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Q: How to update values in RecyclerView on onResume()? I'm designing a news app in which I'm showing the news articles in a recyclerView. Now on clicking a news article I want to change its background color to indicate that the news item has been read.
For this, first I update a status field corresponding to the news article in my Firebase Database when the news is read. Then I check the value of this field in my recycler Adapter and change the background if the status is changed.
However since the adapter of the recyclerView is defined in the onCreateView of the fragment, the change does not take place immediately when I press the back button. Rather the changes occur when reopen the app since the onCreateView is called that time. So how do I update the adapter in onResume of the fragment and update  the recyclerView accordingly?

A: Override the onResume method and call notifyDataSetChanged:
@Override
public void onResume() {
    super.onResume();
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

In Kotlin:
override fun onResume() {
    super.onResume()
    adapter.notifyDataSetChanged()
}

A: Initialize and set adapter from oncreateview();
Then you only need to update adapter data and call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged(); form your onResume();
@Override
  protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  YourAdapter adapter = new YourAdapter(listofdata);
  yourRecycleView.setAdapter(adapter);
 }

@Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
listofdata.clear();  //Reset before update adapter to avoid duplication of list
//update listofdata
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

A:
add your codes to update data and notify Adapter

 @Override
public void onResume() {
super.onResume();
/// code to update data then notify Adapter
adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
}

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May I interest you in a great selection of Lebanese red wines?
My love story with wine started when my parents used to tour small grocery shops in Lebanon during the civil war and collect old, unsold wine bottles. I was always fascinated by the nobleness of wine and couldn't wait to taste it and understand the mysteries behind it. Back in the day, there were only a few wineries in Lebanon that people knew of, but as the years went by, the number of wineries grew and we finally had a good variety of Lebanese wines to choose from.
The real passion began when I started touring these new wineries and discovering wines that were generally not found in supermarkets or in alcohol stores across Lebanon. The more wines I tried, the more refined my taste and my palate grew. Today, although I am still constantly trying new wines, I have gotten accustomed to some wines that you will always find in my cellar.
Now that the wine season is upon us, I have decided to share with you the list of my favorite red wines. This way, you can try new wines that usually come from small, boutique wineries and that are an absolute delight. They're not in any specific order, although some are more interesting than others. Mind you, I am in no means a wine expert, but let me put it this way – I simply know my wine :).
Although wine tastes, flavors and aromas change every year depending on weather conditions, harvesting, soil, irrigation and other factors, the above wines have kept a constant quality through the years, so feel free to enjoy the vintage you want.
A follow-up post with Lebanon's finest white and rosé wines?


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Format reviewed: Sega Genesis/Mega Drive
Submitted by: Ryan McNeilly
Kid Chameleon was amongst one of the first games I owned for the Mega Drive.
Released in 1992, Kid Chameleon's story is based on the arrival of a virtual reality arcade game called "Wildside" which shows up at a video arcade. All the kids who play the game disappeared, because they could not defeat the game. Enter Casey, a little lad who wears jeans and a leather jacket, who calls himeself "Kid Chameleon". If I called myself Kid Chameleon when I was a youngster, I think I would have got my ass kicked on a daily basis, by bullies and my parents.
Anyway, Casey is such a great gamer (he pwns so many n00bs) that he reckons he can beat "Wildside" and save the kids who got sucked into the game.
The game lets you play as Kid Chameleon as you work your way through a standard platforming affair. Kid can get new powers by collecting helmets found by smashing bricks through the game (sound familiar?). This is the real draw of the game, as there is 9 different helmets to find in the game. These include a Samurai helmet which gives you a sword to slice bad guys with and A fly mask that makes you smaller and allows you to stick to walls. My personal favourite is the "Juggernaut" helmet which turns Kid Chameleon into a tank that shoots skulls! There is also a mask based on the Jason Voorhees character called "Maniaxe".
Kid Chameleon was fun to play because of the gimmick of changing powers throughout the game. Going back to the game today on the Mega Drive is fun, but it also struggles to hold your attention. Once you have played around using all the different helmets, the game becomes a little repetitive. The music is a little drab too. You could complete Kid Chameleon in one sitting, but do you have the patience to do so when you could be playing other games?
Kid Chameleon found some popularity amongst Sega fans during his tenure on the Mega Drive. He was featured in a "Sonic The Comic" mini-series which ended up unfinished. Kid Chameleon also has a nostalgic quality with early owners of the Mega Drive.
Not a bad game at all, plenty of power-ups and secrets to discover with said power-ups. It's just a little too repetitive.

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Fr. Ray Powell comes to St. Thomas after spending the past two years as the pastor of three parishes in three different counties in the northwestern part of our diocese (OLPH in La Follette, Christ the King in Tazewell, and St. Jude in Helenwood).
Fr. Ray was born and raised in east-central Iowa where he spent most of his life. He is a graduate of The University of Iowa with a Computer Science degree, and worked for 20 years as a Software Engineer and Systems Analyst.
In 2004, at the age of 39, he completed RCIA and converted to Catholicism. Then in 2005, he moved to Chattanooga to be closer to his two older brothers and their families. While living in Chattanooga, he was called to the priesthood and in 2010 was accepted as a seminarian for the Diocese of Knoxville. Fr. Ray spent five years of priestly formation at Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, completing his formation and theological studies in May 2015. He was ordained on June 27, 2015, and spent the first year of his priestly ministry as a Pastoral Associate at OLPH in Chattanooga.


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Head of Responsible Gaming Maris Catania leaves Kindred Group after 13 years
Ester Scheepers will replace her in the role.
Maris Catania will leave iGaming firm Kindred Group after 13 years to embark on a consultancy journey within the area, she announced on Wednesday.
Ms Catania started off as a Risk and Fraud Analyst at the company, before she worked her way up its responsible gaming team to become Head of Responsible Gaming and Research, a position she has been entrusted with for over three years. During her time there, she started an innovative detection tool, known as Player Safety – Early Detection System (PS-EDS), which allowed the company to benefit commercially and in terms of addressing Corporate Social Responsibility.
"13 years ago I joined Kindred Group, and looking back I cannot believe what a rollercoaster it has been," she said.
"I have seen responsible gaming go from a non-existent necessary evil to an area on the top of the agenda for many, although more work is always needed on the topic," Ms Catania added.
She remarked that she will "always be grateful" for Kindred and "all the opportunities" they have given her, before adding that she will still work with the company to continue on a number of projects, especially research ones.
"I just feel that after all these years, I want to expand my knowledge to other areas and hopefully help others through responsible gaming research and initiatives," Ms Catania continued.
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While leaving the company has been a "whirlwind of emotions" for her, the news that Esther Scheepers will take her place makes her feel "reassured that Kindred is in the right hands".
"I am super happy for her and have no doubt that she will excel in this," Ms Catania concluded.
Ms Catania holds a Master of Science in Occupational Psychology from University of Leicester, Bachelor of Psychology (Hons) from University of Malta, and a Diploma in Gambling Addiction Counselling from Systematic Training and Trading Limited. She is also completing her PhD with a focus on analysing early signs of online problem gambling, responsible gaming tools, and responsible gaming promotion.
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Home Health Company with no Experience in Ventilators got 373 crores from PM Cares...
Company with no Experience in Ventilators got 373 crores from PM Cares to Make 10,000 Ventilators
It has been recently discovered that Trivitron Healthcare started designing the ventilator and procuring the components after getting the contract from PM Cares.
Trivitron Healthcare, a 23-year old Chennai-based medical technology company, got orders from the government in early April to make 7000 'basic' and 3000 'advanced' ventilators with all costs incurred by the PM Cares fund. But at the time of getting the order, neither basic nor the advanced ventilator models by Trivitron existed – not even as a working prototype. The total value of this order stands at Rs. 373 crores, as per a simple cost per unit calculation, along with GST. The 'basic' model was priced at Rs. 1, 66,376 and the 'advanced' model cost Rs. 8,56,800.
All the information was achieved by the RTI filed by transparency activist, Venkatesh Nayak. The prices of these models, at the time of development, solely quoted according to the price of the competitors. However, the tender issued by HLL Lifecare, a public sector enterprise that has been looking after the COVID-19 needs for the Narendra Modi government, does not mention any provisions for two ventilator types with such a huge price gap. Also, the orders did not come to Trivitron from HLL, but from an Andhra Pradesh-based enterprise, Medtech Zone (AMTZ). In an interview given to the HuffPost, Trivitron revealed that HLL gave AMTZ the order for 13,500 ventilators and AMTZ gave 10,000 of those to Trivitron. Five months later, as the companies struggle to fulfill the orders; the contracting process between these three companies is in shambles.
No dispatch from Trivitron
The co-CEO of Trivitron, Satyaki Banerjee says, "Immediately after we received the order, we started the process of procuring the components and simultaneously designing a ventilator to meet specs given by HLL. Despite huge exposure of our investments into this project, we have no certainty of supplies, despite following everything which was mentioned in our P.O. given by AMTZ endorsed by HLL."
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According to them, they worked with efficient cost and effort amidst the pandemic, but they have yet not received any dispatch orders from HLL. As a result, Trivitron has not delivered even a single ventilator of this contract. Banerjee wrote in his mail, "We do hope better sense prevails and a fair and transparent procedure is followed by the Tendering authority and DGHS [Directorate General of Health Services], and they fulfill the purchase order given to us."
Confusion from the first stage
After communicating with a number of ventilator manufacturers who got these contracts from HLL, it was found that there has been confusion since the very beginning. Nayak of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative says, "In the RTI response, HLL did not provide specific queries related to the formation of technical committees, quantities of ventilators which failed to perform or did not meet technical specifications, and details of hospitals where ventilators were supplied. Several of these companies do not have a well-established track record of manufacturing crucial medical supplies to be used in critical patients. Withholding such crucial information is problematic."
Confusion with the prices at which HLL was buying the ventilators also surfaced. Between, March 27 to April 17, they agreed to pay Rs. 1.67 lakh to Rs. 15.34 lakh per unit for 28,963 ventilators by AgVa and Elisa 600 by BPL. The manufacturer said, "These details were not put in the public domain, but shared on a need to know basis. There was no such differentiation at the specification level. But later on, based on some unknown criteria, HLL categorized some machines as 'advanced' and some as 'basic'."
The constant shift in timelines
Along with confusion and the prices, HLL capped shifting the timelines and initially said that they needed the ventilators by June 30. For this reason, many companies placed a smaller bid keeping the deadline in mind. However, the deadline was subsequently relaxed and similarly, delivery dates were also being pushed in the absence of a dispatch order for the thousands of ventilators that the Modi government had ordered. Now that the companies are ready with the orders, they are waiting for the government to purchase these ventilators from them, but there is no response.
Banerjee from Trivitron said in an interview, "Our dilemma is that we received an order, invested a whole lot of money and efforts in developing a ventilator, and we want to supply them at a time when it's really meaningful. The number of Covid-19 cases in India is rising every day, and we are ready to supply ventilators. All we need is a supply schedule."
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This strange case of how a company which has never made a ventilator before got a government tender and is still waiting to receive delivery dispatch is a grant example of the misguided attempt of the Modi government to procure 58,850 ventilators by spending over Rs. 2000 crores.
Riddled with anomalies, along with no public audit of the PM Cares fund, the entire donation amount seems to indicate a major scam of this decade.
As other ventilator manufacturers who got the contract from HLL also face the same issues, the credibility of the government and its trusted enterprises comes in question as well.
If the government has no control over how their contracts are fulfilled by the enterprises that get the orders, then the smaller companies will continue being exploited.
Immediate action must be taken to take the ventilators from the companies as per the contract, but one must not forget that this is the same government which allowed a company to make ventilators that had no experience in it at all.
There must be some regulations laid to guide the competency of each company for procuring medical gadgets.
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Smith: Enjoying Alaska's Alagnak River, one of the planet's last, best strongholds for salmon
But make no mistake: The future of salmon is in doubt, even here, where a large mine has been proposed and climatic or ecosystem changes could prove devastating.
Smith: Enjoying Alaska's Alagnak River, one of the planet's last, best strongholds for salmon But make no mistake: The future of salmon is in doubt, even here, where a large mine has been proposed and climatic or ecosystem changes could prove devastating. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2MTzN2D
Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 1:15 p.m. CT Sept. 22, 2018 | Updated 9:15 p.m. CT Sept. 22, 2018
Dave Zeug of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, reels in a chum salmon while fishing on the Alagnak River in Alaska.(Photo: Paul A. Smith)Buy Photo
ALAGNAK RIVER, ALASKA - As our jon boat ground to a stop on an island in the Alagnak River, a 10-pound silver salmon leaped out of the water.
The fish was close enough that small spots, probably sea lice, could be seen on its lower flank.
Moments later, a similar-sized chum salmon also jumped. Ten seconds passed and another silver porpoised midstream.
"I guess there's a couple in here," said Glen Lemon, a fishing guide for Alagnak Lodge, as a wry smile creased his face.
The actual number of fish – all within casting distance – was likely closer to several dozen.
That's the way things go in Alaska. The landscape is so vast, the terrain so wild, the resources so abundant that those who live or work here are prone to understatement.
Whatever the number, the splashy welcoming party was much appreciated by Dave Zeug of Shell Lake, Wisconsin, and me.
We clambered out of the boat and grabbed fly rods, ready to pull a few fish in for even closer inspection. As we did, we spotted another sign of the area's plentiful wildlife stamped into the sandy shore – the tracks of a brown bear.
An fly rod rests next to a brown bear track in the sand along the Alagnak River. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
In this part of the world, anglers don't have to look far to know they're not at the top of the food chain.
It's part of the allure and excitement of Alaska.
And here, in the waters that drain into Bristol Bay, the bruins and human anglers and dozens of other species are drawn together by the undisputed MVP of the ecosystem: salmon.
In a spectacular phenomenon of nature, adult salmon return to their natal streams to spawn and die. Their progeny hatch, go to sea and return years later to seed the next generation. And so on, as it has for millennia, without any assist from humans.
That is, if the system isn't disrupted. And the young find enough to eat. And enough of them survive to maturity. And enough are allowed to return to spawn.
In the 21st century, the salmon need humans help to not mess things up.
Over the last several hundred years, wild salmon have provided one of nature's most beautiful examples of sustainability. It's still on display in a select, though declining, number of places.
There is no better spot on the planet to experience a salmon run than Alaska's Bristol Bay. The region hosts the largest sockeye (red) salmon migration in the world, as well as runs of chinook (king), silver (coho), chum (dog) and pink (humpback).
The Bristol Bay salmon fishery has an annual economic value of $1.5 billion, according to a University of Alaska-Anchorage study, and is tapped by commercial boats, subsistence fishers, recreational anglers and the tourism sector.
And that staggering total doesn't even consider the ecological treasure salmon bring to the region.
As climatic and oceanographic conditions have changed in recent years, awareness of the high and arguably irreplaceable value of Bristol Bay's salmon fishery has increased as salmon runs in other parts of Alaska, as well as British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, have declined.
Dave Zeug fights a chum salmon while fishing on the Alagnak River near King Salmon, Alaska. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
Because no hatchery fish are raised or released in the watershed, Bristol Bay's salmon populations are entirely wild.
In late August, I traveled with Zeug, 68, and three generations of the Moss family – Bruce, 71, of Spooner, Wisconsin, his son John, 50, and grandson Cormac, 14, both of Eau Claire, Wisconsin – to fish salmon on the Alagnak.
We stayed at Alagnak Lodge, positioned on a high bank about six miles from the river's confluence with the Kvichak River, and about 10 from the Pacific Ocean.
Designated a Wild and Scenic River by the federal government, the Alagnak is one of dozens of untamed rivers in the area that form fertile spawning grounds for salmon. It's also home to rainbow trout, Arctic grayling and Dolly Varden.
The Alagnak is somewhat rare in that it hosts runs of all five Pacific Ocean salmon.
The river begins as the outflow of Kukaklek Lake in Katmai National Park and Preserve in the Aleutian Range; its total length is 64 miles.
According to the National Park Service, in the local language Alagnak means "making mistakes," perhaps a reference to the river's dynamic, branching nature.
But Native American Placenames of the United States associates the river's name with the Yupik word alagnaq, a type of red berry.
Both derivations seem plausible. The upper river is intricately braided. And the squat, nearshore vegetation along its lower stretches was peppered with cranberries and other wild fruits.
How does a group of Wisconsinites find its way to a remote Alaska fishing lodge? In our case it was due to Bruce Moss, who had been on the Alagnak three times, starting with a 2001 float, camp and fish trip down the river on a raft with two companions.
He returned twice more in recent years, staying both times at Alagnak Lodge.
"To me, the fishing has always been near perfect," Moss said. "You don't catch a fish on every cast, which can be boring. But if you work at it, you'll catch plenty, and a 10-pound salmon on a fly rod is a real treat."
When Zeug earlier this year pitched the idea for an Alaskan fishing trip, it didn't take much convincing for the five of us to agree to go to Alagnak.
Our trip spanned Aug. 19 to 26 and included five days of fishing, and our timing coincided with strong runs of silver and chum and a moderate run of pinks.
A float plane arrives at the dock at Alagnak Lodge on the Alagnak River in Alaska. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
Built in 1980, the lodge is a two-story, dormitory style building, with room for 20 guests.
The first level features a dining room, kitchen, shower rooms, a fly tying bench and a social parlor. Guest rooms are on the second floor.
Several outbuildings, including a sauna "hot lodge" and a smokehouse, are scattered on the property. A motorized lift, powered by an old Jeep engine, is used to pull luggage and other gear up "Mount Alagnak," the 48-step incline from the lodge's dock to the top of the bank.
The ambiance is family-style and unpretentious. The guests and guides gather for three meals a day and often develop long-term friendships, said lodge owner Tony Behm, 75.
A case in point was provided during our stay by Neal Peters of Long Beach, California, and John Plumb of Norfolk, England. The two met at Alagnak 12 years ago and now plan their annual returns to the lodge during the same week so they can fish together.
Peters fishes from the stern with a switch rod and Plumb from the bow with a conventional one-handed rod.
They prefer to come in mid- or late August when the silver run is peaking.
"You get one on the line and it jumps and you just think 'wow,'" Plumb said.
It's a challenge to reach most destinations in the 49th state. Even Juneau, the state capital, can be accessed only by boat or aircraft.
To get to Alagnak Lodge from Milwaukee required four flights, the last on a float plane.
The only mammals that arrive here by any other means are four-legged.
A brown bear eats a salmon in the Alagnak River in Alaska. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
And there are plenty of them. We saw brown bears daily, as well as beavers and a few moose. One evening, we saw a gray wolf along the river. Caribou winter in the area.
A brown bear sow and cub were frequent sights near the lodge. One day they left muddy paw prints on the dock.
"I've only got one rule," said Lemon, 44, our fishing guide and a retired U.S. Army specialist. "When a bear shows up, it owns the bar. We move out."
Fishing at Alagnak Lodge had a daily rhythm that was easy to adopt.
Breakfast was served at 6 a.m., followed by a fishing session from 7 to 11, lunch at noon, fishing from 1 to 5 p.m., dinner at 6 and fishing from 7 to 10.
Anglers typically choose two of the three daily fishing sessions. Since large pulses of fresh salmon often come into the river on high tides, we consulted with the guides and tidal charts to select our fishing times.
When not fishing, a card table was available as well as a video monitor to play movies or tapes. Internet was undependable enough to make it easy to detach from cell phones and laptops.
In reality, we spent most of our down time talking and telling stories. A few afternoon naps were recorded, too.
We also had fun visiting with staff member Wayne Haag, 77, who ran the camp smokehouse. Now in his 12th season at Alagnak Lodge, Haag has perfected smoking racks of fresh salmon over a propane heater, frying pan and pieces of birch.
Wayne Haag of Alagnak Lodge in Alaska offers freshly smoked salmon to guests. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
It all happens in a wooden structure about the size of an outhouse.
He fired up the smoker each morning and tended it for about 8 hours as he prepared tail and belly pieces from our salmon. His recipe called for a slightly sweet brine and a target temperature of 145 degrees.
He used a wooden wedge to open or close the door of the smoker and adjust the temperature.
"It's prehistoric, but it works," Haag said.
When we booked our trip we had no idea how fortunate we were to have selected a lodge in Bristol Bay.
Many salmon runs were dismal this summer in Alaska. Returns were so poor on some of the state's most famous salmon rivers outside of Bristol Bay, including the Kenai, Kodiak and Copper, that the waters were temporarily or permanently closed to salmon fishing.
The reason for the poor runs is not known with certainty, though a hypothesis centers on a "warm blob" of water in the Pacific Ocean that could be affecting the food sources and survival of young salmon from parts of Alaska.
Less than 1 percent of salmon smolts from the Kenai and other affected rivers are surviving to adulthood and returning to spawn, down from a historical average of 4 percent, according to state fisheries biologists.
But Bristol Bay is showing better health and balance in its salmon fishery. In fact, the 2018 Bristol Bay sockeye run was one for the record books. An estimated 62.3 million sockeyes returned, the most since records were initiated in 1893, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The 2018 sockeye run was 69 percent above the 20-year average.
Commercial netters harvested 41.3 million sockeyes in Bristol Bay this year, the second highest catch in history, while 21 million sockeyes were allowed to "escape" up the bay's rivers to spawn, according to ADFG.
Among other species, the 2018 Bristol Bay silver and chum runs were up nearly 100% over their 20-year averages, while chinook was down 13 percent and pinks were down 55 percent.
One concerning trend was evident this year statewide (including Bristol Bay): the average size of salmon was smaller, indicating lower productivity in the ocean, according to fisheries biologists.
By the time of our visit, most commercial fishing in the bay had ended.
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Salmon were free to enter the Kvitchek and Alagnak without running a gauntlet of nets.
Sport fishing, however, was in full force on the rivers. We saw boats from two other lodges on the Alagnak daily, and float planes periodically dropped anglers off on day trips.
Lemon showed Zeug and me the two primary Alagnak River silver salmon fishing tactics.
One was right out of a Wisconsin jig fisherman's play book: A medium-heavy spinning rod spooled with braided main line and a fluorocarbon leader and tipped with a half-ounce ball head jig with a red marabou body.
We fished this as we cast and drifted downriver.
The other was a weighted red marabou and flashabou tube fly fished on a standard fly rod with a floating line. This outfit was used when we waded on sand bars or shorelines.
Both resulted in most hook-ups when the lure was bounced or drifted along the bottom.
"It's not rocket science, is it?" Zeug said after he hooked a silver salmon on the jig setup on our first outing.
We hooked many of our salmon by casting the marabou jig into the weed-lined seams along the edges of the main river. The water was 1 to 3 feet deep, but the current flowed about 3 miles per hour.
The relatively heavy jig was just right for the conditions.
"They've spent the last few years in the ocean, but when they get in the river, they relate to weeds and bottom structure almost like a bass," Lemon said.
Zeug and I caught from three to 20 fish per session, the exact number usually dictated by how much time we spent sight-seeing and how many fresh fish were in the area.
One evening, for example, Lemon took us upriver to a deserted village with a Russian Orthodox church. The inhabitants, we were told, were ravaged by an outbreak of the Spanish flu in 1919.
Another evening we drifted down the middle of the river and watched a pair of brown bears as they fished along the bank. The bear's catch rate was at least equal to ours.
Each of our first three days Zeug and I kept our daily bag limits of three silver salmon apiece and then released everything else. The fish ranged from 7 to 12 pounds and were a delight to behold; many had sea lice on their sides, indicating they had just entered freshwater.
A silver salmon, also known as coho, is filleted after a fishing outing on the Alagnak River in the Bristol Bay region of southwestern Alaska. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
We also caught many chum salmon, which fought just as hard as the silvers and were perhaps even more aggressive on the take.
These fish, also called dog or keta salmon (after the species name Oncorhynchus keta), became my favorite.
In the early stages of spawning, the handsome fish bear subtle purple and red stripes on their sides. Their bodies are streamlined, similar to steelhead. And the meat has a milder taste than silver salmon.
How it ever acquired a derogatory name such as chum I'll never know. Fish marketing gurus already recognized the need for different branding. They sell it as "silverbright salmon."
At camp, I started calling them something that seemed grander and more fitting: "tiger" salmon.
Now that's a name worthy of a wild Alaskan fish.
Zeug and I landed only silver, pink and "tiger" salmon. But John Moss hooked a rainbow trout that was estimated at 10 pounds, the only trout our group encountered on the trip.
Cormac Moss, left, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin caught and released this silver salmon on the Alagnak River in Alaska. (Photo: Paul A. Smith)
By the end of our five days, each of us had accumulated a tasty dividend for our efforts: a 50-pound box of salmon fillets and smoked salmon pieces.
The fish was vacuum sealed and frozen during our stay, and then packed in waxed cardboard boxes for our flights home.
We had been privileged to experience a wild river full of salmon in one of the planet's last, best strongholds for the fish.
As our float plane lifted off the Alagnak and headed for King Salmon, I looked south toward the expanse of Bristol Bay with a mixture of gratitude and concern.
As a nation, we've got to do everything in our power to preserve wild salmon runs.
If you get the chance, go see it for yourself. I'm confident you'll agree.
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On Friday, December 16th at 7:30, there'll be a happening in New York City to raise for Salem Art Works.
You could hang with this guy, if you're lucky!
If you wanna party with Krom, call 646-306-9297, but you gotta cough up a (tax deductible and includes a 1 year family membership to Salem Art Works).


The city of San Gimignano is a precious jewel in Tuscany. It is a small walled village about halfway between Florence and Siena, famous for its fascinating medieval architecture and towers that rise above of all the other buildings offering an impressive view of the city and the surrounding valley.
At the height of its glory, San Gimignano's patrician families had built around 72 tower-houses as symbols of their wealth and power: the higher the tower, the higher the prestige of the family. Although only 14 have survived, San Gimignano still retains its feudal atmosphere and appearance.
Recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990, San Gimignano offers visitors the chance to step back in time while enjoying its local products including saffron and its white wine, the Vernaccia di San Gimignano.
Walking uphill you will arrive to its two main squares (Piazza Duomo and Piazza della Cisterna) and it is possible to do some great shopping along its main street.
Monte Santa Maria Tiberina is a medieval Italian town with charming and unforgettable panoramic views across the valley and neighbouring Umbria.
When we first stumbled across the ancient streets of Monte Santa Maria Tiberina many years ago, we were struck by the incredible forests of chestnut trees, dominating the surrounding valleys of Umbria and Tuscany, allowing you to gaze with wander down to the Alps, and, on a clear day, to the Gran Sasso d'Abruzzo.
The mild climate of this corner of Umbria means that wherever you stay, you'll be surrounded by greenery, flora and fauna. Plus, if you're an active holiday goer, you'll be impressed by the vast number of trails that are suitable for hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking all year round.
When enjoying your preferred past time, you are likely to meet fallow deer, roe deer and squirrels, and admire the impressive flight of kestrels and buzzards.
For lunch times and evening meals, you'll be spoilt for choice with the locally sourced fresh produce and local cuisine.


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davitant —
Never Use 2 Words Where 10 Will Do
Overly wordy entries from...wherever...
Web Page Devoted to my Current Job Search
Bbbuuuuuuut.......I like mixed drinks!
What Infectious Disease Are You?
You scored as Malaria
You are one persistent, annoying son-of-a-bitch and your motto is 'if at first you don't succeed; try, try again'. Once you get a foothold in someone's life, you're loathe to let go and honestly, after a few feeble attempts, most of those poor suckers just give up. You're easily distracted by a good beverage, although you prefer beer to mixed drinks. There's something about tonic water that just turns you off. You may not always be at the forefront of everyone's minds, but you never get completely ignored, either--you're too irritating.
celeb look alike meme!
Stolen from Faber-san:
None, for once
memes, randomness
meme time!
A couple of these have been going around. I'm not a huge fan of the "which monster are you" one, simply because it only uses 5 questions to make its judgement. No matter. The results of both are below. Enjoy (or something)!
You Are a Werewolf
You're unpredictable, moody, and downright freaky. You seem sweet and harmless, until you snap. Then you're a total monster. Very few people can predict if you're going to be Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde. But for you, all your transformations seem perfectly natural. Your greatest power: Your ability to tap into nature Your greatest weakness: Lack of self control You play well with: Vampires
What Kind of Monster Are You?
Which sci-fi crew would you best fit in with? (pics)
You scored as Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
You are a light and humorous person. No one can help but to smile to your wit. Now if only the improbability drive would stop turning you into weird stuff.
Heart of Gold (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Moya (Farscape)
SG-1 (Stargate)
FBI's X-Files Division (The X-Files)
Millennium Falcon (Star Wars)
Babylon 5 (Babylon 5)
Serenity (Firefly)
Bebop (Cowboy Bebop)
Deep Space Nine (Star Trek)
Enterprise D (Star Trek)
Galactica (Battlestar: Galactica)
Nebuchadnezzar (The Matrix)
Andromeda Ascendant (Andromeda)
...Somehow, the H2G2 result fails to surprise me....
AeroSmith -- Back in the Saddle Again
in which Jeffry slams a movie that he just watched....
Before we begin, we need a bit of background here.
In Januray 2005, Kyle was here visiting me in Oz. During his visit, we subjected ourselves to two of the worst performances of any sort (live or recorded) that I think either of us has ever seen. They were truly awful. I won't go into full details here, but I'll provide you with the basics here.
1) First night that we were in Brisbane (we'd stopped in LA and NZ on the way, so that getting to Brisbane had taken a week from when we'd left Maryland), we went to see Lemony Snicket's Unfortunate Series of Events, on the recommendation of my new housemate, The Wookie. Later I would learn that the The Wookie has some of the worst taste in entertainment of any human I've ever met. This was not in my general scope of knowledge at the time, however.
It turns out that the very first in a long series of unfortunate events in that movie is the part where you, the movie-goer, purchase yourself a ticket to see the movie. The second one is where you sit down and actually attempt to watch the movie. It was boring. It was long. Watching it really was a most unpleasent series of events. Actually, I don't think I ever took any entertainment advice from The Wookie after that. Moving along...
2) While in Sydney, we really wanted to see a show at the Sydney Opera House, because honestly, how many chances to do that do you get? I've gotten several, but I live here, so that's SLIGHTLY different. Anyway, we got tickets to see the show that looked like the best option of what was on offer. As a bonus, it was being shown in the big symphony/opera room, which is an ultra-nifty venue in and of itself.
Kyle tells this part of the story much better, so I'll just sum up. It was described as a new and innovative modern dance show. What it was in fact was the staged equivelent of watching paint dry.
The only real up-shot of this was that it gave Kyle and I numerous inside jokes relating back to it and just how awful it was (and how we could manufacture a BETTER modern dance show based sheerly on random ideas of our's).
About a year after that visit (well, a year and a half, I guess, I'm not sure the exact date of this next part), I rented Superman Returns on a whim. I'd heard it wasn't great, but I figured it was worth checking it out on rental. The movie was 2 and a half hours, and the rental cost me 3 AUD.
By the time it finished, I wanted 5 hours and 6 AUD returned to me. The movie had one interesting acting sequence at the start. Beyond that, there was no redeeming it, not even Kevin Spacey and Parker Posey playing the villains. It was just truly awful. The script was terrible, as were the pacing, directing, and acting. The movie would best have been used as a source of fertilizer.
Ok, so, have you got all of that? That's all preface. I'm about to tell you that I've actually just finished watching something WORSE.
I mean, at least in all 3 cases previous, I could sit around with a friend and make fun of the material (Kyle for the first two and my flatmate Sharm for Superman Shouldn't Have Bothered Coming Back). Even if I'd been watching with another friend, this next one is truly beyond redeeming.
It gets worse, though. According to over 3000 votes on www.imdb.com, this movie is worth an 8.3 out of 10.
...Yeah, maybe in opposite land.
Seriously, though, follow the link at the end of this, and you'll see that I'm not making this up.
First off, let's talk lead actors. The movie stars Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck (the younger brother of Ben Affleck) in its lead spots. Now, already, this seems like a promising set up. Brad Pitt usually acts quite well and has a tendancy to sort of smoothly glide and charm his way through any movie he shows up in. Now, I'll admit, I've only seen Casey Affleck in the Ocean's movies. Thing is, I've always found his charecter in them (Virgil Malloy) quite amsuing, just as light comedy relief. Besides, he and Brad Pitt were in the Ocean's movies together, so I figured that familiarity would lend itself to good on-screen performances.
If you haven't quite figured out which movie I'm talking about, here it is: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
I'm not even sure if Mystery Science Theatre 3000, were it still around, could save this thing. It is 2 hours and 40 minutes of slow, painfully slow, boredom punctuated ever so often with small doses of sheer gruesomeness. It isn't even really gruesome with a purpose or for a charecter you really identify with (because believe me, I didn't find myself cheering for either James or Ford). I'd say the dialogue was terrible, but there wasn't even much of what could qualify as proper dialogue for the first 20-30 minutes. There was a bit, but only barely. What was there stank like a sulfur pit.
Really the only redeeming point of the entire movie was the narration, which would come in and out now and again. That wasn't bad. But as soon as the acting was the focus again, it just went downhill (more like down-cliff) at mach 4. The worst bit wasn't just that it was boring or pointlessly gruesome. It was 2 hours and forty minutes of very slowly paced boring and gruesome. I hate not seeing the end of a movie I've started, and I hate not finishing something I've paid money to see (thankfully, I only paid 6.50 AUD as a student). Those were really the ONLY things that kept me from leaving early.
And for those who don't believe what I was saying about its www.imdb.com rating, here's the link:
So yay! I've now subjected myself to something WORSE than Superman Returns, Lemony Snicket, or whatever that show in Sydney was called. This may be the worst performance I've ever seen. If it isn't, it's really close. I like watching movies, and I tend not to walk out of even a mediocre movie thinking it was a waste of my time. Tonight, I walked out going "well, that was most truly awful."
I cannot recommend strongly enough that anyone reading this not see The Assassination of Jesse James... I'm not even sure it's worth the time it took you to read this review (and you're getting the benefit of this review for free!).
Avenue Q -- There Is Life Outside Your Apartment
movies, randomness
meme....because I can
Stolen, I mean borrowed, from Faber-san:
create your own personalized map of the USA
or check out ourCalifornia travel guide
I seem to be avoiding segments of the Deep South...
Actually, it's mostly due to lack of having reason to go there.
And Faber-san, how is it that you've somehow never set foot in Texas? I don't exactly TRY to do so, but it's kind of big and difficult to avoid at times....
Also, DC is NOT a state, so it really shouldn't be in a "which states have I visited" meme. I'll get off of my soap-box now....
Traveling Matt -- Puddle Jumping
and now for something pretty much unexpected...
Ok, so most of you know that I'm not really a big sports person. I wasn't athletic growing up and never really got the hang of team sports (unless lazer tag counts, and I'm not even all that GOOD at it (though I have fun)). I didn't even attempt to get semi-regular exercise until after I'd turned 21. Actually, it was breaking my arm that kicked me into swimming and an increased level of physical activity (though I challenge anyone who'd attempt to tell me that there aren't physically taxing segments to marching band).
When living back in the US of A, I generally averaged about 1 professional baseball game per year or two (that is, seeing it live), and an average of one live professional football game per 27 years (and counting). So I'll freely admit up-front here that I'm no die-hard sports fan.
But, what most of you already ALSO know is that I'm a die-hard fan of just about anything relating back to California. In a sports competition involving a California-based team and an external team, I'll always cheer for the Californian team with near-blind allegiance (anyone in the audience from Oz or who has spent any time in the Wonderful Land of Oz will know why I'm less inclined to say that I'd "root for a team." In the Land Down Under, the term has a VERY different meaning).
Somehow, in the process of college and subsequently doing my PhD here in Australia, I've started very loosely following the post-season of US professional baseball.
So now the US American post-season is upon us, and there's only one team from California in the play-offs (given that CA contributes 5 teams (I hope I counted correctly) to the major leagues, it's a decent shot that one will make it to the play-offs after all).
The result? I present to you an Anaheim Angels icon, as evidence to my near-blind devotion to the Golden State and (by proxy) its representation in professional sports.
The alternative take on this is that I was procrastinating between writing sections of my thesis. That's ok too.
Lit -- Place in the Sun
procrastination, randomness, sports
did I even leave Oz?
Hello and welcome to another of these lovely posts. I'm cyber-Jeffry / d'Avitant, and I'll be your guide through the past two months.
This will be roughly chronological. As such, congrats to Emily Daniels on her Honour's graduation in December.
The day after that, I got on a series of 3 planes (BrisVegas to Sydney to Auckland to San Francisco) to head back to ye olde US of A.
They had problems with the airbridge thingy (you know, that you board the plane through) in Auckland. The pilot even referenced the Keystone Cops in the process...
San Francisco was absolutely amazing, with the caveat of being absurdly, insanely busy. I was visiting people from when I got up to when I went to bed for the 3 days I was there, and I still didn't even visit half of the people I wanted to.
Then, up to Spokane via Seattle and a tiny puddlehopper across the mountains. Despite my general hatred of all things puddle-hoppery (let's put it this way, an A320 / B737 is the SMALLEST size of airplane I particularly care to fly in...), the flight was very smooth and quite pretty (mountains, snow, you get the idea). One night at my grandparents' place, and then the 3 of us trekked (flew) across the country to BWI via Denver.
It's a very...different...experience flying with your 81 year old grandmother in the seat next to you and asking where we're going and why ever 3 minutes. She has advanced Alzheimer's Disease, so it's not that surprising.
The Maryland experience was much like the California experience (only the sun rose over the water (not that you can see the ocean from my parents' house) instead of setting over it, and I was there for 2 weeks). That is, incredibly busy, didn't see half the people I'd have liked to, set an alarm EVERY, SINGLE MORNING, it was all a bit crazy, and over way too soon.
Highlights: Emma (the less-surprised-looking-these-days, formerly the perpetually-surprised-looking-clarinet-girl of the UMMB) came to visit for a night. Given our previous years' habit of meeting in DC for literally a couple hours, it was a big improvement to actually have more than 2 hours to visit.
Jess Faber drove down from Jersey-Land to do post-Christmas-not-quite-on-Boxing-Day Shopping with Kyle and me. Thanks for that Jess! Also, more recently (Jan 25), happy birthday! Thanks to Faber-san, I now have a DNA-knit-pattern scarf. I should post a picture of it later...
Made my Mom and grandparents a big photo-album project with captions. It took a lot of time, though...
Got to visit with Kyle and Kelley and meet the new yellow lab of the house, Ella.
Went to the driving range with my brother to chat and hit things (well, golf balls are techincally "things").
Drank WAY too much coffee. Did I mention it was a wee bit insane?
I even managed to squeeze in a few friendly phone calls. There are quite a few of you out there that I didn't even have time to call. Sorries about that.
I also (this isn't so much of a highlight) spent 3 hours getting from DC to Frederick on the afternoon of the 22nd. I think that was my worst traffic jam EVER.
I made Christmas dinner. Big lamb roast with roast veggies. Very, very tasty. You know you want some.
I ended up going back a day later than originally intended. See, I got rerouted AROUND the bad weather in Denver, only to get to BWI to leave and instead be sent to National because of bad weather in Chicago.
I get to the gate at National, and they delay the flight to the point that I won't make my flight in SFO back to Sydney.
To make a long story short (I know, too late, right?), I ended up getting a non-stop on New Year's Day from Dulles to SFO to make that day's non-stop to Sydney. When I got to Sydney, QANTAS even called my phone to offer me an earlier flight back to Brisneyland.
I got back, collapsed for 2 days and promptly got a sinus infection shortly there-after.
Well, I hadn't really stopped hither-to. The result was that I didn't really go back to work until about 12 days AFTER I got back to the Wonderful Land of Oz.
I watched pretty explosions on Friday. It was Australia Day.
I think that about sums it up.
I do kind of wish I could've spent a day in Los Angeles...
OK, I think that'll do for now. Questions? Comments? Further details? You know where to find me...
Authority Zero -- One More Minute
california, maryland, randomness, travel
Why Can't Computers Be More Like Star Trek?
You know, they're everywhere and can just automatically record what you're saying, so that when you have a thought you want to record, you don't have to try to record it later? If that was the case, I'd have updated ages ago.
I'm perfectly aware that I've been the biggest cyber-slacker on the planet when it comes to my LJ recently. Truth be told, I just don't have the time to sit and dedicate to it the way I did when I started it. Some day I may, but being a PhD student is, shall we say, a wee bit time consuming. And honestly, there are other things to do than spend all my time at my computer.
I mean, I started this when I got PAID to sit at a computer and amuse myself for 2 hours.
Ok, so, an update on my life (the big points (we don't need a novel here)).
My 26th birthday was on July 8. My co-workers were all super nice and got together and got me a silicon whisk and a silicon muffin tin (umm…pan? It isn't exactly MADE of tin) and 2 birthday cards (one from the guys, one from the girls). Separately from that, I got SCRUBS season 1 on DVD and a couple wooden cooking spoons (I like wooden cooking spoons) from Emily, a nifty storage box thingy (hard to explain, easier to show) with a picture in the lid from Meegan, and a UMass baseball cap from my parents (as well as the early present that I'd already negotiated out of them (best pair of sandals on the planet (only problem is that they get little rocks stuck in them that you can't kick out, as the front is closed))). Overall, birthday was a good thing.
Moving along to August (and everything after?), I went up to Mission Beach (in all likelihood the LEAST friendly small town I've ever set foot in on any continent (no, I'm not even KIND OF kidding about this; I can count the people who were nice to outsiders (Aussie or foreign outsiders, mind you) on 2 fingers)), way up north in Queensland, to attend and present some of my work at the annual meeting of the Australian Coral Reef Society. Before anybody asks, I didn't fall asleep in any of the presentations, thankyouverymuch (honestly, you do this a few times (per month), and everyone thinks it's a habit).
My presentation went very well and was blessedly early, so I got to do it and move along to the "sit back and watch everyone else" phase. Lots of good presentations, and about equal numbers of fantastic and less than thrilling talks. Only one of them (that I saw) was truly awful.
RiverFire was a couple weeks ago now (eep! Time flies when you're sick and psychotic having fun). Let's say this now. There's lots of things I like about Brisbane, and there's lots of things that drive me absolutely up the wall (and down the other side). Having said that, this city knows how to do fireworks. They put on some of the best displays I've ever seen. There are 3 major sets put on by the city each year: Australia Day (January 26 (it's Oz's day of independence)), RiverFire (sometime in August), and New Year's. I've never seen that last one, but they always do so well with the other 2. And of the 2, RiverFire is the better. This one was one of the two best display of fireworks I've ever watched. The other (for those in the crowd who are wondering (I know you're out there)) was when I got tickets for the passes-only section of the Super Bowl display when San Diego was hosting it in 2003.
Also, the RiverFire includes a (very, very close) fly-by of a couple jet-fighters doing fuel dumps.
And then there's the massive display all the way up and down the river, set to music. The pedestrian bridge to South Bank even had a sparkler water-fall going on. Oh, and for the first time ever, they were launching some of the fireworks from on top of buildings in downtown.
Have I mentioned I love fireworks in general? I mean, what's not to like about big, bright, colourful explosions?
I think that's about it. Most of the rest of it is the usual combo of work, running errands, and trying to relax a bit.
I know I say this every time, but I'll try not to go so absurdly long again before posting.
Also, this entry started on DMB's "Louisiana Bayou. We're now on one of the best cover songs I've ever heard: Authority Zero doing "Mexican Radio."
So there.
DMB -- Louisiana Bayou (Complete Weekend on the Rocks)
randomness, travel, work
August 5th, 2006, 08:48 am
mememememe
I stole this from Jess (who stole it from someone else (thief!)), 'cause it was too fun not to. I did a 5-click randomization to start, just to keep it unbiased.
Real update coming before I go on any more trips (that's 12 days away from now).
The meme:
If a movie was made of your life, what would the soundtrack be?
So here's how it works:
- Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
- Put it on shuffle.
- Press play.
- For every question, put the song that's playing.
- When you go to a new question, skip to the next song.
- Ready? GO!
Opening Credits:
Look Around -- Blues Traveler (Four)
Waking Up:
My Hometown -- Bowling for Soup (A Hangover You Don't Deserve)
Falling In Love:
Staring at the Sun (New Mix) -- U2 (Best of 1990 - 2000)
Fight Scene:
All Along the Watchtower -- Dave Matthews Band cover off of Live Trax Vol 2 (Golden Gate Park)
Breaking Up:
One Sweet World -- Dave Matthews Band (The Gorge, recorded 06 September 2002)
Real Gone -- Sheryl Crow (CARS Soundtrack)
Secret Love :
Numb -- U2 (Best of 1990 - 2000)
Life's Okay:
Break Your Heart -- Barenaked Ladies (Rock Spectacle)
Mental Breakdown:
Enemy -- Eve 6 (Horrorscope)
Driving:
iTunes says: Kids With Guns -- Gorillaz (Demon Days)
My personal choice: Open Road Song -- Eve 6 (Self-titled)
Flashbacks:
Choking on the Truth -- Bif Naked (Purge)
Happy Dance:
Old Apartment -- Barenaked Ladies (Rock Spectacle)
Regretting:
Call and Answer -- Barenaked Ladies (Stunt)
Why is so much BNL coming up? Seriously, you'd think I had more BNL in my library than I do. YES, the random button is on. Still, good answer for this one.
Long Night Alone:
You Can't Win -- Might Mighty Bosstone (A Jackknife to a Swan)
Final Battle:
Honey Child -- Royal Crown Review (Caught in the Act)
Death Scene:
Tonight Tonight -- Smashing Pumpkins (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
Final Ending:
Ridiculous -- Bowling for Soup (A Hangover You Don't Deserve)
I Can Wait -- Deep Blue Something (Home)
Odd. There's a lot of repeated artists in there, despite having over 4500 tracks to choose from. For example, I've got a lot of Great Big Sea (mostly likely at least as much as Jess (from whom this meme was stolen borrowed), and not a single one came up, while multiple BNL tracks came up. Still, not bad, 'cept the one for my final battle.
And there you have it folks, your weekend dose of true pointlessness on this end.
Desire -- U2
meme time!!!!!
I got tagged by the one and only Kyle N Holland. Extra credit if anyone (other than Kyle or Kelley) can tell me what the N stands for.
So. The meme: name 5 things which can be used for bribing you (practical or otherwise) and name 5 people in LJ who should post the same.
My 5:
1) Large amounts of (good) dark chocolate. These can be mixed with marzipan, mint, or peanut butter.
2) A large open water going boat, completely stocked for a week at sea and full SCUBA gear.
3) Unlimited buisiness class travel on any Star Alliance airline for 1 year.
4) A great job somewhere in California. Somewhere in one of the NICE parts of California.
5) Good Japanese or Mexican food.
OK, so I'm no good at doing the creating links with your usernames thing, so I'm just going to tag you guys and expect you to read that you were tagged.
Go RADS, Jess, Kitty!, Beth F, and Beth K!
White Stripes -- Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Bbbuuuuuuut.......I like mixed drinks! — 0
celeb look alike meme! — 3
meme time! — 7
in which Jeffry slams a movie that he just watched.... — 6
meme....because I can — 10
and now for something pretty much unexpected... — 13
did I even leave Oz? — 5
Why Can't Computers Be More Like Star Trek? — 4
mememememe — 4
meme time!!!!! — 2
davitant
The Rock: The smile and shape there-of.
Meryl Streep: shape of cheeks and cheek-lines in response to smile.
At least, those are my guesses as to why.
emmy_roo
Yeah, um . . . it matched me with Donald Trump . . .
Hey, you do look a little like Meryl Streep in those pictures . . . ;)
I don't know about that, actually. Your dad has the EXACT same hairline as you do. I noticed it right off. You both have very high foreheads with a bit of a widow's peak that's slightly off center…
Nah, I'm more likely to end up without hair than with grey hair. Plus, I think mine would turn more of a silver colour...


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Securing the Revolution – The Role of Civil Society and Reform Challenges in Armenia
Good governance, Rule of law, Slides September 18, 2018December 4, 2018 Lusine Lalayan
On 10 September, the European Endowment for Democracy (EED) hosted a panel debate focusing on the civil society perspective of the post-revolutionary developments in Armenia. The event was co-organised with the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum.
"I firmly believe that this is a revolution and not a transition [of power], because I don't see just the change of people, but I see change of values, I see the change of the working culture and this is the most important for me," said Sona Ghazaryan, an activist fromNo Pasaran / Reject Serzh movements. Haykuhi Harutyunyan of Protection without Borders, who elaborated on concrete benefits of the Armenian Velvet Revolution, pointed to the improved situation of human rights in prisons and increasing public trust towards police. She noted that people are not afraid of demanding changes and organising protests in front of public institutions. "It is basic, but very important," noted Mrs. Harutyunyan.
Despite many reasons for optimism, the situation in post-revolutionary Armenia remains complex, since the new elite led by Nikol Pashinyan inherited the old institutions and policies serving interests of narrow group of oligarchs. This was confirmed by Boris Navasardian, head of the Yerevan Press Club, who spoke about resistance of the counter-revolutionary forces who are now trying to discredit and undermine the new authorities in effectively implementation of the necessary reforms. Critics often point out the general lack of experience and competence of the new authorities, who are still learning to manage the state. In this regard, the upcoming Yerevan City Council elections, slated for 23 September, will be crucial test for the new government and civil society alike.
In the meantime, civil society and the new government in Armenia face numerous challenges, among them early parliamentary elections, reforming the electoral code or potential alterations to constitutional set-up as well dealing with tensions between traditional civil society and the new activists.
The current discussion on transitional justice represents another major challenge for civil society and the government, both to explain the concept and to set up the necessary structures. In addition, Mr. Navasardian pointed to the ongoing tensions between environmental activists and government on the mining industry, which could undermine the trust of foreign investors. He concluded: "The nearest months will show how much the new government is ready to resolve all of these problems and to what extent the cooperation with the EU could be helpful for that and implementation of CEPA." Panellists underlined that the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with the EU requires a new set of priorities and general revision to better respond to Armenia's current needs vis a vis the reform agenda.
These challenges are reflected in the country's media sphere, which is also going through turbulent changes. New media and social networks boomed during the Armenian Velvet Revolution and are actively used by the new authorities, including Pashinyan himself. As noted by the speakers, the new prime minister uses Facebook live streams to talk directly to the citizens following the logic of direct democracy. Despite obvious technical problems and geographic differences, Mr Navasardian emphasised that for now this is the only way to overcome stagnation and the institutional blockade in the parliament. Nevertheless, it is not possible to use the methods of direct democracy in the long run, he added.
www.democracyendowment.eu
Results of the Fourth Round Evaluation of OECD Anti-corruption Network on Armenia
The Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health about Armenia


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Persona 5 Sales Reach 3.2 Million Worldwide Ahead of Royal
By Hunter Miche Dec 5, 2019 Oct 26, 2021 Share
Persona 5 Royal is slated to be coming out on March 31 of next year in the West, but that doesn't mean that people don't want to play the original. Persona 5 Royal sales numbers have been released on Twitter, and apparently, including Royal sales in Japan, sales of the game have reached 3.2 million.
The combined sales of both versions of the game bring the total sales of Persona games in general to over 11 million, and that's not taking into account how many people will buy Royal when it releases in the West, considering how popular it's been so far.
While Persona 5 Royal is an updated re-release of the original Persona 5 game, it will still be giving us a sizable amount of new content, including new characters and even an entire new term of the game's school year.
Persona 5's popularity has even extended out beyond the actual game. Joker was unveiled as one of Super Smash Bros Ultimate's first DLC fighters at The Game Awards last year, and when he released the resulting scramble to buy him took down the game's servers for a period of time.
If you've never played a Persona game before, Persona 5 Royal might be a great time for you to jump in, especially considering that each of the Persona games (except for the originals where they were part of the Shin Megami Tensei series) is a self-contained story.
Considering they're both the same game (though Royal has more content), you also won't be missing anything by making Persona 5 Royal your first Persona game and adding to the Persona 5 sales. Otherwise, if you're a Persona fan already that's already beaten the game a while ago and wants to see where the new game goes, you can still buy it.
Once again, Persona 5 Royal comes out on March 31 of next year for the Playstation 4, so if you want to help contribute to Persona 5 sales, then would be a good time.
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Well, in the rare time it worked for me in FB, I actually felt this. An increasing force was needed to move the joy around it's axis at higher speeds. But I turned FF off. I rather have centering force back than shooting and buffeting feedback alone on otherwise dead stick.
Well, I have removed all functions from my IL2FB FFB folder except for bomb,spring and shake. This eliminates all of the unrealistic effects such as guns and cannons. I believe it also allows you to feel the more subtle forces of flight a little better.
I am using the MSFFB software without problems. I have two different profiles with up to 20 functions programmed to the stick. You can check them out at my website in the downloads section.
I use one, but I don't have the FF function set on in the game, and I have the spring tension set to max on the stick controls. This gives the stick a good solid feel with good centering action, but I don't have to fight the weird forces bouncing me around and throwing off my aim.


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What's really wrong with our flawed Elite College admissions system?
It's no secret: our elite college admissions system is deeply flawed. It is rich and well absorbed by the connected. It is absolutely opaque, arbitrary and unpredictable. And worst of all, it causes increasing damage and distorts applicants' lives, aspirations and mental health.
For example, read a recent article The Wall Street Journal Which describes a Texas high school senior with an impressive record of accomplishments whom he applied to be rejected from virtually every top college.
Letters of rejection have come from Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of California, Berkeley, and Northwestern. He was even rejected by the flagship college of business in his home state.
His potential destination? Arizona State.
The responses to the article have taken a variety of forms, some with more comments than Shadenfreud and others with highly politicized and stigmatized racism.
Some comments provide comfort, observing: "Disasters and rejections are part of life" and "an 18-year-old should not think that not going to the school of his choice does not mean he will have a prosperous, fulfilling life," a general read comment: " The Ivy League is not the only way to succeed in the long run. "
Even then other readers were realistic, observing that the student wanted to be the head of the business, a field that most selected schools do not offer as a graduate concentration. In the words of one author: "Simply put: no top liberal art university, especially an Ivy, wants to announce a first-year student as an accounting major." The same commentator noted that the student's "second mistake was honesty. Honesty about his frustration, "which presented a red flag to admissions officials.
Other comments were strategic, and thought the student should look at an alternative path to his or her goals, focusing on programs where women are under-represented, such as math, computer science, or engineering.
Here are some more colorful (or disgusting) comments:
"It simply came to our notice then. Her parents didn't go to this "elite" school and they apparently did, so why make such a decision? "
"The university must pay a price for admissions policy that promotes diversity, equality and inclusion at the cost of fairness and equality for all. It is less unfortunate for Miss Saheb to be among those who are being forced to pay the price. "
"He should consider himself lucky that he was rejected. His mind will not be tainted by the schools of the Ivy League that have become all awakening."
"So dumb. Did you notice that he was number 23 in his school?"
A tweet, reposted by conservative columnist Ross Douthat, took a particularly tough political line: "Admission to elite colleges is becoming a mirror of coalition politics: a status reserved for elite whites who know how to play the system, a positive step for non-Asians, a minority." Regular intellectual competition for white people and Asians. "
Another tweet linked college admissions to young people's mental health problems: "They will suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) for the rest of their lives because for the first time in their youth they have been rejected and heard the word. "No." Adversity and rejection are part of life. But nowadays those lessons are not being taught. "
Should we take away from this student's experience?
1. "'Extraordinary' is not always enough nowadays."
The 20 most selected institutions have only 30,000 admissions slots, so if you're a student at the bottom of the top 1 percent of applicants, you still have 35,000 students ahead of you.
2. The desire to join the most elite organization is wonderful – and unforgivable.
Whether the inspiration for such elite colleges and universities comes from parents or self-imposed, it certainly distorts the aspirations and lives of many young people. It contributes to extremely high levels of stress, anxiety and depression and when these students' hopes are dashed, it certainly hits a heavy blow on their self-image.
It is noteworthy that the article quotes a private college counselor who charges an astonishing 1,200 per hour. I think I went into the wrong case if I wanted to make serious money.
3. For the younger but significant part, where they are accepted in college is the focal point of their identity and defines who they are as a person.
The message conveyed by the media and popular culture – the path to career and personal fulfillment that lies through these super-selective institutions – has a devastating effect. Don't we want young people to acknowledge that their future success does not depend on the university they attend? Where do you go to college that is more involved with life? Don't we want to follow a path aligned with their strengths regardless of their college destination?
The aspiration, the aspiration, to be among the aristocracy of the society, it seems, was not more extensive than this. It is not limited to the upper middle class; It is much more comprehensive.
So what should we do as a society?
My answer here: We need to resist the mentality that views higher education as a zero-sum competition and take steps to expand opportunities.
1. Expand pre-college opportunities.
Early college and advanced placement programs are great, but not enough. Follow the Teagle Foundation's example and increase the number of pre-college programs that open up opportunities for diverse, highly talented and driven high school students to work on meaningful projects in college faculty, college-level work, and laboratories or archives.
2. Redirect assets across the organization.
The California Master Plan for Higher Education had good aspects – a goal – extended access to post-secondary education – but more problematic aspects – clearly defined levels. Even in California, the UC level has not been consistent with the state's population growth, and other states, including my own, have not done nearly enough to equalize resources at its research universities.
3. Increase research and mentoring opportunities for our most dedicated graduates.
When I was a graduate, my alma mater funded my senior thesis research, allowed me to spend weeks at the Fisk University archives, and gave me the opportunity to interview people like Georgia O'Keefe, Arna Bontemps, and Aaron Douglas. . I can say without hesitation that those opportunities changed my life.
We need to do more to provide the same kind of life-changing, life-enhancing opportunities for undergraduates at whatever institution they attend: consulting research, study abroad, supervised internships, and field- and community-based projects.
4. Open the door to our most elite institution for many more undergraduate and graduate students.
It would be nice if these institutions admitted more students, but I am not holding my breath. By limiting the number of students living on campus housing, and significantly increasing the size of study abroad, elite institutions can easily find places for more students. But there are other ways to serve more students:
Significantly expand summer programs, such as the Mellon-Funded Leadership Alliance / Summer Research Early Identification Program, to come to campus to attend undergraduate seminars, work in labs and archives, and accept research projects under the direction of a faculty member.
Partners with nearby undergraduate programs to encourage interaction between undergraduate students and to allow co-enrollment in undergraduate seminars.
Host workshops where advanced graduate students and new PhD holders from a wide range of institutions will have the opportunity to present their work and get feedback from senior scholars in their field.
We all know the clich:: where you start doesn't determine where you land. We also know that this is not true. We have a high-level higher education system that privileges students who join the most selective and affluent institutions.
But one result of the formidable academic job market is that extraordinarily talented faculty are everywhere. At the same time, the digitization of libraries and archival resources means that it is now possible, in a way that was not true when I was a graduate, to conduct serious research in virtually every institution. Even then, the most prestigious undergraduate fellowships and scholarships, in increasing numbers, are awarded to students from a wide range of institutions.
We have taken steps towards equalizing opportunities. There is much more work ahead. Let us dedicate ourselves to that mission and consider higher education not so much as an integrated system but as a series of isolated institutions, each in its own tub.
Steven Mintz is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
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La metropolia di Vjatka (in russo: Вятская митрополия) è una delle province ecclesiastiche che costituiscono la Chiesa ortodossa russa.

Istituita dal Santo Sinodo il 4 ottobre 2012, comprende l'intera oblast' di Kirov nel circondario federale del Volga.

È costituita da tre eparchie:
 Eparchia di Vjatka
 Eparchia di Uržum
 Eparchia di Jaransk

Sede della metropolia è la città di Kirov (già Vjatka), il cui vescovo ha il titolo di "Metropolita di Vjatka e Slobodskoj".

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Collegamenti esterni
 Scheda della metropolia dal sito ufficiale della Chiesa ortodossa russa

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Кам'яниця Голубовичів — житловий будинок на вулиці Руська, 12 у Львові. Занесений до Реєстру пам'яток архітектури  і містобудування України національного значення з охоронним номером 1260.

Історія
Історія кам'яниці Голубовичів  розпочинається  з  XVII століття. Будинок був перебудований в кінці  XVIII століття та у XIX  столітті.Тоді він набув сучасного вигляду.  У   будинку  десять років жив  українського походження львівський скульптор   доби рококо  Матвій Полейовський,   брат архітектора Петра Полейовського.

Опис кам'яниці
Кам'яниця Голубовичів - це   витягнутий у плані цегляний чотириповерховий будинок. Фасад має по три вікна, які декоровані ліпними гірляндами та плоскими пілястрами. Будівельники, перебудовуючи, зберегли первинну трьохчасткову структуру і асиметричне  планування. В інтер'єрі кам'яниці  є печі з кахлями та паркет XIX - початку XX століття.

Сьогодення
Наразі кам'яниця входить до Реєстру пам'яток архітектури національного значення (охоронний №1260). Будинок житловий. У
будинку знаходиться галерея-музей «Хаос», де виставляються роботи сучасних львівських художників.

Джерела
 https://www.wikiwand.com/uk/Пам'ятки_архітектури_національного_значення_у_Львові
 https://www.shukach.com/uk/node/53452

Архітектура класицизму у Львові


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November 21, 2021 Nature
Brazil's INPE Revealed Real State of Amazon Deforestation
At the COP26 in Glasgow, Brazil's Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) reported that deforestation in the country increased by 22% within a year. The latest figures reported by INPE, revealed the real condition of the Amazon forest in Brazil, a country that has for years belittled the concerns raised by environmentalists.
Although Brazil is one of several nations that pledged commitment to end and reverse deforestation by the year 2030, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro did not attend the COP26 summit. The agreement to end deforestation was signed only by the Brazilian delegation sent by Bolsonaro's government.
Actually, the government of Brazil has from the very start, made promises about developing the Amazon. Yet on the contrary, Bolsonaro's regime allowed and encouraged agriculture and mining activities in the Amazon. This of course led to the worsening of the deforestation of the rainforest.
In 2019, the Brazilian president accused INPE of besmirching the country's reputation by releasing devastating reports about deforestation. The report presented to the COP26 delegates was dated October 27, but held back for release in time for the Glasgow summit held last November 1 and 2.
According to local Brazilian reports, the Brazilian delegation's purpose in attending the COP26 summit was to correct the world's perception about the country, which included agreeing to end deforestation.
What Brazil's INPE Revealed
The Amazon has more than three million species of flora and fauna and is home to about one million indigenous people. Due to its capacity to store carbon in greater amounts, it has helped slow down the effects of global warming.
According to INPE's latest data, some 13,235 square kilometers of rainforests were lost between the years 2020 and 2021, it is the highest ever recorded since 2006. The INPE report also divulged links between Brazil's thriving agricultural industry in deforested Amazon areas, with many major UK food and supermarket businesses like Tesco, McDonald's ,Asda, Nando's and Lidl,
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"Did I accidentally move to Ralston?" I ask, watching my neighbor Molly wrangle her chubby gray cat before it escapes through her front door. After learning that my local church has a Ralston street address and my proximity to the Ralston post office, I worried. I meant to live in the city, in Omaha.
I put down a deposit after only meeting my new studio at night—hurriedly writing a check to be first in line after learning the place was shown to another interested renter. Not knowing the view outside the window. Not knowing Molly would regularly bring me baked goods. Not knowing I would find out our building's water heater leaked carbon monoxide and hastily warn Molly the water heater was shut down for the weekend and she better do dishes before the reservoir ran cold.
"No, you didn't," she smiles. Turns out, I live a few blocks from Ralston city limits. I sigh, "Oh, good," settling into this new friendship, into quirky apartment life, into my neighborhood, which boasts Little Free Libraries and the kinds of sounds movies tell us are the American Dream.
"I have nothing against Ralston," I explain, considering the supposed glamour a city holds over a small town and the ecosystem of my apartment—the couple upstairs who seemingly walks only at 7:00 each night, and the woman below me whom I've never heard as she works night shifts. There's the leasing agent who always remembers my name and tried to set me up with her only single friend. And there's the Electricity Game which I play by myself, checking the utility readings of our whole building, curious who uses the least heat. I always win.
Now knowing the view outside the window, I imagine the Omaha/Ralston divide, enjoying beauty in this very average Midwestern sky. Listening to the road noise on 96th Street, I envision scraping blades on concrete during winter snow removal and kids running to the pool in the summer, screaming cheerfully, alarmingly without parents in sight.
Here in this studio, I settle: intentionally building a home in this accidental place.


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New Song: I Won't Rush You…
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When we think of miracles of healing, it's natural to think of these occurrences being instantaneous. We've all seen films where there is a "suddenly" moment and the character's life is changed forever. We expect our petitions to be met with a grand act of healing that is life changing and immediate. The Bible is full of examples of Jesus healing people on the spot; all these acts were designed to point to the glory of the Lord. However, there are also examples of healing being a process that takes time.
I wanted to write a song that reflected my own experience of healing; one that was a journey of highs and lows, a continual conversation with myself and Jesus. One thing that I have learnt is that the Lord is never in a rush. He takes time to walk with us on our journey, stretching and developing our character, tenacity and strength. My own journey of healing has taken years, not because the Lord wanted me to suffer or because I wouldn't cooperate, but because the Lord is gracious and patient. He allowed me work through the process at my own pace, patiently waiting for me when I wavered, and encouraging me as I made progress. Would I have liked him to heal me instantly? Yes of course. However, because of the journey that I have travelled, my relationship with Jesus is stronger and deeper, and I now know how to help others in the same position because I have direct experience of this particular situation.
The days, months, years of praying are not wasted; those prayers do a deep work within us. While we wait for our moment, the Lord is also changing us through our petitions. We gain far more than the healing we ask for; the miracle comes with the benefit of becoming more like Christ, an understanding that he alone is in control, and a dependency on him that gives a solid foundation to our faith.
We see a similar progressive healing in 2 Kings 5 where the Lord tells Naaman to bathe in the river 7 times to cure his leprosy. This isn't instant healing, it's a journey of faith as Naaman holds onto the promise of a miracle. At first, he was angry that his request hadn't been granted with immediate effect, but we later learn that his servants encourage him to be humble and accept what he is being asked to do. We don't always like the what the Lord asks us to do, but it always has a good end and benefit for us even when we can't see it. In Naaman's case, trusting in the Lord and doing what he was told to do produced his healing. This process inspired his faith journey and he learnt more about the Lord's ways of doing things. The result brought about victory for Naaman, and glory for the Lord, and as a result the Lord's reputation spread throughout the region.
When it comes to healing, whether it's instant or a journey, the Lord wants to heal us. For some of us that will be in our lifetime, and for others it comes when we die and receive our heavenly bodies. Some of us are healed by the miracle of medical science and others by the miracle hands of God. If we learn to see the world through God's eyes, we can see his hand working through everything. When it comes to learning about God's ways, he says "I won't rush you…".
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The final season of Game of Thrones is already one of the most talked about things on television, despite it not actually being on television yet.
If we are to believe the hype though – and I have a feeling we should – the eighth season is going to render all other television irrelevant, as the sheer size and scope of it is not only going to surpass anything we've seen on the small screen before, but the big screen too.
I remember seeing The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers at the cinema when I was a kid, and it's fair to say it blew my tiny mind. The vast number of orcs, the fear the fellowship wouldn't survive, the unbridled joy when Gandalf appears at first light on the fifth day. The epic extent of the Battle of Helm's Deep was almost too much to comprehend.
Now, however, the director behind GoT's upcoming battle to end all battles is suggesting that yes, actually, they are going after Helm's Deep as the benchmark for onscreen clashes, with their latest offering so intense the audience are in danger of getting 'battle fatigue'.
Speaking to EW, director Miguel Sapochnik said he studied The Battle of Helm's Deep for inspiration, while he also tried to find a longer battle sequence to compare GoT to, but couldn't.
It's not just the length of the battle, but what it encompasses that will give Helm's Deep a run for its money. The director revealed it takes in more than 20 members of the main cast, each with their own perspective and narrative, and each taking part in the huge fight.
While the sequence evidently took its toll on the cast too. Reportedly taking 55 days to shoot, mostly at night (the shooting sequence was nicknamed 'The Long Night' by the cast), it has been described as making the Battle of the Bastards 'look like a theme park' by Peter Dinklage, who plays Tyrion Lannister.
It was the most unpleasant experience I've had on Thrones – a real test, really miserable.
You get to sleep at seven in the morning and when you wake in the midday you're still so spent you can't really do anything, and then you're back. You have no life outside it.
You have an absolute f*cked bunch of actors. But without getting too method [acting] about it, on screen it bleeds through to the reality of the Thrones world.
Everybody prays they never have to do this again.
The actors may be glad to see the end of it, but I'm sure it's going to take some time for fans to get over the finale of Game of Thrones.
Season 8 of Game of Thrones will air in the US on HBO on April 14 and Sky Atlantic early April 15 morning in the UK.