Celebrate this special day just with the girls. No men allowed! It is great way to show your girlfriends how much you love and care about them. You can go out for a brunch, make reservations at a fancy restaurant or even spend the day doing face masks and manicures. It's your Galentine's Day, so you can choose what you want to do.
Valentine's Day is considered to be a holiday about romance, joy and fun. However, you could take the holiday in an entirely new direction by going to one of the many haunted locations in Chicago. Explore some spooky abandoned buildings or take a tour of your town's most notorious spooky locations.
There are a lot of anti-Valentine's parties thrown on Feb. 14 with heart-shaped piñatas that singles smash to represent their hatred and protest the holiday. But instead of going all against this celebration, you can participate in International Quirkyalone Day, when singles around the world throw feel-good parties celebrating empowerment, romance and gratitude.
There are so many different countries in the world that have their own cultures and traditions. Though Valentine's Day is considered to be an international celebration, people do celebrate it differently in each country. For example, in Japan, women give men chocolates on Feb. 14. Some parts of Britain serve buns baked with caraway seeds and raisins. Not only you can learn more about the celebration around the world, but also try to incorporate some traditions into your own date night.
Valentine's Day is a big celebration, but it's not as huge as Christmas. People don't get a day off on this day, so don't feel obliged to celebrate it. Instead, you can just skip it and go out the next day. Restaurants will be less crowded, florists will bring down their prices and all the Valentine's Day candy will be on sale.
If you are unsure about your partner, or just want to know when you will have one, you can visit a psychic or get a tarot reading to know whether your intuition is correct. At the end of the day, it is your choice whether to believe it or not.
The world needs more love from people, so why not spend this Valentine's Day helping those in need? Pick a charity with a special someone and spend the day together helping out in any way you can. Volunteer at a soup kitchen, help out in community garden, read a book to nursing home residents, or play with some furry friends at an animal shelter.
If you want to just stay at home and relax, but don't want to follow stereotypical rom-com movie night, have a horror marathon. There are lots of great horror movies that have come out in in the past few years like "It Follows" and "The Babadook." Get some snacks and drinks, and make a night of it.
Instead of going for a dinner or buying a take-out, sign up for a masterclass. Learn how to make your favorite meal or try out a new recipe. You can learn something new, spend amazing time with friends or your partner and eat delicious food all in one day.
If you've seen the film "No Strings Attached," you would know what this means. Roses might be romantic, but they're also rather generic. Instead, you can be creative and give a different kind of "bouquet." You can give a potted plant that will stay much longer than a bouquet, or give a candy bouquet if you want to give something sweet. If you feel crafty, you can make flower bouquet using origami. Or if you want to be quirky as Ashton Kutcher in a movie, you can give a bouquet of carrots.


sits a barn now tattered and torn..
she shines with the time she has worn..
are holding on to that farm..
2 hands from Heaven are holding her up best they can..
2 hands from Heaven are holding her up best they can….
a seed long ago sowed..
she's weatherd through many a storm..
in her since the day she was born..
My life all tattered and torn..
I shine with the time i have worn..
2 hands from Heaven are holding Me up best they can..
2 hands from Heaven are holding Me up best that they can….
this is for you mom…..happy Birthday.
~ by connetta on January 12, 2013.


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Marcello Giustiniani (né le  à Ancône et mort le  à Brescia) était un dirigeant de football italien.

Biographie
En 1954, il devient le  (par intérim) du club de la Juventus, succédant au président d'honneur alors en place depuis 1947 et propriétaire du club Gianni Agnelli.

La particularité de sa présidence est que pendant l'unique année qu'il passa à la tête du club, il partagea la direction avec Enrico Craveri et Nino Cravetto. Il y'eu dont 3 présidents en même temps, et ce pour la deuxième fois de l'histoire du club (avec le trio Armano-Nizza-Zambelli entre 1915 et 1918 lors de la Première Guerre mondiale).

Ils laissent leur place en 1955 à Umberto Agnelli qui prend le relais.

Le restant de la vie de Giustiniani en dehors de la Juventus n'est pas connu.

Annexes

Liens internes
 Juventus Football Club

Liens externes
  Statistiques sur myJuve

Naissance à Ancône
Dirigeant italien de football
Président de la Juventus FC
Naissance en septembre 1901
Décès en novembre 1977
Décès à Brescia
Décès à 76 ans

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The Federation's current position on joint use libraries is derived from a 1980's submission to the Committee of Inquiry into Public Libraries.
The policy is being reviewed by the Special Interest Group.
1.that the school library and the public library are two separate concepts with different, although complementary roles.
2.That school libraries and public libraries make two separate systems, neither of which is fully developed on the Australian scene.
3.That any process of amalgamation - whether it be glorified by the name "community library" or not - which attempts to web the concepts of school and public library, will only make certain that neither system is ever fully developed.
By school library we mean a library which is physically part of the school, whose resources and services are designed to implement the school's educational programme and to cater for the students' co-curricular activities.
By public library we mean the traditional public library which exists to meet the informational and recreational needs of the community in a particular area. By the term community library we mean the combined school and public library which offers both school and community some form of library service.
1.It indicates to the committee the aims and functions of a school library and the role of the school librarian.
2.It discusses the reasons why the committee should take great care with the community library concept, and why there are inherent dangers to both library systems in a forced expansion of the role of either.
3.It outlines what the Federation believes are desirable patterns of future development, including the types of relationship we believe should be established between school and public libraries.
1.Providing resources that will enrich, extend and support the total school programme, taking into account the varied interests, abilities and maturity levels of the students.
2.Encouraging independent learning, both within the curriculum and outside it, by supplying materials that will stimulate students to explore a wide range of interests and achieve discrimination in the selection of resources to meet their needs.
3.Assisting students to acquire the range of skills necessary for the effective use of books and materials. The development of such skills will include the fostering of techniques for evaluation all types of media communication.
4.Providing students with materials that will enable them to make informed and responsible judgements on issues affecting their own lives and their future roles as citizens in a democratic society.
5.Stimulating students in all aspects of their reading experiences so that they may enjoy reading and read with developing taste and discrimination.
6.Working with staff responsible for students with special problems so that the library may assist the disadvantaged, the under-achieves and all those with reading and learning facilities.
1.Stimulating experiment and innovation in teaching by the provisions of new materials and up-to-date information on developments in curriculum and education generally.
2.Identify and provide for the needs of staff regarding their special requirements in their own subject fields.
3.Initiate as well as contribute to in-service and training programmes for teachers and trainee teachers so that they may use library resources more effectively in their work with students.
1.Help students to understand and use the school library as part of a wider range of library and cultural services in the community.
2.Co-operate with school, college, public and other libraries in the community with the aim of extending and improving library services and promoting the growth and recognition of libraries generally.
The statements above illustrate most clearly the specific function of the school library in terms of the individual children who attend the school and the staff with whom they work. They also illustrate the need for the teacher librarian to be an experienced teacher with training in the fields of curriculum construction and child growth and development. We would submit that teacher librarians, by virtue of their training and school experience are those most suited to cater for the special requirements of their professional colleagues.
(See Appendix I - Extracts from the Vaughan Report).
The central point of this submission is that any attempts to change the role of this library, particularly while it is still developing, will greatly reduce the potential of the school to serve the needs outlined above.
For most of the history of secondary education in NSW, the school library has never received anything like the attention - either theoretically or materially - that it has needed. During this time, libraries were afterthoughts, collections of books housed in odd corners of the school, in spare rooms, often in converted storerooms, clinics, hatrooms and basements. Until 1968, there was no recognition by the Commonwealth that it had a role to play in developing this field.
However, with the establishment of an Australian government commitment to the raising of the status of school libraries and the influence of the Commonwealth Secondary Schools Library Committee, there has been a substantial improvement in conditions and an increasing development of debate and study around the school library. This has gone hand in hand with marked improvements in architectural efforts and planning. It is our claim that improvements and developments in philosophy go together with improvements in material conditions - and that without one it is difficult to get the other.
While teachers' organisations have spearheaded the concept of Commonwealth involvement in education - in a campaign with extends at least from 1945 - it has not been a campaign just to improve teachers' working conditions. The arguments about the kinds of staffing and facilities needed are arguments concerned with being able to effectively implement programmes which will meet the needs of pupils. In any kind of educational context, whether it be "traditional" or "progressive" or any shade between, the library has been seen as an essential. Progress in providing this "essential" has been remarkable since 1968. With the added impetus of the programmes of the Schools Commission and the recognition by the NSW State Government of the need to plan for, and provide, adequate library facilities, there has been a substantial development in the provision of libraries over recent years. By the end of 1976, 66% of NSW secondary schools will have at least reasonable library buildings and one primary school in five will be in a similar position.
Whilst these material developments must be seen as an essential part of a total development of school library philosophy, they must also be seen as having reached an intermediate stage only. There is still a considerable distance to travel in relation to questions such as the role of the library in the total learning situation provided by a school, the kinds of materials which should be contained in the library, the amount and nature of the staffing which is needed, and the continuing efforts to create links between various parts of the school library system. There is a great need for these developments to be allowed to continue without interference. Any attempt to interview in this development with alternatives which could divert attention from the major role of the school library system could be disastrous. School libraries and teacher librarians must be given the opportunity to show what they can do in an atmosphere which they see as supportive.
1."Sometimes as part of this community involvement, but more often as a means of economic rationalism, the suggestion has been made for a community library, more properly termed the combined school and public library. The history of combined school and public library services has not produced overwhelmingly favourable results..... The reasons have been stated in many places before - conflict in administrative responsibility, conflict in siting and conflict in hours of operation. In Australia, these are aggravated by the dual legal responsibility in provision - state government for school libraries, local government for public libraries." (Margaret Traks, Library Service and the Community: Australian Library Promotion Council, 1974, p.18).
Level One: Authority over the Library.
There is bound to be some conflict in a joint school/public library around the status, salary, qualifications, areas of authority, etc. of the person selected to be in charge of the library. Teacher librarians and public librarians are employed under different awards, have different training, have developed specialised skills in different aspects of librarianship. Should the public librarian determine selection policies for the school, for example?
With other professional library staff, there may well be friction over hours - teacher librarians leave at 3.30pm the public librarians have to work the night and weekend shifts; and holidays - teacher librarians have 10 weeks to the four weeks allowed to the public librarian.
Level Two: Authority over the whole unit.
If the library is on school property, should the school principal be responsible? In NSW all school staff are responsible to the principal, but would this include a public librarian or public library staff? If a controlling body is set-up, such as a board of management or advisory council, then the principal's decision can be nullified by a majority vote.
Level Three: Authority over the region.
School libraries and public libraries in NSW come under different government departments, as do local councils. Also, they are funded from different sources. Who is to be ultimately responsible?
As school/public libraries are presently organised, it appears impossible to have the library open to the public as the same time as it is used by the school. This arrangement would disadvantage the users of existing public library services as the hours between 10 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. are very popular with pensioners and mothers with young children. Public library standards suggest that central libraries should be open for 60 hours a week.
Public libraries should be situated in or adjacent to shopping areas, easily reached by public transport with parking facilities close by. Most high schools are situated away from these centres, and not always easily accessible to the public.
According to a study made in Tasmania in 1973, there was only a 13% overlap of book materials in the large primary school library and the children's section of the public library. School libraries and public libraries overlap in areas such as fiction, sports, crafts, hobbies, etc. but these are areas of maximum use. School libraries are fare more advance than public libraries in their collections of audio-visual materials and equipment, but would not be able to satisfy general public usage of these items.
School libraries offer a range of very specialised services to satisfy the needs of staff and students. Public libraries try to satisfy the information and recreational needs of the community as a whole.
i."A school library can play its full part in school life only if the teaching staff also look upon it as fully under their control collectively, under the head and through one of their number as librarian and available to them and to their pupils without restriction." (From a statement by the English School Library Association. For complete statement, see Appendix 3).
ii.The school library is a highly specialised library whose functions are to serve the community, support the educational programme and provide adequate teaching, learning and recreational resources for staff and students. It cannot do this unless its policy is determined exclusively by the schools.
iii.Shared use of library facilities (i.e. use by the public during the school day) will discourage teachers from bringing classes to the library, discourage pupil use, and adversely affect the service given to pupils by the school librarian.
i.Joint use of the facilities will restrict the right of the public to access during the school day.
ii.The school location and "atmosphere" may discourage members of the public.
iii.The considerable capital and recurrent costs involved in a community library may prevent the community developing more flexible and varied forms of information services.
iv.A single "information authority" would exercise too great a control over the resources available to the public.
v.The complex authority structure will lead to the "bureaucratisation" of the library administration, with consequent resistance to change, delays in decision-making and an ability to respond to the needs of people at the grass roots level.
vi.There is no evidence that community libraries lead to increased usage among the 70% of the community who never enter a public library.
Appendix 5: Report on the Forster Community Library by two teacher librarians.
Appendix 6: Decisions of a statewide general meeting of teacher librarians held on April 19, 1975, which heard reports on Forster and related matters.
¦Copying service - audio and video.
¦Exchange of materials for joint programmes, e.g. remedial reading.
¦Rationalised buying of expensive selection aids and bibliographic tools.
¦Group visits by primary pupils to high school library.
¦Access to any special resources held by any one school, i.e. an extensive picture file, a large video-tape collection.
2.Horizontal networks - between high school or primary schools in an area. While these networks would also co-operate along similar lines, larger units, with additional finance would operate centralised processing and purchasing schemes. It is also envisaged that the new education centres and teaching resources centres may play an important part in future developments, depending on the sort of services the teachers in the area see the centre as providing.
¦Seminar/In-service programmes for school/public library staff.
¦Assistance by school libraries to public libraries developing multi-media collections - loans of materials and/or copying services; standardisation of equipment, union catalogues of audio-visual materials.
¦Joint purchasing of books/materials, where there is an advantage in buying in larger quantities.
¦Expanded inter-library loans - the public library having access to specialist areas, such as professional journals held by the school and the school having access to material that it would normally hold.
¦Special programmes, such as assistance for migrants or other groups within the community.
In conclusion, the Federation emphasises that it fully supports the concept of a strong, adequately staffed and financed public library system. We consider that a good library and a good library system in an area or region offer the community a more satisfactory pattern of service than a single "community" library.
Federation notes that at present school libraries are grossly under-staffed at all levels, and considers ad hoc arrangements to open school libraries at weekends, nights or in the holidays will undermine the working conditions of all teachers, weaken the case for additional professional staff and jeopardise future developments in this direction. Federation directs all members not to be on duty in school libraries during school holidays, weekends or at night.
Further, that where a teacher librarian has been asked to breach Federation policy that he/she inform the Federation and/or the local Organiser.
In order that neither library service to the school nor library service to the public should suffer, Federation urges that no amalgamation of service should be attempted unless both school and public library are fully and adequately developed.
i.that the needs of the pupils be at all times paramount.
ii.That in regard to staffing there be full consultation and agreement between the Federation and the employer prior to any implementation of the scheme.


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CWD Found in New Area in Big Horn Basin
Published by CWD Alliance on October 28, 2005 October 28, 2005
THERMOPOLIS – Two mature mule deer bucks harvested in hunt area 127 immediately northwest of Thermopolis have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal brain disease that can affect all members of Wyoming's deer family. CWD had not previously been detected in this area.
Worland Wildlife Biologist Bart Kroger collected lymph nodes from the deer Oct. 17 as part of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department's CWD surveillance effort. Both samples were tested at the department's laboratory in Laramie and tested positive for CWD.
CWD testing is a two-pronged approach, according to Cody Region Wildlife Management Coordinator Kevin Hurley. "The first test is an immunologic test called the ELISA. When a sample tests positive, it is termed a 'presumptive positive' until the results from a second IHC (immunohistochemistry) test is known," Hurley said. "In nearly every case, when the ELISA turns up a presumptive positive, it is confirmed positive by the IHC."
The two samples from area 127 tested positive for first the ELISA test and then the IHC test on Oct. 28.
In an effort to manage the spread of CWD and to understand how widespread it might be in an area, the department considers taking aggressive actions when cases are found in new areas. In this case, Game and Fish Deputy Director Gregg Arthur has instructed personnel in the Cody region to remove up to 50 deer within a five-mile radius of where the area 127 deer were harvested.
"I have asked our Cody personnel to move forward and collect additional samples. This action is consistent with the best science and the department's CWD Management Plan," Arthur said. He added that surveillance in other states has shown that it may be possible to slow down the spread of CWD if new cases of CWD are identified early.
According to Arthur, the additional sampling serves three purposes. First, it allows the Game and Fish to determine the prevalence of CWD in an area. Secondly, it may eliminate CWD in an area and prevent its spread to other areas. And thirdly, it may allow the Game and Fish to locate an area of infection that it can manage aggressively.
"Should more positives turn up, we will expand our efforts," Arthur said.
The Game and Fish will conduct the removal harvesting both adult males and females between Oct. 27 and mid-November during daytime and nighttime hours. Research has demonstrated that samples taken from adult males and adult females are more likely to indicate if CWD is present than taking samples from younger-aged animals.
All of the animals collected will be field dressed and held in cold storage until the absence or presence of CWD in each is known. The meat from deer testing negative will be donated to individuals and families in need. Carcasses testing positive will be disposed of in an approved landfill in accordance with the Game and Fish CWD transportation regulation.
CWD is a fatal neurological disease that has been diagnosed in wild deer and elk in 10 states and two Canadian provinces. Animals show no apparent signs of illness throughout much of disease course. In terminal stages of CWD, animals typically are emaciated and display abnormal behavior.
There is no confirmed link between CWD and any human illness.
For more information on chronic wasting disease visit the Game and Fish Web site http://gf.state.wy.us
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Remember when we announced Moneypenny- Facebook's upcoming digital assistant. It's finally available for testing, , though restricted to only Facebook Messenger. M is meant to be Facebook's response to Siri, Cortana, Blackberry Assistant and Google Now.
The difference between M and the rest is it actually performs tasks for you, like purchasing items, booking restaurants, and getting items delivered to people. The service doesn't work on it's own, but it's said to be "trained and supervised by people".
It would be amazing to see how Facebook manages the situation when the service will be rolled out to hundreds of millions of users. Considering that they're using trained hands to handle the personal assistant.


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Spanish bank Santander, the biggest in the euro zone by market value, said on Tuesday its second-quarter net profit rose eightfold as provisions against loan losses fell sharply.
Net profit climbed to €1.05 billion ($1.39 billion) from €123 million a year ago, when it booked €1.3 billion of one-time charges for Spanish real estate, the bank said in a statement.
During the first half of 2013 the bank posted a net profit of €2.25 billion, a 29-percent increase over the same time last year and practically the same as the result for all of last year of €2.29 billion.
"Profits rose after more than two years of high levels of write-offs and reinforcement of capital. We are preparing for a new period of profit growth," Santander chairman Emilio Botin said in the statement.
Spanish banks booked billions of euros of provisions against losses on soured real estate deals last year,which caused their profits to plunge.
Santander wrote off nearly €19 billion for dodgy loans and property assets in Spain last year causing its net profit to drop by nearly 60 percent.
Bad loans as a proportion of total lending rose to 5.18 percent at the end of the second quarter from 4.76 percent at the end of the first quarter.
Net interest income — excess revenue from interest earned on assets compared with payments to depositors — fell 12 percent to €6.72 billion from a year earlier.
Profit from Santander's Brazilian unit fell to €420 million from €498 million a year ago.
Profit from Brazil, Santander's biggest-earning unit, fell to €420 million during the second quarter from €498 million a year ago.
Brazil, which is struggling with rising inflation and anaemic economic growth, accounts for one quarter of the bank's profits, making it the lender's biggest-earning unit.
Earnings from Spain declined to €86 million from €201 million a year ago while its net profit in Britain rose to €263 million from €246 million.
Spain accounts for 8.0 percent of the bank's profit while Britain accounts for 13 percent.
Spain's bad-loan ridden banks, which were thrown a €41.3-billion European lifeline last year, are stronger but still face high risks from a weak economy, the International Monetary Fund warned in a report earlier this month.


In honor of my upcoming workshop at the Wipro San Francisco Marathon Expo, I decided to write a post for all of you amazing athletes out there with an upcoming race!
Race goals help direct your energy and focus –Race day is full of excitement, energy, and distractions. Having a specific goal for your race will make it less likely for you to be distracted by cues that are unrelated to your performance. With a clear goal it will be easier to conserve energy by deciphering what is important to pay attention to and what isn't.
Race goals help you persevere in the face of race day challenges –When you have a specific goal you are working towards and you are committed to that goal, you are more likely to see ways to adapt and adjust to race day challenges. Rather than seeing them as insurmountable obstacles and giving up, your goal helps you to be resilient and keep moving forward.
Race goals help you push through when your body is ready to give up –If you're just along for the ride, you are less likely to push yourself in that moment when the going gets tough. When your body is suffering due to the exertion you are putting out you often come to face a psychological hurdle.
If you reach the end of your race and feel like you could have done better, there was a moment during your race when you held back. Having that specific goal helps you dig deep in those moments and overcome that psychological hurdle so you know that at the end of your race you gave everything you had to give.
If the end of that sentence is an outcome goal, then you need to set another goal that tells you what do you need to do during the race in order to accomplish that outcome goal. Setting a more task-related goal helps keep your focus where it needs to be and puts the control into your hands. Instead of feeling pressure to perform and keeping your focus in the future, it keeps you grounded in the moment and focused on what you need to do right now in order to set yourself up for success. Even if your goal for every competition is to win, you still have to have the goal that tells you how you're going to do it.


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102 Not Out China Box Office Day 1: Takes A Decent Opening!
The opening is better than Rani Mukerji's Hichki ($770,000), which turned out to be a blockbuster in China.
102 Not Out China Box Office Day 1: Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor starrer 102 Not Out, emerged as a winner at the Indian box office. Even after a slow start at 3.52 crores, it made an impressive lifetime collection of 51.79 crores. Now, the movie debuted yesterday in China, and is off to a decent start at the ticket windows.
102 Not Out started its innings on a good note at the China box office, by collecting $ 1.22 million (including previews) equivalent to 8.51 crores, on opening day i.e. Friday. The opening is better than Rani Mukerji's Hichki ($770,000), which turned out to be a blockbuster in China.
In the past few years, China has turned out as a huge market for Bollywood films. The movies like 3 Idiots, PK, Dangal, Hindi Medium, Secret Superstar and Hichki earned bountiful at the China box office.
Upon its release in India, 102 Not Out opened with positive reviews from critics and audience.
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Talking about the issues of senior citizens, which 102 Not Out deals with, Amitabh Bachchan said, "Senior citizens are very respectable people of our society. If they are not there, we are not there. Whenever we try to make a film on them, we treat them with dignity. I hope that through this film, we will be able to convey the message to our audience."
102 Not Out, is directed by Umesh Shukla and is based on a based on the eponymous Gujarati play written by Saumya Joshi.
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Posted: January 10, 2022 in Transport
Saw this in Bexley High Street last week. It's the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a film made in 1968. It was loosely based on a book by Ian Fleming (of James Bond Fame) called the Magical Car. It starred Dick Van Dyke and was produced by Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli (producer of many of the original James Bind movies).
Agecroft No1
Posted: November 12, 2018 in Trains, Transport, UK, York
Tags: Agecroft No 1
Agecroft No 1 was one of three locomotives built in 1948 in Newcastle to shunt wagons at Agecroft Power Station. It remained in service until 1980 when it passed into private ownership. It was bought by the Science Museum at Manchester in 2009 and is now at the National railway Museum in York.
On the day I visited it was hauling a brake van, giving rides to visitors.
So often we concentrate on the big passenger express locomotives but there were hundreds, if not thousands, of engines, like Agecroft that drove our industry during the steam era and are part of that history.
Chatham Historic Dockyard: Tour (part 3)
Posted: November 13, 2017 in History, Kent, Ships, Transport, UK
Tags: Chatham dockyard
The Dockyard had an extensive railway network
Clocktower storehouse built in 1723
HMS Gannet, a sloop launched in 1878. She became a training ship in 1903 and continued in this role until 1968.
Timber seasoning sheds (1774)
Mast House (1753)
Posted: November 6, 2017 in History, Kent, Ships, Transport, UK
XE8 Midget Submarine Expunger built in 1944 for operations in the far east. It was sunk as an underwater target at HMS station Portland but was salvaged in 1973. It is the only known survivor of its class.
Railway Carriage believed to have been used by General Kitchener during his campaign in the Sudan.
Dockyard Railway equipment
HMS Ocelot, an Oberon class submarine launched from Chatham Dockyard in May 1962. She was the last submarine to be built at Chatham. She was decommissioned in August 1991 and put on display in the dockyard.
A memorial to the 11000 sailors who lost their lives whilst serving on Royal Naval destroyers in WWII.
The storage buildings at the southern end of the dockyard are over a quarter of a mile long
One of these building contains the Ropery, which still makes ropes today
The Garden of Commissioners House, a lovely place to have lunch
Posted: October 30, 2017 in History, Kent, Ships, Transport, UK
Keith and I entered the dockyard through the main gatehouse which dates from 1722.
Figurehead from HMS Wellesley, a 74 gun battleship launched in Bombay in 1815 and named after Marquis Wellesley, Governor General of India and brother of the Duke of Wellington
The Commissioners House was built in 1704 as a residence for the dockyard's senior officer
The Destroyer HMS Cavalier was launched in 1944 and saw service with the Royal Navy till 1972. She is now berthed in the same dock where Chatham's most famous ship HMS Victory was built.
Model of Chatham's most famous ship HMS Victory
Old Dockyard Shops
One of the sheds houses the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions national collection. This is a Watson lifeboat which saw service at Margate in Kent from 1951-81.
Number 3 slip. Originally erected in 1838 as a place where large ships could be built under cover, The slipway was filled in during the early 20th century and used as a place to store boats out of the water
At the time the slipway was filled in this mezzanine floor was added to provide storage space for small boats taken from ships undergoing repairs in the dockyard
3 Slip today holds a collection of Dockyard equipment and machinery
Faster than Sound
Posted: October 16, 2017 in History, Transport
Tags: Chuck Yeager
Charles E. Yeager. Photo from U.S. Air Force, AF.mil Media Gallery, http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/020903-o-9999b-091.jpg via Wikimedia commons
Last Saturday marked the 70th anniversary of first super-sonic flight.
Charles 'Chuck' Yeager joined the US Army Airforce as an aircraft mechanic during the Second World War. In Sept 1942 he transferred to the pilot training programme and graduated as a fighter pilot. After the war, he became a test pilot and on 14th October 1947, his experimental Bell X-1 was dropped from the bomb bay of a B-29. On attaining its cruising altitude of 45,000 ft it achieved a speed of 662mph in level flight breaking the sound barrier. His record was to last until 1953 when Scott Crossfield flew at Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound) but Yeager achieved Mach 2.5 a few months later to regain it.
Yeager continued in his air force career eventually retiring as a Brigadier General.
Norfolk Journey: Thursford Collection
Posted: October 3, 2017 in History, Norfolk, Transport, UK
Tags: Steam Engines, Thursford Collection
Aveling and Porter Light Engine 1928
A changeable morning, weather-wise, and so we decide to visit the Thursford Collection, an interesting museum of steam engines, fairground rides and steam organs. These reach their heydey in the years before the First World War but due to developments in the diesel and petrol engine as a result of the war effort, steam engines very quickly became obsolete in the years that followed.
'Medina' Showman's engine 1920
'Unity' 1910
Its founder George Cushing had been a farm labourer when he got a job as a steam-roller driver for Kings Lynn Council. Using he savings he eventually purchased a steam-roller from the council and set up his own contracting business. Gradually he added more vehicles to the fleet.
Steam-driven fairground rides
120 key Mortier fairground organ
Portable industrial steam engine used to run machines
In the 1930's he began buying up steam engines to save them from being sent to the scrapyard. He stored them on a farm which he had purchased. People started to travel to the farm to view his collection and eventually in 1970 it was opened as a museum. It was originally housed in the old farm buildings but eventually, purpose-built buildings replaced these.
'Edward VII' Showman's engine 1905
Clayton Steam Wagon
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Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala 2016 – Brookes Castles Best Shots
Posted: February 17, 2016 in Trains, Transport, UK
Tags: Mid-hants Railway
Haven't posted much about trains recently but am looking forward to getting to some gala days this year. In the meantime here is a piece from Locoyard about the spring gala at Mid-Hants, one of my favourite heritage railways
Tonight we are looking at my shots from this years Watercress Line Spring Steam Gala which with me being on the 35011 General Steam Navigation stand all day meant my chances to get photos were limited. That being said I had 2 photos I wanted to get at the start of the day with the first being this shot of the Mid Hants Railways newly overhauled 41312 a LMS Ivatt Class 2MT hauling the small freight set in the morning. With the overcast conditions and rain I dont think it came out that badly.
The other photo I had in mind at the start of the day sadly didn't turn out very well, but that being said, despite all the rain and the bitter cold it was a good gala and from my point of view being on the 35011 stand a very successful one. Below are some…
"Big Plans" to transform the world's largest railway museum
Posted: December 11, 2015 in Trains, Transport
Tags: National Railway Museum, York
More space to display even more of the Museums collection. What could be better!
The City of York Council working with Network Rail, the National Railway Museum and the Homes and Communities Agency have created a "new vision" for York. The scheme includes various improvements of how the railway station is accessed from the city centre and the redevelopment of the city's largest (178 acre) brownfield site located behind York Central railway station. The proposed development would see 2,500 new homes, 120,000 square metres of office space creating 7,000 new jobs and of particular interest to this blog – more space to expand and improve the world's largest railway museum!
Posted: March 25, 2015 in Trains, Transport, UK
Tags: 925 Cheltenham, Mid-hants Railway
925 Cheltenham was one of 40 'Schools Class' locomotives built for the Southern Region and which were the most powerful locomotives in Britain at their time of operation. They were named after public schools within the Southern area.
Cheltenham was built at Eastleigh works in 1934 and performed both passenger and freight duties on the Southern region. It was withdrawn from Service in 1962.
Lord Nelson and Cheltenham dual hauling a train northbound on the Mid-Hants Railway
Following its withdrawal it was taken to Eastleigh for a light overhaul and then was on display at the national railway Museum at York until the decision was taken in 2010 to return it to working order. It was restored at Eastleigh and Ropley and entered into service in 2012 on the Mid-Hants Railway.
2 other examples of schools class locomotives are preserved, one, working, on the North York Moors railway and one, on static display, at the Bluebell Railway


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It is the ultimate in reflected glory – if you are a blowfly, dragonfly or locust, that is. A mirrored chamber dubbed the Narcissus Room is giving entomologists unprecedented views of insect wing motion.
Insect flight has traditionally been studied by attaching an insect to a stick and filming its wing motion using eight high-speed digital video cameras. This ensures the wing motions are accurately captured. However, the cameras cost about £50,000 each, making such experiments unaffordable for many research teams.


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Q: Why does NickServ on FreeNode IRC ask me to identify every day? I am using Empathy as an IRC client.

A: FreeNode will require you to authenticate to NickServ each time you connect to the network to be recognised as a registered user, so most likely you are occasionally being disconnected.
If you would like to identify with NickServ automatically, you can use your nickname password as the network password when connecting to the network.
In Empathy, this can be done with the following steps:

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*Choose Accounts from the Edit menu.

*Select your FreeNode IRC account from the accounts list.

*Click the Edit Connection Parameters... button.

*Enter $master_nickname:$nickserv_password in the Password field (substituting the correct values), and click Apply.

Once this is done, you should be able to verify that you get identified by disconnecting and reconnecting: NickServ should tell you that you have successfully identified shortly after connecting.

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The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.


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Life is Strange: Before the Storm Gets New Video Exploring the Soundtrack with British Band Daughter
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August 9, 2017 4:59 PM EST
British indie band Daughter takes viewers through their process of creating the soundtrack for the upcoming Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
As the first season of Life is Strange showed, music plays an integral role both narratively and thematically to the critically-acclaimed adventure series, with developer Deck Nine providing a new look (or listen) at the soundtrack and what to expect from the upcoming prequel, Life is Strange: Before the Storm.
A new video has been released for the upcoming Life is Strange: Before the Storm providing a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the game's soundtrack, with the video featuring some insights from the British indie band Daughter, who were also confirmed earlier today to be collaborating with Deck Nine on the game's score.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm Original Music Score Artist Revealed
Specifically, band members Elena Tonra and Igor Haefeli explain their process and involvement with Life is Strange: Before the Storm throughout the video, and addressed the particular challenges of conveying the characters' emotions and feelings through music. In particular, they highlighted how the characters themselves have played a huge role in shaping the soundscapes of their work, such as the main relationship between Chloe and her best friend, Rachel.
Life is Strange: Before the Storm will debut the first of its three episodes for PS4, Xbox One, and PC on August 31st, 2017. For a closer look inside the creation of the game's music, you can watch the full video featuring Daughter below:
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Decisions about the future of your career happen behind closed doors. And you are not invited.
It's that time of year again. When you find out if your salary will increase, a barometer of your company value. And if you are lucky, you will learn about a bonus.
The most wonderful time of the year. Unless you wonder why you didn't get the assignment or promotion you deserved.
In the play Hamilton, Aaron Burr says "I wanna be in the room where it happens." He was upset because decisions were made about the country and its citizens without his input. He wanted a voice.
Back room deals, er, strategy meetings don't need to be exclusive. Rather, employees and employers can benefit from full participation in this important company process.
Employees want to influence important management decisions regarding their futures.
Employers want to retain high performers, identify and nurture the next layer of high potentials, yet struggle with incomplete information about employees.
You've worked hard all year, helped your company win a big piece of new business, and even retained a client who was almost out the door. Not to mention, you built a stellar relationship with your boss and your team.
It is almost time for your review and you are definitely expecting a promotion with a big raise. You have done everything right and you can't imagine any negative feedback about your performance. Everyone on your team really likes working with you.
Guess what? Your boss might not be the best networker or advocate for your contributions. Thus, no one else knows about your successes and contributions to the department or the company.
You've worked hard for the company, but no one knows about it. But, isn't getting the work done the most important thing?
The executive team overlooked the value of your work. This comes as a real shock.
Conversations about your career development and trajectory plans happened without you. You feel powerless.
While it might be easy for top leaders to observe high performers in action, they also rely on other processes. Like a performance review process and specific feedback from managers.
Some managers are natural communicators and supporters for their teams. They are effective networkers, have strong relationships with executive leadership and make impressive moves throughout their career. As they succeed, they develop the people around them.
As advocates, they push for the appropriate technical and leadership learning and development opportunities for their staff.
Yet, other managers are not high communicators and do not take a strong role in helping people with professional development programs. They may care about other performance metrics, like operational efficiency.
They might rely solely on HR to handle learning and development for their people.
We've all had managers who are excellent at managing communication to their leadership about their own performance. Yet, they do not take the same approach for their staff.
Leadership wants to attract and retain the best talent, yet even in the best of circumstances there is imperfect information and communication.
While you may not be in the room, you have the power to engage with a team of influential leaders on your behalf.
As a manager on track to become a director and then VP, my boss openly acknowledged my work. Yet, he could not do this alone, nor could he be the only person influencing budget allocation for my projects. I actively developed relationships across the organization to make others aware of the results of my programs.
For example, a CFO is more likely to support investment in your program if you've presented benchmarking reports on industry spending trends. I researched what other organizations were spending on marketing programs, focused on ROI, and shared marketing success stories.
Organizations have a limited pool of money to spread across the organization to support compensation, raises, and promotions. Hence, the employees with the most advocates, positive peer reviews, and positive recommendations, will receive the financial rewards.
Every professional needs to develop a personal brand. I've written about that topic here. People across the organization will benefit from knowing your talents and success stories.
With this information, your work will become known and your value to the company will be reinforced.
Create an internal PR campaign to ensure people know about you.
Share articles or points of view with colleagues; package up results to ensure they aren't overlooked.
Get involved in initiatives that go beyond your immediate team. If your company has a blog, offer to contribute.
According to the Cognizant Jobs of the Future (CJOF) Index, one of the fastest growing professions is that of career counselor (181% increase in 2018).
Given the fast pace of technology and change in our modern workplace, career development is an important component of business growth.
The top tier business schools invest in professional career coaching for their students to enhance the prospects of their graduates. Likewise, corporations will amplify the work of their employees by continuing this trend.
Given the burgeoning HR Tech industry's ability to offer services to broader numbers via technology solutions, more employees can benefit. Transparent learning and development solutions will send the right message to strong contributors.
According to a report by software firm Qualtrics and venture capital firm Accel Partners, millennial workers rate training as the #1 thing they consider when starting a job.
All employees need to be coached, counseled and personally developed in some way. They also need to be encouraged to be an active participant in their professional development process.
Organizations and HR departments can support employee empowerment through other programs. They can create and support a structure of mentorship. Connect junior staff with mentors from other departments or slightly more experienced peers.
While mentoring is nothing new, Chip Conley, author of Wisdom at Work, has outlined a sensible way to build a program like this.
Chip points out high-performing companies invest in programs that pair up older workers with younger workers.
There is an implicit trade agreement between the generations where Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Digital Intelligence (DQ) are exchanged. Here is a link to an article he wrote on the topics of DQ and EQ.
For example, a valuable training program for younger workers focuses on how to talk to and learn from senior management: Directors, VPs and C-level leaders.
Individuals, especially that next layer of high potentials, or the quietly productive performers need support to navigate their career paths. As a result, individuals and organizations both benefit.
And, as Chip Conley mentions, don't forget about the dedicated individuals representing all generations in the workplace. Professional development is beneficial to all, especially the wise workers with a learning mindset.
In conclusion, you can take a more active role in the future of your career. You can do this by communicating with strategic advocates, developing relationships with management, and talking with Human Resources departments. With these efforts, you can build a future within your current organization.
To clarify, employers can identify and make professional development investments across the company. HR Tech solutions and Learning and Development systems make this possible.
The closed door meetings can turn into productive open conversations.
Employers and employees can enable influence at the decision table. A collaborative employee development process will benefit high performers and those whose potential may be hidden in current processes.


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Government consulted councils months after announcing commuter car parks in their patch
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Hume City Council's chief executive Sheena Frost said the council identified extra parking at Craigieburn station as a priority in 2013 and advocated for it since. The Victorian government announced funding for the same project a year earlier than the Commonwealth, in April 2018.
"There was no consultation with Council prior to the Australian government's publicly announcing funding," Ms Frost wrote in the Senate submission.
The Craigieburn car park was finished in July, with the Victorian transport department set to recoup half of its $11.6 million cost from the federal government.
In junior minister Jason Wood's seat of La Trobe, Cardinia Shire Council's planning coordinator Anita Ransom said the now-complete upgrades at Beaconsfield station and a planned car park at Pakenham "do not go against and are not in conflict with Council's strategic intentions for these sites".
However, she said the council had no input into the projects.
"No formal consultation was undertaken with Council prior to the announcement of commitments … For both Beaconsfield and Pakenham railway stations, Council was informed by the Level Crossing Removal Project (LXRP) that the upgrades were to occur," she wrote.
Knox City Council chief executive Bruce Dobson said the council was formally notified about the proposals at Boronia and Ferntree Gully in "early 2019". These two sites are in the electorate of Aston, held by Alan Tudge who was the minister in charge of the program at the time.
A spokesperson for the City of Canterbury Bankstown in western Sydney told the Sydney Morning Herald the council had not been involved in any planning for a car park near Panania Station, identified by the ANAO as the second most exorbitant project.
"This was a federal election commitment that was made without any consultation with Council," the spokesperson said.
Transparency International Australia told the Senate committee the administration of the car park fund had "failed to meet the required standards of governance and accountability".
"The use of public money for political party gain is not acceptable and fits the definition of corruption," chief executive Serena Lillywhite said.
"It is imperative our grants administration system is reformed to ensure that public funds are protected from governmental abuse."
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Home News Carnage in Kazakhstan: Armed forces gun down more demonstrators as streets are turned into a battleground and protesters are accused of 'beheading three police officers'
Carnage in Kazakhstan: Armed forces gun down more demonstrators as streets are turned into a battleground and protesters are accused of 'beheading three police officers'
Armed forces in Kazakhstan gunned down more demonstrators today as the streets of Almaty were turned into a 'war zone', with protesters being accused of beheading three police officers by Russian news agencies.
Burnt-out vehicles littered the city's streets, several government buildings were in ruins and bullet casings were strewn over the territory of the presidential residence, which was stormed and looted by protesters yesterday.
Meanwhile, troops from a Moscow-led military alliance arrived as 'peacekeepers' help quell mounting unrest after President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev - an ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin - appealed overnight to the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), which includes five other ex-Soviet states.
Long seen as one the most stable of the ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, energy-rich Kazakhstan is facing its biggest crisis in decades after days of protests over rising fuel prices escalated into widespread unrest.
Officials have said more than 1,000 people had been wounded so far in the clashes, with nearly 400 hospitalised and 62 in intensive care. The number of protesters killed has not been revealed, but Police said earlier they had 'eliminated' dozens of rioters.
Kazakhstan's interior ministry on Thursday said 18 security officers have been killed and 748 wounded in the clashes with protesters. The ministry also said 2,298 protestors had been detained.
Kazakhstan's Khabar 24 news channel reported that three of the dead security officers had been found with their heads cut off, Russian news agencies Interfax and RIA Novosti reported.
'The most difficult situation remains in Almaty, where armed men seized and partially destroyed a number of the premises of state bodies, financial organisations, television companies and trade facilities,' the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the Russian news agencies.
Video showed protesters armed with batons and shields overpower and brutally beat a Kazakh special forces. The Kazakh government said the severing of three officers' heads proved that riots were of a 'terrorist character'.
The shooting continued into Thursday, with reports saying that soldiers were firing at protesters and cars on the main square of Almaty. There are reports of multiple deaths. It came after people had been warned to leave.
One car was shown driving into a line of security personnel forming a defensive line against protesters. Video of the incident showed officers chasing the car after it crashed through the shield line, but failed to catch it.
'It's a war zone,' said one eyewitness, as gunfire continued in downtown Almaty this evening.
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Armed forces in Kazakhstan gunned down more demonstrators today as the streets of Almaty were turned into a 'war zone', with protesters being accused of beheading three police officers by Russian news agencies. Pictured: A man stands in front of the mayor's office building which was torched during protests triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, January 6, 2022
Pictured: Security forces carry out an operation to quell protesters in Kazakhstan. Media reports on Thursday said 18 security officers have been killed and 748 wounded
This handout image grab taken and released by the Russian Defence Ministry on January 6, 2021 shows Russian paratroopers boarding a military cargo plane to depart to Kazakhstan as a 'peacekeeping' force
Footage on Wednesday night showed protesters pulling down a statue of Nursultan Nazarbayev - the self-styled 'Father of the Nation' and ally of Vladimir Putin.
Pictured: A statue of Nursultan Nazarbayev - the self-styled 'Father of the Nation' - is pulled down. Nazarbayev, 81, yesterday gave up his final role in overall charge of security in the country. Rumours suggest he may have fled to China or Russia
Pictured: Security forces are deployed against protesters o stop mass unrest in Kazakhstan. Officials have said more than 1,000 people had been wounded so far in the unrest, with nearly 400 hospitalised and 62 in intensive care. The number of fatalities has not been revealed
Protesters take part in a rally over a hike in energy prices in Almaty on January 5, 2022Earlier, shocking footage showed dozens of corpses lined up in a morgue - giving a sense the scale of the carnage in the ex-Soviet republic where the worst violence since gaining independence in 1991 is continuing unabated.
The video from the morgue showed dozens of bodies but it is unclear where or exactly when they were slain.
Commentary on the macabre footage said: 'The corpses, the bodies of the protesters. Different ages, young people. These are all protesters - adult, young. Very young.'
Separate footage on Wednesday night showed protesters pulling down a statue of Nursultan Nazarbayev - the self-styled 'Father of the Nation' and long-time ally of Putin.
Analysts say the Kremlin will fear that the protests in Kazakhstan are the latest signal that citizens who have spent decades living under autocracies in the shadow of the former Soviet Union are reaching their breaking point.
In a blow to the Kremlin, Nazarbayev, 81, yesterday gave up his final role in overall charge of security in the country. Rumours suggest he may have fled to China or Russia, with The Daily Telegraph reporting Russian military planes landed in Kazakhstan to rescue him so he could seek 'urgent medical treatment.'
'It is absolutely not in Putin's interest to have this blow up in his backyard when he's in the middle of a showdown with Nato,' Eugene Rumer - an author and former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council, told the Financial Times.
Russia and other ex-Soviet states answered a call by the current Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev for military reinforcements to quell the protests.
Russian paratroopers landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday in the role of 'peacekeepers' from the Collective Security Treaty Organisation which comprises a number of ex-Soviet states.
Earlier, Britain called for an end to violent protests, voicing concerns about the mass unrest triggered by an increase in fuel prices.
'We are urging against further escalation and want to see a peaceful resolution,' Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official spokesman told reporters.
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Overnight police spokesman Saltanat Azirbek admitted the slaughter of 'dozens' of protesters.
'Extremist forces attempted to storm the administrative buildings, the police department of the city of Almaty as well as district directorates and police departments,' she said.
'Dozens of attackers were eliminated, their identities are being established.'
The Kazakh authorities have portrayed the protesters as 'terrorists' and said an operation somewhat ironically named 'For the Sake of Peace' was underway to counter them.
Intense shooting was underway in the main square of Almaty.
'Troops arrived at the square, and started the mop-up of trouble-makers. The intensive firing is underway,' said a report from the scene by TASS news agency. 'In relation to this, we are urging residents and the city's guests to refrain from leaving houses for the sake of their own safety,' she added.
Videos also show widespread looting in the city with seven hypermarkets totally empty of goods in the country's worst-ever mass unrest.
At least one gun shop was also looted and weapons were stolen when rampaging protesters overran the Almaty branch of the National Security Committee, the state secret service, equivalent of the Russian FSB.
The authorities - struggling to keep control of the energy-rich country amid the unprecedented protests - have not given a death toll for demonstrators, while stressing that a number of police have died.gather around a items looted in Almaty
Pictured: An outside view of the burning mayor's office which was set on fire during unrest in Almaty on January 6. Protesters were reported to have stormed several government buildings on Wednesday, including the Almaty mayor's office
Last night a statue of Nursultan Nazarbayev (pictured) was toppled by an angry mob after Nazarbayev, 81, yesterday gave up his final role in overall charge of security. Rumours suggest he may have fled to China or Russia
Pictured: Russian airborne troop units depart aboard Russian Aerospace Forces aircraft to join the Collective Security Treaty Organisation's peacekeeping force in Kazakhstan
Videos showed widespread looting in the city with seven hypermarkets totally empty of goods in the country's worst-ever mass unrest. Pictured: A Christmas tree in a looted shop on January 6
Protests spread across the nation of 19 million this week in outrage over a New Year increase in prices for liquid petroleum gas (LPG), which is widely used to fuel cars in the west of the country.
Thousands took to the streets in Almaty and in the western province of Mangystau, saying the price rise was unfair given oil and gas exporter Kazakhstan's vast energy reserves.
Protesters were reported to have stormed several government buildings on Wednesday, including the Almaty mayor's office and the presidential residence.
A video shows protesters outside a hospital forming a 'human shield' apparently angry that wounded police were getting priority over demonstrators. They demanded 'no treatment for cops'.
The offices of five TV channels were looted in Almaty - MIR, Kazakhstan, Khabar, Eurasia, and KTK.
A student in his early 20s, Nurlan Mailinov, a keen snowboarder, has vanished after posting footage of the carnage in Almaty, including the fire at the mayor's office, burning cars, and smashed, looted cafes.
He told how in the seized office protesters broke open a safe with millions of Kazakh currency tenge inside.
'They gave out 2,000 tenge (£3.40) to each person,' he said, holding the banknotes.
'We are in our local parliament- and they are giving away money.'
His posts suddenly stopped amid the battles with law enforcers.
The full picture of the chaos was unclear, with widespread disruptions to communications including mobile phone signals, the blocking of online messengers and hours-long internet shutdowns.
The protests are the biggest threat so far to the regime established by Kazakhstan's founding president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who stepped down in 2019 and hand-picked president Tokayev as his successor.
Tokayev tried to head off further unrest by announcing the resignation of the government headed by Prime Minister Askar Mamin early on Wednesday, but protests continued.
Last night a statue of Nursultan Nazarbayev was toppled by an angry mob after Nazarbayev, 81, yesterday gave up his final role in overall charge of security. Rumours suggest he may have fled to China or Russia.
Tokayev also announced he was taking over from Nazarbayev as head of the powerful security council, a surprise move given the ex-president's continued influence.
Protesters are seen as they enter the governor's office as protests continue across Kazakhstan against fuel price increase, in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5 2022
Pictured: Trucks belonging to Kazakh security forces are shown in Almaty as troops work to quell the on-going protests
Kazakhstan's Khabar 24 news channel reported the toll as of midday, saying that the body of one of the dead security officers was found with its head cut off, Russian news agencies Interfax and RIA Novosti reported
With protests escalating, the government late on Wednesday said a state of emergency declared in protest-hit areas would be extended nationwide and in effect until January 19.
It imposes an overnight curfew, restricts movements and bans mass gatherings.
Much of the anger appeared directed at Nazarbayev, who is 81 and had ruled Kazakhstan since 1989 before handing power to Tokayev.
But the protests appear to have no identifiable leader or demands.
Many protesters shouted 'Old Man Out!' in reference to Nazarbayev and images posted on social media showed a statue of the ex-president being torn down.
The EU and the UN called for 'restraint' on all sides, while Washington urged authorities to allow protesters to 'express themselves peacefully.'
Kazakhstan's government tolerates little real opposition and has been accused of silencing independent voices.
Spontaneous, unsanctioned protests are illegal despite a 2020 law that eased some restrictions on freedom of assembly.
Pictured: Riot police guard the Ak Orda Presidential Palace against protesters on January 5
A burnt car is seen by the mayors office on fire. Protests are spreading across Kazakhstan over the rising fuel prices; protesters broke into the Almaty mayors office and set it on fire
A man rallies outside the burning mayors office. Protests are spreading across Kazakhstan over the rising fuel prices; protesters broke into the Almaty mayors office and set it on fire
Riot police officers block a street during the protests in Almaty, Kazakhstan,January 5Under increasing pressure, President Tokayev appealed to the Russia-dominated Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO), which includes five other ex-Soviet states, to combat what he called 'terrorist groups' that had 'received extensive training abroad'.
Within hours the alliance said the first troops had been sent, including Russian paratroopers and military units from the other CSTO members.
'Peacekeeping forces... were sent to the Republic of Kazakhstan for a limited time to stabilise and normalise the situation,' the CSTO said in a statement, without specifying the number of troops involved.
The CSTO's current chairman, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, earlier announced the alliance would agree to the request, saying Kazakhstan was facing 'outside interference'.
One report said Russia had ten Il-76s and three An-124s involved in a massive military operation to quell the disturbances.
Some planes with Russian forces are already in Kazakhstan, where one in five of the population are ethnic Russian.
A spokesman for Magnum, the largest Kazakh hypermarket and supermarket chain, Dmitry Shishkin, said that by 4 am some seven outlets were completely looted.
Another seven were partially looted.
The TSUM department store had been totally looted along with many smaller shops.
Videos show the mass looting, which included banks and thefts from cash machines.
Looters even used a tractor to smash into one bank branch.
A mob also took over weapons store Korgan, making away with guns and ammunition.
The country's largest airport in Almaty was overrun by a mob which also seized five planes and looted the terminal.
Beleaguered Kazakh president Kassym-Jomart Tokayev - who has fired his Cabinet and security officials in a bid to remain in charge - told Khabar-24 TV channel: 'Terrorist gangs are seizing large infrastructural facilities.
'In particular, in Almaty they have seized the airport, five planes, including foreign planes. Almaty has been subjected to an assault, destruction and vandalism.
'Almaty residents have fallen victim to the attack by terrorists and bandits.'
All banks remained closed today across Kazakhstan, the world's ninth largest country in size, due to the state of emergency.
The violence follows a doubling of prices for gas.
The country has seen pent up resentment over low wages and poverty and the enrichment of a narrow elite controlling the government and Kazakhstan's oil and gas reserves.
Kazakhstan, the ninth largest country in the world, borders Russia to the north and China to the east and has extensive oil reserves that make it strategically and economically important. Despite those reserves and mineral wealth, discontent over poor living conditions is strong in some parts of the country.
Why Kazakhstan uprising will strike fear in Putin: Protests against another of Vladimir's allies show citizens of former Soviet nations are ready to rise up after decades of suppression
A Moscow-led military alliance dispatched troops to help quell mounting unrest in Kazakhstan on Thursday, amid fears from the Kremlin over what example the toppling of the country's government could set for other former Soviet republics.
Long seen as one the most stable of the ex-Soviet states of Central Asia, energy-rich Kazakhstan is facing its biggest crisis in decades after days of protests over rising fuel prices escalated into widespread unrest.
One of five ex-Soviet nations in the region, Kazakhstan is of crucial importance to Russia as an economic partner and home to a large ethnic Russian population.
While Russia will likely blame foreign meddling, experts have claimed the riots will strike fear in to the Kremlin.
Analysts say protests in Kazakhstan are the latest signal that citizens who have spent decades living under autocracies in the shadow of the former Soviet Union are reaching their breaking point.
President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev tried to head off further unrest by announcing the resignation of the government headed by Prime Minister Askar Mamin early on Wednesday, but protests continued.
Tokayev is the chosen successor to Putin ally Nursultan Nazarbayev, a statue of whom was toppled by an angry mob on Thursday. Nazarbayev, 81, is believed to have fled to Russia, with reports saying he was rescued by military plane.
Protesters take part in a rally over a hike in energy prices in Almaty on January 5, 2022. A Moscow-led military alliance dispatched troops to help quell mounting unrest in Kazakhstan on Thursday
Pictured: Thousands of protesters attend an opposition protest in Minsk, Belarus, October 4 2020. Opposition leaders came close to toppling strongman Alexander Lukashenko's regime in Belarus before the Putin ally rigged national elections to ensure he held on to power
The significance of the statue of Nazarbayev - the self styled 'Father of the Nation' - being toppled on Thursday will not have gone unnoticed in Moscow.
Moscow called for a 'peaceful solution... through dialogue, not through street riots and violation of laws.'
Similar revolts were seen in Ukraine and Georgia the early 2000s, pushing the countries further towards Western relations. Both have actively sought Nato and EU membership - the stuff of nightmares for Putin.
Since then, Moscow has exercised military strength against both nations, with around 90,000 troops currently amassed on Ukraine's border raising fears of a full-scale military invasion of the country.
In 2020, opposition leaders came close to toppling strongman Alexander Lukashenko's regime in Belarus before Europe's 'last dictator' rigged national elections to ensure he held on to power.
In doing so, political rival Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya was sent into exile.
Kazakhstan's president Tokayev is the chosen successor to Putin ally Nursultan Nazarbayev, a statue of whom was toppled by an angry mob on Thursday (pictured)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) poses for a photo with Founding President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev (left) at the informal summit of leaders of Commonwealth of Independent States on fighting the COVID-19 pandemic in St. Petersburg, December 28, 2021
In addition to Putin giving his blessing to Lukashenko's brutal crackdown on dissidents, the Russian strongman has also quelled any political opposition at home.
Before the end of the 2021, he shut down Russia's most prominent civil rights group Memorial, and at the beginning of the year imprisoned leader of Russia's opposition Alexei Navalny, who was also poisoned in 2020.
However, the issues in Kazakhstan that have led to the unrest are largely domestic, with the The cause of the unrest being a spike in prices for LPG in hydrocarbon-rich Mangystau.
Much of the anger appeared directed at Nazarbayev, who is 81 and had ruled Kazakhstan with an iron fist since 1989 before handing power to Tokayev.
Many protesters shouted 'Old Man Out!' in reference to Nazarbayev.
Even if Kazakhstan's government were to completely fall, the country is unlikely to entirely slip out from under the influence of Moscow, although Russia will be concerned about pet projects such as the Eurasian Economic Union.
Russia itself will unlikely be threatened by the chaos across the border.
Women with their mouths taped over attend a pro-Ukraine rally in Simferopol March 13, 2014
Opposition coalition supporters hold a rally in central Tbilisi, Georgia in May, 2008
Putin has built deep-rooted defences against any uprising at home, demonstrated by his ruthlessness in dealing with supporters of Navalny, and Navalny himself.
However, according to The Telegraph, some pro-Kremlin media outlets were likening the situation in Kazakhstan to a 'Maidan' - a reference to Ukraine's revolution that in Putin's eyes was the result of foreign interference.
The Russian oligarch will keeping a close eye on Kazakhstan as events unfold.
Russian paratroopers depart for Kazakhstan to restore authority
Military let off hundreds of rounds in Almaty's Republic Square
Protesters take part in a rally over a hike in energy prices in Almaty on January 5, 2022
Kazakh protesters topple statue of former president Nazarbayev
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Although a few years ago, Bangor's 2015 Festival of Lights Parade is still remembered as an exceptional event, with a number of vehicles of all makes and sizes displaying an incredible amount of Christmas lights and decorations. One Freightliner truck in particular received a lot of oohs and ahhs from the crowd. My grandchildren loved it. My Nikon camera with 50mm lens got a workout that evening.


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Obituary of Edna Marguerite Smith-Grant
SMITH-GRANT (Delorey), Edna - Edna was born on Nov 16, 1939 in Tracadie and passed away peacefully on January 7, 2021 at Cedarstone Enhanced Care, Truro. She was a daughter of the late Mary (Kavenaugh) and Roland Delorey.
Edna spoke often of her happy early years growing up on a farm with her tight-knit family. These years instilled in her a strong sense of community and service to others - qualities she carried with her throughout her life. She started out early, when at just 11 years old she took a bus alone to Truro with 4H to show a cow and ended up taking home the top prize and bringing great pride to her farm. Most of her life she was active in team sports. Later in life she became an active bowler and at the age of 65 she took up canoeing - Keji was a favourite spot to camp and explore. Her artistic flair was expressed in her love of quilting, gardening and painting and she was the founding member of the 14th Pallet Art Group. The church community played a large role in her life. She served as President of the St. Rose of Lima CWL and was a member of the Parish Council as well as a catechism instructor for 10 years. Above all, family was the most important part of her life. She was proud of all her children and loved being a grandmother. Until Laurie's passing in 2019, Edna and Laurie lived in East Gore where she described her life as "happy and peaceful". She wished to express her deep gratitude to all the family, friends and neighbours who supported her during her illness.
Edna is survived by her children, Jocelyn, Bradley, Rodney (Tanya), Carter (Antonia), Andrew (Colleen); step-son, Greg (Michelle) Grant; grandchildren, Taylor, Lawson, Sophia, Madeline, Zoey; siblings, Francis, John (Heather), Donald (Margaret), Angela (David) Harris, Ronald (Anne "Puggy"), Helena (Russell) Cook; a large extended family and many close friends.
Besides her parents, Edna was predeceased by her first husband, John Smith and her second husband, Laurie Grant; brother, Gerald; sisters-in-law, Marie, Audrey and Leslie.
As per Edna's wishes, her remains have been donated to Dalhousie University's Faculty of Medicine.
A private family service will be held. To those attending the service, COVID-19 provincial regulations apply; masks are required to be worn and social distancing guidelines muse be adhered to.
A special family thank you goes out to the staff at VON, Mitchell's Rest Home, Cedarstone Enhanced Care, Dr. Courtney Smith, Dawn Ross and the rest of the palliative care team.
She will be missed dearly by all who knew her. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made by cheque to the Saint Andre Bessette c/o St. Rose of Lima Maintenance Fund, 9 Jamieson Drive, Fall River, NS B2T 1E5
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Andrew Verster was one of five finalists in the highly prestigious Sasol Wax Art Award 2007, for which he created Skin Markings: a monumental, suspended installation of panels of wax-impregnated tissue paper.
Andrew Verster was one of five finalists in the highly prestigious Sasol Wax Art Award 2007, for which he created Skin Markings: a monumental, suspended installation of panels of wax-impregnated tissue paper. Applied with a hot iron, the wax transforms the tissue paper into a translucent material and is used to laminate layers of paper together into sheets which, when stained and marked with coffee, tea, tumeric and ink, adopt the look and feel of old parchment.


by Michael J. Miller, Jr.
In June when we hosted our first Victory team for the 2016 year. We went to Comayagua to start handing out water filters to the community. We have broken up the community of 500 families into 6 different groups and have been working for over a year with our discipleship home groups being led by our older youth. In my section we have the "frontier" where we have two discipleship home groups. One we have been working with for two years. The other was a new section for us. This is where we took a few members of the June team. Pastor Vaughn and Brad Hinman were with us when we met a young lady named Isis.
Isis is 15 years old and is seen in all the photos. She came to us and said, "Pastor Mike would you like help in finding homes with the most need to distribute your filters." Of course I said yes and she guided us to many homes that day. What we noticed in her was that she loved God and the people loved her. She helped us not just with this team but with the teams that came after. I talked to her about her education.
She told me it was difficult to study because she has to walk 30 minutes to school and back every day, plus she had to walk further to use the internet to copy notes that she wrote by hand into her one notebook because she couldn't afford copies. I talked to the boys and they went to work with their tithes from their sales and also what they have been putting in from working. They are sponsoring Isis in her 6th grade year and they have made a commitment to sponsor her until she finishes 12th grade. They also knew how difficult it was to study and copy notes from the internet so they fund raised $300 to purchase Isis a complete encyclopedia set including maps and dictionary for her to use and share with her 2 brothers.
She received a new uniform because she didn't have one. She also received new shoes and sneakers and all that she needed to study with. Our boys truly know what it means to help, give, and encourage other youth. They are sacrificing so another can be blessed. Another example, of our youth making a difference in their own country.