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Cats and Dog
June 18, 2016 June 13, 2016 Les Weil
by Barbara Taylor
Some said the real trouble began with the ice storm. All agreed the swimming pool incident was the last straw. In any case, the neighbors had issues with Elwyn Brooks from the start.
The Birch Bark Condominiums were conveniently located near the college where Elwyn taught English Composition. He purchased the unit nearest the entrance and immediately began slipping out the one-way circle going about twenty feet in the wrong direction. If forced to drive around the entire circle at five miles per hour, he wasted precious minutes every morning braking for women walking in packs. Meanwhile, longtime resident Mr. Fisk practiced tai chi outdoors from 8:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., Monday through Friday, in the small grassy area beside the Birch Bark sign. Elwyn always paused and looked to the left and to the right before setting out in the wrong direction, but Mr. Fisk took his picture anyway, in case he ever needed proof of this flagrant disregard for the safety of others.
"Elwyn Brooks is a rebel," Mr. Fisk told everyone who would listen.
There were other red flags. Early on, Mrs. Thomas, the area's most vocal resident, decided Elwyn was an unlikely fit for the community. If he cared about the environment, why was he driving an SUV? She made a point of taking a loaf of her spelt bread to new homeowners in order to get a glimpse of their decor and gather as much information about them as possible.
"What color are you painting the living room?" Mrs. Thomas asked Elwyn when he opened the front door, paint roller in hand. Ever-present plastic binoculars hung from her neck, and she breezed past him without waiting for an invitation to step inside.
"Terra cotta," he said. "I'm Elwyn Brooks, by the way."
"Frances Thomas. #23. This wall looks orange," she said, squinting. "Where did you buy your couch?"
"IKEA, actually."
"Hmm. But you own a dog, I see." Spike sat in a corner on the floor cloth, eyeing Mrs. Thomas and her loaf of spelt bread. "Most of us at Birch Bark have cats. We're all cat lovers. Keep your dog on a leash–it's in the by-laws. Now, about the Jeep. Does your conscience bother you?"
"I'm referring to that gas-guzzling vehicle out there in the carport. Consider your carbon footprint. Do you have something against public transportation?"
"No, not at all. But I'd better get back to work now. Nice meeting you. Thanks for stopping by." Elwyn lifted the paint roller in a friendly salute. Mrs. Thomas handed over the spelt bread, solid as a brick, and left. She later described Elwyn as abrupt–a loner with garish taste and a dog. Spike wandered over to sniff the bread through the wrapper. He wasn't interested, and Elwyn threw it away.
On trash day, a herd of cats overturned Elwyn's garbage can, slit open the bag, and scattered its contents. Mrs. Thomas and the other visor-wearing walkers were appalled when they found her untouched spelt bread in the gutter. Although Elwyn nodded and waved whenever he saw Frances Thomas, she ignored him after that.
Another neighbor placed her business card under Elwyn's windshield wiper: Dr. Biscuit Beasley, P.H.D., and a note. "Call me at the salon for a discount!" Baffled, Elwyn Brooks, Ph.D., did not call. Then Biscuit motioned to him one day from her balcony. Spike had just hopped into the Jeep, anticipating a romp in the dog park with Elwyn.
"I'm the one who left the card on your windshield!" Biscuit sounded like a football coach, yelling from the sidelines.
Elwyn strolled over, hands in his pockets. "Hello," he said. Spike waited patiently in the passenger seat.
"You didn't make an appointment. What's the problem?"
"You're a–hairdresser, is that right?" Elwyn remained confused by the "Dr." and P.H.D. on Biscuit's card and needed clarification of some kind.
Biscuit stopped leaning over the railing and stood. She was a mountain of a woman. Her fists clenched and her face turned to stone. Elwyn took a step back and fumbled for the car keys in his pocket. "I am a Professional Hair Designer. P.H.D.," Biscuit bellowed. "Do you have any idea how much specialized training is required to achieve that level of distinction?"
"I'm afraid not. Ms., uh–"
"Dr. Beasley. I am in the upper echelon of the hair design field. And I offered you a discount as a gesture of good will, you thankless clod."
"Excuse me, but–"
"I saw the college parking sticker on your car. You're a professor or something, right? An academic genius, I suppose."
"I'm afraid we've gotten off on the wrong foot here–"
Biscuit made an obscene gesture, turned on her heel and disappeared into her condo. Elwyn and Spike left Birch Bark to clear their minds at the dog park.
Prior to home ownership, Elwyn rented an apartment downtown. In his experience, renters didn't have the time to take anything personally. They were ships passing in the night. Apparently, condominium living was something else again. He felt the walls closing in. When he ventured out, there might be the odd man in a surgical mask demanding that Elwyn stop using fabric softener sheets because he was allergic to the air coming out of the dryer vent. Or Mr. Fisk with his camera and Mrs. Thomas with her binoculars. And cats regularly dropped dead birds or rodents on his welcome mat. Most disturbing of all was Biscuit on her balcony, giving him the finger. He hoped this wouldn't become a regular thing. Elwyn realized he should have done more research prior to purchasing at Birch Bark, but the deed was done. And he was a mild-mannered man who would do anything to avoid a confrontation. Maybe time was the answer to blending in with these people.
Unfortunately, the first winter at Birch Bark, Spike ate the face off a miniature snowman.
"The animal is vicious," Mr. Fisk said to Elwyn. "He's a pit bull, isn't he?"
"Spike's mother was a beagle," Elwyn said. "He likes to eat snow. He's harmless."
"Keep him away from my cat," Mr. Fisk said.
"You know, a black and white cat is jumping on the hood of my car and scratching it up."
"You're accusing Hannibal?"
"Is that your cat? No. I mean–"
But Mr. Fisk wasn't listening. He took a photo of Spike licking the faceless snowman, and then headed in the direction of #23 where he told his version of the story to Frances Thomas. Soon it was all over the complex that Elwyn was a liar and a cat hater and Spike bit someone.
Later, when the ice storm began, Elwyn asked his next door neighbor, Olivia, if she needed milk or bread as he was the only person in the complex with 4-wheel drive. "I'm on my way to the grocery before the roads become impossible," Elwyn said, winding a scarf around his neck.
"My son is lactose intolerant," she snapped. "And we don't touch wheat flour. We like spelt bread. Frances told me you don't."
"Oh. Well."
"You can bring me a quart of soy milk. And some kale. But not if it's grown in California."
"Sure–no problem." Elwyn paused to see if cash would be offered for the purchase of the items, but Olivia closed the door in his face.
That night, power lines fell in curls like Christmas ribbon. Birch Bark went black, and Elwyn and Spike slept on the IKEA sofa in the glow of the gas logs. The electricity stayed off the following day, too. Elwyn took defrosted steaks out of the freezer and fired up the charcoal grill in the carport. No point in wasting perfectly good rib eyes.
"You're sending particles of animal flesh into the atmosphere," the man in the surgical mask called from the other side of the lane. "There are vegetarians here, you know. And vegans."
"You're welcome to use the grill if you'd like to cook some vegetables," Elwyn offered. "You could seal them in aluminum foil."
"And bring on a gall bladder attack? My ex-wife used aluminum cookware and that was the beginning of the end."
Elwyn piled the steaks on a plate and slammed the lid on the Weber grill to trap the offending particles inside. He gained much needed strength from the overdose of red meat, as did Spike.
When spring rolled around and the pool opened, Elwyn happily swam solitary laps until Olivia showed up with her four-year-old, lactose intolerant son. The boy stood on the edge of the pool, lowered his swimming trunks, and peed into the water, narrowly missing Elwyn's head.
"I think the little guy is peeing in the pool, Olivia," Elwyn said as he climbed out and grabbed a towel.
She peered over her sunglasses. "It's only urine. Urine's medicinal, you know. I'm a massage therapist, and some of my clients like to be massaged with their own urine. We have a little poem on our bathroom wall. 'If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.' Do you know how many gallons of water it takes for one flush? If we all went around flushing all day long, just think of the waste. Water is a precious resource."
Elwyn gathered his paperback book and aluminum water bottle, wondering what had become of his rubber flip-flops.
"Your dog killed Frosty the snowman!" Elwyn turned around to see twin girls, aged five or six, hands on hips, with their pony-tailed mother carrying a picnic hamper.
"Careful. Elwyn Brooks doesn't like children," Olivia called from her lounge chair to Pony Tail. "He thinks they're unsanitary."
Elwyn opened his mouth and closed it again. It was useless to argue. The mother of twins dropped the hamper on a metal umbrella table and glared.
"It's Kerry and Kelly's birthday today," she hissed. "We're having a Pretty Kitty party here in ten minutes, and now look at the state they're in. You remind them of the trauma. That poor, defenseless snowman. Lucky for you my husband has a certificate in anger management." The girls adjusted their headbands with black cat ears attached and showed Elwyn their claws.
"I'm sorry. Really." As Elwyn turned and made a weary move for the gate, the boy tossed the missing flip flops over the low chain link fence. After retrieving them, all Elwyn wanted was to go home and take a long hot shower. A nap on his sunny balcony sounded good, but Biscuit Beasley might be out, too close for comfort. In any case, he needed to give some serious thought to his and Spike's situation at Birch Bark. He had tried everything he knew, even going so far as driving completely around the circle; a true sacrifice. Now his only wish was to be left alone in peace.
"Mr. Fisk showed me the picture! We have documentation!" These were Pony Tail's last words, shouted at Elwyn's back as he retreated.
When Mrs. Thomas arrived for the Pretty Kitty party, she heard about that day's drama. After sampling the punch and kitty cookies, she marched over to Mr. Fisk's condo.
The following day, Elwyn's left eye began to throb and turn red. His ophthalmologist put him on eye drops, ordered him to wear a patch for two weeks, and added a few unnecessary words of caution. "For God's sake, stay out of that pool. It's teeming with bacteria."
When Elwyn arrived back at the condo, he found an official-looking envelope taped to his door. With one good eye, he saw it was from the Birch Bark Board of Directors. He went inside, took out the letter, and read the list of infractions aloud to Spike: endangering the lives of residents and guests by driving recklessly; owning a menacing dog; polluting the environment; an acrimonious attitude. This was not the Birch Bark way, they warned. Due to the volume of complaints, Elwyn could consider himself banned from the pool for a month. And, finally, if he didn't get with the program, there was danger of alienating his fellow Birch Barkians and forfeiting their fellowship forevermore.
Elwyn heard hammering. Now what, he thought. He and Spike went outside to investigate and saw Mr. Fisk and Frances Thomas moving down the lane with armloads of materials. Stuck in the shrub bed was a wooden stake with a piece of cardboard attached low to the ground. Spike sniffed the hand-lettered sign while Elwyn read:
COME JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR BIRCH BARK'S ANNUAL POOL FEST!
FREE FUN FOR THE WHOLE BIRCH BARK FAMILY!
PETTING ZOO (CATS ONLY!), FACE PAINTING, KAZOO BAND & MORE!
VEGGIE BURGERS WILL BE SERVED!
The stabbing sensation in Elwyn's eye started up again, but when Spike lifted his leg and soaked the sign, a deep feeling of satisfaction washed over Elwyn Brooks and he smiled through the pain. It seemed to him that Spike was smiling, too, as Elwyn unsnapped his leash.
Barbara Taylor
Barbara Taylor is a winner of the Flatiron Writers Short Fiction Competition. She is currently at work on a novel and lives in North Carolina.
KJ Hannah Greenberg new book, Friends and Rabid Hedgehogs, just launched. This collection of short fiction includes a work initially published in Flash Fiction Press; "A Line Producer's Beneficent Notes". It is available at Amazon in Kindle and print.
3 thoughts on "Cats and Dog"
A frothy little piece about the delights of community. The saintly but much maligned protagonist undergoes a conversion that might be highlighted by if his smiling satisfaction at Spike's performance washed away that stabbing pain. AGB
George Mahoney says:
While some of the actions and manners on the part of the neighbors sound a tad exaggerated, the point of this story is well taken and on target. I've heard of condo settlements where rule-conscious members drive around in golf carts searching for some infringement of the many rules and reporting them. Caveat emptor.
Joanna Bressler says:
Terrific story. I laughed my way through it.
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HAPPINESS, LIKE WATER
by Chinelo Okparanta
196 pages, Granta
Whenever we go back home, there are reminders all around that we're not quite the same person who left in the first place. This short story collection is a fine examination of that chilly feeling.
Chinelo Okparanta's debut short story collection, Happiness, Like Water, takes a look at Nigeria and the United States from the point of view of expatriates, or those who wish they were. The narrators in the Nigeria-based stories are often looking far afield for better ways of living. Those who have crossed the Atlantic to the United States often find that their families and social structures have followed them, whether they're welcome or not.
"On Ohaeto Street" looks at a marriage proposal in Port Harcourt, where a nice boy from a religious background makes a play for the narrator, with her mother's keen encouragement. The husband's status is predicated on his house and his possessions, and in Port Harcourt, these are perhaps more easily taken away than they would be in a major American city. The narrator is forced to confront what she really values in life one dark night when envious eyes covet what's theirs.
"Wahala!" looks at another marriage, this time threatened by the difficulties one woman has in conceiving. The pressure is all on her shoulders; a mixture of raw sexism and ignorance apportions exclusive blame on her reproductive system, and not her husband's. In lieu of a reasoned, scientific explanation, superstition blunders in.
I've been through more horror story anthologies in the past year than is good for me, and "Fairness" would stand tall in any one of those. This was an almost unbearable look at caste systems, focusing on people who see lighter skin as more desirable. The conclusion to this story is obvious from the first page, but that doesn't make it any easier to take.
"Story! Story!" was another piece of horror, again looking at unfulfilled lives and the wickedness and superstition many people will employ in order to remedy this. "Runs Girl" is hard-hitting, if miserable. A narrator is drawn into prostitution as a means of finding funds to care for her sick mother. This story's great power is in how obvious it seems that the girl will do what she does; naivety aside, she seems to have no other choice. Her final disgrace makes for tough reading – but what else could she have done? If this tale was intended as a dig at healthcare provision anywhere in the world, it is beautifully aimed.
"America" finally transplants the stories to the United States, but this story was a softer look at a collision of cultures than I had been expecting. The female narrator is not the marrying kind, but her family do their best to adapt to the idea of their daughter being gay in a society where it is unacceptable. Just moving to another part of the world doesn't necessarily remove all barriers, of course. As one character says: "America is an abstraction…A place you go for answers, a place that always has those answers waiting for you." Not necessarily, as the narrator discovers.
"Grace" has similar things on its mind, looking at forbidden love between a student and an academic, where the student is betrothed to be married but struggles with her feelings for her female supervisor. "Shelter" and "Tumours and Butterflies" also shared a theme, looking at abusive fathers, and how we feel a tragic streak of loyalty to even the very worst monsters within our own families.
Happiness, Like Water, is a bold, confident debut that evokes Nigeria brilliantly, from the scent of millipedes in the walls in the summer to the egusi soup and jollof rice made in the kitchens, as well as the black oil that invades the very water in many parts of the country. Vivid as well as haunting.

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Taking Off The Edge
Soft Riot
PSSN03
Taking Off The Edge is a digital single from 2019's When Push Comes To Shove LP, which also contains two exclusive tracks from the album recording and mixing session. These tracks are "There Just Isn't Enough Time II" and "You've Got The Brains To Figure It Out Yourself".
Resonating with references from all corners of the synthpop's origins, Soft Riot's latest release nonetheless manages to retain its own individual voice, melding and reinterpreting its antecedents with a personal twist and an impressive demonstration of synth-craft and programming. Following on from 2018's The Outsider in the Mirrors, these ten tracks represent a change in themes and an evolution in production and sound.
Although there's no overarching concept to the album, Soft Riot has used this release as platform to experiment with his own concept of "déja vu", using minute details of musical phrases and lyrics that have been used before in previously released Soft Riot material, and even between songs on this album. Some of these mirrored details are very subtle and would only be picked up by someone who has listened to all of the material up until now. It could also be the underlying black humour of Soft Riot's work, mischievously playing off the old saying "it's all been done before".
This is a free or pay as you want single exclusively from the Possession Records store.
Preparing Singularity
Transhuman Rebirth
Windows To The Wild (Versions)
Master Tape
When Push Comes To Shove
The Outsider In The Mirrors
Trivial Pursuits


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Summer is in full spring but it won't be long until autumn arrives and with it, depending on where you live in the UK, comes frost and ice. To ensure that you are properly prepared for anything that driving in colder weather may throw at you consider this checklist.
The recommended minimum tread for winter travel is 3mm. If yours are below this or nearing this point now is the time to do something about it. With the potential for cold weather bringing snow and ice onto the roads drivers need to have as much grip as possible.
Grease hinges and locks with WD40, rub down seals with petroleum jelly to stop them sticking in the cold, clean or replace wiper blades and check that your oil, water and de-icer is topped up.
Whether you are travelling four hours to visit family or thirty minutes to get to work ensure that you have everything in the car you might need in case of a breakdown or being stuck in snow (etc).
Relevant numbers such as your local garage, your breakdown company details and anything other information likely to be needed.
Time sensitive medicine should be taken along if travelling away from home, even if you expect to be home before it is needed.
If stuck in snow or broken down in cold weather you will likely keep the engine running in order to ensure the heating keeps going. Make sure you have more than enough fuel, not only for your normal trip, for extra miles caused by bad weather detours and for keeping you warm when needed.
Regardless of how well maintained your car is and how well packed your boot may be the very best thing you can do to ensure your safety in bad weather conditions is not drive unless absolutely necessary. If you must travel make sure someone knows where you are going and check local and national weather reports as well as travel news so that you may avoid delays and danger areas when winter driving.


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The Sheikhdom of al-Irqa (Arabic: Mashyakhat al-Irqa) was a city-state which was part of the Protectorate of South Arabia, and existed from the 19th century to 1951.

History
The Sheikhdom was established in the 19th century.

Starting in 1888, the Shaikh of Irqa received a stipend from the British Empire. A Protectorate Treaty was concluded with him in that year on 27 April, and was ratified on 26 February 1890.

Shaikh Awadh bin Muhammad ba Das died in January 1901. He was succeeded by Shaikh Ahmed bin Awadh bin Muhammad ba Das. A new Protectorate Treaty was concluded with the latter in January 1902, when his stipend was increased from 80 to 180 dollars.

Shaikh Ahmed bin Awadh ba Das died on 21 October 1935. His grandson, Ahmad ibn `Abd Allah ibn `Abd Allah ibn `Awad Ba Das, was elected as his successor the following day.

In , Irqa was incorporated into Wahidi Balhaf.

Rulers
The rulers of al-`Irqa bore the title Shaykh al-`Irqa.

Sheiks
`Awad ibn Muhammad Ba Das, bef. 27 April 1888 – 2 January 1901

Ahmad ibn `Awad Ba Das, 1901 – 21 October 1935

Ahmad ibn `Abd Allah ibn `Abd Allah ibn `Awad Ba Das, 22 October 1935 – 1951

Demographics
In 1946, the Sheikhdom of al-`Irqa had a population of 500.

Geography
A report in 1946 described al-`Irqa as a "small fishing village".

References

States and territories established in the 19th century
States and territories disestablished in 1951
Former monarchies of South Asia
History of Yemen
City-states

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Look and Learn: Words for Catholic Kids (Hardcover)
By Casey Pawelek
From Ambo to Zucchetto, this brightly illustrated look-and-learn book helps kids to discover and name all the fascinating things that are part of the Catholic faith!
The church is full of beautiful and mysterious things—things we can see and touch, and some we can't see, but we speak, sing, and believe in our hearts. Look and Learn: Words for Catholic Kids is a fresh concept: a simple, engaging, and lively book full of colorful illustrations that help kids to learn about all the things they will encounter in church.
Sit with your child and explore the church grounds as you learn about a labyrinth, a mausoleum, and a rectory. Walk inside the sanctuary to discover the tabernacle and explore the altar to peek at a ciborium. Learn about the fruits of the spirit, the books of the Bible, the rosary, the sacraments, the virtues, and much more. These pages will spark spiritual curiosity in children and lead to meaningful conversations with parents, grandparents, teachers, and catechists.
Look and Learn:
Is full of colorful illustrations that name the people, places, and items of our faith
Was written by the author to help keep her own 5-year-old happy, quiet and engaged at church. It's the perfect book for a young child to bring to church week after week!
Is different, because it's not just another illustrated Bible or saint story. This book brings kids up close, with just a few words, to discover more about the faith.
Sparks spiritual curiosity in children and leads to engaging conversations with parents and teachers
Allows kids to discover the Catholic faith for themselves
Makes a great gift for First Communion, Easter, first day of school, curious preschoolers and young elementary kids, and boys and girls ages 4-8 years old
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Publication Date: April 5th, 2022
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The African Bird Club is developing a series of free Birding Apps. Our first product, Birds of Mauritius, can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and the Apple Store / iStore. Birds of Mauritius has been downloaded by over 2,000 users and feedback has been very good.
Our second App is Birds of Africa and the first version will be available to download from the Google Play Store and the Apple Store / iStore soon. It will contain field guide content for all the species on the checklists of Benin / Ghana / Nigeria and Togo.
The Apps will operate on a variety of Android devices including Samsung Galaxy S7 and A8, and Tablet A6, and Apple / IOS devices including iPad, iPhones 5S, SE and 6S.
Birds of Africa is a huge project which would not have been possible without the help and support of many people across the world who have provided their time and resources to help conserve Africa's natural world and, in particular, its amazing birds.
This App is a field guide which can be used as an aid to identification and also to record bird sightings and maintain personal lists. It is intended to be used by ornithologists, national park wardens, bird watchers and anyone with an interest in African birds. The App is free to download by anyone who has an Android or IOS device. It is an African Bird Club asset which meets the Club's primary objectives of education, communication and the conservation of Africa's birds. Perhaps more importantly, we aim to increase people's environmental awareness and their appreciation of nature. We want to represent birds in a way that is fun, stimulating, cool and interactive and as a result, change people's perceptions of the natural world.
We would like to thank Rockjumper Birding Ltd and Tasso Leventis who have provided financial and content support making significant contributions towards the development of the App.
Thanks are due to the large number of people who have provided content and support for the App. There are far too many to name individually here although all providers of photographs and calls are named along with their content in the App itself. Particular mention should be made of the following people who have provided large numbers of excellent photographs: Adam Riley of Rockjumper Birding Ltd; Jacques de Spéville; Lionel Sineux, Nik Borrow, Paul van Giersbergen, Peter Hills and Tasso Leventis. Tomasz Kaliszewski provided many photos and bird sounds. Bram Piot, Peter Boesman and Etienne Leroy supplied the majority of bird sounds. Bob Dowsett supported the development of country checklists. Lincoln Fishpool provided much help with texts and photos of Greenbuls. Aurélien Audevard helped with French species and family names. Kelsey Park Birding Group provided support in many areas but were especially helpful during proof-reading. Judy Albrecht, Dave Curtis and Thierry Helsens tested the App in Togo, Ghana and Benin respectively and supported the development of the Lite checklists. Bloomsbury Publishing provided a licence to allow us to use text from the 8 volumes of The Birds of Africa.
Shiiwua Manu and Sam Ivande of A.P.Leventis Ornithological Research Institute (APLORI) in Nigeria responded positively to the development of the App and have provided ongoing help and support. In particular, Josiah Ibrahim helped enormously in the provision of texts and the editing of calls and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the App.
Special mention is due to Kevin Ravno of g-Bird who has combined technical vision and leadership with ornithological knowledge in the design and development of the App, and to Wessel Swanepoel of Mountain Hops Software who has translated the vision into a robust and usable App which meets the needs of African bird enthusiasts.
Finally, none of this would have been possible without the support of the trustees and members of the African Bird Club. Special thanks are due to Richard Charles and Phil Hall who supported the original concept for such an App some three years ago and have provided practical help and finance to bring this project to fruition.
We have tried to make this App as user friendly as possible. Many users who are familiar with a range of smartphone and tablet birding Apps will probably not need to use the help text. However, we have found in usability trials that some features may need further explanation. You can find further details at https://africanbirdclub.org/abc-app-help-text.
Information for content providers
The Apps contain photos, calls, text and maps for each species. A large part of the work to date has been to develop templates which will define a set of rules for naming and building the content. Detailed information for the providers of App content can be found at https://africanbirdclub.org/abc-app-content-templates. The purpose of this web page is to specify the rules in order that multiple people can develop content to a consistent format and standard. The App will not display content correctly unless these rules are followed.
Would you like to help the development effort?
The ongoing development and maintenance of Birds of Africa by the African Bird Club is a large task which will require significant help from ABC members and others. Some tasks require technical and ornithological skills but others such as proof-reading and publicity do not. If you would like to help with any of this work, please contact us at app@africanbirdclub.org.
John Caddick
Latest page update 29th January 2020


My name is Lauren Kasnett Nearpass and I am from Potomac, Maryland. Tyler Hill was my summer home from 1994-2004 where I spent eight years as a camper and three as a counselor. My mom went to Tyler Hill so it was part of our family legacy for my siblings and I to go to the same camp she grew up at.
Favorite sport at camp: BBK is and always will be the best game of all time! Tennis with the amazing Bill Lalin was always fun, and being a Maryland girl I loved when lacrosse was added into the athletic program.
My division at camp was very into Girl's Sing. We had a serious winning streak going on for a couple of years, which made us a little bit competitive. Our most epic win was the year we were Jedi Juniors. It was a flawless performance, and I might be biased but I think our march song might have gone down in camp history as one of the best.
I will never forget finding the hatchet during Color War when I was a lieutenant on Blue Pirates of the Caribbean. It was quite the adrenaline rush and one of the only times I have and ever will feel like a celebrity!
My camp friends are still my best friends. We see each other all the time so camp memories are continually being made! We recently got adult camp friendship bracelets together!
Favorite quote: A favorite of mine and my camp friends… "No matter where the road may lead, it always takes me back to you".
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Plenty on line Thursday in last day of FIBA World Cup group play (just not for USA)
By Kurt HelinSep 4, 2014, 1:19 AM EDT
The USA is going to play the Ukraine in a meaningless game for the Americans on Thursday — Team USA has already secured the top spot in Group C. For the Americans it will be about just trying to execute and improve, plus not get injured.
But there is a lot on the line for other teams on Thursday.
There are four groups of six in the World Cup and the top four from each group advance to the 16-team bracket of knockout play (single elimination). Basically there are two kinds of games going on Thursday:
1) Teams trying to qualify for the knockout round.
2) Teams trying to position themselves to avoid the USA/Spain super teams for as long as they can.
Here are the games to keep an eye on Thursday:
• Mexico needs to beat winless Korea (arguably the worst team in the tournament) to ensure they advance to the knockout stage. Their reward for advancing? Team USA on Saturday.
• By the way, Australia advanced to the knockout stage with a win over Mexico on Wednesday behind a big game from former Spur Aron Baynes.
• Winner of the Turkey vs. Dominican Republic game advances the knockout stage. The loser likely will as well, but it will come down to a tie breaker between them, the winner of the New Zealand vs. Finland game, and the Ukraine (which will lose to the USA). All three of them will be 2-3 and two will advanced based on the tiebreaker (which is what FIBA calls "goal average," calculated by points scored divided by points allowed in the two head-to-head games against the other teams in the tie). What, you expected FIBA to have a straight forward tie breaker? (To be fair, in a two-team tie it is head-to-head.)
• Senegal and Gorgui Dieng can secure a knockout round berth but they need to beat a winless but feisty Philippines squad. Lose and it could head to a tie brea
• Lithuania takes on Slovenia to see who see who wins Group D? Winner gets to avoid the USA until the semi-finals (lose that game and you still play for the bronze), loser gets the USA in the quarter finals a round earlier.
• Argentina and Greece are doing the same thing, just trying to avoid Spain on the other side of the bracket.


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Q: Sufficient condition for an operator to be orthogonal Lets say I want to prove that an operator $T:V\rightarrow V$ is orthogonal, i.e. for all $u,v \in V: \langle \ f(u) \mid f(v)\ \rangle = \langle \ u \mid v\ \rangle$, Is it sufficient to prove that $\|v\|=\|f(v)\|$ for all $v\in V$?
because I am trying to understand a proof of a theorem that states the following:

$\forall v\in V$ s.t. $v$ is a unit vector $f(v)$ is also a unit vector then $f$ is orthogonal.

In the proof the start with a $v\neq 0$ and they get to $\|v\|=\|f(v)\|$. shouldn't we prove that for all $u,v \in V: \langle \ f(u) \mid f(v)\ \rangle = \langle \ u \mid v\ \rangle$?

A: Yes, it is sufficient to prove that $f$ preserves norms (and by homogeneity, that is equivalent to $f$ mapping unit vectors to unit vectors). This follows from the polarisation identity.
Let $u, v \in V$ arbitrary. If $V$ is a real inner product space, we have
\begin{align}
\langle u \mathop{\vert} v\rangle &= \frac{1}{4}\lVert u+v\rVert^2 - \frac{1}{4}\lVert u - v\rVert^2 \\
&= \frac{1}{4}\lVert f(u+v)\rVert^2 - \frac{1}{4}\lVert f(u-v)\rVert^2 \\
&= \frac{1}{4}\lVert f(u) + f(v)\rVert^2 - \frac{1}{4}\lVert f(u) - f(v)\rVert^2 \\
&= \langle f(u)\mathop{\vert} f(v)\rangle
\end{align}
if $f\colon V \to V$ is a norm-preserving linear map.
If $V$ is a complex inner product space, the polarisation identity is
$$4\langle u\mathop{\vert} v\rangle = \lVert u + v\rVert^2 - \lVert u - v\rVert^2 + i\lVert u + iv\rVert^2 - i\lVert u - iv\rVert^2$$
(assuming the inner product is linear in the first argument and antilinear in the second; in the physicist's convention, the right hand side equals $4\langle v\mathop{\vert} u\rangle$ instead). The rest of the argument is the same as in the real case.

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A new joint Government-industry package will see an initial 200 new AI Masters places at UK universities being created.
techUK welcomes the announcement today of a new joint government-industry package to drive up AI skills in the UK. In particular the creation of a nationwide programme of industry-funded AI Masters courses. Supported by techUK members including Deepmind, QuantumBlack, Cisco and BAE Systems, Infosys and Accenture this programme will see an initial 200 new AI Masters places at UK universities being created.
Along with the establishment of five AI research Fellowships at the Alan Turing Institute and sixteen dedicated UK Research and Innovation AI Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs) for AI PhD students, the announcements today are seen by techUK as another important step forward to build the right capability and capacity UK industry need to not only become AI ready but realise the full transformative potential of this key technology in the future.
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Q: Default desktop theme still boots, after being deleted Ubuntu 20.04 still boots into the default desktop theme, on Budgie and Gnome.
This is after I deleted/moved all the desktop environment themes:
sudo mv /usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes_backup
rm -Rfv $HOME/.themes
rm -Rfv $HOME/.local/share/themes
How is this possible?

NB. Also asked under question here:
https://discourse.ubuntubudgie.org/t/cannot-change-themes-after-hard-reset/5066/9

A:
If by "default theme" you mean "the default theme for GTK applications
and GNOME Shell", then it's expected: the default themes in both cases
is embedded into GTK and GNOME Shell, respectively, as without a
default theme both applications and the shell would be utterly broken.
I guess the actual question is: what is it that you're trying to
achieve.
ebassi, GNOME Team

Answer quoted from https://discourse.gnome.org/t/is-the-default-desktop-theme-backed-up-outside-usr-share-themes/6877


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It's that time of year again when our thoughts turn to warmer, happier possibilities. Some of us are excitedly planning and booking for the summer ahead, most of us are still dreaming of far off shores and some have already given up hope of seeing them this year. If you are one of the many who have written off the chance of sun this summer, don't despair! There are ways and means of getting out of this rain-sodden piece of turf and that foreign holiday may not be as far away as you think.
My method of choice is camping. That's in an actual tent – not a chalet, a mobile home, a campervan or a pretend "glamping" tent. Most people look at me in horror when I tell them, as memories of their miserable Irish childhood camping experiment resurface. All of us of a certain age have had that 1980s camping experience. Forget that. I'm talking about a comfortable, spacious, warm environment with all the holiday facilities you need. The location – Britain, France, Spain or beyond – is up to you.
We bought our first family tent three years ago and since then have managed three trips to France, one to the UK and four short breaks in Ireland. The first couple of holidays were learning experiences as we discovered what was essential for a family of five spending up to three weeks away from home. At this stage, we probably have everything we could need so all we have to do now is decide where to go next.
If you are a camping newbie, then it is probably a good idea to borrow whatever you can. A five-man tent from an established manufacturer such as Gelert, Vango or Coleman can be bought from Amazon for as little as GB£100 but the rest of the camping paraphernalia can add up. Essentials are mattresses, all-season sleeping bags, a stove, a table and chairs/stools, comfortable chairs for the adults, a good lamp, an electric hook-up cable (preferably with a plug board), a fridge and a collapsible wardrobe. There are several other things that will make your life easier, such as a washing up bowl, shelves for food, kitchenware and toiletries, a gazebo/umbrella, but they are not absolute necessities. You will also need a car and most likely a roof box too.
Where you go depends on what you are looking for in a holiday and how much you can spend. The south of England tends to be warmer and drier than Ireland and is just a short boat trip and drive away. Wild camping is becoming increasingly popular in the UK and, while the permission of the landowner is technically required (no permission is required in Scotland), in practice wild campers are welcome and tolerated in most places. If that sounds a bit too extreme, then try the Camping and Caravanning Club for campsites – the more facilities offered, the more you will pay. The website, www.ukcampsite.co.uk, also has a wealth of information on camping in the UK and beyond.
If you are looking for a bit more sun then keep driving all the way to Folkestone and take the channel tunnel to Calais. This is by far the cheapest way to get to France. You can sail directly from Rosslare or Cork but it will cost a good bit more. Once you are in France, the world really is your camping oyster. You can choose from small rural campsites with basic facilities to big family campsites with swimming pools, playgrounds, sports facilities, restaurants, bars, spas, nightly entertainment and all the mod cons you would expect from a resort. Or you can do both – when you travel with a tent and a car, you are free to go wherever you want whenever you want. The further south you go, the warmer it gets and if you are in the mood for a long drive or a stopover, you can make it all the way to Spain.
If you are planning on taking a ferry, then shop around for operators and dates as prices can vary considerably. If going at Easter is an option, then there are huge savings to be made – we paid about one third of summer prices for a similar holiday at Easter.
There are other ways to save money on ferries and campsites. Niamh Kinsella is using Tesco Clubcard vouchers to pay for the ferry to France for this year's family holiday. "It's not covered completely but it is taking a big whack of it", she says. Niamh also used her Tesco vouchers to pay for a campsite in France two years ago. The family of five travelled via landbridge (Ireland to the UK to France), spent four days in Disneyland Paris and six days in a Siblu (www.siblu.ie) campsite.
Another practical way to save a huge amount of money on a holiday is to do a house swap. Marie and Paul Murphy have been running the Irish branch of the home exchange network, HomeLink (www.homelink.org), since 1984. "The whole concept started with HomeLink sixty years ago", says Marie, "it's not new at all".
Marie advises anyone who is interested to have a good look around their website. "Come to the members' area on our website and look at the listings we have to make sure there is something in the area you want to go to." If you find something suitable, you can sign up online and start contacting people.
The biggest issue for most people considering a home exchange is the safety and security of their home. Marie points out that both parties are equally concerned and once a relationship is established, those concerns tend to disappear. "Once you become a member, you're in contact with people all the time and you're building up a relationship with them", she says. "It's all down to trust really – people feel they have a commitment to one another." Marie says that, once all issue are discussed and agreed before travel, there is rarely a problem.
Helen O'Riordan took on board all of Marie's advice when she exchanged homes with an Italian family last year. "We were very lucky – a family contacted us before we had contacted anyone." Helen and her family spent the first half of their holiday in the family home near Naples and the second half in their holiday cottage in Sardinia. "We got the two houses and a seven-seater car for absolutely no cost", she says.
So whether you use a tent, deals and vouchers, online bargains or a house swap, I hope you get to see the sun this summer.
By Fiona McPhillips. First published in the Evening Herald, 6 February 2013.
You've almost the same tent as us – ours opens at the side, we have a smaller "bedroom" for when our oldest comes with us at the "top" of the tent! Love camping. Have also done the house swap – went to LA for 3 weeks. Going to the UK this year on another house swap.
We also have a massive tent that seemed like a great idea at the time but is only really practical if we are going to the same spot for a couple of weeks.
I would definitely do a house swap if someone would look after our dog and two cats!
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Meet Desmond Doss: The hero of Hacksaw Ridge
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The men were ordered to withdraw but Doss refused – instead, he single-handedly dragged 75 wounded and dying soldiers to the ledge before lowering them to safety.
By Natalia Grobler.
The same man who had been ostracised by the army soon became the object of their deep admiration and respect. He shipped out with the 307th Infantry in the summer of 1944, and served as a combat medic on Guam and at Leyte in the Philippines. Doss fearlessly charged into exposed areas under heavy artillery fire without a weapon to treat casualties and drag wounded soldiers to safety. Doss went out sometimes without orders or even against orders. He believed that as long as there was life there was hope.
The most fierce fighting of the war in the Pacific occurred at Okinawa on an escarpment approximately 90 metres high that was known as Hacksaw Ridge. On 29 April, 1945, a brutal battle was fought. The men were ordered to withdraw but Doss refused. He single-handedly spent 12 hours dragging 75 wounded and dying soldiers to the ledge before lowering them to safety. Some of the injured were hauled 100 metres. Doss was a slight man weighing around 70kg and yet at times he supported one soldier under each arm. Bullets whizzed past him, but he was not hit. One Japanese soldier claimed to have had clear shots of Doss as he worked that night, but each time he fired, the rifle jammed. Doss saved on average one man every 10 minutes. He prayed constantly, "Lord, please give me one more."
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Christchurch Transport Blog
Transport issues // Christchurch // New Zealand
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Christchurch Commuter Train Proposals
Christchurch Commuter Train Proposals – Christchurch-Rangiora Route
The Christchurch-Rangiora Route is the longest of four possible routes that originate within central Christchurch. It is also the one that serves the greatest catchment of existing and future population development within Greater Christchurch. The route makes use of the Main North Line, an existing rail corridor that was first opened by the Canterbury Provincial Government in 1872 in 1600 mm gauge, being converted to the standard New Zealand gauge of 1067 mm in 1877. From the time the line opened, suburban passenger trains were operated, until the cessation of these in 1976. The route is currently operated by five or six trains a day (two passenger services, the rest being freight). There is thus significant capacity even with the single track that prevails along practically all of the route except at Belfast and Kaiapoi, but additional crossing loops in various places would aid in development of commuter train services. The first 2 km of the Christchurch-Rangiora Route travels along the Main South Line, first opened in 1866 in 1600 mm gauge. This is all doubled tracked, so it would have reasonable capacity at present for commuter trains.
For the purposes of this site, the train service is assumed to originate at a new passenger railway station in Moorhouse Avenue, Christchurch, which is where the hub of passenger services in the city was located from 1866 until 1993. The site proposed is at the old Kiwirail B Shed freight terminal, with a bus interchange across the other side of the tracks. An artist's concept of this layout appears below.
This layout also provides for the present intercity passenger train terminal in Addington to be relocated back to Moorhouse Ave. The travel terminal would be 1 km from Cathedral Square. A shuttle bus service could take passengers from the station around the main business district. Placing the bus interchange directly opposite the passenger station makes for convenient transfers between train and bus services, assuming an airbridge or subway connect the sites.
Outward passenger trains to Rangiora would travel from here to the west until they reach Addington. The corridor between Christchurch and Addington is predominantly industrial, but is an obvious candidate for urban intensification as proposed by the government's NPS. The southern edge of this corridor is close to residential areas within a block of the railway line. Historically there were no stations between Christchurch and Addington, but if sufficient population demand exists in the area, one or two additional stations would be justifiable based on the optimum spacing for commuter train services found elsewhere in NZ.
Addington Junction was historically designed for trains going north from Christchurch, with the 90 degree curve onto the Main North Line facing Christchurch. This was changed in 1993 when the Christchurch rail yards were closed, with a new curve facing in the opposite direction, towards the upgraded Middleton freight yard, and a new passenger terminal for intercity trains was built along a straight section in the middle of this curve. The route taken by the original curve was sold and built over. Blenheim Road, the major local transport trunk heading from the city westward, was diverted with a new overbridge which cuts across and over some of the old curve formation, making it difficult to reinstate without expensive bridge extensions. An alternative option is to reinstate a shorter, tighter curve across part of the current Turners Car Auctions site as seen below. Although trains would be limited to a maximum of 50 km/h traversing this alignment, this is not such a major obstacle as some claim, as average train speeds within the suburban network would be relatively low due to the close spacing of stations, 1 to 1.5 km being optimal in NZ experience.
The above map shows the original Main North Line route to the right (MNL North Main), its proposed replacement (North east Curve) and the present route followed by the Main North Line through the current Christchurch passenger station. The old Addington station is lower right.
Between Addington and Rangiora, historical stations used by the former suburban passenger trains were located at Riccarton, Bryndwr, Papanui, Styx, Belfast, Chaneys, Stewarts Gully (replaced by Kainga in 1958 due to a railway deviation), Kaiapoi, Flaxton and Southbrook. The spacings of these stations followed typical practice for railway terminals that were open for general services (passengers and freight combined) and made little effort to address the provision of viable commuter train services such as presently exist in Auckland and Wellington. As such, a new Christchurch-Rangiora commuter service would need more stations to be provided for, and the fixation by a lot of commentators on the historical locations of stations along the route and their lack of availability in some cases, has limited relevance.
For the purposes of this page, an assumption is made that around 21 stations in total between Christchurch and Rangiora (inclusive) would be necessary. These are conceptualised as follows. No planning information of any type has been evaluated to ascertain the suitability of any of these locations and, as such, they must remain conceptual in nature. Distances shown in brackets are on the Main North Line, measured from the zero peg at Whiteleigh Avenue.
Christchurch (Moorhouse Ave) Station – as shown in the diagram above.
Addington (Lincoln Road) Station – the historical location of the Addington passenger station in the days of former commuter services. A platform and other infrastructure would need to be constructed. Suitable for an island platform.
"Station A" (1.3 km MNL)- a location immediately south of Riccarton Road near Brockworth Place is suggested as the first new station heading north.
Old Riccarton station in Matai Street – not proposed for a passenger terminal due to historic local opposition (the site was proposed for the new Christchurch passenger station in 1993 but not proceeded with).
"Station B" (2.6 km) – a location immediately north of Fendalton Road.
"Station C" (3.8 km) – the old Bryndwr station site just north of Strowan Road.
"Station D" (5.3 km) – the old Papanui station site. An existing platform might be suitable for re-use; the station building is currently in private ownership.
"Station E" (6.4 km) – immediately south of Northcote Road.
"Station F" (7.7 km) – between Barnes Road and Sturrocks Road.
"Station G" (9.1 km) – about 500 metres north of the old Styx station site.
"Station H" (10.3 km) – 1 km south of Belfast station (see below).
"Station I" (11.3 km) – the old Belfast station site.
"Station J" (13.4 km) – the old Chaneys station site between Marshlands Road and Spencerville Road.
"Station K" (15.2 km) – the old Kainga station site just south of Kainga Road.
"Station L" (16.3 km) – just south of Doubledays Road.
"Station M" (17.7 km) – south end of Kaiapoi.
"Station N" (19 km) – just south of Williams Street, Kaiapoi
"Station O" (20.4 km) – just west of the motorway overbridge alongside Adderley Terrace, Kaiapoi.
"Station P" (23.3 km) – the old Flaxton station site just south-east of Bramleys Road.
"Station Q" (26.8 km) – the old Southbrook station site.
"Station R" (28.8 km) – south end of Rangiora, just south of Northbrook Road.
"Station S" (30 km) – the Rangiora station site.
In compiling this list, no attempt has been made to ascertain the availability or condition of any existing infrastructure that may be present on the sites of previous stations where used.
The map below shows all these locations.
Page last updated 21 November 2020.
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