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The charred remains of a mother holding her child in her arms; people burned alive in cars as they tried to flee; panic-stricken villagers trapped in flame-encircled homes; and thousands evacuated to beaches - these were among the scenes being witnessed in Greece as some of the worst wildfires in living memory ravaged the country.
With 46 dead yesterday afternoon and the toll expected to climb, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis declared a state of emergency, saying the forest fires 'can't be a coincidence'. He vowed that the arsonists would be found. Within hours police had arrested a suspect.
'All regions of the country are declared in a state of emergency in order to mobilise all means and forces to face this disaster,' he said in a televised address to the nation. 'We are living a national tragedy,' said Karamanlis.
He called an extraordinary cabinet meeting after visiting villages that had been reduced to cinders in the southern Peloponnese. With at least two tourists among the dead - and hundreds more holiday-makers threatened - Karamanlis urged Greece's EU partners to despatch more water-dropping planes and helicopters, saying it was a crisis Greece could not handle alone.
It was, he said, a day of 'national mourning' that would not be forgotten soon. All state buildings, including parliament, were ordered to fly flags at half-mast.
'These are very difficult times for all of us,' said Karamanlis, whose government has faced criticism for its handling of an unrivalled spate of forest fires that has wrought destruction across Greece this summer.
With new fires erupting almost hourly and authorities battling some 170 blazes from the Ionian Sea in the west, Ioannina in the north and the Peloponnese in the south, firefighting services have been stretched to the limit - despite the military being mobilised by the government. Gale-force winds known as the meltemi, which sweep across Greece in August, were also hampering efforts to extinguish the flames.
By late afternoon yesterday, as fires erupted on the fringes of Athens, threatening buildings, forcing the evacuation of monks from a monastery and closing the national highway, a wall of flames stretched across the Peloponnese with witnesses describing harrowing scenes.
Officials said the devastation was on a scale not seen in peacetime. Entire villages looked as though they had been vaporised, people and livestock incinerated. People who had tried to escape fires engulfing homesteads were found dead in their burnt-out cars. In one village near the Peloponnesian town of Zaharo, police discovered the bodies of a mother and her four children.
Frightened locals, authorities said, had been joined on the beaches of the peninsula by tourists forced to flee hotels and resorts at the peak of the holiday season. Many had fled the flames with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. With thousands expected to spend last night outside, nearby tavernas were providing tablecloths for evacuees to sleep on.
Officials yesterday said they feared arsonists were behind the wildfires. 'This is unprecedented. At least 21 of the fires that we are fighting erupted after 9pm Friday, which points to the crime of arson,' said Yannis Stamoulis, a spokesman for the firefighting service.
The high casualty toll, by far the worst in a 24-hour period since June, was blamed on people refusing to leave their homes, and in some cases bungled rescue efforts. 'People are not evacuating when we ask them to because they are afraid of losing their possessions, but they have to listen to us,' he said.
Greece has seen more than 300 fires in the past three months. The ecological disaster has dented the popularity of the ruling Conservatives, who have called early elections to take place on 16 September.


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Trou du Cru es un queso francés fuerte y picante, desarrollado por el fabricante de quesos Robert Berthaut a inicios de la década de los 1980s.  Es un tipo de queso Époisses de leche de vaca pasteurizada hecha en la región de Borgoña.

El queso de pasta blanda es de un color amarillo marfil y con una corteza comestible de color naranja. Durante cuatro semanas, en el tiempo de su maduración, cada queso pequeño se lava individualmente con Marc de Bourgogne, un aguardiente local fuerte, que imparte un cierto sabor a paja al queso.

El Trou du Cru se moldea en rondas pequeñas (1,5 pulgadas, 60 gramos), empaquetadas en envases de papel; y en ruedas medianas (4.5 pulgadas, 250 gramos), empaquetadas en contenedores de madera.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Sitio en inglés de Fromagerie Berthaut, creador y productor actual de Trou du Cru

Quesos de Francia
Côte-d'Or
Quesos de leche de vaca

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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Andamanduva (Columba palumboides) är en fågel i familjen duvor inom ordningen duvfåglar.

Utseende
Andamanduvan är en rätt stor (41 cm) gråaktig duva med mörkt skiffergå ovansida och grå undersida, inklusive undre stjärttäckare. Den är ljusare på huvud och hals, på den senare diffust schackrutigt teckad. Tygel, näbbass och ögonring är rödaktiga.

Utbredning och systematik
Fågeln förekommer på Andamanerna och Nikobarerna. Den behandlas som monotypisk, det vill säga att den inte delas in i några underarter.

Status
Internationella naturvårdsunionen IUCN kategoriserar arten som nära hotad. Den verkar vara beroende av tät skog och tros ha en fragmenterad population som kan vara i minskande på grund av jakt och skogsavverkning. Världspopulationen uppskattas bestå av mellan 2500 och 10000 vuxna individer.

Noter

Externa länkar

 Bilder och filmer på Internet Bird Collection
 Läten på xeno-canto.org

Duvor
Fåglar i orientaliska regionen
Endemiska fågelarter på Andamanöarna och Nikobarerna


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Q: Get the value of specific XML emements and add them to an array in Python Using the XML below as an example, I'm trying to get the content of all <d:LayerXml> tags and add them to an array.  To parse the XML I'm using ElementTree.
I first treid to access the XML elements using there names, but this failed as apparently there are no elements named 'entry' -
root = ET.fromstring(r.text)
for child in root:
    if child.tag == entry':
        print child.attirb

After I printed out all of the child tags (print child.tag), I noticed that each was suffixed with the xmlns supplied in the roor element.  For example, 'entry' was actually '{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}'.
So next I tried to access elements using that suffix, but it just failed with a syntax error.
root = ET.fromstring(r.text)
for child in root:
    if child.tag == '{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry':
        layerXML = child.{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}content
# Also tried - layerXML = child.'{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}content'
        print layerXML

So given the following XML sample, how could I add the content of all <d:LayerXml> elements to an array.  To clarify, in this case the array would contain I want this and I want this, too.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xml:base="https://tablestore.somewhere.com/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
    <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName</id>
    <title type="text">TableName</title>
    <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
    <link rel="self" title="TableName" href="TableName" />
    <entry m:etag="W/"datetime'2017-03-02T11%3A46%3A37.1271167Z'"">
        <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer1-tileMatrixSet')</id>
        <category term="tablestore.TableName" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
        <link rel="edit" title="TableName" href="TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer1-tileMatrixSet')" />
        <title />
        <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name />
        </author>
        <content type="application/xml">
            <m:properties>
                <d:PartitionKey>PartitonKey</d:PartitionKey>
                <d:RowKey>RowKey</d:RowKey>
                <d:Timestamp m:type="Edm.DateTime">2017-03-02T11:46:37.1271167Z</d:Timestamp>
                <d:AuthType>basic</d:AuthType>
                <d:Credentials>CREDENTIALS1</d:Credentials>
                <d:Layer>layer1</d:Layer>
                <d:LayerXml>I want this</d:LayerXml>
                <d:Service>https://www.google.co.uk</d:Service>
                <d:TileMatrixSet>tileMatrixSet</d:TileMatrixSet>
            </m:properties>
        </content>
    </entry>
    <entry m:etag="W/"datetime'2017-03-02T11%3A46%3A37.1271167Z'"">
        <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer2-tileMatrixSet')</id>
        <category term="tablestore.TableName" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
        <link rel="edit" title="TableName" href="TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer2-tileMatrixSet')" />
        <title />
        <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name />
        </author>
        <content type="application/xml">
            <m:properties>
                <d:PartitionKey>PartitonKey</d:PartitionKey>
                <d:RowKey>RowKey</d:RowKey>
                <d:Timestamp m:type="Edm.DateTime">2017-03-02T11:46:37.1271167Z</d:Timestamp>
                <d:AuthType>basic</d:AuthType>
                <d:Credentials>CREDENTIALS1</d:Credentials>
                <d:Layer>layer2</d:Layer>
                <d:LayerXml>I want this, too</d:LayerXml>
                <d:Service>https://www.google.co.uk</d:Service>
                <d:TileMatrixSet>tileMatrixSet</d:TileMatrixSet>
            </m:properties>
        </content>
    </entry>
</feed>

A: You haven't said which syntax error you got, the following gives the wanted result for me:
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
xml = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<feed xml:base="https://tablestore.somewhere.com/" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
    <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName</id>
    <title type="text">TableName</title>
    <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
    <link rel="self" title="TableName" href="TableName" />
    <entry m:etag="W/"datetime'2017-03-02T11%3A46%3A37.1271167Z'"">
        <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer1-tileMatrixSet')</id>
        <category term="tablestore.TableName" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
        <link rel="edit" title="TableName" href="TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer1-tileMatrixSet')" />
        <title />
        <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name />
        </author>
        <content type="application/xml">
            <m:properties>
                <d:PartitionKey>PartitonKey</d:PartitionKey>
                <d:RowKey>RowKey</d:RowKey>
                <d:Timestamp m:type="Edm.DateTime">2017-03-02T11:46:37.1271167Z</d:Timestamp>
                <d:AuthType>basic</d:AuthType>
                <d:Credentials>CREDENTIALS1</d:Credentials>
                <d:Layer>layer1</d:Layer>
                <d:LayerXml>I want this</d:LayerXml>
                <d:Service>https://www.google.co.uk</d:Service>
                <d:TileMatrixSet>tileMatrixSet</d:TileMatrixSet>
            </m:properties>
        </content>
    </entry>
    <entry m:etag="W/"datetime'2017-03-02T11%3A46%3A37.1271167Z'"">
        <id>https://tablestore.somewhere.com/TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer2-tileMatrixSet')</id>
        <category term="tablestore.TableName" scheme="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/scheme" />
        <link rel="edit" title="TableName" href="TableName(PartitionKey='PartitonKey',RowKey='layer2-tileMatrixSet')" />
        <title />
        <updated>2017-03-02T12:01:04Z</updated>
        <author>
            <name />
        </author>
        <content type="application/xml">
            <m:properties>
                <d:PartitionKey>PartitonKey</d:PartitionKey>
                <d:RowKey>RowKey</d:RowKey>
                <d:Timestamp m:type="Edm.DateTime">2017-03-02T11:46:37.1271167Z</d:Timestamp>
                <d:AuthType>basic</d:AuthType>
                <d:Credentials>CREDENTIALS1</d:Credentials>
                <d:Layer>layer2</d:Layer>
                <d:LayerXml>I want this, too</d:LayerXml>
                <d:Service>https://www.google.co.uk</d:Service>
                <d:TileMatrixSet>tileMatrixSet</d:TileMatrixSet>
            </m:properties>
        </content>
    </entry>
</feed>
'''
feed = ET.fromstring(xml)
values = [value.text for value in feed.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry/{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}content/{http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata}properties/{http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices}LayerXml')]
print(values)

Actually, it seems you can also use
values = [value.text for value in feed.findall('.//{http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices}LayerXml')]

or
values = [value.text for value in feed.findall('.//d:LayerXml', { 'd' : 'http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices' })]

if you don't want to list the full path.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


I bought an old Hasselblad 500CM a few years ago, found in a secondhand camera shop in Hong Kong. I thought it would be a good way to learn a completely manual camera and really have a good try at Medium Format (6x6 in this case) photography. I have managed to work out the intricacies of light meters and focusing through a finder that is essentially backwards. I love the results I can get from this camera - especially the depth of field and levels of detail that the Carl Zeiss lenses can give. It weighs a ton and sounds like a component in a factory when the shutter goes off - a unique thing and guaranteed to get the attention of anyone nearby.
I have used many different film types and have some frames on this post using all kinds, so here we go - let me know what you think. I will post some more shots over time from this and other camera systems that I have.
Possibly one of my all time favourite shots. Taken inside the old Victoria Prison in Central Hong Kong. rarely were the public allowed into this 150 year old place, but I got lucky. This is (was) a dentists chair in the medical wing. Fuji ACROS 100 B&W film.
A frame from my first roll with the Hasselblad. This is the junction of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road on a busy weekday - this guy was running a red light. Fuji PRO160C colour negative film.
Up near the border with the Peoples Republic of China proper in Hong Kong, there are a number of old abandoned Hakka villages. My favourite of Luk Keng. This is one of the old terrace houses in that village. Fuji Velvia 100 positive film.
Another house in Luk Keng. Fuji Provia 100 positive film.
My beautiful laundrette. On a side street near Canal Street in Causeway Bay Hong Kong. Fuji ACROS 100 B&W film.
At the Eastern end of Hong Kong harbour is the fishing village of Lei Yue Mun. I used to have seafood dinners there when the old Kai Tak Airport was still open and got deafened by the 747's taking off over the top of the restaurant. Now it is largely abandoned. This window had once been strengthened for an oncoming typhoon. Fuji Velvia 100 positive film.
An almost standard "Flying Pigeon" bicycle used for delivery in Hong Kong. Sometimes seen with fresh meat dangling from the front. Taken in Canal Street Market in Causeway Bay. Fuji ACROS 100 B&W film.
A table under repair in the shrine at Lei Yue Mun in Hong Kong. Fuji PRO160C colour negative film.
The world's smallest Give Way sign. On the Mall in London with Buckingham Palace behind me. Fuji PRO160C colour negative film.
A temple in Kyoto, Japan in December - even colder than it looks. Fuji PRO160C colour negative film.
If these have been washed, they must have looked amazing beforehand. There was a small Vespa repair shop in a back street in Wanchai Hong Kong near my apartment. It was one of the most gritty looking places I can imagine. It is now gone and replaced by an Art Gallery. Ironic. Fuji ACROS 100 B&W negative film.


Thank you, L, for asking the fun questions, as always!
What do you consider "jumping high" for yourself? 1.15m & up. I honestly don't jump higher than 1.15m anymore and compete much lower right now.
What are your short term goals for riding? Do you think you'll reach them? I primarily ride for fun now, so I don't actively make goals very much, other than have fun at a show, try not to die, don't look like an idiot too much, etc.
Long term goals for riding? Do you think you'll reach them? More dressage. Maybe even compete at dressage again? Eli is not likely the right horse for that, so it's not on the immediate horizon.
How many barns have you been at in your riding career? 4 or 5.
How many different trainers have you been with in your riding career? Same as above, I guess?
Ever worked at a barn? What did you do? Yes. Teach. & odds & ends. Also fed on the weekends as a teenager and was a working student around the same time.
Scariest thing that has happened at your barn? The threat of fire in dry conditions terrifies me. I am also always scared/afraid/worried/stressed when a horse either colicks or gets cast. And one time a random stranger jogged onto the barn property and tried to ride a boarder's horse while she was grazing the mare … just hearing that freaked me out. The boarder stayed super calm and the barn owner intervened; nothing terrible came of it or anything, it was just one of those weird, random things. The guy was maybe a little not right in the head, apparently had no clue what he was doing was wrong/threatening/unsafe.
Have you ever given a lesson? What level was the rider? Yes. Mostly beginners, some intermediate … then, I don't know, what's the line of demarcation for going from intermediate to advanced?
What is your opinion on the accuracy of critiquing riders online? There are people who offer constructive criticism and then there are assholes. And everyone is one of those things to someone.
What is the ideal height of a horse for you? 16hh-16.3hh.
It is a very deep truth.
haha too true on the everyone is one of those things to someone.
I am trying really hard to normalize the meters versus the feet & inches in my brain. Trust me, 1.15m was not the first thing I typed.


Come be a part of the planning workshop for Waldo Canyon. This meeting will focus on trails and access points, among other important topics. Lets re-imagine Waldo Canyon together!
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Crew Leader Training is almost full; don't miss your chance to register! Meet amazing people and make a big impact in your community by helping to maintain and improve our trails and public lands.
Join us for a spectacular late night bike ride! Venture through the moonlit streets of Garden of the Gods and west Colorado Springs. Opt in for a lively night of illuminated bikes paired with amazing food and entertainment. Only early birds are guaranteed a t-shirt, so register now. Have friends or family visiting from out of town? Starlight participants get access to special discounts for booking a room at Hyatt Place Garden of the Gods, You won't want to missed this incredible community celebration benefiting the Trails and Open Space Coalition.
Want to be a volunteer for this cool event?
There are a variety of way you can help out before, during and after the event. It doesn't matter if you are a social butterfly, prefer to work independently or with a small group; if you want to help make Starlight a success, we have a role for you! Click here to sign up.
Compete in a scenic marathon, half marathon or 10k with live music, a crowd-pleasing spread and beer garden at the post-race party! The American Discovery Trail (ADT) Marathon is recognized as a premier race event by local and out-of-state runners.The ADT Marathon benefits the Trails and Open Space Coalition and Pikes Peak Road Runners.
Looking for a new way to get your brand in front of people? Become an ADT sponsor, for more info contactaaron@trailsandopenspaces.org.
Come learn about the geology in our region. The Friends of Stratton Open Space have recruited professional geologist Jay Temple to share a presentation on the geology of Cheyenne Canon and Stratton Open Space.
Garden of the Gods is honoring Earth Day with a Motorless Morning! Motor vehicles will not be allowed to enter the park until after noon. Plus, the Visitor and Nature Center and Rock Ledge Ranch Historic Site will be hosting family-friendly Earth Day festivities 9:00 – 3:00 pm.
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Well, where does one start with Andrzej Żuławski's Possession? Pretentious and confused metaphorical drama masquerading as horror; exploitative gross-out nonsense; or miraculous and unequalled arthouse/genre movie crossover? Well Possession is all these things – and a great deal more. Few single films have effectively straddled so many contrasting areas of cinema, one reason for the polarizing effect it has on audiences. After all, how many movies can claim to be an underground cult horror banned under the 1984 'Video Nasties' Act as well as being a prize winner at both the Cannes Film Festival and the César Awards. Only Lars Von Trier's Antichrist (2009), surely influenced by Żuławski's film, comes to mind as appeasing (and equally offending) horror aficionados and arthouse respectability, but even that didn't win at Cannes. Clearly Possession is something pointedly dangerous and extraordinary.
The plot and themes of Possession could be endlessly interpreted and allegorized regardless of whether there may or may not be any actual intended meaning (and believe me there's plenty of baffling ambiguity involving pink socks and dopplegangers) but Żuławski has naturally (and playfully) kept tight-lipped about it all. But the basic concept is clear enough when described in a single sentence: After the collapse of a marriage, the man looks after the child whilst the woman gives birth to a hideous tentacled creature. There, that's all you really need to know. And from that the obvious implication is that dissolution of the family unit can spawn a monster. Since the film makes great play of its bleak and unforgiving West Germany setting, we could just as easily say that federal state control can spawn a monster. Also, an individual's own selfishness and obsessive desires can spawn a monster. Maybe even religion can spawn a monster. Anything and everything could spawn a monster in this film.
Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill are Anna and Mark, the disintegrating couple in question. Sam Neill, who has since proven himself to be a consummate actor, here pitches his performance somewhere between wooden and maladjusted. But nowhere near as unhinged as Isabelle Adjani, whose performance must rank as one of the most committed depictions of raving hysteria in all of cinema, and by committed I could just as easily be referring to an asylum. Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes and the Césars for a role which requires her to self-abuse with a knife, have an apparent epileptic seizure in a subway and spew odious white fluid from every part of her body. For sheer committment to the part she deserved every award she got. But Adjani and Neill both deliver their characters at just the right level of warped lunacy appropriate for the film, because in the end Possession is all about being compulsively trapped in the experience of watching it for the entire 2 hours. Regardless of its muddled thinking, as a purely cinematic experience Possession is the greatest ordeal imaginable. It's a masterclass in sustained frenzy, as excessive as it is exacting.
Considering the film's overlapping cult horror/arthouse credentials it's not surprising that, depending which camp you're in, Possession has been criticized as compromising and not fully exploiting either field. But for my money, this is horror filmmaking in its purest sense. Scenes of startling horrific content punctuate an overall tone of unremitting fever pitch. When they strike, the horror elements are unquestionably brilliant, the best the genre has to offer. The taut atmosphere and surrealist slant recalls Polanki's Repulsion (1965) and The Tenant (1976) – further examples of mental angst in rundown bed sits – or Skolimowski's Deep End (1971) and The Shout (1978) (there's clearly something special about Polish-directed English language psychological horror!). The disgusting tentacled creature itself is a wonderful achievement, designed by Carlo Rambaldi a year before winning plaudits as the creator of E.T. – The Extra Terrestrial. A gruesomely tactile creation, dripping with repulsive detail – only David Cronenberg has achieved the same level of graphic monstrosity. It's no surprise that, for a film which gradually escalates the level of horror throughout, Possession concludes with levels of stylish and extravagant violence to make any Giallo proud.
Possession is an exhausting, perplexing and revolting experience. Every self-respecting horror fan simply has to put themselves through it. A Masterpiece.


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Mental health behavioral health organizations—Limited exemption.
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Why Do Hiccups Come At The Wrong Time?
Running late for an important presentation and these incessant hiccups are just not going. If you have ever come across such silly situation you would realize the enormity of frustration it creates. Let us dig deeper to understand the why's and how's of hiccups.
Hiccup is a characteristic sound that is continuous and rhythmic in nature. It occurs due to a spasm shutting the diaphragm that closes the vocal cords (glottis) and causes an intake of breath to be stopped. Most of the times, it is a minor temporary occurrence but prolonged hiccups may indicate something more serious.
Do you know even unborn babies inside the uterus also gets hiccups?
Quickly drinking a glass of cold water.
Rarely a medical emergency, you should seek medical help if they become a nuisance during eating or sleeping when they may hint problems with central nervous system or metabolic processes.


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Roadwarden Is More Witcher Than The Witcher
By Andrei Pechalin January 11, 2023
Roadwarden is a bleak game. You arrive on a harsh and hostile peninsula at the behest of your paymasters, the merchant's guild of a large city, and have just 40 days (more or less, depending on the difficulty level you opt for) to assess the extent to which it may benefit their investment. You follow in the footsteps of the previous roadwarden, Asterion, who the clues suggest may have gone native.
So far, so Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness — a persistent source of inspiration for everything from Apocalypse Now to Far Cry 2. And with good reason: Conrad had a masterful command of prose to paint scenes of captivating beauty and unsettling horror. The parallels are arguably strongest in Roadwarden, given it is essentially an interactive novel enhanced by some evocative pixel art, music, and sound effects.
Indeed, the quality of Roadwarden's prose is its most immediately arresting feature. The world, at least at first blush, doesn't stretch itself much beyond traditional fantasy tropes. Goblins, harpies, griffons, dragonlings, and many other quintessential mythical beasts roam the wilds. Disheveled villagers and austere druids espouse local knowledge and tenets of their faiths. The undead roam through the fogs, and bandits ply their nefarious trade in the woods. But these tropes are elevated by an elegant prose style that carries an eye for detail, characterization, and world-building without feeling verbose or overly labored.
It is only later, as you get to know the peninsula, that you realize things are a little more complex than initial impressions suggest. Many dialogue choices, portrayed as your memories of the past, allow you to define vastly different backgrounds for the city you came from — a kind of retrospective RPG character sheet creation through recollection.
Elsewhere, through lack of means, or the desire to preserve the meager means you earn, you sleep on floors, wash in rivers, eat leftovers, and repair and launder clothes only when absolutely necessary. You take on risky work for low pay; wardening the roads is the perfect opportunity to courier messages and goods, as well as to explore, particularly when your paymasters haven't provided enough resources for your expedition.
Your austere living arrangements and difficult contracts may bring you closer to the region's denizens, revealing nuances of local politics, traditions, and geography. One distant village, for instance, is known to most locals but rarely talked about, so it requires an accumulation of local knowledge to ask the right questions, which reveal its existence and location.
If all of that sounds familiar, it may be due to more than just the parallels with Heart of Darkness. Often, Roadwarden feels like a particularly harsh, especially purist take on the The Witcher series of novels. In the books, as in the games and the TV series, Witcher Geralt has friends, lovers, and politicians that he can rely on, but beyond that he finds himself routinely abused, underpaid, injured, tired, dirty, and ultimately alone and ostracized from most communities. Look no further than the series's ending in The Lady of the Lake, which I won't spoil here, but which underscores the novels' theme of the indiscriminate and unceremonious cruelty brought about by xenophobia.
These elements are present in CD Projekt Red's and Netflix's interpretations, but they are downplayed compared to in the books. By the end of The Witcher 3's expansion Blood and Wine, it is possible to settle down to a quiet and relatively prosperous life in a temperate and fertile country. (This ending does echo some of the things Ciri says at the end of The Lady of the Lake, but it's an uncharacteristically upbeat epilogue to a thoroughly cynical series.)
In contrast, Roadwarden never shies away from its consistently ambiguous choices and grim outcomes. On my playthrough, for instance, I saved a town from a deadly plague and made the Eastern trade routes safer to travel, but I still managed to end my days alone, unloved, and without the influence in the merchant's guild that I had elected to be my life's goal at the start of the game. In fact, some poor intriguing within the guild led to my untimely demise.
If Roadwarden manages to feel more like The Witcher than The Witcher games or television, then it's the roadwarden's mediocre skill set that most clearly sets the game apart in tone. Geralt may be a loner, but he is a genetically modified superhuman exceptionally skilled at slaying monsters. The roadwarden, by contrast, is nothing special. My fish traps frequently failed, my combat checks often rolled against me, my attempts to persuade got me beaten near to death, and even my alleged education didn't help me to understand the Old Speech of a secluded tribe.
An amusing piece of optional dialogue with a local child tries to unpack the meaning of "roadwarden" but never manages anything like a precise analysis. Which is just as well, since the roadwarden is not especially good at any one thing — a glorified auditor who is often distinguished only by his horse, a rare sight in the peninsula.
And yet, for all its unflinching bleakness, there is an unlikely coziness to Roadwarden. As you explore the peninsula, the map takes the shape of a closed loop that you grow very familiar with over your 40 game days. Your job means that you traverse it over and over again, and so it becomes second nature to choose where to safely forage and fish, where to stay the night, and how far to push it before needing to find shelter before the deadly dusk. However, as you grow to know and understand the region, that loop also takes on new meanings. Landmarks gain significance, mysterious locations give up their secrets, shortcuts appear, and ultimately new routes grow like offshoots from that core loop.
It's a pattern of gradual and incremental exploration that I think many of us are familiar with from our childhoods, from visiting and revisiting parks, family homes, recurring holiday destinations, or whatever else. When I was little, for instance, my grandparents had a dacha (a type of land allotment) outside the city. I used to spend my summers there, often cycling a loop that took me through the small village where the dacha was based, across a field towards a forest, over a major road into another village, past a lake, and back towards the dacha. I remember when that route seemed threatening — impassable without an adult or at least a friend to share the adventure.
As I grew up, the route seemed to shrink, to become comfortable and familiar. I started to go out into the forest, deeper into the neighboring village, or along the main road; the route grew and spawned offshoots. But at the end of each summer, before the autumn cold and rain, I returned to the city.
In this sense, Roadwarden also subtly taps into some of our primordial instincts and earliest memories. Its grim sense of place is anchored to a map and a gameplay mechanic that evokes a nostalgic sense of warmth — a subtle and strangely addicting counterbalance to its difficult choices.
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Educators and activists urge teachers to learn about the communities they serve.
How can teachers help to repair the disconnection between schools and the communities they serve? Experts say they should immerse themselves in the community and be part of the local culture. Identifying with students can go a long way toward restoring the breach.
This video explores one facet of the goals in the collaboration between University of Phoenix, National Action Network, and the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY). The partners launched a national movement to redevelop the broken relationship between the Black community and the schools that serve them.
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An organisation does best when everyone's energies are pointed in the same direction. But research consistently shows that less than 50% of employees know what their company's direction actually is.
If they don't know where you're going, they can't help you get there.


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Indonesian Industry Grows 4.54 Percent in First Semester
by adminon 22 August 2016in News No comment
Indonesia`s non-oil/non-gas processing industry in the first half of 2016 grew 4.54 percent, down from 5.26 percent in the same period last year.
"Of course, it had to do with the economic slowdown. But we believe we will be able to encourage it in the future," Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto said on Thursday.
The minister said he is optimistic that the industry will grow at a faster pace in the future as several key industries such as food, beverage, automotive and textile industries are still growing well.
For its part, the ministry is trying to identify various obstacles which may disrupt the industrial growth, he added.
"We are still trying to find where are the obstacles. We are also encouraging (the development of) new industrial estates. Hopefully, they will be able to increase the capacity of the domestic industry," he said.
Secretary General of the Industry Ministry Syarif Hidayat alleged that the global economic slowdown was responsible for a decline in the countrys export of industrial products.
"As we all see the economic growth of Malaysia and Thailand is lower than ours. So it is undeniable that the global economy has highly affected it," he said.
Under these circumstances, the countrys industrial growth may reach at least 5 percent by the end of 2016, falling short of the government-set target of 5.7 percent, he said
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Sitting still, or focusing on ONE thing these days can be incredibly challenging. Especially with today's noise and distractions — from smartphones to daily demands. Here, a simple, effective practice from YJ Influencer Lauren Taus to stay present and foster better focus all around. You're welcome!
THEN: Grab your mat, and get to work.
Move into Eagle Pose (Garudasana). Come to stand in Mountain Pose. Bend your knees slightly, lift your left foot up and, balancing on your right foot, cross your left thigh over the right. Point your left toes toward the floor, press the foot back, and then hook the top of the foot behind the lower right calf. Balance on the right foot. Stretch your arms straight forward, parallel to the floor, and cross the arms in front of your torso so that the right arm is above the left, then bend your elbows. Snug the right elbow into the crook of the left, and raise the forearms perpendicular to the floor. The backs of your hands should be facing each other. Stay for 30 seconds, then unwind the legs and arms and repeat on the other side (legs and arms reversed).
From a lunge position, move into Warrior III (Virabhadrasana III). Stretch your arms forward, parallel to the floor and parallel to each other, palms facing each other. Exhale and press the head of the right thighbone back and press the heel actively into the floor. Synchronize the straightening of the front leg and the lifting of the back leg. Energize the lifted back leg and extend it strongly toward the wall behind you; reach just as actively in the opposite direction with the arms. Bring the head up slightly and look forward, but be sure not to compress the back of your neck. Hold for 30 seconds to challenge your balance, and then repeat on the other side.
Finish your practice with Supported Headstand (Salamba Sirsasana) to calm your brain. Kneel on the floor. Lace your fingers together and set the forearms on the floor, elbows at shoulder width. Roll the upper arms slightly outward, but press the inner wrists firmly into the floor. Set the crown of your head on the floor. Inhale and lift your knees off the floor. Carefully walk your feet closer to your elbows, heels elevated. Actively lift through the top thighs, forming an inverted "V." Exhale and lift your feet away from the floor. Take both feet up at the same time, even if it means bending your knees and hopping lightly off the floor. As the legs (or thighs, if your knees are bent) rise to perpendicular to the floor, firm the tailbone against the back of the pelvis. Turn the upper thighs in slightly, and actively press the heels toward the ceiling (straightening the knees if you bent them to come up). The center of the arches should align over the center of the pelvis, which in turn should align over the crown of the head.
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Moon and Mars
Moon and Mars news updates from Nasa.
Prometheus: Over Easy
Looking for all intents and purposes like a celestial egg after a session in Saturn's skillet, Prometheus displayed its pockmarked, irregular surface for NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Jan. 27, 2010.
Prometheus is one of Saturn's innermost moons. It orbits the gas-giant at a distance of 139,353 kilometers (85,590 miles) and is 86 kilometers (53 miles) across at its widest point. The porous, icy-bodied world was originally discovered by images taken by Voyager 1 back in 1980. You could say this latest "egg-cellent" view has the Cassini science team licking their chops at the thought of future Prometheus images.
This raw, unprocessed image of Prometheus [pro-MEE-thee-us] , taken in visible light, was obtained by Cassini's narrow-angle camera at a distance of approximately 36,000 kilometers (23,000 miles).
The Cassini Equinox Mission is a joint United States and European endeavor. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.
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Rover Gives NASA an "Opportunity" to View Interior of Mars
NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past two months. Dubbed "Marquette Island," the rock is providing a better understanding of the mineral and chemical makeup of the Martian interior.
"Marquette Island is different in composition and character from any known rock on Mars or meteorite from Mars," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Squyres is principal investigator for Opportunity and its twin, Spirit. "It is one of the coolest things Opportunity has found in a very long time."
During six years of roving, Opportunity has found only one other rock of comparable size that scientists conclude was ejected from a distant crater. The rover studied the first such rock during its initial three-month mission. Called "Bounce Rock," that rock closely matched the composition of a meteorite from Mars found on Earth.
Marquette Island is a coarse-grained rock with a basalt composition. The coarseness indicates it cooled slowly from molten rock, allowing crystals time to grow. This composition suggests to geologists that it originated deep in the crust, not at the surface where it would cool quicker and have finer-grained texture.
"It is from deep in the crust and someplace far away on Mars, though exactly how deep and how far we can't yet estimate," said Squyres.
Public Invited To Pick Pixels on Mars
The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.
Since arriving at Mars in 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recorded nearly 13,000 observations of the Red Planet's terrain. Each image covers dozens of square miles and reveals details as small as a desk. Now, anyone can nominate sites for pictures.
"The HiRISE team is pleased to give the public this opportunity to propose imaging targets and share the excitement of seeing your favorite spot on Mars at people-scale resolution," said Alfred McEwen, principal investigator for the camera and a researcher at the University of Arizona, Tucson.
The idea to take suggestions from the public follows through on the original concept of the HiRISE instrument, when its planners nicknamed it "the people's camera." The team anticipates that more people will become interested in exploring the Red Planet, while their suggestions for imaging targets will increase the camera's already bountiful science return. Despite the thousands of pictures already taken, less than 1 percent of the Martian surface has been imaged.
Students, researchers and others can view Mars maps using a new online tool to see where images have been taken, check which targets have already been suggested and make new suggestions. "The process is fairly simple," said Guy McArthur, systems programmer on the HiRISE team at the University of Arizona. "With the tool, you can place your rectangle on Mars where you'd like."
McArthur developed the online tool, called "HiWish," with Ross Beyer, principal investigator and research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif.
In addition to identifying the location on a map, anyone nominating a target will be asked to give the observation a title, explain the potential scientific benefit of photographing the site and put the suggestion into one of the camera team's 18 science themes. The themes include categories such as impact processes, seasonal processes and volcanic processes.
The HiRISE science team will evaluate suggestions and put high-priority ones into a queue. Thousands of pending targets from scientists and the public will be imaged when the orbiter's track and other conditions are right.
Dune Symmetry Inside Martian Crater
Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin.
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this view on Dec. 28, 2009.
The dunes here are linear, thought to be due to shifting wind directions. In places, each dune is remarkably similar to adjacent dunes, including a reddish (or dust colored) band on northeast-facing slopes. Large angular boulders litter the floor between dunes.
The most extensive linear dune fields know in the solar system are on Saturn's large moon Titan. Titan has a very different environment and composition, so at meter-scale resolution they probably are very different from Martian dunes.
This image covers a swath of ground about 1.2 kilometers (three-fourth of a mile) wide, centered at 42.7 degrees south latitude, 38.0 degrees east longitude. It is one product from HiRISE observation ESP_016036_1370. The season on Mars is southern-hemisphere autumn. Other image products from this observation are available at http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ESP_016036_1370.
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates the HiRISE camera, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor for the project and built the spacecraft.
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Variations in Soft Soil of 'Troy' (False Color)
The soft soil exposed when wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground dubbed "Troy" exhibit variations in hue visible in this image, in which the colors have been stretched to emphasize the differences.
Spirit used its panoramic camera during the 1,892nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 29, 2009) to take the three images combined into this composite image. The three images were taken through filters centered at wavelengths of 750 nanometers, 530 nanometers and 430 nanometers. Spirit had become embedded at Troy by about a week later.
The two rocks near the upper right corner of this view are each about 10 centimeters (4 inches) long and 2 to 3 centimeters (1 inch) wide.
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian site in November 2008.
The solar-powered lander operated two months longer than its three-month prime mission during summer on northern Mars before the seasonal ebb of sunshine ended its work. Since then, Phoenix's landing site has gone through autumn, winter and part of spring. The lander's hardware was not designed to survive the temperature extremes and ice-coating load of an arctic Martian winter.
In the extremely unlikely case that Phoenix survived the winter, it is expected to follow instructions programmed on its computer. If systems still operate, once its solar panels generate enough electricity to establish a positive energy balance, the lander would periodically try to communicate with any available Mars relay orbiters in an attempt to reestablish contact with Earth. During each communications attempt, the lander would alternately use each of its two radios and each of its two antennas.
Odyssey will pass over the Phoenix landing site approximately 10 times each day during three consecutive days of listening this month and two longer listening campaigns in February and March.
"We do not expect Phoenix to have survived, and therefore do not expect to hear from it. However, if Phoenix is transmitting, Odyssey will hear it," said Chad Edwards, chief telecommunications engineer for the Mars Exploration Program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. "We will perform a sufficient number of Odyssey contact attempts that if we don't detect a transmission from Phoenix, we can have a high degree of confidence that the lander is not active."
The amount of sunshine at Phoenix's site is currently about the same as when the lander last communicated, on Nov. 2, 2008, with the sun above the horizon about 17 hours each day. The listening attempts will continue until after the sun is above the horizon for the full 24.7 hours of the Martian day at the lander's high-latitude site. During the later attempts in February or March, Odyssey will transmit radio signals that could potentially be heard by Phoenix, as well as passively listening.
If Odyssey does hear from Phoenix, the orbiter will attempt to lock onto the signal and gain information about the lander's status. The initial task would be to determine what capabilities Phoenix retains, information that NASA would consider in decisions about any further steps.
LRO Team Begins to Release New Image Series
The LROC Team begins a new series of Featured Images highlighting the regions of interest for potential future human and robotic lunar exploration that LRO is imaging for NASA's Constellation Program. There are 50 of these regions, which were selected prior to LRO's launch based on expert input from the lunar science community and NASA engineers. For each of these 50 regions, the LROC Team is collecting a comprehensive set of image data.
These images, and the associated information products derived from them (such as boulder distribution maps, slope maps and digital terrain models), will guide engineers and scientists as they develop their plans for how they would continue to explore the moon both robotically and with humans.
Lunar scientists have been studying the vast data returned from the Apollo missions for almost 40 years. As a result, much is known about the moon. Even so, there remains much that we do not know about the moon. Accordingly, each of these 50 regions is associated with either an immensely compelling lunar science question or an exploration-enabling resource, or both, that will be useful to future explorers. However, these 50 regions aren't intended as actual NASA landing sites, but instead are representative locations whose study will provide mission planners and lunar scientists working on future human and robotic lunar exploration with lots of data for a comprehensive suite of interesting and relevant terrains all over the lunar surface.
For more information visit here - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LRO/multimedia/lroimages/lroc-20100107-new-images.html
NASA's WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.
Launched on Dec. 14, WISE will scan the entire sky for millions of hidden objects, including asteroids, "failed" stars and powerful galaxies. WISE data will serve as navigation charts for other missions, such as NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, pointing them to the most interesting targets the mission finds.
A new WISE infrared image was taken shortly after the space telescope's cover was removed, exposing the instrument's detectors to starlight for the first time. The picture shows about 3,000 stars in the Carina constellation and can be viewed online at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/wise20100106.html .
The image covers a patch of sky about three times larger than the full moon, and was presented today at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington. The patch was selected because it does not contain any unusually bright objects, which could damage instrument detectors if observed for too long. The picture was taken while the spacecraft was staring at a fixed patch of sky and is being used to calibrate the spacecraft's pointing system.
When the WISE survey begins, the spacecraft will scan the sky continuously as it circles the globe, while an internal scan mirror counteracts its motion. This allows WISE to take "freeze-frame" snapshots every 11 seconds, resulting in millions of images of the entire sky.
"Right now, we are busy matching the rate of the scan mirror to the rate of the spacecraft, so we will capture sharp pictures as our telescope sweeps across the sky," said William Irace, the mission's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
To sense the infrared glow of stars and galaxies, the WISE spacecraft cannot give off any detectable infrared light of its own. This is accomplished by chilling the telescope and detectors to ultra-cold temperatures. The coldest of WISE's detectors will operate at less than 8 Kelvin, or minus 445 degrees Fahrenheit.
The first sky survey will be complete in six months, followed by a second scan of one-half of the sky lasting three months. The mission ends when the frozen hydrogen that keeps the instrument cold evaporates away, an event expected to occur in October 2010.
Preliminary survey images are expected to be released six months later, in April 2011, with the final atlas and catalog coming 11 months later, in March 2012. Selected images will be released to the public beginning in February 2010.
JPL manages WISE for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The mission was competitively selected under NASA's Explorers Program, managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The science instrument was built by the Space Dynamics Laboratory in Logan, Utah, and the spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Goddard Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars
The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm.
"Mars was a lot different 3-1/2 billion years ago. It was more like Earth with liquid water," said Jennifer Eigenbrode, a scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "Maybe life existed back then. Maybe it has persisted, which is possible given the fact that we've found life in every extreme environment here on Earth. If life existed on Mars, maybe it adapted very much like life adapted here."
An experiment proposed by Eigenbrode has been added to the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on a mobile NASA laboratory that will land on Mars in 2012. Goddard scientists developed SAM. The newly added experiment will enhance SAM's ability to analyze large carbon molecules if the mission is fortunate enough to find any.
The mission, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, will be checking whether a carefully chosen area of Mars has ever had an environment favorable for the development of life and preservation of evidence about life. The mission's car-sized rover will analyze dozens of samples scooped from soil and drilled from rocks.
None of the rover's 10 instruments is designed to identify past or present life, but SAM has a key role of checking for carbon-containing compounds that potentially can be ingredients or markers of life. Most environments on Mars may not have enabled preservation of these compounds, which are called organic molecules, but if any did, that could be evidence of conditions favorable for life.
Eigenbrode secured the flight opportunity for her experiment after successfully proving in a series of tests earlier this year that the combination of heat and a specific chemical would significantly enhance SAM's ability to analyze large carbon molecules.
The PARASOL Satellite Moving Off the A-Train's Track
After nearly 5 years of concurrent operations with the Afternoon Constellation, known as the "A-Train," the PARASOL satellite is going on another orbit "track." The A-Train includes a number of NASA satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track and until this month, PARASOL has been part of that train.
PARASOL is an Earth observation mission, managed by the French Space Agency (CNES). PARASOL stands for "Polarization and Anisotropy of Reflectances for Atmospheric Sciences coupled with Observations from a Lidar." According to CNES, it was maneuvered to leave its position inside the A-Train at 12:48 UTC, December 2, 2009.
The A-Train satellite formation currently consists of five satellites flying in close proximity: Aqua, CloudSat, CALIPSO, PARASOL and Aura. Each of these satellites cross the equator within a few minutes of each another at around 1:30 p.m. local time. By combining the different sets of nearly simultaneous observations, scientists are able to gain a better understanding its main mission, studying the important parameters related to climate change. As an additional benefit, the A-Train satellites provide unique information about tropical cyclones, the collective term for tropical depressions, tropical storms, hurricanes and typhoons.
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Dwynesha "Dee" Lavigne is the founder and owner of DeeLightful Cupcakes, a gourmet cupcake and confectionary treats bakery.
In light of the global pandemic, many organizations have been faced with adapting or changing strategies to meet the needs of those they serve. In response, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation launched the Lepage Center Mentorship program. Since early April, the Lepage Center has been matching entrepreneurs and small business owners with business experts to assist them with getting their companies back on track or re-imagining the services that they currently offer.
Tulane University and Freeman School alumni have been donating their time, with the Lepage Center, and sharing their professional experience with companies that have been adversely impacted by COVID-19. These mentors bring a wealth of experience in the areas of strategic growth, operations, finance, marketing, technology, and innovation. To date, the Center has connected more than sixty companies with mentors.
We are pleased to share a few of our participants' comments from this experience.
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Dwynesha "Dee" Lavigne is the founder and owner of DeeLightful Cupcakes, a gourmet cupcake and confectionary treats bakery. Due to the pandemic, Dee found herself without a baking facility or connection to her loyal customers. Dee needed to shift gears quickly and heard about the Lepage Mentorship program through JEDCO, one of the Center's community partners.
"Working with the Lepage Center and being paired with a knowledgeable mentor has been a great tool in transforming my business and taking it to the next level - Chef Dee Lavigne"
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Chef Dee Lavigne is following in Chef Lena Richard's footsteps
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The Making of Sabbat – Time Machine
This is part of a series of videos where I'll be talking about the inspiration behind the songs from my new album. In this video it's all about the song Time Machine. Other posts in this series Sabbat The Wicker Man Scarborough Faire On the Shoulders of
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The Making of Sabbat – Scarborough Faire
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The Making of Sabbat – The Wicker Man
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Leadership, Solitude, Concentration, and Twitter: Responding to Deresiewicz with Steven Johnson
Posted by Jonathan Martin under Uncategorized | Tags: Educating for Innovation, Networked Learning, social media |
Solitude and Leadership, the title of William Deresiewicz's much circulated American Scholar article intones. Solitude and Leadership: one cannot help but lower one's voice and slow one's enunciation as the title is enunciated.
This piece has been shared with me by many, the estimable David Brooks recently cited it as a top essay of the year: there is indeed much wisdom to be found in it. But before I relay that wisdom, a caveat: Deresiewicz creates a false dichotomy which simply isn't supportable: solitude and concentration are valuable elements of leadership and independent thought, but they do not exclude, in any defensible way, the possibility or even as I would argue the probability that there is great parallel and synergistic value derived from an immersion in the crowd and the stimulating, creative, multitudinous energy of our contemporary Forum, Twitter.
The piece, which indeed everyone should read and discuss, is in two parts. First, Deresiewicz rightly and compellingly lays out the deep vaccum of leadership we have in our nation today, something I know many of my associates and colleagues in educational innovation will concur with: we need educational leadership which is anything but complacent, but is independent and courageous enough to stand tall and say firmly that education must change.
For too long we have been training leaders who only know how to keep the routine going. Who can answer questions, but don't know how to ask them. Who can fulfill goals, but don't know how to set them. Who think about how to get things done, but not whether they're worth doing in the first place. What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of expertise. What we don't have are leaders.
Deresiewicz is profound too in his definition of leadership, and I think that again I speak for many educators and educational innovators when I say he is dead-right: leadership is derived from independence of mind, and our passion and our calling is to educate independent, creative, critical thinkers.
What we don't have, in other words, are thinkers. People who can think for themselves. People who can formulate a new direction: for the country, for a corporation or a college, for the Army—a new way of doing things, a new way of looking at things. People, in other words, with vision.
What makes a thinker—and a leader—is precisely that he is able to think things through for himself. And because he can, he has the confidence, the courage, to argue for his ideas even when they aren't popular. Even when they don't please his superiors… there is another kind of courage, moral courage, the courage to stand up for what you believe.
In the second half, the essay's project is to explore a question which is also important to educators: "how do you learn to do that? How do you learn to think?" His answer, however, and regrettably, is one part prophetic and one part polemic, and I believe that in his need to launch a rhetorical bomb his thinking misses a critical step in a deeply disappointing way. First the prophetic:
Thinking means concentrating on one thing long enough to develop an idea about it. Not learning other people's ideas, or memorizing a body of information, however much those may sometimes be useful. Developing your own ideas. In short, thinking for yourself.
You do your best thinking by slowing down and concentrating.
It's only by concentrating, sticking to the question, being patient, letting all the parts of my mind come into play, that I arrive at an original idea. By giving my brain a chance to make associations, draw connections, take me by surprise.
So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading. All of these help you to know yourself better.
Powerful, meaningful, significant, and accurate. Much or most of my most important thinking happens when I am alone: hiking, cycling, in the shower, just sitting in my office staring into space. Absolutely, a room of our own, whether literally or mentally metaphorically, is a prerequisite for original thought.
But, and I feel like shouting, there is no reason a thinker can't or shouldn't also be fruitful by engagement with the swirl of the intellectual currents flowing around him or her. Deresiewicz can't seem to abide the simple concept of both/and in this part of his essay, and instead falls into the failure of either/or binary thinking. Here, it seems, his lovely and philosophical essay becomes nothing other than an under-informed, narrow-minded, un-original and nasty polemic about Twitter and Facebook.
You simply cannot do [concentration] in bursts of 20 seconds at a time, constantly interrupted by Facebook messages or Twitter tweets, or fiddling with your iPod, or watching something on YouTube.
Maybe many can't sustain concentration this way (some can), but the two different modes don't have to happen at the same time. A creative thinker can spend many hours a day doing exactly these things, and then retreat into moments, minutes, or hours alone. How can this simple recognition elude Deresiewicz?
[Concentration] means gathering yourself together into a single point rather than letting yourself be dispersed everywhere into a cloud of electronic and social input. It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don't think this is a generational thing, TV and radio and magazines and even newspapers, too—are all ultimately just an elaborate excuse to run away from yourself. To avoid the difficult and troubling questions that being human throws in your way. Am I doing the right thing with my life? Do I believe the things I was taught as a child? What do the words I live by—words like duty, honor, and country—really mean? Am I happy?
The answers to these dilemmas are not to be found on Twitter or Comedy Central or even in The New York Times. They can only be found within—without distractions, without peer pressure, in solitude.
These are just unsupportable assertions. On what possible basis can he successfully establish that we should and can only find wisdom, or independence of thought, or philosophical understanding of our lives, by retreating to an intellectual island?
Thinking for yourself means finding yourself, finding your own reality. Here's the other problem with Facebook and Twitter and even The New York Times. When you expose yourself to those things, especially in the constant way that people do now—older people as well as younger people—you are continuously bombarding yourself with a stream of other people's thoughts. You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. In other people's reality: for others, not for yourself.
Has Deresiewicz considered the history of philosophy at all before writing these sentences? Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato lived within, thrived and flourished within the intensely stimulating intellectual environment of the Athenian polis, engaged in discourse and debate with the Sophists each and every day. Hume and Rousseau had their Enlightenment coffeehouses, Hegel and Heidegger their German universities, Sartre and Camus their Parisian cafes.
Let's turn for a moment to Steven Johnson and his wonderful recent book, Where Good Ideas Come From. Again and again and again he documents, in a remarkably comprehensive compendium, that the original thought that innovation demands is highly socially situated, is highly collaborative. Our most original thinkers surely needed and used solitary time and concentration, but only and always, Johnson establishes resoundingly, in tandem with highly social, interactive, immersion in the crowd.
It used to be, Johnson documents powerfully, that innovation and original thought could only happen in the intense crucible of our largest urban sites: Athens, Rome, Florence, Paris, London, Berlin. But now, amazingly and wonderfully, we have an on-line forum which can match the stimulation of those urban fora, and its name is Twitter (and facebook and a dizzying array of other Web 2.0 sites).
I look forward to speaking to my students and citing Deresiewicz's wise words about the essential quality of independent thought for true and effective leadership, the leadership our nation does indeed deeply need, but I will only do so while also summoning the spirit of Socrates in the Stoa, urging our students to discover and develop their creative and original thought from the intellectual stimulation which can best be found today amidst the fruitful ferment of our transformative technological cosmopolis that is the world wide web.
4 Responses to "Leadership, Solitude, Concentration, and Twitter: Responding to Deresiewicz with Steven Johnson"
Fred Bartels Says:
Thoughtful post Jonathan. It was interesting to see the number of Web 2.0 thought leaders who took a break from twitter over the Christmas break. As you argue persuasively, we need both the stimulation and engagement of the agora, and the the quiet and solitude of the office.
Patti rodger Says:
I do my best thinking alone. In the car, or waking, hiking,
swimming. In bed! But I don't think it's that simple. Usually I'm
mulling or thinking hard on something because I have a passion for
change in that area. I have a wide background knowledge in it,
whether it be from research or action research, or it's just a
problem I need to solve. But frequently the impetus comes from
Twitter or f2f discussions with other educators who are facing
similar challenges. The hustle of Twitter keeps me thinking on the
spot, the seed that is mulled over or researched later. I enjoyed
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For senior and FFA secretary Kacie Tinnesz, growing up around farming culture was a motivating force in joining the group.
"My brother was in FFA when he was still in high school, and I had grown up with all the rednecks," Tinnesz said. "It was just natural. When a leadership position opened up, I decided to go for it. I like actually being in a leadership position; it makes me feel important. [The challenging part was] getting everyone to cooperate and actually getting the group to come together."
As FFA secretary, Tinnesz faces many responsibilities, from keeping track of meeting attendance to dealing with secretaries from other FFA groups. Her experience with FFA has contributed to her decision to pursue a veterinary career.
"It was a good way to get perspective from the agriculture side instead of the science side," Tinnesz said.
Tinnesz has also gained experience through FFA animal and crop competitions, like Junior Stockman's.
"It's an opportunity to show off what we know," Tinnesz said. "I've done a lot of vaccinations at FFA competitions. Last year my cattle working competition came in seventh, and this year we came in sixth, so we've moved up a spot."
Tinnesz plans to pursue her interests at Virginia Tech.
"I know that I'm going into veterinary science, and I could have gone through either the college of science or the science of agriculture," Tinnesz said. "I figured that they really want girls in agriculture, so that would be a good path for me. I've always loved animals since I was little, [and] I love anatomy and all that jazz. Combining the two just kind of made sense."
She gathered early vet experience on her first three jobs, working summers at horse farms in Opal.
"One morning I came in and a horse was down, and as soon as I got there, I knew something was off," Tinnesz said. "I turned out to be right – I made the right call by calling the vet."
In addition to being an essential part of FFA, Tinnesz played a vital role in establishing a pre-med club. Although the club only lasted through a few meetings, Tinnesz believes the effort was worthwhile.
"It never really got off the ground, but it was a fun thing Mrs. [Sinead] Arndt and I did to share our love of anatomy with other people," Tinnesz said. "[The club] was just a way for people to get an idea of what the anatomy class was like, without actually having to take the class."
Tinnesz, whose favorite subject in school is anatomy, balances difficult classes with a job at Tractor Supply Co and FFA. If she could change something about her career in high school, cutting down on classes would be the first on the list.
"I've really been pushing myself this last year," Tinnesz said. "It's all really stressful, but I'm glad I did it."
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