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this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
Feature on exploring a cave associated with homo floresiensis:
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/21-getting-personal-how-i-explored-a-prehistoric-hobbit-cave
Interesting analysis of some prehistoric antelope bones from Olduvai:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/baby-back-waaaay-back-ribs.html?rss=1
National Geographic talks about the similarities between Neanderthals and
humans:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121012-neanderthals-science-paabo-dna-sex-breeding-humans/
More on the interbreeding thing:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/when-did-human-neanderthal-hook-ups-end/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2213219/Neanderthals-bred-modern-humans-Europe-recently-37-000-years-ago.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8543457
http://spittoon.23andme.com/ancestry/more-on-23andmes-neanderthal-lab/
Peripheral interest, perhaps … hypish thing for a NOVA program  on
Neanderthals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=93XSGw0b_xE
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mouthful of cavities and abcesses:
http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-cavities-121010.html
http://news.yahoo.com/mummy-mouthful-cavities-discovered-111722294.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215769/The-unique-linen-filling-used-Egyptian-dentists-2-100-years-ago-try-treat-worst-cases-dental-decay-seen.html
The pyramid of Khafre and some more tombs were opened to the public ths
http://allafrica.com/stories/201210130096.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/12/243316.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/egypt-reopens-giza-pyramid_n_1960898.html?utm_hp_ref=travel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216352/Egypt-reopens-Giza-pyramid-bid-revive-tourism--despite-lingering-questions-security.html
No threats to the Egyptian Museum in recent clashes, we are told:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/55463/Egypt/Politics-/The-Egyptian-museum-is-safe-Minister.aspx
Finds from various prehistoric periods at Ein Zippori:
Feature on the Gath dig:
http://www.jerusalemonline.com/tourism/archeological-dig-at-goliath%E2%80%99s-hometown
Press release on the dig at Tel Esur:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6037
Interesting article on a possible Samson-Helios link (sorry, the article
might be behind a paywall):
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holidays/sukkot/samson-follows-the-sun-to-galilee.premium-1.468506
Damage to an altar in a 9th century Egyptian church:
http://www.aina.org/news/20121008001210.htm
A smuggling attempt foiled at the Cairo airport:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/airport-authorities-foil-attempt-smuggle-artifacts
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/55166/Heritage/Islamic/Egypt-authorities-thwart-attempts-to-smuggle-th-ce.aspx
Feature on the first person to sneak into the Cave of the Patriarchs:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=286936
Nice analysis of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife thing:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-lessons-of-jesus-wife/31234
More coverage of the damage being done to Syria's antiquities:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524311/war-puts-syrian-antiquities-at-heritage-sites-in-danger
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtFsDCDWhbzvme9dKY8iLobqRIwg?docId=064c91270c034ea6ab092beab9813024
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrias-war-is-also-destroying-centuries-of-history/2012/10/09/da10d9ac-122a-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_print.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20121002_Syrian_fighting_destroys_antiquities.html
More on that Assyrian site in northern Iraq:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/2012100212603/Culture/archeologists-assyrian-site-in-northern-iraq-unearthed.html
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
Plenty of coverage of the discovery (maybe) of the site where Julius Caesar
assassinated:
http://www.france24.com/en/20121010-scientists-claim-find-spot-julius-caesars-slaying
http://news.discovery.com/history/julius-ceasar-stabbing-121012.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49380552/ns/technology_and_science-science
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216396/Archaeologists-say-murder-scene-Julius-Caesar--s-bus-stop.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/julius-caesar-stabbed-curia-pompey_n_1955359.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-spanish-exact-julius-caesar-stabbed.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/10/Caesar-assassination-site-confirmed/UPI-22411349898421/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/snrc-crf101012.php
http://www.sciencecodex.com/csic_researchers_find_the_exact_spot_where_julius_caesar_was_stabbed-99870
Curiously less coverage of the possible (?) find of the tomb of Roxane:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/06/tomb-near-serres-wife-son-of-alexander/
They're digging in the Agora of Paphos:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/paphos/archaeologists-explore-ancient-market/20121014
A couple of Roman ships found off the coast of Elaiussa Sebaste:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/turkey/2012/10/08/Italian-archaeologists-find-2-sunken-Roman-ships-off-Turkey_7595945.html
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/16619/Italian-archaeologists-find-2-sunken-Roman-ships-off-Turkey.html
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/roman-ships-discovered-off-turkish-coast/
Nice feature on the current goings-on at Zeugma:
http://www.archaeology.org/1211/features/zeugma_turkey_belkis_roman_mosaics.html
Hype for a Cambridge conference on Linear B:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-linear-b-60-years-on/
Feature on the Caryatids:
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121009/OPINION16/310090024/Six-headstrong-women-confidently-raise-Acropolis-roof
That marble sarcophagus that was languishing in a Dorset garden fetched
a nice price at auction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19878090
Khaled Holmes is another athlete with a Classical past:
http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-1012-usc-khaled-holmes-20121012,0,2640933.story
Diphthong is apparently the best word ever:
http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/2012/10/the-best-word-ever-is-greek.html
Some Greek-myth-inspired manga:
http://graphic-novels-manga.suvudu.com/2012/10/olympics-come-and-gone-get-your-ancient-greek-fix-with-olympos.html
The APA is pondering a name change:
http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/request_for_comments_on_possible_name_change_for_association/
Seven things you probably did know about Caligula, actually:
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-caligula
Latin has acquired hipster status, apparently, down under/up over:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/hipsters-embrace-lingo-of-the-ancient-worlds-20121012-27i6u.html
More on revisiting the find site of the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/04/archaeologists-revisit-ancient-greek-computer-wreck-site/
More on the Mazotos shipwreck:
http://famagusta-gazette.com/mazotos-shipwreck-among-the-very-few-in-the-mediterranean-that-can-provide-p16908-69.htm
http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/30487/revealing-the-past
Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
Nazca-like geoglyphs from Russia?:
http://www.livescience.com/23910-russian-nazca-lines-discovered.html
http://www.livescience.com/23884-nazca-lines-russia-geoglyphs.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/russian-geoglyph-elk-design-ural-nazca-lines_n_1961475.html
A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:
http://www.nzweek.com/technology/bronze-age-necropolis-unearthed-in-serbia-12863/
A late Bronze Age hoard from Jersey:
http://jersey.isle-news.com/archives/late-bronze-age-hoard-discovered-in-jersey/13986/
Claims of the discovery of Europe's oldest urban settlement in
Bulgaria:
http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/08/archaeology-europes-oldest-town-found-near-bulgarias-varna-professor-says/
A massive complex found near the Ring of Brodgar (not sure if we mentioned
this already):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/06/orkney-temple-centre-ancient-britain
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/archaeologists-uncover-massive-stone-age-complex-in-scotland/
Using technology to understand Tudor weaponry:
http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/featuredstories/solvingthesubmergedsecretsofthemaryrose.php
Pondering some recent theories about Stonehenge:
http://news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-two-explanations-121012.html
… and coverage of the results of a recent laser scan of the monument:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bronze-age-carvings-suggest-stonehenge-was-a-huge-prehistoric-art-gallery-8202812.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8980lb-us-britain-stonehenge/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/midwinter-sun-linked-stonehenge-230914781.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/09/stonehenge-digital-laser-3d-survey
… and how it was 'supposed' to look:
http://news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-analysis-photos-121012.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/09/stonehenge_laser_scan/
The mystery of the mausoleum of Pentillie:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19889033
Finds from various periods at Blackbird Leys:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19884140
Feature on Isabel de la Vega:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=287481
St Paul's is faring much better lately, it appears:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-erosion-iconic-st-paul-benefit.html
Plans for some fixing up at Leckhampton Hill Fort:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19872169
An Academic Minute on the Richard III thing:
http://wamc.org/post/dr-norman-housley-university-leicester-richard-iii
Review of John Kelly, *The Graves are Walking*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/the-graves-are-walking-by-john-kelly.html?ref=books
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
Evidence that prehistoric man ate pandas:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/prehistoric-man-ate-panda-claim
http://www.canada.com/technology/Chinese+scientist+says+fossils+show+prehistoric+much+smaller+pandas/7387729/story.html
A Buddhist site on Bhogapuram:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-pradesh/evidence-of-buddhist-site-found/article3980627.ece
Feature on Sima Qian:
Feature on Kublai Khan:
Feature on the Duke of Zhou:
Using tradition to maintain fisheries in Indonesia:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-fisheries-benefit-year-old-tradition.html
East Asian Archaeology:
http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
Kennewick Man is back in the news:
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019387577_bones10m.html
Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Camp Lawton's
stockade walls:
http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/10/11/civil-war-prison-camp-wall-uncovered
The search has resumed for the Griffon in Lake Michigan:
http://www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-search-oldest-shipwreck-great-lakes
Some border patrol agents found a different type of pot while on
patrol in the Patagonia Mountains:
http://www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-agents-find-ancient-pottery-in-the-patagonia-mountains/
An Academic Minute on early Spanish missions in Florida and Georgia:
The New York Times notices that Canada has been giving the War of 1812 a lot
of attention:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/americas/canada-highlights-war-of-1812-casting-us-as-aggressor.html
More on that button from a shipwreck of St Augustine:
http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03/story/button-found-st-augustine-shipwreck-smoking-gun-its-identity
1300 years b.p. tombs, including a possible governor, found at Copalita:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58240#.UHqqu2d0YWk
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/6162-descubren-tumba-de-gobernante-prehispanico-en-copalita
More on that pile of skulls from the Templo Mayor:
http://news.discovery.com/history/skulls-aztec-rituals-temple-121008.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
More on Lady K'abel's tomb:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/vergano/2012/10/12/maya-lady-kabel-archaeology/1629915/
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
Audio news from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20121007.mp3
Conservation work on a Holbein reveals the true identity of the sitter:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/14/x-rays-identity-holbein-portrait
Interesting interview about UColorado's Media Archaeology Lab:
http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/media-archaeology-and-digital-stewardship-an-interview-with-lori-emerson/
The Metropolitan Museum has put a pile of its publications online:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58271#.UHqs82d0YWl
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/the-mets-exhibition-catalogs-are-revived-for-a-digital-life.html?ref=design
… and Charles Jones has culled links to those which would likely be of
interest to
readers of Explorator:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2012/10/metropolitan-museum-of-art-publications.html
Tracking HepB through the ages:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-prehistoric-journey-hepatitis.html
Some 'lost diaries' and the 'young Mona Lisa' thing:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8970sp-us-art-monalisa-diaries/
A missing photo of Mahler may have been found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/music/a-clue-to-whereabouts-of-schoenbergs-missing-mahler-photo.html?ref=music
DNA apparently has a half-life:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22359-dnas-halflife-identified-using-fossil-bones.html
Coverage of the first meeting of the Jane Austen Society:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/books/jane-austen-society-of-north-america-meets-in-brooklyn.html?src=dayp
Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-revenge-of-geography-by-robert-d-kaplan.html
Ancient Digger:
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
TOURISTY THINGS
Old City Jerusalem:
http://www.haaretz.com/travel-in-israel/tourist-tip-of-the-day/tourist-tip-62-the-old-city-of-jerusalem.premium-1.468371
Siena:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-hours-in-siena-italy.html
About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
Illicit Cultural Property:
http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/
http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n42.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
Big bucks expected for a silver decadrachm from Akragas:
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58261#.UHqvpGd0YWk
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
Roma Caput Mundi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JRB5yVxgnE&list=UU86dbj-lbDks_hZ5gRKL49Q&index=1&feature=plcp
Jomon Japan:
http://japandailypress.com/5000-year-old-pots-exhibited-at-british-museum-1115355
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121010f2.html
http://blogs.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/bronze-gets-sexy-royal-academy/
Durer to de Kooning:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/durer-to-de-kooning-at-the-morgan-library.html?ref=arts
Faking It:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/faking-it-at-the-met-a-photography-exhibition.html?ref=arts
Louis Tiffany and the Art of Devotion:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/louis-c-tiffany-and-the-art-of-devotion-at-biblical-art.html?ref=design
Commentary on some recent 'Islamic Art' auctions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/arts/13iht-melikian13.html?ref=arts
Commentary on the role of the curator:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/11iht-rartcurating11.html?ref=arts
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
Da Vinci's Demons:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/renaissance-men-david-s-goyer-introduces-his-new-starz-series-da-vincis-demons/?ref=arts
Cyrano de Bergerac:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/theater/reviews/cyrano-de-bergerac-with-douglas-hodge.html?ref=arts
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
Rufus Fears:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329745/rufus-fears-rip-john-hood
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2012/oct/07/j-rufus-fears-three-time-professor-year-dies-67/
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
http://news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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WASHINGTON – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., applauded U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for blocking imports of Chinese soda ash suspected of being made with forced prison labor from entering the United States today. Wyden and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, led the fight to close a related loophole in U.S. law on goods made with forced or child labor, which became law earlier this year. The order by CBP to halt such shipments and investigate whether they are produced with forced labor is the first such action since 2001.
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A new page in Indo-Pakistani relations?
By Gauri Khandekar
In the run-up to their respective independence days, India and Pakistan have renewed peace and security talks. But while people on both sides deeply desire peace, there still remains a deep mistrust at the political and military level.
"Amidst celebrations of their independence days, India (15 August) and Pakistan (14 August) have renewed peace and security talks. The triple blasts in Mumbai in July, the fourth major attack on India's financial capital within a decade, didn't derail the talks as India and Pakistan pressed instead on negotiating confidence-building measures through the composite dialogue.
Stalled since the Mumbai 2008 blasts, the five-year dialogue aims at easing a seven-decade long feud and resolving the highly contiguous Kashmir issue. People on both sides deeply desire peace, but there still remains a deep mistrust at the political and military level.
While it is unlikely that major outstanding issues will be resolved in the short term, as the broader region [looks] set to get more complicated with US withdrawal from Afghanistan and a greater Chinese interest, along with the increasing isolation of Pakistan at the international level, a balancing act between India and Pakistan seems like a good beginning.
Successful talks between India and Pakistan have enormous potential to bring about peace and stability to the world's most volatile region. Opening the gates to trade, commerce and investment could be the panacea to Pakistan's economic ills.
At a meeting between the foreign ministers of both countries held in New Deli on 27 July, it was announced that Pakistan may well offer India the status of 'most favoured nation' in exchange for the abstraction of Pakistan specific non-tariff barriers, and an Indian green light to the EU trade package stalled at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
The EU wishes to offer concessions to Pakistan's textile industry to help mitigate [the] losses of last year's devastating floods.
The EU is Pakistan's largest trading partner with 7.1 billion euros in bilateral trade, while trade with India stands at around 1.2 billion euros only, mainly due to multiple trade and travel restrictions. Increased integration, competition and growth would result in shared prosperity [and] dynamism and empower civil society to tackle radicalism.
Educational exchanges would create further synergies amongst [the young], who bear a more modern outlook to twenty-first century Indo-Pakistan relations. Social media platforms have in this sense been generating cross-border connections. Talibanisation too is a shared concern for both India and Pakistan and can be jointly kept at bay.
Cooperation within the framework of a second Green Revolution, which had thawed post-war ties in 1978, could again solve South Asia's food crisis. Developing a partnership on energy and resource sharing would prepare grounds for greater political spillover.
But the most immediate winners of the peace process would be the Kashmiris themselves. Confidence-building measures under discussion aim at enhancing cross-Kashmir travel and trade arrangements. Although talks will at most lead to modest levels of demilitarisation, if at all, at the Siachen glacier, the world's highest battlefield nestled in the Himalayas, increased confidence and trust on both sides would decrease terrorism and decelerate the arms race (India is currently the world's largest importer of arms).
Both governments have multi-billion dollar defence budgets. The regional impact [of] denuclearisation would be most vital for global security.
If sustained, these talks would also have a significant impact on stabilising democracy in Pakistan: the democratic government today is the key interlocutor, not the post-Musharraf Pakistani military.
But there remain tough challenges [on] the path to prosperity, and peace will not come about overnight. It will be hard not to contextualise peace-building within the confines of terrorist attacks and the issue of Kashmir.
The latter, in essence, is unlikely to be resolved as both India and Pakistan remain divided within: Pakistan's military continues to play a key role in foreign policy issues principally vis-à-vis India; India's opposition party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), will not allow the government to make any compromise on Kashmir having already threatened to launch massive protests.
Other national and regional actors are likely to create trouble too, since peace will make them lose prominence. The Pakistani foreign minister Khar's meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Delhi [have] already struck a bad note with India (Kashmiri separatists have so far refused to meet with the Indian state appointed interlocutors).
[The] clear losers of peace amongst the two nations include terrorist groups such as LeT, as well as the Taliban and radicals, whose influence would dramatically shrink in a rapidly modernising Pakistan at peace with its neighbour.
While the US hopes that talks will ease their own drawdown in Afghanistan, any understanding between India and Pakistan would realistically not radiate much effect into Afghanistan. India and Pakistan have deeply divergent interests and agendas in Afghanistan and vie for influence all the same.
But a lowest common denominator for cooperation in Afghanistan could be thrashed out. China, a clear beneficiary of troubled Indo-Pak relations, stands to lose influence from a rapprochement between India and Pakistan. China has been meticulously deepening ties with Pakistan through economic, development, military, nuclear and naval cooperation.
A spiked China recently questioned the entry of a single country, India, into the Nuclear Suppliers Group, pressing also for Pakistan's entry.
For the moment, steady progress is envisaged by settling on confidence-building measures and increasing commercial ties. Commerce ministers of both sides will meet next, in September. There is a real need to overcome nationalism to change the template of relations between the once united nations. Silence has not worked.
It is time to turn a new page in Indo-Pak relations. A step-by-step dialogue process is the most viable option to do so and achieve regional and global peace and stability."
Gauri Khandekar is a junior researcher at European think-tank FRIDE. He sent this op-ed exclusively to EurActiv.


I have a theory about social workers. 98% of the people who get a degree in social work are crazy in one way or another. And by crazy I mean the whole gambit; quirky and excentric to bairly hanging on. And by crazy I mean the type of crazy that correlates with dedication, hard work and creative problem solving.
How do I know? Well to start off, social workers are generally required to get a master degree and then train for two years for a license. And, when it is all said and done, we still make less money than nurses or teachers or the unionized physical labor force. Based on financial considerations, it is an rational choice.
In addition, a large part of the social work curriculum is doing role playing, and who doesn't have anything more enjoyable to do than pretend to be therapist for two hours while everyone critiques you? So even though they are role plays, you can see the underlying crazy peeking out.
Also, it appears that half of new social worker students start the program with a big-eyed, warm and fuzzy type of feeling, ready to save the homeless, the mentally ill and all the cats stuck in trees. The other half comes in already over the top pissed off, ready to pulverize any old, rich, white dude who dare stand in the way.
Inevitably, if they stay in the field, most social workers live through years of client resistance, government bureaucracy and general ineffectiveness within the system. They become burned out, middle-aged women who do not suffer fools gladly. So even if you don't start out crazy you end up crazy or crazier than when you started.
My final argument? How about twenty plus years of working with social workers? Most of the social workers I've asked are fairly quick to say choosing a poorly paid, overwhelming, make it up as you go career was driven by hopes they could drop some of their own emotional baggage.
Anyway, my theory is, if you are going to hire a social worker just know you are most likely getting some kind of crazy. The goal is to decide what type of crazy you are willing to put up with.


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Go beyond New York City with these great day trips, all under two hours away © Steve Prezant / Getty Images
If there's one thing New York City does better than most other US destinations, it's overloading the senses.
Should you want to escape the Big Apple to unplug from the noise and disconnect from the constant activity, you only need a full tank of gas or a ride on the city's public transportation. Within two hours of the city, you can find a complete change of scenery: unplug in the crisp forests, soothe your serotonin levels in the sand or get cultured in upstate museums. Here's our pick of the best day trips from NYC.
1. Free your spirit in Woodstock, NY
Travel time: 2 hours
Although the infamous 1969 music festival took place on a dairy farm in Bethel, NY, tie-dye is still found in Woodstock, NY, a town filled with independent art and the bounteous nature of Catskill Park. It's the perfect destination to get back to the great outdoors by taking a hike up Overlook Mountain and enjoying expansive vistas of red spruce, balsam fir trees and red oak.
A ban on chain stores keeps this town feeling free-spirited and Tinker Street, Woodstock's main drag, entices travelers with unique gift stores and cafes. There is a plethora of restaurant choices in the town, but for an extra special breakfast, you'll want to take a 20-minute drive to the Phoenicia Diner, an elevated restaurant known for unbelievable pancakes. It even has its own cookbook and take-home pancake mix should you miss them when you return to NYC.
How to get to Woodstock from New York City: It takes 2 hours by car to get to Woodstock, NY. Alternatively, there is a direct bus to Woodstock from Port Authority, which takes 2 hours 45 minutes.
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2. Take a luxury trip to Bedford-Katonah, NY
Travel time: 1 hour
Hemmed in by the navy waves of Long Island Sound and the blue of the Hudson River, lush Westchester County is the ideal place to recharge. Hone in on Bedford-Katonah, a trio of sleepy hamlets with quaint downtowns that lean back onto a pillow of rolling green hills.
Start at the Katonah Art Museum, known for showing up-and-coming and established modern artists in a small but innovative setting. Afterward, an eight-minute drive will take you to the Richard Gere-owned Bedford Post, an eight-room luxury hotel that hosts restorative yoga classes and sound baths in The Loft.
Finish with a meal at The Barn, one of the onsite restaurants. This casual yet charming wood-beamed room has a lovely porch for eating al fresco.
How to get to Bedford-Katonah from New York City: Take the Metro-North Harlem Line to Katonah Station. A short taxi ride will get you to the Katonah Art Museum. The trip takes about one hour by train.
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3. Hit the beach in Asbury Park, NJ
Travel time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Synonymous with rocker Bruce Springsteen, the Jersey Shore beach town of Asbury Park is the ideal NYC day trip destination. Its newly-renovated boardwalk crowns a mile-long freeway of golden sand and sparkling blue waters. Add in a slew of trendy restaurants and impeccable independent shopping opportunities and you may not even want to go back to New York.
As well as spending time on the beach, don't miss the Wooden Walls Project, a public art initiative started in 2015 consisting of large-scale murals. If you have time, check who's playing at the legendary rock venue, Stone Pony.
The restaurant credited with transforming the Asbury Park food scene is upscale pizza spot, Porta. Book ahead.
How to get to Asbury Park from New York City: The quickest way to get to Asbury Park is by car (1 hour and 15 mins). You can also take the NJ transit train (from Penn Station to Bay Head) or the NJ Transit bus (Port Authority to Asbury Park Transportation Center).
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4. Admire the artworks in Beacon, NY
A hotbed of creativity in a historical blue-collar town; Beacon has art, fine dining and shopping all along the Hudson River.
A stop at the Dia: Beacon is a must when day-tripping to Beacon. The light-filled 300,000 sq ft gallery space in a converted factory hosts conceptual large-scale art by Gerard Richter, Louise Bourgeois and Richard Serra. Also, Storm King Art Center, a 500-acre outdoor sculpture garden, is a short drive away, bringing together fine art and fresh air.
The most charming setting to eat is Roundhouse, a farm-to-table restaurant overlooking a waterfall. Inventive favorites like Spicy Lobster Mac n' Cheese pair nicely with a signature cocktail or a glass of wine. After your meal, stroll up the street to the trendy HÅKAN Chocolatier for artisanal chocolate worth the trip alone.
How to get to Beacon from New York City: By car, take I-87 North to Palisades Pkwy to NY-9D. By train, take Metro-North Hudson Line to Beacon Station. Whichever transportation you use, travel time is about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
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5. Float down the river in New Hope, PA
New Hope might be one of the most progressive small towns in Bucks County, Pennsylvania with a giant yearly LGBTIQ+ festival, late-night bar scene and artistic stores. It is also the perfect relaxing getaway – find a spot by the Delaware River and let your urban stress melt away.
When it's time to eat, you won't go wrong with Salt House, a charming gastropub located in a historical building built in 1751. Eat chowder by the fire in the tavern, steak frites in the upstairs library or oysters on the half shell al fresco on the stone patio.
How to get to New Hope from New York City: From Port Authority, take a direct bus to New Hope. The trip takes about 2 hours. By car, take I-78 West and US-202 South. Travel time by car is 1 hour and 30 mins.
Though still in New York City, the Rockaways has a seaside town feel © Demerzel21 / Getty Images / iStockphoto
6. Experience NYC's surf scene at the Rockaways, Queens
Travel time: 45 minutes
For a hip surf scene that is reachable by subway, grab your swimsuit and catch the A train to the Rockaways. Technically still in New York City (it's in Queens), at Rockaway Beach, you'll feel like you're in a seaside town, but without the unbearable traffic.
Before you go, reserve your umbrella and beach lounge chair through Lido Beach Butlers at Jacob Riis Beach, and arrive to find everything set up for maximum relaxation. For a unique experience in the summer, book a tent at Camp Rockaway, a seasonal "glampground" located mere steps from the ocean, where the sounds of the surf will lull you to sleep.
The Riis Park Beach Bazaar concession stands have updated seaside fare including a weekly lobster boil at Rockaway Clam Bar. Grab a picnic table on the boardwalk, crack open a beer and groove to the live music playing most summer nights.
How to get to the Rockaways from New York City: Take the NYC ferry directly to Jacob Riis Beach or the A train to a shuttle bus. The trip takes about 45 minutes.
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Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Act Passes Senate
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Included in a year-end government funding bill that included a $900-billion COVID-19 relief package, the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act was passed by the House of Representatives and Congress Monday night. The bill is expected to be signed into law shortly by President Donald J. Trump, which would mean that the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, once considered a longshot to pass, will become a reality.
The passage of the bill was a a bipartisan effort led by Congressmen Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Andy Barr (R-KY) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
"Kentucky's cherished horseracing traditions deserve to be protected. I'm proud the Senate agreed to my legislation to preserve our signature racing industry and the 24,000 workers who support it," McConnell said in a statement. "With the leadership of Congressman Andy Barr and the partnership of sport leaders, horse advocates, and fans, we're one step closer to promoting fairness and safety across Thoroughbred racing. As Majority Leader, I made this Kentucky-focused legislation a top priority in the Senate. I look forward to this major advancement for our beloved sport becoming law."
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8am November 27 and i am up, im usually up really early cause of Harlow, but today im up because i slept through the night for the 1st…maybe 2nd time since september! But im still tired, and i need to get up and eat some oatmeal but im too lazy right now…but i am up, i am blessed and i am thanking the good Lord for…well everything. There are some people that didnt wake up this morning, and their are some people mourning cause of others that didnt wake up, there are people who woke up knowing they wouldnt have a thanksgiving meal, and their are some trying to find something as small as breakfast for their kids, there are some people who woke up without a home, and there are some whose homes are completely under snow, there are some who woke up with no hope, and their are some that today will give up their fight…God chose to bless me, and wake me up with so many things others dont have. My "little" life challenges seem extremely minute compared to the blessings i receive daily.
I woke up this morning feeling so lonely. Ive gotten to a point i believe where im so happy and loving myself that i am ready for someone to be there,here, with me. Some days i just wanna wake up to a warm loving body and be so comfortable and feel so safe that i fall back to sleep…yes im tired of waking up cold and having to cuddle with my pillow. But thats what i woke up like…again. Its crazy cause for years i'd tell my friends you know, take time out for you. Well i took my own advice and have been single for almost 3 years…yup!!! 3 whole long years. Lol whats a gurl gotta do geesh!!!! But in that time spent apart from someone, learning them, loving them, being there for them at any and every call. I was able to do and be that person for me. To love me, put myself first, make me happy, i learnt me. So i'd still give my friends the same advice and finally i can admit that yea ive tried it, i lived it, i learned to love it. But…right now its time, im ready…for something real, something lasting and worth all this wait. Id wait forever til i get it, and until then ill cuddle with this pillow, it hadnt failed me yet!
i woke up cold but thankful. I am thankful for so many things. This is the 1 day we set aside to give thanks…we should do it every day but ehh we dont. So on this day i am thankful for life,health, and strength. Definitely my strength. This is a difficult road, and even though some people tell me i make it look easy its not. Its stressful, it hurts, its scary, its almost something that will eat you alive…if you let it. Thats where my strength comes in. God knows i would not be able to go through this without the strength or life lessons he has given me along the way. I've been through enough to write a book, but the things that ive been through have prepared me for what i'm going through. And i am grateful for the little hurdles/battles that i have fought and overcome during these 30 years of life. I'm thankful for timing, because all things are given in his time. My daughter came at the right time, the right age, and even though she was a preemie she was my early (thank goodness cause it was too hot to stay pregnant) blessing. God knew what he was doing when he made her, i mean he really out did himself (well he could have worked on her rhythm more) but shes perfect, she the closest thing to perfect i've ever seen. I'm thankful for family struggles, i know right who is thankful for the bad times. Well me! And no its not cause i live in a state of gloom, its because without the struggles, the fights, the honest but sometimes too harsh words, family wouldnt be as strong as they are. Well mine anyway. Fight is what make a man, and fight and struggle is what bonds a family. I can now appreciate the bad, because it wouldnt have bonded us together if our lives where all sugar plums and gum drops. All in all im thankful for so much, probably too much to sit and write in my journal about. But i woke up, im breathing, i have a roof over my head and clothes on my body, i am blessed and highly favored. I may not have the job that i want, but its a job. I may not have the significant other i want but i have happiness within, i may not have the gorgeous house i always dreamed of, but i have a roof over my head and it doesnt leak and its warm, i may not have so many things that i want, but i have everything that i need. And for all my needs being supplied i'm thankful….
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Among many other blessings God has given me, I am thankful that He brought a beautiful little girl named Harlow our way and allowed us to come to know her and her amazing beautiful mother as she travels through this valley. Brighter days are coming and I know you will start making all those dreams come true!!!!
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Do workers' compensation judges have to adopt expert vocational testimony in determining whether or not to award benefits? In a recent case, the Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Reviewing Board was asked to reconsider its prior holdings that judges do not need to talk about or adopt expert vocational testimony so long as they make clear they considered that testimony.
In the case, a 59-year-old employee had received his GED in 1974 before beginning work as a pre-set-up operator. He hurt his back while bending a little over 15 years later. He worked in a light duty capacity for two more years when he had to leave work because of back pain. In 1991, he started collecting partial incapacity benefits, which he could receive for 600 weeks. When those ran out, he filed for total incapacity benefits and medical benefits. A conference was held, after which his claims were denied. He appealed.
At the hearing for his appeal, he asked two vocational rehabilitation experts to testify. The judge did not adopt their opinions, but did note them as witnesses and recorded their reports as exhibits. The judge noted that the employee had taken a job as a bartender part-time. The employee had testified he no longer liked the job and was working twelve hours a week just trying to "kill time." He also testified he left the job because of the back pain, but the judge didn't credit that testimony.
The judge adopted a neurologist's medical opinion that the employee could do some light work though he was partially disabled. The neurologist had opined that the employee's bartending fit within those parameters, as did other jobs like being a cashier or motel clerk. The judge found he had the capacity to earn only $120 per week working 15 hours per week. Because he had already collected the maximum amount of partial incapacity benefits he could collect, the judge didn't award him anything and denied his claim.
The employee's appeal was based on the argument that the administrative judge should have made specific findings about the vocational rehabilitation experts. He cited to case law. The reviewing board explained that the case law he relied upon didn't say that a judge had to make findings about the testimony of vocational rehabilitation experts. In fact, it stated that it didn't matter that the administrative judge had failed to mention the vocational expert's evaluation.
The reviewing board explained that in all workers' compensation claims, there must be a clearly visible factual basis for a judge's findings. In this case there was a factual source and rational basis for the judge's determination that the employee was partially incapacitated: the employee had testified he had left the bartending job because he didn't like it, not because he couldn't do it and the neurologist had testified he could do light work.
The reviewing board reasoned that since the administrative judge had listed the vocational rehabilitation experts as witnesses and included their reports as exhibits, she had considered their opinions. It declined to modify its rule that judges need not make specific findings about vocational rehabilitation experts' opinions.
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Aztec Icon #16 – TECCIZTECATL and METZTLI, Deities of the Moon
It's been about nine months since the last addition to my coloring book YE GODS! Icons of Aztec Deities, #15, Quiahuitl, God of Rain. After completing it back last April, I had to focus on setting up the two-month Ye Gods! exhibition in Santa Fe, as well as prepare and deliver several lectures. Then everything else, including work on my second memoir, had to be put on hold while I concentrated for three months on re-translating an opera from Russian (which will be produced by the New Orleans Opera in February, 2020). Meanwhile I also set up the exhibition for another month in nearby Española. Busy boy, no?
Finally by late November, I got back to drawing, and now I'm thrilled to announce that #16 is finished at last: Tecciztecatl and Metztli, Deities of the Moon.
TECCIZTECATL & METZTLI
Tecciztecatl {tek-seez-te-katł}, the son of Tlaloc and Chalchiuhtlicue, is a god of hunters and appears as things shining in the night. In the Nahua cosmology, when Quetzalcoatl and Ehecatl created the current Fifth Sun, Tecciztecatl wanted to become the new sun, but he hesitated to jump into the sacred fire, whereupon the young god Nanahuatzin leapt into the flames to become Tonatiuh. When Tecciztecatl followed, he took second place as the moon.
Metztli {mets-tłee} is the ancestral moon goddess probably inherited from ancient Teotihuacan and/or the Maya's lunar goddess Ix Chel. Long after the Nahuas demoted Metztli to merely being the consort of Tecciztecatl, the later Aztecs tried to replace her with (the head of) Coyolxauhqui, the sister dismembered by their supreme god Huitzilopochtli.
Tecciztecatl joined Metztli in the sacred calendar (tonalpohualli) as patrons of the thirteen-day week One Death, which is shown in the encircling day-signs. It should be noted that there are thirteen days between the full and dark of the moon. The Mesoamerican cultures saw a rabbit in the full moon (top), and the serpent of the night devouring the rabbit (bottom) represents the dark of the moon. Incidentally, the nocturnal jaguar was closely connected with the moon, and the conch shell was the standard symbol of the moon.
I fired the drawing off to my dear friend Sagar in Bangladesh for him to work his vectorizing magic on it, and he did the trick. I'm currently (in January) posting the jpeg version with caption and sources on the coloring book page and have now (in April) have added the vectorized versions to the list of various sizes available for free download.
In my strict alphabetical sequence, the next deity to tackle is Tepeyollotl, Heart of the Mountain, who has several dramatic aspects. You can check out my earlier image of this god among the Aztec images from the old book on the calendar. If the creek don't rise, I'd like to get his icon done by April. Once again meanwhile, in my multi-tasking fashion, I'll be arranging more venues for the expanded exhibition and lectures—and forging onward in my memoir. Call me driven, but I'd love to finish that by next year.
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A Roar of Jaguars
In the past few years, I've realized that, in the Native American tradition, I seem to have an animal totem, the jaguar. This past year when I started my second memoir, I understood my deep connection to this apex predator of the Americas and included an illustration:
My Totem Jaguar
I also realized that this magnificent feline has been lurking in my background for at least 35 years. At a yard sale I'd bought a carved-wood figurine and stashed it away as a curiosity. Later I gave it as a birthday gift to a friend, who returned it explaining that there was some spirit in it which didn't "resonate" with him. Stashed away again, it sat on a shelf for decades—following me around to various domiciles. Then about a year ago I recognized it for a jaguar-priest or shaman from some South or Meso-American tradition.
My Jaguar Priest Figurine
It suddenly made sense that this jaguar figurine was probably why some 30 years ago I'd gotten so involved in the Aztec milieu. I soon learned that this New World King of Beasts had originally roamed throughout most of the South and Meso-American jungles and even ranged north into the American Southwest (apparently now making a comeback in southern Arizona!).
I also learned that the noble jaguar was central to the mythologies of basically all the ancient civilizations of the New World (just as the lion was to those of the Old). First off, I found it in the Aztec calendar, as the 14th day of their agricultural month and in the second week of their ceremonial count of days (tonalpohualli). Starting with the day Ce Ocelotl – One Jaguar (those with this birth day-name coincidentally being destined for sacrifice), that second week was under the patronage of the god Quetzalcoatl, the Plumed Serpent.
I already knew that the Aztec ceremonial calendar had been more or less inherited from the much earlier Maya and then discovered that it, just like its patron deity, was also revered by the even earlier Olmec. Then about three years ago in considering that maybe the sacred calendar's count of days had originated in the still earlier Chavín civilization in Peru, I learned that the jaguar was for them also a major deity, often seen as an ornate man-jaguar. Do note this Chavín were-jaguar's startling snake-locks!
Chavin Were-Jaguar
If my suggestion that the count of days originated at Chavín de Huantar is correct, that ritual (more like a religion), was carried north by trader-missionaries to populations along the Pacific coast. Ultimately they crossed the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and proselytized the Olmec with the sacred way of telling time. While many surviving Olmec sculptures are of infant were-jaguars, I'll show you their dramatic animal.
Olmec Jaguar
Coincidentally, earliest calendar lore has it being brought by a god, namely the Plumed Serpent, who was also the bringer of maize (and culture). Between the calendar, the jaguar, and this legendary civilizer deity, they had a rather well-rounded theosophy, even if some rituals might have involved sacrifices frowned on nowadays.
It's now become reasonable to think that the early Maya were "civilizing" in Yucatan at much the same time as the Olmec were hard at it in Veracruz. More mercenary missionary work was probably what took the calendar to the Maya. They hugely elaborated and ornamented the new "faith" with their own deities and even started writing about it in glyphs.
Along with calendar, the jaguar deity (B'alam) came to the Maya, but their representations of it were generally not anthropomorphized. I found a spectacular relief at Chichen Itza on Google Images, apparently a repro in gold (!), that's both naturalistic and stylized. Not to gross you out, but I bet that's a heart it's holding in its paw and licking.
Mayan Jaguar from Chichen Itza
Of course, the third part of the religion was the Plumed Serpent, the civilizer deity whom they called Kukulcan (or Gugumatz). This Triad then moved west and north to early Teotihuacan, where the Serpent likely became known as Quetzalcoatl, or maybe that was amongst the later Toltecs. That calendar religion reigned across the centuries and other areas of Mexico, as shown by this jaguar totem from the Zapotecs, possibly a funerary urn.
Zapotec Jaguar
Eventually, the barbarian Aztecs came out of the north and adopted the local religion, and it came to be known and misunderstood as the "Aztec Calendar." In their historical or genealogical picture-books, many of which were from other cultures like the Mixtec, the were-jaguar shows up as jaguar warriors. These "jaguar-weres" were simply humans wearing jaguar pelts.
In their religious documents, the jaguar is generally depicted as a divine animal such as these two from Codex Borgia, (adjusted and adapted to prepare for drawings in my next icon). By the way, those wavy figures represent the jaguar's roar.
Jaguars from Codex Borgia
Modelling mine on the image on the left, several years ago as my first attempt at drawing on computer, I drew a jaguar with a realistically patterned pelt (and more aggressive demeanor). Intended to be the apotheosis of the Lord of the Animals, the drawing had to wait some three years to be enthroned in YE GODS! Icon #11 – OCELOTL.
My Jaguar–Lord of the Animals
But I'm not done with this roar of jaguars! Recalling that the historical range of the jaguar reached up into North America, there is the possibility that the creature may have been known, or at least recalled, by populations outside of the desert Southwest. I'm talking about my other favorite topic, the Mississippian "civilization."
I found a trace of the calendar and image of a heavily stylized man-jaguar in the Southeast and drew this fanciful animal below from a shell gorget (from Fairfield MO across the river from Cahokia) for a book on the Indian mounds. (See my Gallery of Pre-Columbian Artifacts.)
Jaguar Gorget – Fairfield MO
In the magazine "Ancient American," Vol. 21, No. 116, I wrote about the cult of the Plumed Serpent in North America, which shows that the trinity of Calendar-Jaguar-Serpent was a Pan-American "religion." Small wonder I feel the jaguar my totem—it's the totem for all Americans.
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Ancient America-Asia Coincidences
Recently I came across two historical coincidences worthy of comment. Both may be archaeologically, or at least anthropologically, significant.
The Rabbit in the Moon.
Readers should be advised that I've "studied" (more like "obsessed with") things Mesoamerican for about 30 years now, and have become fairly conversant about their mythology and art, mainly of the Aztecs. More about that in a moment.
Some decades ago I learned that the Mesoamerican peoples saw a rabbit in the moon. This "moon rabbit" was famous amongst the early Maya, shown here with the moon goddess Ix Chel:
The image of a rabbit in the moon occurs in two of the surviving pre-Conquest Aztec codices (picture-books) and in one of the post-Conquest documents.
Aztec Rabbits in the Moon
Learning about this lunar bunny, I checked out the full moon and immediately saw it clearly. Before, I'd never really been able to see a face in the moon (the European tradition), and now I can see nothing but the rabbit. In my Aztec obsession, I've spent the past several years drawing icons of their deities and am now working on the god of the moon, Tecciztecatl. As a detail for that icon, I've concocted my own Moon Rabbit in an Aztec style and in the orientation I've scientifically observed.
Imagine my surprise when I read a book about Chinese myths and legends and discovered that the ancient Chinese also saw a rabbit in the moon. Under "Moon Rabbit" on Wikipedia, I learned that in their inscrutable oriental way, the image the Chinese saw was a rabbit facing to the right—and anthropomorphically using a mortar and pestle to pound herbs or medicines (that equipment occupying the area of my bunny's bottom).
The entry advised that this traditional image also spread to Japan and Korea and added, "Legends of moon rabbits exist among some of the indigenous peoples of the Americas." Then the entry states categorically: "These legends were not influenced by Asian cultures." This gratuitous pronouncement smacks of a polemical personal opinion designed to forestall any further discussion of the subject. Typical…
Now, I'm not arguing that this coincidence necessarily shows any America-Asia connection. It's quite reasonable that the two widely separated peoples could see the same familiar creature (in differing perspectives) in the Rorschach blur on the moon's orb. The bunny could well be a pure coincidence (though some say there are no coincidences).
The Ten Suns
In the same book of Chinese myths and legends, one struck me as surpassingly surreal. The god of the eastern sky, Di Jun was the father of ten suns [sic!] which took turns crossing the sky on each of the ten days of the week. But they got bored with the routine and one day decided to ride in their chariots all together across the sky, which heat caused great damage to the earth and its creatures. Unable to make his suns behave properly, Di Jun summoned the Divine Archer Yi and gave him a magic bow and arrows to make the suns resume their rotating duties. Yi shot down nine of them, leaving only one to cross the sky every day. That solution greatly distressed Di Jun, who condemned Yi to live a mortal life. Curious tale…
A few months later I read a book called "Native American Myths and Legends," which was published by Arcturus Publishing Ltd. in London (2017). The stories were recorded by a range of different writers/ethnographers from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The story that stopped me in my tracks was attributed to a tribe called "Shastika" and taken from a book by Katharine Berry Judson, "Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest" (1912). That tribe from northern California/southern Oregon is now called simply Shasta or Shastan and logically relates to the magical Mount Shasta. Per Wikipedia, by the early years of the 20th century perhaps only 100 Shasta individuals existed, and some few Shasta descendants apparently still reside in various reservations with other tribes.
The story is called "Old Mole's Creation." (Forgive my disrespectful levity, but the title calls to mind a character from that ancient comic strip "Pogo"—Ol' Mole was blind as a mole and an avid bird-watcher!) Anyway, first "Old Mole burrowed underneath Somewhere and threw up the earth which forms the world." Then, "in the beginning, Sun had nine brothers, all flaming hot like himself. But Coyote killed the nine brothers and so saved the world from burning up." Those two simplified sentences are an obvious restatement of the Chinese legend of the ten suns.
But the Shasta tale does the Chinese one better by adding a parallel plot: "But Moon also had nine brothers, all made of ice like himself, and the Night People almost froze to death." So as the Moons arose, Coyote killed nine of them with his flint-stone knife saved the Night People. Native American story-telling loves coyotes and symmetry.
These two tales of the ten suns are simply too counter-intuitive (and weird) to have developed independently. So I'll boldly claim that they prove an ancient cultural connection between Asia and America. (They clearly support Gavin Menzies' book "1421: The Year China Discovered America" and Laurie Bonner-Nickless' interminably titled book about Chinese exploration of North America in 1433-34, which was just reviewed in "Ancient American," Issue 121.)
Cue the academic inquisitors!
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El marquesat de Camarasa és un títol nobiliari. Fa referència a l'antiga jurisdicció territorial de la Noguera que correspon al territori anomenat "el Marquesat".

Aquesta jurisdicció comprenia els llocs de Camarasa, Cubells, Llorenç, Montgai, Privà, Santa Linya, Alòs, Vilanova de Meià, Fontllonga, Llimiana, Vernet, Castelló de Meià, Ariet i Fabregada.

Fou concedit per Alfons el Benigne, el 1330, al seu fill Ferran, a la mort del qual, el 1363, revertí a la corona. El 1368 Pere el Cerimoniós el lliurà al seu fill Martí, que el 1392, ja rei, el cedí a la seva muller Maria de Luna, la qual el vengué a la ciutat de Lleida el 1396. El marquesat tornà a la corona el 1414. Adquirida la senyoria per Francesc d'Arinyó, secretari d'Alfons el Magnànim, el 1428 la cedí a Joan el Sense Fe, a canvi de la meitat de Calaceit.

El 1458 fou venuda a Luís de Coscon, i per matrimoni passà als Luna, senyors de Ricla. El marquesat fou concedit de nou el 1543 a Diego de los Cobos i a la seva muller Francisca Luisa de Luna, senyora de Camarasa i de Ricla.

La grandesa d'Espanya sobre el marquesat fou atorgada el 1626 a llur net i sisè titular, Diego Sarmiento de los Cobos Luna i Guzmán.

Marquesos (des del 1543)

Referències

Camarasa
Camarasa
Història de la Noguera

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Owners of second homes face swingeing new taxes of more than £3,000 per property under plans unveiled by Jeremy Corbyn today.
The Labour leader said his party would effectively double council tax on holiday homes and other additional properties.
The policy would raise £560million to be ploughed into affordable homes, Mr Corbyn said.
Under the plan, the sum will be based on the value of the property and equivalent to double the current rate of council tax.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the BBC's Andrew Marr there were some circumstances where it was understandable people had a second property as he defended the crack down.
He said: 'People do have second homes, particularly business-related second homes in central London.
'Our proposal is that we would increase the tax on them in order to give money to be spent on new housing across the whole country.'Citing a local referendum in St Ives on restricting second home, Mr Corbyn added: 'I can see that in rural areas there is a tourist need for some, but the problem is that a village made up of largely second homes becomes a dead village in the winter and you then lose all the services and facilities that you need.
Unveiling the detail of the new taxes, Shadow housing secretary John Healey said: 'Britain's rapidly rising homelessness shames us all.
'It is unforgivable that under the Tories, the number of children stuck growing up in hostels and B&Bs has skyrocketed.
'Over the last eight years, the Government has turned its back on the scandal of poor housing and homelessness. A housing market that works for the many needs government action to ensure everyone has a place to call home.
The money raised from the new levy would be earmarked for councils across the country to help homeless families with children living in temporary accommodation.
Labour highlighted figures showing that there are over 120,000 children homeless in this sort of emergency housing - up two thirds since 2010.
Up to 174,000 properties could be subject to the tax, with many in popular tourist destinations like Cornwall, North Norfolk and South Lakeland as well as urban areas such as Kensington and Chelsea in west London.


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Limerick beauty blogger shares tips and tricks with a worldwide audience
A LIMERICK teenager whose online beauty blog has secured over 43,000 page views is reaching out to an even greater audience by sharing her make-up tips and tricks on YouTube.
Niamh Webb O'Rourke from Kilmallock began writing her blog, Love Life, last July having just finished her Leaving Certificate.
Instead of going straight into a full-time college course, the 18-year-old decided to take a year out to explore all the options open to her - to try out new things and tease out which direction she wants to follow in terms of her career.
"I knew when I was going through the CAO process that nothing was immediately pulling me. I was just putting down courses for the sake of going to college, but mam and dad were so supportive of me doing what I wanted to do, which was good," she explained.
As well as writing her blog, Niamh works in River Island in the Crescent Shopping Centre and goes to college at night in Limerick city - she is studying marketing, PR, sales and advertising in Griffith College.
"I have all the CAO books but I just love the course I am doing at night and I can go on to the second year and after two years I will have a degree," she explained.
Through her Love Life blog – the name was inspired by the Live Life motto of the late Donal Walsh from Kerry whose story affected her deeply - Niamh provides up-to-date information on the latest beauty must-haves.
The blog also provides tips on how to make the most of your features and get the best out of your beauty regime.
In terms of fashion, Niamh keeps her finger on the pulse and provides regular posts on the hottest new looks around. She also gives advice on dressing for your shape, and features snappy interviews with people in the fashion and beauty industry.
"I try to keep it up-to-date," said Niamh of the blog which also provides regular postings based on her own life and her interests.
"I think you need to keep uploading material. When I decided in July to do it, I said I might as well do it properly from the start rather than doing it half-hearted."
While she has modelled part-time in the past, Niamh - who cites Kylie and Kendall Kardashian as her fashion icons - says she feels more comfortable behind the scenes in the fashion industry.
However, it would be her dream to pursue a career in television presenting.
"Something like Xpose I would love to do," she smiled. "I love everything in the fashion industry. I love tv and I love styling."
Her latest endeavour has seen her launch her very own make-up tutorials on the video-sharing website YouTube which can be viewed by an international audience.
"A lot of my followers were contacting me asking me how I was doing my make-up every day or if I had any tips or tricks so I decided to start recording make-up tutorials," she explained.
"The one that was requested the most was my everyday make-up routine so I posted that one last night. I was so nervous because you don't know what is going to happen but it really has taken off so I am delighted with that," she said.
Niamh has plans to upload a make-up look for the older woman, the younger woman – "every age bracket".
While her blog has a light-hearted vibe to it, Niamh is cognisant of the pressure on young women to be slim and beautiful.
Love Life, she says, aims to inspire women to embrace and enhance their unique beauty, no matter what their age, shape or dress size may be.
"The one thing I want to say is loads of bloggers out there are about the size zero and how everybody has to be the 'It' look. I'm not about that and I've made that so clear in the blog.
"I'm not a size zero. I love my food way too much to be a size zero. The one thing I can't stand is the pressure. I think everyone should embrace what they have - that's one of my main aims for the blog. And I want every age to find something of interest to them."


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Belmont Plantation House: Some Facts
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1936 HABS Photograph, Library of Congress
When cotton prices rose in the 1850s, Delta planters like the Worthingtons and Johnsons built mansions like Belmont, Mount Holly, Willoughby and the Lakeport Plantation. While we have lost Leota (1883), Willoughby (1932) and Mount Holly (2015), Belmont and Lakeport still stand. Lakeport is restored and owned by Arkansas State University; and Belmont has new owners with grand plans for the 1857 home. Below are a few facts about the Belmont Plantation.
Belmont was built around 1857 for Dr. William W. Worthington (1802-1886) and Elizabeth (Stringer) Worthington along American Bend on the Mississippi River. The next year that bend would become Lake Lee.
Belmont's name may have been derived from Belle Island, the island plantation surrounded by American Bend (later Lake Lee) and the Mississippi River. Belle Island was owned by Judge Benjamin Johnson was a native Kentuckian who became one of Arkansas's Territorial judges in 1821.
The dominant architecture of the house is Greek Revival. However, Italianate brackets along the cornice and pediment show architectural tastes were in transition.
Belmont and Lakeport both feature double galleried, three-bay projecting porticos.
A photo posted by Lakeport Plantation (@lakeportplantation) on Nov 2, 2015 at 9:08am PST
Belmont has some of the finest plaster work in Mississippi.
The entry medallion at Belmont is nearly identical to the the medallion at Lakeport.
William Worthington was one of four brothers from Muhlenberg County, Kentucky who settled in the Delta (AR & MS) in the 1820s and 1830s.
The land on which Belmont was constructed was originally owned by Alexander G. McNutt, who served as Mississippi Governor from 1838-1842. The land was later purchased by William's brother, Samuel Worthington. William purchased the land from his brother in 1855 and then constructed Belmont around 1857.
Samuel Worthington built the Willoughby (Wayside) Plantation to the southwest of Belmont in 1858. Samuel's daughter, Amanda Worthington, penned her diary there during the Civil War.
There is strong evidence that the same builders from Madison, Indiana constructed Belmont (1857), Willoughby (1858), and Lakeport (1859). The same evidence suggests the builders also built a home at Leota (likely for Isaac Worthington's widow) and another at Grand Lake, Chicot County, Arkansas.
Samuel's Willoughby Plantation home, then vacant, was razed in 1932 for the expansion of the levee. Samuel's son estimated it cost $35,000 to build and furnish the Willoughby home.
Isaac Worthington and his wife, Anne Taylor Worthington, settled at Leota. The Leota home fell into the Mississippi river in 1883. Anne was the sister of Lydia Taylor Johnson at Lakeport.
Anne Taylor Worthington's house at Leota was, according to a 1936 newspaper article, "a handsome two-story brick home facing the river [built] exactly like Belmont except that it had two wings whereas Belmont has only one."
Elisha Worthington, who settled in Chicot County, was the largest planter in Arkansas. His prized Sunnyside Plantation also had a large home. One newspaper report described it as "magnificent," but little else is known about it.
The 1860 Census for Washington County is missing (as are the county's 1850s tax records), however in 1855 William Worthington owned 80 enslaved laborers. His holdings most likely increased during the next six years until the Civil War began.
During the Civil War, from 1863-1865, supply rich plantations like Belmont were often raided by troops to feed and supply the Union Army operating in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
North of Belmont, in the winding Greenville Bends, Confederates often attacked Union transports and gunboats. This prompted retaliation on planters and plantations along the Bends, including the burning of Old Greenville in 1864.
The Worthingtons owned the home and land until 1929.
Belmont was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1936. The HABS photographs are in the Library of Congress.
1936 HABS Interior Photograph, Library of Congress
The Weathers family soon acquired the house and owned it until the mid-1940s.
In 1946, Belmont became the home of the Belmont Hunting Club.
Most of the changes to Belmont in the upstairs and in the north parlor took place in the 1990s during the ownership of Fernando Cuquet, Jr.
Added to the National Register in 1972, Clinton Bagley's nomination text is the best source of history on Belmont.
Fact sheet created November 2015 by Blake Wintory of the Lakeport Plantation, an Arkansas State University Heritage Site — lakeport.astate.edu. Updated 05/04/2016


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Despite astrong local economy, some homebuyers may be sidelined by the mortgage application process and lean inventory, reports the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors.
"Although Northern Virginia sellers remain in the driver's seat, our September data regarding rising home values is a positive indicator to those wondering about market headwinds," stated 2018 NVAR Chairman of the Board Lorraine Arora.
She pointed out that the average price increase of nearly 4 percent and the 3 percent rise in median sales price provide an encouraging picture for long-term appreciation gains.
Although inventory remains tight, buyers are not rushing to pull the trigger to purchase right now, stated Gary P. Lange, managing broker of Weichert in Vienna.
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A total of 1,427 homes sold in September 2018, a decrease of almost 12 percent compared with September 2017 home sales of 1,620.
Active listings decreased last month compared with 2017. Listings were down 9.32 percent below last year, with 4,134 active listings in September, compared with 4,560 homes available in September 2017. The average days on market for homes in September 2018 was 36 days, a decrease of 14.29 percent compared to the 42 days on market for homes in September 2017.
The average home sale price rose compared with last September, to $573,555. This is 3.63 percent above the September 2017 average price of $553,440.The median sold price of homes this September, which was $494,000, rose by 2.93 percent compared to September 2017, when the median price was $479,950.


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Q: Why AWS SQS does not provide push mechanism through a long-live connection? AWS SQS provides long polling and short polling, but why it doesn't provide push mechanism, like RabbitMQ?
The application could establish a long-lived connection, and consume the messages, which is pushed from the SQS queue.

A: This is a design choice and makes sense when considering use cases for which SQS is designed.

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*Serverless Computing: SQS is a core service when it comes to designing serverless architectures. In such systems there is no concept of "persistent servers" and hence no need for long lived connections. This is also why the pricing model of SQS is primarily on the API calls.

*REST API Access vs Connections: To me, this speaks everything. When in an serverless environment having REST APIs to the microservices is needed. This is because I cannot program around when the compute node would be provisioned and deprovisioned, eg in lambda there are no hooks for these actions. This means I will either have to introduce a new layer - Connection Pools or live with having dangling connections. If not I will end up opening and closing connections for every single operation (or lambda invocation) which will not give me any benefits of the "connection" in the first place. Here having REST API makes sense.
This is also why DynamoDB (database) is made accessible via a REST API and Aurora now has a serverless alternative, which as you guessed, has REST API.

*Overhead of long-lived connections: The overhead of long lived connections, on either end is expensive enough and would require a completely different architecture. This again tied down to the above point of not having servers to keep the connections open in the first place.
Disclaimer: This answer comes from my experience of building architecture on AWS.

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