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A: Your code shows nothing, perhaps you can't reveal your web address no problem.
You need to check something in your html any div or content area have minus value like top:-100px if you set something like this you need to change like margin-top:-100px

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*first you have to right click on the footer and click inspect

*then you will see all the css applied to that particular element, select the parent element

*check if bottom padding is applied to body or footer element

*if you dont find bottom padding for footer or body element or other parent class of footer specify bottom padding in negative. (eg -5px)

note: you dont need to modify the css directly for testing purpose you can change and check the effect in debugging tool itself (f12 shortcut for debugging tool)
it should be something like:
(element name)  { padding-bottom:-30px); }
also check for bottom margin if padding does not work.


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föstudagur, apríl 28, 2006
endless days
This is the time of year when Iceland begins to feel timeless. Every day stretches and stretches, light lasting late into the night, fading out only slowly and reluctantly long after the 10 o'clock news. In the late afternoons, the sunlight flooding across the land seems like it'll never end, and even after a long day of work it might as well be the morning again because the evening is just another whole glorious day.
We sat in the swimming pool yesterday after work, and the clock just froze there in the warm water. All sense of time was gone, like an endless summer afternoon on the grass next to the big white house of my early childhood. After all, what does time really mean when it is always light? Does anyone really care what time it is?
posted by JB at 28.4.06 3 comments
landsspítalinn
Yesterday I had to get some blood tests (all the hip 101ers are doing it) and so before work headed up to Landsspítalinn, the Land's Hospital. Landsspítalinn sits on a hill overlooking the Reykjavík airport and looking across at Öskjuhlíð, the forested hill with the Perlan rotating-restaurant-water-tanks complex on top. The original building of the hospital is a beautiful piece of architecture, a facade that faces old Hringbraut with the tentacles of dozens of newer buildings outgrown from it.
Driving in there at 8 in the morning, the energy was palpable. That hustle and bustle of a university hospital could have been anywhere, and reminded me of my few visits to Boston's great hospitals, places like MGH and the Beth Israel Deaconness. Med students were chattering and walking fast on the pathways, doctors and patients alike streaming in from their parked cars. Inside white-uniformed nurses walked purposefully in the Icelandic med-standard sandals and socks. There were corridors and elevators and wards, curved hallways and little gardens and big windows.
My tests were over in a matter of minutes, Russian and Latvian nurses handling the whole thing quickly and pleasantly in Slavic-accented Icelandic. I was kind of disappointed at things being over, and then I realized why I didn't want to leave. That energy, that buzz of purposeful people, is such a rare thing here in sparsely peopled Iceland. It was nice to be a part of it for just a few minutes, even if it was at a hospital.
I get a lot of blog hits through Google searches, and a lot of those hits seem to be the same questions over and over again. To answer all of your common questions about Iceland (and other wacky topics previously covered on IR), here is the very first Iceland Report FAQ (and not-so-FAQ):
"Can you show me the absolute location of Iceland?"
Right in the middle of the map, where it belongs.
"How's Iceland being formed and changed?"
It's all down to geology, baby. And lots of it.
Tell me more about Dave Grohl and Zach DeLarocha.
I think they started a band together.
When does Seltjarnarneslaug reopen?
Word on the street is May 1st.
"Are there 52 states?"
No, not unless you count Iraq and Afghanistan. (I get this one maybe twice a day, and mostly from IP addresses located in the United States.)
What are the competitors of Starbucks in Iceland?
Iceland serves only quality coffee, even at the smallest Esso station. So Starbucks really has no competition here.
Is Garrison Keillor coming to Iceland?
Yes. Prairie Home Companion is being recorded here in the National Theater on May 16th. I'm in the 5th row, too.
Finally, the most common question of recent months, What do people wear in Iceland?
Well, I can tell you what they don't wear, and that's 13 layers of Gore-Tex and mountain fleece. Well OK, we might wear a couple layers of outdoor gear (preferably from Cintamani or 66° North) when we plan to be active in the out-of-doors, such as when hiking up a glacier, camping in a lava field, or fishing in a salmon stream. But walking around on the city streets of Reykjavík, you're better off pretending you're visiting Paris: dress to look good. For God's sake, don't walk around downtown with your parka hood up as though you're expecting a bucketfull of ice to fall on your head at any second.
Feel free to leave me more questions in the comments, or in an email to me, and if I get some good ones, I'll do a slightly more serious FAQ.
þriðjudagur, apríl 25, 2006
high school principal man
Duglegir lesarar may recall my earlier mention of High School Principal Man, one of the colorful regulars. I have since begun to think of HSPM as the regular's regular, so much does he seem to own the late-afternoon conversations at Laugardalslaug. Well, there's another installment, because today was really a red letter day for me and the Meistari himself.
1) I was walking down the hill toward Smáralind at lunchtime and coming up the hill, attractive lunchmate in chatty tow, was street-clothes HSPM in a red suit jacket. From this I craftily deduced that he likely works somewhere in our little industrial park. He certainly looked comfortable in the 201 surroundings. Holy moly! Maybe he's not a high school principal after all. Or maybe he is an HSP (ret.) and now he's dabbling in a service-sector job in the Kópavogur wilds. Or maybe he's the president of Avion Group.
2) And then I saw him later at the pool, at the usual time. But today, for the first time ever, from across a semi-vast expanse of pockmarked poolside concrete, he gave me a gruff "Góðan daginn". We had been building up to this for months, with the occasional mid-conversational nod of recognition. But today the whole thing broke wide open. I see a bright conversational future ahead for me and this quintessential regular.
relative confusion
The Icelandic language has only one word to embody what is in English two and a half wholly different relationships: uncle, nephew, and cousin (male). That word is "frændi". (The "æ" sound is pronounced like the word "eye" in English.) Similarly, for aunts, nieces, and female cousins Icelandic uses just "frænka". And Icelanders tend to put of all their aunts and nieces, female cousins, and other assorted female relatives in the same "frænka" basket. There doesn't seem to be the same notion of "give a kiss to your auntie", with the sometimes dreadful obligation that implies, here. In the Icelandic spirit of human equality, even spanning vastly different ages, aunts and nieces seem to be on the same level playing field: they're all just "frænka" to each other, with a concomitant reduction in obligatory kisses.
This view on the family can make it quite funny when Icelanders describe their relatives in English, because they're never quite clear on which English word is the right one to differentiate the various branches of a family tree. You often get something like, "When my little uncle was born last month, he had the cutest chubby cheeks."
mánudagur, apríl 24, 2006
paradise at hveragerði
One of the most magical places in Iceland has to be the Laugaskarð swimming pool in Hveragerði. The colorful little town of Hveragerði is 40-minute hop over a mountain pass from Reykjavík, but always a different world. The weather, for example, is often completely different: sometimes in the summer it's drizzly and cold in Reykjavík but then balmy sunshine blankets Hveragerði.
The town takes its name from the hot springs ("hver") that steam and bubble right under the ground of the whole valley. In many places, such as at the sidewalk going into tourist trap Eden (Iceland's answer to Wall Drug, South Dakota) the hot water and steam just bubbles right up through cracks in the concrete. Unstoppable.
All this energy means free heat for a lot of greenhouses, and it seems that every second building in town is a greenhouse, well-stocked with grow-lights for the dark days of winter. We get a lot of perfect red tomatoes and shrink-wrapped cucumbers from the Hveragerði greenhouses, all winter long. And most of our houseplants come from the humid greenhouse at the back of Eden, a green and leafy sanctuary in the middle of chilly and slate-grey winter afternoons.
But back to the pool. It's one of the oldest in the Land, and the hot water comes straight out of the ground nearby, filled with effervescent bubbles. It's a small-town pool without the crowds of the city pools in the Vík. It's got a 50-meter lap pool with a deep end that kids can do belly flops into. It's got a neck-deep hot pot with a take-no-prisoners massage machine. It's got a shallow hot pool that's the right temperature for hours of sky-gazing lounging. And, it's got the steam room to end all steam rooms: a concrete box, fronted with glass block, that is built directly on top of the roaring hot spring that feeds it. There is no temperature control, so entry is at your own risk. It's so steamy that visibility is only a couple of feet. And the smell is powerfully sulphuric: sulphur and other minerals from the steam condense on the soggy wooden seats. That steam is a cure for what ails ya, from head colds to hangovers. There's nothing it can't fix.
Yesterday after swimming laps, doing diving-board face plants, shooting baskets, and steaming myself silly, I ended up in the neck-deep hot pot, where a pending conversation with two fellow soakers bubbled under the surface like the subterranean energy. It was just waiting to happen, and then it got rolling. It was a classic Icelandic conversation, involving people, places, and connections between the two. We covered living in Boston, being a sailor for Eimskip, living in Reykjavík versus Hveragerði, my understanding of Icelandic, the defense of Iceland, and American foreign policy. It was great to feel a part of the Sunday afternoon society at the timeless sanctuary of the swimming pool at Hveragerði.
the first day of summer
Thursday was the first day of summer here in Iceland. This is an old holiday that goes back to Viking times, and was yet another day off nationwide, coming hot on the heels of the 5-day national Easter break. Sumardagurinn fyrsti is a low-key holiday, the first roll-out of the summer holiday package that encompasses Seaman's Day, the 17th of June (the Day of the Republic), the August bank holiday, and Gay Pride day. In Reykjavík, the main event at all of these holidays seems to be lazy strolling about downtown, soaking up the clear air and endless sunshine. There may be a parade, or rumors of a parade, but (with the exception of Gay Pride) a parade is something much more loosely defined here than it was in my American childhood. Maybe it's just a single marching band followed by a horde of kids, parents, strollers, and balloons.
The first day of summer was Iceland at its laid-back best. There was a dodge-ball game for kids with a lively announcer and surrounding crowd of ice-cream-eating onlookers. A handful of hardy souls were braving the slightly chill air outdoors at Thorvaldsen. Laugavegur's sidewalks were full of ambling pedestrians, and in between them a slow-moving crawl of cars was on the cruise. There were the Reykjavík stylemoms, decked out in amazing combinations of designer wear and large sunglasses, simultaneously pushing high-tech baby carriages. Most every shop was closed, but every eatery open, and the insides of cafes and restaurants were jammed with beer-sipping chatting parents and pink-cheeked Icelandic toddlers roaming free. The hanging-out continued well past 10 p.m. when it was finally getting dark. And all day long shopkeepers, waitresses, and friends meeting friends exchanged "Gleðilegt sumar!"*
*"Happy Summer!" This is often followed by "Takk fyrir veturinn.", "Thanks for the winter."
A combo of the highest-ever tab for a barrel of sweet light crude and the plummeting króna has led to a stupendous hike in gas prices here in the last week or so. Just recently, a liter of gas fetched just over 100 krónur. Today it cost me 122.6 krónur for a liter of the sweet-smelling spirits, or $6.05 for a gallon. A fill-up can easily top $70 at that rate. And I've become European enough in my gas-buying thinking by this point that my Boston commuting buddy complaining about a $35 tank seems completely unbelievable.
Tomorrow, Thursday, begins Iceland's national 5-day Easter break. Nothing's open, or not much is open: banks, stores, and even eateries mostly closed, sidewalks and fishing piers rolled up, and even old Iceland Report is taping up a handwritten "Lokað" sign in the window. Spring fervor hits the Land in full force this time of year, a kind of "Opening Day" for the brilliant green lava fields, and the whole editorial staff here at IR intend to enjoy it to the fullest. Gleðilega páska!
Today marks my debut on Shortcut, a blog featuring writers from a wide spectrum of European cities. I'll be submitting some articles from Iceland Report, as well as some original material. I am honored, and a little embarrassed, that Shortcut site editor Vanessa chose a picture of my musical idols Sigur Rós to accompany a story on the clunky Reykjavík City Band that I play in. But hey, all Icelandic music must be avant-garde, right?
Growing up in the mean streets of the Marshall Middle School in Billerica, Mass., one of the things I learned right off the bat was that wearing the same shirt two days in a row was grounds for a pummeling. Or at least a lot of whispering, cackling, or name-calling. You learned quickly not to do it.
This belief served me well in adult life, too. If I wore a shirt to work, I wore it home and put it in the laundry bag. On the first wearing. A one-shot deal. Nobody at work was gonna pummel me in the Bose manufacturing staff meeting, that was for sure.
But then I came to Iceland, and that rule seems to have flown out the window. People think nothing of wearing the same shirt, the same sweater, the same pants. Two, three, sometimes even four days in a row, in some cases. When I first started work and kept seeing the same people in the same clothes, day in, day out, I was shocked. But also accepting; it did help with personal recognition in those early, confusing days. I started envisioning those clothes as their wearer's personal uniform.
But how do they do it? Because the clothes always look neat and well-pressed here, this remains a mystery. Do they take the clothes home and slave over the þvottapottur every night, completing a full wash/dry/press cycle every 24 hours? Do they maybe have 5 or 6 copies of the same shirt? Or a team of red-hatted clothes-care gnomes? Or, through centuries of repeat clothes-wearing, have Icelanders evolved special smell-suppressing and permanent-press genes that enable multiple neatly pressed wearings? Or do they just walk into the shower fully clothed every night, subscribing to the same two-birds-one-stone theory as a guy I knew in college?
This could definitely be one for the I-Files.
posted by JB at 7.4.06 17 comments
I was at the pool yesterday, getting dressed in the locker room, and next to me were three out-of-towners. As they walked out past me, one of them said something to me in a bizarro form of Icelandic. I realized he was asking me where to leave his locker key. So I answered, in non-bizarro Icelandic, "uppi" (upstairs) and he mumbled some kind of thanks in his strange language and went up the stairs.
When I got out to the front desk, the three foreigners were quizzing the confused counter ladies in the same guttural brogue. I realized then that they were Danish tourists, and that they were speaking Danish with every expectation of being understood. I had heard of this phenomenon before, but this was my first encounter with it.
The Danish-tourist logic is apparently, "We used to own you guys, so you should all speak our language." Yet Iceland became fully independent from Denmark in 1944, but obtained home rule even longer before, in Our Year of the Babe, 1918. Today marks almost 90 years since home rule began, and three generations since full independence.
Now granted, Icelanders do learn Danish in school, even these days, although I'm not sure it's compulsory any longer. But, like American high schoolers learning Spanish, they may study it for a year or two, but they forget it right after the 6th-period bell rings. Danish is in about as much circulation in the Land as Latin is these days.
So next time you come to Iceland, Danes, better study up on the original Old Norse that begat your throaty tongue. Or just try English.
posted by JB at 6.4.06 8 comments
For bondadagur E picked me up a copy of Almanak fyrir Ísland 2006. It makes engrossing reading, jam-packed as it is with tide tables and sunrise-sunset times. Both of those are interesting to us, as the lengthening of the days in early January is practically a matter of obsession, and the tides affect how much water comes spraying over the sea-wall below our windows on a windy day. But there's a lot in there besides.
This morning I was thumbing through the trusty green tome when I found at the end a table of the world's countries, capitals, and time zones. Pretty standard stuff. But in addition, the table tells country sizes (both land area and population) relative to the Land itself. (That's Iceland, for you new readers.)
For example, we have Holland (Netherlands) at 0.4 the size, but 56 times the population. And Tékkland (Czech Republic) at 0.8 the size but 35 times the population. Suður-Kórea (South Korea) is the same size but has 166 times the people. Then the Big Gorilla, Bandaríkin (the United States) is around 94 times bigger, but with 1001 times as many people. I guess when the vast interior of your country is actually habitable you can pack in a lot more dudes.
sunnudagur, apríl 02, 2006
My brother, who returned to Boston from the Land last week, wrote this little ditty about his experience upon return to General Edward Lawrence Logan Int'l Airport:
...I had a typical (for me) "welcome to Boston!" experience which all began when I decided not to take a cab. Just missed the first 33 bus to the Blue Line, the second bus blew by without stopping. Then I see Silver Line Bendy Bus driving down a different road, headed to South Station. Great, I think, a bus to the Red Line. I run to catch it. It is $1.25. I have 1 dollar and I have a $20 bill and I have credit cards. Yet there is no way for me to pay, or get change or do anything except curse as I haul my shit back off the bus.
Back to 33 land. The blue line now has "Charlie Tickets" which I guess is the T making fun of itself (via the old Charlie On The MTA song). Wow, the new machines take credit cards and make change with dollar coins! Yet these tickets only work on the Blue Line thus far. And the machine cannot accept my credit card until the guy "with the trick" comes over and helps me.
On the BL: elder gentleman in "Norwood Cadillac" black sweatshirt (I kid you not) screams "Where you comin' from, Africa?" at 2 German tourists getting on in front of me. He keeps looking over at me and saying "Geez, you've come a long way. Fuck." And then just "Fuck."
From there it was just like another 18 hours back to Sully Road.
It's always something with this place. They try to get organized and it ends up being worse than the old way.
Ahh, Boston. But I do miss the old place. I'm addicted to Boston Legal and Fever Pitch just for the B-roll city shots. Go Sox! (But I'll be back in June. Boston in June, corn be heavy soon...)

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Pfizer partners with Cambridge matchmaker Milner
Pfizer is the latest pharma giant to join Cambridge-based Milner Therapeutics Consortium, a global therapeutic alliance that aims to enable the transfer of materials between industry and academia.
The Consortium is essentially a 'match-making' service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers at Cambridge University, providing access to novel therapeutic agents across the entire portfolio of drugs being developed by each member firm.
Each industry partner has set aside funds for collaborative research projects between the Consortium members, which will be open to any therapeutic area and are expected to lead to joint publications.
Dr Ron Newbold, vice president of External R&D Innovation at Pfizer, will join the Milner Innovation Board alongside representatives from Astex, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Shionogi, MedImmune, University of Cambridge, Babraham Institute and Sanger Institute.
"We are pleased to be able to join the Milner Therapeutics Consortium and look forward to a deeper engagement in the Cambridge ecosystem," he said, commenting on the move. "The UK has a very strong academic and biotech community, and we anticipate working with many world-class scientists that will be supported and inspired by the work of the Milner Institute in the coming years."
"We are delighted that Pfizer has joined the Consortium to develop mutually-beneficial collaborations with Cambridge academics and the Milner Therapeutics Institute," noted Prof Tony Kouzarides, founder and director of the Institute. "We are focussed on working with Pfizer to advance disease understanding and make a difference to therapies in the clinic."


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Solange Reacts To Getting Hit With Tax Lien
BEY LITTLE SIS WAS APPARENTLY IN THE DARK ABOUT OWING THE GOVERNMENT MONEY
Solange got hit with a tax lien and she ain't even know it.
Looks like when TMZ broke the news that Solange got a tax lien, it was not only news to us, but news to her as well.
The pap site reported that the tax lien for $55,000 was filed three days after Solange married her husband, Alan Ferguson, for unpaid taxes in 2010-12 in California. Bey's little sis didn't have a clue about the tax lien and found out about it while surfing the internet. She made light of the situation though when she took to Twitter after finding out she owed Uncle Sam money.
She even sent a shout out to the hip-hop site who unknowingly informed her of her tax woes.


Cost is PHP 750.00 per dog/person. Discount applies when registered and paid at least one week before the training. Each dog must be accompanied by at least one person. Payments are only valid for a specific slot on a specific date and are non-refundable.
For the full schedule of group training sessions see the schedule. You can check the agenda here.
For registration please text to 0998 237 68 57 (Smart) or 0995 218 96 98 (Globe) or send an e-mail to dogtraining@themalasaghouse.com. Maybe easiest is just messaging me in the Facebook page.
Dog group trainings are held in Megaheights, Gusa, CdO. Group training sessions in other cities are being considered.
Main advantage of group trainings is that dog owners can learn from each other. It is recommended to follow the training program, meaning if the focus is on the training of the dog of someone else, we recommend to focus on that training and not try to train your own dog, unless that is the assignment of the trainer.
Starting time is 1.30pm. We expect participants to arrive between 1pm and 1.30pm for the final registration and payment.
Depending on the needs for individual dogs and owners the training may take longer.
Cost for joining the group training depends on the session.
Registration is only valid after receipt of an advance payment of the total fee.
Please bring your own drinks and/or snacks.
Maximum total number of dogs is 6.
Additional people are allowed to watch the training.
Each dog and person needs to be registered. Unregistered dogs and people may not be allowed on the premises.
Before I didn't require down payment or payment in advance, except for people who did not show up and who want to reschedule. You could just pay upon arrival at the date and time you registered. Unfortunately this didn't work, so as of now I require an advance payment of the total fee.
Please note that if you don't show up on the date and time you registered you have also taken a slot that could have been used for another participant. I only have a limited number of slots per session in order to be able to give proper attention to individual dogs and dog owners. If only one dog owner does not show up that already affects the session a lot. And if he or she registered two dogs it is already a quarter of the available slots.
Of course I understand emergencies, but if you have other important matters to attend to please inform me ahead so I can reschedule you properly. There are enough interested participants who want to take your slot, but please allow some time for rescheduling.


Good for you! Happy birthday and enjoy your day off!
Boooo! Kidding. Seriously though, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Happy Birthday, man! 30 years old. You might need two days off for this one!
Happy Birthday, I think I still remember what 30 is like.
Happy Belated Birthday! I hope it was a great one.


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Q: Scipy and Sklearn Yeo-Johnson normalization results do not match I was running Yeo Johnson Transform and followed the example given on Scipy website.
Scipy link
I also compared it with Sklearn implementation.
here is the code:
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    import seaborn as sns
    from sklearn.preprocessing import PowerTransformer
    from scipy import stats
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    fig = plt.figure( figsize=(10,10))
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(421)
    x = stats.loggamma.rvs(5, size=500) + 5
    prob = stats.probplot(x, dist=stats.norm, plot=ax1)
    ax1.set_xlabel('')
    ax1.set_title('Probplot')

    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(422)
    sns.distplot(x, color="skyblue")
    ax2.set_title('Distribution of Data')

    ax3 = fig.add_subplot(423)
    xt_scipy, lmbda = stats.yeojohnson(x)
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_scipy, dist=stats.norm, plot=ax3)
    ax3.set_xlabel('')
    ax3.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson:Scipy')

    ax4 = fig.add_subplot(424)
    sns.distplot(xt_scipy, color="skyblue")
    ax4.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')

    ax5 = fig.add_subplot(425)
    pt = PowerTransformer(method = 'yeo-johnson',standardize = True)
    xt_sklearn = pt.fit_transform(x.reshape(-1,1))
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_sklearn.flatten(), dist=stats.norm, plot=ax5)
    ax5.set_xlabel('')
    ax5.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson:Sklearn')

    ax6 = fig.add_subplot(426)
    sns.distplot(xt_sklearn, color="skyblue")
    ax6.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')
    plt.tight_layout(h_pad=0.9, w_pad=0.9)
    plt.show()

Looking at the attached figure, it can be seen that both methods seem to normalize data as expected , evident from the quantiles.
But the distribution plots of transformed data, for both libraries , although of same shape, has different range of values.
Why are the transformed values different? which one corresponds to the true Yeo Johnson formula?

sedy

A: It was my mistake. I didn't realize Sklearn does standard scale after Power transform by default. Here is modification of the code that creates matching results.
    import seaborn as sns
    import sklearn.preprocessing
    from sklearn.preprocessing import PowerTransformer, StandardScaler
    from scipy import stats
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
    import numpy as np

    ss = StandardScaler()
    fig = plt.figure( figsize=(10,10))
    ax1 = fig.add_subplot(441)
    x = stats.loggamma.rvs(5, size=500) + 5
    prob = stats.probplot(x, dist=stats.norm, plot=ax1)
    ax1.set_xlabel('')
    ax1.set_title('Probplot')

    ax2 = fig.add_subplot(442)
    sns.distplot(x, color="skyblue")
    ax2.set_title('Distribution of Data')

    ax5 = fig.add_subplot(445)
    xt_scipy, lmbda = stats.yeojohnson(x)
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_scipy, dist=stats.norm, plot=ax5)
    ax5.set_xlabel('')
    ax5.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson:Scipy')

    ax6 = fig.add_subplot(446)
    sns.distplot(xt_scipy, color="skyblue")
    ax6.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')

    ax7 = fig.add_subplot(447)
    xt_scipy_ss, lmbda = stats.yeojohnson(x)
    xt_scipy_ss = ss.fit_transform(xt_scipy_ss.reshape(-1, 1))
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_scipy_ss.flatten(), dist=stats.norm, plot=ax7)
    ax7.set_xlabel('')
    ax7.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson + Stand Scal:Scipy')

    ax8 = fig.add_subplot(448)
    sns.distplot(xt_scipy_ss, color="skyblue")
    ax8.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')

    ax9 = fig.add_subplot(449)
    pt = PowerTransformer(method = 'yeo-johnson',standardize = False)
    xt_sklearn = pt.fit_transform(x.reshape(-1,1))
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_sklearn.flatten(), dist=stats.norm, plot=ax9)
    ax9.set_xlabel('')
    ax9.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson:Sklearn')

    ax10 = fig.add_subplot(4,4,10)
    sns.distplot(xt_sklearn, color="skyblue")
    ax10.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')

    ax11 = fig.add_subplot(4,4,11)
    pt = PowerTransformer(method='yeo-johnson', standardize=True)
    xt_sklearn_ss = pt.fit_transform(x.reshape(-1, 1))
    prob = stats.probplot(xt_sklearn_ss.flatten(), dist=stats.norm, plot=ax11)
    ax11.set_xlabel('')
    ax11.set_title('Probplot:Yeo-Johnson:Sklearn with Stand Scal')

    ax12 = fig.add_subplot(4, 4, 12)
    sns.distplot(xt_sklearn_ss, color="skyblue")
    ax12.set_title('Distribution of Transformed Data')
    plt.tight_layout(h_pad=0.9, w_pad=0.9)
    plt.show()

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LARC stands for Long Acting Reversible Contraception which are methods of contraception which last more than a month.
These long-acting contraceptive methods all have the advantage that, once in place, you don't need to think about them until they need replacing.
At 99%, they are more effective than any other form of contraception.


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Wrap Up: Holiday Pirates maintains social media focus during slowdown
In Press Releases, Travel Forward.
Deals publisher and inspiration brand Holiday Pirates has shared some of its social media secrets with the Travel Forward Virtual audience.
Nick Cooper, head of the UK, told the audience that "even though we only pay for less than 3% of our traffic, we can compete with the global giants because the other 97% is organic."
Holiday Pirates operates in ten markets.
The Holiday Pirates team search for deals online, write about the offer and destination before sharing the content with its social media audience, comprising 10 million Facebook fans and one million Instagram followers.
Other organic and free traffic comes via its app, which has been downloaded 10 million times. It also gets 30 million visitors a month to its websites.
The strategy is quite simple, the execution is more difficult: "People do not join social media networks because they want to be sold to," he said.
"They join because they want to be part of a community so it important that your brand has a personality."
Many businesses claim to have a social media presence but, Cooper warned, "posting stuff isn't a strategy, you have to have a strategy to get people to share what you post."
There are three ways, he suggested, to help social media content achieve "virality". Posts need to be entertaining and authentic, transparent and honest, with relevance and immediacy.
It was able to maintain engagement with its social media audiences during the pandemic by empathising with its audience via non-deals content, using a "we're all in this together" tone of voice while also ensuring all communications are responsible.
It kept inspiration front-of-mind by finding and promoting deals for 2021. It also used the interactive video functions of Instagram Stories.
It has added 100,000 UK Facebook followers and more than 50,000 UK-based Instagrammers over the past six months.
Richard Gayle, Event Director, Travel Forward, said:
"Holiday Pirates is a real-time, ongoing case study in how a business can consistently punch above its weight by becoming experts in one specific area – in this case, social media.
But as with many of the Travel Forward Virtual sessions, this is a great 20-minute watch for any business thinking how to get more from its Facebook and Instagram presence."
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A great alternative to pasta, gnocchi is mixed from mashed potato and flour to make those characteristic light, doughy puffs.
Preheat the oven to 200°C, gas mark 6. Bring a large pan of water to the boil.
Add the gnocchi to the pan and cook for 2 minutes, but no more, then drain thoroughly. Tip into an ovenproof dish about 20 x 26cm in size. Cut each fig into 6 wedges and scatter over the top of the gnocchi.
Break the cheeses into bite-sized pieces and place in a bowl. Add the crème fraîche and mix together with a fork, mashing the cheeses a little to combine. Season generously to taste.
Pour the sauce over the gnocchi and place in the oven. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Scatter plenty of basil leaves over the top before serving with a green salad and chunks of bread to mop up the sauce.
We've used a variety of different cheeses in our winter dishes, some containing animal rennet. To make these dishes truly vegetarian, substitute with vegetarian alternatives. For a blue, try Oxford Blue, Cropwell Bishop or Yorkshire Blue. For buffalo mozzarella, substitute Waitrose Grated Mild Mozzarella and for Parmigiano Reggiano, use Castelli Vegetarian Parmesan instead.


The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, more commonly known as UNESCO, is under fire for immorality and anti-Semitism. But in reality, that is only scratching the surface of the problem.
In fact, UNESCO is a den of communism, globalism, and wickedness that would shock even the most seasoned political observer. And it wants to control what your children learn — and even their values and beliefs.
She's open about her agenda. "We have the collective duty to empower every child and youth with the right foundations — knowledge, values and skills — to shape the future as responsible global citizens," Bokova declared in a statement last year.
Of course, her admitted globalist, humanist, and "progressive" values are fundamentally incompatible with traditional American liberties and Judeo-Christian values.
The notion of God-given rights, upon which America was founded, for instance, has no place in UNESCO's worldview. Instead, the UN agency claims all children everywhere must learn to love the UN's "Universal Declaration of Human Rights," basically a list of revocable privileges purportedly granted by humanity's rulers.
Americans have a duty to protect their children from these sorts of globalist totalitarians. While federal law already prohibits U.S. funding for UNESCO, Congress should move to completely withdraw. Additionally, every education policymaker in America must become familiar with UNESCO's agenda, so that it can be kept out of the United States.


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package org.aikodi.rejuse.data.tree.walker;

import org.aikodi.rejuse.action.UniversalConsumer;
import org.aikodi.rejuse.data.tree.TreeStructure;

/**
 * A class of treewalkers that consume the
 * <b>root element</b> of a tree.
 *
 * Objects of this class are typically used in combination
 * with other treewalkers to consume multiple elements in the tree.
 *
 * @author Marko van Dooren
 *
 * @param <T> The type of the nodes of the tree.
 * @param <E> The type of exceptions that can be thrown by this walker.
 */
public class Consume<T,E extends Exception> implements TreeWalker<T, E> {

	/**
	 * Create a new consume walker with the given consumer.
	 *
	 * @param consumer The consumer to process the top of trees.
	 *                 The consumer cannot be null.
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  public Consume(UniversalConsumer<T, E> consumer) {
    if(consumer == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("The action to apply cannot be null.");
    }
    this._consumer = consumer;
  }

  /**
   * The consumer that is used to process trees.
   * The consumer cannot be null.
   */
  private UniversalConsumer<T,E> _consumer;

  /**
   * Return the consumer that will process the top of the traversed trees.
   * @return The consumer that will process the top of the traversed trees.
   *         The result is not null.
   */
  public UniversalConsumer<T,E> consumer() {
    return _consumer;
  }

  /**
   * Let the consumer accept the root node of the given tree.
   */
  @Override
  public <X extends T, N extends Exception> void traverse(TreeStructure<X, N> tree) throws E {
  	if (tree == null) {
  		throw new IllegalArgumentException("The tree cannot be null.");
  	}
    consumer().perform(tree.node());
  }

}

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Reportage > Dateline Jaffna
Dateline Jaffna
Sri Lanka's 14 months of ceasefire have brought monumental changes in the lives of Tamils in the north and east. Challenges remain - both at the political level as well as at ground-level reality - …
Frances Bulathasinghala | Feb 01, 2003
25-year-old Selva joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) seven years ago after her parents were shot dead in front of her eyes in Jaffna. She is taking me to an LTTE 'girls hostel' through darkness punctuated by only the feeble rays of a kerosene lamp. The hostel is located in the LTTE economic centre at Vatakatchy in the Killinochchi region in Wanni. This is territory where the LTTE has run a de facto army for 19 years.
The walk through the centre to the girls hostel is a winding journey through demolished buildings standing deathly white in the dark. On reaching the hostel, a worn building with peeling walls and a thatched roof, Selva arranges some meagre bedding on a hard wooden bed. There are three rooms in the hostel in which they sleep on mats on the floor. The beds have apparently been brought in specifically to accommodate the four female journalists, myself included, who are visiting the premises.
The war in Sri Lanka, which began in 1983, was brought to a truce at the close of 2001. Since that time, both the government and the LTTE have been preparing themselves, and 'their' people, for life on a peace island. When asked if she has any plans for the future if ongoing peace talks succeed, Selva laughs. "I'll be with the movement, it is good this way", she says with steel in her voice.
The LTTE's armed struggle – along with political developments on the island and the forced changes in life – have fundamentally altered many aspects of Tamil society, not the least of which being a radical transformation of many Tamil women. While upper-class Sinhala women in southern Sri Lanka were largely emancipated along Western lines during the colonial era, traditional social expectations and obligations bound female Tamils. Fighting the war, which claimed an estimated 65,000 civilian lives, female LTTE cadres were instructed to embrace androgyny and develop a stoic disposition. Undoubtedly, the inscription of women into the LTTE's fighting force has had an impact on traditional gender roles in Tamil society. There have also developed two defining ideals of womanhood – the militant mother and the armed virgin. The question now is how these transformed women, and the millions of other lives shaped by the island's strife in myriad ways, will react to and participate in a revived body politic. With the holding of the ceasefire for more than one year now, a return to 'normalcy' in the island's northern and eastern Tamil-majority areas seems to be on the horizon.
The politics around Jaffna, Sri Lanka's second largest city, and the hub of its northern peninsula of the same name, have changed impressively over the past 14 months. The cessation of hostilities from 24 December 2001, the lifting of the embargo in January 2002, the formalising of the ceasefire in February, the prime minister's visit in March and the establishment of LTTE political offices in the north and east have been the bases for the present sustained rapprochement after two decades of war.
Still, much remains to be seen. Economically, the peninsula received a sorely missed lifeline when the government reopened the A9 highway to the south. And, negotiations between the LTTE and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's government have progressed beyond initial meetings. There is hope in the air that the ceasefire may evolve into a lasting peace, and Jaffna's people will have to reconcile their personal histories of suffering with their hopes for a better future. For the moment, however, the area is waking from its years of violence-inflicted isolation and slowly engaging with the rest of the island and the outside world.
Of all the changes of the last year, perhaps the most widely appreciated on the peninsula was the opening of the Jaffna-Kandy A9 highway to civilian traffic last March. It brought new opportunities for farmers in the north, hitherto burdened with tonnes of produce, too much for the limited home market. The lack of a land link and sparse opportunity for sea transport had prevented the sale of Jaffna's produce to the south.
To Srinan, who earns his living off grapes, a lucrative crop, the peace talks have meant that he may one day earn enough money to live as comfortably as his brother in Wellawatte, a Colombo suburb where many Tamils live. "In Jaffna, I sell a kilo for 50 rupees; that is the market price here. In Colombo, I know that I could get a higher rate", he says.
Ganeshan Lingam, a 40-year-old father of three sons and resident of Manipai, Jaffna, shares Srinan's enthusiasm. Working at a grocery store, Ganeshan barely manages on his monthly wages of 1500 rupees (USD 15.5). "In the past, I always thought that my dream of sending my children to a Colombo school, to make them doctors or lawyers, would be a dream. Today, I know that there is a chance that I could do this. Peace talks mean big shots from Colombo will want to set up business here and recruit us for better salaries".
That sentiment appears to be shared by many. Commercial links are now being established at the institutional level between Colombo and Jaffna with a focus on employment-generation. Projects in agro-based industries, hotels, fisheries, information technology, education, tyre-retreading and automobile maintenance, among others, are on the drawing board. Indeed, for the first time in 20 years, there is hope that 'normalcy' and 'Jaffna' will soon cease to be mutually exclusive.
The prices of most items in Jaffna, especially of fuel – once the rarest of commodities – have come down from wartime highs, and the flow of goods to the north is now much smoother. But movement remains difficult. There are reports of travellers facing impediments to crossing any substantial distance in the north and east since the LTTE does not allow state-run buses into the territories it controls. There are also reports of the LTTE continuing to 'tax' goods coming into Jaffna, whether for commercial or personal use. This appears also to be the case with commercial fishing, which has nonetheless made a partial comeback in the last year, even with government naval patrol boats ploughing the coastal waters.
But there is little doubt that Jaffna is healing. The government, which controls most of the peninsula, has provided access to most of it, barring 'high security zones', to LTTE cadre, provided that they enter without arms. The LTTE has approved an NGO proposal to bring southern university students north to teach the Sinhala language to Tamil youngsters, even guaranteeing the safety of the visitors, who are to be based in Jaffna for a periods of six months. The Jaffna Teaching Hospital for the first time in 10 years has incubators, a windfall born of the peace talks when, in March 2002, the US government donated three incubators, neonatal resuscitators, electronic patient monitors, a diathermy machine and an operating theatre lamp.
The LTTE is also keen on using the cessation of hostilities to develop the Wanni region. Computers and other technological items are at the top of the shopping list, which includes typewriters, generators and sewing machines. "We will begin with the purchase of around five computers, which we hope to buy with funds from the Tamil rehabilitation organisation", says Ramu Sinnappa, an ex-schoolmaster known as 'Sinnappa master' in the LTTE fraternity. According to him, the computers are for a youth institute in Killinochchi, which will have a vocational training programme.
The mood in Jaffna is that there is only one way ahead. "The failing of talks is something that we do not even dare to think. It is we who have had to live with the bomber jets over us", says S Sabarathnam, the secretary of the Thenmarachchi Welfare Association, a community development organisation financially sustained by expatriate Tamils through the Tamil Rehabilitation and Resettlement Organisation.
Fleeing the gunfire in Jaffna in 1995, the only possession 50-year-old Murugesu took with him was his old coal iron. Today, having restarted his laundry business in a small cadjan room in Yogapuram in the Malawi area of Wanni, he earns over 150 rupees on a good day. Wielding his 10-kilo iron over the clothes of those fortunate enough to have attire worth ironing in war-plagued Wanni, Murugesu narrates the story of how he and his family struggled to survive after gunfire rained down on them on 30 December 1995 when they fled Vattakotte, their hometown, and took refuge in the nearest shelter – the camp for displaced people in Chavakachcheri, Thenmarachchi division.
"For one year I did not get to make any money. We survived on the charity of our friends and relations, also displaced and living with us at the Chavakachcheri school, but who had salvaged enough material possessions and finances to provide us with sporadic assistance. One year later we came to the Wanni region with the thousands of displaced people who left their own camps to make new lives for themselves in LTTE-controlled areas".
Murugesu's story is that of a man who had learned to survive hunger while retaining enough will and desire to live. "I managed to find 800 rupees to buy cadjan leaves to construct a makeshift laundry with extreme difficulty. Even after I constructed the place, I did not get any business for a long period, as the area was flooded with displaced people who kept arriving from refugee camps in Jaffna with barely anything other than the clothes on their bodies. Any ironing I was lucky enough to get, I had to price very low". Murugesu says that the most notable numbers of IDPs in the Wanni region are from Mulativu, Killinochchi and Madhu. Adds Murugesu, "The entire Wanni area is a refugee camp. There is a population of just above 400,000 and all of them are categorised as internally displaced and forced to move from area to area, blowing with the winds of war".
"Today I am just one of the few here that has been lucky enough to get back on his feet. I keep my laundry open from 7 am to 6 pm and, sometimes if there is work, I extend my hours. Thanks to the fact that most of the displaced people, who have made the area their surrogate home, are now stable, I earn a sufficient amount of money. My children go to the Yogapuram Maha Vidyalaya nearby. We who have suffered the brunt of the war, have great hopes of the peace process", says Murugesu as his puts the last piece of charcoal and coconut shell into the iron, readying himself to labour over another lot of crumpled cottons.
Also in LTTE-controlled territory is an area called Yogapuram. In a cadjan-built eight-by-eight hut, a replica of thousand of others clustered throughout the region hidden in the Wanni wilderness, 35-year-old Sivaneswari, who arrived with her family seven years ago from Jaffna, is cooking a meagre meal for her two sons and her husband, a bicycle repairman. Although the attention of an outsider is immediately caught by the extremely large gaps in the cadjan and palmyra roof of her house, to her it is obviously a way of life to have the rain pour in and the sun blaze through, having lived under such a roof for a large part of the seven years that she has been living as a refugee. Sivaneswari says she hopes for peace mainly so that her children get a chance to study beyond class seven, which is the upper limit of their present school.
For the 90 percent of Jaffna's population displaced from homes and eking out survival in hundreds of camps around the peninsula, the developments of the last year mean one thing – that they will be able to go back to their towns and make homes again. Some will be building anew amidst rubble. But for others, such as those whose houses in Mirusuvil the Sri Lankan military will be restituting to the owners, it will be easier for at least the shell of the structure will be intact.
Jaffna blushes
Resettlement is among the most urgent concerns of the peace process. According to the United States Committee for Refugees, at the end of 2001, there were 800,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sri Lanka, and 144,000 Sri Lankan refugees in neighbouring India. Efforts to diffuse this crisis that only deepened as the war progressed have now gathered momentum. The emphasis given to rehabilitation in the recent talks between the government and the LTTE have encouraged the hopes of thousands of war destitute. The two parties have presented a united front at international fund-raising efforts, and Japan, Sri Lanka's biggest aid donor, has committed 35 million rupees (USD 360,000) for the joint government-LTTE secretariat at Killinochchi, formally called the Secretariat of the Sub-Committee on Immediate Humanitarian and Rehabilitation Needs in the North and East.
"Now we can sleep in peace. We do not hear the war rockets anymore. All these years no one knew the suffering that we underwent. Since the war began no government minister has come into this territory until now. Within the past two months so many ministers have visited the peninsula", says the elated Bishop of Jaffna, Rev Thomas Saundranayagam. The reverend, highly influential in Jaffna and a well-known sympathiser of the LTTE cause, is a trusted confidante of the minister of rehabilitation and refugees, Dr Jayalath Jayawardena, the foremost peace advocate in the Ranil Wickremesinghe government. Once hounded by the People's Alliance (PA) regime, now in opposition, for being an alleged supporter of the Tigers, Jayawardena visited LTTE areas regularly over the past 10 years. Today he enjoys the gratitude of the Tamil masses, both in the LTTE-controlled Wanni and the government-controlled Jaffna, who see him as the key instrument of peace in the United National Front (UNF) government. "I am the happiest man today. Peace was my dream and today it is a reality. I was once accused, harassed and humiliated", says Jayawardena, who returned to the country on 26 January 2003 after a tour of Europe studying federal systems, the proposed political structure on which current negotiations rest.
While Jaffna blushes with attention from the mass media and politicians, its populace sees the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, which has now held together longer than any previous accord, as a document of hope for a future without war. The overall opinion in Jaffna seems to be, at least on the surface, that the LTTE is its representative. However, it is now slowly becoming discernible that almost a year after the LTTE set up its political offices in Jaffna and other areas of the north and east, many are becoming weary of its manner of controlling the Tamil populace. At present though, the five major Tamil parties in parliament, including the Tamil United Liberation Front (one of the oldest Tamil parties), back the UNF coalition and largely disinclined to oppose the LTTE.
Democratic deficit
The Norwegian-facilitated peace talks have received wide praise from the international community. Even in Sri Lanka, while people realise that there is a long way to go yet, the talks have been welcomed with enthusiasm in most quarters. The steps taken over the year have enforced the impression that both sides are now willing to go further on the road to peace than ever before. The LTTE gave up its demand for independence, settling instead for autonomy, and the UNF government has visibly committed itself to help the LTTE become a 'mainstream' civilian entity. The Norwegians, meanwhile, have gone out of their way to assist the LTTE – the task being to turn an organisation geared for war into one peacefully engaged in democracy.
Still, many outstanding issues persist, including the LTTE's reported continuing recruitment of children, suppression of Tamil Muslims, lack of respect for civil rights and the democratic deficit in the north and east. The Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), in electoral alliance with the PA in the 2001 elections, has consistently asserted that it is facing LTTE-backed intimidation in the north and east. Meanwhile, the Muslim community has made some headway in moving beyond the violence unleashed against it in Jaffna in 1990. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress leader, Rauf Hakeem, who met Vellupillai Prabakaran last year and who has been a regular participant at the four rounds of peace talks, has appealed to Tamil Muslims to consider resettling in the north and east. The Muslim community is concerned though that one of its foremost spokespersons, Dr SHM Hasbullah, who was to have taken part in a recent meeting at Killinochchi on the resettlement issue, was prevented from doing so by the LTTE, which has allegedly also rejected a Japanese proposal that Dr Hasbullah be allowed to formulate a plan for the resettlement of Muslims.
From several quarters then, the pressure is mounting on the prime minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, at the head of a United National Party (UNP) led UNF government, to bring to book alleged ceasefire violations by the LTTE. Wickremesinghe, who entered office on 9 December 2001, is seen as the man who brought peace, but he is in an unenviable position given that the government, battling economic crisis, cannot afford to rub the rather sensitive coat of the Tigers the wrong way. The Norwegians, for their part, have invoked the wrath of Sinhala parties such as the Jana Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) for alleged overindulgence of the LTTE. The furore over the shipment of radio equipment to Wanni by the Norwegian embassy in December 2002 led to calls for the expulsion of the ambassador. There are also some Sinhala who see a de jure federal structure as attempts towards a de facto division of the state.
For its part, the UNF government views reconciliation with the LTTE as possible, and has stated that "the LTTE will have to go along with the law of the country". Wickremesinghe has attempted to buoy the peace efforts by making sure that the Sri Lankan military is fully aware of its obligations under the ceasefire, and that is does not provoke discord by passing along adverse reports of LTTE behaviour to the media. In specific, the prime minister is reported to have cautioned members of the armed forces against drawing attention to the LTTE's recruitment of child soldiers. Apparently concerned about divided loyalties, the prime minister has also called on servicemen to resign if they cannot reconcile their commitments to the government with personal support for the JVP or PA.
Just as the government in Colombo faces challenges in adjusting to the new situation, so too must Tamil leaders re-evaluate strategies and the way of life. The LTTE, for instance, will at some point have to reconcile its hybrid system of justice – a legal code blending Sri Lankan and Thesawalame Tamil law – with that of the Sri Lankan government. The LTTE legal system is interesting in its own right, given that it jettisons those parts of Thesawalame law that it sees as oppressive of women or promoting the caste system, and blended in are modifications of Sri Lankan law. Of note, the LTTE has made sex outside marriage illegal.
The 'court of Thamileelam', as the hall of justice at Killinochchi is called, is announced by the fang-bared Tiger, the omnipresent emblem on all prominent buildings in LTTE-controlled areas. The Wanni-based legal arm of the LTTE is founded on a firm belief in discipline and order. "It is through capital punishment that we maintain such discipline", the LTTE administrative head of the Wanni region, V Puvanhan, once declared in a press interview. In the Wanni, it is well known that the law does not spare the guilty, even those in high positions, especially in the crime of rape. The LTTE says its laws, taught at the LTTE 'law college' in Malawi, are in accordance with international humanitarian standards. Interestingly, none of its 150 lawyers charge clients – they draw a monthly salary of 3000 rupees from the LTTE.
Reconciling the judicial systems of the LTTE and that of the rest of Sri Lanka will be tricky. "The aspect of the judiciary is the most intricate and the most important with relation to the working out of modalities for political responsibility to be thrust upon the LTTE through the interim administration. This responsibility will clearly have to begin with the LTTE accepting the constitution of the government", says Mr Wicknarajah, the former chief justice of Jaffna. He adds that integration of the legal systems will have to follow the initial rounds of peace talks and eventually conform to a model protecting Sri Lanka's territorial integrity.
The complexities regarding the legal system, to be worked out for the new dispensation, are only an example of the many challenges that will have to be negotiated on a one on one basis. These challenges faced by the government in Colombo and the LTTE's leadership are not insurmountable. But neither is sustained peace a guarantee. Rather, leaders on both sides – as well as their respective constituencies – will have to adapt to the evolving situation as necessary and steer it in a mutually beneficial direction.
"The MoU is not peace. One year has passed and the cessation of hostilities has lasted. Yet there are so many things to be discussed. The hope that we have, that both parties will not resort to war, rests on the fact that the international community has become strongly involved in the peace process", says Saroja Sivachandran, a human rights activist providing legal aid to women through her organisation – the Centre for Women and Development in Jaffna. While the debate with regard to the process rages on, Jaffna hopes that this reconciliation will be final.
Frances Bulathasinghala
Topics : Ceasefire, democracy, Jaffna, reconciliation
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The Campus Activities Board will present "Dumb and Dumber To" at 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29, in Phelps Theatre.
Twenty years after the original film (which, depending on your sense of humor, may be considered a minor classic or one of the most stupid movies every produced), Harry Dunn and Lloyd Christmas reunite to track down Harry's daughter.
Starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels, it is rated PG-13. Free candy and snacks will be provided.


I have a webscript for searching based on a search term. A user fills in an input value and clicks a button which submits the form with an action pointing back to the webscript so that results can be displayed. It works fine standalone but when embedded in a jsf dialog it does not pass any arguments to the webscript js so my search always returns an empty resultset.
Thanks for the response. The jsp page that includes the webscript has only one line, a r:Webscript tag to point at the url for the webscript. So how would you use the f:param tag to pass arguments to the webscript when a submit occurs from a form on the webscript.


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The quality and the 'fit' of the products themselves. It's not just the individuals, materials or the design process that set our windows apart, it's also the way our designs are based on an in-depth understanding of specific individual needs.
The end-to-end support of experts. From the initial survey to the point of installation, we offer a continuum of expertise from a team that's been trained by experts at the Institute of Acoustics.
Our range of options. We offer four ranges of sash windows – heritage, conventional, slim, or spring. Also, whether you need a special window feature, a bay window, some type of casing or a specially designed box sash, we can provide it.
Typically, we create new sash windows for one of these scenarios. Understanding these will help our initial conversation.
A 'like for like' replacement: This is where existing sash windows are replaced by bespoke noise reduction sash windows.
A 'high performance' replacement: Where a high noise reduction is sought, each sash window can be replaced by a high-performance window that looks like a sash window, but actually opens out like a casement window.
A secondary window: If it is not possible to 'touch' the existing sash window – often this will be down to conservation issues, or a landlord's specifications – then we can look at installing a secondary window.
Hugo Carter took this design into 21st century with its innovative approach and materials.
How much noise reduction can you achieve with sash windows?
By far the best selling Sash Window in London is our 40dB Silent Sash. By comparison, the single glazed sash windows are only capable of a noise reduction of around 25dB. Furthermore, we are now working on the 45dB model, which is in its final stages of testing.


Scripture: 1 Kings 6:1 In the four hundred eightieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, which is the second month, he began to build the house of the Lord.
Observation: God made a promise to Moses that he would "make his home" among the people Israel – a permanent home (Deuteronomy 12:5). 480 years later, God made good on his promise during the rule of King Solomon. This reminds me of an important truth: our God is not in a hurry.
Application: Raise your hand if patience doesn't come easily for you. Mine is up. Sometimes urgency is a good thing. When there are emergencies, or time is short, being able to make a decision quickly and act upon it is crucial. The problem with some of us, however, is that we can act as if everything is time sensitive.
I recently read a book that challenged its readers to "ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life". Hurry creates stress and anxiety, which literally kills people. Americans are somewhat notorious for this. For being in a hurry. All the time. This morning the word of God reminds me that our God is not in a hurry. God takes the long view of things. Many of us would benefit from doing likewise.
Prayer: Gracious God, you accomplish things in due season. You are not in a hurry. Give us grace to be more like you. Rather than rushing from one thing to the next, help us to slow down and savor the moments of life. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.


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BYD Buses, Trucks Eligible for $165M in California HVIP Funds
Vehicles in the voucher program include BYD's entire battery-electric transit bus line and most coaches, as well as Class 8 and Class 6 electric trucks.
What Factors Will Help Reverse Trends In Large Truck Crashes?
The need for continued driver training, technician training, and integrated safety technologies are highlighted by a Bendix report.
Truck Fleets Support Higher Fuel Efficiency Standards
A high percentage of fleet operators recently surveyed by the California clean transportation consortium CALSTART generally support higher national fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks, reported Natural Gas Intelligence.
CALSTART to Manage Alt-Vehicle Incentive Program
The California Air Resources Board has selected the clean transportation consortium CALSTART to continue to administer the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project.
FTR Adds Canada, Mexico to Truck and Trailer Outlook Report
The trucking industry forecasting firm FTR has added total trailer forecasts for the Canadian and Mexican markets to its monthly Truck and Trailer Outlook Report.
Study: Trucks Moved More Than 70% of Manufactured Goods in 2012
American industries shipped almost 11.7 billion tons of goods valued at more than $13.6 trillion in 2012, according to preliminary numbers from a survey from the U.S. Department of Commerce, and trucks carried most of it.
OOIDA Files Lawsuit Over California Truck Regulations
The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, against the California Air Resources Board on Friday, in connection with the Truck and Bus Regulation.
Christmas Comes Early to the U.S. Capitol on a Mack Truck
After completing a journey of more than 5,000 miles on the back of a Mack Pinnacle model, the 2013 Capitol Christmas Tree was lit in an official ceremony at the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 3.
2014 Kenworth Calendar Now Available
The new 2014 Kenworth Calendar featuring its trucks is now available for order, offering images of Kenworth's aerodynamic, vocational, traditional and medium duty trucks in scenic and work settings.
Reminder: Highway Use Tax Return Due Sept. 3
The Internal Revenue Service is reminding owners of heavy highway vehicles that in most cases, their next federal highway use tax return is due on Tuesday, Sept. 3.


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Ph.D., editor-in-chief of the Polish political and cultural weekly Kultura Liberalna, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Co-director of the Knowledge Bridges Poland-Britain-Europe Project, St Antony's College, University of Oxford (2016-2018). Chercheur Étranger Associé at the Institut d'histoire du temps present at CNRS in Paris. Former visiting scholar at the University of Oxford, University of Chicago Law School and Columbia Law School and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Copenhagen.
Recently wrote for The Guardian, The New York Times, Journal of Democracy and Foreign Policy.


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Too Much Coffee • View topic - how often to clean grinder...?
how often to clean grinder...?
The idea is to use something 'starchy' to lightly scrub the surfaces and absorb old coffee oils. The urnex tabs are somekinda corn starch iirc.
I prefer cheapo porridge rolled oats to rice since they're a lot softer. You can see the old grinds being pushed out. Then a thorough vacuum. Mini has got an idiotic void in the upper burr carrier which stores a couple of grammes of old grounds and the only way to clear that is with a full stripdown.
One thing worries me about using compressed air -- could you be blasting dust down into the motor bearings and wirey bits? I've never taken mine apart far enough to see how well they're protected from the grinding chamber.
phil2spill wrote: One thing worries me about using compressed air -- could you be blasting dust down into the motor bearings and wirey bits? I've never taken mine apart far enough to see how well they're protected from the grinding chamber.
I thought about this and decided to pull apart my grinders to see if I had filled the motor compartments with grinds. In fact, however, only the normal build-up of dust was in all three of them. I suppose some grinders could be built so it is possible to blow grounds down in there, but if they really are built that way I feel relatively certain that the motor would get a load of grounds even without compressed air.
In any case I'll go on puffing the bits out of my grinders. I'm too lazy to tear them down regularly and I don't think it's really good for them anyway.
I don't know about the mini but the SJ has a plate over the bearing to keep it clean.


An application has been submitted to Rochford District Council for a new travellers site in Goldsmith Drive.
Proposal: Proposed use of land as a traveller site comprising 2 mobile homes, day room and touring caravans together with access, hardstanding and cesspit on land opposite 2 Goldsmith Drive, Rayleigh.
This is a part retrospective application for the proposed use of land at Goldsmith Drive for a Gypsy/Traveller pitch comprising two mobile homes, the construction of a separate day room building, along with the siting of two touring caravans, with associated hardstanding. The application was revised on 23rd July 2018 to omit land originally shown to form part of the site but not in the ownership of the applicant.
As expected, the Lib Dem team has been contacted by numerous local residents concerned by this application.
Rochford DIstrict Council officers are recommending approval with 10 conditions attached.
RECOMMENDATION: APPROVE temporary permission of 5 years personal to applicant.
Will this be just another 'unofficial' site being made 'official' as we've seen happen in other parts of the district?
Due to the 'official' travellers site (as per core strategy) not being developed by the council, the Conservatives have left residents and themselves in a rather weak position, as the argument for not approving these unofficial sites has been weakened somewhat by the lack of travellers sites in our district and should any decision be appealed, the planning inspector can easily use this against the council.


Supermarkets are beginning to catch on that stocking just locally-grown corn and tomatoes is not enough for customers. Now they are competing with farm stands and farmers' markets for a wider variety of fresh fruits and vegetables.
It's been a boon for local farmers. In July, Wal-Mart announced that it plans to spend $400 million this year on locally grown produce, making it the largest player in that market.
Some independently owned, small-to-medium-size chains have been selling extensive lines of local seasonal fruits and vegetables for years, lines they are now expanding. However, for the largest supermarket chains, where for decades produce has meant truckloads transported from the West Coast, it's not always easy to switch to the farmer down the road.
But soaring transportation costs, not to mention a growing customer preference for local food, have made it more attractive not just to supermarkets but to the agribusiness companies that supply them. Growers like Dole and Nunes have contracted with farmers in the East to grow products like broccoli and leafy greens that they used to ship from the West Coast. Because of fuel costs the cost of freight is now sometimes more than the cost of the products.
The rise of farmers' markets has been the result of a dramatic shift in Americans tastes, and, I would believe, a growing understanding of what's healthier for both you and the environment as a whole.
This rise in consumer demand for locally-grown foods has incited an inevitable change, which is now gradually reshaping the business of growing and supplying food to Americans. The local food movement has already accomplished something that would have been considered impossible a mere decade ago: the revival of the small farm.
After declining for more than a century, the number of small farms has increased 20 percent in the past six years.
The impact of "locavores" (as local-food proponents are sometimes known) is even being felt within the U.S. government. The latest version of the Farm Bill sets aside $2.3 billion for specialty crops, such as the eggplants, strawberries, or salad greens that are grown by small, mostly organic farmers. Sure, there is still a long way to go. The Farm Bill hands out $290 billion to big business in the form of corn, soybean and cotton subsidies. However, considering the fact that small farm specialty crops received a paltry $100 million in the previous Farm Bill, $2.3 billion is definitely a major step in the right direction.
According to one grocery chain poll, a full 82 percent of customers said locally grown produce simply tastes better.
You really don't have to go very far back in history to find that people ate what grew in their surrounding area, based on seasonal availability. It is a sustainable, environmentally-friendly, and healthy way to eat.
The National Resources Defence Council (NDRC) offers a great tool on their website that helps you determine what fruits and vegetables are in season, in your state.
Major companies are implementing healthy changes for their staff, such as Google, who opened an employee cafeteria (Cafe 150) whose goal is to only use foods and ingredients grown within 150 miles.
In the past six years, the number of small farms has increased by 20 percent, to 1.2 million.
Farmers' markets grew 50 percent from 2001 to 2006, to nearly 4,700 farms (and $1 billion in sales).
According to the most recent Farm Bill, small farmers can get up to 75 percent of their organic certification costs reimbursed, and some can also get crop insurance. Money has also been set aside to research organic foods and promote farmers' markets.
1,200 U.S. school districts have committed to buying fresh vegetables and fruits from local farms.
The number of farms with community-supported agriculture (CSA) programs in the U.S. grew from just 400 in 2000 to over 1,800 in 2008.
When enough attitudes shift, and everyone starts voting with their pocketbooks, the fabric of society and business follows. It simply cannot afford not to.
Despite the surge in small farms, well over 50 percent of the food you eat is still produced by factory-farming methods that threaten both your health and the environment.
In essence, you're getting far more value for your dollar when you buy organic.
Right now fresh produce is available in abundance in the United States and farmers' markets are in full swing across the nation. Not only is the food tastier and healthier, but there is something about shopping for fresh foods in an open-air, social environment that just feels right. The mere act of shopping for your food in this kind of environment tends to inspire more healthful living, as research by the Economic and Social Research Council has confirmed.
2. Farmers' Markets -- A national listing of farmers' markets.
3. Local Harvest -- This Web site will help you find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
4. Eat Well Guide: Wholesome Food from Healthy Animals -- The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of sustainably raised meat, poultry, dairy, and eggs from farms, stores, restaurants, inns, and hotels, and online outlets in the United States and Canada.
5. Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA) -- CISA is dedicated to sustaining agriculture and promoting the products of small farms.
6. FoodRoutes -- The FoodRoutes "Find Good Food" map can help you connect with local farmers to find the freshest, tastiest food possible. On their interactive map, you can find a listing for local farmers, CSA's, and markets near you.


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24.11.2017 | News | 5 MIN READ
Glen Dimplex Group acquires Technika, Australia
The Glen Dimplex Group is pleased to announce it has acquired Technika, a dedicated home appliance company based in Somerton, Melbourne. This acquisition combines Technika with the existing Glen Dimplex brands of Belling and New World.
The Glen Dimplex Group is pleased to announce it has acquired Technika, a dedicated home appliance company based in Somerton, Melbourne. This acquisition combines Technika, and the numerous brands of the Technika Group, with the existing Glen Dimplex brands of Belling and New World, and significantly strengthens the Group's position in the Australian market.
Founded in 1973, Glen Dimplex is a leading international Group, the world's leading manufacturer of electrical heating, and also holds significant global market positions in domestic appliances, cooling, ventilation, and renewable energy solutions. Glen Dimplex Australia is in its tenth year and Technika represents the second Australian acquisition for the Group in 2016 following on from the acquisition of Real Flame.
Founded in 1998 from humble beginnings, Technika has grown to be a highly successful and reliable privately owned Australian business, with customers spanning all related industry sectors Australia wide. Technika's dedication and commitment has ensured success through continued reinvestment in product design, innovation, reliability, service, and people.
Glen Dimplex Australia Managing Director, David Woodward, emphasized the importance of retaining the key people behind the brand and accordingly founders, Craig Hucker and Mark Galea will continue in their current roles and act as joint General Managers. "The continued involvement of both Craig and Mark was an integral part of the acquisition. Technika have a different business model to our existing business and there is invaluable knowledge and experience within the existing team that we wanted to retain and preserve. I am confident that all parties will be able to learn from each other and resulting best practice synergies will generate good growth into the future."
"I would like to assure the Technika team, and all Technika customers that it will be business as usual. Glen Dimplex has a proud history of acquiring great brands and investing in them for further success. Technika have fantastic long term relationships with Architects, Interior Designers, Builders and Retailers Australia wide, and we look forward to introducing our other Group brands to these important decision makers in the near future."
Craig and Mark will remain with the business in full time roles. "We are both delighted and humbled that our company Technika, had attracted interest from Glen Dimplex, an immensely successful, and significant global entity, and was subsequently purchased.
The Technika team is enthusiastic about working with Glen Dimplex, and the exciting opportunities it will present into the future for the Group.
We see the business developing significantly, and our view is that this alliance considerably enhances the strength and position of Technika, and subsequently will ensure that we continue to remain market leaders in the future."
Group CEO, Fergal Naughton commented "We are proud to welcome Technika to the Glen Dimplex Group family. Technika represents our second Australian acquisition in 2016 and we are excited about the future growth opportunities for the business".
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Bennettsbridge Junior B win Northern League final against Galmoy with style & comfort
posted Aug 2, 2017, 1:38 AM by Alan Flynn [ updated Aug 2, 2017, 3:17 AM ]
Bennettsbridge Junior B team had a great win over Galmoy in Freshford securing their first bit of silverware at this level in a couple of years. The first ten minutes of the first half were close enough with the majority of Galmoys scores coming from frees but as the half went on the Bridge boys showed their bit of class with some lovely worked scores and started to pull away. The second half continued with this approach but had to put up with some foul play from the opposition which went unpunished but the scoring power of the lads was punishing the opposition on the score board. From the fifteen lads that started to the subs that were introduced everyone put in a performance which was great to see and all the players and management should be commended for this. The final score was Bennettsbridge 0-21 Galmoy 0-10, sixteen scores from play for Bennettsbridge which was most pleasing.
The Bennettsbridge team was: Ben Tynan, Brian O'Neill, Shane Nolan, Leo McCarthy, Shane Byrne (0-01), Eddie Fitzgerald, Paul O'Neill, Sam Dwyer, Willie Murphy (0-09, 5f's), Kevin Brennan (capt, 0-02), Patrick O'Neill (0-01), Dylan Walsh (0-05), Jack O'Donnell, Stephen Holden, Maurice Walsh (0-01) Subs used Gary Hayes (0-02), Ronan O'Connor. Unused subs Danny Coyne, David Blanchfield.
Picture above: Back Row - John Byrne (selector), Paul O'Neill, Gary Hayes, Jack O'Donnell, Shane Nolan, Willie Murphy, Brian O'Neill, Sam Dwyer, Stephen Holden, Leo McCarthy, Eddie Fitzgerald, Hugh O'Neill, Mick Hanley (Selector), Richie Walsh (Manager). Front row - Danny Coyne, David Blanchfield, Patrick O'Neill, Ben Tynan, Shane Byrne, Kevin Brennan (capt), Ronan O'Connor, Maurice Walsh, Dylan Walsh.
Other team members missing from above - Luke Dowling, Bill O'Neill, Kyran O'Sullivan, Rory Cleere, Aidan Byrne, Barry Lennon.


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Gabby Petito Case: Death, Disappearance And Media Coverage Highlighted In New Documentary
By Ashley Palya
A new documentary will delve into the details of Gabby Petito's "tragic story, the unanswered questions and the shocking conclusion," after her death and disappearance drew intense media coverage.
"The Murder of Gabby Petito: Truth, Lies and Social Media" will be released on NBC's Peacock Streaming service on Friday. It is produced by ITN Productions.
Petito's parents and step-parents are interviewed in the documentary. The documentary will "reflect on the life of their daughter, sharing childhood memories including exclusive photos and details that we never knew before," according to the synopsis.
"It was like every parents' nightmare," Petito's stepfather Jim Schmidt says in the trailer. "Just like, in a flash of second. She's gone, she's missing."
The documentary takes a closer look at how both mainstream media and social media impacted the case.
Journalists and amateur sleuths on TikTok and YouTube were dedicated to uncovering details about the case. The documentary features interviews from people who covered the story, along with how all the clues came together to help law enforcement get closer to answers.
Petito, 22, went missing on Sept. 11. The disappearance drew more interest when it was learned that her fiance Brian Laundrie, 23, returned from their cross-country trip without her.
Petito's remains were found on Sept. 19 in Grant Teton National Park in Wyoming. Laundrie was found dead in a Florida reserve on Oct. 21.
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UAP had the honour of working with legendary artist Lawrence Argent, collaborating with him on two projects shortly before his death in October.
Known for his whimsical sculptures which feature monumental-sized animals, Argent's final projects continue his artistic vision, successfully transforming the spaces they are in. Beyond Reflection uses a dragon to reflect the culture of its Chinese setting and the mythological creature's characteristics of power and happiness. Through the use of a sunken plaza, the 16 metre stainless steel structure cleverly spans two levels, with the body and legs of the dragon below ground, and the head, back and tail above. This unique approach, along with the use of mist and lighting, makes it appear the dragon is floating.


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December 27, 2017 Dispatches
By NATHANIEL VAN YPEREN
Columbus, Minnesota
I found myself holding the rear hooves of an upside-down, dead deer while a large, gray wolf paced a few feet away. It was a clear and cold afternoon, ten degrees above zero under a bright Minnesotan sun. We watched the wolf and the wolf watched us. Peggy turned and walked back to a truck piled high with roadkill. A dead calf, donated by a local farmer, peered out from among the tangle of wild limbs. A live rat terrier perched on top of the pile like a conquering queen. She licked at frozen blood.
I was with this wolf, and this woman, and this dog, because I was fixated on the wolf as a cultural symbol of villainy, of evil. I was writing a paper for an academic conference. Peggy reached her arm in among the bodies. "You know," she called over her shoulder, "after all these years, we still prefer Chicago Cutlery®." Her arm reappeared with a green-handled chef's knife.
I met Peggy at a fundraiser in St. Paul. It was the kind of party where one could pose for a photograph with a live Peregrine falcon and chat with a famous Artic explorer. A few days later, when I wrote to Peggy for a formal interview, she countered with an invitation. I was looking for a few good quotes, but she offered an experience. There was going to be an exchange between the Wildlife Science Center and the Great Plains Zoo—one red wolf for another. Two brothers would go to sleep. One would wake up to an imported stranger, a potential mate; the other would wake up in a metal crate on Rt. 169, hurtling down the highway towards a new home in Sioux Falls.
I followed the others into the enclosure, clutching a long pole with a fixed Y at one end. Two adult red wolves flitted and flashed nervously against the back fence. We formed a line and lowered the poles like spears. We were a prehistoric hunting party with a local TV cameraman. We advanced slowly, herding the wolves into the northeastern corner. When they were surrounded, they laid down with their ears pinned back. It wasn't their first rodeo. We moved in and pinned them down, several poles on each wolf, and Peggy administered the sedatives. After a few moments, the drugs took over and the powerful muscles relaxed. We lifted our poles and watched as Peggy placed blindfolds on the wolves to protect their eyes during the ride out. Suddenly, one of the wolves began to convulse and my mind flashed to an image of my son. I thought of the horror of the first febrile seizure—the way the world stopped spinning when he slipped away. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, they say. Peggy removed the blindfold and gently, intimately, stroked the wolf's face and neck until the seizure subsided. She asked me to lift the wolf onto the sled. I asked her if I could stick around for the afternoon feedings.
Peggy's boots crunched on the frozen snowpack and she gestured for me to step aside. "Let's give this one a treat," she said, waving the knife at the restless wolf on the other side of the chain link fence. Pulling apart the rear legs of the deer, Peggy glanced up at me and said simply, "This one was pregnant." The incision opened a hole the size of a cantaloupe. Pushing up her coat sleeve, Peggy reached in with a bare hand and, after a moment, pulled out a bloody fetus. The wolf stopped pacing and stared intently at the flesh. She met the wolf at the fence and offered the fetus like the sacrament. The wolf received the gift and moved a few steps backward. Powerful jaws crushed the tiny skull and the severed body dropped to the ground. Blood stained the snow. As the wolf was alone in the enclosure, her face registered that familiar look of distant thoughtfulness, not unlike the way my domesticated canine chews the toddler's toys underneath the coffee table. The wolf bent down and snatched up what remained. We picked up the deer and walked it to the next enclosure. It was as if a strong wind swept over the coals: the slow burn of yearning for connection to the wild suddenly aflame. Later that night, when sleep finally came, I dreamed of wild wolves.
Nathaniel Van Yperen's most recent publication is "The Public Significance of the Private Farm" in The Land Speaks (Oxford, 2017). He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in religion and ecology, ethics, and race and religion. He is currently writing a book on wilderness.
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Effluent of the Affluent
MARY BERGMAN
We are losing this place twice over: first to money, and then to sea. There are ways to quantify these losses: only 3,200 bushels of scallops were caught this past winter and more than $2 billion in real estate transactions were recorded last year. My parents aren't sure where they should be buried.
Coconut and Bananas
ROMANA CAPEK-HABEKOVIC
A couple of days ago my husband returned from the grocery store with a pound of bananas and a small coconut. The bananas were perfectly ripe for consumption, and I put them in a fruit basket.
Inconvenience Store
SOPHIE DURBIN
Don Quijote makes no attempt to follow the traditional model of neat and unobtrusive conbini; its aisles were bathed in flashing lights and lined with neon signs brandishing sale prices. My head spun as I followed arrows pointing to various products, and I soon abandoned my mission to find face wash, instead pausing every few feet to gawk at gimmicks like teeth wipes and heated eye masks.