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A drama in many funny acts unfolding in the bowels of the EU headquarters in Brussels
Georgios Kostakos
The Secret Commissioner, Kaleidoscope
Georgios Kostakos is Executive Director of the Brussels-based Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS). He has been extensively involved in global governance, sustainability and climate-related activities with the United Nations and beyond. The starting point for the work of FOGGS is the need for a new "Grand Narrative" for a fair, human-centred and inclusive globalisation. One of its projects is the UN2100 Initiative for UN reform, while FOGGS also supports the Citizens Climate Pledge.
The Secret Commissioner…
(Part II of Episode 1 just published below!)
Introduction & Who is Who
We all know – or we are supposed to know – that each country of the European Union has one member on the all-powerful European Commission. Well, that is what the public is led to believe by the Eurocrats, who keep many secrets in the dark corridors of Brussels. The darkest of those secrets, which is about to be revealed to you and you alone, dear Reader/Viewer, is the existence, the powerful existence, somewhere in the basement of the Berlaymont Building, of an additional Commissioner, a secret Commissioner, known as "The +1".
It is in the basement of Berlaymont that our story begins, after years of research and thousands of euros spent in wining and dining Commission members and staff who are in the know. Finally, we have cracked the code, and we are now able to access the goings-on in the office of "The +1" and the Directorate General that supports him, "DG+1".
The main characters that one has to keep an eye on:
– The+1 himself, the one in the dark glasses, a well-dressed gentleman in his mid-50s, who is now entering the Berlaymont Building and is greeted by security, without anybody else noticing or paying attention. This man is a mystery. Nobody knows his past or his nationality. One cannot even tell by listening to his accent whether he is an Anglophone or a Francophone, whether he has Germanic roots or hails from the shores of the Mediterranean, whether he has some Slavic connection or is a product of Scandinavia. The perfect person for this job, one could say.
– There is also the Chief of Cabinet of The+1, simply know as "The Chief". He is an old hand in the Brussels world, a wheeler-dealer of the best and of the worst kind, as circumstances require. He knows how to make things go his boss' way, or his own way, or both, as circumstances require… This man is certainly from the European South, and usefully brings the flexible style in which things are done there.
– The Deputy Chief of Cabinet – DCC for short – is an impressive woman from the North. She must be from the North, as her light features and tall stature indicate. And she brings a fresh air of openness to this closed shop. Well, openness within limits, I should say, because this is a secret operation and she partly runs it, and has her ambitions too.
– The Special Adviser – SAD for short – is quite young and extremely clever, with studies at Oxbridge, SciencePo and Harvard, and God knows where else. He has no roots, really, so no need to try figuring out his nationality; he could be the new Homo Europeus that is emerging – you get the point. He has to be stopped from ranting, occasionally, as his cleverness can carry him away, but he is often the one who has the really novel ideas, in this leading group – too novel, sometimes. Well, and the DCC, occasionally, which brings them often close, but some times tears them apart; wait and see.
–The Executive Secretary, Clare for short, which is her actual name – the only person with a real name on the team. In the best tradition of personal assistants, and she must be British or German for that, she is there to serve and protect her boss even at her own risk. She goes to the office before he does and arranges the stuff on his desk, prints out the schedule of the day and starts the coffee machine. She controls access to his office, with charm or might, as required, both physically and on the phone. She has access to his e-mails too. And yes, she can fake his signature, when authorized, so no need for complicated machines that do that. She does not seem to have a personal agenda, but one never knows in such political offices, especially this one.
The above five characters are collocated in the Berlaymont basement, with offices next to each other around a main waiting area where Clare is, plus a conference room where they have their meetings.[1] In the basement of another building of Rue de la Loi is the division of EU civil servants that serves the Commissioner and his office. The people on top of DG+1, which often have to go to The+1's office for meetings, are:
– The Director General of DG+1, "The DG", is a key pillar of this operation, bringing in the capacities and expertise of the glorious European civil service, which she has been serving for decades. Unlike the Commissioner and his immediate office, who are political appointees and think that know everything, she does know everything and she knows it too. She comes from one of the founding members of the European Community at the time, and she has the institutional and political memory to show for it. She is a tough cookie when she wants to, and to whomever she wants to be, but she can be very charming too, to the Commissioner for sure, on their good days.
– The Deputy Director General, known as "DDG", is a real product of the system, otherwise known as the Brussels bureaucracy. He is close to retirement and a bit bitter for having been passed over many times for that promotion to DG, but he will not drop his standards or show flexibility to achieve that. He knows all the rules and wants everybody to abide by them all the time, which can be a bit of a pain for the rest of the team. But he is also solid and reliable, and a good warning bell when the political urges of the others go overboard.
– There is also the staff. The European Union is proud of its highly educated, efficient and competent staff. It is thanks to the staff that the EU got the Nobel Peace Prize and has been running the affairs of the Union so effectively from Brussels. Every staff counts, has a personality of her/his own, and brings the richness of her/his personality and of his/her nationality to this pinnacle of European integration that is the Commission. At least that is what the Commission leadership tells them once a year, on Europe Day – 9 May if you did not know it, shame on you – and on other special occasions as required. For the purposes of this story, though, we will not be able to assign personal names to the staff, so we will refer to them with numbers, as "Staff 1", "Staff 2" – you get the point. You will of course see their personalities coming through their actions and reactions to what they are asked to do.
Finally, above the earth's surface, there is the rest of the European Institutions in plain view. It is the European leadership, including the Commission, the Council, the Parliament, and Member States. They come in, occasionally, as the story unfolds. Of course the main interlocutor of The+1 is his immediate boss, the President. But wait, which President… The+1 has a quadruple reporting line – yes, it could be the cause of a quadruple bypass for any normal person, but The+1 can handle it – to the President of the Commission – CommPres for short; the President of the Council – CounPres for short; the President of the European parliament – ParlPres for short; and the President or Prime Minister of the country that holds the rotating Presidency of the European Council. Apologies, we are really sorry, this last title cannot be simplified much, so the only kind of short name we could come up with is "This Semester's Country President"…
All these most senior people come to The+1 with their requests, and they want their thing done straight away. They usually come as voices over the phone, because they do not want to betray the The+1's existence, nor to stain their reputation, in case something goes wrong and the whole clandestine operation becomes public… They have been spoilt to expect perfect service and absolute discretion from The+1 and his team. Because they deliver, unlike other EU offices, which either deal with trivial things, or are there for the showing, for the sake of political and national balances. So The+1 may not officially exist, but his reputation is really stellar.
[1] There are some interesting elements in the set up of the Commissioner's broader office, from the size of the individual offices according to rank to details like the Commission photo that The+1 has on his desk and which includes him obviously Photoshopped in, with his typical dark glasses.
The EU's Nobel Prize [in late 2012, remember?]
CLARE:
+1, you have a call from the President. It seems to be urgent…
THE+1:
-What is it again? I am tired of getting all their impossible jobs to do here. Why can't anybody else do their job in this establishment? And in any case, which President is it this time?
-Your most immediate boss, Sir, the CommPres, and I cannot keep him waiting any longer.
-OK, OK, I will take it; pass him on. And tell the Chief, the DCC and SAD to come to my office and listen in.
-Yes Sir.
-Mr. President, what a pleasant surprise! What made you remember our humble office here in the basement on this bright day?
COMMPRES:
– Bright day, what bright day? First of all, this is Brussels and there are no bright days. And if there are, we do not notice them, because the Union is in turmoil and our days are dark and miserable. Haven't you heard of the problems of the European South and of our financial system that is falling apart?
– Of course, Mr. President, I am closely following all this. But I am confident that you ultimately have it all under control, with the European Central Bank, several Commissioners, all government leaders and even the IMF involved. I thought that things are already on the mend.
– I am glad that you got that impression, because we are trying to put on a brave face. Hopefully the people are buying it, and the markets too. But you should know better, my old friend. I wake up in the morning, and sometimes in the middle of the night, wet in sweat, thinking that the European Union has fallen apart under my watch. Then I google my name online and read Wikepedia. If it says that I am still the European Commission President I go back to bed, or get up and get ready for the office.
-Anyway, back to our business. We need to boost the morale of the Union and to rally the markets. We need a piece of good news that will displace all the bad news from the TV screens. Instead of protests against austerity and strikes I want to see people celebrating on the streets. I want to see them holding my portrait without red lines crossing it out and without strange moustaches added to my face and to the faces of other EU leaders…
-So I was discussing with my Cabinet Chief and a few others and we had a couple of ideas that I wanted to share with you. Once we have discussed them all, you and I will chose one, and you will implement it, with absolute discretion, as we very well know you can.
– Of course Mr. President, of course. I am all ears.
[nod to his Chief, DCC and SAD to relax and "enjoy"…]
– The first idea was to get a distraction. Something positive that will make people forget all the bad news and focus on something lighter and happier. Like the weeding of Prince William and Clare. It gave at least a couple of easy-going days to the UK government in the middle of their austerity spree; that is no small thing. But we could not agree on whom we could bring into holy matrimony with a pan-European joyous effect. Any idea?
– Mr. President, you caught me unprepared. I do not have a list of eligible bachelors and bachelorettes in front of me. I'll just throw up something off the top of my head: Perhaps Mr. Berlusconi with a young Italian model? I believe he is divorced and available again. Or Ms. Merkel with a South European leader? That would be the union of the century and would bring peace between European North and South. Is she married, by the way? I am not sure about her marital status.
– Good ideas, my friend. But Mr. Berlusconi is no longer in government, and he is a bit controversial as you know. As for Ms. Merkel, she had time to get married, twice to be precise, and remains married, believe it or not. We need some other celebrities' union.
-Anyway, while you are thinking of it, let me tell you about our other option:
Something to do with sports. You know how people love sports. Perhaps we could
organize something like pan-European games, a kind of EU Olympics. We could have a spectacular opening ceremony praising the work of the Commission and then award a lot of gold medals to keep everybody happy. Or we could arrange for a European team to win an international contest. Is any such contest coming up in football or basketball? And then we can invite them for a victory parade in Brussels, not only Madrid or Rome or wherever they may come from. What do you think?
[Making signs to his people that the CommPres has lost it, or something like that.]
– Another great idea, Mr. President. But it would take some time to organize another Olympics, even if it is only for the EU. The regular ones take six years to prepare. Wouldn't this one take a year or two? I think that we need something more immediate here. As for the any upcoming international contest, I think that the Europeans won the latest Ryder Cup, the US – Europe golf tournament, but not many people noticed. I cannot think of something else big coming up soon.
– Well, let me know if you think of something. Let me go to the other option in the meantime: Something cultural, let's say another Eurovision contest but for EU countries only. We can do that and encourage competing singers and songwriters to write something in praise of Europe, so that the songs have a broadly common theme. And the winner will be received by me and the other leaders of the European Union, and will be part of our family photo at the next EU Summit. What do you think of that?
– Mr. President, I admire the range of options that you have come up with. One is better than the other [signaling the opposite to his Chief, DCC, SAD and Clare, who has also joined in], and this one is no exception. I am only worried that it would need time and money, and songwriters may not be happy with the imposition of a theme. We already have an EU anthem, from an old and quite deceased composer I believe, so we cannot offer them that, which would be the ultimate incentive.
– Ok, ok, I get you. Let me now get to the last and perhaps craziest option.
[Gesturing to his colleagues "What are we going to hear now?" and holding his hair not to fall]
COMMPRESS:
– One of my staff when we were discussing this said why not persuade the Norwegians to give the Nobel Peace Prize to the EU, for all the good things that it has done. I thought it was crazy, and remembered how we handled the former Yugoslavia and Kosovo, and could not see us getting it. But he came back and said why, is the United Nations any better? They have got so many Nobel prizes, and see how messy the situations are where the UN has intervened in Africa and elsewhere? Or was Obama better when he got it, a few months into his first term?
– My guy insists that we have a chance…
DCC – THE+1:
[The+1 gets a paper from his DCC, which says that she may be able to do something about this one. Her being from the North lends credibility to this assertion.]
– Mr. President, let me see what I can do about this last proposal. It sounds crazy but I would like to explore if it may by any chance be feasible, through some channels that I have. Give me a few days to do that. I will be thinking of your other options too, in case I come up with something helpful.
– Thank you +1. I expect to hear back from you in 48 hours. I know that I can rely on you.
– Ciao.
– Ciao Mr. President. Always at your service.
[Makes sure that the CommPres has hung up and then turns to his staff:]
-What can we do about this? It sounds crazy to me. But DCC says that she has some connections that may prove useful. Tell us more DCC.
DCC:
– As you know, we are small countries and quite close up there in the European North. I have a good contact in the Prime Minister's Office in Norway, and another one in the Royal Household. I can contact them and see how they respond to the idea.
-OK DCC, I expect to hear from you at tomorrow's senior staff meeting at 9 am. I hope that you have some good news to tell us. The DG and her Deputy will also be there, so we can engage them if we need their help with something.


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Shadow Ritual Q&A
An electrifying thriller about the rise of extremism. Two ritual murders—one in Rome and one in Jerusalem—rekindles an ancient rivalry between modern-day secret societies for knowledge lost at the fall of the Third Reich. Detective Antoine Marcas unwillingly teams up with the strong-willed Jade Zewinski to chase Neo-Nazi assassins across Europe. They must unravel an arcane mystery, sparked by information from newly revealed KGB files. Inspired from the true story of mysterious Freemason files thought to hold a terrible secret, stolen by the SS in 1940, recovered by the Red Army in 1945 and returned half a century later. First in a hugely successful series that has sold over 1.5 million copies in France and is translated into seventeen languages.
Shadow Ritual Blog Tour Q&A
1. How did the two of you come together to write SHADOW RITUAL?
Many things led us into this adventure. First of all, Jacques is a Freemason, and Eric had investigated scandals linked to freemasonry. We had two different visions of this brotherhood. Second, Eric had already written a mystery and his French publisher was encouraging him to write another one. Thirdly, we had known each other since our teenage years together spent in Toulouse, in the south of France, when we shared a passion for esoteric mysteries and secret societies. At the time, while others were flirting, we were exploring Cathar castles and Templar outposts, certain we would find some lost treasure, perhaps even the Holy Grail. We always kept a bit of that feeling of wonder. All of this came together with the idea of a Freemason inspector. Two other inspirations fed Shadow Ritual: the little known story of Freemason persecutions in Nazi-occupied France, and the true story of French Freemason archives stolen by the Nazis in 1940, recovered by the Soviets in 1945 and only returned to France in 2000. What secret did they hold?
2. How does the fact that Jacques is a Freemason and Eric is a Profane affect the portrayal of the relationships between your characters?
It gives us a more balanced view of freemasonry: one that is not too indulgent and not too full of fantasy.
3. What was the inspiration for the characters Antoine Marcas and Jade Zewinski?
Antoine embodies an upright Freemason who believes in his ideals, but is aware that the brotherhood is not perfect. He is always doubting, and that is his strength. Jade is hostile to freemasonry and challenges Marcas, by asking him all the questions the Profane have about this secret society.
4. The Inspector Marcas series is an international phenomenon! Has the success of the series changed your life?
The success of the series has allowed us the freedom to write and earn a living from it, which is a real luxury.
5. How did you decide to write a series with a freemason as the protagonist?
We though thrillers are an excellent way for readers to discover the world of freemasonry. Then, we were doubly lucky: at the time, nobody in France had had the idea of creating a positive Freemason protagonist, and Dan Brown published his Da Vinci Code a year before we brought out the first Antoine Marcas mystery in French. We were the first French authors to benefit from the Dan Brown effect.
6. SHADOW RITUAL deals with actual Freemason history and the potential implications of a breach; has SHADOW RITUAL ruffled some feathers?
At first, Jacques's brothers were a little thrown off. But over time, freemasons have become fervent supporters of Inspector Marcas. The rituals and meetings described in the books are genuine, and readers can understand a little bit more about the brotherhood.
7. How much research do you have to do, which are the most difficult types of scenes to research, and have you ever had to go to extreme or unusual lengths to research a scene?
We spend a lot of time in libraries, often in Freemason libraries, which have many rare books. We also meet with scholars. This is a fascinating part of the work, but it's important not to get lost in the research or to recount too much of what we found in books. The hard part is building a plot and adjusting the mechanism to work like clockwork.
8. What are you reading now?
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a fascinating book about the unforeseeable events that change the destinies of nations.
9. Who or what has influenced your style of writing?
Jacques's influences are very literary, as he was a French professor and a Paul Valery scholar. Eric's are more thrillers (both books and movies).
10. What's up next for you, Eric?
I'm heading to New York for Thrillerfest in July. I can't wait to meet other thriller writers. And next year, there will be another Antoine Marcas thriller in English, one with surprising Freemason information about the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower.
11. What's up next for you, Jacques?
Las Vegas in August to celebrate my son's twenty-first birthday, and shared impatience with Eric for the next Marcas adventure.
luminous March 24, 2015 at 6:20 PM
Thank you for this incredible review and interview! I can't wait to read this book! ;)
A Soccer Mom's Book Blog March 25, 2015 at 7:22 AM
Thanks you. I think I would have let this book pass me by had I not read the interview. Now I also am anxious to get a copy of the book.
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Juan in a Million trailer checks all the houses
Pacific Sunset Pictures has released a trailer for its upcoming last-man-on-earth tale.
Juan Garcia is about to embark on the journey that is his life and career. Unfortunately, everything changes the day he applies to Harvard. The city is empty when he wakes up, and he has nothing to do but survive in an empty city while investigating what happened to everyone else.
The film is an indie production, and it shows. The production values are low, but the film was written in such a way that no special effects are needed, just clear streets. This lends a certain competence to the film, even if it restricts how impressive the fantastic elements can be.
It seems like most of the plot will deal with Juan and his mental state, as he becomes increasingly desperate and frantic while he searches for other people. Is he really alone, we wonder, and if he does finally find someone, are they real? Or has his desperate mind fabricated them?
It's not a new story, surely, but the last-man story is a still a relatively fertile ground for fresh themes and new ways to tell the tale.
As with most indie films, there is no way to tell how much quality is really in it, especially since it's a genre production, which almost never win any awards at the festivals, even if they are very good. So, while Juan in a Million has racked up no awards, that doesn't necessarily mean anything about how good it might be.
Juan in a Million is currently touring the festival circuit, and will be released on home video in early 2013. Currently there are no plans for a limited theatrical run.
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Submarine Squadron 15 Supports Sister Village in Typhoon Mangkhut Recovery
by Lt. Lauren Spaziano
COMSUBRON
Sailors assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron (COMSUBRON) 15 and Performance Monitoring Team detachment (PMT det) Guam volunteered time to assist with typhoon recovery in the command's sister village of Inarajan, Sept. 17-19.
The command dedicated 20 volunteers over a three-day period in a collaborative effort with the Inarajan mayor's office to clear fallen trees and brush following Typhoon Mangkhut, which hit the island Sept. 10.
"After the storm, we knew we wanted to reach out to our sister village and offer our assistance," said Capt. Timothy Poe, COMSUBRON 15. "They've always been welcoming and supportive, and I am glad we were able to send some volunteers to help them. We all live on this beautiful island, and we do what every good neighbor would do: we help each other out in times of need."
The collaborative recovery effort was an opportunity for the Sailors and their families to engage with the residents of Inarajan and foster relationships between the military and local community. It also allowed the village to recover at a quicker pace.
"It really touches my heart for you folks to come down here and help us during the typhoon recovery efforts," said Inarajan Mayor Doris Lujan. "I really appreciate each and every one of you for helping the community."
COMSUBRON 15 and PMT det Guam volunteers included Sailors, family members, and friends, and they were joined by the staff of the Inarajan mayor's office. Together, they cleared fallen trees, brush and trash along Route 4 in Malojloj and Inarajan as well as three side roads. Residents thanked the volunteers for assisting with the clean-up as they came by clearing debris.
"The clean-up was a wonderful experience," said Electronics Technician (Navigation) 1st Class Alex Hepburn, a volunteer from COMSUBRON 15. "Our volunteers came together with our sister village to achieve the same goal. It was a great opportunity, and I loved working side by side with the hardworking people of Inarajan."
The mayor's office provided lunch for volunteers on all three days and plans to throw a fiesta to celebrate the teamwork between the Sailors and the village during the recovery efforts.
"On behalf of the community of Inarajan and the mayor's office and staff, I would like to express our big 'thank you' for helping us with the typhoon recovery efforts," said Lujan. "This is really great for the community and the partnership we have with the submarine squadron."
COMSUBRON 15 participates in volunteer events with Inarajan throughout the year, fostering the strong relationship between the Sailors and the local community. The command plans to assist Inarajan with the Guam International Coastal Cleanup on Sept. 29, which was rescheduled from Sept. 15 due to the typhoon.
"The submarine squadron is always there with us, and we really appreciate it," said Lujan. "Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."
COMSUBRON 15 Sailors and family members join other service members from Indo-Pacific Command in providing Department of Defense support and working with Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands' civil and local officials for Typhoon Mangkhut recovery efforts.
COMSUBRON 15 is located at Polaris Point, Naval Base Guam in Apra Harbor, Guam, and consists of four Los Angeles-class attack submarines. The squadron staff is responsible for providing training, material and personnel readiness support to these commands. Also based out of Naval Base Guam are submarine tenders USS Frank Cable (AS 40) and USS Emory S. Land (AS 39). The submarines and tenders are maintained as part of the U.S. Navy's forward-deployed submarine force and are readily capable of meeting global operational requirements.
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At the Cook Islands Development Agency New Zealand (CIDANZ) we have been working alongside Cook Islands and Pacific families over the past 10 years to help them harness an enterprising spirit that lifts them and their communities, while providing a measure of financial sustainability to realise their dreams.
On June 18th, with the support of Pacific Business Trust, 17 Pacific families came together to launch the very first Pacific Cooperative at the Pasifika Social Enterprise Symposium. The story behind the Cooperapig – a Cooperative 'Pig' Enterprise – started with a conversation between community friends. One, a landowner, desiring to utilise her land assets to support community-led development; another, a Cook Islands woman leader; and an enterprising Tongan business woman, who happened to know of family members who could no longer travel everyday from Manurewa to Hobsonville to care for their 50 plus pigs.
These community women pooled their various resources, intelligence, connections and capacities in just under three weeks to give a new home to as many of the pigs as could be caught and transported. They rallied their communities to establish a cooperation among 19 (and growing) families to re-fence a paddock, build shelters and establish a daily pig care and feeding roster for 15 weaners and 5 sows, three of whom we found out were pregnant when we got them on-site.
The vision of the Co-operapig is to enable families and Cooperative members to make a contribution, work with other families, reconnect with the land, learn new skills and knowledge, rather than just consume, and benefit from eating and gifting a cheaper price of pork that they themselves own and have loved and cared for. New Zealand urban lifestyles means that our families are fast losing the connection to the land and nature. Our traditional knowledge about where food comes from, environmental awareness, and an understanding of what it takes to grow and produce food that is healthy in all ways is not being passed down to our children. We want to change all of that with pigs.
Its business model is based on a recognition that we are a mixed group of people from different backgrounds, professions and experiences, and the richness of our shared knowledge, skills and resources we all contribute and commit as individuals to the pigs and one another makes this work fun and rewarding in so many ways. It is a strengths-based or asset-based approach that starts from a place of where people know something (whether about pigs, animal husbandry and welfare, trades, self-sufficient lifestyles, finance, law, environmental management, supply chains, council and industry rules and regulations, and so on) that they can contribute to the development and success of the Cooperapig. This provides a platform they are happy to occupy because they have experience and confidence in themselves as individuals and what they bring to the Cooperapig – our pigs, our member families, and our wider communities.
The Co-operapig is only three months old, and a great example of enterprising communities. For more information on the Co-operapig, contact us at janet@cidanz.co.nz.
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I used the Otter wax and the smoothie tool on a a canvas bag I just sewed. It worked great. A but of "elbow grease" and a hair dryer and my bag looks and smells delicious.
Waxed bibs and jackets with this stuff. Love it.
The tool worked really well in smoothing out the wax and scraping off the excess along the seams. Made the job go quickly!
Excellent tool, completely made using Otter Wax's "Fabric Dressing" much easier and faster. Would fully recommend!


For this beautiful Friday we have the brand spanking new book trailer for Rachele Alpine's forthcoming debut novel, CANARY. This trailer is intense and I cannot wait to get my hands on a copy of the book!
Isn't that awesome?!? And if you are so inclined, you can head on over to Icey Books and enter her giveaway for an annotated ARC of the book!
Thanks so much for the CANARY love and featuring my trailer! Woot woot! You rock!


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Along the 1.6-kilometre mine walk around the Great Pit, visitors experience many exciting views of the area and the historic World Heritage town of Falun.
© Per Eriksson
Underground Europe
Mining Area of the Great Copper Mountain in Falun, Sweden
Falun, Sweden
A tour of the Falun mine is a trip through history - it was once one of the world's most important mining areas. The mine dates back over 1,000 years and at its peak in the 17th century, it accounted for 70% of the western world's copper production. As the major producer of copper, Sweden exerted a strong influence on the technological, economic, social, and political development of Europe.
The journey into the Falun copper mine begins with a yellow or orange helmet and a cape. – © Jeanette Hägglund
Falun Mine was the world's major producer of copper in the 17th century and had a large influence on mining technology across the globe. Many of Europe's greatest buildings, including the Palace of Versailles, were roofed with Falun copper. The mine also helped Sweden become an economic powerhouse in the region.
At its peak, 1,000 Swedish workers worked below the surface in the mines. At the end of the day, they would light fires which would burn overnight and help the ore break loose in the morning. It meant the deep tunnels were usually hot and dirty, creating a challenging environment for workers. They would move forward about one metre each month.
The Falun Mine is one of Sweden's most important industrial monuments and you can spend a whole day exploring the site. Descending into the depths of its underground tunnels with your orange raincoat and helmet, you will hear captivating stories and legends of the hardships and heroes of the mine's history. On the surface, the enormous 'Great Pit' dominates the landscape, which was caused by a cave-in on Midsummer's Eve in 1687, fortunately when all the miners were off enjoying the festivities. The 1.6km-long trail around the Great Pit is a popular spot for walking and learning more about the site's history. The mine's museum is an interactive source of information and science which caters well for children. And while it is a mining site, you can still experience stylish Scandinavian design at the site's newly renovated restaurant , 'fika' café and gift store. The old miners' quarters are located nearby, where you can explore beautiful neighbourhoods of wooden houses painted in Falun red.
A Walk Deep into History
Come along on an adventure down into the Falun Mine. Walk through the winding passages and experience the mighty chambers—every corner is loaded with the history of a country and a continent.
This log house, called the fire hut, is a copy of an 18th century building and serves as the entrance to the underground mine. – © Anna Kompanieitseva / Shutterstock
There is something in Falun for everyone. Children and adults can spend days experiencing one of Europe's most crucial periods. Preserved just as it was one thousand years ago, today the mine buzzes with action and activity. People live, work, eat, stroll, and shop in the middle of the World Heritage Site.
A World of Copper
Falun Mine and its copper were important for financing Sweden's period as a great power. In the 17th century, it was known as "the treasure and cashbox of the kingdom," and, as such, it was filled with stories and tales.
Guests will hear the fascinating story of the miner Fat Mats, whose well-preserved body was found in the mine in 1719—42 years after he had been killed by a rock fall. Another tale is about the red paint that decorates so many houses in this region; it exists thanks to the Falun Mine. The iron ochre from the mine has been used since the 17th century and is regarded as the paint that gave Sweden its colour.
The traditional red paint is produced by Falu Rödfärg at the on-site factory. – © Richard Lindor
Over in the museum, visitors get elbow deep in an interactive exhibition that takes them through the site's history. They can also explore the signposted Mine Walk around the Great Pit with viewpoints across the landscape. There are several unique buildings, including the area around the Creutz shaft, which has one of Sweden's best-preserved collections of mine structures from the mid-19th century.
Heritage Abounds Above and Below the Surface
Apart from the mine, there is much more to experience at the Falun World Heritage Site, which includes the mine, the town, the master miners' landscape, flower gardens, and beautiful mansions. The well-preserved district of Elsborg with its wooden buildings makes for an attractive walk from the centre of Falun to the mine. Here you can see some of Falun's oldest buildings, including the smallest miner's cottage in Falun.
The Elsborg neigbourhood is where the miners once lived. – © Magnus Sjöberg
If arriving by plane, Stockholm's Arlanda Airport is 200 kilometres from the city of Falun. A comfortable train ride will take you to Falun's centre. The mine is walking distance of the city's central tourist area.
A 20-minute walk through the vibrant neighbourhood of Elsborg, with its small, red woodenhouses, will take you to Falun Mine. Public transport is limited.
You also have the opportunity to rent a car and drive from the airport for approximately 2.5 hours directly to Falun Mine.
Falun Mine is open all year. The peak tourist season runs between June and September. The average temperature in July is 18 degrees Celsius and in January -6 degrees Celsius. A visit in the mine will take you 67 metres below ground level. The temperature in the mine is always 5 degrees Celsius, no matter what time of year.
In the summer, you can enjoy great music events as well as the festivals and folklore in Dalarna. Winter offers opportunities to combine a visit with skiing and skating. And, don't miss the chance to visit Santa. He lives in Mora, only an hour drive away.
Since there is so much to see and explore in Falun and its surroundings, we recommend car rental. This makes it possible to drive to some of the local activities and sites, such as gardens, food producers, festivals, and museums.
The tourism information office, in Falun centre, can offer personalised advice about itineraries that include the region's nature, culture, and history. Also, Falun Mine's professional staff is always ready to help.
Sights and Attractions recommended by the locals
Map of the Falun Mine Area
VISITOR CENTER:
1st of October to 30th of April
Tuesday – Friday:
1st of May to 16th of June
17th of June to 18th of August
Monday – Sunday:
19th of August to 29th of September
MINE MUSEUM:
Monday – Friday: Closed
Saturday - Sunday:
Monday - Sunday:
Guided Tours in the mine take one hour and are available year around, visit our website for information and booking at FaluGruva.se
1st of May to 30th of September
Guided tour under ground (includes activities above ground):
SEK230 adults
SEK200 students/seniors
SEK100 children (age 3–15 years)
SEK600 families (2 adults + 2 children)
Above ground only:
SEK60 children (age 3–15 years)
Under ground (includes above ground):
SEK80 adults
SEK40 children (age 3-15 years)


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After a player taunted him with anti-gay slurs, this gutsy ref responded by coming out.
Eric March
Bill Kennedy is one of the most accomplished referees in the NBA, having officiated over 1,000 games across 18 seasons.
Kennedy, right, has a no-doubt extremely measured and polite discussion with Allen Iverson. Photo by Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images.
Two weeks ago, Kennedy was on the receiving end of a truly ugly rant from a player who disagreed with a call.
Rajon Rondo. Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images.
After Kennedy ejected Sacramento Kings guard Rajon Rondo from the game, Rondo wheeled on the ref and unleashed a torrent of anti-gay slurs, as first reported by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports:
"In the game officials' report used as part of the NBA's investigation — which includes details provided to Yahoo Sports from National Basketball Referee's Association general counsel Lee Seham — Kennedy and fellow referee Ben Taylor described Rondo's post-ejection diatribe as including the statements: "You're a mother------- faggot. … You're a f------ faggot, Billy."
Instead of quietly letting Rondo's outburst blow over, however, Kennedy issued a bold statement: He came out of the closet.
Yes, Kennedy told Yahoo! Sports. I am gay. I'm proud of it. And that matters.
"'I am proud to be an NBA referee and I am proud to be a gay man,' Kennedy told Yahoo Sports on Sunday night. 'I am following in the footsteps of others who have self-identified in the hopes that will send a message to young men and women in sports that you must allow no one to make you feel ashamed of who you are.'"
In a time of amazing gains for LGBTQ Americans, professional sports is one of the few remaining areas where equality is still lagging.
Considering how slow progress has been toward LGBTQ equality and visibility in American pro sports, Kennedy's defiance is remarkable and courageous. According to OutSports, Kennedy is only the third referee employed by any of the major U.S. sports leagues — baseball, basketball, football, and hockey — to come out of the closet.
Gay bashing is still an all too common occurrence in the locker room and on the field. As a result, only one male professional athlete in any of the four major league U.S. sports — Jason Collins — has come out publicly while on an active roster.
Things are changing for the better — but slowly.
Jason Collins played in the NBA for 13 seasons. Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images.
Some professional sports franchises have taken baby steps toward ending the culture of homophobia in sports. Some have begun sponsoring LGBTQ events, despite fan backlash. Others have taken more symbolic steps, like featuring gay couples on the "kiss cam," and putting an end to stadium traditions that cast LGBTQ relationships as punch lines.
It's progress. But we're not there yet.
That's why Kennedy's impassioned response is so important.
Bill Kennedy, showing up Kobe, like you do. Photo by Doug Pensinger/Getty Images.
The more players, referees, general managers, and owners come out, the harder it will be for even the most resistant athletes to view comments like Rondo's as acceptable. And more young LGBTQ people will feel empowered to become involved in sports and reshape the culture from the ground up.
As Kennedy so eloquently put it:
"You must allow no one to make you feel ashamed of who you are."
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The second week of vacation. We visited our friends Erik and Jessica with their Stella down on the east coast of Sweden – Västervik. Took the chance to go out to Idö in Tjust archipelago and get a new farmer's tan as well as some nice photos of the archipelago.
Tjust archipelago on the east coast of Sweden. It's easy to go, just take the boat from Västervik (about 100 SEK one way).
For lunch with a view, stop at Idö and get yourself some smoked shrimps, Skagenröra or smoked salmon. Call a head if you want to have the best seats in the house. It tends to be crowded and booked.
Enjoy the view at Idö or read a book, if you know Swedish.
Go out to Idö on the first boat in the morning and you'll have plenty of time to walk around and enjoy the views, weather, lunch and ice cream before you head back to Västervik. If you forget to put on sun lotion – you'll get a farmer's tan. Without any doubt.
Nearby the train station in Västervik you'll find a pretty epic church. It's even interesting for us atheists. Just look at it! This week I've been @Sweden on Twitter, a something you can read more about right here. And if you want to find out more about Sweden or plan to VisitSweden – just hit the two previous links to find out more.


We're delighted to share the photos from last weeks shoot. We're really pleased with how it all looks and hope you like the kitchen as much as we do!
We've tried to include a lots of details but there's so much that goes into a project like this, it's tricky to mention it all. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
This characterful cottage is set in the heart of Knaphill. Once the village sweet shop, it's since been extended into a beautiful family home. The kitchen is a focal point within the house, linking the dining and TV room to create a fluid, flexible and really user friendly living area.
The cabinetry is a traditional shaker style design with additional beading around the door and drawer frames. It's made from solid tulip wood and painted in The Little Greene's "Slaked Lime Mid".
There are 3 bespoke solid walnut cutlery trays in each of the top drawers.
The kitchen features a mobile pastry block on casters which can be moved into the centre of the room to act as an island or set back to one side to allow more space.
The glazed dresser displays all the glassware and incorporates a stunning burr walunt tray in the bottom.
The use of walnut naturally compliments the pale cabinetry and is throughout the kitchen with a 40 mm thick solid stave worktop, a walnut kick board and a stunning wood interior.
The kitchen also boasts a double larder with wooden spice racks, shelving, baskets and a drawer.
The French style fridge, wine cooler and cooker are all Rangemaster appliances. The sink is a Franke granite composite under mount with a Churchmans ceramic handle tap.
Stunning slate tiles have been used for the flooring and Fired Earth "Contignac Merlot" tiles provide the striking splash back behind the range cooker.
A huge thank you to Louise Bushell Photography for all our fab photos!
We've got lots going on at the moment and one of the biggest highlights for us this week was the installation of our new heater at the barn. It will have a dual role - burning all our waste and treating it in the process so that it doesn't emit any toxic fumes. It will also heat the entire barn (2000 sq feet) and keep the guys nice and warm through the winter! Last year was a bit chilly in there to say the least!!
It's been a busy day taking lovely pics of one of our recent kitchen projects. We'll share the professional photos with you next week however this is just a sneaky peak of what we've been up to today!


Betty White, Dan Fogelman and Andy Serkis were also honored at the Friday ceremony.
Just before this year's Oscars, at the publicist awards, campaigns for films like Get Out, Wonder Woman and Black Panther were celebrated for highlighting the feature's cultural relevance, leading to commercial success.
At the Friday afternoon ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hilton, Universal's publicity team took home the top feature's prize for their work on Get Out, which will vie for best picture on Sunday, while Netflix's second season of Stranger Things won for the best publicity campaign in television.
Cloris Leachman presented Betty White with the afternoon's Lifetime Achievement Award, remembering the first time she met White was on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Leachman listed off White's long list of career highlights, concluding: "To celebrate her 90th birthday, NBC threw her a televised party... they didn't give me one."
While White wasn't there to accept the award in person, over a pre-recorded video she said: "I have been in this business for more than 70 years, I know how important it is to have a good team."
"I am fairly confidant he has never farted," said Television Showman of the Year Award winner Dan Fogelman of his presenter and This Is Us star Milo Ventimiglia. "I am viciously camera shy and perpetually 11 pounds overweight and somehow the people who do what you all do in this room make me look good."
Andy Serkis, joked about his was given the Motion Picture Showman of the Year award by her Planet of the Apes director Matt Reeves.
Scott Garfield and Jennifer Rose Clasen received awards for Excellence in Still Photography, presented by Academy president John Bailey, who made a joke about being nervous he got the "wrong" envelope.
The Les Mason Award was given to Warner Bros.' Jan Craft. The International Media Award was presented to Alex Zane, while the Carri McClure received the Bob Yeager Award for Community Service.


The statistics are alarmingthe incidence of diabetes in the general population and pregnancy in particular is on the rise. As a result, the need for effective treatments to control the blood glucose level in pregnant diabetic women is likely to grow.
Employing effective strategies for controlling blood glucose levels before, during, and after pregnancy are essential to diabetic womens care. A Practical Guide to Insulin Pump Therapy for Pregnancy provides valuable information that will minimize complications and enhance a pregnant womans life.
To what extent is diabetes a problem?
What risks does diabetes pose to pregnant women?
What risks does diabetes pose to developing babies?
How has insulin therapy in nonpregnant people been modified to treat pregnant women?
What modalities are available currently for insulin therapy for pregnant diabetic women?
What do research studies show regarding pregnancy outcomes in treated diabetic women?
What are health-care teams' roles in treating pregnant diabetic women?
What do research studies show regarding how different insulin therapies affect health outcomes in diabetic people?
What do research studies show regarding pregnancy outcomes in diabetic women who use modern insulin formulations, devices, and protocols?
Meeting the need for studies and protocols that report the pregnancy outcomes in diabetic women who use modern insulin formulations and delivery devices?
Part Three: Why consider using insulin pump therapy during pregnancy?
What should an ideal technique for insulin therapy achieve?
What do research studies that compare insulin pump therapy to multiple injection therapy show?
What do research studies show regarding comparing insulin pump therapy to long-acting insulin analogs?
For which types of diabetes during pregnancy can insulin pumps be used?
Is an insulin pump really the way to go?
Pump start: before or during pregnancy?
What do research studies show regarding comparing regular insulin's action to rapid-acting insulin analogs?
What do research studies regarding the maternal blood glucose profile during pregnancy show?
How frequently should pregnant diabetic women monitor their blood glucose levels?
Assessing maternal blood glucose exposure, variability, or both, during pregnancy?
What do research studies show regarding the effect that maternal blood glucose level during pregnancy has on fetal growth?
Can the fetal health effects of maternal hyperglycemia during pregnancy be reversed?
Why not depend during pregnancy on maternal self-monitoring blood glucose only?
Could a specific hyperglycemia episode have been prevented?
New ideas and techniques for diagnosing and treating common medical conditions develop constantly—developments that if health-care practitioners and people who have these conditions are aware of, can contribute to good health outcomes.
If these medical conditions occur in young women, questions invariably arise, regarding if, when, and how new techniques should be used during pregnancy—diabetes, arguably, is one such medical condition. During pregnancy, changes in women's metabolism affect how carbohydrates in general—and glucose, the most important carbohydrate involved in human metabolism, in particular—are handled by their bodies.
Worldwide, the number of people who have diabetes is rising. In the United States alone, between 1980 and 2006, the number of people less than forty-five years old who were known to have diabetes increased from 5.6 to 16.8 million. Although the frequency with which type 1 (formerly termed juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent) diabetes is being diagnosed has increased only modestly, recently, type 2 (formerly termed adult-onset or noninsulin-dependent) diabetes is being diagnosed much more frequently.
The distinction in terminology (i.e., type 1 or 2) is important for at least two reasons. First, if practitioners recognize the diabetes type, it focuses their attention on potential strategies for treating their patients. For example, insulin resistance is an important contributor to hyperglycemia (abnormally elevated blood glucose level) in people who are obese or have type 2 diabetes; therefore, treatments that reduce insulin resistance have the potential to play a significant role in their treatment. Typically, insulin resistance is not a major contributor to hyperglycemia in people who have type 1 diabetes or who are not obese (albeit racial differences influence this); therefore, treatments that are based primarily on reducing insulin resistance may not benefit them as much.
Second, recognizing the diabetes type is more accurate for descriptive and statistical purposes. For example, recently, type 2 diabetes has been diagnosed more frequently in children and adolescents. These are juveniles, not adults. Further, persons who have severe or long-standing type 2 diabetes may eventually become dependent on insulin therapy to maintain their health and—ultimately—life; thus, at this stage they become insulin-dependent. Also, occasionally type 1 diabetes begins in adulthood.
The surge in type 2 diabetes prevalence is fueled by an increasing obesity rate and sedentary lifestyles, both in children and adults. Many other people have less severe—although not medically insignificant—blood glucose elevation or insulin resistance. All these individuals are vulnerable, albeit to different extent, to long-term hyperglycemia complications.
Diabetes imposes a heavy health and economic burden. In 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the National Institutes of Health in the United States estimated that in the United States alone, diabetes has been diagnosed in approximately 24 million people. In 2007, in the United States alone, direct and indirect expenses related to diabetes were estimated to have been almost $175 billion. It is estimated that almost 6 million people have the disease but may not be aware that they do, and approximately 57 million people may have prediabetes—the earliest stage of diabetes.
People, who have prediabetes, do not have hyperglycemia throughout the day, but only when they are fasting (for example, when they wake up in the morning) or for some time immediately after they consume carbohydrates.
Given these trends, the need for effective ideas and treatments to control the blood glucose level in diabetic women—including during their pregnancies—is likely to grow.
Among reproductive age women, even those who are not actively trying to conceive may accidentally get pregnant because their contraceptive methods are ineffective. If diabetes is poorly controlled before or during pregnancy, a woman and her developing baby may be exposed to adverse effects from poor blood glucose control. Fortunately, pregnancy outcomes can be improved if diabetes is well controlled.
Compared to pregnant nondiabetic women, pregnant diabetic women are at higher risk for episodes and complications from severe hypoglycemia (abnormally low blood glucose reactions), multiple hospital stays, and hyperglycemia complications—worsening underlying diabetic end-organ disease, diabetic ketoacidosis, and higher likelihood to experience hypertension, anemia, infections, cesarean delivery, and poor wound healing.
The period in diabetic women's lives during which they are pregnant is relatively short, and their pregnancies usually end satisfactorily—relieved health-care teams, happy and grateful mothers, and living and apparently healthy babies. Even if diabetic women's blood glucose control during pregnancy was poor, attention often was focused almost entirely on their developing babies—not on them. Subsequently, live infants' births were seen as ample success, and the mothers' health-care teams were considered to have fully met their responsibilities.
Usually after these births, the mothers' health-care teams are different from their children's; thus, there often is not an opportunity—sometimes, not even an interest—for the same practitioners to attempt to identify important events that occurred before and during pregnancy and to connect them to health problems that develop later in these children's lives.
Previously, most people assumed that if diabetic women's babies were born alive and without malformed organs, they had escaped long-term or permanent adverse effects from maternal and fetal hyperglycemia and fetal hyperinsulinemia (abnormally high blood insulin level). Now, however, we know that this is not the whole story.
Traditionally, only developing babies' short term adverse effects from hyperglycemia—a fetal diabetic disease syndrome —were considered to be clinically significant; for example, fetal organ malformation, abnormal fetal growth, and hypoglycemia episodes in newborn babies.
In fact, news that a baby has been born massively overweight—invariably its mother is diabetic—often is lauded in the media and by the lay public as an awesome triumph, rather than the sobering realization that this baby's obesity resulted from undiagnosed or poorly managed diabetes during pregnancy and may actually be a harbinger of that child's life being at higher risk for chronic ill health.
Substantial evidence has emerged to suggest that abnormal events during fetal developmental and growth may be the origin of childhood and adult cardiovascular and metabolic disease.3, 4 Thus, it is now widely appreciated, among other things, that babies that develop in an environment of persistent maternal hyperglycemia and/or intrauterine malnutrition are at increased risk for medical complications later in life.
Rightfully, this realization has led to a paradigm shift in how practitioners view poorly controlled diabetes during pregnancy, and its consequences—the fetal diabetic disease syndrome to which it may lead—and has resulted in more emphasis on how important it is for pregnant diabetic women to maintain normal blood glucose control before and for the full pregnancy duration—a goal that, with relevant knowledge and resources, can be achieved by many of these women.
Maintaining a normal blood glucose level before and during pregnancy is the most important strategy that practitioners and their diabetic patients can implement to ensure that these women's developing babies will be healthy.


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Holiday Farm Fire
This guide covers resources relating to wildfire and forest fires and in particular, relates to the 2020 Holiday Farm fire in Lane County Oregon
Dean Walton
Social: Flickr Page Twitter Page
Subjects: Biology, Environmental Studies, Geological Sciences, Knight Campus, Marine Biology, Medicine/Health, Molecular Biology, Psychology
The Holday Farm Fire
Getting and Using Images:
Flickr and Google Image Search are great places for finding images if you are not using your own. Many images are copyrighted and therefore most people would not legally be able to copy and use them. However, Flick and Google provide a way of searching for Creative Commons (CC) licensed images that can be used.
In Flickr use the search bar to find images on your topic then look on the left hand margin just under the search box for the Any License tab. Click on it and select the Creative Commons choice. You should then be able to download the image. The most common requirement is just to make sure you give attribution to the photographer/license holder in your project (bibliography).
Using Google Image Search, first search for your topic. Next look for the Tools tab about top center of page. Click on it, then select the Usage Rights tab that appears below and left of the previous tab and select Creative Commons Licenses.
Databases - Best Bets
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Provides access to both the Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts & Humanities Index. The database can be searched by words in article titles and abstracts, by author, by journal, and to look for cited references.
BioOne complete This link opens in a new window
Collection of high-impact bioscience research journals. The UO has full text
access to the journal titles that were formerly a part of the BioOne 1 collection.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Covers scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Access Google Scholar items from off-campus.
Limited to four simultaneous users. Please logout when you have finished. Text or data mining is prohibited in the Factiva database.
International business and general publications including the Wall Street Journal from 1979 to the present, financial profiles for companies worldwide and historical stock prices, as well as current data and market indexes.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories in the area of public affairs.
Topics covered include government, international relations, environment, political science, public administration and more.
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
FIRE ISSUES
http://climexp.knmi.nl/start.cgi
https://www.usgs.gov/products/data-and-tools/real-time-data/droughts
Wildfires and secondary fires
https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information
https://www.oregon.gov/ODF/Fire/Pages/FireStats.aspx
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/global/
https://datadryad.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=wildfire
http://lrapa.org/
https://www2.purpleair.com/
https://csl.noaa.gov/reviews/2015/presentations/33Kim.pdf
https://airquality.weather.gov/
https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://earth.nullschool.net/
https://nawqatrends.wim.usgs.gov/swtrends/
https://www.oregon.gov/dsl/WW/Pages/HUCMap.aspx
https://www.oregongeology.org/slido/index.htm
Tree Hazards
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd572690.pdf
https://landslides.usgs.gov/hazards/postfire_debrisflow/
HUMAN ECONOMICS
US Census Data: https://www.census.gov/data.html
Housing: https://www.oregon.gov/ohcs/housing-assistance/Pages/program-wildfire-damage-housing-relief.aspx
Power / Telecommunications: https://laneelectric.com/outages/holiday-farm-fire/
Poverty: https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/2334/wild_pov.pdf?sequence=1
Livestock: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/or/newsroom/releases/?cid=NRCSEPRD1655015
Pets: https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/emergencies/index.html
Hiking/fishing/hunting: https://myodfw.com/articles/2020-wildfires-impact-hunting-fishing-wildlife
Rafting/kayaking: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/44249
https://wildfire.oregon.gov/Pages/Recreation-Impacts.aspx
BIODIVERSITY ISSUES
https://oregonflora.org/
https://myodfw.com/
https://ebird.org/home
FEMA: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/current_events/102220.html
United Way: https://www.unitedway-pdx.org/resources-oregon-and-sw-washington-wildfires
Oregon Specific: https://www.fema.gov/fact-sheet/4562/recovery-update-oregon-wildfire-recovery-resources
Tree salvage: https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd572690.pdf
Tree planting: https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdf/hi_res/06771203hi.pdf
Slope stabilization: https://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/pdf/hi_res/06771203hi.pdf
URL: https://researchguides.uoregon.edu/c.php?g=1137219
Subjects: Environmental Studies


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I love the walk in closets.
We enjoy living here. The neighborhood is nice. There are very few problems that I am aware of. We enjoy the pool a lot in the summer. I wish it could stay open longer in September and that the lifeguards were more attentive. Townhouses are spacious. They give you warning in your mail slot when they are going to do general maintenance or when the township may be doing something like flushing hydrants.
I am a former tenant who does not recommend renting or will ever rent here again. They break their own lease rules. Keep looking...worst management and no accommodations nor sympathy from the property manager when you call in a complaint. Definitely no customer service skills from the leasing agents to the manager. People are leaving this place.
I would not recommend a person who is a nonsmoker, have asthma, babies or sensitive noses. I've been living here for over a year and cannot wait until my lease is up or I will be breaking it soon. A very nice lady moved in downstairs but smokes all day. I'm awaken by her smoking 3am, 4am and I smell it whenever she is home. My other names on the first floor cooks and their food smells horrible. I've complained many times for vent filters or to be relocated. Management never returns any urgent messages. Pretty much the entire staff I met when i signed my lease quit. I am so unhappy here. I plan on relocating. Other than not having no smoking apartments available and the horrible ventilation, the complex is clean. But if your concerned about your health, do not move here.
If you are thinking about moving in, think again. We cleaned out the bathroom fan and there was a ton of dirt in it. Called maitunence five times to fix my dryer. When it was finally fixed, they tore the linoleum putting it back. They came out, was here ten minutes, and received a call. Said they would be right back. Three days later I had to go to the office and complain, my floor was finally fixed then. Bathroom sink has cracks and stains. Mold in air vents. Asked when air filters for air conditioning unit and heater were changed, was told I needed to ask for that. Two out of three neighbors slam they're door every time they go in and out. No consideration for other people. Called office manager and she blew me off. Not even a sorry. If you care about your health, don't move in here. P.S. I will 've a former resident very soon.
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GREIF PROMOTES TWO TO SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT LEVEL
Greif, Inc. has announced the promotion of Mike Patton to senior vice president - Transformation Worldwide. Trevor Armstrong has also been promoted to senior vice president - Europe. Patton will remain located in Greif's offices in Delaware, OH, and Armstrong will stay in Greif's Vreeland office in the Netherlands. Both promotions are effective Nov. 1 and both will report to Greif's chairman and CEO, Michael Gasser. "As our businesses worldwide continue to grow, we need strong and decisive management in place at the appropriate level," Gasser says. "Trevor and Mike each have the leadership qualities and the business skills to sustain the progress we have made in transforming our company into a lean, market-focused manufacturer at all our locations internationally. They also have the vision to help us break through to the next level of success as we strive to be a low-cost, high-value supplier of packaging answers for our customers globally."
For more information, visit http://www.greif.com .
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using namespace foundation;

namespace renderer
{

//
// PixelSampleCountAOV class implementation.
//

namespace
{
    const char* PixelSampleCountAOVModel = "pixel_sample_count_aov";
}

PixelSampleCountAOV::PixelSampleCountAOV(const ParamArray& params)
  : UnfilteredAOV("pixel_sample_count", params)
  , m_min_spp(0)
  , m_max_spp(0)
{
}

const char* PixelSampleCountAOV::get_model() const
{
    return PixelSampleCountAOVModel;
}

void PixelSampleCountAOV::post_process_image(const Frame& frame)
{
    ColorMap color_map;
    color_map.set_palette_from_array(InfernoColorMapLinearRGB, countof(InfernoColorMapLinearRGB) / 3);

    //
    // At this point, the AOV is filled with real sample/pixel count values.
    //
    // If the Uniform Pixel Renderer is used, the AOV should be empty and
    // the exported AOV will be of a solid color depending on the used
    // color map.
    //
    // Otherwise, if the Adaptive Tile Renderer is used, we use the user's
    // min and max sample/pixel counts to determine the final color. If the
    // user's max sample/pixel count is 0 (infinite) then we use the actual
    // max sample/pixel count found in the image.
    //

    const AABB2u& crop_window = frame.get_crop_window();

    float min_spp, max_spp;
    if (m_max_spp == 0)
        color_map.find_min_max_red_channel(*m_image, crop_window, min_spp, max_spp);
    else
        max_spp = static_cast<float>(m_max_spp);
    min_spp = static_cast<float>(m_min_spp);

    color_map.remap_red_channel(*m_image, crop_window, min_spp, max_spp);
}

void PixelSampleCountAOV::set_normalization_range(
    const size_t        min_spp,
    const size_t        max_spp)
{
    m_min_spp = min_spp;
    m_max_spp = max_spp;
}

auto_release_ptr<AOVAccumulator> PixelSampleCountAOV::create_accumulator() const
{
    return auto_release_ptr<AOVAccumulator>(new AOVAccumulator());
}

//
// PixelSampleCountAOVFactory class implementation.
//

void PixelSampleCountAOVFactory::release()
{
    delete this;
}

const char* PixelSampleCountAOVFactory::get_model() const
{
    return PixelSampleCountAOVModel;
}

Dictionary PixelSampleCountAOVFactory::get_model_metadata() const
{
    return
        Dictionary()
            .insert("name", PixelSampleCountAOVModel)
            .insert("label", "Pixel Sample Count");
}

DictionaryArray PixelSampleCountAOVFactory::get_input_metadata() const
{
    DictionaryArray metadata;
    return metadata;
}

auto_release_ptr<AOV> PixelSampleCountAOVFactory::create(const ParamArray& params) const
{
    return auto_release_ptr<AOV>(new PixelSampleCountAOV(params));
}

}   // namespace renderer

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This was a very satisfying case to work on because Wendy and Ralph had been struggling along with Lilly and Bea's behaviour for many many years!!
They had seen 3 different behaviourist!! And as they rightly said... ' We are no better off, and have achieved nothing'.
Wendy and Ralph had recently moved to Devon and after having many years of avoiding all dog walkers, hiding behind lamp posts and individually walking the dogs. They decided ' New area'... ' New Start.
Lilly and Bea were very reactive and liked to perform as a double act!!
Unfortunately due to Bea's age (10) and health issues with Bea, we were not able to do quite as much as we might have liked to . But Wendy felt they could manage Bea....it was Lilly that they were really struggling with.
Not only was Lilly very reactive towards other dogs , but she also liked to try and chase livestock through their garden fence. Also she was so strong on the lead, it made it very hard to hold her...let alone walk her.
We worked on Lilly first. Getting Lilly on the correct collar and lead. We then addressed the aggression towards other dogs. Lilly made the most amazing progress, with Wendy actually saying..."Lilly is a billion times better and they had never been trained with their dogs in this way before."


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Mr. Kyle Williams
Kyle Williams age 42 years of Paulsboro died Sunday September 12, 2021 in Inspira Hospital, Mullica Hill. He was born in Elizabeth, NJ and raised in Paulsboro where he was a Paulsboro High School graduate. Kyle was an avid Baltimore Ravens fan, enjoyed taking walks and was a proud father. He is survived by his wife of fourteen years, Joan Williams (nee Jones) of Paulsboro; his son Jayden Williams; his in laws, Steven and Mary Jones of Gibbstown and a large extended family. A Memorial Service will be held at 10:30 AM Saturday September 18, 2021 in the McBride – Foley Funeral Home, 228 West Broad St., Paulsboro. Relatives and friends may visit with the family Saturday morning after 9:30 AM until service time. Inurnment Private. Memories can be shared at www.mcbridefoleyfh.com. Please wear a mask to the service.
Kyle Williams age 42 years of Paulsboro died Sunday September 12, 2021 in Inspira Hospital, Mullica Hill. He was born in Elizabeth, NJ and raised in Paulsboro where he was a Paulsboro High School graduate. Kyle was an avid Baltimore Ravens... View Obituary & Service Information
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The Russian Arts Theater and Studio will kick off its 2017-2018 season with a tribute to the life and plays of Anton Chekhov in its first annual New York Chekhov Festival. Taking place inside the intimate and antique Balcony Theater, performances will alternate between Three Sisters and Russian-speaking performances of Про Великое Ничто/Swan Song, starring legendary Russian actor Ernst Zorin of the Vakhtangov Theater and award-actress Gala Orlovsky (Prominent Artist of Ukraine Citation).
Renowned Russian director Aleksey Burago stages both productions and will also present a free seminar on Anton Chekhov and the Golden Age of the Moscow Art Theater at The Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University. Additionally, select performances will include talk-backs with cast members, creatives and special guests following the show.
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