAngularEnableMotor() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEnableMotor_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setAngularServoMotor(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularServoMotor_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getAngularServoMotor() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularServoMotor_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setAngularEnableSpring(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEnableSpring_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getAngularEnableSpring() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularEnableSpring_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setAngularSpringStiffnessLimited(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringStiffnessLimited_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getAngularSpringStiffnessLimited() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringStiffnessLimited_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setAngularSpringDampingLimited(String value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringDampingLimited_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public String getAngularSpringDampingLimited() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_angularSpringDampingLimited_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public void setRotateOrder(int value) {
    DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rotateOrder_set(swigCPtr, this, value);
  }

  public int getRotateOrder() {
    return DynamicsJNI.btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2_rotateOrder_get(swigCPtr, this);
  }

  public btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2() {
    this(DynamicsJNI.new_btGeneric6DofSpring2ConstraintDoubleData2(), true);
  }

}


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American Airlines passenger dies on flight from Dallas to London
LEAN RIGHT
An American Airlines passenger died on Thursday morning after suffering a cardiac arrest on a flight to London from Dallas.
A spokesman with the Ottawa Paramedic Service told Fox News the agency responded to the incident around 2:18 a.m. and said the passenger, who is a man in his 50's or 60's, suffered a cardiac arrest during the flight, which prompted the pilot to make an emergency landing in Ottawa, Canada.
He said physicians on board the plane tried to revive the man with a defibrillator and with medication but the patient did not respond to treatment.
Paramedics tried to save the man once the plane landed but he was pronounced dead while he was being transported to the hospital.
13 AMERICAN AIRLINES PASSENGERS HOSPITALIZED AFTER FLIGHT TO BOSTON
The airline said in a statement to Fox News: "American Airlines flight 80, from Dallas Fort Worth to London Heathrow, diverted to Ottawa due to an ill passenger."
"Our crew and a fellow passenger provided medical care until the flight landed at 2:28 a.m. local time this morning, where medical personnel met the aircraft."
AMERICAN AIRLINES EXTENDS BOEING MAX-RELATED CANCELLATIONS THROUGH JUNE
"Flight 80 re-fueled, and re-departed Ottawa at 4:36 a.m. local time, and is currently en route to London," the statement concluded.
The Ottawa Paramedic Service spokesman told Fox News that any other information about the passenger will not be released until next of kin are notified.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/american-airlines-passenger-dies-on-flight-from-dallas-to-london
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Julian Assange falsely billed himself as a truth defender


WrigleyField 22 wrote: This guy was a sub 70% college kicker. Woof.
Portis and Parker for Otto Porter? You kidding me with this? And they give a 2nd. Wtf?
It's Pagano for DC. Looked the thought of Donatell, but was afraid he'd be too much like Vic, but not as good.
Pagano will likely be different but still good. HC experience is nice too with Nagy being relatively inexperienced.
Chocolate Milk wrote: Cody Parkey doing an interview on the Today Show tomorrow.
Gase gets the Jets job. Rhule back to Baylor, presumably with a stop back to his old stomping grounds.


On this Motivation Monday, I find myself 54 days away from an event I've wanted to participate in for years. I've committed to take part in the 2014 Avon Walk for Breast Cancer here in New York City. The two-day event takes place October 18th and 19th. Thousands of people will walk 39.3 miles to help fund life-saving research, education and advocacy programs.
I've wanted to participate in the Avon Walk ever since my Mom's diagnosis back in 2008. She beat breast cancer, and I know thanks to other events like this, more people will, too. Within the past few months, I learned of two young women – one in my high school class, another in my fitness circle – who are now waging their own war against breast cancer. So I decided it was time to stop talking about joining the fight against the disease and start walking!
However, I can't do any of this without some help. In order to join in the Avon Walk, I have to raise $1,800. Your generous donations will help make that possible. Please click on the the link below to visit my personal page at the Avon Breast Cancer Walk website. While I hope to raise more than the minimum, I'll take all the support I can get!
While I've Zumba-d my bootie off for the Michael J. Fox Foundation and donated to other charities, I've never done anything on this scale before. It's a wonderful way to use my love for physical activity for a good cause and I couldn't be more excited about it. I look forward to walking with Sue, a fellow Gael from St. Mary's High School Class of 1991, and thousands of others as we strive to top last year's New York donations of $6.7 million.
I close with a big thank you for your support on this new adventure. For all of you who follow me on social media, I appreciate any likes, shares and double-taps you can offer on those channels, too! I look forward to sharing more about an experience that will hopefully help more people on their journey to have fun, be fit and feel fabulous!
Posted on August 25, 2014, in Fitness, Health and tagged Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, Avon Walk New York, Breast Cancer, Fitness for a Good Cause, Laura DeAngelis, Manhasset, St. Mary's Gaels, St. Mary's High School, St. Mary's High School Class of 1991. Bookmark the permalink.	Leave a comment.


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'It is life-changing': Union County family gifted wheelchair-accessible van for son with Cerebral Palsy on Christmas Eve
A used wheelchair-accessible van costs roughly $35,000, while new versions are around $75,000
'It is life-changing': Union County family gifted wheelchair-accessible van for son with Cerebral Palsy on Christmas Eve(WBTV)
By WBTV Web Staff
MONROE, N.C. (WBTV) - Nikko Sloan was born with Cerebral Palsy.
For 22 years, his mother has had to find handicapped-accessible transportation to get him out, which mainly meant solely going to doctor and therapy appointments.
Angela Cooper, Nikko's mother, no longer has to worry about transportation.
On Christmas Eve, in Union County, they were gifted a huge present – a wheelchair-accessible van.
A used wheelchair-accessible van costs roughly $35,000, while new versions are around $75,000.
Cooper and Nikko were given the van thanks in part to the nonprofit "All Things Possible," and generous community donors.
Cooper says this was a "life-changing" day.
"We can get up and go anywhere we want," Cooper said. "We don't have to worry about if it is raining, if transportation is going to show up. We can just load up and go and I don't have to lift him in and out."
Cooper said the first trip the family is making will be to Nikko's grandmother's house for Christmas.
"He's going to grandma's house because grandma is cooking. It's Christmas," she said.
Nikko was born prematurely at 27 weeks old.
He was born with Cerebral Palsy and water on the brain, which required a shunt to continuously relieve the fluid that causes pressure on the brain as well as seizures.
Nikko cannot walk or talk. He needs to be fed and has no use of his arms or legs. He is small in stature at 5 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds.
However, he is still too heavy for his mom, Angela Cooper, to lift into and out of a regular vehicle.
As a single mom, Angela Cooper is a strong advocate for the welfare of her son and others like him with disabilities. "He is healthy. He is happy. He just can't walk or talk," Angela Cooper said.
Angela Cooper said she found "All Things Possible" on Facebook and saw they were giving out a van to a family, so she applied, and prayed.
On Christmas Eve, the wheelchair-accessible van was delivered to her house in Monroe.
"Don't ever give up on your dreams, keep praying and a blessing might happen like it did for my son," Cooper said.
"All Things Possible" provides safe mobility solutions for those who cannot walk.
Wheelchair vans with ramps are not covered by insurance or Medicaid.
All Things Possible currently serves those in the Charlotte Metro area, including York County and parts of Lancaster County in SC.
"All Things Possible" is the only organization in the country gifting wheelchair vans to the disabled.
"There are services out there that can transport two and from a medical appointment or therapy appointment, but that's all," Founder and Executive Director Lisa Sexton said. "She couldn't take him to see his grandparents. She can't take him to see Christmas lights. She can't take him anywhere, even to the grocery store or the park. Now, he gets to get out in the community where he belongs."
Sexton said "All Things Possible" had a goal of giving away 10 wheelchair-accessible vans in 2021, and Christmas Eve was the organization's tenth.
"Today we are giving away a wheelchair van to a family that has needed it for a long time," Sexton said. "They applied to us earlier in the year and it takes a while to raise the funds to be able to do this but the community came together and we are so excited to be able to give to this family, and it is life-changing."
For more information on how to donate visit "All Things Possible" at www.allthingspossible.org.
Copyright 2021 WBTV. All rights reserved.


Fleet Mews sits in mature private grounds fronted with Victorian railings.
The development is a mix of 2 and 3 bed high-quality new homes. This exclusive development has managed grounds that provide peace of mind, security and a luxurious living.
Hand crafted period skirting and architrave to replicate the original and solid Oak doors with exceptional quality door furniture, hand-made staircase with timber hand rail and spindles.
Hand painted oil based joinery with oak Doors being finished with Danish oil to enhance the natural grain. Ceilings all finish in traditional white emulsion and walls in a warm neutral colour.
The bathroom is fully fitted with a selected range or porcelain goods including a vanity unit hand basin with mirror light over. The combination boiler provides hot water at a constant pressure providing a adjustable powerful shower and the bath includes a sturdy panel and mixer taps. The choice of ceramic tiles are in keeping with the contemporary design.
"Hello I'm Liz, Sales Manager for Invicta Developments. Please contact me for sale enquiries, or to book a show home viewing."


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The late 19th century was an interesting period in the emergence of Spennymoor as a town in SW Durham, midway between Durham and Bishop Auckland. In 1853 the Weardale Iron and Coal Company opened the Ironworks at Tudhoe and hundreds of immigrant workers arrived from the Midlands, Wales and Lancashire. As a town, Spennymoor came into existence in 1864 and the original Town Hall, situated on the High Street, opened in 1870. Spennymoor was ringed with collieries, blast furnaces and coke ovens. Very poor housing conditions prevailed and even by 1920 fewer than 10% of the town houses had water closets.
To meet the needs of an expanding population Rosa St School opened in 1870 and the external features of the school have remained unchanged. The school is situated near the lower end of Edward Street and viewing the 'streetscape' (previously unseen), Edward St can be seen with St Paul's church 'crowning the top of the street.' To the left hand side , out of sight is the Zebra crossing providing safe passage for children, parents and grandparents taking children to and from school. Rosa St. school provides a focal point for children, parents with prams and all sorts of people going about their daily business. In his own words:
"Spennymoor has all that a painter needs in order to depict humanity."
In May 2011 the Beamish Museum arranged a return to Spennymoor for the iconic Berriman's Chip Van, following a period of restoration. The vehicle was parked at the side of the playground at Rosa St. School where staff from the museum were also in attendance. One afternoon Norman and Sarah Cornish also visited the chip van and after a short period of time a crowd gathered. A chair was quickly provided for Norman and he spoke at length about the chip van and Rosa St. School.
Rosa Street School is featured in 'Behind The Scenes: The Norman Cornish Sketchbooks' along with St Paul's Church, Edward Street and the Zebra Crossing, All are iconic locations featured on The Norman Cornish Trail. Details available at normancornish.com/trail
Next week – The latest from Beamish Museum - A Virtual Tour
In 1967 the Cornish family was obliged to move away from Bishop's Close Street which was scheduled for demolition. It was a period of huge social change across the county, as exhausted mines were closing, employment patterns were changing and folks had to adapt to a very different era. The new home at 67 Whitworth Terrace provided more expansive accommodation as it had been a former Methodist Minister's home. The large office eventually became Cornish's studio.
The house had easy access to the town centre, no more than a walk of five minutes, and the first subject of interest on an almost daily walk was St. Paul's church.
St. Paul's was consecrated in 1856 but in 1953 a large fire ripped through the building and reduced the church to a ruin. A local man was later convicted- it was believed that he had a grudge against the church because he had previously been convicted of stealing the communion wine! The rebuild task was enormous and took over three years but the opening was rewarded by a visit from the late Queen Mother who was passing through the region.
Next to St. Paul's church was Edward Street and within a relatively short distance were other iconic locations such as Rosa Street School, The Zebra Crossing, Eddy's Fish Shop, and all before arriving at Berriman's Chip Van, just off the High Street near the Town Hall. All of these locations were of interest to Cornish at different times of the day and night as well as different seasons in the year. St Pauls Church originally had a perimeter wall which was later removed and immediately revealed the position of the church to full effect in all sorts of different atmospheric conditions. In his own words:
"At night about 6-30pm (now October) when it is just turning dusk, there is a magical quality in the atmosphere. Tonight is drizzly and misty slightly. The distant lights hang like pearls in the mist; lights are reflected in rectangular patches on pavements and under sills. The church lies behind, shrouded in subtle blue-grey mist, its painted spire adding to the mystery up there."
St. Paul's church is one of the locations for visitors to the Norman Cornish Trail which starts and finishes at the John Kitson Archway at Spennymoor Town Hall where parking at the rear is free. A number of different drawings and paintings of St.Paul's church are also featured in 'Behind The Scenes: The Norman Cornish Sketchbooks' available in our online shop.
Beamish, The Living Museum of the North is offering the unique opportunity for visitors to create pieces of work directly onto the walls of a new Norman Cornish-inspired exhibit.
The exciting Make Your Mark activity, which launches today, will see two people selected to creatively contribute to the walls in No. 2 Front Street on Beamish's 1950s terrace.
The exhibit is part of the museum's Remaking Beamish project and will tell the story of the Spennymoor Settlement of artists, writers and poets, and will be based on the former home of celebrated artist Norman Cornish.
The Make Your Mark activity is inspired by Norman, who used the freshly-stripped walls of his family home as a giant canvas before they were covered in wallpaper.
Lisa Kaimenas, Remaking Beamish Project Officer – Community Participation, said: "We're really excited to be launching this activity, which will allow two visitors to create pieces of work directly onto the walls of No. 2 Front Street.
"Sarah, Norman's wife, told us that Norman could not resist the opportunity to paint the walls of their house before being wallpapered over, we want to do the same in our exhibit. As well as work created by the Cornish family and members of the community, two visitors will personalise the walls with their own creations, this will then be covered over with 1950s-style wallpaper to match Norman's house on Bishop's Close Street.
"You can paint, draw, write or colour something that captures your imagination and inspires you. As Norman was told, 'paint the world you know'!
"This is a really unique and wonderful opportunity for visitors to make their mark on the building and create something that will stay at the museum forever.
"To enter, people just need to send their name, address and age to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 11am on Saturday, 3rd July. Two people will then be picked at random and those lucky winners will personalise the walls of the much-anticipated museum exhibit – good luck!"
The Man With Scarf was featured on two occasions at exhibitions during the Centenary Year. The first occasion was at the exhibition of portraits at The Gala Theatre Gallery in Durham, followed by a second appearance at the record-breaking retrospective at The Bowes Museum.
However, the earliest time it was seen was in December 1969 at The Stone Gallery exhibition in Newcastle - 'The Men of The North East' where the novelist Wendy Robertson writing in the Northern Echo, commented that 'the spiritual brotherhood is there in every piercing eye, in every craggy line.' 'The Man With Scarf' was also used as a poster advertising Cornish's eightieth birthday exhibition at the Northumbria University Gallery in December 1999.
Michael Chaplin is an old and special family friend on many fronts. His dad Sid and Norman were 'marras' at Dean and Chapter Colliery for many years and contemporaries at The Spennymoor Settlement, that wonderful cradle of creativity and community facility opened during the 1930s, which enabled so many talented people to fulfil their artistic and literary ambitions.
We were naturally delighted when Michael approached us earlier this year to ask if 'The Man With Scarf ' could be used as the front cover of his forthcoming book; 'Newcastle United Stole My Heart- Sixty Years In Black And White'.
Michael is a playwright, a radio, television and non- fiction writer, and a former producer and executive at London Weekend Television. His writing credits include acclaimed plays for BBC Radio and also television series such as Grafters, Drovers Gold and Monarch of the Glen, which included a cameo appearance as a road worker wearing a Newcastle shirt!
This is a football memoir with a difference, sharing the story by Michael of his six-decade love affair with the club in eleven chapters, each one recreating an iconic Newcastle match.
The book will be published on August 26th by Hurst Books.
It will be a highly appropriate latest appearance on the journey for 'The Man With The Scarf', which Norman Cornish would have been delighted to support.
In 1957 Cornish was asked to design a new banner for the drift mine at Westerton which was opened in 1953. Several drift mines were opened in the area following nationalisation in 1947 and they too wanted to be part of the mining tradition.
Westerton is a hamlet, on a hill, overlooking the Wear Valley midway between Spennymoor and Bishop Auckland. Westerton was surrounded by pit villages at Byers Green, Binchester, Leasingthorne, Eldon and Whitworth. However, Westerton was also the location of a very early observatory constructed by Thomas Wright (1711- 1786) towards the end of his career. Wright was an English Astronomer, Mathematician, Instrument maker, and Architect. He was the first to describe the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies. Wright's observatory still stands in Westerton and was an obvious subject for Cornish, being within walking distance from Spennymoor. Along the way, Cornish would walk through Middlestone Village, with its chapel and pub. It was also adjacent to a famous horse- racing stable owned by Arthur Stephenson (Stivie).
Spennymoor was surrounded by villages of varying sizes which were usually the location of other deep mines and drift mines, along with a selection of pubs.
During the early 60s Cornish was transferred to Mainsforth Colliery near Ferryhill Station. Buses were provided at appropriate times and 'the pit bus' picked up and returned miners to their home towns and villages. The journey from Spennymoor passed through Ferryhill Village where Friday was market day and a hive of activity- a perfect subject for an artist interested in humanity.
Street scenes, character studies, mining scenes and bar scenes are all featured in 'Behind The Scenes : The Norman Cornish Sketchbooks.'
The Mystery Picture
Behind The Scenes at The Bowes Museum
Art and Music:
Waiting For The Result
The Norman Cornish Trail celebrates two years