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Organic Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli Seeds
Sowing: Organic Green Sprouting Calabrese broccoli seeds grow best in cool weather, so starting the seeds indoors 5-6 weeks before the last expected frost will ensure a faster crop. Shortly before the last frost and when the seedlings reach about 6" tall, plant them 1-2' apart in rows 2-3' apart. For direct sowing seeds, plant them 1" deep and 3" apart in full sun and rich soil, about 2-3 weeks before the last expected spring frost; germination can take place at temperatures as low as 40 degrees F. For fall planting, direct sow Organic Green Sprouting Calabrese broccoli seeds in late July or August. For companion planting benefits, plant broccoli with herbs, potatoes, or onions; avoid planting it with tomatoes or pole beans.
Growing: Keep the young plants watered and remove weeds. Mulch helps discourage weeds and regulate soil temperature, and several applications of fertilizer or compost may also be needed. If several nights of below freezing temperatures are expected, cover the plants. If they become topheavy as they grow, provide a stake for support.
Harvesting: Harvest the main head while it is still tight, and before the tiny buds begin to open; cut at least 6" of the stem. Side shoots will continue to develop along the stem, and can be harvested as well; the plant will keep producing as long as weather conditions are favorable.
Seed Saving: Allowing broccoli to produce seed will take an entire growing season, and may require digging up the plants for the winter or mulching them well. Broccoli will cross pollinate with other members of the cabbage family such as cauliflower, and isolation of at least 1/4 a mile is recommended to prevent cross breeding. Once the flowers have bloomed and produced seed pods, let them dry and carefully remove them from the plant. Store Organic Green Sprouting Calabrese broccoli seeds in a dry, cool place for up to five years.
Latin Name: Brassica oleracea
Type: Open Pollinated, Heirloom, Cool Season
USDA Zones: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Seeds per Ounce: 9,100
Planting Method: From Transplant
Sunlight: Full Sun
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This richly flavored open-pollinated Broccoli variety is popular with home vegetable gardeners! Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli seeds grow quickly and produce 4" heads with abundant side shoots, which can be harvested after the main head has been cut. Maturity time is not uniform, resulting in an extended harvest for home vegetable gardens!
Though heirloom Calabrese broccoli comes from the province of Calabria in Italy and arrived in America in the 1880s, the plant from which modern broccoli is derived first grew in the wild in the Mediterranean region and in Asia Minor. Broccoli gradually spread to the rest of Europe and to the New World, where Thomas Jefferson included this strange new vegetable in his experimental garden. The Italians appreciated it so much that it got the name "Italian asparagus." After World War I, Italian brothers Stefano and Andrea D'Arrigo brought their Sicilian variety of broccoli and began growing it in San Jose, Calfornia; they later shipped it to Boston's North End, where it established a quickly expanding market.


For the Vegetable Saute: Warm the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the shallot and the garlic and cook until tender, about 2 minutes. Add the mushrooms and asparagus to the pan and cook until tender. Add the artichoke hearts and season with salt and pepper, then cook until the artichoke hearts are heated through. Remove the skillet from the heat, then add in the tomatoes and stir to warm them up.
For the Tarragon Vinaigrette: Combine the oil, vinegar, tarragon, salt and pepper in a glass screw-top jar. Seal the jar and shake vigorously to mix the vinaigrette.
Toss the vegetables with the vinaigrette and serve.


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Tiana Clark on "Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2"
Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2
Tell me about your baptism she asked.
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I rose out of the water, a caught fish—slippery,
gaping for breath, brand new with righteousness.
I walked down to the frothing whirlpool,
Pastor Lonnie—a white man in a white robe,
extended his hands and helped me down the steps.
The congregation watched as I answered his questions:
Yes. Yes. Yes. Jacuzzi-warm water gurgled and spun
as his white robe spread around my little circumference,
holy creamer. He put his hand on my nose, pinched
my breath. I did not close my eyes as he buried me
under the water—under the water I heard muffled
shouting, under the water I saw Pastor Lonnie's face
ripple in thirds. He tipped my body back, lifted me up
and out from the wet coffin to the defeaning resound
of clapping and yelling from the church. My hair back
to curls, my face like the face of my birth when I was cut
from my mother—terrified, ready to scream.
Pray Write Me Soon
Terrance Hayes begins his latest poetry collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin:
The black poet would love to say his century began
With Hughes or, God forbid, Wheatley, but actually
It began with all the poetry weirdos & worriers, warriors,
Poetry whiners & winos falling from ship bows, sunset
Bridges & windows.
Rude! Just kidding. I adore this collection of sonnets, but I've never felt so seen and undressed and implicated by a poem before in my life. In graduate school, I had to trace my literary ancestry, and of course, I started with Phillis Wheatley. She was the first back female poet, and that firstness mattered to me. Though, after reading Hayes' poem, I revisited my Phillis Wheatley poems. Why did I desire to communicate with her? What about her life unlocked something in mine? Obsidian cypher? Was it an instinct based by an easy association, or was I trying to grasp at something fresh, maybe not about Wheatley, but a revelation about my own life, something I couldn't say or pinpoint without her presence percolating the watery heat inside a specific poem?
I'm still wading through the thick rejoinders, but I think I was partially trying to grasp at some notion of adynaton. I was first introduced to this word during a brilliant lecture by Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon at the Frost Place Poetry seminar several summers ago.
Adynaton, a figure of speech in the form of hyperbole taken to such extreme lengths as to insinuate a complete impossibility. The word derives from the Greek (adunatos), "unable, impossible" (a-, "without" + dynasthai, "to be possible or powerful").
"When Hell freezes over"
Or, when Thomas Jefferson writes the following, in the Notes on the State of Virginia:
Misery is often the parent of the most affecting touches in poetry.—Among the blacks is misery enough, God knows, but no poetry. Love is the peculiar oestrum[1] of the poet. Their love is ardent, but it kindles the senses only, not the imagination. Religion indeed has produced a Phyllis Whately; but it could not produce a poet.
Ha! Adynaton.
Edward Hirsch writes in the Poet's glossary:
…adynaton was known in Latin as impossibilia. The formal principle of stringing together impossibilities, was a way of inverting the order of things, drawing attention to categories, turning the world upside down.
This is idea of "stringing together impossibilities" unspooled like a vibrating timeline when I began to trace my literary origins, starting from Wheatley and the sixteen white (Honorable, Reverend, Esquire) men who had to vouch for her first poetry collection in the preface, including John Wheatley, "her master," which glaringly scars the page.
"It's such a futuristic idea," Terrance Hayes said during his speech praising Cave Canem at the 2016 National Book Awards, "a world in which the descendants of slaves become poets." June Jordan argues for this literary survival in her phenomenal essay, "The Difficult Miracle of Black Poetry in America: Something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley." Jordan writes:
But the miracle of Black poetry in America, the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America, is that we have been rejected and we are frequently dismissed as "political" or "topical" or "sloganeering" and "crude" and 'insignificant" because, like Phillis Wheatley, we have persisted for freedom…This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
The difficult miracle, Black persistence itself, is a tenacious ontological resolve, built and bred from struggle and resistance and transcendence: yes, adynaton.
The Conversation with Phillis Wheatley poems were born out of this desperate need for belonging and survival, this wish to write to Wheatley inside the container of a poem, an epistolary ache. I wanted to pretend that she didn't die alone and cold and sick with her second manuscript unpublished and lost forever. I wanted to pretend that that still won't be a possibility for me or for other black women writers like me on the brink of burnout, free but struggling to survive.
I researched her correspondence with Obour Tanner, Wheatley's only known correspondent of African descent. Wheatley's letters are all that survived their seven-year correspondence (approximately 1771/72-1778), which most of the letters can be viewed at the Massachusetts Historical Society online archive. I was also inspired by Katherine Clay Bassard's article, "The Daughters' Arrival: The Earliest Black Women's Writing Community." Bassard writes:
Not only do these seven surviving letters force a necessary revision of the notion of a Phillis Wheatley completely isolated from other black women in community, but they also serve as a paradigm for the problematics and possibilities of early black women's writing community. As a broken, one-sided narrative in which letters are often sent back, delayed, or not received, large gaps in time-sometimes as much as four years-mark the desire for response with an ever- present deferral. Hand delivered by a third party (usually male), they are prone to violation and interception.' Perhaps more importantly, each letter is sent "favd by" someone, and "in care of" which marks the problematics of ownership for black women slaves, a qualification which framed even their most intimate attempts to communicate with each other.
This desire for a black women's writing community is vital for me, so crucial that I've been driven to imagine it, to dialogue with Wheatley, especially about religion, which foregrounds "Conversation with Phillis Wheatley #2," where the speaker is responding to Wheatley's imperative: "Tell me about your baptism…." I wanted to use threatening diction and a tense scene with a white paternalistic pastor figure "saving" the speaker through a religious rite. Baptism is often thought to be a joyous occasion—a rebirth—but the actual language describing the ceremony is terrifying, especially when you are a child thinking about being buried with Christ in a wet grave. There is a kind of doublespeak present in the poem that is talking back to Wheatley through the ironic use of biblical imagery. This irony is famously evident when Wheatley deftly tackles the saving grace of slaves in her often-quoted poem, "On Being Brought from Africa to America," where she writes, "Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, / May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train."
Remember! Remember she never had a black audience, so the address here is to white Christians. Remember, I'll be riding that heavenly train with you too, boo (my paraphrase). Remember, adynaton, all these impossible circumstances: a sickly child slave named after her slave ship, John and Susanna Wheatley losing a child recently before buying little Phillis—so a tenderness is there, teaching her Alexander Pope and Jesus, strung together for my survival.
I often feel impossible in my body, when I walk on the street, clutching my breath, thinking of Nia Wilson, and I'll be clutching my breath when you read this. I come from a long line of breath-clutchers, single black mothers that have prayed for my possible-ness on their knees, thick with ash and hard work. Adynation. The extreme hyperbole of black persistence and poetry, which is the ultimate organization of our collective held and spent breath[2].
In the last known letter that Wheatley writes to Obour Tanner, she says, "I hope our correspondence will revive—and revive in better times—pray write me soon, for I long to hear from you." I am responding to that urgent plea in my poems. I am trying to answer that longing by suspending time. A poem can attempt to answer a series of unanswerable griefs in verse. A poet can begin and end with Wheatley and the winos and whiners too. A poem can be a letter, or a "pyschogram" as Robert Hayden called his poem, "A Letter from Phyllis Wheatley," a dramatic monologue, which is me, saying on repeat: I begin with Phillis Wheatley. I begin with Phillis Wheatley. I begin with Phillis Wheatley reaching for coal. [3]
[1] Note the problematic use of oestrum here, meaning: period of sexual readiness, a regularly occurring period of sexual receptivity in most female mammals, except humans, during which ovulation occurs and copulation can take place; heat.
[2] This idea of poetry being the "organization of breath," was told to me by the amazing poet, Mallory Imler Powell, which she heard from another incredible poet, M'Bilia Meekers.
[3] Excerpt from my poem, "My Therapist Wants to Know about My Relationship to Work," published in POETRY.
Tiana Clark
I Can't Talk About the Trees
without the Blood
(Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2018)
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Q: What property of styrofoam creates that awful squeaking sound when it is rubbed? See title. I will accept closure as duplicate of this question, but intuitively (as far as one can trust intuition in these matters) it seems like something different is occurring in the plastic/plastic materials than in the flesh/fluid materials, if only because the frequency and amplitude of the produced noise are so much more intolerable, and also the styrofoam degrades as you 'rub' it.

A: The molecular structure of Styrofoam gives it a relatively high-friction surface, causing "stick-slip" to occur at the interface between your hand and the polymer.
Upon first contact, your hand "sticks" due to friction. In the brief moment(s) that your hand has not yet met the threshold force parallel to the surface required to overcome static adhesion, the walls of the polymer are compressed. When your hand finally "slips", the walls of the polymer re-expand. This process is repeated, and the frequencies of compression/expansion (in addition to other variables such as bubble size, density, and the gas used for extrusion (typically air)) gives rise to the audible frequencies observed.
A sufficiently large piece of Styrofoam will act as a resonator. Oscillations near the interface will cause oscillations in neighboring bubbles within the material, the end result being a loud "squeak".
There's also a biological component. The ear's frequency response peaks at $\sim 2 - 4 \text{kHz}$, at a gain of $\sim 10\text{dB}$. Higher frequencies, such as that produced by rubbing Styrofoam, experience greater amplification than lower frequencies.
A somewhat similar phenomenon is seen in "friction drums". You might imagine a piece of Styrofoam as a dense matrix of tiny friction drums.
See also: How is the squeaking sound produced, if you rub a finger over a wet, smooth, solid surface?.

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The Sofaer GMBA is an investment in yourself as well as your future career. Nonetheless, returning to study for a master's level degree is an expense for which you must plan accordingly. It is important to adequately prepare for the financial expenses related to being a student, including tuition and living expenses.
Tuition for the GMBA is $41,500 and includes texts, material, and international academic exchange. Limited scholarships are available based on Merit and Financial Need.
The Sofaer Global MBA's intense 1-year schedule prohibits working during the first two modules of the program. By Module 3, students have more flexibility to take on part-time internships or employment (for Israeli students or students with work visas). However, students are strongly advised to remember that the demands of the program's 1-year curriculum prioritize studies and internships over all else.
Opening Bell Ceremony at TASE to Celebrate the Launching of the TA-Family Index and the Start of the Academic Year at Tel Aviv University's Coller School of Management.


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Sugar and Aldehyde Content in Flavored Electronic Cigarette Liquids.
Title Sugar and Aldehyde Content in Flavored Electronic Cigarette Liquids.
Authors Fagan, P, Pokhrel, P, Herzog, TA, Moolchan, ET, Cassel, KD, Franke, AA, Li, X, Pagano, I, Trinidad, DR, Sakuma, K-L, Sterling, K, Jorgensen, D, Lynch, T, Kawamoto, C, Guy, MC, Lagua, I, Hanes, S, Alexander, LA, Clanton, MS, Graham-Tutt, C, Eissenberg, T
Corporate Authors Addictive Carcinogens Workgroup
Journal Nicotine Tob Res
Keywords Aldehydes, Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems, Flavoring Agents, Fructose, Glucose, Humans, Nicotine, Sucrose, Sugars, Tobacco Products
Introduction: Sugars are major constituents and additives in traditional tobacco products, but little is known about their content or related toxins (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein) in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) liquids. This study quantified levels of sugars and aldehydes in e-cigarette liquids across brands, flavors, and nicotine concentrations (n = 66).
Methods: Unheated e-cigarette liquids were analyzed using liquid chromatography mass spectrometry and enzymatic test kits. Generalized linear models, Fisher's exact test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient assessed sugar, aldehyde, and nicotine concentration associations.
Results: Glucose, fructose and sucrose levels exceeded the limits of quantification in 22%, 53% and 53% of the samples. Sucrose levels were significantly higher than glucose [χ2(1) = 85.9, p < .0001] and fructose [χ2(1) = 10.6, p = .001] levels. Formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, and acrolein levels exceeded the limits of quantification in 72%, 84%, and 75% of the samples. Acetaldehyde levels were significantly higher than formaldehyde [χ2(1) = 11.7, p = .0006] and acrolein [χ2(1) = 119.5, p < .0001] levels. Differences between nicotine-based and zero-nicotine labeled e-cigarette liquids were not statistically significant for sugars or aldehydes. We found significant correlations between formaldehyde and fructose (-0.22, p = .004) and sucrose (-0.25, p = .002) and acrolein and fructose (-0.26, p = .0006) and sucrose (-0.21, p = .0006). There were no significant correlations between acetaldehyde and any of the sugars or any of the aldehydes and glucose.
Conclusions: Sugars and related aldehydes were identified in unheated e-cigarette liquids and their composition may influence experimentation in naïve users and their potential toxicity.
Implications: The data can inform the regulation of specific flavor constituents in tobacco products as a strategy to protect young people from using e-cigarettes, while balancing FDA's interest in how these emerging products could potentially benefit adult smokers who are seeking to safely quit cigarette smoking. The data can also be used to educate consumers about ingredients in products that may contain nicotine and inform future FDA regulatory policies related to product standards and accurate and comprehensible labeling of e-cigarette liquids.
DOI 10.1093/ntr/ntx234
Alternate Journal Nicotine Tob. Res.
Grant List P30 CA071789 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States
P50 DA036105 / DA / NIDA NIH HHS / United States
U54 MD007584 / MD / NIMHD NIH HHS / United States


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Global Fund Board approves funding for first set of interventions on UQD register for 2017–2019 identified through portfolio optimization
$15 million approved for grants in Burundi and Philippines; more to come
Appointments to Global Fund Board committees announced
EGC to undertake a review of selection processes for committee leadership and members
The Board has announced the appointment of 33 members on its three standing committees for two-year terms that started on 11 May 2018. The announcement was made at the in-person Board meeting on 9–10 May. The terms of the current members of the committees expired at the Board meeting.
The Board also tasked the Ethics and Governance Committee (EGC) with reviewing the process for selecting the leadership and members of the committees.
Global Fund Board adopts new principles for procurement of LFA services
Principles provide more flexibility regarding the timing for re-tendering LFA contracts
The Global Fund Board has adopted a set of "principles" governing the selection of LFAs (some of the principles are really policies); has delegated to the Audit and Finance Committee (AFC) the authority to modify the principles; and has delegated to the Secretariat the authority to establish the procedures for procurement of LFA services. The principles were recommended by the Secretariat and endorsed by the AFC.
Concerns raised about the process for designing the KPI framework and setting the targets
After some delays, revised targets are expected to be presented to the Board in March
Since the Global Fund established key performance indicators (KPIs) and targets several years ago, they have been challenging for the Secretariat to generate, update and report on. They have also been challenging for the Board to oversee.


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from openerp import tools
from openerp.osv import fields,osv
import openerp.addons.decimal_precision as dp

class account_entries_report(osv.osv):
    _name = "account.entries.report"
    _description = "Journal Items Analysis"
    _auto = False
    _rec_name = 'date'
    _columns = {
        'date': fields.date('Effective Date', readonly=True),
        'date_created': fields.date('Date Created', readonly=True),
        'date_maturity': fields.date('Date Maturity', readonly=True),
        'ref': fields.char('Reference', size=64, readonly=True),
        'nbr': fields.integer('# of Items', readonly=True),
        'debit': fields.float('Debit', readonly=True),
        'credit': fields.float('Credit', readonly=True),
        'balance': fields.float('Balance', readonly=True),
        'day': fields.char('Day', size=128, readonly=True),
        'year': fields.char('Year', size=4, readonly=True),
        'date': fields.date('Date', size=128, readonly=True),
        'currency_id': fields.many2one('res.currency', 'Currency', readonly=True),
        'amount_currency': fields.float('Amount Currency', digits_compute=dp.get_precision('Account'), readonly=True),
        'month':fields.selection([('01','January'), ('02','February'), ('03','March'), ('04','April'),
            ('05','May'), ('06','June'), ('07','July'), ('08','August'), ('09','September'),
            ('10','October'), ('11','November'), ('12','December')], 'Month', readonly=True),
        'period_id': fields.many2one('account.period', 'Period', readonly=True),
        'account_id': fields.many2one('account.account', 'Account', readonly=True),
        'journal_id': fields.many2one('account.journal', 'Journal', readonly=True),
        'fiscalyear_id': fields.many2one('account.fiscalyear', 'Fiscal Year', readonly=True),
        'product_id': fields.many2one('product.product', 'Product', readonly=True),
        'product_uom_id': fields.many2one('product.uom', 'Product Unit of Measure', readonly=True),
        'move_state': fields.selection([('draft','Unposted'), ('posted','Posted')], 'Status', readonly=True),
        'move_line_state': fields.selection([('draft','Unbalanced'), ('valid','Valid')], 'State of Move Line', readonly=True),
        'reconcile_id': fields.many2one('account.move.reconcile', readonly=True),
        'partner_id': fields.many2one('res.partner','Partner', readonly=True),
        'analytic_account_id': fields.many2one('account.analytic.account', 'Analytic Account', readonly=True),
        'quantity': fields.float('Products Quantity', digits=(16,2), readonly=True),
        'user_type': fields.many2one('account.account.type', 'Account Type', readonly=True),
        'type': fields.selection([
            ('receivable', 'Receivable'),
            ('payable', 'Payable'),
            ('cash', 'Cash'),
            ('view', 'View'),
            ('consolidation', 'Consolidation'),
            ('other', 'Regular'),
            ('closed', 'Closed'),
        ], 'Internal Type', readonly=True, help="This type is used to differentiate types with "\
            "special effects in OpenERP: view can not have entries, consolidation are accounts that "\
            "can have children accounts for multi-company consolidations, payable/receivable are for "\
            "partners accounts (for debit/credit computations), closed for depreciated accounts."),
        'company_id': fields.many2one('res.company', 'Company', readonly=True),
    }

    _order = 'date desc'

    def search(self, cr, uid, args, offset=0, limit=None, order=None,
            context=None, count=False):
        fiscalyear_obj = self.pool.get('account.fiscalyear')
        period_obj = self.pool.get('account.period')
        for arg in args:
            if arg[0] == 'period_id' and arg[2] == 'current_period':
                ctx = dict(context or {}, account_period_prefer_normal=True)
                current_period = period_obj.find(cr, uid, context=ctx)[0]
                args.append(['period_id','in',[current_period]])
                break
            elif arg[0] == 'period_id' and arg[2] == 'current_year':
                current_year = fiscalyear_obj.find(cr, uid)
                ids = fiscalyear_obj.read(cr, uid, [current_year], ['period_ids'])[0]['period_ids']
                args.append(['period_id','in',ids])
        for a in [['period_id','in','current_year'], ['period_id','in','current_period']]:
            if a in args:
                args.remove(a)
        return super(account_entries_report, self).search(cr, uid, args=args, offset=offset, limit=limit, order=order,
            context=context, count=count)

    def read_group(self, cr, uid, domain, fields, groupby, offset=0, limit=None, context=None, orderby=False):
        if context is None:
            context = {}
        fiscalyear_obj = self.pool.get('account.fiscalyear')
        period_obj = self.pool.get('account.period')
        if context.get('period', False) == 'current_period':
            ctx = dict(context, account_period_prefer_normal=True)
            current_period = period_obj.find(cr, uid, context=ctx)[0]
            domain.append(['period_id','in',[current_period]])
        elif context.get('year', False) == 'current_year':
            current_year = fiscalyear_obj.find(cr, uid)
            ids = fiscalyear_obj.read(cr, uid, [current_year], ['period_ids'])[0]['period_ids']
            domain.append(['period_id','in',ids])
        else:
            domain = domain
        return super(account_entries_report, self).read_group(cr, uid, domain, fields, groupby, offset, limit, context, orderby)

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But don't IGBT's have gates like the ones on MOSFET's, in which it's insulated from the other pins on the transistor?  How do they work without an input to control the gate voltage?  Wouldn't this be terribly sensitive to the environment.
Why don't these rectifiers have gates connected similarly to the ones in MOSFET rectifiers like the one below.

On the side note, I also notice that the IGBT rectifiers all seem to be 3-phase.


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Австрали́йский ке́лпи () — порода собак, выведенная в Австралии. Относится к пастушьим собакам. Признана FCI, АКС, UKC, KCGB, ANKC.

Келпи обладают генетически обусловленными качествами, которые отличают их от других собак. Наиболее интересным, является то, что они обладают очень широким углом обзора, который максимально позволяет визуально контролировать объект наблюдения и длительно концентрировать на нём своё внимание. Обладая такими уникальными особенностями и качествами, келпи приносят неоценимую пользу, работая в животноводческих хозяйствах.

Современный келпи не только пастух, но и обладает великолепными спортивными качествами, участвуя и побеждая в спортивных соревнованиях по аджилити, дог-фризби, питч энд гоу и фристайлу (танцы с собаками).

Келпи считается суперзвездой австралийского собаководства и одной из главных пород этого континента.

История породы
Первые упоминания о келпи в литературных источниках относятся к концу XIX века. Устоявшегося мнения исследователей о происхождении породы на сегодняшний день не существует. Одни считают, что келпи произошли от колли, завезённых в Австралию первыми поселенцами. Другие указывают, что в них течёт кровь английских колли линии Ратерфорда из Северного графства, которые, как и многие другие овчарки, были завезены сюда в конце прошлого века. Существует и версия, по которой достаточно велика вероятность участия в формировании породы келпи диких австралийских динго. Однако достоверно известно, что у себя на родине в Австралии эта порода собак непрерывно улучшалась, а их целенаправленная селекция на одной из ведущих австралийских племенных ферм келпи Enfinvale началась с 1956 года.

Австралийский келпи в России
С 1987 года щенки породы келпи появились в СССР. В трёх ведущих племенных питомниках Австралии (Wyreema, Elfinvale и Avenpart) были приобретены 30 щенков австралийских овчарок келпи. Они были распределены по двум питомникам: ВНИИОК (ГНУ СНИИЖК) в г. Ставрополь и КазНИТИО в Казахстане. Эта порода оказалась наиболее пригодна для работы в овцеводческих хозяйствах Ставропольского края, юга России и многих других регионах. Сочетание выдающихся рабочих качеств с минимальными требованиями к уходу за шёрстным покровом сделало келпи незаменимым помощником животноводов.

Австралийские келпи используются в пастьбе не только овец, коз, а также в частных хозяйствах успешно справляются с пастьбой домашней птицы (уток и гусей, даже выгоняя их из пруда, если это необходимо).

Внешний вид

Подвижная, активная собака, сочетает в себе сильное, мускулистое строение и очень гибкие конечности, неутомима в работе.

Голова пропорциональна размерам тела. Общие формы и контуры в целом создают несколько лисье выражение, которое смягчается миндалевидными глазами.

Череп слегка округлый, между ушами широкий. Переход ото лба к морде — выраженный.

Морда чётко «выточенная», чуть короче черепа. Губы плотные и сухие, не обвисшие. Цвет мочки носа гармонирует с окрасом шерсти.

Глаза среднего размера, с чётко очерченными углами, выражают ум и усердие. Цвет — карий, гармонирующий с окрасом шерсти. У собак с голубым окрасом глаза могут иметь более светлый оттенок.

Уши стоячие с острыми концами, среднего размера; кожа тонкая, у основания — более плотная и прочная, уши широко расставлены и наклонены вперёд, со слегка изогнутыми наружными краями. Внутренняя часть уха покрыта довольно густой шерстью.

Зубы крепкие, равномерно посаженные, с ножницеобразным прикусом, то есть верхние резцы перекрывают нижние.

Скулы не грубые, не выступающие, по направлению к морде — округлые.

Шея умеренной длины, крепкая, слегка изогнутая, с небольшим загривком, постепенно переходящая в плечи, без подвеса, с «воротником».

Длина корпуса собаки от переднего выступа грудины до седалищного бугра по прямой линии превышает высоту в холке в отношении 10 к 9. Линия верха чёткая, ровная; поясница сильная, мускулистая; круп достаточно длинный и наклонный; грудь развита больше в глубину, чем в ширину; рёбра заметно округлые, бок достаточно глубокий.

Передние конечности мускулистые, с сильным, но сухим костяком. При взгляде спереди — прямые и параллельные. Лопатки чётко очерчены, мускулистые, с заметным наклоном. Верхние края лопаток близко сходятся на холке. Угол плечелопаточного сочленения прямой. Локти не вывернуты ни внутрь, ни наружу, пясти при взгляде сбоку имеют небольшой наклон, который обеспечивает гибкость движений и способность к быстрому развороту.

Задние конечности широкие, сильные, хорошо выражен угол колена. При взгляде сзади — прямые и параллельные, поставлены не слишком близко и не слишком далеко друг от друга. Скакательный сустав расположен низко. Лапы округлые, сильные, с глубокими подушечками, сводчатыми, собранными в «комок» пальцами и крепкими, короткими когтями.

Хвост в состоянии покоя, слегка изгибаясь, свисает вниз. При движении или в возбуждённом состоянии может приподниматься, при этом не должен заходить за вертикальную линию, проведённую от его основания. Заканчивается «кисточкой». Посажен в соответствии с наклоном крупа, достаёт до скакательных суставов.

Движения должны быть свободными и неутомимыми; собака должна обладать хорошей мобильностью поворота на большой скорости. При беге рысью в случае увеличения скорости движения лапы сближаются друг с другом; в покое, в стойке — лапы располагаются по периметру прямоугольника. Раскачивание или «перекрещивание» ног при движении нежелательно.

Шёрстный покров двойной, с коротким густым подшёрстком. Остевой волос плотный, прямой, жёсткий, плотно прилегающий, непромокаемый. Под корпусом и на задней части бёдер шерсть длиннее и образует короткие очёсы. На голове (включая внутреннюю часть уха) и по направлению к передней части конечностей и лап — шерсть короткая. Вдоль шеи шерсть более длинная и образует воротник. Слишком длинная или слишком короткая шерсть считается дефектом. Средняя длина шёрстного покрова корпуса составляет 2—3 см.

Окрас чёрный, чёрный c подпалом, рыжий, рыжий с подпалом, палевый, шоколадный, дымчато-голубой.

Высота в холке кобелей — 46—51 см, сук — 43—48 см.

Темперамент
Внимательная, живая, активная, очень интеллигентная; с мягким сговорчивым характером, практически неиссякаемой энергией, верная и преданная. Обладает врождённым инстинктом и способностью сторожить стада овец как в поле, так и в загонах.

Примечания

Литература
 Павлова М. В., Новопашина С. И. Содержание, дрессировка и использование собак породы келпи. Методические рекомендации.  — Ставрополь: СНИИЖК, 2005. — 32 с., ил.
 Павлова М. В., Новопашина С. И. Определение степени выраженности пастушеского инстинкта у щенков келпи. Методические рекомендации. — Ставрополь: СНИИЖК, 2006. — 20 с., ил.
 Павлова М. В., Новопашина С. И., Санников М. Ю. Дрессировка собак породы австралийский келпи при работе с различными видами сельскохозяйственных животных. Методические рекомендации. — Ставрополь: СНИИЖК, 2009. — 31 с., 14 ил.
 Austin T. Our Australian Kelpie. — High Thunder Publishing, 1989. — 128 с., — ISBN 0-646-01053-0
 Parsons T. The Kelpie. The Definitive Guide to the Australian Working Dog. — Penguin Books Australia, 2010. — 720 с. — ISBN 978-0-670-07359-7
 В. Кудинов. Незаменимая верная кэлпи // журнал «Вокруг света», № 2, 1983. стр.59-61

Ссылки
 Австралийский келпи

Породы собак Австралии

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It sometimes seems like an impossibly difficult thing to manage, to cause an external object to move in perfect timing with our own body. I joke that I have never performed maku-uchi correctly, but it's not exactly a joke. Getting the sword and the foot to move in perfect synchronization challenges my awareness and my coordination.
It's not just a case of imposing my will on the world around me. That can get me to MOVE the sword, but in order to operate synchronously with it, I need to move myself in accordance with the laws of physics that govern the movement of a piece of steel. I need to enter into a more complex relationship with the sword, one that accepts and embraces its needs as well as my own.
Especially when dealing with things considerably more complex and unpredictable than swords. Like, say, software developers. I find it very difficult to get software developers to do exactly what I want them to do. Which is probably a good thing, since I'm particularly ill-suited to telling them what to do, not really being much of a software developer myself. Doing my job properly (and by the way, I have a new job; more later) involves very little directing and a great deal of harmonizing. Connecting.
It's kind of hard to describe. Sort of like maku-uchi. I can show you how it's done (sort of), and I practice it a lot, but descriptions never really manage to get the idea across. Likewise managing teams. It's all sort of mysterious and beyond the ability of rationality to encompass. These are things that cannot (and perhaps should not) be put into words, but that can only be embodied in practice.
The familiar ring of Sensei's voice carries all across the gymnasium and I know I'm doing something wrong.
I don't know what, so I just stop where I am in the sequence of moves forming the first of the omote tachi kata and wait for Sensei to explain what it is I'm screwing up. There never seems to be a shortage of mistakes and misapprehensions on my part, that's for sure.
But one thing I learned studying martial arts — or at least studying with teachers like Sugino Sensei in Japan (and now Sherbrooke) and Skoyles Sensei in Calgary — is that correction is a gift, a gift that must be treasured and embraced and deeply considered. When Sugino Sensei comes running over and grabs my arm to pull it into the correct posture (usually laughing at my awkwardness as he does so), he is gifting me with his attention. And the attention and consideration of a man like Sensei is nothing to be treated casually. He has spent decades learning this craft, learning from his father and the piled-up ages of experience within him, which now reside in the son. It is a rare and precious thing to be granted even a small portion of that experience.
Not only does Sensei know swordfighting (at least the form swordfighting takes within the Katori Shinto Ryu curricullum) inside-out, he also a gifted instructor, who knows just what change to make to a student's stance so that they will understand a particular move better. With one adjustment of my right wrist Sensei completely changed my understanding of maku-uchi men, the basic overhead cut of Katori — the very first thing I ever learned at his dojo fourteen years ago.
Watching Sensei at the class at Sherbrooke was wonderful. He would wander between the rows of practicing students, seemingly aimlessly, and then something would catch his eye and his whole body would electrify, and he would rush over to one pair or another, stop their activity and offer correction and guidance. Usually he would laugh his good-humoured booming laugh and then be on his way again, wandering without apparent direction until something else caught his eye. If I'm paying attention, I can learn nearly as much watching him correct others as I can having him correct me.
The parallels with writing are, perhaps instructive — as much for the similarities as the differences.
When someone reads my work and offers comments, I find that if I can treat their comments as a gift, and accept them humbly and with gratitude, they are far more valuable to me than if I get defensive — thereby denying the validity of my reader's feelings. I have learned to avoid trying to explain myself, even when it seems that someone has misunderstood my intent. I might ask a question to establish that the reader did in fact read the words that I wrote, but I try never to challenge my reader's impressions.
I try. I'm not actually very good at behaving this way — the urge to explain and to try and demonstrate my own cleverness is strong and I often give in to it, but I recognize that this is empty, pride-fueled behaviour.
You can't reason with Sensei. Asking questions serves little purpose when receiving correction — typically when I do ask questions I'm simply trying to make Sensei realise that I REALLY DO UNDERSTAND. That I'm wise and clever and skilled. It's the same in writing.
The only required response to ANY feedback is "Thank you." Whenever someone takes the time to consider what I'm doing and offer their input, I am required to thank them for their efforts. I don't have to say anything else. I don't have to agree with them or demonstrate my acceptance of their correction, but I do have to thank them for the effort.
But in writing it's rare to have access to a Sensei. Writing stories doesn't have the kind of rigid standards that Katori Shinto Ryu has. In Katori, if my foot isn't turned out, that's just wrong. It isn't "my style" or an interesting challenge to overcome; it's wrong. Turn the foot out. In writing stories, ANYTHING can work okay if I can make it work okay. Experience is valuable, to be sure, but anyone's point of view has something to offer me as a writer.
Erin mentioned the notion of "Beginner's Mind" at dinner the other night — the idea that if you can approach your life from the point of view of a beginner, and lose your attachment to your own self-image as an expert, you learn more and are happier thereby. This idea is coming up a lot in The Fifth Discipline — that living with humility and a willingness to learn from others provides a life of richness and constant learning.
In life, even more than in writing, a Sensei never really shows up. Nobody can show me how to live my life — because nobody else is living MY life. Who then can I learn from? Well, from everybody. If I'm willing to accept correction and feedback as the precious gift it is, and if I can remember not to react defensively or pridefully when people offer me the benefit and aid of their experience, everyone can be a Sensei to me. I'm certainly not qualified to be an expert on any subject whatsoever, so it ought to be easy enough for me to find teachers wherever I go.
Which does seem to be the case. Certainly everyone I met in Sherbrooke had much to offer lonely little Anglophone me. Folks were tremendously hospitable and welcoming — Patrick who took me to lunch, Michel who graciously lent me one of his hand-made bokken, Izad (I'm almost certainly spelling that wrong) who helped me with re-learning yoko-men, and of course Martin Sensei and Tong Sensei who were responsible for my being there in the first place. I learned an immense amount.
Now (and this is just as true in writing as in swordsmanship) the challenge is for me to take all the feedback and correction I've received and try to turn it into action. It's one thing to hear and accept that information — it's quite another to use it to transform myself.
Ah, well, that's what makes it fun, I guess.


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New York Approves $15 Minimum Wage For Big Food Franchises
A controversial decision to require large food franchises to pay workers a $15 minimum wage in New York State got final approval Thursday, after the State Labor Commissioner signed the order, according to CNN.
Protesters, including college students, fast-food restaurant employees and other workers, display placards as they march Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in Boston. Organizers of the event are calling for the nation's lowest paid workers to earn at least $15 per hour.
A controversial decision to require large food franchises to pay workers a $15 minimum wage in New York State got final approval Thursday, after the State Labor Commissioner signed the order, according to CNN. Capitalizing on the moment, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would now push for New York to become the first state in the country to impose a statewide minimum of $15 an hour.
"Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will add fairness to our economy and bring dignity and respect to 2.2 million people, many of whom have been forced to live in poverty for too long," Cuomo told workers gathered at the Javits Center in New York City.
The governor was joined at the event by Vice President Joe Biden.
To date, only a handful of cities -- including Los Angeles and Seattle -- have approved a $15 local minimum, although others may follow suit in the next year.
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Acknowledgement: Synonyms are credit, gratitude, thanks, appreciation, and respect. I know acknowledgement is what animals yearn for most of all.
Sometimes a scratch on the nose makes all the difference.
Those noses are all so kissable!
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I would like to acknowledge your blog posts as well, always eagerly looked forward to!


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Genes link to thinning bones
Cathy O'Leary, Medical EditorThe West Australian
Tuesday, 5 September 2017 12:30AM
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Researchers believe they are a step closer to a treatment for the common bone-thinning disease osteoporosis after finding key genes linked to the condition.
The world's biggest study into the genetic causes of osteoporosis, which included Australian researchers, has found 153 gene mutations that play a role in bone mineral density, which often results in fractures.
Researchers from the University of Queensland and McGill University in Canada also identified a protein which could now become the target for new drug treatments.
UQ researchers Dr John Kemp and David Evans found a strongly implicated gene, GPC6, which had not previously been linked to osteoporosis.
"What makes this gene particularly interesting is that it encodes a protein that is present on the surface of cells, making it a potential candidate for a drug target," Professor Evans said.
"Our studies show removing the gene in animals resulted in an increase in bone thickness."
One in 10 Australians aged over 50 has osteoporosis or low bone mineral density. It is more common in women than in men.
Associate Professor Brent Richards, from McGill University, said there was a strong inherited component with bone health but osteoporosis often went undetected until a fracture occurred.
"In 8540 participants who reported previous fractures from simple falls, associations were made with 12 of the new gene regions," Dr Richards said.
The genome-wide association study, published in the journal Nature Genetics, involved more than 140,000 people from the UK Biobank, with bone mineral density assessments taken from ultrasounds of the heel.
The finding trebles the number of genes known to be implicated in the loss of bone mineral density, and the new gene variants account for 12 per cent of the heritability of the disease. The results could be used to develop screening programs to identify individuals who would benefit most from preventive measures.
Researchers said another study of half a million people was under way and likely to shed more light on the genetics underlying the disease, helping prioritise the genes most likely to lead to new treatments.
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