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West Yorkshire based engineering Company with a turnover of £2mn which offered a broad range of control and power solutions to manufacturing and process industries throughout the UK and Europe, the Company's downfall resulting from the liquidation of an associated Company.
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The Company traded a family orientated pub with guest bedrooms in North Yorkshire. The pub had a exceptional reputation as a peaceful family run village pub / bed and breakfast. The Company had an average annual turnover of £400,000. The Company had trade and crown liabilities of in excess of £100,000.
The assets were sold to a successor company who were able to re-negotiate a lease with the landlord and re-employ several staff saving jobs in the process. We successfully negotiated the return of several items to various lease creditors and HMRC who had the benefit of a valid distraint notice, the items were sold and set off against crown liabilities.
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Main » 2013 » August » 22 » Toshiba Manufacturing Facilities Win Major Japan Management Association GOOD FACTORY AWARDs
Toshiba Manufacturing Facilities Win Major Japan Management Association GOOD FACTORY AWARDs
TOKYO - Thursday, August 22nd 2013 [ME NewsWire]
(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Toshiba Corporation today announced that two of its production facilities have won major awards in the Japan Management Association GOOD FACTORY AWARDs 2013. Yokkaichi Operations, the company's development and mass-production base for NAND flash memory, was selected for a Factory Management Award, and Toshiba Information Equipment Hangzhou (TIH), the company's development and mass-production base for value-added notebook PCs, received a Manufacturing Innovation Award.
The GOOD FACTORY AWARDs was founded by JMA in 2011 as part of its efforts to promote the monodukuri (manufacturing) potential of Japan's manufacturing sector. The awards focus on and recognize excellence in different aspects of factory operations, from process innovation through to corporate social responsibility in manufacturing. The winners are seen as models and benchmarks for Japanese manufacturing industry.
The Factory Management Award is based on an "ideal factory" that promotes excellence across its activities and in all business processes, while the Manufacturing Innovation Award focuses on a factory's total efforts to reinforce its manufacturing processes.
The Yokkaichi award recognizes the factory's efforts to establish a management system that allows it to withstand fierce competition through technology innovation and market expansion. The system includes a management index focused on securing the competitiveness necessary to be No.1 in the market and realization of the world's most advanced memory fabrication facility. It also promotes training of technicians and engineers, the use of IT to promote productivity, and an awareness of the environment in its operations.
The TIH award recognizes the factory's efforts to develop a management system that achieve high level process innovation in manufacturing. TIH promotes close collaboration between development and manufacturing in a wide range of activities through projects with a 90-day cycle, synchronizes board and product assembly lines, operates IT-driven quality control and product management, and places a major on reinforcement of human resources development.
Going forward, Toshiba will continue to boost its competitiveness by strengthening manufacturing capabilities across its complete range of operations.
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Toshiba is a world-leading diversified manufacturer, solutions provider and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products and systems. Toshiba Group brings innovation and imagination to a wide range of businesses: digital products, including LCD TVs, notebook PCs, retail solutions and MFPs; electronic devices, including semiconductors, storage products and materials; industrial and social infrastructure systems, including power generation systems, smart community solutions, medical systems and escalators & elevators; and home appliances.
Toshiba was founded in 1875, and today operates a global network of more than 590 consolidated companies, with 206,000 employees worldwide and annual sales surpassing 5.8 trillion yen (US$61 billion). Visit Toshiba's web site at www.toshiba.co.jp/index.htm
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Creating basic drawings and blueprints for a house remodel will only allow you to see a 2D version of what your home will look like. This is not going to be too helpful, because it will not show you exactly how your home will look after you have the work completed. While this may not be an issue, it could be if you end up hating the placement of a wall, window, door, closet, or something else that you cannot move after the fact.
Instead of those basic drawings, you should utilize any of the house remodeling software programs that are available. These programs will allow you to see much more of your finished home in more ways than one. During the floor plan design process, you will be able to move walls, windows, doors, and much more around until you are satisfied with the results. Of course, you can even make changes to this design after you have seen the 3D model version, which is a good thing. The reason for this is sometimes the 3D version will show you that different view that makes you think twice about your original decision.
The 3D model of your remodeled house will allow you to see what your home will look like afterwards. This step involved placing all the items that you will be placing into your home, so you can see the actual materials, the textures, and even the colors. You can even choose to see your finished home with a day view, night view, glass house view, dollhouse view, and a framed view, so you can see problems from any vantage point.
House remodeling software can also be used to customize stairs, doors, windows, and more. This ensures that you have exactly what you want in your newly remodeled home without needing to worry if your requirements will work during the construction process.
While there are plenty of options for house remodeling software, there are many that are free to use. When you use some of the free ones, you can get a good idea as to how they work and what you like best about certain ones. That will then allow you to decide which one of the paid ones has the features that you are most interested in, so if you choose to invest in a house remodeling software program in the future, you won't purchase the wrong one.
The best part about these house remodeling software programs is that you can choose to design one room or your entire home, and it won't take much time either. A simple click on the link for a kitchen floor plan and a few simple keystrokes, and you will be well on your way to designing the kitchen of your dreams or your client's dreams.
This software is free for you to use and you won't even need to download anything before you can use it. It is simple to design any room in your home and won't take you long before you have found the solution that is best for you.
There is a free version of Planner 5D, but any of the premium features will cost you. This house remodeling software can be used for all your interior spaces, as well as you pool area and all your landscaping, making it the perfect option if you are looking for a whole home and yard remodel. The drag and drop design will have you moving windows, doors, furniture, and more without getting frustrated in the process.
If you can't help but think that there is a better layout for a home, but can't seem to figure it out, then Space Designer is for you. This house remodeling software is free to use, and no download is needed. You can choose a 2D version at first and then switch it to 3D when you need to see everything from a different perspective.
This floor plan and interior designing tool is free unless you want a copy of your plans afterwards. You can start with one of their ready to use templates, which is the easiest option, or you can design your own from scratch. We recommend starting your floor plan in 2D and then switching it to 3D so you can add interior options.
House remodeling software has taken the guesswork out of home remodeling, simply because it allows you to see what you are creating in 3D. This will allow you to notice what features may not work as you want them to, while also allowing you to add a few things that you did not know were possible.


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Post-National Dialogue Constitutional Amendments in Sudan: Undermining fundamental rights and decentralization?
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By Nasredeen Abdulbari, 14 December 2017
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The latest amendments to the Constitution of Sudan have largely failed to give effect to crucial aspects of the outcomes of the National Dialogue and alienated even groups sympathetic to the process. Fundamental change in the governance of the state requires the creation of a totally new transitional government and agreement on the foundations for a new state in an inclusive process that should have the support of the vast majority of Sudanese ethnic, regional, and political groups and organizations – writes Nasredeen Abdulbari.
On 25 April 2017, in an apparent attempt to reflect the post-South Sudan secession realities and developments and to formalize the recommendations of the controversial Sudan National Dialogue that was initiated in January 2014 and completed in October 2016, the Sudanese legislature made amendments to the 2005 Interim Constitution. The amendments cover a wide range of issues related to women, family and marriage, fundamental rights, the security apparatus (also amended in January 2015), and state/regional executives.
The Interim National Constitution of Sudan, which came into existence in 2005 in the aftermath of the famous Comprehensive Peace Agreement (also known as the Naivasha Peace Agreement), was constructed to address Sudan's complicated problems, generally, and the question of its Southern part at the time, specifically. It reflected the provisions of that agreement and the end of the six-year interim period with the secession of South Sudan necessitated the reconsideration of that constitution to reflect new political realities, as well as the recommendations of the National Dialogue.
Overall, the amendments largely fail to give effect to, and actually contradict, the recommendations of the National Dialogue, which were themselves allegedly distorted and not fully and accurately included in the final outcomes of the Dialogue. Indeed, the amendments have mainly been criticized by parties that participated in the National Dialogue. Groups that did not participate in the Dialogue largely consider the amendments irrelevant to them and incapable of addressing the deep problems facing the country.
Undermining fundamental rights, Empowering the security apparatus
The criticisms made by the parties that took part in the National Dialogue have focused on fundamental freedoms and the enhanced powers of the national security apparatus. The main political organization that zealously supported the National Dialogue, the Popular Congress Party (PCP), has vehemently criticized and opposed the amendments, describing them as disappointing and inconsistent with the outcomes of the National Dialogue and as an erosion of all previous efforts. In their opinion, the amendments have weakened the fundamental freedoms and rights of expression, life, belief, and privacy, on the one hand, and expanded the scope of the powers of the National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS), on the other.
The amendments remove expressions that restrict the limitation of rights, such as the rights of the press.
In particular, the amendments remove expressions that restrict the limitation of rights, such as the rights of the press, to those 'regulated by law in a democratic society' and replace them with 'regulated by law' or with no other phrases. These changes will further empower the political entities to undermine through law fundamental rights. Nevertheless, the amendments also make some improvements, such as the reference to the legal age of marriage, although no specific age is set; the use of custom in regulating family affairs if the parties do not embrace a religion, which could accommodate several tribes and ethnic groups in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile regions that follow African traditions and belief systems; and providing for absolute prohibition of slavery and removal of an exception to the prohibition of forced or compulsory labor previously allowed if imposed as a penalty by a court of law.
The amendments make the NISS a regular force.
According to the amendment to Article 151, the security apparatus (which is made a regular force), in addition to gathering information and analyzing and providing it to the competent authorities, is now authorized to combat threats to national security, including terror and money laundering, human trafficking, international and transnational organized crimes, in collaboration with the other regular forces and through bilateral regional and international cooperation. The final document of the National Dialogue has recommended that the NISS be '… professional and its mandate shall focus on information gathering, analysis and providing advice to the appropriate authorities'. The National Dialogue recommendation, in this regard, is fully compatible, even in its wording, with Article 151(1) (3) of the Interim National Constitution of 2005, an article that was never put into practice during the six-year interim period.
The insistence of the government/ruling party to expand the powers of the NISS is due to its total reliance on the protection and defense of this apparatus, which acts as a police force as well as an army, in addition to its lack of trust in the traditional Sudan Armed Forces. Although the two institutions are fully controlled by political elites and officers who hail from certain ethnic groups, the vast majority of the lower ranking elements of the former, unlike the latter, are also from those groups, most of whom are motivated by ethnicity, tribalism, regionalism, or to a lesser extent ideology. The composition of the NISS manifests the unfortunate ethnic and regional dichotomies in Sudan. While the armed rebel groups similarly come from certain ethnic groups, the state should be inclusive and position itself above the ethnic, religious, cultural and regional divisions of society.
Under the amendments, the President of the Republic will appoint state governors.
Another group which participated in the National Dialogue and has rejected and severely criticized the amendments is the Isnad Committee for Supporting the National Dialogue. In their view, the April amendments have overridden and distorted the outcomes of the National Dialogue, 'emptied' the Dialogue of its content, and will take the country back to the pre-dialogue square. The critical reaction of the PCP and the Isand Committee to the constitutional amendments indicate that the recommendations of the National Dialogue, even in their allegedly distorted and inaccurate version, would not find full expression in the 'permanent constitution' of Sudan, as they have not found that expression in the now amended version of the 2005 Interim Constitution.
The presidential appointment of state governors: A retreat from decentralization and a rejection of federalism?
Centralization of political power by the political elites of central Sudan and the control over the resources of the peripheries continue to be fundamental problems. The amendments to Article 179, titled 'transitional provision on state governors', continue this tradition. The amendments, inter alia, give the President of the Republic the power to appoint state governors. In this regard, the recommendations of the National Dialogue are surprisingly silent on the mode of selection of state governors. Nevertheless, under recommendation No. 33, federalism should be adopted as a system of governance, and under recommendation No. 90 (on self-rule), the citizens of Sudan should be enabled to govern their regions according to the constitution and federalism.
Democracy is arguably the best way to deal with differences and tensions and avoid conflicts in the long run.
A crucial feature of a federal system of governance is the empowerment of the states to control the mode of selection and accountability of state executives, independent of the national government. The ruling elites in Khartoum have always been keen to centralize political power and the appointment of state governors obviously proves the tendency towards centralization. This has historically been the case and it is one of the major causes of war in the Nuba Mountains, Blue Nile, and Darfur. The historical failure to have a system that fully enables all the states and regions of Sudan to exercise their right to determine and control their political and economic destiny is what has pushed the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the Nuba Mountain to assert the right to self-determination in October 2017. Another group of the SPLM, mainly based in Blue Nile, calls for self-government, as does the United Popular Front for Liberation and Justice (of eastern Sudan), to mention a few examples.
Apparently, those who support the appointment of governors today argue that their election has sparked tribal and ethnic tensions in many states and for that reason their appointment by the President is a necessity. However, ethnic tensions are a consequence of the policies of the minority ethnic-based central government, which, for instance, supports some tribes against other tribes in the peripheries, especially in the western part of the country. The clearest example is the role of the central government in conflicts between some clans or tribes, which are seen as antagonistic to the government and other clans or tribes, which have the support of the government. That being said, the solution to the clan, ethnicity, or identity politics and tensions in Sudan is not to give the institution that ignites them in the first place a constitutional power to appoint state governors. The solution is to put strict constitutional measures in place so the state becomes impartial vis-à-vis ethnicity, tribes, cultures, religions and regions—a state that organizes relations among and between all groups and provides protection to all. Furthermore, democracy is arguably the best way to deal with differences and tensions and avoid conflicts in the long run, and the election of state governors under the current presidential system is indeed a way for all individuals and groups to express their views. If Sudan opts for a parliamentary system of government in the future, the governors could also be selected by their respective regional/state parliaments, as it is the case in many federal parliamentary states in the world.
The language of Article 179 (as amended) appears to make appointing state governors the rule, rather than the exception.
The amendment to Article 179 contains, in its second paragraph, a provision that, in addition to the provision on the appointment of state governors, speaks of electing state governors in the elections of 2020, which at least gives the President a constitutional power and right to appoint them during the next two years. The inclusion of the provision on the election of governors probably is an attempt to please or contain regional groups and political organizations that participated in the National Dialogue (and afterwards joined the government) that demand or call for decentralization or federalism. An argument could be made that the simultaneous existence of the two provisions is justified by the transitional, post-National Dialogue period in which the president should make some appointments. Nevertheless, the language of Article 179 (as amended) appears to make appointing state governors the rule, rather than the exception. The language of the article and the long history of centralization of political power affirm that the intent behind the amendment to Article 179 is to concentrate more powers in the hands of the President of the Republic.
The April 2017 amendments to the 2005 Interim Constitution of Sudan represent a constitutional setback that negatively affect fundamental freedoms through the narrowing of the scope of some rights and through the expansion of the powers of the NISS, the main violator of human rights and chief agent of repression in Sudan. The criticisms against the amendments by those who were ardent supporters of the National Dialogue, such as the PCP and the Isnad Committee, is clear evidence that the outcomes of the National Dialogue, in addition to their shortcomings and alleged distortion, will not be implemented. Their criticisms have vindicated the opposition groups that refused to participate in the Dialogue on the ground that it would lead to no substantial change in the country.
The provision on the appointment of state governors will only push Sudan's regions that complain of marginalization and exclusion to take more extreme positions, whenever they feel they have the capability to do so. The overall lesson from the recent constitutional amendments is that no fundamental change in the system of governance and protection of human and fundamental rights and freedoms would be possible without creating a totally new transitional government and agreeing on the foundations for a new state in an inclusive process that should have the support of the vast majority of Sudanese ethnic, regional, and political groups and organizations.
Nasredeen Abdulbari is an independent consultant and doctoral candidate at the Georgetown University Law Center. He can be reached at [email protected].
Disclaimer: The views expressed in Voices from the Field contributions are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect International IDEA's positions.
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The Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan: Summary and Analysis
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Q: Read SQL Server transaction log How we can read SQL Server transaction logs, I know using DBCC log (database,4) and it will generate log output now i want to decode Log Record which is is hex format.
0x00003E001C000000A500000001000200BE040000000006021D0000000100000018000000 (only a part of data)
is there any method to read it in text format or convert the hex data to text.i want to make a tool that can read logs.third party tools are available i.e ApexSQL but they are paid tools.

A: There are several SQL Server functions and commands (e.g. fn_dblog, fn_dump_dblog, and DBCC PAGE) that potentially provide a way to view LDF file content. However, significant knowledge of T-SQL is required to use them, some are undocumented, and the results they provide are difficult to be converted to a human-readable format. Following are the examples of viewing LDF file content using SQL Server functions and commands:
1 - Here is an example using fn_dblog to read an online transaction log, with a result of 129 columns (only 7 shown here)

2 - The fn_dump_dblog function is used to read transaction log native or natively compressed backups. The result is similar:

Unfortunately, no official documentation is available for fn_dblog and fn_dump_dblog functions. To translate the columns, you need to be familiar with the internal structure and data format, flags and their total number in a row data
3 - DBCC PAGE is used to read the content of database online files – MDF and LDF. The result is a hexadecimal output, which unless you have a hex editor, will be difficult to interpret

A: Select * from sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL)
WHERE Context IN ('LCX_MARK_AS_GHOST', 'LCX_HEAP', 'LCX_CLUSTERED')
AND Operation IN ('LOP_DELETE_ROWS', 'LOP_INSERT_ROWS')

you get transaction related all the information using above query..where log record column displays your actual record which is in Hexadecimal format..
check this link to get your data into human readable format.
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A: Try this.

    Select
        b.Description,
        d.AllocUnitName,
        b.[Transaction ID],
        d.name,
        d.Operation,
        b.[Transaction Name],
        b.[Begin Time],
        c.[End Time]
    from (
        Select
            Description,
            [Transaction Name],
            Operation,
            [Transaction ID],
            [Begin Time]
        FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL)
        where Operation like 'LOP_begin_XACT'
    ) as b
    inner join (
        Select
            Operation,
            [Transaction ID],
            [End Time]
        FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL)
        where Operation like 'LOP_commit_XACT'
    ) as c
    on c.[Transaction ID] = b.[Transaction ID]
    inner join (
        select
            x.AllocUnitName,
            x.Operation,
            x.[Transaction ID],
            z.name
        FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL) x
        inner join sys.partitions y
        on x.PartitionId = y.partition_id
        inner join sys.objects z
        on z.object_id = y.object_id
        where z.type != 'S'
    )as d
    on d.[Transaction ID] = b.[Transaction ID]
    order by b.[Begin Time] ASC

That can get the database transaction (like insert, update, delete), transaction time, and the object name.
Hope that can help.

A: You can use sys.fn_dblog to read the transaction log. Example below.
SELECT [RowLog Contents 0],
       [RowLog Contents 1],
       [Current LSN],
       Operation,
       Context,
       [Transaction ID],
       AllocUnitId,
       AllocUnitName,
       [Page ID],
       [Slot ID]
FROM sys.fn_dblog(NULL,NULL)
WHERE Context IN ('LCX_MARK_AS_GHOST', 'LCX_HEAP', 'LCX_CLUSTERED')
AND Operation IN ('LOP_DELETE_ROWS', 'LOP_INSERT_ROWS')

For a delete and insert operation IIRC the [RowLog Contents 0] contains the whole row inserted and deleted. Updates are a bit more complicated in that only a partial row can be logged.
To decode this row format you need to understand how rows are stored internally in SQL Server. The book Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals covers this in some detail. You can also download the SQL Server Internals Viewer to help in this regard (And I believe the source code for Mark Rasmussen's Orca MDF is available too which presumably has some code to decode the internal row format).
For an example of doing this in TSQL see this blog post which demonstrates that it is perfectly possible to extract useful information from the log as long as the aim of the project is limited. Writing a full blown log reader that could cope with schema changes in the objects and things like sparse columns (and column store indexes in next version) would likely be a huge amount of work though.

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Mostly Records – April 2012
April 25, 2012 Musicalabama shakes, bruce springsteen, crybaby, django django, dr john, futureheads, graham coxon, jack white, lana del ray, leonard cohen, spiritualizedjim5et
Is that some kind of ostrich?
One of the few certainties with Mostly Records is that, whatever date we schedule it, something absolutely fascinating will be released either the day before or the day after. That's my excuse for not having more than a cursory "sounds great, more next time" about Jack White's solo debut. He's the single best rock star working today, though, and if you've not heard Sixteen Saltines, it could be the single of the year:
First, though, because this is somehow the first MR of the year, I wanted to rattle through some of the records I've missed in the first quarter of the year.
Django Django – Django Django
Much of what I've enjoyed this year has either been old buffers polishing their legend or detailed facsimiles of old styles, so I thought I'd start with a totally modern-sounding record. Django Django combine motorik rhythms, twangy guitars, and washes of keyboards with some really great songwriting to produce a sound which doesn't really echo anyone else. It's a wonderful summer pop album.
Lana Del Ray – Born to Die
Mostly Records has been a Lana del Ray fan since Video Games first started appearing on the Web last summer . I'm only going to expend one sentence on the unutterable tediousness of the Lana Del Ray Debate that raged last autumn – judging a pop star on her consistency and authenticity is a category error on a par with awarding Michelin stars based on for how long the meal filled you up* – before actually discussing the record.
There's little to surprise you sonically in the album – it's a collection of moody, hooky torch songs tied together by the vague lyrical gangsta Nancy Sinatra concept, sung in del Ray's oddly detached voice. The peaks of the album – Video Games, obviously, but also Dark Paradise and Diet Mountain Dew – are instantly memorable pop songs. Some of the lesser tracks get a bit tedious, but even they have enough personality and attitude to carry it over. I'm not convinced that Lana del Ray is going to be able to squeeze any more juice out of this particular lemon, but right now she's the most interesting pop star around (I love Azaelia Banks as much as the next man, but she's not quite there yet.)
Or possibly she's just Dido for the kind of thirty-something wanker who lists Wild at Heart as their favourite Lynch film.
Leonard Cohen – Old Ideas
Dr John – Locked Down
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Old buffers, doing their thing. In each case the album reminds me of why I loved them in the first place.
Old Ideas starts with an epitaph ("I love to speak with Leonard, he's a sportsman and a shepherd, he's a lazy bastard living in a suit") and goes on to cover loss, loneliness, depression, death and old age with the same level of wit and insight. It might not be the album I listen to most this year but I bet it'll be the one that stays with me the longest.
Dr John's party never stops, and the edgy production really suits his voice and his songwriting. I really struggled to pick one track from the album because they're all great.
Springsteen's return to tubthumping agitpop, though, was pretty easy to choose from. The whole album is the kind of magisterial, widescreen protest record that Joe Strummer never quite managed to pull off, but "We Take Care Of Our Own" is – as I admit basically everyone has pointed out but it's still true – the nearest thing to a new "Born in the USA" anyone's yet come up with.
Graham Coxon – A&E
Slightly younger buffers doing their thing, with wildly variable results. There seems to be a degree of controversy about Spiritualized, with different views on when, precisely, they stopped being even remotely interesting. After 1997s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space appears to be the consensus. Listening to this utterly generic and pedestrian set of musical and lyrical clichés, I'm inclined to argue that the last time Spiritualized were genuinely worth a listen was their debut single. Which is why that's in the clip above, to spare anyone's time.
Graham Coxon, on the other hand, is going from strength to strength. If Damon Albarn has taken the expansive, eclectic, ambitious side of Blur to all sorts of exciting new places – since the last Mostly Records there's been the astounding DRC music, the slightly less astounding Rocket Juice and the Moon, probably a couple of Gorillaz albums I've missed, and next week his opera about Dr Dee gets released – Coxon has whittled down the locked groove at the heart of the band. A&E is a great, great record, halfway between the best of Blur's album tracks and mid-period Fall. I loathed Blur, for no good reason, at the time, and I'm kind of glad that Alex James, at least, is still justifying that irrational hate all these years later.
Crybaby – Crybaby
Alabama Shakes – Boys and Girls
Oddly meticulous reconstructions of music of the past. Both acts would be utterly forgettable were it not for unbelievably great singers. I've never heard anyone genuinely sound like The Smiths to the degree to which Crybaby do, while Alabama Shakes are pretty great on record and must absolutely tear the roof off live. I would have included Civil Wars here, but they haven't left even the slightest trace on my memory.
Futureheads – Rant
When the Futureheads first appeared with their cover of Hounds of Love, they appeared to be a brilliant novelty act, halfway between Snuff and Showaddywaddy. I was a little disappointed that the album was mostly meat and potatoes indie rock, with the doo-wop vocals only occasionally livening things up. After that first album I more or less ignored them, though the Hounds of Love always makes me grin when it appears
Everyone else seems to have completely ignored Rant, an acappella album of covers and retreads of their back catalogue, presumably writing it off as another novelty record. For me, though, it's the most infectious and thrilling pop record of the year so far, from their gorgeous cover of Richard Thompson's Beeswing to Somerset drinking song The Old Dun Cow, which my children have been singing non-stop for a fortnight:
*OK, I lied. This is as good a place as any to point out that anyone who uses the ghastly word "hipster" in any context other than a discussion of Norman Mailer is, for that reason alone, an arsehole. Except Simon Reynolds, though he should know better.
Jim Eaton-Terry tweets on occasion and is the kind of thirtysomething wanker who lists Wild at Heart as his favourite Lynch film
← Making music	Il Boom →


It's unclear if he's following in President Barack Obama's footsteps by adopting a modified, secure BlackBerry. It appears Trump sent a tweet from his Android on Thursday afternoon around three P.M., while subsequent Trump tweets, when viewed through a third-party Twitter service like Tweetdeck, appeared to have been sent from an iPhone, likely by an aide. Confusingly, however, a tweet sent on Friday morning appears to have come from an Android device. It remains unclear whether this means Trump has wrested control of his old phone, or an aide or Trump himself sent the tweet from another Android device, or whether his new, Secret Service-approved device runs on the Android operating system.
Accessibility isn't necessarily a desirable trait when it comes to the leader of the free world, of course. Trump's phone habits led him to have off-script and off-the-cuff conversation with foreign heads of state or reporters. Australia's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, reportedly got Trump's number by asking golfer Greg Norman. Some Trump aides have reportedly "expressed relief" that fewer people will now have access to him as president. Obama traded in his BlackBerry for an iPhone that still allowed him to tweet from his official Twitter account, the AP reports, which may be of some solace to Trump, who had in November reportedly expressed concern about becoming "isolated" without his Android by his side.


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package org.apereo.cas.trusted.web;

import org.apereo.cas.configuration.CasConfigurationProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.trusted.authentication.api.MultifactorAuthenticationTrustRecord;
import org.apereo.cas.trusted.authentication.api.MultifactorAuthenticationTrustStorage;
import org.apereo.cas.util.DateTimeUtils;
import org.apereo.cas.web.BaseCasActuatorEndpoint;

import lombok.val;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.DeleteOperation;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.Endpoint;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.ReadOperation;
import org.springframework.boot.actuate.endpoint.annotation.Selector;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;

import java.time.LocalDateTime;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * This is {@link MultifactorTrustedDevicesReportEndpoint}.
 *
 * @author Misagh Moayyed
 * @since 5.3.0
 */
@Endpoint(id = "multifactorTrustedDevices", enableByDefault = false)
public class MultifactorTrustedDevicesReportEndpoint extends BaseCasActuatorEndpoint {
    private final MultifactorAuthenticationTrustStorage mfaTrustEngine;

    public MultifactorTrustedDevicesReportEndpoint(final CasConfigurationProperties casProperties,
                                                   final MultifactorAuthenticationTrustStorage mfaTrustEngine) {
        super(casProperties);
        this.mfaTrustEngine = mfaTrustEngine;
    }

    /**
     * Devices registered and trusted.
     *
     * @return the set
     */
    @ReadOperation
    public Set<? extends MultifactorAuthenticationTrustRecord> devices() {
        val onOrAfter = expireRecordsByDate();
        return this.mfaTrustEngine.get(onOrAfter);
    }

    private LocalDateTime expireRecordsByDate() {
        val properties = casProperties.getAuthn().getMfa().getTrusted();
        val unit = DateTimeUtils.toChronoUnit(properties.getTimeUnit());
        val onOrAfter = LocalDateTime.now().minus(properties.getExpiration(), unit);
        this.mfaTrustEngine.expire(onOrAfter);
        return onOrAfter;
    }

    /**
     * Devices for user.
     *
     * @param username the username
     * @return the set
     */
    @ReadOperation
    public Set<? extends MultifactorAuthenticationTrustRecord> devicesForUser(@Selector final String username) {
        val onOrAfter = expireRecordsByDate();
        return this.mfaTrustEngine.get(username, onOrAfter);
    }

    /**
     * Revoke record and return status.
     *
     * @param key the key
     * @return the integer
     */
    @DeleteOperation
    public Integer revoke(@Selector final String key) {
        this.mfaTrustEngine.expire(key);
        return HttpStatus.OK.value();
    }
}

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ʿAbd al-Wāḥid Bengālī (; c. 1850—1905) was a 19th-century Muslim theologian, teacher and social reformer. He was one of the initiators of the Deobandi movement into Bengal, and co-founded Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam in 1896.

Early life and family
Abdul Wahid was born in 1268 Hijri (1851—1852 CE), to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Haola in Kharandwip, Boalkhali, Chittagong District, Bengal Presidency. His father, Shaykh Moulvi Zinat Ali, was a munsef (local judge) at a court in Kaukhali, Rangunia. Ali was fluent in Bengali, English, Arabic, Persian and Urdu.

Education
Abdul Wahid initially studied with his father, Zinat Ali, before joining the Sarwatali High School. In addition to Bengali, he became proficient in Urdu too. He stayed in this school until class 8, when he realised the importance of studying the Quran, Hadith and the Arabic language after reading a book in Urdu. Instead of proceeding with the colonial education system that taught English, Abdul Wahid turned towards Arabic. In response, people close to him began to mock him. However, he was certain in his goals and left his village for Calcutta, where his father's friend lived. He expressed his desire of learning Arabic to his father's friend. The man then wrote a letter to Zinat Ali of his son's situation and desire and Abdul Wahid was subsequently enrolled at the Muhsinia Madrasa in Chittagong.

In Deoband
His neighbours continued to criticise the fact that the son of a judge was studying Arabic. Eventually, Abdul Wahid set off for North India without telling anyone and joined the Darul Uloom Deoband. In Deoband, he dedicated his time to religious studies to such a level that he would often not reply to letters that he received from home.

He had enrolled at the prestigious seminary only 5-6 years after its establishment. He was one of the only two students of Qasim Nanautavi and Yaqub Nanautawi that were from eastern Bengal at the time. The other student was Ubaydul Hakim, who also belonged to the village of Kharandwip. After 14 years at Deoband, Abdul Wahid graduated from the Faculty of Hadith (Masters).

After both of them completed their formal education at Deoband, the two expressed their desire to study tasawwuf under Qasim Nanautavi. Nanautavi instead directed them towards Imdadullah Muhajir Makki. However, after he migrated to Mecca, they pledged bay'ah to Fazlur Rahman Ganj-e-Muradabadi. They spent an additional two years under him, eventually gaining khilafah (spiritual succession). At that time Abdul Wahid received a letter from his mother mentioning that his father had died. His mother urged him to return home, thus Abdul Wahid returned to Bengal after 16 years.

Personal life
His mother arranged for a marriage fearing that Abdul Wahid might move abroad again. He was engaged to a noblewoman from Kadalpur in Raozan. In this marriage, Abdul Wahid had one daughter, Shakirah Khatun, and two sons, Sulayman and Ayyub. However, Abdul Wahid felt that his wife was not religiously devoted. After he failed in repeatedly trying to persuade her to become more practicing, he returned her to her parents' home. From there, he did not return to his home but rather set off to the home of his close friend Sufi Azizur Rahman in Babunagar, Fatikchhari.

Abdul Wahid's second marriage occurred through the assistance of Sufi Azizur Rahman. He married a woman from Nazirhat and temporary leased some land from a man to the west of the Dhurang canal in Babunagar. He had a daughter with this wife.

Career

After returning to Bengal, Abdul Wahid started a tupi business in Chittagong. He also began teaching Islamic studies in the village of Babunagar along with Sufi Azizur Rahman. In 1896, the two co-founded Al-Jamiatul Ahlia Darul Ulum Moinul Islam in Hathazari along with Habibullah Qurayshi and Abdul Hamid Madarshahi. Abdul Wahid became a teacher of tajwid at the madrasa. In 1908, he began teaching Kutub al-Sittah at the madrasa.

Death and legacy
He died in 1905, at the age of 55. His janaza was performed by Habibullah Qurayshi and he was buried in his paternal graveyard (now known as al-Maqbarah al-Wahidiyyah) in Munshipara, Kharandwip. To the east of his grave, a madrasa was established in his name as Wahidia Madrasa. Among his biographers, Mawlana Jafar Sadiq is notable.

See also
 Azizul Haque
 Shah Ahmad Shafi
 Abdul Halim Bukhari
 AFM Khalid Hossain

References

19th-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Hanafi fiqh scholars
Darul Uloom Deoband alumni
People from Chittagong District
1905 deaths
1850 births
Deobandis
19th-century Bengalis
Founding members of Darul Ulum Hathazari

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Electric Vehicles Gaining Interest with Consumers, Co-ops
Bydriveelectricnd_quwy5v	 December 18, 2018
Paul Wesslund, North Dakota Living
Nationwide, and worldwide, consumer interest in electric vehicles (EV) is steadily climbing. Electric cooperatives are adapting to this trend through evaluation of popular current EV models, purchase of suitable EVs for co-op vehicle fleets, and installation of public EV charging stations
Should your next car be an electric vehicle?
Electric vehicles account for just 1.2 percent of the U.S. vehicle market, but sales are booming, growing 25 percent last year. And electric vehicles are getting better and cheaper as researchers improve the batteries that power them. Here's a guide to help you decide if an electric car is for you – or if you just want to be smarter about one of the next big advances in energy.
The first thing to realize about electric cars is they can drive more than enough miles for you on a single charge, even if you live in the wide-open countryside.
LOCATION ISSUE NO. 1: THE DISTANCE MYTH
Try keeping track of your actual daily use, advises Brian Sloboda, a program and product manager at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
"If you're an insurance salesman, you're logging a lot of miles, so an electric car's not going to be for you," he says, noting that a typical range for an electric car today is more than 100 miles, and ranges of 150 to 250 miles are becoming common. "But if you look at how many miles you drive in a day, for most people in the United States, even in rural areas, that number is under 40 miles per day. So if your car has a range of 120 miles, that's a lot of wiggle room."
According to the Federal Highway Administration, the average American drives 25 miles a day, and for rural areas, that average is 34 miles a day.
Sloboda says another reason it's worth thinking realistically about your daily mileage comes from the most likely way an electric car would be refueled. When an electric car is done driving for the day, you can plug it in to recharge overnight. Essentially, you're topping off the gas tank while you sleep, giving you a fully charged battery every morning.
There are three ways to charge an electric car:
Level 1 – The simplest charging technique is to plug the car into a standard home outlet. That will charge the battery at a rate that will add from two to five miles to its range each hour. That's slow, but Sloboda notes the battery might start the charging session already partly charged, depending on how far it's driven that day.
Level 2 – Faster charging will require a professional installer to upgrade the home's voltage for a unit that will add between 10 and 25 miles of range for each hour of charging – a rate that would fully charge the battery overnight. Sloboda says installing a Level 2 charger in a house or garage would cost $500 to $800 for the equipment, plus at least that much for the labor. Timers can also be used to charge the vehicle in the middle of the night when electric consumption is typically lower.
Level 3 – DC fast charge requires specialized equipment more suited to public charging stations, and will bring a car battery up to 80 percent of capacity in 30 minutes. Sloboda warns this high-speed technique should only be used for special long-distance driving, since it can degrade the battery over time. That's also why DC chargers shouldn't be used to bring the battery up to 100 percent.
LOCATION ISSUE NO. 2: OFF-PEAK ELECTRIC RATES
What you pay to charge your electric car could also depend on where you live, Sloboda says. He advises checking to see whether your local electric co-op offers a lower rate to charge an electric vehicle overnight, when the utility has a lower demand for electricity.
"It's different depending on where you are in the country," Sloboda says. Some local co-ops have fairly stable electric demand throughout a typical day, so they may not offer a special electric vehicle rate. He adds, "There are ares of the country where the on-peak, off-peak difference in price is extreme," so that it might make financial sense for the utility to offer an overnight charging rate.
Another factor affecting the economics of an electric car is, of course, the cost of the vehicle.
"These cars are really in the luxury and performance car categories," Sloboda says. As electric cars improve, projections put their cost coming down to match conventional vehicles by about the year 2025. But today, the average electric car costs close to $40,000, compared with less than $30,000 for an internal combustion engine.
LOCATION ISSUES NO. 3 AND NO. 4: ENVIRONMENT AND GEOGRAPHY
For many people, one of the biggest selling points for electric cars is the effect on the environment, and that can also depend on where you live.
The sources of electricity for a local utility vary across the country – some areas depend heavily on coal-fired power plants, others use larger shares of solar or wind energy. One major environmental group analyzed all those local electric utility fuel mixes, and determined that for most of the country, electric vehicles have much less of an effect on the environment than conventional vehicles. That study by the Union of Concerned Scientists shows that in the middle part of the country, driving an electric vehicle has the equivalent environmental benefits of driving a gasoline-powered car that gets 41-50 miles per gallon. For much of the rest of the country, it's like driving a car that gets well over 50 miles per gallon.
"Seventy-five percent of people now live in places where driving on electricity is cleaner than a 50 mpg gasoline car," says the report from the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Other local factors that will affect an electric car's performance include climate and geography, Sloboda says. The range of the vehicle will be affected by whether you regularly drive up and down mountains, or make a lot of use of the heater or air conditioner.
Sloboda concedes that electric vehicles are not for everybody – yet. One limit to their growth is that no major carmaker offers an especially popular choice, a pickup.
Sloboda says there's no technological barrier to making an electric pickup. He even suggests possible advantages: A heavy battery in the bottom would lower the center of gravity for better handling, and the battery could run power tools at a remote worksite.
"Within the next 24 months, I believe there will be a credible pickup truck on the market," Sloboda says. "It's just a matter of time."
Electric cars sales, efficiency continue to grow
A Peek into the Future of my Grandchildren's World
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WATT's Up – News Blog
ByGrady Blewett	 July 31, 2020 July 31, 2020
(July 2020) North Dakota's Doosan Bobcat company is teaming up with Green Machine Equipment, Inc. of New York to produce an all-electric compact excavator. Story from Associated Press posted on OAonline While 'range anxiety' continues to be a barrier for some people to purchase an electric vehicle, one Israeli startup is working to solve…
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ByGrady Blewett	 April 30, 2021
(May 1, 2021) Electric "Bird Scooters" take to the streets in Bismarck The California company was able to get an ordinance change at the City Commission, and now riders can scoot around downtown at up to 15 mph. Bismarck Tribune story here. Honda set to phase out gasoline vehicles by 2040. The automaker says going…
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WATT's UP – EV News April 2021
ByGrady Blewett	 April 1, 2021
(April 1, 2021) Quick State Legislative Update: House Bill 1464, which included a 3-cent motor fuel tax increase and significant electric vehicle registration fee increases was defeated on the Senate floor by a vote of 37-10. The other bill, Senate Bill 2091, which excludes charging station owners from definition of "utility" passed both chambers and…
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ByGrady Blewett	 May 26, 2020 May 26, 2020
MAY 26, 2020 – In the 2019 State Legislative Session, electric vehicles were the subject of three pieces of legislation, one of which (SB 2061) directed the Interim Committee on Agriculture and Transportation to study electric vehicle charging infrastructure. The Committee has met twice and heard testimony from the Dept. of Transportation and other organizations including…
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WATT's Up – News Blog Sep 2020
ByGrady Blewett	 September 3, 2020 September 4, 2020
(Sep 2020) North Dakota's first non-Tesla fast charger goes online in Minot. Story from KX Net Electric vehicle sales slowed by coronavirus pandemic. Read about it here from the Houston Chronicle The biggest question facing the EV industry: Will there be enough charging stations? More of this story from Seattle Times General Motors making huge…
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Q: change input form to textarea without affecting database I have made a complete website with 4 form inputs, the inputs are text inputs and it is connected to the MySQL database. Now I want to change one of those text inputs to a textbox and when I do that it doesn't send the data to the database anymore for the specific 'message' field.

//php code to insert to db
 <?php

$errors         = array();   // array to hold validation errors
$data    = array();   // array to pass back data
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone_number'];
$name = $_POST['name'];
$message=$_POST['message'];

// validate the variables ======================================================
 // if any of these variables don't exist, add an error to $errors array

 if (empty($_POST['name']))
 {
  $errors['name'] = 'Name is required.';
 }

 if (empty($_POST['email']))
 {
  $errors['email'] = 'Email is required.';
 } else {
  $email_exp = '/^[A-Za-z0-9._%-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,4}$/';

  if(!preg_match($email_exp,$email))
  {
   $errors ['email']= 'The email you entered does not appear to be valid
';
  }
 }

 if (empty($_POST['phone_number'])){
  $errors['phone_number'] = 'Phone number is required.';
 } else{
  $phone_number_exp ='/^[0-9]{5,12}$/';
  if(!preg_match($phone_number_exp, $phone))
  {
     $errors ['phone_number']='Phone number entered is invalid
';
  }
 }
 if (empty($_POST['message'])){
  $errors['message'] = 'Message is required.';
 }

// return a response ===========================================================

 // if there are any errors in our errors array, return a success boolean of false
 if ( ! empty($errors)) {

  // if there are items in our errors array, return those errors
  $data['success'] = false ;
  $data['errors']  = $errors ;
 } else
 {

  // success processing

//connecting to the db

$dbhost = 'localhost';
$dbuser = 'root';
$dbpass = '';
$db = '1';

$dbconn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
mysql_select_db($db);

$query = ("INSERT INTO user (name, email, phone_number, message) VALUES ('$name','$email','$phone','$message')");
mysql_query($query);

        {
    $data['1'] = false;
    }
// email sent from gmail client id = ---
$email_to="---";
$email_subject="Lead Form";
$msg = "Form details from interested customer:\n\n";

  function clean($string)
  {
   $sickstring = array("content-type","bcc:","to:","cc:","href");
   return str_replace($sickstring,"-",$string);
   //replaces any characters found in the array with a "-".
  }
  $msg .= "Email: ".clean($email)."\n";
     $msg .= "Phone Number: ".clean($phone)."\n";
  $msg .= "Name: ".clean($name)."\n";
  $msg .= "Message: " . ($message)."\n";

   /* if using the name variable
  $message .= "name: ".clean($name)."\n"; */

  //header for email.. variable not working , check variable on thursday ..

  $headers = "From: " . ($email) . "\r\n".
  "Reply_To: " . ($email) . "\r\n".
  "xmailer: php/" . phpversion();

  @mail($email_to, $email_subject, $msg, $headers);

  $data['success'] = true;
  $data['message'] = 'Success!';

 }// return all our data to an AJAX call
 echo json_encode($data);
 <form action="process.php" method="POST" id="ezform">

            Name
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" placeholder="Name">

            Email
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="email" placeholder="example@etc.com">

            Phone Number
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="phone_number" placeholder="Number">

            Message
            <input type="text" class="form-control" name="message" placeholder="Your Message">

   <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button>

    </form>

A: Add this code above query You have written.
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As she prepares to speak at our Finance Conference this week, we speak to Linda Davidson on her amazing journey from EastEnders star to social media and digital technology expert.
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Father sues the city of Fort Worth and former police officer for shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson
Posted: Nov 18, 2020 7:11 AM CST
Twenty-eight-year-old Atatiana Koquice Jefferson who was shot and killed by a White police officer in her Fort Worth, Texas home after a neighbor called dispatchers to report the woman's front door was open, police said. By Madeline Holcombe and Raja Razek, CNN
(CNN) -- The family of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot through the window of her home, has filed a lawsuit against the city of Fort Worth and Aaron Dean, the former Fort Worth police officer who shot her.
According to an amended complaint filed November 17 in the Northern District of Texas, the conduct of Aaron Dean during "the course and scope of employment caused the untimely death of Atatiana Carr a/k/a Atatiana Jefferson."
Dean, a 34-year-old White man, resigned from the force and was charged with murder, the charge on which he was indicted in December 2019.
When asked for comment, Aaron Dean's criminal case attorney told CNN, "We are currently under a gag rule in the criminal case, so I have no comment."
The lawsuit comes amid a nationwide reckoning on race and police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Jefferson, a 28-year-old Black woman, was playing video games with her nephew around 2 a.m. on October 12, 2019, when Aaron Dean and another officer arrived at her home.
A concerned neighbor had called the nonemergency police number after noticing the home's exterior doors were open at that late hour. As officers walked around the house in the dark, Jefferson heard a noise in the backyard, pulled out a gun from her purse, and pointed it at the window, police said.
Dean yelled, "Put your hands up! Show me your hands!" before he fired through the window, killing her. Body camera footage showed neither of the officers identified themselves as police.
According to the complaint, Atatiana was at home "not violating any laws of the state and her shooting was without provocation or excuse."
The complaint accuses the city and the former officer of being "deliberately indifferent to protecting Atatiana Carr a/k/a Atatiana Jefferson from harm by systematically failing to provide adequate training and supervision to its officers, uphold Atatiana Carr a/k/a Atatiana Jefferson's constitutional rights, and providing urgently needed medical care."
"Defendants acted with high disregard for the rights of others, and their conduct was extreme and unreasonable under the circumstances," read the complaint.
Fort Worth Police also said a gag order is in place, and they are "unable to provide comments regarding this incident."
The city of Fort Worth did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.
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Lost Cemetery Found ! (…maybe)
Kind of a miserable afternoon here in Philadelphia. Raining like all get out. Sitting in the living room thinking that taking half a day off from work is the only right decision I've made in years. Certainly, the decision last weekend to find a certain old abandoned cemetery was not one of my best. In retrospect, I should have done a bit more research, but the thrill of the hunt was upon me. What I won't go through to find an abandoned cemetery...
Upfront, I thank Kim Thompson for the information on the lost cemetery of Pennypack Nature Preserve, and the detailed map she drew for me. (You did say there was probably an easier way to access the cemetery, but I didn't bother to check into that – my bad.) So, armed with a hand-drawn map, my friend Frank, water, beer, and snack bars, we set out to find this strange place in 95-degree weather. Her description of it being lost in the woods screamed "abandoned!" to me, and as you may know from reading my blog, I have more than a passing interest in abandoned cemeteries. Also, being an artist, I'm not as detail-oriented as I should be.
However, I did look up the Pennypack area and found that the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (the location in question), was not to be confused with Pennypack Park in northeast Philly (although Pennypack Creek runs through both). I'd heard of the park over the years I've lived in Philly, but had never been there. Philadelphia is an enormous area, twenty miles across, with just so much nature, city, and everything in between (like water ice, which I'd have given anything for during this hike), that after twenty years, I still haven't taken it all in.
Tracks to Nowhere
Kim and her husband had come upon the cemetery (in retrospect, I'm not sure how you come upon something hidden on a cliff above you and totally out of sight) during a hike through the Pennypack nature preserve, here in northeast Philadelphia. Actually, they went off the grid when they found a set of abandoned railroad tracks leading off into the woods (points for them - I'm not even sure that I would have done that). According to her map, I should follow the tracks about half a mile and I should see a couple houses up on a hill to the right, and the cemetery would be opposite them, on a hill to the left.
Pennypack Creek
I parked my car at the Pennypack Road entrance (as the map indicated, near the intersection of Davisville and Terwood Roads) and Frank and I loaded up for the hike. It really was a beautiful area, with Pennypack Creek running alongside the main trail. About a quarter mile into the woods, Frank nonchalantly mentioned that he hoped we didn't come across any rabid beavers. Say what? At the beginning of the month (June), three people had been bitten in and around Pennypack Creek. "You mean that happened HERE?" I yelped. I made a mental note not to get too close to the water.
I hadn't paid much attention to this seminal beaver event at the time, but now that I read up on it, I find it highly amusing, though for the folks involved, I'm sure it was not unlike the opening scene in the movie JAWS. According to an NBC news article, 'Rabid Beavers Bite Folks in NE Philly,' "[The beaver] kind of went underwater and came up." Czech said "The wife started screaming and the husband looked over and saw the beaver biting on her leg." The article goes on to say this happened in Pennypack Creek near 'Ax Factory Road,' which I think you'll admit is the best street name ever!
The whole thing seems kind of stupid if you have no concept of how big beavers get. I for one, was shocked some years ago when I came across this stuffed beaver in a Baltimore thrift shop. The thing was huge, maybe four feet long including the tail! Throughout the day, Frank and I saw deer, snakes, and chipmunks, but met with no beavers (or bears, for that matter, as did the unfortunate hiker in Yellowstone Park last week).
It's odd how major roadways cut through the Pennypack Preserve. Not unlike Philadelphia's Pennypack Park and Fairmont Park, both of which go on for miles in haphazard directions, with roads cutting through them every which way. They're not like New York's Central Park, in which no cars are allowed on its roadways. A couple times Frank and I came to a park entrance gate at a road. The creek went under a bridge and the trail continued on the other side. According to the trail maps on Pennypack's website, I count seven of these separate entrance gates. There would be parking for half a dozen cards, and there were always people about – joggers, bicyclists, families with children.
Old stone bridges and remnants of foundations of houses and prehistoric toll booths from the first Pennsylvania Turnpike appear along the trails. One of these bridges across Pennypack Creek, a few miles south of here in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia, is in fact the oldest surviving roadway bridge in the United States, erected in 1698 and in continual use since then! The nature preserve, which actually came into being in 1970, is located in Huntingdon Valley, where the "Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust manages the 725-acre (2.93 km2) Pennypack Preserve which is open to the public and includes 10 miles (16 km) of pedestrian, equestrian, and bicycle trails." (Ref.)
Tracks leading off the grid
After making our way along the trail for about an hour, we came upon a particular and "surprisingly large stone bridge," as Kim wrote, which was our roadmark that the abandoned train tracks lay just on the other side. According to her map, we were about half way to the cemetery. The bridge was most likely one of those old turnpike bridges, and the unused tracks, I've come to find out, are from the old Reading Railroad.
The track foundation was about six feet above the natural ground, sloping down to the creek on the right, and down to a drainage ditch on the left. Except for the initial thousand feet or so, where the left side was lower than the tracks, a sixty-foot wooded hillside stayed with us for the remainder of the trip. Here's a PHOTO of what it looked like, with Frank walking ahead. Everything was old growth forest, with tulip trees, hickory, tangles of raspberry bushes and more poison ivy than you could shake a stick at! Luckily, not much of anything grew in the gravel between the railroad ties, so we were able to progress relatively quickly through the dense forest. As you can see, weeds were overgrown on both sides of the tracks, so you really couldn't see much through the trees.
At one point two huge red deer came through the thicket and disappeared again. Deer ticks would abound, so we were careful to stay on the tracks and not brush up against any deer-high bushes.Which was not easy, especially the two times we came to areas where trees had fallen across the old tracks, and we had to make our way up the embankment and back down to the tracks. We were encouraged by this "666" carving in a tree, so we continued on. Even though I had on hiking boots, the loose dry dirt made it seem like I was climbing in rollerblades. Old telegraph poles still lined the railway from god knows what era. As I was checking out the wooden wire insulators on one at the top of the slope, the ground gave out from under me and I went sliding down to the railbed past Frank in a cloud of dirt, tree branches, and poison ivy.As I gathered myself up, I looked across the tracks and saw the scene in the photo below. It looked for all the world like a cemetery monument! Upon closer investigation, it was just a reasonable facsimile.
We were at least a half mile down the tracks when we came to an amazing stone throughcut hill, where the tracks were totally blocked by boulders that had come loose off the excavated rock walls. I offered to Frank that we can turn back anytime he felt like it, but he said, "No, we've come this far…" Truthfully, this Bataan Death March was wearing me out and I was beginning to think we took the tracks in the wrong direction. I was exhausted, and dying for one of the chilled beers I offered to carry in Frank's ungodly heavy cooler, but hey, there's a time and place to man up, so we made our way over and around the ten-foot high boulders and continued on up the tracks. It was in the nineties and sunny, but at least we were shaded by the majestic old forest for most of our hike.
According to the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust website, there were two stone quarries in this area, so I imagine we were in that vicinity. It was kind of spooky in the shade of all these hickory trees, with no sound but the creek down below us in the mossy forest. We hadn't seen any people since veering off the hiking trail onto the tracks, and I was a bit concerned when I saw these signs on trees here and there. I joked with Frank about this being one of those exotic game preserves where they hunt people. He started humming the theme song from the movie Deliverance.
Only a few hundred feet after we passed the boulder avalanche, Frank saw the three houses up on a hill to the right, which were our supposed markers – the cemetery was supposed to be opposite the houses on the left side of the tracks. We trudged on a few more minutes but only saw steep embankment to our left, about thirty feet above the railway. But wait…was that rusty barbed wire and poles along the cliff up there? I was seriously considering fording the creek, finding the nearest road, and taking a cab back to my car – but as I thought of the angry beavers in the water, Frank began to scurry up the hillside. I followed. He got to the top first and yelled, "We found it!"
Lone Tombstone in the Woods
Though we hadn't discussed it beforehand, I know we both expected ancient tombstones covered in weeds, with a forest grown up around them. As I climbed over the barbed wire, I saw a clearing about a city block in size, trees on all sides, punctuated with small groupings of tombstones. Tombstones which looked rather … modern. We sat down and broke out the beer and joked about our travails, and the possibility that none of these graves looked older than a decade. Strangely juxtaposed with these gravemarkers was a century-old hand water pump in a corner of the cemetery. As we walked around the headstones we were rather shocked to find that their dates only ranged from about 2006 back to maybe 1970! Amidst the twenty-five or so headstones, there were a couple family plots, but this didn't seem like a public cemetery. Most notably, I suppose, was the family of Philadelphia Orchestra composer Richard Yardumian. Very curious.
By the age of the water pump, Frank (who works at a cemetery), thought that maybe this was an old cemetery that had fallen into disrepair and in the late-1960s someone decided to put it to use once again. So we're both wondering if some astute local historian knows the story and would post some explanatory comments at the end of this blog. All I can offer is that there are small groupings of Armenian family names.
I noticed what appeared to be wooden guardrails uphill at the back of the cemetery, which I took to be a road. Thinking we'd hitchhike back to the car, we climbed a set of stone steps up to the road, which turned out to be not a road at all, but a driveway. Curiouser and curiouser. Seemed to be an estate of some sort. Strange-looking building with many uniformly sized windows along the side facing us, woods all around. Not a soul to be seen, which was good, as we were on their front lawn. We walked up the driveway toward the house, thinking it led past the house and out to a road. Nope. Just went up to a sort of parking area. I suggested it might be the clubhouse of the human-game hunting club. We headed off in the opposite direction, down the driveway into the woods away from the house. The road meandered through a field and signs that said, 'Private Drive.' Yeah, we knew that – we're just trying to get the hell out of here.
Cemetery access road, leading to Creek Road
Finally, we came to a main road, and saw one of the gates leading into the Nature Preserve. About fifty feet from the driveway was a chained gravel road, leading to the cemetery we just left. Meaning that we could've driven right to this gate (had we known where it was), parked the car, walked down the chained road for four minutes and come to the cemetery!
As we approached the gate, a young guy walking a dog came down the road. We asked him if he knew the way back to Pennypack Road and he said just follow the trail on the other side of the creek. The return trip only took an hour or so, as we were on an established trail and back on the grid. Strange how this Creek Road Trail sort of meandered through the backyards of farmhouses, estates, and a big country retreat-looking place called something like Lords of the New Church (not to be confused with the punk supergroup, I suppose). On returning to the car, we were both exhausted and my feet ached. We finished off the remaining cold ones and headed home.
After all that, it turns out that we hadn't found the cemetery we were looking for! I saw Kim and Brad Thompson a week later at an art event and Kim reminded me that the graves in the cemetery they had found were sunken, with old stones covered with graffiti. I had forgotten that part. So SOMEWHERE between where the tracks began and the boulders covered them, is an old abandoned cemetery nestled in the woods. Sounds like another trip, but it will have to be in the winter, when the trees are bare, the poison ivy is dead, and the beavers are safely under the ice-covered creek.
References and Further Reading:
Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
Rabid Beavers Bite Folks in NE Philly
Kim Thompson's Dark Mind Design

Labels: Dark Mind Design, Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust, Pennypack Nature Preserve, Pennypack Park


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[T]he qualities most critical for success in today's world—things like emotional intelligence, empathy, influence, persuasion, communication, and collaboration—all stem from self-awareness. To put it another way, if we're not self-aware, it's almost impossible to master the skills that make us stronger team players, superior leaders, and better relationship builders—at work and beyond.
The least competent people are usually the most confident in their abilities.
She did a three-year research program on the subject of self-awareness, and found much if not most of the previous work in the field to be wanting (she writes about this and many other ways in which psychology has a checkered history throughout the book), so she and her research team spent months simply defining what self-awareness really is. What she and her researchers concluded is that there are two categories of self-awareness—internal, understanding yourself, and external, understanding how others perceive you—and that there is not a relationship between the two.
There are seven pillars of insight that lead to self-awareness: knowing your values, passions, aspirations, fit, patterns, reactions, and impact. But they are not, in typical business book fashion, put into list or bullet format; instead they form the key points in what is essentially an essay on "The Anatomy of Self-Awareness" that makes up the second chapter.
If I could summarize it for you, I would say the lesson is that one must be able to truly know thyself, while also being able to take on the perspective of others. You have to zoom in to understand your own feelings, and then zoom out to see the larger picture, appreciate the experience of others in whatever situation you find your self. The "Zoom In, Zoom Out" tool was developed by psychologist Richard Weissbourd, and is one of many—her own and others'—she brings to the process of becoming more self-aware. And she also highlights the philosophies and tools that are ineffective, or downright damaging, throughout the book (more on some of those later).
Self-awareness is a bit like that: when we couple a clear perspective on ourselves with the ability to abandon that perspective and see ourselves as others do, this magical combination is a tremendous force for good.
Internal self-awareness will only take you so far (the pillars of values, passions, aspirations, and fit). You need feedback from others to see your patterns, reactions, and impact. You need to know yourself intimately, while at the same time be able to see yourself objectively—to know who we are and how we're seen.
There are two big road blocks to developing self-awareness. The first are our own blindspots (there are three categories: Knowledge Blindness, Emotional Blindness, and Behavior Blindness). Eurich shows us how to move from blindness to insight—how to open our eyes to ourselves and our behavior, and how it affects others. One of those tools is a commitment to it as an ongoing process, not a one-time fix.
A true commitment to ongoing learning—saying to ourselves, the more I think I know, the more I need to learn—is a powerful way to combat knowledge blindness and improve our effectiveness in the process.
Seeking and getting objective feedback from those around us on our abilities and behaviors provides the best odds of overcoming these blindspots.
It lulls us into thinking that we're all unique, special, and superior. That our needs matter more than everyone else's. That we're not subject to the same rules as other people are. That we're deserving of things simply because we want them. No wonder the Cult of Self has successfully recruited so many of our neighbors, friends, and colleagues—perhaps it's even succeeded in luring you.
At the same time self-esteem proponents were "bemoan[ing] the lack of self-love," self-esteem levels were steadily and almost uncontrollably rising. The real social ill was that most people felt too good about themselves (often without any objective reason).
In fact, psychologist Roy Baumeister has found irrational self-esteem increases violence and aggression, makes people more likely to walk away from relationships at the first sign of trouble, and more likely to engage in self-destructive behavior like infidelity and substance abuse. It's been decades since this research came out, but as Eurich says "it's far easier to feel wonderful and special than to actually become wonderful and special," so our obsession with self-esteem continues.
After discussing the road blocks to self-awareness, she devotes a full part of the book to just internal self-awareness, and then another to external self-awareness. The first exposes the four follies of introspection, including how it is oddly divorced from any real insight into ourselves. What her research (and others') has showed is that "self-reflection doesn't help us become more self-aware." It is here she suggests we ask ourselves what kind of person we are (which gives us a chance to determine the answer) rather that why we are the kind of person we are (which turns us into a victim of our circumstances). Even changing the question from "why am I feeling this way?" to "what am I feeling right now?" is helpful—being easier to identify and giving us an agency to change it.
After detailing what doesn't work at increasing self-awareness, she will dive into what does—both internally in Part Two, and externally in Part Three.
An additional strength of the book is that it's not solely about personal development. Eurich also explores how leaders can build self-awareness in others, and instill it in their organizations. In the final part of the book, she explores "how to build self-aware teams and organizations," employing "a leader who models the way," ensuring the "psychological safety" to speak truth to power, and developing an "ongoing process" to bake feedback into the culture of a company. She wraps it all up with a chapter on "Surviving and Thriving in a Delusional World," which seems especially timely.
Eurich also weaves in informative and entertaining tales from the past—how a brash and, frankly, delusional young George Washington became a self-aware and respected general (one of my favorite lines of the book, "I am unconscious of intentional error, [but] I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many," comes from his farewell address), how Benjamin Franklin survived a bullying brother, two business failures, and fathering a child out of wedlock before the age of twenty-five to become one of the most brilliant and successful founders of our country, and what happened to the Mayan civilization—and how the scholarship of that topic has in some ways mirrored the scholarship of self-awareness.
I appreciate books that acknowledge that neither life in general, nor what the author is prescribing, are easy. Tasha Eurich's advice—that we should challenge our own beliefs about who we are, and enlist others to do the same—she knows is hard. But it's the hard things that are worth doing, that will lead to sustainable success in individuals, organizations, even nations. Insight shows us how.


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The 55th Rotary Auction starts tonight! Monday, November 22, 2010. Please be sure to tune in to Houlton Channel 13 or WHOU 100.1 FM for over $60,000 of merchandise! 6 PM to 10:30 PM.
The 55th Annual Houlton Rotary Radio & TV Auction will take place Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, November 22nd, 23rd, and 24th. The event will air from 6:00-10:30pm each night on WHOU Radio 100.1 FM and on Houlton Cable Channel 13. The auction is held at Watson Hall at the Episcopal Church on Main Street and the public is welcome to attend.


Just look at that face, cute or what? Bugs really are endearing little critters and this stonefly nymph proves the point.
Riverfly insects have declined 59% since 1970, indicating poor water quality & an unstable food chain.** This is a growing problem not just in Britain but throughout Europe, Germany has recorded a decline of 75% in 27 years.
Not so long ago scraping squished bug gloop of the car windscreen was an essential task after a long drive, alas those days are gone. And this is worrying, not just because bugs are cute, but they are an essential part of the food chain for fish, birds and mammals.
Now I freely admit that Euro/Czech/French (call it what you will) nymphing isn't my favourite way to catch grayling, but it can be effective.
Personally I like to cast a fly line when I'm fishing and get as much pleasure casting as I do catching fish, and tossing a team of nymphs just doesn't do it for me, I find nymphing boring (there I said it)!
But it is a very useful tool to have in your angling armoury and when the fish are in deep fast water it's a technique I employ to great effect.


Bob Marley is not the greatest, according to Buju Banton.
Death by stoning for homosexuals.
All black men prosecuted by Kamala Harris should have their charges dropped.
Kamala Harris is a corn ball and her father is an educated fool.
White men make better husbands than Black men, according to Kamala Harris.
Venus Williams is still a virgin.
Black high school wrestler forced to cut dreadlocks by racist referee.
Milwaukee is as racist as one of their top athletes and they are proud of it.
Usain Bolt to play professional soccer.
There is more African DNA than French on France's World Cup team.
Nipsey Hussle's assassination proves that most influential Black people are being controlled.


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