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> > need to keep the metadata in sync with, notation and information.
> > ogg files and having it added when the playlists are created.
> so you might as well take advantage of it!
> > I unfortuately got all my reponses off list.
others won't benefit from them.
> client, so that BOTH the list and the recipient get a copy of your msg.
> > Some suggested a way to use the Zope db for large files.
> > with the best solution.
> file that you have also uploaded.
> because it will already be embedded in the OGG files.
Again I have no metadata in the ogg files yet.
> wrote a directive for the ABC music language.
> docutils are abcm2ps, Ghostscript and PIL.
although in version 3. they plan also to output postscript only.
> >>> Have you seen the audio products? In what way will they help me?
> some advantages to having all your data in the ZODB.
> >> search for them.
> You can define these permissions however you want.
> >> This was done using pyid3lib (http://pyid3lib.sourceforge.net).
> >> files already have metadata embedded in them.
> > it should reside withing the ogg files or the notation or ?.
> Well, that depends on your use cases. You could also make an abstract "Song"
Thats what I have so far although I can't figure out how to make it fly.
in the notation folder, a so forth.
> Or if you don't want to bother with Archetypes, you could make this "Song"
> type folderish, so it could be a container for the audio and notation files.
> In my opinion, this would be the simplest way to do it.
Ok, but for the beginning I will content myself with english.
> >> Icecast, Shoutcast, Edna, etc.) actually serves up the file.
> >> from your Apache server.
> >>> at ZEO and I will do that soon I guess.
> >> large MP3/OGG files.
> > lot of cache.
> also for security reasons.
> > understand Zope enough to get off the ground.
> lines in your Apache's httpd.conf file (VirtualHost directive).
> >> are welcome to join in the development efforts.
> > I will take a look thanks.
stopping error so I removed it. I will read the TODO.txt though.
> >> conference: "The Railroad Project: Managing Large files Around Zope"
speed up the process, but I am starting to be a bit overwhelmed.


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Q: Send Zebra TC26 ZPL Android Studio via Bluetooth to ZD420 I try to send command to ZD420 from Zebra TC26 app.
I create app with android studio but i have error and not send command
I use zebra library
My Code :
                   val bAdapter: BluetoothAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter()
                    for (device in bAdapter.bondedDevices) {
                        sendZplOverBluetooth(device.address.toString())
                    }

private fun sendZplOverBluetooth(theBtMacAddress: String) {
        try {
            val thePrinterConn: Connection = BluetoothConnection(theBtMacAddress)
            thePrinterConn.open()
            if (thePrinterConn.isConnected) {
                val zplData = "^XA^FO20,20^A0N,25,25^FDThis is a ZPL test.^FS^XZ"
                thePrinterConn.write(zplData.toByteArray())
                thePrinterConn.close()
            }
        } catch (e: java.lang.Exception) {
            e.printStackTrace()
        }
    }

Error :
W/System.err: com.zebra.sdk.comm.ConnectionException: Could not connect to device: read failed, socket might closed or timeout, read ret: -1
W/System.err:     at com.zebra.sdk.comm.ConnectionA.throwAsConnectionException(Unknown Source:42)

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Doctors Confirm 'Semi-Identical' Twins Born From One Egg and Two Sperm
A new study suggests that such twins are extraordinarily rare.
Polygenic risk scores currently account for only a small proportion of your total genetic risk. Credit: Pixabay
Reuters: Doctors in Australia say they have identified a second case of twins apparently created from one egg and two sperm, a boy-girl combination in whom the mother's DNA is identical in both babies but the father's DNA varies in each twin.
They're being called semi-identical twins and a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that such twins are extraordinarily rare. The only other reported case was uncovered in 2007.
Virtually all twins are either fraternal (where two eggs and two sperm have created two separate embryos) or identical (where one embryo splits in two before resuming normal development for each child).
"This is confirming there is this third type of twinning where it's not fraternal and it's not identical. It's this strange place in between," chief author Dr Michael Terrence Gabbett of Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane told Reuters Health in a telephone interview.
Each sperm cell contains half the father's DNA. But it's not identical from sperm to sperm because each man is a mixture of the genetic material from his parents, and each time a slightly different assortment of that full DNA set gets divided to go into a sperm.
For example, some sperm will contain a copy of the father's Y chromosome that makes the child develop into a boy and some will carry the father's X chromosome, which makes the child a girl.
In the case of the Australian twins, who live in Brisbane and are now four-and-a-half years old, the mother's egg was fertilised with one sperm carrying an X chromosome and one with a Y. Because an ultrasound taken early in the pregnancy showed that both fetuses shared the same placenta, doctors assumed the fetuses were identical twins.
But when an ultrasound eight weeks later revealed that one child was male and the other female, something considered impossible for identical twins, the Gabbett team knew something extraordinary had happened.
The researchers say it appears that after fertilisation, the DNA from the egg and two sperm divided, then got divvied up to create three embryos. Two of these had enough egg DNA and sperm DNA to make viable embryos. The remaining embryo, with only sperm DNA, was not viable.
The twin boy and girl were found to have 100% of their mother's DNA in common, but were only 78% identical in the paternal DNA they carry.
The only other reported instance of so-called sesquizygotic twins was identified in 2007. They were brought to the attention of doctors because one had ambiguous genitalia.
To see if the phenomenon might be more common than doctors believed, the Gabbett team examined an international database of 968 fraternal twins and their parents. None showed the same pattern.
Because of the odd combination of DNA picked up from the two sperm, doctors have been concerned that the twins might be vulnerable to cancer of the reproductive organs.
"It turned out that the girl just had some changes in her ovary that people weren't comfortable with, so, unfortunately, she had to have her ovaries out," Gabbett said. "The boy is continuing to have his testes monitored" with ultrasound.
The girl also developed a blood clot in her arm, but that's not considered to be related to the unorthodox fertilisation.
"Otherwise," Gabbett said, "the two twins are beautiful kids, well and healthy."

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A post by Dr. Gennadii Miroshnikov, Technology Manager, Executive Education, London Business School. gmiroshnikov@london.edu
Executive Education comes in various shapes and forms, from one-day programs and workshops to multi-modular pathways, and from open programs available to anyone who meets the entrance requirements to tailored custom programs that use the joint forces of an Executive Education (EE) provider and the client's L&D department. The range of EE providers is also wide, ranging from traditional universities and business schools to consultancy firms and online learning platforms.
This post takes a look at the topics of the ALT conference from the perspective of EE learning technologists. It collates the themes of the conference and the main current problems in the field, which could help to create an agenda for EE and management education professionals, as well as for Further Education professionals and learning technologists supporting corporate L&D departments.
Digital technologies have a significant and diverse impact on EE, from offering new content to many management training programs and allowing managers to cope with disruptive technologies and digitalization to enhancing the training and learning experience.
A survey conducted by CarringtonCrisp shows that the top priority when considering an EE provider is 'learning that enables staff to have an impact at work'. Thus, measuring the impact after the training has been conducted is one of the most important tasks of EE providers, and a solution to maintain high market positions. Data management, including the collection, processing, and analysis of training and performance data, is the main tool to measure the impact and effectiveness of EE training.
This year's conference focused on both data management and Learning Technology for wider impact, which makes it particularly important from the point of view of EE professionals. Of particular interest were issues related to comprehensive data analysis and correlations between the results of training and data from external systems—such as the financial performance of a student's company, or the results of implementing a particular strategy or initiative. Often, companies acquire EE programs during organizational changes to better support these changes, so the data and its analysis should answer the question of how effectively the training was able to contribute to this activity. From the point of view of L&D professionals, it is very important to identify and understand the interdependence between corporate indicators and the results of these programs, which allow companies to determine the ROI and to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and provider, as well as to justify the L&D budget. Many EE programs use existing external digital systems such as Belbin, 360, and personality tests; hence, these integration issues remain relevant to provide a holistic analysis of data to measure the change impact on the company. Collecting and analyzing student data from various sources including survey platforms, Customer Relationship Management systems, and impact assessment tools that improve program design is another example of the important challenges facing EE providers.
As coaching is one of the main building blocks of many EE programs, the issue of collecting and analyzing data from coaching sessions is also important for understanding the holistic picture. It's clear that EE providers already use various digital systems to deliver their programs, but often these are separate external systems, the data from which are not always compared. Thus the integration of these systems is an urgent task, the solution to which will significantly improve impact measurement and will provide feedback to help companies make corrections to the design of their programs.
Creativity, which was another main theme of the conference, exists in the framework of EE programs in such forms as personalization and matching the branding of the client company to better reflect the link between the mission and strategy of the company and the EE program. EE providers often adapt the visual component of the program in accordance with the requirements of the client's branding policy using existing VLEs. However, such problems pose additional costs in graphic design and restrictions and limitations of VLEs, and the branding policies of the customer and the EE provider can sometimes be at odds. Thus, the fast graphical adaptation of EE programs, usually on both web and mobile versions, to client requirements while preserving quality and compliance with the branding requirements of the EE provider is extremely relevant.
Another problem related to creativity is the lack of a single VLE to fit all programs. A poorly-selected VLE can become an obstacle to creativity, program development, and delivery of the main objectives. In addition, a large number of patches, add-ons, and external subsystems affect the complexity of the maintenance, support, and development of such systems. EE providers are increasingly diversifying their digital delivery system portfolios, shifting from a single VLE to a few systems that are better suited to the goals and objectives of each program. Technologies are considered by EE providers as an 'opener', especially now that the industry has seen a shift from traditional face-to-face delivery to blended learning models with digital modules complementing and sometimes completely replacing face-to-face sessions. Technologies are carefully considered to erase the boundaries between the classroom and online learning, create an engaging learning environment while adding the additional value of personalizing the learning experience and taking into account the individual characteristics of each student. Examples of technology engagement are quizzes and polls, face-to-face sessions, online modules, and reflections.
Since the design of many custom programs takes into account the realities of a particular company and a direct connection with its operation, and as it may include proposing or implementing changes or projects in a given organization, the ability of technologies to build a bridge between theory and the real corporate environment and to create real-world problem-solving is especially valuable. One example would be companies that use the opportunities offered by social learning with a focus on problem-solving to organize discussions and gain feedback from peers, managers, and other stakeholders. The VLEs that are traditionally used by HE providers can be insufficiently flexible and intuitive for HE students, faculty, and coaches, which leads to lack of engagement. Therefore, the possibility of effective selection and the quick and streamlined VLE implementation of the option that is most suitable for each EE program is also extremely relevant. Findings in these areas will be very valuable for EE providers.
Because EE programs are designed for global coverage and often include students from different countries, multilingual support is another requirement for effective program delivery. The ability to include subtitles, download transcripts, view instructions in different languages, change video speed, and access the platform and all its components from anywhere in the world is also one of the industry's current challenges. One example is the complete or partial restriction of Google services, YouTube, and Vimeo in China, despite that it is one of the most promising destinations for delivering EE programs.
The ideas, research, experience, and best practices proposed and developed by the learning technology community in these areas are of considerable interest to Executive Education professionals, and this conference is a great example of how an evidence-based approach can be used in the field.
Bronfman, S. V., Pelegrín, O. A.2018, The digital revolution in management education, Global Focus, accessed 10 July 2019, <https://globalfocusmagazine.com/the-digital-revolution-in-management-education/>
CarringtonCrisp 2018, Executive Education Futures: what next for business schools, learners and employers, CarringtonCrisp Limited, accessed 1 July 2019, <http://www.carringtoncrisp.com/images/PDFs/Executive_Education_Futures_18.pdf>.
Dr. Gennadii Miroshnikov, CMALT MIET, Technology Manager, Executive Education, London Business School, gmiroshnikov@london.edu
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import { find, filter, map, each } from 'lodash';
import template from './dynamic-table.html';
import './dynamic-table.less';

function filterRows(rows, searchTerm, columns) {
  if ((searchTerm === '') || (columns.length === 0) || (rows.length === 0)) {
    return rows;
  }
  searchTerm = searchTerm.toUpperCase();
  return filter(rows, (row) => {
    for (let i = 0; i < columns.length; i += 1) {
      const columnName = columns[i].name;
      const formatFunction = columns[i].formatFunction;
      if (row[columnName] !== undefined) {
        let value = formatFunction ? formatFunction(row[columnName]) : row[columnName];
        value = ('' + value).toUpperCase();
        if (value.indexOf(searchTerm) >= 0) {
          return true;
        }
      }
    }
    return false;
  });
}

function sortRows(rows, orderBy) {
  if ((orderBy.length === 0) || (rows.length === 0)) {
    return rows;
  }
  // Create a copy of array before sorting, because .sort() will modify original array
  return [].concat(rows).sort((a, b) => {
    let va;
    let vb;
    for (let i = 0; i < orderBy.length; i += 1) {
      va = a[orderBy[i].name];
      vb = b[orderBy[i].name];
      if (va < vb) {
        // if a < b - we should return -1, but take in account direction
        return orderBy[i].direction * -1;
      }
      if (va > vb) {
        // if a > b - we should return 1, but take in account direction
        return orderBy[i].direction * 1;
      }
    }
    return 0;
  });
}

function validateItemsPerPage(value, defaultValue) {
  defaultValue = defaultValue || 10;
  value = parseInt(value, 10) || defaultValue;
  return value > 0 ? value : defaultValue;
}

// Optimized rendering
// Instead of using two nested `ng-repeat`s by rows and columns,
// we'll create a template for row (and update it when columns changed),
// compile it, and then use `ng-repeat` by rows and bind this template
// to each row's scope. The goal is to reduce amount of scopes and watchers
// from `count(rows) * count(cols)` to `count(rows)`. The major disadvantage
// is that cell markup should be specified here instead of template.
function createRowRenderTemplate(columns, $compile) {
  const rowTemplate = map(columns, (column, index) => {
    switch (column.displayAs) {
      case 'json':
        return `
          <dynamic-table-json-cell column="columns[${index}]"
            value="row[columns[${index}].name]"></dynamic-table-json-cell>
        `;
      default:
        return `
          <dynamic-table-default-cell column="columns[${index}]"
            row="row"></dynamic-table-default-cell>
        `;
    }
  }).join('');
  return $compile(rowTemplate);
}

function DynamicTable($compile) {
  'ngInject';

  this.itemsPerPage = validateItemsPerPage(this.itemsPerPage);
  this.currentPage = 1;
  this.searchTerm = '';

  this.columns = [];
  this.rows = [];
  this.preparedRows = [];
  this.rowsToDisplay = [];
  this.orderBy = [];
  this.orderByColumnsIndex = {};
  this.orderByColumnsDirection = {};

  this.searchColumns = [];

  const updateOrderByColumnsInfo = () => {
    this.orderByColumnsIndex = {};
    this.orderByColumnsDirection = {};
    each(this.orderBy, (column, index) => {
      this.orderByColumnsIndex[column.name] = index + 1;
      this.orderByColumnsDirection[column.name] = column.direction;
    });
  };

  const updateRowsToDisplay = (performFilterAndSort) => {
    if (performFilterAndSort) {
      this.preparedRows = sortRows(
        filterRows(this.rows, this.searchTerm, this.searchColumns),
        this.orderBy,
      );
    }
    const first = (this.currentPage - 1) * this.itemsPerPage;
    const last = first + this.itemsPerPage;
    this.rowsToDisplay = this.preparedRows.slice(first, last);
  };

  const setColumns = (columns) => {
    // 1. reset sorting
    // 2. reset current page
    // 3. reset search
    // 4. get columns for search
    // 5. update row rendering template
    // 6. prepare rows

    this.columns = columns;
    updateOrderByColumnsInfo();
    this.orderBy = [];
    this.currentPage = 1;
    this.searchTerm = '';
    this.searchColumns = filter(this.columns, 'allowSearch');
    this.renderSingleRow = createRowRenderTemplate(this.columns, $compile);
    updateRowsToDisplay(true);
  };

  const setRows = (rows) => {
    // 1. reset current page
    // 2. prepare rows

    this.rows = rows;
    this.currentPage = 1;
    updateRowsToDisplay(true);
  };

  this.renderSingleRow = null;

  this.onColumnHeaderClick = ($event, column) => {
    const orderBy = find(this.orderBy, item => item.name === column.name);
    if (orderBy) {
      // ASC -> DESC -> off
      if (orderBy.direction === 1) {
        orderBy.direction = -1;
        if (!$event.shiftKey) {
          this.orderBy = [orderBy];
        }
      } else {
        if ($event.shiftKey) {
          this.orderBy = filter(this.orderBy, item => item.name !== column.name);
        } else {
          this.orderBy = [];
        }
      }
    } else {
      if (!$event.shiftKey) {
        this.orderBy = [];
      }
      this.orderBy.push({
        name: column.name,
        direction: 1,
      });
    }
    updateOrderByColumnsInfo();
    updateRowsToDisplay(true);

    // Remove text selection - may occur accidentally
    if ($event.shiftKey) {
      document.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
    }
  };

  this.onPageChanged = () => {
    updateRowsToDisplay(false);
  };

  this.onSearchTermChanged = () => {
    this.preparedRows = sortRows(
      filterRows(this.rows, this.searchTerm, this.searchColumns),
      this.orderBy,
    );
    this.currentPage = 1;
    updateRowsToDisplay(true);
  };

  this.$onChanges = (changes) => {
    if (changes.columns) {
      if (changes.rows) {
        // if rows also changed - temporarily set if to empty array - to avoid
        // filtering and sorting
        this.rows = [];
      }
      setColumns(changes.columns.currentValue);
    }

    if (changes.rows) {
      setRows(changes.rows.currentValue);
    }

    if (changes.itemsPerPage) {
      this.itemsPerPage = validateItemsPerPage(this.itemsPerPage);
      this.currentPage = 1;
      updateRowsToDisplay(false);
    }
  };
}

export default function init(ngModule) {
  ngModule.component('dynamicTable', {
    template,
    controller: DynamicTable,
    bindings: {
      rows: '<',
      columns: '<',
      itemsPerPage: '<',
    },
  });
}

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Q: Google chrome url capturing code consumes high CPU utilization I am using following code to extract the current tab url from Google chrome, but it consumes huge CPU(10-15%) while capturing the url. Below is my code, I want to optimize the following code.
public static string GetChromeUrl(Process process)
        {
            try
            {
                if (process == null)
                    throw new ArgumentNullException("process");
                if (process.MainWindowHandle == IntPtr.Zero)
                    return null;
                AutomationElement element = AutomationElement.FromHandle(process.MainWindowHandle);
                if (element == null)
                    return null;
                AutomationElement edit = element.FindFirst(TreeScope.Subtree,
                     new AndCondition(
                          new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "address and search bar", PropertyConditionFlags.IgnoreCase),
                          new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.Edit)));
                if (edit != null)
                {
                    var i = ((ValuePattern)edit.GetCurrentPattern(ValuePattern.Pattern)).Current.Value as string;
                    return i;
                }
                else
                {
                    return "";
                }
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                return "";
            }
        }


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SAMPLE LESSON
Tips & Tricks of the Trade
by Jeff Beals | Mar 25, 2022 | Dealmakers
Today I share some collective sales wisdom in bite-sized chunks from three experts. Enjoy…
Confirming Client Appointments
Let's say you successfully scheduled a face-to-face meeting with a prospective client, and the time for that meeting is tomorrow. Because you don't want to waste your time, you feel like you should confirm that meeting especially because you originally scheduled it a couple weeks ago. But if you call to confirm, you're giving the prospect a chance to back out of the meeting. What should you do?
Call the prospect after hours the night before and leave a voice mail message, according to Al Davidson, president of SSM Strategic Sales & Marketing, Inc. The prospective client will likely listen to the voice mail the next morning.
It's still possible the prospective client could still cancel on you, but it's not as likely. As Davidson writes: "If he hasn't gotten proactive and called to cancel before the day of the meeting, then chances are good that he won't do it the day of."
Phones Are Sexier Than People Think
The telephone was invented 146 years ago, so it's "old" technology. Nevertheless, it remains the most powerful communication medium for brokers. Author Mike Weinberg says salespeople like CRE brokers should "use ALL effective, ethical, and appropriate methods to prospect for new opportunities, and that newer tools and approaches are wonderful supplements to, not replacements for, traditional methods like the phone."
The lowly telephone is still number one when you consider the benefits generated from the time and money invested.
Sales Detective
I often say that effective brokers are like detectives in that they are always searching for clues in order to discover a useful truth. Well, Keith Lubner, Chief Strategy Officer at Sales Gravy, apparently agrees with me. He recently wrote an article titled, "How Detective Work Helps Ultra-High Performers Hit Their Number."
In the article, he provides three investigative techniques for sales detectives:
Take advantage of trigger events – Check social media and notice when your prospects make career changes. Talk to them before your competition does.
Leverage the availability bias – Lubner says people often make decisions based on the information that is already in front of them ("availability bias"). Having an investigative mindset allows you to be first in line when it comes time for the client to make a decision.
Build familiarity to establish connections – "Your detective work may not always find opportunities, but the process you adhere to will always build familiarity with the contacts and connections in your network," Lubner says. "That greater familiarity will breed likability over time. It always does."
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Caseking has today launched a new range of high-end PCs called the Selective Fire Series, which has been designed by Germany's number one overclocker, Roman "der8auer" Hartung.
The range is being launched with three systems – the Single Fire, the Burst Fire and Full Auto, which contain one, two and three Nvidia GeForce GTX 980s respectively, as well as numerous other highly desirable components (you can see the full component list below). All three systems are of course water-cooled, and Roman says that every system is as quiet as it possibly can be.
Regular readers may remember a feature we did last year on the OcUK Overclockers UK 8Pack systems, which are similar in the sense of being designed, assembled and overclocked by a high profile overclocker (in fact, he's now number one in the world!). However, there are differences in their design ethos, pricing and extras, and the two sets of systems are not seen as competitors - for now, Overclockers UK will not be selling the der8auer systems, even though it is owned by Caseking. This is because the systems are aimed primarily at the German market. However, customers worldwide can purchase them (in fact, the first 8Pack system was bought by a German customer), and Caseking says the services will be the same for everyone.
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Finished! And I have had the opportunity to take some decent photos, so here follows a rather picture heavy post.
There are 26 different fabrics in the Amy Butler "Love" range and I used approximately 6 to 7 squares from each of the fabrics. The squares measured 4 inches at the cutting stage. A total of 169 squares were cut to form 13 rows by 13 columns. The finished quilt measures 46 inches x 46 inches.
The back of the quilt is also pieced. Although I really wanted to make the back of the quilt from more of the AB fabrics, I ran out of fat quarters with sufficiently wide enough pieces of fabric (due to inadequate planning on my behalf!) for each of the 11 inch squares. As a result I have added an alternating Kona Cotton Solid in Ash around the outside. I think it works well. I am also pleased with how well centered the backing is this time! A tricky task, but works much better when you also mark the center lines of the backing onto the batting.
The quilting is again very simple, just a matter of outlining the seam lines, (approximately 1/4 inch on either side of the seams), using the inner edge of my walking foot as a guide. I also adjust the needle position on my sewing machine to give a fairly generous 1/4 inch.
The binding was added without much hesitation this time. I think this quilt really need a quiet print as binding, one without too much color and pattern variation. .
I have chosen Bali Gate in Periwinkle from the Love range for the binding.
As all of the printed fabrics in this quilt are from the one fabric range, I have made a label from the selvage. It reads "Love - Amy Butler") It is doubled over and tucked into the binding in the diagonally opposite corner to my own label. An understated tribute to Amy Butler's retro but very modern fabric range.
What could be better than simple squares to show off these gorgeous fabrics. Clever label idea!
I love these fabrics! Question: How do you bind your quilts? I noticed the perfectly straight stitching on the back binding. Thanks!
Lovely! I really like that back...I hadn't even thought about having to center it! And I just love the label you made...so perfect! That fabric right behind it is my favorite!
Beautiful quilt! Love the tribute to Amy's line with the selvedge label. Great idea!
Gorgeous. Gorgeous. This quilt is so lovely. I hope you're keeping it! Love the 'Love' tag - that's so clever!
A real beauty! The 'love' tag is a sweet idea!
ooh love love LOVE IT!. and love the SELVAGE TAG! brilliant.
that is so pretty, I love the colors! I need to find some of this fabric soon!
This quilt shows of this new range wonderfully. Sometimes a simple square is all that is required. Just lovely.
Wowser Rita...it is just amazing to me how simplicity can be so beautiful!
That was amazing centering and Ahhhh Kona Ash, love it, the quilting really shows what a pro you are on the Kona Ash.
Great idea about using the selvage as a label...that makes it easy for whoever buys it to find matching fabric.
Like the use of the selvidge to put in the Love label. Smart thinkin'!
Gorgeous! I absolutely love this line... the colours are amazing! And I love that you used a selvage piece for a label!
All the fabrics are gorgeous!!! Great quilt to show off this fabric line. Love the selvage tag.
Those fabrics and your piecing are beautiful! Well done!
LOVE it! Such a simple pattern that it gives the fabric a chance to shine. Amazing job on centering the pieced back!
Beautiful quilt! How did you do that so fast? :) Love the special labels, too!
Clever way to centre the backing.
I'd never have thought of that.
This is gorgeous and I love that binding.
Rita - this is stunning! I love the binding on this quilt - beautiful!
Fantastic Rita! I paticulary love the ash solid, it works really well with the brightness of 'LOVE'.
Thank you for the tip on aligning the back. Now all my quilts have pieced back but luckily I have a few practise pieced in baby sizes.
I have been eyeing off the Love range for some time - looks wonderful, Rita!
What a great quilt. I love the scrappy look maybe because I am making a quilt in small squares similar to that. It's a baby quilt which will be given to the Crisis Pregnancy Center. I enjoy your blog and hope to visit often.
LOVE the LOVE quilt, especially putting the piece of selvage.
And congrats on winning the Sew Mama Sew contest too!
great quilt!! i love how you made a second tag with the fabric selvage!
LOVEly quilt - your love label is a fabulous idea!
the fabrics, the squares, the back, the front, the binding, the label... looooveeeee it!!!!!!!!
I love the selvage label! That is great. So is the quilt!
Wow is quite an understatement for this work of art. AB fabrics are a work of work alone but you took them to a new level!!!!
What a fabulous idea for the label too. I may have to steal that one!!!
Great job! You can pat yourself on the back now!!!!
It's stunning! I really love the back, and it looks completely centered!
This is truly beautiful! I've made all kinds of quilts over the years. But somehow love the simple ones the best.
Well, it is certainly LOVELY!
Swoooooon! It's beautiful! I love the label touch!!!


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Alessandro Focosi (June 14, 1836 – February 1, 1869) was an Italian painter born in Milan.

Biography
The son of the painter and illustrator Roberto Focosi, Alessandro completed his artistic training at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, where Francesco Hayez was his master. Focosi won numerous academic prizes, and received a grant from the Brera that enabled him to visit Florence, Rome and Turin for study purposes during the period 1858–60.

He returned to Milan by 1866, and specialised in Romantic treatments of historical and literary subjects that were widely praised and received official recognition. In 1866, he painted a Catherine de' Medici induces Charles IX to exile the Huguenots and in 1868, Carlo Emanuele of Savoy confronts the Ambassador of Spain. The latter painting won the first prize, 10,000 lire, in a national contest instituted in 1866 by minister Broglio. He was made an honorary member of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 1863. In addition to the exhibitions of the Brera and the Promotrice in Turin, his works were also shown at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867 and the Munich Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1869.

References

 Elena Lissoni, Alessandro Focosi, online catalogue Artgate by Fondazione Cariplo, 2010, CC BY-SA (source for the first revision of this article).

External links

19th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
Painters from Milan
Brera Academy alumni
1836 births
1869 deaths
19th-century Italian male artists

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Home Fire Apparatus Hoover (AL) Fire Department to Apply for $212k Grant
Hoover (AL) Fire Department to Apply for $212k Grant
City council recently approved the Hoover (AL) Fire Department's request to apply for a $212,250 grant to help replace three command vehicles, reports hooversun.com.
The department, which expanded last year from one district commander to three, has a reserve vehicle and pulled another from headquarters so each district commander has a responding vehicle, the report says. They're housed at Station 4 on Municipal Drive, Station 7 in Inverness, and Station 11 in Trace Crossings.
The department now boasts four Chevrolet Tahoes; two are 2016 models with 89,000 and 98,600 miles, while the other two are 2007 models with 166,000 and 168,000 miles, officials say. The department wants to replace three and keep one as a reserve, the report notes.
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If the grant is, uhh, granted, the city would have to contribute $21,225, which would come from the 2023 budget, the report says. Last year, the department received two grants: $205,000 for a medial rescue vehicle and almost $44,000 for fitness equipment for each of its 11 stations.
In addition, the report says, city council approved a contract with The University of Alabama Health Services Foundation to provide a medical director for the fire department to review the department's emergency medical practices and protocols and provide training updates to staff.
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Brett Walker, a disillusioned artist from San Francisco, disappears into the remote rain forests of Costa Rica. Brett is attempting to salvage the values of his past, a time dedicated to doing right by others and nature. With help from Elexa, the strong-willed Costa Rican woman who takes his mind off Johni (his estranged girlfriend back home), and Marcos, a campesino who demonstrates the true meaning of friendship and sacrifice, Brett buys a large parcel of threatened rain forest. He proceeds to navigate unfamiliar geographic and emotional terrain as he defends his land against those eager to slaughter the ancient trees for profit. Had he known what awaited him in the forest—principally, Mono Feo, the local lumber mill owner who is prepared to use arson, machetes and witchcraft to gain control of Brett's land—he might never have left home.
After completing his studies in art and literature, Dale Carter traveled to the South Pacific, Indonesia, and India, taking photographs and writing articles along the way. Ultimately, he made his way to Costa Rica where he witnessed both the beauty, and destruction of the rain forests. In response, he wrote The Subtle Mysteries of Place, his first novel. His writing and photography has appeared in Earth Island Journal, Bali Now Magazine, Saddleback Magazine, Water Magazine, Star News, and Lumina News. Dale lives in Encinitas, California.


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+++Note from the authors: The bulk of research for this investigative report was conducted from December 2013 to April of 2014. New alliances/affiliations/stats that have since materialized may or may not be reflected at this time.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has highlighted a slowing of progress in poverty reduction in Latin America, citing "rising food costs and weaker economic growth" as contributing factors. UN economists based in Santiago reported that 164 million people, or 28% of the region's population, are still considered poor. That is nearly unchanged from 2012. Of those, 68 million of them are in extreme poverty – a poverty that most Americans cannot even begin to fathom.
Yet there are bright spots. ECLAC's "Social Panorama of Latin America" report (March 2014) notes that Venezuela and Ecuador led the region in decreasing poverty in 2012. The largest drop was in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, where poverty fell by 5.6% (from 29.5% to 23.9%) and extreme poverty by 2.0% (from 11.7% to 9.7%). In Ecuador, poverty was down by 3.1% (from 35.3% to 32.2%).
Yes – they are extracting oil. (Ecuador relies on oil for a third of its national budget.) Just like the Harper Government, the Obama Government and most all other states that are able.
Of course, the words militarism, imperialism and colonialism are not in the NGO dictionary. Nor is the word capitalism.
We need to keep reminding ourselves that it is the wealthy that created the climate crisis. It is the wealthy that perpetuate and propel the fossil fuel production/extraction economy.
Per capita (per person) emissions: Ecuador: 2.2 tonnes CO2 emissions per capita | Bolivia: 1.15 tonnes CO2 of emissions per capita | Venezuela: 6.30 tonnes CO2 emissions per capita | United States: 19.22 tonnes CO2 emissions per capita | Canada 16.60 tonnes CO2 emissions per capita | Congo: 0.3 tonnes CO2 emissions per capita.
As a further example, ALBA delivered relief aid for Syrian refugees in Lebanon (video below published on September 19, 2013), while Imperial states continue to destabilize the Middle East.
On April 19-22, 2010, following the failure of COP15 (where vulnerable states were grossly undermined), the State of Bolivia hosted The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth. A global gathering of civil society and governments gathered in Tiquipaya, just outside the city of Cochabamba. "Particularly notable was the large number of Indigenous people from throughout South and North America, who played leading roles in defining the meeting's environmental philosophy and drawing up a program for action. Morales urged the delegates to commit to learn and benefit from the wisdom of the world's indigenous peoples." [Source] Working Groups included a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth, a World People's Referendum on Climate Change, and the establishment of a Climate Justice Tribunal.
Two primary revolutionary declarations were achieved: The People's Agreement and the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth.
The People's Agreement was and remains the only democratically written climate agreement that actually could have addressed the magnitude and scale of our multiple ecological crises. Further, it came to be recognized by the United Nations, due in large part to the tenacity of a single person on behalf of a single state, Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations, Pablo Solón (from February 2009 to July 2011.) Today, somewhat ironically, Solón is the Executive Director of the NGO Focus on the Global South.
October 10, 2010 – Tianjin, China: "The proposals of the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth have been maintained and expanded upon in the new negotiating text on climate change that emerged from the last round of negotiations in Tianjin, China. Throughout the process in Tianjin, attempts were made to substitute the negotiating text, which contains the positions of all countries, with a text that would be limited to recognizing the principal elements of consensus for Cancun.
Reduce emissions by more than 50% for 2017.
Full respect for human rights and the rights of indigenous peoples and climate migrants.
Formation of an International Climate Justice Tribunal.
6% of GDP in developed countries to finance climate change actions in developing countries.
Lifting of barriers to intellectual property that facilitates technology transfer.
By the following year, although key issues of the People's Agreement were presented in the Durban negotiation text, (again due only to the work by the Ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the United Nations), [Dec 7, 2011] the People's Agreement, more and more was quietly being marginalized and buried by even the more legitimate climate justice groups. After Durban, the People's Agreement was displaced, in its entirety, by a gentle call for the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth.
Almost immediately following the success of the 2010 World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth of, a new alliance was created named the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, which created/assigned an executive committee. "Their intention was to explore ways to expand the concept of Rights of Nature as an idea whose time has come." [Source] This campaign is also referred to at times as The Rights of Mother Earth campaign.
A key founding partner was the heavily funded U.S. NGO, the Pachamama Alliance.
Thus, the ground-breaking declarations (The World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth of April 2010) were lifted out of the hands of the people – back into the hands of U.S. foundation management/ control.
The website for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (created on September 6, 2010) is registered to Thomas Linzey, founder of CELDF and advisor to the New Earth Foundation. On the CELDF website, one finds the World People's Conference on Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights – CELDF Draft Rights of Nature Ordinance, dated April 15, 2010.
In the December 2010 publication of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, it is reported, "In August of this year, the Legal Defense Fund co-convened an event hosted by Fundación Pachamama in rural Ecuador. Its purpose was to formalize an international organization which will advocate for legal frameworks that recognize legally enforceable rights for natural communities. The Legal Defense Fund was then selected as the organization which would provide drafting and campaign assistance to communities and nations following the lead of the over two dozen communities in the United States which have recognized rights for Nature, and the country of Ecuador, which has become the first country in the world to recognize natural rights within its constitution.
It is of interest to note that the Pachamama Alliance and its "sister organization," Fundación Pachamama, supported the inclusion of Rights of Nature in Ecuador's Constitution, and also endorsed the call for a World Conference of the Peoples regarding Climate Change and Mother Earth Rights. Further, despite the REDD partnerships on behalf of Pachamama Alliance and Foundation, as referenced in documents, the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (with Pachamama Alliance as founder) appears, on the surface, to be against any commodification of the commons. As an example: Tweet: "July 25, 2012: Rights of Nature – The Road to Rio+20 – http://t.co/vjyiVn7n.
It is of further interest that prior to both the formation of the Global Alliance for Rights of Nature (August 2010) and the World People's Conference (April 2010), the website Rights of Mother Earth was created on February 16, 2010. It is registered to Robin Milam, Administrative Director for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and a Pachamama Alliance Journey Leader.
Therefore, it is difficult to ascertain for what other reason Pachamama Alliance would co-found Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, other than to do what foundations do best: control, manage, shape and contain movements with revolutionary potential. Perhaps CELDF, in this case, is successfully contained for the most part, in a carefully supervised box – wondering why there is so little focus/awareness on this "movement." One thing is certain – there is very little interest in promoting this campaign.
In the real world, "likes" and "shares" offer no reprieve whatsoever to our ongoing and accelerating ecological devastation/collapse. However, what is significant in Twitter/social media is who/what organizations are chosen by NGOs and paid "activists" to "follow." This is especially significant in respect to the first Twitter accounts chosen (to follow) as these principal choices demonstrate clearly who and what ideologies they NGO/individual align themselves with. And although it is true that social media, despite the endless attention it receives, offers no stay of execution whatsoever to our ecological/climate crisis, in the world of the non-profit industrial complex, social media is of paramount importance – precisely because it has no true impact beyond 1) collecting intelligence (in all forms) for the world's most powerful advertising moguls, corporations and the establishment, providing an unprecedented wealth of information that previously was difficult and costly to obtain, and 2) building brand recognition (thereby increasing foundation funding). Thus, to demonstrate how there is no serious effort to promote Rights of Nature, the following information speaks a thousand words.
During 2013, this account was used for little more than one purpose: to promote "ecological tourism" via Pachamama "Journeys." [Rights of Nature – Amazon Rainforest Wisdom Immersion Journey Leader: Robin Milam… Cost: $3,475] As of December 19, 2013, one more tweet has been issued – a request for organizations to join Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in requesting the re-opening of Fundación Pachamama.
The address provided for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature is 2036 Nevada City Hwy #193 Grass Valley, California 95945.  Researching this address also leads one to The Greater Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce (128 East Main Street, Grass Valley CA 95945). Robin Milam is listed as the webmaster. Her business is listed as One World Awake, which shares the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature address.
The hypocrisy is rich (literally). Pachamama Alliance chides the Ecuadorian Government for drilling oil in the Yasuni, all while their ecotourism boutique/niche – catering to the lifestyles of the rich – is absolutely dependent upon the expansion of fossil fuels. Travel expenses as reported on Pachamama's Alliance's 990 form accounted for over a cool half million in 2011 ($592,557). Here, the irreconcilability of preserving capitalism with preserving the planet cannot be overstated.
When one observes the heavy hitters on the Runa Foundation Board of Advisors, it is certain that many are betting on this company being acquired by Pepsi or Coca-Cola in the not-so-distant future for the tune of hundreds of millions. Most recently Coca-Cola swallowed up the majority of "Innocent" Drinks for an estimated £100m. ["The three Cambridge graduates who launched Innocent Smoothies have sold the bulk of their remaining shares to Coca-Cola for an estimated £100m – 15 years after dreaming up the idea for the healthy drinks company on a snowboarding holiday." Financial Times, February 22, 2013] The Runa Foundation Advisors include Yolanda Kakabadse, president of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) since 2010, Trustee of the Ford Foundation, President of International Union for Conservation of Nature (1996-2004); Ann Veneman, Executive Director of UNICEF (2005-2010, US Secretary of Agriculture (2001-2005), named 46th most powerful woman by Forbes in 2009; Doug Hattaway, president of Hattaway Communication since 2001, Senior Communications Adviser for Hilary Clinton (2008); Michael Conroy, Board Chair of Forest Stewardship Council since 2010, Board Chair of Fair Trade USA (2003-2010; Jacob Olander, Director of Forest Trends' Incubator since 2008, Co-founder of EcoDecisión since 1995, Expert in conservation finance and payments for ecosystem services; Florencia Montagnini, professor of Tropical Forestry at Yale University since 2001, research advisor to the Smithsonian Institute's PRORENA program since 2001, expert in tropical forestry and agroforesty systems.
Yet this is not true. In reality, drawing more people into a suicidal system based on perpetual infinite growth is anything but sustainable. ["Never has failure been so ardently defended as success." — Voltaire's Bastards] Further, as this corporation grows (the sole purpose of the venture), the introduction of Western identities ensures the introduction of Western values into the Ecuadorian Amazon – ensuring the erosion of culture and identity. The erosion may be slow and subtle, yet it is inevitable, as Western culture has always ensured.
To seek out Earth's last remaining peoples who are the pure epitome of true sustainability, and then introduce them to capitalism and build a dependence upon the capitalist economic system under the guise of "local entrepreneurial spirit" is paternalism and exploitation at its best. Any venture that cannot sustain itself in a local economy, sustained by local resources, contributes to further annihilation of the planet, regardless of the sophisticated language/marketing that delivers nothing more than what we wish were true.
Runa founders Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie met in an entrepreneurship class at Brown University. Together, they put together a business plan that would "turn Ecuador's cultural heritage into an income generating opportunity for farming families." They launched the business in December of 2009.
Bear the farmers' earnings (above) in mind when, in a nod to history continuing to repeat itself, Coca-Cola buys up the majority of Runa for a cool £100m or so in the not too distant future. Runa foundation advisor Yolanda Kakabadse, of WWF, just happens to also be a member of the Environmental Advisory Board of CocaCola.
One NGO that was "very impressed" by the Runa model was Fundación Natura. As a result, an alliance was formed between them to develop an "agroforestry" project to "domesticate" the guayusa plant – a crop which has never been technically managed.
Fundación Natura (Nature Foundation) is Ecuador's first environmental NGO. Founded in 1978, Fundación Natura grew rapidly due to large USAID grants and money derived from debt-for-nature swaps engineered by WWF (Meyer 1993; Echavarria 2010). [Source] These swaps had an important effect: they contributed to shifting responsibility away from the government to private organizations by channelling funding via domestic (though foreign funded/controlled) NGOs rather than through the government agency in charge of managing protected areas. [Source: Globalization and Resistance: Transnational Dimensions of Social Movements, 2002] This strategy of foreign interests bypassing government is compelling considering the fact that USAID would like to see NGOs given legal recognition (further discussed in the final three paragraphs).
The traditional Kichwa  farm in Ecuador is called a chakra. The chakra farming technique involves integrating food crops (or animals) into the trees of the forest. As an example, cacao trees are grown among other fruit trees and crops under the shade of a forest – simultaneously tending to the land for more than one purpose. Chakras have been farmed sustainably for centuries.
The term "agroforestry" was coined in the mid-1970s as part of a research study led by John Bene of Canada's International Development Research Centre.
Agroforestry could be described as the West "modifying" / emulating the traditional chakra to accommodate their own worldview via a Euro-American lens. Agroforestry systems often involve clearing vital underbrush to plant new crops as well as the cutting of trees. Selected trees are then replanted to provide firewood, food, medicine, and other non-timber forest products (that will benefit the West) – such as Runa's guayusa. We can also safely assume genetically engineered trees are part of many agroforestry projects. Indeed, the paper "Genetic Improvement of Agroforestry Trees" was presented at the 2014 IUFRO Forest Tree Breeding Conference in Prague, Czech Republic in August 2014. In 1991 it was noted that "the initial euphoria about agroforestry has died down…" but just two decades later with "climate wealth opportunities" abounding, the push for agroforestry is making a comeback.
Agricultural schemes (with development programs/training provided by those in the West) are intended to "consolidate and replicate the production system of ancestral chakras, fish farming, sustainable tourism, safety and food sovereignty-oriented marketing." [Source] But behind closed doors, it is without doubt the promise of the lucrative carbon market that has industry and the non-profit industrial complex salivating.
Not surprising, the agroforestry model is anything but a perfect reproduction of the forest in its natural state. A study by Matthias De Beenhouwer, Raf Aerts and Olivier Honnay discloses that when a natural forest is converted into an agroforest, the total species richness declines by eleven percent. For forest species, the differences were larger, with a decline of 35% (natural forest to agroforest). Faring worse are the ecosystem services* (water filtration, nutrient rich soil, and other services that the forest ecosystems naturally provide). Management intensification decreased provision of ecosystem services by a strong decline of 37%. (*Note that the research of quantitative carbon sequestration was not included in this study under ecosystem services).
The study is clear: anthropogenic disturbance jeopardizes the ability of tropical forests to sustain ecosystem services.
The loss of species, in tandem with the decline of species richness and ecosystem services in a world of accelerating ecological collapse must be considered critical losses. It is reckless to market agroforests as intelligent/progressive substitutes for rainforests in their natural state.
However, the NPIC, working hand-in-hand with foreign corporations such as Runa, use the above study to argue that even though agroforests incur critical and significant losses, and there is no replacement for a rainforest in its natural state, agroforestry is less damaging than plantation/monoculture agriculture.
How kind of the empire, its banks and its tentacles (the non-profit industrial complex) to develop systems that are moderately less damaging than a full conversion to monoculture. Let us be clear: just as "less cancer" is still cancer, "less species loss" is still species loss, "less ecosystem damage" is still ecosystem damage. In less than one year during their first year of operations, Runa planted over 75,000 trees in more than 120 hectares of agroforesty plots.
"Runa provides direct market access, agroforestry training, and holistic development services to Amazonian farming families." One must seriously question what the white Euro-American could possibly offer to the Amazonians in regard to holistic development and growing food in their forests.
To be clear, this leaf (the guayusa), rich in ethnic mystique, "packaged" with deep culture by the Indigenous people (to be branded/marketed to those in a commodity culture – devoid of meaning) IS the product. Yet, as sales increase (exponentially, which is the goal), the actual percentage of revenue to the farmers will decline.
Of interest is Eliot Logan-Hines, listed as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Runa Foundation. Logan-Hines attended Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. He went on to co-author Chapter 18 (REDD policy options: Including forests in an international climate change agreement) of the 2009 publication Forests and Carbon: A Synthesis of Science, Management, and Policy for Carbon Sequestration in Forests.
Of course the future Guayusa plantations will be made to sound brimming with biodiversity with a focus on environmental stewardship. In some instances, perhaps they will be. Both credibility and legitimacy are always essential elements for all such altruistic business ventures. And in many instances, where the growth is not dependent upon the actual and visible destruction of the forest (such as logging), the preservation of biodiversity costs the investors nothing while increasing their legitimacy.
One can argue that there must be increased farmer income, and with such "green" politically correct ventures as Runa's, this can happen alongside the restoration of the Amazon. Yet, drunk on the idea of a "green economy," there appears to be a collective amnesia in acknowledging that the sole reason the Amazon is being obliterated in the first place is due to the industrialized capitalist economy. We ignore Einstein's common sense observation on what constitutes insanity: "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Capitalism dictates that whatever must be done to ensure green – as in dollars, not planet – must be done. It is essential that poverty (created by the industrialized capitalist system) be alleviated and eradicated throughout Latin America. Unfortunately, Western industrial capitalists believe this massive undertaking can only be realized within the confines of an industrialized capitalist system, which depends on exploitation of the World's most vulnerable, essentially making this daunting task impossible.
True "philanthropy" would be an anonymous gift to communities to develop/create their own localized gift economies and co-operatives – entirely free of outside influence and "partnerships" – with absolutely nothing in return to the "philanthropist" nor his/her associated interests. This would be a true demonstration of sincerity in the long-awaited task "to break a long history of paternalism and exploitation that has negatively impacted these communities." Of course, true autonomy for non-whites is of no interest to today's "green" and "social" capitalists.
"It's more fulfilling, more sustainable, more exciting, and more participatory," said the founders in regards to the company operating a triple bottom line.
Yet, if there is any silver lining to be found in this latest version of "white saviours empowering Ecuadorean farmers," it is this: Runa received a $500,000 (USD) equity investment from the CreEcuador Fund – an initiative of the current Ecuador government. "The Build Ecuador Fund (CreEcuador) plans to cash out its investments in Runa in roughly 6 years, in order to use its earnings to make additional investments in sustainable businesses. However, rather than selling shares to a private investor, the fund's vision is to sell shares to Runa employees and the farmers. [Source: Social Enterprise in Emerging Market Countries: No Free Ride, 2013] Yet whether farmers will be able to afford these shares remains to be seen.
Surely whites "teaching" Indigenous populations how to engage in internet "knowledge" as identified and deemed necessary by Western interests (in this image above, note the obvious emphasis on Facebook "education" by an unidentified NGO) is just another example of forcing our suicidal economy, hyper-individualized/commodity culture, and "democratic" "values" on others (who up to that point were fortunate enough to be relatively free of them). As parents, we cannot deny an intense anxiety that questions the psychological impact, effects, conditioning and behavioural change resulting from the consumption/addiction of FaceBook and other social media upon our children. The anxiety weighs heavy, like a rock, as we simultaneously deny and justify our own participation. And yet we raise no objection to those most exploited, most vulnerable, being subjugated as corporate fodder and prey. We close our eyes to the sacrifice – the voracious system must be fed.
This is not to say that the protection of Indigenous rights in the Information Age and the right of Indigenous Peoples to access information and communication technology services and connectivity are not to be respected, Rather it is to challenge the fact that the dominant world view is deliberately constructed by Western ideology, which then is propagated via corporate mass-media echo chambers (internet, print, radio, television, film) – thereby framing, shaping and normalizing predetermined social and cultural concepts that constitute the status quo. Not only is the ingestion of controlled doctrine unhealthy, these ideologies/formal doctrines, conceptualized by the elites, serve to protect the interests of hegemony.  And although we like to convince ourselves that internet technology has been a massive success, as we stand on the precipice of planetary collapse, one could quite easily argue that this "success" is illusory, and perhaps the truth is in stark contrast to what we would like to believe in more ways than one. In the lecture "The Limits of the Web in an Age of Communicative Capitalism," Jodi Dean makes the sound argument that the web has formed part of a profoundly depoliticizing shift in capitalism, which has enabled the marriage of neoliberalism to the democratic values of participation and the reduction of politics to the registration of opinions and the transmission of feelings.
Moreover, upon any formerly isolated person's introduction to the web, having no prior scope or alternate influence outside of the non-profit trainee/volunteer from the West, how can one not be overwhelmed and ultimately absorbed by the elites' dominant cultural hegemony? Aside from paternalism and colonialism, this also constitutes a rabid academic imperialism.
Image: Pachamama website: "iPads Offer a Link for Far-flung Communities" – Westernized education, religion, business values and technology, built upon Western ideologies, globalization and capitalism, continue to penetrate and expand throughout the Achuar communities.
CEKSA is the corporation that manages the award-winning Kapawi Ecolodge.
Aerotsentsak is the only Achuar-owned airline flying to Achuar territory.
It is critical to question the wisdom (and perhaps also the sincerity) of creating an industry that is completely dependent on fossil fuels – and the capitalist system itself (a system dependent upon infinite growth where violence upon Earth's most vulnerable peoples and life forms is inherently built into the system) – and then calling it sustainable. Not to mention, it's an industry that rather than catering to the needs of a localized economy and her people, is dependent upon the 1% percent of the world who created/create 50% of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
In 2007, the partnership between Makusar, Fundación Pachamama, TrekEcuador, and Mentefactura presented a successful project profile to the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB).) In May 2010 the Tiinkias Ecotourism Center (TEC) received its first visitors group: a 16-member tour from The Pachamama Alliance, in what could be considered a scouting trip to an eco camp that was still missing several components and finishing touches. In January 2011 the TEC started welcoming periodic groups, and received about 100 visitors, which more than doubled in 2012 and is slowly and steadily growing. The TEC also started combining its adventures with visits to Kapawi Ecolodge.
Yet, vital critique regarding the underlying ethnocentric and capitalist standards for initiating, managing and evaluating such "sustainable" developments appears to be of little to no interest – to anyone. Like the warm golden sun, beautiful and intoxicating as it shines upon our skin, collectively we bask in the lies that allow us to continue insanity without reflection – uninterrupted. The embraced ignorance, like the warmth of the sun, is luxurious.
Dialogue about the inevitable consequences of neoliberal and capitalist ideologies that are being woven strategically into the fabric of Indigenous communities is, almost without exception, deliberately evaded. Rather, the Indigenous communities are presented to the world as the latest beneficiaries of Western development. The West is viewed as the generous white saviour, which by default, assigns the Indigenous peoples (again) to the role of passive "objects" to be saved. To avoid the label of modern-day, full-blown colonists, foundations (via NGOs) and private institutions created the ultimate altruistic image by offering engagement and even full partnerships to selected communities. This would lend much legitimacy to those who deserved none.
Not of interest is the fact that evaluations of management and "success" would/will be observed through, almost exclusively, the eyes of the Euro-American. Zoning, consulting, advertising, and other constructs of the Western world will be deemed as the "correct" path to success, with "success" defined by Western standards (i.e., profit and Western constructs/ideologies). What is lost in this unabashed bravado, buried just beneath the beloved rhetoric of autonomy, diversity and democracy, is that no foreign outsider possesses the intimate knowledge of both land and culture that is imperative to any so-called success in the competitive field of ecotourism.
It is a rare instance when the capitalist encounters something he must possess, but which cannot be purchased. Although the white saviours could now (and still do) bask in the newly appointed cloth of generosity, the reality was (and remains) that the knowledge required to exploit these pristine lands for tourism (i.e., for profit) could not be obtained without the generosity of the Indigenous Peoples of those lands. By framing the foreigners as the saviours, private enterprise would capture rewards of access to land and forests, resources, knowledge and (essentially) free labour – a free-market capitalist's paradise. NGOs, par excellence, fulfilled their highly financed role of expanding neoliberalism and Western ideologies.
The multi-million dollar ecotourism projects ("social experiments") normalized the hierarchies established under colonialism by obscuring the capitalist agenda behind the rhetoric of "community-based tourism" projects. Concealed was the role of economic processes that shape and mold the boundaries between Nature, the market, corporate power and state. Facilitated by the non-profit industrial complex was the task of privatization and marketing of state-society relations behind the concept of the (neoliberal) conservation mode of production. All roads lead to the commodification of Nature, culture, spirituality, and even fantasy. Even symbolism must be considered symbolic capital.
The same USAID document goes one step further, suggesting that NGOs should be given legal recognition "as an important element in the development of sustainable community development as associated with ecotourism." The fact that elite interests would like to see NGOs granted legal recognition (this means protection) reveals how critical, and understood, NGO involvement actually is for the further expansion of neoliberalism and US foreign policy.
 Update January 9, 2015: The Rights of Nature FB group now has 1,205 members. The Pachamama Alliance FB page now has 112,460 "likes." The Rights of Nature Twitter account now has a total of 126 tweets and 118 followers.
 Update January 9, 2015: The Rights of Nature Twitter account now follows 41 individuals/orgs.
 The largest of the many indigenous populations who have resided in the Amazon for centuries.


It's been some time since a news update! 2019 is going to be a busy year.
2018 was an important year for solidifying the project goals. In this coming year I intend to focus on hero balance and item tables significantly. There are a few units that are under-performing so I'll be looking as those as well. The most significant task though will be to stabilize the mod in preparation for Reforged. There are more than a few code optimizations to be made particularly around the more advanced spells.
For those of you following my project I'd like to thank you for sticking with me. I've been working on this for ~16 years and I don't see the creative train stopping.


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The Walking Dead season 8: Stuntman John Bernecker injured, production halted
The Walking Dead July 14, 2017
There's some sad news breaking when it comes to The Walking Dead season 8, as a stuntman injury has led to halt in production.
AMC confirmed the news with a statement today that largely speaks for itself:
"We are saddened to report that John Bernecker, a talented stuntman for The Walking Dead and numerous other television shows and films, suffered serious injuries from a tragic accident on set. He was immediately transported to an Atlanta hospital and we have temporarily shut down production. We are keeping John and his family in our thoughts and prayers."
Bernecker is a veteran stuntman, having worked on a number of different productions including Black Panther, The Vampire Diaries, Scream Queens, and more. This is obviously the last thing that you ever want to see happen on a production: There are high stakes and dangerous stunts, but everyone does their best to ensure that it is ultimately a safe environment for everyone involved. Halting the production for the time being does feel like the right move, given that the ultimate goal here should be safety for everyone involved from the cast to the crew to any productions or extras who are in Atlanta.
One of the first cast members to speak out about the news was Lauren Cohan, who had the following to say on Twitter:
Dear Walking Dead Family, please keep John Bernecker, our stuntman and his family in your prayers today. ❤
— Lauren Cohan (@LaurenCohan) July 13, 2017
A spokesperson for the SAG-AFTRA union, meanwhile, added the following:
"We have been informed of a serious injury to a SAG-AFTRA member on the set of The Walking Dead and are investigating the situation. As always, the safety and security of our members and others on set is of crucial concern to us and we are focused on this in our investigation. Our thoughts and prayers are with the performer and his family."
Hopefully, Bernecker will pull through and filming will be able to resume before long. Our thoughts go out to him and his family. At the moment, season 8 of The Walking Dead will premiere on AMC this fall, and Comic-Con featuring the cast next week is currently still expected to go on as planned.
When there is some further news when it comes to this situation, we will have it for you here. There are varying reports on his condition, and we want to wait for official word before confirming further. (Photo: AMC.)


Indian Express – Suresh Raina celebrates with Hardik Pandya during ICC T20 World cup match against Pakistan at Eden Garden in Kolkata.
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