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Q: Set up R Global Environment with one script and access it with a second I have multiple R scripts that need to run at the command line that all use the same global environment. Rather than each script loading the same packages and sourcing the same function file, how can I run an initialization script that will set up an environment that can be accessed by the subsequent scripts?
For (a very simplified) example:
Here's init.R:
library(some.package)

source(path/to/my_functions.R)

so I run,
Rscript init.R

at the cli. But then when I run my next script,
Rscript my.script.R

It creates its own global environment and I assume the environment created by init.R is destroyed when the script completes?
I've tried using save.image()/load() but this seems to be just as slow/inefficient as simply loading the packages and functions in each dependent script.
Can this workflow be made to work?

A: Just Rscript -e 'source("init.R");source("my.script.R")'

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Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail boosts visits to dairies and creameries in the state each summer.
By Marilyn Cummins	| Photos By Edwin Remsberg
There's just something special about getting a hand-dipped cone of your favorite ice cream right on the farm where it was made. And if that weren't enough, you can win prizes for doing so. At least that's the case in Maryland's dairy country.
Emily Oberg contemplates her cone at Broom's Bloom Dairy in Bel Air, Maryland, a stop on Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail.
Ice-cream enthusiasts and local-food fans can head out each summer to sample fresh-from-the-cow flavors along Maryland's Best Ice Cream Trail, guided by a passport provided by the Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA). Those who get a stamp from all nine creameries along the 290-mile route have a chance to be named "Maryland's Ice Cream Trail Blazer" for that year.
And what are the prizes? A $50 gift certificate to their favorite creamery, a "Dishing Up Maryland" cookbook and a DVD of the "Maryland Farm & Harvest" public TV series. That makes sense, as the May-to-September promotion is designed to boost the dairy industry in the state as part of the Maryland's Best Agriculture program.
While dairy contributes 10% of all farm cash receipts in the state of Maryland, the number of dairies in the state continues to decline—down from 500 in 2011 to 415 today. A 2015 analysis of the Maryland's Best programs shows MDA's marketing program has returned about $7.6 million in value to specialty crop growers overall.
The mission of the Maryland's Best program is to link consumers with Maryland's farmers and farms through its interactive website map and search engine, as well as special events and promotions like the ice cream trail, which began six years ago. On the website, www.marylandsbest.net, consumers can look for local Christmas tree and U-pick farms, farmers markets, wineries and, of course, dairies that make and sell their own ice cream and other products.
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A quick visit to another RV-7 builder at the airport this morning yielded a handful of AN470AD4-7 rivets, so I am back in business. I finished riveting the HS rear spar, and then got to work on the front spar. The front spar was going great until I had to attach the 404 and 405 ribs. The rivets are a bit tough to get to, but after gently bending the flanges a little (as the instuctions state) I was able to rivet them with the squeezer. I have one rivet that doesn't look so good but I will wait until tomorrow, when I am rested, to fix it. All in all a good day!
All riveted and hinge brakets installed. Doesn't that just look nice?
Front spar(s) riveted to HS-710 & HS-714.
The front spar with the 404 & 405 ribs attached. I had to bend these ribs out of the way to get to the rivets.
Can you see the bad rivet? Top center of the picture... shop head is too small. I will drill it out and replace it tomorrow.


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Check out our interview with Open Plan Media co-founder Martin Caparrotta.
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Real-time traffic for The Sport Review site
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Simply put, since moving to Kinsta, we have had almost flawless performance across all of our websites. Kinsta has helped The Sport Review serve more than 178 million pageviews from almost 40 million users since 2017! With a record of 720k pageviews in a single day, all without a glitch.
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Many of the traffic spikes have come as a result of our interviews with the account owners of some of the biggest pet influencers on social media being shared around."
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A client of mine was telling me about a dream of attending a party thrown for her by some Italians. I asked her what Italians meant to her and she gave me a blank look. "Nothing," she said. "There's nothing special about Italians." "Um," I paused. "Well, how would the party have been different if the hosts had been a group of Klingons?" She began to laugh. It had been a great party, from her description, and the image of Klingons substituting as hosts helped her to recognize that the boisterous, emotional, celebratory quality in the dream was something she associated with her stereotype of Italians, as people who "know how to live." The remainder of the dream dealt with her recent decision to accept life on its own terms, good and bad, and to be present more fully in her own life.
Symbols and images don't necessarily stand out immediately when someone records or re-reads a dream. In fact, they often seem insignificant, even to people who are well aware that all elements in a dream may be quite meaningful since they were selected from a huge range of possibilities. One of the easiest ways to highlight what is special and significant about an image is to contrast it with another image that is in the same logical subset. Someone who dreamed of driving a cute red Volkswagon might be unable to articulate their sense of meaning about the car, until you ask them: "How is driving a red Volkswagon different from driving a Buick?" They immediately are more in touch with their association; that a Volkswagon is more hip and unconventional, less materialistic, and more adaptable because it's ugly-cute style transcends fashion changes. From this description they can also recognize these adjectives accurately describe their new business venture involving alternative health practices and meditation.
Another use of the contrast technique is to contrast the dream imagery against typical waking reality. If the symbol in the dream differs vastly from what you would expect to find in waking life, you expect the difference to be relevant. If someone dreams of chopping firewood with a butter knife, you may need to keep a straight face and ask them how that would be different from cutting firewood with an axe or saw. Only then will the light go on, and they'll see how impossible is the task they have undertaken. This realization in turn, will remind them they have just been asked to take on the responsibilities of a second department while reducing their own staff by a third. They are extremely overwhelmed and have inadequate tools to accomplish the job.
When you are working with your own dreams be sure to pose these contrasting questions from time to time. Even when the balance of the dream is unfolding nicely, it is good practice to ask: how is the search for a goat different from say, the search for a cow? This may trigger the recognition that in this particular instance it was important to find a scapegoat.
I find this technique saves time and irritation, since questions that don't help meaning unfold can be annoying to dreamers. It is much more pleasant to respond to a contrast question than a direct question, which can seem like a challenge. Using this technique as a thinking style can speed up the recognition of meaning, and help group members develop skills as they observe the process.


The "Wilhelmstraße History Mile" street exhibition was commissioned in 1996 by the then Senator for construction, housing and transportation, and was then fundamentally redesigned in April 2007. It is the Foundation's second permanent exhibition. This topographical presentation of the historical Prussian-German government district in Berlin includes 31 informational boards which present the history of the remaining buildings along the Wilhelmstraße, using pictures and text passages.


Beginning this September WMWS will have four new teachers in the grades, and one veteran returning in a new capacity.
Jacqueline Leafe, who began teaching at the school in September of 2011 with grade one has now completed five years with that original group. In 2012 they combined forces with the then new and upcoming first grade. The class has become one unified class of friends and co-workers over these four years. Mrs. Leafe will now be returning to the lower grades, ushering a new group of first graders to combine with our present second grade.
With sixteen years experience teaching in Waldorf early childhood and elementary programs she brings a wealth of knowledge and warmth for the developing young child, and looks forward to forming a new class.
Bruce Cooper, an experienced Waldorf certified teacher of 14 years, will now take over and lead Mrs. Leafe's rising grades 5/6 class. Mr. Cooper has a special appreciation for the developmental curriculum of the fifth grade and above, and is looking forward to living and skiing in the Mt. Washington valley. He and his family are moving to the northeast from Illinois where Bruce and his wife, Mari, have been teaching at the Four Winds Waldorf School for several years. Prior to this he had lived and taught in Colorado. We are honored to have Mr. Cooper come and join our community and lead this class into the middle school years.
This year we are also fortunate to have discovered Sarah Davidson, who will be teaching the combined grades 3 ⁄ 4 class. Mrs. Davidson, resides in the valley, and is already an active parent in the school. Her interest in Waldorf education was so strong that she has now entered the formal training program through Antioch University in Keene to become certified as a Waldorf teacher.
Mrs. Davidson has experience in nutrition and health, with education, with children, and as a lawyer. She holds a doctorate in law, a certificate in nutrition, and is now preparing to immerse her positive energy into forming a wonderful educational experience for children here at WMWS.
Louis Bullard, a scientist-become-Waldorf teacher of 16 years, comes to us from 9 years of teaching in all of the grades at Pine Hill Waldorf School in Wilton, NH. Besides his classroom teaching experience, Mr. Bullard along with his wife, Helen, has been running Waldorf camps for many years. He worked at Camp Glenbrook in Marlborough, NH for 15 years. For six of those years he was assistant director. Louis and Helen also spend summers training staff for camps in China.
Mr. Bullard is looking forward to teaching the wonderful middle-school curriculum once again, this time to our grades 7/8 class at WMWS. Heidi Miller, who also lives locally in Eaton, and has been teaching in our early childhood aftercare program, has entered the year-round Waldorf certification program as of this summer. Heidi will be our part-time educational support person this year, working in all grades to assist in academics, artistic work, and in various other teacher duties.
Mrs. Miller comes to us with a Bachelors degree in early childhood, and her Masters in education. We are excited to have Heidi Miller on board with her willingness to substitute, and immerse herself in hands-on learning of Waldorf education while sharing her love for the children.
Alongside these new positions the elementary curriculum is supported by teachers in Music, German, Handwork, Woodwork, and Movement. These and our teachers of early childhood— parent/toddler through kindergarten—may be introduced in a future article.


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1 Timothy Introduction
by 杨 全荣|Published 2013-04-14
Paul identified himself as the author on 1:1. Paul wrote a total of 13 letters in the NT, all the letters were addressed to local churches, except 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, which were addressed to an individual.
Some modern liberal scholars suggested these three letters were written by not by Paul, but by a Paulinist one or two generations removed from Paul. For me it is pretty clear that it was Paul of Tarsus who wrote these letters. The introduction of all three letters clearly tell us that it was Paul who wrote to Timothy and Titus, their relationships were clearly documented in Acts.
The following is a short timeline of Paul's ministry:
48-56 AD
Paul three missionary journeys. Wrote Galatians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians in 51/52AD. Wrote Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians in 55/56AD
Paul in Jerusalem, Caesarea and finally arrived in Rome
Paul under house arrest in Rome. Wrote Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Philemon in 61/62AD
Paul was released from Rome and traveled to Ephesus and Create. He left Timothy in Ephesus and Titus in Create. He wrote 1 Timothy and Titus in 65/66AD.
Paul was imprisoned the second time in Rome. Wrote 2 Timothy, the last letter by Paul.
Timothy was the son of a Greek father and Jewish mother (Acts 16:1).
His mother Eunice and grandmother Lois were both known for their sincere faith (2 Tim 1:5).
Paul first met Timothy in Lystra on his 1st missionary journey (Acts 14:6;16:1)
Timothy already knew and believed the OT, thanks to his mother and grandmother (2 Tim 3:15), and Paul took him on a a promising protege.
Paul became like a spiritual father to Timothy, referring to him as "my true son in the faith" (1 Tim 1:2) , and my dear son (2 Tim 1:2; Phil 2:22)
Timothy became Paul closest coworker. Six of Paul's epistles include Timothy in the salutations (2 Cor 1:1; Phil 1:1; Col 1:1; 1 Thes 1:1; 2 Thes 1:1; Philemon 1).
Timothy has become so dear to Paul that in the apostle's last message was a touching appeal for Timothy to join him in his final days (2 Tim 1:4;4:9, 21).
After Paul was released from the Roman's prison the 1st time. He revisited the churches in Asia minor, including Ephesus and left Timothy there to provide leadership to the church. Then after an internval Paul wrote Timothy this letter.
Timothy may have been by nature somewhat passive, timid, easily intimidated (2 Tim 1:7). Thus Paul repeatedly spurred him into action (1 Tim 1:3; 4:11; 5:7; 6:2;2 Tim 3:14). He was to let nothing, including his relative youth ( 1 Tim 4:12) stand in the way of his performance of duty (2 Tim 2:1-7). Like a good soldier he was to fight the good fight (1 Tim 1:18), protecting the truth and propagating the gospel using his spiritual gifts ( 1 Tim 4:14; 2 Tim 1:6).
Key Topics in Each Chapters
Warning against false teachers, protect the glorious gospel
The grace of Jesus has changed Paul from a persecutor of Christians, a blasphemer, a violent man to a servant of Christ
Hand over those who rejected faith and good conscience to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme
Instructions concerning prayers (2:1-7)
Instructions concerning men and women (2:8-15)
Instructions concerning elders and deacons (3:1-13)
Warning against deceiving spirits and demons
Life and Doctrine are both important for a minister of Christ
Charter 5
Concerning various age-groups
Concerning widows
Concerning elders
Concerning salves and masters
Concerning false doctrines and greediness
Concerning man of God
Concerning the rich
Guard what has been entrusted to your care.
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Big changes coming to iPhone, iPad Pro this month
March 4, 2016 By Sam Catherman
Apple is expected to unveil updated versions of the iPad Pro and the iPhone this month, and they both feature some changes you won't believe.
Apple will likely release a new iPad model and an updated trimmed-down iPhone at an event later this month, and the news has tech nerds and consumers alike buzzing. According to a report from the New York Times, Apple CEO Tim Cook has predicted that the new tablet could replace the personal computer as a primary work device sooner than expected.
But some critics point out that while the iPad Pro boasts some wonderful features like a 12.9 inch screen and pressure sensitivity and angle detection capabilities, the tablet may still not have the horsepower to compete with PC's for more complex tasks.
Nonetheless, tablet PCs are turning up in more places around the world, and Apple hopes to be at the forefront of the market. Engineers, bankers and creative professionals have all praised the iPad for its portability and intuitive user interface, and as they become more powerful, more people will likely welcome their presence.
The new iPad Pro slated for release is likely to be a smaller version of the current model with the 12.9 inch screen, trimming it down to just 9.7 inches. This is the same size as the current iPad Air 2 model. The iPad Pro, however, will incorporate the same A9X processor that Apple claims has the strength of a full-sized laptop.
Apple is also expected to unveil a number of new accessories, including a Smart Connector for its Smart Keyboard. Accessories for other products like the Apple Watch could be in the mix as well.
Despite the new sleek design and powerful processor, Apple is taking a gamble by continuing to develop their iPads with such tenacity. The most commonly used iPad is still the old iPad 2, and people have little reason to upgrade when they primarily use the device for surfing the web. Apple will need to update peoples' perceptions of what is possible with a tablet as they update the devices as well.
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non-traumatic injury or pain suffered by cyclists both recreational and elite (DeBernardo 2012, Clarsen 2010, Dannenberg 1986).
Mastering Load implies a detailed understanding of the features and characteristics which can influence non-traumatic injury. More recently there has been strong emphasis upon training load and its influence upon injury, from thought leaders such as Tim Gabbett, Yann LeMeur and Michael Drew, but mainly related to rugby, cricket and Australian football.
Historically, injury management practitioners have analysed mechanical components of movement such as kinematics, vertical ground reaction forces and muscle activation to predict and/or explain tissue overload. Jumping and landing theory gives evidence of the ability to change mechanical loading characteristics during activity, and current concepts in the management of patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture also have mechanical deficiency and subsequent rehabilitation as key tenets (Hewett 2006).
FACT: We can change mechanical loading AND it is important in injury management.
The Mastering Load conversation is not quite as evolved in cycling, and is complicated by the nature of cycling, which of course involves a bike. The emphasis regarding the mechanics of cycling has always been focused upon bike geometry and rider set-up to the bike. There is little or no discussion of the mechanical ability of the body, as there is in PFPS or ACL injury.
Power production, VO2 max, joint moments, seat height, knee angle, fore-aft seat position are all parameters measured in cycling research, but a recent systematic review of cycling non-traumatic injury related research (Visentini 2015, in press) found no evidence that these parameters are related to injury. The emphasis in research has been upon performance.
FACT: Most bike set-up theory is not based upon injury data but performance data.
There is some evidence that excess lumbar flexion is related to lumbar pain (Van Hoof 2012), and that volume in cycling relates to altered nerve conduction (Akuthota 2005, Anderson 1997). There is softer evidence that excessive dorsiflexion in the pedal stroke as well as knee valgus in the frontal plane could be related to knee pain.
FACT: Body related parameters have a relationship with cycling injury/pain.
Taking on board the theory of mechanotransduction being a cellular reaction to mechanical load (Khan and Scott 2009), what if a cyclist suffers a fall and subsequent back pain, which can affect gluteal muscle activation. At times of peak power the cyclist has been shown to maintain power levels regardless of the activation pattern. In this case the gluteals may be deficient and the other power group, the quadriceps, need to work 15% harder. What effect on the articular cartilage matrix of the retropatellar surface with this increase in patella-femoral compression force (PFCF) due to an increase in the quadriceps moment arm (McLean and Blanche 1994). Isn't this like a training load error – increasing local loading by 15% as compared to the same session the previous week?
FACT: All non-traumatic pain or injury in cycling is essentially an error in loading which causes a cellular and matrix response.
The clinical reasoning process in cycling injury management requires a knowledge of the cycling body, bike set-up, pedaling mechanics and activation, training load measurement and analysis, and tissue response characteristics. In essence a"mastery of loading" is required to best manage the cyclist in-clinic.
Paul Visentini is a Specialist Sports Physiotherapist, with his awarded sub-speciality in the area of lower limb tendinopathy. He also completed post graduate studies in Manipulative Physiotherapy in 1994, and designed the "VISA Score", a widely used functional outcome measure for Patellar Tendinopathy.
Paul is a keen recreational cyclist and is highly involved in teaching and management in the area of Bike Set-Up and 'Mastering Load'. He has been involved in Cycling Injury Management at both elite and recreational level, having consulted to the AIS in Varese, and is undertaking his Doctorate in Physiotherapy, investigating "Clinical Measures of the Closed Kinetic Chain in Cycling".
Paul is a leading clinician in Melbourne, Australia, and has a passion for cycling injury management, the evidence base involved, and the clinical reasoning process required to achieve the best result.
The 'ScienceOfCycling-Injury Prevention' is a platform for the education of Cycling Injury Practitioners world-wide, and the associated course has now been presented by Paul in Melbourne, Varese, Italy and Newcastle, Australia.


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The site began as Louis XIII's hunting lodge before his son Louis XIV transformed and expanded it, moving the court and government of France to Versailles in 1682.
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Claude Monet lived for nearly forty-three years, from 1883 to 1926, in his house in Giverny.
Walking through his house and gardens, visitors can still feel the atmosphere which reigned at the home of the Master of Impressionism and marvel at the floral compositions and water lilies which were his greatest sources of inspiration.
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The idea is to recreate the Grand Couvert, a meal that the King had in public with his family. A table is set and silverware from the eighteenth century seems as if it's ready for royal soups to be served.
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The Cabécar are an indigenous group of the remote Talamanca region of eastern Costa Rica. They speak Cabécar, a language belonging to the Chibchan language family of the Isthmo-Colombian Area of lower Central America and northwestern Colombia. According to census data from the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INEC), the Cabécar are the largest indigenous group in Costa Rica with a population of nearly 17,000.

Cabécar territory extends northwest from the Río Coen to the Río Reventazón. Many Cabécar settlements today are located inside reserves established by Costa Rican law in 1976 to protect indigenous ancestral homelands. These reserves exhibit ecological diversity, including vast swaths of tropical rainforest covering steep escarpments and large river valleys where many Cabécar still employ traditional subsistence livelihoods and cultural practices.

History

Language
Cabécar is one of sixteen remaining languages in the Chibchan language family of the Isthmo-Colombian Area, a region of southern Central America (specifically eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama) and northwestern Colombia bifurcating the areas of Mesoamerican and South American linguistic traditions. The extensive geographic distribution of the Chibchan language family has sparked debate among scholars regarding the origin and diffusion of Chibchan languages. Two conceptual models have emerged to describe possible scenarios: the Theory of North Migration and the Centrifugal Expansion Theory. The former postulates Colombia as the historical epicenter from which Chibchan linguistic groups migrated northwestward into present-day Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Honduras. However, anthropological and archaeological evidence (see Cooke and Ranere 1992; Fonseca and Cooke 1993; Fonseca 1994), combined with glottochronological studies (see Constenla 1981, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995), prefer the Centrifugal Expansion Theory suggesting that Chibchan-speaking groups developed in-situ over a long period of time from an origin at the Talamanca mountain range of present-day Costa Rica and Panama. From there, Chibchan linguistic groups migrated and settled as far north as eastern Honduras and as far south as Colombia.

Talamancan indigenous groups
Today the Bribri and Cabécar indigenous groups are known collectively as the Talamanca. The term Talamanca is not indigenous; it was adopted in the early 17th century from the Spanish town of Santiago de Talamanca as an umbrella designation for the aboriginal groups living between the current Costa Rican-Panamian border and the Río Coen in Costa Rica. Spanish records document the names of many closely related groups (Ara, Ateo, Abicetaba, Blancos, Biceitas or Viceitas, Korrhué, Ucabarúa, and Valientes) living in this area who became known collectively as the Talamanca.

A scarcity of historical documents describing aboriginal groups in southeastern Costa Rica has made it difficult for scholars to differentiate the culture histories of the present-day Bribri and Cabécar. Spanish Franciscan fathers in the early 17th century noted linguistic differences among the various Talamancan tribes mentioned above, but generally these groups became known more broadly as the Bribri or Cabécar according to their geographic location east or west of the Río Dyke. Bribri elders maintain that their name is a derivation of dererri, the Bribri term for "strong" or "hard." Conversely, Cabécar elders suggest that their name derives from the words kabé (quetzal) and ká (place), in reference to the Cabécar ancestral tradition of eating the quetzal. Modern Bribri and Cabécar languages are similar in lexicon, orthography, and tonal levels (high and low pitches), but they are not mutually interchangeable.

Subsistence livelihoods
A variety of activities characterize Cabécar subsistence livelihoods today. These include small-scale agriculture, hunting, fishing, and harvesting wild flora for food, medicine, house materials, and a host of other uses. Cabécar subsistence in the natural environment takes place in two realms: the 'near space' in and around the house or village, where human activity has modified the landscape; and the 'far space,' where natural, primary forests remain unchanged and where human activity must coexist harmoniously with the environment. Subsistence agriculture in near space is one of the most important activities in which Cabécar households employ three distinct agricultural systems: tropical home gardens, slash-and-burn, and plantain cultivation.

Tropical home gardens
Cabécar households maintain tropical home gardens with a variety of trees and plants for domestic consumption. These gardens generally are very dense with a multi-layered canopy. Cedar (Cedrela odorata), laurel (Cordia alliodora), balsa (Ochroma pyramidale) and peach palm (pejibaye or Bactris gasipaes) are among the tallest trees often found in Cabécar tropical home gardens. Lower strata include permanent crops such as coffee (Coffea arabica) and cacao (Theobroma cacao). The lowest stratum is characterized by medicinal plants, shrubs, and tubers, including chili pepper (Capsicum annuum), manioc (Manihot esculenta), and tiquisque (Xanthosoma violaceum). The Cabécar maintain their tropical home gardens by removing undesired underbrush to allow for growth of wild species that can also be harvested to supplement Cabécar everyday needs.

Slash-and-burn agriculture
Cabécar subsistence farmers practice rotating slash-and-burn agriculture for basic food requirements. This technique is employed during the driest month to clear dense underbrush from a plot using a machete or axe. The plant biomass is left to dehydrate and decompose for several weeks and then eliminated in a controlled burn. After the plot cools, the farmer can sow basic grains by placing seeds into shallow holes in the topsoil made by the sharpened tip of a branch fashioned from the pejibaye palm (Bactris gasipaes).

Cabécar farmers generally select a plot roughly one hectare in size in either alluvial valleys or on steep upland slopes where basic grains like rice (Oryza sativa) and maize (Zea mays) are cultivated with beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and rotated with alternating fallow (rest) periods. It is not uncommon for one Cabécar household to work two or three plots, rotating cultivated crops both within and among them. Once a plot has yielded two or three grain harvests, it is left fallow for as long as twelve years to regain its fertility. During this lapse, secondary growth covers the plot, and the Cabécar harvest non-cultivated species to supplement their dietary, medicinal, and material needs.

Plantain cultivation
Cultivation of the exotic plantain hybrid (Musa x paradisiaca) in both monoculture and polyculture plots has become increasingly prevalent in Cabécar communities and has changed the structure of their traditional tropical home gardens. Cabécar households now rely on plantains for domestic consumption and as a cash economy to generate monetary income. Home gardens that have incorporated plantains tend to exhibit less plant diversity and lower density, and some Cabécar farmers have abandoned traditional indigenous agroecosystems in favor of larger plantain monoculture plots.

Social organization

Villages
Cabécar villages are unique in that houses and other structures are not nucleated around a central location. Instead, dwellings are often dispersed, sometimes a few kilometers apart. The notion of densely nucleated towns or villages was introduced in the region by the Spanish in the colonial era to coerce Talamancan indigenous groups into concentrated settlements, but these attempts were met with resistance. Stone observes that the word for 'town' or 'city' does not even exist in Bribri or Cabécar languages; instead 'city' is represented in Bribri as 'great place or extension' and in Cabécar as 'place of many houses'. Most Cabécar and Bribri villages reflect patterns of dispersed settlement today, an indicator of the geographic isolation of the Talamanca region and of the limited contact these indigenous groups had with the Spanish.

Clans
Cabécar social organization is predicated on matrilineal clans in which the mother is the head of household. Matrimonial norms restrict an individual from marrying a relative within the blood group related to the individual's mother. On the father's side, marriages are not prohibited beyond the father's sisters and first cousins. Each matrilineal clan controls marriage possibilities, regulates land tenure, and determines property inheritance for its members. Private land tenure, like the nucleated village system, was foreign to the Cabécar before contact with the Spanish. Each clan traditionally has maintained its own designated area for the subsistence activities of its members.

Personal property is inherited or passed on to clan relatives after the death of an individual. When a man dies, his personal effects can be inherited by his siblings, unless his mother is still alive, in which case she would assume possession. When she passes away, the belongings are inherited by whomever she designated as the subsequent owner. Contact with non-indigenous peoples has exposed the Cabécar to Western forms of land tenure based on private ownership. Some Cabécar villages have begun to recognize land as property, evident in the construction of fences that demarcate boundaries around agricultural plots or household gardens, but traditional Cabécar land tenure regimes in which land is controlled communally by the matrilineal clan still persist.

Persecution
The tribe's sovereignty of their land is being threatened by Latino farmers who have killed chiefs and disarmed tribals in the 21st century.

See also

 Talamancan mythology
 Sibú, the primary deity of the Cabécar mythology
 Indigenous peoples of Costa Rica
 Indigenous peoples of the Americas
 Isthmo-Colombian Area
 Chibchan languages
 Bribri people
 Cordillera de Talamanca

References

Further reading
 Berger, Marcos Guevara and Rubén Chacón Castro (1992). Territorios en Costa Rica: Orígenes, Situación Actual y Perspectivas. San José, Costa Rica: García Hermanos S.A. Print.
 Constenla, Adolfo (1991). Las Lenguas del Area Intermedia. San José, Costa Rica: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica. Print.
 García-Serrano, Carlos Ramos and Juan Pablo Del Monte (2004). "The Use of Tropical Forest (Agroecosystems and Wild Plant Harvesting) as a Source of Food in the Bribri and Cabecar Cultures in the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica." Economic Botany, Vol. 58, No. 1: 58–71. Print.
 Hoopes, John W. (2005). "The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Chibchan World of Southern Central America and Northern Colombia, AD 300–600."  Journal of Archaeological Research, Vol. 13, No. 1: 1-88. Print.
 Quesada, Diego J. (2007). The Chibchan Languages. Cartago, Costa Rica: Editorial Tecnológica de Costa Rica. Print.
 Stone, Doris (1962). The Talamancan Tribes of Costa Rica. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. XLIII, No. 2. Print.

Indigenous peoples in Costa Rica

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Despite the mega-corporation's desperate attempts to keep company secrets secret, internal emails written by top Monsanto executives that were gathered during the discovery phase of a lawsuit now underway have been unsealed. What did this treasure trove of darkness reveal? The claim being made by hundreds of plaintiffs in the current combined cases in federal court is not nonsense, as the company has long insisted. These executives did indeed cover up the known carcinogenic dangers of Roundup. Will the U.S. Congress and the federal agencies responsible for Americans' health and safety finally ban the substance, as the European Union, Sri Lanka, El Salvador and others have wisely done?
By James Spounias
The evidence against Monsanto's Roundup and other herbicides containing glyphosate may not get any clearer, even to the thickest-headed believers of Roundup's safety.
As reported by this writer earlier this year in American Free Press, Monsanto is being sued by individuals in federal court in San Francisco, on the basis that its herbicide Roundup brought on non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in individuals.
Documents released by one of Monsanto's law firms cast a dark shadow on the company's knowledge of the danger of Roundup and its main ingredient, glyphosate. Monsanto claims that the documents were released against attorney-client confidentiality. The law firm countered that Monsanto did not properly protect the documents in question, and the documents have now been made public, irrespective of the quibbling of lawyers.
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The story also quotes a 2002 email in which a Monsanto executive wrote, "What I've been hearing from you is that this continues to be the case with these studies—Glyphosate is O.K. but the formulated product (and thus the surfactant) does the damage."
This 2002 snippet corroborates this writer's Dec. 9, 2016 American Free Press story that quoted Dr. Robin Mesnage, a cancer expert with the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics at King College in London, who provided evidence for the statement that adjuvants make glyphosate 1,000 times more toxic than glyphosate alone.
Also, in the Sept. 18, 2015 issue of American Free Press the fact that adjuvants make glyphosate worse was explained by this writer, quoting professor Robert Belle who stated "it would be necessary to look more closely at the numerous additives that go into [Roundup] and their interaction," in light of the fact that glyphosate, not Roundup, was registered in Europe. Roundup, again, includes adjuvants that make glyphosate more dangerous.
Another gem of a snippet, written by a different Monsanto executive in a 2003 email, is included in the Times's Aug. 1 story: "You cannot say that Roundup is not a carcinogen . . . we have not done the necessary testing on the formulation to make that statement." Yet the same executive added, "We can make that statement about glyphosate and can infer that there is no reason to believe that Roundup would cause cancer."
No reason to "infer" Roundup would cause cancer flies in the face of data released as early as 1981 suggesting that glyphosate does cause cancer, according to information leaked by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Is there enough evidence to initiate a criminal investigation in light of these emails?
Mike Papantonio, a noted American trial lawyer, author, and host of "America's Lawyer" on RT, believes so, saying the Department of Justice has these facts and can issue subpoenas and indictments.
"But you watch," Papantonio told Thomm Hartmann on RT's "The Big Picture" on Aug. 4. "They won't do it," suggesting that corporations of Monsanto's stature will at worst get a "slap on the wrist" via fines.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties have evidently been completely bought by Monsanto and other substantial corporations that, not so ironically, are closely tied to the six corporations that run the media.
The alternative media has reported extensively on the vast dangers of glyphosate, particularly how it disrupts gut-bacteria and how its introduction and proliferation correlates to numerous disease states, such as autism and many other conditions, as reported by Dr. Stephanie Seneff and Anthony Samsel.
Will these latest admissions by Monsanto finally trigger a tipping point at which polluters and government toadies begin to be brought to heel?
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Glyphosate, an ingredient in Monsanto's Round up, impairs male offspring reproductive development, according to a study published in the Archives of Toxicology, where study authors concluded "maternal exposure to glyphosate disturbed the masculinization process and promoted behavioral changes and histological and endocrine problems in reproductive parameters." Keep in mind that we're literally drinking, breathing, and swimming in glyphosate (it has contaminated streams, rivers, and lakes across the U.S.). In a 2015 study published in the Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction, the authors detailed how pesticides, among other factors, lower testosterone levels, leading to reproductive dysfunction and infertility. What was fairly unknown 20 years ago is now common today, with younger and younger generations of men and women facing hormonal and reproductive issues, much more so than in the past. —CAROLE VALENTINE, Carotec co-founder
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Russia says it sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria
by: VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 25, 2019 / 08:06 AM EDT / Updated: Oct 25, 2019 / 12:50 PM EDT
Russian forces patrol near the city of Qamishli, north Syria, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019. Syrian forces, Russian military advisers and military police are being deployed in a zone 30 kilometers (19 miles) deep along much of the northeastern border, under an agreement reached Tuesday by Russia and Turkey. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria to help patrol the country's Turkey-Syria border after a deal between Moscow and Ankara, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
The ministry said about 300 military police have arrived in Syria to patrol the northeastern areas along the border with Turkey and oversee the pullout of Syrian Kurdish fighters from there. Military cargo planes also airlifted 20 armored vehicles for the mission, it added.
After Turkey invaded northeastern Syria this month, an offensive enabled by President Donald Trump's abrupt pullout of U.S. troops, Moscow and Ankara struck a deal splitting control of northeastern Syria.
The new Russian troops sent in — as American soldiers pull out — further underscore how the situation on the ground in Syria has dramatically changed with Turkey's invasion and subsequent developments.
Turkey has now been allowed to keep control over a significant chunk of northeastern Syria, a belt of land on its border in the northeast that it invaded on Oct. 9, along with a larger piece of the border in the northwest that Turkey already holds, captured in previous incursions.
Russia said Friday the additional battalion of military police dispatched to Syria comes from Chechnya, a Russian region that saw two devastating separatist wars in the late 1990s and the early 2000s, before Moscow regained control. Troops from Chechnya, known for their fierce warrior spirit, have regularly been sent to Syria on rotation bases in recent years.
The Defense Ministry said military police on Friday patrolled a new route along the border, covering more than 200 kilometers (124 miles) in a round trip between the city of Kamishli and the Matala settlement.
The Russian military does not release the total number of its contingent in Syria, and it did not say on Friday how many troops will be involved in the patrol mission on the Turkish border.
Under the Moscow-Ankara deal, Turkey is to keep sole control of a large section in the center of the border area, most of which was captured in its invasion this month, aimed at driving the U.S.-allied Kurdish forces out of a "safe zone" along the border.
Syrian government and Russian military police are to control the rest of the 440-kilometer (273-mile) Syria-Turkey border. They are to ensure that Syrian Kurdish fighters, who were U.S. allies in the fight against the Islamic State group and who freed most of the region of IS, pull 30 kilometers (19 miles) away from the frontier. After that, Russia and Turkey are to begin joint patrols along a narrower strip directly on the Turkish-Syrian border.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian military has been in close contact with the Syrian Kurdish fighters, doing a "delicate job" of coordinating their pullout from the border areas. He noted that the Kurds have pledged to abide by the deal, adding that the failure to do so would put them in trouble.
"If the Kurdish units with their weapons aren't pulled back from that zone, they will regrettably be left face to face with the Turkish military because (Syrian) border guards and Russian military police wouldn't stand between them," Peskov said in a conference call with reporters.
A large wedge of eastern Syria remains in the hands of the Kurdish-led fighters. That includes the bulk of Syria's oil fields, which deprives Damascus of control over a crucial resource and gives the Syrian Kurds a major bargaining chip. Trump has said some U.S. troops will remain there to help Kurds "secure" the oil fields.
The Kurdish fighters captured the main fields from the Islamic State group and since then have helped finance their self-rule by selling the crude, mainly to the Syrian government.
Pentagon chief Mark Esper said the U.S. is considering sending troops and armored vehicles into the area around the oil fields in northeastern Syria to ensure that IS militants don't get access to the oil, enabling them to rebuild.
Speaking at a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he didn't provide any details about the possible number of troops, except to say that the U.S. will maintain a "reduced presence" in the war-torn country.
Moscow has argued that the U.S. troops presence in Syria is illegitimate as they lack Damascus' permission to stay. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Moscow is "concerned by frequently changing signals from Washington about its plans and intentions toward Syria."
Ryabkov charged that the U.S. may use its troops presence near oil fields to continue to exert pressure on Damascus.
All sides have vowed to abide by a cease-fire under the Russian-Turkish deal, but Syria's state-run SANA reported an attack by Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels on Syrian army positions on Thursday, outside the town of Tal Tamr. Separately, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said Thursday that three of its fighters were killed in fighting with Turkish-backed forces.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed a threat Thursday to resume the military offensive if his country continued to be "harassed" by the Kurdish militia. He also said Turkey would "crush" any Syrian Kurdish fighter its military comes across while trying to secure areas under its control.
The commander of the Syrian Kurdish-led force, Mazloum Abdi, said Trump had assured him in a phone call that American forces will "stay here for a long time and their partnership with Syrian Democratic Forces will continue for a long time."
Erdogan, meanwhile, told Turkey's state television TRT that the U.S. should hand Abdi over to Turkey, calling him a "terrorist" wanted in Turkey.
Ankara considers Syrian Kurdish fighters terrorists, aligned with a Kurdish insurgency within Turkey and wants them out of the border zone. It has justified its invasion by saying it needs to safeguard Turkey's territory and hopes to resettle Syrian refugees now hosted by Turkey in the border area.
The Turkish offensive has triggered new flows of refugees. The United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said that so far more than 10,100 Syrian refugees, mostly women and children, have crossed into Iraq seeking safety. It also estimated that some 180,000 people have been internally displaced across Syria's north-east.


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Home / Nation & World / States shoulder road-building burden as U.S. government stalls
Cars drive onto Interstate 494 on Friday from Rockford Road. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has proposed an $11 billion plan for roads, bridges and transit that raises taxes. "It's not going to come from the federal government," Dayton said in February. "It's not going to come from the sky, so it's going to have to come from us." (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)
States shoulder road-building burden as U.S. government stalls
By: The Associated Press	April 24, 2015 2:33 pm
U.S. states are taking more financial responsibility for roads and bridges as the expiration of federal transportation funding approaches, straining a partnership that dates to the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1950s.
At least six states have delayed about $2 billion in construction projects because of the uncertainty, and others are making contingency plans to pay contractors. Five states, all with Republican governors, increased fuel taxes this year, while Minnesota and Michigan are pursuing legislation or ballot measures to raise additional money.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the U.S. Highway Trust Fund, which provides federal dollars for roads and transit, will become insolvent after the current funding bill, itself only a 10-month fix, ends May 31. There's been no long- term funding plan since 2009, and Congress has failed to address an estimated $58 billion annual shortfall for surface transportation. States are charting their own courses.
"They have to do that," Tennessee Commissioner of Transportation John Schroer said. "I don't think we have any other option."
States accounted for 40 percent of the average $213 billion in annual highway and transit spending from 2008 to 2012, with local entities paying 35 percent and the federal government 25 percent, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington. Yet in some states, federal funding accounts for more than half the transportation budget.
While U.S. infrastructure deteriorated, spending declined as cars became more fuel efficient and collections from state and federal gasoline taxes declined. Expenditures at all levels fell $27 billion, or 12 percent, between 2002 and 2011, and revenue for the Highway Trust Fund, created under Eisenhower in 1956 to pay for the interstate system, has fallen short of expenditures for more than a decade, Pew said.
About $163 billion is needed annually over a six-year period for highways, bridges and transit systems, yet only about $105 billion is being invested, according to a December report from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the American Public Transportation Association.
The needs are pressing enough that even when states raise revenue, they can't afford to lose dollars from Washington, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said.
"The federal funding is still foundational," Foxx told reporters in Washington last week. "They could take one step forward and two steps back if the federal government ends up going over this cliff."
The Obama administration has proposed a six-year, $478 billion plan, and there have been proposals that include raising the federal gasoline levy or taxing U.S. companies' offshore profits brought home. None have advanced.
Amid the uncertainty, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Montana, Tennessee, and Wyoming have delayed construction projects totaling about $2 billion, and more are likely to as the deadline approaches, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Some states, including Iowa, are proceeding with the expectation of continued funding, and planning to borrow to pay contractors if that doesn't happen, said Jim Tymon, chief operating officer of the highway officials group.
The roles of federal and state governments are changing by default as Congress fails to act, said Joshua Schank, president of the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan policy research group in Washington.
States will slowly provide a greater percentage of spending as long as funding from Congress remains stagnant, he said.
"With this continuous crisis, it's very difficult for states to plan or figure out what the funding is that they should be raising," Schank said.
The Highway Trust Fund's main purpose was to pay for interstates. After the system was completed in the 1990s, the fund's role and that of the federal government in paying for infrastructure became less clear, said Sean Slone, director of transportation and infrastructure policy at the Council of StateGovernments in Lexington, Kentucky.
Congress had passed long-term funding bills sending money to state and local governments until 2009, when it started enacting a series of short-term extensions. The federal gas tax, the major source of revenue for the fund, hasn't been increased since 1993.
Candidate plans
Some members of Congress, including Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both Republican presidential candidates, have advocated maintaining federal responsibility for interstates while shifting more authority to the states.
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, another Republican candidate, and Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer introduced legislation April 16 to extend the Highway Trust Fund by letting companies voluntarily return overseas profits at a tax rate of 6.5 percent.
An email request for comment on infrastructure funding from Hillary Clinton, the announced Democratic candidate for president, wasn't returned.
With needs mounting, states are moving to bolster their own funding. After no legislature increased gasoline taxes from 2010 to 2012, six states and the District of Columbia did in 2013, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures in Denver. Three others followed suit last year, and Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah acted this year.
States are also borrowing more and turning to the private sector. Ohio sold private-activity bonds this month for a $430 million highway bypass project, the state's largest, and its first public-private partnership.
Michigan voters will consider in May whether to raise money for transportation, and the Republican-led Minnesota House of Representatives approved a bill April 22 to generate $7 billion for roads and bridges during the next decade.
"We would just as soon be proactive in making sure that we've got our needs met, and not relying solely on the federal government to come through," said Rep. Tim Kelly, R-Red Wing, chairman of the House Transportation Policy and Finance Committee.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, has proposed an alternative $11 billion plan for roads, bridges and transit with higher taxes because the state has no other choice.
"It's not going to come from the federal government," Dayton said at the Capitol in February. "It's not going to come from the sky, so it's going to have to come from us."
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