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The name Toller comes from the old name of the river (possibly named after a daughter of the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready who reigned 978-1016), and is also seen in Toller Down, Toller Whelme, Toller Fratrum, and Tollerford, meaning river in a steep valley. The river name seems to have been changed to the Hooke around the 15th century. 'Porcorum' is Latin for 'of the pigs', and either comes from the large number of pigs that were once farmed here in earlier days, or possibly from the presence in the area of wild boar, which were hunted by King John around Powerstock forest. The village has also been known as Swynestolre, Hog Toller, and Great Toller (compared with Little Toller - Toller Fratrum). The escape of some wild boar from one of the local farms a few years ago did result in the return of wild boar to Toller Porcorum, and they were even proved to have bred in the wild, but sightings have been less frequent recently. The hillside above the village shows many examples of strip lynchets, the borders of old Celtic fields, but the area has clearly been occupied far longer, for example a polished flint axe was found in the village in 1996, and the chalk pit on Whitesheet Hill was found to have been used for pre-Roman burials. To the south-west is the large Iron Age hill fort of Eggardon Hill, which was probably captured by the Romans during their invasion of 43AD. On each ridge, north and south of the village, are Roman roads. There have been stories of ghost legions seen marching along the Eggardon-Dorchester road, which prove an interesting contrast with UFOs which were apparently seen in the same place by an ex-Battle of Britain pilot some 40 years ago. Certainly there are still inhabitants of Toller who are reluctant to drive past Eggardon Hill at night!
Medieval Toller
Toller is mentioned in the Domesday Book (1087) as having been owned by Oger from a French lord named Waleran Hunter, who held a variety of villages in the county, including Maiden Newton. It consisted of land for four ploughs, and the lord also owned 3 slaves. There was a mill and a mixture of pastureland and woodland, and the whole was worth £4 (having been valued at £3 twenty years earlier) The village then disappears into near-total obscurity until the 13th century when King John (of Magna Carta fame) hunted regularly in Powerstock Forest - and as he stayed in Maiden Newton, he must certainly have ridden through Toller Porcorum on many occasions. Indeed John and the ill-fated Charles I seem to have been the only English kings to have visited our village. Next comes the first record of a parish priest, in 1235, though certainly local priests would have served the village for several centuries before that. The list of names of Rectors and Vicars of Toller starts in 1317, and continues to the present day, except for a gap between 1569 and 1615.
Toller Porcorum entry in the Domesday Book
Astonishingly in 1303 Swine Toller was apparently held by John de Ingham, who was a direct descendant of the Waleran of the Domesday Book. The Lay Subsidy roll of 1327 lists the names of 17 inhabitants of Toller Porcorum, and the subsidy roll of 1332 increases the list to 21, though these of course were only the richest men in the village. Fourteen years later a certain Tom Bridgewater was given a license to make a chantry in the chapel of St Andrew in Swine Toller, but another deed says that the church was dedicated to St Peter, so we now use both dedications. The Black Death must have hit Toller very soon after its arrival in England (in Weymouth in 1348 just before the feast of St John the Baptist - 7 April), and the parish priest died of the disease, as did the priest of nearby Hooke. The Black Death carried away around one third of the entire population of England, and there is no reason to think that Toller was spared such a catastrophe. In 1361 the rectory and living of Toller were appropriated by the Abbey of Abbotsbury, which held it for two centuries, and it was the monks that Latinized the village's name to Toller Porcorum. The village meanwhile has passed from one lord to another, including Henry Duke of Lancaster in the 13th century, and John Earl of Arundel and Matilda Countess of Arundel in the 15th century. In 1462 Toller was handed over by the new king, Edward IV to his brother, George of Clarence (famous for having been mysteriously drowned in a butt of malmsey wine), though part of it must have remained in the Fitzalan family until the mid-16th century, when it was bought by John Samways. Archaeological excavations by Bournemouth University found traces of medieval habitation in several local fields.
Toller Porcorum 1500-1900
The 16th century was one of massive religious change, and in 1552 Protestant Royal Commissioners visited parishes throughout the land, including Toller Porcorum, confiscating their treasures - which were tainted with Catholicism - and leaving only a bare minimum of plate, cloths arid vestments for the churches to use.
This is what they found in Toller:
i challyce of Sylver gylt. ii surplices five payre of vestments iii Table clothes. ii of them Manched Sarsenet i corporas & ii carchyffes i of read saye ii candelsickes of bras. i of whytfustion ii Towelles. i of grene Satten of brydges. ii crueties of tyn. ii of purpull velvet. i lyche bell. ii copes iii sacrynge belles. i of purpull velvet. iiii belles in the tower. i of Dornex. i cross of lattyn.
to the use of the Church - App by the saide Commysioners
i challis of silver. i cope of Dornex, with all the Table clothes & surplices.
The resydewe of all the premises to the custody and charge of thes men. Whose names bee undre written. Sir David barry Vicar William Younge Thomas Buckler William Swett Richard bylke Renold Cole Robert Simon
So there must have been plenty of money to be made from the switch to Protestantism, if so much could be taken from a small village church. The religious conflicts of the time are also briefly reflected by a record of 1598, when Queen Elizabeth had seized two-thirds of the land of William Moorcock in Toller, because he was a Roman Catholic.
The local court records for the early 17th century include several cases against inhabitants of the village for keeping an alehouse without a license, one case of suspected infanticide by the grandmother of the murdered baby, and another case of sheep-stealing. Then in 1640 the local grandees agreed to divide up and enclose the common land of Toller Porcorum, which must have made life harder for the majority of the villagers.
In 1641-2 almost the entire adult male population of England signed the Protestation, swearing to defend the Protestant religion, and the rights of liberties of Parliament and individuals. The Toller list had 133 signatories, including many names that can still be found in the area today, such as Biles, Cornick, Galpin, Legg, Munden, Samways, Snooke and Symes - together with one that became famous many years later and many miles distant: Presley! Toller's place in the civil war seems to have been small, although King Charles I's army marched through the parish in 1644, and a civil war era sword has been found on one of the farms near Kingcombe, where the royalist army bivouacked for the night of 2 October. Rural west Dorset was largely sympathetic to the King but unlike its near neighbour Powerstock, Toller Porcorum supplied very few royalist soldiers or supporters - with only one name picked out in 1655 and another in 1662.There is no evidence of any Parliamentarians at all, though nearby Wynford Eagle was the home of the celebrated Sydenham family, which included William Sydenham, one of CromweIl's companions-in-arms and an important figure,in the Commonwealth, and the great republican doctor, Thomas Sydenham.
Despite the lack of information about Toller in the Civil War, it may be that it was hard hit, for while the Protestation returns of 1642 imply a population of over 300, the Dorset Hearth Tax assessments just 22 years later list the village as having 47 houses, and therefore a population of only around 190-200. The rapid decline seems to have continued, for in 1673 it was down to 44 houses, of which over three-quarters were exempt from taxation, demonstrating very serious poverty. Eight years later a collection was made for the poor of Great Toller who had suffered from "a devouring fire". It is thought that Railway Cottage, recently renovated, was built just after this fire.
The 18th century passed quietly for the village. In 1762 Toller came into the ownership of George Browne of Frampton (a descendant of one of King Charles I's judges), whose charity is remembered inside the church, while in the 1780s and 1790s we know that John Cornick, Henry and Nicholas Galpin, John Goodwin, George Legg and Joseph Yeates all paid 'composition money' to avoid having to work on repairing the local roads - a back-breaking job which was done by raking up flints and breaking the large stones with a hammer. The local children were also used to pick stones.
In 1801, with the first modern census, we know that the population of Toller Porcorum parish was 340, and rising. Thirty years later, Toller had 18 registered voters out of over 400 inhabitants and in that year 11 voted against electoral reform, while the other 7 were not permitted to use their vote. In common with much of rural Dorset, the population of Toller peaked in 1841 - at an impressive 561 - from which time it has declined fairly steadily.
Particulars of the sale of the Toller Estate in 1865
The school built in 1875 (photo 1908)
The first school we know of in the village was founded by George Browne in 1772, and the master was ordered to teach the poor children of Toller Porcorum (together with some from nearby parishes), in reading, writing, arithmetic and the church catechism. The old schoolhouse is on the High Street, just by the old railway bridge. The village school moved in 1875, and the final schoolhouse is at the far end of School Lane.
The Maiden Newton to Bridport railway branch line opened in 1857 and went through Toller Porcorum but there was no station there. It wasn't until 31st March 1862 that the village appeared on the local train timetable. This proved a great advantage for the village, and the farmers were able to use the line to send butter and Dorset Blue cheese to London, while wood products were also carried on the railway from the Toller saw mill owned by the Galpin family, who had formerly built wagons and coaches.
A rather mysterious Victorian nursery rhyme is about Toller:
"Don, two, dree, vour
Bells of Girt Toller
Who'can meake panceake
'thout fat or vlour?
Gargy, pargy, how s yer wife?
Very bad, upon my life,
Can she ait a bit o' pie?
Ees, sa well as you or I.
Zee, zaw, Margery Daw
Swold her bed and laid in straw.
Wadden she a dirty slut,
Da zell her bed and lay in dirt?
Pon my life an' honner
As I was gowine to Toller,
I met a pig a 'thout a wig
Pon my life an' honner!"
Toller Porcorum has never been much noticed by the famous, but at the end of the 19th century, the Georgian house opposite the entrance to the churchyard in School Lane became the home for several years of the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite painter, William Holman Hunt, and there is even a somewhat doubtful story that when he repainted his celebrated 'Light of the World', which was hung in St Paul's Cathedral, London, in 1904, he used the door of Toller Church as a model for the door on which Jesus is knocking.
The population, which in 1801 and 1901 was about 340 and peaked in 1841 at 543. By 1931 this declined to 330 and to 129 in 1971 falling to 96 in 1981! By 1991 this had risen to 140 and today there are again over 300 people living in the parish.
Toller Porcorum since 1900
Toller Porcorum parish council had its first meeting in 1920, and in 1931 a village hall was built on the old vicarage orchard for less than £500, with much of the money raised from the Toller Fetes. It was a popular site for dances, concerts and amateur dramatics, and people from Powerstock and Maiden Newton used the train to go there. Nevertheless Toller Porcorum was still well behind the times. As late as 1939 there was only one tractor in the village, and virtually all the ploughing was still done by horses. Electricity did not reach the village until 1938 when Wessex Electric offered three lights and a plug to everyone who wanted them. The old corn mill, just off the Kingcombe Road, has long been closed, though just opposite it you can see the old furrowed water meadows, which were controlled with sluices and flooded during the winter months to improve the pasture and keep it frost-free for early grazing.
The school continued to flourish for many years, sometimes almost reaching 70 pupils aged between 5 and 14. Those who passed their examinations at 11 could go to grammar school in Bridport, taking the train every day, or ride by bicycle to Beaminster, but neither option was particularly common.
The war brought sudden change to the slow evolution of West Dorset country life. A variety of army units were stationed in Toller, notably the King's Own Scottish Borderers, the Royal Sussex, the Highland, and the Durham Light Infantry. The Royal Artillery had two heavy guns just outside the village, there was a company of Home Guard, and there were searchlights at the top of Toller Lane, and at Lower Kingcombe, where the Nissen hut can still be seen. In 1943 a lone German plane even blasted the roof off one of the houses on the High Street. People from outside the British Isles now began to arrive in Toller Porcorum for perhaps the first time - 1944 saw American Gls, preparing for D-Day, as regular attenders at the dances in the village hall, while in 1945 German POWs were used to work the fields.
Toller Porcorum Homeguard 1942
Toller Station in the 1930s
As with many other small villages, Toller suffered a steady reduction of amenities following the end of the Second World War. The school closed in 1980, and became a maintenance garage for some years, though it is now a private dwelling. Toller's children now usually attend Greenford Primary School in Maiden Newton, and then go to Beaminster Secondary School, seven miles away.
The Bridport branch railway line survived the cuts of the 1960s, but was closed down in 1975, and the saw mill that depended on it lasted only another 10 years. The railway station itself was removed and rebuilt on the Dart Valley Railway in Devon. Parts of the old railway track are now permissive paths, open to public access, and make a pleasant walk through the countryside
For a comprehensive history of the Bridport Branch Line through Toller along with many interesting pictures click on:
http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/t/toller/index.shtml
Several houses used to be shops - as you can still see in walking through the village - but by the 1980s there was only a single post office and general store left, and that closed in 1998. Fortunately a small sub post office (open Mon-Fri mornings only) was opened the following year.
The village pub was the Old Swan. The original picturesque thatched building burned down in 1903, and the present structure was built to replace it - the mosaic swan, high on its wall visible to all who drive down Toller Lane. The pub stayed open until 1998, when it closed within two weeks of the last village shop. It has remained unused ever since. Palmers Brewery, that owns the building, applied for planning permission to knock the pub down and build houses, but in 2000 after a public enquiry conducted in the village hall, and featuring intense involvement by many villagers, Palmers were refused permission for a change of use. The brewery has refused to sell the building as a public house, despite enquiries, and the building is now derelict.
Recent years have seen some encouraging signs of new life in the village. In 1987, after a nationwide appeal, the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation bought about 350 acres of the Kingcombe Estate, which became famous as it had never had modern weedkillers or fertilizers used on it. It is now part of the well-known Kingcombe Meadows nature reserve, and close by is the Kingcombe Centre, where a wide variety of courses are held throughout the year. Around the same time there was extensive building of new houses in the village, notably in Church Mead, and the population grew significantly for the first time in 150 years. It is now around 300.
The village also put great effort into building a new village hall, and this was finally triumphantly opened in December 1997, having cost roughly 300 times as much as its 1930s predecessor - though like the previous hall, it too was built by a builder who lived in the village. The hall, as well as hosting the usual village activities, the local dramatic society, occasional film showings and a popular bowls team, is regularly used for professional performances brought in under the aegis of Dorset Artsreach. These have included touring theatre companies, comedy and live music that has ranged from traditional Bulgarian folk music to modem jazz and flamenco. In 2004, inspired by three 12-year-old boys who wanted somewhere to play and who went round the village collecting money, Toller raised £15,000 to buy a village playing field, close by the hall, where there are also pleasantly-sited picnic tables.
Toller Porcorum has inevitably seen huge changes in its long history, and it has become a very different place from what it was half a century ago. Now most of the people who live in Toller were not born here, and do not work here either. Nevertheless the heart of village life still remains very much focused on two things: agricultural pursuits, for it is still surrounded by working farms, several of which are now organic; and on the church, which is still the first sign of Toller that one can see approaching the village, and the last glimpse of it as you depart.
Early Landlords
The Manor of Toller Porcorum was one of over thirty in Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire granted by William the Conqueror to his chief forester, Waleran the Huntsman, a reward for clearing and laying out the New Forest under the King's direction.
In 1350-1 Toller Porcorum was held by Henry, first Duke of Lancaster and then by the Crown, with the Abbots of Abbotsbury as patrons, until the Dissolution, when it was purchased by John SAMWAYS of Dorchester. He died in 1585, to be succeeded by a son Robert and then his brother Bernard, aged 72, who died in1645, 96 years old. His two daughters and coheirs shared the lands, the younger, Elizabeth receiving Toller Porcorum and Toller Fratrum. Her husband Sir Francis FULFORD Knight, of Great Fulford in Devon thus held the manor of Toller Porcorum, which passed through four generations to a collateral line represented by John Fulford (died 1780) who sold Toller Porcorum to George BROWN (who founded the original school in 1774) of Frampton in 1762. The last of this family, Francis John Browne, MP (died 133) had no issue and left the manor to James FLEMING, a relative who in 1865 divided the estate into a number of lots that were put up for sale.
The purchasers of these were John William MONTAGO, 7th Earl of Sandwich; William Samuel BEST, 2nd Baron Wynford; Henry SYMONDS of Edgbaston; Thomas WALLBRIDGE and Henry YATES, both local men. Other estates that lay in the parish were freehold and once small manors: (a) Higher Kingcombe, two miles north west of Toller Porcorum village, once belonged to the MALTRAVERS of Hooke. In 1800, it was held by Thomas POPE of Corscombe; (b) Lower Kingcombe, a mile north west of the village was held by Pope's younger son John.
The Popes family is first found locally in the late C17th, when Thomas Pope was a tenant farmer in Corscombe. The youngest of his four sons, Ezekiel (1673-1735), leased land in Toller Whelme from a wealthy local farmer, George RICHARDS, and married a local girl, Mary ALLEN in 1811. Their second son, Thomas (1721-97) moved to London and made his fortune. He returned to his native home and bought Frogmore Farm and land in the Kingscombes. In 1766 he married Elizabeth SNAYDON at Corscombe. His younger son John (died 1793) married Elizabeth NEAL at Stalbridge in 1798. Their seven children were born at Frogmore; the second son being John Allen POPE, who prospered as a farmer and purchased a farm and land at Sutton Poyntz, north east of Weymouth, This eventually led to his take-over of the Eldridge-Pope brewery in Dorchester, but that is another story.
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Athens (/ˈæθɨnz/; Modern Greek: Αθήνα, Athína;[aˈθina];Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai) is the capitaland largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of theworld's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning around 3,400 years.Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the arts, learning andphilosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace ofdemocracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.Today a cosmopolitan metropolis, modern Athens is central to economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's 32nd richest city by purchasing power and the 25th most expensive in a UBS study.
The city of Athens has a population of 655,780 (796,442 back in 2004)within its administrative limits and a land area of 39 km2 (15 sq mi). Theurban area of Athens (Greater Athens and Greater Piraeus) extends beyond the administrative municipal city limits, with a population of 3,074,160 (in 2011),over an area of 412 km2 (159 sq mi). According to Eurostat, the AthensLarger Urban Zone (LUZ) is the 7th most populous LUZ in the European Union(the 4th most populous capital city of the EU) with a population of 4,013,368 (in 2004). Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European mainland.
The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city, represented byancient monuments and works of art, the most famous of all being theParthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western civilization. The city also retains Roman and Byzantine monuments, as well as a smaller number ofOttoman monuments.
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Montagu is a scenic 2-hour drive from Cape Town, is surrounded by the Langeberg mountains and is the gateway to the Klein Karoo on Route 62, reputedly the longest wine route in the world.
Montagu is a year-round destination. Summers are hot and winters somewhat chilly during the nights, but the changing scenery, and sun shine makes an autumn-winter visit worthwhile.
Montagu forms part of Route 62, known as the longest wine route in the world. The 43�C hot mineral springs in the town are known for their healing powers.
Montagu's most intriguing entrance is via Kogmans Kloof. This route was made passable when Thomas Bain built the Cogmans Kloof Pass and blasted a hole(1899) through the rockface. The Old English Fort is still on top and one can visit this.
On a stroll through the village you will encounter fascinating Cape Dutch architecture, Georgian architecture and historic buildings � there are 14 national monuments in Long Street alone! The village museum showcases history and a medicinal herb garden, along with a profusion of flora and birdlife in Nature�s Garden. And a wide range of restaurants to choose from.
Spoil yourself with a boat cruise on the Breede River or embark on a fun tractor trip to the summit of the Langeberg, 1700km above sea level, where you can enjoy a traditional South African potjiekos.
For the wine lovers there are more than 50 wine cellars in the valley producing some of the finest wines in the country. You can also go olive tasting and visit the cheese factories, while there is an outdoor Montagu Vilage Market every Saturday.
Scenic walks, nature trails and mountain hikes are all the rage in this scenically splendid town and surrounds.
Tractor rides to the summit of the Langeberg Mountains are very popular. The Leiwater Dam in the heart of the town abounds with birdlife, horse-riding and camel riding. Mountain biking, game viewing, quad biking, kloofing, archery and 4x4 trails add to the outdoor adventures that can be enjoyed.
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What Can You Do With A Sweater?
Country Living asked this question and had some great solutions. I'm showing you theirs and adding a couple of my own to the mix.
Very cool stuff!! I will never get rid of a sweater again without thinking what it's second life could be. The little clutches are soooo cute.
Love the pillow, bangles, and clutches! The shade strikes me as a tad odd.
This shade is odd. But the picture is pretty. :) And heck, I'm willing to try whatever with an old sweater.
I love them all, except the lamp shade, looks like a dust trap, hee hee.
But I think I'll try to make a clutch. Those are so cute!
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Why Is the Presidential Election System so Broken?
Andru Zodrow, Staff Reporter|October 23, 2019
Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar dropped by Seattle on September 30 for a meet and greet event. Just a few days earlier on the 27, Kamala Harris hosted a gun violence solutions panel with local and state leaders, including Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson. On August 25, Elizabeth Warren hosted a town hall at the Seattle Center. What do all of these candidates have in common? They all rushed back to early primary states like New Hampshire and Iowa within days. It's no secret that the first group of primary states receives more attention. Every four years, politicians who want to spend some time in the oval office suddenly love wolfing down fried food at the Iowa State fair. The reason why is frustrating and illustrates just how woefully mismanaged modern elections are.
Iowa has been the first primary state since 1972. The reason why is innocuous. When the democratic party decided to spread out state nominations over a few months rather than in one foul swoop to increase participation, Iowa's complex nomination process had to get started early—so they were placed at the front of the lineup without much thought. Iowa's strange quirks in primary administration are the reason that there are several photos of Barack Obama playing bumper cars in 2008 while in the heat lobbying for the highest office in the nation. This poor structural planning has shaped the era of modern campaigning in which candidates spend months catering their messages to a tiny, rural, overwhelmingly white and conservative state that does not represent the ideological or demo- graphic composition of America at large.
The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United V. FE Cruling protected corporate political contributions as speech. This ruling, which was contested by individuals placed across the political spectrum from John McCain to Nancy Pelosi, has only exacerbated the problems Americans have being heard by their politicians if they aren't CEOs or Iowans. Sure, presidential candidates will pass by some of the largest and most influential cities in the United States like Seattle every few months, but their focus on Des Moines and Wall Street is obvious considering how much energy and time they invest in those areas. The influx of corrupting money combined with the ridiculous requirement of candidates to shake the hand of every Iowan with a pulse and a form of valid ID has made the goal of the ultimate nominee reflecting the will of their civic constituency more akin to a funhouse mirror than an actual picture of what Americans want.
With all this being said, eventually there will be a democratic nominee. But at this point, they will face a greater institutional barrier to the will of the voters than poor organization of the primaries and campaign finance laws. They will face a constitutional failure—that of the continued existence of the electoral college.
There are two concurrent explanations of why the electoral college exists. The first is simple: the men who wrote the Constitution were members of the land- owning class. They wanted to create a Republican form of government free from tyranny, but they were also weary of mob rule. In an age in which education was not a right for all people and the general public was (arguably) less intelligent than it is now, there was reason from the perspective of the founders to place limits on the ability of voters to choose the president. The second was more nefarious. The electoral college is inherently tied to the three-fifths compromise. The north would have won nearly every presidential contest handily in the early days of the United States if it were not for the fact that the electoral college system allowed the south to count slaves as members of their voting populace when tallying the amount of electors each state would receive in the college system—even though they were not even recognized as human by the founders themselves. The south effectively lobbied to be able to count three-fifths of every black individual in their tally when considering how many electors each state would have. In a Time magazine article published November 6 of 2018, Journalist Akhil Amar states "the system's pro-slavery bias was hardly a secret." The electoral college was innovated for the dual purposes of ensuring the president was chosen responsibly in the eyes of the elite and keeping the institution of slavery represented in the capital.
In a modern context, the electoral college causes states to apportion all of their electoral votes to whichever candidate the majority of the state chooses, thereby nullifying the will of all those in the state in question that voted the other way. That means presidential hopefuls will be spending their days in just a few months in air-conditioned buses making their way through Florida, a state that swings between parties consistently, rather than hearing from a diverse array of citizens. There are organizations and individuals trying to rebel against the stupidity of the electoral college system. Most 2020 democratic candidates support dismembering it; but as things currently stand, they still have to operate within a broken system with wonky incentives that undermine our Democratic principles.
All of the problems presented here seem to create a lack of hope, but this should not be the case. Americans have created large-scale change before. The Constitution has been amended and the Supreme Court has reversed decisions. The parties have changed their primary layout before. It is vital that we as a collective citizenry not become jaded by the enormity of these problems but rather face them head on. If you feel compelled to do so, go to your party convention and engage. Call your representatives and talk to them about the way the system is constructed. Donate to legal organizations that seek to uphold the will of the general populace.
But you don't have to listen to me—after all, I'm not an executive or an Iowan, so what do I know?
Andru Zodrow, Staff Reporter
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GamingCompetitive PlayCore GamesKill Team
The September 2021 Kill Team Meta Review
By Robert "TheChirurgeon" Jones
We've done a lot of analysis of the 40k and Age of Sigmar metas over the last few months, looking at faction win rates and identifying which lists are doing well in the meta. Well today we're extending that work to Kill Team, looking at early tournament results for the game and seeing how things stack up. And these results are fairly surprising and what you might call "not great."
Before we dive in, we should talk about where this data comes from. Our data here comes from Best Coast Pairings, the premier tournament app for Warhammer. Since the new Kill Team launched, there have been 12 Kill Team events run with 8 or more players, run in the US, Great Britain, and Spain (Kill Team is surprisingly popular in Spain – most of the tournaments run over the last month have been held there). That gives us a sample of 747 games, with a mix of 3-, 4-, and 5-round events in the mix, including one at Warhammer World run by Games Workshop. That's a pretty good starting sample, even if we don't quite have enough data to cover everyone.
Alright, so with that out of the way, let's dig into the results and… oh dear.
One thing worth noting: We don't have all the lists – they aren't all publicly available – so it's difficult to figure out how many "Ork" lists are actually Kommandos, and how many "Imperial Guard" lists are actually Veteran Guardsmen. There is at least one of each in those categories from the lists we do have, so it still bears breaking out, but it's worth noting that there are a couple of gaps here.
Alright now for the other thing: Talons of the Emperor – or Adeptus Custodes, as most players will think of them – have an astounding 79% win rate so far. They've also won all but one of the events in our sample, and have gone undefeated 11 times in events, for a record of 55 wins, 14 losses, and 1 tie. They are without peer in Kill Team 2.0, and it's not particularly close. Grey Knights have also put up some respectable numbers, and Kommandos and Veteran Guardsmen also appear to have done alright. Mechanicus have too, which is good news for players who want to switch to the new Hunter Clade, which appears to be a more powerful variant of the faction.
Custodian Guard. Credit: Rockfish
So why are Custodes so good?
Thundercloud: Kill Team, in the releases of factions built for Kill Team (Veteran Guardsmen, Kommandos, Novitiates, Tau Pathfinder Operators, Hunter Clades), appears to be largely built around reasonably large (10-14 operatives) Kill Teams. These teams don't have saves better than 4+, don't have more than 10 wounds in general, and are able to fairly rapidly kill each other. They're built around Kill Team as a game where you Conceal fairly often and models are reasonably fragile. If you're in the open, you're likely to be in trouble, and hugging cover to advance to where you can invalidate you're opponents Conceal orders is a normal thing to do.
The current problem is that elite teams break that. Normally this is made up for by having smaller numbers (5 or 6 for power-armoured teams) and topping out at 15 or so actions per turn or giving up speed. However double shoot or double fight actions mitigate this somewhat (which marines, plague marines and chaos marines have access to) and let you fire up to three times with each model including an Overwatch shot.
And then you have Custodes. With 4 APL, a combined double shoot/double fight with Peerless Warriors and the ability to take another action and not have it count as an activation in Brotherhood of Demigods. This means that theoretically you could use Brotherhood of Demigods to charge, then activate the same model, Fight, Charge again, Fight again and Shoot. This would let you potentially move 16" in a turning point while Fighting twice and Shooting, and then coming back and Overwatching later. On top of that Custodes have a 2+ save, 18 wounds and can soak almost any weapon that can be thrown at them. Their own shooting is generally enough to one-shot a 7- or 8-wound model in a single Shoot action, and their melee will generally kill a 7-wound model on the first strike with a critical hit. Custodes rolling 4 dice for shooting are fairly likely to get 4 hits, and Guardian Spears are P! so if any of those hits are crits, the target only rolls 2 defence dice and is pretty likely to take 8+ damage and die. If it has the wounds to take that much damage, it likely won't survive a second Shoot action.
This means that a single Custodes 'in the zone' can blender their way through 2 or 3 models in a turn. Then you have four of them doing that. Guard equivalent teams can't handle that, and marine teams will generally have one or two more models than a four model Custodes team because they're elite, and they can't take an exchange with Custodes either shooting or in close combat. You may have a melta or missile launcher, but if you shoot your shot, even if you nail a Custodes, you will lose the model to return fire as you've had to engage and potentially get into melee range.
Kill Team, with decent terrain, often ends up with small groups of two or three models per side trying to contest objectives. Imagine three guardsmen trying to take on a Custodes. After the Custodes activation, there'd be a couple less guardsmen, and Custodes will hold the point. Custodes can also play a strong game on Tac Ops. Personally I've played Seek and Destroy, as I'll be trying to table my opponent anyway, but having tac ops like killing the enemy leader in the first two turns, killing more enemy operatives than you lose, etc etc. You can see why an incredibly murderous team like Custodes can max these out.
Through a combination of the action economy, raw stat line and ploys, Custodes deliver an incredible punch, and still have four models when compared to almost all marines with five. They murder elites, and the other elite models with the same wound count, Heavy Intercessors (it's like if you got Custodes from Wish.com) or Tyranid Warriors (get six models, but lower save and 2APL) can't compete with the other things Custodes can do.
TheChirurgeon: Don't forget Sisters of Silence, either – Custodes could potentially have trouble running up against Grey Knights or Thousand Sons, where psychic powers and mortal wounds might close the gap, but when that happens, a Custodes player has the option to just swap in five Sisters of Silence, tailor-made to turn off those factions' psychic shenanigans.
A Custodes Kill Team? Credit: Pendulin
Potential Fixes
So we understand the problem. How could you move them back towards balance with other Kill Teams?
There's a number of things you could do:
Leave the ploys and stats as-is and simply have one fewer model in the team, changing the structure from "two Custodians" to "one Custodian, and if your team doesn't have a LEADER operative, you get a second Custodian Leader operative," similar to how Death Guard and Thousand Sons fire teams are built. This makes it harder for Custodes to control objectives, drops their firepower/melee prowess by 25% and puts them likely as solid mid-tier performers. I played Custodes in the previous edition, when they were playing the game on hard mode, and I could live with going back to this.
Make adjustments to the ploys, either making them cost 2CP or only be used once per game in the case of Brotherhood of Demigods. This doesn't change any of the fundamentals of why Custodes are so strong, as the strong shooting, strong melee, high number of hits doing either and 4APL would be unchanged.
Lower Custodes' APL to 3. This reduces the pure efficiency of Custodes and means even with Peerless Warriors, it's unlikely a single Custodes can blender 3 or 4 Guardsmen in a turn.
My personal opinion would be to look at fireteam composition, and limit the number of Custodes on the table to three. How you would work this while allowing Sisters of Silence fire teams to be mixed in (1 Custodes plus 5 sisters? 2 + 5 is still very very strong. Reduce the number of Sisters? Have a new fire team structure?).
I'd also rather a wholesale replacement with a Hunter Clades style Talons faction where you have ten operative slots, but each Custodes counts as three slots, including the leader, but Sisters have some specialists available to incentivise taking them.
This is going to be tricky to get right from a design perspective, and there'll be some people unhappy, but a well thought out and tested nerf is necessary for Custodes to avoid them dominating competitive play in a way that damages the game.
Kommandos. Credit: Rockfish
It's a bit difficult to figure out what to make of the game's other factions given Custodes dominance. We don't have head-to-head data and haven't the time to pull that manually so at the moment we can't pull out what this looks like without Custodes in the mix. That said, its' clear that the starter box factions hold their own pretty well (though not incredibly so), and that a large number of factions fall within that 45-55% band that mark competitive factions. The big surprises here so far are Death Guard, who underperform just a bit, and Space Marines, who come out much lower than we'd otherwise expect (though Deathwatch do better, albeit on smaller sample sizes).
T'au, Adeptus Mechanicus, and Sisters of Battle all appear to have reasonable win rates at the moment, and these will likely improve as players get their hands on the new rules for these teams, starting with Hunter Clades for the Mechanicus.
The factions that appear to need real help here are Craftworlds and Drukhari, Kroot, and Necrons, who all average abysmal win rates and indicate bigger problems.
Finally, the question I kept getting was: "Where are Genestealer Cults in our list?" Well, no one played them. RIP.
Next Time: More Data!
That wraps up our inaugural look at the Kill Team meta, which was much more boring than we were expecting. Next time – in another month or so – we'll revisit this and look at how things have changed, if at all. In the meantime, if you have any questions or feedback, drop us a note in the comments below or email us at contact@goonhammer.com.
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Expert Essays
Charlotte Platt
CHARLOTTE PLATT was a convict who was tried and convicted at the Lancaster Quarter Sessions on 2 August 1830 and sentenced to fourteen years transportation per Earl of Liverpool (1831). In the colony, CHARLOTTE was an inmate of the Parramatta Female Factory.
In 1832, CHARLOTTE married Old Bailey convict SAMUEL DAVENPORT and in 1838 gave birth to ELLEN DAVENPORT at the Parramatta Female Factory where the child died soon after at the age of one month old.
Alternate: CHARLOTTE DAVENPORT
Alternate: CHARLOTTE DEVENPORT
Alternate: CHARLOTTE DAVINPORT
Tried and convicted: 2 August 1830, Lancaster Quarter Sessions, England
Sentenced to fourteen years transportation: 1830, Lancaster, England
Sailed to the colony of New South Wales per Earl of Liverpool: 3 December 1830, London, England
Arrived in the colony of New South Wales per Earl of Liverpool: 5 April 1831, Port Jackson, New South Wales
Married SAMUEL DAVENPORT: 11 June 1832, St. John's Church, Parramatta
Daughter ELLEN DAVENPORT born: 22 April 1838, lying-in hospital, Parramatta Female Factory
Daughter ELLEN DAVENPORT baptised: 13 May 1838, St. John's Parish, Parramatta
Daughter ELLEN DAVENPORT died: c. 28 May 1838, Parramatta Female Factory
Daughter ELLEN DAVENPORT buried: 28 May 1838, St. John's Parish, Parramatta
Wife of SAMUEL DAVENPORT, convict per Asia I (1) (1820)
Mother of ELLEN DAVENPORT
The Digital Panopticon (www.digitalpanopticon.org, version 1.1), SAMUEL DAVENPORT Life Archive, (ID: obpt18200517-86-defend940), accessed 28 August 2018.
Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 8.0), 17 May 1820, trial of SAMUEL DAVENPORT (t18200517-86), accessed 28 August 2018.
Parish Baptism Registers, Textual Records, St. John's Anglican Church Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
Parish Marriage Registers, Textual Records, St. John's Anglican Church Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia.
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Environmental Monitoring using GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite Systems
Awange, Joseph
Awange, Joseph. 2012. Environmental Monitoring using GNSS: Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Heidelberg: Springer.
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are revolutionizing the world in a way their original developers never envisaged. From being military "war" tools, GNSS satellites are rapidly becoming "peace" tools that play a potentially critical role in enabling changing environmental phenomenon that do not permit direct measurements to be remotely observed via their all-weather, highly accurate and continuously updatable positional time series. This is evident, for example, in their use in emerging environmental monitoring methods that are considered in this book. These include: GPS-based radio telemetry, which is enhancing ecological and conservation monitoring by more accurately mapping animal movements, their behaviours, and their impact on the environment; GNSS-meteorology, which is contributing to weather and climate change studies; GNSS-remote sensing, which, for example, allows the rapid monitoring of changes in fresh water resources and cryosphere; Geosensor network techniques, which are earning a crucial role in disaster response management; Epidemiology, for improved efficiency in tracking and studying the spread of infectious diseases and climate change effects on vector-borne diseases; and Economics, to provide data for the econometric modelling of casual impact of policies. In Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA), Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEA), and Sustainability Assessments (SA), GNSS, together with other spaced-based remote sensing techniques, are emerging, not only as modern tools that connect the developers to the community, but also provide information that support Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) methods, which inform decision making and policy formulations. By bringing the two fields of geodesy (the parent of GNSS technology) and environmental studies (potential users of this technology), this book presents the concepts of GNSS in a simplified way that can, on the one hand, be understood and utilised by environmentalists, while on the other, outlines its potential applications to environmental monitoring and management for those engaged more with its technology, which hopefully will further energise the already innovative research that is being carried out. Lastly, this book is most relevant to all the professionals whose work is related to the environment such as hydrologists, meteorologists, epidemiologists, economist, and engineers, to name just a few.
A comprehensive yet candid and compelling presentation of Global Navigation Satellite Systems and its application to environmental monitoring and a host of other socio-economic activities. This is an essential and new ground breaking reading for all professional practitioners and even academics seeking to study and become involved in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems in diverse fields ranging from environmental monitoring to economic activities such as monitoring weather and climate in order to design crop failure insurance.
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Exhaust drifts across the asphalt as engines roar and tyres scream their impatience against the red-hot surface. Sunlight sparks off the bodywork of the touring cars drawing up to the grid and on the track ahead, heat shimmers transform the raceway into treacherous pools of quicksilver.
As a car pulls into the number three position on the grid, the crowd explodes. Ryan McKane, the meteoric newcomer who's taking the ToCA Touring Car circuit by storm, leans from his window to acknowledge his adoring fans. Not yet World Champion, but far from the unknown test driver of just a few short months ago, Ryan's career has its foot hard on the gas pedal, powering towards the chequered flag.
It's going to take all your courage, all your skill and all your driving passion to take Ryan from rookie to a world-beating race driver, in this first-of-its-kind cinematic thrill-ride of a game. Power slide around the opposition, face your challenges head-on, cheer the successes and mourn the losses, but above all of these WIN.
One driver.. One World... One Champion
Ryan McKane, a test driver with gasoline running in his veins, spends his life struggling against his father's disappointment, while his brother's phenomenal racetrack success overshadows every minor victory he achieves. When his father perishes in an octane-fuelled blaze of fire on the asphalt that he loved, Ryan's frustrated ambition galvanizes into a unrelenting determination to triumph over all opposition and become first a ToCA Race Driver, then maybe even World Champion.
Petrolheads and mass market gamers alike slam the pedal to the metal to guide the actions of our hero through the hairpins and chicanes of a career in global racing. The sport is glamorous; the stakes are high and winning is absolutely everything.
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You must be wondering why I am posting about water buffaloes.
The answer is simple. I want to talk to you about the water buffalo because it is important to what I will be discussing.
To understand the water buffalo is to understand the inner workings of the Vietnamese agricultural industry. Allow me to present a few points on this beast of burden.
1. They are smart and can be trusted to do the work– Water buffaloes will live to be 20 or 30 years old, and they are very smart and easily domesticated (if you know how to do it correctly). Once they have been domesticated, it is so easy to take care of them that the work is mostly entrusted to children between the ages of five and ten because it is not hard work.
All the kids have to do is make sure the water buffalo is 'walked' to its grazing areas so that it can feed properly, watered thoroughly at its watering hole, and then penned into the barn safely. The children usually ride on the water buffaloes' backs as they go through their usual daily routine, and this usually occurs in the evenings after the kids have been let out of school.
Once water buffaloes have been taught how to do the work , they will willingly work hard in return for their simple needs, which is grass and water. Very few animals will do this willingly. The water buffalo is one that will consistently do so in a tropical environment where water is two-to-four feet deep.
2. They have affection for those close to them, but are very wary of strangers – Parents put five-year-olds on the backs of water buffaloes with huge dangerous horns because they know that the family water buffalo will protect the child on its backs against any dangers. Approach a strange water buffalo head-on at your own risk. It will, more than likely, gore you.
3. Once entrenched with a pattern, they will adhere to the pattern only and will not deviate – This means that once they learn their route and routine, they can be trusted to do the same routine over, and over, and over, with no (or very little) supervision.
4. They need water – Water buffalo can exist in an environment with little water, but they do not thrive. If an area is lacking in water, they will either dig down to find water or wander off in search of water because they need it to live comfortably.
5. They are tropical creatures and cannot live in cold climates – Water buffalo do not do well in cold temperatures. They cannot handle temperatures between 30 – 40 degrees Fahrenheit, which is why they are found only in the tropics.
6. They have a set of working horns and will not hesitate to use them if they feel threatened – The horns on a water buffalo are real working horns. They are not decorative, which means they will gore if they feel threatened.
Once we understand how the water buffalo thinks and acts, it is simple to deduce the story behind the image of an old man, sitting backwards, on a water buffalo, riding off into the distance. It is a simple image, but it was recorded faithfully, so that at some point in the future, it can be deconstructed and understood for what it represents.
This is my own thoughts on Lao Tzu's water buffalo ride.
Look over there, on the levee by the rice fields. It is an old man. He has white hair and is dressed in grey traveling clothes. However, as simple as his garments are, he cannot hide the fact that he is of nobility because of the way he carries himself. His back is straight, attesting to the life of the nobleman who has not been bent double from backbreaking labor. His clothes, though simple, are cut of high quality fabrics, not torn, faded, or frayed.
What is he doing? Oh look. He is reading from a scroll. No farmer would have the luxury of such an item, or even know how to read. He travels alone, yet carries no weapons. He is either a fool or he is a high-level martial arts master. Best not mess with him though, because he sure does not look like a fool. Besides, he is one of us. He sits on the buffalo in that careless comfortable manner that shows he is intimately familiar with her. Look there, she is carrying him with gentle affection, picking the gentle sloping areas of the levee to walk on so as not to jostle her passenger too much. They are old friends.
1. Riding Backwards – First of all, the idea of sitting backwards on a water buffalo may be laughable in a country where no one has ever seen a water buffalo before. It is really not a big deal in an area where it is normal to see five-year-old kids napping or doing their school work on the backs of the buffaloes as the animals are grazing.
Furthermore, there is no need to face front. If the water buffalo comes in contact with a stranger, it has horns to defend itself and will do so without qualms as it is wary of strangers. The danger, if any, would come from behind, where the water buffalo's horns are not pointed towards. The best way to maintain a look out for any possible dangers would be to ride backwards as the buffalo will alert the rider of anything untoward coming from ahead, hence the real reason for Lao Tzu's backward riding stance.
Since Lao Tzu was riding on the buffalo, it means two things: a. The buffalo knows him very well. b. He is going to a place that is very familiar, on a route that is very familiar to the buffalo.
3. Lots of water and warm temperatures – Water buffaloes will not simply head out into the desert to the west, as some historical recountings have been known to state, UNLESS they actually live there and this is their daily normal route. However, because of their constant need for water, and lots of it, no farmer would keep water buffalo in the dessert because these animals would die from thirst in a very short time. They also cannot tolerate the cold. They sicken and die rapidly if temperatures go much below 35 degrees Fahrenheit. This is another reason why no farmer will keep water buffalo in desert conditions where temperatures approach freezing just about every night. The idea of Lao Tzu riding a water buffalo into the western desert becomes less and less likely.
We know where Lao Tzu was heading towards.
Who says water buffalo herding is hard work?
Ai bảo chăn trâu là khổ Who says water buffalo herding is hard work?
Chăn trâu sướng lắm chứ It's a lot of fun!
Và miệng hát nghêu ngao and singing out loud.
Gánh nước nữa là (a à a) xong Bring the water into the house and I'm done.
Ngon hơn là (a à a) vàng. Tastes better than gold.
Vươn sức mạnh cần lao. So I can be strong.
Trâu ơi đi cấy nhé Go and plow, ok?
Cho nước giầu mạnh hơn. so our nation will be stronger and wealthier.
Cỏ ngàn thơm phức, trâu ăn đầy đồng Endless scented grass, the water buffalo eats all day.


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Evelyne Ender holds a Doctorat ès lettres in Comparative Literature from the University of Geneva, where she taught for several years. She has held visiting appointments at Yale, Harvard, and MIT, was Professor of French at the University of Washington in Seattle, and until recently held professorial appointments at Hunter College and in the Ph.D. programs of French and Comparative Literature at CUNY Graduate Center (New York). She recently served on the editorial board of PMLA, where she coordinated with Deidre Lynch (Harvard University) a forum on Theories and Methodologies entitled "Learning to Read" (May 2015, vol. 130). Her latest PMLA project involves another collaboration towards a forthcoming issue for PMLA entitled Cultures of Reading.
Professor Ender is the author of Sexing the Mind: Nineteenth-Century Fictions of Hysteria (1995) and of Architexts of Memory: Literature, Science, and Autobiography (2005), winner of the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies. She has published widely in English and French, for example on déjà-vu for a special issue of Science in Context, and on illness in Henry James' The Wings of the Dove for The Blackwell Companion to Henry James. "Homesickness in an Expanding World: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Lyric" appeared in the French version of French Global: A New Approach to Literary History in her own translation and her essay on Antigone appeared in Soeurs et Frères dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle. She has written on nineteenth-and twentieth century authors and thinkers such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, George Sand, Flaubert, Nerval, Amiel, Proust, Annie Ernaux, Sartre, and Freud on issues relating to desire, masculinity, narcissism, trauma, narrative, and embodiment. Written jointly with Serafina Lawrence, her most recent book chapter, "Inside a Red Cover: Proust and the Art of Reading," proposes a reflection on reading, affect, and memory in the era of cognitive science (Proust and the Arts, CUP, 2015).
Professor Ender has taught courses, graduate and undergraduate, on such topics as gender and illness, literature and psychoanalysis, French literary theory, memory, hysteria, theories of writing, philosophical and critical approaches to reading. She is finishing a book manuscript on handwriting, graphology, and manual inscription as a way of approaching issues of literary creativity in the age of word processing, with the working title of Hand Writing.
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Know how deadly venom from spiders and snakes work as cures
Venom is made of a complex mix of toxins, which are composed of proteins with unique characteristics. They are so deadly because evolution has honed their effectiveness for so long
Jim Robbins | Published 23.05.22, 03:14 AM
In a small room in a building at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, US, the invertebrate keeper, Emma Califf, lifts up a rock in a plastic box. "This is one of our desert hairies," she said, exposing a 3-inch-long scorpion, its tail arched over its back. "The largest scorpion in North America."
This captive hairy — along with a swarm of inch-long bark scorpions in another box — and two dozen rattlesnakes of varying species and subspecies across the hall, are kept here for the coin of the realm: their venom.
Efforts to tease apart the vast swarm of proteins in venom — a field called venomics — have burgeoned in recent years, and the growing catalogue of compounds has led to a number of drug discoveries. As the components of these natural toxins continue to be assayed by evolving technologies, the number of promising molecules is also growing.
"A century ago we thought venom had three or four components. Now we know just one type of venom can have thousands," said Leslie V. Boyer, a professor emeritus of pathology at the University of Arizona, US. "Things are accelerating because a small number of very good laboratories have been pumping out information that everyone else can now use to make discoveries." She added, "There's a pharmacopoeia out there waiting to be explored."
It is a striking case of modern-day scientific alchemy: the most highly evolved of natural poisons on the planet are creating a number of effective medicines with the potential for many more.
One of the most promising venom-derived drugs to date comes from the deadly Fraser Island funnel web spider of Australia, which halts cell death after a heart attack.
Blood flow to the heart is reduced after a heart attack, which makes the cell environment more acidic and leads to cell death. The drug, a protein called Hi1A, is scheduled for clinical trials next year. In the lab, it was tested on the cells of beating human hearts. It was found to block their ability to sense acid, "so the death message is blocked, cell death is reduced, and we see improved heart cell survival," said Nathan Palpant, a researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia who helped make the discovery.
If proved in trials, it could be administered by emergency medical workers, and might prevent the damage that occurs after heart attacks and possibly improve outcomes in heart transplants by keeping the donor heart healthier for longer.
Venom is made of a complex mix of toxins, which are composed of proteins with unique characteristics. They are so deadly because evolution has honed their effectiveness for so long — some 54 million years for snakes and 600 million for jellyfish.
Venom is the product of a biological arms race over that time; as venom becomes more deadly, victims evolve more resistance, which in turn makes venom even deadlier. Humans are included in that dynamic. "We are made of protein and our protein has little complex configurations on it that make us human," said Boyer, who founded the Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology and Emergency Response Institute, or VIPER, in Tucson, Arizona, US. "And those little configurations are targets of the venom."
The specific cellular proteins that the venom molecules have evolved to target with pinpoint accuracy are what make the drugs derived from them — which use the same pathways — so effective. Some proteins, however, have inherent problems that can make new drugs from them unworkable.
There is usually no need to gather venom to make these drugs. Once they are identified, they can be synthesised.
There are three main effects from venom. Neurotoxins attack the nervous system, paralysing the victim. Hemotoxins target the blood, and local tissue toxins attack the area around the site of poison exposure.
Numerous venom-derived drugs are on the market. Captopril, the first, was created in the 1970s from the venom of a Brazilian jararaca pit viper to treat high blood pressure. It has been successful commercially. Another drug, exenatide, is derived from Gila monster venom and is prescribed for type 2 diabetes. Draculin is an anticoagulant from vampire bat venom and is used to treat strokes and heart attacks.
The venom of the Israeli deathstalker scorpion is the source of a compound in clinical trials that finds and illuminates breast and colon tumors.
Some proteins have been flagged as potential candidates for new drugs, but they have to journey through the long process of manufacture and clinical trials, which can take many years and cost millions of dollars. In March, researchers at the University of Utah, US, announced that they had discovered a fast-acting molecule in cone snails. Cone snails fire their venom into fish, which causes the victims' insulin levels to drop so rapidly it kills them. It holds promise as a drug for diabetes. Bee venom appears to work with a wide range of pathologies and has recently been found to kill aggressive breast cancer cells.
In Brazil, researchers have been looking at the venom of the Brazilian wandering spider as a possible source of a new drug for erectile dysfunction — because of what happens to human victims when they are bitten.
Experts hope the role of venom will lead to more respect for the fear-inducing creatures who create it.
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The former Everton and Manchester United striker will resume his career in England next month after joining the Rams as player-coach from MLS side DC United, and promotion back to the top flight and the chance to take care of unfinished business are at the top of his agenda.
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Wayne Rooney has scored 208 Premier League goals for Manchester United and Everton (Martin Rickett/PA)
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"The two teams I played for in the Premier League were Manchester United and Everton. I am at Derby now, and hopefully we can get there with them."
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The footprint of Modi-Suu Kyi dialogue earlier this month was visible at the State address aimed at reaching out to the international community.
India is cautious about not pushing the Suu Kyi government while working with Myanmar to fight scourge of terror in the region.
NEW DELHI: Aung San Suu Kyi's State of the Union address sought to strike a balance between welfare of Rohingyas and army operations against foreign supported terror group among the Rohingyas -- a policy advocated by Delhi and agreed during PM Narendra Modi's visit.
The footprints of Modi-Suu Kyi dialogue earlier this month was visible at the State of Union address aimed at reaching out to the international community. While India supported action against ISI-sponsored terror elements among the Rohingyas, it also decided during PM's visit that Delhi will extend all assistance to economically uplift Rakhine – Myanmar's most backward state. Delhi has been of opinion that socio-economic improvement of the state will help Rohingyas and in turn prevent migration.
While the international community particularly the West has come down heavily on the Myanmar Army for crackdown against the group in the Rakhine state, Suu Kyi has to maintain working relationship with arguably Myanmar's most powerful institution even after the democratic transition. India has been and is cautious of not pushing the Suu Kyi government besides working with the Myanmar to fight scourge of terror in the region.
When the National League for Democracy came to power Suu Kyi had three priorities -- ethnic reconciliation, constitutional amendment and economic empowerment. Within the permissible space for her under the 2008 constitution, Suu Kyi facilitated some progress in ethnic reconciliation. Unfortunately, the release of the final report of the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State on August 23 was followed by an attack on Aug 25 on the security forces by the Arakan Salvation Army and this brought huge international pressure on Myanmar. It was not a mere coincidence that the attacks took place a day after the Kofi Annan Commission submitted its report to both the State Counsellor and the Army Chief. The extremists among Rohingyas wanted to elicit a strong military response that would result in displacement and international condemnation and their goal was achieved.
The nine- member Arakan Advisory Commission under the Chairmanship of former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was constituted in September 2016 to investigate and give their recommendations for the conflict involving the Rohingyas and the other communities in the Rakhine state. The commission recommended among other things the review of the 1982 citizenship act for granting citizenship to the Rohingyas and for their freedom of movement, employment opportunities and socio-economic development of the area. While Suu Kyi's office appreciated the report it also mentioned constraints to implement the report.
The current operations against the Rohingyas indicate that civil-military relations are not smooth and the government is in a delicate situation to handle the crisis. According to the Myanmar Army security measures should be prioritized for protecting national sovereignty against terrorists instead of "feeling fear of international fear." The Army looks at it as a pure law and order issue affecting the nation's sovereignty whereas the civilian government looks at it as a social/civil issue that needs a holistic approach. It is said that the Army had earlier proposed martial law in the northern Rakhine State even before the present attack. A long -term approach should be coordinated both by the Army and the civilian government and this is what is also being favoured by Delhi.


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The Captain Marshall Field Expeditions were undertaken by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.  The two Captain Marshall Field paleontological expeditions had the goal of finding South American  Cenozoic mammals. The mammals of South America had evolved in near total isolation from the rest of the world from almost the beginning of the Cenozoic Era until only a few million years ago.

Captain Marshall Field Brazilian Expedition

In addition to his regular annuity of $100,000, in 1927 Captain Marshall Field provided $40,000 to defray the expenses of the Brazilian Expedition under the leadership of Mr. George K. Cherrie. Mrs. Marshall Field III and Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton were members of this expedition, and the following members of the Museum staff participated:

 Dr. B. E. Dahlgren, Acting Curator of the Department of Botany, assisted by J. R. Millar and George Petersen
 Professor Henry W. Nichols, Associate Curator of Geology
 Assistant Curator Karl P. Schmidt and Assistant Colin C. Sanborn of the Department of Zoology

From the Captain Marshall Field Brazilian Expedition the Library of the Field Museum has received 144 works, which were immediately useful in identifying and classifying the material collected. Some of these publications could be obtained only by the personal efforts of members of the staff while in Brazil.

1st Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia

The 1st Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia was undertaken by Elmer S. Riggs.  His field crew included George F. Sternberg, John B. Abbott, Jose Strucco and C. Harold Riggs. The expedition started 1922 and finished in 1925. The objective was to find new fossil mammals from Cenozoic deposits in Chubut Province and Santa Cruz Province of Argentina and the Tarija Valley of Bolivia.  The expedition succeeded in securing over 900 fossil vertebrate specimens including 12 new species with 12 holotypes, 14 paratypes and over 50 specimens since figured in scientific publications.  While prospecting in the Cenozoic, brief forays into Mesozoic deposits in the San Bernardo Hills of Catamarca Province in Argentina unearthed three leg bones of enormous  sauropods identified as Antarctosaurus and Argyrosaurus.

2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia

The 2nd Captain Marshall Field Paleontological Expedition to Argentina and Bolivia was undertaken in 1926, again under the leadership of Elmer S. Riggs. This time his field crew included Rudolf Stahlecker, Robert C. Thorne, Jose Strucco, Luis Flores, Felipe Mendez, and Colin Campbell. The expedition started in April 1926 and finished in November 1927. Riggs was again looking for Cenozoic fossil mammals and ended up working in Catamarca Province,  and Buenos Aires Province, in Argentina and the Tarija Valley in Bolivia. He and his team discovered over 500 fossil vertebrates including seven new species such as the saber-toothed marsupial, Thylacosmilus atrox and flightless terror bird, Andalgalornis ferox.

Archaeological explorations in Peru and British Honduras

Archaeological explorations were conducted in Peru and British Honduras. These focussed on ancient pottery from Trujillo, textiles of the early Nazca period and an osteological study of Nasca trophy heads collected by A.L. Kroeber.

The Marshall Field North Arabian Desert Expeditions

The Marshall Field North Arabian Desert Expeditions of 1927-1928 secured twelve specimens of lizards and snakes in Transjordania and Iraq. This material, which proves to be an accession of unusual interest, was collected in 1928 by Mr. Henry Field, Assistant Curator of Physical Anthropology in Field Museum of Natural History.

The Marshall Field Botanical Expedition to the Amazon
The Peruvian division of this expedition, led by Field Museum staff member Llewelyn Williams, returned in May 1930 with 8,000 botanical specimens. The Brazilian division, led by Field Museum Acting Curator D. B. E. Dahlgren, returned several months earlier.

Literature
 John Todd Zimmer: Birds of the Marshall Field Peruvian Expedition, 1922-1923. Chicago, 1930.
 Wilfred Hudson Osgood: The long-clawed South American rodents of the genus Notiomys. Chicago, 1925.
 Carl Eduard Hellmayr: New birds from Chile, by C. E. Hellmayr. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1924.
 Karl Patterson Schmidt and F. J. W. Schmidt: New coral snakes from Peru. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1925.
 Karl Patterson Schmidt: Notes on Central American crocodiles. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1924.
 Karl Patterson Schmidt: Notes on South American caimans. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1928.
 Wilfred Hudson Osgood: Review of living caenolestids with description of a new genus from Chile. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1924.
 Alfred Cleveland Weed: A review of the fishes of the genus Signalosa. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1925.
 J. Francis Macbride: Spermatophytes, mostly Peruvian... Chicago, 1929.
 John Todd Zimmer: Two new birds from Peru. Reports on results of the Captain Marshall Field expeditions. Chicago, 1925.
 J. Francis Macbride and Robert Statham Williams: Various spermatophytes.. Chicago, 1927.
 Bryan Patterson: An adianthine litoptern from the Deseado formation of Patagonia. Results of the Marshall Field paleontological expeditions to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-27. Field Museum of Natural History, 1940.
 Bryan Patterson: Cranial characters of Homalodotherium. Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1934.
 Bryan Patterson: The internal structure of the ear in some notoungulates. Results of the first Marshall Field paleontological expedition to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-24. Chicago, 1936
 Bryan Patterson: A new phororhacoid bird from the Deseado formation of Patagonia. Results of the Marshall Field paleontological expeditions to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-27. Chicago :Field Museum of Natural History, 1941.
 Bryan Patterson: Some notoungulate braincasts. Results of the Marshall Field paleontological expeditions to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-27. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1937
 Bryan Patterson: Trachytherus, a Typotherid from the Deseado beds of Patagonia. Results of the first Marshall Field paleontological expedition to Argentina and Bolivia, 1922-24. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934
 Bryan Patterson: Upper premolar-molar structure in the notoungulata with notes on taxonomy. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1934.

References

Explorers of South America
Archaeological expeditions

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Green Climate Fund has more money than projects
Developing countries urged to deliver proposals for clean energy and climate adaptation projects as GCF aims to distribute $2.5 billion in 2016
The GCF was created to drive clean energy and climate resilience investments in developing countries (Pic: Dfid/Flickr)
By Ed King
The UN's flagship climate fund says it will miss a target to approve $2.5 billion of new projects in 2016 unless more countries submit proposals.
In an email sent to media and national delegations Zaheer Fakir, co-chair of the Green Climate Fund board, urged governments and banks linked to accelerate their applications for financing.
So far 41 proposals worth $2.4 billion have been submitted, but not all of these will be approved this year, said the email.
Developing countries, "Get Up Stand UP" – don't wait, don't hold back in terms of the number or ambition of proposals for the #GCFund
— Zaheer Fakir (@zaheer_fakir) May 25, 2016
"GCF's ability to deliver against the USD 2.5 billion target will depend on the Fund's capacity to approve proposals, and on the volume and quality of proposals that it receives," Fakir said.
"We need countries, Accredited Entities, and National Designated Authorities not to wait, and not to hold back in terms of the number or ambition of proposals they submit to the Fund."
More than $10 bn pledged to the #GCFund and it now faces the challenging task of moving from resource mobilisation to implementation
The GCF officially launched last year and so far has started work on 8 projects worth $168 million.
Under the Paris Agreement on climate change, the Seoul-based fund was designated one of two main funding mechanisms to help developing countries invest in green energy and prepare for extreme weather events.
The US, UK, France, Germany and other developed countries pledged just over $10 billion to the GCF in its first funding window. So far $9.9 billion has been legally signed off, according to the GCF.
Read more on: Green Climate Fund Green Climate Fund


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