The ethnographic record indicates that disposal of the dead by leaving their corpses in the bush was once a widespread feature of mortuary practice in East Africa, practised by many Bantu as well as non-Bantu speakers. The following notes describe an interesting variation upon this practice, recorded (and still remembered) among different groups of Bantu speakers in what is now south-west Tanzania. Whereas most peoples known to have disposed of their dead in this way appear to have done so in any convenient spot away from habitation, the Sangu and others referred to below "threw away" their dead in particular sites designated for this purpose. These sites for communal disposal are recognisable by their common names and, though no longer used in quite the same way, are still feared through their association with death.
I have most information on the practice of the Sangu (avasango), among whom I conducted anthropological research between 1980 and 1982. The Sangu are the indigenous inhabitants of the Usangu Plains, which lie to the north of the mountain ranges which rise up from the northern shores of Lake Malawi. They speak an Eastern Bantu language which is classified in the Southern Highlands group together with Hehe, Bena, Wanji, Kinga, Pangwa, Kisi and Manda (Nurse 1988: 59). The development of trade routes from the East African coast in the early nineteenth century appears to have stimulated the early unification of the Sangu into a single chiefdom. The Hehe followed suit, and in the late 1870s forced the Sangu out of Usangu. The Sangu chief, Tovelamahamba Merere, established a new capital in the hills of Usafwa, to the west. The Sangu remained in exile there until after the turn of the twentieth century, when they were restored to Usangu (under Tovelamahamba's son and successor, Mgandilwa Merere) by the newly established German administration (see Walsh 1984 for a detailed survey of Sangu history).
The contemporary Sangu bury all of their dead, and appear to have done so since the first decade or so of the colonial period. Earlier European travellers and missionaries, however, noted otherwise. When Elton and his party visited Tovelamahamba Merere in 1877 at Mfumbi, on the southern border of Usangu, they found large numbers of decomposing corpses, the victims of Hehe assaults, piled up outside of the stockade. At first it seemed that this may have been a temporary exigency of warfare, but after observing a dead woman being thrown into the bush Elton concluded that the Sangu did not in any event bury their dead (1879: 350-351, 358, 361-362). The Moravian missionaries who founded a mission station in 1895 outside of the Sangu capital-in-exile, Utengule-Usongwe (Kwa Mwalyego in Usafwa), were shocked to learn that corpses were being tossed into a nearby ravine. They appealed to Mgandilwa Merere to stop this practice, which he did, at least in this particular place (PA 1896: 288).
Comparative evidence suggests that the Sangu, like many of their neighbours, once disposed of all of their commoners in this way. Indeed contemporary linguistic usage has preserved the memory of this practice: the phrase kitaga umunu, 'to throw away a person', has been retained in ishisango, the Sangu language, as a polite euphemism for burial, and is used in preference to the verb kisiila, which means 'to bury' pure and simple. However, chiefs and certain other special categories of person, including twins and their parents, are said to have always been buried. The burial of the Sangu chief was a particularly elaborate affair, and when Tovelamahamba Merere died at the end of 1893 he was consigned to the grave together with a number of retainers (Heese 1913: 141), as well, it is said, with a large number of elephant tusks and other worldly goods to help him on his way.
Contemporary accounts also make it clear that the Sangu possessed designated sites for the disposal of corpses. The ravine near the Moravian mission station at Utengule-Usongwe was presumably one of these. One site, called Pitago (sometimes Kwitago), literally 'the place for throwing away', is located at the north-east of the twentieth century Sangu capital, Utengule-Usangu. It is possible that this site dates back to the nineteenth century, because Tovelamahamba Merere's pre-1877 capital also stood close by. Informants cannot recall Pitago ever having been used for the general disposal of the dead, though it is described as a sacred site on which sacrificial offerings can be made for the whole population. According to one middle aged male informant it was used in the past (in the days of his grandfather) to dispose of transgressors, such as men who had unwisely seduced wives of the chief. In such a case the tribal elders would approach the accused and ask him to dress in his best clothes in order to accompany them to Pitago to sacrifice a bull. Once there they would slaughter the bull, and shortly thereafter the unwitting victim, whose corpse they would simply throw down on the spot. My informant thought that the victim's decapitated head might have been brought back to the settlement for display, but he was not sure on this point. He added that in the daytime corpses left at Pitago would be consumed by vultures, and at night by hyenas (compare Elton: "...and now over a heap of skeletons, scattered leather aprons and beads, hovered flocks of vultures and gigantic storks, which, gorged with their loathsome feast, had scarcely power to flap away into the lower branches of the magnificent forest trees which adorn the once peaceful Usango valley", 1879: 350-351).
This account recalls that of the Moravian missionaries, who discovered the Sangu practice of throwing away the dead following an incident in 1896 when Mgandilwa Merere had ordered the execution of two of his wives and a man for adultery. We can hypothesise that at this time Sangu mortuary practice was in a stage of transition, as burial became increasingly fashionable among commoners, perhaps initially for those who held political or military office and their close relatives. Disposal by exposure was subsequently restricted to the corpses of criminals and people in lower social categories, such as non-Sangu (as suggested by another informant in discussing the uses of Pitago). Thereafter burial became the universal practice: this was certainly the case in the south of Usangu around Brandt Lutheran Mission when Heese (1913) wrote on local customs. At the same time the chief / commoner distinction remained marked by different forms of burial: chiefs and the special ritual categories of persons treated analogously to them were and still are buried in a sitting position, whereas ordinary people are buried lying down.
Pitago in Utengule-Usangu still has strong associations with death for the local population. Broken pots and other remains are said to be found there, and the site is thought to be especially fearful during and after the rainy season when the grass has grown long. In 1981 Pitago had been set aside as a site for a future village cemetery, an appropriate transformation of its original purpose. I was unable to establish whether other, similar sites, are recognised elsewhere in Usangu: it may be that communal exposure was only practised in the vicinity of the Sangu capital(s), where the density of population and numbers of people dying over time meant that disposal of corpses in isolated spots in the bush was not as feasible an option as it was in less densely settled and cultivated areas. Certainly all of the known sites of collective disposal by the Sangu are located close to past and present capital settlements both in and outside of Usangu (Mfumbi, Utengule-Usongwe, and Utengule-Usangu), though this may be a function of observer bias.
One possible exception is the River Patagu, which forms the boundary between the territories of the Sangu and the Poroto in the south west corner of Usangu. The Poroto are often classed as a sub group of the Safwa, though they have retained something of a separate identity, and are definitely thought of as separate by the Sangu. Like the Safwa they speak a language which is not particularly closely related to that of the Sangu, but is classified in the Nyika sub group and Corridor group of Eastern Bantu languages (other languages of the Nyika sub group include Lambya, Malila, Nyiha, and Tambo: Nurse 1988: 20). Throughout the German colonial period and for some years afterwards a section of Poroto territory across the Patagu was under the nominal control of a Sangu chief. This was Kahemere, a brother of Mgandilwa Merere who had refused to recognise the latter's accession to the Sangu stool and subsequently also refused to follow him back into Usangu (though he relented during the British period, long after the death of Mgandilwa, when he was offered a sub-chiefship in south-east Usangu).
The Sangu nickname for the Poroto is avaxawuxa, which literally means 'the dried up ones'. This is a reference to what the Sangu think of as the deep and throaty voices of the Poroto, which are alleged to be a consequence of their habit of drinking water from the River Patagu. No one else, it is said, will drink from this river. The implication of this, recalling also the name of the river (which is cognate with the Sangu Pitago), is that corpses were once cast into it and have therefore contaminated the water, rendering it unsuitable for human consumption. I have no information, however, on who might have been responsible for this (the Sangu or even the Poroto themselves), or whether the disposal of bodies in the river was a singular occurrence or a regular event.
While working in Usangu I spoke to Kukwe informants who confirmed that 'throwing away the dead' (no mention was made of the dying) was once practised at such communal sites. The Kukwe live in the north-west of Unyakyusa, on the western side of Mount Rungwe, and maintain a separate identity, despite their adoption of common Nyakyusa culture. One Kukwe woman I spoke to knew of a particular cliff called Itago, over which corpses had been cast in the days before burial had become widespread. This place was also called Ipanga after its steep cliff. She opined that corpses treated in this way would simply decompose, given the absence of either vultures or hyenas in this part of Kukwe territory. Another Kukwe informant, a man, recalled the existence of a similar site called Itagano, east of the main road to Tukuyu, from which corpses were also once cast. Modern maps of the Rungwe area show a number of possibly related place names, including Itaga (a place and a river), c.14 km north of Itumba, and Itagata, c.10 km south of Mount Rungwe. These might well be worth further investigation.
While there are clear parallels between what is known of Sangu practice and that of the Nyakyusa / Kukwe, it is difficult to determine whether these might be the result of independent developments (out of a common culture of throwing away the dead) or of contact between the two peoples. The Sangu and the Nyakyusa / Kukwe are not closely related and were not immediate neighbours in the pre-colonial period, although various contacts can be traced between them in addition to a pattern of raiding by the Sangu which was particularly intense during their period of exile in Usafwa. The Sangu are the only members of the Southern Highlands group who are known to have regularly exposed the dead at communal sites. It is possible, however, that further research among the Corridor peoples will reveal that this practice had a wider distribution than I have been able to document here. The apparent absence of the practice among other Southern Highlands speakers and the geographical proximity of the Sangu to Corridor speakers suggest that the Sangu may well have borrowed it from the south and west.
Otherwise it is conceivable that the Sangu and Nyakyusa / Kukwe practices represent independent developments. In the Sangu case the exposure of corpses on designated sites outside of the royal capital might be interpreted as a solution to the problem of disposal in a context of high population density. Whether or not high population density also favoured the development of a similar practice among the Nyakyusa / Kukwe is more difficult to determine, though it seems quite possible given reports of dense settlement in some chiefdoms in the immediate pre-colonial period. The Kukwe predilection for casting their dead off the tops of cliffs suggests that the nature of local topography may also have played a role in the evolution of this practice, although MacKenzie's report indicates that the dead (or rather dying) in Unyakyusa were not everywhere thrown away in such a dramatic fashion. The cold climate and absence of animal scavengers in Ukukwe may also have made it a more attractive option for the living to place some vertical distance between themselves and the slowly rotting dead. The Usangu Plains are completely lacking in mountainous terrain, but are (or at least once were) replete with suitable scavengers to complete the work of disposal. Once they had moved up into Usafwa, however, the Sangu were quick to make use of local ravines for the same grim purpose.
If anything, it is evident that further research is required to determine the distribution of communal sites for the disposal of corpses and the possible reasons for this apparently unusual variation upon the practice of throwing away the dead. The preservation of these sites in name and memory, as well as their contemporary use as sacred (and possibly burial) sites, suggests that ethnographic enquiry on this subject may still bear fruit, despite the passage of time since they were last used for their original purpose. The practice of throwing away the dead (and abandoning the dying), whether randomly or in such designated places has obvious implications for our interpretation of the archaeological record. The prehistory and history of mortuary practices in south-west Tanzania, not to mention elsewhere in the region, remains to be described in detail. Exposure of the dead was clearly an important component of this history, at least in the immediate pre-colonial period. At present, however, we can only guess at what future research might reveal about the past of this and other mortuary practices.
My research in Tanzania in 1980-82 was funded by the then Social Science Research Council (U.K.), with additional support from the Smuts Fund and Wolfson College in the University of Cambridge. I am very grateful to my hosts in Utengule-Usangu and all those who provided me with information on the topic of this article, in particular Ngwila Simuhongole, Eliuter Shinangonele, Betitha Mwakalinga, and Jackson Mwakabalile.
Elton, J. F. 1879. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern and Central Africa (edited by H. B. Cotterill). London: John Murray.
Heese, P. 1913. "Sitte und Brauch der Sango", Archiv für Anthropologie, 40 (n.s.12): 134 146.
MacKenzie, D. R. 1925. The Spirit ridden Konde. London: Seeley, Service & Co.
Nurse, D. 1988. "The Diachronic Background to the Language Communities of Southwestern Tanzania", Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, 9: 15 115.
[PA] = Periodical Accounts Relating to the Foreign Missions of the Church of the United Brethren (London).
Walsh, M. T. 1984. The Misinterpretation of Chiefly Power in Usangu, South-west Tanzania, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Cambridge.


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In most cases, the turbine control system is the first line of protection in the event of an overspeed condition. If the turbine control system were to fail, there are other "pre-emergency" protective schemes designed as backups to the control system. If these backup systems failed to operate properly, the last line of protection is the overspeed trip protection, which is designed to assure the turbine doesn't reach a destructive overspeed condition.
All of the above mentioned protective devices use a combination of electrical and mechanical components. Most of these devices are able to be tested with the turbine "on-line" to assure, if an emergency condition should occur, they will provide the necessary protection required for the turbine.
It is the mechanical components of these control and protective systems that are vulnerable to failure due to fluid contamination. More specifically, ultra-fine particle contamination of the hydraulic fluid that is used by these components.
Based upon the size of the turbine, the potential for a catastrophic overspeed condition could occur in less than 2 seconds. Calculations have shown that a turbine running at rated speed and carrying full load, has the potential to accelerate at a rate of 15% of rated speed per second, if it were to experience an uncontrolled trip at full load. Most turbine manufacturers state that speeds greater than 20% above running speed will cause serious damage to the rotating components of the turbine and/or generator. In other words, in less than 2 seconds, the turbine could experience a catastrophic failure.
In order to assure the mechanical components of the control and protective systems function quick enough to assure the turbine does not exceed 20% of rated speed following a full load trip, it is critical that the fluid that controls these devices is clean.
In spite of the fact that stations try to maintain their hydraulic fluid in a clean condition, the method of maintaining low particle levels in the fluid is provided by mechanical filters located on the discharge of the main hydraulic pumps, or side stream kidney loop filtering systems, and in some cases fluid drain side filters. In most of these cases, the finest filters being used are rated at 3 microns. Many stations are using higher micron rated filters than that.
In order to assure the fluid is being maintained within OEM specs, periodic fluid samples are taken and sent to outside laboratories for analysis. One of the variables reported by this analysis is the particle count of the fluid. These reports express the particulate values based upon size and quantity of particulates. In ALL cases the smallest size particle reported is 4 microns. Unfortunately, it is the particles that are smaller than 4 microns that can cause the most problems with critical control and protective devices.
Generally, the clearances between the moving and non-moving parts of these components is 1-4 microns. If particulate nearly the same size as the clearance were to get stuck in these critical components, they could experience either slowed response times or fail to move at all. On some components that are static (non-controlling) such as solenoid or directional valves, silting can occur causing these devices to stick or have slow response times. Most of these static devices are tested periodically to assure that they move freely. In most cases no one checks the response time of these components, they just check whether or not they respond.
The response time of the mechanical overspeed trip device should be less than 0.2 seconds from initiation of signal to the device, to the point that the device has fully responded. If the response time exceeds this value (<0.2 second), the turbine could experience a catastrophic failure during an actual overspeed condition.
As a result of this information, it is very important that the" on-line" overspeed trip test response time be checked periodically.
As mentioned earlier in this article, it is not possible to quantify whether there are excessive "ultrafine" particulates in the fluid with standard fluid analysis. In order to determine whether your hydraulic fluid system has high levels of "ultrafine" particles, it is necessary to analyze the system's filters using SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) technology. The SEM can quantify not only what the particle is (element), but it can also determine its size down to <1 micron.
If the hydraulic fluid system is shown to have high levels of "ultrafine" particulates, the only proven method of removing them from the system is by using an Electrostatic Fluid Cleaner (EFC).
HOW DOES AN ELECTROSTATIC FLUID CLEANER (EFC) WORK?
1) ALL contaminants in the fluid are either positively (+) or negatively (-) charged. When the fluid is passed through an electric field, positively (+) charged particles are drawn to the negative (-) pole and vice versa.
2) As the fluid is circulated across multiple layers of "Collection Media" contaminates are pulled from the fluid and bond to the collection media.
This is one of the filter manufacturer's biggest challenge: the smaller the particle, the more difficult it is to remove by filtration. For fine micron mechanical filters, small particles create problems, such as limiting dP (differential pressure) values faster.
EFCs, on the other hand works on a different principle, and it is easier to remove smaller particles. Because of their small size, the smaller particles tend to have higher "Charge Density"(charge/area) and move faster in the electric field due to their small weight. Hence they are more easily removed by the EFC.
All particles suspended in fluid, magnetic, non-magnetic, organic, inorganic, resinous matter or sludge, can be removed from the fluid by the EFC.
The EFC does not affect the chemistry of the fluid which means that the fluid is maintained at a high level of cleanliness assuring a longer fluid life and improved overall system performance.


Hello! Today we're looking at Tropical Water Decals Sheet of 12 – Born Pretty Review of this item.
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These Water Decals come in a sheet of 12 joined sets. They feature things like: Dreamcatchers, Roses, Flowers, Watermelon, Leaves, Flamingos & Toucans. The set I chose was OPTION 6 and 6 are flowers whilst the other 6 are birds & leaves. I liked the toucans and decided to pair them with some of the tropical flowers for this demonstration.
Each 12 set sheet measures approx 26cm wide x 16cm high, so you do get quite a few things on these sheets and they will last many uses. You can choose from full cover images too on some of the other sheets but I liked this one.
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1. Paint your background coiour polish and let dry.
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2. Remove the film of product, cut out the desired image and let sit in a dish of water 10-20 seconds.
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4. Mop up the water with a cotton round, edge of a paper towel and let dry.
5. Coat with top coat. 2 coats if the top coat is thin, for longer wear.
The colour was good and there is a lot of variety on these sheets. Which I liked. The different sets have different colours as well which make it easy to match with different polish colours for a feature nail or an accent. There are a few full coverage images, but most are freestanding individual elements that you would layer over a base colour.
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Casper, WY (January 20, 2021) – An auto accident reported in the Casper area resulted in injuries, according to local authorities. At approximately 7:30 p.m., on January 16, the Casper Police Department, firefighters, and EMS responded to the scene of a crash on North Beverly Street.
Reports from authorities show that a collision involving motor vehicles took place at the intersection of North Beverly Street and East F Street. The crash caused moderate delays in the area as crews provided assistance at the scene. Injuries were confirmed in this accident. Medical personnel tended to injured victims on-site before transporting those in need of further assistance to area hospitals. At this time, the police in Casper are investigating the accident.
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The base of Maoists is continuously shrinking
18 November, Kathmandu. In the initial trend of counting votes towards the proportionality of the House of Representatives, the Maoist Center National Swatantra Party (RASWPA) was also behind. When the counting of votes ended, the Maoist secured third place both proportionally and directly, but got fewer votes than last time.
Till the time of preparing this news, the Maoist Center has got 11 lakh 61 thousand 992 votes proportionally, which is 11.17 percent of the total Sadar votes. Of course, this is the lowest vote the Maoist Center has received in the elections so far.
The Maoists, who won 120 seats directly in the first Constituent Assembly elections held after the peace process, also got 31 lakh 44 thousand 204 votes in the same ratio. But he could not save it. In the second Constituent Assembly elections in 2070, the Maoists got 14 lakh 39 thousand 726 i.e. 15.21 percent votes.
In the local elections of 2074, the Maoists got 17.6 percent votes (on the basis of ward president candidates), while in the elections to the House of Representatives, they got 13.66 percent i.e. 13 lakh 3 thousand 721 votes.
In the local elections held last May, the vote for the Maoist center fell by 13 percent. Now despite the alliance with the Nepali Congress and other parties, the Maoist Center has got a total of 17 seats in the Direct Party, while its vote in the Proportional Party has come down to 11.17 percent. Matrika Yadav, deputy general secretary of the Maoist center, who has been discussing the review of the election victory since Saturday, says, 'We have been in power continuously. But we could not live up to the expectations of the people.
Where did you fall? Where did it grow?
Analyzing the proportional votes of the districts except Dolakha and Bajura, which are currently counted, it appears that the Maoists' base has shrunk in 47 out of 74 districts. There has been a huge increase in votes in the rest of the districts.
In Manang, the votes of Maoists have decreased the most. In 2074, he got 1,430 votes, i.e. 34.7 per cent of the total proportional Sadar votes. This time it got 133, which is 2.6 percent of the Sadar vote. That is, there has been a decrease of 32.1 percent in the base of Maoists.
Votes also declined significantly in districts such as Rukum East and Bardia, which the Maoists claim are their areas of control. Rukum Purva had got 8 thousand 891 votes last time, this time it has come to 8 thousand 271 even after adding voters. His share in the total Sadar vote has decreased by 12.6 percent.
Last time Naxalites got 14 thousand 962 votes in Arghakhanchi, this time they got only 7 thousand 342 votes. Leaders say that the influence of UML has been clearly seen on Bahadur Rayamajhi, who has been in the party for a long time.
The Maoist center base seems to have shrunk in Kailali, Kanchanpur, Bardiya and other districts where the Civil Liberation Party has increased its influence. In Bardiya, the Maoists had won one seat directly (Area No. 2) in the last election, while they got 45 thousand 698 votes on a proportional basis i.e. 26.7 percent of the total Sadar votes. This time when Saresh Panth lost in Bardiya 2, he got 26 thousand 653 i.e. 14.4 percent votes proportionally in the district.
In the election of 2074, Bina Magar was elected from Kanchanpur constituency number 1 and got 33 thousand 665 proportional votes across the district. This time, even without becoming the general candidate of the alliance, he could not save the victory, while the proportional votes of the Maoists are only 21 thousand 879. The share of Maoists in the total Sadar votes has decreased by 8.4 percent.
Bhagat Bahadur Baduwal and Krishna Kumar Choudhary lost in Kailali-2 and Krishna Kumar Choudhary in Kailali-2, even though they became common candidates of the ruling coalition. In the proportional party, the votes of the Maoist Center have also decreased by 5.3 percent. The Maoists, who got 47 thousand 49 votes in 2074, got a total of 28 thousand 919 votes this time.
Jhapa, Taplejung, Morang, Sunsari, Siraha, Dhanusha, Mahottari, Rautahat, Bara, Chitwan, Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kaski, Lamjung, Kapilvastu, Banke and Jumla, where Maoist candidates lost outright, their proportional votes were reduced went .
There has been a slight increase in the votes of the Maoist center in Mustang, Mayagadi, Rasuva, Rukum West, Gorkha and other districts. Mustang has seen the highest proportional vote increase. The Maoists, who got 129 votes in 2074, got 989 votes this time. In Mayagadi too, 11.1 percent votes have increased. Last time he got 4 thousand 303 votes and now he has got 9 thousand 70 votes. The share of Maoists in the total Sadar votes has increased by 11.1 percent.
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The Huawei MateBook X Pro is updated with Core i7-1195G7 processors and 14.2 "screen
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Huawei has renewed one of its most advanced laptops, the Huawei MateBook X Pro, in its 2022 edition to equip it with Intel Core Tiger Lake Core i7-1195G7 processors. This is a minor change from this year's variant that already featured the Core i7-1165G7, but it is not the only novelty.
The MateBook X Pro 2022 increases its screen size from 14 inches to 14.2 inches and takes the opportunity to put a few more pixels: from 3,000 x 2,000 pixels, we now go to 3,120 x 2,080 pixels and with the same 3: 2 format. This panel is LTPS type and achieves a 90 Hz refresh rate with a maximum brightness of 500 cd / m². This display also offers touch support, a native contrast of 1500: 1, and promises full coverage of the DCI-P3 range with an average DeltaE of less than one, along with support for HDR.
The equipment measures 310mm x 221mm with a thickness of just 15.5mm, allowing it to fight in the league of high-end ultrathin ultrabooks. The prisoner is also relatively contained, below 1.4 kg.
The Huawei MateBook X Pro 2022 will arrive with Windows 11; initially, it will do so in China with a price that starts at 1,415 dollars in its variant with Core i5, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB of SSD. The model with the Core i7-1195G7, 16 GB of RAM, and 1 TB of internal storage go up to 1,924 dollars.
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Beginning Friday, July 27, Tennessee shoppers will not have to pay sales tax on items such as clothing, shoes and school and art supplies that are $100 or less, per item. Computers priced at $1,500 or less are also tax free.
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Richard and Toby Beresford are Kindred Spirits for us at Sohodojo, the "War College" of the Small Is Good Business Revolution.
Big Is Good is not a One Size Fits All solution to our increasingly global, social, economic, and environmental challenges. The Small Is Good World celebrates the creativity, agility, resourcefulness, and dynamism of the Individual and collaborative networks of Individuals in response to social and economic challenges.
...here we describe the nature of Sohodojo's evolving collaboration with the innovative MicroAid social enterprise.
At Sohodojo, we practice a form of social entrepreneurism called change insurgency. We prefer to collaborate and participate in new or existing organizations to affect their 'service trajectory' rather than build and manage our own monolithic organization.
We met Richard and Toby Beresford, the father and son team behind MicroAid, through our participation in the Skoll Foundation Social Edge on-line community for social entrepreneurs. At Social Edge we are self-appointed evangelists for the Small Is Good approach to social entrepreneurism. Even in the social sector and among non-profit service organizations there seems to be a too-often unquestioned assumption that 'going to scale' is a necessary step for organizations intent on affecting significant social change.
The Small Is Good World lies in the domain of Individual Space where Actors (individual people) interact and relate to each other in social networks. In the Big Is Good World, we relate to each other in Organizational Space; we wear many hats filling Roles in Organizations. The software that both Sohodojo and MicroAid are working to envision and develop must recognize and synthesize the activity we engage in on both planes of this multi-dimensional space.
Our change insurgency service to the Social Edge community is to be a persistent reminder that there is a new breed of social entrepreneur emerging. This new breed affects social change through collaboration in Individual Space rather than through management within Organization Space.
Richard and Toby Beresford are prime examples of this new breed of Small Is Good social entrepreneur. Their mission is to transform the practice of international aid and development from the domain of nations and international mega-organizations into the domain of one-to-one support. They are, in other words, taking international aid and development from Organization Space in the Big Is Good World and reinventing it in the Individual Space of the Small Is Good World.
The Beresford's goal for MicroAid is not to achieve significant social change by scaling their organization through accretive (getting bigger) growth. Nor do they aspire to grow by replicative growth through the creation of lots of little MicroAid's. Rather, they will achieve scale through transformative growth. Their work and personal/business example enables the power of an idea to infect and transform the thoughts and behaviors of those whose lives they touch. Through their efforts, the work of international aid and development can become a uniquely personal and interactive experience.
We recognized and celebrated MicroAid's innovative strategy in our wrap up comment at the Social Edge event, "What Does It Take to be a Social Entrepreneur?"
In the sections below we've pulled together links to Sohodojo articles that will help you to understand the dynamics and exciting potential of life in the Small Is Good World. We invite you to dig into the books we review and recommend below as they add weight to our Small Is Good World vision. And we invite you to dig deeply as well into the MicroAid web site. Our World may be small, but the social change it will unleash will be the biggest story of our time!
How so? Take a look at the project that Sohodojo and MicroAid are working on together to enhance the marketplace competitive advantages of folks who choose to do business in the Small Is Good World.
MicroAid Manager supports the creation of 'private label' Network Centers that allow community-based organizations and micropreneurs to envision, promote, fund, and track results of microbusinesses and community projects.
If you already use or visited the MicroAid Family Charities demonstration site, you know that Toby Beresford has done an excellent job in developing an easy-to-use Internet platform for the 'front end' development and implementation of microenterprise and community development networks. Version 2 of this platform excels at managing the challenges of idea generation, microbusiness and community project planning and budgeting, and even the difficult challenges of fine-grained business and project funding and results tracking.
What you don't see in the current MicroAid service offering – and what Sohodojo is uniquely qualified and ready to contribute to our collaborative R&D efforts – is an e-commerce engine to create sustainable alternative markets for the products and services planned, budgeted, implemented, and tracked using the MicroAid Manager platform.
MicroAid doesn't need to tack on a run-of-the-mill 'shopping cart' module to bring its microenterprise network products and services to market. To do so would surely result in frustration and failure for the good folks working to achieve their business and community development goals. Marketing and selling products and services from the Small Is Good World requires strategies and support infrastructure that simply do not exist yet. In short, we need to envision and develop alternative markets based on "Who, How, and Why" purchase decisions rather than attempt to compete in the Big Is Good World's traditional markets based on "How much and Where" (price and distribution) dynamics.
Sohodojo's vision for these alternative markets involves creating a unique shopping experience that is story-driven and game-oriented. We've written in some detail about the innovative requirements for alternative marketplaces in The Yin-Yang of e-Commerce Engines. The table at left shows that we can achieve unique competitive advantages in meeting consumer needs if we 'play to our strengths' and avoid the ruthless, price-driven markets of the Big Is Good World.
Over the last few years, Sohodojo has worked to identify and nurture collaborative relations with researchers and technology providers that can play a strategic role in helping to envision and develop the business models and associated software technologies that will be needed to develop the Small Is Good e-Commerce Engine. Now, in collaboration with MicroAid, we are ready to move forward with applied research, development, and deployment in test projects literally around the world.
What's needed for our success? First and foremost, we need a visionary project sponsor to fund our initial collaboration. We believe we have identified the single most appropriate and mission-dedicated collaborative sponsor we can imagine – Jeff Skoll and his Skoll Foundation. The Alternative Markets Feature Comparison table in this section identifies eBay as an example of the Big Is Good Agora business web. Jeff Skoll was eBay's first employee and its President who masterminded the business model that defined a new paradigm and successful public enterprise which is bringing wealth to thousands.
While we cite eBay as a Big Is Good Agora business web success example, that is not entirely accurate. While eBay has one foot in the Big Is Good World of price-driven consumption, it was among the first Internet companies to firmly plant a leading foot in the Small Is Good World. eBay is all about empowering Individuals as buyers and sellers in a virtual community.
Having experienced the power of one foot in the Small Is Good World, we believe that Jeff Skoll will have a significant interest in exploring the marketplace potential when both feet of a social business venture are firmly planted in the Small Is Good World.
At present, we are developing visibility and potential interest at the Skoll Foundation by being regular participants in the Social Edge on-line community for social entrepreneurs. We're also developing contacts and finding out about requirements to submit a social venture project proposal to the Skoll and eBay Foundations.
On the near horizon, we are seeking sponsor funding to get Sohodojo Jim and Timlynn to England in March for the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship being held at the Said Business School at Oxford University. Toby Beresford is planning to be there (and maybe Richard if he is not in Indonesia). Sohodojo and MicroAid hope to attend this event together as unofficial ambassadors representing the emerging community of Small Is Good World social entrepreneurs. Our plan is to conduct a Birds of a Feather meeting at this event where we will do stakeholder, funder, and collaborator development for the Sohodojo/MicroAid Project.
If the missions of Sohodojo and MicroAid interest you, and if you have skills, interest, and experience to contribute to our proposed collaborative project, we want to hear from you. Drop us a note here.
Whether or not we succeed at getting sponsor funding, we will keep moving forward, chipping away at helping to populate the Small Is Good World. If you are a Kindred Spirit in this challenging adventure, welcome aboard the next leg in the flight of Spaceship Earth!
While there are several hundreds of pages of content at Sohodojo about the Small Is Good World, here are a selection of links to articles and info bits that are most relevant to the collaborative R&D and social action agenda of the Sohodojo/MicroAid Project. The titles of especially relevant articles are boldfaced.
Cross-Sector Partnerships: New Perspectives in Social Entrepreneurism - Tuning the Two-cylinder Engine of Capitalism is a hefty piece that consists of links to our streaming audio/visual presentation at the Wired.org conference and a transcript of the Q&A discussion that followed.
Shamrocks and Nanocorps: Bridging the Digital Divide with Small Is Good Business Webs presents a strategy for using Small Is Good organization dynamics to open up a new category of entrepreneurial opportunity in rural and distressed urban communities. See how Charles Handy's Shamrock organization model plays a part in shaping Small Is Good Business Webs that can bridge the Digital Divide.
Nanocorps in the Dream Society: How Small Is Good Business Webs Will Compete in the Story-driven Marketplaces of the 21st Century examines the ideas of world-class futurist, Rolf Jensen, to better understand the unique competitive advantage that nanocorps and Small Is Good Business Webs bring to the emerging imagination-based, story-driven marketplaces of the Dream Society.
The Nanocorp Vocabulary is glossary/reference to help you explore the Small Is Good World; a realm populated by nanocorps, dejobbed small businesses, and microenterprise networks, among other emerging new business life forms.
The Yin-yang of e-Commerce Engines extends Tapscott, Ticoll and Lowy's Business Web taxonomy to derive initial functional requirements for story-driven, game-oriented alternative markets of the Small Is Good World. This gets at the heart of the collaborative R&D agenda of the Sohodojo/MicroAid Project.
The Nanocorp, Atomic Theory and the Network Effect: Organizing Principles and Scale in Small Is Good Business Webs is both an extended 'Big Idea piece' (part 1) and a detailed 'use case' scenario (part 2) envisioning how a Small Is Good Business Web (AKA microenterprise network) can compete in today's hyper-competitive economy. By developing marketplaces driven by "Who, How, and Why" consumer purchase dynamics, such alternative markets will make an end-run around the increasingly commoditized "How much and Where" markets of the Big Is Good World.
Role/Actor Scenario Patterns: The A-Team and the Sandbox - A Pattern to Enable Nanocorp Replication (AKA Network Economy Job Creation) provides an example of how the social networking plane of Individual Space impacts effectiveness and opportunities in Organization Space.
There is no book that makes a better case for the re-emergence of the Small Is Good World than Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin's The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. A primary theme of this important book is that we are experiencing an historic shift in the underlying mindset/worldview of business. We are moving from the managerial Capitalism of the Industrial Era (Big Is Good World) to distributed Capitalism that will enable the evolution of decentralized Deep Support networks servicing the needs of consumers in their increasingly hectic and complex lives in Individual Space (in the Small Is Good World).
Zuboff and Maxmin's underlying theory and historical analysis are outstanding. This is required reading by anyone wanting to better understand the emergence of the Network Society and its Network Economy. The future they envision, however, caters too much to exploring new market opportunities to meet the Deep Support needs of Road Warriors and Soccer Moms. But to the authors' credit, they preface their scenario examples with a strong statement that distributed capitalism will be realized in a myriad of ways by its creative participants.
Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life compellingly summarizes a provocative new theory and action agenda for local and regional economic development. Rather than focus on Big Is Good industrial infrastructure and recruitment efforts targeting corporate relocations, make your city or region a good place to live for Creative Individuals (inhabiting the Individual Space of the Small Is Good World)... and companies and jobs will follow them there.
Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure rounds up Daniel Quinn's provocative ideas about history, human nature, and our future and annotates them in a conversational question-and-answer style that is most enjoyable reading. Foremost among Quinn's Big Ideas that have shaped our thinking at Sohodojo are: 1) There is no One Right Way: Tolerance of diversity is one of Gaia's (Spaceship Earth's) survival strategies, not an abstract moral choice, and 2) Any social change strategy that requires individuals or corporations to become more saintly or to sacrifice in the name of simplicity or the Common Good is doomed to failure.
The Age of Unreason could be subtitled, "Nanocorping secrets revealed!" No list of inspirational books that speak to the issues of work and life within the Small Is Good World would be complete without including the UK's prophetic and astute management thinker, Charles Handy. While a case can be made for including any of Handy's recent works – especially The Age of Paradox, The Hungry Spirit (AKA The Empty Raincoat in the UK), and The Elephant and the Flea – we've selected The Age of Unreason as it introduces his ideas of the Shamrock organization model, and Portfolio Life as a strategy for living in Small Is Good World.
Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is a wide-ranging and very readable overview of the application of the Big Ideas in network theory. Most of us are familiar with the Six Degrees, Strength of Weak Ties, and Rich Get Richer dynamics of social network theory. Familiarity is one thing, true understanding is another. Barabasi's book is a crash course in social network dynamics.
Allan Cohen and David Bradford's Influence Without Authority should be on everyone's bookshelf. It was written in the eighties yet it remarkably remains in print and is even more relevant to today's world than it was to the world at the time it was written.


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2023 Solar Incentives Guide for Summit, WI - Tax Credits & Rebates
In this guide, we'll cover the latest solar incentives and rebates available in Summit.
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What Solar Tax Credits, Incentives, and Rebates are Available in Summit?
Renewable Energy Sales Tax Exemptions
Incentive Type:
Sales Tax Incentive
Program details:
100% exemption from sales and use tax for eligible purchases
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Solar PV: Residential - $200 per kW
Business - 0-5 kW: $200 per kW
5-10 kW: $1000 + $150 per kW over 5
10-100 kW: $1750 + $125 per kW over 10
100-300 kW: $13000 + $100 per kW over 100
300-500 kW: $33000 + $85 per kW over 300
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Biogas, Solar, and Wind Energy Equipment Exemption
Property Tax Incentive
100% of the value added by an eligible renewable energy system
Federal Residential Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Personal Tax Credit
30% federal tax credit for systems placed in service after 12/31/2021 and before 01/01/2033. Good for: solar water heat, solar photovoltaics, biomass, geothermal heat pumps, wind (small), fuel cells using renewable fuels.
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The term "solar incentives" generally refers to financial incentives put in place by solar companies and the government to encourage increased use of renewable energy by making installing and using solar panels more affordable. Incentives might include things like discounts, cash back or credit towards your monthly utility bill. Some incentives are offered by the federal government, while others are provided by the state of Wisconsin or your specific utility company, county or municipality. Types of solar incentives might include:
Rebates: Solar rebates might be offered by your local utility company, or by your state or county. These rebates work as partial refunds that are applied after your purchase of solar panels and before tax credits are calculated.
Tax Exemptions: These may come in the form of property tax exemptions, which let you exclude the value of your solar system when calculating the taxes you pay on your home. They may also include exemptions on sales tax at the time of purchase.
Tax Credits: Unlike tax deductions, tax credits are dollar-for-dollar reductions in the amount of income tax that you owe the government.
Net Metering: Net metering becomes relevant after your solar system is up and running. If you have a net metering agreement with your Summit utility company, it will subtract the value of the excess energy produced by your solar system from your monthly utility bill. In some places, this credit is dollar-for-dollar, while in others you might make back a percentage of the value.
Federal Solar Incentives
Federal solar incentives are likely the first thing that comes to mind when you think about solar incentives. A federal incentive that most people are probably familiar with is the Federal Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC). This is a tax credit for a specified percentage of your solar system's cost.
The ITC applies to the value of a solar system installed on your primary or secondary residence in the United States. The solar panels must have been installed on a property you own after January 1, 2006 for you to claim the credit. Initially, the ITC applied to 30% of all system costs (panels, accessories, equipment and labor), although this amount has fluctuated slightly over the last few years between 26-30%. The amount you qualify for will depend on when your solar system was installed. There is no cap on the claim amount.
Talking to your local Summit solar panel installation expert is the best way to learn more about how the ITC applies to you.
In August 2022, the ITC (now titled the Clean Energy Credit) was expanded and extended by the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act. Homeowners can now receive a credit of 30% of the total costs of solar system installation for projects started after January 1, 2022 and completed before the end of 2032. This percentage will then decrease annually until the Clean Energy Credit ends in 2035. Starting in 2023, it will also be easier to claim credits for energy storage systems under the new laws.
More information about the new Inflation Reduction Act can be found here. The easiest way to learn more about how the new Clean Energy Credit might apply to you is to speak with your local Summit solar panel installation expert directly.
State & Local Solar Incentives
In addition to those provided at the federal level, there are often also state solar incentives. Tax credits, rebates and more can be offered at a more local level. Incentives may be handled by the state of Wisconsin, or by your county or municipality. Some incentives might only be available for a limited time, while others are ongoing.
Next Steps for Installing Solar in Summit
There are many types of solar incentives: those provided by local utility companies, those provided by the federal government and those provided by the Wisconsin government, to name a few. The use of solar energy has grown enormously in the last 15 years, partially thanks to these incentives. Getting in touch with your local Summit solar panel installation company is a great first step towards getting all the incentives you qualify for when you switch to solar energy.
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EcoWatch's Summit, WI Solar Incentives FAQs
What are some of the environmental benefits of switching to solar energy?
Solar energy is a renewable energy source — by changing where you get your energy, you can help lessen the strain on our planet's resources. A solar system can also reduce your home's CO2 emissions by 450 pounds yearly, or around 9,000 pounds in 20 years.
When does the federal solar tax credit end?
The Clean Energy Credit (previously called the federal solar tax credit, or ITC), currently ends on January 1, 2035. Currently set at 30%, the credit will drop to 26% in 2033 and to 22% in 2034.
If I switch my appliances out for ones that can utilize solar energy, are there any incentives that I can claim?
With the passage of the new Inflation Reduction Act, there are a number of new financial incentives that are available when you make eco-friendly improvements to your home. More details regarding these incentives, including information about incentives for purchasing new appliances, can be found here.
Can I receive incentives both towards the up-front cost of solar panels, and later as reimbursement?
Yes, you can claim both tax credits and rebates towards the cost of your solar panels. Depending on which incentives you are eligible for, they may apply in a different order. Be sure to speak with your solar installer or a local tax professional to verify that you are claiming the correct incentives and getting the most money possible.
Can I use solar and another type of renewable energy in combination to power my home?
Yes, you can utilize multiple types of renewable energy to power your home, such as a combination of solar and geothermal. You can also combine renewable energy generation with a backup source of non-renewable energy. Make sure that you discuss the details of your plan with your local Summit solar installation expert, to get an understanding of what will be needed and what types of incentives you may or may not qualify for.
Our goal is to reach as many people as we can with sensible solutions like solar energy. Our team of full-time local researchers collects solar price and installation data for every city in America then compiles it to create these digestible city guides. If you want to read our solar expert's opinion on the top solar companies featured here, follow this link.
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Abe's Window of Time for Amending Japan's Pacifist Constitution Narrows
Prime minister urges his party to move swiftly, but he faces a resistant public
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is seeking constitutional changes that would explicitly authorize Japan's Self-Defense Forces.
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Aug. 12, 2018 8:00 am ET
TOKYO—As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe embarks on a push to amend the country's pacifist constitution, he is running into the political realities of a resistant public and a rapidly closing window of opportunity.
Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is expected in the fall to begin drafting language that would formally recognize the country's Self-Defense Forces in the constitution, as Mr. Abe has proposed. Currently, Article 9 states that "land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained."
Amending the constitution requires two-thirds support in both houses of Parliament, followed by a national referendum in which a bare majority would suffice. The LDP controls parliament with support from a smaller coalition ally, but it's unclear if Mr. Abe's coalition partners would back the proposal, and LDP leaders acknowledge they don't expect to win support from major opposition parties.
The bigger challenge would be the referendum, and the LDP wants to build more public support for the proposal before pushing ahead. Many in this conservative country—where memories of World War II run deep—are wedded to the country's pacifist ways, and polls suggest a majority aren't ready for Article 9 to change.
"There is still a very strong sentiment among the Japanese population who are against any form of military expansion," said Hiroyuki Hosoda, who leads the ruling party's amendment effort. Nonetheless, he says, "the world has changed. Japan is an advanced nation. There is no merit whatsoever in starting a war."


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The Wild Places
7 June, 2010 2 Comments
What does 'wild' mean to you'? Is it a 'wilderness' with high mountains, swollen streams and harsh weather? This is a perception common to many people, especially those who live in towns and cities, which make up an increasing proportion of the population of the UK. Robert MacFarlane, author of The Wild Places, began in this place as well; to him, wild meant:
Wide spaces, remote and figureless. Isolated islands off Atlantic coasts. Unbounded forests, and blue snow-light falling on to drifts marked with the paw-prints of wolves. Frost-shattered summits and corries holding lochs of great depth… somewhere boreal, wintry vast isolated, elemental, demanding of the traveller in its asperities.(1)
Consider the British Isles as they currently are, manicured by centuries of agriculture and consumed by encroaching suburbia; what remains of the wild? The Wild Places traces a journey from the North to the South of Britain, searching for the remaining truly wild places in the land, mapping them and exploring any links between them and how they make sense in their own right.
The world 'wild' has an interesting etymology. The precise origin and meaning of the word is disputed, but involves a mixture of old German, Norse and pre-Teutonic ancestry:
Wildness, according to this etymology, is an expression of independence from human direction, and wild land can be said to be self-willed land. Land that proceeds according to its own laws and principles, land whose habits – the growth of its trees, the movements of its creatures, the free descent of its streams through its rocks – are of its own devising and own execution. Land that, as the contemporary definition of wild continues, 'acts or moves freely without restraint; is unconfined, unrestricted'.(2)
As I read the book, it captured several key aspects of wildness and I have chosen to examine three of these from the book. They are perhaps not the full extent of MacFarlane's picture of what wildness is, but they contain a truth which resonates with my experiences.
One of the delights of The Wild Places is the rich quality of the language. As MacFarlane begins his journey proper, he makes a pilgrimage to Ynys Enlli (Island of the Currents) off the Lleyn Peninsula of North Wales to echo the journey of the peregrini, ancient, Celtic, religious travellers. They were monks and devout itinerants who made their way to the isolated parts of western Europe in search of retreat. The mere mention of 'peregrini' conjures the peregrine falcon – a superbly fast bird and one that inhabits mountainous hideouts. The name, in fact, derives from the Latin peregrinus, with the sense of wandering over a distance, from which 'pilgrim' in turn is derived. For the peregrini, these journeys were deeply symbolic:
These edgelands reciprocated the serenity and the asceticism of the peregrini. Their travels to these wild places reflected their longing to achieve correspondence between faith and place, between inner and outer landscapes… To migrate away from the named places (territories whose topography was continuous with memory and community) to the coasts (the unmapped islands, the anonymous forests) was to reach land that did not bear the marks of occupation. It was to act out a movement from history to eternity.(3)
This is to say nothing of the manner in which the peregrini made their jounreys in tiny, exposed coracles over storm-prone North Atlantic seas. They had a 'dignity of motive and attitude', searching not for human, physical gain, but 'a hallowed landscape: one that would sharpen their faith to its utmost point'.(4) Moreover, through art and literature they left a witness to their intriguing web of attachment to, and detachment from, nature, which is one of the 'earliest testimonies to a human love for the wild'.(5)
Further South, MacFarlane visits the Lake District, venturing out in winter onto the ridge above Buttermere – Red Pike, High Stile and High Crag. In a blizzard and with darkness falling, he climbs up high to experience how travelling by night impacts the senses in a way that is utterly different to daytime. MacFarlane argues that to walk by night in familiar surroundings is to know them differently, whereby the normal methods of judging space, distance and time are absent. This is because the dark night sky contains a limitlessness and depth, provided by the lack of colour and accentuated by the constellations – both alien to the daytime sky. One's perspective is utterly transformed.
Unfortunately, light pollution destroys this experience and is, MacFarlane writes, a dangerous, contemporary phenomenon:
We are, as a species, finding it increasingly hard to imagine that we are part of something which is longer than our own capacity. We have come to accept a heresy of aloofness, a humanist belief in human difference, and we suppress wherever possible the checks and balances on us – the reminders that the world is greater than us or that we are contained within it. On almost every front, we have begun a turning away from a felt relationship with the natural world.(6)
MacFarlane continues this interesting vein later on, arguing for our modern 'maladies of the soul', which arise from a tactile disconnection with the natural world. Technology, city and modern travel, for example, have destroyed the old constant and unconscious interaction with the world through the senses of sight, sound, smell and touch: 'such encounters [with the natural world] shape our beings and our imaginations in ways which are beyond analysis, but also beyond doubt.'(7) Perhaps this is the 'uncomplicated truth' expressed in the satisfaction for many ordinary people when they interact with nature and the landscape.(8) These new perceptions of self and surroundings are not new, for Coleridge, the famous poet who suffered from depression, his own malady of the soul, wrote of wildness too:
Wildness… is an energy which blows through one's being, causing the self to shift into new patterns, opening up alternative perceptions of life.(9)
Ultimately, MacFarlane argues that wildness is 'not about asperity, but about luxuriance, vitality and fun', discovering it in the most unlikely places.(10) And, although I have no argument with the conclusion to his journey, the fierce asperity of his original vision of wildness is what truly captures my heart and mind. This is what seizes me as he narrates his journey to Ben Hope, the mostly northernly Munro, perched at the top of Scotland. It reminds me of my own struggle in winter recently, fighting to the top of Red Pike (Mosedale) in the midst of a snowstorm. I quote the most salient portions of the account:
Hope did not give itself up easily. The ascent was nearly from sea-level, and the huge summit cone, crag-bound, was steadily steep. By the time I reached the top, the air around me was dark and gritty, and the wind colder. The summit was bare, stripped by gales and frost-weathering. Rime ice had formed in feathery windows on shattered grey rocks, which were also marked with lichens the colour of lime and tangerine. Between the rocks, snow lay in stripes and furrows, dry and granular as sand…
The sea, the stone, the night and the weather all pursued their processes and kept their habits, as they had done for milennia, and would do for milennia to follow. The fall of moonlight on to water, the lateral motion of blown snow through air, these were of the place's making only. This was a terrain that had been thrown up by fire and survived ice. There was nothing, save the wall of rocks I had made and the summit cairn, to suggest history, Nothing human. I turned east and south, straining to see if there was any flicker of light in the hundreds of miles of darkness around me. Even a glimpse of something lit, however distant and unreachable, would have been reassurance of a sort. Nothing. No glimmer…
The comfortless snow-shires, the frozen rocks: this place was not hostile to my presence, far from it. Just entirely, gradelessly indifferent. Up there, I felt no companionship with the land, no epiphany of relation… Here, there was no question of relation. This place refused any imputations of meaning.(11)
In the words of Stravaiger, wildness, wilderness and wild are 'a state of mind, easily destroyed by the very act of measurement'.(12) My vision of wild and the exhilaration that it causes me differ to another person's vision: 'All travellers to wild places will have felt some versions of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.'(13) I experienced the elemental indifference of winter and its power was mesmerising. And yet this is the beauty of our wild places, no matter how pristine they remain or entirely urbanised, wildness is ever lurking: a howling, icy wind or a plucky shoot breaking through concrete. I choose the austere and harsh route because it presents a challenge to me and I see something magisterial in that environment and through the trials of mind and body.
Whatever form of wildness grasps you, seek it out, enjoy it and marvel at it.
The Wild Places, which won the coveted Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature, is the second book from Robert MacFarlane, author of 'Mountains of the Mind: A History of Fascination'. MacFarlane is a College Lecturer in English and Official Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
(1) MacFarlane, R., 2008. The Wild Places. London: Granta. p.7
(2) ibid. p. 30
(3) ibid. pp. 24-25
(6) ibid. p. 203
(10) ibid. p. 316
(11) ibid. pp. 155-157
(12) Stravaiger's eBothy, 2010. Sun, Sea and high camping in the Blackmount. [Online] (Updated 12 April 2010)
Available at: http://www.stravaiger.com/blog/?p=473 [Accessed 7 June 2010].
(13) p. 157
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Q: How to plot curves in ternary plot (triangular plot) I need to plot the following curve in a triangular (ternary) plot:
$$|x_{BB}-x_{AA}|=(\sigma_c-2x_{AB}+1)^{\gamma}, \qquad (1)$$
subjected to the condition (this condition must satisfy for a ternary plot)
$$x_{AA}+x_{AB}+x_{BB}=1, \qquad (2)$$
where $\sigma_c$ is a positive constant, say 1, and $\gamma=0.35$.
My attempt is to express $x_{AB}$ in terms of the other two variables from the equation (2) and substitute the resulting expression in (1), then I obtain the following:
Abs[b - a] == (2 - 2 (1 - a - b))^0.35

Questions:
a) Is this expression equivalent to the equations (1) and (2)?
b) How do I plot the curve (1) subjected to (2) in a ternary form?

A: make use of ContourPlot to find solutions..
 dat = Table[ {#[[1]], #[[2]], 1 - #[[1]] - #[[2]]} & /@
      Select[
        Cases[ ContourPlot[
             Abs[ b - a] == ( sig - 2 (1 - b - a ) + 1  )^.35 ,
                {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] ,
                   List[a_Real, b_Real] :> { a, b } ,
                      Infinity] , #[[1]] + #[[2]] <= 1 & ] ,
           {sig, -1, 1, .25}];

then transform to a ternary figure:
 Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}, {0, 0}}],
     Point[{#[[2]] + #[[3]]/2  , Sqrt[3]/2 #[[3]] } & /@ #] & /@  dat}]

Edit -- same thing preserving the lines form ContourPlot
 tercp[cp_Graphics] :=
    Quiet@Cases[ Normal@First@Cases[cp, _GraphicsComplex, Infinity] ,
        Line[x_] :> Line[{
           1 - #[[1]] + #[[2]],
           Sqrt[3] (1 - #[[1]] - #[[2]])}/2 & /@
             Select[x, Total[#] <= 1 &] ], Infinity]

 Graphics[{Line[{{0, 0}, {1, 0}, {1/2, Sqrt[3]/2}, {0, 0}}],
         {Dashed,
Table[ tercp [ ContourPlot[(1 - b - a) == ci , {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] ],{ci, .1, .9, .1}],
Table[tercp [ ContourPlot[a == ci , {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] ], {ci, .1, .9, .1}],
Table[ tercp [ ContourPlot[b == ci , {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] ] , {ci, .1, .9, .1}]},
Table[ {Hue[RandomReal[]],
   tercp [ ContourPlot[Abs[b - a] == (sig - 2 (1 - b - a) + 1)^.35,
       {a, 0, 1}, {b, 0, 1}] ] }, {sig, -1, 1, .2}]}]

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