Sunday, February 25
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
In a way, that it is snowing. I hope it isn't a hazard for anyone, but we haven't had much snow this year, and I worry about having a dry spring. We've had too many dry years lately with forest fires and hay shortages.
We put blankets on the ponies and Wonder, even though it isn't that cold, because the snow is wet. Wet in the winter is bad for animals. It's supposed to get a lot colder during the night, too.
I did go see River, and the drive wasn't too bad. I have to wonder why people would choose to drive a livestock trailer, or a flat deck trailer with a small building on it in this kind of weather (slippery, very poor visibility).
River was good. He was a little jumpy at first (the wind makes a lot of noise when you're in the tent-like arena) but quickly got over that.
I did just Liberty work from the ground today, no riding, because of the possibility of him spooking if the tent-like arena made too much noise, or had a build up of snow slide off as it sometimes does.
I ran through the two patterns we're working on, and he did well. Then I just kind of played, trying to get him to move smoothly when I moved from something like a turn on hindquarters into a liberty circle or backing up/coming forward. It would be nice if he could overcome the three second period he seems to have between me asking for something and him responding.
I added a liner to his thin blanket, and R said she'd change the blankets tomorrow, since they'll likely all be soaked from the snow.
I came home (my Sweetie stayed home and worked on something in the garage) and we watched "The Courier".
It sucked, but what annoys me is that with a little effort here and there, it could have been pretty good. The basic premise is a courier ends up trying to save a witness to a crime, and the criminal sends a team to kill the witness, and half the movie takes place in an underground car park.
Not the worst premise, the acting was decent, even the stunts were good etc. It was just things like, if she was some kind of trained ex-military person and you're trapped in a car park being chased by people, what's the first thing you'd do? Set off a fire alarm, right? Cut the power to the building so they couldn't use surveillance cameras? Steal the headset off of the first guy you killed so you could hear what the rest of them were saying?
She literally set fire to a vehicle to cause a distraction, but it didn't set off a fire alarm. She cut the power, almost at the very end of the movie.
It was things like this that made it a bad movie.
Last night I found a way to fix a sweater that has some bad damage from those stupid moths that keep eating everything made of wool. This sweater, though I had washed it and froze it outside and put it away in a sealed bag, still had moth damage when I pulled it out this year. A huge chunk ruined along the bottom. I thought it was a complete loss, but I messed around and managed to sort of crochet a patch, and if nothing else stopped the rest of the knitting from unraveling.
It's not perfect, it's an obvious repair, but it doesn't look awful either. I am amazed at how you can kind of crochet a row of stitches almost on top of the other knitting, and kind of keep going to create a patch that is attached to the main part of the sweater. I feel like I've found a super power.
Bangladesh is right beside Myanmar, and it is a very densely populated country with 170 million people.
I won't go aaaallll the way back in history, but through the 17th century (1600's) the region was ruled by the Mugal Empire, and that kind of became "the Nawabs of Bengal". The Nawabs were appointed by the Mughal emperor to rule a region, and by the 1700's those Nawabs kind of ran everything and held the real power.
The whole region was taken over by the British East India company after the battle of Plassey in 1757. After that, it was almost like the rest of the takeover was just appointing the right people to certain jobs, and the country was almost run like it was all part of the company.
It was like Loblaws just took over Canada by appointing Justin Trudeau's nephew to the right job in the company, then that company appoints the nephew as the leader of Canada. Then that nephew leads in such a way that everything benefits Loblaws.
Except that right now, it's kind of like Trudeau already does lead the country in such a way as to benefit Loblaws.
"Robert Clive exploited rivalries within the nawab's family, bribing Mir Jafar, the nawab's uncle and commander in chief, to ensure Siraj-ud-Daula's defeat.[95][96] Clive rewarded Mir Jafar by making him nawab in place of Siraj-ud-Daula, but henceforth the position was a figurehead appointed and controlled by the company."
Bengal (this is what Bangladesh used to be called) HAD been almost a world leader in textile manufacturing, but Britain dismantled that industry to invest the money for the industrial age in Britain instead, bankrupting Bengal.
I'm trying really hard to understand this next part, and I have likely made a mess of it. At the end of British rule, borders were sort of carved out willy-nilly, and Bangledesh and Pakistan were created. For a while they joined together, and called East and West Pakistan (which is nuts, because you look at a map and they are nowhere even near each other) then they separated in 1971 into more or less their modern borders.
"As part of the Partition of India in 1947, Bengal was partitioned between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The Pakistani part of Bengal was known as East Bengal until 1955 and thereafter as East Pakistan following the implementation of the One Unit program."
"Following the end of British rule in India, the two countries formed a single state for 24 years.[3] The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) recognized Bangladesh in 1974 after pressure from across the world.[4]"
In short, modern Bangladesh USED to be "Eastern Pakistan". In 1972, it formed a parliamentary republic, with elections and multiple parties. By 1975 there was only a single party Socialist system. Then there was martial law. Then more upheaval, then back to a parliamentary system, and on and on.
If you could sum up their whole political scene for the past hundred years or so, it's murder, death, kill, murder, death, kill.
I GUESS that it is currently a parliamentary system. For now.
If you look at this map, you can see right away that Bangladesh has rivers all through it, and all of those rivers form rich plains/deltas that are excellent farm land. They grow a lot of rice, and apparently their textile industry is a big deal again.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladesh_location_map_with_river_names_without_division_borders.svg
The country experiences big natural disasters pretty much constantly from cyclones and floods. Thousands and thousands of people die every year as a matter of just living where they live.
Of course they are at great risk from climate change. Their deltas are at risk from the pollution of the rivers. Their jungles and beautiful creatures are at risk from deforestation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh
This video helps with the political stuff:
https://youtu.be/peLrksyhkew?si=xN8jT9V-FYJu8dbB
In a way, that it is snowing. I hope it isn't a hazard for anyone, but we haven't had much snow this year, and I worry about having a dry spring. We've had too many dry years lately with forest fires and hay shortages.
We put blankets on the ponies and Wonder, even though it isn't that cold, because the snow is wet. Wet in the winter is bad for animals. It's supposed to get a lot colder during the night, too.
I did go see River, and the drive wasn't too bad. I have to wonder why people would choose to drive a livestock trailer, or a flat deck trailer with a small building on it in this kind of weather (slippery, very poor visibility).
River was good. He was a little jumpy at first (the wind makes a lot of noise when you're in the tent-like arena) but quickly got over that.
I did just Liberty work from the ground today, no riding, because of the possibility of him spooking if the tent-like arena made too much noise, or had a build up of snow slide off as it sometimes does.
I ran through the two patterns we're working on, and he did well. Then I just kind of played, trying to get him to move smoothly when I moved from something like a turn on hindquarters into a liberty circle or backing up/coming forward. It would be nice if he could overcome the three second period he seems to have between me asking for something and him responding.
I added a liner to his thin blanket, and R said she'd change the blankets tomorrow, since they'll likely all be soaked from the snow.
I came home (my Sweetie stayed home and worked on something in the garage) and we watched "The Courier".
It sucked, but what annoys me is that with a little effort here and there, it could have been pretty good. The basic premise is a courier ends up trying to save a witness to a crime, and the criminal sends a team to kill the witness, and half the movie takes place in an underground car park.
Not the worst premise, the acting was decent, even the stunts were good etc. It was just things like, if she was some kind of trained ex-military person and you're trapped in a car park being chased by people, what's the first thing you'd do? Set off a fire alarm, right? Cut the power to the building so they couldn't use surveillance cameras? Steal the headset off of the first guy you killed so you could hear what the rest of them were saying?
She literally set fire to a vehicle to cause a distraction, but it didn't set off a fire alarm. She cut the power, almost at the very end of the movie.
It was things like this that made it a bad movie.
Last night I found a way to fix a sweater that has some bad damage from those stupid moths that keep eating everything made of wool. This sweater, though I had washed it and froze it outside and put it away in a sealed bag, still had moth damage when I pulled it out this year. A huge chunk ruined along the bottom. I thought it was a complete loss, but I messed around and managed to sort of crochet a patch, and if nothing else stopped the rest of the knitting from unraveling.
It's not perfect, it's an obvious repair, but it doesn't look awful either. I am amazed at how you can kind of crochet a row of stitches almost on top of the other knitting, and kind of keep going to create a patch that is attached to the main part of the sweater. I feel like I've found a super power.
Bangladesh is right beside Myanmar, and it is a very densely populated country with 170 million people.
I won't go aaaallll the way back in history, but through the 17th century (1600's) the region was ruled by the Mugal Empire, and that kind of became "the Nawabs of Bengal". The Nawabs were appointed by the Mughal emperor to rule a region, and by the 1700's those Nawabs kind of ran everything and held the real power.
The whole region was taken over by the British East India company after the battle of Plassey in 1757. After that, it was almost like the rest of the takeover was just appointing the right people to certain jobs, and the country was almost run like it was all part of the company.
It was like Loblaws just took over Canada by appointing Justin Trudeau's nephew to the right job in the company, then that company appoints the nephew as the leader of Canada. Then that nephew leads in such a way that everything benefits Loblaws.
Except that right now, it's kind of like Trudeau already does lead the country in such a way as to benefit Loblaws.
"Robert Clive exploited rivalries within the nawab's family, bribing Mir Jafar, the nawab's uncle and commander in chief, to ensure Siraj-ud-Daula's defeat.[95][96] Clive rewarded Mir Jafar by making him nawab in place of Siraj-ud-Daula, but henceforth the position was a figurehead appointed and controlled by the company."
Bengal (this is what Bangladesh used to be called) HAD been almost a world leader in textile manufacturing, but Britain dismantled that industry to invest the money for the industrial age in Britain instead, bankrupting Bengal.
I'm trying really hard to understand this next part, and I have likely made a mess of it. At the end of British rule, borders were sort of carved out willy-nilly, and Bangledesh and Pakistan were created. For a while they joined together, and called East and West Pakistan (which is nuts, because you look at a map and they are nowhere even near each other) then they separated in 1971 into more or less their modern borders.
"As part of the Partition of India in 1947, Bengal was partitioned between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The Pakistani part of Bengal was known as East Bengal until 1955 and thereafter as East Pakistan following the implementation of the One Unit program."
"Following the end of British rule in India, the two countries formed a single state for 24 years.[3] The Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971 resulted in the secession of East Pakistan as the People's Republic of Bangladesh. Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) recognized Bangladesh in 1974 after pressure from across the world.[4]"
In short, modern Bangladesh USED to be "Eastern Pakistan". In 1972, it formed a parliamentary republic, with elections and multiple parties. By 1975 there was only a single party Socialist system. Then there was martial law. Then more upheaval, then back to a parliamentary system, and on and on.
If you could sum up their whole political scene for the past hundred years or so, it's murder, death, kill, murder, death, kill.
I GUESS that it is currently a parliamentary system. For now.
If you look at this map, you can see right away that Bangladesh has rivers all through it, and all of those rivers form rich plains/deltas that are excellent farm land. They grow a lot of rice, and apparently their textile industry is a big deal again.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bangladesh_location_map_with_river_names_without_division_borders.svg
The country experiences big natural disasters pretty much constantly from cyclones and floods. Thousands and thousands of people die every year as a matter of just living where they live.
Of course they are at great risk from climate change. Their deltas are at risk from the pollution of the rivers. Their jungles and beautiful creatures are at risk from deforestation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh
This video helps with the political stuff:
https://youtu.be/peLrksyhkew?si=xN8jT9V-FYJu8dbB
