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Nor-Tech's Inaugural Demo Day A Hit
With the short- and long-term survival of boats shows in question thanks to the dynamics of COVID-19, Nor-Tech Hi-Performance Boats of Fort Myers, Fla., produced what could well become a major part of its sales future last weekend across the state in Fort Lauderdale. On Saturday, the high-performance center console, catamaran and V-bottom sportboat builder hosted its first factory demo day since the company was founded 30 years ago.
The Nor-Tech crew hosted a successful day of private demo rides last weekend in Fort Lauderdale.
"The overall response to it was phenomenal," said Geoff Tomlinson, Nor-Tech's dealer manager, who along with company co-founder Trond Schou, vice-president of manufacturing Henrik Margård, Bob Crow of South Florida No-Tech dealer SoFlo Boats and others provided one-on-one demo rides for prospective Nor-Tech buyers. "We already have a couple of deals written up and couple more in the works.
"The whole Nor-Tech team really put on a show," he added. "We are already looking at future events like this."
Crow, one of Nor-Tech longest-standing and most successful dealers, agreed. "It was very productive," he said. "All of the participants were qualified buyers."
The Nor-Tech team held the event at the Bahia Mar Marina with three new outboard-engine-powered center consoles: a 340, a 390 and a 450. They stocked the air-conditioned lounge adjacent to their dock with plenty of adult refreshments, including three elegant boutique wines from Peacock Family Vineyard in St. Helena, Calif., and food.
Enjoy scenes from Nor-Tech's inaugural demo day in the slideshow above.
Participants were required to RSVP in advance of the event. Walk-ins were not accepted.
"Having clients RSVP for the event helped ensure they were treated to a great overall experience," said Tomlinson. "We also made sure to call each client prior to the event."
In six hours, the Nor-Tech provided more than 15 demo rides. "It wasn't hectic at all," said Tomlinson. "It was just steady."
Asked how the volume of demo-day rides compared demo rides during a full day at the Miami International Boat Show, Tomlinson said it "was about the same, but much more intimate and relaxed."
"Once we have a few more demo days under our belt, I think we'll have a much clearer picture of how they compare to boat shows," he added. "But as I said, the response to our first one was phenomenal."
Nor-Tech's demo day hospitality was first rate.
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UK Live Music Census
Published on 7 November 2018
The report of the UK live music census was published in February 2018. This report is the result of a nationwide survey combining qualitative interviews at music events and responses of an online form for musicians, venues, promoters and audiences.
The UK live music census intends to measure live music's cultural and economic value in the UK, define the sector's challenges and inform policy makers.
Organised by researchers from the Live Music Exchange research group, the UK live music census is a collaboration across the universities of Edinburgh, Newcastle and the University of Turku (Finland).
Discover the UK Live Music Census
Key findings of the UK Live Music Census
The UK Live Music Census identified the following key-findings that are here resumed and illustrated with a short selection of examples.
1| Live music has significant economic impact
" Live music appears to be one of the real success stories of the past decade, its revenue overtaking that of recorded music in the UK in 2008."
2| Live music has significant social and cultural value
Snippets of what respondents answered to the question What do you get out of live music? What would you say are the most important (intangible) things that you take away from live music?
"Live music enhances social bonding because it offers a sens of belonging and underpins a shared experience"
"Live music forms a fundamental part of people's identity because it can become a regular activity to which people afford great significance."
"Live music is inspiring because it sparks people's own creativity, stimulates the discovery of new music and genres, and gives a deeper understanding of the music."
"Live music venues have a role in musical development because they help musicians and artists to develop new skills and confidence."
"Live music venues have material value because they allow for proximity to artists, are local and easy to get to."
"Live music venues have a social value because they can be sites for developing networks, for making new friends, and for spending time with family and friends."
3| The smaller end of the live music sector is a vital part of the live music ecology
" Smaller spaces for live music are particularly key in musicians' formative years: 78% of respondents to the musician survey identifying as being in their formative years and those identifying as 'emerging' musicians had performed in small music venues in the past 12 months and 78% had performed in bars or pubs.
4 | The live music sector is facing challenges, especially at the smaller end
The UK live music census identified the following challenges affecting particularly the smaller end of the venue spectrum:
• Two out of every five (40%) venue online survey respondents identifying as small music venues, over half (56%) of bars/pubs. and a third (33%) of all venue survey respondents said that increased business rates had an extreme, strong or moderate negative impact on their live music events in the past 12 months;
• One-third (33%) of venue online survey respondents identifying as small music venues and more than one in five (22%) of all venue survey respondents said that planning and property development had a negative impact in the last 12 months;
• Nearly one-third (29%) of venue online survey respondents identifying as small music venues and 27% of all venue survey respondents said that noise-related complaints had a negative impact in the last 12 months;
• Nearly a third (31%) of all respondents to the venue survey had parking/loading issues.
Methodology of the UK Live Music Census + Tool-Kit
The UK's first ever national live music census took place in spring 2017: for 24 hours from noon on Thursday 9thMarch, an army of volunteers went out and about to live music events in Glasgow, Newcastle-Gateshead, Oxford, Leeds, Southampton and Brighton (and 1st June in Liverpool), from pub gigs to massed choirs to arena concerts. A nationwide online survey for musicians, venues, promoters and audiences was online from March until June.
The methodology with the questionnaires is available on the UK Live Music Census website and can be used to carry out a local live music census.
www.uklivemusiccensus.org
Disclaimer: The information and pictures used in this post are drawn from the UK Live Music Census full report and executive summary. This post intends to inform about the UK Live Music Census, share the findings and methodology used.
REPORT: POST COVID-19 CHALLENGES IN THE LIVE MUSIC SCENES ACROSS EUROPE
2022 marked the return of live music after a harsh period of silence, bringing back already existing challenges but also new ones. The European live music sector continues its hard work to encourage the audience to come back and enjoy a concert, festival or a club night together in a safe and welcoming place. Professionals of… Read more »
LSE Podcast #12 – February 2020
After a few words on the activities we led at Eurosonic Noorderslag Festival in January 2020, the podcast of February 2020 presents the new Facts & Figures of the European live music sector, as presented in our latest Survey publication. After a focus on the Diversity Roadmap, a tool to accomodate more diversity and inclusion… Read more »
Security, Creativity, Tolerance and their Co-Existence: the New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression
Freemuse is an independent international organisation advocating for and defending freedom of artistic expression. In 2020, they released the report on "Security, Creativity, Tolerance and their Co-Existence: the New European Agenda on Freedom of Artistic Expression". This report, after clearly defining what is "freedom of expression" and the crucial social and political roles of artists,… Read more »

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Audette, M. ; Carrel, S. ; Hayoz, D. ; Giuffre, L. ; Mach, J. P. ; Kühn, L. C.
The human Me14-D12 antigen is a cell surface glycoprotein regulated by interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) on tumor cell lines of neuroectodermal origin. It consists of two non-convalently linked subunits with apparent mol. wt sizes of 33,000 and 38,000. Here we describe the molecular cloning of a genomic probe for the Me14-D12 gene using the gene transfer approach. Mouse Ltk- cells were stably cotransfected with human genomic DNA and the Herpes Simplex virus thymidine kinase (TK) gene. Primary and secondary transfectants expressing the Me14-D12 antigen were isolated after selection in HAT medium by repeated sorting on a fluorescence activated cell sorter (FACS). A recombinant phage harboring a 14.3 kb insert of human DNA was isolated from a genomic library made from a positive secondary transfectant cell line. A specific probe derived from the phage DNA insert allowed the identification of two mRNAs of 3.5 kb and 2.2 kb in primary and secondary L cell transfectants, as well as in human melanoma cell lines expressing the Me14-D12 antigen. The regulation of Me14-D12 antigen by INF-gamma was retained in the L cell transfectants and could be detected both at the level of protein and mRNA expression.
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Switzerland.


Pete Linkroum called in with an unfortunately abbreviated update. The satellites conveying his transmission passed out of reach before he got too far into his call.
The team spent today looking at snow falling and unable to move up to their next camp, due to the stormy weather. They took advantage of the day to organize their gear and further build their foundation of acclimatization.
And a couple of the guides, Ty and Zach, chimed in with a second call (that I think was also cut off!), in which they extended Happy mother's Day wishes!


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Published On: Sun, Sep 10th, 2017
Cancun / Headlines | By Riviera Maya Times
New year-round, non-stop flights from Vancouver to Cancun
Vancouverites will have new frequent, non-stop direct links to Mexico's top tourist destinations starting this fall.
Mexican low-cost airline Interjet announced this week that it will be commencing year-round, four times weekly flight routes from Vancouver to Cancun and Mexico City. Both flights fly separately using an Airbus A320 aircraft with a capacity for 150 passengers.
To Cancun
Flights begin on October 26 and operate on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays.
The plane departs Vancouver International Airport (YVR) at 5:50 am and lands at Cancun International Airport (CUN) at 2:05 pm. For return trips, flights leave at 4 pm and land at YVR at 8:15 pm.
One-way trips between Vancouver and the beach resort town start at only $244.
To Mexico City
Flights to Mexico City also begin on October 26, running on Thursdays, Fridays, Sundays, and Mondays.
The service leaves YVR at 10:30 pm and arrives at CUN at 5:15 am while return trips depart at 12:35 am and land at Mexico City International Airport at 4:50 am. One-way trips start at only $243.
Growing links to Mexico
"We are pleased to add Vancouver as our third destination to Canada. We believe that this beautiful city is a natural step within our coverage in this important market," said José Luis Garza, Managing Director of Interjet, in a statement.
"Thanks to the increased interest in connectivity between the two countries, we offer this new transportation option to Canadian tourists and Mexicans who travel for business, pleasure or to study in that country."
Passenger flows between Canada and Mexico have surged since last year when the Canadian federal government lifted the travel visa requirement for Mexican visitors to Canada.
YVR has seen over 419,000 passengers travel through Latin America during the first six months of the year, representing a 25.3% year over year increase. Moreover, the Mexican Embassy in Canada forecasts 300,000 Mexican tourists will visit Canada in 2017, with Vancouver ranking for the first time within the top 20 favourite summer vacation destinations for Mexicans.
The new Interjet service to YVR is expected to create $16.3 million in economic activity for the local economy, including 106 jobs to the BC economy and $8.6 million in GDP to the province.
A number of airlines already run flights from YVR to Cancun and Mexico City.
Airlines that fly from YVR to Cancun include Sunwing Airlines, Air Transat, and WestJet operate year-round flights while Air Canada Rouge flies to the resort town seasonally. To the Mexican capital, the list includes year-round services by Air Canada Rouge, Aeromexico, and China Southern Airlines (from Guangzhou, China with a stop at YVR).
Three days after Interjet debuts its new YVR services, WestJet will also be commencing its new weekly, non-stop route to Huatulco, Mexico.
Source: http://dailyhive.com/


The KemiSphere is a small single station spherical lapping and polishing machine ideal for either matching 2 spherical forms together or, with appropriate tooling, it has the ability to lap and polish spherical forms to better than 5μm roundness with a mirror finish. It's a perfect replacement for jobs currently hand lapped together, and its bench top design makes it a useful addition to any workshop involved in spherical lapping.
The Sphericloth Polishing Squares incorporate new unique flock length technology. This technology allows a far greater flow of polish to the pad increasing dramatically the amount of polish at the surface during the polishing cycle. When this increase in polish is combined with the enhanced polishing action of the new flock design you are left with an outstanding example of a polished surface.
The ground components all lapped within the standard 8 minute cycle, and polished in 4 minutes using the Kemet Spherical Polishing Machine. The Kemet spherical polisher is ideal for all engineering workshops where polishing and surface finish on a range of components are of prime importance.
Component/Material: 2" Non plated Semi Spheres.


Personally, I think the Mystic Medusa Oracle is the best online oracle reading out there. But it's about to be joined by the fantastic Oracle 2!
The Oracle is usually a Mega Mystic member-only feature but until Friday's Full Moon, it's open to everyone. Give it a go, if you have not yet, and share your thoughts.
I got the answer below which is annoying but correct. Pluto on the South Node did a number on me. I've been like a digital archeologist, painstakingly sifting through relics and snippets from ancient eras.
Mercury in Pisces – when you eavesdrop on conversations in other dimensions or that maybe never happened – has not helped.
So, what will Oracle 2 entail? It's going to be cooler to use than Oracle 1; more phone friendly and intuitive. You won't choose from questions, you'll choose from topics and then select symbols. I am in love with it already.
Originally, I wanted to replace Legacy Oracle with the new one but the outcry (aka sub-hysterical emails and social media messages) was too much.
We're going to have two Oracles people! If you're not a Mega Mystic member, use the Oracle as much as you like until Friday's Full Moon.
And if are a Mega Mystic member, keep an eye out for Oracle 2 AND a vital Full Moon blast coming with the Daily Mystic for Wednesday.
Once Oracle 2 is up, I feel we'll have the online oracle reading turf covered.
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Oh, I cannot *wait*. I love Oracle 1, I hit it up every morning for a few answers about the day ahead.
I have kept screenshots from the Oracle and had eerie messages come through. Love it. I consult it daily.
omg me too. All archived by date.
Lol. Oracle 1 – ever the dry wit.
I will keep my eye open for it !
I think oracle one was a wise (cracking) Gemini in a past iteration.
TWO Oracles???!! Oh no, right in the middle of my heavy duty Saturn transit. (Soz, tautology, lol). I will have to shove a pillow under my doona so Saturn thinks I'm fast asleep, when in fact I've snuck out after lights-out to play with O2.
Tried. It says O 2 is coming soon.
Yes, that's right – it is coming soon.
In case you missed them, below are some cut and pasted sentences from the post above.
Astro-Fitness: Who Does The Gadgets?
Sun 05° Taurus 15' 12"
Moon 22° Capricorn 22' 07"
Mercury 11° Aries 36' 29"
Venus 06° Aries 09' 38"
Mars 16° Gemini 46' 04"
Uranus 02° Taurus 41' 19"
Chiron 03° Aries 46' 41"


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 Conto – calcolo
 Conto – sinonimo di conto corrente

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With the establishment of the Combat Action Badge (CAB) on May 2, 2005, the United States Army made it possible to officially recognize Soldiers who had actively engaged in combat with enemy forces but who were not assigned to combat units at the time. Obviously, the Iraq War was not the first conflict in which U.S. Soldiers not assigned to combatant units had fought with the enemy. But the nature of the conflict, with the enemy's heavy reliance on guerilla-style hit-and-run tactics and acts of terrorism, led to an extremely large number of Soldiers not assigned to a combatant role actively engaging the enemy in offensive and defensive operations.
For this reason, eligibility is not related in any way to a candidate's MOS or their branch of service. To qualify, Soldiers must be carrying out their assigned duties in an area for which hostile-fire or imminent-danger pay is authorized; be personally present and actively engaged with the enemy; and performing satisfactorily based upon and in accordance with the rules of engagement.
Although Soldiers from units which are eligible for the Combat Infantry Badge (CIB) or Combat Medical Badge (CMB) can also earn a CAB, they can't earn it while serving in those units. The example in AR 600-8-22 makes the distinction clear: Soldiers who have earned MOS 11B, Infantryman, can earn the CAB while assigned to Corps staff and meeting the other requirement for the Badge, but they cannot earn it while assigned to an Infantry Battalion because they would receive the CIB instead.
Soldiers can be awarded only one CAB for each of these qualifying periods, but they are eligible for the award for their actions in different periods. Each additional award beyond the first will be denoted by superimposing a star or stars centered between the points of the oak wreath.


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Designed to prevent the overlap, inconsistencies, and discrepancies in the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) and the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), TRID, a synthesis of the two, is now going into effect. This CLE course will provide a comprehensive assessment of the new laws, its history and development and how it will impact real estate transactions and closings in the future. Dan Wold is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Old Republic National Title Insurance Company. Dan has also served as chairperson of ALTA's TRID Task Force since 2009.
Daniel M. Wold is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary of Old Republic National Title Insurance Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He manages the Corporate Legal Department's underwriting, regulatory and transaction groups. He also provides legal advice on bankruptcy underwriting and regulatory issues (including RESPA and the CFPB), and advises and assists in the handling of a wide range of corporate matters, including general corporate contracts and issues, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other corporate transactions, and employment law issues. He is active in the American Land Title Association, and has served: 1) as Chairperson of ALTA's RESPA Reform Task Force since 2009 (which is now called ALTA's TRID Task Force); 2) on the ALTA's Title Insurance Underwriter's Section Executive Committee since October of 2013; and 3) on the ALTA's Board of Governors since October of 2015.
He was formerly a partner of Hughes, Thorsness, Powell, Huddleston & Bauman LLC of Anchorage, Alaska, with a practice emphasizing bankruptcy, real estate, banking law, and commercial litigation. He is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and its Bankruptcy Section. He formerly served as co-editor of the Bankruptcy Bulletin, which is a publication of the Minnesota State Bar Association Bankruptcy Section. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Minnesota Law School.


The task for the computer here was to produce a verbal description of the image. There are thousands of words in the vocabulary, and a computer has to try them in different combinations to make a sensible sentence. There is no way a computer can be given an exhaustive list of correct sentences with examples of images for each. That kind of list would be a database bigger than the earth (as one can see just by counting the number of combinations). So to train the computer to use language like in a picture above, one only possesses a limited set of examples – maybe a few thousand pictures with descriptions. Yet we as humans are capable of learning from just seeing a few examples, by noticing the repeating patterns. So the computer can do the same! The score next to each word above is an estimate based on those few thousand examples of how relevant is the word "tennis" or "woman" to what's in the box on the image. The algorithm produces possible sentences, scores them, and then selects the sentence with the highest total score.
Once the classification task is done, one needs to use all the collected information to make a prediction – as Sherlock is able to point out the most probable motive in the first picture, we also want to predict a piece of very personal information: we'd like to know how to start up a conversation with that tennis player.
Now how do quantum computers come into play? Well if you look at your search results, they are still pretty irrelevant most of the time. Imagine you used them as conversation starters – you'll embarrass yourself 9 out of 10 times! To make this better, a certain company needs more memory and processing power. Yet most advanced deep learning routines remain out of reach, just because there are exponentially many hidden dependencies one would need to try and reject before the algorithm finds the right predictor. So a certain company turns to us, quantum computing people, as we deal with exponentially hard problems notoriously well! And indeed, quantum algorithms make some of the machine learning routines exponentially faster – see this Quantum Machine Learning article, as well as a talk by Seth Lloyd for technical details. Some anonymous stock trader is already trying to intimidate their fellow quants (quantitative analysts) by calling the top trading system "Quantum machine learning". I think we should appreciate his sense of humor and invest into his algorithm as soon as Quantiacs.com opens such functionality. Or we could invest in Teagan from Caltech – her code recently won the futures contest on the same website.


There are five statewide ballot propositions for voters to decide on in November, and much of the publicity has concerned the 'popular' ballot measures, i.e., Propositions 126, 127 and 305.
But people may not be hearing about an 'orphan' measure, Prop. 306, which if passed will have a very negative and longterm impact on one of Arizona's most positive laws, passed by citizen initiative in 1998: the Clean Elections Act, which created a Clean Elections Commission.
The League of Women Voters of Arizona helped write and pass the Clean Elections Act because it supports transparency in campaign finance and public financing of elections. The Act was praised nationwide when it was passed, because it gets large sums of money — special interest money — out of politics, thus requiring candidates to actually go out and meet their constituents!
These "cleanly funded" candidates get a limited amount of money from the Clean Elections Commission to run their campaigns. This money does not come from taxes, but rather from a minimum number of $5 qualifying donations and from penalties and fees; and candidates cannot take additional money from anyone else!
All their expenditures are carefully audited. One candidate who ran Clean in 2016 and won his seat resigned because after an audit, he could not document how he used the public money.
The Commission is bipartisan and geographically balanced; and it requires public notice and comment on all the rules it adopts. The Clean Elections Act has been attacked by various legislators since it came into being.
Even legislators who have gotten into office via Clean Elections funding have later worked — as they have made connections with big money interests — to weaken the Act!
This past session, a law was passed that is now on the ballot as Prop 306. The public has to vote on it as it amends the Arizona Constitution. It would give a totally partisan body, the Governor's Regulatory Review Council, the ability to review and kill the Commission's rules. The Commission has also taken on a very significant nonpartisan voter-education role, including providing an excellent website for voters, and the sponsorship of debates for state-wide and legislative offices, and it works very closely with all the county election officials.
The GRRC could, if the Governor wanted it to, curtail such voter education and change all kinds of rules to include those that now require all independent expenditure committees to submit information about their funding and expenditures!
The League of Women Voters is here to speak in opposition to Prop. 306, and to ask you to vote, "no." Keep Clean Elections the way it is: Bipartisan and open to public review and comment, with the ability to audit campaign funding reporting, a focus n citizen education, and the responsibility to help candidates run clean.


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The Badge of the Black Watch (Canada).
Azure the figure of St. Andrew proper standing on a mount Vert holding his cross Argent all within an annulus Azure fimbriated and inscribed "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT" in letters Or, ensigned by the Royal crown and environed by a wreath of thistles proper all between a scroll on either side of the Crown inscribed THE BLACK WATCH and two scrolls Or in base inscribed ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT and OF CANADA in letters sable, the whole set on the diamond-cut star of the Order of the Thistle Argent.
The Crown represents service to the Sovereign. The badge of the regiment is styled on that of their former British allied regiment The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) – now, through amalgamation, The Royal Regiment of Scotland – whose badge, in turn, was based on that of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, the highest order of chivalry in Scotland. The diamond-cut star, the thistles (the national flower of Scotland) and the representation of St. Andrew (the patron saint of the Order and of Scotland) and the cross appear on the Order's badge. The scrolls bearing the words "THE BLACK WATCH", "ROYAL HIGHLAND REGIMENT" and "OF CANADA" are a form of the regimental title and "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT" is the motto of the regiment and the Order of the Thistle.
YPRES, 1915, '17; Gravenstafel; St. Julien; FESTUBERT, 1915; MOUNT SORREL; SOMME, 1916; Pozières; Flers-Courcelette; Thiepval; Ancre Heights; Ancre, 1916; ARRAS, 1917, '18; Vimy, 1917; Arleux; Scarpe, 1917, '18; HILL 70; Passchendaele; AMIENS; Drocourt-Quéant; HINDENBURG LINE; Canal du Nord; PURSUIT TO MONS; FRANCE AND FLANDERS, 1915-18.
BOURGUÉBUS RIDGE; Faubourg de Vaucelles; Verrières Ridge-Tilly-la-Campagne; FALAISE; Clair Tizon; Forêt de la Londe; Dunkirk, 1944; Antwerp-Turnhout Canal; THE SCHELDT; Woensdrecht; South Beveland; Walcheren Causeway; THE RHINELAND; The Hochwald; Xanten; THE RHINE; Groningen; Oldenburg; NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945.
This Reserve Force regiment originated on 31 January 1862 and incorporates the following regiment and battalions.
The 5th Battalion, "The Royal Light Infantry of Canada" was disbanded for the purpose of reorganization on 2 June 1871 (MGO 14/71). It was reorganized on 12 April 1872 (MGO 18/71 and MGO 9/72). This change was administrative and does not affect the lineage of the regiment.
On 1 August 1906, the regiment was organized as a two battalion regiment with both the 1st Battalion and 2nd Battalion on the Non Permanent Active Militia Order of Battle (GO 125/06).
Upon redesignation as The Royal Highlanders of Canada on 12 March 1920 (see above), it was organized as a four battalion regiment with the 1st Battalion (13th Battalion, CEF) and 2nd Battalion (42nd Battalion, CEF) on the Non Permanent Active Militia order of battle, and the 3rd Battalion (73rd Battalion, CEF) and 4th Battalion (no CEF designation) on the Reserve order of battle. The reserve units were disbanded on 14 December 1936 (GO 3/37).
The Royal Highlanders of Canada were disbanded for the purpose of reorganization on 1 October 1920 and reorganized the same day (GO 232/20). This change was administrative and does not affect the lineage of the regiment.
On 1 September 1939, when the '1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada, CASF' was mobilized (see Operational History below) the Non Permanent Active Militia battalion still existed, even if only on paper. Thus, on 7 November 1940, the '1st Battalion' and the '2nd Battalion' were redesignated the '2nd (Reserve) Battalion' and the '3rd (Reserve) Battalion'. On 18 March 1942, when a second active service battalion was mobilized, they became the '3rd (Reserve) Battalion' and '4th (Reserve) Battalion', respectively (GO 273/40 and GO 42/41).
On 15 August 1943, when the 2nd Battalion of the Active Service Force was disbanded, the 4th (Reserve) Battalion was redesignated the '2nd (Reserve) Battalion' (GO 469/43).
On 30 November 1945, when the active service battalion was disbanded, the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion was redesignated the '1st Battalion' (GO 400/45 and GO 85/46). On 31 March 1946, the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion and the Regimental Headquarters (authorized 1 October 1920 (GO 161/20)) were disbanded and the 1st (Reserve) Battalion automatically relinquished its numerical designation (GO 113/46).
On 4 May 1951, the regiment mobilized two temporary Active Force companies designated "E" and "F" (CAO 110-2, Pt 'B', Supp Issue No. 245/51 and SD 1 Letter No. 4237, 5 May 1951). "E" Company was reduced to nil strength upon its personnel being incorporated into the '1st Canadian Highland Battalion' for service in Germany with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (SD 1 Letter No. 4365, 12 November 1951). It was disbanded on 29 July 1953 (CAO 78-2, Pt 'B', Supp Issue No. 352/53). "F" Company was initially used as a reinforcement pool for "E" Company. On 15 May 1952, it was reduced to nil strength, upon its personnel being absorbed by the newly formed '2nd Canadian Highland Battalion' for service in Korea with the United Nations (SD 1 Letter No. 4452, 22 April 1952 and CAO 110-2, Pt 'B', Supp Issue No. 283/52). "F" Company was disbanded on 29 July 1953 (CAO 78-2, Pt 'B', Supp Issue No. 352/53).
On 16 October 1953, the Reserve Force unit was redesignated as the 3rd Battalion (CAO 76-3, Pt 'B', Supp Issue No. 358/53).
On 1 July 1970, when the 1st and 2nd Battalions were reduced to nil strength and transferred to the Supplementary Order of Battle, the Reserve Force battalion automatically relinquished its numerical designation (Message, CANFORCEHED DO 32, 011845Z APR 70, Document Collection 73/1223, Series 2, File 1050, Box 55).
The 1st Canadian Highland Battalion originated in Valcartier, Quebec on 4 May 1951, when the '1st Canadian Highland Battalion' was authorized to be formed in the Active Force.13 On 16 October 1953, it was redesignated the '1st Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada', as above.
The 2nd Canadian Highland Battalion originated in Aldershot, Nova Scotia on 10 April 1952, when the '2nd Canadian Highland Battalion' was authorized to be formed in the Active Force.14 On 16 October 1953, it was redesignated the '2nd Battalion, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada', as above.
Three platoons took part on the raid on Dieppe on 19 August 1942.


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She Pop: Are You There, God? It's Me, Miley: On Privacy, Teen Sexuality, and the Miley Cyrus Twitter
Published on October 10, 2009 at 7:56pm
Sady Doyle
Sady Doyle is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder of the blog Tiger Beatdown and the author of Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock and Fear, and Why. Her writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Atlantic, The Awl, Buzzfeed, and all across the internet.
So: I went to the zoo today. I thought it would be nice! I live in New York City! It is hard to see animals bigger than squirrels or lap dogs out here, so I imagined it would be very fulfilling and grounding, in some sort of hippie Earth Mother way, to actually see some of those and remind myself that I do not live on a planet entirely composed of Pinkberry outlets. But here's the thing: zoos, if you are not seven years old, are very depressing. There's nothing nice about captivity. Even if you wouldn't wish to see some of these animals out and wandering around in your neighborhood - even if they are dangerous or gross or otherwise undesirable - there's something deeply sad and wrong about seeing them stuck behind glass walls, with nothing to do, just waiting for someone to come by and look at them.
It was under these circumstances, then, that I began to think about Miley Cyrus deleting her Twitter.
She did! She did delete the Twitter! And she released some sort of terrifying "rap video" about it, too, about how she is not "living for the tabloids," but rather, living for Miley. The thing is: I felt far more sympathetic to this than I had intended to be. And I need to tell you why.
As I wrote yesterday, Taylor Swift creeps me out, not only because of the strangely slut-shaming and pro-abstinence undercurrents of her videos, not only because her public persona is so self-effacing and submissive and meek and coy and Betty Draperian, but because her entire career is about pretending to be a "normal teen girl." Which she's not. I mean, sure, she's technically a teenager - 19, to be precise - but, at 19 years old, you can drive, smoke, have sex with anyone you like, and vote in a Presidential election. Most 19-year-olds do some or all of these things, and often add in a little underage drinking or living away from home, along with other notably adult-like pursuits. Taylor Swift is a woman who wants to be seen as a little girl. And her whole performance of "little girl" is, weil... not that convincing. It seems entirely too adorable and wholesome and sweet and palatable (and meek! OH, GOD THE MEEKNESS! THE "INNOCENCE"! THE WHITE DRESSES! Make it STOPPPPPPP) to be anything remotely like the realities of most teenage girls, which are just too awkward and inevitably obnoxious to go over that well. She seems less like a child than like an adult with a great marketing team who has been coached to do a very convincing impression of a child. But impressions aren't realities, and adults pretending to be children are freakshows, and the whole Taylor Swift phenomenon sort of crashes and explodes in the Uncanny Valley.
Miley Cyrus, on the other hand... Miley, I believe, is an authentic teenage girl. Despite the fact that she's far more famous than Taylor Swift, and has been in the business far longer (for all her life, in fact). Somehow, despite being raised in the zoo, behind the glass wall, in front of all those spectators, she still seems like the real, undomesticated thing. How do I know she's a real teenager, you ask? Simple: I can't stand her.
One of the benefits of being asked to do a column on pop music is that you may wind up realizing you know far less about it than you supposed, and will eventually, out of sheer necessity, open yourself up to all kinds of things that you had previously been able to avoid. I had always stayed away from the Miley Thing. Because Miley Cyrus seemed - forgive me as I use some unkind words here - vulgar, crass, stupid, hollow. Oh, and also, racist! And the music was terrible, so really there was no reason to explore further.
Well: I wound up having a reason, and I wound up exploring further. And one thing I have learned by, say, watching her Youtube video blog (Helpful Hints For Readers: NEVER DO THIS, EVER) is that I was substantially correct. She does seem, for lack of a better word, vulgar. She does come across as shallow and uninteresting. She is loud, being one of those people who mistakes volume for humor. Her parents originally named her "Destiny Hope" (yeah, I KNOW) and she generally seems like the product of parents literal-minded, unimaginative, and unsophisticated enough to name a poor defenseless baby this awful thing. She makes jokes that aren't funny. She thinks she's far cuter than she is. She's un-self-aware enough to, for example, make a video in which she cleans out her closet (it's bigger than my bedroom) and creates a pile of clothes to throw away that is several feet high and covered in expensive-looking items that still have price tags on them. And she's already developed an early, alarming case of Celebrity Dead-Eye - that totally understandable, totally tragic affliction that happens to people who realize, for whatever reason, that their personalities have become products, and that they have become the recipients of more attention and love than they can ever adequately return, and who therefore go through the motions of performing the most marketable aspects of themselves even as they become more and more alienated from them, which inevitably results in someone like Miley mouthing the words "love youuuuuuuuu" and making kissy faces to her fans in the camera while her eyes are empty and dull and her real self, whatever that is, is clearly a million miles away from the girl saying and doing these things. But the weird thing is, even with the Celebrity Dead-Eye, she still feels far closer to being a real girl than any of her Disney peers. Because teenagers, generally, are not that sophisticated or classy or tasteful or (sorry, teens!) "smart" in the same way that adults tend to be. The ugly side of Miley is the side of Miley that lets me know she's still alive in there.
And here is where this becomes relevant to feminism: the side of her that has been scorned most roundly, and by the largest number of people, is her sexuality. Miley poses with her back exposed: people throw a hissy about its "unwholesomeness." Miley does provocative, pop-star like dances in her stage show: people throw a hissy about her no longer serving as a good "role model." Miley stands next to and/or holds on to a pole in a dance routine: people's heads just generally explode over the POLE DANCING! DIRTY FILTHY POLE DANCING! And, friends, I have known pole dancers, and the stuff they are required to do is generally a lot harder and more athletic and theatrical and complicated than whatever it is that Miley did (expert analysis, after watching video: she held onto a pole). But the point is, whatever shreds of sexuality Miley shows in public are interpreted as far huger and sluttier and more significant than they actually are, and she keeps doing them anyway. Which is how I know she's a real live girl.
Here's the thing: teenagers are sexual. They just are, despite the many powerful cultural messages which tell them not to be. And, for teenage girls, in particular, sexuality is a minefield, given that all the images they see of "sexual women" consist only and entirely of their sexuality, and the fact that the sexuality displayed by those women is generally dude-approved and performative. The role model of a woman who is multi-dimensional, accomplished in many different fields, totally accepting of her body, and fucking hot as hell because she knows she likes sex and is ready and willing and eager to have sex in the ways that are most fulfilling and least compromising for her... well, we don't have that yet. The best solution is to be that role model for yourself, I find. But it's natural to try to take on the many (incomplete, often messed-up) roles that are offered to you, if even for a few minutes or days at a time, to see how they feel. And, eventually, out of all those models of sexuality, you cut and paste and assemble a little collage that represents your unique sexuality. But while you are a teen, you are going to experiment with as many as you can. Sometimes in goofy or embarassing ways. And, when Miley, say, takes a picture of herself in underwear and hiked-up T-shirt, making a kissy face, she's doing precisely that. Which is normal. What's not normal is to have that process observed by several million people who are wayyyyyyyyyyy too invested in it, and willing to pass judgment on you for it. I get why people are uncomfortable with acknowledging teen girl sexuality, too: the fact is that young women are often targeted for sexual assault, have fewer means to defend themselves from it because they know less about the world than adults, and are correspondingly fetishized by way too many creepy, misogynistic men. But to make the whole thing about whether teen girls should be allowed to be sexual, or whether they are Bad Girls for being sexual in ways we do not approve, places the onus on teenage girls and their sexuality. Rather than, say, predatory dudes. And that's a problem.
It shouldn't be a problem to assert these two things, simultaneously: first, that teenage girls are sexual, and want to express and experiment with their sexuality, and second, that their desire to express and experiment with their sexuality shouldn't be exploited by predators. But it is, for some reason, and the end result is that we end up with role models as asexual and one-dimensional as Taylor Swift. Because a girl can't be sexual and innocent, for whatever reason. Because we've constructed a worldview wherein desire and innocence can't occupy the same space.
What does any of this mean for Miley's deleted Twitter? Well, for one thing, she has one more area of privacy in her life. If those (god-awful) video blogs are any indication, she lives in a generation wherein it has never not been an option to broadcast your entire life. And she's grown up in the zoo, behind the glass: her father was the "Achy Breaky Heart" guy, for God's sake, and she's been acting since she was a very small child, which only exacerbates the problem. Miley is used to being a spectacle; it's what she's been raised to be. But the conundrum of teen girl sexuality, or teen girlhood in general is that (being female sexuality) it will always be shamed and judged and feared, but (being female) it is also always desired and sought out for observation. And it's one of those spaces that I identify as sacred: it shouldn't be put on the public stage, shouldn't be available for public examination, for the exact same reason that you don't rip open a chrysalis to see what kind of butterfly it's turning into. It isn't a butterfly, at the moment: it's a bunch of goo, hoping to find its shape. And if you don't let it find that shape, on its own, then it may never be anything more.
So, yeah. Miley. You deleted the Twitter? Good for you. Have fun having moments of your life and/or personality that aren't available to anyone else. Have fun being a kid. Because it's what you are, and what you should be allowed to be, terrifying teen stardom notwithstanding. And, while you're at it, can I suggest that you get rid of the video blog? Because, kid, that isn't doing you any favors.
Laura Blum replied on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 8:46pm
Amazing piece. Excellent job. *nod of approval and hearty round of applause* You seem to understand the psyche of a teenage girl really well, too (this coming from a 17-year-old!). Yes, it's because you were a teenage girl too, once, but a lot of people forget what a stage in their life was like after they've exited it.
Anyway, this is great stuff. Keep it up.
"Betty Draperian"
Jamielynn Varriale replied on Sat, 10/10/2009 - 9:40pm
Comparing Taylor Swift to Betty Draper? Total insult to Betty Draper.
No but seriously -- excellent post! The ShePop blog is just wonderful in general.
Lisa replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 10:37am
This was so well written that I had to read it again, just to allow myself the joy of reading it and to relive the little feeling of 'yippee' that I got when I read it the first time. Great POV and a wonderful post.
What a great, fantastic
Deaf Indian Mus... replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:55am
What a great, fantastic article!! I actually feel so bad for Miley because like you said, she is a TEENAGED GIRL and its normal for teenaged girls to be sexual. It always sickens me every time Perez Hilton would slut-shame her while praising Taylor Swift (who does seem more like a child than a 19 years old woman).
Miley is just like many girls I knew from high school in the 90s, but with the Internet (Twitter and youtube), it makes her life much more scrutinized. I wonder what JODIE FOSTER would have been like in the 70s if the Internet had existed back then. Jodie was also a Disney teen star but without Twitter/Youtube/nasty blogs, she was put under a smaller microscope.
Oh Sady!
Carleigh replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 1:11pm
Sady. You are the living end, the bee's knees, and the cat's pajamas. I'm so glad you got this gig at Bitch, because more lady folk need to be exposed to your genius. This is one of my favorite pieces of yours yet. I would never go back to being a teenage girl for anything.
<i> And, eventually, out of all those models of sexuality, you cut and paste and assemble a little collage that represents your unique sexuality. But while you are a teen, you are going to experiment with as many as you can. </i>
Yes! This! Oh geez, did I do some wacky, embarassing things between 13-19. Whoo boy.
Sadly, the problem with
Marcy replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 1:36pm
Sadly, the problem with Miley being at all sexual or teen-like, is that her target audience is made up of 5 year olds (I used to work at a preschool, and we had 4 and 5 yr old girls wearing Hannah Montana concert t-shirts from when they went to see her with their parents). So when she promotes sexuality (healthy for a teen girl) she's promoting sexuality to 5 year olds, too (not so healthy). Of course, this whole trend of kids looking up to teens as their role models is the much bigger problem....
Re: Sady, the problem with
Gina replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:31pm
This. When my niece was 9 years old, she came to stay with us for the weekend and we watched Hannah Montana and a Bratz movie. Both of these "products" are sexualized in various ways and at the same time designed to appeal to audiences as young as kindergarteners. These shows disturb me because they promote an image of wholesomeness in some ways that is contradicted by the overt sexuality they also promote. It's terribly confusing for young girls to feel they have to fill the virgin and the whore role.
I also hate the Hannah Montana show because it's so anti-learning. Seriously, watch a few shows sometime and see how the different characters hate school, try to blow it off, and generally promote a message that school is lame. I love learning, and it makes me sad to see a show try to convince kids that school is lame.
I should prepare my proposal.
Alder Knight replied on Sun, 10/11/2009 - 11:55pm
I thought I wanted to marry the Taylor Swift post, but apparently I want to marry this entire blog series. GROUP MARRIAGE!
Seriously, these posts have been great, and I just wish I had some more substantial (less creepy) feedback to give on them.
From a predatory mysoginistic creep, apparently.
Anonymous replied on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 8:08am
An interesting article, and I roundly agree. A point of friction though: teen girls _are_ sexual - usually a delightful and wholesome thing - but if a man should notice suddenly that's creepy, predatory or misogynistic? Of course there are creepy and predatory men out there, but it's really not uncommon for males to be attracted to young women, and not all are monsters. I certainly don't feel the need to apologize for noticing or being attracted to hot teen girls.
it's my biological imperative to stare at your boobs
snobographer replied on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:43am
Oh I don't know. I see some really good-looking high school boys around sometimes but I wouldn't go so far as to say I'm attracted to them. I've never felt compelled to approach them and tell them they're pretty and ask them their names, and I don't sit there silently leering at them - all of which I've personally experienced when I was a teenaged girl and seen many many other teenaged girls subjected to by grown men who regularly argue that it's perfectly natural for them to be attracted to tenth-graders.
THIS. So fucking annoying.
Meg replied on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 2:33pm
Heaven forfend I say you're pretty
Anonymous replied on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:21am
"But not all sex across an
Sady Doyle replied on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 8:41am
"But not all sex across an age gap is abuse or exploitation."
Um, yes, it is, when you are talking about an adult "having sex" with a minor. Which is why we have statutory rape laws.
"Abuse is the problem, not sex."
The issue is, when you are talking about an adult (who has been living with the responsibility of caring for himself for some time, who has gathered a fair bit of knowledge about the world, who simply has more power and competence as a member of society) wanting to sexually interact with a person who is still in many major respects a child (who is transitioning into adulthood, but who still lives as a child, knows comparatively less about the world, and is undergoing a fairly fragile, crucial stage of physical and emotional and sexual development) the power imbalance is so large as to render the child vulnerable: to abuse, to coercion, to exploitation. You prey on the child's implicit understanding that adults know better than they do (which most teens do have, on one level or another, no matter how rebellious or world-weary they may be at the ripe old age of sixteen) and their in-transition need to be accepted as adults, as well as their emotional immaturity and unknowingness of certain key facts about the world (such as: guys who can't forge emotional and sexual relationships with people their own age tend to be fucked-up in the head region, and pretty freaking creepy, and should trigger your "danger! Danger! Run away now" response, even or especially if that adult tries to groom you with special niceness or favors). It IS predatory, and, again: why we have statutory rape laws.
"Viewing young women as pure innocent angels who must be protected from men and their terrible penises."
Oh, sweet Jesus, do not even TRY to pull this "the desire to have sex with teenagers as an adult is feminist because AGENCY" bullshit in my thread. Do not. This isn't about circumscribing the agency of women, nor is it about denying their sexuality. This is about protecting MINORS from ADULTS WHO WANT TO FUCK THEM, which is AGAINST THE LAW. (Is it any less creepy when an eighteen-year-old dates a dude in his thirties? No, it's not. It's legal, but it's still fucked up. And the dudes I've met who have done this are also the dudes who, for example, talked about how the only adult women they would date were Asian immigrants because "their culture teaches them to take care of men," and "they might have to marry me so they would be especially grateful for what I gave them." It's a power-imbalance thing, not a physical attraction thing, no matter how much people may try to disguise it by claiming that adult women are just so UGLY.)
"people don't get to choose who they are attracted to."
If you literally cannot get a boner from a woman who is an adult, and within your age group, and can only be attracted to minors, then you need to seek counseling, because that's a serious problem. If you can, then it should be no problem for you to do that, and stay away from teenage girls. And maybe still get the counseling, because considering statutory rape as a potential option for your life is still some scary, worrisome shit.
Anonymous replied on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 4:35pm
Heaven forfend you keep your opinions to yourself.
snobographer replied on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 3:26pm
Any dude who thinks he has a right to tell me I'm pretty, I have a right to tell him he's skeezy and repulsive.
Um, yeah. I don't think
Um, yeah. I don't think anyone is arguing that young people can't be attractive (although, honestly? I live next to a high school. One thing high-school age girls don't tend to look like is adults. Then again, most college students don't tend to look all that adult to me any more either). I think what we're arguing is that FETISHIZING young people, and having adults try to interact with them sexually, is uncool. There should be a safe space for young people to express and experiment with their sexuality, while being given support and education by the adults in their lives. What there should NOT be is a surplus of creepy, predatory older dudes who get off on power imbalances (there's where the misogyny comes in: men who do this can't handle a woman who's as powerful or more powerful than they are, in my experience; it's about fetishizing helplessness and "innocence"/unknowingness that makes the lady less likely to be able to identify their BS or call them out on it) trying to strike up "relationships" with them or interact with them sexually or even flirtatiously (since that can, as other posters have mentioned, feel really gross and like a violation).
"Everyone wants to -- young girls."
snobographer replied on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:15pm
Roman Polanski reads your blog, apparently.
So THAT,S Why My Skin Crawls in The Presence of Taylor Swift
Toddy replied on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 12:27pm
TY! TY! TY! I could not figure out why the sight and sound of Taylor Swift on SNL a few weeks back had me feeling so bloody hostile! I had heard the name, just sort of floating about in the ether so I watched her sing. I was just feeling pissed off at the "lil' girl voice", the "pretty baby dress" the hyper slickness of it all. I wanted to transport myself through the t.v. looking glass and shake her. I wanted to tell her that it would be ok, even preferable for her to knock her head back, find some vibrato and sing her tits off. Belt it to the back of the room! Just say no to one more homogenized, "daddy, am I a good girl now?" soul-less tune for the Disney Machine and SING damnit.....and please ditch the headband. You however, haver put it into a much broader context that i have found to be illuminating. Thank you, and please keep writing this well.
lauren replied on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 5:33pm
Sorry if you felt I was
Sady Doyle replied on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 2:16pm
Sorry if you felt I was stereotyping; I was just saying that most teen girls don't behave exactly like adults. They're, by definition, immature when compared to adults. And they also tend to be going through a lot, in terms of physical and emotional changes. And they tend to know somewhat less about the world than older people - again, for the entirely understandable reason that they've been around for a shorter time and (for many of them) their experience of the world has been a fairly sheltered one. I don't judge - I feel worse for kids who grow up too fast due to LACK of sheltering than I do for kids who have been protected and are therefore kind of clueless about stuff. So I don't necessarily hold a teen to the same standard of behavior to which I hold an adult. I have more sympathy for them for being weird or goofy or even obnoxious in ways that I wouldn't tolerate from someone who has been around long enough to know better, because I remember being weird or goofy or obnoxious in the same ways. I don't look down at teenagers, or expect them all to behave in precisely the same way, but I don't expect the same things from them that I would expect from an adult, either.
Predatory dudes ARE the problem, not girls expressing themselves
Amy Hasinoff replied on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 1:52pm
"But to make the whole thing about whether teen girls should be allowed to be sexual, or whether they are Bad Girls for being sexual in ways we do not approve, places the onus on teenage girls and their sexuality. Rather than, say, predatory dudes. And that's a problem."
This is so true. So much of the recent panic about sexting and teens sharing info and pics on myspace seems to blame the girls for any bad things that could potentially come of this. Like when a girl takes a naked photo of herself and her boyfriend later distributes it without her permission, they both get charged with child pornography felonies--how does that make any sense? We need to hold these men and boys accountable for sexually harassing young women.
It's sad to me when teen
Agata replied on Fri, 06/18/2010 - 3:19am
It's sad to me when teen celebs (in general, and of either gender) appear in fashion magazines because it reinforces to them-an ultimately readers-that you don't need to be thoughtful or intellectual...you just need to have and know about "stuff."
Yes, she looks absolutely gorgeous, but frankly speaking, Pamela Anderson looked prettier in her Tool Time days with less make up. But you could never convince her of that.
Great article, once again. I
Anonymous replied on Sat, 12/18/2010 - 3:17pm
Great article, once again. I have a question, though. I'm wondering how we distinguish between a teenage girl expressing her sexuality (read: GOOD) in natural, if teen-typical, ways, and that same teenage girl PERFORMING a certain sexuality (read: BAD) artificially and for male pleasure. As a feminist, I get a little ticked off when I see straight girls getting into girl-on-girl makeout sessions for the pleasure of their horny, onlooking boyfriends, and I've read more than a few articles and books expressing annoyance about the same subject (i.e. bashing Katy Perry for "I Kissed a Girl," etc.). We discount them because we know they are not expressing their real sexuality, so why don't we feel the same about Miley Cyrus getting up and "dancing" on a pole, or posing "provacatively" on the cover of a magazine, or making kissy faces in her underwear? If Miley made out with a girl and it was on the news, do we praise her or condemn her? How can we selectively applaud some women, whether teenagers or not, for their courage to show their sexuality, while disregarding others because it's performative and for male benefit?
I'd love input on this, since I'm not trying to argue with anyone, just struggling to get it all figured out in my own head...thanks!
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Each week during March, we're highlighting the best feminist music showcased during the annual South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.


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Zoukou – arrondissement del Benin nel comune di Djidja (dipartimento di Zou)
Zoukou – arrondissement del Benin nel comune di Zogbodomey (dipartimento di Zou)


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A little help from home
By Ed Guzman
Portland Oregonian
Familiarity breeds success. For an athlete, that usually means lots of practice. For Portland Fire guard Jackie Stiles, however, it means taking familiarity literally. Practice had just ended at the Rose Garden on June 21, a day before the team played host to the Charlotte Sting, and Stiles was looking to get in some extra work. In the first seven games of the season, she averaged 12.1 points and shot 35 percent from the field. Stiles also was coming off a game in which she scored a season-low four points.
Shooting star on the rise
By Larry S. Hazelrigg
The list of Jackie Stiles doubters should be getting mighty slim by now. The 5-foot-8 guard has left stardom at Southwest Missouri State for stardom with the Portland Fire of the Women's National Basketball Association. Never mind that critics said she was too small, or had come from a mid-major conference (the Missouri Valley) or any number of other negatives.
Stiles merchandise on fire
By Claudette Riley
Local Wal-Mart stores were right about Jackie Stiles' merchandise — it's golden. A month after ordering 10,000 official T-shirts — the Women's National Basketball Association's largest-ever, single-player retail deal — the stores came back for 3,500 more.
NCAA scoring champ Stiles contributes quickly with Fire
By David Woods
In April's WNBA draft, the Indiana Fever were faced with a decision analogous to the one confronted by the Indianapolis Colts in 1998. Not a day passes in which the Colts aren't relieved they selected quarterback Peyton Manning instead of Ryan Leaf with the No. 1 pick. However, it will be months before anyone can evaluate whether the Fever were wise to select Tamika Catchings instead of Jackie Stiles with the No. 3 pick.
Message to Jackie: Just shoot it
By Scott Puryear
Message to Jackie: Just shoot it Jackie Stiles didn't disappoint in her WNBA debut Thursday night, with her team-high, 17-point effort in the Portland Fire's 82-65 loss to Minnesota. First impressions? It looks like the former SMS star is in good hands in Portland. Large crowds of 10,000-plus. Fan-made signs extolling her virtues.
Jackie's journey
PORTLAND, Ore.
(AP) — Jackie Stiles sat quietly in front of her locker with a towel draped over her legs. Her shoulders were slumped, her eyes red from crying. None of the triumphs from the past year could console the leading scorer in NCAA women's history.
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Still Jackie Oh!
By Elizabethe Holland
Post-Dispatch
Even as she takes her first halting steps as a pro, Jackie Stiles continues to be enveloped by the spotlight. Jackie Stiles figured, hoped and prayed that once the NCAA Tournament was behind her, the madness, the phone calls
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Stiles now a star on T-shirts
By Paul Flemming of the News-Leader
Another day, another record. The Women's National Basketball Association has its largest-ever single-product, single-player retail deal after Springfield-area Wal-Mart stores ordered 10,000 T-shirts bearing Jackie Stiles' name, jersey number and team logo.
WNBA Chat
"I just hope someone picks me." This is what Portland's No. 1 draft pick (fourth overall), Jackie Stiles, said after the NCAA Tournament. Like the saying goes, "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it." But this Kodak All-American is up for the challenge.
All eyes on Stiles
The Oregonian staff
TUALATIN — A sampling of Jackie Stiles' life lately: "Hey Jackie, you got a minute?" "What do you do for fun besides basketball?"
Just like that, she's not in Kansas anymore
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Jackie Stiles still has a hard time believing all that is swirling around her. Maybe because growing up in a town of 600 can't prepare someone for celebrity. Maybe because this has all happened so fast. "I'm living a dream," Stiles said.
Draft Quotes from Stiles
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Jackie Stiles, Portland Fire Opening statement: I'm very excited to be chosen by Portland. It's definitely a dream come true to be playing in the WNBA.


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Prince Harry falls off horse during polo match after UK trip
Prince Harry took a tumble off his horse during a polo match in California Friday – a week after he glumly returned to the US from his grandmother's Platinum Jubilee.
Photographs captured the Duke of Sussex, 37, thrown to the ground after he fell at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club and other polo players rushing over to help him.
But the rebel royal quickly regained his composure, brushed himself off and mounted another horse to finish the game, the UK's Metro reported.
His wife Meghan Markle was not on hand to witness the fall or his team Los Padres losing the game, during which witnesses said he went through three horses, the Independent reported.
The duke's embarrassing tumble occurred a week after the couple made their first official visit back to the UK since stepping down as senior royals in 2020.
The couple was booed during their only official appearance in their rare trip.
Prince Harry fell off his horse while playing a polo match at Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club.
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Prince Harry plays polo in Santa Barbara, California.
The Duke of Sussex returned to Santa Barbara after traveling to London for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee.
Harry then looked downbeat as he was photographed after arriving back to his new home in California's swanky Santa Barbara on Sunday June 5.
Harry had left his old home in the UK, Frogmore Cottage, in time to jet out of Farnborough Airport before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, made her final appearance at the celebrations marking her historic 70-year reign.
Prince Harry crashes his horse before losing his Polo match Sunday at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club.
Prince Harry mounted another horse to finish the game.
During his brief trip, Harry had been kept mostly behind the scenes, only making an official appearance at St. Paul's Cathedral — where he was kept notably far apart from senior royals, including his once-close brother.
The couple's kids, Archie and Lilibet, were not seen in public at all.
Prince Harry looked downbeat after his first trip back to the UK after leaving his position as senior royal in 2020.
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Well, she loved the gifts. Reyna's baby shower is taking place as I am typing this post and my sister, Rosenet (her mom) is sending the pictures to me since I could not make it to the party.
I added baby boy socks on clothes pins instead of a ribbon tie. And everyone who took diapers were entered in a drawing. Who knows it might be an all expense paid trip to Starbucks; I love their tea.
Every one was asked to take a story book for Wyatt, I sent "What a Wonderful World" a book written based on the song.
Isn't that the most darlingest cake?
The party theme was, A PEA in a Pod.
I am glad to share these pictures with you. You can see more pictures of the baby blankets here.
I absolutely loved the gifts you sent. Many gifts will become keepsakes that Wyatt and I will cherish. Thank you very much, I am very blessed to have an amazing family.


In Bern, there are various student lodging companies that rent out rooms and studios to students.
If you move to Bern from somewhere else in Switzerland, you have to register with the registration office of the city of Bern within 14 days. You have to register even if you are only in Bern during the week (week stay).
If you move to Bern from somewhere outside Switzerland, please observe all conditions relevant to entering and residing in Switzerland.


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Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 329,000
The DOL reports:
In the week ending April 19, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 329,000, an increase of 24,000 from the previous week's revised level. The previous week's level was revised up by 1,000 from 304,000 to 305,000. The 4-week moving average was 316,750, an increase of 4,750 from the previous week's unrevised average of 312,000.
There were no special factors impacting this week's initial claims.
The previous week was revised up from 304,000.
The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since January 2000.
The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims decreased to 316,750.
This was above the consensus forecast of 313,000. The 4-week average is close to normal levels for an expansion.


I've been playing around with running 5Khz just to see if maybe I'd get a hit on some deep copper or silver in an old zoo that's finally playing out. The first time I did this I got 5-6 nice repeatable hits in a spot that I have beat to death with the CTX. All targets were deep and hitting in the mid 20's, every one was a ring tab. I had my disc set from -9 to +18, which made didn't make sense that I was getting a hit on the tab. Every one of them that I checked out of the hole would not register a positive signal. The second time I tried the same setup, 5 Khz, same disc settings, I decided to test the hits in multi IQ, nothing, not a peep. When I went back to 5Khz, there they were, loud and clear, same targets, ring tabs.
I was thinking to myself, that, possibly, I might get a hit on some deep nickles running 5Khz without having to listen to all the mid tones. Well, today, I do the same thing, only this time, I had just made a pass with the CTX over this spot and didn't get a good repeatable signal. Low and behold, I get a solid 28-32 both ways and dig a 6" plug and out pops a nickle 🙂 At first I'm thinking its a war nickle due to the high numbers, but, nope, just a plain Jefferson. I pass the coil over it, nothing, not a peep, notta.
Any idea's as to what's going on here, I don't think it's a bad thing, just a bit weird I thought.
I want to get this straight in my mind. You get a good repeatable signal and dig the target. Once the target is out of the hole you do a simple air test with the target and the machine is silent?
That's correct Mark. First, I have that range disc'd out completely, second the VDI's are hitting almost double what they normally read when running in 5Khz......This same thing has happened over a dozen times so far.
Alright Dan, I'll give it a shot here to what is happening.
First and foremost if one wants to look for deep nickes 5khz single freq is not where the action will be.
Better to use park 2, field 2 or prospecting modes if one has 800 model.
As far as what you were witnessing. Single freq ops using 5khz is not as resonant on lower conduciors hence Nox won't hit as strong and or will have tendency to give ID in error. You were seeing up averaging of signal. Remember tones wise, disc wise or notch wise Nox tone and ID is based off of how the detector feels about the target. Hence you had the junk disc or notched out yet it gave tone and ID ( in error).
An Eqx user could witness what you dId using other freqs available on Eqx using single freq ops. ID of targets solo buried multi frequency will give more accurate tone and ID to boot.
My experiences show the use of 5 kHz single freq can have benefits looking for higher conductors in modern( lower conductive trash). Expect what you find higher conductive wise located with use of 5 kHz that was missed with mulit freq to to lean more on the shallower side depth wise.
As a target masked (higher conductive) gets deeper below lower conductive junk mulit freq will have equal or even better advantage in seeing the higher conductor.
And naturally using 5khz one has to be mindful of the good ole bottlecaps, as they will read high like a higher conducive coin where transitioning to multifreq will generally show a lot lower ID exposing.
very interesting question. I keep my pull tabs and ring tabs for comparison each year. Who knows why. I guess I'll recycle them someday.
For surface to shallow ring tabs and in air tests in Park 1 multi I can get any where for 15 to 20 on a variety of ring tabs (beavertails?) In my high mineralized soil the deeper the target the higher the target ID can be if it is coin sized or bigger. Even with the Nox, a nickel can go up to 18 OR get its target ID pulled down into the single digits depending on the Fe3O4 levels if it is past 6". Most of my single frequency detectors have up averaged any mid conductor target at depth here. The Deus was really bad about that and so were most of my Whites, Fisher and Teknetics detectors in the past. Pull tabs and nickels could read in the quarter/silver range at deeper than 6".
Running in 5kHz with -9 to +18 disced out I can see where you would not get a hit on surface to say 6" ring tabs in New Mexico (kind of like Colorado dirt maybe). Deeper than that anything can happen from my experience.
I actually do have some ring tabs that hit 20 on the Nox in air tests in default modes.
Ok..I used the Nox for about 7 months and then went back to my CTX, but, during that time I never ran straight 5Khz. I just started hunting again with an 800 and decided to experiment with single frequency settings. What is interesting is that multi will not register the tabs in the ground at depth on the ones I cross checked. One thing I didn't mention, all that did this were the round tabs, not the rectangular ones that usually read higher than round in my ground.
I can tell you from experience on running 5kHz on both my Makro Multi Kruzer as well as my EQ800 that 5kHz is the most EMI affected frequency I've ever used when detecting. No idea if that factors into your scenario, but just a thought.
What firmware version is on the machine?
What firmware version is on the machine. It's the updated version.
I have had deep low-mid conductive targets read high on just about every machine I've used over the years. Not regularly but every now and then. Not sure what causes it?????


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WEST MILTON — Hoping to connect with parents on topics like student mental health and emotional well-being, Milton-Union Schools are hosting a series of engagement sessions.
"We just really want to open our doors as much as possible and connect with parents, guardians, caregivers and community members on timely and relevant topics," Superintendent Brad Ritchey said.
Ritchey said the district has been hearing more requests from the community for information about student wellness and social-emotional well-being.
"As a group, several of our staff members met to create what we hope will be an engaging and informative series of offerings designed to empower both parents and students," he said.
The district has planned four parent engagement sessions to discuss topics like building healthy relationships, internet safety, and mental and emotional well-being. Each hour-long session is set for 6 p.m. in the Milton-Union Schools media center.
On Feb. 12, the topic will be "Peer Conflict and Health Relationships," which will offer information about conflict resolution.
An internet safety session set for March 12 will discuss how to empower children to engage in good-decision making when using technology and social media.
On April 11 and May 7, a two-part session will discuss supporting children in their attention to mental and emotional needs and how to seek help.
Child care assistance will be provided so that parents, guardians, and caregivers with younger children may attend. Light refreshments will be served during all sessions. Attendees will also be entered into a prize drawing.
In addition, the district will offer two Youth Mental Health First Aid sessions from 8 a.m. to noon on Feb. 23 and March 2. School Psychologist and certified instructor Michael Crenshaw will lead the class.
"This level of awareness certainly helps any parent, caregiver, and all those who work closely with young people to recognize many of the signs associated with depression, anxiety, and potential self-harm," Ritchey said.
Participants will be credentialed with full eight hour training. Space is limited to 25 attendees who RSVP by Feb. 11. Call (937) 884-7910 for more information.
The district is also offering a book study, Ritchey said. Participants will read and discuss "How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character" by Paul Tough.
The group will meet from 6-7 p.m. on Feb. 21, March 14 and April 4. Call (937) 884-7910 or e-mail ritcheyb@muschools.com to reserve a spot.
"Through sessions organized around topics of interest, book discussions, and credentialing programs, we hope to provide different experiences for parents and guardians to opt-in for more information," Ritchey said.


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Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa
(Peru)
Deliberate destruction of heritage
Ground transport infrastructure
Lack of a disaster preparedness Plan;
Lack of a Management Plan;
Planned and ongoing development projects which impact the Historic Centre, such as the planned construction of the Chilina Bridge;
Illegal demolitions involving historic buildings;
Urban sprawl.
Total amount approved : 75,000 USD
2001 Consolidation and restoration of the Cathedral of ... (Approved) 75,000 USD
February 2000: ICOMOS Expert Mission; April-May 2008: World Heritage Centre / ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission.
2014 WHC-ICOMOS Joint Reactive Monitory Mission to "Historic Centre of the City of Arequipa" (Peru) - 25-28 November 2014
2008 Report on the Reactive Monitoring Mission to the Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa, Peru, 28 April - 1 May ...
2001 Expert Mission Report, Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa, August 2001
2001 Expert Mission Report, Historical Centre of the City of Arequipa, July 2001
On 18 February 2014, the State Party submitted a State of conservation report, which is available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1016/documents and lists the following progress:
The Risk Preparedness Plan was completed and will be submitted to the Ministry of Culture for final review; however, no timeframe for this was provided. It identifies potential threats, a risk analysis, different types of interventions and implementation strategies. Five interactive workshops were held in 2013 for approval by different institutions and the general public,
Municipal Ordinance 764 of 20 June, defining the proposed new boundaries of the property, was submitted to the Ministry ofCulture. It defines the historical centre(the Historic Centre, the Monument Zone and the newly incorporated areas of San Antonio, Antiquilla and Yanahuara); and the buffer zone(including the newly incorporated areas of IV Centenario, Miraflores and Cayma). Once this Municipal Ordinance is approved, a minor boundary modificationwill be submitted to the World Heritage Centre;
Advances in the compilation and completion of the Master Plan for the Historic Centre (MPHC) and its submission for evaluation and approval to institutions and community groups through four interactive workshops. Approval by the Municipal Council is expected by June 2014. No information on the methods of implementation was provided;
The drafting of a new Metropolitan Development Plan (PDM) commenced in 2012 to rationalize inconsistencies with the developed MPHC and its social implications. A full review is being undertaken by the Peruvian Association of Architects and an interdisciplinary board. No timeframe to final completion was provided;
In April 2013, works were undertaken on the Chilina Bridge, component IV of the Via Troncal Interconectora project. Media reports indicate that the project has already reached a certain level and that its completion is expected by November 2014
In May 2013, a meeting between the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Government of Arequipa was held to try to achieve a consensus over the Via Troncal Interconectora project. With regard to Chilina Bridge, it was agreed that the Regional Government would adapt the project in light of the Ministry of Culture's review, and that a Certificate of Non-Existence of Archaeological Remains (CIRA) would be required for the area affected by the bridge. Both institutions agreed not to carry out the other components of project until the CIRA and the Environmental Impact studies were prepared. No information on the effective implementation of those commitments was submitted.
Analysis and Conclusion by World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies in 2014
It is noted that the State Party has made progress in addressing the final delimitation of boundaries and buffer zone and the completion of the Risk Preparedness Plan and the Master Plan of the Historic Centre of Arequipa. However, it is consider that management and conservation tools for the property have not been sufficiently integrated, which results in inconsistent policies for the property being adopted by different levels of the government. An effective response to the challenges of conservation of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property requires the urgent development and implementation of integrated policies.
With regard to the Via Troncal Interconectora project, it is regretted that no Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) as part of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was submitted, as previously requested in 2011 (35 COM 7B.132), 2012 (36 COM 7B.104) and 2013 (37 COM 7B.101), prior to the approval and implementation of the project. The ongoing construction of component IV, the Chilina Bridge, is of particular concern as is the fact that no information was provided to demonstrate the moratorium on work on the other components of the project while those studies are developed.
Given the circumstances described above, it is imperative that these heritage assessments are undertaken and action plans are developed to mitigate the visual impacts of the overall project, and of the Chilina Bridge in particular, before any further works are undertaken. It is also necessary that clarification be provided to the World Heritage Centre regarding the implementation of the commitments agreed between the Ministry of Culture and the Regional Government
38 COM 7B.46
Historic Centre of the City of Arequipa (Peru) (C 1016)
Having examined Document WHC-14/38.COM/7B,
Recalling Decision 37 COM 7B.101, adopted at its 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013),
Takes note of the significant progress made by the State Party in addressing the final delimitation of boundaries and buffer zone, and the completion of the Risk preparedness plan and the Master Plan of the Historic Centre of Arequipa;
Urges the State Party to complete the process of final approval and implementation of the new boundaries for the property as well as for its Master Plan and Risk preparedness plan;
Invites the State Party to submit, according to paragraphs 163-165 of the Operational Guidelines, the final proposal for the buffer zone as a minor boundary modification to enhance the protection of the visually sensitive areas around the property;
Notes with strong concern that work has started on the construction of the Chilina Bridge, one of the components of the project Via Troncal Interconectora, without the completion of a Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) as requested by the World Heritage Committee at its last three sessions;
Reiterates its request to the State Party to undertake, an HIA encompassing all the components of the Via Troncal Interconectora project, including the assessment of potential impacts on the landscape areas of Lari Lari, Los Tucos, Cayma and Yanahuara and an action plan to mitigate the visual impacts and requests the State Party to complete and submit these studies to the World Heritage Centre for review by the Advisory Bodies, prior to any approval or implementation of the entire project;
Also requests the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission to the property to consider the assessments of potential impacts of the Via Local Interconectora project, as well as the development of an action plan to mitigate negative impacts;
Further requests the State Party to complete the review of the Metropolitan Development Plan in order to rationalize inconsistencies with the Master Plan of the property and confirm whether or not this plan is to be regarded as the management plan for the property, requested by the World Heritage Committee to ensure the protection of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property;
Requests furthermore the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2015, a progress report and, by 1 December 2015, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, both reports including a 1-page executive summary, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 40th session in 2016.
Draft Decision: 38 COM 7B.46
1. Having examined Document WHC-14/38.COM/7B,
2. Recalling Decision 37 COM 7B.101, adopted at its 37th session (Phnom Penh, 2013),
3. Takes note of the significant progress made by the State Party in addressing the final delimitation of boundaries and buffer zone, and the completion of the Risk preparedness plan and the Master Plan of the Historic Centre of Arequipa;
4. Urges the State Party to complete the process of final approval and implementation of the new boundaries for the property as well as for its Master Plan and Risk preparedness plan;
5. Invites the State Party to submit, according to paragraphs 163-165 of the Operational Guidelines, the final proposal for the buffer zone as a minor boundary modification to enhance the protection of the visually sensitive areas around the property;
6. Notes with strong concern that work has started on the construction of the Chilina Bridge, one of the components of the project Via Troncal Interconectora, without the completion of a Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) as requested by the World Heritage Committee at its last three sessions;
7. Reiterates its request to the State Party to undertake, an HIA encompassing all the components of the Via Troncal Interconectora project, including the assessment of potential impacts on the landscape areas of Lari Lari, Los Tucos, Cayma and Yanahuara and an action plan to mitigate the visual impacts and requests the State Party to complete and submit these studies to the World Heritage Centre for review by the Advisory Bodies, prior to any approval or implementation of the entire project;
8. Also requests the State Party to invite a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS reactive monitoring mission to the property to consider the assessments of potential impacts of the Via Local Interconectora project, as well as the development of an action plan to mitigate negative impacts;
9. Further requests the State Party to complete the review of the Metropolitan Development Plan in order to rationalize inconsistencies with the Master Plan of the property and confirm whether or not this plan is to be regarded as the management plan for the property, requested by the World Heritage Committee to ensure the protection of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property;
10. Requests furthermore the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2015, a progress report and, by 1 February 2016, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, both reports including a 1-page executive summary, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 40th session in 2016.
Criteria: (i)(iv)
WHC-14/38.COM/7B
SOC Report by the State Party


Adopt a Zoo Animal into your family!
In preparation for our Children's Halloween event this weekend, we will be closed Friday, October 19th, 2018.
Our Children's Halloween events this Saturday and Sunday will be from 11-3 (See EVENTS for more details). We hope to see you at the Zoo to support us as we move into our winter season. If you have any questions we will still answer any Facebook messages.


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The concerns about energy and the economy are still at play. In this interview Cris was interested in my work on the relation between money and energy and Biophysical Economics. Long time readers will recognize these themes from my blogs of yesteryear.