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The real estate websites based out from the neighborhood will have the updated content and they are always the best resource to find a house for sale. These websites will have the latest updated information and most of these information's will be very specific to the neighborhood. But many will have confusion on how to find the local real estate website. It's an easy task. You can open google in your browser and if you are looking for houses in Puyallup then you can just type "search for homes in Puyallup" or "buy a home in Puyallup" Or to be specific you can search using search terms like "for sale by owner in puyallup" or "commercial property in puyallup". Many of these website also have details on how to sell your home. These details will educate on the methods to sell your home.
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Given that most if not all smartphones support Bluetooth, enable the optional but automated disabling of email & calendar related notifications when one is in proximity of a computer that is already making such occurences known to the user.
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Oldest Living Tree In Sheffield Area
By History dude, October 12, 2011 in GENERAL CHAT
History dude 48
Sheffield History Pro
Sheffield History Member
I'm just wondering what and where is the oldest living tree in Sheffield? There's a few big oaks near where I live at the top of Gleadless Valley, one MASSIVE one on Constable Road, which must be at least 300 years old! But I certain there will be one older somewhere.
Bayleaf 6
Sheffield History Admin
There's an ancient yew tree near Thrift House, Bents Green that is believed to be over 800 years old.
According to experts many oak trees in the Sheffield area are much older than they appear. It's believed the pollution from industry significantly reduced their rate of growth, meaning that normal measures to estimate age are skewed.
I'll try and get a photo of the oak on Constable, when it stops raining!
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To test this you would have to chop it down and "count the rings"
There would be a lot of rings (1 per year) but they would be tightly packed if the growth was stunted by local pollution.
However chopping the tree down would kill it and I am sure that there are laws that prohibit the felling of still living ancient trees.
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Take a core from it using a giant ancient-tree-apple-corer (B&Q, £15.99) and carbon date it, or, if very, very old, use Uranium 238; or as an alternative see if anyone has engraved "Come on you Lilywhites" into the bark - if so, it's not only old but has walked triffid-style from Preston at some point.
Just a thought(s).
I'll get mi' coat ...
I have heard that if you chop down an Oak tree they would throw away the key or just about
You don't need to chop trees down to kill them sometimes. For example if you cut through the "tap root" of a Sycamore the tree dies. This used to happen a lot when paths were dug up. Now the services diggers (water, gas etc) have been trained not to do this.
It is indeed possible to take a 'core' using the equivalent of a giant apple corer! Dendrochronology is extremely useful and can provide amazingly accurate results. For accuracy however, the sample needs to include the outer bark.
Quite right too History Dude.
The oak is our National tree and yet we have almost systematically denuded our land of it for one reason or another.
Taking a core sample is an alternative.
Some trees take to this better than others, some being hardly affected at all, some being eventually killed by it.
It would take a skilled tree surgeon to do a core sample without damaging the tree permenantly.
Carbon dating cannot be used on living material only dead material, and it would only reveal the approximate year of death of the tree, not it's age at death.
Radioactive 14-carbon is formed in the upper atmosphere by solar radiation interactions. It becomes 14-carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and then takes part in a wide variety of photosynthesis, respiration and food chain interactions which means that all living things contain a certain amount of radioactive 14-carbon.
Living things are taking in 14-carbon all the time, and the 14-carbon is undergoing radioactive decay at a fixed rate. as a result all living things contain a fairly constant equilibrium amount of 14 carbon.
When the living thing dies it no longer takes in 14-carbon, but the 14-carbon it already contains continues to undergo radioactive decay at the same fixed rate (It's radioactive half life is about 5400 years)
By comparing the amount of 14-C in a dead sample to the amount in all living samples the time since death can be calculated.
14-carbon dating has given valuable evidence such as the age of dinosaur bones, the age of Egyptian mummies (so fixing their dynasty) and also some interesting facts such as.
The skull of Piltdown Man (not all of which is human) is an elaborate hoax and some of the bones in it are only a couple of hundred years old.
The Shroud of Turin, thought to be the burial shroud of Christ is also a hoax, the material dating back to about 1350
But, the Dead Sea scrolls, found in 1948 and containing original script of several books from the Old Testament are genuine, dating to around 800BCE
I dont see how, for a tree, 238-Uranium can be used. Yes the half life is massive but a tree would not contain Uranium to any extent and its level would not drop much in historic time. However it could be used to date rocks in geological time eras. 238-U is too stable. 235-U is the well known radioactive isotope, used in the first atomic bombs and nuclear power stations.
Isn't "Lillywhites" a sportswear shop in London?
The Shroud of Turin, thought to be the burial shroud of Christ is also a hoax, the material dating back to about 1350.
Actually it's not at all clear that it does date to 1350. Since the sample taken for the test could have become contaminted at some point, because it was taken from an area that was damaged. I did see a textile expert saying that the material could in fact date to the time of christ. However one should not read anything in to the Shroud, as the proccess that produced the image is natural. It could however mean that there was someone called Jesus who was executed in that way, as the other evidence of the man's life is just not there.
The church however are currently not willing to give a better sample of the cloth so the actual date of the Shroud is still open to question.
Howay, you Prestonianers" would sound daft.
Check the expiry date of the library ticket - easy really.
Actually it's not at all clear that it does date to 1350.
I'm not going to get involved in another of those "scientific evidence v peoples beliefs" arguments with you again History Dude.
14-C dating clearly and repeatedly indicated a date around 1350 (give or take about 30 years) and it is a very reliable technique.
Contamination of the sample would not alter the 14-C content unless it was contaminented with dead organic matter from a different time period, - in this case that would have to be a more modern fabric than the one expected (1350 years more modern in fact).
Then again,
I do agree with you however that the process which produced the image was natural and can easily be recreated to produce forgeries.
When I was a student at university many years ago I had long hair (as was fashionable then) and many of my friends called me "Jesus" as I looked like the image on the shroud, - so I could quite easily have produced a 1970's copy of it myself. The image could be of anybody.
The fact that the Church of Rome are unwilling to submit a further sample for analysis, are disputing the 1350 date and are getting "experts" to say it could date from the time of Christ says a lot as they have an axe to grind, it is after all one of their "Holy Relics"
Remember in history they also denied that the Sun was the centre of Solar system and persecuted the scientist who had evidence to the contrary.
To my "scientist" mind on the shroud,-
The material almost certainly dates to around 1350, - with a high probability of that being correct.
The image on the shroud could have been made at any time after that up until it was publically displayed with the image, so I suspect the image is from the medieval period.
As the fabric and it's image both post date the life of Christ, ....
..well, you draw your own conclusions.
Well, if the Shroud of Turin had a label on it saying "Marks & Spencers" that would sort of indicate that it was a forgery wouldn't it? :unsure:
It's not a belief thing at all. What I saw on TV were people like yourself men of science and experts in their fields. That TV programme said the sample taken for the test was taken from a damaged area that was damaged in the 14th Century. The same scientists also could not reproduce the image in the way that is found on the Shroud, after many trys. Everyone who has tried to reproduce the image has seen on it has failed. An expert on fabrics of the time of Christ said the material used in the Shroud does indeed date from the time and could not be produced in the 14th Century. There is also an historical trail that leads it and other artifacts back to the middle east. The nail holes are in the same place as would be done by a Roman execution. The 14th Century depictions of Christ's execution all show them in the wrong place, so that sort of scuppers the idea of the fake being done then.
A scientist would therefore draw the conclusion that nothing is proven without further tests.
In any case all it would prove that man perhaps called Jesus was executed by the romans in the way stated in the bible. Nothing more. The marks on it being caused by bacteria and sweat and blood and the enviorment it was in.
OK, like I said in my previous post (relevant pieces quoted below) I am not going to be drawn on this one.
We have had arguments like this before on "spirits" which got a bit out of hand and I am not going to fall out with someone over their particular stance on a subject.
However, my main reason for not being drawn into a lengthy argument on this particular issue is that it is someones belief, - the belief of the Roman Catholic Church.
I am a Christian but not Catholic, however I have the greatest respect for other peoples religious beliefs and so whatever the truth about the shroud may be I will, out of respect for Catholic church, go no further with this argument on this forum.
I respect you not wanting to debate the issue. I was mearly stating that the age of the Shroud is open to question on science grounds. Nothing more. End of debate.
Now them trees....
To get back on topic, which is actually about the oldest living tree in the Sheffield area, here is a question to which History Dude may well know the answer as it is in his area of expertise (The Sheffield Deer Park and Sheffield Manor).
I don't know the answer.
Manor Top was once known as "Elm Tree"
There is still a now closed down pub there who's name bears testament to this
Also, in my younger days, many buses to Manor Top said "Elm Tree" on the front instead of Manor Top.
So, the questions are, -
Was there an actual Elm Tree at Manor Top at one time?
Where exactly was it located?
What happened to it? Was it cut down? Died?
When was the tree removed?
How long was the Elm tree actually there?, as the name of the area seems very old and of course persists to some extent to the present day.
Firstly the road that the pub is on did not come into being till the 1779 Turnpike act for making the road. Prior to that there would have been no Elm Tree Hill. Indeed most of the references to that area refer to the hill been called Hutterhill. The fields on the topside of the road (where Manor Library is) where called Hutterhill meadows.
The first reference to the pub dates to around 1839 when a local shopkeeper and shoemaker was selling beer there. This clearly could have been no later than 1830 when the Beerhouse Act came in. Under that act our Joseph would have had to pay 3 guineas before he could sell his "home made" beer. That act was introduced to stop the selling of gin, which had reached epidemic levels. There's a famous picture by Hogarth called Gin Lane which shows how bad it was.
The directory for 1839 lists it as Elm Tree Hill. So it's unlikely the pub gave it's name to that.
The ground the pub was on was part of the Stone Hurst wood. An ancient bit of woodland from Sheffield Park. This covered most of the upper manor. It was famous for it's Holly trees, which must have spreaded outside the Park as there is still the Hollinsend area today. Sheffield's own Hollywood
These trees where pollarded to give food for Deer and Animals in the winter months. This made them look like the trees in fairy-book stories!
And yes there was an Elm Tree! It stood outside the pub and was still there up to just before the war, according to my Aunt. She says it was in front of the two bay windows. It had one of those circular benches around it.
I don't know what happened to it.
The pub itself was often modernised and enlarged especially in the 1920's when the Manor Estate was built. This was because the Council would not let them put public houses on the estate, or any estates come to that. The Manor didn't get a pub itself till 1939!
Hollinsend, Hollybank, these are common names on the Intake where I currently live, all relating to Holly.
Perhaps I should have some very large white letters that spell out HOLLYWOOD made and have them put up at the highest point, at Manor Top just above the Elm Tree.
...and then go back to making films again <_<
Now you have said that i am sure I have seen a picture of the Elm Tree with that tree somewhere.
Not sure where though, - a book possibly, or Picture Sheffield perhaps.
It just all sounds vaguely familiar. :huh:
The trees on our street, which stand on the grass verge between the footpath and the road, are supposed to be "Pollarded" by the council every 5 years or so.
They haven't done it for years, so now the branches overhang gardens, go close to house bedroom windows, overhang the road at such low levels that tall vahicles cannot get down without catching them or knocking the smaller ones off and telephone wires (remember those, landline telephones with wires to your house from a telegraph pole?) are entangled in the overgrown trees so much that they are in danger of being pulled down.
It's about time our trees were Pollarded and made to look nice like the ones in fairy book stories.
I suppose that sort of begs the question as to what was the first pub on the Manor estate in 1939, as there are quite a few of them.
As we have an excellent pubs section on Sheffield History I suppose the answer is on here already, somewhere.
It was the Manor Hotel, the one branded the worst by a certain paper
There's an aerial shot of the pub in 1929 on picture Sheffield, but I can't see the tree.
http://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?action=zoomWindow&keywords=s12423&prevUrl=ZnJvbnRlbmQucGhwPyZrZXl3b3Jkcz1hbGwlM0JNQVRDSEVTJTNCJTI4JTVFJTdDKyUyQiUyOUFlcmlhbF9WaWV3cyUyOCUyNCU3QyslMkIlMjkmYWN0aW9uPXNlYXJjaCZwYWdlPTEw
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Good picture link though History Dude.
That section of the Manor estate shown on Queen Mary Road is older than I thought at 1929, - but it is the section which has recently been demolished and cleared so that those concentric oval roads centred around Fairleigh are no longer complete.
Good view of the old pit spoil on Coal Pit lane.

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News that the Florida House of Representatives today unanimously passed a bill requiring more strict background screenings for employees at its nursing homes and day care centers is an important step in protecting the state's most vulnerable citizens.
If signed into law, this bill will help shore up the state's efforts — and reveal lawmakers' commitment — to protect it's vulnerable citizens. They are to be lauded for this effort.
Children should know they're beautiful and loved. They should feel safe, welcome and comfortable surrounded by family and friends.
Yet one girl felt none of these. At 7, she was placed by the Florida Department of Children and Families into an overcrowded foster home, shared a bed with another foster child, and ultimately was sexually molested by the foster parent. She lost more than her innocence. She lost her trust in others and a chance at a normal future.
Now 12, her adoptive mother is trying to help the girl regain her trust – and a normal life. A lawsuit filed against the Florida DCF and YMCA seeks to ensure normalcy for the girl – and future state wards.


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THE Federal Government will soon embark on crack-down of those contravening the National Tobacco Control Act, NCTA, which prohibits the selling of cigarettes to minors and also selling single stick of the tobacco products.
This was disclosed by the head, Tobacco Control Unit, Non-Communicable Diseases Division, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Mangai Malau at the advocacy programme organized by Gatefield Project in Abuja yesterday.
Dr Malau who was represented by the Senior Scientific Officer, Tobacco Control Unit, Mr Emmanuel Abraham said that a task force will soon be set up to apprehend those who sell cigarettes to minors and minors below 18 years who hawk cigarette product as well as those selling single sticks cigarettes.
He said that the Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has been in the vanguard to ensure that tobacco menace was reduced drastically in the country.
He commended Gatefield Project, Consumer Protection Commission, CPC and other partners in ensuring smoke-free environment.
In his address, manager of Gatefield Project, Sola Bakare said that the programme was conceived to focus on advocacy for the prohibition of selling tobacco to minors and single sticks.
Bakare said findings from a recent survey on the sale of tobacco revealed that "not only does a quarter of our minors have access to killer tobacco products, but there is also a sense that there are no consequences for the violations of the law. This is why awareness must be ramped up. But beyond that, awareness creation must be followed by strong political will by the implementers to enforce these and all other provisions of the law.
According to him, "One in four vendors of cigarettes and other tobacco products sold to minors (persons below the age of 18) in Nigeria. The finding was made in a Tobacco Sales Violation survey report titled"Tobacco vs The People".
"Nigeria has since passed a law, the National Tobacco Control Act 2015, which prohibits among others – tobacco sales to and by minors; sale of cigarettes in single sticks; and Tobacco Advertising, Promotion, and Sponsorship.
"The survey was a result of a crowdsourcing campaign involving volunteers who mapped about 2,088 points of sale including Kiosks, Restaurants, Bars, Supermarkets and other retail outlets across various parts of the urban cities in the four selected States in Nigeria including Edo, Ekiti, Katsina and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
He said that findings revealed that "One in four vendors (25 per cent) sell Cigarettes and Tobacco products to people under the age of 18 in Nigeria. Half (49.6 per cent) of the cigarette vendors in Abuja – Nigeria's capital city – sell cigarettes to people under the age of 18.
"A substantial percentage of vendors (more than half of those who admitted to selling Cigarettes and tobacco products to minors) were seen selling cigarettes to people below the age of 18. (13.46 per cent) of vendors were observed selling to minors out of the 25.24 per cent that admitted to selling cigarettes to minors.
"Majority of vendors support the ban of Cigarettes and Tobacco sales to minors but almost half of the vendors (41 per cent) are unaware of the law banning the sale of Tobacco to minors.
"Majority of vendors (89 per cent) are unaware of the law banning the sale of cigarettes in single sticks and do sell the products in single sticks (84 per cent).
Already, the Nigerian government through the Consumer Protection Council has recently taken the right step forward by carrying out enforcement exercises in two public parks and Wuse market in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Other implementing agencies are urged to take this line of action and in a manner that ensures that citizens are onboard.
Also speaking, Bode Olufemi of Environmental Rights Actions, ERA, advised the Nigerian government to take more action in ensuring a tobacco-free environment.
He said that the law enforcement agencies were not doing enough to ensure the enforcement of the law prohibiting advertising of cigarettes and selling of the products to minors.


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Due to this, He said: "Thus know that they only follow their whims", and then said: "And who is more misguided than one who follows his whims without guidance from Allah?" (al-Qasas 28:50) 'Following whims' has various levels. Among them are the polytheists and those who worship beside Allah what they deem as good without knowledge or proof, as He said: "Have you seen the one who takes his whims as a god?" (al-Jathiyyah 45:23) In other words, he takes as his god who he worships, and it is who he fancies among gods. It is not said that his whims themselves are his god for not everyone who fancies something, worships it. For indeed whims have divisions. Rather what is intended is that he made what he fancies a thing to be worshipped. Thus his worship was to follow the whims of his self in acts of worship. Indeed he does not worship what he fancies to worship and does not perform the worship which he was commanded to do.
This is the condition of the people of innovation, for indeed they worship something other than Allah and innovate acts of worship alleging that they are worshipping Allah through it. Thus they are only following their whims for indeed one of them follows the fancy of his self, its tastes, passions and whims without knowledge, guidance or an illuminating book. For if they followed knowledge and the Illuminating Book, they would not worship but Allah through what He wills and not through fabrications and innovations.
What is intended is that there are a large number of gods and the ways of worshipping them vary. In general all of what a person wishes for and fancies is inevitable for him to imagine it in his self. So that cognitive image is a motivation for him towards what he fancies and the dictates of that fancy. Thus whoever worships it, worships something other than Allah and demons appear to him in the form of who he worships. This continues a great deal and has not ended. Due to this, everyone who worships something other than Allah is only worshipping Shaytan. Due to this, Shaytan unites with the sun when it is rising and setting and becomes level with it so that the prostrations of whoever worships it are for him as well. Demons appears is the form of whoever is worshipped just like they speak to them from the idols which they worship. Similarly, in our time a great number of people from those who attribute themselves to Islam, the Christians and polytheists, they commit Shirk with some of those who are aggrandise from the living and the dead mashayikh and others – they call upon [the beloved figure], seek his help in his lifetime and after his death and see him. He comes and speaks to them and fulfils their needs while it is only a Shyatan appearing in his form in order to lead astray the polytheist.
Shaytan does not cease appearing to those afflicted with passion for something in the form of what they are passionate about or he mimics it form. Thus [the polytheist] does not cease seeing [the beloved's] form despite his absence from him after his death. Shaytan only reveals himself to his heart and due to this when the slave mentions the remembrance of Allah which the retreating whisperer withdraws from, this Satanic image and the image of the beloved withdraws.
At times it overpowers the lover to the point that he does not see anything else, he does not hear any other words, and this his self remains exploited by it. A form of that happens to some of those taking the path of loving Allah as a deficient path. It is called 'istilam' and 'fana'. He disappears with his beloved from his love, with his grace from his awareness and with his remembered from his remembrance until he does not sense anything of the Names, Attributes, Speech, commands and prohibitions of Allah.
Among these are those who have moved on from this to divine 'Union'. They say: 'I am Him and He is me and I am Allah.' The majority of those who follow this path believe this person is the highest degree of those who follow this path and that this is true 'faith in the Oneness of Allah' which is the final stage of every follower. They are in error in this, rather this is among the types of views of the Christians although they strayed because they did not follow the legal path inwardly regarding the reports of Allah and His commands. This discussion of this has been expanded upon at another point.
What is intended is that what those who follow their desires create for of images, food, drink and clothing overwhelms their heart to the point that it subdues it, reign over it, and leaves it a slave. Whatever he fancies diverts him in whatever way that the sought after thing behaves, and due to this some of the predecessors said: 'What I fear more for the ascetic youth than a predatory animal leaping on him, is a young boy sitting with him.'
It is that unadulterated self (nafs al-safiyya) which has the delicateness of training and is not attracted to the love of Allah and His worship has complete attraction. And what diverts [the self] from its fancy does not accomplish it out of complete fear of Allah when it becomes subject to an image among the images; this image overwhelmed [the self] just as the predatory animal overcomes what he preys upon. Thus the predatory animal takes his prey by force and the prey is not able to stop it. Similarly what a person portrays in his heart of beloved images swallows and subdues his heart. So his heart is not able to refrain from it and it remains engrossed in this image in a greater way than they prey is immersed in his fear of the lion. This is because the beloved and sought after thing is the objective of the self (ghaya al-nafs) and it has a powerful authority over it.
Gardens of Purification by Ibn Taymiyyah Pages 72-75


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Q: How to save a file to iCloud Drive from my ios app? What do I need to do for my app to save a file to iCloud? I have added the iCloud capability in the Signing & Capabilities.  However, I don't understand what permissions I need to put in the info.plist file.
I created a UIActivityController and send it a URL of the file.  Then when I click on Save To Files I see the option to save to iCloud but it's dimmed.  Please see screenshots. Save To Files iCloud Dimmed

Here is my code:
let fileURL = folderUrl.appendingPathComponent(self.crapsSession.fileName).appendingPathExtension("csv")

let items = [fileURL]
let ac = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: items, applicationActivities: nil)
self.present(ac, animated: true)

I've searched all over the internet but couldn't figure out what to do.  Thanks for helping a noob.

A: Thanks for helping. The screenshot is from the simulator. When I loaded to a real device, the iCloud option is no longer dimmed.

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January 22, 2020 by www.reuters.com
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Explainer: As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum
Europe's leading telecoms operators, all Huawei customers, are lobbying against an outright ban. At the same time, they are removing the Chinese company's gear from the "core" of their networks. The core routes traffic and manages data and is thus more sensitive than the peripheral radio network. … [Read more...] about Explainer: As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum
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The roots of the US-China rivalry | Opinion
January 22, 2020 by www.hindustantimes.com
Global warming is another deep area of global concern. China's rapid rise, which brought with it great improvements in its per capita income, taking millions out of poverty, was accompanied by accelerated CO2 emissions, making it one of the world's worst polluters. Most developing countries had long argued that on their journey out of poverty, tight global environment standards should not be imposed as these did not exist when the current developed countries exited poverty. The problem is that with the US withdrawal from the Paris accord and Trump's denial of the seriousness of climate change, the world is faced with a collective crisis. Our planet is already one degree hotter. On its current path, it will become three to four degrees hotter by 2100. That will seriously challenge how future generations live. It is clear that the world has lost its first battle against global warming and needs to adapt to living on a hotter planet, but if serious and urgent actions are … [Read more...] about The roots of the US-China rivalry | Opinion
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China has, since April 2015, when it announced the CPEC, been exerting pressure on India to improve its ties with Pakistan. Beijing has been insisting in official and Track 1.5 and Track-2 discussions that India commence talks and ease tensions with Pakistan, resolve the Kashmir issue, and only then look to improving ties with China. At that time, the CPEC projects were valued at around $49 billion and now they are officially estimated by Pakistan at almost $64 billion. For China, the stakes are undoubtedly high. To increase pressure, China has revived reference to the UNSC resolutions while referring to the Kashmir issue. Beijing has, in the past, referred to UNSC resolutions when its relations with India were under strain. … [Read more...] about India must take note of the China-Pakistan nexus | Opinion
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The decline of social media: Facebook and Twitter leave us wanting
January 21, 2020 by www.zdnet.com
Typically, social media has been the world's most effective system of disseminating hyperbole, so Zuckerberg's statement on stage that day was comparably extraordinary. Facebook's privacy incidents over the years have been so numerous and so severe, ZDNet has already established a kind of hall of fame for them. At the summit of this list is an incident that may literally have changed the world, covered in depth by ZDNet's Charlie Osborne: The policy-breaking sharing of at least 87 million personal records of Facebook users worldwide, with the political operations group Cambridge Analytica. As ZDNet's Zack Whittaker reported, this firm has been linked with disinformation campaigns responsible for stirring political activism favoring the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union, and favoring the Republican candidate in the 2016 presidential campaign. … [Read more...] about The decline of social media: Facebook and Twitter leave us wanting
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It's three years today since I set up this blog. Three years! I can't believe it's been that long. Thought I'd share my very first blog post and say thanks to mammy Byrne. Sure without her I'd have no stories to tell and no blog to write :). And a huge thanks to all who visit the page, read, share and leave comments.
This was a line I heard very often growing up. My sister and I were reduced to tears while poring over old photos of our childhood the other day. Tears of laughter that was! Our children stood by as we dissolved into hysterical laughter at our mothers' choice of clothes, hairstyles, shoes. Mammy Byrne gleefully informing us that someday soon our own ungrateful kids would do the same! Out came a photo of me and my big sis standing at the front door on her communion day. Not one for dresses, my big sis was trussed up in a fab embroidered anglaise number with a gorgeous popes hat veil ensemble. I loved it! So much so that my lovely Godmother made me a replica, without the veil of course. So, there we stood on the doorstep, big sis beaming even though she had to wear the dress and veil, me with a face like "a pan of worms" another line I heard quite a bit!
I wasn't allowed wear my specially made white dress on the day of the communion, it was for the following day so big sis could have all the glory on her special day. Only fair really. And so begins my career in "only being happy when causing trouble"! It all started of sedately enough. Grumpy head on me at front door before we left for the church but I'd get over not being allowed wear the dress, well that's what they thought.
Of we set for St Peters Church in Phibsboro. In we went and took our places. Big sis went off to join her class and I got comfortable with my Mum and Dad and my lovely Godmother. I don't recall how the conversation started but eventually I got round to telling my Mum in a loud clear voice (in the silence that only exists in churches) that she had a beard. When told by my Godmother that that wasn't a nice thing to say I promptly told her she had too! I hasten to add neither lady had a beard; my Mum may sport the odd madwomans hair now and then. Anyway, I was causing trouble and obviously was a little happier than when we left the house. My lovely Godmother was instructed to "get her out".
Much happier to be outside I started wandering up and down the steps of the house next to the Church. Of course this soon became a little boring and don't ask me why but I thought sticking my head through the bars on the railings would be great gas. Believe me it was! Well ok, it really wasn't. I got stuck. My lovely Godmother tried her best to get me out before the rest of our gang got out of the Church and rounded the corner to go into the garden for biscuits and lemonade. She didn't. The main memory of my sister's big day for all our family is me getting my head stuck in the railing, robbing her moment (and everyone in her class really). She has never really forgiven me for this.
Mammy Byrne was not impressed. Not even slightly. Nor as the story goes was she really too worried. I think her words were "leave her there; she won't do it again in a hurry". My Dad, and uncles and lovely Godmother knew she didn't mean it (well that's what I tell myself) and tried to calm three year old me down, yes I caused all this trouble at three. They eventually freed my head and Mammy Byrne and big sis where kind enough to allow me join them for biscuits and lemonade. Of course I was now famous, as everyone in the garden had had to pass me on the way in!
Old photos are great, each one tells a story, who would have thought that the grumpy young madam in the lovely red dress standing beside her beautiful big sister on her first communion morning could cause such mayhem! Well Mammy Byrne of course!! Sure wasn't she always telling me I was never happy unless I was causing trouble? Self fulfilling prophecy, I blame my wonderful mum!


On Sunday November 25, a group of migrants marched toward the border of the U.S. and Tijuana. Growing impatient and eager for escape, the once peaceful group rushed a Mexican police blockade in an attempt to cross into San Diego. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency responded to the rush of migrants by closing the border on both sides and bombarding them with tear gas.
The policemen, equipped with riot shields, formed a line 100 yards from the border to contain the people and metal barriers were put up leading to the main border crossing point. It wasn't until a group of frustrated migrants tried to make their way toward a border crossing point meant for trains that the tear gas was used. Some men who attempted to climb the fence were defeated by the clouds of gas. A number of people had their children with them, some even in strollers, at the time the gas was released. A few migrants, who had the chance to speak to the New York Times, claimed they believed they would be able to negotiate access with the border control officers.
32 year old Fani Caballero arrived with the Honduran caravan and witnessed the tear gas attack. Her seven year old daughter cried in her arms as helicopters circled above them. 22 year old Andrés Medina, who was tear gassed last Sunday, is not ready to give up hope. He is striving for a better life for himself: he is fleeing Honduras to escape gang recruitment that will undoubtedly determine the course of the rest of his life.
The United States government has responded to the outcries of those American people who voiced concern that the defense tactic was too harsh. Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, responded to the incident and public outcry. "As I have continually stated, D.H.S. will not tolerate this type of lawlessness and will not hesitate to shut down ports of entry for security and public safety reasons." Mexican officials reported that 500 people were involved in the march to the border, and that those who acted aggressively toward federal police would be deported. A reported 39 people have been arrested due to this incidents. The 500 migrants involved in Sunday's altercation are only a fraction of the people inside the northbound caravan that left Honduras last month. Unrest within Tijuana stems from extreme poverty and violence within Central America, and the number of Mexicans awaiting asylum increases daily. Wayne Cornelius, a political science professor at the University of California San Diego, claimed that the longer caravaners await access into the U.S., the more eager they become and the more likely they are to attempt crossing illegally. Grants for asylum can take months, and even years.


Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) winner of Pulitzer Prizes for Things of This World (1956) and New and Collected Poems (1988),was named the second Poet Laureate of our country and won many awards and prizes. I knew Richard Wilbur had long lived in our corner of western Massachusetts, but I never expected to get a letter from him. And for that I thank Carol Purington and Susan Todd who were longtime friends of his.
Carol and Susan were putting together Morning Song, an anthology of poems for new parents with section headings like Waiting, Newest Child, Green and Carefree, Lessons and more. Several of Wilbur's poems were included in different sections. The poems chosen ranged from Sappho to contemporary poets like Wilbur. As I read the poems I can see the memories and hopes that we parents feel as we look in our children's eyes as they grow.
One of Wilbur's poems in Morning Song is The Writer.
Like chain hauled over a gunwale.
The whole house seems to be thinking.
Of stokes, and again is silent.
As the mother of three daughters (and two sons) I cannot think help thinking of the stronger wishes that arrive as they grow older. And older.
As for my letter from Wilbur, since I was now friends with his friends, I wrote and asked permission to use one poem that spoke of an experience we shared in my Commonweeder blog. He responded generously. You can read April 5, 1974 here.
Married life and children. Wilbur expressed the challenges and blessings of all.