Open spaces in urban areas have existed for as long as urban areas have existed. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were one of the Wonders of the World, while La Alameda de Hércules – a promenaded public mall, garden and park in Seville – was one of the earliest parks, being opened in 1574.
Cities such as Paris could revel in formal gardens. London's equivalent was Vauxhall Gardens, which are believed to have opened before 1660. And Britain started seriously creating parks in our towns and cities in the 19th century, seeing them as ways of helping to improve public health.
But those parks are now under an increasing threat, as local councils find their funding being cut and then cut again.
As we reported in February, the threat is already being seen through reductions in opening times, closure of public toilets and increases in litter and the number of rats being spotted.
As with libraries, volunteers are being considered by some councils as a way of tackling the problems, even as new housing developments are "nibbling away" at our green spaces.
But parks are used by everyone, young and old – irrespective of income. They're good for our health, our environment, for leisure and recreation, for children playing and for adults contemplating.
We want to explore the issue further and build up a more detailed picture of what's happening to our parks – and we need your help to do it.
What is happening with your local park?
Have there been cuts that have affected it?
How is the park used?
What does your park mean to you and your family?
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Most technologies are over hyped in their first two years because it typically takes that long for the platforms to mature to the point of fixing initial problems and the toolsets to become powerful enough to provide good solutions. During this time, you usually hear a lot of people promoting all the virtues of the new technology, but few of the issues have actually been discovered. Those issues can only be found with time and work. At the time of this publication, Web services are still in this phase of maturity.
Conversely, the same technology will usually be under recognized after the four- to five-year mark. This is unfortunate because at this point the industry would've learned how to work with the technology effectively, staff would've come up to speed, and the tools would be mature. But, because of the initial over-hype situation and the failure to live up to initial expectations, the technology in question can quite often be orphaned by the very same people who were its biggest initial champions or, worse yet, be replaced with the new solution of the week. That's not to say that the technology is totally abandoned. Rather, it is often the case that the technology has just moved beyond the "fad" phase and into the realm of being useful (sometimes extremely so), but no longer "sexy."
Figure 3.1 illustrates the typical technology adoption and maturity lifecycle.
Figure 3.1 The typical technology hype/usefulness life-cycle.
Because Web services are a relatively young technology, the standards and specifications are evolving rapidly. Applications built on one version of the specification can be quickly outdated. The specifications are also still evolving in some areas of Web services. As a result, some vendors have chosen to provide their own proprietary solutions rather than wait for a standard to emerge.
Also, because the Web service area is relatively new, a large number of vendors are fighting for market share. Although this stimulates innovation, it also means that developers who buy into the wrong vendor might be orphaned a year or two down the road and be forced to switch to another vendor's solution. This can be a big headache and cost a good deal of time and money. Even though Web services are built on standards, each vendor has its own way of implementing those standards, which could require major retooling of your system if you have to change toolsets. All markets go through a shakeout period in which the most popular (and usually powerful) products remain and the majority of the others fade away. This has not happened yet with the Web services tools market.

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'Universal law of touch' will enable new advances in Virtual Reality
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Seismic waves, commonly associated with earthquakes, have been used by scientists to develop a universal scaling law for the sense of touch.
A team, led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, used Rayleigh waves to create the first scaling law for touch sensitivity. The results are published in Science Advances.
The researchers are part of a European consortium (H-Reality) that are already using the theory to develop new Virtual Reality technologies that incorporate the sense of touch.
Rayleigh waves are created by impact between objects and are commonly thought to travel only along surfaces. The team discovered that, when it comes to touch, the waves also travel through layers of skin and bone and are picked up by the body's touch receptor cells.
Using mathematical modelling of these touch receptors the researchers showed how the receptors were located at depths that allowed them to respond to Rayleigh waves. The interaction of these receptors with the Rayleigh waves will vary across species, but the ratio of receptor depth vs wavelength remains the same, enabling the universal law to be defined.
The mathematics used by the researchers to develop the law is based on approaches first developed over a hundred years ago to model earthquakes. The law supports predictions made by the Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Georg von Békésy who first suggested the mathematics of earthquakes could be used to explore connections between Rayleigh waves and touch.
The team also found that the interaction of the waves and receptors remained even when the stiffness of the outermost layer of skin changed. The ability of the receptors to respond to Rayleigh waves remained unchanged despite the many variations in this outer layer caused by, age, gender, profession, or even hydration.
Dr Tom Montenegro-Johnson, of the University of Birmingham's School of Mathematics, led the research. He explains: "Touch is a primordial sense, as important to our ancient ancestors as it is to modern day mammals, but it's also one of the most complex and therefore least understood. While we have universal laws to explain sight and hearing, for example, this is the first time that we've been able to explain touch in this way."
James Andrews, co-author of the study at the University of Birmingham, adds: "The principles we've defined enable us to better understand the different experiences of touch among a wide range of species. For example, if you indent the skin of a rhinoceros by 5mm, they would have the same sensation as a human with a similar indentation – it's just that the forces required to produce the indentation would be different. This makes a lot of sense in evolutionary terms, since it's connected to relative danger and potential damage."
The work was funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under collaborative project "H-Reality" (grant 801413, hreality.eu). The other institutions involved in the project are Ultraleap Ltd. (UK), Actronika (France), TU Delft (The Netherlands), and CNRS (France).
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Montenegro-Johnson et al (2020). 'A Universal Scaling Law of Mammalian Touch.' Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6912
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When most people think of the origins of jazz, Portland, Oregon, is not the first place that comes to mind.
-- from Jim Swenson's Foreword to Jumptown: The Golden Years of Portland Jazz 1942-1957 by Robert Dietsche.
Inland seaports with good railroads make for great jazz, especially during wartime, when there is an acceleration of fresh ideas and fashions from the thousands of servicemen and defense workers arriving.
-- from "The Dude Ranch: Where Jump Was a Noun," the first chapter.
This is another great book published by the Oregon State University Press.
Hubby is a huge classic jazz fan, so most of what we listen to is jazz from this era. I got this out to keep him entertained over the upcoming family visit.
This sounds like a great book! Thanks for participating in Book Beginnings!


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Q: Indexing files using Lucene I have a set of files with different extensions .doc .txt .html etc.
How do I index these files to use with Apache Lucene?

A: You can use apache POI library to extract text from them first and then index them using the code availabel here :
Apache Lucene-Use lucene 3.4.0 to index text files

A: Lucene is not too easy to get started. Maybe is an overkill to read a book, but I started using Lucene reading a few chapters from Lucene in Action.

A: For indexing rich documents you would need a combination of Apache Lucene and Apache Tika.
If you are using lucene, you would need to parse the files using Tika libraries and pass the content to lucene for indexing.
Apache Tika allows easy apis for extraction, doing the work of detection of the files types and retrieving content and other attributes from the files.
You should find example on these.

A: You use something like Apache Tika to extract text from them. You might find it easier to start with Apache Solr instead of raw lucene.

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It's been a while since our last post, but we're very pleased to share with you the news that To End All Wars been nominated for two Eisner Awards – best anthology and best reality based comic. Often referred to as the comic book industry's Oscars, the Eisner Awards are named in honour of the pioneering writer and artist Will Eisner, so to be included in these nominations is quite special.
You can find a list of the nominations and a place to put your vote at the links below.
http://www.comic-con.org/awards/2015-eisner-award-nominations
http://www.eisnervote.com/?A5W_Sess_ID=8fd9fd5fb3ac4fa991cb70e0b546009e
To End All Wars will be getting a softcover reprint later this summer, and it's also part of publisher Soaring Penguin's Kickstarter campaign for 2015.
Our collective hat is tipped to all of the creators who came together to make this book, and to the fine folks out there who added it to their bookshelves.
We salute you!
Last weekend saw the second annual Lakes International Comic Art Festival take place in Kendal. From Friday to Sunday this beautiful little part of the Lake District is laid siege by comic artists and writers from around the world, giving talks and putting on workshops across the town. Unlike your typical comic convention, The Lakes has more in common with a European comic festival and feels all the more wonderful for it.
Kendal Town Hall, with added Bat signal on its spire just for the festival.
Hosted by Soaring Penguin's John Anderson, To End All Wars editors Jonathan Clode and John Stuart Clark presented a talk on the editing process they went through during the development and completion of the book. Il Gatto's Stuart Richards and Selina Lock, writer of Go Home and Sit Still also took part, discussing their experiences being part of the book. It was a fantastic day that saw TEAW contributors come together for a group signing, many of whom received great compliments from such comic book luminaries as Dave Gibbons, Bryan Talbot and Eddie Campbell. Word on the street was that TEAW was the best selling hardback at the festival, testament to the fine work put in by it's contributors.
Clockwise from left – Kate Charlesworth, Dan Hill, Selina Lock, Brick, Stuart Richards, Robert Brown, Jenny-Linn Cole, Jessica Martin and Jonathan Clode
Thanks to Alex Fitch who recorded us for broadcast on Resonance FM and it can be streamed over the coming days from the link below.
http://resonancefm.com/archives/21139
The opening night of the festival saw the unveiling of the new comic book charity CLAW (Comics Literacy Awareness) and the unveiling of Dave Gibbons as Britain's first comics laureate. This is a great move for British comics and is something TEAW will be actively looking to get involved with. Co-editor Jonathan Clode noted his high point of the festival was a young boy who bought a copy of To End All Wars, eagerly getting it signed by everyone and walking off beaming. Just the kind of response books like these need to hopefully inspire future generations of comic creators.
http://www.claw.org.uk/
We'll be taking part in further talks in recent weeks, and in November the exhibition that was running in Machynlleth will be moving up to the Barbican in London. We'll keep you posted!
Last night saw the official launch of To End All Wars, graciously hosted by Gosh! Comics in London's Soho district. After eighteen months of pretty much exclusively electronic communication, it was a joy for the editors, writers, artists and publishers to all meet up. Beers were shared, books were signed and we were lucky enough to have a representative from Médecins Sans Frontières in attendance who shared some of his experiences. It was a sobering reminder that, while things are vastly different to the world that saw war inflicted upon it 100 years ago, there are no shortage of humanitarian disasters and crimes against it's people.
Brick signing the book and hiding biscuits from the Pleece Brothers.
Huge thanks to everyone who made it out to celebrate with us, to all the staff at Gosh and the good folk of Soaring Penguin Press for bringing our book to life.
Neil McClements, Jonathan Clode, Bern Campbell and publisher John Anderson.
Next month sees the U.S. release of TEAW, and with that in mind there's a feature and interview with editors JC & JSC over on the War on the Rocks website.
http://warontherocks.com/2014/08/a-new-history-of-the-great-war-wwi-gets-a-graphic-treatment/
We'll have more info as we ready ourselves for the Lakes Festival in October so watch this space!
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The first local launch of TEAW stuffed 72 men, women and children into the basement of the Nottingham Writers' Studio to listen to Pippa Hennessy, Selina Lock and Ian Douglas talk about the source material and writing approach of their contributions. Generously sponsored by the city's only independent bookshop and introduced by Five Leaves Bookshop owner, Ross Bradshaw, the event was MCed by Brick, who gave a six minute masterful summary of 16 months hard graft and, after the writers, talked people through the illustration contributions of Kate Houghton and Jenny Linn-Cole, both present in the audience. Wrapping up with a run through the delight of working with Sarah Jones on his Die and Become story, our co-editor managed to weave in the astonishing story of his relationship, through his father, to Field Marshal Sir Douglas 'Butcher' Haig. Heavily illustrated with slides from the book, the audience was animated into buying all but three of the 40 copies made available by Soaring Penguin Press, and the order of the final flurry was a mass signing by all six contributors. Our thanks go to all who worked so hard behind the scenes to make the event such an unprecedented success for a local launch, and to those who found the time and energy to start Tweeting about the event before we even got home.
Selina Lock, Jenny Linn-Cole, Pippa Hennessey, Kate Houghton, Ian Douglas and Brick.
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Brick discussing the book with a packed audience © John Birdsall Photography
As we write this To End All Wars is making it's way from the printers in Latvia, soon to end up in the laps of the good folks who've pre-ordered it. We're thrilled to have raised £2000 for Medecins Sans Frontieres already and hope that this will increase as the book gets out into the public. The editors got their hands on an advance copy the other day and don't mind telling you that it looks amazing.
Sixteen months of hard work by the contributors and the graft of Soaring Penguin have paid off in the form of a book we are all very proud of. In the event you can't wait to get your mits on it, we've put together a 'flick through.'
We are also pleased to announce that our own Sarah Jones, artist of Die and Become, will be representing TEAW in a talk on WWI comics at the British Library on Aug 17th.
http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event164701.html
Thanks to the BBC Scotland article, TEAW contributors Joe Gordon and Kate Charlesworth were sent a message by a lady known simply as Sheila. Having read about their story, Memorial to the Mothers, she sent along a poem by the seemingly forgotten Scottish poet, Joseph Lee.
Every bullet has its billet
Many bullets more than one;
God! Perhaps I killed a mother
When I killed a mother's son.
This poem is indicative of the many aspects of WWI that are conveniently 'forgotten' because they fail to chime with the preferred recollections of the conflict. As we ready ourselves for publication, it is a timely reminder of the responsibility and opportunity we writers and artists have to make sure this centenary is not glossed over by the agenda of our present government and self interested institutions.
There's only a week to go until To End All Wars arrives on the shelves. After over eighteen months of pretty much eating, sleeping and breathing this book it's slightly strange to now let it out into the laps of the public. Everyone involved from the creators to the good folk at Soaring Penguin are very excited about finally being able to share it, and in celebration of everyone's efforts we've organised a few launch events that will be taking place around the country.
As we mentioned before, on the 30th of July there will be a launch at the Five Leaves bookshop in Nottingham, and will feature presentations by contributors Brick, Pippa Hennessey, Selina Lock and Ian Douglas.
http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/
On August the 2nd we'll be opening an exhibition of art from the book at the Pen'rallt Bookshop & Gallery in Machynlleth in mid-Wales. As well as featuring art from the book and the original painting of the cover, there'll be a focus on Jonathan Clode's story The Black Chair, which he'll be introducing along with a reading of the script from local actors.
The official launch party will then be held at Gosh! comics in Soho, London on the 20th of August. The launch will be attended by the editors and as many of the writers, artists and letterers as can get there, so please come along!
Today also saw a fantastic article published by BBC Scotland that focuses on the Scottish creators and some of the stories that focus on the Scots.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-27887688
More news on the events we'll be partaking in as we get it!
There's just over a month to go until TO END ALL WARS hits your bookshops and letter boxes. After eighteen months of fairly non-stop work we now turn our attention to the promotion of the book. Our most recent feature appears in Nottingham based magazine Left Lion – a free online and print publication focusing on the Nottingham arts and culture scene.
Our thanks to Robin Lewis for putting the piece together, which you can read at the link below.
http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/leftlion-magazine–59/id/6715
Over the coming weeks and months we'll be taking part in various launches, talks and exhibitions, the first of which takes place on the 30th of July at the Five Leaves bookshop in Nottingham. TEAW contributors Brick, Pippa Hennessey, Ian Douglas and Kate Houghton are all local to the city, so contact the shop for more information as it's sure to be an interesting evening.
We'll update the site with more info on the exhibitions and official launch as we get it, but in the meantime you can buy tickets for our talk at this years Lakes International Comic Arts Festival from the nice folks at the Kendal Brewery Arts Centre, or by hitting the link below.
http://www.breweryarts.co.uk/events-and-festivals/listing/TO-END-ALL-WARS-THE-ART-OF-EDITING
One of the exciting things about working on TEAW has been the interest it's received from the wider European comic community. We mentioned a while back that we had contributed an interview for the Association des Critiques et des journalistes de Bande Dessiné, and this week we got the chance to speak to German magazine Kritische Ausgabe.
http://www.brickbats.co.uk/index.php/books/to-end-all-wars/interview-with-german-cultural-magazine-kritische-ausgabe/
As we discuss in the feature, one of the objectives in TEAW was to depict aspects of the war that people were unfamiliar with. This is certainly true of our latest preview which deals with the impact the First World War had on the colonies in East Africa.
No More Than Cattle
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Man's Advice for Finding a Man at 'Home Depot' Is Priceless
He kind of has a point.
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We didn't know there was a difference between shopping at Home Depot and Lowe's, but according to @deltapride416 (Andrew) there is. And if you're shopping for a man, Home Depot is the place to be.
Andrew says that if a woman is looking for a bougie man, you'll find him at Lowe's, but if you're looking for a man who's into doing real projects, you'll find him at Home Depot. But you're probably looking in the wrong area of the store. You need to be in the concrete section, and Andrew's reasoning is hilarious and on point.
He's too funny! He advises to make sure the man you're interested in doesn't have a ring on and doesn't have a tan line from a ring. Walk up to him with confidence and say, "We're both looking for something that sets up fast and hard." We LOL'd!
And we weren't alone. @brittany laughs and says, "I hang out in the Milwaukee power tool section. This way I know he can afford the Chanel's that I want." You gotta go to Lowe's for that, Brittany! @Trinity Rose Oceania is with Brittany and shares, "My Milwaukee man practically THROWS money at me, this plan works!" @MoniCubes said, "Home Depot = Walmart ; Lowes = Target…. Got it."
@Alliyah needs more information and asks, "Okay so what time do I need to go to Lowe's, Andrew?" @K L6236 also has questions, "Are the men sorted by section? If I need an electrician, I look in electrical. If I need an appliance guy I look in that aisle, etc?" @Prissy4997 wonders, "So where does that leave Harbor Freight?" Andrew replies back with, "I'm so glad you asked! Let me just tell you about it tomorrow!" We'll be waiting to hear!


Julie released her newest CD, Senza Fine, in December, engineered by Phil Ludwig at Seclusion Hill Music, in much anticipation on Saturday, December 29th at her CD Release Concert in the Master Works Theatre, at Freeburg Pianos in Hendersonville, NC. The event was well reviewed, and a great success, enjoyed by all who came. This has led to Julie and her 2 bands being picked up for a second CD Release Concert tonight.
Julie has 14 hand picked songs for hand picked musicians, including Michael Jefry Stevens, Rick Dilling, Chris Beyt, Bill Gerhardt, Justin Watt, and Bryan McConnell. The songs range from the "outside" to the "well known"...all compelling jazz pieces brilliantly performed by Julie and her 2 bands, with exciting and new arrangements by Michael Jefry Stevens, Bill Gerhardt, and Bryan McConnell. So mark the event on your calendar, as it's one you do not want to miss!
Julie McConnell has studied and performed music extensively since age 10, starting with gospel and classical music in her church choir in Greensboro, North Carolina. She went on to win numerous awards in piano and voice throughout Junior High and High School, both at local and state levels. She was awarded a Vocal Performance Scholarship to Appalachian State University in 1984. While at university, Julie was already performing gospel and bluegrass professionally, and had her first professional classical gig by age 19, performing the alto solos for the Bach Magnificat at the Summer Bach Festival held at Isothermal Community College, celebrating the 300th anniversary of the composer's birth.
improvisations. Her voice is very polished. She directs the movement of the group with her gentle but extremely melodic dynamic style. She could reach heights of such acclaim as Peggy Lee, Judy Garland, Natalie Cole and others."
"Bryan McConnell, bassist, takes on the Herculean task of ryhthmic pulse, providing harmonic support and major soloist. He excels at all three duties, and most importantly, never seems to struggle with the responsibility or call attention to its difficulty or overcompensate. Don't try that at home folks, this guy is a trained professional. He plays with a sure-footed strength and maturity that belie his relative youth. Bryan's woody tone, deep and rich, support the vocals in contrapuntal fashion, like delicate beadwork, woven seamlessly."
Julie moved to Southern California in 1988, and she continued to perform professionally with the San Diego Master Chorale, The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus, and The Palomar Chamber Singers, during which time, she continued her collegiate studies at the University of California at San Marcos, 1998-2000, 2012-2013, and again 2017-2018 long distance.
In the late 1990's Julie began singing jazz and showtunes professionally. Julie has a unique approach to the jazz standard; rooted in the foundation of her Southern musical upbringing, with the vocal technique of Barbra Streisand, the youthful sound of Norah Jones, and the soulfulness of Patsy Cline.
Julie flowered into a highly sought out jazz vocalist in Southern California, and performed with many San Diego musicians such as Shep Meyers, Steve O'Connor, Joe Marillo, Pat Danna, Flip Oakes, Duncan Moore, Russell Bizzett, Kevin Green, Sky Ladd, Mikole Kaar, Bob Campbell, Tim McMahon, Trip Sprague, Tommy Gannon, John Opferkoch, Nathan Souders, Bob Boss, and Bryan McConnell, among others.
Julie released her debut CD, Love Is Here, in 2004. This CD features Julie singing standards arranged by Bryan McConnell. It is an eclectic mix of songs performed with an original, smooth, and lasting sound. She has also recorded vocals for many other recording artists in both Northern and Southern California, as well as Jacksonville, Florida.
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The Volunteer
Enok Groven was born and raised in Bergen, Norway. He works as an international model, and is very into Viking culture, including re-enactment and studies in Old Norse. In 2014, he participated in a history-based reality TV series in Norway and became instantly famous for his "I can do it!" approach to all challenges. He is also a dedicated environmentalist.
Q: Now Enok, how did you get a spot on the team?
Enok: I have known Lars for many years. In 2011, Lars asked me if I wanted to take part in an archaeological expedition to rescue artefacts released by melting ice. I could not believe my luck! History and especially the Viking Age have been one of my main interests since I was a child. I accepted without thinking for a second!
Enok on a photo-shoot in Diavolezza (2 978 m a.s.l.), St. Moritz.
I had just gotten a model contract the same year and was keen to exploit that opportunity. My model career went well and I worked a lot, so every August when it was time to join the expedition, I was busy working. One year, when I actually had the time, Lars called me and told me that the fieldwork was cancelled due to snow. Finally, in 2016, I found the time to join the team and fieldwork was on. In August later that year, I sat in a helicopter filled to the brim with equipment and excited archaeologists.
Q: How did you get to the site?
Enok: I met up with Lars and Espen in Lillehammer. We drove to the mountains and the closer we got, the more beautiful the landscape became. It was almost dark when we got to the mountain summer farm, where we spent the night.
Early the next morning we got up, packed our stuff, and drove to an open field at the foot of a mountain. Soon a helicopter showed up above us. What a way to hike up a mountain! I had no idea archaeologists get to experience exciting things like these. I felt more like we were starring in an action movie or part of the Norwegian Special Forces. A hailstorm set in when we tried to land. It was quite exciting and felt a bit dangerous!
Video from the first day of fieldwork and Enok's first day as a volunteer.
We unloaded the helicopter, saw it fly off, and started the ascent to the basecamp close to the ice. I had the glacier to my left, and I just had to start searching for objects only a few minutes after I landed! I was so keen to find something left there by the Vikings. It was after all the first time that I had that opportunity in my life! I do not like wasting chances here in life, and I was not going to waste this one either.
After we arrived at basecamp, I helped setting up the tents. The rain was pouring down. I was already quite cold and soaking wet, and we had only been there for about one hour! How would I last for another week in this weather? For some strange reason I had not thought that it could rain up here at 1900 meters above sea level. After setting up all the tents, we got into the mess tent to dry up and drink something warm. The first hours on this expedition had given me a strong impression of how hard life on the mountain could be, and that life as a glacial archaeologist could be challenging. What I did not know at the time: It was going to get much worse!
Q: What was the first job you were assigned to?
Enok: The first job they asked me to do was to build a latrine. The only material I had was stone, but my many years as a scout proved valuable since we learned how to be creative with the resources we have at hand. I had to follow certain rules. One of them was that I had to build the toilet far away from our campsite so it would not smell, and people would get some privacy. I think I put it a bit far away from the camp, but at least it was downstream.
Enok enjoying the fruit of his construction work – a latrine with a view that is hard to beat. Easily the best latrine we have ever had! Photo: Espen Finstad, Oppland County Council.
Q: What kind of archaeological work were you doing?
Enok: I mostly surveyed. We went into a line with two meters between each person, and set off searching for manmade objects and animal bones. We all had to walk in the same tempo and straight forward, which was sometimes not easy because of big boulders. The work seemed quite monotonous at first, but after a while you got used to it. And each time we made a find, I forgot in a second the boring side of the search! It was amazing every time we found something. We had a finds group who came after us to collect the finds. Sometimes, we would stay and watch when they collected the object. I remember really well the first thing we found. It was a bone arrowhead, three thousand years old. I just couldn't believe it!
Enok in the line of surveyors, eyes fixed to the ground. Photo: Espen Finstad, Oppland County Council.
Q: You are very careful to eat only ecological and non-GMO food. How did this work out during fieldwork, when other team members are so hungry that we jokingly say they will eat anything that does not out-run them?
Enok: Well, I couldn't eat what the crew prepared. On the other hand, it looked the guys enjoyed the Norwegian potato and saithe dumplings, and the wild and organic cured lamb sausage I brought! (Enok forgets his delicious homemade organic müsli, which did not survive for long) Cooking organic often means preparing something at home, since it's hard to find organic food out there. During the fieldwork, I just had to prepare my own food, so energy and time wise it was not very efficient, but it tasted great, and it gave me a good feeling to eat it.
Some people invest their money in stocks, I invest my money in my health, because without it there is no life, and you can't bring any money to the grave. Organic food costs more, but it's much better for the environment. Many Norwegians use a lot of money on traveling, clothing, housing and technology. I have substituted the three last things with organic food.
Q: What was your impression of the team?
Enok: Archaeologists are great! They had a lot more humour than I expected. We laughed and joked a lot up there. Maybe it's the nature and fresh air that makes them so happy? I guess it also has to do with the passion and drive they have. I just love passionate people, so I really loved being up there with such an incredible group. It did not take long before we developed our own jokes and humour. You know the types of jokes you cannot tell other people, because they have not been there and done that?
Meeting a group like this really made me want to work with archaeology. Being the first person to see an item from our ancestors 3000 years ago is mind-blowing! Doing it together with great people makes it even more fun. At the same time, archaeology is hard work and much tougher than I expected.
Oh, how I miss it now! It felt like we were on an expedition, especially when seeing the Himalayan praying flags waving in the mountain winds.
Enok enjoying a moment of peace at 1900 m a.s.l. Photo: Espen Finstad, Oppland County Council.
Q: The fieldwork ended in an evacuation. What happened?
Enok: We got surprised by bad weather. The rain was pouring down some of the days up there, and then we got news that a storm was coming. Lars and Espen collected the crew in the mess tent and told us that they had decided we had to break camp and finish the search early. It was clear that they did not like to make this decision, but being a leader is not easy. In the high mountains, one should prepare and expect the worst, and make safe choices. After all, we are not Special Forces!
On the way down the mountain we all understood that they had done the right thing. Winds were rough, and the rain was making us all wet. I was soaked down to my underwear, and the rain was cold. If I wasn't carrying a heavy backpack with all my camping gear + tent and many of the giant ancient reindeer antlers we had found, it would have been much colder.
The Secret of the Ice team after breaking camp due to an in-coming storm. Check out Elling's pack (outer left)!
Q: The melting ice is releasing archaeological treasures, but there is a dark background to the finds. Being an environmentalist – what are your thoughts on the climate change challenges we are facing?
Enok: It must be with mixed feelings glacial archaeologists find an object where the ice has melted away, when they know that we are causing the glaciers to melt.
However, I am an optimist. With optimism and inspiration, we can open a lot of doors that lead to new pathways for the human race. With our new and effective ways of communicating and spreading knowledge, it is hard not to be positive towards the future.
I think we will be able to change our ways before we face the most severe climate changes. We have to do something within the next 10-15 years in order to stop a climate change run loose. By that I mean additional global warming effects created by climate change itself, e.g. like the permafrost melting and releasing methane, leading to more warming.
We have already won many fights, but we need to win many more, and that's why we need more people to join us in the struggle for a better and greener world. The green movement has been too negative, and it has caused people to turn away from us. Now we have learned, and there is only one way forward, and that is to a better and more positive world. I hope that the finds from glacier archaeology can play a part and highlight the problem of climate change.
Enok, smiling after coming down from the mountains after a week of glacial archaeology. Photo: Espen Finstad, Oppland County Council.
Q: As you know, being a volunteer with Secrets of the Ice is a once-in-a-lifetime possibility, but if you got the chance, would you go back?
Enok: Yes!
We were very happy having Enok as a volunteer for Secrets of the Ice, and we wish him good luck for the future, both in his work as a model and in his fight as an eco-warrior. Check out his webpages here and here, and his Fashion Against Climate Change page here.


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By Karen Strike on September 9, 2020
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti : Poems and Paintings From The City of Lights
Lawrence Ferlinghetti's paintings finally get their own show
"In Goya's Greatest Scenes, We Seem To See"
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, A Coney Island of the Mind
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "The Young Yeats" (2008), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
It's taken over a century of living for poet, businessman, pioneer of performance poetry, campaigner and artist Lawrence Ferlinghetti to get his first solo exhibition of paintings in New York City.
Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers on March 24, 1919 – during the Spanish flu pandemic – to Italian immigrants on his father's side and Sephardic Jews on his mother's. His father died of a heart attack before his birth, and his mother was institutionalised soon afterwards. He was raised by an aunt, notes Garrett Caples, "first in Strasbourg, France, and later in Bronxville, New York, where she abandoned him to the care of her employers, the wealthy Bisland family, who sent him to boarding school."
He served in the U.S. Navy throughout World War II. "It was a fine war I fought," he writes in Little Boy, "since I never fired a gun except one burst of an anti-aircraft Bofors at unseen planes lost in the clouds ten thousand feet above the Normandy beaches and later some depth charges that went off too soon and cracked all the heads on our own ship". A transfer to to Japan and a view of of Nagasaki seven weeks after the atomic bomb ("Hands sticking out of the mud… hair sticking out of the road — a quagmire") turned him into "an instant pacifist".
After a spell in New York and four years in Paris, Ferlinghetti settled in San Francisco. There in 1953 he created the hallowed City Lights Bookstore – "I had in my mind to have a nice used bookstore where I could sit in the back under a green eyeshade and read all day and growl at everybody who disturbed me." Two years later he started the counterculture City Lights imprint and its Pocket Poets Series.
The nice bookstore became a beacon of radicalism and freedom when Ferlinghetti was arrested for publishing Allen Ginsberg's Howl. On June 3, 1957, two undercover police with the San Francisco Police Department's Juvenile Bureau bought a copy in City Lights. Ferlinghetti was arrested for publishing obscene materials. After a lengthy trial, the judge ruled that Howl had "redeeming social importance". It was unlikely to "deprave or corrupt readers by exciting lascivious thoughts or arousing lustful desire". It was "not obscene.
Gathering of Beat Poets, City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco, 1965 – Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. –
As John Yau recalls, Ferlinghetti, (who incidentally calls today's San Francisco "an artists' theme park without the artists") published other landmark texts, such as Lunch Poems (1964) by Frank O'Hara and Artaud Anthology (1965), edited by Jack Hirshman. Ferlinghetti's 1958 book A Coney Island of the Mind has sold over a million copies,
Ferlinghetti the famous poet, then, hymned for his association with Beat generation writers. And a painter of no small talent, having taken up the brush during his time in Paris. Ferlinghetti's poems "tell little stories, make 'pictures'," wrote the poet and critic Jack Foley. so here are some of his pictures from 1980 to 2020.
The long-awaited show features 14 of his pictures. "I'm super happy that I'm having a show in New York," he says, "where I started out as a poet and turned into a painter."
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Icarus Blind" (1989), acrylic, wash on paper, 22 1⁄2 x 19 inches; 29 x 24 1⁄2 inches matted (all images courtesy New Release, New York)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "The Night Before Thinking" (1990), oil paint and black conte stick on paper, 23 3⁄four x 18 inches; 30 x 24 inches
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Those Unrelenting Destinies" (1983), conte, colored pencil, acrylic, wash on paper, 29 x 22 1⁄2 inches; 34 1⁄2 x 28 inches matted
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "Dreamboat" (2006), oil and acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
Lawrence Ferlinghetti at Caffe Trieste in 2012 by Christopher Michel.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Études is at New Release, 60 Mulberry Avenue, Chinatown, Manhattan, NYC.
Wein Sarolta's Color Photographs of Moscow and St Petersburg – 1958
Photographs of The Romanovs' Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903
London Cafes in The 1980s


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Please help us spread the word about Sienna Marie King out of Pocatello, Idaho by sharing this report.
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Sienna was last seen on August 12, 2017.
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If you weren't already susceptible to frequent vacay daydreams, today's story is sure to send you over the edge! We queried the one and only Coco Rocha—supermodel, philanthropist and Instagram addict—about her top travel destinations, carry-on essentials and more. Cue up Vacation by The Go-Go's and hop over to devour her answers!


Home > Publications > The Peninsula Principles: Now Available in Spanish!
The Peninsula Principles are now available in Spanish. DS is very grateful to Carlos Arenas for his excellent translation, and hopes that people throughout Spanish-speaking countries can now use the Principles to assist in protecting the rights of those facing climate displacement.
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What would you say to investors about BP's latest set of results, with their underlying profit of $1.3 billion?
I would describe the results as good, considering the circumstances. As everyone knows, oil prices have fallen deeply and dramatically over the past year. Brent oil today is trading at around $53 which is roughly half the level of a year ago. We moved quickly to respond and we are continuing to respond by controlling our capital spending and costs. Indeed, we were already simplifying and reshaping our business before prices fell. We are also now seeing some deflation in the supply chain across the industry as a whole.
As a business we are still investing for growth in a measured way. In the Upstream, we have seen two new projects start up in Angola this year and two new discoveries in Egypt. In the Downstream, we've seen strong performance with very efficient manufacturing and growth in marketing. At the same time, we are simplifying and economising – in fact, our cash costs were $1.7 billion lower in the first half of 2015 than the first half of 2014.
Of course we will not compromise on safety and reliability. For example, we have consciously not delayed the maintenance turnarounds that take place on facilities in the summer season in the northern hemisphere.
All these factors are reflected in the second quarter results, which are broadly in line with what was expected, other than for some write-offs because of the situation in Libya.
You touched on the oil price there; it has dropped dramatically in the past year. How long do you think it will stay this low?
When you go to oil conferences, people use shorthand - is the drop shaped like a 'V' or a 'U' or a 'long U' or a 'W', or even an 'L'? We believe this is a 'long U'. The price may pick up a little over the summer as people travel on vacation - making a bit of a 'W' and then fall back.
The industry has already deferred or re-phased around $200 billion of projects around the world in 2015, which will have a knock-on effect with costs and also, potentially, on supply in the medium term. The oil price cycle is not new. In fact, it's the fourth cycle I've seen in my career. We have to plan the organization for lower prices through 2016 and get our books in order.
How significant are this month's agreements to settle claims from the US government, Gulf Coast states and local government bodies over the Deepwater Horizon accident and spill?
They are very important. After five years of legal proceedings, we at last have a realistic outcome that provides clarity for everyone concerned. It resolves the largest liabilities remaining from the tragic accident and oil spill. The payments will total $18.7 billion over 18 years and will resolve not only the Clean Water Act proceedings, but Natural Resource Damages and other claims. We still have claims to resolve from individuals and others, but this gives all parties great clarity and allows us to better plan for the future, including further investments in the US.
What impact do the agreements have on the business?
They show up in the headline results because we have taken a charge of $9.8 billion to provide for the additional payments under the agreement. This leads to a headline loss of $6.3 billion. But this is a one-off charge to the accounts and the actual payments of $18.7 billion will be spread over 18 years. We expect the impact on our finances will be manageable and we can continue to build our business. But, we must not forget the lives that were lost or the lessons learned. This should strengthen our resolve to build an ever-safer business.
Elsewhere, the situation in Ukraine continues to be challenging. How concerned should investors be about BP's position in Russia?
Firstly, BP will always abide by sanctions. We operate in many places around the world where there is conflict and we do so safely. The situation in Ukraine is incredibly complicated, but I do believe that commerce builds bridges between countries. Russia has been a successful place for us over the past 25 years and our relationships with Rosneft are very strong.
We are committed to our investments in Russia and will make more. We signed some new agreements this year. We formed a new joint venture with Rosneft to develop and grow a large field in eastern Siberia. It's now producing 20,000 barrels a day and we plan to increase that to 100,000 by the end of the decade. We're also going to explore together some other areas in the heartland of the Siberian oil basins.
At the end of May, BP signed a letter with other oil and gas companies calling for a global carbon price. Why did the business do that?
This year is important as we have the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, at which around 200 countries will gather to try to achieve a universal agreement on climate change. Early this year, I was at another conference with the heads of Total, Statoil and Shell and the audience was asking us about our position. We realized that we needed to speak with a common voice and language. We were later joined by Eni, BG and Repsol.
The timing is right for us to have our voice heard. Gas is an important bridge to a lower-carbon future. Replacing coal consumption with gas for power generation by 1% has the same impact on emissions as increasing renewables by 11%. Today, our portfolio is 50/50 oil and gas. In a decade, we expect it will be around 60% gas.
Are you positive about BP's future?
Very. I think we have great portfolio with a strong mixture of upstream, downstream, gas, oil, trading and renewables. We have a pipeline of almost 50 major projects between now and 2020. I think we have positioned ourselves for rough waters, quickly. We will be fast and nimble in making decisions and, if the right opportunities come up, we will take them.
We are adjusting well to the new world we work in and, as time goes by, we will be able to be even more specific about our strategy and objectives for the medium to longer term. Everything we are doing right now is getting ourselves fit for the future – and that makes me very positive about BP.


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Cyclist tries to outmaneuver motorcycle cop
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Feb. 5, 2007 Updated: Jan. 20, 2012 2:42 p.m.
2007-02-05 09:17:00 PST FREMONT -- A word to bicyclists: Don't think you can outrun a motorcycle cop. A man in a hurry to watch the Super Bowl learned the hard way and ended up watching the game from a jail cell.
The incident happened Sunday afternoon when Ricky Martin, 44, of Fremont ran a red light while riding his Schwinn bicycle near Mowry Avenue and Peralta Boulevard, Fremont police said.
Motorcycle Officer Daniel Harvey spotted the two-wheeled suspect and stopped him. Martin pedaled to a stop but then fled, trying to outmaneuver the officer on the Harley Davidson motorcycle, police said.
The two "went in circles, went over center dividers and up on sidewalks," Fremont traffic Sgt. Tony Delgado said today.
But Harley beat Schwinn.
FREMONT / Bicyclist tries to outrun motorcycle cop, fails
Henry K. Lee
Harvey drew his Taser weapon, which is capable of producing an electric jolt, and arrested Martin on Ford Lane, about a half-mile from where Martin had run the red light, police said.
Martin told the officer that he fled because he thought he had a warrant and "didn't want to go to jail and wanted to get home in time to watch the Super Bowl," Delgado said. But it turned out he didn't have a warrant.
Nevertheless, he got his wish, and his pedal-pushing got him a prime seat: he was able to watch the game in a cell at Fremont City Jail, where he was being held on suspicion of resisting arrest.
Reach Henry K. on
Henry K. Lee has been a reporter for KTVU-TV since 2015. Prior to that he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle for more than a decade. He covers breaking news, crime, courts and aviation. He has appeared on television and radio programs to discuss high-profile cases and is the author of "Presumed Dead - A True-Life Murder Mystery," about the Hans Reiser murder case in Oakland.
He studied premed at UC Berkeley before graduating with a psychology major and was a reporter and editor at the Daily Californian student newspaper on campus.


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Beginning tomorrow, North Florida Avenue will be closed nightly to thru traffic between East Hillsborough and East Osborne avenues for stormwater work on Florida near East Frierson. Florida Avenue will be closed from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night Tuesday Dec 6, Wednesday, Dec. 7, and Thursday, Dec. 8.
Northbound traffic on Florida Avenue will be detoured at Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue to Nebraska Avenue. Southbound thru traffic on North Florida Avenue will be detoured at East Hillsborough Avenue to Nebraska Avenue.
During this work, heavy equipment will travel to and from the work site on Florida Avenue to St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 5103 North Central Avenue to access stored materials. Residents near St. Paul's and along Wilder Avenue may hear heavy equipment in the area periodically between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
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Jake Trbojevic is a certainty for the Origin opener in Melbourne.
FROM Mona Vale to the MCG?
Manly's talented brothers Jake and Tom Trbojevic are desperate to achieve their boyhood dream by representing NSW side-by-side.
Injury robbed Tom's Origin dreams last year - but all that will change if NSW coach Brad Fittler pens the the Mona Vale Raiders juniors into his Origin I squad over the next 24-hours.
Sea Eagles coach Trent Barrett said he couldn't be prouder if the siblings recieved their call.
"It's the whole family - they're a footy family, who are down to earth and such decent people,'' Barrett said.
"We're lucky to have them.
"Whileever they're here (Manly), this club will always be a chance of winning the competition.
"They boast a selflessness - they're all for the team.
"I know Freddy (Fittler) very well and I know that's the player he would want.
"There's nothing about the pair that not to like. They train hard, they're selfless, they'll do anything for anyone else and they can play.
"They're tough and tick a lot of boxes.
With Jake set to earn a starting spot in the Blues pack, Tom's position within the NSW line-up remains open to interpretation depending on an achillies injury to Brisbane's James Roberts and the recovery from Saturday night of Roosters duo James Tedesco and Latrell Mitchell.
Tom is being considered as a possible centre, wing or fullback option by Fittler.
The 21-year-old's 102kg frame is a lure for Fittler to use him at right centre, where he would be tasked with stopping Queensland's Greg Inglis.
"He'd handle it,'' Barrett said.
"His best position is fullback, obviously.
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19 Sikh pilgrims killed in bus-train collision in Pakistan
Published on : 03 Jul, 2020 , 3:03 pm
Lahore: At least 19 Sikh pilgrims were killed and many others critically injured in a collision between a passenger bus and train on Friday in Pakistan's Sheikhupura district, near Lahore.
As per details, the Shah Hussain Express train smashed into the bus carrying at least 25 Sikh pilgrims from Nankana Sahib to Lahore, after it came on the rail tracks and got stuck.
A Pakistan Railways spokesperson said that the collision occurred at a railway crossing located between Farooqabad and Bahali Wala.
It was reported that the Sikh devotees were travelling from Gurdwara Sacha Sauda from Peshawar, while the train was enroute to Lahore from Karachi.
Hospital authorities confirmed that there were at least 60 injured being treated, adding that most of them were in critical condition.
Prime Minister Imran Khan expressed grief at the incident and ordered the best possible medical facilities to the victims.
Railway Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed has ordered an immediate inquiry into the incident.
As per eyewitnesses, the railway crossing did not have any barriers to stop the traffic and keep the train track clear.
"The bus was stuck on the train track and was hit hard by the train. The train dragged the vehicle to a good distance. Then the vehicle exploded," said an eyewitness.