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UN CONCERNED BY COALITION ACTIONS IN RAQQA
smmsyria / August 31, 2017
United Nations Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng expressed deep concern at the deteriorating situation of civilians trapped in the fighting in Raqqa.
"I am deeply disturbed by reports coming out of Raqqa of the horrendous situation faced by civilians caught up in the offensive to retake the city from the so-called Islamic State. The city is under intense bombardment by international counter-ISIS coalition forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). In addition, ISIS is reportedly using civilians as human shields."
Up to 25,000 civilians remain trapped in the parts of Raqqa still controlled by ISIS. In addition to the terrible situation they face in the city, ISIS is reportedly killing those who try to escape, and coalition forces are targeting boats on the Euphrates river, which had been one of the remaining escape routes for civilians. At the same time, civilians in the areas south of the Euphrates river are reportedly facing indiscriminate attacks by Syrian government forces and their allies during military operations to retake the area.
"I urge all parties to adhere to their obligations under international human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular their responsibility to take all possible measures to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure and to ensure that all military action, including airstrikes, are proportionate and comply with international law. The legitimate aim of retaking Raqqa must not be achieved at such a high cost to civilians" the Special Advisor said.
The Special Advisor reiterated calls for a humanitarian pause to spare civilian lives. "As the offensive to retake Raqqa reaches its final stages, the fighting is likely to intensify, as will the risks faced by civilians still trapped in the city. I urge all parties and the international community as a whole to ensure the protection of civilians trapped in Raqqa and to take all possible steps to allow them to leave safely."
August 31, 2017 in Raqqa. Tags: Coalition, ISIS, SDF, UN
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Monday, we held an employee townhall and invited customers to join. You can read more about it here, watch a recording here (it's only 15 minutes), and read the press release here.
Let's take a look at the 3 main points and what they mean to Academic libraries.
eBook titles are now available in discipline-specific colllections.
At Gale, we are committed to providing schools the necessary tools to provide the best possible education to their students. Yesterday, we announced the addition of STEM content to GVRL, starting with nearly 3,000 eBook monographs from Springer and hundreds from Elsevier. That's just the beginning, however, as we'll soon add grade-appropriate STEM content for the K-12 market as well.
Public libraries can and do play a strong role in fostering an interest and developing skills in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)—among children, teens and adults alike. Gale's announcements yesterday afternoon mean that libraries of all types will soon have additional support in delivering research assistance in these key disciplines.
Classes, workshops and events related to STEM concepts are already prevalent at libraries nationwide. Even with catchy names like Legopalooza, DevDev, HiTech and MakerLab, it's clear that these programs pack some serious punch when it comes to boosting STEM skills.
At Gale, part of Cengage Learning, we preserve history through the digitization of millions of pages each year. Using our extensive experience, we've developed what we like to call the three C's of digital imaging, a guide to the industry's best practices.
To take primary sources from their original paper format into easily accessible digital files, we employ two types of scanners. The number of each is carefully determined based on the type of material included in project.
As February comes to an end and March nears, the Academy Awards loom on the horizon. It is appropriate, then, that we discuss Twelve Years a Slave. Not only is this movie nominated for numerous Oscars—including "Best Picture"—but the story is an important piece of our overall history.
Confession: I haven't seen the movie. I'm not much of a moviegoer, but I do intend to see it soon since I heard it was well done. I did read the book, and if the movie is anywhere near as gut-wrenching and eye-opening, then I have no doubt it should take home many awards.


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Mahi international School is Unique in its league. The abiding obsession at Mahi is to make learning inspiring for children, including the desire to enquire, explore and experience. For, we are a school which believes that education lies beyond the textbook and that true learning comes from self enquiry and research, from discussion, from reading and from encouraging the natural curiosity of young minds.
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Humble Pie? Precisely
Credit...From left: Andrew Scrivani for The New York TImes; Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times
By Jennifer Steinhauer
Cake fans are taken in by looks. Pie lovers are seduced by personality.
Cake is a tall preener, calling out from the center of the dining room table, but often disappointing with overly cloying frosting or a crumb that proves less than moist. Never mind. Cake knows you will come back for more.
The pie is humble, even a bit needy, and rarely gets its dinner-party due, sidelined instead to church bake sales, roadside stands and degrading eating contests. Cake wears makeup — decorative adornments, cursive writing, curlicues. Pie shows the world its true face, often homely, with fruit oozing from its center, its edges sadly singed.
But pie is whimsical; no one throws a German chocolate cake in anyone's face.
It's also deeply evocative. In her last book, Nora Ephron, mulling her own demise, listed pie among the things she would miss most. Charlie Price, a 10-year-old Washington boy who prefers Key lime to chocolate cake on his birthday, said, "I love pie for its pie-ness." Fruit, goo, pastry: pie tells the truth about itself.
"The reaction to a nice cake is almost more intellectual," said Ken Haedrich, author of the cookbook "Pie" and dean of the Pie Academy, an online pie-making school. "You look at a cake almost like a piece of architecture, but pies give you an emotional response. If you put a pie on a table, it always seem to take you back to a time in your life. Peach pie puts you squarely in summer, pumpkin at Thanksgiving. I think that is where the emotional response comes from."
To some degree, pies suffer from a problem of definition. In general, a pie must be baked and have a crust on its top or bottom or both. Tarts are thought of as a type of pie, but really, they are not sweet enough to make the cut. While the English are inexplicably fond of meat pies, pie in America tends to be sweet. Crumbles, slumps, buckles, crisps? Those are pie-adjacent.
You know what's not a pie? A whoopie pie. Moon Pies are cookies, and they should have the strength of character to admit it. Hello, Boston? Your cream pie has no crust at all, so you, too, should stop this baseless claim.
This history of pies is not uniquely American but, in many ways, distinctly so.
"The early American colonists wanted to maintain as many calories in their dishes as they could," said Andrew F. Smith, a food historian and author. "The advantage of a pie over meat simply cooked over a fire is it literally saves everything. A crust was a bit of a problem because there were none of the Old World grains, but if they had a pie tin and maize, that worked." Before the mid-19th century, most Americans did not have forks, so the ability to pick up pie with one's hands had advantages.
A little more history: the initial pie sweeteners were maple syrup, owing to a plethora of trees in New England, and low-cost molasses, as sugar was extremely expensive in the United States until the mid-1800s. The first known recipe for pumpkin pie was written in the 17th century in England, and the process has changed little, although a bottom crust came later. The graham cracker crust, infinitely easier than a pastry crust, is relatively new — it surfaced in the 1930s — and, of course, controversial.
(Speaking for myself, a banana cream pie with said crust is worth trampling small children, who can later be mollified with chocolate chip cookies.)
Pumpkin and apple pies started and remain the most popular, largely because a pie made good use of the otherwise confounding pumpkin, and apples were an Old World fruit introduced by colonists; apple pies could even be saved over the winter in icehouses and other cold storage.
While fruit pies are an integral part of our dessert culture, there are many pies that have never received the recognition they deserve. I once cornered a woman who brought a buttermilk pie to my mother-in-law after her husband died, hoping I could leverage her sympathy to snag the recipe. No dice. Few restaurants or diners serve this pie, so I remain deprived.
Chess pie, a simple Southern confection, is practically unheard-of. My colleague Paul said that savory pies are totally underappreciated in America, a notion that I attempted to explore through an extensive survey of my co-workers until my boss suggested my work hours might be better spent watching a floor debate in Congress over a defense bill.
Pies tend to scare people, and it's clear why. Pie-making was and remains an art as much as a skill. American women historically demonstrated their culinary abilities by making pies before the late 19th century, Mr. Smith said. Processed foods and gas ranges simplified the process, though a lovely lattice and perfect texture will still win blue ribbons today.
Still, pies are easy to mess up. "People are nervous about everything when it comes to pies," said Mr. Haedrich, noting that there is so much conflicting pie advice in the world that it tends to leave the home baker confused and unmoored.
He has tips: Roll out your dough on wax paper, which provides control. Always use fresh, wonderful fruit that is in season, because a pie is little more, really, than its filling. "One of the challenges for home pie bakers is finding good fruit," he said. "I can't remember that last time I got a good apricot. And you can't make a good peach pie in November." (Well, if you freeze summer peaches, then maybe.)
The bottom crust is often soggy, but this can be prevented by pre-baking it, or starting the pie near the bottom of the oven, beginning with a blast of heat (say, 400 degrees), then turning it down midway. "People are often confused about when the pie is done," he said, noting that a proper pie should be juicy and bubbling all over, or the thickener is not going to take.
An oven liner comes in handy should that volcanic pie spill over. I know some (including a few of my colleagues) will disagree, but no placing the pie on a baking sheet, please. "That tends to moderate the heat so much that you don't get a good browning on the bottom crust," he said.
And so here we are at the end, friends, knowing that our crust may, in fact, end up shambolic, our lattice more cattle guard than window treatment, and that fruit may be dripping from the oven door as we look on sadly with a roll of paper towels.
So what? You put that baby out there on the table and smile big, because your guests are about to be mighty grateful. "For a lot of people, a pie is not enough of a show-off," Mr. Haedrich lamented. "They think, 'I should do a tiramisù or a mini-tart with strawberry architecture.' But I am just not into that kind of thing.
"I'm into pie."

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Officers Reclassify Rape as "Miscellaneous Charge," Ignore Hundreds of Reported Sex Crimes
On Wednesday, the New Orleans inspector general released a damning report on the city police's treatment of sexual assault cases.
The New York Times reported that, according to the findings, hundreds of reported sexual assault cases were not pursued by the five NOPD detective charged with the task.
Only 14 percent of sexual assault reports were found to have records of follow-ups over a three year period.
"As the chief of police, I am deeply disturbed by the allegations in this report," Superintendent of Police Michael S. Harrison told reporters.
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According to the Times, the detectives appointed to oversee sexual assault calls have now been removed from the special victims section following the report's release.
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The inspector general is further investigating the NOPD negligence and the Times reported that criminal charges against the detective could follow.
Of 1,290 sex crime "calls for service" made to the NOPD detectives between 2011 and 2013, 840 were designated "miscellaneous" in police records and were given no further follow up, the Times noted.
The Times highlighted a particularly disturbing case from the inspector general's report, in which a 2-year-old was brought to the emergency room and was suspected to be a victim of sexual assault.
The child was found to have a sexually transmitted infection. The detective failed to follow up on the case and closed it, the Times reported.
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Court reinstates Virginia teacher suspended over transgender pronoun policy
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Washington D.C., Jun 8, 2021 / 13:56 pm (CNA).
A county court on Tuesday ruled that a Virginia teacher suspended for opposing a school transgender pronoun policy must be reinstated while his case continues.
The Loudoun County Circuit Court ruled that Tanner Cross, a teacher at Leesburg Elementary School, had to be reinstated by Loudoun County Public Schools after he was suspended for speaking out against the school district's proposed "preferred pronoun" policy. Judge James Plowman, Jr. called the suspension an "unconstitutional action."
"Nobody should be punished for expressing concern about a proposed government policy, especially when the government invites comment on that policy," stated Michael Farris, president and CEO of the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, which represented Cross.
"School officials singled out his speech, offered in his private capacity at a public meeting, as 'disruptive' and then suspended him for speaking his mind," Farris said. "That's neither legal nor constitutional."
Cross was placed on paid administrative leave by the district on May 27. He had objected to two proposed school policies during a public comment session of a May 25 school board meeting.
The proposed policies would require that students be addressed by their preferred gender pronouns, rather than the pronouns corresponding with their biological sex.
In its decision to suspend Cross, the school district cited "allegations that [Cross] engaged in conduct that had a disruptive impact on the operations of Leesburg Elementary School." Cross was forbidden from accessing school property and attending school-sponsored events.
The school district cited six emails from five families of students asking that their children not be taught by Cross, as evidence for his disruption to school operations.
Alliance Defending Freedom filed a lawsuit on behalf of Cross, saying that the district engaged in "viewpoint-based retaliation" in suspending him. Cross's opinions were based upon his "sincerely held religious beliefs" about gender, the lawsuit stated.
The court on Tuesday found that, in balancing Cross' free speech rights with the school board's claims that his speech was disruptive, Cross' interests outweighed the board's. Cross' "speech and religious content" were "central" to his suspension, the court ruled.
Judge Plowman added that "it is clear the Plaintiff was speaking as a citizen, not in his official capacity," on a "matter of public concern."
The court granted Cross a temporary injunction against the school's action, and required the school to reinstate him and allow him access to school property.
Cross also claimed that five school district employees wished to speak up on the pronoun issue but said they declined to do so, due to the district's action against him.
The court acknowledged the complaints by the parents about Cross' comments, but added that given the size of the school, the number of parents' complaints were "de minimis." Regarding the school's May 27 email to parents informing them of Cross' suspension, Judge Plowman called it "an unnecessary and vindictive act given the end of the school year was so close."
"Educators are just like everybody else—they have ideas and opinions that they should be free to express," Farris said on Tuesday. "Advocating for solutions they believe in should not cost them their jobs."
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Nancy Schwartzman's 2018 documentary Roll Red Roll is an important and relevant exploration of toxic mind-sets when it comes to sexual violence perpetrated by those in privileged positions. In the case of the film, the subject are a group of high school football players in a small Ohio town.
The incident at the center of Red Red Roll took place on August 2012 after a preseason football party in Steubenville, Ohio. A teenage girl, who was admittedly intoxicated, was sexually assaulted multiple times by members of the Steubenville High School football team. It's sadly a familiar account of a girl who gets drunk at a party and a group of boys who take advantage of her inebriated status.
But was made this case stand out, and ultimately drew national attention, was the disturbing social media documentation discovered by crime blogger Alex Goddard, who reposted the cruel comments on her site. The post went viral as readers parsed through comments and audio footage. "She is so raped right now," were the words that came out of one teenage boy's mouth, summing up the shocking attitudes of the perpetrators involved.
Equally as egregious was the collusion of teen bystanders, teachers, parents and coaches to protect the assailants and discredit the victim.
"This film, coming out when it did, I think people were just really ready to not just take in a film about sexual assault but actually start looking at the behavior," said Schwartzman after a screening at Deadline's For the Love of Docs series.
Schwartzman was first made aware of the case when it hit the national news after being spotlighted in the New York Times."My first thought was, 'OK what was different about this story?'" With the unique social media component of the case, Schwartzman and producer Steven Lake said they decided to tell the story from the boys' point of view.
"What seemed really fascinating was the social media and really the ability to understand the boys and the people who planned the crime, helped spread it and helped spread it on social media, you could get a sense of who they were even from a distance," Schwartzman said.
Rachel Dissell, an investigative journalist at the Cleveland Plain Dealer who was featured in the film, covered the case earlier on. No stranger to reporting on these types of cases, he recalled "the reactions surrounding the report that initially came out was what felt different… It's the fact that people were in public talking about what happened. People were reacting to it and shaming the victim and the adults didn't know how to react to it."
Two football players were eventually tried and convicted for the assault. Both of the teens served time in juvenile detention and were classified as Tier II sex offenders.
Roll Red Roll premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and is currently available online.
For more of the conversation, check out the video above.
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This week I would like to share something special!! …But first of all, the rusty pictures..
…and a Busted & Rusted!!
Just came across this video last weekend. Most of you may know about him. DO watch this video, it chokes your emotion.
And a reliable source confirms that the organisation CHARITY WATER is indeed something reliable.
Hope you all can be a part of this!!
Love the Tiger and the photos!
The tiger gnawed on the rods/bars? You better not go near, in case the tiger breaks out.
Love that first shot, the colors are so vivid!
The colors on the bars are so vivid! The splash of water drop is nicely capture!
Those are great pictures. I love the first one.
Great rust shots. I also really like your water shot, too.
ps It's snowing here in New Mexico, USA.
Great choices and great cause.
Busted and Rusted made me laugh! Thanks for sharing your other message as well and I love that last photo.
I would love to see the tiger in focus with the bars in the foreground. Great cause. great cause. water is one of our basics for survival. I wished there was an easy way to do the portable filtration system that we have for camping.
love the water shots too. and a neat charity. In CA water is seriously an issue and I was always running around shutting off faucets too. we have our own wells and some day i hope to put in one of those rain catchers systems on our property.
Love the Bengal. Great idea to help out the charity too….Kudos for that!
Great rust shots, quite unique focus. No words to say about 'Water' how sad no body care about the future. One thing that comes to my mind is to appreciate Abu Dhabi muncipality took the initative to issue free services to cap the taps with water flow controllers (am not sure what it is called) but it have really helped people to reduce their comsumption by half for sure.
Highly appreciate and thanks to you guys for bringing this cause.


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Q: How to store result of drag and drop as a image I want to take the screenshot of the result of drag and drop, but I don't know how to do.
Actually, I found 2 javascript and using HTML5 such as html2canvas and canvas2image.
I am now combining them together, but it's still meet some problem with the canvas2image.
Please help me solve this problem if you have same experience, thank you a lot.
Please help me, I've been stock here for days.
Drag and drop code.

Image generation code

HTML code

Picture:

<canvas id="droppable" width="500" height="500" style="border: 2px solid gray"   class="ui-widget-header" />

<input type="button" id="bGenImage" value="Generate Image" />

A: A working example, without libraries:

            <input type="button" onclick="convertCanvasToImage()" value="Generate Image" style="float:right"/>

        <canvas id="canvas"  ondrop="drop(event)" ondragover="allowDrop(event)" width="500" height="500" style="border: 1px solid gray"  />

The images must have the same origin in order to use toDataURL.
The resulting image is open on a new window, as in your code, but you can also, append it on the page, save on the disk or upload it on a server.
http://fiddle.jshell.net/gael/GF96n/4/

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3DOKid wrote: It was an edited post. A little warning to the excitable little tyke.
Ah, I see. I'm used to 'snip' being used to trim quotes.
Topic: Wow. I am distraught.
3DOKid wrote: If i was a woman, this is how i would get jobs. I have a pretty good CV, but if i could shortcut all the stupid questions, endless interviews and tedium, and if i thought it would work, i'd wear a corset to interviews.
elitegamer wrote: I hope I'm making myself crystal clear.
One more for Phoenix 3. All below is ours. All within is ours.
I'm not always quick-thinking, but this may represent a new record for me: I've only just now realized that the enemy craft from this game are totally ripped off from the Recognizers in Tron.
The power supply in my FZ-1 has been dead for years. I ended up here after searching for alternative information sources when Panasonic blew off my request for advice or a circuit diagram.
Topic: Which version of Gex stands out above the rest?
I have an FZ1, but the power supply looks like it's suffered a capacitor failure.
Thanks Zetr0; I already scanned the capacitors quickly, but I'll go have a closer look.
Mm... Would anyone be cheesed off if I posted a Youtube channel I discovered recently which features a massive array of VGOSTs, including some 3D0 titles?
I'm new here, but I do have one of these. It's... a surprisingly poor effort from Logitech. I found the button action was consistently good, but the design is bulky and uncomfortable, and it lacks a daisy chain port.
Is that a ULF subwoofer I see?
I'm running WinXP. When started, FreeD0 2.1 goes to a black screen for about 3 seconds before the BSOD pops up.
I've gotten 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 to work with an .iso, but they seem a little choppy and the sampler selection menu seems a bit broken - you can navigate, but can't actually make a selection.
Just for the sake of playing the game, I'm gonna say it's a flight yoke.
Okay, running this emulator causes an immediate BSOD. That's actually sort of impressive - I haven't seen one of those since Win98. Hopefully I'll have better luck just running an .iso.
I did play a demo for this port, and the one thing that really struck me was that it played at about 3x-4x the normal speed. I admit, that's not a sign of a well-managed project when you miss that the game needs to be throttled.
If you're really good, you can open the secret sci-fi world. The levels aren't as polished, but there are some very cool ones there, as well as secret alternate credits and a dev slideshow once you beat the game 100%.
The best way to win a match in this game is to pray to Thor, Anubis, Poseidon, Quetzalcoatl and Baron Samedi in that order, then chew on your controller. Single player mode was too difficult to be fun, but it was jammed with fun cheat codes and easter eggs.
My first three games were Crash 'n' Burn (release title), Super Wing Commander, and IIRC... Starfighter. Possibly Deathkeep. Hell, it's been a long time.
I've played through Deathkeep on all three classes. Yeah, too much time on my hands. Many of the levels are a bit unbalanced, the first being the most notable. The teleportation labyrinth later in the game, while not always mandatory, is nothing short of sadistic.
I'd love to hear it again (my system is busted, so...), but that sounds like a lot of work. If you just need the interest to make it worthwhile, then yes please.


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This is the latest postcode that the charity has supplied.PostcodeEH3 9EE
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From Chartism to the London School Board.
The life of Benjamin Lucraft provides a fascinating link between the later Chartist movement and subsequent working class political agitation – through the Reform League of the 1860s and the International Working Men's Association (or First International) to the emergence of Lib-Lab politics at the end of the century.
The account of his life set out below is taken from the Lucraft One-Name Study website with the kind permission of Ian Lucraft.
The Chartist years
Benjamin Lucraft is thought to have joined the Chartists around 1848, and was present at the historic meeting of the Chartists on Kennington Common on 10 April 1848. He was active in Richard Cobden's Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, and became the secretary, and most prominent member of the North London Political Union. He spoke around London for the Wheatsheaf Temperance Society. Ben shared the chair at the last Chartist Conference in London in 1858, out of which emerged the Reform League, with a programme of manhood suffrage, a ballot for elections to parliament, triennial parliaments, equal electoral districts, and the abolition of property qualifications for people to vote.
Though we don't know his trade union affiliations, he was one of those who helped impress on the craft unions the need not just for activity over wages and conditions, but, as he said in a letter he wrote to the Reynolds's Newspaper in 1861: "I should hope that the operative builders are by this time convinced that political power has something to do with the social conditions of the people."
The First International
Ben was at the inaugural meeting of what became known as the First International or International Working Men's Association. The meeting was described by Karl Marx, who was there, in a famous letter to Friedrich Engels dated 4 November 1864. Ben was elected to the committee, and played an active part in its work, sometimes chairing its meetings.
The International worked to support fledgling working-class organisations round the world, and Ben is a signatory to many of its letters and declarations. He travelled to Geneva in 1866 for the London Trades Council, and to the Brussels Congress in 1868, and the Basle Conference in 1869 for the IWMA, where radical political groups from all round Europe were present.
Agitation for reform
By the mid 1860s sections of the working class were fed up with the lack of constitutional change, and Ben, who had been leading weekly marches and demonstrations in Clerkenwell, and Shoreditch, escalated the action with marches into central London, to Trafalgar Square. They had a wagon for a platform, a band to lead the singing, and a banner for the men from Clerkenwell.
The Times thundered against these "unwashed" people who came to demonstrate in "our Square". If they wanted to demonstrate they should do so in their own part of town, the Times leader writer suggested.
On the evening of 27 June 1866, Ben led 1,000 demonstrators to the West End , where an estimated 10,000 had already assembled. The pressure for reform became so great, that the more moderate Reform League had to take account of the strength of feeling, and took over the organisation of the next demonstration, attended by an estimated 80,000 people. They decided to hold an even bigger rally in Hyde Park on 23 July. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner banned the demonstration but most people ignored the prohibition.
The workers forced their way through the police cordons, to a noisy rally, where some of the park railings were pushed over. This became known in the press as "The Hyde Park Riot". The next year more demonstrations were banned, this time by Spencer Walpole, the Home Secretary, but then allowed to proceed, because of the very large numbers that gathered, in spite of the thousands of police and troops on duty.
The Home Secretary resigned, and Disraeli's government subsequently piloted the Reform Act 1867 through Parliament, allowing a greatly increased number of working men the vote. The Illustrated London News said when the people had invaded Hyde Park , that some of it was being reserved "as a lounge for some fashionable people".
The ultra-radical years
Ben was in the ultra-radical ranks in these years. When he went to Basle he argued not only for land nationalisation, but for the large-scale cultivation of the land by the state on behalf of the people. Here were the early hints of collectivisation. He explained that as he travelled by train through France , he saw the fragmentation of the land into tiny plots that had followed the French Revolution; a fragmentation which had made profitability for the people so difficult. These opinions were described as "scandalous" when reported in the British press.
He took part in the sensitive debates on Fenianism and Irish Home Rule, in 1867, arguing that the Irish "were fully justified in using physical force to redress their wrongs". The press condemned Ben and others, for these views, and for letters about the war in France, in 1871, and Ben resigned from the IWMA.
He joined the Land and Labour League in 1869, as the most radical organisation in Britain , and served on its council. He was one of the founder members of John Stuart Mill's Land Tenure Reform Association, urging state control of land in 1870.
Education Issue
Ben's interest in education had sprung out of his passion for reform of the apprentice system. Perhaps he had seen its effects. He certainly saw its product when he went to Paris in 1871 for the Royal Society of Arts, to report for them on the state of continental furniture making.
In his report he proposed a new system of technical education, and these ideas eventually became part of the Technical School system years later. He was particularly concerned that draughtsmanship be included in the syllabus for craft training.
Ben had been one of the promoters of the first Working Men's Exhibition in the Agricultural Hall in 1865, and he went on to promote the idea of a school or college for the furniture trade. Such a school was founded, and still flourishes in Shoreditch. He also proposed a museum of East London craft work, skills and tools.
In 1870 he was selected to stand for election for the new London School Board, which set up the Board Schools after Forster's Education Act. He was the only "working man" to be elected, and the election party was in the Hole in the Wall, in Hatton Garden .
London School Board
On the Board, Ben fought for many issues. He opposed the office of paid chairmen; he opposed the use of the cane; he always argued for free education; he was vigorous against military drill for children in the Board Schools; he was chair of the committee which investigated the misappropriation of historic charities by the wealthy public schools; he was early in demanding compulsory education for all, and the removal of fees.
He was re-elected every three years until he retired in 1890, aged 80, as the longest serving member.
A large painting of the whole School Board was done in 1873, and Ben is standing with his friend the radical journalist Thomas Bywater Smithies, another board member. The painting hung for many years behind the desk of the leader of the Inner London School Board, in County Hall, on the South Bank. Its present location is not known, but a photo of it exists.
Peace and other issues
Ben was active in a range of radical causes. These included total abstinence, the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, the Workman's Peace Association, of which he was for nine years the chairman, and for whom he went to Paris and other conferences.
He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in Tower Hamlets, as one of the first Liberal-Labour candidates.
More controversial was his active support of Josephine Butler in the Working Men's National League for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts. These acts gave the authorities powers to discriminate against women with sexually transmitted diseases, and caused great distress particularly among the poorer women of the urban areas. Ben described the acts as "the very worst class of party legislation", saying to working men, who were mostly too embarrassed to discuss such things: "It is your sisters, your daughters, that these acts are to entrap – to make use of. Not only for the army, not only for the common soldiers, but for the officers and gentlemen."
Woodwork and his last years
He kept at his trade of chair-carver into his 80s contentedly working for his son, George, in the company that ran through into the 20th century. Only two chairs are known still to exist. One is in the possession of a descendant, and the other was the chair he was asked to make by the Liberal Party when it wanted to make a gift to William Gladstone. This chair was re-discovered, and a great great grandson, Jack Edmonds Lucraft, generously paid for it to be restored. It is in Gladstone 's home at Hawarden. The irony is that the chair was made by the man who in the 1860s had been called "a cabinet breaker, rather than a cabinet maker" in the House of Commons.
Ben died at his home, 18 Green Lanes, at Newington Green, London , which still stands, on 25th September 1897. The funeral oration was recorded in the local paper, in which the Rev J Ellis, of Barnsbury Chapel, spoke of a man "who while working for the generations through which he lived, had brought benefits that future generations would enjoy." Ben was buried in Abney Park cemetery, and his grave can still be seen.
A large number of relatives, friends and former colleagues were present, including a representative from way back in Broadclyst. Natural flowers were placed on the polished coffin, and Mr Ellis quoted Longfellow's Psalm of Life:
The lives of all great men remind us,
We should make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us,
Footprints on the sands of time.
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Sedona AZ (May 30, 2017) – The Memorial Day weekend in Sedona proved to be a busy one for emergency responders. Over the long holiday weekend, Sedona Fire District crews responded to three back country rescues, a pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Oak Creek Canyon and, during a particularly busy period, SFD answered ten emergency calls in less than three hours.
The holiday began on Friday as Sedona Fire District crews responded to a back country rescue call about a hiker with a broken ankle. Saturday brought with it two more back country rescues, one for a hiker with a broken ankle and another for a hiker suffering from exhaustion and dehydration.
On Sunday shortly after 10:00 a.m., crews responded to ten emergency calls over the next couple hours. The first call during that surge of activity was a Midgley Bridge head-on collision. Multiple patients from that accident sustained injuries which required entry into the trauma system, with one patient transported via helicopter. Later in the day, further up the canyon, another accident involving a motorcycle sent two more patients to the trauma center.
Monday evening, a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle traveling nearly 40 miles per hour. The pedestrian, a woman in her mid twenties, was hit while walking along the road. Fire District paramedics stabilized her, then transferred her by helicopter to a Flagstaff hospital.
"It would be nice if we were able to schedule our days with some certainty, but due to the nature of the business that is not possible," added Fire Marshal Davis.
The Fire District must make decisions based on historical data, but that is not always an accurate predictor of future needs.
The flurry of activity over a two and a half hour period on Sunday is a good example of that. While not unheard of, those types of bursts are becoming more common.
Incredible work and sacrifices first responders, sad to hear about the bridge collision, maybe it needs to be closed during heavy traffic flows to one way only in or out of Sedona? That bridge has always had bad juju.


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