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Daniel Brockett
Updated October 6, 2021
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On September 1, 2021, RED introduced a new DSMC3 camera, the V-RAPTOR 8K VV, which will retail for $24,500.
In case you haven't been paying attention, one of the hottest cameras of the past year has been the RED Komodo. The big deal about the Komodo is that it's a relatively inexpensive way to enter the RED camera ecosystem. It's the first recent RED camera that's under $6,000 that you can actually buy. Reviews have been good and the Komodo was a smart move at the right time. RED has been embroiled in controversy since 2019 when there were some accusations and press quotes as well as threats of lawsuits that didn't look good for the continued health and success of the company. I won't go into the details, but some quick Googling can provide all of the information.
The RED Komodo has been a big success for the company with positive reviews and a rabid fanbase that has bought into the RED ecosystem.
But Wait, There's Something New
Komodo has been a pretty healthy seller, and a lot of people are out shooting projects with their small and inexpensive RED that delivers great images. It turns out that RED isn't sitting on their laurels with the Komodo; they've been busy developing a new camera that shares some things in common with Komodo but is also aimed at a higher-end audience. In RED language, the new V-RAPTOR 8K VV is a DSMC3-generation camera versus the existing DSMC2 infrastructure. What this means for the features and design will be covered here. RED recently held a YouTube announcement/virtual press conference to introduce the camera, so not a lot is yet known about its finer points, but here are some high points I took away:
Up to 8K 120 fps 17:9, 6K 198 fps S35 & 4K 240 fps 17:9.
4MP full-frame, rolling shutter CMOS.
First, new lightweight and compact DSMC3 design.
Canon RF lens and Express Type-B support.
17+ stops of dynamic range.
DSCM3 7.0-inch touch monitor.
Right-Side Assistant's User Interface.
REDCODE Raw HQ, MQ & LQ options.
USB Type-C and dual 12G-SDI ports.
Here are the V-RAPTOR 8K VV maximum frame rates at all recording resolutions.
Recording Formats And Resolutions
The V-RAPTOR 8K VV records 8K DCI at up to 120 fps or 8K 2.4:1 up to 150 fps. It can do up to 200 fps in 6K 2:4:1, 300 fps in 4K 2.4:1 and 600 fps in 2K 2.4:1. V-RAPTOR can record in REDCODE HQ, MQ and LQ, so apparently RED has streamlined the myriad of compression choices that are present on the DSMC2 cameras. The majority of the higher frame rates in the different resolutions cannot be recorded in the HQ mode. FF mode isn't available when shooting in 4K/5K/6K resolutions, and the V-RAPTOR is limited to S35 in those resolutions. You change the resolution and you crop in on the sensor. This sort of design philosophy mitigates the need for pixel binning, reducing aliasing and motion artifacts that are often present in cameras that pixel bin.
RED has implemented a locking Canon RF mount for the V-RAPTOR 8K VV. It will be interesting to see how buyers and potential buyers react to this decision since the majority of users of cameras in this price range use PL mount lenses (which can be mounted with an RF to PL mount adapter).
RF Lens Mount
In 2021, there seems to always be controversy about lens mounts. Most professional cameras in the "greater than $15,000" market utilize a PL mount as this is the standard for high-end cinema lenses. The V-RAPTOR 8K VV utilizes the same Canon RF mount as the KOMODO, except this V-RAPTOR version adds a PL mount-like locking ring. The camera can use Canon RF lenses, PL lenses with an adapter and several other mount adapters are available, so it's great for lens choice flexibility. However, I don't think defaulting to the RF mount was a wise move for a $24,500 cinema camera as many prospective buyers for a camera in this price range either own or like to rent and work with PL mount lenses.
Of course, there are plenty of RF to PL mount adapters available, but in my experience, I don't like using lens adapters, especially with heavy and long PL mount zooms. Using a lens adapter in this situation is adding another potential point of failure and increases the leverage and load on the camera's locking RF mount. There are advantages to utilizing an RF mount as RED did on the Komodo, but the audience for that camera is simply different than those for a $24,500 camera (realistically at least $30,000 to make the V-RAPTOR a shootable package). Most people who own a Komodo aren't going to be renting a $200,000 Angenieux long PL mount zoom, but that scenario is more likely for a $30,000 camera package. All this said, a sizable amount of people would have whined if RED had given this camera a native PL mount, and they'd complain that the RF mount is more versatile, so I guess you almost can't win with mount choice.
A RED-branded 660GB CFExpress Type B media card that was developed for RED by Angelbird. It's 2021, RED, you should get out of the media card business and just let the card makers have that market! Angelbird makes the same card with three times the storage capacity for $100 less than the RED card.
The V-RAPTOR 8K VV uses Express Type B cards. The Komodo uses the older and slower CFAST 2.0 cards that wouldn't have supported the raster and frame sizes for this new camera. I have experience with many different media card formats in my own cameras and I think the days of all of these proprietary and expensive card formats that change constantly should come to end. I like that the Ursa Mini 12K can shoot to dual CFAST 2.0 cards, but more economically, it can also record to small external SSD and NvME drives.
Part of RED's PR debacle in 2019 revolved around their branding and representation of their own RED media cards (Google it!), so it's surprising to see that in 2021, RED is still going to sell their own branded 660 GB Express Type B card for $959. These cards are designed by Angelbird for RED, so they should be good cards, but one wonders the wisdom of paying nearly $1,000 for 660 GB of storage when one can purchase an Angelbird branded Express Type B 2 TB card for only $899. No word on if you must use RED branded cards to operate correctly with the V-RAPTOR, but we hope not.
The rear output panel of the V-RAPTOR 8K VV, showing the dual 12G SDI outputs.
External audio is input through a 5-pin Lemo Audio connection. This enables mic/line/+48V inputs to be used. The V-RAPTOR doesn't have any XLR inputs. Sound mixers will need to use a breakout cable to input XLR sources into the camera. Sound mixers aren't going to be happy about this as more and more cameras are forgoing simple and reliable three-pin XLR connectors. This means that a working sound mixer must carry and be knowledgeable about a myriad of different camera models and connections needed to input production sound into a camera for scratch/off-line editing audio.
The V-RAPTOR 8K VV has two 12G-SDI outputs, a USB-C input, the aforementioned 5-pin Lemo Audio input, 11-17V DC In and an EXT connector port. There's also built-in Wi-Fi for camera control via the use of an interchangeable dual-band (2.4 GHz/5 GHz) antenna mounted to a female RP-SMA connector. There's also Genlock, Timecode-in, GPIO and Ctrl (RS-232) via the integrated 9-pin EXT Port. You can utilize wired control via USB-C or Gigabit Ethernet (compatible USB-C to Ethernet adapter1 required) allowing remote camera control, live MJPEG preview video feed and remote media offload.
I'm sure during the development cycle of the V-RAPTOR, RED must have thought that 8K at up to 120 fps would be a big deal. Unfortunately for RED, Blackmagic Design beat them to the punch with the Ursa Mini 12k that retails for a quarter of the price. The question is, do the other V-RAPTOR features make the camera appealing at nearly $30,000 for a shootable basic package?
The headline feature for the V-RAPTOR is that it's capable of 8K at 120 fps. I recently tested the Blackmagic Design Ursa Mini 12K and it can shoot 12K at up to 60 fps and 8K at up to 120 fps as well. In a way, it seems that Blackmagic Design somewhat stole RED's thunder by announcing a camera that was priced at $9,995 and recently was radically reduced to $5,995 that can shoot 8k at 120 fps.
Keep in mind the V-RAPTOR 8K VV lists for $24,500. I'm not saying either camera is better or worse, I'm just asking that you examine the value equation between the two cameras. It used to be that a $6,000 camera was utterly incomparable to a $24,000 camera, but it feels as if times are changing, and the Ursa Mini 12k is a very impressive camera for less than $6,000. The current RED top-of-the-line Monstro VV sells for $30,000 more than the V-Raptor and the two cameras apparently share the same sensor, but they're distinctly different cameras. I think that it's finally time for the format and slow-motion frame rate war to end. Even low-end pro cameras and cell phones will soon meet and even surpass these high-end digital camera benchmarks, so it's up to the manufacturers to continue to innovate beyond only resolution. It remains to be seen if they'll do so soon enough to mitigate lower-end cameras cannibalizing their mid-level and high-end sales.
The Market Will Decide
For many users, RED cameras represent an aspirational product, and RED cameras are used in many high-end productions. By RED standards, the V-RAPTOR 8K VV camera offers a lot for the money. But by the standards of camera owners whose bread and butter is earned with cameras like the Canon C500 MKII and Sony FX9, the V-Raptor costs significantly more and only offers a few features those level cameras don't, all while forsaking convenient features like sophisticated autofocus and internal ND filters.
I get it, the C500 MKII and FX9 cameras aren't really narrative cameras while the RED is, but the lines are blurring. I'm not sure that the price range of $25,000 to $30,000 real world is a good place to be in in 2021? Cameras under $15,000 are selling quite well and cameras in the $40,000 to $60,000 range like the Arri Amira, Alexa Mini LF, Sony Venice and RED's own Monstro seem to be popular. It appears that the camera market has split as lower-end cameras continue to refine and be capable of very high quality and the high-end doesn't really need to lower their prices to sell the units they need to. It will be interesting to see how the V-RAPTOR in the $25,000 to $30,000 range sells and if V-RAPTOR can take market share from Arri, Canon, Sony and Blackmagic, in particular.
Check the current price and availability of the RED V-RAPTOR 8K VV at B&H.
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This week we are introduced to the penultimate video by Billy LLoyd in our series entitled 'Fake'. This video contemplates the social dynamic surrounding one-night stands and the way social media has changed the way we view sex and love.
Why do you think the concept of a one night stand has become so commonplace in today's society?
I guess over time, what we consider morally ok changes. I think one night stands becoming more common is perhaps to do with our culture of quick pleasure in general. But I see no issue with it.
Do you think the manner in which it has become so "easy" and somewhat cheap in terms of emotional involvement has long term negative effects?
I think as long as you're honest with yourself about what you're doing, that this encounter doesn't necessarily mean anything beyond mutual pleasure, then there's no reason that there should be any long term negative effects.
What's your experience of dating apps such as Grindr?
I think they have a lot of issues like racism/misogyny masquerading as 'preference', but for the most part I really like them. Through Grindr, for example, I've met a lot of people that I've ended up collaborating with creatively (including the director of all these music videos, Misha MN) and I also just quite enjoy seeing who's around.
Would you have a one-night stand? And why?
Sure, I don't really see anything wrong with it as long as all parties are having fun and there's clear communication throughout. I think you learn a lot about yourself in such experiences.
Do you agree with the idea that we use sex to try and fill a void within ourselves? That we use it as a temporary escape from our situation?
I think it's probably more realistic to say that everyone has sex for different reasons. It's probably not very healthy to use sex to fill a void within yourself (those a joke here, but I'm not gonna do it), but if that's what you need to get you through till you're in a better place, go ahead!
Now within the song you say "don't say I love you", why is this? Is it because you know it to be a lie or do you still have some respect for the words "I love you" that you don't wish for them to be tarnished by being used in such a context?
The line comes from being in post-coital bliss and feeling like you want to say that to someone who you've just met and just recognising the weirdness of that concept. It's a lie but also the phrase 'I love you' is still very powerful, and it's not something I like to throw around.
Why do you think people mistake that post-coital bliss as being "love"? Is this perhaps love, and people like myself are being too conservative to realise this? Or do you think a societal gap exists wherein we have lost our understanding of love?
There's so many different kinds of love and when you've spent the past few hours being with someone in a very intimate way, I can see an argument for it being 'love'.
If you could explain your definition of love to me in one sentence, what would that sentence say?
Love is when you just know.
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import TextField from 'material-ui/TextField';
import SelectField from 'material-ui/SelectField';
import MenuItem from 'material-ui/MenuItem';
import IconButton from 'material-ui/IconButton';

import CommunitiesItems from '../containers/communities/communities-items';

import * as IconsHelper from '../../util/icons';

export class Communities extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
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  render() {
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                    fullWidth={true}
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                    <MenuItem value="largest-first" primaryText="Largest First" />
                    <MenuItem value="smallest-first" primaryText="Smallest First" />
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                { IconsHelper.icon("view_list", { color: this.state.view == "list" ? "#5b6a88" : "#9facc7" }) }
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The rectification of the drafting required a visit to court, and although the family were all happy for the trust deed to be amended, the judge did have to consider the potential implications for a future spouse or any children of the settlors, as the trust deed made them a 'contingent gift'.
In a judgment that ran to 36 paragraphs, the High Court ruled that the clause which prevented 'any part of the trust income or capital' to be applied for the benefit of a settlor was to be ruled void.


i did a quick google search of "grumpy's pit, camillius, ny" and no one, after all these years, has ever written about it. the story must've come from somewhere but that was long before the internet and the original roots of the tale have dried up.
a man lived in the pit. this man's name was grumpy. hence, his pit. sometimes he was disfigured. sometimes he had a son that lived with him (no doubt an embellishment to the orginal story to appeal to the younger generation). one time, it was told, grumpy came out of the pit and ran around the perimeter of the school waving a hatchet, an ax, a hammer. the bottom of the pit was a supposed soupy quick sand devouring many curious kids over the years. that's why even the really brave would never check it out. all the tales had a conspicuous lack of teacher or adult presence. any dissenters to the story, perhaps questioning why school officials would allow a hermit to live so close to the playground, would quickly be pummeled about the head in dodge ball - this was for the dissenter's own good - if grumpy ever found out of the kid's doubt the results would be worse then a dodge ball to the head. heros emerged from the playground everyday, kids that would walk through the tall weeds to within two feet of where the dirt pit began, sometimes even grabbing a fist full. i was never one of those kids. swinging on the swings at the playground even when i was in junior high and my friend caryn and i would walk from her house over to the school, still brought up uneasy feelings. in high school i went to a party at grumpy's pit (well, next to it anyway. i think i asked someone why we weren't IN the pit, where we couldn't be seen instead of at the highest point of the slope and they looked at me as if i was just born and didn't know about grumpy). a whole beer couldn't even calm me down.
probably if i went to the school today (if the pit hasn't been filled in and covered with a row of houses) i would be amazed at how small grumpy's pit actually is. and how not scary. and how it's entirely impossible for a crazy man (and his son) to live there, for chrissake. still, it's an excellent tale perpetrated by ghosts and goblins and the quiet, peaceful suburban life of seven year old kids.


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Scroll through the gallery of photos on the Steiger Craft website, and you'll figure out quickly that the new 31 DV Miami was born to fish.
The new Steiger flagship is based on a bulletproof, deep-vee hull that carries a lifetime structural guarantee, and it boasts plenty of fishing-friendly features. These include knife/tool racks on the after ends of the half-bulkheads behind the pilothouse and the numbered bins for sinkers that also function also as toerails just inside the under-gunwale rod racks.
Need more rod storage? How many would you like in the gunwales and the transom? How about a 7-rod rocket launcher on the after end of the pilothouse? Or a pedestal 4-rod rocket launcher in the huge cockpit? Under the pilothouse roof? On along the insides of the forward cabin? The options are almost limitless. Other fishing features include a 120-gallon, in-deck fish locker, a 100-gallon in-deck live well and a transom fish well.
Fishing aside, the 31 DV Miami offers plenty of optional family amenities, from refrigerator and microwave in the pilothouse to the enclosed head and V-berth in the cabin. A variety of gelcoat colors are available.


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We gathered, made signs, and shared stories. It's been a good day leading up to today's big hearing. Patient advocate, Jackie Casteel of Columbia, MO, and two patient advocates from the St. Louis area – Sarah Birdsall and Ellen Dempsher, met over lunch and shared their stories of how and why they have come to Washington DC to support Planned Parenthood at the Supreme Court. We then met other supporters at Planned Parenthood's headquarters, created messages for the rally and listened to other powerful stories of how Planned Parenthood has provided crucial health care for everyone in the room.
It's 4 am. But we're ready.
Jackie Casteel, from Columbia, Missouri, will be joining hundreds of other women from across the United States to rally outside the steps of the great Supreme Court in Washington D.C. this week as the nation's highest legal authority will consider medically unnecessary laws that restrict women's access to abortion in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt.


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Is it your dream to attend medical, dental, pharmacy, or veterinary school? The Health Sciences major is for students like you — those who plan to pursue graduate study in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, physician assistant education, pharmacy, physical therapy, occupational therapy , or athletic training. Guilford has also had students go on to Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (ABSN) programs after Guilford. You can learn more at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
The Health Sciences major provides an individualized course of study that allows you to complete the required courses to prepare for admission to a graduate program in the health field of your choice. Faculty members work closely with you to design the most appropriate course of study for your chosen graduate program and later serve as strong mentors and advocates during the application process.
Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary major, which means it requires a second disciplinary major and an adviser in each major. Courses come from various disciplines, primarily the natural sciences, mathematics and social sciences. You will also take the Health Science Seminar, a course designed to help you with the graduate school application process, from preparing your personal statement to interview tips and financial planning.
The Health Sciences major requires a minimum of 33 credit hours, 4 credits of which must be an internship in your proposed career field. It's an invaluable experience that gives you the real-world experience necessary for a career in any health-care field.
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For more information about courses for the Health Sciences Department, visit the online, searchable College Catalog. The Undergraduate Catalog also includes academic department and major information, academic regulations and resources, admission standards and requirements, and tuition, fees, and financial aid information.
"The true value of Guilford for me is in the environment here. I have been encouraged by peers, faculty and staff to value myself and learn how best to find the intersection of my passions and the world's needs."
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Health Sciences and Religious Studies double major
The B.S. in Health Sciences is an interdisciplinary major that requires students to select courses from at least two of the following disciplines:
Sport Studies
Guilford's related pre-professional studies programs are:
Passion for Public Health
Like many students entering college, Michael Critton '20 wasn't sure what path was right for him.
Practicing Positivity
Exercise and Sport Sciences and Health Sciences double major Meredith Dunzweiler '13 credits her Guilford experience with giving her the tools she needs to save lives and pursue her Doctorate in Nursing Practice.
Kick-Starting Her Career
Exercise and Sport Sciences and Health Science double major Kelsey Reilly '20 shares her incredible athletic and academic Guilford experience and her plans to attend the Medical University of South Carolina after graduation.
Delivering Experience
Biology and Health Sciences double major Adyazbeth Barrientos Solis '20 always knew that she wanted to be part of the medical field but wasn't sure what she was aiming to become.
Public Health COVID-19 Student Workers [VIDEO]
Eighteen students dedicated their fall semester to helping the College community fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Their work as Public Health interns also…
Guilford Senior Receives Community Impact Award
The N.C. Campus Compact recently recognized Health Sciences and Biology double major Exel Valle Estrada '21 with the Community Impact Student Award for outstanding leadership and service.
Future Physician
The American Dream has become a reality for Honors student Exel Valle-Estrada '21. Thanks to his hard work, perseverance, and a deep concern for the community, Exel has excelled in the United States after fleeing Guatemala as a teenager.
Cultivating Her Calling
Since graduating two years ago from Guilford College, Robin Bigaj '19 has navigated a long and winding road as she searched for direction. Before finding it, she experienced a variety of occupations.
Animal Advocate
The veterinary aspirations of Kaylee Zabava '21 began, literally, from Day One. "When I was born, my family actually had three dogs at one time," she says.
A Symphony of Studies
Noah Dabney '23 has found strength in diversification. A gifted guitarist and cellist from Radford, Va., Noah was studying at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio when he had a change of heart.
Coast-to-Coast Confidence
Guilford College graduate Lizzy Barnes '21, an Exercise and Sport Science and Health Sciences double major, is pursuing a doctorate in physical therapy at the University of Southern California. Read more about her acceptance to this competitive program.
Representation Where It Matters
Alina Santos '22 turned an internship at Cone Health into a job as Cardiac Mobility Specialist, which she will continue as she applies to Physician Assistant (PA) school.
Bracing for Success
Kamila Gonzalez '26, a Public Health and Health Sciences double major with a Forensic Biology minor, has her sights set on dental school as she explores various interests in the field.
Charles A Dana Professor in Chemistry


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using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;
using Autofac;
using NUnit.Framework;
using Orchard.Environment.Configuration;
using Orchard.Security;
using Orchard.Security.Providers;
using Orchard.Utility.Extensions;

namespace Orchard.Tests.Security {
    [TestFixture]
    public class DefaultEncryptionServiceTests {
        private IContainer _container;

        [SetUp]
        public void Init() {

            const string encryptionAlgorithm = "AES";
            const string hashAlgorithm = "HMACSHA256";

            var shellSettings = new ShellSettings {
                Name = "Foo",
                DataProvider = "Bar",
                DataConnectionString = "Quux",
                EncryptionAlgorithm = encryptionAlgorithm,
                EncryptionKey = SymmetricAlgorithm.Create(encryptionAlgorithm).Key.ToHexString(),
                HashAlgorithm = hashAlgorithm,
                HashKey = HMAC.Create(hashAlgorithm).Key.ToHexString()
            };

            var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
            builder.RegisterInstance(shellSettings);
            builder.RegisterType<DefaultEncryptionService>().As<IEncryptionService>();
            _container = builder.Build();
        }

        [Test]
        public void CanEncodeAndDecodeData() {
            var encryptionService = _container.Resolve<IEncryptionService>();

            var secretData = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("this is secret data");
            var encrypted = encryptionService.Encode(secretData);
            var decrypted = encryptionService.Decode(encrypted);

            Assert.That(encrypted, Is.Not.EqualTo(decrypted));
            Assert.That(decrypted, Is.EqualTo(secretData));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ShouldDetectTamperedData() {
            var encryptionService = _container.Resolve<IEncryptionService>();

            var secretData = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("this is secret data");
            var encrypted = encryptionService.Encode(secretData);

            try {
                // tamper the data
                encrypted[encrypted.Length - 1] ^= 66;
                var decrypted = encryptionService.Decode(encrypted);
            }
            catch {
                return;
            }
            Assert.Fail();
        }

        [Test]
        public void SuccessiveEncodeCallsShouldNotReturnTheSameData() {
            var encryptionService = _container.Resolve<IEncryptionService>();

            var secretData = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes("this is secret data");
            byte[] previousEncrypted = null;
            for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
                var encrypted = encryptionService.Encode(secretData);
                var decrypted = encryptionService.Decode(encrypted);

                Assert.That(encrypted, Is.Not.EqualTo(decrypted));
                Assert.That(decrypted, Is.EqualTo(secretData));

                if(previousEncrypted != null) {
                    Assert.That(encrypted, Is.Not.EqualTo(previousEncrypted));
                }
                previousEncrypted = encrypted;
            }
        }
    }
}


Manage forested lands for economic, recreational, and conservation purposes. May inventory the type, amount, and location of standing timber, appraise the timber's worth, negotiate the purchase, and draw up contracts for procurement. May determine how to conserve wildlife habitats, creek beds, water quality, and soil stability, and how best to comply with environmental regulations. May devise plans for planting and growing new trees, monitor trees for healthy growth, and determine the best time for harvesting. Develop forest management plans for public and privately-owned forested lands.
57 Attention to Detail Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
53 Integrity Job requires being honest and ethical.
41 Innovation Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems.
28 Stress Tolerance Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
47 Biology Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
88 Coordination Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
67 Quality Control Analysis Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
66 Operations Analysis Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
64 Mathematics Using mathematics to solve problems.
63 Reading Comprehension Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
46 Service Orientation Actively looking for ways to help people.
45 Management of Personnel Resources Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.


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The University of Utah is committed to excellence, innovation, and diversity in conducting transformative, high-quality research.
Recognized as a Top-Tier 1 research university (Carnegie Classification of Institutions in Higher Education) – the U continues to develop groundbreaking research on a local, national, and international level. The university's distinguished research community is cultivated through its 18 colleges, 35 interdisciplinary programs, 100 academic departments/ divisions, and 120 centers/bureaus on campus. The U has a wide-range of advanced studies including, but are not limited to:
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In addition to the U's diverse research portfolio, the institution is also a catalyst for economic growth and innovation, creating over 330 spin-out companies—and 16,000 jobs – from the university's inventions and technologies (BEBR Report, 2011). With the determination and support of our research community, the University of Utah will continue to develop cutting-edge research to enhance the lives of current and future generations to come.
HISTORICAL RESEARCH TIMELINE
2021 RESEARCH REPORT
Students/Trainees
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How the Matterhorn sways
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Polar adventures in math
Desert shrubs cranked up water use efficiency to survive a megadrought
Science careers are made here
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Nilofer Merchant is CEO and Chief Strategist of Rubicon Consulting. She's also the author of "The New How." This post was originally published on her blog, and is republished with permission.
Graft some Google to your Company Culture?
Here in the Valley, there's a weird awe of Google. It reminds me of the awe that Apple once had when I was there — as a place where the best and brightest go to work. I've heard that Intel had that cachet before Apple and some people are now suggesting that Twitter is the "new Google".
The awe is often evident in specific stories about Google's gourmet cafeterias. This benefit gets discussed after people visit Google. I find it amusing to read notes from well-regarded analysts and reports, people who can afford a $10 salad, as they tweet about getting the free food. And they go on to talk about Google with reverence that's somehow tied to the free food.
But reverence for Google should really be for their overall culture. Culture is the root system of the organisation; hard to spot but clearly enabling the output. When we see great fruits produced (amazing technology, free food, profitable results, exponential growth) year in and year out, there's almost always a great system feeding that output.
Google has a cultural DNA that enables them to win in the market, and win repeatedly. Three things they do well which any firm could graft to their business to improve their "fruits".
Google reveals their direction to everyone who works there. No joking. Strategy and priorities are available to everyone, and everyone is expected to know what matters to the company. It is updated when it needs to be changed. It is live to every employee regardless of level.
In most companies, only 5% of the workforce understands their company's strategy. [see footnote] Think about the implications of that: only one person in 20 is prepared to answer, clearly and realistically, what their company should be doing and how their individual efforts contribute to supporting it. I ask you: Can people really be effective without knowing the strategy? Likely not.
Google actually treats their talented, principled, creative people like talented, principled, creative people instead of morons. That lets them keep recruiting talented exceptional technologist and business people. Visionary doers go where they will have an impact.
So the action for each company wanting to be more Google-like (to graft their culture to yours): post your strategy for the larger business, and any sub-division publicly for all to see. Keep it open for questions. Respond to those, especially to those seeking clarity. People use the word social business and think it's about the tools when in reality it's about the dialogue. Use a SocialText-like tool to enable feedback and dialogue on the strategy because dialogue creates understanding, which enables organizational velocity.
Googlers are expected to come to discussions prepared to engage. If they have a point of view, they are expected to bring data and to be able to take on the discussion actively, regardless of their level or specific role in the organisation. It's not that everyone gets to "mouth off" but everyone has equal credibility if they have something to contribute.
And that behaviour doesn't change if Eric or Larry or whoever is in the room. Googlers don't defer to the executive in the room, and they don't say to themselves: "gosh, maybe they don't want to hear from me". You could simply say that Google recruits well, but actually this goes beyond recruiting. The cultural norm and expectation is that each person is expected to have the personal courage and interest to champion ideas, and to do their best.
When people are expected to do their best, and their peers do, each person steps up. Anytime any of us step back rather than forward on doing engaging one another, we are copping out. Stepping back, when we have a a world that needs MORE people doing their part to impact goodness, solutions, and growth.
Some people within large companies argue with me that the opinionated people wouldn't join a big company; they'll become entrepreneurs. Well, Google is big, and people join anyway because they know that their voice can still make a difference. I challenge every company to think about why we have a culture of stepping back, rather than forward, and what we can do to get everyone engaged in the game of business. It really does get better when that happens. And any person that says "we'll never change" has already deemed it so.
So the action for any business: demand people step up; and take on every conversation as if that person has the best interest of the company at heart. Does it sound easy? Well, maybe not for companies that haven't done it, but not doing it is costing you an awful lot already. Isn't it time to change that?
Graft Method: A tactic that companies can take is to stop assigning work based on official job functions, but rather invent the next thing (or solve the next problem) by asking "who wants to play?" Those "interested in solving this problem" can come together to actually do it, and that's enabling a coalition of the willing. When we do work with companies, we form a coalition of the willing across levels and silos to help define the problem, envision the options, select best choices and take on the responsibilities to make a new reality. Those teams feel their own power and can never return to a world of "I do my thing and you do yours", because the key now the power of building a shared (collaborative) framework of what'll work.
I question, when did it become OK to not hash out an issue for the company? When did it become OK to present to the council but then end-run it to the CEO to get things approved off-line? When did it become OK to dismiss your peers without debating the issue with them? That's BS and everyone knows it, and yet most firms allow such stuff to happen.
Google has an interesting policy that Shona Brown embodies when she says "if someone BCCs me on an email, I just write right back so that BCCs behaviour stop". Without wrestling with and handling the conflict inherent in business explicitly, we get nowhere fast.
Most people don't see how tackling conflict explicitly can serve business. They think appeasing everyone creates peace, but instead it results in mediocre "me too" solutions. Or we think that if we get the boss to agree, that's enough. It is our ability to face tension collaboratively that lets issues get resolved, and creates the right, new solutions. It is in the tension that we decide what tradeoffs to make so everything actually aligns. In this day and age, we've gotta take on the issues, with as much data as we have, make the tough tradeoffs, be able to name what matters and why and then be able to walk away ready to follow when the decision has been made.
In my book, The New How, that is the point of having a MurderBoarding process (chapter 6)— a structured way to have a fair fight. Whether it is that system or another one, what is important is that your company graft on a way to make "fighting fair" a norm — create/enable/adopt some agreed upon way that people will have a fair fight — ask the right questions, envision options together, pick with clarity on "why" something was picked, and take responsibility for making it real. If you walk inside the halls of Google, that's what they do. And you can, too.
Footnote: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton. 2000. The Strategy-Focused organisation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.


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package com.mycompany.nncloudrestservice.pojo;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
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{
    private int id;
    private String login;
    private String email;
    private String password;
    private boolean activated;
    private String info_to_admin;
    private String session_id;
    private Date registered;
    private List<Network> networks = new ArrayList<>();
    private PerformanceSettings performance_settings;

    public PerformanceSettings getPerformance_settings() {
        return performance_settings;
    }

    public void setPerformance_settings(PerformanceSettings performance_settings) {
        this.performance_settings = performance_settings;
    }

    public List<Network> getNetworks() {
        return networks;
    }

    public void setNetworks(List<Network> networks) {
        this.networks = networks;
    }

    public int getId()
    {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(int id)
    {
        this.id = id;
    }

    public String getLogin() {
        return login;
    }

    public void setLogin(String login) {
        this.login = login;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
    }

    public boolean isActivated() {
        return activated;
    }

    public void setActivated(boolean activated) {
        this.activated = activated;
    }

    public String getInfo_to_admin() {
        return info_to_admin;
    }

    public void setInfo_to_admin(String info_to_admin) {
        this.info_to_admin = info_to_admin;
    }

    public String getSession_id() {
        return session_id;
    }

    public void setSession_id(String session_id) {
        this.session_id = session_id;
    }

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        return registered;
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Managing venous thromboembolic events in daily practice: "time is never enough".
Pulmonary embolism is an insidious life-threatening condition. Its diagnosis represents a challenging topic in daily clinical practice since the recognition and the appropriate management of the condition can lead to the decrease of potentially fatal consequences. We present a clinical case which highlights the necessity for an increased level of 'surveillance' from the involved physicians since features of thromboembolic events may be elusive or vague.
12659347 - Dynamic evaluation of the anorectum.
21848727 - The challenges of managing complex lymphoedema/chronic oedema in the uk and canada.
21099387 - Perspective: recognizing and rewarding clinical scholarship.
University General Hospital of Heraklion, Greece.
Previous Document: Early cardiovascular involvement in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
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Q: When should we remove pseudo-tags from a title? Very often you see different forms of "pseudo-tagging" in titles. For example:
c# - how to sniff packets in an app without relying on WinPCap?
JS / Jquery: Unable to access the properties of an object returned from an ajax call
C++: Using enum as template type argument
...
Some times these can be removed from the title without making the title look weird or non-descriptive. Some other times it's not as obvious:
"MySQL implications of 'like' vs 'join' query" vs "Implications of 'like' vs 'join' query"
"Can I create a "view" on a Python list?" vs "Can I create a "view" on a list?"
When should the title contain the language it's referring to versus having it on the tags only?

A:
To be clear, I think it is fine to duplicate the tags in the title, but only when they can be worked into the titles organically and conversationally.

See this discussion:
How do I write a good title?

A: I say use your best judgment. The good thing is they can change it back if they don't like the change. I tend to remove them every once in a while and have not been rolled back yet (That I can remember.).

A: If they're meta-tags, then just plain remove them, for example: Is it appropriate to tag someone else's question urgent help needed?

A: If they are the "main" tag (such as the language name, for example [C++]) I would say never.
Some people argue that it's redundant information but it's not. It emphasizes the most important tag with a bigger font and in place where it's easier to be seen.
See these two examples:

[C++] What is the name of this operator: "-->"?
operators fun standards-compliance c++ c

What is the name of this operator: "-->"?
operators fun standards-compliance c++ c

You can't possibly say that the first one is equal to the second. If I'm interested in C++ questions (as I happen to be) I can understand immediately that the first question talks about C++.
Interesting tags help but not much, especially if you have some that cause a lot of false positives (optimization, web-development, etc).

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


When oppression by the Unionist-dominated federal government becomes intolerable, the Republic of Texas secedes from the United States. As the Unionists respond with immediate violence, Daniel Markis and Spooky Nguyen send Reaper and Skull on missions to help the fledgling nation survive in the face of overwhelming odds. Can they win through to establish a haven for Edens on North American soil? Or shall the world edge further into darkness?
Battles rage in the air, on the ground and in the shadows in this apocalyptic technothriller, book 4 of the Plague Wars series.
Good character development and situation/location description to make it a solid story sprinkled with a nice dose of humor.
This is probably one the best series I have read. It just keeps getting better with each book I read. Something for everyone..Tech, military, political.
The Plague War series takes a dark turn in Apocalypse Austin. Although the virus has brought benefits to millions the reaction from various governments takes the world down a path it swore to never travel again. Hard to put this one down.


While creating the story board, I felt that the images told a story on their own but it was not the complete story. By adding text to the images it is possible to tell a new story and add elements that are not available to the viewer this is an example of "Relay" (Barthes, 1977, pp. 32-51).


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Q: Rails Engines scalability issue I need to find a way for scaling my rails monolith application with the help of rails engines.
Goal: I have database connection timeout issue and monolith has more than 200+ models. what we want to do is divide our models into the tree-like structure of engines. and we will be able to use a separate database for each engine.
UseCase:  let's say we have engine A as the base engine and which is included in engine B and C respectively. Both B and C engines live on the same level of the tree.
So i have models seggrated in different engines.
Engine A: has all data related to user.
Class User
end

Engine B: has all data related to products
class Product
end

Engine C: has all data related to reports.
class Report
end

now the main issue comes while defining the associations. earlier we were having associations and several other methods which access associations. For eg.
class User
  has_many products

  def get_title_product
    products.pluck(:title)
  end
end

now I cannot define it in engine A as products table doesn't live there.
Option:
what I know is I have to open that User model inside Engine B and define all the association and get_title_product logic related to this Domain in engine B itself.
I can't even include Engine B in Engine A because it will result in circular dependency.
I don't want to follow above approach because it will get messy and my application is significantly large, additionally I don't think it is good as per rails best practices.
Thanks in advance.

A: Your post contains many questions. Your asking about database sharding, architecture with rails engines and performances / scalability with the timeout issue.
Performances / Timeout
First your timeout issue is not related to the number of models as you suggest. The number of models as no impact at all on performances. To know where is the performance problem or the bottleneck you should use a monitoring tool. This one is my favorite https://www.rorvswild.com (DISCLAIMER: I'm the author ^_^). There is other competitors, use the one your like more.
For the timeouts maybe you should check around your database config. We have not enough informations here to go deeper.
Database sharding
That is not trivial at all since you cannot JOIN and reference foreign keys when they are not in the same db. That is why you have to carefully chose where to shard your db. Ideally it's where you have the least joins. It's a long work which has an important impact on your code base. A stack overflow post is not enough to talk about sharding. Fortunately there is a lot of articles and gems to help you for that.
Just be sure you understand that you can split the load across many databases, but it comes at an extra price on your code base.
For the relationships across databases you cannot use the Rails builtin has_many and so on. You have to define the relationships yourself or use a
 gem which will help for that. To give you an idea:
class User
  def products
    Product.where(user_id: id)
  end
end

Rails engines
They are great to built reusable piece of features across applications (http://guides.rubyonrails.org/engines.html). Looks like reusing is not your goal. So I'm afraid your going in the wrong direction.
If you don't want to reopen the class you can use a module:
module HasProducts
  def self.included(model)
    model.has_many(:products)
  end

  def get_title_product
    products.pluck(:title)
  end
end


The woman with the shaved head.
She'll be the spotlight of my life.
Some hate them, other not.
That I cherish them a lot.
Where are they as I am speaking?
Where are they as I am hunting?
Where are they as I am rolling eyes?
To say it is not easy to find them.
I did visit so many restaurants.


There's nothing wrong with wanting to have only one baby- it's definitely less hectic, and your wallet will thank you for not having to set up multiple college funds. And what child wants their parent's divided attention? …Well, at least until their teenage years!
But because your only-child will grow up primarily surrounded by adults, they will mature more quickly and likely feel less compelled to make friends their own age. But giving them a push at an early age will help to prevent that from occurring!
Join "Baby and Me" classes in your community such as swimming lessons, or arts and crafts to give your little one the opportunity to be surrounded by other children their age. Not only is it a great social learning experience, but switching up your infant's daily routine can have a positive impact on the both of you!
No matter how much attention you shower your baby with, it's important to remember that as they grow older, they may start to feel lonely. It's normal for an only-child to form an attachment to a stuffed animal or create imaginary friends to fill the void of an absent sibling.
Which brings us to why organizing play dates is important for only-children, even at the infancy stage. Getting your baby familiar with other babies their size will make the transition into "toddler-hood" much easier, and help them to be less dependent when it's time to send them off to a daycare or pre-school. Growing up with childhood friends is also great for their development and will give them all the perks of having a sibling…without all the endless squabbles!
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For spa director Robin Jones, the journey begins whenever a spa team member soaks the client's feet. "This takes the client to a new place, a journey to somewhere magical," she says. Jones, a massage therapist, is the spa director at The Spa at The Sanctuary at Kiawah Island in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, where the Sanctuary Journey is offered. "I believe our business is very participatory in that when the client allows the therapist to gently coax them to someplace new, either within or beyond, it truly is a journey." The Sanctuary Journey has been on the menu since the spa opened in 2004, and was developed for the experienced spa-goer who schedules two or more services in one day.
Perhaps one of the more interesting takes on the journey concept is at Seattle's Ummelina International Day Spa. In existence for 19 years, the spa took on a unique concept when owner Nina Ummel moved Ummelina International to its new location nine years ago. Ummel felt that with a larger space, she needed a business structure that matched her philosophy of honoring traditional herbalism from around the world.
All of Ummel's staff are guides—Skin Care Guides, Massage Guides, Nail Care Guides or Global Remedies Guides. All packages are called "Journeys," and individual services are called "Rituals." Journeys available include The Pacific Rim, which is inspired by the Far East and offers a tranquil temple garden experience; The Safari, designed especially for men; and The Journey to Eden.
A journey is so essential to the spa experience that some facilities have gone so far as to incorporate the word into the spa name. There's the Journeys Spa at Wyndham Sugar Bay Resort & Spa on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, which aims to "transform you into everything you need to take those many journeys in life." Its promotional materials describe the spa as providing "an extensive array of treatments and services so that you will discover your personal wisdom and express yourself through peaceful processes." Then there's Mii amo, a destination spa at Enchantment, in Sedona, Arizona: The Native American name translates into "one's path, or journey," in Yuman, the traditional Native American language of northern Arizona.
Glance at these journeys at a number of successful spas that are creating this experience for their clients.
This signature spa treatment is designed for two and begins in the spa's unique couple's suite, which offers a state-of-the-art water experience. The couple first enjoys a side-by-side body exfoliation, followed by a dip in a sunken tub filled with circulating mineral water. This is followed by a self-application of a trio of muds, a steam session and a downpour of "rain" from the ceiling in the Rainforest Room. A shower in a separate room concludes the service.
This journey begins with an aromatherapy body polish, followed by a body wrap and a hot stone massage. An Agora signature facial also is included, and the experience ends with a manicure and pedicure.
This treatment begins with a foot soak and reflexology session, followed by the client's choice of a body treatment, such as the Ocean Fossil Mineral Therapy, Island Infusion, Gracious Glow and Steam, or a Signature Massage.
Meant to introduce clients to the principles of ayurveda and instruct them on how to live a balanced life in harmony with nature, this program offers everything from cooking and nutrition to spa treatments, yoga and meditation.
This spa takes its inspiration from the healing cultures of Asia, Hawaii and the South Pacific. In this four-hour package, spa clients enjoy a deluxe body treatment, a choice of massage and a facial. Light refreshments on the spa terrace also are included.
The signature treatment at this Soho spa includes a Salt Glow body treatment and Vichy shower, followed by a therapeutic soak in a hydrotherapy tub. A steam session and a cascading waterfall experience set this journey apart.


BRINGING OUT THE DEAD is Martin Scorsese at his most nightmarish and hallucinogenic, a movie almost entirely in helicopters-overhead-paranoid-end-of-GOODFELLAS mode. That's 'cause it's about night shift EMT workers, which I think we can safely assume is probly a pretty stressful job. The movie is written by Paul Schrader based on one of those "this job is fucked and we're all on drugs" type exposes, like Kitchen Confidential was for chefs.


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Chicago rapper G Herbo gives his reflective raps new shapes on PTSD
by Leor Galil April 3, 2020 August 18, 2021
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I wish the right-wing miscreants in the federal government were as dependable as Chicago rapper G Herbo. For close to a decade, he's released albums and mixtapes of rapid-fire drill with reassuring frequency, and even his most run-of-the-mill offerings benefit from his pragmatic empathy and lucid descriptions—he brings a distinctive emotional gravity to his detailed lyrics about the harshness of the city's impoverished Black enclaves. Born Herbert Wright, Herbo grew up in a part of South Shore so besieged by violence it became known as Terror Town, and in his music he captures both the up-close-and-personal feeling of mortal fear and a large-scale view of the structural inequality that created the circumstances of his life. That baked-in injustice continues to affect him: ever since his arrest for aggravated unlawful use of a loaded weapon in February 2018, for instance, Herbo has had to deal with local venues canceling his shows. But he's also used his prominent position to benefit those in need—most notably, as he explained in his episode of the TRiiBE's Block Beat series in September 2018, he's part of the team that bought Anthony Overton Elementary School (which Rahm Emanuel closed in 2013) to turn it into a hub for job training and youth afterschool programs. On the February album PTSD (Epic/Machine Entertainment Group), Herbo contemplates the lasting effects of growing up in a community where violence took so many of his friends—it may not be literally around the corner for him today, but it's still playing out in his life, even now that he's a genuine star (PTSD debuted at number seven on the Billboard 200). He fills his raps to overflowing with anxiety, grief, and compassion, and he delivers his lines with enough force to convince you he can overcome anything. On tracks such as "Gangbangin," "Lawyer Fees" (featuring Polo G), and "PTSD" (with Juice Wrld, Chance the Rapper, and Lil Uzi Vert), Herbo transmutes his trauma into euphoria without dismissing or oversimplifying the profound emotions that inspire his music. v
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No Democrat in 3rd District Race Means Yoder Runs Unchallenged
by: Tess Koppelman
Kansas City, Kan. -- A Kansas congressman's controversial skinny dipping escapade brings to light a question: why is there no Democrat running against Republican Kevin Yoder for his third district U.S. House seat?
Congressman Yoder's nude swim in the Sea of Galilee in Israel has been overshadowed by his fellow Congressman Todd Akin's comment about rape and abortion. But you aren't hearing a lot about Yoder's misstep from his democratic opponent because he doesn't have one.
One national news article in the Daily Kos, a political web site, says that Kansas Democrats should be embarrassed they couldn't put anyone's name on the ballot against Yoder because that means no one was in a position to try to take advantage of the skinny dipping incident. But the Kansas Democratic Party says it wasn't for lack of trying.
State Senator David Haley (D-Kansas City, KS) agrees Democrats should be embarrassed they have no one running against Yoder.
"That's a concern, that's a failure on the part of the Kansas Democratic Party to not field a qualified candidate," he says.
But State Senator Chris Steineger (R-Kansas City, KS) says that's because the democratic party pushes people out of the party. He should know. Steineger was elected four times as a democrat and switched parties two years ago. He says the party is pushing people out if they aren't willing to toe the party line.
"I think both parties need to be more open-minded about the middle ground and not everyone will agree on every issue," he says.
The head of the Kansas Democratic Party Joan Wagnon says she heavily recruited and almost had someone on the ticket. But because of re-districting, and confusion over where the new lines would fall, Wagnon says she just couldn't get someone to file in time to face off against Yoder.
Across the state line, U.S. Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Kansas City) says those new district lines in Kansas will make it very difficult for any democrat to run for now on, but that doesn't make Yoder safe.
"What Yoder will have to look over his shoulder at is a person to the right of him, far to the right," Cleaver says, "and that's the danger that Yoder finds himself in today, not from Democrats."
Democrats say hindsight is 20-20 and who knows, a Democrat might have fared well this year. Haley hopes next time around they won't have to guess.
"I hope we're not having this discussion in two years, saying Kevin Yoder continues to be more puppet for the right than the mainstream third congressional district," he says, "but where is the candidate?"
Wagnon says Democrats will be more than ready next time around. She says they may even have more than one democrat running. As for this year, there has been talk of a write-in campaign but she says that's tough to take that on and win.
Yoder does have a libertarian candidate running against him.
WASHINGTON D.C. — In a day revolving around an oath of office, the spoken words of a young American poet earned the spotlight this inauguration.
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Crete ~ Those Haunting Echoes of the Past
The summer sun was already punishing as we began the mid-morning climb to that monument on the hill overlooking the village of Chora Sfakia on Crete's southern coast. It was tempting to stop mid-point in the ascent, but that wouldn't have been a fair tribute to those the monument honored. We have visited it each time we have been here and we weren't going to miss it this time.
As I last wrote, we were covering as much ground as possible during our week-long visit to Greece's largest island. I am beginning today's tale where I left off, in the small harbor town on the Libyan Sea that played a big role in World War II:
Chora Sfakia
The Chora Sfakia Monument
In May 1941 Chora Sfakia was the last hope of escape for some 16,000 British, New Zealand, Australian and Greek troops after German forces began an airborne assault on the island, today known as the Battle of Crete. Over four successive nights 11,000 escaped. Five thousand were captured and held in captivity. In villages throughout the island, Cretans were subjected to severe punishment -- up to and including executions -- for helping the Allied Forces.
The plaque to the side of this monument reads, 'Lest We Forget, This plaque is laid to the everlasting memory of these Cretan patriots who in 1941 were executed by the Germans for helping New Zealand soldiers escape from Crete.' The skulls of those executed patriots are visible in the base of the monument.
Similar chilling reminders of the past -- monuments and statues - can be found throughout the island. We have visited a number of them but Chora Sfakia's will always stand out as among the most memorable reminders of war's atrocities.
Loutro and the Libyan Sea
The Church near Loutro
The ferry trip from Chora Sfakia to Loutro is short, about 20 minutes, but memorable. The landscape along this section of the southern coast is some of the most barren to be found. The harshness of the stark hillsides assault one's senses and lets the imagination soar. One of the few signs of humanity along the route is the small church, shown in the photo above. One might say its location is 'in the middle of nowhere'; perched above a steep cliff with only a hiker's trail, or goat trail, to get to it. Who built it?, we wonder. And who keeps it up?
Loutro on the Libyan Sea
I often describe Loutro as one of our favorite places on earth. And it cast its magic spell on us again as the ferry turned just slightly and the white washed village appeared, almost as if a mirage, in the stark landscape that surrounds it.
Loutro in late June 2021
Our previous visits here have been in the early spring when businesses were just opening and the season not quite in full swing. It was different place in late June . . .still charming, very hot, and full of tourists! We were glad we revisited this special spot but equally as glad this visit was a day trip.
Not far from Chora Sfakia
Lonely Planet guidebook says you can tell you're approaching Chora Sfakia by the increasing numbers of gun shots in the road signs. I can tell you that all traffic signs we've encountered in Greece seem to be targets of graffiti artists and marksmen. But I will admit, signs are definitely full of bullet holes along the road to this section of the southern coast.
Heading east: destination Plaka
We headed north, then east, after two nights on the southern coast. Our next destination, Plaka, would be our base for the next two nights. It is the gateway to the island of Spinalonga, the island that for decades served as Crete's leper colony. The remains of the village created there by those castaway victims of Hanson's Disease, is today a tourist attraction. The island was made famous by British writer, Victoria Hislop, in her novel about the colony, The Island.
Spinalonga island from Blue Palace Resort
Our room at the Blue Palace Resort provided us a stunning view of his haunting place. Tour boats regularly take visitors to and from the island but having visited it on a previous trip, we were content to view it from afar - again letting our imaginations run with the echoes of the past.
Elounda, near Plaka
The weather was hot, as we've learned weather can be in Greece in the summer. We limited our outings to a few hours in the morning then sought the comfort of our air-conditioned room. We often ask ourselves why we travel in the summer in Greece and then further ponder what the appeal of Greece is to the thousands who come here each summer. (Spring and Fall are really much nicer times to travel here.)
Blue Palace Resort, Plaka, Crete
It was so hot that the resort, operating with the strictest of Covid protocols, (including downloading an app on your mobile and checking yourself in), had to discontinue the practice of taking the temperature of arriving guests before they entered the lobby. It was so hot that aiming the thermometer at one's forehead made it impossible to get an accurate reading.
Kissamos
Don't believe everything you read in a guidebook, we reminded ourselves again when we were sitting at the cutest beach bar we've visited in a long time. We'd crossed the island again and were back at its west end. We were just down the road from the ferry dock in this port town of Kissamos, on Crete's west end. Our ferry back to the Peloponnese would depart early the next morning.
Kissamos, on Crete's west end
Lonely Planet had us believing if we blinked that we miss the town and it wouldn't be much of a loss if we did. Au contraire, we would say now that we've been there. So taken with the town and the hotel in which we spent our final night on the island were we, that we will likely use it as our base on our next trip.
Charming coffee shops, quaint restaurants and numerous shops beckoned. But in the heat of the day, we headed to the beach - it was the perfect place to end the week.
We thank you for joining us on the last half of our travels in Crete.
A firesky at our Stone House on the Hill
In closing, I know that many of you follow us on Facebook and therefore know that Greece is fighting a mind-boggling number of wildfires this week. Some 80+ blazes, with several large fires remaining out of control as I write this on Friday afternoon. Additional equipment and human resources are thankfully arriving from a number of European countries. The nearest blaze to us is some 12 miles away and we've watched water-bearing helicopters and planes fly a path back and forth dipping into the Messinias Bay in front of our home in their attempts to bring our closest blaze under control for two days now. Please keep Greece, its firefighters and victims in your thoughts and prayers ~
Stay safe where ever you are ~ hope you'll be back with us next week.
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Labels: Battle of Crete, Cretan road trip, Loutro Crete
Amy at Ms. Toody Goo Shoes August 6, 2021 at 7:23 PM
The towns you visited look so charming, especially Loutro. The only time we were in Greece was summer, and there was a heatwave like I've never experienced before. Keeping all those fighting, and those in the line of the wildfires, in my thoughts and prayers.
Jackie and Joel Smith August 6, 2021 at 10:34 PM
Those tourist promotion photos can't quite capture the heat that goes with those lovely beach scenes. I can't imagine 'going to the beach' for hours this time of year but thousands still are flocking there. Thanks for the thoughts and prayers for those impacted by the fires (which are still being battled).
Marcia August 7, 2021 at 8:05 PM
Hi Jackie, it's just heartbreaking to see the fires there, in Turkey and here, on the west coast. Definitely saying prayers to all those who fight and those in their paths.
Thanks for sharing another lovely Greek story. That church on the side of the hill in Loutro is intriguing, an anomaly. I imagine you see a lot of these scenes in Greece. Again, thanks for sharing your experiences.
Jackie and Joel Smith August 10, 2021 at 9:28 PM
And thanks for the lovely comment! xxx Jackie
A Taste for Travel August 9, 2021 at 5:54 AM
What a barren coastline! I too am so intrigued by that lone white church. And Kissamos sounds lovely - good to know!
Rachel Heller August 9, 2021 at 9:15 AM
Every time you write about Greece, I want to go back! I think people go in the summer simply because that's when they have time off. I've only seen a few bits of Crete on a couple of very short visits, but I'd love to go and explore it properly.
erwin noel morata August 9, 2021 at 12:26 PM
So scenic and so much to see here, I was only able to explore the southern parts of the island and would love to visit more some day.
Jeff and Crystal Bryant August 10, 2021 at 5:42 AM
Thanks for sharing this beautiful destination. I have to admit that I chuckled a bit when I saw the bullet-riddled sign. Looks a little like a drive in the country around our part of the world.
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February 27, 2017 • The Trump Justice Department asked a federal court to dismiss the Obama DOJ's earlier claim that the ID law was enacted with the intention of discriminating against minority voters.
February 22, 2017 • The governor of North Dakota had set Wednesday as the evacuation deadline for the largest protest camp. The Trump administration is allowing the pipeline to be built, despite the protests.
February 6, 2017 • The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments by phone on Tuesday at 6 p.m. ET in the controversial travel ban's latest test. A district court judge halted the executive order on Friday.