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Province of Canada, Legislative Council, Scrapbook Debates, 8th Parl, 5th Sess, (20 June 1866)
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Citation: Province of Canada, Parliament, Scrapbook Debates, 8th Parl, 5th Sess, 1866 at 17-18.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
WEDNESDAY, June 20th
The Speaker took the chair at 3 o'clock. After Routine.
Hon. Mr. Flint introduced a bill to authorize the corporation for the Town of Belleville to purchase a piece of ground for a cemetery and to exempt the Roman Catholics from taxation on account of thereof, as they had a cemetery of their own.
Civil Code of Lower Canada
Hon. Mr. Bureau moved that a humble address be presented to His Excellency will be pleased to cause to be prepared and printed an index or alphabetical and analytical table to the Civil Code of Lower Canada.
Hon. Mr. Ryan begged to inquire,
1st. What are the reasons which have induced the Government so long to delay appointing a Collector of Customs for the Port of Montreal, and whether it is their intention shortly to appoint one?
2nd. Whether it is the intention of the Government, to provide more suitable and commodious buildings than those at present in use, for the purpose of a Custom House and Custom Warehouse at Montreal?
3rd. Whether it is the intention of the Government to take any steps for improving and enlarging the present Post Office or for erecting a new and more convenient one at Montreal?
Hon. Sir N. F. Belleau stated in reply that the Government understood that the duties of the Collector of Montreal had been performed to the satisfaction of the public by an efficient officer for the last year or since the demise of the late Collector, Mr. Holmes, but that they intended however to appoint a collector shortly.
Hon. Mr. Ryan said that perhaps it would be as well not to appoint a collector at all, and that thereby a saving would be effected. (Laughter.) With regard to the 2nd and 3rd inquiries, the Hon Member said both subjects were under consideration of the Government.
Hon. Mr. Campbell moved the second reading of the Bill to regulate the sale of the wood upon the reserved of the Iroquois Indians at Caughnawaga
In support of the bill the hon. member said that the wood in this reserve had been trespassed upon in various ways, and that the tribe had suffered considerable losses in consequences. The object of the bill was to prevent the reoccurrence of such wrongs in future, and for this purpose the said reserve would be brought under the same regulations as that of the Lorette Indians.
Hon. Mr. Ferrier said he was extremely pleased that the Government had taken actions in this matter, for since the time the Caughnawaga Railway had been constructed, the Indians in that locality had been robbed of their wood to a very large extent. The condition of these Indians was of a nature to call upon the Government for protection and he conceived they were in duty bound to look after their interests and to protect them from such lawlessness.
The bill was then read and referred.
Hon. Mr. Campbell then moved to second reading of a bill to grant a patent to Pierson Harris, for the deodorization of Petroleum mines.
The honourable member said that the applicant for this patent was not the sole part concerned, but that his brother and tow American gentlemen were concerned in the matter. The invention, be believed, was calculated to be of great advantage to the parties working the Petroleum mines in the country, by enabling the producers to get their oil clarified and deodorised more effectively and at a much smaller cost than at present. To the present the Government had declined entertaining the policy of freely extending the patent rights to aliens believing that the privilege could be used as a good argument in connection with any slope that might be taken for procuring a renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty with the United States, but the negotiations for [sic] and having failed they had determined no longer to refuse patents to aliens, but to trust […]
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[…] every application upon its own merits. (Hear, hear.)
In the present case Mr. Harris and his associates proposed to set up establishments and machinery at the West, and also at Gaspe, and and [sic] as the invention was in opart at least due to a British subject he had no doubt the House would readily acquiesce in the measure proposed.
Hon. Mr. Ferrier said he desired particularly to mark what the hon. Commissioner of rown Lands had said of the determination of Government to allow every application for patents to come up and be determined on its own individual merits. This he considered quite necessary. He had always held that when patents were granted in Canada the parties getting them should be placed under the onligation of manufacturing the patented articles in the Province, for it had happened that parties who had onbtained patents had gone away, and when the people of Canada desired to avail themselves of these pretended articles or machnes, the patentees could not be found or they had to be sought for in a foreign country. In this way, with the additional cost of transportation and other charges, our people had been obliged to pay exorbitantly for such things.
Hon. Mr. Campbell agreed generally with the hon. member, and said that every application for patents would here after be treated upon its own merits, and subjected to such conditions as might be deemed necessary to secure to the Province the greatest afvantages from the patents.
Hon. Mr. Ryan suggested that the general subjects of patents was about to e brought under consideration of the other Branch of the Legislature as he perceived that the hon. minister of Africulture had brought in a bill to amend chapter 34 of the consolidated statutes which related to patents of invention.
Hon. Mr. Campbell replied that the intention of that bill was not to amend or alter the principle upon which patents were at present granted, but to provide for abritrators in certain cases.
The bill was then read and referred to the Standing Committee on Private Bills.
Hon. Sir. N.F. Belleau moved the second reading of the bill to amend the St. Lawrence Tow Boat Company's Act. The amendments desired, he said, had been agreed upon by a general meeting of the stockholders at Quebec last winter, and he believed were open to no objections. However that would be for the Private Bill Committee to examine into.
The bill was then read and referred to the Private Bill Committee.
The House then adjourned.
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by Daniel Long, Nottingham Trent University
On the afternoon of May 3, 1945, a squadron of RAF Typhoons began their descent to attack Axis shipping in Neustadt Bay, Germany. Below them, the former luxury liner SS Cap Arcona was laden with over 4,500 concentration camp prisoners who had been "evacuated" to the coast – and at around 3pm, the Typhoons from the Second Tactical Air Force, launched their assault.
The result was one of the world's worst maritime disasters, leaving the prisoners and the ship's crew struggling for survival in the icy Baltic waters. An estimated 4,000 prisoners perished. More than 70 years on from the tragic sinking, crucial questions remain regarding the role of British forces in the final days of the Second World War.
The disaster has long been sensationalised by the print media. Headlines such as "Friendly fires of hell" have been the norm – thanks, in part, to a surprising lack of scholarly attention.
The Cap Arcona in 1927. Wikipedia
In turn, this has led to a number of conspiracy theories about the sinking. One such rumour claimed that important British records related to the incident had been sealed until 2045. In fact, all of the records were publicly released in 1972 after the Public Records Act 1967 reduced the amount of time they were to be kept secret – and I have spent a great deal of time researching them.
In the immediate aftermath of the war, Britain's focus was on attempting to prosecute Nazi war criminals, and investigations into British misadventures were sidelined. And shortly after that, attentions shifted east, as the Cold War gathered pace.
Nevertheless, it is now possible to reconstruct what really happened – including Britain's role in the tragedy – with a closer examination of archival files.
"No concentration camp prisoner must fall alive into enemy hands."
That was Himmler's last order concerning the fate of Germany's remaining camp prisoners. But as the Nazi camp system continued to contract in March 1945, it would be wrong to assume that it was the real driving force behind the evacuation of Neuengamme camp.
Neuengamme, near Hamburg, was largely unique within the Nazi camp system. Local politicians, in particular Nazi Gauleiter Karl Kaufmann, had developed close business links with local industrialists and supplying slave labour from the camp to nearby businesses became a profitable enterprise.
But by early 1945, the Allied advance placed increasing pressure on local politicians – and complicit businesses – to eradicate any evidence of slave labour from within Hamburg city limits. The "problem" had to be moved elsewhere.
Karl Kaufmann. Bundesarchiv Bild via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA
In the absence of another option, Kaufmann made arrangements in March 1945 to requisition a passenger liner to act as a "temporary" holding camp for Neuengamme's prisoners. Any long-term planning was simply nonexistent. Indeed, once the camp was emptied in mid-April, the local politicians no longer concerned themselves with the fate of the prisoners now held in squalor aboard the Cap Arcona in nearby Neustadt Bay.
Nevertheless, the "prisoner hierarchy" continued on board the ship. The prisoners remained segregated according to nationality and religion. In addition, SS troops stayed on board to supervise the prisoners. This indicated that the Arcona was intended as a temporary extension of the original Neuengamme, albeit one that was largely out of sight and out of mind.
Liberation or destruction
Following the Allied Yalta Conference of February 1945, British military policy was geared towards a swift advance to the Baltic coast.
There were two reasons for this. First, Britain wished to halt the Soviet advance as it swept ever further west. To achieve this, Lübeck on the Baltic coast was considered the strategic goal.
Second, by halting the Soviets here, British forces would be able to liberate Denmark and restore the Danish monarchy. With the monarchy restored, Britain would gain a valuable ally in the months ahead.
But the speed of the Soviet advance meant that the normal protocols and procedures that had been well established throughout the war fell to the wayside as British troops raced for their objective. To make matters worse, communication lines became strained, and intelligence was not always processed in a thorough and timely manner.
Casualties of the tragedy. Imperial War Museum Image Collection
On the afternoon of May 2 and the morning of May 3, two pieces of intelligence were handed to British commanders. The first was handed to the liberating forces of Lübeck, the 11th Armoured Division, by an International Committee Red Cross delegate (ICRC). The second was presented to British forces by a Swedish Red Cross (SRC) delegate.
Both informed the British that camp prisoners were being held aboard ships in Neustadt Bay. But the warning arrived too late.
As the German Reich contracted, British forces remained heavily engaged in an important battle to reach their objective on Germany's north coast. But while the German retreat was often marked by disorder, Britain's military campaign also became frantic and chaotic, particularly in the final weeks. A breakdown of efficient communication and intelligence sharing meant that frontline forces were often ill-prepared for the actual situation ahead of them.
Cap Arcona Memorial, Neustadt. Author provided
In this case, the latest intelligence on the ships in Neustadt Bay never reached the pilots who attacked them. As they made their final descent, the airmen likely believed they were attacking bona fide hostile targets.
Ultimately, the fate of the Cap Arcona and its passengers was a tragic consequence of the fog of war.
Daniel Long, PhD Candidate, School of Art and Humanities, Nottingham Trent University
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When a young professional couple contacted Chuck Mills in 2013 to discuss updating their tiny 1930s-era Westboro home, they had three items on their wish list: a comprehensive interior and exterior renovation, an expansion, and the creation of a unified look with an Arts and Crafts feel. One year later, the resulting transformation won a coveted award for Mills and his collaborator, Steve Barkhouse of Amsted Design Build, at the annual Greater Ottawa Home Builders Association Design Awards.
"It really was a perfect marriage between designer and client. Arts and Crafts is my design sweet spot," says Mills of the style that incorporates details and handcrafted materials. "It was a real thrill to work with clients who respected that style and were very aware of making sure their renovated house would still fit with the neighbourhood."
While many of the rooms feature vibrant paint colours, the kitchen and bathroom are linked by a more subtle palette of greys and greens. Grey accents are repeated in the backsplash tiles in the kitchen, the tiled fireplace surround in the adjoining living room, and the floor and wall tiles in the ensuite bathroom.
Both rooms also feature patterned tiling — a subtle diamond-patterned backsplash in the kitchen and a bolder pebble-stone tile in the bathroom. By contrast, it is the kitchen that highlights a bolder green hue on one wall, while the ensuite glows throughout with an ever so pale grey-green. The two rooms are also tied through the cabinetry, with both having the same door styles and painted finishes to give them a softer look. "There's a lot of personality to this house," says Mills. "But it's a unified personality, and that's really special." (more…)


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NCFM Vice-President and Dear Friend Marc Angelucci murdered
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Marc Angelucci, 1968-2020
Marc Etienne Angelucci, Vice-President and Board Member of the National Coalition for Men (NCFM) and longtime President and Founder of the Los Angeles Chapter of NCFM, was tragically murdered early in the morning of July 11, 2020, in front of his home in Crestline, California.
Marc Angelucci was truly beloved, with a personality that had a magnetism that many of his friends and colleagues found to be truly magical. Marc was an unbelievably generous man, living on a shoestring despite some personal health challenges so he could donate many millions of dollars of his time to mostly voluntary legal work on behalf of men's rights and the genuine gender equality that is so badly needed in this country and this world.
The motive behind Marc's murder is not yet determined though the San Bernardino County Sheriff deserves our gratefulness for diligently working to determine the facts, including driving to Marc's family's home in Los Angeles and to NCFM President Harry Crouch's home near San Diego to investigate Marc's death.
Marc compiled a truly legendary set of legal achievements, including recently winning an equal protection case against the Selective Service Administration overturning male-only draft registration. In 2008 Marc won a landmark appellate case against the State of California (Woods v. Horton) which held it is unconstitutional to exclude male victims of domestic violence from state funding for victim services. Marc also helped draft and enact legislation to stop paternity fraud, served on the California DCSS Paternity Committee, served on the Training Committee of the L.A. County Domestic Violence Council, and testified before the California Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committees. In a remarkable tribute to Marc's skill at building bridges and remedying discrimination, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which some might think would be opposed to much of his work, invited him to be an Honoree on their Wall of Tolerance.
Marc graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 with a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and received a law degree from UCLA School of Law in 2000, where he received several public interest awards and founded two student bar associations. While at UCLA, Marc also started a student chapter of NCFM.
Marc joined NCFM as a law student in 1997 after seeing his friend physically abused for years by his wife and then denied domestic violence services because he is male. In 2001 he formed the L.A. chapter of NCFM and served as its president until 2008, during which time NCFM-LA became an active chapter that organized rallies, filed lawsuits and received significant media attention.
Marc was extremely well-spoken and a skilled publicist for men's issues, appearing on the Phil Donahue show, on Dr. Phil, and in countless other television, radio, and newspaper outlets. Marc published op-ed opinion pieces in the Los Angeles Times and numerous other press outlets, tirelessly speaking out for a fairer, kinder world.
Marc was a man full of joy and love, a true pleasure to know for all of us fortunate enough to be able to call him our colleague and/or friend. If Marc Etienne Angelucci didn't exist, we would need to invent him, though honestly the man so far exceeded any dreams any of us could possibly have for an unbelievable combination of shining personal qualities and amazing professional achievements. While wildly successful on the legal front, he was a fabulously down-to-earth, loving man when not demolishing opponents in courtrooms to promote justice. Rest In peace, our dear fallen soldier. No finer man ever walked the planet.
We will post here more information about his murder and memorial services here when the information is known.
Here is a brief article about Marc's death: http://local.nixle.com/alert/8111458/
RIP Mr. Angelucci. You are loved and leave a huge hole in our hearts.


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Home ≫ World Birding ≫ Asia ≫ India ≫ Odisha
Indian Scimitar-babbler Pomatorhinus horsfieldii ©Michael Clark
Birding Odisha
Odisha or Orrisa as it used to be known, is a state located on the east coast of India, by the Bay of Bengal. It was established on 1 April 1936 as a province in British India, and consists, predominantly of Oriya speakers. 1 April is therefore celebrated as Utkal Divas (Odisha Day).
Odisha is the ninth largest state by area and the eleventh largest by population. Oriya is the official and most widely spoken language. Odisha has a relatively unindented coastline (about 480 km long) and lacks good ports, except for the deep water facility at Paradip. The narrow, level coastal strip, including the Mahanadi River delta supports the bulk of the population. The interior of the state is mountainous and sparsely populated. Deomali at 1672m is the highest point of the state.
Odisha is subject to intense cyclones. The most intense one, in October 1999, Tropical Cyclone 05B caused severe damage and some 10,000 deaths.
Odisha is home to the Hirakud Dam, one of the longest dams in the world and has several popular tourist destinations. Puri, with the Jagannatha's temple near the sea, and Konark, with the Sun Temple, are visited by thousands of tourists every year. The Lingaraja Temple of Bhubaneswar, the Jagannatha Temple of Puri, the Sun Temple of Konark and the Barabati Fort of Cuttack are important in the archaeological history of India.
The capital of Odisha is Bhubaneswar. It is famed for its magnificent temples, numbering around a thousand. Cuttack, which is the former capital is 29km from Bhubaneswar. With the rapid expansion of two cities and better road connectivity, the two cities are now almost conjoined and considered as twin cities. The city of Puri is nearby, at a distance of around 60 kilometres on the coast of the Bay of Bengal. Puri is a holy city and the site of the annual festival of the deity Jagannath. It is one of the four Dhams (holy places) of Hinduism. The world-famous 'car festival' (rath yatra) is celebrated in Puri.
The Chota Nagpur plateau occupies the western and northern portions of the state, while along the coast are fertile alluvial plains and the valleys of the Mahanadi, Brahmani, and Baitarani rivers, which empty into the Bay of Bengal. These alluvial plains are home to intensive rice cultivation. A major nesting ground for the Olive Ridley sea turtles can be found in the Beaches of Odisha; in Devi, Gahirmatha and Rushikulya are known nesting sites for the L. olivacea Indian Ocean population. In 2007, around 130,000 turtles nested on the beaches of Gahirmatha.
Although much of Orissa's forest cover has been denuded lately, one of the greatest attractions of Odisha is its still vast expanses of unspoiled natural landscape that offer a protected yet natural habitat to the state's incredible wildlife. There are many wildlife sanctuaries in Odisha. The Simlipal National Park Tiger Reserve is a huge expanse of lush green forest with waterfalls, inhabited by tigers, elephants, and other wildlife. The Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary has been protecting estuarine crocodiles since 1975.
Chilka Lake, a brackish water coastal lake on the Bay of Bengal, south of the mouth of the Mahanadi River, is the largest coastal lake in India. It is protected by the Chilka Lake Bird Sanctuary, which harbors over 150 migratory and resident species of birds.
The highest mountain peak in the state is Deomali (1672 m), which is situated in Koraput district in southern Odisha. It is also the tallest peak of the Eastern Ghats. It is part of the Chandragiri-Pottangi mountain system. Location: 18°40'3″N 82°58'59″E
Owing to its salubrious climate, the state of Odisha has a 33% of its land covered by forests. Commonly classified into two categories namely tropical moist deciduous and tropical dry deciduous, these forests are the store houses of Bamboo, Teak, Rosewood, Sal, Piasal, Sanghvan and Haldi. The hills, plateaus and isolated areas of the northeastern part of the state are covered by the tropical moist deciduous forests whereas the second types of the forests are located in the southwest region of the state.
Out of a total geographical area of 155,707 km², the state of Odisha has recorded 52,472 km² of forest area. Whereas the actual forest cover as per the records of Forest Survey of India is 47,033 km². Upholding the best possible example of bio diversity, the state is home to about 7,000 plant species including 120 Orchid species and 63 varieties of Mangrove trees which make the state second largest mangrove ecosystem in India. Tremendous growth of the forests naturally accounts for a widespread habitat for various species of wild animals. The Red Data book of IUCN has recorded a total of 473 species of birds and 86 species of mammals, 19 species of amphibians and 110 species of reptiles including three crocodilian species. Out of these around 54 species in total are endangered.
The WWF identifies several terrestrial ecoregions in the state of Odisha. The Odisha semi-evergreen forests occupy the coastal plain and low hills in the eastern part of the state, bordering the Bay of Bengal. Monsoons from the Bay of Bengal and the ocean influence foster the growth of semi-evergreen forests, of which only 4% remain, the remainder of the ecoregion having been cleared for intensive agriculture and urbanization. The Lower Gangetic plains moist deciduous forests cover a small area of eastern coastal Baleshwar District, in the easternmost corner of the state.
The majority of the state is covered by the Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests ecoregion, which harbours forests of Sal Shorea robusta and other broadleaf trees. The Northern dry deciduous forests occupy an inland portion of the Mahanadi River basin, which lies in the rain shadow of the Eastern Ghats. The Chhota Nagpur dry deciduous forests, another dry forest ecoregion in the rain shadow of northern Odisha's highlands, lies mostly in neighbouring Jharkhand state, but extends into northern Odisha.
Mangroves can be found along Odisha's coast, notably the Bhitarkanika Mangroves and the mangroves of Chilika Lake. Orissa's mangroves are part of the Krishna-Godavari mangroves ecoregion.
Home to a variety of wild animals, the state has declared considerable tracts of land as areas protected for these animals only. These protected areas constitute 10.37% of the total forest area and 4.1% of the total geographical area of the state. Odisha has three mass nesting beaches of endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtles, which makes it the largest nesting ground of the species. Chilika lagoon in the coast of Orissa is one of the largest habitats of Irrawaddy Dolphin. Odisha government conducting various programme to protect the species.
Tigers, leopards, lions and elephants, Wild Buffaloes, Capped Langur, Sambar, Barking Deer, Wild Boar, Gaur, Slow Loris, Barking and Spotted Deer, Sloth Bear Mongoose, Flying Squirrel, Porcupine, Turtle, Monitor Lizard, Python, Sambar, Pangolin, Crocodile and Four Horned Antelope also find shelter in the forests of the state. Not only the animals, but birds are also a very important constituent of the fauna of Odisha. With its lakes inviting huge numbers of migratory birds each year, the state is a real paradise of the bird lovers. Grey Hornbill, Indian Pied Hornbill, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Indian Trogon, Red Jungle Fowl, Hill Mynah, Peafowl and Alexandrine Parakeet can be seen here along with some of the beautiful resident birds.
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State Bird: Indian Roller Coracicas Benghalensis
Common Nesting Birds of Odisha
| (A Photographic Guide) | By Manoj V Nair, Surendra Mohan Pradhan & Ashish Kumar Pradhan | Odisha Forestry Sector Development Project | 2012 | Paperback | 159 pages, 200+ colour photos | #238030 | ISBN: Buy this book from NHBS.com
Threatened Birds of Odisha
| By Asad R Rahmani & Manoj V Nair | Oxford University Press | 2015 | Paperback | 180 pages, colour photos, colour maps | ISBN: 9780199466504 Buy this book from NHBS.com
BS Nalbana
Nalbana Island is the core area of the Ramsar designated wetlands of Chilika Lake. It was declared a bird sanctuary under the Wildlife Protection Act in 1972.
BS WII IBA Chilka Lake
It is the largest wintering ground for migratory birds on the Indian sub-continent. The lake is home to a number of threatened species of plants and animals.
NP Bhitarkanika
215 species of avifauna including eight varieties of Kingfishers. Birds such as Asian Open Bill, Cormorants, Darters, Black Ibis, Egrets, are frequently seen in the park…
NP Nandankanan Zoological Park
Literally meaning the Garden of Pleasure, Nandankanan is a combination of a beautiful botanical garden, a zoo and a sanctuary. Situated 20 km from Bhubaneshwar, Nandankanan provides perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of the city. The quiet environment of Nandankanan is set amidst a vast expanse of the Chandaka forest where the flora and fauna flourish in their most natural habitat and environment…
NP Simlipal
231 species of birds nest in these forests. Red Jungle Fowl, Hill Myana, Peafowl, Alexandrine Parakeet, Crested Serpent Eagle are common. The Grey Hornbill, Indian Pied Hornbill, Malabar Pied Hornbill and Indian Trogon are also found in the reserve. Apart from the large number of mammals and bird species, the park has a sizeable population of reptiles which includes snakes and turtles. The Mugger management programme has helped the Mugger crocodile to survive and flourish on the banks of river Khairi…
NP TR Sanjay
Bengal tiger, Indian leopard, Spotted deer, Sambar deer, wild boar, Nilgai, Chinkara, Civet, Porcupine, Monitor lizard, and 309 species of birds are found here. Among the many birds here are the Golden Hooded Oriole, Racket-tailed Drongo, Indian pitta, Rufous treepie, Lesser adjutant, Red-headed vulture, Cenareous vulture, White-rumped vulture, Egyptian vulture and Nightjar.
WS Baisipalli
It is 168.35 square kilometres (41,600 acres) of sanctuary land, home to bears, elephants, leopards, Sambar Deer, and spotted deer
WS Balimela
t covers an area of 160 km². The terrain is hilly, and covered with mixed deciduous forests. It is in the Eastern Highlands moist deciduous forests ecoreg
WS Balukhand-Konark
The sanctuary has an area of 72 km², and is located along the Bay of Bengal coast, between the towns of Puri and Konark.
WS Chandaka Forest & Elephant Reserve
…Prominent birds of the sanctuary are Peafowl, Red jungle fowl, Crested serpent eagle, Great horned owl, Black-headed oriole, Paradise Flycatcher, Coucal and stone curlew. Kumarkhunti reservoir, during winter, serve as transient roosting and feeding ground for several migratory duck species, notably, Garganey and common Teal, Pintail, spot billed and bramhiny Duck and white eyed Pochard. Lesser whistling Teal, Dabehick, Cotton Teal, Nakta, lesser Cormorant, bronze winged Jacana, white breasted Waterhen, pied, white breasted and little blue King fishers and red wattled Lapwings are other resident birds around. In July the reservoir transform in to an abode of migratory birds, mainly, open billed Storks, pond Heron, Egrets and Cormorants. Butterflies are abundant during monsoon and post monsoon months…
WS Debrigarh
Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary, an important site for in-situ conservation of wildlife and its habitat in the state of Odisha is home to an immense array of biodiversity, over 40 species of mammals, 234 species of birds, 41 species of reptiles, 12 species of amphibians, 42 species of fishes, 39 species of odonates, 85 species of butterflies and 38 species of spiders and extremely important in the national context because of significant population of Schedule-I species like Leopard, Indian Gaur and Four-horned Antelope. The fauna includes Indian leopard, Indian elephant, sambar, chital, and gaur.
WS Hadgarh
The sanctuary lies in the catchment of Salandi river, a major tributary of the river Baitarani. Besides the Salandi river, the other perennial and seasonal streams are Mukta stream, Ghagara stream, Pitanau stream, Andheri stream, Suranga stream, Chakratirtha stream and Bentokholi stream.
WS Kapilasa
Important fauna include Asian elephant, Bengal fox, Golden jackal, Gray langur, Indian crested porcupine, Indian giant squirrel,[9] Indian peafowl, Sambar deer, Striped hyena, Wild boar,[5][7] and various varieties of birds, lizards etc.
WS Karlapat
This sanctuary is home to many wildlife species like tiger, leopard, sambar, nilgai, barking deer, mouse deer, a wide variety of birds like green munia, Great Eared-nightjar and various reptiles.
WS Kondakameru
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From the British Royal Crown.
During the Battle of New York.
the hands crawl 'round the clock.
but I turned and was alone.
for some distant place called home.
of a path I used to tread.
it's off to new adventure's I am bound.
the haircut short and new.
with new tricks up his sleeve.
you did all right by me.
I'm being passed over again.
my upturned collar can't keep out the wind.
goodbye to the good times of the past.
would be anyone but you.
NOTE: I wrote this poem in 1972, a 24-year old on my way to Washington, D.C to do some full-time anti-war work after graduating from college. I still like it.


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CIFAR and OSMO partner to give women training opportunities in AI
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Two Canadian non-profits, OSMO and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), are partnering to launch the AI For Good Summer Lab program, an initiative that provides undergraduate women in STEM fields with exposure to training and networking opportunities in artificial intelligence.
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In an effort to increase gender diversity in the field of artificial intelligence (AI), the second annual AI For Social Good Lab initiative launched on May 14 in Montreal. The program gave 30 undergraduate women from across Canada the opportunity to use artificial intelligence to address a social issue of their choice
Montreal's AI4Good lab aims to get more women working in artificial intelligence
The program, now in its second year, aims to give participants the background and the confidence to continue in AI, whether that's by studying it in graduate school, applying the technology in other areas or by starting a business, said Precup, a computer science professor at McGill University and the head of Google-affiliated AI company DeepMind's Montreal lab.
AI for Social Good Program wants to help women enter AI industry
The world of technology is waking up to the need to be more inclusive to the women who are part of it. This is even more true when we talk about women in leadership positions in technology companies. How can this imbalance be addressed? Here is the fundamental thinking that led to the development of the McGill University laboratory: AI for Social Good Lab.
AI for Social Good Lab: Striving for a More Inclusive Tech Culture
There is a growing demand for a more diverse workforce, especially in the technology industry. Unfortunately, despite the world's brightest minds and largest institutions banding together in an attempt to diversify the workforce, female employment rates in STEMM jobs have only slightly improved, and have actually declined for those in Computer Science.
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McGill Innovation's AI For Social Good Summer Lab is an initiative running during the whole month of June 2017 in an effort to inspire and mentor women in product development and design in the domain of AI.
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From June 5 – 30, 20 young and dynamic women will participate in McGill's first-ever AI for Social Good Summer Lab at McGill. The women-only Lab is a direct response to the lack of diversity in the field.
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Residents of a northwest Atlanta neighborhood watched in horror Tuesday night as a small plane crashed and ignited, killing two people aboard.
Hawkins said he and other neighbors stared in shock as the plane became a huge fireball in the woods, narrowly missing houses.
The plane crashed at 7:25 p.m. in the 2200 block of Thomas Road, near Bolton Road and I-285, not long after takeoff, according to the fire department and FAA. It ignited on impact and burned in the woods, about 200 yards from houses, witnesses said.
According to the FAA, the Raytheon 390 Premier I multi-engine aircraft departed from Fulton County Airport and was destined for New Orleans Lakefront Airport. The plane is registered to a metro Atlanta company, according to Kathleen Bergen, FAA spokeswoman.
The names of those killed in the crash were not immediately available.
Neighbors said Tuesday night that the sound of airplanes is constant due to the neighborhood's proximity to the airport. But this time, something sounded different, almost like a missile, Kevin Krapp told The AJC.
Krapp said the plane appeared to turn at an angle just before crashing.
FAA and NTSB investigators were headed to the scene late Tuesday.


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The Queen and I - Sue Townsend
Following on from The Restraint of Beasts, here is another gift book (from my lovely ex-colleagues at OUP), another comic book, another one which seems like it might have a message hiding in there somewhere... but entirely different. Knowing how much I love, admire, and respect Queen Elizabeth II, my colleagues got me (amongst other Queen-related things) The Queen and I (1992) by Sue Townsend, and I wolfed it down in a day or two.
The premise of The Queen and I is something that makes me Royalist blood run cold - a politician called Jack Barker uses subliminal pictures on television to brainwash the nation into voting his party to power, and his first act is to abolish the monarchy. (Shudder!) The Queen and her family are sent off to live on a council estate in Hellebore Close - known locally as Hell Close. There they must make do with benefits or the pension, with only the possessions they can fit in their tiny houses (most of which end up getting stolen pretty quickly anyway.) The country rather falls apart with a hopeless leader in charge, but of more interest is seeing how the royals get along without any money and in surroundings which they are far from used to.
And, oh, it is funny! But more than that, it is believable - not the premise (even if we ever lose our monarchy - Heaven forbid! - it's unlikely they'd get aggressively shipped off to council houses) but the way in which various members of the Royal family would respond. Sue Townsend writes very affectionately of the royals; although it's tricky to work out whether or not she thinks the institution is a good one, she certainly has a lot of respect for certain members of it. Chief among these is, of course, the Queen. She behaves exactly as I would expect - that is, she just gets on with it. Since she spends her life seeing every imaginable culture, habits, and traditions, it's unlikely that there is anything that could wrong foot her socially. The one thing she cannot quite get used to (and this is where Townsend's social critique of Britain comes into play, one suspects) is how little money people are expected to live on, and how inefficient and difficult the system is. Here she is, chatting with a social worker...
"And what is the current situation regarding your personal finances?"
"We are penniless. I have been forced to borrow from my mother; but now my mother is also penniless. As is my entire family. I have been forced to rely on the charity of neighbours. But I cannot continue to do so. My neighbours are..." The Queen paused.
"Socially disadvantaged?" supplied Dorkin.
"No, they are poor," said the Queen. "They, like me, lack money. I would like you, Mr. Dorkin, to give me some money - today, please. I have no food, no heat and when the electrician goes, I will have no light."
But not everybody is so resilient. Other royals do cope well with the move - Prince Charles is thrilled about getting to some quiet gardening, Princess Anne loves getting out of the limelight, and the Queen Mother (bless her!) finds the whole thing hilarious, so long as she's got a drink or two next to her. But Prince Philip takes to his bed and won't engage at all, Princess Margaret similarly refuses to acknowledge that her situation in life has changed - while Princess Diana is saddened chiefly by the lack of wardrobe space. It's quite odd to read a book about the royals set before Diana died - because it is impossible to think of her without that context now. In 1992, she could still be affectionately mocked as a clothes horse and a flibbertigibbet. Indeed, remembering how old all the royals were in 1992 and reformulating my view of them is quite tricky, since I was only 7 then, and don't remember (for instance) Princess Anne's days as a relative beauty.
As far as social commentary goes, Townsend obviously wants to draw attention to the plight of the poor, in the battle against bureaucracy and out-of-touch officials, but perhaps it doesn't help her cause that every working-class character is essentially kind and decent. A few rough diamonds, but they're all there to help each other at the drop of a hat, issuing generous platitudes when needed and handy at knocking together a makeshift hearse. Of course, that's better than making them all selfish, violent thugs or benefits cheats, but it might have been a more effective portrait of a working-class community had the characters and their traits been more varied, as they would be in any other community.
Which is a small quibble with a very clever, very amusing page-turner. The idea was brilliant, but in other hands it wouldn't have worked. I can only agree with the Times review quoted on the back cover: "No other author could imagine this so graphically, demolish the institution so wittily and yet leave the family with its human dignity intact."
Labels: 1990s, 1992, ReadingPresently, Townsend
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Magnus Mills has been hovering around the edges of my reading consciousness for some time, including having read two of his novels - The Maintenance of Headway (good, but didn't quite work for me) and All Quiet on the Orient Express (much better) - but I've always felt that I could really love a Mills novel, given the right novel and the right timing. Well, about three years ago my then-housemate Mel gave me The Restraint of Beasts (1998) - where better to re-start with Mills than with his first novel? (N.B. Mel, now that I've finally read the book you got me for my birthday in 2010, will you buy me books again?)
Our narrator is anonymous (which I confess I hadn't noticed until I read the Wikipedia page for the novel) and has just become the foreman of a Scottish fencing company, led by the domineering Donald and contentedly useless Robert. He is a foreman of a small team - Gang no.3 - which consists of just three people, including himself. The others are Tam and Rich - inseparable but taciturn, fairly lazy, and undemonstrative. Having been introduced to his team (and discovering that he is replacing Tam in the foreman position), the narrator and his colleagues are sent off to fix the fence of a local farmer, which has been erected poorly.
If this is all sounding rather dull, then I should let you know - the activities of the heroes (or lack thereof) are determinedly boring. They put up fences. They travel to England to do so, and vary the monotony of hammering in posts only with trips to the local pubs, which provide almost no incident, and are generally almost empty.
One of the things studying English for so long has enabled me to do, I hope, is identify how a writer creates certain effects or atmosphere. I hope Stuck-in-a-Book generally shows that sort of insight into a novel, or at least tries to. But with Mills and The Restraint of Beasts (which is my favourite of the three I've read so far), I am almost entirely unable to say why it works. Here is a sample paragraph for you...
Their pick-up truck was parked at the other side of the yard. They'd been sitting in the cab earlier when I went past on my way to Donald's office. Now, however, there was no sign of them. I walked over and glanced at the jumble of tools and equipment lying in the back of the vehicle. Everything looked as though it had been thrown in there in a great hurry. Clearly it would all need sorting out before we could do anything, so I got in the truck and reversed round to the store room. Then I sat and waited for them to appear. Looking around the inside of the cab I noticed the words 'Tam' and 'Rich' scratched on the dashboard. A plastic lunch box and a bottle of Irn-Bru lay on the shelf.
And, believe me, things get technical. I've learnt more about putting up fences than I'd ever imagined I'd know. (Fyi, they're usually being built to pen in animals - the restraint of beasts, y'see. Excellent title.) Mills worked as a fencer himself for some years, so you could be forgiven for thinking this was turning into an odd autobiography.
But, in amongst this, occasionally bizarre or momentous things DO happen, and they are treated with as casually and matter-of-factly as the tedium of standing in the rain with a fence hammer. That is one of the reasons I loved this novel - I love surreal and black humour, but I hate anything disgusting, unduly frightening, macabre, or viciously unkind (so psychological thrillers almost always off the menu.) Mills lets the moments of darkness become instantly surreal simply by giving us a narrator who does not see the difference between life-changing, terrible incidents and the everyday minutiae of the construction industry. (Note that I'm deliberately avoiding telling you what these dark moments are, because I don't want to spoil the surprise!)
Somehow, throughout plain and 'deceptively simple' (sorry, had to be done) prose, Mills expertly implies growing menace and claustrophobia. The humour is still there - never laugh-out-loud funny, but always a dry, bleak humour - but the darkness seems to be spreading. And from the opening pages, the reader is pulled from page to page, without almost nothing happening... how? I don't know what is in the writing that makes it work so well, as tautly engaging as a detective novel. It's obvious that All Quiet on the Orient Express was written after The Restraint of Beasts, because it follows a similar premise and style, but with a firmer structure. And yet I refer The Restraint of Beasts, perhaps because it is more daring in its lack of structure.
And what is it all about? I haven't the foggiest. The ending (which, again, I shan't spoil) isn't conclusive at all, but dumps a whole load of clues about the meaning of the novel. I wondered whether it might be a metaphor for fascism, or perhaps communism, or... well, I don't know. It doesn't much matter, and I'd have been rather cross if it turned out to be a heavy-handed metaphor for anything (only George Orwell can get away with that), so I'm happy to let it be simply an excellent, bewildering, disturbing placid novel. If you've yet to try Mills, start here.
It's been a while since I did a 'Others who got Stuck into...' section, because I have a terrible memory, so...
Others who got Stuck into The Restraint of Beasts...
"He is able to turn the ordinary into something sinister in a way that defies description, so that you're never quite sure whether a terrible event is going to happen or whether the author is just playing with your sense of the dramatic." - Kim, Reading Matters
"There are a number of things said that seem to be evasions or euphemisms that are not explained. Everything is sinister and suspect." - Kate, Nose in a Book
"It has an undercurrent of mystery and black farce that I felt it could have done without, as it remains an unresolved and unlikely subplot." - Read More Fiction
Labels: 1990s, 1998, MillsM, ReadingPresently
Great British Bake Off: Series 4: Episode 2
Last week: hundreds of bakers swarmed around the tent, and kept appearing until the last minute of the show. They claim there were 13 (yes, 'baker's dozen' makes an appearance in the episode 2 what-happened-last-week) but I stopped counting at forty. And you were all very welcoming of my recap and said lovely things, which was very encouraging! Thank you so much.
This week it's Bread Week, which of course means that the intro is filled with various people telling us that it's Paul Hollywood's speciality, and nary a Mary in sight. Maybe she doesn't care about bread. Maybe she's busy shrieking at someone in make-up for having the wrong eyelash curler. It is not for us to know.
As for the bakers in the intro - my eye is on Teary Ruby (note to self: make this a better pun on Ruby Tuesday... Ruby Tearday?) Ruby Tearday seems to be just as angry and sullen as last week, if the 'coming up next' clips are to be trusted.
If this were America's Next Top Model (note to self: try not to alienate 90% of the audience immediately) she'd be the one who'd snap at week eight and have a showdown with Tyra, who would pretend to be motherly and tell her to "own her best self" or something. Since this is the bake off, I presume she'll just quietly leave in week three, and maybe write a passive aggressive column for Marks & Spencer's Your Home magazine.
PUN KLAXON. Remember how the Bake Off got all self-aware about puns last week? Well, this week they don't even introduce the topic, they just start riffing on 'Bohemiam Bapsody' and the like. I'm a bit worried that my klaxon will self-combust in a fit of ironic self-contradiction. But I also enjoy that blazers appear to be contagious. And that Mel seems to be coming up with a ploy to strangle a short person.
"If I close my eyes, I'm not an accessory to the crime."
"AccessoRYE to the THYME, more like."
Our first challenge is signature bake breadsticks. Mel solemnly entones "Breadsticks are made all over the world" - which smacks of a BBC researcher hoping to find an interesting fact about breadsticks on Wikipedia, and giving up almost immediately. Which is quite apt, because it's a monumentally uninteresting topic. Bread week always is. I love bread as much as the next man - indeed, unless the next man is Paul Hollywood, I love it rather more. Man cannot live by bread alone, Scripture tells us, but let's not forget that the next words are 'but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.' Amen to that, say I, but we don't need to diversify the food bit much. I'd happily eat nothing but bread and cheese all day, everyday. But... that doesn't make it aesthetically interesting in the way that cakes are. So, instead, let's turn to the judges...
Is it a coincidence that Paul and Sue both have their hands in their pockets (although only Paul looks like he's in the middle of a line dance) while Mary and Mel have their hands folded in front of them?
Mary has wrapped up warm for the day, which suggests that it's not quite as balmy as the incidental shots of lambs intend us to believe. I tried to get a shot of Mary looking smiley and cheerful, but instead she's come out looking a little like Sean Connery...
We wander through all the recipes and suchlike, but you don't come here for those sorts of summaries, do you? Breadsticks, I repeat, are not scintillating things (though very pleasant to eat) so it's difficult to get animated over the fact that some people are putting in cardamom and some people orange etc. (Those are made up, by the way. I don't remember what they put in. Well, except for Frances. Just wait for her...)
So, instead, let's look at the VTs this week. Second week is, apparently, Hobbies Week, where the bakers scrabble around to find anything, anything at all, to offer. A question once only required for dating videos and French GCSE coursework, listing your hobbies is apparently a reality show must nowadays. Poor Glenn apparently has no home life, as we see him yet again in his school. Awkward.
"I sleep in the store cupboard."
Stranger still is Rob, who claims to be a scientist, but apparently just looms over scientists all day. If staring through a window counts as employment nowadays, then the people at Boswell's owe me rather a lot of money.
And then he claims to be a 'mushroom forager'. This is so clearly not a thing that I can only presume he works for MI5.
My favourite, though, is Ali. I forget what he does (besides panic, of course) but this is apparently a mock-up of something he's creating at work:
I've never claimed to be an expert at graphic design, but I have a feeling that typing EMPOWER YOUTH over the rest of your document - while emphatic - perhaps isn't the way to go. He is similarly held back when it comes to bread, apparently, as he admits that it's not his forte. I just had to capture the looks on Paul and Mary's faces when he said this...
There are a few other highlights during this section... Sue asks somebody whether they're worried that they'll 'retard the yeast', and Mary is very impressed with her. I had my fingers crossed that she'd whip out a housepoint chart or something, but I can wait. FOR NOW.
And I always like to illustrate what a lovely programme this is compared to other reality competitions - and this week's illustration is this this lovely moment between Mel and Beca. Beca was almost entirely absent from last week's episode, but I have high hopes of her becoming this year's Cathryn - she's funny, she's a bit silly, and (bonus!) she's Welsh. This shot comes after they have joked that Mary Berry is Beca's body double...
Can you imagine Alan Sugar doing this?
And I promised you an update on Frances's breadsticks - which are ginger and chocolate, but more than that, they are in the shape of matches. And she's made a novelty-sized matchbox. Of course she has.
Sadly this is the best angle we see it at, so I can't read the text on top, but I think (and hope and pray) that it says Berry's Matches on top. Frances reminds me a bit of Our Vicar's Wife... in terms of being a bundle of creativity that tips that merry balance into delightfully bonkers (did I ever tell you that Mum built a gypsy caravan out of wood in our back garden? Twice?) (Love you Mum!) Frances is tightrope walking along that line between sweetly ambitious and Holly-obnoxious. (Remember Holly? She was the one who hid a miniature gingerbread house under her croquembouche.) At the moment she is just the right side of awful, because she is so endearingly like a Sunday School teacher gone mad, and just self-aware enough to keep the audience on side.
Sadly, it turns out to be Baker's Matches. Apt, but not Mary enough.
And I'm inaugurating the Official Mary Barry Adorable Moment of the Week Award. Sponsorship deal yet to be confirmed, but I've got high hopes that the Andrex puppy will get on board. Well, this week it's Mary playing spillikins with Rob's breadsticks.
If you print those out, they'll make the world's shortest flipbook.
One and a half episodes is a bit early to say how I feel about the bakers, but now that I've started to at least recognise each of them, I'm going to go ahead and judge them as people and moral individuals, the way that reality television wants me to. Ahem. You know that I love Beca, Christine, and Una Stubbs, but let's talk about a couple of others.
Well, Rob may not be a euphoric individual, but I feel a great deal of empathy with him - as will many of you - when I saw this moment:
And what about Kimberley? I have a feeling that she might be a bit too cool for this show. She's very beautiful, calm, collected, and - yes - cool. If she gets flour smeared across her face, or trips over an open oven door and flings a tray of buns on the floor, then I think I'll find her easier to like. Not that she's dislikeable, it's just that every moment she is on the screen, I realise how inept and hopeless my life is. That's all.
Judging. Nothing of interest to report - how could there be? - except that apparently I no longer notice when parts of speech are misused. 'Good bake' sounds like perfect English to me now. But there is some hope for me passing my English DPhil, since I'm still not quite on board with "Welcome to yeast!" and "I think the raisin does bring something to the party."
Ruby Tearday does very well and SMILES!
In other news, a pig has started manning flights to a blue moon.
And we're onto the technical challenge, which is English muffins. Yummmm. I love them, but I would question whether or not they're worth going to all that effort for... but they're not as absurd as when they made those chocolate marshmallow cake things that cost £1.50 for eight.
And Brend 2.0, whose name I have sadly forgotten - last week I suggested he could be The Brend reimagined by Woody Allen; this week I think he might be The Brend as reimagined by Alan Bennett. It's not just the Northern accent, it's that everything he says sounds like a half-comic, half-mournful segment from Talking Heads. (Ten points, by the way, if you are the only other person in the world who likes both America's Next Top Model and Talking Heads. Never let it be said that my cultural references are limited, or coherent.) Witness, for instance, his way of testing the temperature of his griddle : "I've been putting my face over it, to test the heat coming up." Alan wishes he'd written that line.
Incidentally, while I'm making spurious televisual references, Sue's 'BAKE!' is getting steadily more like Stephen Fry playing General Melchett in Blackadder Goes Forth.
Uncanny, no?
Muffins give Sue and Mel a chance to reel off the 'Do you know the muffin man?' rhyme, and this out-of-work actor to get his Equity card.
Available for panto.
Back to muffins. Alan Bennett's Brend (I really ought to research their actual names - like, y'know, reading my own recap from last week) suffers from Sue's carelessness, and she leaves an elbow imprint in one of his muffins... Since everyone seems to have stopped hacking at themselves with knives, this is given a fair bit of fanfare. (Could this outbreak of self-stabbing last week have been canny contestants trying to make sure they got some notice from the camera, among the dozens of competitors?)
Bezza and Paul step forward to do the judging, and I'm impressed by pretty much all of the muffins, which do look pretty uniform across the board. Oddly Mary doesn't seem to eat any of them - at least we don't see her doing so on screen; I know, I was waiting for a Pirate Shot - and a woman I only vaguely recognise comes last. Frances is second, and Kimberley comes top. No tripping over in sight. Hmm.
I've not addressed the difference between English muffins and American muffins, have I? Well, always leave the audience wanting more.
Showstopper challenge! In the lead-up chat-around-the-tea-table, Mel says "Every baker goes into the final needing to do well" - Paul looks suspicious, and my pun klaxon is being judiciously oiled, but... turns out the needing/kneading pun was inadvertent. Klaxon back away. FOR NOW.
There isn't really anything very 'showstopper' about bread, is there? Some bakers are bravely going to decorate their loaves, which I can't imagine working, but while it exists only in the form of the garish faux-notebook of the BBC graphics department, Ruby Tearday's peacock bread is looking quite fancy. "We've never had a peacock!" notes Mary, adroitly.
Even better, though, is Rob's creation. He's going to be making a loaf honouring (for honouring is the word) Paul the Psychic Octopus. Remember him? He may be eternally dour during the judging, but he's clearly got an adorable, geeky side. (By 'he' I mean Rob, by the way, not Paul the Psychic Octopus. He, sadly, is dead. I bet he didn't see that coming. Ba-doom-tish. Sorry.) The graphics department lose their head completely, and draw a nauseous hippo at a street carnival:
To do Mary justice, she is entirely unflappable, and simply enquires whether the tentacles will be attached before or after baking. She's not quite so sanguine in the next chat. The inspiration for Ali's yin/yang bread came to him in a dream, apparently. Let's pause a moment to enjoy the face Mary makes in response to this information:
As far as "I have a dream" speeches go, I can't imagine it'll have quite the same legacy as some.
Let's fast forward to a few of the most memorable results - which aren't quite in the same league as the cakes, when it comes to appearance. You can almost feel the cameraman's anxiety at finding an angle which makes them look like something other than bread rolls after a particularly glittery afternoon at a children's nursery.
If you see any peacocks that in any way resemble this,
contact the RSPB. Do not approach.
Paul H comes over all Simon Cowell, telling Alan Bennett's Brend, about his orange/oregano bread, that "You're great with your flavours normally... and you've done it again!" Next week he'll start saying "You're not not not... not not not in. Not."
And the octopus looks awful. Coloured decorations on bread = unpleasant. A nice idea, but children with colouring pencils couldn't have made this look less edible.
The edit has already prepared us for Lucy's loaf being heavily criticised for being uncreative, but I should mention that darling Christine (who pops into the programme for about five seconds this week, perhaps on the way to the post office) seemed to provide an equally non-showstopper sort of bread. That's not to say that Lucy shouldn't be penalised for essentially sticking a bog-standard loaf on the table, but she's not alone.
Incidentally, it is only during this critique that I learn Lucy's name. And I have a feeling that I won't need to know it in a few minutes' time...
So, let's see who came top and bottom of bread week, shall we? Results after the jump....
Star Baker is... the delightfully shocked Ruby Tearday, who'll need a name change:
And going home, as every moment of the programme augured, is Lucy:
To add insult to injury, she didn't even get a hair ruffle from Mary.
Next week: dessert! Back to baking that actually looks attractive as well as tasting great, and lots of potential for things to fall over. Hope you've enjoyed this week's recap - see you next week!
The Crafty Art of Playmaking - Alan Ayckbourn
I loved hearing about your favourite theatrical experiences on the previous post! Lots of us seem to cherish special moments of seeing our acting heroes. I restricted myself to one - otherwise I'd have had to include Judi Dench in Peter and Alice, Judi Dench again in All's Well That Ends Well, Tamsin Greig in Much Ado About Nothing, Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in The Rivals... etc. etc.
Well, all is revealed - the book, which I've realised I actually mentioned the other day, is The Crafty Art of Playmaking (2002) by Alan Ayckbourn. I actually bought it earlier in the year, and when I started I hadn't even remembered that the play I was about to see, Relatively Speaking, was by Ayckbourn. It wasn't until I turned to p.3 and saw the play mention (and, er, spoiled a bit) that I realised I should put the book to one side until I'd seen the play.
When I went back to it, I found The Crafty Art of Playmaking an invaluable companion to seeing Relatively Speaking, but it is a fascinating book for anybody interested in the theatre whether or not that have recently watched one of Ayckbourn's plays. I've written before about my interest in the theatre, but usually (when I read theatrical books) is acting memoir from the twentieth century, or similar. Other than when actors take a step into the director's chair (that metaphor fell apart) have I read much from that side of the fence, and I don't think I've read anything particularly thorough about writing plays, although A.A. Milne's autobiography has a brilliant section where he traces a few of his plays back to their roots.
That is where discussion of Relatively Speaking starts, but I don't really want to say what he writes, in case it spoils it for you... well, look away now if you don't want to know, ok?
Initial inspiration - that essential starting point - comes in all shapes and sizes. Years ago I had the tiniest idea for a situation wherein a young man would ask an older man whether he could marry his daughter. The twist was that the older man didn't have a daughter.
And there you go! From there, Ayckbourn takes us through the various considerations which led to the play being set in two locations, and certain key plot points, and the like. He also talks about many of his other plays, of course, but (having just seen this one) it was the dissection of Relatively Speaking which I found fascinating.
Throughout the book, Ayckbourn highlights 'Obvious Rules', which number from 1 to 100. Some are not obvious, but it's a nice conceit to structure the book, and tends to summarise what he has discussed, with examples, in the previous section. So, we have things like 'Use the minimum number of characters that you need' or 'Don't let them go off without reason' - and thins which aren't really quite rules, like 'You can never know too much about your characters before you start'. It works well to keep the playwriting process grounded and achievable, while also showing that you can't (or shouldn't) sit down one afternoon thinking that, with a pithy epigram or two, a play will more or less form itself.
The second half of The Crafty Art of Playmaking (and the reason why it's Playmaking rather than Playwriting) concerns directing. This was slightly less conceptual, because, instead of make-up characters and potentially infinite plots and dialogue, Ayckbourn is writing about lighting designers and wardrobe mistresses and the like. He does seem to lump entire professions into single characteristics (wardrobe mistresses - or was it costume designers? - are apparently prone to hysterics; assistant stage managers are universally level-headed; sound engineers are over-ambitious, etc. etc.) but is perhaps being a bit tongue-in-cheek. Hard to say.
Obviously there is a significant difference between a playwright and a director. Well, there are many. But a chief difference is that anybody can try being a playwright from the comfort of their own desk. They might be appalling, but all they need are pen and paper (or electronic equivalent). The director must have actually persuaded someone to let them have a job - and, while Ayckbourn does describe the various ways that might happen, it is with a tone of incredulity that it possibly could. And once it has, I suppose one is no longer an amateur.
Ayckbourn's model of the director is very power-hungry and micromanaging, but perhaps that is a necessity. Almost every section seems to end with 'but don't let them make any decision without consulting you', or something similar. A director in this mould, who trusts nobody to do their jobs properly, would be a nightmare. But for the first-time director, I suppose it is wise not to be ridden over roughshod.
Perhaps the most interesting thing about this two-angle way of looking at playmaking is the contrast. Ayckbourn often wrote and directed (writes and directs?) his own plays, but it is intriguing to see how he treats the potential director in the first half of the book, and the hypothetical writer in the second half. All I can say is, he must be sometimes rather conflicted when he is doing one or the other! Incidentally, his plays are almost exclusively called the sort of unmemorable things one expects plays to be called. Six of One, As You Were, After A Fashion, A Matter of Fact... those are all made up by me (as far as I know!) but you understand the sort of thing. Bits of expressions, or everyday sayings, and entirely forgettable titles - curious for someone so inventive!
I found the director half of the book a bit harder to get my head around, as it is further from anything I have ever done or would ever want to do, and he is very coy about actual experiences in this area (very few names and dates, and lots of 'an actress once said...') but anybody thinking about going into directing would, I think, find it invaluable.
I don't intend to be either a playwright or a director, but I found Ayckbourn's book a fascinating glimpse behind these processes - and I think anybody interested in the theatre generally, let alone Ayckbourn specifically, would find a lot to like here.
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The Play's The Thing
The review I intended to write today hasn't happened, as editing a chapter of my thesis has taken over my life, but in preparation I shall ask you... what is the best performance you have ever seen on stage?
It has to be a combination of great play and great cast, of course. And to a large extent it's a subjective assessment. But I'm going to pick All My Sons, which I saw with David Suchet, Jemima Rooper, Zoe Wanamaker, and Stephen Campbell Moore. Suchet, especially, was astonishing. My thoughts are all here...
I'm recycling my theatre cartoon...
So, I'll be talking about plays tomorrow (or, ahem, soon)... and if you follow me on Twitter - @stuck_inabook, thanks for asking - you might be able to guess which book it'll be! But... over to you! Tell me about your experiences at the theatre!
It's baaaaaaack! And I'm back recapping - this time from the beginning of the series, which is rather daunting. I can't promise it'll be every week, but we'll see how it goes.
Gosh, it doesn't feel a year since we last saw Mary eating like a pirate and Paul glowering at everyone, does it? Have Mel and Sue been stuck in a room thinking up new anatomical euphemisms for a year? (Judging on the wordplay this week... no.) And why have no former Bake Off contestants yet appeared on Strictly Come Dancing? I'd watch if Scottish James, Cathryn, and Sarah-Jane were there. I can imagine Cathryn does a mean rumba. And surely The Brend, a.k.a. The Bridge Between the 70s And Today, loves a sequin or two?
Alternatively, I suggest a show where he teaches underprivileged boys to play football. It'll be called Brend It Like Beckham. Thankyouverymuchgoodnight.
In preparation for the show tonight, Twitter had a hashtag #BakeOffSongs going around. I contributed I Just Don't Know What To Do With My Self-Raising Flour - let me know if you think of anything.
It's going to be tricky, recapping the first episode before we know who everybody is, and while there are so many of them about - so I'm going to be selective rather than thorough, and try to keep an eye out for those who might become the much-loved heroes and villains of Series 4. And this year there are a mammoth 13 bakers in the tent (which, incidentally, looks like a pretty good diagram of when you know that egg whites are stiff enough for meringue.)
They fail to mention that thirteen is a baker's dozen, which would have been rather apt. I am, of course, lying. They mention it so often that I'm starting think the numbers run 11, 12, baker's dozen, 14... Indeed, this is the punniest episode I've ever seen - it even starts with a wait/weight gag, and I'll fill you in when we get to more. Maybe even a pun klaxon.
We see a quick overview of tears, joy, cakes, and timers - and the judges get an 'aren't they scary?' edit, with people saying how frightened they are of Paul and Mary in turn. I'm thinking the war on terror needs to turn its attention to these two, since apparently they're terrorising this baker's dozen of bakers. (Geddit? Oh, sorry, we did that one.)
Are you ready for the laughter, the agony, and the ever-revolving cakes? (Seriously, why do they revolve so much in these preview clips? We never see them revolve again.) Well, sorry - first we have to indulge Mel and Sue in a bit of light banter about surgical hoists and lacing. They've strayed so far beyond the line of 'taking things seriously' that it now feels as though the Bake Off is a wonderful, state-sponsored crèche for them.
I've really grown to love that bridge.
The first challenge is a sandwich cake. Things are pretty simple to start with, you'd have thought, but Mary Berry starkly informs us that "It is easy to make a basic sandwich cake. We want them to go much further than that." At this point we cross over to Una Stubbs sighing over her mixture, as though hearing Mary's words through the wall. It's all very moving.
Ok, it's not Una Stubbs. But I don't know her real name.
And, of course, we head over to a baker named Glenn saying that he's going to make a simple Victoria sandwich, because he thinks Mary will like the traditional. Oh, Glenn. Never underestimate Bezza. She has the spirit of adventure in every pore.
Because this is the first episode, we get all those curious videos of the contestants at home, not interacting with the camera at all, and rather giving the impression that they're being stalked against their knowledge. They also pick the most curious things. This family portrait is rather understandable, even if it does show a violent side to the youth of today...
Maybe a pacifist protest?
...but along the way we also sit in on a dentist operation, a psychologist's session (professional!), and one poor student who can't afford a desk... but I couldn't find the screenshot of that. Instead, here's Una Stubbs laughing. And turns out she's called Deborah.
I suppose we're intended to get to know the bakers better, but I feel like I've learnt more about the voyeuristic (borderline illegal) tendencies of the cameramen, more than anything.
I've already mentioned The Brend from last year - I assume you remember him? He sounded like the talking clock, considered himself a ten-out-of-ten all round, and made Abigail's Party look like a model of elegant taste and restraint. Well, I had high hopes of this gentlemen being the new Brend when he said that he was making his cake out of rice flour rather than flour. To make his cake, he asserted, more cakey. Or perhaps less cakey. I forget. We'll come back to Brend 2.0 to see whether he deserves the title...
The Brend as reimagined by Woody Allen?
While looking out for my favourites, I settled (but of course) on the older lady Christine who - hurrah! - lives in Oxfordshire, and looks like a cross between Felicity Kendal and Anne Reid. Her home story seems to be having grandchildren (who don't turn up for the videoshoot) and an apron (which does).
But, while Christine is explaining her cake, Mary seems to sense that her title for Most Adorable Older Lady is up for grabs, and pulls a most uncharacteristically aggressive face...
"I've got a CBE. Have you?"
You'll have spotted that I've barely mentioned the cake they're making. There's just too many of them, and you can probably guess what's happened. A couple of people are playing it too safe, somebody is adding inedible ingredients to give it an "exotic flavour", and an early show-off is doing something unduly over-the-top. The Holly of the group. This time it's actually rather sweet - a sandwich cake in the shape of a sandwich, paper bag (icing) and all.
There have been a fair number of crises so far. Three casualties, in fact - I bet the producers were sharpening the knives backstage (backtent?) to make sure that accidents happened. In mid-series, any one of these would have got four "coming up later" previews and a good ten minutes of screentime, but this time the tent is knee-deep in bakers so we only have time for a quick bandage and resilient "I'm all right" from Christine, and we're onto the next thing. Which is Ruby crying... but we do see how lovely this show is compared to others when Sue goes over to give her a calming hug. (I even read that Mel and Sue sometimes go and swear by people if they're really upset, so that the BBC can't use the footage.)
"I'm not being insensitive, but I've lost a contact lens."
The judging is pretty much the norm too. Paul's "The creme patissiere is awful" is the equivalent of Mary's "It's not quite thick enough"; the person who used rose has used too much; cakes are underbaked, underdecorated, or (alternatively) very good. But there are just too many of them to work out what's going on for long. Except for the fact that Brend 2.0 turns out to be rather a sweetie, so I'm going to have to learn his real name one day.
Oh, lovely, we're off for the Historical Information bit. Obviously anything of any interest was covered years ago, and today we're left with a description of 'promenading', which seems not only to have nothing to do with baking, but also to be a fanciful tale of sexual assault. "They would grab the girls' hair," says Melanie Tebbutt, Historian cheerfully.
That's that for another week. Shall we get back to the tent? We're onto our first technical challenge - an Angel Food Cake. Things have moved on rather from series one, when their technical challenge was a simple Victoria Sponge, haven't they?
Let's have a few highlights, shall we?
Excellent anxious face.
"The easiest task becomes a minefield of difficulties in the technical challenge" says Teary Ruby, obviously vying for a chance to do Anxious Voiceovers, should Mel's career ever head off in another direction.
To grease or not to grease becomes the big question of the tent. I love that that's on primetime television.
"Rise, my baby, rise!" It's not often enough that the Wizard of Oz is misquoted in baking. No, strike that, it is often enough. Maybe too often.
Oh, and PUN KLAXON. Somebody says "Cracking - physically cracking, not cracking as in it's good!" An ambiguity for Wallace and Gromit and nobody else.
PUN KLAXON AGAIN - Una Stubbs makes a flip-the-tin/I've-flipped pun. Not excellent wordsmithery, but points for effort.
And a gentleman is oddly surprised that his boiling lemon curd is hot, after sticking his finger in it.
I've got to say, the array is pretty impressive. Series Four looks like it's following the upward trend of all previous series. They just keep impressing me. Well, except for one man, who used salt instead of sugar...
He seems oddly delighted by this.
Spoilers: he comes last in the technical challenge.
Still, all round Mary and Paul seem pretty impressed. My favourite moment comes when Paul says that a cake looks like it's straight from the 1970s (The Brend? When did you come back?) and Mary says "I can't remember." Lor' bless her. Unless the 1970s was when she started to forget things...
And who doesn't love it when Paul has to spit out a cake? Turns out salty cake isn't his cup of tea. But, like a gentleman, he stops Mary trying any. It's like Raleigh throwing his coat down for Queen Elizabeth I (only entirely different.)
Sue genuinely references "Salt rum baba, John, 2012"
We whip (BAKING PUN) through the pecking order of the Angel Cakes, and my girl Christine comes third. A blonde woman I don't recognise at all comes second, and Rob comes first. He's thrilled to the very core of his being.
And finally, we have the Showstopper Challenge. It's chocolate cake (have I mentioned that it's cake week? I reckon you've worked it out), with decorations and tiers and the like. This is certainly the most interesting of the challenges but, again, time is not on our side, and it's probably best to head straight for the end results...
But I will pause for my favourite moment of Fatuous Baking Warning from any series so far: "the darker colour of chocolate cake makes it harder to see when it's baked." Oh, Mel. Never change. I wish you were in my kitchen, saying things like "Sugar makes things sweeter!" or "Lemons are yellow!"
Oh, and let's give the music director a special star for effects initiative, as somewhere along the way he or she had a bit of a breakdown and decided that what the Great British Bake Off really needed was a heavy drum beat. You know when drums signal that something significant and dangerous is happening? They do that - for Mary standing by a desk, a spatula, and somebody putting something in the fridge.
DUH-DUH-DUUUUH
And GBBO gets heavily self-referential about That Squirrel.
Here are some of my favourites from the end:
In which I learn that Brend 2.0 is called Howard!
Will this be Howard's End? Ahahahaha... no.
As with the rest of this episode, there are some we barely see at all, and not for the first time I think thirteen is too many cooks. And not enough Mary.
Right, ready for the winner and loser? Look away if not...
Congratulations to... Rob!
He nods a bit. Calm DOWN, Rob.
And commisserations to... well, of course it is the man who put salt in the cake. I've already forgotten his name. What I do remember is that Mary ruffles his hair. STOP BEING SO ADORABLE MARY, MY WEE HEART CAN'T TAKE IT.
I hope you've enjoyed the first recap of the series, I've enjoyed writing it - and I'm looking forward to getting to know these bakers better. It's far too soon to pick any winners, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark and say Frances, because she has lots of exciting ideas (which, looking at past series, will actually mean she comes second.)
Be bold - pick a name! Who do you think will be crowned victorious?
The Life of Ivy Compton-Burnett by Elizabeth Sprigge
Relatively Speaking
Stuck-in-a-Book's Weekend Miscellany: Shirley Jack...
Remarqueable
The Greats
A House in Flanders - Michael Jenkins
A trip to buy books...
The Flying Draper - Ronald Fraser
Beautiful Barbara Comyns


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Гамден () — селище () в США, в окрузі Вінтон штату Огайо. Населення — 879 осіб (2010).

Географія
Гамден розташований за координатами  (39.159668, -82.523910).  За даними Бюро перепису населення США в 2010 році селище мало площу 1,48 км², з яких 1,47 км² — суходіл та 0,00 км² — водойми.

Демографія

Згідно з переписом 2010 року, у селищі мешкало 879 осіб у 338 домогосподарствах у складі 230 родин. Густота населення становила 595 осіб/км².  Було 367 помешкань (249/км²).

Расовий склад населення:

До двох чи більше рас належало 0,0 %. Частка іспаномовних становила 0,7 % від усіх жителів.

За віковим діапазоном населення розподілялося таким чином: 26,4 % — особи молодші 18 років, 59,3 % — особи у віці 18—64 років, 14,3 % — особи у віці 65 років та старші. Медіана віку мешканця становила 35,5 року. На 100 осіб жіночої статі у селищі припадало 96,6 чоловіків;  на 100 жінок у віці від 18 років та старших — 99,1 чоловіків також старших 18 років.

Середній дохід на одне домашнє господарство  становив  долар США (медіана — ), а середній дохід на одну сім'ю —  доларів (медіана — ). Медіана доходів становила  доларів для чоловіків та  доларів для жінок. За межею бідності перебувало 29,4 % осіб, у тому числі 64,3 % дітей у віці до 18 років та 11,7 % осіб у віці 65 років та старших.

Цивільне працевлаштоване населення становило 269 осіб. Основні галузі зайнятості: виробництво — 30,1 %, освіта, охорона здоров'я та соціальна допомога — 13,4 %, мистецтво, розваги та відпочинок — 11,2 %, науковці, спеціалісти, менеджери — 9,3 %.

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Населені пункти округу Вінтон (Огайо)

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A couple weekends ago we decided we needed to get out of the city and explore some of the German countryside. I'd been seeing all sorts of fall activities trending all over social media that just aren't a thing in Sydney and got inspired to go apple picking. The ultimate fall activity (right behind pumpkin picking).
After researching various options and finding one where you can actually pick the apples off the tree as opposed to some which were just like farmers markets (check closely!) we decided to go to Neumann's Erntegarten just outside Potsdam. We woke up to a beautiful bluebird sunny day. I constantly feel like we have the best luck. Our apartment has a bike we have access to so we took it on the train with us to Potsdam which is only about a 30-40min ride away on the S7 train. Everybody clearly had the same idea because the train was packed out with bikes, we were glad we only had one we had to manoeuvre. When we got to Potsdam there was a bike rental place (Rent-a-bike) just 5min walk from the station. It was only 10 Euros to rent a bike for the day (until 7pm) and the guy was super nice and inflated the tyres on our other bike and gave us a map of a tour of Potsdam that he detailed to me. We didn't have time to do the tour but definitely want to return and check out the castles of Potsdam before winter sets in.
Riding through Potsdam was such a breeze. They have proper bike lanes with their own set of traffic lights unlike the ones in Sydney where they just paint a line on an existing narrow road and call it 'safe'. The hardest part was getting Daniel to pay attention to where he was going and stick on the bike lane because he'd get too distracted by all of the grand buildings! Once we left Potsdam the ride through the countryside was such a needed escape. Just riding in the sun alongside green fields and large trees lining the road swaying in the breeze.
We arrived at the orchard almost too soon we were enjoying the ride so much. However Neumann's did not disappoint, with a classic wooden beamed brick building that smelled like my families lake cabin in Minnesota it was surrounded by crates of apples you could choose and a whole stand of pumpkins. A Fall masterpiece. Inside they sold all sorts of various fresh and cured meats, homemade apple juice, wine, cheese, gherkins and more. After checking out all the yummies we grabbed our wooden bucket and headed out to the orchard.
We spent the afternoon getting lost in the rows of apple trees and trying all the different types. I'm pretty sure daniel ate more apples than we picked. Nothing quite compares to a fresh apple you just handpicked from the tree. I nearly lost it when I saw the ladder, it just doesn't get more cliched picturesque than that and the view across the tops of the trees was more than worth climbing the rickety ladder.
After apples we stumbled across rows and rows of ripe juicy raspberries. As we were stuffing our faces bag, this cute little old bee keeper approached, beckoning me to follow him. So Naturally I did, when a traditional German beekeeper invites you to follow you don't question it (though I know Daniel certainly was). He then gave us those big beekeeper hats and proceeded to open the bee-box hive thing. I was madly trying to roll my sleeves and pants down and he's waving his hand at me like its fine and saying "mein leibe" (my love) while stroking a bee on his hand. Yeh it was a little weird, but hey the man has passion. Then he led us into this little hut where he showed us how he scrapes the honeycomb and then spins it in this hand worked machine before giving us a test of the most legit honey I've ever had. Did I mention all of his descriptions were 100% in German? Yeh we had no idea what he was saying. Of course this was right before he handed us a jar and wanted 5 Euros, we got that part loud and clear. Yep, we got hussled by a honeyman who didn't even speak English. Best salesman ever. But hey we ended up with amazing honey. We then went back to raspberry picking and watched him hussle some other unsuspecting people into his bee lair.
After picking some of the most amazing strawberries I've ever tasted we left. We had about a dozen apples, a bag of raspberries and a bag of strawberries all for 3.20 Euros. Amazing.


we are using ldap_import & ldap_sync functionalities to import or update user information's in Service Desk Manager 14.1 CP4.
Often, there are new cost centers which are defined and I have to manually update the cost_center table to ensure that the new cost center value is set by each impacted user.
Is there a way to update automatically the cost_center table when a new cost center is discovered by ldap_import process?
Unfortunately that is not possible as we do not have any type of automated mechanism to import Cost Center records. The cost center records would have to be existing in SDM prior to importing the users that have those cost centers. You may be able to automate some type of process outside of SDM that pulls a list of those records from LDAP and then does a pdm_load into SDM to update existing or create the new ones. (you would need to test this first to ensure you dont end up with duplicates).


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Q: Integer roots with two variables
What are all integral values of a constant $a$ such that
  $$(a+1)x^2-(a^2+1)x+2a^3-6=0$$
  has two integral roots?

I've seen questions like this before, so my first instinct was to use Vieta's. Let $p$ and $q$ be roots,
$$p+q=\frac{a^2+1}{a+1}=a-1+\frac{2}{a+1}$$
$$pq=\frac{2a^3-6}{a+1}=2a^2-2a+2-\frac{8}{a+1}$$
Then you could try to create a diopantine equations with p and q, but I don't know how.
Thanks!

A: As you wrote
If $a=-1$ then the equation becomes
$$2x=-8 $$
the unique root is $x=-4$.
If $a\ne -1$, the sum of the roots is
$$S=a-1+\frac{2}{a+1}$$
thus $ a+1 $ should divide $2$.
so, $a+1\in \{1, -1, 2,-2\}$.
$\;$And this gives
$$a\in \{0,-2,1,-3\}.$$
the product will take the values
$$P=\frac{2a^3-6}{a+1}=-6,22,-2,30.$$
For example, when $ a=0,$
$$S=1 \;\text{ and }\; P=-6$$
the roots satisfy
$$x^2-x-6=0$$
thus
$$x_1=-3 \;  \text{ and } \; x_2=2$$
The answer to your question is necessarily
$$\boxed{a\in \{-3,-2,-1,0,1\}}$$
You should now check if these values are sufficient.

A: Then it discriminat must be a perfect square:
$$(a^2+1)^2-4(a+1)(2a^3-6)=d^2$$
so
$$ -7a^4 -8a^3+2a^2+24a+25 \geq 0$$
or $$ 25 \geq a^2(7a^2-2)+8a(a^2-3)$$
...

A: If $p$, $q$, $a$ are integers, then, by your first equation, $\frac{2}{a+1}$ is an integer.
The only way for this to be true is when $a+1$ divides 2, i.e.
$$
a+1 = -2, -1, 1, 2
$$
Now you only have four cases, just whack them all haha

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It's the second of three Friday 13ths this year. Last month, we looked at 'Microsoft's 10 Unlucky Breaks' Now it's Microsoft's 'Lucky' Friday the 13th. The company's rise through the 1980s and 1990s is really a series of lucky breaks combined with business savvy and execution on the vision of one PC on every desk. We've picked 10, which are presented in order of descending importance, with No. 1 being most significant and No. 10 the least.