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Audio: Elizabeth Bishop reads "The Fish" (text included)
Elizabeth Bishop (1911 – 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer who was born in Massachusetts, raised in Nova Scotia, and lived for many years in Brazil with her partner Lota de Macedo Soares. Bishop was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Although not as widely known as many of the male poets of her generation, such as Theodore Roethke and John Berryman, Bishop's restrained style and impeccable craft have had a strong influence on many American poets, most notably Robert Lowell, Kathleen Spivack, Dana Gioia, and Louise Glück. Like many of Bishop's poems, "The Fish" is widely admired for its precise detailed description that evokes a struggle to discover a sense of belonging in the world.
In terms of identity politics, Bishop did not see herself as a "lesbian poet" or as a "female poet", refusing to have her work published in all-female poetry anthologies. Many feminist poets of her time believed that she was hostile to their cause, but in a 1978 interview with The Paris Review, she said that, despite her insistence on being excluded from single-gender poetry anthologies, she still considered herself to be "a strong feminist" but that she wanted to be judged based only on the quality of her writing and not on her gender or sexual orientation.
Email subscribers may listen to Elizabeth Bishop read her poem "The Fish" by clicking on the title of this post.
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely. Here and there
his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses
stained and lost through age.
He was speckled with barnacles,
fine rosettes of lime,
and infested
with tiny white sea-lice,
and underneath two or three
rags of green weed hung down.
While his gills were breathing in
the terrible oxygen
—the frightening gills,
fresh and crisp with blood,
that can cut so badly—
I thought of the coarse white flesh
packed in like feathers,
the big bones and the little bones,
the dramatic reds and blacks
of his shiny entrails,
and the pink swim-bladder
like a big peony.
I looked into his eyes
which were far larger than mine
but shallower, and yellowed,
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.
They shifted a little, but not
to return my stare.
—It was more like the tipping
of an object toward the light.
I admired his sullen face,
the mechanism of his jaw,
and then I saw
that from his lower lip
—if you could call it a lip—
grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.
A green line, frayed at the end
where he broke it, two heavier lines,
and a fine black thread
still crimped from the strain and snap
when it broke and he got away.
Like medals with their ribbons
frayed and wavering,
a five-haired beard of wisdom
trailing from his aching jaw.
I stared and stared
and victory filled up
the little rented boat,
from the pool of bilge
where oil had spread a rainbow
around the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,
the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels—until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.
2 comments on "Audio: Elizabeth Bishop reads "The Fish" (text included)"
Beth Peyton
Holy crap this is perfect. I know a couple of fishermen who are going to fall in love with poetry now. As soon as I share this.
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Q: Deformation complex of Lie algebra structures I am learning about deformation theory, e.g. through The unbearable lightness of deformation theory by Szendröi. There the standard example of deformations of a structure of associative algebra, leading to the Hochschild complex, is presented. Personally, I am more interested to the case of Lie algebras.
Let $V$ be a vector space, let's say finite dimensional, and $[\cdot,\cdot]\in\hom(V^{\otimes2},V)$ a Lie bracket. The group $G=GL(V)$ acts on $V$ in the obvious way, and the structures that are isomorphic to the original one are those of the form
$$[x,y]_g = g[g^{-1}x,g^{-1}y].$$
Let's look at infinitesimal deformations (i.e. we work on $k[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^2)$), so consider
$$[x,y]' = [x,y] + \epsilon f(x,y)$$
with $f\in\hom(V^{\otimes2},V)$ antisymmetric. Then $[\cdot,\cdot]'$ satisfies the Jacobi rule if, and only if
$$[x,f(y,z)] + f(x,[y,z]) + \text{cyclic} = 0.$$
The infinitesimal action of $G$ on $V$ is given by elements of the type
$$T(x) = x + \epsilon g(x)$$
with $g\in\hom(V,V)$ (that is, in the Lie algebra of $G$). Then it can be checked that
$$[x,y]'_T := T[T^{-1}x,T^{-1}y] = [x,y] + \epsilon f_T(x,y)$$
with
$$f_T(x,y) = f(x,y) + g([x,y]) - [x,g(y)] - [g(x),y].$$
Therefore, the deformation complex should be a vector space containing the possible $f$ and $g$ (so I would say maybe the space of completely antisymmetric $\hom(V^{\otimes n},V)$) with a differential such that
\begin{align*}
(dg)(x,y) = & g([x,y]) - [x,g(y)] - [g(x),y],\\
(df)(x,y,z) = & [x,f(y,z)] + f(x,[y,z]) + \text{cyclic}.
\end{align*}
Currently, I have no idea how to define such a differential. Does anybody know, have an idea, or know a reference where this is done? Also, what is the good structure to put on the deformation complex to make it into a dgla?

A: For future reference, as it is remarked in Gerstenhaber's On the Deformation of Rings and Algebras (but not proved, as it is analogous to the associative case; thanks to @DietrichBurde for the reference, really nice paper, by the way) the correct complex is the Chevalley-Eilenberg complex of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ (with coefficients in itself), which is defined as
$$C^k(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}) = \hom(\Lambda^{k+1}\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g})$$
with differential $\delta$ defined by
\begin{align*}
(\delta f)(x_0,\ldots,x_n) = & \sum_{i}(-1)^i[x_i,f(x_0,\ldots,\widehat{x_i},\ldots,x_n)]\\
& + \sum_{i<j}(-1)^{i+j}f([x_i,x_j],x_0,\ldots,\widehat{x_i},\ldots,\widehat{x_j},\ldots,x_n).
\end{align*}
A possible reference for this is the original paper by Chevalley and Eilenberg (you'll have to get used to their notation, though).

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carlo romano
Già Primo Oboe Solista Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI
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Carlo Romano, was born in Rome , where he began studying the piano at the age of 7 and was a member of the "Saint Peter's in the Vaticans" Choir under the direction of Armando Renzi. After studying the oboe in the prestigious school of Giuseppe Tomassini (the former principal oboe of the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia" until 1972.
Obtaining a scholarship for master classes held by M° Franco Ferrara at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, he gained experience with the major simphonic repertoire. In 1977 Carlo Romano won the position for first oboe in the "Carlo Felice" Opera Orchestra in Genua where he remained until 1978 when he became the First Soloist Oboe in the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Roma".
He currently holds the same position in the l'Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI in Tourin, the Orchestra that was formed after unifying the Italian Radio Orchestras in 1994. He has also collaborated with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome and the "Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra" in Florence. Carlo Romano has been invited to partecipate in many festivals as a soloist and in chamber music groups both in Italy and abroad (Japan, Corea, France, Switzerland, Germany, England, Spain, Holland, Belgium and USA, Central America, South America, Russia etc…) gaining such critical acclaim to be considered one of the major italian oboists.
He is currently member of several chamber groups, including "Il Quintetto di Roma", the "Roma Sinfonietta", as well as several chamber formations within the "Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI" and has also collaborated with the prestigious "I Virtuosi di Roma" conducted by Renato Fasano.
With a consolidated repertoire spanning from the Classical to theContemporary, Carlo Romano has performed the debut of many pieces dedicated to him by present-day composers. As solist, he had the possibility to interpret different first executions and a big part of classical repertoire with different italian and foreign orchestras (Orch. Sinf. di Sanremo, Orch. Lirico-Sinf. di Cagliari, Orch. Sinf. Abruzzese, Orch. Regionale del Lazio, Orch. Sinf. di Lecce, Solisti Aquilani, Orch. della Radio Polacca, Orch. della Radio Bulgara, Orch. da camera di Bonn, Orch. da camera della Staatsoper di Monaco, ecc.
He has recorded for Sony, EDI-PAN, RCA, Forum, Cam, RAI, Radio-France, Radio Vaticana, Spanish TV and numerous radio and television recording, even more CDs with Mozart & Strauss Oboe Concerti, and Chamber Music with various "Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI" ensembles published by Videoradio. His latest recording is a "Maag Collection" CD, concerning a live recording of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante Kv 297b
With "Orchestra della Rai di Roma" and the Orchestra Nazionale della Rai in Turin, he has performed several of the most important works of the oboe repertoire including concertos by (Bach, Marcello, Salieri, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Strauss, Maderna, Donadoni, Lieti, Arcà and D'Amico), and has collaborated with many well-known orchestral conductors such as (Böhm ,Giulini, Gardiner, Gergiev, Maazel, Mehta, Muti, Prêtre, , R. F. De Burgos, Inbal, M. W. Chung, Matacic, Marriner, Dutoit, , Sawallish, Sinopoli, Temirkanov etc...) In 1991, in the bicentenaire of Mozart's death, Carlo Romano was invited to perform the oboe concerto Kv314 and the Sinfonia Concertante Kv 297b on a tour with the Chamber Orchestra of the State Opera of Munich. In addition to his solo career, Carlo Romano is also a dedicated teacher, having taught at the L'Aquila Conservatory and in courses and Master Courses at the "Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento di Saluzzo", "Accademia O. Respighi" of Assisi, "Accademia Pescarese", "Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto", courses at Palmi and Lanciano and at the festival "Musica de Verão" in Brasil. He has recorded for film scores, working with internationally well-known composers.
Carlo Romano has worked together on Ennio Morricone for 40 years, playing a big part of his film and chamber music in concerts and recordings all over the world. Carlo Romano partecipats regularly in juries for National and International contests and auditions for his instrument and chamber music.
October the 27th, 2007, he received a prestigious price for his Oboe Career from the Associazione Musicale Internazionale "G.Verdi" of Sabaudia (LT)
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Australian citizens interested in pursuing a PhD with the Global Ecology Lab have several scholarship opportunities, including Flinders University Research Scholarships, College of Science and Engineering Research Awards, AJ & IM Naylon PhD Scholarships, Joyner Scholarships in Arts, Law, Medicine and Science, and Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarships (for Indigenous students only).
There are also several options for international students (search here for available scholarships). After negotiating with us regarding supervision, prospective international PhD candidates will have to contact the International Office at Flinders.
Some potential projects for PhD candidates are listed below, as well as several possible Honours projects — these are not comprehensive, so we invite prospective students to discuss potential project ideas with us. We generally do not have a MSc programme at Flinders University.
1. PhD: Legacy of human migration on the diversity of languages in the Americas: Languages are 'documents of history' and historical linguists have developed comparative methods to infer patterns of human prehistory and cultural evolution. The Americas present a more substantive diversity of indigenous language stock than any other continent; however, whether such a diversity arose from initial human migration pathways across the continent is still unknown, because the primary proxy used (i.e., archaeological evidence) to study modern human migration is both too incomplete and biased to inform any regional inference of colonisation trajectories.
This project aims to quantify the impact of initial migration by humans in the Americas on the origin and the evolution of indigenous human language. More specifically, we will first develop models to estimate the regional colonisation patterns of the first Homo sapiens based on time series of archaeological evidence across the Americas. Then, we will cross-validate these inferred patterns with regional maps of genetic information (i.e., human mitochondrial DNA sequences) to calculate initial human routes of migration in the Americas. We will evaluate the regional correlation between these human migration pathways and maps of language diversity to quantify the relative effect of initial human colonisation on the evolution and diversification of human language. This project is unique and novel because never before have quantitative methods of spatial human ecology been combined with linguistic histories to elucidate heretofore only hypothesised patterns.
We have two specific goals: (1) Provide robust and reliable regional inference of initial colonisation trajectories in the Americas by using new, cutting-edge statistical techniques that integrate both archaeological evidence and differences in mitochondrial DNA (using the so-called 'fixation index'), and (2) Identify regions of initial human colonisation that could have promoted language diversity across the Americas by quantitatively comparing our reconstructed regional colonisation trajectories to a comprehensive dataset describing regional language diversity.
Main outcome: we will provide an unprecedented and previously unavailable picture of how initial human migrations shaped the evolution of modern-day languages over broad scales of space and time.
This project is an international collaboration between Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia), the University of Adelaide (Australia), theMuseu Paraense Emílio Goeldi (Brazil) and University of California Santa Cruz (USA). The successful candidate will be based at the Global Ecology Lab (Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia) and work under the main supervision of Prof Corey Bradshaw and Drs Frédérik Saltré, Bastien Llamas (Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, University of Adelaide), Joshua Birchall (Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Brazil), and Lars Fehren-Schmitz (UCSC).
The Australian Government opened international funding opportunities for non-Australian students who want to do a full-time doctorate degree in Australia, called Endeavour Leadership Program. The recipient will receive for up to 4 years (i) a stipend of AU$3000/month, (ii) a travel allowance of up to AU$3000, (iii) an establishment allowance of between AU$2000 and AU$4000, (iv) health insurance for the full category duration, and (v) travel insurance.
We are seeking a highly motivated student to pursue a PhD at Flinders University focusing on modelling regional pattern of initial Homo sapiens colonisation and its consequences on the evolution and diversification of modern human language. The candidate should ideally already have a Masters degree in (palaeo)ecology and evolution and some experience and/or demonstrated competency in modelling. Applicants should also have good quantitative skills, and a strong interest in palaeoecology and species distribution modelling. Experience with statistical analyses in R or Matlab are expected and programming skills are desirable, but not necessary. Strong writing skills, the ability to communicate effectively, and the will to work in a team are also essential.
2. PhD: Network models to predict ecological change: Species assemblages are being rapidly rearranged due to human endeavour. Such changes can cause species extinctions and trophic cascades, and can also compromise ecosystem functions. However, some changes are not necessarily always negative from an ecosystem perspective —damaged assemblages can often 'absorb' changes and continue to function relatively well compared to more intact systems. With mounting ecological damage to the biosphere, we are obligated to improve our ability to predict the long-term consequences of these changes. But to do this, we first need to quantify the interactions between species — how species directly and indirectly affect each other.
Unfortunately for most species, we know little or next to nothing about how they interact with other species. Furthermore, changes to assemblages often involve the arrival of new species that have never before been sympatric with local species; we are even less likely to have information on how historically allopatric species interact. How can we infer the type and intensity of interactions between species for which we have no empirical interaction data? A generalised method to predict how species will interact — who will eat whom, who will compete with whom, etc. — is therefore required.
Body-size matching between predators and prey has been applied successfully before to infer trophic interactions in some taxonomic groups: fish, aquatic invertebrates, and some large mammals. In this project, you will investigate if/how trait-matching relationships vary among taxa. For example, does the predator-prey body size relationship differ between birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and fish? Does the relationship differ between carnivorous versusomnivorous species? Tackling these questions will allow the construction of food webs for which empirical data are currently lacking (almost all food webs), including food webs for modified/future assemblages as well as for palaeo assemblages to investigate ancient extinction events. Food webs will be interrogated through network modelling, to investigate how the arrival or removal of a species, and other environmental changes, can have consequences that reverberate throughout the rest of the network.
3. PhD: Modelling the effects of environmental change and human population growth on the health of future children: We are on the threshold of a catastrophic environmental decline that will affect the future health and welfare of children. Despite clear evidence this will occur globally and in Australia, little research has focused on predicting, quantifying, and determining the time scale of these effects on child health. We have assembled a dedicated, collaborative team of experienced researchers with the expertise, modelling ability, leadership and track records to construct the most relevant predictors of future child health (main collaborators: Professor Peter Le Souëf, Professor Sarah Otto, Professor Zulfiqar Bhutta). We aim to model these data to promote the most efficient and effective preventive strategies.
Main aim: To make robust predictions of the future health and welfare of children in Australia and globally using the latest information on environmental changes and population demographics and dynamics.
Main hypothesis: Environmental changes and population increases over the next 10 to 50 years will result in declining health and well-being of young children; the magnitude and rate of this decline can be predicted by coupling modelling with current data, improving our ability to target medical and policy improvements aimed at protecting child health.
Model the most up-to-date data sources to quantify and predict the time scale of the effects of environmental changes and population increases on child health by country and region, with particular emphasis on Australia.
Establish a new series of human population projections based on potential changes in global, regional and national Australian fertility rates.
To use the predictions to assist in guiding regional and broader government planning to produce the best possible health outcomes for children in Australia and globally.
1. Honours: No-analogue climate and megafauna extinction: Climate change is one of the main drivers suggested to explain the demise of Late Pleistocene megafauna in Australia. Climate proxies used to test the effect of the palaeoclimate on megafauna extinctions suffer from a lack of representativeness (local-scale, remoteness, etc.). Promising new approaches based on global circulation models (GCM) can overcome these issues and can be used to build climate-change metrics. Climate-change metrics synthesise the complex effects of climate change and can potentially map where species were more likely to (i) adapt in situ to new climatic conditions, (ii) disperse and establish in areas with newly suitable climates, or (iii) decline to extirpation (i.e., become extinct from a particular region, but not vanish entirely). These metrics, including measures of novel and disappearing terrestrial climates, are used extensively to forecast future biological responses to climate change. This project aims to investigate the effects of climate change on megafauna extinction at a continental scale in Australia over the last 130,000 years by applying these metrics to GCM outputs and seek correlations between the proportion of novel and/or disappearing terrestrial climates and the number of extinct species.
2. Honours: Koala browse-tree distribution models: Koalas are introduced to South Australia, but they now have a wide distribution in the Mount Lofty Ranges and number in the tens to hundreds of thousands. The poor state of native vegetation in the Ranges combined with browsing pressure from koalas means that certain eucalypt species like manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis), blue gum (E. leucoxylon), and black gum (E. ovatus) are potentially threatened with range contractions and even local extinction, especially as bushfire incidence and climate change further stress existing populations. This project will develop hybrid species distribution models comprising both climatic envelopes and physiological tolerances of key eucalypt species in the Mount Lofty Ranges to estimate the future resilience to different stressors.
3. Honours: Koala species distribution models for South Australia: Koalas have been introduced to South Australia, but they now have a wide distribution in the Mount Lofty Ranges and number at least in the tens to hundreds of thousands. We have the data compiled from the 2012 and 2016 Great Koala Counts — citizen-science projects mapping the distribution of koalas primarily in the Mount Lofty Ranges around Adelaide. This project will develop cutting-edge species distribution models using the latest koala distribution data and geographic layers (e.g., vegetation, soil moisture, climate) to predict the density distributions for koalas, thus providing essential information for updating total population estimates for the species in mainland South Australia.
There are no employment vacancies at this time.
We are often approached by researchers who would like to develop their own proposals to join our lab. Salaries for researchers can often be funded via mechanisms like the Australian Research Council Discovery Early-Career Research Awards (DECRA), the Commonwealth of Australia's Endeavour fellowships, or even overseas sources.
If you are interested in joining our lab and would like to investigate possible funding routes in this manner, please contact us.


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Holgorsen Believes In '15 Squad
by jerry McGhee - July 22, 2015 July 22, 2015 0591
With 43 days remaining until the green flag drops on the 2015 college football season, Dana Holgorsen and his West Virginia University football team kicked off Day 1 of Big 12 Conference Media Day.
Holgorsen returns to Morgantown for his 5th season with 15 starters back from last year's 7-6 team that lost to Texas A&M in the Liberty Bowl.
credit USA Today
Much of the attention during the off season has centered around the Mountaineer defense. With the likes of Karl Joseph, KJ Dillon, Nick Kwiatkoski, Larry Jefferson, Kyle Rose, Daryl Worley and Dravon Henry back, this should be the best defensive unit Morgantown has seen in a long time.
And Holgorsen isn't backing away from it.
"I've just got guys that have a bunch of experience," he said. "When we came into this league three years ago, everybody remembers Geno Smith and Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey, but I doubt you could name another person, especially on defense. Just the guys that have been here three and four years, even going into their fifth year – guys have been here and they've played a bunch.
"It's been a long road to get to this point defensively, and we obviously feel good about it." Holgorsen said.
West Virginia defensive coordinator Tony Gibson set the bar high early during the spring when he said expects this defense to be one of the best in the country.
"That's our mindset now," Gibson said. "We want to be aggressive, we want to dictate tempo of games, we don't want to let the offense do that to us, that's when you get on your heels."
It's often said that defenses take on the personality of their coach, and it's easy to see why players enjoy playing for Gibby.
"He's one of the most consistent coaches we've had," safety Karl Joseph said. "He's a fun coach to play for, he's aggressive. He gets disappointed in us a lot, and I like that because it means he cares and knows what we are capable of. It doesn't take him yelling at us; he can just give us that disappointed look and we know we need to step up."
On the other side of the ball, the offense continues to be the wildcard.
It's no secret that Holgorsen likes to throw it around the yard and mix in the run to keep the defense off balance. In 2015, you'll likely see several new wrinkles to the Mountaineer offense.
But Holgorsen is adaptable.
"Last year we were still top seven or eight in passing in the country, but we ran the ball over 50 percent of the time," he pointed out. "That's just kind of what our philosophy is, and that's the way it's going to be. The more success we have running the ball, the more we're going to do it."
Ball security is something Holgorsen has stressed during the off season.
"Everybody talks about the quarterback position taking care of the ball when he's throwing it, but you've got to take care of the ball in the pocket, and you've got to take care of the ball when you tuck it and head downfield as well," said Holgorsen. "Whoever that guy is for us is going to be the guy that can take care of the ball more than anything. We were 120th in turnover margin last year and we felt like we could have put ourselves in a position to win the conference if we'd have done a better job of taking care of the ball and getting turnovers on defense as well."
One luxury Holgorsen will have in his pocket is the ability to show different formations and group sets on offense. With inexperience at the wide receiver position, the run game powered by Rushel Shell, Wendell Smallwood and Donte Thomas-Williams will need to lead the way.
Add more design quarterback runs, and you can start to see the Mountaineers adapt to Big 12 football.
Teams across the conference are going towards dual-threat quarterbacks that can both throw and run. Multiple schemes often create multiple problems for defenses, and keep defense coordinators awake at night.
But that doesn't mean Holgorsen still can't throw it 40 times a game… or does it?
"Geez, I still like to throw the ball a good bit, you know," he said. "But I know one thing: if you can't do either one, you're not going to be worth a darn, I can assure you of that."
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How Many Days In JULY 2019 Before There Is A Need To Pray JESUS PSALTER? 28 DAYS! MASS SHOOTING AT GARLIC FEST 6-YEAR-OLD AMONG DEAD DOZENS INJURED TERROR IN CALIFORNIA CONFUSION, PANIC 'I'M REALLY ANGRY!'
How many days in JULY 2019 before there is a need to pray the JESUS PSALTER for all those coming NATURAL AND MAN-MADE DISASTERS AND MUSLIM TERROR ATTACKS IN USA THE WORLD
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Another Mass Shooting in California....
If you feel the need to make reparation when disaster strikes please Pray the JESUS PSALTER found here
Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting: Gunman 'in military fatigues' told terrified crowds he was 'really angry' as he opened fire with an assault rifle, killing three people including a six-year-old boy, as a manhunt is launched for his 'accomplice'
A six-year-old boy is among three dead after a mass shooting at a California garlic festival where an unidentified gunman opened fire with an assault rifle, telling the crowd he was 'really angry' as he reloaded his weapon before being shot dead by police. Stephen Romero was killed when a man described by witnesses as white, aged between 20 and 35 and wearing military fatigues, opened fire on the final day of the Gilroy Garlic Festival, around 30 miles south of San Jose, with a semi-automatic assault rifle around 6pm local time Sunday. The gunman, who is yet to be identified, was shot dead by police. Authorities believe he gained access to the festival, which was protected with metal detectors, by using bolt cutters to get through a fence. They believe he had an accomplice and police are still looking for that person. According to witnesses, when asked why he wanted to was shooting, the gunman answered 'because I'm really angry'. Others have told how he was silent as he marched through the crowds. 'He didn't say anything, nothing. He did not even look from side to side. He just kept looking forward,' Cheryl Low, who was working at the festival, told ABC. Gilroy is the garlic capital of the world and 100,000 people visit the town for it every year. Stephen is the only one of the three people killed to be named. He was there with his grandmother and mother who were both injured. Source


The Village is a student housing project which has a lot more to offer than a classic 'kot'.
The student homes are relatively well equipped and that's what we are putting up front in the strategy. Amenities and green areas between the houses are a big plus. We are also emphasising the balance between leisure & studies which is very important for students in the largest student city in Belgium. The Village is a 'village in the city'.
A refreshing website appealing to the target group with clear colours and cool icons.
To appeal to our target group we also made a movie to convince them to come and live at The Village. You can check it out via this link.
Obviously, these kind of projects are promoted mostly through online channels and search tools. The student target group operates almost exclusively online, so no need to use print media.


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Fuzzy: Introducing Paul Dellinger to the Kidlit Crowd
I worked with both Tom Angleberger and Paul Dellinger at The Roanoke Times for many moons. But Paul's tenure there eclipsed ours. It eclipsed everybody's, really. For one thing, he was there a lot longer (44 years, people!) But even if he hadn't been, he would have written more stories than the rest of us put together.
Paul, looking contemplative. Photo by Maxine Dellinger.
Paul was known for doing six things at a time and some of us were convinced he could be in two places at once — a coal strike in far Southwest Virginia and a science fiction convention in Roanoke. (I, for one, have seen no evidence to prove he isn't capable of doing this.) During our years at the paper, Paul also wrote science fiction stories on the side. Then he retired and Tom, who was already well into his Origami Yoda series, knew exactly what to do with that retirement: He teamed up with Paul to work on a middle-grade novel, which was published by Abrams this month.
The novel is called Fuzzy. It's about a girl named Max, an overbearing vice principal, and a robot who is programmed to use fuzzy logic while attending middle school in the midst of standardized-testing-obsessed America. The story got a mention in Time Magazine this month and a starred review in Kirkus. It also received a star from our family, where we've been passing the book around during that painful segue from summer to back to school.
Since many folks in the kidlit community haven't met Paul Dellinger yet (that's Dellinger with a hard g; I mispronounced it for ages and he was too kind to correct me) I thought I would do the introductions by way of an interview.
Me: You've always been drawn to science fiction. Could you tell us a little about how your love of sci-fi started?
Paul: It started in childhood, with comic books and occasional movies (there weren't many SF movies back then, unlike today when every other new movie has at least SF elements). One of the earliest influences was probably a 1924 book called Peter and Prue by Mary Dickerson Donahey, loaned to me by a 2nd-grade teacher, a fantasy about two runaway kids visiting planets throughout our solar system and combining the science about them (as then known; I wish I could somehow get the rights to do a rewrite of it and bring that part up to date) with the Greek, Roman and Norse "gods" associated with them. It was a gem of a book. Next was the spinner-rack of paperbacks in my hometown newsstand where, again back then, the discovery of a new SF book was precious because there weren't that many.
Me: I love the way taking things out of this world allows you to better comment on/consider this world.
Paul: I agree. People say science fiction is supposed to predict futures (and it can, in small ways) but often it's written to avoid them (Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, for instance; Bradbury abhorred the idea of book burnings). Neville Shute's On the Beach and all the after-the-bomb stories that followed. And today's dystopias are not futures we would want). Even non-SF work like Dickens' Victorian England or Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin leave me with more of a feel for what those times were like than reading only factual history books.
Me: As you know, I was SUPER excited about the idea of you and Tom teaming up to write FUZZY. Could you talk a little bit about what the process was like, and who brought what to the story?
Paul: The concept was entirely Tom's. At a farewell party where photographer Gene Dalton and I were retiring from The Roanoke Times, Tom came and suggested the collaboration. I'm sure he could have handled it alone, although it would be a different book, and I'm grateful for his generosity in inviting me in. I had published some science fiction stuff and he thought I could bring something to the table from that.
(Tom adds: Sure, I suggested some of the ideas, but Paul did, too. Biggs and Valentina are two of his! I think the exciting thing to me is that neither one of us would have written this book without the other one!)
Tom A and Paul D: Collaborating at a burger joint.
Me: How did the process differ from when you worked with reporter Mike Allen on The Sky-Riders?
Paul: Mike and I (and Mike's wife, Anita) met occasionally during the process and brainstormed research and how the story would play out. One of us would then write it, and the other would go over that and make rewriting suggestions. With Tom, we had fewer face-to-face meetings but a lot more back and forth on the internet, sending huge sections of text to one another. Toward the end when we were zeroing in on changes we needed to make, one of us would do one section and one would do another. By the end, I'm not sure we could really tell who did what.
Me: Did you and Tom ever meet over lunch (lunch being important in any middle school novel) and if so, did your food source give you inspiration?
Paul: We had a few meetings at burger places midway between where we live, where we could find corner tables and spread out our paper stuff. So we ate mostly burgers, not too inspirational. We occupied our table for much longer than it took us to eat.
Me: How did the team process differ from when you've worked alone?
Paul: When I've worked on stories solo, it's generally been whenever I could sandwich time in front of a computer (or originally a typewriter; yes, I do go back that far. My first published short story, written while in the Army, had its first draft handwritten in a spiral notebook). I thought I'd have more time for that in retirement, but, surprise! Retirement's been pretty busy.
(Note: During his time in the Army, where he wrote news releases and worked for the post newspaper at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Paul also wrote a musical comedy, which was performed at the enlisted men's service club.)
Me: What was the best thing that came out of your recent partnership with Tom?
Paul: For me, it was coming up with a product that probably neither of us would have had alone. Plus, Tom has been very easy to work with. I don't think we ever had any battles over where the story would go at any point. (The same was true with Mike.) We went back and forth over some things but always wound up in agreement.
Me: Have you ever tried writing for a younger audience before?
Paul: No, this was the first time.
Me: Did you make any discoveries along the way?
Paul: Let's see…I discovered that you can radically change what would be a cliché situation simply by reversing the roles of the two characters involved. And that references to old-time western novels would be meaningless to today's [middle grade] readers. And probably much else that I don't recall at this moment.
Me: As someone who lives in an area where manufacturing used to be King, have you seen friends lose jobs to automation? Did that creep in to any of your thoughts as you were writing this book?
Paul: I have seen friends lose jobs for that reason, and as businesses consolidate trying to do more with fewer people. One of the adult characters in the book hates anything involving robotics for that very reason.
Me: You and Tom (and you and Mike, for that matter) have journalism in your blood. Did that have an impact on your story in any way?
Paul: We should all have deadline setting in common but, in both cases, we kind of let our projects play out to however much time it took, often interspersed with other projects we were doing. That changed toward the end of Tom's and my book, when contract deadlines came into play and our journalism experience with deadlines no doubt helped us.
Me: So a bit off the subject, but since we're talking robots: do you own or have you ever wanted to own a Roomba?
Paul: No. They look really efficient in TV ads, but I'm afraid we have too much furniture in the way. (Or stacks of books to knock over. My wife already says I have too many of those.)
Me: What's the closest thing in your house to a robot?
Paul: Probably Siri, on my iPhone. You can actually have conversations with Siri, as the astronauts in 2001 did with HAL. (Does playing chess or checkers against a computer on an iPad count?)
Me: (Who owned a flip phone until two weeks ago, and who has zero experience with Siri or iPads) Yes, absolutely that counts. Have you ever tried to build a robot?
Paul: No, all I can ever remember building were Lincoln Log forts as a kid. I peopled them with toy soldiers or plastic cowboys and Indians, and staged stories in them. This may have been the primitive form of today's sophisticated gaming. Oh, wait, I did once "build" a backyard spaceship, out of a discarded refrigerator box that I painted silver and filled inside with all kinds of fancy controls.
Me: If you had infinite programming abilities and were able to build a robot, what would you want it to do?
Paul: Housecleaning (around those stacks of books! In fact, it could catalog or alphabetize them for me), lawn-mowing, driving long distances (only when that becomes foolproof)…can't think of much else. My preferred non-human companions are still dogs and cat. And horses. Now, when they make a robot that follows directions and looks like Marilyn Monroe – but, no, that would be an android.
Me: Star Wars or Star Trek?
Paul: I've thoroughly enjoyed the original versions of both. Enjoyed each a little less with each new incarnation.
Me: What are some other robot-related books that kids inspired by Fuzzy might consider?
Paul: I, Robot, by Eando Binder. I, Robot (same title, different book, actually a short story collection), by Isaac Asimov. The Humanoids by Jack Vance. "Marionettes, Inc." by Ray Bradbury. "Helen O'Loy" by Lester del Rey. The Caves of Steel and The Robots of Dawn, both SF/mystery novels, both by Asimov, as well as his The Bicentennial Man. I read most of these as a kid so the short stories may be a little hard to track down, but the novels are still available.
Me: At the Roanoke Times, I was always blown away by how many things you could do at the same time, so the obvious question might be: what ELSE are you working on now?
Paul: I've been working off and on with a novel set in 1952 Hollywood but with flashbacks to the authentic old west. I needed to place it at a time when a major character could have lived during some of the historical events of the 1800s and still be functional. It's an attempt to combine the Hollywood west with the actual one. Nobody is out there screaming for it so I haven't set one of those deadlines to get it done.
Me: (Insert scream here.) And finally, could you tell the nice folks what you do in your free time?
Paul: Read, although not as much as I thought I would in retirement. Write, although ditto. I volunteer at the Wythe County Public Library, helping with publicity and assembling material for three of its eight monthly book clubs. I'd planned to take some community college courses but most of [my options were on-line] and I wanted actual classrooms. (I've instead ordered some of the Great Courses offerings with lectures on CDs and DVDs and gone through at least a dozen of those.) Occasionally, horseback riding. A friend and I do a monthly showing and providing the background for a series of vintage movies at the local community college.
Thanks, Paul!
Paul is still pondering this whole website business, but until then, you can learn more about him by visiting Abrams or by checking him out on Twitter.
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One Response to Fuzzy: Introducing Paul Dellinger to the Kidlit Crowd
Poppy says:
I ordered it. If Madelyn says its good, I'm going to read it. Looking forward to it.


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Power Up is a practical and pedagogically-based professional text for teachers who are new to the idea of teaching with a device for every student. Realistically, it takes three to five years for a teacher to incorporate educational technology into his or her practice, if there is effective coaching all along the way. As schools and districts increasingly adopt a 1:1 model, there are many teachers left asking, "What do I do with these things?" School-wide professional development is usually just a few days, and rarely gets past the nuts and bolts of how the computers and tablets work. Then, teachers go back to their classrooms to "figure it all out". Power Up is aimed at middle school and high school teachers who are facing the challenge and possibility of "figuring out" a 1:1 classroom, and is a cornerstone text that educators can rely on as a resource for the entire three to five years of their transition to 1:1 teaching.
At the heart of this text is a deep respect for the adage that "good teaching is good teaching." As a result, Power Up is organized around the principles of pedagogy that have guided good teaching for years -- communication, engagement, collaboration, audience, differentiation, assessment, creativity, and ownership of learning. Neebe and Roberts coach teachers through their initial concerns, lead them through the beginning of their classroom enrichment, and inspire them to continue innovating as they extend and transform their pedagogy. Through detailed classroom examples, questions, and suggestions, they provide a framework for shaping the transformation of a traditional classroom into a student-centered, technology-rich learning environment.
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Home » People » Local People » Medgar Evers
Photograph of NAACP leaders Roy Wilkins and Medgar Evers being arrested for attempting to picket outside the Jackson Woolworth's, 1963, crmvet.org
July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963
Raised in Decatur, Mississippi
Medgar Evers had misgivings about SNCC–too young, too radical, not knowledgeable about the state. But on the other hand, he was frustrated. He was the NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, the first in the state, and his national office was reluctant to move on Mississippi–too dangerous, too little gained for the money likely to be spent. But SNCC, Evers concluded, as did other local NAACP leaders, represented young energy he could use.
Evers laid much of the foundation on which the voting rights struggles of the 1960s were built. Before SNCC's presence in Mississippi, he mentored young Mississippians who later became a crucial part of SNCC's work. Students like Charles McLaurin, Dorie and Joyce Ladner, and Colia Liddell all looked to Evers for guidance before becoming field secretaries in SNCC.
A veteran of World War II, Medgar Evers was program director of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) organized in 1951 by Dr. T.R.M. Howard. In 1954, he became the NAACP's Mississippi field secretary, a position that he would hold until his assassination in 1963. He spent much of the late 1950s traveling from one NAACP chapter to the next giving "pep talks," often dressed as a sharecropper to avoid drawing attention to himself. Seeking to investigate and publicize racially-motivated homicides and lynchings in Mississippi, he became increasingly frustrated by how difficult change appeared to be in Mississippi. Watching the success of Montgomery bus boycott, Evers lamented to his wife Myrlie that "it was all happening somewhere else. Mississippi stood still."
Evers's relationship with SNCC was complicated at first. While he believed that the head-on confrontations that SNCC sometimes used in direct action protests might prompt violent responses against Black Mississippians, he also respected the militant actions they were taking to challenge inequality.
Medgar Evers in Jackson, Mississippi in 1963, crmvet.org
Evers supported boycotts and sit-ins in Jackson and elsewhere as long as they were student-led. Despite his commitment to the NAACP, Evers and his wife Myrlie were apt to welcome activists from any organization into their state and into their home. Whatever differences he sometimes had with their tactics, he believed in their mission.
In the early hours of June 12th, 1963, Evers pulled into his driveway, on his way home from a long rally at New Jerusalem Baptist Church. He was carrying a stack of NAACP t-shirts towards the house when a shot rang out from a nearby honeysuckle thicket. The bullet hit Evers in the back, just below his shoulder blade, and he died in route to the hospital.
"What bothers me most is that Mr. Evers was a man of peace. And I'm still not understanding why he was murdered," recalled Dorie Ladner years later. "Do I continue or do I stop? Do I backup all together? Do I fold up? It only made me stronger and want to do more."
John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994).
Michael Vinson Williams, Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2011).
Interview with Ed King by Joseph Sinsheimer, February 23, 1987, Joseph A. Sinsheimer Papers, Duke University.
Dorie Ladner, "The Activist," American Experience PBS, June 23, 2014.
Letter from Medgar Evers to Amzie Moore, April 19, 1960, Amzie Moore Papers, WHS
Letter from Medgar Evers to Amzie Moore, March 23, 1961, Amzie Moore Papers, WHS
Resolution and letter challenging Segregation signed by Medgar Evers, John Salter, Doris Allison of Jackson NAACP Branches, May 12, 1963, crmvet.org
Letter from John Salter to Polly Greenberg, September 27, 1966, crmvet.org


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10 Best Places To Visit In Dubrovnik For An Authentic Croatian Experience
16 Feb 2019 Ruchika Anand
If you are on a Eurotrip, then Eastern Europe is a place that you just cannot miss. The Slavic traditions are reminiscent of a different time. Croatia's Adriatic shoreline is a place of much beauty and culture, with the most distinct traditions in cuisine and language. The city of Dubrovnik is where you will likely find yourself if you decide to go on your Adriatic sojourn. The charming medieval forts and walls of Dubrovnik are complemented by a sea shore that has several excellent beaches and beautiful islands. Read on for a complete breakdown of places to visit in Dubrovnik that will help you have an authentic experience in Croatia!
10 Places In Dubrovnik No Traveler Should Ever Miss
Choose from this list of the 10 best places to see in Dubrovnik that are perfect for treating the culture vulture in you, and experience them in person on your next Croatian holiday!
1. The Rector's Palace
The centerpiece of the Ragusan empire, the palace is a fusion of European Renaissance and Slavic Baroque styles of architecture and is one of the most stunning places to visit in Dubrovnik. The chief citizen of the empire lived on the first floor of the palace, which houses today the Cultural History Museum that is filled with ornate furniture and armor. The medieval charm of the place is so obvious that it was used as a filming location of Game of Thrones – the atrium of the palace of the Spice King of Qarth.
Location: Pred Dvorom
Entry Fee: INR 1,000
Timings: 9am-6pm during Apr-Oct; 9am-4pm during Nov-Mar
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2. City Walls
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The massive stone walls of Dubrovnik around the Old Town were completed in the 16th century, and are an awe-inspiring reminder of the fact that the city's place in the history of the world. The best way to truly appreciate the scale and beauty of the walls that enclose the World Heritage site inside is to take a walking Dubrovnik city walls tour all along the battlements. You should check the Dubrovnik Port Authority website to see when the cruises are going to be in town and pick a time when there are none.
Location: Miličevića
Timings: 8AM – 7PM(summer), 9AM – 3PM(winter)
3. The Maritime Museum
Understanding the impressive seafaring past of the city is central to understanding this odd Slavic city. The Maritime Museum is located in the St.John's Fortress, which was built to protect the old republic's harbor. The city-state had one of the largest fleets in the world in the 16th century – 180 ships with over 4000 sailors. The museum has a range of exhibits from model ships, sailors' uniforms and maps, flags of the republic and other navigational equipment, making it one of the most popular Dubrovnik tourist attractions. The museum also has an underground aquarium that houses some of the most exotic Adriatic sea life.
Location: Damjana Jude
Timings: Tue-Sun only; 9am-6pm (Apr-Oct); 9am-4pm (Nov-Mar)
4. War Photo Limited
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Croatia, and indeed Dubrovnik, has seen its fair share of war with the most recent being the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 90s that prompted a decade of war genocide. The War Photo Limited is a somber display of wartime photojournalism drawn from several modern warzones and you should go here if you ever visit Dubrovnik. The 2018 exhibition by Wade Goddard focuses on the fight for independence of the Kosovo Albanians.
Location: Antuninska
Entry Fee: INR 500
Timings: Daily 10am-10pm in May-Sep; Wed-Mon 10am-4pm during April and Oct; closed in Nov-Mar
5. Lokrum Islet
The tiny island, off the Adriatic shore, is a 10 minutes ferry ride away from Dubrovnik. Bursting with cypresses, pines, palms, and eucalyptus, the island is a very popular place for Dubrovnik sightseeing. It has a beautiful rocky shore from where you can see the imposing forts of the Old City. There are also several spots where you can bath and swim. There is an 11th-century monastery in ruins here, and also a villa built by the Archduke Maximilian von Hapsburg.
Timings: April – November
Ferry Cost: INR 400
6. Banje Beach
This beautiful stretch of white sand is only a 10-minute walk from the Old Town. Set across from the magnificent battlements of the Old Town, the beach one of the best places to visit in Dubrovnik. The best times to visit the beach is perhaps June when you are likely to find the least people here. You can rent a tanning bed or baldachins and lounge about in the sun all day. There is also a pretty decent restaurant serving seafood.
Location: Frana Supila
Timings: 10AM – 8PM
7. Mount Srd
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A must-do when you are Dubrovnik is to take the cable car to the highest point in the city called Mount Srd(elevation 415 meters) that lies just behind the Old City complex. The cable car's two carriages leave from the lower level station that is just outside the Old Town area. From the top, you can see the Adriatic Sea, the Old Town and also the Dalmatian islands. The ideal time to come here is sunset, and you can get a lot of photos.
Location: Ulica kralja Petra Krešimira
Ticket Cost: INR 1,600
Timings: 9AM – 12AM
8. Elafiti Islets
The Elafiti islands of Lopud and Sipan are best explored with a kayak. You can hire the services of local companies or just rent a kayak and do it on your own. There are plenty of places to swim, snorkel and, yes, kayak on the Lopud island. Also, when in Lopud, be sure to spend some time on Sunj, one of Croatia's foremost and most pristine beaches. You can catch the ferry to the Elafiti islands in the morning from Dubrovnik's Gruz port.
Ticket Cost: INR 250
Ferry Timings: Various times during the day
9. Clock Tower
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Also known as the Bell Tower, the graceful 31 meters medieval tower built in the 15th century is one of the most enduring sights of the Dubrovnik Old Town. Right next to the majestic Sponza Palace, the Clock Tower makes for the most Instagrammable sights of this medieval town-fort and is one of the top 10 places to visit in Dubrovnik. There are two strikers of the bell made in bronze around the bell, called the zelenci, but locally they are called Maro and Baro.
Location: Luza Square
10. Sveti Vlaho Church
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This Baroque Church was built in the early half of the 18th century and is counted as one of the offbeat Dubrovnik points of interest. The church was actually constructed after a Roman church was destroyed in the 1776 earthquake that ravaged the city-state. The portrait of Sveti Vlaho holding a model of Dubrovnik is perhaps the most iconic sights to see in the Church.
Location: Luza Trg(Square)
Timings: 9AM to 8PM
The Dubrovnik sightseeing map is dotted with pretty beaches and stunning historical monuments. The city is an incredible place to see during your holiday in Europe and deserves to be seen to be really believed. So, pack your bags and head out to this paradise!
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"Leopard seals are notoriously difficult to study because they live and hunt in inaccessible places: they are relatively scarce, lead solitary lives and live mostly in the water or 'hauled out' on sea ice around Antarctica.
"As one of the Antarctic's apex predators, leopard seals can have large local impacts on their prey populations. They could be limiting the recovery of some fur seal colonies, for example, and are known to take a significant proportion of penguins from some smaller colonies - around 15% of the colony of gentoo penguins at one study site*. As ocean sentinels, they can reveal a lot about the health of an ecosystem and alert us to problems further down the food chain."
To find out more about the leopard seal's distribution and behaviour, the team attached 31 miniature tags to leopard seals between 2003 and 2012. The tags record sunrise and sunset times and have a wet/dry sensor. The tags have a long battery life, enabling them to track leopard seals for extended periods, but they do not transmit data so recovering the data is challenging. It requires that the seals are located and their tags removed while they are sleeping.
"This study presents several important breakthroughs in our study of these fearsome predators. This is the first long-term deployments of tracking devices on leopard seals, the first opportunity to record the complete annual migration of leopard seals between the Antarctic pack ice and sub-Antarctic islands, and the first to record their haul-out behaviour.
"These findings will enable more robust population size estimates and to assess the role of leopard seals within the Southern Ocean ecosystem. It is a major advance in our knowledge about the secret life of one of the Antarctic's true 'apex' predators."
Contact lead author Dr Iain Staniland, British Antarctic Survey, email: ijst@bas.ac.uk tel: +44 (0) 1223 221611.
Photographs of leopard seals are available from the BAS Press Office as above. Population sizes for leopard seals is estimated to be 35,000 individuals (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/10340/0) but this number is unreliable without understanding their habitat use and haul out behaviour.
*according to a study by BAS seal ecologist Dr Jaume Forcada in 2009 in the journal Ecological Modelling vol220, issue 12, pages 1513-1521.
British Antarctic Survey is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).


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The last time I posted my Buffalo Cauliflower Wings recipe, I was a vegetarian. Now I no longer am a vegetarian (you can read about why here), but I still enjoy cauliflower wings. Battered roasted cauliflower doused in hot sauce – what's not to love?! I've been thinking of this recipe for a while now since reading and writing about Middle Eastern cuisine being a top food trend for 2018. I realize we are now more than halfway through 2018 (although srsly when did that happen?!) but it's never too late to capitalize on a food trend. One of the staples of Middle Eastern cuisine is harissa. Think sriracha but smokier and more robust flavor. Harissa is a hot chili pepper paste made with roasted red pepper, garlic, and spices like coriander and cumin. You can use it on veggies, eggs, proteins, pizza, pasta, burgers, basically all the things. And it's deeeeelicious on wings. These harissa cauliflower wings are everything I'd hoped they'd be: spicy, smoky, robust. And totally satisfying. I had these the other night with potatoes and a corn/tomato salad (recipe coming soon) and my husband was like "where's your protein?" I'm like I get plenty of protein in my diet, I don't need a rule to have protein at every single meal I eat. And sure protein provides satiety but the cauliflower wings were so satisfying, I didn't feel like I was missing anything. I feel like our culture is so obsessed with protein today but the reality is we all get plenty of protein in the American diet, we don't need to stress about not having enough. Oh, and did I mention I made a bomb sauce to go with these wings?! Well I made it but can't take the credit of creating it. This magical sauce is the genius of the Kitchn and calls for only 3 simple ingredients: yogurt (or mayo) + dijon mustard + sriracha (or chili garlic sauce…or more harissa). I made this the other night to go with shishito peppers and I was like this is the only condiment I want to use from now on. Hence magic sauce with harissa cauliflower wings.
Combine flour, paprika and garlic salt in a small mixing bowl. Toss cauliflower florets in flour mixture and shake to remove excess before placing onto baking sheet.
Bake cauliflower until browned and crispy, flipping over halfway through, about 30-40 minutes.
In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together harissa and olive oil. Toss roasted cauliflower in harissa mixture until evenly coated. Serve immediately (and with that magical dipping sauce from the Kitchn).
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Looks very tasty! I'll try it.
Cannot wait to make this one at home. I've been adding harissa to pretty much everything lately.
So good, right?! Hope you enjoy, Billy!
Love the spiciness of harissa. Great way to incorporate it!
I'm not a vegetarian either but you can't go wrong with spicy, battered cauliflower. This sounds amazing and I can't wait to give it a try.
Oh amazing! I would love to get to Dubai someday! Hope you like it, Mandy!
I'm going to try to get my boyfriend to try these!! They look awesome!
Woot, woot! Hope he enjoys them!
I've never made cauliflower "wings" but these look super good! :] I'm gonna have to try em' soon!
Thanks, Farrah! I think you'd love 'em.


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Polish Sensibility: the Mazurkas of Chopin and Szymanowski
by Frances Wilson	May 16th, 2018
Tags: Chopin, Szymanowski
May 16, 2018 By Interlude0 Comments
Portrait of Karol Szymanowski by Stanislaw Ignacy Witkacy
Say 'Mazurka' and most people will reply 'Chopin'. Fryderyk Chopin wrote at least 69 pieces in this form: 45 published during his lifetime, 13 published posthumously, and a further 11, which are known but where the manuscripts are in private hands or untraced. He took the rough Polish peasant dance and refined it, as he did with the Waltz and the Polonaise (also of Polish origin), elevating it to drawing room "art music" for the piano. His Mazurkas remain perennially popular; some are much more famous than others and are performed regularly (for example, Op. 7, No. 1, Op. 17 (1-3), Op. 33 No. 2).
Chopin: Mazurka No.1 in F sharp minor Op.6 No.1
Mazurka No.3 in E Op.6 No.3
Mazurka No.5 in B flat Op.7 No.1
Chopin's Mazurkas show great range and variety. Some are lively, full of rhythmic vitality, others more soulful and melancholy. They are some of Chopin's freshest and most original works, yet all retain features of their folk origins. One of the last Mazurkas, indeed one of his final works, Op. 68, No. 4 in F minor, is one of the most plaintive and heart-rending pieces Chopin ever wrote, suffused with poignancy with striking, sliding chromaticism, and an interesting marking (Chopin's own) after the Trio, senza fine, literally "without end", suggesting that instead of a regular da capo al fine, the piece should go on indefinitely, or simply fade away to nothing.
Typical Mazurka rhythm with the emphasis on the third beat
The Mazurka, or mazurek, originated in the Polish region of Mazrovia, near Warsaw, a dance in triple time, with an emphasis on the second or third beat. The true folk origins of the Mazurka are two other Polish musical forms, the slow, plaintive Kujawiak and the fast, lively Oberek. The mazurek always has either a triplet, trill, dotted quaver pair, or an ordinary quaver pair before two crotchets. A closer reading of Chopin's Mazurkas will reveal these different aspects of the Mazurka: for example, the Op. 68, No. 4 is a Kujawiak, while the much-loved Op. 7, No. 1, draws direct influence from the Oberek.
Chopin's composition of Mazurkas suggested new ideas of nationalism in music, and influenced and inspired other composers, mostly eastern European, to support their national music. Franz Liszt was a big mover and shaker in this respect, claiming (somewhat inaccurately) that Chopin had been directly influenced by Polish national music. What is more likely is that Chopin heard national music of his homeland when he was growing up. When he left Poland, never to return because of the political climate, the Mazurka and the Polonaise became central genres in his compositional output, allowing him to retain a connection to his homeland.
Fellow countryman, Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937) wrote two sets of Mazurkas, Opus 50 and 62 (22 works in total). He drew musical influences from Chopin, but also from Wagner, Richard Strauss, Max Reger, Scriabin, Debussy, Ravel and nationalists Smetana and Bartok.
Marc-André Hamelin plays Szymanowski's Mazurkas Op. 50 No. 1
Szymanowski travelled extensively, and from the 1920s he spent a great deal of time at the resort of Zakopane, in the Tatra highlands of Poland, where he discovered the local folk music or Górale. With its typical rustic fiddles and flutes, drone basses and pedal points, this became the template for his own music. Like Chopin, he was loyal to the idea of musical nationalism, but neither was he intimidated by it. So, while retaining many of the traditional features of the Mazurka in all its forms (Oberek, Kujawiak and Mazurek), he also extended it beyond the strict 4-phrase dance measure. As a result, Szymanowski's Mazurkas defy the traditional symmetry of the dance, and instead expand and contract. The longest are just over three minutes long, the shortest just under two. Some are wistful, plaintive and meditative, others bounce and leap, some are witty and acidic, others are just rough and noisy. Within each one, tempos contract and expand, and one might find a slow Kujawiak-inspired passage right next to a section which is pure Oberek. It is these clever juxtapositions which give Szymanowski's Mazurkas such life and piquancy.
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By Maddy Sprenger | January 19, 2017 at 10:52 PM EST - Updated August 12 at 5:56 PM
Lynelle Ediger, Aurelia Lewis, Julie McConell, Cassandra Reynolds (Source: YWCA Richmond)
Heather Mullins Crislip, Clovia Lawrence, Jane Helfrich, Talley Baratka (Source: YWCA Richmond)
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Q: MySQL - How to check for a value in all columns I am curious, is there a good way to search all columns for a given value? For my purposes, it doesn't need to be at all fast, it's just a 1-off kinda thing, and I don't really want to have to type out every field name. That's precisely what I'll be doing for now, but I think surely there's a better way.
I would like to turn this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE col1 = 'val' OR col2 = 'val' OR col3 = 'val';

into this:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE * = 'val'

...or, even better (though I seriously doubt it...)
SELECT * FROM table WHERE * like '%val%'

I found this, which seems kinda-not-really close, but I'm not finding anything closer:
SELECT whatever WHERE col1,col2 IN ((val1, val2), (val1, val2), ...)

Difference being, that searches a selection of columns for the specified values, whereas I'm trying to search ALL columns for a single value.
It's not important though, like I said more than anything I'm just curious

A: Feels like it's been a year since I asked this, but I just stumbled on what appears to be the exact thing I was looking for! It's not a SQL statement, like I was anticipating, but it DOES what I was wanting.
In MySQL Workbench, you can right click the table or the schema, and choose Search Table Data.

A: You need to do it in two steps, first generate the sql like (assuming your table is named T in schema S:
select concat(' SELECT * FROM t WHERE ''a'' in ('
             , GROUP_CONCAT(COLUMN_NAME)
             , ')')
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.columns
where table_schema = 's'
  and table_name = 't'
  and DATA_TYPE IN ('char','varchar');

Now you can execute this string. Note that you have to quote the 'a' with extra '. If you put this in for example a procedure, you can prepare and execute the string that was generated.
I tested with:
create table t (a char(3), b varchar(5), c int);
insert into t(a,b) values ('a','b'),('b','c'),('c','c');

The query generated where:
SELECT * FROM t WHERE 'a' in (a,b)

and executing that results in:
a   b   c
---------
a   b

A: The simplest solution is doing
mysqldump ... --skip-extended-insert db table | grep 'val'

Unless val is something that is a common occurrence in SQL syntax.
This is a valid way to find something if you do not know "where" it is in the database or table. The grep will return entire rows (including the table name) where the value is present. It is not SQL and is not very useful if you want to process the output programmatically, but it is simple and quite fast.
Using mysqldump and grep may be far from user-friendly, and it might look very basic, but many people will not even think of it when they are fixed on finding a SQL solution. For some people, the CLI solution may be more accessible than, say, installing and connecting Workbench.

A: SQL doesn't provide a good way of doing this because it's probably not a good table design to have N columns that might have values in the same domain. This is potentially a case of "repeating groups" like if you have columns phone1, phone2, phone3, ... phoneN.
If you have a number of columns that have the same logical domain of values, it could be a case where it's a multi-valued attribute (like the phones example). The standard way of storing multi-valued attributes is as multiple rows in another table, with a reference to the row they belong to in the primary table.
If you do that, then you only have to search for the specific value in one column of the dependent table.
SELECT t.* FROM mytable AS t
JOIN phones AS p ON t.primaryKey = p.refKey
WHERE p.phone = ?

A: The closer you can get is this, using IN:
SELECT * FROM table WHERE 'val' IN (col1, col2, ..., colN) ;

You still have to write all the columns you want to check.
And it's not any different than the OR expression you have, not in performance or otherwise. This is just a different, equivalent way to write the expression, with a bit fewer characters.

A: Try:
select
    *
from
    _table_
where
    concat('.', col1, '.', col2, '.', col3, '.') like "%.search_value.%";

The way this tries to solve the problem is by creating a long string containing every value of a given row, separated by a dot character. then it performs a string search for the desired term between two dots.
Note that if any column may be NULL, you should use CONCAT_WS() instead.
This assumes that there is no '.' in your search string. If you cannot guarantee that, maybe you can use a different "separator character".
If you want to search for substrings in the individual collumns, you can move the % signs to be inside the '.' like so:
select
    *
from
    _table_
where
    concat('.', col1, '.', col2, '.', col3, '.') like ".%search_value%.";

A: You can do this fairly easily in MySQL, as long as your have the FULLTEXT index set up against your table. It allows for a heap of different search mechanisms to be used including natural language, and additional metadata to score the results.
Taken from the MySQL manual:
mysql> SELECT * FROM articles
        WHERE MATCH (title,body)
        AGAINST ('database' IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE);
+----+-------------------+------------------------------------------+
| id | title             | body                                     |
+----+-------------------+------------------------------------------+
|  1 | MySQL Tutorial    | DBMS stands for DataBase ...             |
|  5 | MySQL vs. YourSQL | In the following database comparison ... |
+----+-------------------+------------------------------------------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)

This only really works for character-based columns. If you are looking for a specific value in numerical or other special types, you'll need to use CONCAT or other mechanisms to achieve that.


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