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December 2, 2022, 7:50 AM ·2 min read
The death of a pilot who fell from a small airplane in flight in North Carolina in July has been ruled an accident, according to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
The autopsy states that the death of Charles Hew Crooks, 23, was likely the result of falling from the back of the plane while vomiting, The News & Observer reported.
"Based on the autopsy findings and circumstances surrounding the death, as currently understood, the cause of death is listed as multiple blunt force injuries. The manner of death is classified as accident," the report states. Crooks sustained extensive injuries, including several broken bones and fatal internal injuries.
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Two pilots had been flying skydivers out of Raeford West Airport on July 29 and were descending toward the airport for a third run when a hard landing occurred, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released in August. The other pilot assumed the flight controls and directed Crooks to declare an emergency and request a diversion to Raleigh-Durham International Airport for landing, the report stated.
The other pilot told investigators that Crooks became upset about 20 minutes into the diversion, opening his side cockpit window and "may have gotten sick," the report stated. Crooks then lowered the ramp in the back of the airplane, indicating that he felt like he was going to be sick and needed air.
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Early reports and 911 calls said Crooks "jumped" or "exited" the plane, but the autopsy found that the fall was accidental.
"Upon review, it was concluded that the decedent had gone aft, likely to vomit from the open ramp, and accidentally fallen from the aircraft," the autopsy report said.
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After moving to Colorado 3 years ago, hiking became my favorite form of exercise.
It has become a form of self-care and adventure rather than something I check off my list.
If your New Year's plan for exercise feels like a form of punishment, you simply won't do it long-term. I challenge you to take advantage of the beautiful state we live in and schedule regular workouts in the outdoors.
Being in nature has proven to boost the mood. One study that analyzed two groups of exercisers, one in an urban environment and the other away from the city, showed that the group in a natural environment experienced greater stress reduction and mood improvement.
Being outdoors and away from our screens boosts our creative thinking. If you're trying to get a breakthrough on a project at work or just get out of the mental funk you've been in, a little sweat in the outdoors is what the doctored ordered.
Rather than walking on the belt of a treadmill and adding "elevation", try using the stairs at your local high school, finding a hill at the park or hitting a trail with some incline.
4. Full body workouts at the park.
One of my favorite workout routines to do is just 1/2 mile from my front door.
Monkey bars, pullups, step ups and "box jumps" on the bench, toes 2 bar, pushups, balance moves….you name it.
No other exercise has proven to get your body faster results than regular sprints. I like to run between the lacrosse goals at our local park.
Gone are the days of running on the treadmill for 2 hours a day.
Have you ever noticed has strong sprints are? Yeah, do what they do.
No other exercise makes my core as sore as sprints…..!
6. Smelling fresh air and pine trees instead of stale sweat at the gym.
7. You aren't comparing yourself to everyone else.
When you are on the trails hiking or paddle boarding on a beautiful body of water, you aren't worried about how you or anybody else looks. Your focus is on the beauty around you and taking it all in.
8. More variety and adventure.
I'm all about throwing the barbell around in my garage gym, but when I can do pullups on pine trees, chop firewood for the campfire, snowshoe, climb trees, hike 14ers, plank on my paddle board, yoga at the park, monkey bar with my kids and sprint in the fresh air, you can guarantee I'm taking advantage of that as much as I can.
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The Spanish Department is lively, dynamic and committed to sharing with the boys our love and enthusiasm for all things Hispanic. The teaching staff includes eleven excellent linguists, two of whom are native speakers and all with a wealth of expertise. The ethos of the Department revolves very much around spoken confidence and fluency, but this is always underpinned by promoting a robust understanding of Spanish grammar.
We are lucky enough to have two full-time Spanish Assistants who work with pupils throughout the School. Sixth Form pupils attend in pairs for one timetabled lesson per week, discussing contemporary social issues and developing their conversational skills. First to Fifth Year Hamptonians see one of the assistants during one of their weekly timetabled Spanish lessons. Boys also benefit from our well-stocked resources centre, full of authentic materials, magazines, books and DVDs. They also have access to ClickView where they can find a whole host of documentaries and films relevant to the Hispanic world.
The Spanish Department currently runs four trips to Spain and encourages boys at every level to take part. Our trip programme allows pupils to visit four very distinct areas of Spain – from beautiful, rural Andalusia to the ancient Mediterranean port city of Valencia and the bustling and cosmopolitan capital, Madrid and the UNESCO declared World Heritage city of Córdoba. Furthermore, Hampton boys also have the opportunity to take part in a trip to Latin America which runs biennially to either Cuba or Mexico.
As well as offering trips abroad, we seek to make the most of all London has to offer by organising theatre trips to see Spanish or Latin American plays and by participating in an annual Spanish debating competition for independent schools across the region.
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Fighting Covid in the air
And so the long-dreaded moment arrived. No, it is not what you think it is, or at least that is what The Man from Madras Musings thinks you think. He alludes on the other hand to travelling by air during this year of pandemic. MMM had put off going anywhere outside Chennai for long but this journey had to be made. Mercifully it was a short flight, just over an hour, but while it lasted, it seemed a lifetime.
There was firstly the matter of the paperwork. In the old paper-free way of living to which we were all advised to adapt to, MMM had taken to saving his boarding pass on his phone and showing it at the security checkpoint on entering the airport. Now he was advised, he needed to take a printout of the same. He was also asked to take a printout of a letter stating that he was in perfectly good health, this being needed not for the outward journey but the return. MMM's destination city was not apparently as bothered as to who came in as Chennai was. This done, MMM was also advised by those who had already travelled by air that he would need to be at the airport at least a couple of hours in advance, 'just in case'. As to what that meant MMM had no clue but it did fill him with a nameless dread. These are times of all kinds of nameless dreads anyway.
Having arrived at the airport all nice and early, MMM found several people showing their boarding passes on their phones and managing to gain entry. MMM showed his paper, and was duly let in. In the process of waving this document MMM nearly dropped the self-declaration of good health document which if you recall was more important than the air ticket for the return journey. Having retrieved it MMM tucked it away safely, thereby temporarily calming down his other nameless dread – of being denied entry to Chennai on return.
The Chennai airport was freezing, the air-conditioning settings no doubt being fixed at levels meant for an overflowing and not near-empty airport. The place was more like a vast operation theatre with everyone going around in masks and PPEs. The last named also made it appear as though the airport had suddenly been taken over by a team of people being cast to act in a film on astronauts. The passengers were of course in a different class – most had masks below their chins, or just covering their mouths, hanging on one ear, or worse, dangling from the crook of the arm.
Just before boarding the aircraft, MMM was given a face shield on wearing which he became severely astigmatic. Just about everything in the near vicinity turned wavy and a bright shade of yellow. What with the mist forming on MMM's spectacles with the mask and the blurred vision caused by the face shield, MMM just about managed to feel his way to the aircraft. He completed the journey in a flurry of prayers and by keeping his eyes tightly shut. The flight was bumpy as it is, what with it being monsoon time, by which MMM refers to the three-and-a-half days of the year when it rains in Chennai. And so MMM muttered several prayers as well, apart from furtively checking that his document of self-declaration of good health was safe. Arriving at his destination, MMM first removed the face shield and having regained normal vision, also attained a degree of composure.
Throughout his stay MMM kept checking out the document of self-declaration of good health. And when it was time to return, waved it at the check in counter. The crew there were most puzzled and wanted to know what it was. They asked MMM if he was suffering from Covid and whether this was a request for travel in that condition. MMM hastily withdrew the proffered document only to be presented with the face shield. Now it was MMM's turn to demur. Rather diffidently he asked the man at the counter as to whether it was compulsory to wear the mask. Yes it was came the firm reply. MMM then said he had vision issues with it. To this the man patiently suggested to MMM that he peel off the layer of plastic that covered the shield before wearing it. MMM did, and presto was able to see well. The return to Chennai was a lot better than the journey out. But then, it is always nice to come back home.
Forecasting the weather
The Man from Madras Musings referred to the Chennai monsoon in his earlier passage. Given that this so-called season lasts around ten days, MMM must say that the city devotes an inordinate amount of time and attention to it. Time was when predicting the weather was like forecasting your future – you could get away with vague statements on the possibility of clouds, may be some lightning accompanied by thunder, some rain, occasionally heavy downpours and an overall suggestion that people needed to be careful. Nowadays, with better technology in place, these forecasts have got a lot better. And leading the pack are some wonderful so-called amateur weathermen who in MMM's view do a much better job in analysing trends than the official channels. Some of these weather bloggers have become celebrities as well, with following on social media running into several thousands, and deservedly so.
But as in any celebrityhood, there are problems, one among these being the fans who expect their idols to come up with answers to just about any query. MMM, apart from reading what these weathermen write, also derives much joy in scrolling down to see some of the comments and queries that people type in. "My sister's wedding is fixed on this date. Do you think it will rain then?" ran one. Another said that he was travelling between one town in the State to another by car on a particular date and wanted to know from the weatherman as to when it would rain, how many cm would it be and how long it would last.
Some were annoyed that the weatherman was predicting more rain. "Have we not had enough? After all the lakes and reservoirs are full. Why do you keep saying it will rain more?" they ranted. MMM could only sympathise with the forecaster. After all he was only writing about a natural phenomenon and was not in a position to control what was happening. But that did not seem to be a point that many could understand.
But what took the cake, and most sadly at that, was a social media attack on perhaps the best-known weather blogger of the State, chiefly on account of the religion that he professed. MMM is not sure as to how the faith of an amateur weather forecaster matters in anyway but it apparently did to a few fringe elements and they had a field time for a while before they went on to attack others. All of this did cloud what was a wonderful column on the weather in Tamil Nadu. But the sun has since then re-emerged and all is calm once more on the weather and the weather blogging fronts.
This is the Season of Greetings and may peace be upon earth. The Man from Madras Musings wishes everyone a happy 2021. And he would like to end 2020 with a benediction that he photographed on a church wall. Whoever it was who wrote that clearly was at the bottom in spelling.
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Pyrrhula is a small genus of passerine birds, commonly called bullfinches, belonging to the finch family (Fringillidae). The genus has a Palearctic distribution; almost all species occur in Asia, with two species exclusively in the Himalayas and one species, P. pyrrhula, also occurring in Europe. The Azores bullfinch (P. murina) is a critically endangered species (about 120 pairs remaining), occurring only in the east of the island of São Miguel in the Azores archipelago.

Analysis of the mtDNA cytochrome b sequence indicates that the Holarctic pine grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator) is the closest living relative of this genus. Arguably, it could be included in Pyrrhula, but more probably is a distinct offshoot of a common ancestor, with the pine grosbeak as the sister group to the ancestor of the bullfinches. The evolution of the bullfinch species started soon after the pine grosbeak's ancestors diverged from them (at the end of the Middle Miocene, about 12 mya), and it is quite possible that the latter species evolved in North America; what is fairly certain is that the bullfinch radiation started in the general area of the Himalayas. The mountain finches also seem to be part of this clade.

Bullfinches have glossy black wings and tail feathers. They show a white rump. The legs and feet are fleshy brown. Their short, swollen bill is adapted to eat buds, and is black except for the brown bullfinch, which has a grey or greenish-grey bill. The males can be distinguished by their orange or red breast. Some species have a black cap.

Taxonomy

The genus Pyrrhula was introduced in 1760 by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The name was derived by tautonymy from the binomial name of the Eurasian bullfinch Loxia pyrrhula introduced by Linnaeus in 1758.

The bullfinches in the genus Pyrrhula are sister to the pine grosbeak, the only species placed in the genus Pinicola.

Species

There are eight extant and one extinct recognized species in the genus:

 †Greater Azores bullfinch Pyrrhula crassa

References

Bird genera
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HARRISBURG- Nearly 717,000 passengers utilized public transportation on Rides Mass Transit District routes in the previous fiscal year which ended June 30.
"This is an uncertain time and an evolving time, especially in the transit industry," said RMTD CEO Adam Lach. "The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant dip in ridership levels over the past handful of months, which we expected, but we continue to have a great impact in our local communities. Our staff continues to help deliver meals to homebound seniors, take people to non-emergency medical appointments, gets people to work and helps people get to stores to buy groceries and other essential needs which helps keep dollars in the local community."
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Didn't Bertrand Russell try to reduce maths to logic and finally say it couldn't be done?
my friend is stubbern he does not belive me. another person told him he sounded dumb because he can not admit he is wrong. if i give him a sudoku he will try to do bad because he wants to be right. my friend is one of thoose people who disagrees just to disagree. could some one post an easy puzzle that requires nothing special and gives many clues.
I really, honestly cannot imagine why it is you are wasting you're time with this.
Leave him alone and let him believe that he's right.
lunababy_moonchild wrote: "..Leave him alone and let him believe that he's right..."
After again looking at this thread this seems a very good suggestion.
logic is a branch of mathematics, your friend is not wrong.
a square is a special type of rectangle. a rectangle is not always a square. the same is for logic and math. math can require logic, but not all logic needs to require math. so math and logic are not completely related.
so give me an example of some logic that is not covered by maths!
MCC wrote: This sentence is wrong.
Ab wanted an example of logic without using math, I spent about 3/4 hour composing a reply when my ISP terminated my link asking if I wanted to reconnect, of course, once I reconnected to this site I had to log in with the loss of everything I'd written, and I do not feel like writing everything again.
Maybe tomorrow if I feel like doing so.
ab wrote: logic is a branch of mathematics, your friend is not wrong.
is an incorrect statement, if we accept the common definitions of logic.
In common terms, logic, is a part of philosophy dedicated to the study of reasoning and inference. There is a part of mathematics called "Mathematical Logic", but that is only a subset of Logic.
Philosophers will quibble the exact meanings. To avoid any of this, consider the relationship of mathematics and logic. As a case in point, let us pretend that I am a primitive human from yesteryear, or possibly a pre-human, or even an animal, and let us presume that I know nothing about maths. However, from simple experience, I know that if I wait below certain trees, snakes are likely to descend and bite me, so therefore I must not hang around under those trees, and I will avoid doing so. In common terms, where is the mathematics in the fact that I have deduced that it is not a good idea to wait around under these trees? As there is none, I have to deduce that the original statement is incorrect. I am sure that everyone can think of countless better examples.
Your snake example sound like applied stats to me.
As for 'this sentence is wrong', this is a type of self referential statement that caused mathematicians some headaches. The sentence can be neither true or false. Goedel used this idea to show that any suitably complex algebra is incomplete, in that there are statements that can be expressed in that algebra that cannot be proved or disproved.
Hi Ab! If the snake example is "applied stats", then in your own world, I deduce that you have defined logic as being a part of mathematics. If that is the case, there is no point in further discussion as I will be unable to prove that you to be incorrect in your own world. However, I think that you may find that the definitions that you using are limiting your own thinking and reasoning.
To take this any further you need to define what you mean by logic. Do you disagree with my definition in my previous post?
btw You are not a mathematician by any chance?
2. a. A system of reasoning: Aristotle's logic. b. A mode of reasoning: By that logic, we should sell the company tomorrow. c. The formal, guiding principles of a discipline, school, or science.
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How much does it cost? This recipe cost less than £1 per person.
What are the benefits? This chicken and broccoli pasta recipe provides at least one of your five a day, as well as being a great source of protein and vitamins.
Oh great, it's another boring pasta recipe, big yawn – right?
This is anything but just another boring pasta recipe – this pasta is full of succulent chicken and fresh broccoli with a helping of salty, punchy pesto stirred through long ribbons of tagliatelle.
I'm actually not the biggest fan of broccoli myself, but I know it's really rich in vitamins, iron, fibre and all those lovely things that make a pretty good argument for eating your greens – even if you don't always want to!
Honestly, even before I made it I spent basically the entire day dreaming about this mound of pasta because I just KNEW it'd be delicious. I was right, of course (I always am – ask my boyfriend, he knows all too well!) but I still didn't expect it to be so mouth-watering and gorgeously comforting.
When calculating costs using chicken thighs, this recipe came to just under £1 per person, which is great. However, we use "fake chicken" in our house (i.e. Quorn) which can make this recipe significantly cheaper. More common pasta shapes, such as penne or spaghetti, also cost a little less.
Check out my other pasta recipes, like red lentil bolognese or three-ingredient pasta bake, for more carb-based inspo!
When you're frying the onion, toss in a little garlic (fresh or dried, your call). When the chicken is cooking through, season everything with a good dose of salt and pepper and then, just before serving, throw in some dried parsley (fresh if you've got it) for good measure.
1. In a large pan with a touch of cooking spray or oil, fry the onion for a minute or two. Then add the chicken and cook until the outsides are sealed and no more pink is showing.
2. Bring down the heat a little, add the mushrooms and 1/2 a small cup of water to the pan and then simmer gently for 10 – 15 minutes, until the chicken is thoroughly cooked through. Don't be afraid to cut a piece open and make sure to be on the safe side!
3. Meanwhile, bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, add a pinch of salt and the stock cube, throw in the pasta (not literally!) and cook according to packet instructions – usually around the 10 minute mark.
4. For the last 5 minutes or so of cooking, chuck your broccoli in with the chicken.
5. Once pretty much all the liquid has gone from the frying pan, stir through your pesto and herbs for a minute or two more.
6. Drain the pasta, combine everything together and serve!
As I mentioned before, this recipe can easily be made cheaper – and probably healthier! – by swapping out the chicken for meat-free substitutes or other vegetables.
This pasta isn't made with a "sauce", really, so a good way of stopping it from becoming too dry is to chop up some fresh tomatoes and stir them in with the pesto. The juice will lift it up and make the whole thing a little lighter.


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LED meets the cosmos - space station gets circadian boost
In space the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes, sending circadian rhythms and sleep patterns out of the window.
We know more and more about circadian rhythms here on Earth, where the sun rises and sets in manageable and predictable (we hope) twenty-four hour cycles. Space though is another matter altogether.
In space the sun rises and sets every 90 minutes, a dizzying speed that destroys settled circadian rhythms and pushes sleeping patterns out the window. Now scientists are trying to address this problem and LED is providing the answers.
Researchers at the Light Research Program at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have discovered that sleep time on the International Space Station falls from an Earth average of eight hours to six.
This may not sound like a lot, but when it continues week after week, it can lead to serious fatigue, increasing the chance of mistakes in a seriously hazardous environment.
In response to this, as our sister publication LEDs Magazine reported, scientists from Harvard University and NASA's Johnson Space Centre are sending LED-based circadian lighting to the International Space Station.
The team have created a system of tuneable LED lights that have three basic settings, general vision for most of the day, circadian phase shifting/acute alerting when required, and a pre-sleep setting to prompt sleepiness when it is time to rest.
There is no such thing as an average day on the ISS and work schedules chop and change to suit the mission. In such cases, when faced with an erratic work schedule, the astronauts can use the shifting/acute alerting setting to give them a boost.
Alternatively pre-sleep mode might be chosen, which is skewed towards a mix of warm colour temperatures that ease the mind into a relaxed zone, prompting sleep to come easily.
The LED will start arriving on the ISS this month, when the first set of lighting will be placed in the astronaut's sleeping quarters, where it will replace a fluorescent system.
If the lights work and increase the hours of sleep that the astronauts can get, then it will be the strongest evidence in favour of the importance of circadian rhythms to date.
You can find out more about circadian rhythms at this year's Lux Live. The exhibition will take place in London on Wednesday 23 November and Thursday 24 November 2016. You can find out more by clicking here.


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"""
HTTP handeler to serve specific endpoint request like
http://myserver:9004/endpoints/mymodel

For how generic endpoints requests is served look
at endpoints_handler.py
"""

import json
import logging
import shutil
from tabpy.tabpy_server.common.util import format_exception
from tabpy.tabpy_server.handlers import ManagementHandler
from tabpy.tabpy_server.handlers.base_handler import STAGING_THREAD
from tabpy.tabpy_server.management.state import get_query_object_path
from tabpy.tabpy_server.psws.callbacks import on_state_change
from tabpy.tabpy_server.handlers.util import AuthErrorStates
from tornado import gen

class EndpointHandler(ManagementHandler):
    def initialize(self, app):
        super(EndpointHandler, self).initialize(app)

    def get(self, endpoint_name):
        if self.should_fail_with_auth_error() != AuthErrorStates.NONE:
            self.fail_with_auth_error()
            return

        self.logger.log(logging.DEBUG, f"Processing GET for /endpoints/{endpoint_name}")

        self._add_CORS_header()
        if not endpoint_name:
            self.write(json.dumps(self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints()))
        else:
            if endpoint_name in self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints():
                self.write(json.dumps(self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints()[endpoint_name]))
            else:
                self.error_out(
                    404,
                    "Unknown endpoint",
                    info=f"Endpoint {endpoint_name} is not found",
                )

    @gen.coroutine
    def put(self, name):
        if self.should_fail_with_auth_error() != AuthErrorStates.NONE:
            self.fail_with_auth_error()
            return

        self.logger.log(logging.DEBUG, f"Processing PUT for /endpoints/{name}")

        try:
            if not self.request.body:
                self.error_out(400, "Input body cannot be empty")
                self.finish()
                return
            try:
                request_data = json.loads(self.request.body.decode("utf-8"))
            except BaseException as ex:
                self.error_out(
                    400, log_message="Failed to decode input body", info=str(ex)
                )
                self.finish()
                return

            # check if endpoint exists
            endpoints = self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints(name)
            if len(endpoints) == 0:
                self.error_out(404, f"endpoint {name} does not exist.")
                self.finish()
                return

            new_version = int(endpoints[name]["version"]) + 1
            self.logger.log(logging.INFO, f"Endpoint info: {request_data}")
            err_msg = yield self._add_or_update_endpoint(
                "update", name, new_version, request_data
            )
            if err_msg:
                self.error_out(400, err_msg)
                self.finish()
            else:
                self.write(self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints(name))
                self.finish()

        except Exception as e:
            err_msg = format_exception(e, "update_endpoint")
            self.error_out(500, err_msg)
            self.finish()

    @gen.coroutine
    def delete(self, name):
        if self.should_fail_with_auth_error() != AuthErrorStates.NONE:
            self.fail_with_auth_error()
            return

        self.logger.log(logging.DEBUG, f"Processing DELETE for /endpoints/{name}")

        try:
            endpoints = self.tabpy_state.get_endpoints(name)
            if len(endpoints) == 0:
                self.error_out(404, f"endpoint {name} does not exist.")
                self.finish()
                return

            # update state
            try:
                endpoint_info = self.tabpy_state.delete_endpoint(name)
            except Exception as e:
                self.error_out(400, f"Error when removing endpoint: {e.message}")
                self.finish()
                return

            # delete files
            if endpoint_info["type"] != "alias":
                delete_path = get_query_object_path(
                    self.settings["state_file_path"], name, None
                )
                try:
                    yield self._delete_po_future(delete_path)
                except Exception as e:
                    self.error_out(400, f"Error while deleting: {e}")
                    self.finish()
                    return

            self.set_status(204)
            self.finish()

        except Exception as e:
            err_msg = format_exception(e, "delete endpoint")
            self.error_out(500, err_msg)
            self.finish()

        on_state_change(
            self.settings, self.tabpy_state, self.python_service, self.logger
        )

    @gen.coroutine
    def _delete_po_future(self, delete_path):
        future = STAGING_THREAD.submit(shutil.rmtree, delete_path)
        ret = yield future
        raise gen.Return(ret)

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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Mitglieder waren folgende:

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It was an anxiety attack at a recent Christmas party that got Yasaman Gheidi thinking about the silent struggles people face when it comes to mental health.
Fearing that co-workers and friends would label or stigmatize her, the Vancouver beauty blogger and X-ray technologist finally admitted something to herself: She had spent many years trying to hide her depression and anxiety.
"I felt really alone. I was scared of sharing – I didn't want to be labelled as crazy," she said, adding she didn't want to hide her struggle any longer.
"I found that by staying quiet it was making it worse."
The 27-year-old uploaded a video to YouTube using makeup to paint half her face with what she was feeling on the inside. Then she shared it on Instagram with her 75,000 followers.
She dubbed it the "Inside Out Challenge," inspired by the movie, challenging others living with mental illness to share their stories in a safe and creative way -- using makeup to create an outward expression of what they feel on the inside, no matter how dark.
The reaction was overwhelmingly positive, with Gheidi receiving messages of hope and support from around the globe.
"It's amazing to know you're not alone. There's a lot of comfort in that unity," she said.
"I created this challenge to start a conversation so that I could start chipping away at mental health."
What started as a whisper two weeks ago has grown into a powerful movement. Since Jan. 9, more than 600 people have used the hashtag #InsideOutChallenge to share their experiences – many intensely personal – with mental illness, PTSD, depression, anxiety, ADHD, eating disorders, body dysmorphia, panic attacks and bipolar disorder.
The project has also been featured in Cosmopolitan magazine, and dozens of beauty blogs across North America.
Sometimes the images are disturbing and sad and aren't easy to look at – but that's the point, says Gheidi.
"Sometimes people don't take mental illness seriously enough because there aren't any obvious physical symptoms. But you don't know what that person is going through inside," she said.
Professional makeup artist Izzy Zirilli used the challenge to combat her fight with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
"ADHD hasn't ruined my life or made me sad, it made me realize that I'm the way I am for a reason," she wrote on Instagram. "My brain works differently than others and I am glad to be who I am, inside and out."
Having "inherited depression and anxiety disorders" from her mother, California makeup artist Britt Gorman accepted the challenge as a way to raise awareness through Instagram.
"I know there will always be road blocks, but I'm really happy by how much understanding there is on social media," she wrote.
"It doesn't have to be a dark mystery. The more the social stigma lifts, the better."
Follow #InsideOutChallenge on Instagram to see more posts.


Dedication ceremony of IEEE Milestone for "Map-Based Automotive Navigation System" was held in the hall on the second floor of Honda Aoyama Building, Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Japan on March 2nd, 2017. Ms. Karen Bartleson, IEEE President & CEO, presented a commemorative plaque to Takahiro Hachigo, President of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
The world's first map-based automotive navigation system, 'Honda Electro Gyrocator', was released in 1981. This system was based on inertial navigation technology using mileage and gyro sensors. It pioneered the display on board of the destination path of a moving vehicle on overlaying transparent road-map sheets, and contributed to the advancement of automotive navigation systems.
After the dedication ceremony and commemorative reception, IEEE milestone commemorative lectures hosted by IEEE Tokyo Section was held with about 80 participants. Three lectures of the following have been held.
Tatsuya Kyomitsu, General Manager of Honda R&D Co. Ltd.
Dedication ceremony of IEEE Milestone for "Invention of a Temperature-Insensitive Quartz Oscillation Plate" was held in the hall on the Ferrite Memorial Room of the Centennial Hall in the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan on March 6th, 2017. Ms. Karen Bartleson, IEEE President & CEO, presented a commemorative plaque to Yoshinao Mishima, Tokyo Institute of Technology President.
In April 1933, Issac Koga of the Tokyo Institute of Technology reported cutting angles that produced quartz crystal plates having a zero temperature coefficient of frequency. These angles, 54⁰ 45' and 137⁰ 59', he named the R1 and R2 cuts. Temperature-insensitive quartz crystal was used at first for radio transmitters and later for clocks, and has proven indispensable to all radio communication systems and much of information electronics.
After the dedication ceremony and commemorative reception, IEEE milestone commemorative lecture hosted by IEEE Tokyo Section was held with about 190 participants. Five lectures of the following have been held.


Centerlines updated so that temporary Thiessen layers are not added to the map automatically.
Centerline tool fixed. New densification code was not being included in the build.
Work around for bug with Stream Surface tool only clipping WSETIN to holes in the Water Extent polygon when an Edge of Water point falls within the hole.
Links to YouTube videos updated.
Densification of edge of water points solves problem with the centerline tool around straight sections of channel. This creates a new problem that is quite minor where the centerline sometimes bends at the end of the site.
DEMs are now being produced using orothogonality information. Raster extents are being rounded to the nearest metre and buffered by 10m. The cell resolution is still 0.1m.
Site name and input file names truncated when writing to SurveyInfo table.
Description codes longer than 5 characters are moved to the ErrorPoints Feature class and the tool does not crash (valid champ codes still have a 5 character max).
Ability to use flexible tp codes added.
Changes to projection parameter: spatial reference may be specified for projected data (UTM Zone 10N, UTM Zone 11N, UTM Zone 12N) or directly from the input dataset. Unprojected data will still have an 'unknown' Spatial reference.
User input value for Projection is stored in SurveyInfo table.
Standard deviation for elevation is calculated and stored in QaQcVector table.
WSEDEM and Water Depth Rasters follow orthogonality rules.
Script creates output survey.gdb and folders after Survey Data Checks are complete.
Field "Projection" added to SurveyInfo table.
Added option to launch online videos in High Definition mode. See Options form for details.
New user interface for the publish tool. Now includes lists of survey files, converted files, top TIN and WS TIN.
Renamed the edge of water and topo point feature classes in the validation window to include the Projected feature dataset.
Validation tool now checks for the clipped channel units.
Clipped channel units layer now included. Was omitted before.
Map Image generation was throwing an error if one or more of the required datasets were missing when producing the map. This is now fixed and the layer in question is omitted from the map.
Hyperlink for downloading the video tutorials updated to new clean URL.
Install pack refers to this new URL as well.
Check TIN tool window now closes when the tool is complete.
Channel unit message box added at the end of processing.
Changed the validation feature class name for channel units. It was using the clipped name.
Added message box at the end of the TIN creation tool. Tells the user that they can add the TIN to the map.
Minor changes to QaQcPolygons table.
Channel units tool was looking for the layer file in the wrong place. Fixed.
Exception screen tidied up and support email changed to champtools@northarrowresearch.com.
Browsing to the file geodatabase was not working on the stage slider "Save Polygon" form. This is now implemented.
Links to several video tutorials implemented.
Validation window resolution description changed to 'Run the Create Wetted and Bankfull Polygon' tool instead of 'Stage Slider' tool.
Channel unit tool now uses the symbology provided in KWs layer file.
Default survey extent threshold changed to 10 from 30.
Import Survey: Fixed problem whereby users were having to browse to points layer twice before the dropdowns were properly populated.
Stream Surface Tool: First input asks for Wetted polygon, but the open file dialog title says "Select Topo Survey Points" and the filter is set to polylines.
Fixed where the tool is looking for the map image XML file in release build deployment locations.
Validation: The clipped "ChannelUnits" feature class is now "Channel_Units", and appears missing in the validation.
Help and video buttons anchored to the bottom of the stage slider dockable window.
Fixed error in detrending when it tries to remove the existing raster from the map using RemoveLayer().
The smoothing filter size was not being passed correctly to the detrending.
Online help and video tutorial linked from the software.
Options form added for changing the way video tutorials are displayed.


Junior middleweight titlist Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, who are putting the finishing touches on a deal for a Dec. 3 rematch, will meet at New York's Madison Square Garden, Top Rank president Todd duBoef told ESPN.com on Wednesday.
DuBoef said he was in New York and finalized the agreement with Garden officials.
"Everything is being finalized for the fight and when it is, we'll be at Madison Square Garden," duBoef said of the famed arena, which is undergoing a significant renovation. "Madison Square Garden is one of the most important arenas in the country and I like doing events here. Miguel has a big fan base here and we want those fans to see him again."
When Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs) and Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) met in 2008, they waged their memorable welterweight title bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, where Margarito's Mexican fans were out in force. He came on strong in the fight's second half to stop Cotto in the 11th round of a bloody battle, a win later tainted when Margarito was caught trying to enter the ring in his next fight, against Shane Mosley, wearing loaded hand wraps.
Many believe he got away with wearing illegal gloves in the fight with Cotto.
When they meet in the rematch, which will be on pay-per-view and for Cotto's 154-pound belt, they'll do it in front of Cotto's passionate Puerto Rican fans.
Cotto has always drawn big crowds in New York -- for the six fights he has headlined at Madison Square Garden and when he headlined at Yankee Stadium last June, when he stopped Yuri Foreman in the ninth round to win his title.
"When you look at the electricity of previous Miguel Cotto fights that have been at the Garden and the magnitude of this event, the Garden was the perfect place to do it," duBoef said. "Both guys were open to it. It's great to be back at a big venue in a big city to keep boxing at the forefront.
The MGM Grand was the other venue Top Rank had been looking at for Cotto-Margarito II.
Cotto is coming off a 12th-round knockout of former titlist Ricardo Mayorga on March 12.
Margarito took a beating in November in a fight for a vacant junior middleweight belt against pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. Margarito has not fought since because he has been recovering from a broken orbital bone and cataract surgery in his right eye, injuries both suffered in the fight against Pacquiao.
Top Rank has not determined whether Showtime or HBO will handle the pay-per-view production and distribution of the fight.
Company chief Bob Arum has said the network he makes a deal with for Pacquiao's third fight with Juan Manuel Marquez on Nov. 12 will have the rights to both bouts. A decision on that is expected before the end of July.


The Vikings were here, pillaging and minting coins.
The Vikings expanded in all directions when nobody was looking.
The Vikings were fond of bright colors and the whisper of silk against their hairy skins.
The Vikings steered their longships with special oars shaped like butter churns.
The Vikings filed their teeth for maximum impact when they gnawed on their shields like crazed Norway rats.
The Vikings invented tribal tattoos, gang signs, campfire sing-alongs and theoretical physics.
The Vikings' chief deity had one eye and walked with a limp.
The Vikings were misunderstood loners who acted out violent fantasies of power.
The Vikings gave names to their swords and their shields, their boots and their favorite underwear.
The Vikings had female shamans whose magic staffs symbolically unwound the threads of fate.
The Vikings drank beer from wooden buckets and water—when they had to—from their pointy little helmets.
The Vikings dated yo' mama before she got fat.
The Vikings selflessly contributed their DNA to the British gene pool.
The Vikings taught us how to say bleak and anger, glitter, ransack and egg.
The Vikings didn't call themselves Vikings, but activist shareholders.
The Vikings were vertically integrated, and operated in all areas of the pillaging and slaving industry.
The Vikings exploited penalty charges on credit accounts held by most major northern European rulers.
The Vikings were directly involved in several major environmental and safety incidents, as well as numerous violations of human rights and good taste.
The Vikings were exceedingly fond of bling.
The Vikings employed poets to burnish their images and shape public expectations.
The Vikings disappeared in the 11th century at the height of their power, as the result of a leveraged buyout from Christendom Incorporated.
I wrote this today especially for an open-mike reading at the Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden. It seemed to go over pretty well. It occurred to me later that presenting a freshly minted poem to a roomful of strangers is pretty much what I do here every day (except that some of you aren't strangers, of course). It was an extremely well-moderated reading, with time limits strictly but humorously enforced and a great diversity of readers — an interesting counterpoint to a much more staid reading by professional, establishment poets I'd attended several days before.


Nearest railway station- Raipur ( 44km). And it connect all weather motor able road . from Abhanpur 19 km.
Here we use some fix departure in based of colorful ethinic group such as Ramnami, Dandami Maria, Muria, Gond, Baiga with colourful Rajim Kumbha festival in Chhattisgarrh, and also to keep in mind the distance and sighting of this tour we mentioned here some particular day and date in order.We can combine this Rajim Kumbha Mela fair in Chhattisgarh with Joranda sadhu festival in Orissa, for more detail please feel free to contact with us.
Day 1: (Sat)- 3rd Feb -2018 – Arrival at Raipur airport – transfer to hotel.
Visit the Maha rudra shiva at Tala gaon and visit also the ancient town Malhar, check in the nice hotel at Bilaspur.
Visit famous Ramnami tribe at their isolated village, (very few ramnami tribes are remain). Return back to Bilaspur for overnight stay.
Proceed towards Kanker, enroute visit the champaran, check in a nice palace at Kanker.
Day 5: (Wed)-7th Feb.-kanker- Udkuda- Pre-historic rock art site in core jungle area- Kanker.
Visit the pre-historic rock art site in the core jungle area of Udkuda and Gotitula , picknic lunch at royal farm house, return back to Kanker palace enjoy the mouthwatering royal dinner.
Meet the famous Muria tribes at their famous Bastar market and visit their isolated village and enjoy their Gotul dance at there. Check in a nice jungle resort at Jagdalpur.
Meet the Dandami Maria tribes at their village and enjoy the famous Bison Horn group dance at their village ambiance. Visit also famous Tirathgarh waterfall, and famous grand weekly market too.
Morning departure towards Kondagaon , meet the famous Dokra casting people at their village and iron casting village and excursion their live hand made work at their. Visit the famous Gond tribal village at Keshkal region, check in again the same heritage palace at Kanker.
Morning proceed towards Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary, check in a nice jungle resort and afternoon hiking to the near by ethnic village.
Morning and afternoon open jeep safari and meet different flora and fauna at that sanctuary.
Morning after breakfast departure for Siripur explore the excavated budhist and hindu monastery site, then explore the jain monument at Arang, then strate drive toward Rajim Kumbha Mela , and meet the naga sadhus. Return back to Raipur and check in a nice hotel.
Early departure for Rajim Kumbha Mela- fair too, and full day excursion the Fair with Naga sadhus, and enjoy the holy deep . afternoon return back to hotel and relax.
Meet the most colorful Baiga tribes at their isolated village of core jungle area. Enjoy their traditional dance ( subject to available of drum men) and also visit their famous Weekly market .
Overnight at the same jungle resort.
(Sat)-17th Feb.- Bharamdeo- Raipur (3.30hr drive) Departure to Raipur airport for your onward destination.


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Malawi's central bank held its benchmark bank rate steady at 25.0 percent, saying it would "be premature to loosen monetary policy at this early stage" despite signs of lower inflationary pressure and a stabilization of the kwacha currency.
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM), which raised rates by 1200 basis points in 2012 to combat inflation, said "the deceleration in month-on-month inflation provides a clear sign that inflation is being brought under control and that the prospects for lower annual inflation rates have strengthened."
Malawi's headline inflation rate eased to 36.4 percent in March, down from 37.9 percent the prior month. But on a monthly basis, inflation only rose by 0.2 percent in March in contrast to the 6.6 percent monthly rise in February.
The RBM also said there were signs of a stabilization of the kwacha based on a rise against the U.S. dollar from curtailed demand for foreign exchange as a result of tight monetary conditions and proceeds from tobacco auction sales.
"The strengthening of the kwacha against the US dollar will serve to dampen inflationary pressures, including fuel prices, provided that the stability is sustained over the next few months," the bank added.
Although liquidity conditions remain tight, the RBM said growth in bank credit remains strong, with lending to the private sector up by an annual 28 percent in March.
"This credit expansion needs to be contained in order to ensure that inflationary pressures are reined in," the central bank warned.
But the central bank welcomed lower Treasury bill yields and said it looked forward to a further decline as the government continues to rein in domestic borrowing.
The Malawi government is projecting economic growth of 5.7 percent this year while the International Monetary Fund forecasts 5.5 percent.
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Yesenia Rojas, vibrant in her purple shawl, sang with a voice so powerful it rose above the rest of the procession as they shuffled down the damp Anaheim sidewalk.
"Era mexicana. Era mexicana," they sang with a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe hoisted high, candlelight and street lamps illuminating their way. "Madrecita de los mexicanos."
The singsong serenade lauds the patroness, the mother of all Mexicans.
On this drizzly evening, Rojas led the group down Anna Drive, where she and her family have made their home.
In a city often defined by Disneyland and elegant sports venues, this street of working-class Latino immigrants has become an avatar of a lesser-known, voiceless Anaheim, one riddled with poverty and gangs.
When police shot and killed a 25-year-old alleged gang member who lived on Anna Drive, it stoked what had been a growing fire in the city. It was the latest in a spate of police shootings last year, which inflamed anger with law enforcement into a larger sense of resentment over ethnic and class fissures that divide Orange County's largest city.
Unrest — amplified by Occupy-connected protesters from outside the city — gripped Anaheim for days after the July shooting, followed by weeks of heated City Council meetings.
The wave of protesters demanding change has washed away, but Rojas has emerged in its wake. The 35-year-old mother of six, with short, wavy dark hair and a small frame that belies her force of will, has taken it upon herself to become the voice of Anna Drive.
Her family lives in a one-bedroom apartment just yards from where Manuel Diaz was shot that summer day. Rojas' 14-year-old daughter saw Diaz's body and has been traumatized since. Her mother can't let that go.
"I thought about leaving, and so did my husband, because of the children," she said. "But I said no. Because, first of all, we don't need to fear anyone, not even the police. The biggest thing right now is to stay on our feet and make things happen as a community. If we all leave, things won't change. They'll keep trampling us and humiliating us."
Rojas has a vision for her community that would seem bold if her wishes weren't so simple: She imagines playgrounds and community centers and political representation. But most of all, she sees respect for Anna Drive.
She balances two jobs, but she makes time for her community. She bends the ears of politicians. She organizes rallies encouraging her neighbors to register to vote and head to the polls. She plans events that she hopes will draw together a community that has grown accustomed to seeing itself as the backdrop of news cameras trying to highlight the city's ills.
And on this night, dozens gathered to pray a rosario in the tight courtyard outside her apartment, where the statue of the Virgin rested on an altar of roses and carnations.
As sirens echoed in the distance, the crowd stayed late into the night. They sang, they danced, they sipped cinnamon-spiced coffee.
And they prayed, petitioning the Virgin Mother for peace and for guidance.
"This is the community," Rojas said. "These are the people of Anna Drive."
Anna Drive, a collection of squat, modest apartment buildings, horseshoes off of a busy thoroughfare. On any given day, it pulses with life: children whipping down the sidewalk on scooters and skateboards, older boys tussling with one another and nanas and tatas watching it all unfold from chairs in their frontyards.
The street is clogged with cars and the vending truck that always seems to be parked along the same slice of curb, hawking snacks, produce and spices to the families who live on this stretch of tidy apartments and small, fenced-in lawns.
Rojas came to Anna Drive about a year ago, moving her family into the tight but comfortable apartment, its walls lined with family photographs. She was born in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, but she has lived much of her life in the flatlands of Anaheim. Her mother has lived in the same apartment, just a few blocks away, for decades.
A homegrown memorial to Diaz — candles, bandannas, a portrait of him in his Anaheim High varsity football days — still clings to the metal fence outside his family's apartment. It's one of the few tangible reminders of the summer's ugliness.
When Rojas and others spoke up in defense of their neighborhood after the shooting, critics derided them as apologists for gang members. She dismisses that, offended by such a charge. "I'm not defending a gang member," she said. "I'm defending my community."
Yes, gangs — the deeply rooted Eastside gang in particular — have long been a fact of life in the community. But she wants to fight for working families like hers. The men and women who put in long days at exhausting jobs, and their children. They deserve better.
"My kids are my motivation," she said, "watching them grow up in a place that's safe and a place that inspires them to get a good career."
Anaheim police said they have made a concerted effort to ingratiate themselves with the people of Anna Drive. Police say a high-profile raid in which SWAT teams swarmed the neighborhood in August has reduced violent crime, allowing for a renewed focus on more mundane issues: parking, code enforcement, quality of life.
Officers are encouraged to get out of their patrol cars, hit the pavement and meet residents.
Roberto Rodriguez has lived in the area for 16 years. He remembers a time when the community was "hot" with gang activity. "So many cholos everywhere," Rodriguez, 33, recalled.
An increased police presence, he said, has driven away some of the street's sketchier characters. Now the road is empty and quiet many nights.
Sgt. Bob Dunn, a department spokesman, conceded that it has been a slow-going process to build up trust with the community. "The toughest part," he said, "is breaking through that level of discomfort."
Some say they see a police presence not as a comfort but as a threat. But they're timid about speaking up.
Rojas doesn't share their reticence. She welcomes the spotlight. She's quick to point out the "Star Student" signs in windows and the children who have gone on to college. She wants to show off the hardworking families raising children and trying to improve their lives.
"I want people to come and look."
Rojas peeked over at the crowd that had once again amassed outside her apartment and sighed.
"Honestly," she confessed, "I'm really tired."
Investing so much of herself in the future has taken a toll. She has more to do, yet her other responsibilities have not ebbed.
She cleans an office building in La Palma and cares for an elderly woman. Her children demand much of her time. Her husband, a construction worker, has struggled to find more than two or three days of work each week.
Her days have become marathons. She rises before dawn for a day of tiring work, followed by events that sometimes go as late as midnight.
"There have always been a lot of responsibilities," Rojas said, "but now there's a more constant pressure."
The group had come to pray, sing and share a meal, just as they had every day for weeks. Rojas had organized 40 days of rosario events at various homes in the neighborhood in veneration of the Holy Mother close to the anniversary of the apparition in Mexico centuries ago.
"She's a healing force in her own way," said former Assemblyman Jose Solorio, who until recently represented the area and has known Rojas for several years. The two were introduced through her involvement in a janitors union, and she invited him to the event.
"She's a very charismatic woman with a lot of drive," Solorio said. "What also drives her is her commitment to family and her commitment to community."
The gathering, in many ways, was a joyous symbol of progress. "I can feel a change," Rojas said. "Everybody's more united."
Voter drives, rallies and political action may lead to change, but the resolve to endure may require divine intervention.
"I ask the Virgin for help," she said. "I ask her to help strengthen me, to help me keep moving ahead with my children and my family."
Rojas doesn't doubt the Virgin Mother's healing power: At one of the rosarios, she caught a glimpse of two sisters who had been embroiled in a long-standing feud.
But on this night, they sat hip to hip and spoke for the first time in months, their rift mended. It's her prayer that, with some guidance from above, she can do the same for her city.


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24 Lions: One Year Later
by Brad Fitzpatrick - Wednesday, November 13, 2019
August marks one year since the Ivan Carter Wildlife Conservation Alliance and the Cabela Family Foundation successfully released 24 wild lions into Mozambique's Coutada 11, the largest wild lion relocation for conservation in African history. That historic event required capturing two dozen free-ranging wild lions, quarantining them and then transporting them by jet and finally in pickup trucks into one of the last great strongholds of African big game on the continent.
But the story didn't end with the release of those lions. In the months that followed, those cats adapted to their new home and their new prey base, and the population of delta lions has now almost doubled. There were setbacks along the way, but the vision of the Cabela Family Foundation is being realized—and wildlife and local people are reaping the benefits.
Hunter-backed wildlife conservation efforts don't just curtail poaching and increase threatened wildlife populations. They feed local communities, offer jobs, fund health clinics, schools and boreholes for fresh water and lessen predator-human conflict.
A History of the Zambeze Delta
Mozambique's vicious civil war, which lasted from 1975 until 1992, decimated wildlife in the Zambeze Delta. Soldiers involved in the conflict shot animals for food and for profit, and the indiscriminate slaughter left the delta in ruins. The handful of local people who remained in the area throughout the conflict were driven to poaching and erected fences that served to funnel any remaining wildlife into traps and snares. The delta, which had once been the hunting grounds of legendary African pioneers like Harry Manners and Walter Johnson, was virtually devoid of wildlife by the end of the war.
In 1994 professional hunter Mark Haldane arrived in the delta in the hopes that proper game management and funds generated by legal, regulated sport hunting could return the area to its earlier prominence, but initial aerial surveys were disheartening. The delta's buffalo population dwindled from an estimated 50,000 animals before the war to roughly 1,200, only 44 sable were located in an area spanning over a million acres, and Selous zebra were all but extirpated—only five were found.
But Haldane was undaunted, and his efforts to restore the delta are a demonstration of how properly managed hunting can help rebuild habitat and restore populations. He started an anti-poaching campaign and began hiring local people to work at his new safari company, paying them with meat from those first hunts and reducing their need to poach. Over time the game returned, and 25 years after Haldane returned, the delta is once again flourishing. At last estimate there were 25,000 buffalo, over 3,000 sable and 2,500 zebra as well as numerous other species including leopard, nyala, reedbuck and elephant.
The 24 lions were sedated and masked for safety's sake during their transport.
Return of the Lions
In June 2018 I stood on the grass runway near Haldane's Mungari Camp and awaited the first planeload of lions. When the Pilates jet touched down, a crowd of onlookers that included government officials, veterinarians, reporters and local people surrounded the plane and watched as the cats were offloaded into waiting pickup trucks. The sedated and masked lions were then transported in the backs of pickup trucks to the enclosures where they would adjust to the delta climate before being released two months later.
"I used to drive these dirt roads for hours and never saw anything," said Kwassie Myburgh, a lifelong area resident. "Maybe a reedbuck now and then. And now look at this," he added, pointing to a mixed herd of sable and hartebeest standing in the open plains. "It's just incredible."
Kwassie and I were in one of the three trucks that were carrying lions, and in the rearview mirror I watched the two masked cats in the bed of Kwassie's pickup sleeping soundly.
Two more planeloads of lions were brought into the delta over the next week. The cats, which numbered 24 in total, had been sourced from game parks across South Africa to provide enough genetic diversity for a seed population.
Some of the cats were taken to nearby Coutada 10 to populate that portion of the delta. In August of 2018 the lions were released, the first of their species to roam the area in four decades.
The author pauses to commemorate the translocation of lions with administrators of the Sena tribe.
Since Then
Despite extremist rhetoric from anti-hunters, it's ultimately the local people who decide the fate of any African species. The residents of the Zambeze Delta, roughly 2,000 people, were all informed of the lion release and, despite the potential risk, everyone was in support of the relocation. That's due in part to the benefits that the local Sena people have experienced since hunting has returned to the delta. Mark Haldane employs 90 local people full-time in his camp and on the Zambeze Delta Anti-Poaching Unit (ZDAPU), a quick-reaction force that uses motorcycles and helicopters to stamp out poaching. Additionally, the meat from the safari camp is donated to local people; in 2017 Haldane and his team provided 70,000 pounds of free meat to families in the delta—roughly the equivalent of 10 pounds per household per week.
In 2017 Haldane and his team provided 70,000 pounds of free meat to families in the delta—roughly the equivalent of 10 pounds per household per week.
Since the lions were released the Cabela Family Foundation has completed funding the construction of a health clinic in the delta, too. Prior to that, villagers had to travel almost 20 miles on foot or by bicycle for medical treatment that many of them couldn't even afford. Haldane and the Cabela Family Foundation also provided boreholes for clean water and built and funded a local school.
The relocation has largely been a success for the lions, too. Lions favor ecotones, the areas where two types of habitat meet. Because of the abundance of ecotones in the delta (comprised of grasslands meeting forests and swamps) the area is prime lion habitat. Game is abundant so the cats have had no trouble finding food, and since the lions were fitted with satellite collars, Dr. Byron Du Preez, the wildlife zoologist who is studying the delta's cats, could track their movements. In the first few weeks after their release, most of the cats stayed on the border between the sand forest and the delta floodplain, feeding almost exclusively on reedbuck and warthog. The satellite collars also allowed Du Preez to establish a geofence, which alerts him if any of the lions approach a village—another safeguard for the local people and a key element to reducing human-lion conflicts. There have been no lion attacks on villagers since the cats were released.
Poaching, with the exception of one incident early in the program, has all but been eliminated. The real-world fear of increased human-predator conflict has also not materialized thanks to the use of geofencing.
An Early Setback
In September of 2018 the collar of one of the male lions brought to the delta began sending out a mortality signal that indicated the cat wasn't moving. Haldane and his team rushed via helicopter to the collar's location on the border of the delta near a railroad line. They found the male snared and nearly dead, and despite their best efforts the cat had to be euthanized.
The poacher who snared the lion was subsequently captured and sent to prison. When the offender realized he'd captured a lion and set out to procure a buyer (lion bones, which are oftentimes sold as tiger bones in Asia and are used in traditional medicine, fetch a high price). The poacher had decided to wait for the lion to die in the snare, a gruesome and lingering end, so that he wouldn't be injured by the cat. The man was waiting for the lion to expire when he was captured.
A lion awakes from sedation prior to its fellows.
As disheartening as the loss of the male was for everyone following the 24 Lions story, positive news followed just days later. One of the female lions was in heat, and she was being accompanied by a male lion that wasn't one of the relocated lions. No one knows where the lone Mozambican male came from; perhaps he was part of a scattered remnant population that had eluded detection or, just as likely, he is a transient that traveled from Gorongoza Park 80 miles to the north and found his way across roads and through villages to reach the delta.
That Mozambican male would father numerous cubs over the next year, and the delta lion population may have doubled.
"We currently have 22 adult lions including the Mozambican male and 20 cubs that we have had eyes on," says Haldane. "In addition to this we have two lionesses with cubs that we haven't seen yet, so I'm guessing typically they have two to three cubs each, which would put us to around 46 to 48."
There hasn't been a lion killed in the delta in over a year, and almost every female has been bred. That is significant because lion cub mortality rates are high.
There hasn't been a lion killed in the delta in over a year, and almost every female has been bred. That is significant because lion cub mortality rates are high. Wildlife biologists believe that the delta cats could represent as much as 10 percent of the wild lion population in Africa by 2050.
The Delta's Other Big Cat
Du Preez has studied interaction between apex predators in other parts of Africa including Zimbabwe's Bubye Valley Conservancy and was particularly interested to see how the introduction of the delta lions would effect leopard populations.
Nature doesn't operate in a vacuum, so it was important that biologists considered predation issues, especially in relation to leopards. This one was caught, sedated and fitted with a radio collar for future study.
Capturing wild leopards is extremely difficult. To help with the project, Haldane and his team contacted Coenraad Scheepers, one of Africa's greatest houndsmen. Scheepers manages a pack of roughly 150 leopard dogs, mostly blueticks and foxhounds, and his dogs are among the most well-trained hunting dogs I've seen work. Because of the presence of tsetse flies, which carry sleeping sickness, domestic animals cannot survive in the delta (which is also why there are no cattle, goats or sheep there) so Scheepers has to run his dogs at night, trailing leopards by moonlight through the sand forests. It's difficult and extremely dangerous work. In addition to the risk posed by big game, Mozambique is also home to over 20 species of venomous snakes. But despite the risks, Sheepers and his dogs have managed to locate and tree two cats that were collared for later study. The leopards that are treed are sedated and caught with a net as they fall. Studying their movements will help Du Preez better understand how these apex predators move and the impact that lions have on leopard numbers.
None of This Would Happen Without Hunters
The Zambeze Delta's wildlife has returned from the edge of extermination thanks to hunter dollars and the tireless efforts of Mark Haldane. His relationship with the local people has provided the foundation for these projects. Haldane's safari camp is the only employer in the delta, and additional hunter-generated funds through organizations like the Cabela Family Foundation have provided much-needed resources to the local communities. In addition to the meat drops, Haldane, Carter and others are working on projects within the community to help establish beehives for the local people, another source of income that also will help local pollinators.
Anti-hunters would have you believe that closing hunting will protect African wildlife. The Zambeze Delta is proof otherwise.Anti-hunters would have you believe that closing hunting will protect African wildlife. The Zambeze Delta is proof otherwise. Every stakeholder in the delta, from Haldane and his staff to local children, are benefitting. As long as there are hunters the delta will be protected, and as long as that happens game—and people—will flourish there.
Brad Fitzpatrick is a full-time freelance writer living in Ohio. His works have appeared in several NRA publications and he has hunted on four continents. Fitzpatrick competed on his university's trap and skeet team and has served as an instructor for 4-H Shooting Sports. He's also passionate about conservation, particularly hunter-funded projects both in the United States and abroad.
Follow NRA Hunters' Leadership Forum on Twitter @HuntersLead.
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I have had one hell of a week and I don't think I have been this happy to see a week come to an end since grad school finals. And I'm ending it with working in the emergency room on Friday the 13th after having a full moon this week. Now, I'm not saying I believe in these things, but I do believe something happens in hospitals-we call it the full moon effect. Chicken or the egg-whether people are responding to an actual moon shift or the sheer theory of it, something happens to people on such days.
A young child came to the ER on Monday night and had died on the way here. The little guy had been born with a terminal illness yet they weren't expecting it so soon. One of the security guards said to me, "God knew what was right. He knew the right time for him". Finally having an opportunity to respond in the moment and hopefully shield someone from this talk I said, "That may be comforting for us but it might not be for the family right now". I'm all for this belief if it comforts someone, even if it doesn't comfort me. If the family says something to that effect, I will affirm it to the nth degree, happy that something could be of help to them at such a time but otherwise, mum's the word.
Ministers run into difficulty when our spirituality and beliefs don't match others in our community. And quite frankly, it can be kind of lonely at times. Just today I spoke with my colleagues about a question we often revisit-should we just agree with someone or can we 'break the bubble' on this or that particular topic (and at this time)? How do we encourage spiritual growth without undermining what is meaningful to someone?
Even though I know I have education that makes me a little more objective about such things, we're talking about a very subjective topic-beliefs. I feel more confident about what I know in regards to psychology or communication; those areas are not as relative as religion.
Truth can be relative from person to person-what one person believes to be truth another may just see as different, not better or worse, or more right or wrong, just different. (I know many believe in inherent truth and caution against relativity, but rest assured, I'm not talking about that).
My indecision, my "P" (Myers Briggs), my open mind sure keeps me humble but I crave a little grounding sometimes. Yet we wonder in this day and age what would give someone that grounding? Would it be knowing the truth from the beginning and let our understanding of that evolve rather than the story evolving? People hate feeling duped or tricked. But we also have the wise guidelines from educators about how to present information in an age/stage appropriate way.
The classic example for this issue is about Santa Clause vs. St. Nicholas. How will kids trust us if we lie to them; how can they recover from that blow when they find out? And on the other hand people ask, don't we want to encourage their imagination? (to that last question, I can confidently say children's ability to imagine is pretty intact regardless). Does it depend on each individual person? If so, how do you know when a child is at such a young age what path to take? It reminds me of the immense struggle of parish work-moving a vast and diverse community in their spiritual development, all at the same time, for so many different people. Makes me glad I work one on one. Even after a week like I had, I'm still glad I do what I do.
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Lauren Ivory is a hospital chaplain working on Chicago's diverse north side. After receiving her Master of Divinity degree at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, MO she went on for further hospital ministry training at the Cleveland Clinic of Ohio. On the side, she enjoys helping couples plan wedding/commitment ceremonies and works with couples as a certified premarital guidance counselor.


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Ian Acheson
No, jail staff shouldn't call prisoners 'residents'
10 March 2021, 6:30am
What do you call someone in prison? An inmate? Prisoner? How about a 'resident'? That's how those locked up in Britain's jails are now described by the Ministry of Justice and the Prison Service. Apart from the cringing absurdity of labelling people whom the state has detained as if they had voluntarily checked into the care home from hell, what does this tell us about the culture of the Prison Service? And why does it matter?
The Ministry of Justice has form for assaults on the English language. Recent guidance on offenders, still under a prison sentence but being supervised in the community, has cancelled this apparently dangerously oppressive label replacing it with 'supervised individuals'. I suspect that members of the public might prefer probation officers to focus more on reversing our eye watering reconviction statistics: over 60 per cent of those sentenced to 12 months and under in custody go on to offend again.
Weeks after Khairi Saadallah left prison custody – where he mixed freely with an extremist Islamist preacher and then subsequently murdered three innocent people in a Reading park – the MoJ described its measures to counter extremism as 'world leading'. Saadallah was, at the time of his rampage, apparently a 'supervised individual'.
An operational prison manager acquaintance reminds me of the time they were told off by senior managers for referring to 'prisoners' not 'men' on the jail landings. This manager was locking up transwomen at the time, which adds a certain piquancy to the Prison Service's transgender policies that had allowed male bodied transexuals into female only prisons. One such prisoner, Karen White – described by a judge as a danger to women and children – went on to sexually assault two women while on remand.
My critics will say that language matters and that we should stop using labels that unfairly stigmatise people. This, they say, will help rehabilitate, er, incarcerated persons. In reality it does nothing of the sort. And the use of 'soft' labels simply helps obscure the reality of what is happening behind bars.
'Residents' are locked in overcrowded, unsanitary Covid cookers with currently no access to basic services and very little time outdoors. Prior to the pandemic and the draconian measures imposed to lock down prisons, almost every metric of decency and order was in freefall. When I investigated what was needed to restore hope and purpose to this dystopian mess for the Centre for Policy Studies, I didn't come across any prisoners who complained about not being called 'Men' or 'Residents' or their foetid cells, 'Rooms.' This response typified their concerns:
'The number one problem in this prison is authority. Staff need it.'
The former chief inspector of prisons, Peter Clarke, was a trenchant critic of mandarin sophistry in lieu of action to improve the lives and life chances of offenders. I have yet to come across a single example of prisoners who complained to him about the lexicon of bang up. Yet he repeatedly signalled the failure of prison staff and managers to set appropriate boundaries for behaviour of those they are supposed to provide an example to. Fixing that takes much more than pious labels.
The problem with this fetish for progressive language within officialdom isn't simply that it alienates the public who are baffled and irritated by it. No, the primary charge is that it's usually the cheapest way of signalling intent without the inconvenience of meaningful action. Much like taking the knee, it is a performative signal which costs nothing and changes nothing.
The Prison Service excels in producing acres of gibberish about a 'rehabilitative culture' in places where you would hesitate to house livestock, disfigured by violence, rampant drug abuse, mental illness and squalor. In fairness, much of this inheritance has been driven by criminally stupid austerity cuts to frontline staff. It's also the case that some well-led prisons buck this trend, despite, rather than because of, bureaucratic interference.
But culture matters. The Prison Service by any reasonable measurement has drifted far away from its role as a law enforcement agency with a public protection focus. Some senior managers within it probably wouldn't even agree to that description of its purpose. The irony is striking to those of us who've worked the landings in prisons. Disciples of 'reclamation theology' who dominate this public service are not known for high levels of personal reflection and humility.
Ordered, safe, purposeful prisons, where staff are clearly and confidently in control are the best way we can assist offenders to change their lives and stop hurting other people. This should be the only dish on the menu for the new prisons minister. The word salad is going off.
I didn't come across any prisoners who complained about not being called 'Men' or 'Residents'
Written byIan Acheson
Ian Acheson is a former prison governor
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