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Описание: Follows the adventure of Pipkin, the little penguin with big ideas. Pipkin the penguin is always asking questions like `How Big is a Million?` and `How High is the Sky?` Now, he has a new question: `How Deep is the Sea?` This book includes a fold-out poster that shows Pipkin diving into the sea, showing what can be found at different depths.
Описание: A charming, simple and beautifully illustrated lift-the-flap book for little children. Scenes include owls, foxes and mice looking for food, bakers making bread for the morning and a sleeper train travelling through the night. A lovely introduction to the nocturnal world, perfect for sharing with little ones at bed time.
Описание: A handbook for budding cartoonists. The step-by-step instructions demonstrate how to produce cartoons ranging from simple animals and people to superheroes and comic strips. Internet links are given to selected Web sites which provide more information on famous cartoonists and techniques.
Описание: The voluntary sector in transition explores the extensive growth and re-shaping of the voluntary sector following sweeping changes to social and welfare policy over 30 years.
Описание: Divulging her true stories of working for some of Miami`s most controversial public figures, Miami psychic Regina Milbourne also explains her thrilling, sometimes life-threatening encounters with Santeria, Candomble, Voodoo, mal occhio, curses, and Wicca. She talks about the tangled lives and horrors within the tainted business of psychics.
Описание: A handbook of step-by-step instructions, advice and tips on how to draw animals ranging from parrots to polar bears, using all sorts of pens, pastels, paints and pencils. It includes details of selected Web sites which contain more information on materials, famous artists and techniques.
Автор: Milbourne, P. Kaplan, C.
Описание: Adobe`s Flash has become the most ubiquitous tool created for Web professionals. This book is the most complete guide for the experienced Flash developer. It includes the latest Flash and ActionScript techniques for getting a Web site designed, up and running.


Trees surrounded me, stifling the atmosphere and suffocating the ground with silent shadows. Trees crushed in on all sides, from all directions. Gray-barked firs, brown hemlocks and bushy cedar trees hemmed me in and barred my way. No matter where I looked, I could see only trees.
It was already late afternoon and time to leave the forest, but I had no idea which way to leave. I had lost my compass hours before and my sense of direction had been stripped from me by the maze of trees, streams, ridges and draws. My feet were infected with large blisters, courtesy of the new boots I was wearing for the first time. I quickened my pace and limped in a direction that hopefully would lead me to a road.
An unseen tree root reached up from the ground and snared one of my new boots. I scrambled to maintain my balance and instinctively reached out for any branch that might aid me. Fortunately, my hand touched just such a branch and I immediately seized hold of it. Unfortunately, the limb belonged to a devil's club and hundreds of tiny, sharp spikes embedded themselves into my skin. No one heard my yelp of pain as I released my hold of the limb and continued my headlong, sprawling journey down the slope.
Fortunately after just ten more feet of skittering across dead limbs and rocks, I found myself wedged breathless against a stout vine maple bush. Unfortunately this vine maple also proved to be home to an active nest of yellow jackets. The insects were surprised and disturbed by my unexpected arrival and rushed out to greet me en masse. After three red-hot shafts of pain pierced my backside, I was motivated to resume my descent down the slope.
My stumbling slide continued as I ricocheted off more vine maple limbs. I rolled to another stop and listened for the sound of agitated bugs. Hearing none, I assumed I was safe for the moment and sat on the ground to catch my breath and nurse my wounds. Only then was I aware of the gently falling rain.
I was already lost in the forest. My new boots were inflicting a number of serious blisters on my feet. My hand was on fire from the spines of the devil's club; yellow jackets had said hello to me three painful times; and I was just about to get very wet. As though that were not bad enough, it was also Friday afternoon.
The rain soaked through my shirt, as I sat there in the forest wondering out loud, Why me? Why me? It was then I remembered the envious words of those folks who worked inside our sawmill each day. They often teased me about my "tough" forestry job, riding around in the forest all day, having a picnic in the woods while enjoying the fresh air and warm sunshine. I viciously slapped at one of the numerous flies and mosquitoes that were circling my body looking for their own picnic in the woods.
I struggled to my feet, as a new sound greeted my ears. It was not the buzz of angry insects but a low growl that came from something large and ominous. I instantly deduced that, although I was lost, I was not alone. I moved slowly until my eyes locked on another pair of dark eyes staring at me. A black bear was just 25 feet away; it was time for me to be moving on.
I eased myself away from the bear, retreating in a direction that did not make much difference since I was lost anyhow. Mrs. Bear--I am sure it was a sow with cubs--continued her low, menacing growl as I increased the distance between us. I slipped behind a screen of trees and decided a fast trot would improve my margin of safety.
It wasn't long till my boots found a gravel logging road. I did not recognize the road but I knew it must lead somewhere. For an hour in the rain and gathering dusk while I swatted flies and mosquitoes, I hiked down the road until I recognized a road junction. It probably wasn't more than a four-mile hike back up the other road to my awaiting pickup truck. In the dim twilight I checked my watch and was comforted to know that I could now officially "Seize the Weekend!" as soon as I found my truck.
Yep, just a picnic in the woods every day, visiting trees and listening to chirping birds, and the bears and the bees, and the devil's club and the vine maple. While the rain trickled down my neck, I thought how wonderful a nice dry sawmill job might have been.
Mickey has endured six decades on this earth, five of which have included freelance writing, during which four decades were spent in the woods as a full-time forester, and three decades have been growing Christmas trees and Golden Retrievers, while working two decades part-time at a winery, and the last decade as a forestry consultant.


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Fashion Director for Bloomingdales Stephanie Solomon Visits Syracuse University
Fashion Article Posted January 22, 2010
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On January 26 and 27 SU alumna Stephanie Solomon, the operating vice president for fashion direction for women's ready-to-wear at Bloomingdales will return to her alma mater to give her first talk at SU since graduating.
On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings, Solomon will mentor the 22 senior fashion design students. She will review each of the senior collections and help each student edit his or her 25 piece collection to six looks that will be created and shown on campus in the spring. This will be followed by a fashion show in New York City which will feature works selected by a jury in Syracuse.
Jeffrey Mayer, program coordinator for fashion design in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) at SU says, "We are fortunate to have such a successful alumna as Stephanie return to campus to share her expertise and insights with our students. This is an invaluable opportunity for them meet one-on-one with a leader in the retail and fashion industry and gain knowledge that they can apply in their future careers.
In addition to her individual mentoring, Solomon will be speaking to fashion, retail and journalism students about her career during a scheduled 2:00 P.M. lecture in The Warehouse Auditorium on Tuesday, January 26. The fashion design program is located on the seventh floor of The Warehouse, SU's recently renovated facility in downtown Syracuse, which is home to all design programs in VPA's School of Art and Design. The fashion design floor includes state-of-the-art design areas for all level of fashion students as well as a historic costume storage area and an exhibition area. For Solomon's visit, the display window on the street level of The Warehouse's West Fayette Street side will feature some of the season's hottest looks the fashion director presented to The New York Times in a December 6, 2009 article.
The lecture and visit by Solomon, who is responsible for finding the most exciting, fashion forward merchandise for Bloomingdale's stores nationwide, is the first in the VPA's School of Art and Design Fashion Design Lecture Series. Speakers to follow include Thai Nguyen, a current star of the Bravo reality series Launch my Line, who will be speaking and working with the students in February. Designer Mary McFadden will visit in March, while Henry Grethel and Richard Eisenberg will discuss menswear in April.
Solomon joined Bloomingdale's as a Fashion Coordinator in 1984. She started in Women's RTW, and then moved on to cover the Women's Fashion Accessories markets. She reported directly to the renowned Kalman Ruttenstein who was her mentor and tutor for 23 years. Solomon's job includes covering the twice yearly women's fashion collection showings in New York, Milan and Paris.
Focused on design and creative development, VPA's fashion design program offers an intellectually stimulating environment with a global perspective. This, coupled with practical and theoretical skills, technology and the study of the cultural context in which fashion exists, provides a broad-based education in fashion. In addition to Solomon, notable alumni from SU and the fashion design program include Henry Grethel, Betsey Johnson, Donald Brooks, Tom and Linda Platt, Lisa Kline and Danna Weiss.
VPA is committed to the education of cultural leaders who will engage and inspire audiences through performance, visual art, design, scholarship and commentary. The college provides the tools for self-discovery and risk-taking in an environment that thrives on critical thought and action. Learn more at http://vpa.syr.edu.
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Let me start this off by wishing you all a happy new year!
I hope you were able to enjoy a nice christmas season.
Looking back at the year, I guess this was one of the better years for us.
First of all we need to thank each and everyone of you for your support, especially our supporters on Patreon! We're very grateful for your help and dedication in creating everything Deathblight related.
Let's talk about the bad things that happened this year, and then get to the good ones.
Our game designer (Blade) suddenly became homeless this summer.
But we helped him to find an appartment and after a stressful Alpha 3 release things went back to normal mostly.
Other than that, I think there wasn't really anything specifically bad this year.
So on to the good things!
Our fanbase grew quite a bit this year, thank you everyone!
Other than that, the webcomic progressed smoothly and we managed to release new major releases of Deathblight RPG in march and end of august, as well as several minor releases in between.
We didn't quite make it for the december release (current Alpha 4) but we're almost there and pushing hard to release it the next couple days.
With our Patreon campaign growing, I'm thinking about possibly hireing a pixel artist to finally continue Deathblight Apocalypse.
I know it's the 5000 $ milestone on our list, and we've still got ways to go to reach that (currently we're at 3000 $).
But as always I'm planning ahead and I guess it wouldn't hurt to look for people to hire ahead of time.
That being said, let's see how the next year will be!
See ya next year and let's hope it will be even better.
As usual we're posting at least 2 progress updates per month on Patreon.
It's been a while I posted here, so I figured it's time for another blogpost!
Most of the graphical work is done, so we just need to finish the 3 CG scenes as well as some other things for the Alpha 4 release.
In today's live stream we should be able to finish the CG shown above.
We start in about 1 hour after posting this blogpost.
As usual the stream goes on for about 4-6 hours.
After that the CG scene needs to be implemented into the game.
As well as the other CG scenes which we're going to work on the next couple days too.
We also decided to not work on any commissions this month.
So for this month we focus all our energy and attention to DB RPG Alpha 4.
If possible, we try to release Alpha 4 this year and we're pushing for this really hard!
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments below.
The next blogpost will most likely be Alpha 4 Patreon release, and Alpha 3.1 public release.
I hope you're looking forward to it.


Mayor-Elect Linda Gorton has named the members of her Transition Team, who will work with members of Mayor Jim Gray's administration to ensure a smooth transition.
This first phase of the transition will focus on internal issues, Gorton said. A future phase will focus on priorities for external issues.
Gorton said Wil James, former president of the Georgetown Toyota Motor Manufacturing plant, and Chris Frost, a University of Kentucky College of Law professor, will co-chair the Transition Team. Frost led the transition between the Newberry and Gray administrations.
Other Transition Team leaders include Lexington attorney Phil Scott, who will work with the Law Department; educator Eunice Beatty and UK College of Law Professor Carolyn Bratt, who will work with the Planning, Preservation and Development Department; urban planner Ed Holmes, who will work with the Environmental Quality and Public Works Department; former U.S. Attorney Kerry Harvey, who will work with the Public Safety Department; workforce development expert Roy Woods, who will work with the Social Services Department; Blue Grass Community Foundation President Lisa Adkins, who will work with the General Services Department; and UK Martin School Professor and former state budget director Merl Hackbart, who will work with the Finance Department.
In the next few weeks, the City's commissioners and division directors will brief members of the Transition Team on issues and projects in their areas. Chief Administrative Officer Sally Hamilton is setting up the meetings.
Gorton officially takes over as mayor on Jan. 6. An inauguration ceremony is planned at 2 p.m. on Jan. 6, in the ballroom of Gatton Student Center, 160 Avenue of Champions. The event is free and open to the public.


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Many young people struggle with the unstructured nature of the summer holidays. Sadly, for a significant number getting six weeks off from school means spending six, uninterrupted weeks in an environment that is at best challenging and at worst, harmful.
About this programme
The Challenging Me Summer Mentoring Programme is designed to provide fun, enjoyment, structure and focus over the summer holidays, engaging these young people on a fundamental level and channelling their energy constructively. We use our decades of real-life experience to challenge them to reflect on who they are, how they came to be where they are, and to think about what they want from life and the future. Through the prism of shared experience, our mentors are able to build trust with these young people and challenge them to see the possibilities and successes their life could hold, as well as helping them develop the self-awareness, self-esteem and self-belief these young people need to begin making positive changes towards their goals.
By teaching important life-skills like self-discipline, fairness, and consideration and respect for others, our mentors are able to challenge the way these young people see themselves in relation to the world around them and the relationships they have experienced. We aim to decrease the amount of stress and anxiety these young people feel, helping them identify trigger points for conflict and arming them with de-escalation and conflict-resolution strategies. And wherever appropriate, we'll embark on a fun journey through developing other life-skills like cooking, budgeting and money management.
Our hope is that we can inspire young people to become confident, resilient young people with hopes, aspiration and goals, and make a long-lasting, positive impact on the way they think about themselves and their place in the world.
What participants say:
The first time I met Dave & Ian, I was working in a large high school in Manchester as a coordinator for ethnic minority achievement. Some of the pupils were having running battles, with groupings split firmly along ethnic lines, and the school had brought them in to try to stem the escalating violence. The techniques they used were eclectic but effective. The incidents of fights between different racial groups dropped to zero.
Mark Darbey
They understand, first hand, the pressures on teenagers in the inner city. They bridge the gulf between teacher and pupil, pupil and parent, and parent and school. The pupils hang on his every word, their respect self-evident. The year before, there had been seven expulsions. After the mentors arrived, there was one.
Oliver Swanton
There are no words to describe my mentor and how great he is. If I had to choose one word to describe the programme it would be Amazing! I didn't think anything would help me but joining the programme was the best choice I ever made. My mentoring programme helped me to realise I can do things, not that I might be able to, that I can do this! I would recommend this programme to anyone.
Mentee – aged 16
Challenge Me has been an engaging programme for all of our young people in our residential placements. The mentors are hard hitting and can really relate to the young people through using their real life experiences. We have seen a significant change in behaviours and how the young people use coping mechanisms as a result of working with their mentor. We especially like that each mentor is matched appropriately with each young person, taking into consideration their needs. We would recommend the mentoring programme to other residential providers as we have found it massively beneficial for our young people.
Ana – Operations Manager for Triangle Care Residential.
In-depth information, not just about understanding the young people and their behaviour but how to emphasise the open mind and help through asking questions in a more productive way. The course was thoroughly enjoyable and beneficial. It would be a great addition to our current training.
Delegate from Care 4 Children
The course was relevant, valuable and full of enriching information. It was very educational and detailed; giving a different view of life in general. All content is useful and insightful equipping with transferable life skills.
Delegate from Triangle Care Group
Eye-opening. Thought-provoking. Empowering. Encouraging. Informative. Motivating. Vibrant. Inspiring. Refreshing. Relatable. Best training course and would love to do more training with the team at Challenge Me.
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We have seen an increase in attendance, behaviour and improvement in home life from the several pupils we have working with Challenge Me. I believe this is through having a 1:1 mentor and an individual programme that has been tailored to fit them. The young people see the mentors as good role models; who listens to them and understands their needs/issues. I would certainly promote the programme as being unique, bespoke, supportive, reliable, engaging and professional.
Debi Capper – Alternative Provision Coordinator at Impact Pupil Referral Unit
My grandson has a lot of very complex issues going on in his life and his mentor had a certain way of interacting with him, getting him to open up, which is something he finds difficult to do with his family. During his time on the programme his attitude and approach to these issues has definitely improved. We as a family can't thank the mentor enough for the commitment to my grandson and his wellbeing.
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Results of the 2012 Running Order Draw!
The running order draw is considered important for a good placing in the Eurovision Song Contest, that's why lots of TV-people, journalists and fans were nervously awaiting for today's event to know on which position would their country perform in Baku.
Earlier this year, the participating Semi-Finalists were already drawn either in the first or the second half of either Semi-Final 1 or Semi-Final 2. You can watch the Allocation Draw show in our Web TV Player.
In each half of every respective Semi-Final, one country received a wildcard to choose its starting position. The remaining positions were drawn afterwards.
The rest of the Final spots will be drawn at the winners' press conference right after the Semi-Finals' results are known.
You can watch again the Running Order Draw in our Web TV Player.
The 2012 Eurovision Song Contest will take place with two Semi-Finals on the 22nd and 24th of May and with the Grand Final following up on the 26th.


The Amusement Parkives – Parks. Thrills. Nostalgia.
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Work included: advising a major production and marketing division on issues ranging from trade secret protection to antitrust to partnership law; counseling a trading company on issues ranging from perfection and priority of security interests, to the interaction of U.S. and foreign law in "back-to-back" trading situations, to the proper structure for long-term countertrade relationships; negotiating and drafting construction and engineering contracts (including agreements for the development of computer-assisted manufacturing); general legal advice to health care sector divisions, including negotiating and drafting distribution agreements and advising on antitrust issues.
Litigation, legislation, negotiation and mediation in various areas of trade regulation.
Litigation involved both trial and appellate work in state court. Legislative duties included drafting and lobbying for the Minnesota Plain Language Contract Act, Minn. Laws 1982, ch. 274.


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Die Basilika Unserer Lieben Frau von Sameiro () (Heiligtum von Sameiro) () ist eine römisch-katholische Kirche mit dem Status einer Basilica minor und eines Marienheiligtums in der Umgebung der Stadt Braga, Portugal. Sie ist als erste portugiesische Kirche dem 1854 ausgerufenen Dogma der Unbefleckten Empfängnis gewidmet.

Lage

Der Wallfahrtsort Unserer Lieben Frau von Sameiro liegt auf einem westlichen Aussichtspunkt oberhalb von Braga. Die breite Treppenanlage mit einigen Heiligenfiguren erstreckt sich auf einer Länge von 300 Metern etwa 40 Meter den Hang hinauf, dominiert von der auf  stehenden Basilika. Sie ist einer der meistbesuchten Orte der Marienverehrung in Portugal und zieht jedes Jahr während der Wallfahrten vom ersten Sonntag im Juni bis zum letzten Sonntag im August viele Gläubige an. Eine Lourdesgrotte in der Anlage verweist auf den französischen Wallfahrtsort Lourdes mit dem gleichen Patrozinium.

Basilika

Der Bau der Anlage begann am 14. Juli 1863 unter Leitung von Pater Martinho da Silva. Als erstes Kunstwerk der Anlage wurde eine marmorne Marienstatue des Italieners Emídio Carlos Amatucci errichtet. Eine erste Kapelle konnte 1880 fertiggestellt werden und beherbergte das Bild der Schutzheiligen, das der Bildhauer Eugenio Maccagnani in Rom schuf und 1880 in das Heiligtum brachte.

Der Bau der Kirche begann mit der Grundsteinlegung 1890 durch den Erzbischof von Braga, Antonio Honorato. Die einschiffige Kirche wurde als Kreuzkirche im neoklassizistischen Stil mit einer hohen Kuppel als Vierungsturm und einer Doppelturmfassade mit den Glockentürmen errichtet. 1904 fand eine Marienkrönung statt, deren Krone Roque Gameiro (1892–1944) mit Hilfe von Spenden für die Marienstatue gefertigt hatte. Die feierliche Krönung fand im Gedenken an den 50. Jahrestag der dogmatischen Definition der Unbefleckten Empfängnis am 12. Juni 1904 statt. 1941 konnte der Hochaltar aus Granit mit flankierenden roten Marmorsäulen und der Marienstatue im Zentrum geweiht werden, zu dem auch ein silberner Tabernakel gehört. 1953 konnte die Kirche fertiggestellt werden. Für die Pilger wurde 1979 eine Krypta errichtet, in der Pater Martinho da Silva beigesetzt wurde. 2004 wurde ein beleuchtetes Kreuz über einer Armillarsphäre auf die Kuppel gesetzt.

Bedeutung
Die Kirche erhielt 1964 durch Papst Paul VI. den Titel einer Basilica minor verliehen. Papst Johannes Paul II. besuchte das Marienheiligtum am 15. Mai 1982 und verlieh ihm 2004 die Goldene Rose. Die Kirche steht im portugiesischen Denkmalverzeichnis.

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You may not know it, but you could very well have Kentucky ancestors. Why? Kentucky was the great "feeder state" for countless ancestors who migrated westward from Virginia and the Middle Atlantic States from the end of the 18th to the middle of the 19th century. If you've lost your Midwest ancestor but are led to believe that he/she originated on the East Coast, you might pick up the trail in Kentucky. Even better, we're discounting a baker's dozen classic Kentucky source books for the next three days. You could save up to 20% on each/all of them.
Ready to engage with your Bluegrass ancestry? If so, consider the following thirteen titles but be sure to place your order by 11:59 PM, Thursday, March 21, 2019!
This is a valuable compilation of abstracts of marriage notices. Listed chronologically, each entry gives the name of the bride and groom and the marriage date, and many include the place of residence and parents' names. The source of the information is provided for each entry. About 8,000 names of brides and grooms are in the index.
These 5,000 obituary notices were extracted from six early Kentucky newspapers and published, in installments, in The Register of the Kentucky History Society. Most entries give the name of the deceased, place of residence, name(s) of wife or husband, parents or other survivors, date of death, and other genealogical details. This consolidated edition also features a complete index of names not found in the original.
These two works by the former director of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort constitute a rich repository of information on Kentucky natives who fought in the War of 1812. The Battle on River Raisin, which was fought in and around Frenchtown (now Monroe), Michigan from January 18 to January 23, 1812, was one of the four principal campaigns of the War of 1812 engaged in by Kentucky forces. Following the defeat of the American forces at Frenchtown, as many as sixty Kentucky soldiers were massacred by Indians serving under the British. When news of the massacre reached Kentucky, patriots exhorted one another with shouts of "Remember the Raisin," which, the author claims, gave the new nation the "vengeance-fired impetus" to wage the remaining battles of the War of 1812.
The larger of these two works treats all aspects of the Battle on River Raisin, including the events leading up to the battle, troop movements, and eyewitness accounts of the skirmishes and the massacre itself. Of greatest interest to genealogists are the detailed biographical and genealogical sketches of nearly 100 officers and enlisted men who served on River Raisin and complete rosters of the Kentucky soldiers who saw action there. The rosters give the name of the company commander and identify each member by rank, with remarks such as "Killed in Action," "Prisoner of War," and a date.
The smaller companion volume is a miscellaneous listing of Kentucky veterans of the War of 1812 compiled from newspaper files, pension lists, county histories, veterans' publications, and so on. Not limited to the Frenchtown campaign, it furnishes data on some 700 Kentucky veterans of the War of 1812, including some or all of the following information: name, county of residence, date of enlistment, unit, campaign(s), date of birth and/or death, and, frequently, much more.
This combined work, which is reprinted with the permission of the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort, must be regarded as one of the richest collections of Kentucky War of 1812 source material ever published. Partially indexed.
Kentucky and Kentuckians in the Battles and Massacre at Frenchtown, Michigan Territory, in the War of 1812. Published with "Notes on Kentucky Veterans of the War of 1812"
Originally published in 1848 by Lewis Collins and bearing the title Historical Sketches of Kentucky, this majestic history was brought down to the year 1874 by Mr. Collins' son Richard and re-titled History of Kentucky. Despite its age, the Collinses' History of Kentucky is a veritable goldmine of information on the Bluegrass State.
Volume I delves into Kentucky's statewide political and social history in great detail. The main component is 250 pages of annals, that is, a chronology of Kentucky history from 1539 to 1874. Additional chapters in this volume cover Kentucky in the Revolutionary War, Kentucky office holders at the national and state level, the state's Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Catholic denominations, education, internal improvements, art and culture, and more.
Volume II is devoted to Kentucky's 110 counties in existence at the time of the work's original publication in 1874. Each county receives its own essay, which typically describes the county's topography, date of formation, principal towns, population, sources of commerce and industry, officials, and, without exception, detailed biographical sketches of the county's founder(s) or other distinguished citizens (e.g., Gen. John Adair of Adair County). The biographical sketches, totaling 500 in all, treat all aspects of the subject's career and, in the case of Kentucky personalities like George Rogers Clark, range over a number of pages.
Complete with illustrations and indexes containing more than 25,000 entries, the Collinses' History of Kentucky is a work which no serious student of the Bluegrass State can afford to be without.
Embracing . . . Incidents of Pioneer Life, and Nearly Five Hundred Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Pioneers, Soldiers, Statesmen, Jurists, Lawyers, Surgeons. . .Etc.
Print Pages: 804 + 683 pp.
Founded by W. S. Peters and a group of Kentucky businessmen, the Peters Colony provided for the settlement of vast tracts of land in northeastern Texas during the years 1842 to 1848, primarily in the present-day counties of Collin, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, and Tarrant. The majority of the 2,000 persons who took up land there were from Kentucky and surrounding states, although the remainder were drawn from all over the country owing to the attraction of free land.
In this publication, which is reprinted from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, the author has furnished a history of the Peters Colony as well as a list of the colonists themselves, which comprises the final half of the book. In this list the genealogist is given full scope for his researches, as each of the 2,000 settlers is positively identified with regard to the following information: name, marital status, occupation, age, year of migration to Texas, county of settlement, state of birth, and state from which he migrated. Professor Connor extracted his information from original sources in the general land office, records of the Peters Colony, and the 1850 census of Texas.
In 1780 Kentucky County, Virginia was divided into three Kentucky counties--Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson. The importance of Jefferson County to genealogists lies in the fact that, along with the other two counties, it was one of the parents of Kentucky's present 120 counties. So Jefferson County's records will be of interest to a wide audience of genealogists.
The Records of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from the "Filson Club History Quarterly"
Print Pages: x + 505 pp.
This compilation of Kentucky records contains data on upwards of 15,000 persons (all indexed) taken from Bibles, tombstones, obituaries, birth certificates, vital statistics, tax books, deeds, wills, and marriage and census records. The counties covered include Bourbon, Bracken, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Hardin, Hopkins, Jefferson, Jessamine, Larue, Lincoln, Livingston, Mason, Mercer, and Woodford. In addition, the work contains genealogies or family records of the following main families: Bartlett, Baskett, Bayles, Bourland-Reese, Brownfield-Brumfield, Caldwell, Carson, Cowgill, Cox, Cromwell, Denton, Denton-Leer, Earle-Dillingham, Elkin, Fristoe, Haley, Harrod, Laffoon, Land, Lauderman, Leer, Milam, Mitchell, Neal, Nichols, Randolph, Reed, Rees, Tribble, and Worthington.
Historic Families of Kentucky is a basic history of the state, with considerable emphasis on the accomplishments of the pioneer families, including their public service in the nation's struggle for independence and existence. The objective of the book is to trace from their origin in this country a number of Kentucky families of Scotch-Irish extraction whose ancestors immigrated to America in the early 18th century and became pioneers of the Valley of Virginia. Descendants of these families of the Valley were among the early pioneers of Kentucky. Among these families, of whome some account is given in the text, are those of Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Andrews, Ball, Barbour, Bell, Benton, Birney, Brashear, Breckinridge, Brown, Buford, Bullett, Burden, Butler, Campbell, Carlisle, Carrington, Carson, Carthrae, Chrisman, Clark, Clay, Crittenden, Cummings, Dickson, Duke, Fontaine, Harbeson, Hardin, Harvey, Harvie, Hawkins, Helm, Innes, Irvine, Jones, Keith, Le Grand, Lewis, Logan, Lyle, Madison, Marshall, McAlpine, McClung, McClure, McDowell, McKnight, McPheeters, Monroe, Montgomery, Moore, Murray, Neil, Newton, Parker, Patton, Paxton, Pickett, Preston, Price, Randolph, Reade, Reed, Reid, Smith, Starling, Strother, Taylor, Thornton, Todd, Wallace, Warner, Washington, and Woodson.
The arrangement is alphabetical under the names of the grantees with the number of acres, dates, locations, and references to the pages in the original records in the Land Office of Frankfort. There are more than 45,000 entries, most being devoted to early Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson County records. There also are Military Warrants, 1782-1793; Court of Appeals Deeds-Grantees, 1783-1846; Grantors, 1783-1846; Wills, 1769-1850; and Attorneys, 1781-1853.
This excellent regional history is crammed with lists of early settlers, heads of families, and Revolutionary pensioners. It deals with the region (mostly in Eastern Kentucky) known as the Big Sandy Valley, which today encompasses all or part of sixteen counties in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Mrs. King has here abstracted the earliest wills of 38 Kentucky counties formed between the years 1780 and 1842 (with the exception of Crittenden County) and representing the state as a whole. The information given includes dates of instrument and probate, names of wife and children, and names of witnesses. The arrangement is county by county, each with its own index, with a general index at the rear of the book containing all the names mentioned in the text.
The following Kentucky counties are within the scope of the work: Barren, Bourbon, Bullitt, Caldwell, Christian, Clark, Crittenden, Daviess, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Garrard, Greene, Hardin, Harrison, Henderson, Henry, Hopkins, Jefferson, Jessamine, Knox, Lincoln, Livingston, Logan, Madison, McCracken, Mercer, Muhlenberg, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, Shelby, Spencer, Todd, Warren, Washington, and Woodford.
This work, which treats the same area as Kozee's Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky, is largely a sourcebook of genealogical data rather than a collection of family histories. Genealogical information on each county is uniform and is arranged in the following manner: first is given the boundary and establishment by law of each county; next, a synopsis of the earliest court records pertaining to the county; then, often a list of pioneer families according to the 1810 federal census and various county tax lists--alphabetically arranged by head of household; and finally, and of greatest importance to the researcher, marriage records of various southeastern Kentucky counties. Additional sections of interest include lists of Revolutionary, War of 1812, and Civil War soldiers.
This work has a deserved reputation for thoroughness and accuracy, and is widely regarded as a model genealogy because of its high standards of research. The Boones are traced through eleven generations from the original emigrant ancestors, and the comprehensiveness of the work is shown by the fact that the index contains about 15,000 names. There is material on families of undetermined connection, data on families that married into the Boone family in earlier generations, Revolutionary War records, and other material, including, of course, a biography of Daniel Boone.


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Фітоцено́з (від грец. phyton— рослина і koinos — загальний, спільний), або рослинне угруповання — закономірне поєднання рослин на тій чи іншій території з певними взаємостосунками між ними і з властивими їм умовами місцезростання.

Існує багато інших визначень фітоценозу.

Згідно з визначенням Володимира Сукачова фітоценозом, або рослинним угрупованням, слід називати будь-яку сукупність як вищих, так і нижчих рослин, які займають дану однорідну ділянку земної поверхні, з лише їм властивими взаємостосунками й умовами місцезростання, які створюють своє особливе середовище, фітосередовище.

Цитата за Кучерявим В. П. (2001): Фітоценоз — сукупність рослинних організмів на відносно однорідній ділянці, які перебувають у взаємодії між собою, з тваринами і навколишнім середовищем. Фітоценози будь-якої місцевості у своїй сукупності становлять її рослинність. Кожний фітоценоз характеризується певним видовим складом. Морфологічна структура фітоценозу визначається просторовим розподілом рослин (див. Ярусність, Синузія, Екологічна ніша). Періодичність розвитку рослин у фітоценозі виявляється у зміні його аспектів. Рослини фітоценозу в процесі своєї життєдіяльності впливають на ґрунт і клімат, формуючи внутрішній фітоклімат; разом з тваринами, що живуть у ньому, входять до складу біоценозу. Фітоценоз є динамічною системою, якій властива сезонна і різнорічна мінливість компонентів під впливом екологічних умов. Одні фітоценози з часом замінюються іншими (див. Сукцесія). У стабільних фітоценозах види рослин перебувають один з одним та з зовнішнім середовищем в екологічній рівновазі.

Це історично складена сукупність видів рослин, що існує на території з більш-менш однотипними кліматичними, ґрунтовими та іншими умовами. Характеризується певним видовим складом, структурою та взаємодією рослин між собою і з зовнішнім середовищем.

Структура фітоценозу
Структура фітоценозу (, від  — будова, розташування) — поняття, що трактується різними авторами по-різному (в широкому плані огляд різних аспектів структури екосистем дано О. П. Левичем); мабуть, найбільш доцільно розглядати С. ф. як синонім будови фітоценозу. С. ф. включає широке коло питань, які В. В. Мазінг, О. А. Ніценко та ін. групують у такі розділи:
 С. ф. морфологічна (сінморфологія),
 просторова або хорологічна (структура фітоценозів вертикальна, структура фітоценозів горизонтальна, структура фітоценозів геометрична),
 хронологічна (структура фітоценозів в часі),
 конституційна (поняття запропоновано Т. А. Работновим; див. ценопопуляції, фітоценотипи, композиція флористична — не тільки якісне, а й кількісне співвідношення видів;
 структура фітоценозу еколого-біологічне — поняття В. М. Голубєва),
 процесуальна (поняття О. А. Ніценко; розподіл у часі та просторі фізіологічних функцій компонентів фітоценозу),
 структура фітоценозу функціональна (поняття В. В. Мазінга).
 С. ф. як частини екосистеми в процесах кругообігу речовин в екосистемі і потоків енергія та інформації тощо.

Геометрична структура
Структура фітоценозу геометрична — просторове розташування (архітектоніка) листків рослин фітоценозу у зв'язку з їх пристосованністю до умов місцеперебування. Одним з перших якісне дослідження С.ф.г. провів у 1880 р. Візнер (). У зв'язку із завданнями моделювання продукційного процесу (див. Продуктивність біологічна) виникла необхідність кількісного опису С.ф.г. Загальновизнаними є методи, розроблені естонськими дослідниками Ю. К. Россом, X. Г. Тоомінгом, Т. А. Нільсоном та ін. С.ф.г. характеризується площею листя в одиниці об'єму фітоценозу на певній висоті і просторовою орієнтацією листочків.

Вертикальна структура
Структура фітоценозу вертикальна — будова фітоценозу у вертикальному вимірі. С.ф.в. різноманітна і залежно від особливостей фітоценозу може бути безперервною або дискретною. У першому випадку ніяких об'єктивно існуючих окремостей розрізнити не вдається і увесь фітоценоз сприймається як єдиний безперервний зелений шар (вертикальний фітоценотичний континуум, наприклад, тропічні ліси, заплавні чагарники, більшість лугових і лучно-степових співтовариств та ін.). У другому випадку поділ фітоценозу на «шари» вловлюється візуально (паприклад, бореальні ліси).

Основним елементом С.ф.в. є ярус; як правило, різні яруси утворені різними життєвими формами. За цією ознакою першим класифікував яруси в 1921 р. Дю Ріє (). Розрізняють деревний ярус (), чагарниковий (), трав'яний або трав'яно-кущоватий () і мохово-лишайниковий (). Однак, іноді один ярус об'єднує види різних життєвих форм (наприклад, підрост в ярусі підліску).

Існуюче біологічне трактування ярусності не дозволяє відносити види чужої життєвої форми до ярусу на тій підставі, що їх перебування в цьому ярусі тимчасове. У таких випадках поряд з ярусами пропонується виділяти пологи (частина ярусу при його горизонтальному розчленуванні; наприклад, полог крон дерев). Подібне ускладнене трактування часто виявляється незручним для практичних цілей і краще дотримуватися чисто морфологічного розуміння ярусу, як дискретного шару помітного всередині фітоценозу.

При відсутності ярусності (вертикальному континуумі) доцільно виділяти шари умовно по різній висоті (від і до); при цьому різноякісність таких шарів у житті фітоценозу (і всієї екосистеми) дозволяє говорити про фітоценогоризонти (за аналогією з біогеоценотичними горизонтами Ю. П. Бялловича). Іноді говорять про підземну ярусність (на противагу надземній), хоча тут вертикальний континуум вже стає правилом. Існують позаярусні рослини (наприклад, ліани, епіфіти і т.i.).

Горизонтальна структура
Структура фітоценозу горизонтальна — будова фітоценозу в горизонтальному вимірі. Проявляється у гетерогенності фітоценозів (мозаїчності), яка породжена біологією розмноження та формами росту, взаємними відносинами і шумовими ефектами розсіювання зачатків. Вихідні екотопічні варіації середовища не можуть служити джерелом виникнення мозаїчності і викликають інші за природою явища комплексності.

Взаємодія різних факторів, що викликають мозаїчність, носить випадковий характер з унікальними (індивідуальними) наслідками. Це робить вкрай рідкісними випадки закономірного повторення «плям» () рослинності з більш-менш стійкою флористичною композицією або співвідношенням видів за масою і підтверджує на внутрішньофітоценотичному рівні концепцію континууму рослинності. В деяких випадках, коли в складі співтовариства є сильний середовищеутворювач, неоднорідність його розміщення може викликати більші або менші (зумовлені притяганням або відштовхуванням) плями рослинності, які називають мікроугрупованнями (мікроценозами). Мікроугруповання ценотичного змісту названо М. В. Дилісом «парцела».

В. В. Мазінг запропонував виділяти такі модельні (ідеальні) типи горизонтального розчленування: структура радіальна (відрізняється високим ступенем впорядкованості, види або мікроугруповання в співтоваристві розташовуються кільцеподібно навколо деякого центру, градієнти факторів спрямовані уздовж радіусів), смуговий (види або мікроугруповання йдуть паралельними рядами, градієнти факторів паправлені перпендикулярно до цих смуг; така структура може розглядатися як граничний варіант радіальної структури при нескінченно великому радіусі) і чарункова (ячеїста, складається з неорієнтованих елементів — видів або мікроугруповань).

Ці три основних типи С. ф. г. дозволяють отримувати різні і більш складні типи структур співтовариств (наприклад, острівкову, деревоподібну, комплексну і т. д.). Урахування типів структур зумовлює спосіб розміщення пробних майданчиків, розташування трансект і т. д. Методи вивчення С. ф. г. розпадаються на класи аналізу розподілу і аналізу розміщення (без фіксації і з фіксацією положення в просторі облікових описів) і можуть бути реалізовані і на популяційному рівні і на ценотичному (рівні поєднань видів).

Функціональна структура
Структура фітоценозу функціональна — структура форм організації фітоценозу на основі взаємин його компонентів. Елементами С.ф.ф. є ценоелементи, ценочарунки, синузії, ценопопуляції і т. д. Функціональна структура біоценозу (елементом є консорція, в основі якої лежать харчові зв'язки) отримала спеціальну назву — біоценотичний коннекс ().

Еколого-біологічна структура
Структура фітоценозу еколого-біологічна — кількісний склад біоморф і екоморф видів фітоценозу за індивідуалізованими ознаками. Найважливішими ознаками є:
 основна біоморфа,
 тип структури кореневої системи і наземних пагонів,
 спосіб наростання і циклічність розвитку пагонів,
 спосіб перезимівлі,
 характер плодоношення і диссемінації,
 екологічний тип по відношенню до різних факторів (водного, температурного, світлового режиму,
 багатства ґрунту, ступеню його засолення та ін.).

С.ф.е.-б., виражена кількісно, характеризує пристосувальні риси компонентів даного фітоценозу і визначає його специфіку. Аналогічно можливо визначення С.ф.е.-б. на рівні фітоценону.

Система фітоценотичних типів рослин
В. М. Сукачов (1928) та Г. І. Поплавська (1924) на основі вивчення рослинності степу заповідника Асканія-Нова на півдні України розробили систему фітоценотичних типів рослин, що складають рослинне угруповання:
 едифікатори і асектатори;
 автохтонні і адвентивні види.

Див. також
 Замкнутість фітоценозу

Примітки

Література

 Кучерявий В. П. Екологія. — Львів: Світ, 2001. — 500 с.
 Корсак К. В., Плахотнік О. В. Основи сучасної екології: Навч. посіб. — 4-те вид., перероб. і допов. — К.: МАУП, 2004. — 340 с: іл.
 Мусієнко М. М., Серебряков В. В., Брайон О. В. Екологія: Тлумачний словник. — К.: Либідь, 2004. — 376 с

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Call off strike, Labour Minister pleads with workers
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The Minister of Employment and Labour Relations Haruna Iddrisu has offered to meet with workers in a bid to avert a nationwide mass strike scheduled for Thursday, July 24.
Organised Labour, comprising various unions, congresses and associations, have said they would take to the streets to protest what they say is the high cost of living, rising food prices, the falling currency and hikes in utility prices.
The strike was announced at a press conference on Friday, July 18, by the Secretary General of the Teachers Union Congress Kofi Asamoah.
But Minister Idrissu has said he is prepared to dialogue with workers. He said: " I am available. We can meet. Even this evening. Anywhere. We can engage with Labour".
He added: "We solidarise with the issues raised by Labour but are "appealing to them, a sit down strike and a boycott is not the way to go."
The Minister assured the workers that government is putting in place interventions to fix the economy. He said labour "ought to appreciate the constraints of the budget" adding, "government cannot immediately fix the grievances of labour."
It appears however, that the Minister's appeal will not be taken up. Justice Yankson, Deputy Secretary General of the Ghana Medical Association told Joy News that labour has "gotten to its maximum limit. The strike will not be called off today and will not be called off tomorrow."
"The people of Ghana keep suffering" and the talk and dialogue which government is offering will not solve their problem," he added.
The Secretary General of the Teachers Union Congress Kofi Asamoah asked all workers both in the formal and informal sectors, including media, to stay away from work and assemble at designated locations in Accra and other regional capitals to demonstrate.
The strike, if successful will ground the country to a halt and would have a huge effect on productivity.
Organisations that form Organised Labour include the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Industrial and Commercial-workers Union (ICU), Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Civil and Local Government Staff Association of Ghana (CLOSSAG), Ghana Medical Association (GMA) and the Ghana Registered Nurses Association (GRNA).
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If I had a dime for every time I've said "I can't believe it's already August," in the past 9 days, I'd have enough money to make up for the fact that I'm only working 22 hours this week.
But in all seriousness, where did this summer go? I can hardly remember July, and June? I'm pretty sure the calendar just skipped over that month this year. If I had actually made a summer checklist, it would have included hiking the Royal Arch, attending the Boulder Farmers' Market and dining at the Chautauqua Dining Hall and for all those things, I would have had a check, check and check, but there's still lots of small things I feel like I haven't done yet this summer.
Sunday marked the first night all summer that we fired up the grill.
And the first time all summer that we grilled a pineapple!
Chickpea Curry Burgers, compliments of Clean Eating Chelsey.
But I keep having to remind myself have Joey remind me, that summer is not over.
And even though I've yet to eat a really good Colorado peach, there's still time.
and knock out that pile of veggie burger recipes I've collected.
This makes me incredibly nervous.
And eat lots more grilled pineapple.
The most important part of every meal.
So here's to making the most of August. Before September and the beginnings of Fall set in. Because by then I'll only be able to think about pumpkin.
What do you still want to fit in time for this summer?
Ketchup! No grilling is complete without it. And somehow I have let summer pass me by without grilled pineapple. I think that needs to be remedied. Like, tonight. And I hope some veggie burger recipe reviews are upcoming, I'm always looking for good ones!
i thought those burgers were hamburger at first! (well, the shot of them on the grill.) they look yummy 🙂 i've never tried grilling veggie burgers but i don't know what i'm waiting for!
and i agree…where in the heck is summer going?! i think we need to just pause the days for a little bit. we can still go on living, but it doesn't pass august 9th, ya know!?
I am totally thinking about pumpkin already!
I know what you mean, the summer FLEW by and I keep doing a double take whenever I see a calendar! But you're right, it's not over yet!
Let me just say this summer has gone by WAY too fast. But I must add, fall does happen to be my favorite season! There is nothing more beautiful in my opinion. You haven't eaten a good peach yet?! Lauren, cut a peach in half, rub with just a drop of oil, sprinkle a little sugar, and grill that sucker up. By far my favorite way to eat peaches(and it turns any bad peach into a delicious one!). I even do it with ones that aren't ripe yet, mainly because I hate waiting, but it turns them nice and soft. I highly recommend it.
Umm, you are a genius! "Mission: grill peaches" is so on!


Proceedings of the 2004 Annual Meeting of the School of Human Rights (Maastricht, Netherlands).
Violence in the domestic sphere appears to be a theme full of dilemmas in need of academic research and pragmatic solutions. In this book, State responsibility for violations of citizens rights is assumed, based on human rights standards and case law, also of human rights bodies. The principle of due diligence is accepted when States fail to prevent, investigate, or punish acts of domestic violence, or when they fall short as regards providing legal remedies and reparation. Violence in the domestic sphere may transgress various boundaries. Violence by intimates does not necessarily happen at the domicile, while harm at home is not exclusively inflicted by intimates. It has become clear that dependency creates vulnerability and subsequently a great diversity of victims and perpetrators exists. To complicate matters even more, some people may be both victim and perpetrator, either simultaneously or at different stages of their lives.
Women, regardless of their social status, seem to be predominantly targeted by violence in the domestic sphere, while socio-cultural diversities are reflected in the various manifestations of such violence. Some risk factors are indicated such as post-war aggression, poverty and intergenerational violence, whereas the realization of some human rights standards, like adequate housing, or the participation of women in public life, labour and education seems to be a deterrent to violence. New risks may arise, however, especially in societies and institutions in transgression.
Although families differ all over the world, generally speaking, not all family members are equally empowered. Family relations are gendered in many ways. Children are often powerless and because of that the most vulnerable within the family. In addition, their vulnerability is gendered, too.
Westendorp, I. & Wolleswinkel, R. (Eds.). (2005). Violence in the domestic sphere. Antwerpen: Intersentia. ISBN: 90-5095-526-6.


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Parallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine
Not surprisingly, my sixth visit to Vietnam stirred many memories, among them, a recognition of the parallels between the Vietnamese and Palestinian experiences, two peoples who have meant so much to me over the course of my adult lifetime. I visited Hanoi in 1968 in the midst of the American war that was devastating the country and its population, causing more than three million deaths and deliberately injuring the environment and its human surrounding by using vast quantities of Agent Orange, containing the highly toxic chemical Dioxin. Agent Orange was being used to defoliate large areas of the countryside in the South as a tactic against revolutionary Vietnamese forces who were taking advantage of the wooded countryside to mount their attacks. The legacy of Agent Orange continues grimly to remind people of the war, giving rise to anguished societal suspicions of current contamination that seems confirmed by the continuing occurrence of birth deformities in certain provinces that far exceed normal statistical expectations. The Vietnamese mention this ongoing tragedy in muted tones as the government worries that it might hurt Vietnamese plans to increase their exports of agricultural products. It is part of the present atmosphere in which the war/peace preoccupations that I encountered when I visited Vietnam during the war have now been replaced by according the highest policy priority to economic growth and poverty reduction.
The Vietnam/Palestine parallel should not be understood as a claim of similarity. The two experiences are each highly distinctive, reflecting many particular features of the cultural, historical economic, and political experience of each country, as well as the specificities of relations to their regional neighborhood and global setting. At the same time these two peoples do share defining experiences of prolonged victimization intertwined with bitter resistance struggles because their desired national narrative collided with the geopolitical ambitions and commitments of the United States. In Vietnam the United States assumed responsibility for a colonial war already lost once by France in 1954, and pursued it with almost unrestrained fury for more than a decade before renouncing the quest in 1975, and slinking home in thinly disguised defeat. The supposed stakes of the conflict for the United States in Vietnam were mainly measured and justified in the ideological currency of the Cold War, holding the line in Asia against Communism after 'the loss of China.' According to the principal justification for the war, Vietnam was an Asian domino, which if it fell to national liberation forces, would lead to a rapid spread of Communism to Vietnam's neighbors, which was then interpreted in Washington to mean the expansion of the Chinese sphere of influence.
Of course, the ideological and geopolitical motivations were packaged, as usual, with sleazy propaganda about the defense of freedom and the protection of South Vietnam against aggression from the North. This imposed division of Vietnam was itself a figment of the last stage of the Western colonial imaginary that tried to make the world believe that borders of geopolitical convenience took precedence over the the fundamental right of self-determination, which reflected the organic unities of history, tradition, and national identity. Eventually, as in most other anti-colonial struggles the national movement eventually prevailed during the period after 1945, enjoying in Vietnam the benefits of inspired political, military, and ideological leadership in the persons of Ho Chi Minh, General Vo Nguyen Giap, and Le Duan, and a historical tradition of many centuries of success in defending national territory against foreign invaders, especially the Chinese. What is more, not only were the Vietnamese strengthened by this historical tale of victory. They were equally proud and sustained by an extraordinary record of post-conflict reconciliation with prior enemies that many other governments and societies could do well to heed. Political leaders in Hanoi enjoyed telling foreign visitors during the war how the Vietnamese prepared a farewell banquet for their Chinese intruders once they opted for peace, and decided to return home with the obvious implication that if the Americans stopped the war, friendship could follow, not recrimination and bitterness.
Never did I understand better the Communist slogan that our enemy is the government not the people than when I came to Vietnam in 1968 as an American peace activist. What I felt with a depth that could not be staged was the genuineness of these sentiments, then strongly associated with the teachings and beliefs of Ho Chi Minh. This attitude, so different than what I had experience as a child growing up during World War II, was epitomized by Ho's appreciation of the American Declaration of Independence that Vietnamese school children were made to read and think about about throughout a war in which American planes were daily dumping tons of explosives on the villages and towns of an almost defenseless people. I remember driving in the beautiful Vietnamese countryside during the visit and being told by a government official that the driver's entire family had been recently killed by a bombing strike, but that if an American plane were to attack us now he would risk his life, if necessary, to save yours. I felt moved at the time because it seemed so sincere, and consistent with all that I felt during my two weeks in the country at a time of its great national hardship, including shortages of food and medicine. The Vietnamese even in these dire circumstances were ready to give so much more than I was capable of giving!
My experience with the people of Palestine, whether living under occupation, as a minority in Israel, or in refugee camps, or in a global diaspora has many equivalent moving moments, maybe even more that were accompanied by tears either of grief or laughter. Both peoples exhibit resilience of will, virtue, love, and a lively comedic sense of reality that exceeds what seems imaginable. Beyond this, in the case of the Palestinian people their struggle continues to be maintained against seemingly overwhelming odds if the calculus of 'political realism' is to be trusted, which never seems to lose credibility no matter how often it errs. There are crucial differences between the principal adversary facing the Vietnamese and the Palestinians. It is this subjectivity of the oppressive forces that is not widely enough appreciated. Both the French and Americans, although investing heavily in their respective wars, always had a Plan B, a metropole to which they could retreat from Vietnam if the cost of the overseas campaign became too high.
For the Israelis, although many Jews as individuals do hold a second passport, there is no Plan B, no homeland other than that established by the Zionist settler colonial undertaking from its inception toward the end of the 19th century. These Zionist high stakes help explain the sense of justification with regard to the dispossession and suffering of the Palestinian people. What the Israelis may, however, be forced to consider in the future, if adverse pressures from the combination of Palestinian national resistance and global solidarity initiatives becomes threatening enough to make attractive to Israelis the choice of Plan C, that is, 'a just peace' based on the equality of the two peoples.
Such a drastic shift of Israeli objectives would necessitate both rolling back the idea and mechanisms of an exclusionary Jewish state, that is, abandoning the biblical vision of Israeli Jews occupying the whole of 'the promised land' of Palestine and then dismantling the apartheid structures to sustain control over the Palestinian people as a whole. At this point a just peace seems such an unlikely scenario as to invite responses of 'utopian' or 'impossible' to any suggested course along these lines. Yet history has its ways of undermining oppressors, making the impossible happen. Israelis would do well to ponder their future before supposing that they can subjugate the Palestinian people indefinitely. These reflections should include the awareness that the Palestinians, like Israeli Jews as a collectivity also have no Plan B (and few second passports!). The Israeli self-serving contention that since Palestinians are 'Arabs' they could and should give up their quest for a sovereign Palestine, and be content with lives in the Arab world. Palestinians, as might be expected, connect their aspirations with their connections to Palestine, and would be no more content or secure if moving to Arab countries than Israeli Jews would be to live in a Western country, in fact, less so.
Most Palestinian leaders have long seemed ready to negotiate their versions of a Plan C, which contains the proviso that it must give concrete meaning to the affirmation of an 'equality of rights.' True, Hamas might seem reluctant to endorse a full fledged Plan C, at least at the outset, but their leaders too during the past decade have been seeking an escape from the treadmill of perpetual violence, and if Israeli leaders showed comparable good faith, a long term accommodation would seem attainable, beneficial to both peoples, and allowing both sides to feel comfortable with distinct interpretations of what was agreed upon, a zone of ambiguity that lawyers are very good about delineating so that differences are neutralized rather than resolved. More specifically, Hamas would not be made to legitimize Israel in the process of normalizing relations, and accepting the fact of its existence as a country.
During the Vietnam War, Lyndon Johnson once referred to Vietnam as a tenth-rate Asian power, making it seem as if a miracle would be required for the Vietnamese to achieve victory. Many military historians are still at a loss in their attempt to offer an understanding of the outcome of the conflict, given the economic and military disparities between the adversaries. The Vietnam War, especially after the illusions of an American victory were destroyed by the Tet Offensive in 1968, became too politically costly in blood and treasure to sustain, although think tank hawks never let go of their insistence that 'defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory' or alternatively, the insidious suggestion that 'the war was lost in American living rooms' (that is, by TV coverage, especially of dead Americans returning home in body bags and coffins). Such explanations amount to Orientalist denials of Vietnamese agency, implying the impossibility that such backward military technology could prevail when matched against the unlimited quantities of hyper-modern equipment available to United States armed forces.
For several years, extreme supporters of Israel have been urging the world to move on by accepting the reality that Israel has won, the Palestinians have lost, and regardless of feeling about the merits of the Palestinian struggle it has become one more lost cause. Daniel Pipes, long a Zionist zealot, has formalized this 'game over' diplomacy by using an NGO under his influence, the Middle East Forum to promote 'a victory caucus' in both the United States and Israel with the participation of members of the U.S. Congress and Israeli Knesset. There is something discordant about such triumphalist posturing. It doesn't fit comfortably with the furious efforts of Israeli lobbies around the world to discredit the BDS campaign as 'the new anti-Semitism' or with the increasing momentum of the Palestinian global solidarity movement that has increasingly troubled Israeli think tanks, and given rise to heavily financed campaigns to punish anti-Israeli activists throughout the world. Given these realities, it seems to me that the relevant comparison seems South Africa's about face, and not Vietnam's victory. Apartheid South Africa also appeared to the world securely entrenched until its shocking moment of self-engineered collapse in the early 1990s at a time when even dreamers did not envision a peaceful transition to a post-apartheid reality.
Without counting on dreams and dreaming, we who care about a just future for both peoples need to realize it will depend on work, sacrifice, and above all, struggle. Dreams don't become the new reality without the dedication of a people brave and creative, and helped by the inspirational effects on friends and supporters. This blessing of empowering and charismatic resilience is the core identity of the Vietnamese and the Palestinian people, their point of most profound convergence.
Tags: a just peace, Israeli apartheid, nationalism versus colonialism, Palestine, realistic utopias, resilience, settler colonialism, South Africa, Vietnam, Zionism
Categories charismatic resilience, France and the United States, Ho Chi Minh, leadership, Plan B: Colonial Retreat, Plan C: A Just Peace, Vietnam and Palestine
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16 Responses to "Parallel Universes: Vietnam and Palestine"
WeatherEye November 26, 2017 at 9:16 am #
"Such explanations amount to Orientalist denials of Vietnamese agency, implying the impossibility that such backward military technology could prevail when matched against the unlimited quantities of hyper-modern equipment available to United States armed forces".
This orientalist denialism seems implicit in the theory that someone as dumb as Bush could have pulled off 9/11 but not backward Arabs.
I'd like to know what Falk thinks about the Kashmir-Palestine comparison, albeit one made only by a few voices e.g. Tariq Ali and Arundhati Roy https://flashpointssite.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/kashmir-the-other-palestine/
Richard Falk November 26, 2017 at 9:38 am #
Thanks for interesting comment. Yes, I had the Kashmir experience in my thoughts as
I was writing, but do not feel well enough informed, especially recent developments,
to include its relevance.
Schlüter November 26, 2017 at 10:23 am #
I´d like to remind you that the official narrative of Nine Eleven doesn´t only crumble because of the fact that the alleged Hijackers were lousy Pilots who couldn´t handle a single engine Cesna! More than a dozen Points to tear the official Story to pieces!
Gene Schulman November 27, 2017 at 1:01 am #
Just to be fair, here is another video featuring famous 'skeptic' Michael Shermer poo-pooing the conspiracy theorists. I must say, after having read several of his books, including his most recent, 'The Moral Arc', I'm rather even more skeptical about his analysis.
algilber2013 November 26, 2017 at 9:23 am #
Bravo, Dick. Very glad to learn of your experiences in Vietnam and hope, rightly, for the Palestinians (and all those Israelis who would like a decent life…).
Dr Dayan Jayatilleka November 27, 2017 at 5:25 am #
Dear Richard, what a life of commitment to justice and solidarity! And as an aside, it was heartening to read an American scholar who still remembered the brilliant Le Duan! I hope your Vietnam experience figures in a memoir. Was this the same time that Jane Fonda visited Hanoi? Your point about the vital distinction that the Vietnamese drew between the Government and the people of the USA, partly explains their victory. They could have asked their militant young American supporters to engage in acts of terrorism or violence, on the grounds that their people were being massacred by American soldiers and pilots, but they never did. Is it that the Americans could go back to where they came from but the Israelis cannot, together with the fact of armed settler-colonialism, that makes the Palestinian resistance treat the friend/enemy, state/civilian distinction rather differently, to put it mildly? And is that inevitable? I find it hard to believe so, when I recall the consciously scrupulous conduct of the African liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, which had a strong settler component. But then again, the Portuguese could go back where they came from, so perhaps…
Dear Dayan:
As always, you raise crucial questions. A less crucial one: Jane Fonda visited Hanoi somewhat after I did,
and was viciously attacked by the right wing for seeming to side with the Vietnamese resistance. I knew her at
the time, and she was dedicated and lovely, but somewhat naive politically, yet always innocent.
On the Palestinian challenge, I think their early political leadership did not have a strong moral awareness of
this dimension of their struggle, and this was hurtful to their efforts to win over public support from around
the world. The Vietnamese were from the outset very aware of this dimension, and were probably benefitted by the
closeness of their leaders to the cultural sides of their subjugation by the French.
At some point, your focus on the comparative moralities of liberation movements, and its political consequences,
would extend your early important, yet under-appreciated, assessment of the Cuban revolutionary movement from this
angle. In this regard, very little is know about the Portuguese perspective.
Dr Dayan Jayatilleka November 30, 2017 at 12:39 am #
Dear Richard, thank you for your encouragement, which I treasure. Yes, I guess the cultural-intellectual interface with the West was crucial in the Vietnamese case. So too in the case of the leaders of the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, who had studied in Portuguese universities and made contact with the Left. But then again, it didn't keep the Algerian liberation struggle free of terrorism, so perhaps it is a necessary but insufficient condition. As for the Palestinian struggle, we don't see a leader who was familiar with Jewish society and culture, and had contacts with the Israeli left, such as it was. Fidel and Che were always able to communicate successfully with western audiences through the media, but not so the Palestinians with the Israelis.
Jewish state is in New York not Palestine December 5, 2017 at 4:33 pm #
[As for the Palestinian struggle, we don't see a leader who was familiar with Jewish society and culture, and had contacts with the Israeli left, such as it was. Fidel and Che were always able to communicate successfully with western audiences through the media, but not so the Palestinians with the Israelis.]
What this stupid lines means? Where did he get his 'doctorate'?
The jews were citizens or residents of many countries, mainly in Eastern Europe because they are mainly Khazari and have NO CONNECTION WITH PALESTINE. They are COLONISTS and their culture was the culture of the country they used to live in 'doctor' !!!!!
Fidel was able to communicate because the western audiences, each, had their own culture and a recognizable border. Contrary to these colonists, who were group of people from 120 countries with different culture and tendencies, many were against zionism. these countries did not have the plan to STEAL PALESTINE land KILLING THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, FORCING THEM OUT AND BURN THEIR TODDLERS AND SHOOT AT THEIR CHILDREN.
Kata Fisher November 28, 2017 at 11:15 am #
One of the best articles I got to read recently — and so paralysed, too. The genuine issues really do not get to be part of the civil conversation.
It also mentions parallel things with Vietnam.
Statics by a poetic person is somewhat shocking. Even to me. He did a great job on the issue — which may be helpful to folks of goodwill as well as wicked — eye opener on their malicious violence.
The ages and especially ages A.D. teach us what goes around humanity comes back around to hunt it!
It can be that for no longer than ten years from now it will be impossible for the wicked to continue, and just Because they will see history come upon them, according to their wickedness! It's already happening and when their pillars crush — they will be friends with the rats — and forced to exiles! Is not what has happened to all of them by now.
Woes to their civil population and foolishness because they have not learn better ways upon themeless. They must be accursed!
You all have steep humanity crises — and be seriously speeding up fixing things up, internationally. Is not like there is lack of wisdom and competencies to the humanity but because there are grave disconnects.
Very important Article:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/11/20/denying-the-imperium-of-death/
I won't bother you all further.
Laurie Knightly December 1, 2017 at 11:19 am #
Some numbers concerning government willingness to donate US lives – and for what?
Vietnam War, aka American War, number of casualties
58,318 deaths
303,635 wounded in action
1,602 Missing in action 2,648 originally
776 – 778 prisoners of war
652+freed or escaped
114+died in captivity
30% of wounded died later of their wounds
Untold numbers PTSD
Well over 3 million lives of Vietnamese and others – for what?
The Vietnamese, however, have their Vietnam today.albeit damaged
Where is Palestine? A Palestine? How dare we suggest this!
The US has more recent endless wars around the world – and for what?
Gene Schulman December 5, 2017 at 8:37 am #
Interesting. Laurie asked these questions (for what?) four days ago, and nobody seems to have an answer for them. Let us hope hers are not the last words, and that one of these days we will have an answer.
In the words of Terry Eagleton; Hope, without optimism.
Jewish state is in New York NOT Palestine December 6, 2017 at 8:44 am #
Trump Gives Away Jerusalem to Settle $100m Campaign Debt
Muslim and Christian Worlds in Uproar as the 3000 year old Holy City of Patriarchs sold to Casino Boss
https://www.globalresearch.ca/trump-gives-away-jerusalem-to-settle-100m-campaign-debt/5621817
In a politically motivated move the repercussions of which will incite anger throughout the world, Donald Trump the elected President of the United States has made a dangerous decision, so stupidly inept as to be unbelievable, that could ignite the entire Middle East, including Turkey, Africa and Europe.
In a quid pro quo for favours rendered, this amateur president has made a decision that marks him out as the weakest incumbent of the White House in American history. Some would describe him as moronic. Whatever the correct description, he has laid the fire for a conflagration that could impact millions.
The only ones to benefit, apart from the campaign donor, being the hard-Right Likud Party of Binyamin Netanyahu who is presently under investigation for corruption regarding, inter alia, alleged kickbacks on multimillion dollar purchases of submarines from German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
To have the world's most powerful state under the control of an apparent misogynistic, moronic madman is the most frightening prospect for everyone in the international community from Europe through the Middle East to Africa, Asia and the Americas.
Any American president who is willing to betray both Christianity and Islam by selling Jerusalem, the Holy City, for 'thirty pieces of silver' in order to swing an election, should not be trusted further in high office. He is too dangerous and should be removed by democratic process, in the interests not just of America but the world.
Laurie Knightly December 9, 2017 at 12:20 pm #
A reminder of the injustice inflicted on Palestinians:
750,000 displaced
30.000 homes demolished
800.000 arrested
1,000,000 olive trees uprooted
And always increasing……….
As we grieve for California consumed by wildfire, let us be reminded that the
above was done by human intentional criminality with US approved sponsorship.
It might not be important where Israel locates its capital offense strategic planning.
Raymonde Cloutier December 13, 2017 at 7:45 am #
Dear Sieur Falk,
Votre article «Univers parallèles : Vietnam et Palestine mercredi 13 décembre 2017 / 5h:04» est un baume à savoir de l'avenir de la Palestine. Meri grandemet pour cet article. Raymonde Cloutier, Laval Qc, Canada
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Explore the fascinating wild places and animals that define South Australia
Naturally South Australia
Port Willunga's Natural Charms
There is a pair of pigeons nesting along the limestone cliffs. They are billing and cooing and puffing up their feathers if rival birds come anywhere near their territory. Unbeknown to the loving pair a far greater menace, in the form of kestrel, is circling high above, scanning the cliff face for a tasty pigeon treat. Luckily for the nesting pair, the hunter overlooks them or perhaps the angle of attack is too steep and the cliffs too perilous.
Lucky pigeons……click to enlarge
I am walking along Port Willunga beach just 40 minutes from Adelaide; a glorious little stretch of white sand that lies below ochre limestone cliffs and bounded by the Aldinga reef to the south and Gull Rock to the north. The reef is a marine sanctuary that showcases a wide variety of the state's diverse aquatic life. And the beach is a rich repository of the South Australia's pastoral history where the sea scoured remnants of an old wheat jetty, built in 1853, protrudes from the shallow water. Despite its idyllic setting, Port Willunga also harbours a darker history with no less than five ships being wrecked in the vicinity. The most famous of these was the Star of Greece whose skeleton can still be explored just 500m offshore.
The view from the beach…..click to enlarge
Leaving the fortuitous pigeons to their parental duties I kick off my shoes and walk through the water amongst the old jetty piles. The wood is bleached white and worn by wind, sand and rain. Tenacious little limpets cling to the timber and a shore crab scuttles past my feet. Looking back across the beach I can see the rough hewn caves that were dug into the cliffs to house fishing dingies and give shelter to the hardy men who made a living from these waters.
Drummer, leatherjackets, sweep and a moonlighter on the edge of the reef….click to enlarge
Warm clear water, a fine day and good light….thinks….twenty minutes later I am snorkeling along the edge of the reef. The water is fairly shallow and the marine life prolific. A school of zebra fish swims close to me and large dusky morwong and magpie perch feed along the undercut shelves that define the reef's edge. At the end of one rocky outcrop a number of different species are congregating where the reef and the adjacent seagrass meadow intersect. I dive to the bottom and hold onto the rocks to steady myself and fire off a couple of shots. Later when I review the images they seem to reflect both the environment and the moment. An hour in the water and I'm getting a little chilly and its time to go back, this time I walk across the shallow rocky platform exploring the many tidal pools.
A casual lunch outside or fine dining inside….click to enlarge
The change rooms at the end of the car park make getting out of the wet suit easy and the short walk up the slope to the restaurant, named after the hapless Star of Greece, gives me a good view north and south along the coast. Often I have caught sight of a pod of dolphins cruising the calm gulf waters but not today; just a few fishers and an optimistic body surfer are enjoying the water. However, after a strenuous swim and a walk along the beach my priorities have changed from natural history to lunch and the boutique restaurant, once a fish and chip shop that I frequented as a lad, beckons. Fresh seafood, quality local produce and wines; a typically South Aussie way to finish my day.
Tags: Aldinga Reef, Australian birds, Australian wildlife, drummer, Fleurieu peninsula, leatherjacket, marine fish, moonlighter, pigeon, Port willunga, south australian marine life, South Australian wildlife, South coast, Star of Greece, underwater photography
Categories Coastal, Fleurieu Peninsula, Underwater
The metallic sculpture sits in the middle of a shady pool. The polished industrial surface in stark contrast to the delicate blue kingfisher that the artist has crafted to pose, lifelike, on its extremity. But it seems that the artist has done the job too well as the supposedly fabricated kingfisher suddenly takes to the air. I have rarely seen sacred kingfishers in the hills and to find one conveniently posed on a sculpture in a pond is simply too good to believe.
Sacred kingfisher….. click to enlarge
I am strolling around 'The Cedars' the privately owned property near the tourist hamlet of Hahndorf in the Adelaide hills which is open to the public and host many art displays throughout the year. It was home to South Australia's most famous artist, Sir Hans Heysen. The German born Heysen moved to SA in 1884 at age 7 where he was inspired by the beautiful and rugged countryside of the Adelaide Hills. He painted rural and landscape scenes for over 70 years in many SA locations before his death in 1968 The home and studio are set in 60 hectares of open woodland and scrub and wandering amongst the bush it is not difficult to see how the area inspired him.
Heysen's studio….. click to enlarge
From 'shady pool' I climb the gentle slope above Heysen's studio to explore a stand of Eucalypts. I can hear the warbling of magpies and screech of lorikeets. Half way up the incline I notice another piece of art work. Several crows are balanced on a table peering into glass specimen jars full of postcards. Nearby a pair of genuine, organic crows are perched in some bushes searching for food with their piercing blue eyes. In reality, the birds we commonly refer to as crows are more likely to be Australia ravens as the true crows are usually found further north in drier conditions.
Crow art
Crow/Raven….. click to enlarge
A little further along the trail I discover yet another art work hidden in the scrub: a pair of dung beetles rolling a globe. This piece seems to reflect on the state of the planet as seen by one artist. From this site I take a short walk to the house where Hans Heysen and later his daughter Nora lived and worked. The well kept garden features an eclectic mix of native and exotic flowering plants, the perfect place to find some beetles though not the dung variety which are more typical of Africa not Australia. After a little searching amongst the agapanthus, roses and native species I discover a brown flower beetle crawling across an agapanthus blossom.
Dung beetles….. click to enlarge
Brown flower beetle….. click to enlarge
My walk has been both entertaining and informative with each animal species mirrored by a piece of art: a lovely way to spend an autumn afternoon.
Until our next adventure
Tags: Adelaide Hills, Australian art, Australian birds, Australian crow, Australian raven, brown flower beetle, Hahndorf, sacred kingfisher, South Australian wildlife
Categories Adelaide Hills, Birds, Inverterbrates
Burnside's Hidden Creek
The wattle bird seems to be totally absorbed and indifferent to my presence as it feeds on the tiny white lerps that dot the leaves of a creek-side eucalyptus tree. Usually these large members of the honeyeater group are quite nervous and hard to approach. This one, however, is determined to provide me with a ringside display of its acrobatic ability as it hangs upside down and hops from branch to flimsy branch in pursuit of its lunch. The tiny white lerps look like an arborial version of measles. In fact they are the early stage of a parasitic bug called a psyllid, an introduced insect pest that sucks the 'juice' from the trees.
A wattle bird pecks tiny insects from the leaves of a blue gum near the river bank.
I am walking along the banks of second creek in the Michael Perry Botanical Reserve. This charming little park is easily accessed from a small lane called Andrew's Walk at the southern end of Hallet Road, in the hills face suburb of Burnside. The shady banks, trickling stream and little ponds have a European flavour to them affording a cool retreat in the drier summer months. Before setting off on my short walk to investigate the creek's wildlife I made a couple of crucial stops to provision my pack for a bite to eat on the river bank. At the nearby Stoneyfell Winery I found a fine bottle of white while 'Taylor Blend', a fashionable little eastern suburbs coffee shop on Hallett Road, provided a wide selection of gourmet paninis and local beesting cake. When one has to sit by a river bank for an hour or so to wait for the wildlife it might as well be done in style.
The brook cascades over a small ford made from slate and sandstone rocks
Leaving the wattle birds to finish their meal I work my way along the creek, pausing frequently to try and catch sight of the small birds that I can hear chirping and rustling deep in the cover of the reed beds. Without warning a grey faced heron explodes from the tangle of branches a couple of metres in front of me. The birds wheels in flight and settles on a branch high in a nearby pine tree where it can keep a sharp eye on its human intruder. As I point the camera at the perching water bird I catch site of a pair of Kookaburras in a huge eucalypt further up the opposite embankment. Two predatory birds; now it's time to take a look for the prey animals that sustain them.
A white faced heron watches the creek from its vantage point in a pine tree
The first interesting small animal that I notice is a water skink which is sunning itself on a log. Being mid autumn I am surprised to see a reptile as most would now be 'dug in' for the winter months ahead. As I sit quietly and prepare to watch the lizard, a green eyed dragonfly lands on a boulder in the middle of the creek. And, where the water has formed a small clear pool I can see tiny fish or tadpoles swimming close the reeds and water striders skating across the surface: like my lunch, a gourmet larder for a range of feathered predators.
A water skink basking on a log amongst the reeds
A dragonfly pauses for a moment on a warm rock in the creek
A fence marks the end of the reserve and I cross the creek to return on the northern bank. The tiny reed birds still elude me but in a shady stretch of water a single black duck is swimming against the current as it dabbles for food. A common enough species in southern Australia but the light is particularly good and on reviewing the shot it seems to encapsulate the mood of this lovely little waterway.
Black duck are common along the waterway
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  homepage "https://github.com/psychopy/psychopy"

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Tamarind trees are abundant in Vietnam thanks to their multi-uses. The tree has a large shadow, its wood can be used woodworking, tamarind leaves and tamarind fruit's pulp are used in cuisine, medicine, and metal polish. In the countryside of Vietnam, pupils usually climb tamarind trees to plug ripe tamarind fruits and eat. The seeds are brought to their mothers so that they use the seeds to cook a very delicious dessert which is called Vietnamese tamarind seed pudding (Chè hạt me). Tamarind and the pudding from its seeds have become beautiful childhood memories of many Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese tamarind seed pudding is a difficult recipe. To make this dessert, hard and plumpy tamarind seeds which have dark brown and shining skins. Tamarind seeds are toasted over low heat until burnt and smelling, cooled down, and peeled. They put the toasted tamarind seeds into a cloth bag, use a pestle to pound the cloth bag until the husks and white kernels are apart. Then use flat bamboo basket which have medium holes to remove the husk. Soak the white kernels in cold water for one day, wash in several changes of water, drain them. Cook tamarind white kernels with water until tender, get them out, wash and drain them. After that, wash glutinous rice and peeled mung beans with water until tender, add palm sugar, coconut milk and bring the mixture to a boil. Add the kernels and stir. All are done.
Vietnamese tamarind seed pudding (Chè hạt me) which has yellow broth and brown kernels looks nice and attractive. White kernels of tamarind seeds turn brown after cooking. Not similar to most of the Vietnamese desserts, this dessert does not include regular sugar but palm sugar which goes well with tamarind's kernel. The sticky and smelling glutinous rice, the sticky and buttery tamarind white kernels, the greasy and nutty coconut milk blend and melt in your mouth.


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Home News Man kills his 80-year-old mother and sister in Makueni
Man kills his 80-year-old mother and sister in Makueni
MAKUENI, Kenya Jan 3 – A man went berserk Saturday, and slashed his mother and sister to death in an incident that left villagers of Metava area in shock.
Witnesses said the man had first attacked his sister aged 35, and was trying to stab her when their 80-year-old mother intervened only to be stabbed. It was not immediately clear why they were fighting.
The granny died on the spot while her daughter was pronounced dead on the way to hospital.
"He has fled after the incident and a manhunt has been launched to get him," said Agnes Maswai, an Assistant Chief at Machinery area, "The mother and daughter are all dead."
Maswai said a knife was recovered at the scene.
Locals told journalists that the man on the run is an ex-convict who was released from prison in July 2020.