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3 Art and Obscenity in India
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In India, art and obscenity often cross paths. Obscenity is criminalised through various legations that aim to censor obscene material.[1] In recent years, the Indian courts have shifted from the restrictive Hicklin test of obscenity to the Community Standard test in deliberating on artworks that include nudity, sexual encounters, and sex and spirituality. However, this article argues that this progressive judicial discourse confines the interpretation and legality of art within socially acceptable categories instead of embracing the authenticity of art. For this purpose, the discussions surround the struggle between artistic expression and obscenity under section 292 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter, IPC).
Conceptually, societal perceptions shape the meaning of obscenity and vary from culture to culture and between communities. It is transitional and transnational.[2] But generally, it signifies something "that offends or outrages, because it defies accepted standards of decency, civility or modesty."[3] Obscenity is often related to morality, and the act is presumed to offend or corrupt morals by influencing or leaving an undesirable impact on the viewer. Art is one such medium of expression that has come under the legal scrutiny of obscenity. Professor Vashist puts this issue briefly as:
"Law and aesthetics seem to be situated as polar oppositions as law claims to be rooted in rationalistic thinking whereas art by definition transcends the rational to be artistic."[4]
Thus, the fundamental struggle remains between an artist's freedom of speech and expression and the current interpretation of obscenity.
Transnational Tests of Obscenity
Under the common law, the Queen's Bench laid down one of the first tests to determine obscenity in 1868 in Regina v. Hicklin.[5] The test was "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall"[6]. This test allowed the material to be judged based on isolated parts of the work if they influenced the most susceptible readers.
By applying this test, any publication (including books, art, magazine articles) can be judged for obscenity based on isolated passages of the work, or seen (in case of art) without its context. Works can be considered by their supposed influence on the most susceptible readers, such as children or feeble-minded adults. The Obscene Publications Act, 1959 partially modified this test.[7]
Till the late 1930s, this test was followed in the United States as well.[8] In 1957, in the case of Roth v. United States[9], the US Supreme Court abandoned the Hicklin test. The court said that any work becomes obscene when "to the average person applying the contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole, appeals to prurient interest."[10]
The case was superseded by Miller v. California[11] where it became a three-pronged test. Firstly, the community standards test examined while viewing the said picture in the background to which it was shown, and its message to the public and the world at large. Secondly, the material had to be "patently offensive"[12] and thirdly, it must not have "any redeeming social value" or lack "serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific values."
The Indian courts have largely interpreted and based the definition of obscenity on a variant of these tests.
Art and Obscenity in India
In Indian law, obscenity is generally understood in terms of morality and decency.[13]Section 292 of the IPC punishes anyone found in possession, sale or transfer or like of obscene material.[14] Obscenity is not defined under IPC. The Supreme Court in Ranjeet D. Udeshi v. State of Maharashtra[15] elucidated the applicable test of obscenity. In this case, the accused was charged with obscenity for selling an unexpurgated edition copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover. The court applied the Hicklin test and stated that it was not on certain parts of the case here or there but related to the overall story. Further, it said that test for obscenity is "whether the material would tend to deprave and corrupt the minds of readers in whose hands it would fall".[16]
Although the court applied the Hicklin test, section 292 of the IPC required any material, which is in question to be 'taken as a whole'. When the material is taken as a whole if it is lascivious and tends to deprave and corrupt persons who read, see or hear the matter contained. So, even before the judgement, the Hicklin test was in contravention of IPC as the former requires the passages to be seen in isolation. However, the court used this test to hold the appellant guilty as he was in possession of obscene material for sale.
Over the years, the Hicklin test was modified in different judgements, but the courts erred in applying the tests of obscenity uniformly though most of them maintained the Hicklin Test. For example, in K.A. Abbas v. Union of India[17], the court applied some part of the Miller's test holding that the "deprivation or corruption" must be viewed an average person's point of view or a reasonable prudent man's view. Then, in the case of Ajay Goswami v. Union of India[18], the court quoted the Miller test but titled it as the Hicklin Test.
In the following years, the Indian courts started adopting a seemingly more progressive approach to art and obscenity. In M.F. Husain v. Raj Kumar Pandey[19], the work of the famous painter M.F. Husain's work came under the scrutiny of section 292 of the IPC. He had painted a work that depicted India in the form of a naked woman. He sold it to a private collector in 2004 and in 2006 it was displayed for an online charity auction where it was titled 'Bharat Mata'. This led to various protest and complaints were filed against him. The matter was consolidated by the Supreme Court and referred to the Delhi High Court. Justice SK Kaul reflected that artistic freedom must be balanced with free speech keeping in mind the contemporary mores and national standards.
The High Court further noted that where questions of nudity or sexual figures arise, the perspective of the artist along with the context of the art must be looked into, and the idea that art "should not be seen in isolation without going into its onomatopoetic meaning." The court concluded that even though some people may be offended by seeing "Mother India naked", it wasn't sufficient to constitute obscenity. Conservative notions of clothing the female body must not be allowed to stifle artistic freedom of expression guaranteed by Article 19 of the Indian Constitution.
Finally, in Aveek Sarkar v. State of West Bengal[20], the Supreme disapproved of the Hicklin Test and adopted the Community Standard test from Roth. In this case, the German magazine STERN published an article with a picture of Boris Becker and fiancée naked along with a photograph that was published in an Indian magazine Sports World and a Kolkata based newspaper Anandabazar Patrika. Aveek Sarkar, a lawyer, filed a case under Section 292 of IPC against the editor, publisher and printer of the newspaper and the editor of the magazine alleging the photograph will "corrupt and deprave the minds of the young and were against the cultural and moral values of society."[21]
The Supreme Court held that any photograph or work of art that involves nudity or sex could not per se be called obscene unless it tends to arouse feelings or reveal an overt sexual desire. The court said that the cover story mentioned that the motive of such a photograph was to fight racism, promote love and marriage between persons of different racial backgrounds for racial equality.
Further, it was held that since the breasts of Barbara Fultus were fully covered with the arm of Boris Becker the photograph was semi-nude and did not aim to arouse any sexual desires or reprehensible conduct. The Court held that the photograph was not obscene within the meaning of Section 292 of the IPC. The Court observed that decisions in such cases must be taken keeping in mind the contemporary national standards and not that of a group of sensitive persons, thus, the picture must be seen in the context of the message and not in isolation. Accordingly, the Court found no offence under Section 292 of the IPC.
Stifling Artistic Freedom in India
The catena of judgments shows that there have been progressive interpretations and a more acceptable approach in dealing with provocative and sexual art. But the jurisprudence on obscenity and art in India still has major shortcomings. The judgements on obscenity have an inherent bias in looking at art from the societal standard even as they take into context the artist's intentions. Consequently, the artwork or the "image is never seen or appreciated on its own terms by Law."[22]
Firstly, there is a deep-seated fear of encountering the female body and sexuality in art in India. In M.F. Husain[23], although the court holds that "sex and obscenity are not always synonymous", it cautions that when it comes to semi-nude/nude pictures of a woman, "the surrounding circumstances and background in which woman is shown"[24] will determine whether it is obscene or not.
Similarly, in Aveek Sarkar[25], the image was not obscene because it didn't intend to "did not have the tendency of "exciting lustful thoughts" since the "breast of Barbara Fultus has been fully covered with the arm of Boris Becker". The fact that it was asserted that the picture was taken by her father seems to fit into the spheres of a heterosexual relationship. Thus, it was held that only the most depraved mind would be aroused and titillated by the image. The court seems to embrace a problematic discourse that if an artwork did arouse sexual tendencies, it would be obscene. "Reading the image within the harmony of heterosexual marital union and the familial ideology, the court brought it into the zone of permissibility, completely de-sexualised it, and stripped it of its actual intent of "supposed to shock."[26] Subsequently, boundaries are created that define and censor representation of female sexuality by creating "zones of sexual permissibility and proscription."[27]
To illustrate, in 2006 art had come under attack when artists Sanjeev Khandekar and Vaishali Narkar exhibited a how at the Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai. The title of the work was 'Tits, Clits and Elephant Dick'. An FIR for obscenity was filed against the exhibition, and the police asked the artists to cover the nudes. The artists covered the work for the duration of the exhibition in black cloth as a mark of protest.
Secondly, the judgements have tried to fit acceptable art within the confines of accepted moralities of the past. For example, in M.F. Husain[28], although the court did not hold the artwork obscene, it constantly made comparisons to Kama Sutra, Khajuraho temples and other ancient texts to justify why it is the intermingling of sex and spirituality is acceptable. Consequently, this could be read as a precedent that any art that does not derive legitimacy from the ancient representation of nationalist or divine figures can be called obscene. Such an ambiguous scope of obscenity allows frivolous lawsuits that have inevitably affected artistic freedom to explore the realms of sacred and sensual art.
For instance, in 2007, a post-graduate student artist Srilamanthula Chandramohan became the centre of a controversy concerning his artworks displayed at the Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU Baroda. His works consisted of a painting of crucified Jesus Christ with his penis out on the cross. Semen was shown as dropping out of his penis into a real toilet commode placed beneath the Cross. His other work depicted a nude woman who has a baby coming out from her vagina and another lady attacking the baby with a Trishul. It was titled 'Durga Mate.'[29]
Chandramohan said that his aim was "to show the purity, truth and reality in human beings using the images of god and goddesses." The police and men from the orthodox church and other religious organisations barged into the exhibition; Chandramohan was arrested and later released on bail. Since 11 years he hasn't received his post-graduate degree from the college as he was suspended and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) attacked his works. The lawsuit against him is still pending and art galleries have repeatedly refused to exhibit his work.[30] Similarly, in the last few years of his life, M.F. Husain was exiled or almost driven out of the country due to the legal battles and controversies surrounding his artworks.[31]
That the purpose of art is not merely decorative but also provocative succinctly puts the debate between art and obscenity laws in India. Art must be allowed to push boundaries, without being stifled by extremists or confined in societal mores by the judiciary. There is a dire need of clarity in the definition and components of obscene art in the IPC provisions. Further, the police power to confiscate publications or artworks deemed as obscene must be curbed too.
[1] The Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986; The Young Persons (Harmful Publication) Act; Section 292, The Indian Penal Code, 1860; The Postal and Telegraph Act; The Information Technology Act, 2000 & The Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act, 1956.
[2] Kerstin Mey, Art and Obscenity (I.B. Tauris 2007) 5.
[4] Latika Vashist, 'Law and the Obscene Image: Reading Aveek Sarkar v. State of West Bengal',5 (Monsoon) JILS (2014), 249.
[5] 3 QB 360 (1868).
[7] Obscene Publications Act, 1959, http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/66/contents; For further discussion on the changes brought by the act see J. E. Hall Williams, 'The Obscene Publication Act, 1959', 23 The Modern Law Review 286 (1960).
[8] Alice Fleetwood Bartee and Wayne C Bartee, Litigating Morality: American Legal Thought and its English Roots64-54 (Praeger , New York, 1992).
[9] 354 U.S. 476 (1957).
[11] 413 U.S. 15 (1973).
[12] Patently offensive generally means representations or descriptions of masturbation, excretory functions, and lewd exhibition of genitals.
[13] AP Datar, Commentary on the Constitution of India 311 (Wadhwa & Co., 2nd edition, 2007)
[14] Section 292, The Indian Penal Code, 1860.
[15] AIR 1965 SC 881.
[18] (2007) 1 SCC 143.
[19] Crl. Revision Petition No. 114/2007.
[22] Supra note 2.
[25] (2014) 4SCC 257.
[26] Supra note 2; For a comprehensive analysis of how the equality discourse of judiciary reinscribes women into natural, familial roles, see Ratna Kapur, Women, Familial Ideology and the Constitution, Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains 61 (1996].
[29] Shubhajtroy, 'MSU Faculty sends lesson to V-C on art: your reading 'obscene, illiterate'', The Indian Express (2007), https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/msu-faculty-sends-lesson-to-v-c-on-art-your-reading-obscene-illiterate/.
[30] Sukanya Shanta, 'Suspended for a Decade for Paintings of Gods, Student Returns to Torch VC's Office', The Wire (2018), https://thewire.in/culture/suspended-for-a-decade-for-paintings-of-gods-student-returns-to-torch-vcs-office.
[31] Somini Sengupta, An Artist in Exile Tests India's Democratic Ideals, The New York Times (November 8, 2008), https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/world/asia/09india.html.
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By Dr. Arup Mitra, D. P. S. Negi and Dr. Puneet Kumar Shrivastav
Image Attribute: The Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) launch event on September 27, 2021, was graced by the presence of Shri Rameswar Teli, Minister of State (L&E), Shri Sunil Barthwal, Secretary L&E, Shri D.P.S. Negi, Principal Labour & Employment Advisor, and Shri I.S. Negi, Director General, Labour Bureau. Chairman, Expert Group on All India Surveys, Prof. S.P. Mukherjee was also present.
Labour Bureau, an attached office of the Ministry of Labour & Employment, has been entrusted with the task of conducting the All-India Quarterly Establishment based Employment Survey (AQEES) which has two components namely Quarterly Employment Survey (QES) in respect of establishments employing 10 or more workers (mostly constituting 'organized' segment) and Area Frame Establishment Survey (AFES) to build up a frame in respect of establishments employing 9 or fewer workers. The Report which launched on September 27 in the First Round of Quarterly Employment Survey of the organized sector units in the non-farm sector. It refers to the first quarter i.e., April to June 2021. In fact, this is the first formal (Government) report aftermath COVID-19, on employment estimates based on the organized sector establishment survey. It also tries to capture the impact of COVID on employment as estimates are provided for March 2020 and July 2020 as well. This survey of the organized sector establishment-based employment does not capture employment data from units that emerged after the 6thEconomic Census in 2013-14. Besides, the survey work for the first quarter of this organized sector establishment-based employment survey corresponds to the period of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic and in view of the surge in covid-19 cases across the country, several lockdown restrictions were imposed by respective State/ UT authorities. As a result, data collection was mainly carried out telephonically and through visits by investigators wherever possible.
An interesting pattern that emerges from the size distribution of the units (Table 1) as of April 1, 2021, is that a very significant percentage of the units are located in the employment size category of 10-39.
Except for IT/BPOs and construction in the rest of the sectors, more than 50 percent of the units are placed in this size category. Next to this is the size comprising 40 to 99 workers. Though an almost equal proportion of the units at the aggregate level are also present in the smallest size category (less than 10), construction, education, health, and IT/BPOs unravel a relatively much higher percentage in the 40-99 size category compared to the bottom one. From this distribution pattern, the phenomenon of the missing middle (employment-wise) does not seem to be overwhelming anymore. Also, the bottom-heavy pattern is not evident significantly. Some of the small units may have graduated to the organized sector and secondly, the new entries in response to the startup India scheme cannot be undermined.
Information was collected on whether the organized sector units were registered under the MSME Act/Udyam portal. Sector-wise percentage distribution of estimated establishments registered under the MSME Act/Udyam portal highlights that about 17.7% of the estimated establishments were registered under MSME Act. The maximum percentage of the registered establishment was reported for the manufacturing sector (43.9%) followed by IT/BPOs (24.8%) and construction (19.8%). Further, out of the total establishments registered under MSME Act, about 86.1% were registered under the Udyam portal with a maximum incidence in the Health Sector (97.0%) followed by Financial Services (93.8%).
One significant contribution of the report lies in the fact it offers information to assess the impact of COVID-19 and the lockdown on employment. During the lockdown of 2020, only one-third of the units were operational except in the case of financial services and health (Figure 1). Comparing the figures prior to March 25, 2020, with the figures pertaining to July 1, 2020, nearly one-third of the units witnessed employment decline.
Across the sectors manufacturing, construction and trade are seen to have suffered the maximum employment loss. Further, though both males and females at the aggregate level do not seem to have registered differential growth rates of employment decline, within some of the sectors like manufacturing, construction, trade, and health the female employment fell much more sharply than male employees.
However, comparing the figures for April 2021 with the pre-Covid situation, the employment loss is found to have been neutralized as the growth rate turns out to be closer to zero (Table 2). In other words, the economy by and large restored the level of employment in April 2021, though the impact of the second wave is yet to be seen. In other words, between July 2020 and April 2021 massive employment growth (more than 7 percent) seems to have taken place which compensated for the employment loss perceived during the nationwide lockdown of 2020.
During the lockdown of 2020 around one-fifth of the units could not afford full payment to the employees (Table 3). Manufacturing and construction were among the worst-affected sectors. Even the sectors like health and financial services which were active during the lockdown experienced reduced payment to the employees in nearly 10 percent of the establishments.
The database, on the whole, offers a snapshot of the economy and such information will be relevant for employment planning on a year-to-year basis.
Table 1: Sector-wise Percentage Distribution of Estimated Establishments according to Different Size Classes of Employment as of April 1, 2021
Source: Table 2.6, First QES Report 2021, Labour Bureau, MoLE, GoI.
Figure 1: Sector-wise Percentage Distribution of Estimated Establishments according to Operational Status During Lockdown: Organised Sector Establishments
Source: Table 2.17, First QES Report 2021, Labour Bureau, MoLE, GoI
Table 2: Growth Rate in Employment: Organised Sector Establishments (in %)
Source: Calculated by authors based on Figure 2.3 and Table 2.17 of the First QES Report 2021, Labour Bureau, MoLE, GoI.
Table 3: Percentage Distribution of Estimated Employees in Organised Sector Establishments Getting Different Levels of Wages during Lockdown Period (March 25, 2020, to June 30, 2020)
Source: Table 2.19, First QES Report 2021, Labour Bureau, MoLE, GoI.
Dr. Arup Mitra is a Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi.
Shri D.P.S. Negi is Principal Labour & Employment Advisor (PLEA), Ministry of Labour & Employment.
Dr. Puneet Kumar Shrivastav is a Young Professional, Labour Bureau, Ministry of Labour & Employment
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I am not familiar with selenium, after trying a lot of times I finally come out below clunky codes.
Private selenium As New ChromeDriver

Sub test()
Dim cell As Range
Dim keys As New selenium.keys
Dim pageNo As Integer

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    Next
End Sub

Several troubles and questions raised:

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*I am confused why I have to send 2 times of "Ctrl+t" keys to successfully open new tab.

*Why that I have to add selenium.SwitchToNextWindow after opening new tab, or the next url will be opened on the original tab, not new tab?

*Quite often after opening 3~5 urls, vba pops up "not enough memory" error and stops loading the next url. But if I run the codes line by line in debugging environment, all 10 urls can be successfully opened. Why's that?

*I googled that if I want chrome not to exit after finishing running macro, I have to declare object selenium outside the sub though I do not quite get the reason. Could anyone help explain me in plain way?
If any experts can help me optimize my codes, that would be much appreciated! My system is Win7 64bit + Excel 2010.
Thanks with best regards.

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I am confused why I have to send 2 times of "Ctrl+t" keys to successfully open new tab.

The modifier key should be in the first argument and the key in the second one:
driver.SendKeys Keys.Control, "t"

In your case, a better way would be to open a new window with some Javascript:
Private Keys As New selenium.Keys
Private driver As New selenium.ChromeDriver

Sub test()
  Const JS_NEW_WINDOW = "window.open(arguments[0], name);"

  driver.Get "http://www.google.com/"
  For i = 0 To 9
    If i Then
      driver.ExecuteScript JS_NEW_WINDOW, "http://www.google.com/"
      driver.SwitchToNextWindow
      driver.FindElementById("lst-ib").SendKeys "some text " & i
    End If
  Next
End Sub

Why that I have to add selenium.SwitchToNextWindow after opening new tab, or the next url will be opened on the original tab, not new tab?

The context of the driver remains the same when a new window is opened. You have to explicitly tell the driver that you want to operate on another window.

Quite often after opening 3~5 urls, vba pops up "not enough memory" error and stops loading the next url. But if I run the codes line by line in debugging environment, all 10 urls can be successfully opened. Why's that?

Probably because some of the memory is released once the page is fully loaded. But since you are loading all the pages in a row, it may not leave the browser enough time to manage it's memory.
I would try to disable the plugins if any  (especially Flash) and add some waiting:
Dim driver As New Selenium.ChromeDriver
driver.SetPreference "plugins.plugins_disabled", Array("Adobe Flash Player")
For i = 0 To 9
  driver.Get "http://www.google.com/"
  Waiter.wait 500  ' waits 500ms
Next

I googled that if I want chrome not to exit after finishing running macro, I have to declare object selenium outside the sub though I do not quite get the reason. Could anyone help explain me in plain way?

The driver is automatically terminated once the variable holding the driver is no longer used.
Check this link to get more information about variable and scopes: https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/kb/141693 .
So to keep the driver alive outside of a procedure, it must be declared outside:
Dim driver As Selenium.ChromeDriver

Sub Main
  Set driver = New Selenium.ChromeDriver
  driver.Get "http://www.google.com/"

End Sub

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A Florida man took his grandson magnet fishing. Police are now investigating what they reeled in
Updated: 5:46 PM EST Feb 2, 2022
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
when it comes to fishing, you never know what will bite or in this case, what will gravitate for south florida, grandpa and grandson. A first time try at magnet fishing over the weekend came with a high powered catch Reeling in 2 50 Caliber Barrett Sniper Rifles, its sole beginner's luck. Dwayne taking this photo of his 11 year old grandson, Alan with the two rifles. Allen says this find is part of his mission to do good capturing guns and saving the world, which means picking up garbage. Duane was able to clean up the guns which were covered in shrink wrap once they got home. And then I noticed that the serial numbers were gouged out and at that point they became illegal for me to possess. And we notified the police. Miami Dade. Police tell CBS four News that the rifles have been handed over to forensics to determine the condition of the guns. Meantime, Duane says, this lucky catch isn't the only reason he hopes for many more fishing days to come. It's been really special to do something outside that he likes. Um, so something we both like that we can do together is icing on the cake And Dwayne says each gun weighed about 20 lbs. His grandson reeled both of them in all by himself. We're in South Miami Dade. I'm Austin Carter CBS four News at seven
A Florida man and his grandson couldn't believe their eyes when they reeled in more than just some scrap metal and bottle caps during a magnet fishing weekend trip.Duane Smith and his 11-year-old grandson, Allen Cadwalader, were out on a magnet fishing trip on January 30 in Homestead, a suburb of Miami, Florida, when within five minutes of their arrival, Cadwalader reeled in two sniper rifle receivers and bolt carrier groups wrapped in shrink wrap, Smith told CNN.This was their first time magnet fishing, Smith said, and he chose a bridge with a canal near where he normally goes hiking.Magnet fishing uses a strong magnet attached to a thick rope in an attempt to fish out metal objects that have sunk to the bottom of canals, lakes, ponds and rivers.It's a hobby Smith recently became interested in after watching several YouTube videos about the ins and outs. He figured this would be a more engaging activity for his grandson, who has autism, than traditional fishing."With magnet fishing every time I cast out or every other time I'm coming up with something," Smith said. "There's a bottle cap or you know, $7,000 sniper rifle."Smith calls it beginners luck but said thanks to the YouTube videos he watched, he was prepared to find all sorts of things."It's kind of like a gambling addiction where you don't know what the next pull of the slot machine is gonna be," Smith said. "A lot cheaper than playing slots."Smith, who is retired infantry soldier and trained in deploying sniper weapons, said he knew the weapons were military grade. He estimates each piece weighed 20 pounds and after doing some research, Smith estimates they're worth $20,000 and could have been there for up to a year because of the condition they were in.The guns were not loaded, according to Smith, and no ammunition was found. The weapons were covered in debris, so once they got home, Smith and Cadwalader cleaned them off for 30 minutes to an hour to find that the serial numbers had been ground off.The weapons were turned over to Miami-Dade Police and will be sent to the forensics lab to be processed, if possible, depending on the actual condition of the weapons, Detective Alvaro Zabaleta with Miami-Dade Police told CNN. Processing has to be completed in order to determine if the weapons were used in a crime.In the meantime, Miami-Dade Police said they could not confirm the information on the weapon type, condition or status until they are processed by their forensics lab.
HOMESTEAD, Fla. —
A Florida man and his grandson couldn't believe their eyes when they reeled in more than just some scrap metal and bottle caps during a magnet fishing weekend trip.
Duane Smith and his 11-year-old grandson, Allen Cadwalader, were out on a magnet fishing trip on January 30 in Homestead, a suburb of Miami, Florida, when within five minutes of their arrival, Cadwalader reeled in two sniper rifle receivers and bolt carrier groups wrapped in shrink wrap, Smith told CNN.
This was their first time magnet fishing, Smith said, and he chose a bridge with a canal near where he normally goes hiking.
Magnet fishing uses a strong magnet attached to a thick rope in an attempt to fish out metal objects that have sunk to the bottom of canals, lakes, ponds and rivers.
It's a hobby Smith recently became interested in after watching several YouTube videos about the ins and outs. He figured this would be a more engaging activity for his grandson, who has autism, than traditional fishing.
"With magnet fishing every time I cast out or every other time I'm coming up with something," Smith said. "There's a bottle cap or you know, $7,000 sniper rifle."
Smith calls it beginners luck but said thanks to the YouTube videos he watched, he was prepared to find all sorts of things.
"It's kind of like a gambling addiction where you don't know what the next pull of the slot machine is gonna be," Smith said. "A lot cheaper than playing slots."
Smith, who is retired infantry soldier and trained in deploying sniper weapons, said he knew the weapons were military grade. He estimates each piece weighed 20 pounds and after doing some research, Smith estimates they're worth $20,000 and could have been there for up to a year because of the condition they were in.
The guns were not loaded, according to Smith, and no ammunition was found.
The weapons were covered in debris, so once they got home, Smith and Cadwalader cleaned them off for 30 minutes to an hour to find that the serial numbers had been ground off.
The weapons were turned over to Miami-Dade Police and will be sent to the forensics lab to be processed, if possible, depending on the actual condition of the weapons, Detective Alvaro Zabaleta with Miami-Dade Police told CNN. Processing has to be completed in order to determine if the weapons were used in a crime.
In the meantime, Miami-Dade Police said they could not confirm the information on the weapon type, condition or status until they are processed by their forensics lab.


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Dog breeder Rita Gaus, seen May 19, 2016, at her Buckingham, Ill., home, is a Donald Trump delegate.
They are the 39 elected members of Illinois' Donald Trump delegation to the Republican National Convention — an eclectic, slightly organized group chosen across the state in the March 15 primary who found a common cause in the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
And like the candidate they are pledged to support, some of them don't shy away from controversy.
Take Lori Gayne, an admittedly outspoken former Internet talk show host from Chicago, who said she voted for President Barack Obama in his first bid for the White House in 2008.
One of Gayne's social media handles is "whitepride."
"With all the racism going on today, I'm very proud to be white. Just like black people are proud to be black and now, as white people, whenever we say something critical we're punished as if we're racists. I'm tired of it. I'm very proud," Gayne said.
"I'm all for closing the borders. I'm all for not allowing Muslims in this country. I'm all for keeping illegals out and get as many of them who are here out as soon as possible. ... Why do I want my taxpayer money taking care of criminals and murderers who aren't supposed to be here?"
Then there's Rita Gaus, of Buckingham, a village of 300 or so in Kankakee County. A 60-year-old dog breeder, Gaus shared on her Facebook page a post she said she found "really funny."
Rita Gaus shows off her official Republican delegate document.
"If Trump wins the election, it'll be the first time in history that a billionaire moved into public housing vacated by a black family!" the post said.
"We need somebody who thinks like the people. He speaks very much to me," Gaus said of Trump. "I'm not angry at a certain person or group of people. We just need someone who understands the people and understands what it's like to work. These politicians have never worked. They don't know what it's like to work paycheck to paycheck."
For now, many of the Trump delegates have largely spoken to each other through a Facebook group site. Several of them expect to meet in person for the first time starting Friday when Illinois Republicans launch their state convention in Peoria. Another 15 at-large delegates pledged to Trump, the winner of the state's primary election, will be selected there.
Many of the elected Trump delegates describe themselves as "grass-roots" Republicans with little activism or experience beyond voting and little if any name recognition for voters.
Last fall, many familiar political names aligned themselves as delegate candidates for establishment presidential contenders — mainly former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. But by the time the Illinois primary rolled around, those candidates were out of the running. Voters in congressional districts that Trump won picked delegates whose names were listed alongside Trump's, though in a few cases Trump supporters with foreign-sounding names lost out.
The byzantine system used by Illinois to pick delegates appears to have cost GOP front-runner Donald Trump, as two members of his slate with South Asian names ran far behind, allowing Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, to each net an extra vote for the Republican National Convention.
In interviews, public documents and social media postings, many Illinois delegates cited the ability of the wealthy New York real estate mogul and former reality TV star to relate to them as individuals in a political system they believe does not speak to them.
"I look at the Republican Party and it's become a party of big business and they kind of look down at people like me," said James Devors, a 47-year-old drug and alcohol abuse counselor on disability.
"Mr. Trump is more interested in people like me, real people, and not so much big business and the lobbyists," said Devors, who lives in Aroma Park in Kankakee County.
Trump was able to tap a Republican electorate angry and dissatisfied with the GOP establishment — and many delegates share the feeling.
"The GOP has become irreparably corrupt and morally bankrupt, and outside of its campaign rhetoric … is practically indistinguishable from the Dems," Tracy Doyle, a former owner of a specialty yarn shop from Roscoe in northwestern Illinois, wrote on Facebook.
"What I hope comes out of all this craziness is a re-made GOP — one that is responsive to the base and that will honor and respect 'We the People,' as well as the principles which now it only pretends to champion. One which will actually fight back against constitution-usurping, quasi-communist, soft dictators!" she wrote.
Eric Sawchuk, a former Brookfield Village Board member and former Proviso Township tax collector, is among the few delegates with political and government experience.
"There's an uproar in the nation, and people are tired of business as usual," Sawchuk said. "The guy's shaking up the establishment. I'm tired of business as usual. ... I'm hoping his business sense will come into the presidency."
There are 39 elected members of Illinois' Donald Trump delegation to the Republican National Convention.
Gaus, the dog breeder, attributes the failure of Republican majorities in the House and Senate to stand up to Obama as driving support for Trump.
"(Trump is) not establishment. The establishment, they screwed us. They promised to go against Obama, repeal Obamacare, not let us spend ourselves into poverty. They didn't do anything and went along with everything (Obama) wanted. They rolled over and played dead, and pretty much all the people I know who are Trump supporters have had it with the establishment," she said.
Paul Minch, of Downers Grove, who calls himself a 40-year Republican, said he believed electing Trump over Democratic former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was important given the future of appointments to the Supreme Court, particularly on the issue of abortion.
"As president, Trump will nominate as many as six constitutional conservative Supreme Court justices who would never try to write law and who would reverse Roe v. Wade to stop what has become the U.S. Holocaust," Minch said.
Many of the delegates also have an affinity for Trump's controversial stance on immigration. As he launched his presidential campaign in June, he vowed to build a border wall to stop criminals and "rapists" from Mexico. Later, Trump called for banning Muslims from entering the country.
For some, it is a desire beyond Trump's slogan of "Make American Great Again" toward, as Gayne said, "taking America back to where we were in the '60s, '70s and '80s."
Still, not all are sold on the idea of that wall, which Trump has vowed Mexico will pay to construct.
"About that wall and that stuff, that doesn't really do much for me, but I do think we need a stronger border," Devors said. "I honestly don't think there'll ever be a big wall built. But I do like his position on trade. I really believe these trade agreements have been bad for our economy and bad for jobs."
Many were offered slots on the ballot after making statements of support for Trump on social media, via email or through attending his boisterous rallies.
But Stella Kozanecki, an 80-year-old retired insurance executive from Mount Vernon in southern Illinois, had a more roundabout route to becoming a delegate.
"I watched the first Republican debate on TV on FOX News, and I did not like what he said about (anchor) Megyn Kelly and didn't like the language that he used. I went on the Internet and emailed them and told him he owed Megyn Kelly an apology and that he should hire someone to clean up his rhetoric," Kozanecki recalled.
"First, I got an email thanking me. Then I got an email asking me for some biographical information, which I sent," leading to an offer of running for delegate, Kozanecki said. "I've never done anything like this in my life."
There is a cost factor to the delegates' newfound political activism. Some are struggling with the fact that they must pay their own expenses to the convention. It runs into the thousands of dollars, including a $600 events fee for Illinois delegation members.
Several said they were never told about that.
"WOW!!! This political stuff never ceases to amaze me!! Just found out — after you get elected to be a delegate — you get the privilege of PAYING $5,000 to attend the convention to vote for your candidate!!! Myself and other delegates can use some help!!" Maria Hough, of the small community of Thomasboro, a few miles north of Champaign, asked her Facebook friends.
Hough and Devors have been using the GoFundMe.com route to little success. She's raised $25 and Devors has raised $175. But Devors said he's prepared to go to Cleveland for Trump even if it means maxing out his credit cards. And Kozanecki said Hough will be her hotel roommate.
"He's like a diamond in the rough," Kozanecki said of Trump. "He keeps saying he's going to act more presidential and everybody's holding their breath waiting for that to happen. It's going to be mean and nasty."


I am undertaking some research into the life and works of the Cornish plant hunters William and Thomas Lobb, who plant hunted for the Veitch nursery in north and south American, and India and south east Asia respectively.
I have a pretty good feel for what, where and why they were working but there is a dearth of archive material, in particular their records / diaries written in-country and the Veitch company records of both London and Exeter branches have disappeared. Possibly up in smoke in the Blitz.
If anyone has any records of or about Veitch and /or the Lobbs, or knows someone who may, would you be kind enough to drop me a line. Thank you so.
'It's well known that readers love crime novels and readers love books about gardening – and many readers like both. The Body in the Garden combines these two genres in a festival to be held in October 2013 in the leafy Botanic Garden.
And I am proud and excited to be a part of this interesting hybridization. So if you are in Australia or are looking for an excellent excuse to take a trip, why not make a date and come to Adelaide and participate in what promises to be a most unusual and innovative festival.
There is still time to sign up for my month-long, online garden history course hosted by My Garden School. The course begins on the 3rd August and for a review by former student Deb Wiles, please check out her post on her blog Got Soil?
This link will take you to the booking page where there is also to be found the Programme under the 'More Information' tab.
Fees are £50 for this two-day event, which includes participation, lunches and teas together with a coach trip to Wentworth Castle.
And if you want to swot up before you visit, I can't recommend highly enough The Georgian Landscape of Wentworth Castle published by New Arcadian Press.
The water channel at Nishat Bagh (Photo: Jan Haenraets, 2011).
Great post from Jill Sinclair on her a landscape lover's blog focusing on the Mughal gardens in Kashmir and the work currently being undertaken to preserve and conserve them.
The remains of the Oont Kadal in Dal Lake at Nishat Bagh (Photo: Jan Haenraets, 2010).
The post features an interview with Dr Jan Haenraets who is working on the conservation work, and who also wrote a fascinating article 'Rediscovering the Mughal Gardens of Kashmir'.


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Over the past number of years, Dublin singer-songwriter Ciaran Lenehan has been carving out a name as a live performer, honing his skills on the road with English folk/punk artist Frank Turner, as well as supporting acts such as Damien Dempsey, former INXS frontman Ciaran Gribben, Wallis Bird, Declan O'Rourke and Gavin James. Having previously toured Ireland and the UK on the back of his debut EP 'It's Never Too Late', Ciaran is currently touring his debut album 'These Stories', released in November 2013. 'These Stories', described as 'fresh, endearing and most of all, memorable', is a collection of passionate folk/punk songs that highlight Ciaran's versatile playing style and intricate vocal harmonies.
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For those doing it for the first time, here are some tips and thoughts on what to expect.
Eventually, you get to the point where you forget your last name and it does not matter because all cruisers want to know is your first name and the name of your vessel. Last names become a blur in the sunset. If available, your ham or SSB call sign will be also be useful. Write your last name down somewhere on a piece of paper and put in a safe place, since you will need it eventually when returning to land-based life.
Hi, What Do You Do for a Living?
You will soon learn that no one in the cruising community cares too much what you did in your pre-cruiser life. If you grew tired of being asked 1,000 times at cocktail parties, "what do you do?", then the cruising life might be for you. The longer you are out there, the harder it will be to explain what you did back then. What counts now is whether you can fix a refrigeration system, a diesel engine, or a watermaker. If you can do all those and repair a sail, you will be a very well-known person in port.
What a change from the world whence you came – where it was drilled into your head that you had to have goals and plans. Somewhere along the way, cruising sailors eventually learn to go where the winds blow and where the weather allows wearing shorts.
The less crew you need to recruit to sail your ship, the more aptly you can apply this adage. Arriving and departing crew can wreak havoc with the "no plans" lifestyle as the skipper has to be at places and times to accommodate the crew flight schedules. Eventually, as your sailing skills increase and you settle in to the rhythm of the sea, the need for crew will be minimized.
Time will seem to slow down. The manana-mentality, siesta time, and cocktail hour take on new meaning. It will come to pass that you will only know the day of the week by asking fellow sailors that question on the VHF. Your life will be more guided by sunrises and sunsets, rather than clocks, except during navigation duties.
When you finally downshift and settle into the cruising lifestyle, you will only want to tack once a day…really.
The high fashion statement for a cruiser is the quality of his foul weather gear…everything else is optional. Blondes have more fun, but naked sailors enjoy cruising more.
Everything you wear fits into a small locker and one drawer aboard the vessel. It is unlikely that one will find a button down shirt or a blouse in there. Besides boat shoes, have flip-flops, will travel. Scruffy is acceptable and having a beard is normal, unless you are in a more conservative country with traditional values. In some cultures when going out in the town, typical "sailor's garb" (boat shoes, cut-off shorts and T-shirt) will not be appropriate. You will not have to "dress up" but looking ratty should be avoided.
One should help other sailors as one would like other sailors help oneself. Having similarities to the biblical code, this rule has a long history among cruisers and is evident in every port and every emergency.
Almost always, someone in the fleet will always volunteer to help a fellow cruiser in dire straits and often without any compensation. The day will come when you will be the one needing assistance in some way. Follow the sailor's Golden Rule.
Eventually, you will have to learn to fix your boat "stuff" or you will not be happy cruising. The question is not whether the equipment will break, but when it will break! It is a given that the cruising life is filled with unforeseen challenges and coping with boat related items to fix and maintain.
It is OK to have a list of to-do items that keeps growing in length and to have temporary fixes in place that last over a year or two. Crossing items off the list will bring mental and physical rewards – therapy of sorts.
DIY knowledge and your tools will be key assets. You will stop believing in the phrase "worldwide warrantee" but every once in a while a vendor will back its products so perfectly and without question, even in remote places, that it will overwhelm your sensibilities – causing you to tell everyone in the cruising community your good experience with that vendor.
First, you will learn water conservation and become the master of water management on the vessel. Day-to-day activities, such as, one-minute showers, foot pumps to get water from the faucet, re-using grey water from the sink, cooking spaghetti in sea water, sponge baths, and a myriad of other water rituals will become second nature … guest crew and visitors be warned. Some skippers have been known to make offenders walk the plank – or at least, they thought about it.
Next to water, conservation of energy becomes paramount, ie., diesel for engine use, gas for cooking, and batteries for running house electrics and navigation systems.
Harnessing energy from the sun via solar panels and from wind generators will most likely be part of the green plan on your vessel. By necessity and by choice, cruisers are likely the greenest people on planet earth creating very small carbon footprints – essentially cruisers are off the grid most of the time.
Finally, it makes sense to leave a clean wake wherever one sails, anchors or docks. It is a corollary to the Golden Rule. Leave no pollution, pollutants, or thrash behind so every new cruiser arriving after your departure will continue to be welcomed by the locals.
An ice cold beer or two in the tropics will go a long way in capping off a thirst. Not everyone is a beer drinker, but for those who are, there can never be too much beer on board and it can never be too cold. That alone is reason enough to have refrigeration on board.
In some tropical locales, drinking beer instead of water is a health mandate, as drinking the local water can be detrimental to one's well being.
If sufficient electric capacity is available, watermakers come in handy but require steady maintenance and TLC to keep it tip-top working mode.
Most sailors are not extreme introverts or hermits. They will choose not to cruise alone and often will set sail with their spouse, lover, or friend. Thus, you and yours will be confined in a small space without good options for escape – often for lengthy periods of time. The experience will test your sanity, desire and love for your IO.
Why IO and not SO (significant other)? I have learned this: when you are out there, in the middle of ocean, with strong winds and high seas, in the middle of the night with no land or other vessels in sight, one truly feels insignificant in the big scheme of the cosmos. Therefore, it is my opinion that accepting the humbling "IO" label goes a long way to normalizing relations in the cruising life. At this basic karmic level, tolerance of intermittent periods without showers, sounds of bodily functions, and other potential romance-killing situations, will pass as just another aspect of the chosen cruising life.
What really matters first and foremost is the preservation of the vessel that is providing safe passage from one port to next. Mother nature tends to teach lessons to those humans with too much ego and hubris.
When in Mexico or other tropical cruising grounds, treating the locals respectfully and with patience will go a long way to establishing good relations. A "New York minute" attitude toward life is not going to work in manana-land. To survive and prosper, adopt a creative and adaptable mind-set. Go with flow, and take siesta while you wait.
The local residents of these tropical cruising grounds are friendly and resourceful people. Their local knowledge will come in handy and their friendly spirit will rub off on you. Since their lifestyle is more basic, they have to rely more on their own skills. It is not uncommon to have skilled tradesmen fix, rebuild or make a new part for a vessel with basic tools...at least to get you through until it can be replaced with the original equipment vendor's product.
In the early days of aviation, Pan American Airlines and its crew were "accidental" ambassadors to every corner of the world. There are parallels between the airline crews and yachtsmen who cruise to foreign ports in the world. Skippers and their crew can leave the locals with a positive image of the cruising community.


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Marc Needs To Talk About Glastonbury...
Marc writes:
Ah, the last Wednesday in June. Round about now on this day in many past years I've been orbiting the Bristol ringroad, looking for the right exit, or heading blindly towards Bridgewater, looking over every rise in the hill for tell-tale flags, or the reflection of sunshine on big tops.
[Oh God, he's going to do a blog post about Glastonbury, isn't he? At long last someone has the bravery to break the omerta that surrounds this little-discussed event.]
I first went to Glastonbury in 1994. I was eighteen and had spent weeks convincing my worried mother that it was just a big gathering of people enjoying music, in a beautiful natural setting. Nothing bad would happen. It was a totally safe environment.
Aside from a slight attack of nerves before we left ('What do you DO at a festival?'), I had a wonderful time, heard, saw, felt, drank and tasted things I'd never done before and came back Slightly Changed (albeit cross at having slept through the Beastie Boys' set). Being that type of teenager, I wrote a letter to the organisers that week, saying (with only slight exaggeration) that being at the festival was the first time I'd really enjoyed music again since my dad died the year before.
[Oh, it's one of THOSE blog posts. If he's going to try and be 'deep' I'm going to stop reading.]
After that first, startling, visit, I went back to Glastonbury as often as I could. At that time, when the festival wasn't so much of a big thing, getting a ticket was pretty much just a matter of having the requisite money and knowing where Probe Records in Liverpool was. Some years were marvellous, some were pretty awful. However, a year didn't go by when I didn't, at some point, witness something truly magical while on Worthy Farm, whether it was a man jumping off the back of a moving double-decker 'bus and walking away unharmed, the best live gig I have ever seen, a perplexing-yet-beautiful shrine to the Virgin Mary up by the stone circle or a hundred other things.
[Is he going to make a point here, or is this just going to be 'This one time at Glastonbury…'?]
As the nineties ended and the following decade began, it became more of a struggle to get tickets for the festival, to the point where it was no longer a fixed point in my yearly calendar, but a thing to be cautiously hoped for and worried about.
[First. World. Problems.]
This increased demand for tickets was, I think, due to a number of things, the first of which was the BBC acquiring the rights to cover the festival on television. Glastonbury had been televised since the year I'd first attended (1994), but by Channel Four in mostly late night slots. In 1997 the BBC took over the festival's screening rights and since then has made more and more of its coverage.
This has had the effect that far more people have seen the festival on television and have some idea of what goes on there than before, and a fair proportion of them, quite naturally, decide they'd like to go.
[He's going to tell us these people are somehow wrong now, isn't he? I bet he is.]
There's an argument which says that because the BBC mostly covers a certain side of what is in reality a vast performing arts festival, ie big bands playing on big stages, that there are more people now who think that's what Glastonbury is all about and who get there and set up in front of the main stage for three days, ignoring the thousands of other things there are to do on site.
This is an argument I'd agree with to some extent, although there have always been people who were just there for the big bands, and good luck to them. If people come along to modern day Glastonbury unaware that you can also spend the weekend, say, listening to poetry, watching theatre, or learning stone-carving, then that's the fault of the broadcaster for not including these elements in its coverage.
[Oh, don't be ridiculous. The BBC has paid a fortune to cover this event, and devotes prime-time slots to it. What are they going to show: Elbow on the Pyramid Stage or Woody Bop Muddy's Record Graveyard in the Cabaret Tent?]
As a consequence of the BBC going so big on Glastonbury, the past decade or so has also seen a new phenomenon: The Festivalisation of English Public Life. Glastonbury receiving widespread coverage on the BBC has made it a part of the nebulous 'national calendar' in the same way that Wimbledon and the Last Night of the Proms are. It's no longer thought of as hippies and oddballs in a field, only making the news when someone gets shot.
This has led, as we've seen, to vastly increased demand for tickets, but also to a mushrooming in the number of festivals during each summer. Writing in 2014, Peak Festival may just have passed, with a number of big events either cancelling or downsizing in the past year or so, but there are still hugely more festivals taking place every summer than there were ten or so years ago. And to look at them, with their flags and bunting and spoken-word stages, it's not Reading or T in the Park they're aping.
This spread of festivals has now gone so far as to move into things that aren't even festivals. What would, five years ago, have been a recruitment fair is now a Recruitment Festival and what were farmers' markets are now food festivals. Ukuleles on advert soundtracks and the winsome nonsense on the back of Innocent smoothie bottles: this all, ultimately, comes from Glastonbury or, more accurately, the BBC's version of Glastonbury.
['Not like it was in my day'. Boo-hoo, Gramps. I bet he's going to tell us it 'lost its soul' when they stopped letting people jump the fence.]
Actually, no. Fence jumping seemed to have been tacitly allowed when the number of people doing it was manageable. In the aftermath of 2000, when as many people bunked in as paid for tickets, doubling the number of people on site and making for some genuinely dangerous crushes, the organisers had to do something, or the festival couldn't have continued. Since that year, they've substantially increased the camping capacity, allowing many more people to attend than would have been able to pre-2000.
Unlike some people who started going to Glastonbury before it was BBC-massive, I don't think the festival has changed all that much, and many of the ways in which it has changed have been for the better; site drainage is greatly improved, meaning that no matter how much it rains, there'll be no repeat of the 'sloshing round, shin-deep in liquid mud' delights of the late nineties, there's more stuff going on 'after hours', in an area of the site where there are no close neighbours to be bothered by noise, and there are more performance areas, filled with stuff you wouldn't find at any other big festival.
The only thing which has really changed is the number of people who want to go, and the concomitant decreased likelihood of getting a ticket.
[See? He's just bitter! All this 'Festivalisation of English Pubic Lice' or whatever is just covering up the fact that he's pissed off he didn't get a ticket.]
That's true for some years, but not this one (see below). I've been trying to think of an analogy for this situation, and the closest one I can think of is Doctor Who-related.
[You don't say.]
I feel a bit like full-on classic series Doctor Who fans must have felt in 2005. The thing I loved when it was a minority interest is now really popular and lots of other people love it, although perhaps not for the same reasons as I do. Actually, for this analogy to really hold, the BBC would have to give out a limited number of TV licences per year and if you didn't secure one you couldn't watch Doctor Who. Perhaps it's more like having a long-time favourite restaurant which suddenly becomes wildly popular and you can't get a table any more.
['…and the new people like that thing you like but in the WRONG WAY and they shouldn't be ALLOWED to like it!!1]
While I've been cheesed off in previous years at not getting a ticket for my favourite festival, I've tried not to get bitter towards people who do get to go. Why shouldn't someone who's seen Glastonbury on the telly get to have the same life-changing
[Did he just say 'life-changing'? I think he actually did, you know.]
…experience as I did? Perhaps if more people were lucky enough to have three days of beautiful surroundings and wonderful, imaginative performances and being able to pretty much please themselves, the country would be a happier place. Perhaps the tickets that I've missed out on in previous years have gone to the 2010's eighteen year old equivalent of me, who'll get so much more out of being there for his first time than thirty eight year old me, there for his umpteenth.
[So what are you saying? That we should round up people and MAKE them go to Glastonbury? Should there be 'out-reach' to help young people who can't afford the tickets to go? You really haven't thought this through at ALL, have you?]
Perhaps this is something I should try to achieve: to try harder to put the values I associate with the festival (tolerance, freedom of expression, the power of art to effect change) and my experience of it, into my daily life and my interactions with other people.
So there we are: I love going to Glastonbury but I've not been since 2010. Since then, one year the festival wasn't on, and the other times I didn't get a ticket. This year, however, I'm not going for a different reason; I didn't even try to buy a ticket.
There had been talk last year (and the one before, I think) about me, Ruth and Cherub going to Glastonbury together. We'd done Ye Olde Traditional Broadbande Competition two Octobers running, to no avail. Last summer I went with my brother to Boomtown Fair, (a pretty good festival run by people who used to be involved with Glastonbury. Although it's for a younger, slightly more drug-orientated crowd than me, its heart's in the right place and the two times I've been there so far have been good fun. I'll be going back this August, in fact) and with Ruth and Cherub to the Just-So Festival (which Ruth wrote a lovely account of here).
During the weekend at the Just-So, as we enjoyed the various activities on offer, it became clear to me that this was a rather different experience to Glastonbury, in terms of size if nothing else. The comparison made me think about the wisdom of taking a six or seven year old to somewhere like Glastonbury, and brought back the memory that most of the children of that age I'd seen there over the years had looked either exhausted, miserable or both.
So Ruth and I decided not to even attempt to go to Glastonbury this year, a decision aided by the local education authority's utterly insane attitude to children being taken out of school in term time. We'll have another wonderful time at the Just-So in August.
So, how will we be entertaining ourselves this weekend, and avoiding '#Glasto' tweets and witless 'How Glastonbury lost its soul and went middle class' newspaper features? By hosting our own outdoor event, of course! We'll be playing some wonderful music in a beautiful setting and hoping to create a bit of magic. Sounds familiar…
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The Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program (LRRVP) was initiated to demonstrate the most cost-efficient production of rice, increase confidence of rice growers in extension and research recommendations, increase confidence of county agents and specialists in our recommendations, educate county agents and growers in all aspects of rice production, and develop an economic database for rice production.
Copy of the 2007 Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program Report. These recommendations included, but were not limited to: Fertilization, weed control, disease control, insect control and water management to a limited degree. The fields were followed from planting to harvest.
Copy of the 2005 Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program Report. These recommendations included, but were not limited to: Fertilization, weed control, disease control, insect control and water management to a limited degree. The fields were followed from planting to harvest.
Copy of the 2004 Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program Report. These recommendations included, but were not limited to: Fertilization, weed control, disease control, insect control and water management to a limited degree. The fields were followed from planting to harvest.
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Copy of the 2002 Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program Report. These recommendations included, but were not limited to: Fertilization, weed control, disease control, insect control and water management to a limited degree. The fields were followed from planting to harvest.
Copy of the 2001 Louisiana Rice Research Verification Program Report. These recommendations included, but were not limited to: Fertilization, weed control, disease control, insect control and water management to a limited degree. The fields were followed from planting to harvest.


I know we never spoke about the Red Bull Destiny promotion, but there is a Red Bull promotion that deals with Destiny.
The promotion gives you access to an exclusive quest and an item called Focused Light that grants you 1 hour of double XP (Max number is 100) which is very usable with The Taken King bringing the new XP based level system with it.
So, we already knew/know how the focused light will work, but we never heard word about the exclusive quest.
I had my thoughts (a strike in which you fight a giant flying Red Bull can at the end) but Red Bull recently detailed the quest. No video unfortunately, but it looks like the new exclusive quest will have you doing something you have never done inside of Destiny. A racing/speed mechanic.


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What's in a Tokyo 2020 medal? Old phones, discarded cameras
FILE - In this April 1, 2017, file photo, gold tablets of 3 grams, left, which is able to be recycled from 100 mobile phones, are shown as example in Tokyo. Tokyo Olympic organizers said in a statement Friday, Feb. 8, 2019, they expect to collect enough obsolete electronic devices by the end of March to reach the amount that will be required to manufacture all Olympic and Paralympic medals. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)
TOKYO — Tokyo Olympic organizers say they expect to collect enough obsolete electronic devices by the end of March to reach the amount that will be required to manufacture all Olympic and Paralympic medals.
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics open in just over 500 days and all medals will be made from discarded smart phones, digital cameras, and other handheld games and laptops.
In a statement Friday, organizers said targeted amounts of bronze, silver, and gold will be extracted from the discarded devices with quotas expected to be reached by March 31.
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