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The Future is Female is an investigation and reframing of the piano literature featuring more than sixty compositions by women around the globe, from the Baroque to the present day, including new commissioned works. This flexible program is available as an evening-length recital performance or as a marathon performance and is ideal for concert halls, museums, and gallery spaces. The marathon performance duration is between four to seven hours, allowing audience members to sit and listen for any length of time, with the ability to come and go, as well as the ability to walk around the space. Featured composers include Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, Maria de Alvear, Galina Ustvolskaya, Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Florence Price, Hannah Kendall, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Kui Dong, Meredith Monk, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Tania León, Fannie Charles Dillon, and many others.
Of recent performances of The Future is Female, Chatham Lifestyle lauded, "The Future is Female was truly a treat: a trip through time and place through a wonderful variety of classical styles," and Indy Week acclaimed, "There's something invitingly contemporary about it, a vital complement to preservation for the vitality of classical piano music."
In conjunction with The Future is Female, Sarah offers online sessions to work with faculty and students about these composers and their music. Sessions can include lectures and demonstrations as well as "blind listening" workshops during which Sarah plays works by both men and women without identifying the composers, and talks with participants about what we conceive as gender in music, as a way to confront our implicit biases. She has also compiled a curated database of solo piano music by women composers through history, which she can share with university/conservatory piano departments. Sarah hopes that students integrate music by women into their repertoire, so that female composers will be heard more often in concert halls.
Endless Shout
Sarah Cahill has worked with George Lewis, Tania León, and Mary Watkins since the mid-1990s, and she premiered and recorded Lewis' four-movement Endless Shout under the composer's supervision. For this program comprising works written by Black and POC composers, Sarah revisits these favorites and juxtaposes them with recent works, including new commissions from Mary Watkins and Regina Harris Baiocchi.
Tania León: Mistica
Regina Harris Baiocchi: Piano Poems
George Lewis: Endless Shout
Aida Shirazi: Albumblatt
Reena Esmail: Rang de Basant
Mary Watkins: Summer Days
Trevor Weston: Eurythmy Variations
Be Kind to One Another
Sarah Cahill has commissioned Frederic Rzewski to compose a substantial solo piano work in honor of Terry Riley's 85th birthday. Cahill has worked closely with Terry Riley since 1997, when she commissioned his four-hand piece Cinco de Mayo for a festival at Cal Performances celebrating Henry Cowell's 100th birthday–the first of six works she has commissioned from him. Of Riley, whom he has known since 1964, Rzewski writes, "I guess he is what you might call a 'good man.' There are not many of these in the world of contemporary music, where generally the rule 'Nice guys finish last' tends to apply. Fortunately, Terry is pretty much recognized for what he is: a good composer and a good person. I was really happy when Sarah Cahill asked me to write a piece for his 85th birthday." The commissioned work, in six movements, is called Humanitas.
Rzewski adds, "The word 'humanitas' means roughly the same as the Greek word 'philanthropia,' or 'love of humanity'. It is found in a letter of Cicero to his brother Quintus, who was governor of the province of Asia, which was found by the poet Petrarca in the 14th century while working in a library in Liège, which says: 'Even though chance has put you in a situation of power over lesser peoples, you owe it to your humanitas to treat them decently'. The word later inspired the cultural and scientific movement known as humanism."
Sarah pairs Rzewski's Humanitas with works by Terry Riley, Margaret Bond, Theresa Wong, and Ingram Marshall. All but Bonds' Troubled Water were commissioned by Sarah, and all contribute to the powerful message of encouraging decency and compassion. The title of the program comes from Terry Riley's work of the same name, which is a quote from the writer Alice Walker a few days after 9/11: "We must learn to be kind to one another now."
Frederic Rzewski: Humanitas
Margaret Bonds: Troubled Water
Ingram Marshall: Movement (Deep in My Heart)
Theresa Wong: She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees
Terry Riley: Be Kind to One Another
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Mixed moist semi-evergreen forest was sampled in Central Gabon (Jolly et al., 1996) during a preliminary palynological investigation in the forest reserves at Makokou (0°30'N, 12°50') and Belinga (1°06'N, 13° 10'E) (Figure 5.1). Located at 470m elevation, near the Irvindo River, the Makokou forest is dominated by Scoro-dophloeus zenkeri, Baphia, Dialium, Pancovia, Dichostemma glaucescens among the Papilionaceae and Polyalthia among the Annonaceae (Caballe, 1986; Aubreville, 1967). Precipitation amounts to 1,500 to 1,700 mm/yr and mean annual temperature is over 24°C. At Makokou, various sampling strategies (line, diagonals, random, etc.) were tested to collect surface soil samples within 120 x 40 m forestry plots along a 1 km transect. No significant differences were shown between the pollen assemblages obtained with the different collecting methods. It was concluded that a random procedure represents the most parsimonious and the less time-consuming one. Random collection should certainly be made in regions where there is an urgent need to obtain modern pollen data within forests under threats of total disappearance. The pollen counts of 16 pollen assemblages from mixed moist semi-evergreen forest include 82 pollen taxa (Jolly et al., 1996). The highest pollen frequencies come from Mora-ceae and Euphorbiaceae (mainly Alchornea), Celtis, Combretaceae, Pausinystalia (Rubiaceae), Hymenostegia (Caesalpiniaceae)—together with Dacryodes (Bursera-ceae) and Pycnanthus (Myristicaceae), which were not particularly well-represented in the vegetation. Pollen attributed to Papilionaceae has been counted but in much lesser abundance than the corresponding trees. High proportions of Urticaceae and Macaranga have been found within a plot located closer to the river, and were attributed to local disturbance. The pollen spectra from the mixed semi-evergreen forest at Makokou (Gabon) has some common taxa (Celtis, Macaranga, Alchornea, Combretaceae), with samples from Cameroon located in a forest intermediate between the evergreen Biafran and the semi-evergreen "Congolese". Interestingly, the Belinga pollen sample, located at higher elevation (950 m), contains significant percentages of Syzygium pollen. Although Syzygium has swamp species, this finding agrees with modern pollen data from highland forests of Ethiopia (Bonnefille et al., 1993) and South India (Bonnefille et al., 1999).
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Modern pollen data from the drier peripheral semi-evergreen forest (foret semi-caducifoliees), which extends around the 4°N latitude between the mixed moist semi-evergreen and northern savanna, has been provided at two distinct sites: Men-gang (east of Yaounde) and Kandara in Cameroon (Figure 5.1).
The Mengang forest station is located in an area receiving 1,600-mm/yr precipitation interrupted by two dry months (<50 mm)—December, January—and a minimum in July. Atmospheric pollen rain was captured in 1987 (April to October) by an above-ground framed trap, and the results presented at monthly intervals (Fredoux and Maley, 2000). They indicate that the greatest amount of pollen is produced by the forest trees (c. 90% of total counts), greatest monthly flux averaging 1,000 grains/m3. Altogether, 118 tree taxa were identified distributed among 58 families. The Euphorbiaceae show the greatest diversity (21 taxa) and total 27% of the pollen counts dominated by Ulmaceae (33%) and Moraceae (26%). They are associated with Urticaceae (3%)—and Papilionaceae, Caesalpiniaceae, Mimosaceae, Anacardiaceae, Sterculiaceae, Rubiaceae, and Sapindaceae, each accounting for less than 1%. The greatest pollen producers indicated by flux calculations are Macaranga (1 to 1,000/m3 maximum in May), Celtis (1 to 500/m3 in April), Musanga (or Myrianthus) and Combretaceae (10 to 100/m3). The amounts of Pycnanthus, Trema, Urticaceae, and Poaceae pollen are produced in much lower proportion (<1 to 10/m3). Although established for 1 year, such discrepancies have to be remembered while interpreting fossil pollen results. It would have been most interesting to compare this distribution with parallel analysis of surface soil samples within the forest that provide an average of modern pollen rain over several years, minimizing monthly variations.
In southeastern Cameroon—east of Mengang (Figure 5.1), near the Kandara village (4°20'N, 13°43'E, 640 m)—the dry semi-evergreen forest encloses a few square kilometer area of shrub tall-grass savanna. The wet tropical climate is characterized by the same precipitation (1,600 mm/yr) and dry season, with mean annual temperature averaging 24°C. In this area the forest had expanded at a rate of 1 m/yr between 1951 and 1993 (Youta Happi, 1998; Achoundong et al. 2000), in agreement with observations made on aerial photographs in Cameroon (Letouzey, 1968). The forest succession begins with Raphia monbuttorum (Palmae) swamp along the Soukato River, followed by a semi-evergreen Rinorea (Violaceae) forest, a young Albizia forest, and a savanna-forest transition (ecotone) surrounding the savanna dominated by Panicoi-deae grasses with some Albizia clusters (Figure 5.3a). Associated with Rinorea dentata and Rinorea batesii (Achoundong et al., 1996), the most abundant trees of the mature forest are Triplochiton scleroxylon (Sterculiaceae) and Piptadeniastrum africanum (Mimosaceae), good indicators of dry peripheral semi-evergreen forest (Letouzey, 1968). The young Albizia forest includes Albizia adiantifolia (Mimosaceae), Funtumia elastica (Apocynaceae), Canthium (Rubiaceae), Tabernaemontana crassa (Apocyna-ceae), Sterculia rhinopetala (Sterculiaceae), and Myrianthus arboreus (Moraceae). At Kandara, 26 surface soil samples collected in contiguous 20 x 30-m plots, along a 750-m transect across the succession (Figure 5.3a), provided modern pollen rain data. Each pollen sample consists of about 20 sub-samples randomly distributed (Vincens et al., 2000). The relative frequencies of the most abundant ones among the 101 pollen taxa altogether identified are illustrated here (Figure 5.3c). All samples from the dry semi-evergreen forests register percentages of arboreal pollen (AP) ranging from 60 to 80%, in good correspondence with the canopy coverage estimated by field measurements of the leaf area index (Cournac et al., 2002) and abundance of tree phytoliths counted in the same samples (Bremond et al., 2005). The total AP drops abruptly to less than 10% in the nearby savanna, at less than 100 m from the forest limit, indicating very little transport from the forest into the savanna (Figure 5.3b). The pollen assemblages from this transect include some pollen of the trees characterizing dry peripheral semi-evergreen forest. These are Celtis, Chaetachme, Holoptolea among the Ulmaceae, Triplochiton (Sterculiaceae) associated with Piptadeniastrum
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Commissioner Klee
At DEEP, we are focused on nurturing the next generation of environmental stewards. After all, if we don't engage children in the outdoors and the world of nature, they are unlikely to care much about protecting natural resources as adults.
So we've invited youngsters to help us stock numerous rivers and ponds with fish for the fishing season and we are about to launch the 10th season of our Great Park Pursuit. Through this program, youngsters and their families can visit state parks across Connecticut and engage in fun and educational outdoor activities. You can find out more about the Great Park Pursuit by visiting nochildleftinside.org.
I know your community is likely to have activities that help get children outside and away from the television and computer screen and we thank everyone who supports such efforts. Working together we can help raise a generation that is healthier, happier, and more aware of the world around them.
Commissioner Klee stocking trout at Lake Wintergreen.
CIRCA Matching Funds
Clean-Fueled Vehicle Funds
LIS Sound Futures Fund
Brownfields Municipal Workbook
Southern Pine Beetle
Tree City USA Communities
Small Business Hazardous Waste
HHW Disposal Options
Disposal of Medications
Storage of Discarded Tires
Clean Energy on Brownfields
RICE NESHAP Training Tool
School Bus Fleets Get Funds
State Parks Update
Fishing Update
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Reducing Cigarette Litter
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DEEP Publications
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CIRCA Matching Funds Program
The Connecticut Institute for Resilience and Climate Adaptation (CIRCA) is a partnership of the UConn and DEEP, with the mission to assist Connecticut towns and cities with adaptation to a changing climate and enhancing the resilience of their infrastructure. CIRCA has up to $100,000 available to CT municipalities, institutions, universities, foundations, and other non-governmental organizations for matching funds for projects that address the mission of the Institute. Project proposals should develop knowledge and/or experience that is transferable to multiple locations in the state and have well-defined and measureable goals. Preference will be given to those that involve collaboration with CIRCA to address at least one of the priority areas. Matching Funds requests will be accepted on a rolling basis. Awardees must confirm availability of the primary funding source related to the proposal within six months. The first review will be held on May 15, 2015 and every two months thereafter. Questions? Contact CIRCA_matchingfunds@uconn.edu.
Funding for Clean-Fueled Vehicles and Public EV Charging Stations
Municipalities and state agencies that are considering purchasing clean-fueled vehicles (electric, hybrid electric, natural gas, or propane) for their fleets should be aware that DOT's annual Clean Fuel Program is accepting applications until April 30, 2015. If selected for an award, the grants pay the differential cost between a clean fuel vehicle and the equivalent conventional vehicle.
Transforming the fleet to zero emissions is key to achieving our climate and energy goals. Today's Electric Vehicles (EVs) are a good fit for many town and municipal fleet operations. Combining DOT's Clean Fuel vehicle grant with EVConnecticut funding for charging infrastructure is a win-win that will allow towns and municipalities to save lots of green while going green! If your town or municipal (or even state) facility is interested in specific details about EV charging station incentives that are currently available, please visit the EVConnecticut incentive webpage.
Long Island Sound Futures Fund Seeking Proposals
The Long Island Sound Futures Fund (LISFF) is currently accepting applications for projects to improve the aquatic and ecosystem health of Long Island Sound. This year's program priorities include: Urban Waters; Clean Water and Healthy Watersheds; Thriving Habitats and Abundant Wildlife; and Educating to Engage Sustainable and Resilient Communities. See the LISFF 2015 Request for Proposals for detailed information and application materials. Proposals are due on May 7, 2015. Non-profit 501(c) organizations, state and interstate government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Indian tribes, and educational institutions are eligible to apply. LISFF is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation in collaboration and with support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Long Island Sound Study (LISS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. DEEP is a LISS partner.
Municipal Brownfields Workbook Now Interactive
The PREPARED Workbook is a valuable tool to manage the brownfield redevelopment process. PREPARED is a framework for evaluating actions that a local government might take to facilitate desired reuse at contaminated properties it does not own. It can help municipal decision-makers identify and manage potential risks, including environmental liability, and foster effective communication and coordination with professionals involved in the redevelopment project.
EPA and DEEP have converted the EPA PREPARED Workbook into interactive webpages describing the Process for Risk Evaluation, Property Analysis, and Reuse Decisions to redevelop brownfields. It contains editable forms that allow municipalities to consolidate and store needed information on potential brownfield redevelopment projects. The webpages break this complex process down into practical, achievable steps and includes a list of resources helpful in various stages of the process. Connecticut's Workbook is the first state-specific, web version of EPA's PREPARED Workbook.
Southern Pine Beetle Found in Three Connecticut Counties
The small, destructive Southern pine beetle ( Dendroctonus frontalis) has been detected at four sites in New Haven, Litchfield and Hartford Counties by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) and DEEP and confirmed by the USDA Forest Service. This beetle is native to the Southeastern United States where it infests and kills large stands of pine. Connecticut's native white pine (a "soft" pine) is not at risk, but pitch pine and other "hard" pines are. The potential loss of pitch pine is of concern because it provides habitat for rare and endangered species dependent upon pine-oak sandy barrens. It is unclear how, or when, the beetle arrived in Connecticut. Trapping began in mid-April to determine beetle overwintering success. Visual surveys are underway to determine the extent of the infestation. Pines attempt to push out attacking beetles with a flow of resin. Attacked trees become covered with small popcorn-like blobs of dried resin (see photo above). If the attack is successful, beetles lay eggs under the bark and larvae then feed on the circulatory system of the tree, killing it in one to two years. If you see pines with the popcorn resin, please contact CAES at ctstateentomologist@ct.gov or call 203-974-8474.
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Tree City USA is an honor earned by cities and towns that meet four standards set by the Arbor Day Foundation and have their application approved the State Forester. The four standards are having:
A tree board or department
A tree care ordinance
An urban forestry program with an annual budget of at least $2 per capita
An Arbor Day observance and proclamation
Connecticut currently has 18 Tree City USAs. The program was initiated by the Arbor Day Foundation in 1976. DEEP's Urban Forestry Program is willing to work with any community interested in exploring whether it qualifies as a Tree City USA and what is needed to earn that designation. Many communities might be surprised at how close they are. Applications for next year's honor are due in December.
Managing Small Business Hazardous Waste
Small businesses are often unaware of their responsibilities for managing hazardous wastes. Many dispose of paints, fluorescent lights, pesticides and other harmful chemicals in the garbage or by pouring them down the drain. By law, these businesses must make a determination if their wastes are hazardous and are prohibited from disposing of any hazardous wastes in the regular trash. Many small businesses, known as conditionally exempt small quantity generators, (CESQGs) can bring their hazardous waste to household hazardous waste (HHW) collections, which typically take place in the Spring and Fall. The household hazardous waste collections in some Connecticut towns allow CESQGs to bring their waste to the event for proper disposal. However, in order for a small business to do this, it must submit certain forms describing the wastes that need to be disposed of, and obtain approval prior to the day of the event. At least five days prior to the date of collection, submit a signed CESQG Approval Form to the HHW program administrator certifying that the business is a Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator. Information and forms are on DEEP's Bringing Small Business Hazardous Waste to Household Hazardous Waste Collections webpage.
Household Hazardous Waste Disposal Options
Although most CT municipalities hold household hazardous waste (HHW) collections between May and October, often residents are unable to drop off their items on the collection dates and will call their town for guidance. There are other options that you can let them know about, such as retail locations participating in specific take-back programs:
Automotive batteries may be taken to a battery retailer.
Some stores take back cell phones and rechargeable batteries - www.call2recycle.org.
Some stores take back compact fluorescent lamps (e.g., Home Depot, Lowe's, IKEA).
Paint, stain, and varnish can be dropped off at participating retailers - www.paintcare.org.
Another option is to contract a licensed hauler to remove the HHW (although it could be expensive) - check the transporter list
or the "hazardous waste removal" section of the yellow pages.
Another option is the New England Disposal Technologies Household Products Collection Centers, located in Sutton and Westfield, MA. These sites are licensed as commercial household hazardous waste collection facilities and are both a short drive from the MA/CT line. Visit http://nedt.org for hours of operation, the materials they can and cannot take, and the rates that they charge for the materials they accept.
Safe Disposal of Unwanted Medications
In the past, people were advised to flush unwanted drugs down the drain but flushing drugs down the toilet or sink can harm aquatic life and plants and pollute our water. Fortunately consumers have several other options for disposing of prescription medications and OTC products safely. There are local police stations throughout the state participating in a Drop Box Drug Disposal program with the Department of Consumer Protection's Drug Control Division. Residents can discard their unwanted or unused medicines in special locked boxes any time the police department lobby is open. Residents do not need to complete forms or answer questions about the items they drop off. Needles or "sharps" are not accepted. A new pharma-disposal drop box locator tool has been developed by Citizen's Campaign for the Environment.
Also, chain pharmacies such as CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid provide disposal envelopes for prescription and over the counter medicines. Another option for residents is to follow the disposal instructions and put them in the trash. Almost all of the garbage in Connecticut is sent to resource recovery facilities where it is burned at very high temperatures. More information at www.ct.gov/deep/medsdisposal.
Proper Storage of Discarded Tires to Prevent Mosquitoes
Discarded tires are not only unsightly, but can be unhealthy when they provide ample habitat for mosquitoes and other pests. When tires are either stacked or left in a heap and uncovered, rainwater can easily collect in the tires, allowing mosquito eggs to hatch. Scrap tires should be disposed of promptly and properly to prevent mosquitoes from hatching. Store them under cover (roof, awning, trailer, storage container) or stack them and cover with plywood or other flat cover to prevent rainwater from entering. A factsheet on proper storage and how to manage for mosquitoes are on the Connecticut Mosquito Management Program website.
Generating Clean Energy on CT Brownfields
Most of Connecticut's municipalities have at least one landfill formerly used for municipal garbage, incinerator ash, or other waste. Although these and other contaminated sites are not fit for housing and other types of development, they may provide suitable locations for photovoltaic installations, wind turbines, and other facilities that produce clean energy.
Do the costs and difficulties of redeveloping a brownfield for clean energy generation seem daunting? Incentives and technical assistance are available and can help drive down the cost of redeveloping contaminated land. DEEP, in conjunction with the Department of Economic and Community Development, has designed a new web page to help you research the numerous state and federal resources available for siting clean energy facilities on brownfields. It's a one-stop-shop of information and tools for converting troubled terrain into important new sources of green energy. Visit Siting Clean Energy on Connecticut Brownfields to find technical guidance and information on incentives, potential locations, and liability limitations.
Hartford Landfill Shines
Aerial view of solar array at Hartford Landfill
Photo: Materials Innovations and Recycling Authority
The solar array at the Hartford municipal landfill along Interstate 91 is a good example of putting brownfields to use to generate clean power. The facility's 3,993 photovoltaic panels (commissioned in 2014) produce up to 1 megawatt of electricity -- enough to
supply about 1,000 homes -- and are expected to generate revenue of $200,000 annually. The project is funded in part by the state's Zero Emission Renewable Energy Credit Program.
New RICE NESHAP Training Tool
The U.S. EPA's RICE NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (40 CFR 63, Subpart ZZZZ)) could impact engines located at Connecticut's industrial, institutional and commercial establishments. The rule regulates emissions from RICE of all sizes at major and area sources of hazardous air pollutants. It includes emission limits as well as monitoring, recordkeeping, and reporting requirements for affected engines. In order to promote compliance with this rule, DEEP has developed a set of user-friendly online training modules. The user simply answers a series of questions regarding the source's potential HAP emissions, engine's size and construction date. Based on the answers given, the user will be guided to the appropriate module, which will quickly and easily provide the specific requirements for the unit. If you have any questions regarding the training modules, please contact Keith Hill.
Three Connecticut School Bus Fleets Get U.S. EPA Funds
Three school districts in Connecticut are receiving a total of 11 new school buses that are 90% cleaner than the 2010 or older buses that they are replacing. Killingly School District, Montville Public Schools and Martel Transportation serving Canton schools were among the five fleets in New England and 76 fleets from across 30 states that were chosen by the U.S. EPA to receive funding through the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act. The U.S. EPA has put in place more stringent standards to make diesel engines cleaner but many older diesel school buses are still on Connecticut's roads today. Nitrogen oxides and particulate matter emissions from the school buses can lead to asthma and respiratory problems. The good news is that the American School Bus Council estimates each school bus takes about 36 cars off the road each day, which reduces emissions and saves fuel.
Park Passes Available at Local Libraries
DEEP has partnered with the Connecticut Library Consortium again this season to provide State Parks and Forests Day Passes at the main library branch for each Connecticut town. The Pass can be used to waive established entrance fees at all state parks and forests. It can be checked out by any patron who has a library card and may be borrowed, free of charge. Check the website for further details and remember sign up is typically first come first served.
The 10th Anniversary of the Great Park Pursuit
The Great Park Pursuit's (GPP) 10th anniversary season will begin with Family Fishing Day on Saturday, May 9th at Gay City State Park, Hebron and progress weekly through the spring concluding on June 21, 2015. As part of the state's No Child Left Inside ® program, it has been fun for hundreds of families over the past nine years and helped introduce kids and their parents to the great outdoors showcased in Connecticut's state parks. This year once again we have exciting activities planned. We hope you can join us to discover all the fabulous CT State Parks and Forests and the wonderful recreational opportunities they provide.
Learn more about the GPP and the details of this year's events
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Fishing Updates
Opening Day of the 2015 trout season was moved up one week earlier, from the third Saturday in April to the second Saturday in April. This year, the season opened on April 11. Season details are in the
2015 Connecticut Angler's Guide.
A Free Fishing Day is scheduled for May 9, 2015. Both Connecticut residents and nonresidents can fish any public waters in the state without having a fishing license. Several fishing-related activities are planned for the day.
Free Fishing License Days are scheduled for June 21 and August 15, 2015. Anyone can fish for free on these days provided they have obtained a one-day free fishing license. These licenses will be available approximately three weeks prior to each date through the DEEP's convenient Online Sportsmen's Licensing System, now mobile friendly.
Wildlife Encounters - A Few Reminders on What to Do
The arrival of spring brings increased chances for encounters between people and wild animals. To avoid conflicts with bears, coyotes, and foxes, do not approach or try to feed them. Remove any food sources, such as garbage, pet food, bird feeders, and suet, from your yard. Report sightings of bears to the DEEP Wildlife Division.
Orphaned Wildlife: Although they may appear to be "orphaned," the adult is probably close by, waiting for you to leave. It is best to leave the animal alone. If you are absolutely certain a wild animal has been injured or orphaned, before touching or moving it, contact the DEEP Wildlife Division at 860-424-3011 or contact an authorized wildlife rehabilitator.
Young Raccoon
Wildlife Problems: Many wildlife species, such as squirrels, raccoons, or bats, will use houses or other buildings for shelter and as a place for raising young. Visit DEEP's website for information on how to handle problems with wildlife. A licensed Nuisance Wildlife Control Operator can be hired if professional assistance is needed for solving common nuisance wildlife problems.
Rabies Awareness: To prevent exposure to rabid animals, vaccinate pets against rabies and never approach any animal, domestic or wild, that is acting disoriented or is unusually tame or aggressive. Suspected rabid animals should be reported to the local police or animal control officer. If local authorities cannot be reached, contact DEEP at 860-424-3333 for guidance
Educational Wildlife Signs Available
DEEP's Wildlife Division has produced signs that municipalities, businesses, and other groups can use to inform the public about various wildlife species and issues:
"Do Not Feed the Waterfowl" vinyl signs that measure 20" X 24" can be obtained free-of-charge by sending an email request to deep.ctwildlife@ct.gov. You will be contacted for further information. The printing of these signs was made possible through grants and support from cooperating organizations and agencies.
A "Be Bear Aware" poster (which can be printed or downloaded) gives advice on preventing conflicts with bears and on what to do if you encounter a bear. Three different sizes are available: small-8 ½"x 11", medium-8 ½"x14", and large-11"x17". The posters can be displayed at town halls, visitor centers, parks, schools, and other public buildings/locations.
"Stay Away from Bird Nesting Area" signs can printed or downloaded
to post near osprey nesting platforms. Use your printer menu to scale the sign to whatever size is needed. Signs should be laminated to prevent weather damage.
More than four trillion cigarette butts are littered onto the ground annually. They are not only unsightly but have harmful impacts on the environment. Most cigarette filters are made of cellulose acetate (a form of plastic) and do not easily break down, posing a hazard to aquatic life and other animals when they mistake them for food. Contributing to the problem is that no smoking laws require most people to go outdoors to smoke and there may be no receptacles available for the extinguished butts. Also, auto makers have been phasing out ash trays as a standard feature in new cars.
Fortunately two Connecticut families have been working to address the
Sam and Dan Kruger collect cigarette butts at Gulf Beach in Milford
problem and recently received a GreenCircle Award from DEEP for their efforts. Their No Butts About It campaign has worked with municipalities, businesses and others throughout the state, including at Hammonasset Beach State Park, to raise awareness and provide solutions to cigarette litter. They partnered with the national organization Keep America Beautiful to create the first statewide cigarette litter prevention program. Places that have implemented a prevention initiative have decreased cigarette litter by 50% or more.
Resources to start a campaign in your town or at your business
Need to contact DEEP? Find the most up-to-date phone numbers for our program areas, a list of who to contact to report environmental concerns or problems, an A to Z subject directory, and other information about our agency on our Contact Us webpage.


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Airport lounges remain one of the great undiscovered gems of economy class travel. Long considered an essential by business types, these air-conditioned sanctuaries are now catching on among savvy travellers looking for that extra flourish of luxury. Here Breaking Travel News visits No.1 Traveller Lounge at Gatwick Airport to find out more. Details
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Pond est un groupe de rock psychédélique australien, originaire de Perth, en Australie-Occidentale. Formé en 2008, le groupe ne possède aucune formation stable, et inclut actuellement Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson, Joe Ryan (Mink Mussel Creek) et Jamie Terry (The Silents).

Biographie
Pond s'est formé en 2008 à Perth, autour des membres Nick Allbrook, Jay Watson et Joe Ryan. L'idée de départ du groupe était de permettre à tous ceux qui le souhaitaient de jouer ce qu'ils voulaient, dans un projet musical collaboratif.

Leur premier album studio, intitulé Psychedelic Mango, est sorti en 2009, et tient de la pop psychédélique. Leur deuxième album, Corridors of Blissterday, est enregistré en live en cinq jours, avec un groupe de huit personnes, et est lui aussi sorti en 2009. L'album, Frond, sorti en 2010, contient davantage d'influences pop que les précédents.

Après le succès en 2010 de Innerspeaker, le premier album de Tame Impala, dont trois des membres de Pond font partie, le groupe signe chez Modular Recordings, la maison de disque de Impala et sorti un quatrième album, Beard, Wives, Denim en 2012.

Pond tourne aux États-Unis en 2012, jouant à des festivals comme le South by Southwest, avec un autre album intitulé Hobo Rocket annoncé pour le futur. Le , le magazine NME nomme Pond  dans sa liste Hot List. Le , Pond joue brièvement avec le meneur des Can, Damo Suzuki, l'une des inspirations de Pond.

Pond retourne jouer aux États-Unis dans divers festivals, et un nouvel album, intitulé Man, It Feels Like Space Again, est sorti le . À l'origine, l'album devait sortir avant Hobo Rocket.

Membres

Membres actuels
 Nick Allbrook  – chant, flûte, synthétiseur
 Jay Watson  – guitare, synthétiseur, basse, chant
 Joseph Ryan  – guitare, basse, chant
 Jamie Terry – synthétiseur, basse
 Kevin Parker  – batterie
 Richard Ingham   – guitare, percussions

Discographie

Albums studio
 2009 : Psychedelic Mango
 2009 : Corridors of Blissterday
 2010 : Frond
 2012 : Beard, Wives, Denim
 2013 : Hobo Rocket
 2015 : Man It Feels Like Space Again
 2017 : The Weather
 2019 : Tasmania
 2021 : 9

Singles
 Cloud City - Hole in the Sky - ()
 Annie Orangetree - Hole in the Sky - ()
 Greens Pool - Badminton Bandit - ()
 Fantastic Explosion of Time - ()
 Moth Wings - ()
 You Broke My Cool - ()
 Giant Tortoise - ()
 Xanman - ()
 Elvis' Flaming Star - ()
 Sitting up on Our Crane - ()
 Zond - ()

Notes et références

Liens externes

Groupe australien de rock progressif
Groupe australien de rock psychédélique
Groupe australien de garage rock
Groupe de neo-psychedelia
Groupe musical australien des années 2000
Groupe musical australien des années 2010
Groupe musical australien des années 2020
Groupe musical formé en 2008
Artiste de Fiction Records
Groupe musical ayant au moins dix ans de carrière

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The movie has a historical importance because it is the first Marvel film to feature a black protagonist, a black director and a predominately black cast.
The mother of two teenage boys plays the role of Shaman, a powerful primal leader who calls upon nature spirits for aid or guidance in Black Panther. A Hollywood star, her credits include supporting roles, below the multilingual actress speaks about her career and landing a role in the Black Panther movie.
Tell us about your role in Black Panther?
PT: Breaking into mainstream Hollywood as a black actor is no small task. How did you clinch the role?
Sope: I would love to work with a number of actors like Genevieve Nnaji, would be nice to work with her. You know I have seen a lot of Nollywood films. I just saw wedding party 1 and 2. I'm so excited to see, you know, we are so proud of our heritage, myself, my family and friends so it would be wonderful if I can feature in a Nollywood project so let's just watch and see.
PT: In what ways are you looking to give back to your roots?
Sope: Everybody's journey is different but for me, personally, I got into TV and acting full time after I left corporate America about nine years ago. It was very hard for me because I was a misnomer as they felt. I was Nigerian born, British grown and I spoke different languages and all that stuff and they were like where do I put her? What box? And I didn't fit a box. I rocked it because this industry is not about being in a box it's about being different because that is how you book your role but that's what it was then.
Sope: My dream and goal is to have a sustaining, thriving career as a working actress in Hollywood. I just want to be able to make a living from this. I am hoping that featuring in Black Panther would open doors for me that have never had been opened before. I hope to bag more lead roles that I have never had been considered for. So, I am looking forward to some positive things in the future.
I am also looking forward to producing and that brings me back to my Nollywood conversation earlier. I would love to co-produce on a project with Nollywood directors and actors. That is my dream; I would love to do that in addition to being an actor. It's all about you creating your own content nowadays so I definitely want to do that.


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Real Estate|Dani Shapiro's Provident Move to the Country
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Dani Shapiro's Provident Move to the Country
What I Love | Dani Shapiro
Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
By Dan Shaw
Dani Shapiro, the novelist and memoirist, has awesome real estate karma. In the 1980s and 1990s, she lived in three of the Upper West Side's most storied landmark buildings: the Ansonia, the Dakota and the Hotel des Artistes. When she and her husband, the screenwriter and director Michael Maren, decided to move to Brooklyn in the late 1990s, they bought a town house in gentrifying Prospect Heights right before yoga studios arrived and prices escalated.
A few days after the destruction of the World Trade Center, Ms. Shapiro, now 51, went for a walk in Park Slope with her toddler son, Jacob, and rolled his stroller into a real estate office. Impulsively, she put her house on the market without even consulting her husband or having a plan for where they would move.
The Sept. 11 attacks were a tipping point. "I had already fallen out of love with the city," she said. "I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan. Having to go over a bridge to get to the city didn't feel good to me, and yet since we've moved to Connecticut I have never once had that feeling."
Sitting in the airy library of her center-chimney colonial on 10 acres at the end of a meandering driveway in a tiny Litchfield County town, Ms. Shapiro explained that she and Mr. Maren had ruled out moving to the suburbs and wanted to be no more than two hours from Manhattan. They looked in Sag Harbor and the Hudson Valley, then discovered northwest Connecticut, which felt "familiar, safe and inspiring."
They had no friends who lived in the area, but they were aware that Pulitzer Prize-winning writers — Arthur Miller, Frank McCourt, William Styron — would be their neighbors. "I never thought we would know any of them," she said. "But this is a very welcoming community and within a year, without trying, we were sitting at dinner with the Styrons."
Ms. Shapiro marvels at the domino effect — both personal and professional — of her move to the country. "If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live — the way you live — then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art," she said. "I never would have written 'Devotion' if I still lived in New York."
Published in 2010, "Devotion" is a memoir about her search for a meaningful spirituality. Having grown up in a modern Orthodox Jewish household that kept kosher and observed the Sabbath, Ms. Shapiro had rebelled, eschewing organized religion since her college days at Sarah Lawrence. When Jacob was in grade school and started asking questions about God, she decided she needed to come up with answers for him and for herself.
Without access to a smorgasbord of synagogues and the myriad distractions of the city, she was compelled to look inward. "I had to find out what I believed and learn to articulate my own life," she said.
Buddhism and yoga became essential to her quest, and her favorite place to stretch and meditate is on a mat in front of the wood-burning fireplace in her bedroom. A serene space painted pale green, the room has a mantel — an altar, really — lined with bottles of chakra oils and antique blown glass from Israel that belonged to her difficult mother, whom she wrote unflinchingly about in her first memoir, "Slow Motion."
The small study where she writes is adjacent to her bedroom. The walls are lined with bulletin boards and framed mementos, including the original illustration that accompanied a "Family Album" essay that she wrote for The New Yorker about her father. A small chaise longue upholstered in an antique Tibetan blanket holds her laptop and neat stacks of other writers' galleys awaiting blurbs.
Her preferred spot to read is a leather club chair in the library downstairs, with its wall of windows overlooking a meadow. "The bookshelves were already here," she said, "and that really sold us on the house along with the antique mantels, the people-size rooms and the wide-board floors."
A favorite picture book sits proudly on the coffee table: a self-published tome documenting Jacob's bar mitzvah, which was held in 2012 in a 19th-century white clapboard Congregational church in the nearby town of Washington. "It was the happiest day of my life," she said.
Two lesbian rabbis officiated at the unorthodox service. Ms. Shapiro played the piano while her son played his ukulele. The reception was held at Club Hall on the Washington Green, where guests were met by a taco truck on arrival and a Good Humor truck as they departed.
The bar mitzvah was the epitome of the new life she had made for her family in Connecticut. Flipping through the album, she pointed out her new country friends, including Stephen Cope, the executive director of the Kripalu Institute for Extraordinary Living in Stockbridge, Mass., whom she had met at a fund-raiser for a local library and is now one of her spiritual gurus.
"If I hadn't met Stephen," she said, "I would have never gone to Kripalu where I met my Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein. I would have never become a teacher at Kripalu and I would have never met Oprah."
A few months ago, Ms. Shapiro flew to Chicago to spend a full hour being interviewed for Oprah Winfrey's "Super Soul Sunday" program (which is being rerun on Sunday at 10 a.m. on OWN). "It was surreal with all those lights and cameras," said Ms. Shapiro, who was as nervous about the interview as she had ever been in her life. "One of the producers said, 'Just be yourself,' and I thought, 'Being yourself is hard, hard work.' "
So is sitting alone at home all day in front of a computer screen, according to Ms. Shapiro. It is the topic of "Still Writing," her new book, which is a paean to discipline and solitude. She still craves the hubbub of the city, and she makes frequent day trips to Manhattan, where she gets her hair cut and shops for clothes. "What can I say?" she said sheepishly. "I'm an urban person who loves living in the country."


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Q: Как выбрать записи с дублирующими полями из выборки записи по определенному условию в Postgresql Существует таблица с миллиноами записей.
например, такая выборка
select c.id, c.mobile_phone, c.last_name, c.email
from user c
group by c.id, c.mobile_phone, c.last_name, c.email
HAVING count(*) > 1;

занимает минуты.
Необходимо выбрасть записи с одинаковым mobile_phone, а из получившейся выборки выбрать записи - у которых одинаковый Email.
пробовал так
вот так получаю одинаковые записи по указанному номеру тел.
select * from (select * from user where mobile_phone = '78987787878') ou
where (select count(*) from user inr
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FROM (select * from user where mobile_phone = '000023323232') as "c*";

но он не показывает дубликаты с email
У 5 пользователей - один и тот же номер телефона.
Из этих 5 пользователей - 2 имееют одинаковый Email - они то и должны попасть в выборку.
select * from (select * from employee where
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Это работает не на всех версиях postgresql.
PostgreSQL 14.7  - работает.
PostgreSQL 13.7 - не работает.
Есть ли идеи как это сделать ?

A: Получить список (mobile_phone, email), встречающихся более одного раза.
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This iPhone 6 user was troubled by his erased text messages but he did not have an iTunes or iCloud backup for those deleted text messages. He just needed those erased text messages. It is always annoying when you lost some important text messages but you just don't know how to recover those erased messages from iPhone 6 without backup. Now, you don't have to feel troublesome and panic, for here I have got a method to help you recover erased text messages from iPhone 6.
In order to recover erased text messages from iPhone 6, what you need to know firstly is iFonebox, for iFonebox is a powerful and professional iOS data recovery software. iFonebox is supportive to recover deleted data like contacts, notes, messages and more from your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch directly. Plus, what you can do with iFonebox is that it is able to extract and restore lost data like photos and video from your iTunes or iCloud backup. Here, obviously, we can try to recover messages from this user's iPhone 6 directly. Now, let me show you how to do that.
How to recover erased text messages from iPhone 6 without backup?
Launch iFonebox. Choose Recover from iOS Device. Connect your iPhone 6 to the computer so as to scan text message data from your iPhone 6.
Scan text messages from your iPhone 6.
Preview and select those erased text messages to recover. After scanning, you have the chance to select those deleted text messages you need to recover, just click Recover to PC to finish the whole process.
Without backup for your deleted text messages, you cannot your erased text messages without iFonebox.
With iTunes backup for your deleted text messages, when you sync the backup to your iPhone 6, it is largely possible to erase other existing data in your iPhone.
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How To Retrieve Deleted Text Messages From iPhone 7/7Plus Backup?


Last ni ght at the bookshop saw a full house for the launch of Margaret Rooke's wonderful book 'Creative, Successful, Dyslexic: 23 High Achievers Share Their Stories' with special guest, and featured high achiever, poet Benjamin Zephaniah. Through the thoughtful questioning of Guardian literary editor Claire Armitstead, Rooke and Zephaniah discussed the challenges faced by those growing up with dyslexia and shone a light into the unique skills that often emerge from such a struggle.
The assembled crowd was treated to personal anecdotes, advice and plenty of humour from the world renowned poet, with insightful questions from the floor ranging from leaders in the educational world, through to those working with dyslexia on a more personal level.
A great book, a brilliant event and a good night had by all!


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Why do we have such a close relationship with animals?
We stroke, cuddle, cultivate and eat all manner of creatures. The Animals Among Us offers a fascinating if flawed account of our entangled relationship with non-human animals
Life 27 September 2017
By Pat Shipman
Is stroking fur part of the reason we love to keep pets?
Rip Hopkins/Agence VU/Camera Press
THE interaction between human and non-human animals fascinates everyone from anthropologists to the average pet owner. It even has a name – anthrozoology – as biologist John Bradshaw reminds us in the subtitle of his new book, The Animals Among Us.
(Buy from Amazon*)
As Bradshaw points out, for humans to consistently live with and nurture animals is a most unusual trait in nature. So a strong, fact-based discussion of how and why we do this and its effects should be eye-opening, engaging and thought-provoking.
Animals ticks some of those boxes, but by no means all. Bradshaw knows how to produce a well-written and accessible tome. A veteran of popular books about the lives and habits of cats and dogs, he focuses most on the ubiquity of people keeping animals, today and over the past few hundred years, and specifically on pets.
Bradshaw suggests that the inclusion of animals as intimate members of the family probably explains the long-term connection behind the genetic and behavioural alterations we now see in domestic species.
Even so, domestication is a less common outcome of keeping animals than we might expect, given that even the most generous list would only include 20 or so domesticated species. Many more have spent at least some time in captivity, so it is well worth asking why so many species that have lived intimately with us haven't been domesticated.
"It's worth asking why so many species that have lived with us have never been domesticated"
For Bradshaw, the answer lies partly in the kinds of societies that kept animals. He reasons that in egalitarian, hunter-gatherer societies, animals could be brought into the family and kept temporarily before being eaten or sacrificed, or perhaps kept more permanently. As these societies gave way to stratified, agricultural societies, the animals that were kept depended on their benefit to the household at that time.
During this period, keeping domesticated animals became a status symbol – leading to the rise of pets. Part of their appeal, says Bradshaw (on little evidence), is an atavistic liking of stroking and grooming the fur of another, which he believes played a role in our ancestral, furry past (we lost most of it some 1.6 million years ago) as it does now among non-human primates.
But do we really keep pets so we can stroke them? Stroking a pet has been shown to raise circulating levels of the "feel-good" hormone oxytocin in both participants. Why don't we keep pets that stroke us back?
Bradshaw's main interest seems to lie in the period between medieval times and the 20th century, which makes this part of the book especially lively and informative. The Victorian era saw the rise of keeping pets and the display of animals with particular colours or shapes to confer status. This was also the time that breed societies and animal shows were founded, and there was a general growth of desirable "types" among all kinds of domestic species, particularly in the UK.
Bradshaw discusses this period at length, dwelling on the transformation of pets from working animals to "members of the family" as the attributes of domesticated species became a reflection of social standing. And in agricultural Britain, having good livestock or animals was of tremendous importance to their owners' success.
Cute or crazy?
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Modern life generally is now very different, more industrialised and urban, but the animals we live with continue to carry great social and symbolic weight. According to Bradshaw, Westerners have reached the third phase of living with animals, where the practice is so common that it is universally accepted.
In fact, pets are increasingly seen as offering us tangible benefits – as therapy animals, assistants to people who are blind or disabled, and companions to those who are socially isolated. Pets are often said to provide distinct health benefits to those with mental, social or physical problems, though Bradshaw points out that the evidence isn't as strong as the claims for it.
In one of the best and most thought-provoking parts of his book, Bradshaw dissects the practice of anthropomorphism as a typically human attempt to understand the animals with which we live so intimately. He raises important questions about the greater significance of keeping pets and their benefits. For example, is assigning human characteristics to another species really key to the close emotional and family-type relationships many humans form with their pets? Does anthropomorphism balance out the energetic and economic costs of pets in the modern world?
I take a very different view: anthropomorphism is as much a barrier to domestication and close relationships with animals as it is a boon. My view of domestication is that humans and the species that find it worthwhile negotiate a common language – a world view that is neither human nor animal.
Even very clever dogs can't understand more than a few hundred words, and they don't share our framework for perception. Simply put, we perceive very little of what a dog does: for example, we are nearly scent-blind. Equally, dogs don't perceive as we do nor think about things the way we do. For true cooperation and communication, dogs and humans must each alter their "language" so they understand each other. This process is active, a choice as well as an evolutionary adaptation. Casting a dog's actions in human terms is tempting for a human, but doesn't further the exchange of ideas by much.
At the end of the book, Bradshaw brings it all together by proposing four explanations of the human propensity for keeping pets. First, he reminds us of the idea that the loss of most of our body hair left us with a liking for stroking and grooming.
His second concerns the evolution of the human brain in a way that resulted in us being able to analyse animal behaviour and develop the capacity for anthropomorphism, leading to better animal-keeping.
His third explanation is that young women who were good at caring for animals may have been assumed to become better mothers, making them preferred as brides. This could cause a spread of genes that would make many people good with animals.
"Does anthropomorphism balance out the energetic and economic costs of pets in the modern world?"
And last, he hypothesises that the rise of taboos against eating and killing personal (owned) animals enabled long-term pet-keeping, which is necessary for domestication. I am sceptical about this scenario since, again, little hard evidence supports it or links each stage to the next.
I wish Bradshaw had included more evidence on the much-researched origin of dogs. Surely the first instance of domestication in the world, of wolves into dogs, should play a crucial role in our understanding of the phenomenon of living with and domesticating animals?
But Bradshaw doesn't dwell on the ongoing and exciting work investigating the genetic, morphological and behavioural differences among wolves and some dogs, including ancient fossil specimens. He neglects research on basal or genetically ancestral breeds, such as basenjis, dingoes and the recently rediscovered New Guinea mountain dogs. These species should tell us a lot about the sort of canid that was originally domesticated.
Bradshaw also gives short shrift to work by leading scholars, such as Mietje Germonpré at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and Melinda Zeder at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. And he often supports his arguments with out-of-date contributions to the field or articles in popular magazines or newspapers rather than peer-reviewed journals.
This means that he gives too much credence to ideas that haven't been rigorously tested or that have been overturned by later studies. While there are many good things in his book, understanding and interpreting our tendency to live with animals and its impact is an important and vibrant field that deserves a fuller presentation than Bradshaw offers here.
The Animals Among Us: The new science of anthrozoology
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Most of us look to improve our dog's health and want to learn to feed the best diet we can. This may include switching dog food brands, trying new supplements, adding fresh food to their dog's food or taking the 'plunge' into a home cooked or raw diet. This month, we will look at all of these options to make the transition as smooth as possible.


If you've been a Bar Method devotee for several months or even years, chances are you're familiar with the benefits of a Bar Method workout because you've experienced them yourself: long, lean sculpted muscles, improved posture and an unparalleled inner strength. But like any workout, exercise is only part of the equation. For even better results, pair your Bar Method workout with a commitment to a whole foods diet and healthy lifestyle.
There's a lot of nutrition information available and plenty of fad diets from which to choose, but an overwhelming majority of people who lose weight on a diet – 98 percent – gain it back. Diets are attractive because they offer guidelines for how to eat in the absence of not knowing – or trusting – yourself to know what to do. However, diets, by nature, are based on deprivation. This might work as a short-term strategy but it's not a long-term solution. A more sustainable approach to nutrition and healthy eating is a system of small dietary and lifestyle changes that add up over time to create permanent results.
Whole foods are the backbone of good nutrition. The women I work with in my Health Coaching practice are often so accustomed to monitoring everything they eat that they're in the habit of grazing, even on whole foods. Quite simply, they're not eating enough, but when you choose whole foods, you can eat more food.
Food is fuel. Think about building your plate with the nutrient-dense foods that will power you through a Bar Method workout and beyond. By eating this way you train your body to efficiently use the calories and nutrients from these foods to energize your daily activities.
Vegetables, especially leafy greens like kale, spinach, collards and Swiss chard, for example, and even cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and Brussels sprouts should comprise half of your plate. These foods are naturally energizing and detoxifying because of their nutrient-rich profile. With high levels of calcium, magnesium, iron, fiber, Vitamins A,C,K and E, folic acid, zinc and more these foods purify your blood and strengthen your immune system. Eat them often, ideally at every meal.
Lean animal proteins like chicken, fish, pork and beef and plant-based proteins such as tempeh or tofu are the building blocks of strong muscles. After you've pulsed your way to the signature Bar Method shake, a sign that your muscle fibers have broken down, you need the amino acids in protein to re-build your muscles. Protein repairs those microscopic muscle tears to grow your muscles even stronger than they were before.
Fiber-rich whole grains like brown rice, oats, quinoa, millet, couscous, and barley as well as legumes like black beans, chickpeas, lentils and kidney beans (also great plant-based protein sources) and starchy vegetables like sweet potatoes and squash to name a few are an important part of any healthy diet. Low-carb diets are getting a lot of attention right now, but your body needs carbs especially if you're active. Focus on the slow-burning carbs mentioned here that deliver steady energy throughout the day and won't spike your blood sugar. Over time, a low-carb diet will slow your metabolism, spike your stress hormones and impair your ability to build muscle.
Healthy fats found in nuts and seeds, avocadoes, eggs, organic full-fat dairy and seafood like wild salmon or sardines are an important source of energy but they also help your body absorb and assimilate the nutrients from your food. You need fat to burn fat so don't skip this important macronutrient.
Eating more nutrient-packed whole – or high energy – foods like these, will help diminish and phase out cravings for less nutrient-dense – or low energy – foods that threaten to throw your healthy eating habits off track.
Put It Into Action: If on family pizza night you normally find yourself 4 slices deep, try adding a large helping of a leafy green salad to your plate. By filling up on greens first, you'll feel more satisfied and have less room for pizza, which will allow you to comfortably enjoy a slice or two without the guilt – or the bloat!
To stay energized up to and during your workout, time your meals accordingly. Eating too soon before your workout will relegate energy to digesting your food making you feel sluggish and maybe even nauseous during your workout. However, timing your meals right will give you the extra push you need to perform at your best. This is where carbs come in!
Carbohydrates break down into glucose (stored in your muscles as glycogen) to fuel your daily activities. When you put your muscles to work during exercise, they dip into their glycogen stores to power through your workout. Some people prefer to workout in a fasted state such as before breakfast on an empty stomach. In this case, your body will pull from its fat stores for energy. Whether you choose to eat before exercise or not is a matter of personal preference.
If you choose to eat before exercise, aim to eat anywhere from three hours and no less than 30 minutes before your workout. If you eat several hours in advance, you can have a larger, balanced meal of slow-burning carbs, lean protein and healthy fat.
However, if you're eating closer to your workout, opt for a lighter, carb-friendly snack instead which will digest easily and also give you a burst of energy. Avoid difficult-to-digest, heavier proteins and fats.
To maximize the results of your workout, eat within 30 minutes post-workout. If you can't have a larger meal within that timeframe, then choose a small snack and eat a full meal a few hours later. Your post-workout meal should be protein-rich to help rebuild and strengthen your muscles. Of course, always supplement your workouts and healthy eating habits with plenty of water.
Put It Into Action: Eating three hours before your workout? Choose a balanced meal of carbs, fat and protein. For example, a salad with grilled chicken, avocado and diced sweet potato or baked salmon with quinoa and steamed vegetables. Eating 30 minutes before a workout? Choose a light, carb-focused snack like a rice cake or piece of fruit with a light spread of nut butter, Greek yogurt with berries, a small portion of a smoothie or a cup of oatmeal with berries. After your workout, load up on a protein-rich meal or snack. Try a veggie omelet with a big side of arugula and steamed sweet potatoes. Protein shakes or chia pudding are a good on-the-go snack option if you can't eat a larger meal right after your workout.
If you've ever eaten a meal or snack and then felt ravenous shortly after, you're not alone and it's not you! Eating the right combinations of food can determine how satiated you'll feel. That is, if you eat a piece of fruit hoping it will hold you over until dinner, you'll likely end up feeling hungry and reaching for another snack. Likewise, if you eat a salad with only vegetables and avocado for lunch, you may be counting the minutes until your next meal.
To keep hunger levels in check throughout the day, reach for meals and snacks that contain fiber, fat and protein. This winning three-part combination is an easy way to ensure that what you eat is not only satisfying, but also balances blood sugar and – in the long run – hormone levels too.
Put It Into Action: Pair a piece of fruit with a handful of nuts, nut butter or a slice of full fat cheese. The fat and protein in the nuts or cheese help slow the absorption of fructose into the bloodstream to deliver a steady stream of energy rather than spiking your blood sugar. Add protein like grilled chicken or salmon to make any salad more satiating.
Think of nutrition like your Bar Method class: There are many different ways to eat, but not all of them work for everyone. The person working next to you in kickstand curl may need one riser and two small mats while you prefer no riser and one small mat. You both still get the benefit of the exercise but with a different configuration of props. Likewise, some days your body has different needs. On Monday you may take the challenge option to go deeper into thigh work or even a stretch, but by Friday, you're body might not be feeling it so you hold off.
You can apply these same concepts from The Bar Method classroom to nutrition. Some people need more carbs, others more protein. Some people do well on a vegan diet while others need meat. Learn to listen to your body and get curious about how you uniquely respond to different foods. Know that what works for your best friend or your sister may not be best for you and that's ok!
Marissa Vicario McFarland is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Bar Method Instructor in New York City. Her group nutrition program, Bar Fuel: How to Eat for Energy and Focus at The Bar, starts Monday, February 11. The 4-week online program is exclusively for Bar Method clients and offers the support and accountability you need to transform your body and power your workout. Click here to learn more and join!


Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill (centre), listens to a point from Director, Meteorological Service of Jamaica, Jeffrey Spooner (left), following a press conference on January 29 at Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew, to present some of the outcomes of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the Climate Change Conference, which was held last November in Warsaw, Poland. Others from (second left) are: Deputy Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Dr. Elsie Laurence-Chounoune; Principal Director, Climate Change Division in the Ministry, Albert Daley; and Director, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Judith Wedderburn.
Governments across the globe have pledged to intensify their own domestic preparations for a new international agreement to be adopted in 2015.
The parties agreed to either initiate or to intensify their own domestic preparations for the national contribution they will make to this new agreement.
Significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are required in order to keep temperature increases below two degrees.
Governments across the globe have pledged to intensify their own domestic preparations for a new international agreement to be adopted in 2015 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
This was disclosed by Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, Hon. Robert Pickersgill, while reporting on some of the outcomes of the 19th Conference of Parties (COP 19) to the Climate Change Conference, at a press conference held on January 29 at the Alhambra Inn in St. Andrew. COP 19 was held from November 11 to 22, 2013 in Warsaw, Poland.
"That agreement will have a legal form and will be applicable to all. It is expected to enter into force in 2020," the Minister informed.
He said that the parties agreed to either initiate or to intensify their own domestic preparations for the national contribution they will make to this new agreement, which is expected to have legally binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for both developed and developing countries.
According to Minister Pickersgill, the historical and major emitters are expected to lead by committing to larger cuts in their emissions.
"Low emitters such as Jamaica and other Small Island Developing States (SIDS), as well as Least Developed Countries, should be given special considerations. Parties also agreed to submit by the first quarter of 2015, clear and transparent plans for reducing their emissions," he informed.
Scientific findings from the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, indicates that significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are required in order to keep temperature increases below two degrees during the second half of this century.
Another noteworthy outcome of the conference, Minister Pickersgill said was a commitment by developed countries to fulfill pledges of US$100 billion per year from 2013 to 2020 for climate financing.
"Important decisions were made for the Board of the Green Climate Fund to start the process to mobilize resources, and for contributions to come in from the developed countries by December 2014. Developed countries are required to prepare biennial submissions on their strategies and approaches for the scaling up of finances between 2014 and 2020," he said.
Mr. Pickersgill noted that several developed countries made announcements of forthcoming concrete contributions to public climate financing including Norway, the United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, and Germany.
He also informed that US$100 million was pledged by Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland to the Adaptation Fund to finance some eight projects.
As it relates to SIDS, such as Jamaica, Minister Pickersgill said the decision was taken for the establishment of a mechanism to address issues relating to loss and damage. A group of experts is to be established to start work on a two-year programme to develop the structures, modalities and procedures for financing.
"This will be reviewed after three years with a view to remove the mechanism from the Cancun Adaptation Framework that limits how much finance can become available for the amounts already pledged for adaptation," Minister Pickersgill said.
He noted that the move brings to some form of conclusion, efforts that started some 20 years ago by the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), for an insurance scheme to protect the most vulnerable nations.
Mr. Pickersgill pointed out that measures to address deforestation and forest degradation, and the transfer of clean technologies, were some of the other meaningful decisions that came out of the COP 19 meeting.


Issuers are dialing back extras like price protection, citing low usage among cardholders. The upshot? Less could mean more for you.
Rewards like points, cash back and miles typically get applicants through the door for major credit card issuers. But side perks, such as price protection and purchase protection, have long been standard features on some of the best rewards credit cards.
That's beginning to change, as Discover, Citi and Chase have all recently announced cutbacks in some of these extra cardholder benefits.
"This mass-catalog approach — where issuers offer cards with every feature you can think of — just isn't working as well anymore," says Mike Berinato, vice president of research and consulting for Market Strategies International, a financial services research and consulting company.
Here's what's been happening to side perks and what might come next.
Three major issuers have announced changes to ancillary benefits in recent months.
This mass-catalog approach — where issuers offer cards with every feature you can think of — just isn't working as well anymore.
Discover recently eliminated extended product warranty, purchase protection, return guarantee, auto rental coverage and flight accident insurance from its credit cards, citing "prolonged low usage" of these features.
Citi plans to change its Price Rewind program on July 29, 2018, so that cardholders will enjoy price protection of only $200 per item (currently $500) and a maximum benefit of $1,000 per calendar year (currently $2,500).
And Chase has noted that as of June 1, the United℠ Explorer Card will lose both price and return protection, and that its trip cancellation coverage will be lowered to up to $1,500 per trip (currently up to $10,000 per trip).
Chase also no longer lists price protection as a perk on the landing pages of multiple other cards, although the issuer hasn't officially commented on whether the benefit is indeed being removed on those cards.
A 2018 study notes that consumers care most about having a cash-back rewards program, no annual fee and a low interest rate. A perk like price protection is not high up on their priority list.
Berinato agrees that these moves are not necessarily about issuers looking to shave expenses by shedding benefits.
In a February study, Berinato's research firm found that 80% of credit card users are unclear about the benefits of their primary card. The study also notes that consumers care most about having a cash-back rewards program, no annual fee and a low interest rate, followed by 24/7 customer service and identity theft monitoring. So a perk like price protection is not high on their priority list.
It's also worth noting that price protection isn't the easiest perk to take advantage of. It can require a fair amount of legwork on the cardholder's part, including monitoring and researching competitor prices, calling a claims department, and collecting and filing required documents such as receipts, advertisements and more.
Third-party tech solutions have made the task easier. The Earny app, for example, automatically searches for price drops on purchased items and files claims with the credit card issuer on behalf of the cardholder, generating refunds when eligible.
What's unclear is whether the availability of such apps is helping to precipitate the decline of the very benefits they aim to help consumers enjoy by making the perks easier to use, and hence making issuer refunds more common. Aside from citing low usage, issuers aren't elaborating much on their reasoning for scaling back on these benefits.
But at the very least, the ease of comparison shopping via web or app makes it relatively simple for consumers to find similar items across multiple sites, including potentially from "sketchy" retailers, and to submit claims that may not be reasonable.
Even reputable sites like Amazon show how easy it can be to price-check multiple sources, Berinato says.
If paring down little-used perks allows an issuer to reinvest in other parts of its portfolio, it could become a net gain for cardholders by sparking some innovation in a crowded market.
Chase notes that while it's removing some card perks, it's also adding some valuable others.
Chase, for one, notes that while it's removing some perks on the United℠ Explorer Card, it's adding some valuable features, including expanded bonus categories, a Global Entry/TSA PreCheck statement credit and in-flight discounts.
As issuers reduce or replace some of their long-standing credit card benefits, it's in cardholders' interests to stay informed so they know what they're entitled to — and whether it's time to start looking for a different card.


Join Bloomberg Government for a deep dive into the Air Force budget for fiscal year 2019 and beyond. BGOV analysts Chris Cornillie, Cameron Leuthy and Robert Levinson will examine where the money is going in Air, Space and Cyberspace capabilities. They'll also look at R&D programs and investments in things like hypersonic, AI and directed energy and what they might indicate about future spending.


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NIL-RATE BAND LEGACIES AND THE NEW RESIDENCE NIL-RATE BAND
June 15, 2018 /in Civil, Frontpage Article, Publications, Wills, Trusts & Estates /by Magdalen Chambers
CHARLES COOPER REVIEWS THE CONSEQUENCES FOR NIL-RATE BAND LEGACIES OF THE NEW RESIDENCE NIL-RATE BAND FOR INHERITANCE TAX
Since 09 October 2007 it has been possible to claim, on their death, the unused Inheritance Tax Nil-Rate Band ('NRB') of their spouse or civil partner who died before them. This is often referred to as the 'Transferable Nil-Rate Band' or 'TNRB'. By 2014, the Court of Appeal had been asked to consider whether the wording of a so-called 'Nil-Rate Band Legacy' should properly include the TNRB as well. The case was Loring v Woodland Trust [2014] EWCA Civ 1314.
In that case, the relevant part of the NRB legacy read:
'MY TRUSTEES shall set aside out of my residuary estate assets or cash of an aggregate value equal to such sum as is at the date of my death the amount of my unused nil-rate band for inheritance tax and to hold the same for such of the following…'
The Court of Appeal upheld the first instance decision that the legacy should be calculated so as to include both the unused NRB and the TNRB, even though the legislation had been introduced after execution of the will. Particular reference was made to the wording of s.8A Inheritance Tax Act 1984 as applying to increase the NRB rather than being a separate, additional, NRB.
HMRC has criticised the decision in Loring, in their Inheritance Tax Manual at IHTM43065, on the basis that the clause uses the specific words 'the amount of my unused nil-rate band'.
From 06 April 2017, however, there is now an additional 'Residence Nil-Rate Band' and a 'Transferable Residence Nil-Rate Band' to contend with, the legislation for which is set out at ss.8D-8M Inheritance Tax Act 1984. Now, more than ever, caution is advised when drafting or interpreting NRB legacies within a will.
[Charles practised as a Solicitor and Higher Court Advocate before being called to the Bar, and specialises in tax, trusts, wills and probate.]
Pimlico Plumbers Ltd & Mullins v Smith [2018] UKSC 29
June 13, 2018 /in Court Case, Employment Law, Frontpage Article, News, Publications /by Magdalen Chambers
In what is likely to be the leading authority on employment status for years to come, the Supreme Court today has dismissed the appeal of Pimlico Plumbers from the Court of Appeal decision that Mr Smith was a worker and not a self-employed contractor.
Mr Smith is a plumber who carried out work for Pimlico between 2005 and 2011. After suffering a heart attack in 2011, Mr Smith claimed to have been unfairly dismissed despite having presented himself as self-employed for VAT and income tax for 6 years. The facts of his engagement are complex, but the dispute between the parties centred around the legal categorisation of Pimlico's business model. The model presented operatives to clients as working for the business, but at the same time the business internally sought to maintain that there was a legal relationship of self-employed independent contractor rather than employer and employee. The paperwork in this regard was confusing at best. The employment tribunal, EAT and Court of Appeal all reached the decision that Mr Smith was a 'worker' rather than a self-employed contractor. Today the Supreme Court judgment upheld that finding.
Whether or not someone is a worker or an employee is largely a matter of fact for the Tribunal to decide. Here Lord Wilson determined that, "the dominant feature of Mr Smith's contracts with Pimlico was an obligation of personal performance …there were features of the contract which strongly militated against recognition of Pimlico as a client or customer of Mr Smith. Its tight control over him was reflected in its requirements that he should wear the branded Pimlico uniform; drive its branded van, to which Pimlico applied a tracker; carry its identity card; and closely follow the administrative instructions of its control room. The severe terms as to when and how much it was obliged to pay him, on which it relied, betrayed a grip on his economy inconsistent with his being a truly independent contractor." The substantive claims will now proceed to be heard in the employment tribunal.
Although Charlie Mullins (the owner of Pimlico) prophesies that companies using self-employed contractors now face a 'tsunami of claims', this claim is most likely a gross exaggeration. As has always been the case, every individual case will require careful legal analysis of the true nature of the working relationship. The contractual label alone is not enough. The contract may term the relationship as one of self-employed contractor, but the substance of the obligation of personal performance is what counts. Here, there was criticism of "an irrelevant contract, cast in highly confusing terms", necessitating proper scrutiny of the entire engagement. The famous judgment of Lord Templeman in Street v Mountford [1985] AC 809 comes to mind that "The manufacture of a five pronged implement for manual digging results in a fork even if the manufacturer, unfamiliar with the English language, insists that he intended to make and has made a spade."
Companies routinely engaging self-employed contractors on any sort of routine basis would do well to potentially scrutinise and revise its contracts in light of this judgment. Individuals who feel as though they have been 'strong armed' into signing a contract declaring them to be self-employed, despite being heavily controlled by their company, may wish to consider negotiating a clearer and more honest working legal relationship. When it comes to drafting contracts that seek to control an operative whilst describing them as self-employed, the 'careful choreography' exercised by Pimlico is not enough to balance such inconsistent objectives. In future, contracts- be they for an employee, worker or self-employed contractor- should really call a spade a spade.
https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2017-0053-judgment.pdf
Andrew Worthley


Challenge: Today's healthcare industry is confronting the growing need to put medical preferences in writing. Individuals, families, providers, and policymakers increasingly wrestle with difficult end-of-life questions that often have serious emotional and financial consequences for families and healthcare systems at large. Working with such systems at Bon Secours Richmond, HCA Virginia, and Virginia Commonwealth University, the Richmond Academy of Medicine (RAM) sought to adapt a successful Wisconsin-based program for Richmond that would facilitate advance care planning conversations. The program would promote awareness, advocacy, and discussion about this sensitive issue on a large, system-changing scale.
Action: In late 2014, SIR conducted an extensive telephone survey to understand awareness and knowledge of advance care planning among Richmond's general public — examining attitudes, perceptions, misperceptions, motivators, and barriers. This benchmarking study helped RAM determine the best communications strategy for spreading the message about this important topic. SIR then recommended outreach and program approaches that would encourage more people to work with their families, doctors, and lawyers to create an advance-care plan to match their medical preferences.
Results: Using SIR insights, RAM launched its ambitious and wide-reaching advance-care planning initiative in 2015, branded as Honoring Choices Virginia. Through the program, RAM brings together key stakeholders — and the public — to coordinate and advance innovative clinical care improvements inspired by its outreach in communities across the region. Honoring Choices Virginia is now its third successful year, piloting projects in various clinical settings that adopt proven concepts, methodologies, training, and materials on advance-care planning.


Exciting activities! Great friends! Awesome food! Epic leaders!
LM2b 2019 is going to be a whole lot of fun! We're looking forward to welcoming P5-P7s to Lendrick Muir again this summer. You'll be staying in dorms with other young people, and there will be a fabulous team of leaders on hand for activities, hanging out together, answering tricky questions, providing great food and so much more. You'll be part of a small group of kids with one or two leaders who you will get to know really well over the week and who will especially look out for you. Come with a brother or sister, with a few friends, or by yourself – there are loads of new people to get to know.
We're excited about the amazing range of activities on offer – for the adventurous you can try the king swing or go karting, or if you fancy something quieter how about a bike ride or some great craft activities? Some people like to do the same activity again and again (beach volleyball on a hot day!) and others try to do as many different activities as they can. You will choose your activities each day, so you make your own programme. We'll also have a trip off-site one day. Lendrick Muir is such a special place – huge grounds with loads of space for crazy fun and chilling out.
But we're even more excited about exploring the Bible together, and we'll have fun doing this each day. Whether you've never been to church or you go every week you are so welcome, and your leaders are ready for any difficult questions you'd like to ask. You'll leave at the end of the week tired and happy with a suitcase full of dirty clothes and a memory full of good times with new friends.
Your team leader for this holiday is Jo Rose.


The definitive history of BBC's long-running series Doctor Who continues with this volume on three stories of the fourth Doctor from season 18. Stories covered include 'The Leisure Hive,' 'Meglos,' and 'Full Circle.' Illustrated throughout with photographs from the archives and in full-color, this hardcover volume features story summaries, character and actor profiles, pre- and post-production notes, broadcast reaction, and much more.
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Labutí píseň (v anglickém originále Swan Song) je americký sci-fi dramatický film z roku 2021. Režie a scénáře se ujal Benjamin Cleary. Hlavní role hrají Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Awkwafina, Glenn Close a Adam Beach. Děj filmu se odehrává v budoucnosti, Ali hraje postavu manžela a otce, který je diagnostikován smrtelnou chorobou, ale dostává nabídku na vyřešení situace, a to nahradit sebe klonem. Film měl premiéru na Apple TV+ dne 17. prosince 2021. Mahershala Ali získal za roli nominaci na Black Reel Awards, NAACP Image Awards a Zlatý glóbus.

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 Mahershala Ali jako Cameron Turner
 Naomie Harris jako Poppy Turner
 Awkwafina jako Kate
 Glenn Close jako Dr. Scott
 Adam Beach jako Dalton

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