This was originally published on HelpMeViz on May 7, 2015.
I'm excited to announce the return of our second annual HelpMeViz Data Vizathon event. On Saturday, May 30th, HelpMeViz will bring back our community of coders, data scientists, and data visualizers to help Bread for the World Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) with two important data visualization challenges that can shed light on the illusive problem of hidden hunger in the developing world. We're especially excited to be expanding this year's vizathon to two sites—one on the East Coast in Washington, DC and the other on the West Coast in San Francisco.
It's tempting to see hunger as just a food quantity issue with clear consequences. But more often than not, hunger is hidden. Hidden hunger describes a reality faced by one in two preschool aged children worldwide, and happens when a child does not receive the right micronutrients to grow to full potential. It impairs cognitive development and causes ill-health and early death to its victims, condemning at least one-fourth of the world to lives lived below their physical and mental potential. Even a child that is getting enough calories can suffer from hidden hunger, and the damage is lifelong and irreversible. As the world celebrates the continued decline of the most visible forms of hunger and malnutrition, hidden hunger persists, and its consequences are holding back children, families, and even economies.
The goal: Find a way to bring hidden hunger out of the shadows. Use the latest global data on micronutrient deficiencies to expose the story of hidden hunger and its massive human costs.
Demonstrate the mounting costs of hidden hunger (in lost potential, years, GDP, etc.).
Combine data with graphic art and photos to humanize the problem of hidden hunger, giving it a name and a face.
Though it may seem paradoxical, obesity is a deadly form of hunger. Not only are undernourished children more likely to be obese later in life, but obesity signals an unbalanced diet that impairs physical and cognitive development and plagues children and adults with costly, debilitating diseases and heart conditions.
As more countries have moved from low- to middle-income status, hunger has moved too. Urban and rural areas from sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia's poorest countries to the higher income ones are experiencing rapid increases in overweight and obesity status. This shift is already unleashing an avalanche of new health problems that these countries are not prepared to withstand. Diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular problems like heart disease and hypertension are all steadily rising in developing countries. Yet unlike the developed economies, these countries do not have adequate health systems to mitigate the causes or to treat the lethal health consequences. It's beyond time for the global community to recognize obesity as a form of malnutrition, and commit to helping developing countries build the much-needed infrastructure to prevent and respond to it.
The goal: Use recently published obesity and body mass index data to tell the story of obesity's stunning rise across the developing world, and the avalanche of health conditions it is unleashing.
Find ways to count the economic and health costs of obesity, and reveal the capacity gap in developing country healthcare systems to manage it.
HelpMeViz, IFPRI, and Bread for the World Institute are inviting up to 50 guests to each site on Saturday, May 30, from 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. to work on these two challenges. The Institute will provide the data for the two challenges and space for attendees to work; they will also provide breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks. Participants will receive a printed copy of the 2016 Hunger Report, to be released in November 2015.
The event will be blogged live on HelpMeViz. We hope that interested people all over the world will want to lend their voice and their skills to these challenges. Data will be made available when the event begins, and visualizations, conversations, and comments from both coasts and anywhere else will be posted to the site in real time.
If you would like to attend in Washington, DC or San Francisco, click the links below to register.
Washington, DC: Register to attend the HelpMeViz 2015 Vizathon at the Washington, DC site.
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We've a rich successful history in the club, a history with individual and team performance that merit a Hall of Fame. Over the last few weeks, we have gathered together the top 5 all time fastest times over each distance in the history of Rathfarnham WSAF and the results are now published on the club website in a new "Hall of Fame" section on the left hand pane.
The Hall of Fame also contains a Race Victories Honours List of all winning performances by our athletes. Anyone who has finished 1st over the line in any Senior (or Novice or Intermediate) race will merit inclusion on the Race Victories Honours List.
A Championship Individual and Team Podium Honours list has also been included in the Hall of Fame.
Qualification criteria for the top 5 times are times run since Rathfarnham WSAF was formed in 1998 and by athletes who are currently in the club. Times of athletes who were in the club but have since left or retired but did NOT join another club are also valid. However, anybody who left the club to join another club, their times went with them.
At the moment, the Hall of Fame just captures Mens Senior (also Novice and Intermediate) results but over the coming weeks the Ladies and Masters all time leading results and victories will be recorded.
Padraig McCriostail led over 1,700 finisher to win the Achill half marathon in a time of 1.15.53. He was closely followed by Catriona Jennings who won the women's race in 1.19.00 in her first half and was 3rd. overall. Willie Morris came home in 8th position in a time of 1.20.49. Their Coach Terry McConnon, who coaches the three out of Trinity College, was delighted with the results. Other Club finishers were John Hogan (1.41), Ashling Tohill (1.47), Lorraine Nolan (1.48), Eamon Collins (1.51) and Elaine Tohill (1.57). Full results on Achill half marathon website at Link. Some good photos by Helen McClelland are in the Gallery Section Link. Other photos on Sportsfile website Link in the Athletics section.


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Bhagya Laxmi Yojana in Uttar Pradesh
Yogi Adityanath to start Bhagya Laxmi Yojana(BLY) in Uttar Pradesh
A financial assistance scheme for the girls in Uttar Pradesh will be launched very soon. This scheme is named as BLY scheme under which financial assistance will be provided to each and every girl student of Uttar Pradesh. The BLY scheme has been introduced by none other than the newly elected Hon'ble CM of the state Yogi Adityanath. The main aim of the BLY scheme is to provide financial aid to the girls so that it would be used for their education right from school to graduation. The Uttar Pradesh govt. will issue bond of Rs. 50 thousand for every birth of girl in a poor family.
The Uttar Pradesh govt. wants everyone's support which will ensure everyone's development in the state. Hence to make this vision successful, the initiative to provide financial aid to the girls of poor families has been decided under the BLY scheme. The Uttar Pradesh state govt. is committed to improve the quality of education among girls of the state and to ensure that every girl, whether rich or poor should get compulsory education. So this initiative to provide financial help for education of girls belonging to poor families will be beneficial for their schooling and graduation and will provide them fair chance to follow their dreams. The female literacy rate which is quite low, compared to the literacy rate of the opposite gender will get a good push.
The Bly scheme is aimed for those girls who belong to poor families. So those families which are permanent residents of Uttar Pradesh will get chance to avail the scheme. Families from lower income groups, BPL families, may apply for the scheme. This scheme will ensure smooth education for the girl child of the poor families of UP. The govt. may decide on the maximum number of girls of a certain family to whom this benefit will be provided.
The BLY scheme is a financial aid scheme by the state govt. where financial bond will be made under the name of the girl child born in a poor family. The govt. will issue bond of Rs. 50 thousand for this scheme, per beneficiary. However, this amount will not be paid in total to the family instantly after the birth of the girl child. Rather, the total amount will be released in phased manner. Below are the scheme implementation phases of BLY in Uttar Pradesh:
When a girl child is born, the govt. will prepare a bond amounting Rs. 50,000 in the name of the girl child. However, she must belong to a poor and backward family and satisfy the eligibility criteria.
During the admission to the 6th standard in the school, the beneficiary will get the first installment of Rs. 3,000 which will be utilized by the girl's family for her education.
Then the second installment of the BLY scheme will be provided when the girl gets admission to the 10th standard in school. The second installment will be of Rs. 7,000.
The third installment of Rs. 8,000 will be paid to the beneficiary when she reaches 12th standard and gets admission.
The final installment of Rs. 32,000 will be provided when the girl completes her schooling and seeks admission for graduation. This is the highest installment amount which will ensure higher studies for girls belonging to poor families of Uttar Pradesh.
Date of Announcement of the Bhagya Laxmi Yojana
The state govt. has already decided to implement this scheme from this year. Facilities in form of bonds will be provided from this year only to the eligible beneficiaries. As per latest reports the BLY scheme will be officially launched in the month of June, 2017. The main governing authority of the BLY scheme will be the Dept. of Women welfare, Govt. of Uttar Pradesh. The scheme has been already announced by the CM Yogi Adityanath and will also launch the scheme in June 2017.
The Uttar Pradesh state govt. has handed over the task for the implementation of the project to the Dept. of Women Welfare. This concerned department will also be allocating the budget for the BLY scheme. It is expected that the scheme will fetch several thousand crore in the budget allocation session of Uttar Pradesh as the financial aid amount per beneficiary is Rs. 50,000.
Hence the BLY scheme is a welcome step by the new Chief Minister of the state which will ensure that every girl child of poor families also will get education. The govt. will provide financial support to the poor families to make their girls educated at least up to graduation level and empower then so that they can follow their dreams. The scheme will also be a smart push to better the literacy rate of the state.
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Above: William Angus in 1921.
Photo courtesy of Barr Smith Library.
Below: Kybybolite homestead at Kybybolite Research Centre in 1960. The center was established in 1905.
Below: Fruit tree contour planting experiments at Blackwood. Blackwood Experimental Orchard was established in 1908.
During a period of considerable change between 1902 and 1904, A.J. Perkins was Secretary for Agriculture, heading up a diverse group of organisations that made up the Council of Agriculture. On 1 August 1904, Perkins was made Principal of Roseworthy College.
William Angus, a graduate from the University of Aberdeen, arrived in South Australia in December 1904. He was recruited to replace Perkins and was appointed as the Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Professor of Agriculture. This title was upgraded to Director and Professor of Agriculture in 1906, effectively making him the first Director of Agriculture. He remained in that position until October 1910 when he resigned following a dispute with the Government about unprofitable management of egg marketing.
After a period of farming, he ran for Parliament, and became the member of the House of Assembly for Victoria and Albert (1912-15) and Albert (1915-21). He chaired several Royal Commissions and was secretary of the parliamentary Liberal Party. Later in his career, he maintained an interest in farming, and taught agriculture at Scotch College from 1934 to 1944.
Many new developments occurred during the decade up until 1910. A Poultry Expert (D.F. Laurie) was appointed and the original Chief Inspector of Stock, Valentine, retired to be replaced by his deputy, R.J. Needham in 1904-05.
For a couple of years, the department was called the 'Department of Agriculture and Intelligence'. Director Angus explained in his report for 1906-07 that the 'intelligence' essentially referred to the Departmental library and its role as a source of information. The following year Angus used for the first time the phrase, 'extension work' referring to the Department's advisory service to farmers.
In that year Angus said that previously, agricultural experimental work had largely been carried out by Agricultural Bureau branches, mostly testing new species and varieties of crops and pasture plants, or at Roseworthy College where it was of limited value because, although well planned and conducted, it was relevant only to its own soil and climatic conditions.
Since 1904, the Department had been reorganising to give special prominence to experimental work which was wide-ranging, covering many of the State's farming environments and with emphasis on fertilizer practices and dry farming techniques. Farming experiment stations were established at Loxton, Kybybolite, Murray Bridge (reclaimed swamp lands) and Parafield, with orchards at Hackney, Blackwood, Kybybolite and Mylor (demonstration orchard linked to Botanic Gardens). In 1908-09 the experiment station in the Murray Mallee (Veitch's Well) and the Turretfield Dairy Stud Farm at Rosedale in the Lower North were acquired.
A very significant event in that year was the appointment of A.E.V. Richardson, a diploma holder from Roseworthy College and science graduate of Adelaide University, as Assistant Director of Agriculture with special responsibilities for experimental work. He became Acting Director for a few months when Angus resigned in late 1910. In 1911, Richardson moved to the position of Superintendent of Agriculture at the University of Melbourne, and over the next forty years became one of the truly great figures in Australian agriculture in Victoria, at the Waite Institute, and with CSIR.
It was one of several new facilities established in a period of rapid expansion between 1905 and 1910.
The concept of a separate portfolio for the rural industries was firmly cemented into place by the formation of an Office of the Minister of Agriculture (later to become the Minister of Agriculture Department). At the time, the Minister for Agriculture's Department included the Secretary to the Minister, clerical staff, some inspectors, Secretary to the Advisory Board of Agriculture, and the editor of the Journal of Agriculture.
Angus is recognised as the first director of Agriculture to lead a Department with some structure. He presided over a period of very significant change, including absorbing the consequences of Federation after 1901. For the first time a Commonwealth Department had constitutional responsibility for plant and animal quarantine and for the maintenance of quality standards of Australian exports of rural products. This period saw the introduction of the long-standing arrangement whereby the scientific and technical officers of the relevant state departments became the agents for the Commonwealth in those areas.
Angus' period of office saw a great proliferation of experimental stations and orchards into many parts of the State, along with ever-increasing amounts of investigations on private properties, at that time ranging from Orroroo to Goolwa.
Daniels J.G. (1979); Angus, William (1871 – 1965); Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.


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What is Peta Wilson doing now? Wiki Bio, husband, net worth, family, kids
Olivia Wilson December 5, 2021
1 Peta Wilson's Early Life
1.1 Childhood in Papua New Guinea
2 Is Peta Married?
3 How Many Kids Does Peta Wilson Have?
4 Peta Wilson's Career and Net Worth
4.1 Nikita as Peta's Trademark
4.2 Career after Playing Nikita
5 Peta Wilson's Designer Career
Perhaps many millennials don't remember, but Peta Wilson as sexy and fatal Nikita, enchanted the audience in front of TV screens in the mid-nineties. This attractive Australian lady was the first crush of many boys, but she's not quite so active in the movie industry recently, so many would say she was just another one-hit acting wonder.
Happy birthday to ME, Peta Wilson #wyliewilson #petawilson #lingerie #beautiful #evocative #birthday #celebrate #love #losangeles #la #venicebeach #venice #california
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Peta Wilson's Early Life
The early life of Peta Wilson is impressive, as this blonde actress often traveled and lived in various places, since her father, Darcy Wilson, worked for the Australian Army as a former policeman. Her mom, Karlene, was also an Army employee as a caterer, and then worked in the hospitality industry. Peta has a brother named Rob who is five years younger than her.
Peta was born as Gia Wilson, 48 years ago in Sydney, Australia, on 18 November 1970. She spent some of her childhood in this city, but due to her father's work, she frequently changed places of residence and schools. It's known she attended an all-girls Catholic school in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Childhood in Papua New Guinea
Due to her father's profession, she also spent part of her youth in Papua New Guinea, living there for eight years. However, Peta doesn't remember this part of life for the good things – many times, they didn't have power or running water, and she was sick with malaria for almost nine months. After this depressing period, Peta devoted herself to sport and a healthy lifestyle.
Given that it was not easy for a girl to frequently change schools, environment, and friends Peta started to train in judo and, according to her was a real little tomboy. Her parents divorced in 1982, which was stressful for her and her brother, and since she didn't want to choose between her mom and dad, Peta moved to her grandparents, who were her greatest support.
Is Peta Married?
Peta has a rather exciting love life – since she became a part of the Hollywood jet set, she has been associated with several famous men. In the early nineties while Peta was trying to succeed in show business, many magazines wrote about her affair with Mick Jagger. She appeared in his music video, and they became quite close. Peta didn't confirm or deny this information, saying they're still good friends.
In 1997, Peta Wilson got serious with Damian Harris, but after five years of a relationship, she and the 12 years older film director broke up. During their relationship, there were rumors that Peta had an affair with Russell Crow, in the period when he was involved with Meg Ryan.
Also, many claimed that the Russian president Vladimir Putin cast an eye on the Australian while she was his guest at the International Film Festival in Moscow in 2001, and gave her a very expensive necklace as a gift. Apparently, "La Femme Nikita" is one of his favorite TV shows.
Peta never cared about any of these rumors, as she was dedicated to her career. In 2004, her compatriot and colleague Dan Wyllie stole her heart, but they broke up in 2007, and Peta then found comfort with another actor, Aaron Jeffrey; they met while filming a movie in Australia, and were both on and off-screen partners, but they broke up after only a few months. Peta hasn't married, and more recent dating history isn't known.
How Many Kids Does Peta Wilson Have?
In 2002, Peta gave birth to a boy named Marlowe; he's her only child, from her relationship with Damian Harris. Marlowe often follows his mom to movie premieres and other events. She doesn't deny that she is very attached to her son; because of his birth, she took a nearly two-year hiatus in her career.
Peta Wilson's Career and Net Worth
Peta Wilson has always loved fashion and dreamed of being a model. In 1991, she decided to move to the US to work on her modeling career. However, in the same year she enrolled at the Actors Circle Theater in Los Angeles, with the famous acting mentor Arthur Mendoza.
At the beginning of her career, Peta Wilson didn't get big roles, but mostly short or single guest appearances in independent movies like "Loser," "Naked Jane," and "One of Our Own." Nevertheless, she didn't give up on her dream, and continued her studies in New York.
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Nikita as Peta's Trademark
She auditioned for "La Femme Nikita," and was selected for the lead role from 200 actresses. Because of her attractive looks, deep voice and knowledge of the martial arts, the director decided that Peta was the best choice for Nikita, the heroine of the TV series based on the French movie of the same name. The series was broadcast from January 1997 to March 2001, and gained millions of fans all over the world. Peta had two Gemini Award nominations for Best Performance by An Actress in a Leading Dramatic Role and one Saturn Award nomination for Best Genre TV Actress.
Career after Playing Nikita
After the end of "La Femme Nikita," Peta didn't appear on the big screens until 2003. Then she shot "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen," in which she starred as the only female character, the beautiful vampire Wilhelmina 'Mina' Harker. The movie was a box office success, although critics didn't quite like it. For this role, Peta did a significant makeover; known as the fatal blonde, she appeared in the movie as a brunette, surprising her fans. The audience recognized her power of transformation, and for this Peta Wilson was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress.
For the next couple of years, Peta didn't have any significant roles, but appeared in several Australian projects, until in 2007 she played in the blockbuster, "Superman Returns." The following year, she was a member of the cast in "Gardens of the Night," written and directed by her ex-lover, Damian Harris.
Peta has also made a few guest appearances in successful TV series, such as "CSI: Miami" in 2010 and "The Finder" in 2012. Since then, she's become more dedicated to design and fashion. Her latest appearance on TV screens happened in 2017, in the documentary "Michael Hutchence: The Last Rockstar," where she played herself.
"Turner collection" ???✨
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Peta Wilson's Designer Career
In May 2012, this 5ft 9ins tall ex-model accomplished another dream – she created a brand of lingerie named Wilye Wilson; the flagship store is located in Venice, Los Angeles. Every piece of the underwear is unique and made of quality materials, such as lace from France or velvet from Switzerland. Judging by the customers' impressions, the service you get at Wilye Wilson stores is at a very high level.
It seems Peta is going big with her label. Nowadays, the Australian is dedicated to designing, and we probably won't see anything of her on TV screens, unless she gets a really good offer. Her current net worth is estimated by sources at around $10 million. Most of her profits come from acting, but given that her brand is becoming more and more successful in attracting customers, there is no doubt that it will bring her significant earnings.
Olivia Wilson
Olivia Wilson is currently a reporter for AffairPost based in London, United Kingdom. Prior to joining AffairPost in September 2018, she was a entertainment reporter. Olivia studied journalism at Cardiff University, graduating in 2010.
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Gal love Peta all over again after just watching re run. Thanks for the info.
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Sadly she ruined her looks and her career followed. She became a model in her country, after getting a very successful nose job and mandibular jaw implants in her late teens. She was a knockout. After LFN finalized, she wasn't very bright in selecting her projects. (Could this have to do because she had no green card and was limited to Canada roles?) She did a very brief motorcycle girl in a Viggo Mortensen film (she should have played the wife, because the actress who did was hideous.) Since, she did nothing much.
She decided to get cheekbone implants and, as you can see, they completely ruined her face! They clashed with her jaw bone implants, made her face "heavy" and shortened her nose in appearance. The results is Peta lost her "Nikita" swag and gone was personality's appeal. All this happened shortly after her fiasco of a part in Superman Returns. She was on top of the world, women wanted to be her, men loved her. But she did got with some director man (who made her fat, popped out a son: was it worth it "Nikita" to lose your looks over this j–k?!) and he coerced her into 2 horrific career choices:
1) she went around the late night talk shows talking about Nikita "getting a girlfriend". This was the mid-90's, when that didn't sit well with her public. There were then rumors that she was a man (that DEEP, deep voice!) and her hands. She is huge sizewise.
2) She made this horrific career move playing a you-know-what in that Ellen Barkin movie and she went around the late night shows talking, this time, about removing Ellen's undies with her teeth! The public did not clap, she looked embarrassed. I saw the film: she gave an embarrassment of a performance. Her director boyfriend at the time lived his "fantasies" through her and she was that "dumb blonde" (yes, she is one iRL) to let him manipulate her. She appeared nude in very pomy scenarios and she lost her entire female fanbase, except for one woman who kept posting all over forums, LOL!
Soon another pretty actress rose to the top (Jolie? Fox?) and she was soon forgotten. Her acting was perfect in Nikita but then she seemed so uncomfortable in talk shows (remember when she talked about her Mina part and was trying to crack jokes but the public didn't respond, again) and her acting flunked in all her other roles. She seemed to be on speed in those talk shows. She talked a lot, made little sense. I was a fan of LFN but promptly got it: she was to be a one-hit wonder. She turned to cutting undies for a living. Whatever! RIP Nikita, once great, promptly sank into obscurity. (Did her boyfriend Damien also bl4cklist her? Possible!)
How the mighty have fallen.
No one is perfect, your attack on her life choices seems personal?
I wonder how well you would hold up under a microscope?
Who are you ? You sound like some jealous nut Job. Go and get a life because you're probably a hideous basket case and you're jealous of this beautiful woman.
Whoa says:
She has such an ego, she wrote the self-congratulatory biography at her IMDb biography page herself, LOL!! I guess she has no fans left to write it for her? How embarrassing that she signed it with her own name though. Check it out: MASSIVE ego.
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Home Art+Music The ties that bind happen one stitch at a time
The ties that bind happen one stitch at a time
by Paul Clark
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Making a point
Deane Giordano's work.
Lorraine Chamber (from left), Ceil Sanow and Cindi Herald come to The Knitting Divas in Weaverville, N.C., as much for the laughs as the knitting.
Knitting banter
Deane Giordano, left and Starr Nielsen trade tips and stories at Sisters in Stitches at Black Mountain Yarn Shop.
Pete Petersen (from left) spins a yarn for Deane Mae Driscoll, center, and Gina Arnone at Black Mountain Yarn Shop.
David Tan, left, and Rik Schell catch up on their work and each other's lives at the men's knitting group at Purl's Yarn Emporium in Asheville. One of the few men at knitting groups he attends, Schell says he's no less welcome.
Margaret Hester photo
The sense of community is palpable among knitting groups.
Six women sat around a coffee table, skiens of yarn echoing the colors in a bowl of brightly colored candies and knitting needles softly clicking the way hard candy does against one's teeth as the tongue shifts the sweetness from side to side.
Hands and tongues are always busy at The Knitting Divas, a small shop in Weaverville, N.C., where owner Greta Hillin and her fellow knitters Jackie Keener, Cindi Herald, Ceil Sanow, Lorraine Chamber and Cheryl Walker, gather each Monday morning.
"This isn't a place to be productive," Keener said. "But it is a place to get help with your knitting. I'm making lots of progress, not just in everyone showing me how to do things but encouraging me, giving me more confidence than I would have at home figuring it out."
"It's not the same, sitting at home," Sanow said.
"Well, you get more done, but it's not as much fun," Herald cracked.
"There's just something about having some place to be, about putting 'knitting circle' on your calendar every Monday," Keener said. "I get excited about coming here. If I have to miss, it's 'oh no.'"
"That's how we all feel," Chamber said. "If somebody has to miss, we physically miss them being here."
Indeed, one knitter from the group was out to watch over her mother who had just had surgery, but so as not to worry anyone, she'd made sure to stop by the shop to tell Hillin that the surgery had gone well. The knitting ladies were relieved to hear it.
"Is that a dropped stitch?" Chamber, a beginning knitter, asked, about a small mistake Hillin had made while helping Chamber with her work. Apologizing, Hillin took the knitting out of Chamber's hands. Walker looked at Chamber's work and said it was beautiful. Herald noted how precise it was. The precision of looping stitch after stitch is relaxing, Chamber said.
"That's what I love about it," Chamber said.
"Until you drop a stitch," Hillin said to big laughs.
Chamber watched Hillin rework the dropped stitch, a seeming metaphor for Chamber's life—"Finally, after living here 14 years, I feel like things are on track," she said. "I found my niche."
Herald nodded in agreement. "This is the first time I've felt like I'm home," she said. Herald doesn't drive. She and her husband, who have lived in the Weaverville area for two and a half years, do everything together. "I love him more than anything in the world, but he's not a knitter," she said, causing the group of women to stop their work and laugh. "I look so forward to Mondays," she said. "I hope that I never lose this. I'll love these ladies forever. They're stuck with me."
The group, like any other group of people with kindred interests, is about more than the task at hand. Knitting together is a social activity. In Europe in the 1400s, there were exclusively male knitting guilds and fine needlepoint work historically has been a woman's skill, once carried out in kings' courts. Less is known about the history of knitting circles, but it's a safe bet that they've been around since the utilitarian skill was passed down the generations. Like most handmade traditions, knitting experienced a downturn in popularity with industrialization. However, a movement to reclaim homesteading skills such as canning and sewing, along with the globalization of the fiber market that made alpaca, merino and other natural fibers more widely available, has sparked a knitting revival. It's become commonplace to find shops, cafes, libraries, and circles of friends practicing the skill, as magazines gush about celebrities who knit, such as Julia Roberts and Winona Ryder.
Sisters in Stitches is an Asheville group with more than 200 active members, all ages and backgrounds. Anybody is welcome—knitters, crocheters, cross-stitchers, quilters, embroiderers, menders, whoever. The group meets across the Asheville area, at places like Tipsy Star Quilts, Kitsch Fabrics, The Foundry, Filo, and the Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar.
"We're like a floating party," Starr Nielsen said, at Black Mountain Yarn Shop. A dozen members were sitting in the front of the shop, their projects and materials strewn all around.
"We had a member about a year ago who had open-heart surgery," Deane Giordano said as she knitted. "People in our group who didn't necessarily know this person rallied and brought her food and groceries, sat with her and took care of her and her husband. If you have a need or a problem, they're going to rally and be there for you like people do for each other, when they're sick or in pain."
"Women nurture," Gina Arnone said, looking up from the patch she was making for a quilt.
"Life is hard. We need each other," Delores Donnan said. "And one of the best ways to be there for each other is to do something as mundane as knitting together. Our group may come together over knitting, but this is really about life and getting through life together."
"If you're looking for companionship and some fun, a good starting place with strangers is to have some common interest," Nielsen said.
While such groups have a social element, those who don't want to join in on the conversation are still welcome. "You get to be in the community but without the pressure of having to be social," Giordano said.
Donnan, knitting a blanket for a newborn, didn't know anyone in the area when she moved to Asheville from New Jersey a year and a half ago. Sisters in Stitches not only introduced her to a great bunch of people, but it also helped her find a reading group to join and restaurants to visit. "Knitters are always the friendliest of people," she said.
"They're even better than a barber shop or a hair salon," said Pete Petersen, 80, and the only man working alongside the rest of the group. Petersen's mother taught him how to knit in 1942, when he was 9, so he could knit scarves for soldiers. After the war, he put down his knitting needles. And then, a few years ago, he started up again, prodded by his church to help create squares for children whose parents had died of AIDS in Africa.
Shop owner Don Farrow, busy helping customers in the shop, noted that stories like this are common when people are knitting. People talk about their jobs, their families, their kids, good things, and bad things. There's no tolerance for gossip, and bringing up religion or politics goes nowhere.
"Community like this, it's not anything that you can flip the switch and it happens. It just happens," Farrow said.
And it's happening more and more among men knitters. "There are more of us than you'd expect," Dan Tan said, as he and Rik Schell knitted together at Purl's Yarn Emporium, the only representatives of the men's group that has been meeting there twice a month for more than two years.
Schell and his wife own the store, located in downtown Asheville. As he and Tan quietly conversed over their work, aromas from nearby restaurants and strains of street chatter floated through the shop's open door, and their stitches swung in time to the jazz on the radio. The two were working on a project they found online, a mystery pattern for a shawl released in stages by a pattern designer on ravelry.com, a free international social network for knitters and crocheters.
Women always outnumber the two guys when the Smoky Mountain Knitting Guild meets in Waynesville.
"So it's nice to have a …," Schell said.
" … a shared experience," Tan said.
"Yeah. It's nice to get together with the guys. There's nothing wrong with that," Schell said.
"We trade stories about going into yarn shops and getting strange looks," Tan said, looking up at a visitor over his glasses.
Linda Merritt had been walking around the store. She walked up behind Schell. "Now that's unusual, to see guys…," she said.
"There you go," Tan said to the visitor, laughing.
Merritt and her husband were visiting from Clinton, and one never sees men knitting there, she said. "How did you all acquire that habit?" she asked, correcting herself that she meant to say "skill." Tan replied that the word "habit" sums the hobby up pretty well.
Schell and Merritt fell into a conversation about crafting. Merritt even made her own wedding dress. She watched the men work for a while. "It's relaxing, isn't it?" she said.
"There are times when it gets frustrating," Tan said, eliciting laughter and general agreement. "But for the most part, it's my stress relief."
An accountant by trade, Tan likes the math of counting and keeping track of stitches. He likes that he always has gifts to give. And he loves how knitting brings him in contact with others who share his love for the craft—and who push him to be creative, like Schell, with whom he's got a bit of competition going. Each man tries to take on complex projects and modify the stitch patterns to make the work his own. But the competition always is friendly, so much so that when Schell's car broke down near the end of a long drive from Ohio back to Asheville, N.C. he called his knitting group friends for help first. Within moments, he had the help he needed. That's the nature of knitters—they're a tightly woven community.
A women's knitting group also meets at Purl's; one group member moved to Asheville to take care of her mother and didn't know anyone else in town. She joined the knitting group, and when she needed care herself after breaking her foot, her fellow knitters brought her food and mowed her lawn.
This sense of community is palpable at The Knitting Divas as well. Storeowner Hillin was passing around a photo of a dog with a crocheted hat when group member Walker shoved her needles and project into her plastic tote and announced she had to go. Her fellow knitters protested. Walker's voice dropped to a near whisper—she was going to see a doctor, she said. Hillin reached for Walker's arm and asked if everything was okay. Walker patted her heart. "It's been fluttering," she said. The group's mood fell. Walker said it was nothing, not to worry, and each knitter told her to take care—and meant it. In that way, these knitting circles are circles of trust.
Unless, that is, a fellow knitter says something funny. Then, everyone cracks up.
Launching into a story about visiting the new Trader Joe's grocery store in Asheville, Sanow drew knowing nods from her fellow women knitters. "I swore I wasn't going to go the first week until they got all the kinks out," she said. "Of course, you can't get into the parking lot; you can't get out of the parking lot. So I did what many people are doing, which was park at that Harris Teeter across the street," she said referring to the city's other, immediately adjacent, brand new grocery store.
"I said something to this guy at Trader Joe's. He said, 'You know, you could be towed.' I said, 'OK, we better hurry up!' So I get all the stuff I want, I'm waiting in line to get checked out and I was just so excited, I couldn't hold it in anymore. I said to the checkout girl, 'I've been waiting for you since 1994!"
Throughout it all, the knitting needles kept moving and no one dropped a stitch.
"One of the guys that worked there, he came over to me and said, 'I bet you cook well,'" Sanow said, referring to a Trader Joe's clerk. "And I said, 'I cook reasonably well,' and he said, 'There's a lady down there trying to decide which olive oil to buy.'" Sanow looked around at the women, who had stopped knitting and were looking at her. "Do I look like I know anything about olive oil?"
"Well, a little bit," Keener said.
"So I go down the aisle and I'm helping her," Sanow continued. "I mean, she's a total stranger to me. And we're talking about olive oil." She mimicked the stranger's voice as she repeated the conversation: "I don't know, should I get the one that says 'packed in Italy,' or is it okay if it was imported from Italy but packed in America? This one says 'Ingredients, 100 percent olive oil,' but this bottle over here doesn't say 'ingredients,' but it does say '100 percent pure olive oil.'"
Herald leaded in toward Sanow. "Ceil, you had the experience of meeting yourself."
The women's laughter was explosive—loud, long and loving, it washed through like a cleansing spring rain. It was the kind of laughter that made one feel good just to be in it, to be with people who enjoyed one another so much that they could tease each other so gently.
"She doesn't like that I know her so well," Herald said, again putting the women in stitches.
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Posts tagged 'climate bill'
I'm Amazed They Are Amazed
Folks on the Left seem amazed that Obama could not muster a single Republican vote for his climate bill. I am amazed they are amazed. When you set traps lined with feces-smeared pungi sticks for opposition legislators, it may be momentarily fun for the Progressive base, but it does not make the opposition very happy to work with you.
Which is fine with me -- I don't think I can get too worked up about the Coke and the Pepsi party beating the crap out of each other. But this administration does not seem to be able to make up its mind how it wants to govern. With the Presidency, control of both Houses, and (originally) 60 votes in the Senate, a scorched Earth approach was probably viable. I have no doubt Gingrich would have taken that approach had he had such numbers.
What confuses me, and I think a lot of the Progrossives rooting for a new October Revolution, is Obama has communicated publicly in scorched Earth mode but has not really legislated that way. Time after time the Democrats keep seeking out Republican votes to give them cover for legislation that might be unpopular, but Obama's Chicago-style demonizing does not seem to help that much. I am not much of a political observer, so their may be a sensible strategy in all this but I don't see it.
Tags: climate bill, Obama Chicago, October Revolution, strategy
Category: Politics | 11 Comments
I Am Not Sure This Is In Your Members' Best Interests
I got a press purportedly from a group of Latino political groups that included this:
National Latino organizations representing over 2 million people have united for the first time to urge for the approval of clean energy and climate legislation. As part of the effort, the coalition delivered a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, members of the US Senate and the White House calling on them to pass comprehensive clean energy and climate legislation this year.Citing the economic and health benefits such legislation would bring to the Latino community, the letter urged swift action. Across the country Latino communities, organizations and businesses are raising their voices in support of clean energy and climate change legislation. The Latino coalition is also launching an ad campaign, titled "Estamos listos" or "We're Ready," to urge the federal Government and Congress to act.
Action on climate and clean energy this year is critical to the Latino community and the country as a whole. Latinos face an unemployment rate higher than the national average at 13%, and a clean energy and climate bill could create thousands of new jobs in a green economy benefitting not only Latinos but the rest of the country, as well.
I was fairly amazed to see a group that represents a lot of low-skilled workers and poorer families support a new, quite regressive tax. I wrote them
I'm curious if your organization honestly believes that Latinos would be helped by higher energy prices that are the inevitable result of the bill, or is support for this legislation a quid pro quo to get Democrats in Congress to support legislation that you care about more? Even if a thousand of your members get a new job building windmills, and even assuming none of them are working in energy-intensive industries that might have layoffs due to higher electricity prices, I still count 1000 who have a better job and 1,999,000 who just have a higher electricity bill. Given the tragic hostility of my state (Arizona) right now to the Latino community, I just can't believe you don't have something better to work on right now.
Tags: climate bill, climate change, economy, electricity, Harry Reid, National Latino, prices, unemployment, US, White House
Category: Energy | 4 Comments
I Am Tired of Hearing About Liquidity Traps
Here is as good a reason as any why many businesses (like mine) are currently reluctant to invest:
I've noted any number of times that government taxes comprise 14% of the national income and government spending is at 25% of the national income.
OK, so politicians have two alternatives -- they can make tough choices to reduce spending and reduce their own power, or they can just take more money from taxpayers and in so doing increase their personal power. Gee, I wonder which will occur?
Combine this is a health care bill no one understands but everyone suspects will raise the price of labor and a climate bill that won't quite die that will raise the price of energy and therefore most other inputs, and is it any wonder that businesses are reluctant to invest when their three highest costs (taxes, labor, energy) are going up by some undetermined amount?
Tags: climate bill, government spending, health care bill
Category: Economics, Regulation | 6 Comments
I Hate to Repeat Myself, But...
Remember this -- a climate bill will have impact on CO2 emissions in direct proportion to how much it raises fossil-fuel-related energy prices. When supporters of the bill say things like "it won't raise prices very much" they are in effect declaring "this bill will not solve the intended problem."
Below is a map of some of the climate actions being proposed. As portrayed here, the current cap-and-trade bill is perhaps the worst of all choices, realizing limited gains (as demonstrated by programs in Europe and their supporters own estimates) combined with high costs. The program is expensive to administer and much of the higher costs to consumers end up as subsidies to large corporations and green pork.
The combination plan of a large carbon tax offset by payroll tax reductions was discussed here.
Tags: carbon, carbon tax, climate bill, Europe, fuel, offset, payroll tax, pork, prices, trade
Category: Climate, Economics | 2 Comments
A Helpful Primer on the Politics of a Carbon Tax
May 5, 2009, 11:16 pm
Kevin Drum and Joe Romm offer a helpful primer on the politics of a carbon tax. Unfortunately, they are a little shy in coming out with exactly what they mean, so I will add in a few helpful explanations.
1. A carbon tax, particularly one capable of deep emissions reductions quickly, is a political dead end....
What they are referring to is that though both are approximately equally costly, the government imposed costs of a cap and trade are better hidden from the consumer than those of a carbon tax, thus making it a more palatable plan for politicians. By raising costs to producers, and then having the producers inevitably raise prices to the consumer, wily politicians can blame the producers, not themselves, for the price increases.
2. A carbon tax that could pass Congress would not be simple. Advocates of a tax argue that simplicity is one of its biggest benefits. Again, those advocates seem bizarrely unfamiliar with the tax code in spite of the fact that they pay taxes every year....
Basically, they are arguing that Congress is incapable of producing a simple, clean law. Politicians used to be able to do this (the US Constitution will fit on the back of a cereal box -- the new EU proposed constitution barely fits in a large 3-ring binder) but have obviously lost the knack. Or, more likely, as public choice theory tells us, as the dollar stakes have been raised, politicians are incapable of resisting the pressure of huge sums of money at stake for targeted tweaks and overrides for politically favored groups.
By the way, the comparison he is making to the US income tax code is a false one. The carbon tax is much more like a sales tax, and many state governments in the US (though not all) maintain very simple and easy to administer sales tax systems with single rates and little complexity. Our sales tax return in New Mexico, for example, consists of three numbers and a signature on a form about the size of a 3x5 card.
3. A carbon tax is woefully inadequate and incomplete as a climate strategy. Why? Well, for one, it doesn't have mandatory targets and timetables. Thus it doesn't guarantee specific emissions results and thus doesn't guarantee specific climate benefits. Perhaps more important, it doesn't allow us to join the other nations of the world in setting science-based targets and timetables. Also, a tax lacks all of the key complementary measures "" many of which are in Waxman-Markey "" that are essential to any rational climate policy, but which inherently complicate any comprehensive energy and climate bill.
Basically, their argument here is that they don't like the fact that the success of a carbon tax relies on the unmanaged, bottom up responses to higher prices by 300 million Americans acting in their own best interests and finding their own individual solutions to carbon reduction. The authors instead prefer a few people in Washington, heavily influenced by a number of special interest lobbyists, setting policy and picking winners. "Complementary measures" is shorthand for government picking of winners and subsidizing of ... whatever the hell Congress chooses to subsidize. It is a great way to wrap pork in a nifty new green wrapper.
I think most folks who are not naive understand that what the authors are advocating for here is doomed to be hopelessly politicized -- this is, after all, how we got massive ethanol subsidies that do zero for carbon emissions. But even if one believes the politicians in charge are monks of public service making purely science-based decisions, these guys still are advocating for at most a few hundred people making the major carbon reduction priority decisions from the top rather than 300 million making them from the bottom up.
Besides, isn't this argument deeply contradictory. In points 1 and 2, they basically argued that the legislative process is deeply politicized and it is naive to think otherwise. But then, in point 3, they make an argument for top down planning over bottom up response to planning that can only be even marginally valid if the process is not politicized and science, and not political pull, rule decisions.
Postscript: A couple of related stories, first from the Washington Times:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, both of California, were among the Democrats -- then in the minority -- who slammed Vice President Dick Cheney for holding closed-door meetings to draft energy policy early in the Bush administration.
Republicans "invited energy lobbyists to write the energy bill that gouges consumers with big payoffs to Big Gas and Big Oil," Mrs. Pelosi said in 2005. "They have turned Washington, D.C., into an oil and gas town when it is supposed to be the city of innovation, of new, of fresh ideas about our energy policy."
But the sweeping climate bill Mr. Waxman and Rep. Edward J. Markey, Massachusetts Democrat and chairman of the panel's key environmental subcommittee, introduced at the end of March includes a provision that benefits Duke Energy Corp., a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), whose climate plan released in January the lawmakers have frequently called a "blueprint" for their climate legislation.
The exemption would save Duke Energy -- along with other firms now building new coal power plants -- from having to spend millions of dollars outfitting its Cliffside, N.C., power plant currently under construction with "clean coal" technology.
"The USCAP companies must be delirious over the freebies that they've received after writing the blueprint for [the House draft bill]," said Larry Neal, deputy Republican staff director for the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The second is from the Washington Examiner via Watts Up With That
In exchange for votes to pass a controversial global warming package, Democratic leaders are offering some lawmakers generous emission "allowances" to protect their districts from the economic pain of pollution restrictions.
Rep. Gene Green, D-Texas, represents a district with several oil refineries, a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. He also serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which must approve the global warming plan backed by President Barack Obama.
Green says Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who heads the panel, is trying to entice him into voting for the bill by giving some refineries favorable treatment in the administration's "cap and trade" system, which is expected to generate hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming years. Under the plan, companies would pay for the right to emit carbon dioxide, but Green and other lawmakers are angling to get a free pass for refineries in their districts.
"We've been talking," Green said, referring to a meeting he had with Waxman on Tuesday night. "To put together a bill that passes, they have to get our votes, and I'm not going to vote for a bill without refinery allowances."
Tags: cap-and-trade, carbon tax, climate bill
Category: Climate, Regulation, The Corporate State | 1 Comment
This Can't Possibly End Well
Forget for a moment the real scientific questions about the future magnitude of anthropogenic global warming. Just imagine the abuse of this new proposed statute, given that incredibly difficult nature of causality in a complex, chaotic system like climate:
An under-the-radar provision in a House climate bill would give plaintiffs who claim to be victims of global warming a way to sue the federal government or businesses, according to a report Friday in The Washington Times.
The Times reported that Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Edward Markey of Massachusetts added it into a bill they authored.
The provision, which was just released, reportedly would set grounds for plaintiffs who has "suffered" or expect to suffer "harm" attributable at least in part to government inaction. The provision defines "harm" as "any effect of air pollution (including climate change)," according to the Times. Plaintiffs could seek up to $75,000 in damages a year from the government, with $1.5 million being the maximum total payout.
Remember that it was just weeks ago that the President of the United States blamed flooding in North Dakota on global warming. If flood damage that resulted from a colder-than-average winter and near record snowfall can be blamed on anthropogenic global warming, then anything can.
Tags: climate bill, Democratic Reps, global warming, Henry Waxman, North Dakota, pollution, United States, victims, warming, Washington Times
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Syrian War Report – August 30, 2019: Syrian Army Further Advances In Greater Idlib 4.4375 out of 5 based on 16 ratings. 16 user reviews.
Syrian War Report – August 30, 2019: Syrian Army Further Advances In Greater Idlib
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The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and its allies responded to recent militant attacks near Abu Dail with a limited offensive in the area.
In the first phase of the offensive, SAA units liberated Khuwayn al-Kabir, Ard al-Zurzur, the Aghir hilltop, and farms near al-Tamanah. After this, government troops attacked militants' positions inside al-Tamanah itself.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the al-Qaeda-affiliated Wa Harid al-Muminin operations room and the Turkish-backed National Front for Liberation are the main SAA opponents there. They carried out a counter-attack, involving a suicide bomber, but were not able to take the lost areas back.
It is expected that the Syrian Army could develop its advance even further. Despite declarations about the Assad regime's aggression and the need to respect the Idlib ceasefire by mainstream media, militants continue to attack SAA positions in southern Idlib on a regular basis.
The Turkish military is preparing to establish new observation posts in Idlib. According to reports, new observation posts will be located near Saraqib, the Brick Factory, al-Shabibah camp on the Aleppo-Lattakia highway, in the area of Muhambal and near the city of Jisr al-Shughur.
By this move, Ankara is likely seeking to limit the expected SAA progress in the event of a large-scale advance on Idlib.
The Syrian Armed Forces have renamed the Tiger Forces, led by Brigadier General Suheil the Tiger al-Hassan, to the 25th Special Forces Division. Over the past few years, the Tiger Forces have participated in the most intense battles across Syria and become one of the most widely-known pro-government formation around the world. They will likely continue this tradition under the new name.
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No, no, no… The tiger forces will not be renamed by me at all; they are my / our Tiger heroes and shall remain that way.
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God what a beautiful hero.
Valery Grigoryev
Why to change the already famous brand name?
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Hope that Venezuela has an equivalent Tiger Force called Jaguar Force.
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Hard to understand: How can you rename such a famous part of the military forces? TIGERS was the most successful SAA department, and surely a lot of servicemembers were proud of it.


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Video Appears To Show Tourists Destroying Popular Oregon Rock Formation : The Two-Way The sandstone pedestal in Cape Kiwanda was fenced off, but visitors often slipped past to take photos. A video shows people pushing on the rock. There's a shout of "Got 'em!" as the formation falls.
Video Appears To Show Tourists Destroying Popular Oregon Rock Formation
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This rock formation at Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area — shown in October 2008 — was apparently destroyed by vandals. The sandstone pedestal, which was found in pieces last week, was roughly 7 feet to 10 feet across and located in a fenced-off section of the park. Chelsea Rutherford/KATU News via AP hide caption
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This rock formation at Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area — shown in October 2008 — was apparently destroyed by vandals. The sandstone pedestal, which was found in pieces last week, was roughly 7 feet to 10 feet across and located in a fenced-off section of the park.
When the iconic sandstone formation known as "the duckbill" collapsed, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department wasn't suspicious.
Erosion happens. Rocks fall. The stretch of cliff where the formation was located, in Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, was so unstable it was fenced off to keep visitors away. There seemed to be no mystery: The 7- by 10-foot pedestal on the coast probably collapsed on its own.
Then a man named David Kalas said it wasn't time and weather that brought down the rock. It was vandals.
And he had video.
This undated photo provided by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department shows a natural rock formation that was found in pieces last week at a state park in Pacific City, Ore. Oregon parks officials originally said they did not think the break was caused by humans, but cellphone video captured a group of people apparently knocking over the popular sandstone formation. State of Oregon, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department/AP hide caption
State of Oregon, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department/AP
This undated photo provided by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department shows a natural rock formation that was found in pieces last week at a state park in Pacific City, Ore. Oregon parks officials originally said they did not think the break was caused by humans, but cellphone video captured a group of people apparently knocking over the popular sandstone formation.
Kalas told The Oregonian that when he saw a group of strangers messing with the formation, he was laughing instead of alarmed.
But then he saw it start to wobble, and he hit record.
His footage — which we should note includes one expletive — appears to show a group of people gathered around a pedestal rock formation, pushing and pulling on the rock.
When it comes down, a voice is heard shouting, "Got 'em!"
Kalas told KATU News that he spoke with the people who he says brought down the rock in the fenced-off section of Cape Kiwanda.
"I asked them, you know, why they knocked the rock down, and the reply I got was: their buddy broke their leg earlier because of that rock," Kalas told KATU. "They basically told me themselves that it was a safety hazard, and that they did the world or Oregon a favor."
The Tillamook County Pioneer news site published a statement from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, saying the department and the state police are reviewing the video and determining how to respond.
"The department takes vandalism of a state park's natural features seriously," the statement reads.
Anyone who helped bring down the rock might face a fine of up to $435, the Statesman Journal newspaper reports.
Instagram users are mourning the loss of the frequently photographed rock, sharing their images of its former glory with the tag #ripthatPNWrock. (The rock was known variously as "the duckbill," "Pedestal Rock" or, well, "that Pacific Northwest rock.")
I was saddened to hear #thatpnwrock had crumbled, then infuriated to learn it was pushed down on purpose. What frustrates me more, however, is the people who sat and watched it happen without attempting to intervene. Always remember: you have a voice. Use it. #ripthatpnwrock
A photo posted by Laura Lawson Visconti (@lauralawsonvisconti) on Sep 5, 2016 at 10:31am PDT
But commenters have noted that many of those images show people standing or posing on top of the rock — meaning they, too, hopped over the fence meant to keep visitors away. (Several Instagram users, including the one who posted the photo above, say there was no fence at the time of their visit, but the Statesman Journal says the area has had a fence, and warning signs, for decades.)
And whether or not that was hard on the formation, it was definitely risky for the rock-clamberers.
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In fact, the Statesman Journal reported just a few months ago on the dangerous allure of the rock.
A picture atop the now-collapsed pedestal was "one of the most sought-after images" of the Oregon coast, the paper wrote in July — but getting the shot required evading that fence and crossing to a perilous bluff.
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"Seven people have died in the area since 2009. Six fatal falls have taken place during the past two years. Rescue efforts by the local fire district and U.S. Coast Guard cost upward of $21,000 per hour, often topping out near $106,000," the newspaper wrote.
Scout Leaders Who Toppled Ancient Rock May Face Charges
"Yet people continue to flood past the fence and signs. Adults, teenagers, grandparents, photographers and even parents with small children disregard the warnings."
A park ranger was assigned to patrol the fence, but "combating the allure of that perfect picture — that happy couple perched on a natural pedestal above the ocean — will be no easy task," the Statesman Journal wrote.
But now the perfect photo is impossible — raising a question. Might vandalism succeed in keeping visitors away, where safety warnings failed?


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Q: Serious consistency issues with Ubuntu 16.04 suspend - Nvidia Drivers Here are my system specs, I have a feeling this is specific to either System76 or Nvidia GTX 970M:

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*System76 - Serval WS (serw8)

*Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS (64-bit)

*6 GB GeForce GTX 970M – 1280 CUDA Cores

*3.6 GHz i7-4790 (8MB Cache – 4 Cores – 8 Threads)

*16 GB HyperX Dual Channel DDR3 at 1866MHz (2× 8GB)

*PCIe (M.2), SSD, HDD

I have inconsistent suspend issues, where, when waking from suspend, it sometimes but frequently wakes up to a black screen.
This has happened with both systemd suspend and pm-suspend suspend.
Pressing the power button, pressing the sleep button, trying any key combination, and closing and reopening the lid do nothing when at the black screen. The only thing I can do is either hard-shutdown or Alt + SysRq + (RIESUB) to perform a hard reset.
I have tried some different Nvidia drivers, but nothing has helped. I attempted using the open source nouveau drivers, but they didn't have good resolution and were very bad.
This is my current driver version (provided through the system76-driver-nvidia package): 367.27 from nvidia-367 (open source)
I have asked System76 about this, and sadly, they are stumped. They believe it has something to do with systemd, but I'm not sure, and they aren't either.
I've checked /var/log/pm-suspend after a crash and it's empty. This is what shows up when it works correctly:
Initial commandline parameters:
Tue Aug 23 12:29:55 CDT 2016: Running hooks for suspend.
Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000kernel-change suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/000kernel-change suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend:
Linux Serval-WS 4.4.0-34-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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ccm                    20480  2
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msr                    16384  0
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vmmon                  86016  0
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/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00logging suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/00powersave suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/10_grub-common suspend suspend:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/10_grub-common suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/10_unattended-upgrades-hibernate suspend suspend:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/10_unattended-upgrades-hibernate suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40inputattach suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/40inputattach suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49tlp suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/49tlp suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/50unload_alx suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/50unload_alx suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/60_wpa_supplicant suspend suspend:
Selected interface 'p2p-dev-wlan0'
OK
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/60_wpa_supplicant suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/75modules suspend suspend: not applicable.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/90clock suspend suspend: not applicable.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/94cpufreq suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95anacron suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95anacron suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95hdparm-apm suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95hdparm-apm suspend suspend: not applicable.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend:
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/95led suspend suspend: not applicable.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend:
nVidia binary video drive detected, not using quirks.
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/98video-quirk-db-handler suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend:
kernel.acpi_video_flags = 0
/usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/compiz-fix.sh suspend suspend:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/compiz-fix.sh suspend suspend: success.

Running hook /etc/pm/sleep.d/novatel_3g_suspend suspend suspend:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/novatel_3g_suspend suspend suspend: success.

Tue Aug 23 12:29:56 CDT 2016: performing suspend

So this is a really tough problem, I'm willing to try anything (within reason), so let me know if you have any ideas. I'd really like to solve this problem because I use my lappy in college and it is very disappointing and dangerous to have to hard-reset randomly when waking from suspend, like a dice roll.

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London, 26 May 2016 – Local police officers then attended the scene and after suspecting the men were planning to put in fraudulent claims, contacted the insurer to tip them off.
Since the launch of IFED in January 2012, the unit has dealt with over 1,500 suspects, convicted more than 200 insurance fraudsters at court and over 100 years' jail sentences have been handed down to insurance fraudsters including a woman who lied about her mother having a stroke to gain £30k insurance payouts.
According to 2014 figures, the Association of British Insurers estimates that fraud adds, on average, an extra £50 to the annual insurance for every UK policyholder.


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Sometimes you come across little gems that you never knew existed. London is particularly good for this where most corners can lead to something interesting. The Lovely Wife and I stumbled across one such recently when on a day out in London. The 'main event' of the day was a tour of the closed underground station at Aldwych, which closed in the 1990s and, as expected, proved a fascinating thing to be shown around and learn about its eventful history as both transport hub, war shelter and museum storage facility and now film location. But that only took a couple of hours, and these days the cost of trains into London somewhat suggest that finding multiple things to do is better value for money.
So, after a little looking about I came up with another tour, this time something quite different. We set off across London via Holborn Circus to find the little gem that is Charterhouse.
Although I had spent quite a lot of time in the area – including the hidden away joy that is the Old Mitre off Ely Place – I somehow had managed to miss the large set of medieval buildings just around the corner.
The place started as a memorial chapel over a thirteenth century plague pit, which is admittedly not the most auspicious of starts. Later it became a Carthusian monastery (an interesting order where the monks spent most of their time living as virtual hermits in separate cells around a large cloister), and then like many foundations at the dissolution became a Tudor manor house. Where Charterhouse diverges from many other sites is after this and due to one man, Thomas Sutton in the early seventeenth century. He was a very shrewd and very rich man and set about turning the existing buildings into an institution that would look after people at both ends of life – one half a school, and the other accommodation for the elderly and needy. When set up, the charity was one of the richest in the country and both parts were to prove a big success. The school became internationally famous and now has moved out to Surrey, but the other part of the charity remains and is still going strong. They have about 40 incumbents, known as 'Brothers' as a nod to the original use of the buildings. Historically, these were male only, but they have several lady 'Brothers' now, although the poor ladies are still heavily outnumbered.
You can have a guided tour of most of the extensive complex – other parts, where the Brothers live – are naturally private. We were lucky as in all there were only 5 of us on our tour, which always leaves more time for questions and a more intimate experience of a very nearly private tour for us. Maybe that was partly what made it so enjoyable, but some of the stories connected with the site and institution were fascinating and it is just a joy being able to walk around a mix of building styles with so much history, still performing much of their initial function and missed by most who pass by every day. It is not expensive, so if you are in the right part of London with a few hours to spare, you can do worse to find some peace and hidden history.


My favourite type of shrines in Japan are inari shrines – they're the ones with the red gates. I drew this pattern inspired by Japanese shrine imagery. I wanted it to be really bold and graphic, but with traditional motifs.
The background's inspired by traditional Japanese kimono patterns. They all have names and meanings. I've been interested in Japanese symbolism recently, like how the carp streamers (koinobori) for Childrens Day represent how parents want their children to grow up strong, like carp swimming upstream against the current. There's one in the pattern if you can spot it!
I love the imagery of inari shrines, with the red gates, lanterns and fox statues. The bright red stands out so much against the natural greenery.
Foxes, or kitsune, are said to be messengers. They're also thought to like tofu – which must explain why tofu sushi are called inari, and inari shrines have fox statues!
I also made this alternate version of the pattern, with the red just used for highlights, for a more subtle look. The original version's my fav, with the bold red gates.
The design got a lot of love when I posted it online – thanks for all the likes and comments!