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Agoi, or Ibami, is an Upper Cross River language of Nigeria.

IPA Vowels:

Short Vowels: ten short oral vowels /i ɪ e ɛ ə a ɔ o ʊ u/

Long Vowels: seven long vowels /iː eː ɛː aː ɔː oː uː/

Reference: Yul-Ifode, Shirley. 2003. Vowel harmony and vowel merger in Agoi. Studies in African linguistics 32. 1-16.

References

Languages of Nigeria
Upper Cross River languages

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Google Seals TV Ads Deal with NBC
Google is expanding its advertising clout and moves further to TV advertising as it reached a deal with NBC Universal. Said agreement will provide a small amount of advertising time on NBC Network Cable programs including MSNBC, CNBC, Sci Fi and Oxygen for Google to serve its TV Ads program. The said deal would also be extended to other NBC Universal properties later on. In addition, Google and NBC have also agreed to make the Google TV Ads platform tailored-fit for the local markets covered by NBC Cable.
Certainly this deal would expand Google's TV Ads inventory which have never really grown since it started offering TV ads to clients not so long ago. Prior to this deal Google serves ads on Dish Network and a small cable provider based somewhere in Northern Carolina.
But of course, Google's venture into TV advertising which is strengthened by this deal is not without strong competition. The TV advertising campaign is going up against top cable providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cox which are formulating their own TV ad platform known as the Canoe Ventures.
Now, whether Google can go up against Canoe Ventures depends on how well it can target its TV ads to the appropriate geographic audience.
"The only way that Google is going to take any share on TV is if they can take advantage of data to provide targeted advertising that is not available today," said Ross Sandler, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, in a statement with the NYT.
And to do this Google would certainly need whatever data that it can get from Dish Cable Network and use this for their ad targeting campaigns. But the problem is, Dish only has 12% of the household market in the U.S.
Certainly, it's going to be a tough road ahead for Google to realize the full potential of its TV Ads Platform. And this deal with NBC is certainly a one step forward towards the end of the road.
7 Major Stressors For Digital Marketers & How To Deal
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Rosie is Group Finance Director at the University of Warwick where she provides financial leadership of the University.
Rosie Drinkwater is the University's Group Finance Director. She leads the Finance and Estates Group at Warwick, with a particular focus on strategy and strategic projects. She is responsible for overseeing all financial and land and property arrangements including student accommodation , reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor and President. She is supported by her senior leadership teams in estates and finance to whom routine management and operational matters are delegated. Rosie is a member of the Executive Board and is responsible, alongside the Board, for the renewal and implementation of the University Strategy. She is a director of all of the University's subsidiary companies.
Rosie first came to Warwick in October 1993. She was appointed as Senior Assistant Finance Officer with specific responsibility for the University's Earned Income Group. Before that she worked at senior manager level at the accountancy firms Grant Thornton and Price Waterhouse, specialising in advising family-owned businesses, SMEs and professional partnerships.
Rosie is a graduate of St Mary's College, Durham (Mathematics and Economics) and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAEW) and a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation. She currently serves on the Audit and Risk Committee of Coventry City of Culture Trust and is a Trustee of the WMG academy for young engineers where she chairs the Finance committee.


The bid tone remains well and sound around the Sterling.
Cable extends the up move beyond 1.30 the figure.
Brexit rumours behind the fresh test of 1.30 and beyond.
The upbeat tone around the British Pound remains well and sound so far this week and is now pushing GBP/USD to new yearly peaks beyond 1.3000 the figure.
Today's up move in Cable follows recent rumours that the Labour Party could support a proposal to delay Brexit until, at least, the end of the year. This 'new' scenario has been considered as positive by investors, as it should 'buy' further time to clinch a deal.
This news adds to the ongoing upside momentum in spot, which is advancing for the third consecutive session so far in spite of the broad-based sideline mood prevailing in the global markets.
Still around Brexit, the Parliament is due to vote PM May's 'Plan B' and its potential amendments on January 29. In the meantime, the absence of a 'no deal' scenario appears to be gathering traction among investors although this view is opposed to those GBP-traders, which remain of the idea that a soft outcome is not only possible, but also feasible.
As of writing, the pair is up 0.30% at 1.2995 facing the next resistance at 1.3004 (2019 high Jan.23) seconded by 1.3072 (high Nov.14 2018) and then 1.3081 (200-day SMA). On the other hand, a breach of 1.2888 (10-day SMA) would open the door to 1.2830 (low Jan.21) and finally 1.2787 (21-day SMA).


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Follow Simon & Jude's 2500 mile cycle!
July 30, 2020 fundraisingMolly Lyness
Huge thanks to Simon and Jude Hill who are cycling 2500 miles to raise awareness of postpartum psychosis and funding for APP!
Simon and Jude said: "When our third daughter, Emily, suffered from postpartum psychosis after the birth of her daughter in 2018, we were so grateful for the support she received whilst in Leeds MBU. That support has continued to help her towards making a full recovery. Emily is an experienced mid-wife and after her maternity leave was able to return to work at a local birth centre.
Jude and I had been planning a long bike ride in the USA to raise funds for APP but that was shelved with the onset of the pandemic. We realised that whilst we have all been enduring the difficulties of lockdown, a small number of mothers, their partners and families have had to cope with the additional challenges brought on by PP. Raising money to facilitate the work of APP must not be delayed, to support future mothers who experience postpartum psychosis.
Starting on 21st August, 2020, we will be doing a UK based challenge by riding from Lands End to John O'Groats (LEJOG), and back. Following mainly National Cycle Routes (SUSTRANS) to cover the 2500 miles, we will be camping whenever possible. Our hope is to be back at our home in Somerset by early October."
Join Simon and Jude by donating on their JustGiving page here, "Pedalling for PP awareness"
You can also click here to follow Simon and Jude on Instagram, "Pedalling for PP awareness", or to keep up to date with their fantastic LEJOG journey, check out their itinerary plans here and their Strava journeys here!
Thank you Simon and Jude for your incredible efforts and support of APP! We wish you the best of luck.
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Q: Pass Angular Model to SailsJs I trying to pass a form via $http.post from AngularJS to Sailsjs
My Sails Controller
  create: function(req, res) {
    console.log("req: "+req.param('user.firstName'));

    res.send(req.param('user.firstName'));

   },

My Angular Controller
    function RegisterController($scope, $http) {

        $scope.submit = function(){
            console.log($scope.user.firstName); // works fine so far
            $http.post('/user/create', $scope.user)
                .success(function(data, status, headers, config) {
                  console.log("success");
                })
                .error(function(data, status, headers, config) {
                  console.log("error");
                });

        }

    }

If I call my sails function like so /user/create?user.firstName=myFirstName its works fine. But if I try to read my passed data if I pass from angular. I don't know. I can't read the parm...
Someone any idea or a small example?
Cheers awesome community =)

A: You're posting the $scope.user object to your route, so it won't be namespaced under user.  If the $scope.user contains, for example:
{firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe"}

then they would be available in your controller action as req.param('firstName') and req.param('lastName').
If you were to post the entire $scope object to /user/create (don't do this!), then you would be able to access req.param('user').firstName, req.param('user').lastName, etc.  You still wouldn't be able to access things like req.param('user.firstName'), though; those are Angular expressions but they don't work server-side.

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Welp, Us is pretty freaky. Jordan Peele's follow-up to the superb Get Out largely lives up to the hype, and thankfully most people won't refer to this one as a "social thriller." About a family who are hunted by their deranged doppelgangers, Us is an entertaining, creepy, and oft riveting horror-thriller that doesn't always work as well as it should—but undoubtedly will be regarded as a classic in the years to come.
Lupita Nyong'o flexes her acting muscles in this one, playing both a caring but psychologically scarred mother and a twisted, throat-talking monster. Nyong'o is absolute aces as she carries the film from start to finish.
But Peele is the master craftsman here, once again integrating a sharp, cutting script with crisp, purposeful camerawork, and fantastic use of music and ambient noise. Us is no Get Out, nor should the two be compared (but they will be anyway for obvious reasons), but it's proof that Jordan Peele isn't a one-hit wonder.
The story alone is engrossing from the first scene, largely unpredictable aside from one "twist" that isn't quite as effective as Peele probably thought at the time. The doppelgangers are horrifying villains, ruthless and uncompromising as they come, and Peele uses them to great effect throughout the film. The story unfolds in imaginative ways, taking a few satisfying turns you won't expect. And scene by scene, Peele ratchets up the tension, driving you to the edge of your seat in anticipation.
Some aspects of the film don't entirely work. While Peele maintains a moderate level of humor throughout—even though Us feels much more like a "serious" horror movie than Get Out ever was—Winston Duke's character is often obnoxious, the kind of idiot who has no right surviving past the first scene in a horror movie. Duke plays his character well, but at times seems to be operating in a different film entirely.
More importantly, the climax is the weakest part of the film—not that Peele's vision isn't legitimately grand, but that he leaves more questions than answers, or that it simply feels half-assed. That's not fair to say as nothing about the film is taken lightly, but Peele throws so much at you in the film's final minutes, very little of it making full sense, that it became harder to remain invested in the outcome. To avoid spoilers I won't go into detail, but the source of the doppelgangers is more confounding than breathtaking, Peele's hints at something bigger only alluded to in unsatisfying ways.
As unpredictable as Us is, the film's final twist doesn't entirely work either, both because it's rather obvious from early on and doesn't really affect the two preceding hours.
Us isn't perfect, but it's an exciting, intense, entertaining, and most of all unique horror movie that deserves multiple viewings and even more accolades.


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Francis Macdonald
francism@geol.ucsb.edu
Ph.D. Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 2009
B.S. California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, 2001
Francis Macdonald's research focuses on the interactions of tectonics, climate, and biological evolution through Earth history. This work begins with geological mapping, and uses stratigraphic analysis, isotope geochemistry, geochronology, paleomagnetism, and paleontology to reconstruct paleoenvironments and tectonic histories. Recent projects have focused on the initiation and duration of Snowball Earth events, the chemical evolution of the ocean leading up to the Cambrian explosion, and the Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic tectonic evolution of North America and Asia. Macdonald was awarded the Geological Society of America Young Scientist Award (Donath Medal) in 2014 and the Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising in 2012. He holds a Ph.D. in Geology from Harvard University and a B.S. in Geology from Caltech.
[Note: *author is or was a student or postdoc working with Macdonald]
96. Pruss, S.B., Bla?ttler, C., Macdonald, F.A., and Higgins, J.A., accepted. Calcium isotope evidence that the earliest animal biomineralizers formed aragonite shells, Geology.
95. *Eyster, A.E., Weiss, B.P., Karlstrom, K., Kremers, J., and Macdonald, F.A., accepted. Paleomagnetism of the Chuar Group and evaluation of the 780-720 Ma apparent polar wander path of Laurentia with implications for the makeup and breakup of Rodinia, Geological Society of America Bulletin.
94. Liu, C., Wang, Z., and Macdonald, F., 2018. Sr and Mg isotope geochemistry of the basal Ediacaran cap limestone sequence of Mongolia: Implications for carbonate diagenesis, mixing of glacial meltwaters, and seawater chemistry in the aftermath of Snowball Earth, Chemical Geology, 491: 1-13.
93. Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Macdonald, F.A., 2018. Tropical weathering of the Taconic orogeny as a driver for Ordovician cooling: REPLY, Geology 46 (3): e437.
92. Anderson, R.P., McMahon, S., Macdonald, F.A., Jones, D.S., and Briggs, D.E.G., 2018. Paleobiology of latest Ediacaran phosphorites from the upper Khesen Formation, Khuvsgul Group, northern Mongolia, Journal of Systematic Paleontology, 1-32.
91. *Eyster, A.E., Ferri, F., Schmitz, M. D., and Macdonald, F.A., 2018. One diamictite and two rifts: Stratigraphy and geochronology of the Gataga Volcanics of northern British Columbia, American Journal of Science, 318.
90. *Strauss, J.V., Macdonald, F.A., and McClelland, W.C., 2018. Pre-Mississippian stratigraphy and provenance of the North Slope subterrane of Arctic Alaska I: Platformal rocks of the northeastern Brooks Range and their significance in circum-Arctic evolution, in: Piepjohn, K., McClelland, W.C., Reinhardt, L. and Strauss, J.V., eds., Circum-Arctic Structural Events (CASE): Tectonic evolution of the Arctic margins and trans-Arctic links with adjacent orogens, Geological Society of America Special Papers, accepted.
89. *Nelson L.L., *Strauss, J.V., Crockford, P.W., Cox, G.M., Johnson, B.G., Ward, W., Colpron, M., McClelland, W.C., and Macdonald, F.A., 2018. Geochemical constraints on the provenance of pre-Mississippian sedimentary rocks in the North Slope of Yukon and Alaska, in: Piepjohn, K., McClelland, W.C., Reinhardt, L. and Strauss, J.V., eds., Circum-Arctic Structural Events (CASE): Tectonic evolution of the Arctic margins and trans-Arctic links with adjacent orogens, Geological Society of America Special Papers, accepted.
88. *Rooney, A.D., Austermann, J., *Smith, E.F., Yang, L., Selby, D., Dehler, C.M., Schmitz, M.D., Karlstrom, K.E., and Macdonald, F.A., 2018. Coupled Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology of the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 130 (7/8): 1085-1098.
87. Cox, G.M., Halverson, G.P., Denyszyn, S., Foden, J., and Macdonald, F.A., 2017. Cryogenian magmatism along the northwestern margin of Laurentia: plume or rift? Precambrian Research, accepted.
86. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., *Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Gibson, T.M., *Eyster, A., Cox, G., Mamrol, P., and Crowley, J.C., 2017. Cryogenian of Yukon, Precambrian Research, accepted.
85. Moore, K.R., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Du, K., Newman, S., and Pruss, S., 2017. Pyritized Cryogenian cyanobacterial fossils from Arctic Alaska, Palaios, 32: 769–778.
84. Anderson, R.P., Macdonald, F.A., Jones, D.S., McMahon, S., and Briggs, D.E.G., 2017. Doushantuo-type microfossils from latest Ediacaran phosphorites of northern Mongolia, Geology, 45(12): 1079-1082.
83. Pruss, S.B., Dwyer, C.H., *Smith, E.F., Macdonald, F.A, and Tosca, N.J., 2017. Phosphatized early Cambrian archaeocyaths and small shelly fossils (SSFs) of southwestern Mongolia, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, July 5.
82. Hoffman, P.F., Abbot, D.S., Ashkenazy, Y., Benn, D.I., Cohen, P.A., Cox, G.M., Creveling, J.R., Donnadieu, Y. Erwin, D.H., Fairchild, I.J., Ferreira, D., Goodman, J.C., Halverson, G.P., Jansen, M.F., Le Hir, G., Love, G.D., Macdonald, F.A., Maloof, A.C., Ramstein, G., Rose, G.E.J., Rose, C.V., Tziperman, E., Voigt, A., and Warren, S.G., 2017. Climate dynamics of Snowball Earth and Cryogenian geology–geobiology, Science Advances, 3 (11): e1600983.
81. Swanson-Hysell, N.L. and Macdonald, F.A., 2017. Tropical weathering of the Taconic orogeny as a driver for Ordovician cooling, Geology, G38985. 1.
80. *Smith, E.F., Macdonald, F.A., *Petach, T.A., and *Bold, U., 2017. Integrated stratigraphic, geochemical, and paleontological late Ediacaran to early Cambrian records from southwestern Mongolia: Reply, Geological Society of America Bulletin, doi:10.1130/B31763.1.
79. Macdonald, F.A., Karabinos, P., Crowley, J.L., *Hodgin, E., Crockford, P.W., and Delano, J., 2017. Bridging the gap between the foreland and the hinterland II: Geochronology and tectonic setting of Ordovician magmatism and basin formation on the Laurentian margin of New England and Newfoundland, American Journal of Science, 371 (May), 555-596.
78. Karabinos, P., Macdonald, F.A., and Crowley, J.L., 2017. Bridging the gap between the foreland and the hinterland I: Geochronology and tectonic setting of the hinterland of New England, American Journal of Science, 371 (May), 515-554.
77. Yang, J., Jansen, M.F., Macdonald, F.A., and Abbot, D.S., 2017. Persistence of a freshwater layer in the surface ocean after Snowball Earth, Geology, doi:10.1130/G38920.1.
76. Macdonald, F.A. and Wordsworth, R., 2017. Initiation of Snowball Earth with volcanic sulfur aerosol emissions, Geophysics Research Letters, 44, doi:10.1002/2016GL072335.
75. Miller, A.J., *Strauss, J.V., Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., Johnston, D.T., and Sperling, E.A., 2017. Tracking the onset of Phanerozoic-style redox-sensitive trace metal enrichment: New data from basal Ediacaran post-glacial strata in NW Canada, Chemical Geology, doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.03.010.
74. Moore, K.R., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D.J.G., Newman, S., Settens, C., and Pruss, S.B., 2017. Biologically agglutinated eukaryotic microfossils from Cryogenian cap carbonates, Geobiology, 1-17.
73. Lau, K.V., Macdonald, F.A., Maher, K., and Payne, J.L., 2017. Uranium isotope evidence for temporary ocean oxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 458, 282-292.
72. Anderson, R.P., McMahon, S., *Bold, U., Macdonald, F.A., and Briggs, D.E.G., 2016. Palaeobiology of the early Ediacaran Shuurgat Formation, Zavkhan Terrane, south- western Mongolia, Journal of Systematic Paleontology, 1-22.
71. *Pu, J., Bowring, S.A., Ramezani, J., Myrow, P., Landing, E., Raub, T.D., Mills, A., *Hodgin, E.B., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Dodging Snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota, Geology, 44 (11), 955-958.
70. *Smith, E.F., *Nelson, L.L., Strange, M.A., *Eyster, A.E., Roland, S.M., Schrag, D.P., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. The end of the Ediacaran: Two new exceptionally preserved body fossil assemblages from Mount Dunfee, Nevada, USA, Geology, 44 (11), 911-914.
69. *Bold, U., Crowley, J.L., *Smith, E.F., Sambuu, O., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic tectonic evolution of the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia: Implications for continental growth in the Central Asian orogenic belt, Lithosphere, L549-1.
68. Kilian, T.M., Swanson-Hysell, N.L., *Bold, U., Crowley, J.L., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Paleomagnetism of the Teel basalts from the Zavkhan terrane: Implications for Paleozoic paleogeography in Mongolia and growth of continental crust, Lithosphere, L552-1.
67. *Eyster, A.E., Fu, R., *Strauss, J.V., Weiss, B.P., Roots, C.F., Halverson, G.P., Evans, D.A.D., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Paleomagnetic evidence for a large rotation of the Yukon block relative to Laurentia: Implications for a low-latitude Sturtian glaciation and the breakup of Rodinia, Geological Society of America Bulletin, B31425-1.
66. Cox, G. M., Halverson, G. P., Stevenson, R.S., The?ou-Hubert, L., Vokaty, M., Poirier, A., Kunzmann, M., Li, Z-X, *Strauss, J.V., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Conginental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 446, p. 89-99.
65. Jagoutz, O., Macdonald, F.A., and Royden, L., 2016. Low-latitude arc-continent collision as a driver for global cooling, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(18), p. 4935-4940.
64. *Bold, U., *Smith, E.F., *Rooney, A.D., Bowring, S.A., Duda?s, F.O?., Ramezani, J., Buchwaldt, R., Crowley, J.C., Schrag, D.P., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia: The backbone for Cryogenian and early Ediacaran chemostratigraphic records, American Journal of Science, 316, p. 1-63.
63. Crockford, P.W., Cowie, B.R., Johnston, D.T., Hoffman, P.F., Sugiyama, I., Pellerin, A., Bui, T.-H., Hayles, J., Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., and Wing, B.A., 2016. Triple oxygen and multiple sulfur isotope constraints on the evolution of the post- Marinoan sulfur cycle, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 435, p. 74-83.
62. Sperling, E.A., Carbonne, C., *Strauss, J.V., Johnston, D.T., Narbonne, G.M., and Macdonald, F.A., 2016. Oxygen, facies, and secular controls on the appearance of Cryogenian and Ediacaran body and trace fossils in the Mackenzie Mountains of northwestern Canada, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(3-4), p. 558-575.
61. *Smith, E.F., *Petach, T.A., *Bold, U., Schrag, D.P., and Macdonald, F.A., 2015. Integrated stratigraphic, geochemical, and paleontological late Ediacaran to early Cambrian records from southwestern Mongolia, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 128(3-4), p. 442-468.
60. *Strauss, J.V., Macdonald, F.A., Halverson, G.P., Tosca, N.J., Schrag, D.P., and Knoll, A.H., 2015. Stratigraphic evolution of the Neoproterozoic Callison Lake Formation: Linking the break-up of Rodinia to the Islay carbon isotope excursion, Amercian Journal of Science, 315, p. 881-944.
59. Condon, D.J., Boggani, P., Fike, D., Halverson, G.P., Kasemann, S., Knoll, A., Macdonald, F.A., Prave, A.R., and Zhu, M., 2015. Accelerating Neoproterozoic Research through Scientific Drilling, Scientific Drilling, 19, p. 17-25.
58. Cohen, P.A., and Macdonald, F.A., 2015. The Proterozoic record of eukaryotes, Paleobiology, 41(4), p. 610-632.
57. Sperling, E.A., Wolock, C., Morgan, A.S., Gill, B.C., Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., Knoll, A.H., and Johnston, D.T., 2015. Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation, Nature, 523(7561), p. 451-454.
56. *Rooney, A.D., *Strauss, J.V., Brandon, A.D., and Macdonald, F.A., 2015. A Cryogenian chronology: Two long-lasting, synchronous Neoproterozoic glaciations, Geology, 43(5), p. 459-462.
55. Macdonald, F.A., Ryan-Davis, J., Coish, R.A., Crowley, J.C., and Karabinos, P., 2015. Forum Reply, Geology, 42(6), p. 539-542.
54. Cox, G.M., *Strauss, J.V ., Halverson, G.P ., Stevenson, R.S., Schmitz, M.D., McClelland, W.C., and Macdonald, F.A., 2015. Kikiktat Volcanics of Arctic Alaska – Melting of harzburgitic sub-continental lithospheric mantle associated with the Franklin Large Igneous Province, Lithosphere, L435-1.
53. Carbone, C., Narbonne, G.M., Macdonald., F.A., and Boag, T., 2015. New Ediacaran fossils from the uppermost Blueflower Formation, northwest Canada: Disentangling biostratigraphy and paleoecology, Journal of Paleontology, 89(02): 281-291.
52. *Smith, E.F., Macdonald, F.A., Crowley, J.C., and *Hodgin, E.B., 2015. Tectonostratigraphic evolution of the c. 780-730 Ma Beck Spring Dolomite: Basin Formation in the core of Rodinia, in: Li, Z. X., Evans, D.A.D. & Murphy, J. B. (eds) Supercontinent Cycles Through Earth History. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, SP424-6.
51. Cohen, P.A., Macdonald, F.A., Pruss, S.B., Matys, E., and Bosak, T., 2015. Fossils of putative marine algae from the Cryogenian glacial interlude of Mongolia, Palaios, 30(3), p. 238-247.
50. *Strauss, J.V., Roots, C.F., Macdonald, F.A., Halverson, G.P., *Eyster, A.E., and Colpron, M., 2014. Geological map of the Coal Creek Inlier, Ogilvie Mountains (NTS 116B/10-15 and 116C/9,16) (1:100,000 scale), Yukon Geological Survey, Open File 2014-15.
49. Liu, C., Wang, Z., Raub, T., Macdonald, F.A., and Evans, D.A.D., 2014. Neoproterozoic cap dolostone deposition in a stratified glacial meltwater plume, Earth & Planetary Science Letters, 404, p. 22-32.
48. *Strauss, J.V., *Rooney, A.D., Macdonald, F.A., Brandon, A.D., and Knoll, A.H., 2014. 740 Ma vase-shaped microfossils from Yukon, Canada: Implications for Neoproterozoic chronology and biostratigraphy, Geology, 42(8), p. 659-662.
47. Macdonald, F.A., Ryan-Davis, J., Coish, R.A., Crowley, J.C., and Karabinos, P., 2014. A newly identified Gondwanan terrane in the Northern Appalachian Mountains: Implications for the Taconic orogeny and closure of the Iapetus Ocean, Geology, 42(6), p. 539-542.
46. Macdonald, F.A., Pruss, S.B., and *Strauss, J.V., 2014. Trace fossils with spreite from the late Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia: Complex feeding patterns five million years before the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Journal of Paleontology, 88(2), p. 299-308.
45. Kunzmann, M., Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., Hodgskiss, M., Sansjofre, P.D., Schumann, D., and Rainbird, R.H., 2014. The early Neoproterozoic Chandindu Formation of the Fifteenmile Group in the Ogilvie Mountains. In: Yukon Exploration Geology 2014, MacFarlane, K.E., Nordling, M.G. and Sack, P .J., Editors, Y ukon Geological Survey, p. 93-107.
44. *Rooney, A.D., Macdonald, F.A., Duda?s, F.O?., Hallmann, C., *Strauss, J.V., and Selby, D., 2014. Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian Snowball Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(1): 51-56.
43. *Bold, U., Macdonald, F.A., *Smith, E.F., Crowley, J.L., and Minjin, C., 2013, Elevating the Neoproterozoic Tsagaan-Olom Formation to a Group, Mongolian Geoscientist, 39 (5): 1-6.
42. Cox, G. M., Halverson, G. P., Minarik, W. G., Le Heron, D. P., Macdonald, F. A., Bellefroid, E. J., and *Strauss, J. V., 2013. Neoproterozoic Iron Formation: An evaluation of its temporal, environmental and tectonic significance, Chemical Geology, 362: 232- 249.
41. Bosak, T., Mariotti, G., Macdonald, F.A., Perron, J.T., and Pruss, S.B., 2013. Microbial sedimentology of stromatolites in Neoproterozoic cap carbonates, in: Ecosystems Paleobiology and Geobiology, Paleontological Special Papers, v. 19, Bush, A.M, Pruss, S.B., Payne, J.L., Editors, The Paleontological Society, 1-25.
40. *Strauss, J.V., Macdonald, F.A., Taylor, J.F., Repetski, J.E., and McClelland, W.C., 2013. Laurentian origin for the North Slope of Alaska: Implications for the tectonic evolution of the Arctic, Lithosphere, 5 (5), 477-482.
39. Johnston, D.T., Poulton, S.W., Tosca, N.J., O'Brien, T.O., Halverson, G.P., Schrag, D.P., and Macdonald, F.A., 2013. Searching for an oxygenation event in the fossiliferous Ediacaran of northwestern Canada, Chemical Geology, 362: 273-286.
38. Macdonald, F.A., *Strauss, J.V., Sperling, E., Halverson, G.P., Narbonne, G.M., Johnston, D.T., Kunzmann, M., Schrag, D.P., and Higgins, J.A., 2013. The stratigraphic relationship between the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, the oxygenation of Neoproterozoic oceans, and the first appearance of the Ediacara biota and bilaterian trace fossils in northwestern Canada, Chemical Geology, 362: 250-272.
37. Macdonald, F.A., Prave, A.R., *Petterson, R., *Smith, E.F., Pruss, S.B., Oates, K., *Waechter, F., *Trotzuk, D., and Fallick, A.E, 2013. The Laurentian record ofNeoproterozoic glaciation, tectonism, and eukaryotic evolution in Death Valley,California, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125 (7-8): 1203-1223.
36. Sperling, E.A., Knoll, A.H., Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., and Johnston, D.T., 2013. A basin redox transect at the dawn of animal life, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 371-372: 143-155.
35. Gibson, T.M., Myrow, P., Macdonald, F.A., and Minjin, C., 2013. Depositional history, tectonics, and detrital zircon geochronology of Ordovician and Devonian strata in southwestern Mongolia, Geological Society of America Bulletin, 125: 877-893.
34. Cox, G.M., Roots, C.F., Halverson, G.P., Minarik, W.G., Macdonald, F.A., and Hubert- Theou, L., 2013. Mount Harper Volcanic Complex, Ogilvie Mountains: A far-flung occurrence of the Franklin Igneous Event?, in Yukon Exploration Geology 2012, MacFarlane, K.E., Nordling, M.G. and Sack, P.J., Editors. Yukon Geological Survey: Whitehorse, p. 19-36.
33. Ashkenazy, Y., Gildor, H., Losch, M., Macdonald, F. A., Schrag, D. P., and Tziperman, E., 2013. Dynamics of a snowball ocean, Nature, 495: 90-93.
32. Dalton, L.A., Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D.J.G., and Pruss, S.B., 2013. Preservational and morphological variability of assemblages of agglutinated eukaryotes in Cryogenian cap carbonates of northern Namibia. Palaios, 28: 67-79.
31. Schrag, D.P., Higgins, J.A., Macdonald, F.A., and Johnston, D.T., 2013. Authigenic carbonate and the history of the global carbon cycle, Science, 239: 540-543.
30. Macdonald, F.A., Halverson, G.P., *Strauss, J.V., *Smith, E.F., Cox, G.M., Sperling, E.A., and Roots, C.F., 2012. Early Neoproterozoic basin formation in the Yukon, Canada: Implications for the make-up and break-up of Rodinia. Geoscience Canada, 39: 77-99.
29. Johnston, D.T., Macdonald, F.A., Gill, B.C., Hoffman, P.F., and Schrag, D.P., 2012. Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle, Nature, 483(7389): 320-323.
28. Halverson, G.P., Macdonald, F.A., *Strauss, J.V., *Smith, E.F., Cox, G.M., and Hubert- Theou, L., 2012. Updated definition and correlation of the lower Fifteenmile Group in the central and eastern Ogilvie Mountains, in Yukon Exploration Geology 2011, MacFarlane, K.E., and Sack, P.J., Editors. Yukon Geological Survey: Whitehorse, 75-90.
27. Bosak, T., Lahr, D.J.G., Pruss, S.B., Macdonald, F.A., Gooday, A.J., Dalton, L., and Matys, E., 2012. Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716-635 Ma) cap carbonates, Geology, 40(1): 67-70.
26. Bosak, T., Macdonald, F.A., Lahr, D.J.G., and Matys, E., 2011. Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia, Geology, 39(12): 1123-1126.
25. Bosak, T., Lahr, D.J.G., Pruss, S.B., Macdonald, F.A., Dalton, L., and Matys, E., 2011. Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 308: 29-40.
24. Cohen, P.A., Schopf, J.W., Butterfield, N.J., Kudryavtsev, A., and Macdonald, F.A., 2011. Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists, Geology, 39(6): 539- 542.
23. Tosca, N.J., Macdonald, F.A., *Strauss, J.V., Johnston, D.T., and Knoll, A.H., 2011. Sedimentary talc in Neoproterozoic carbonate successions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 306: 11-22.
22. Macdonald, F.A., *Smith, E.F., *Strauss, J.V., Cox, G.M., Halverson, G.P., and Roots, C.F., 2011. Neoproterozoic and early Paleozoic correlations in the western Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon, in Yukon Exploration and Geology 2010, MacFarlane, K.E., Weston, L.H., and Relf, C., Editors, Yukon Geological Survey: Whitehorse, p. 161-182.
21. Hoffman, P.F., Macdonald, F.A., and Halverson, G.P., 2011. Chemical sediments associated with Neoproterozoic glaciation: iron formation, cap carbonate, barite and phosphorite, Ch. 5, in The Geologic Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Arnaud, E., Halverson, G.P. and Shields-Zhou, G., Editors, Geological Society of London: London.
20. Macdonald, F.A., 2011. The Tsagaan Oloom Formation, southwestern Mongolia, Ch. 29 in The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Arnaud, E., Halverson, G.P. and Shields-Zhou, G., Editors, Geological Society of London: London.
19. Macdonald, F.A. and Jones, D.S., 2011. The Khubsugul Group, northern Mongolia, Ch. 30 in The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Arnaud, E., Halverson, G.P. and Shields-Zhou, G., Editors, Geological Society of London: London.
18. Macdonald, F.A., 2011. The Hula Hula Diamictite and Katakturuk Dolomite, Arctic Alaska, Ch. 34 in The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Arnaud, E., Halverson, G.P. and Shields-Zhou, G., Editors, Geological Society: London. p. 389-396.
17. Macdonald, F.A. and Cohen, P.A., 2011. The Tatonduk inlier, Alaska-Yukon border, Ch. 35 in The Geological Record of Neoproterozoic Glaciations, Arnaud, E., Halverson, G.P. and Shields-Zhou, G., Editors, Geological Society of London: London. p. 389-396.
16. Macdonald, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Crowley, J.L., Roots, C.F., Jones, D.S., Maloof, A.C., *Strauss, J.V., Cohen, P.A., Johnston, D.T., and Schrag, D.P., 2010. Calibrating the Cryogenian, Science, 327: 1241-1243.
15. Macdonald, F.A., *Strauss, J.V., Rose, C.V., Duda?s, F.O?., and Schrag, D.P., 2010. Stratigraphy of the Port Nolloth Group of Namibia and South Africa and implications for the age of Neoproterozoic iron formations, American Journal of Science, 310: 862-888.
14. Pruss, S.B., Macdonald, F.A., McLane, M., and Hoffman, P.F., 2010. Microbial facies in a Sturtian cap carbonate, the Rasthof Formation, Otavi Group, northern Namibia. Precambrian Research, 181: 187-198.
13. Macdonald, F.A. and Roots, C.F., 2010. Upper Fifteenmile Group in the Ogilvie Mountains and correlations of early Neoproterozoic strata in the northern Cordillera, in Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, MacFarlane, K.E., Weston, L.H., and Blackburn, L.R., Editors, Yukon Geological Survey: Whitehorse, YT. p. 237-252.
12. Hoffman, P.F. and Macdonald, F.A., 2010. Sheet-crack cements and early regression in Marinoan (635 Ma) cap dolostones: Regional benchmarks of vanishing ice-sheets? Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 300: 374-384.
11. Macdonald, F.A., Cohen, P.A., Duda?s, F.O?., and Schrag, D.P., 2010. Early Neoproterozoic scale microfossils in the Lower Tindir Group of Alaska and the Yukon Territory, Geology, 38: 43-146.
10. Macdonald, F.A., Jones, D.S., and Schrag, D.P., 2009. Stratigraphic and tectonic implications of a new glacial diamictite-cap carbonate couplet in southwestern Mongolia. Geology, 37: 123-126.
9. Macdonald, F.A., Schrag, D. P., McClelland, W.C., and Macdonald, W. P., 2009. Neoproterozoic glaciation on a carbonate platform margin in Arctic Alaska and the origin of the North Slope subterrane. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 121: 448-473.
8. Macdonald, F.A., Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of Arctic Alaska and Mongolia, Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 2009: Cambridge, MA. p. 179.
7. Macdonald, F.A., Mitchell, K., and Stewart, A.J., 2005. Amelia Creek: A Proterozoic impact structure in the Davenport Ranges, Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52: 631-640.
6. Macdonald, F.A., Wingate, M.T.D., and Mitchell, K., 2005. Geology and age of the Glikson impact structure, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52: 641-651.
5. Milton, D.L. and Macdonald, F.A., 2005. Goat Paddock, Western Australia: An impact crater near the simple-complex transition. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2005. 52: 691-698.
4. Shoemaker, C.S. and Macdonald, F.A., 2005. The Shoemaker legacy to the Australian impact record, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52: 477-479.
3. Shoemaker, E.M., Macdonald, F.A., and Shoemaker, C.S., 2005. Geology of five small Australian impact craters, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 52: 529-544.
2. Macdonald, F.A., Bunting, J.A., and Cina, S.E., 2003. Yarabubba – a large, deeply eroded major impact structure in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 213: 791-795.
1. Weiss, B.P., Kirschvink, J.L., Baudenbacher, F.J., Vali, H., Peters, N.T., Macdonald, F.A., and Wikswo, J.P., 2000. A low temperature transfer of ALH84001 from Mars to Earth, Science, 290: 791-795.


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What is R?
R is the most popular data mining and statistics package in the world, and it is free to use. It is also easy to use thanks to a range of intuitive graphical user interfaces for statistics, data mining, and interactive visualisation. It is used by a growing number of commercial and government organisations, and is also the tool of choice of elite data mining competition winners.
R is open source, flexible, and customisable. Over 2,500 R packages are available as extensions to the base environment, constituting one of the largest and most up-to-date collections of cutting edge Analytics tools in the world.
This course is an introduction to the R programming language, beginning with the most basic operations of downloading and installing the environment. Participants will learn how to input and manipulate data and be instructed in all the aspects of procedural programming in R, allowing them to create their own R functions and customise code.
The course will also introduce R data structures, statistical operations, the creation of R graphics, and options for generating output from all of these to external files. It will also provide an overview of the use of packages in R, and an introduction to some of the most common data mining, interactive visualisation and integrated graphical user interface packages.
The course will be instructed by Presciient Director, Dr Eugene Dubossarsky, who has 20 years' experience programming in R and its parent language, S.
This is a practical course, suitable for existing and prospective data analysis practitioners in government and industry. Participants will be provided with a range of programmatic and user interface options for working with data in R.
The course is not academic, and does not assume any specialised knowledge beyond first year tertiary statistics. Its focus is developing a practical understanding of R the tool for business users.
Attendees will, by the end of the course, have the basic skills, resources, guidance and confidence to immediately and self-sufficiently begin to use R in their work.
The course will be instructed by Presciient Director, Dr Eugene Dubossarsky. Eugene is a founder and Fellow of the Institute of Analytics Professionals of Australia (IAPA); Director, University of New South Wales School of Mathematics and Statistics Industry Advisory Board; and a recognised industry leader in Business Analytics. He has 20 years' experience programming in R and its parent language, S.
The Introduction to R course provided clear and logical assistance to getting up and running with R. More than that, the real value was in providing guidance on the myriad of online resources and introducing me to a network of passionate and helpful R users. Eugene is a knowledgeable and approachable teacher. I wouldn't hesitate in recommending the course. I feel that I am now fully on the road to applying R and using data to improve efficiency across my organisation.
—James Orton, Data and IT Manager, UNICEF Australia
I have been trying to convert my Stata programming skills to R, however, there have been many times where I just wanted to sit down with someone and have them explain the fundamentals of programming in R. Sure, a number of books and websites have helped me become familiar with R, however, I still didn't feel ready to translate all of my familiar Stata commands to R (e.g. I am comfortable plotting graphics using ggplot2, however, revert back to Stata for data manipulation). I knew that a more effective way to learn and feel confident would be to sit down with someone and have them explain how they use R, how they clean data, how they plot graphics, etc. I knew that once I felt comfortable with cleaning my data in R, analysis would be less of an issue – I'm happy to research the specifics on my own.
Thank you, Eugene for advancing my R skills. I especially appreciate the time spent explaining the fundamentals of data manipulation – i.e. the code one needs to know before running any basic or sophisticated analysis. The pace of the workshop was perfect.
—Dr Chelsea Wise, Lecturer, Marketing, UTS Business School
The course assumes no tertiary level training in statistics. Attendees simply need to be familiar with working with structured, electronic data.
Dr Eugene Dubossarsky is leader in the analytics field in Australia, with over 20 years' commercial data science experience. He is a Founding Partner of AlphaZetta, head of the AlphaZetta global training Academy as well as AlphaZetta's Chief Data Scientist. He is also the founder of the Australia–New Zealand Data Analytics Network, with over 17,000 members, and the head of the Data Science Sydney group (6,000+ members) and Big Data analytics Sydney (6,700+ members). He is regularly invited to be a conference presenter, consultant and advisor, and appears in print and on television to discuss data science and analytics, and serves as an advisory board member for listed companies, advising on AI and Data Science. Eugene also applies data science in an entrepreneurial setting, to financial trading and online startups, and is the creator of ggraptR, an interactive visualisation package in R.
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Australia's ultimate stargazing locations
Warrego Way, Queensland © Tourism and Events Queensland/Sean Scott
The world's best view of the Milky Way is just one of the marvels on display in Australia's night skies.
By Ute Junker
Get ready to be dazzled. Not only does Australia's outback offer some of the darkest skies on the planet, but the Southern Hemisphere offers celestial sights you simply can't see anywhere else. That includes the mesmerising light show of the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights) and otherwise-invisible galaxies including Alpha Centauri and the Magellanic Clouds. You will also get a new perspective on familiar constellations such as the Big Dipper, or Plough – known in this hemisphere as the Southern Cross – which appear to hang upside down in the skies.
Australia also has the best view of the Milky Way on Earth, looking towards the galactic centre rather than away from it. There are 100 times more stars on display than can be seen in the Northern Hemisphere, not to mention meteor showers, dust lanes and nebulae. So get set for some out-of-this-world experiences.
Surf the Milky Way outside Alice Springs
Earth Sanctuary, Alice Springs, Northern Territory © Tourism NT/Matt Glastonbury
Where: 15 minutes outside of Alice Springs in Australia's Red Centre.
The Milky Way contains billions of stars and when you gaze into the desert skies above Central Australia you'll feel like they are all blazing down on you. Earth Sanctuary's astronomy tours highlight not just planets and constellations, but also lesser-known phenomena such as dark nebulas, accumulations of gas and dust that will eventually collapse in on themselves and become the breeding grounds of new stars.
How to experience it: Explore the southern night sky with an experienced guide, laser pointer and telescope at Earth Sanctuary.
Plan an Alice Springs adventure
Be mesmerised by the 'Aurora Australis' in Tasmania
You can sign up to receive alerts about the Aurora Australis from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Where: Multiple locations in Tasmania.
Like its Northern Hemisphere counterpart, the Aurora Borealis, the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, illuminates the night sky with shades of green, blue, purple and red that dance across the sky. The light show is visible all year round from Tasmania, although the best displays take place in winter. Hobart's highest mountain, kunanyi/Mount Wellington, offers a magnificent viewpoint, as does the nearby – and more easily accessible – Mount Nelson.
How to experience it: The further south you are, the better your chances will be. Avoid a full moon and light pollution and set your camera's shutter speed between five and 15 seconds.
Where to see the Southern Lights
Sleep under the stars
Nightfall Camp, Lamington, Queensland © Nightfall Camp
Where: Various locations Australia-wide.
Like the idea of falling asleep beneath a blanket of stars? Wherever you go in Australia, you will find glamping and off-grid experiences that allow you to soak up the full splendour of the night sky. Simply step outside your tent and look up to see the spectacular display in all its glory. Each location is unique and offers experiences beyond stargazing, such as Aboriginal tours, magnificent wildlife viewing, beautiful bush settings or memorable outback experiences.
How to experience it: Get away from it all at Kooljaman Camp at Cape Leveque in the Kimberley region of Western Australia; Wildman Wilderness Lodge in the Northern Territory; Queensland's Nightfall camp and New South Wales' Paperbark Camp; Ikara Safari Camp at Wilpena Pound Resort in South Australia's Flinders Ranges.
Unwind at an off-grid retreat
Moon-gaze at Perth Observatory
Perth Observatory, Bickley, Western Australia © Perth Observatory/Andrew Lockwood
Where: Bickley, 35 kilometres (22 miles) east of Perth.
You don't need to go far from the city to enjoy a spot of stargazing as Australia's biggest cities all have observatories that are open to the public. In Western Australia's capital, the Perth Observatory has been around for more than 120 years. Tour guides use both modern and historic telescopes to showcase globular clusters, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies. Other urban observatories include Melbourne Observatory, located inside the Royal Botanic Gardens, and Sydney Observatory, next to the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge.
How to experience it: Perth Observatory has a range of Night Sky Tours including a Moonlit Night option, which allows you to explore the details of the moon's surface.
Find more to do in Perth
Discover Indigenous astronomy in Outback Queensland
Cosmo Centre, Charleville Outback Queensland © Mike Dalley
See Australia's night skies in 8D
Where: An eight-hour drive or a 2.5-hour flight west from Brisbane to Charleville Outback Queensland
Sometimes things hide in plain sight – like the giant emu in the sky. Never seen it? The guides at Cosmo Centre in Charleville Outback Queensland will show you not just this emu, but also the other people and animals that, according to Indigenous lore, live in the night sky on their Universal Dreaming tour. Some are etched out in the stars, just like our own star stories, but others are depicted in the dark spaces between the stars. You'll enjoy listening to ancient stories over a fire pit with complimentary marshmellows to toast yourself a treat.
How to experience it: Tours with the Cosmo Centre run from April to September each year.
Road trip along the Matilda Way
Take one small step in Canberra
Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory © VisitCanberra
The much-loved film, The Dish, tells the story of Australia's role in the 1969 moon landing.
Where: A 45-minute drive south-west of Canberra.
Australia plays a key role in NASA's Deep Space Network – in fact, Australian telescopes were the first to receive clear images from the 1969 moon landing. The Canberra Space Centre is the largest antenna complex in the Southern Hemisphere. Here you can check out the latest images from across the solar system, discover what astronauts eat at the International Space Station, and see a piece of moon rock that is 3.8 billion years old.
How to experience it: Entry to Canberra Space Centre is free. The complex includes a cafe, picnic grounds and a playground, making it a perfect day out for the family.
Find more to do with kids in Canberra
Dine under the stars
Sounds of Silence, Uluru, Northern Territory © Voyages
Where: Kakadu National Park, Uluru and Kings Canyon.
Candlelit dinners are romantic but they can't compete with starlit dinners, particularly when they take place in one of the outback's most atmospheric locations. Experience a multi-course dinner highlighting native ingredients – anything from crocodile Caesar salad to pressed wallaby with fermented quandong – before sharing Aboriginal stories and decoding the night sky as it glistens above you.
How to experience it: Choose from Dinner Under the Milky Way in Kakadu, Sounds of Silence or Tali Wiru at Uluru, or Under a Desert Moon at Kings Canyon.
Discover the Red Centre
Experience a Dark Sky Park in New South Wales
Dark Sky Park, Warrumbungle National Park, New South Wales © Destination NSW
Where: Warrumbungle National Park, a six-hour drive north-east from Sydney.
How did Warrumbungle National Park get the nod as the Southern Hemisphere's first Dark Sky Park? The high altitude and low humidity, as well as its distance from the big cities mean the stargazing here is second to none. Sliding Springs Observatory, on the edge of the national park, is home to the largest optical telescopes in Australia.
How to experience it: Sliding Springs Observatory, Milroy Observatory and Warrumbungle Observatory offer viewing sessions, and you can even sleep at the Skywatch Observatory.
Visit the Warrumbungles with your family
Australia's best glamping experiences
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Saira Anwer, Reporter
Published: January 20, 2020, 2:55 PM
Updated: January 20, 2020, 5:58 PM
Tags: Traffic, Broward County
Tesla torn apart, 4 people injured in Hallandale Beach Blvd. crash
Driver of Nissan GTR sped through red light, witnesses say
Published: January 20, 2020, 2:55 PM Updated: January 20, 2020, 5:58 PM
A black Tesla Model X was blown apart in a bad crash on Hallandale Beach Boulevard Monday morning.
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – A black Tesla Model X was blown apart in a bad crash on Hallandale Beach Boulevard Monday morning.
Witnesses told Local 10 News everyone involved is lucky to be alive.
"There was a Nissan GTR -- it blew a red light right on the intersection of Three Islands Boulevard and Hallandale Beach Boulevard and checked the back of the Model X Tesla, which completely fell apart," witness Ronnie Gnesin said.
Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue officials said three people were taken from the scene to Memorial Regional Hospital after the crash occurred around 10:30 a.m.
Four people were injured, one of whom suffered serious injuries.
"The Tesla flew apart," Gnesin said. "Next thing you know the back wheels are flying this way. They hit this car over here, left a whole mess on the road. Everybody stopped."
A black Tesla Model X was blown apart in a bad crash on Hallandale Beach Boulevard on Jan. 20, 2020. (WPLG)
Tesla parts slammed into the front of a black Volkswagen. Witnesses said the back row of the Model X also hit a red Mustang that was towed away after the crash.
"And the Nissan GTR lost control and went on that side of Hallandale, hit a tree and then he got taken to the ambulance," Gnesin said.
Some witnesses described it as miraculous that the driver of the Tesla was able to walk away from the crash.
One witness said the driver of the Nissan was traveling very fast through the red light.
Authorities blocked off the westbound lanes to traffic on Hallandale Beach Boulevard for nearly two hours as crews cleared the roadway.
Authorities said the driver of the Nissan would be cited for the crash.
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Saira Anwer
Saira Anwer joined the Local 10 News team in July 2018. Saira is two-time Emmy-nominated reporter and comes to South Florida from Madison, Wisconsin, where she was working as a reporter and anchor.


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Martin Edwards on Murder in the Basement, A Pioneering Work of Suspense
"Berkeley's cynicism and love of irony are much in evidence in Murder in the Basement, and so is his flair for taking the genre in new directions."
December 6, 2022 By Martin Edwards
Via British Library Crime Classics
Murder in the Basement was published in 1932, at a time when the author, whose full name was Anthony Berkeley Cox, had reached the height of his powers. Writing as Anthony Berkeley, he had established himself as one of the leading detective novelists of his generation. In the same year that this book appeared, he also published his second outstanding novel of psychological suspense, wholly different in content and style from this Berkeley novel. Before the Fact was published under another pen-name, Francis Iles, and later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion.
In Murder in the Basement, not for the first time, Berkeley broke fresh ground as a crime writer. At the time the novel appeared, however, its pioneering nature was not recognised. Indeed, the book received rather less acclaim than much of his other work, and over the years it has received little critical attention. This is no doubt because Berkeley's customary wit and ingenuity are less in evidence than in novels such as his masterpiece, The Poisoned Chocolates Case, which has also been reprinted as a British Library Crime Classic. The mood is low-key and Roger Sheringham, that most opinionated of amateur sleuths, is off-stage for much of the time; even when he does turn up, his manner is rather less ebullient than usual.
Yet although at first sight Murder in the Basement might seem to lack the characteristic zest of the more renowned Sheringham novels, on closer examination it offers a very good example of Berkeley's admirable determination to keep trying to do something fresh with the crime story.
In the prologue, a newly married couple return from their honeymoon to their new home in Lewisham only to discover human remains buried in the basement. Chief Inspector Moresby of Scotland Yard begins to investigate and quickly establishes two crucial facts. The corpse belongs to a woman, and she has been shot through the back of the head. But who was she? Identifying the deceased proves exceptionally difficult. The first major section of the novel is devoted to painstaking police work, with an emphasis on forensic detection, until Moresby ascertains the dead woman's identity, and that she worked at a preparatory school called Roland House. Moresby recalls that, by happy coincidence, his friend Sheringham has recently deputised for a master at Roland House in order to collect "local colour" for a novel he planned to write. He wrote a few chapters before abandoning the manuscript, having based the characters on the people he met at the school. Moresby, who likes to amuse himself at Sheringham's expense, invites him to use his deductive powers to work out the victim's identity from the manuscript. And that manuscript forms the next part of the book. It is, in effect, an extended flashback which presents the principal characters at the school and the tensions in their relationships.
This was, as far as I know, the first detective novel to contain a "whowasdunin" mystery. That is, the detective—and the reader—are challenged to determine from the information presented which member of a group of people is the murder victim.
The "whowasdunin" mystery is not the be-all and end-all of Murder in the Basement. The solution to this particular puzzle is revealed at the start of the third main part of the book. Two threads of the narrative still need to be resolved. First, who is the killer? Second, will it prove possible to bring the culprit to justice? Will patient police work prevail, or will Sheringham's enthusiasm for psychology enable him to steal a march on Moresby? As further information comes to light, the answers to these questions appear to be predictable, but it is worth bearing in mind that Anthony Berkeley delighted in confounding expectations.
One or two other Golden Age writers, including Britain's Leo Bruce and the American Anita Boutell, subsequently wrote "whowasdunin" mysteries, but this type of writing is more commonly associated with another American author, Patricia McGerr, whose 1946 debut Pick Your Victim is an enjoyable example of the form. Two very successful post-war novels which have appeared in the Crime Classics series, Julian Symons' The Colour of Murder and Mary Kelly's The Spoilt Kill, also offer "whowasdunin" puzzles, while in recent times Lucy Foley's bestsellers The Hunting Party and The Guest List show that this type of mystery has enduring appeal. But it was Berkeley who led the way.
Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893–1971) was educated at Sherborne School and University College, Oxford, and served in the army during the First World War; during the conflict, he was gassed, and his health never fully recovered. When peace came, he turned to journalism and was a regular contributor to Punch. His first detective novel, The Layton Court Mystery, appeared in 1925, and introduced Sheringham. This book, and its successor, The Wychford Poisoning Case, were at first published anonymously, and throughout his life he guarded his privacy jealously.
In 1928, he hosted a dinner for fellow detective novelists which was such a success that further such dinners followed, and he was inspired to found the Detection Club in 1930; it thrives to this day. By the time the club adopted formal rules and a constitution (in the same year that Murder in the Basement was published), it had established itself as an elite social club for the genre's most prominent British writers.
There is an entertaining exchange between Moresby and Sheringham in this novel, when the policeman says:
"You mean, you used the real people there for your book?" "Well, of course. One always does that, in spite of the law
of libel and the funny little notices some people put in the front of their books to say that all the characters in the story are imaginary. Imaginary my hat! Nobody could imagine a character and make it live."
Sheringham (who himself represented one aspect of his creator's complex personality) was undoubtedly speaking for Berkeley, whose books are crammed with people who are thinly disguised versions of those he knew. One wonders if this technique helps to explain why Berkeley eventually ran out of steam as a novelist. His career effectively came to an end following the indifferent reception of the third Francis Iles novel, As for the Woman, which was published in 1939. Thereafter he wrote a few short stories but the creative spark was gone. He became known primarily as an extremely perceptive critic of the genre under the Iles name. Among the many emerging writers whose gifts he was quick to recognise were P.D. James and Ruth Rendell.
Berkeley's cynicism and love of irony are much in evidence in Murder in the Basement, and so is his flair for taking the genre in new directions. He is a writer of major importance in the history of crime fiction and this undeservedly underestimated novel is an interesting example of his unorthodox approach to his craft.
From the Introduction © 2021, 2023 by Martin Edwards. Murder in the Basement © 1932 by The Estate of Anthony Berkeley Cox Cover and internal design © 2023 by Sourcebooks. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, Sourcebooks.
Anthony BerkeleyintroductionMartin EdwardsMurder in the BasementSourcebooks
Martin Edwards has published sixteen crime novels and more than 50 short stories. His crime fiction has been short-listed for several awards and in 2008 he won the CWA Short Story Dagger. He had edited 20 crime anthologies and contributed essays to many reference books and magazines.
10 New Books Coming Out This Week
Kaira Rouda and Kimberly Belle on Writing Relationship Thrillers
Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elyse Friedman, The Opportunist (MIRA) "This...


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Co-founded by two alums from another AI company, VocalIQ, which was acquired by Apple 13 months after launch — Prowler.io today is announcing that it has raised £10 million ($13 million) to help it along the way.
Led by new investor Cambridge Innovation Capital, the round also had participation from Atlantic Bridge Capital as well as previous investors Passion Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners and SG Innovate, who participated in Prowler's $2 million seed round last year.
Artificial intelligence has become an increasingly crowded area. CB Insights estimates that in 2016, 550 startups closed 658 deals, raising $5 billion in funding. That figure is up 60 percent compared to 2012, when there were only 160 deals. In addition to those startups, there are others that are bootstrapped, and larger tech companies like Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Baidu and Microsoft, are also doubling down on AI technology.
AI is also an area that is ripe for acquisition: some of those big tech companies are also snapping up AI startups in order to pick up new talent and tap into what they've built already. CB Insights notes there have been more than 250 acquisitions of AI-focused startups since 2012.
Prowler.io believes it stands apart from the pack and because of its focus not on perception (one of the biggest areas in AI today, covering areas like computer vision and image recognition), but on decision making.
"The key thing for us is not what other big AI companies are working on, but what they are not doing," said CEO Vishal Chatrath — who co-founded the company with Dr. Dongho Kim, a key VocalIQ alum who is Prowler's CTO.
As Chatrath (who also had been head of automotive at Nokia back in the day) explains it, an autonomous driving system can detect everything around a car, but it is much harder to make a system that can identify what the most important thing is to look at and evaluate when making a driving decision. And that similar challenge of perception versus evaluation can be applied to a number of other scenarios.
Prowler — the name is a reference to looking at a challenge from every angle possible to solve it — is coming at the problem by looking to, and triangulating, learnings from math and specifically statistics that it overlays on top of more traditional machine learning.
Its platform uses probabilistic models "to generalise to novel situations and adapt to changing environments by refining their strategies in data-driven ways"; Reinforcement Learning algorithms that estimate and account for uncertainty; and Game Theory to operate in multi-agent settings to infer what humans and other AIs are trying to do.
Potentially game-changing, but not that fast to build: Prowler has yet to launch a commercial product, or sign a customer, although it has been hiring a lot of impressive academic talent. (The first thing Chatrath proudly told me during our interview, before we even got started talking about Prowler, was that the company had 50 employees with a number of distinguished professors and other academics among them.) In any case, there are several potential customers in the pipeline that cannot be disclosed.
"We are in negotiations to close contracts under NDA, and we are finalising with one in the games industry," he said. There has also been a lot of incoming interest from ridesharing companies and those in finance. Notably, everything that has come into the pipeline so far has been unsolicited, and based on word of mouth.
One thing that Prowler is still working on is the best architecture for its platform, which has two parts, a learning engine and a decision-making engine. The startup had thought to house the learning engine itself, and the decision making with the customer, but some businesses want to sandbox their data so that may need to be changed.
In the meantime, the company continues to have the support of its investors, and a lot of momentum to launch this platform and see if it can really help make decisions better than the other solutions for decision making that are out there today.


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Dad's heartache over son's truck death
23rd May 2020 7:50 PM
A heartbroken father who hit and killed his five-year-old son in a trucking yard on Friday has apologised to the boy's siblings.
"Sorry, that's all I can say," Doug Sproule said on Seven on Saturday.
Claire Sproule, the sister of young victim Harrison, replied: "You don't have to be sorry, it was an accident."
Harrison Sproule, five, died on Friday night. Picture: Nine News
Mr Sproule, 38, was reportedly parking his 100-tonne truck on Friday night, unaware his son was behind him.
Harrison, who was hit in a gap between two vehicles, was treated at the scene by paramedics and taken to Liverpool Hospital but died from his injuries.
He was five. Picture: Nine News
The incident occurred at a trucking transport yard on Argyle St in Picton, southwest of Sydney, at around 5pm.
Bouquets of flowers were left on the fence outside on Saturday.
The trucking transport yard in Picton. Picture: Damian Shaw
Mr Sproule described his son as a "very happy, mischievous" kid who loved the outdoors and his brothers and sister.
"I fix problems every day but I couldn't fix this one," he said.
"That's my job, to protect them, and I failed on this one."
Truck driver and father Doug Sproule. Picture: Nine News
Harrison, who started "big school" this year, had also loved riding in his father's truck across the country.
"He used to love it because we'd stop and we'd pull over and we'd cook our own meals," Mr Sproule told Nine.
In a photograph from preschool, shared with reporters today, the five-year-old had written that he wanted to be a truck driver when he grew up.
Claire Sproule said her brother was "special".
"You don't find a kid like that," she said.
Claire, Doug and Max Sproule. Picture: Seven News
Originally published as Dad's heartache over son's truck death
His family said he loved the outdoors. Picture: Nine News
He wanted to be a truck driver. Picture: Nine News
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It's a retro look with a modern update. These retro style swivel stools are fun, functional and stylish. Enjoy a rich, chrome finish, 15" round seat that swivels for optimum convenience. Have a special look in mind? Choose from our variety of color and texture to compliment.
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The 1.8-liter R18A engine was presented in 2006 for the Honda Civic. This new R-series was created to replace the old D-series engines. The R18 is a replacement for the D17 engine.
It has an aluminum cylinder block and 16 valve SOHC aluminum cylinder head. The aluminum pistons are cooled with oil by piston cooling jets installed in the engine block. The engine got a timing chain instead of a belt as on previous D-series engines. The R18 hasn't hydraulic tappets (checking and adjusting valves are every 25,000 miles or 40,000 km). The valve clearance for intake valves is 0.18-0.22mm, exhaust - 0.23-0.27 mm. The engine already has the variable valve timing Honda's i-VTEC system. There is a plastic variable length intake manifold also.
The R18 engine was modified to achieve more displacement for larger Honda's model such Accord. This 2.0-liter version is R20A engine.
1. The engine knock. Usually, a canister purge valve produces this sound, this is normal. Also If the adjusting of the valves clearances was long ago, possibly the time has come.
2. The drive belt tensioner produces some noise. Its life is 60,000 miles (100,000 km).
3. Vibrations. If an engine is cold, that is ok. But if vibration continues all time, check the left engine mount.
Using the recommended engine oil is essential. That will keeps the VTEC system in good condition for a long time. The engine life of R18 is about 180,000 miles (300,000 km).
1. R18A1 - version of the engine for the Japanese and North American market. 10.5 compression ratio, 141 hp, 128 ft lb (174Nm).
2. R18A2 - European version. 10.5 compression ratio, 140 hp, 128 ft lb (174Nm). Produced since 2012.
3. R18Z1 - version for Southeast Asian 2012+ Civic model. 10.6 compression ratio, 141 hp, 128 ft lb (174Nm).


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Q: How to set binary post body to HTTPSamplerProxy in jmeter? In my jmeter test, I have a BSF PreProcessor step (using groovy) running before my HttpRequest step. I need to send a post with binary data in this HttpRequest step, but my binary data is compute on the fly. How can I set this binary data to the post body of my request? I see HTTPRequest has option to do binary post from file. But I don't want to create a temporary file for each request.
Thanks,

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We focus so much on "dieting" and "losing weight." When we talk about losing weight or even about weight management, it all centers on the types of foods we eat, like whole foods, or about the amounts of food we eat. Very rarely do we talk about the importance of the combination of foods we eat to fuel our bodies and live our healthiest life.
Lovollect shared the making of their pieces. Journey with us into the making of these powerful collector items.


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AMPLIFYQueer
Kitteh, 27, 'The Door is Open, but I'm Still Sitting on The Floor of That Closet' #AMPLIFY
August 23, 2016 by Sue
Name: Kitteh Miao
County of Residence: Allegheny
Preferred Pronouns: They/them/their (I actually prefer nick names to gender IDs)
How do you describe your identity? I am a queer person who ends up in the middle, by averaging out the extremes.
Please describe your coming out experience. Where did you find support? What challenges did you face? It's very messy. I came out for the very first time at the age of 16, at my first GSA meeting. I felt safe for a second, and just blurted it out in introductions…"Hi, I'm ___ and I'm bi." 2 years later, I came out to my first family member, my eldest brother. Growing up together, though we didn't have the best relationship, I saw him support and defend his LGBTQ friends and felt like he might understand more. That same year, having the support of my brother, I came out to the rest of my immediate family, and a few of my extended family via letters. I was terrified of their rejection–particularly, my godmother, her daughter who is like a sister to me, and my grandparents. Amazingly, all I got from them was support. It was in the family that physically surrounded me, that I found push-back and hurt. I started dating a transfeminine person and wanted to share them with my family, who was supportive for the most part. At the time, some of our extended family was living with my parents, an adult cousin and her baby. When my cousin told her mother about my partner, my aunt contacted me to tell me that she couldn't have her grandson living with me, and I needed to change to be a better influence for him. I couldn't put my parents in the position of choosing between myself and a baby, so I lied to them and said I couldn't handle being around the baby while studying for finals, and essentially fled to my partner's home to avoid further/increased conflict. On Valentine's Day the next year, I brought that same partner to a family event, because several birthdays fall around that date and we always have a combined party. At that party, my aunt and uncle decided they didn't want me watching their grandchildren anymore, and influenced the parents in their decision by making them concerned to leave the girls alone with me.
I've found amazing support through my parents and brothers, and through a growing community that I am part of with a few close friends. My current partner is also incredibly supportive. However, I still face challenges in attempting to better the relationships I have with those who have hurt me. I continue to struggle with my gender expression and identity, and these days just refer to myself as queer in all aspects.
How would you describe yourself NOW in terms of "being out"? The door is open, but I'm still sitting on the floor of that closet. I'll share the information with someone who asks directly (when appropriate–my clients ask all the time, and I don't discuss with them); but I typically won't offer it up freely unless I'm certain I am in a safe space.
Tell me about the first LGBTQ person whom you met. What impact did they have on your life? It's hard for me to pinpoint the first person, probably because things were "hush-hush," and as an adult I'm realizing that those people were part of the community.
The first LGBTQ person I met was a friend of my eldest brother, I'll call him B. He openly identified as a gay man, and had a unique gender expression for what I was used to. Just meeting him and seeing my family interact with him gave me a little hope that I wasn't so weird, and I remember that being the time in my adolescence when I started experimenting with my appearance and gender expression. I also remember my dad, on occasion, bringing him up as a catalyst for my changes. It wasn't for a couple more years until I started coming out, but B absolutely had an influence there as well, having had the strength to be openly gay in our rather conservative school district, North Allegheny. I saw B act as himself, and embrace parts of his life that scared me to even think about, and I think it was his influence that pushed me to join our high school's GSA and try to make friends there.
Past or present, favorite LGBTQ character or creator in television, film or literature? Please tell us why. Lamar from Revenge of the Nerds, because he is so unabashedly and unashamedly himself, as a nerd, a gay man, a black man…his character has always been inspirational to me
How do you stay informed about LGBTQ issues? I follow several issue-focused Facebook pages and news outlets; and am involved with queer orgs in the area.
Describe your geographical community. Both locations would be considered suburban; one in the North Hills and one in the South Hills. I think that in both areas, it's a "don't ask, don't tell" situation. They'll tolerate the existence of us, but they don't want to see it. Or hear about it. Or be confronted with the pain of those who are different.
Describe your local or regional LGBTQ community. We are very private people, so I'm not very involved with the neighborhood community. However, at work, in my friendships, in my greater community of Pittsburgh, I find there to be a large community. However, we have too much in-fighting and lack of support within our community, for issues related to race, economic status, ableism, sexism, and more. We also have a bad habit of relying on the opinion of those at the top, rather than working from the grassroots to find improvements. I think that one of the reasons that we have so much in-fighting, is that those in power in the LGBTQ community in Pittsburgh are white, older, and typically have financial comfort. We expect those people to want change for those with intersecting oppressions out of altruism, but we don't see that change because having it would somehow take away from those in power.
Have you ever experienced discrimination based on your identity? Specifically, in a job setting, when applying for housing or while in public. I haven't been directly discriminated against in work or housing, but I've been run out of an apartment in South Oakland by threats of violence against myself and my partner. While I was in college, I noticed frequently that I always ended up with "the gay topics," sometimes because classmates asked me to trade because they didn't want to research such things. My partner's employers espouse anti-gay and anti-trans ideas, and inhibit us from discussing pro-LGBTQ platforms. Since the national bathroom discussion began, I've been harassed a couple of times while trying to use a public commode because people assume I'm trans. I get scoffed at by the people who love me, because LGBTQ issues are "all I bring up."
Are there issues impacting your LGBTQ neighbors that aren't visible or part of the local dialogue? POVERTY…CHILDCARE…HOUSING INSTABILITY…TRAUMA…CHRONIC ILLNESS…RACIAL INEQUALITY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY…
Basically everything but the fight to marry.
What would you like to see elected officials do to improve life for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians? Fight for real protections for members of our community. Attend our events, come to our forums, reach out to the people in your lives who are in any way a part of the community. Push for real, effective legislation that you would want imposed on your children or parents. Look outside yourself, and put yourself in someone else's shoes for a minute.
Tell Us About Your Access to Health Care in Western PA. Has It Been LGBTQ Competent (or Not?) It hasn't, even in offices that claim to be LGBTQ friendly. I've been told I don't need birth control (which I use for hormone regulation) because I have sex with women. I've been given bad information regarding abuse and finding help for it, due to the "nature of same-sex relationships" making it difficult to determine a perpetrator. I've been raped by a male partner out of jealousy for my attraction to women, and been scoffed at when I told the nurse that he said "his dick would do the trick." I've experienced a trans partner being traumatized after not having a prostate exam properly explained to them, and not being able to find adequate mental health services to help her cope. To say that health care in our area is "LGBTQ competent" would be the meanest joke I could come up with.
Please share a lived experience, anecdote or fact about life as an LGBTQ person in your community. This week, I got the best gender-neutral complement on my appearance I've ever had: "I like your style." It was incredibly affirming, and gave me a new reason to believe it really isn't that hard to take gender out of the equation.
Beyond discrimination, what other barriers create challenges for your LGBTQ neighbors? I think that everything leads back to discrimination in some way. Housing, poverty, access to necessities, childrearing and support…all of these issues are issues in the first place, because being a member of the community somehow makes you less human, and less deserving of the things that are "inalienable" or assumed to be a right simply because you exist. We exist outside the definition of human, so to think that any issue of ours isn't related to discriminated, feels naive.
What LGBTQ friendly resources are available for your neighbors? Garden of Peace Project, Project SILK, Proud Haven, the GLCC, the Delta Foundation, PFLAG, THRIVE Pgh, The Pittsburgh AIDS TaskForce, Persad, St. Andrew's Lutheran Church in Shadyside
What is your greatest fear for the LGBTQ community in Western Pennsylvania? That they will remove any rights granted to us in recent history, and add more ways to legally discriminate. After the Orlando shooting, I fear that the violence we already experience will increase and spread.
What is your greatest hope for the LGBTQ community in Western Pennsylvania? That we truly will overcome, and someday be seen as equal humans
What can allies do to support your LGBTQ community? Pay attention, TRULY support…if you see/hear something, say something back. Even when your LGBTQ friends aren't there to hear it.
How can gay men and lesbians support the bisexual, transgender and queer members of our community? …care?
What motivated you to take part in this project? I want to feel like my experiences are unique, but I know they aren't. I'm hoping to give someone else hope, or at least a feeling of someone else being there.
Finally, what question should I have asked? Please also share your answer. I'm not sure…probably something along the lines of what community orgs could do to improve the community environment. For me, that would be conferring and sometimes deferring to, smaller organizations that have a more specified focus. And across the board, include more people of color at the table, in positions of power and decision, on your boards, and ACTUALLY INVOLVE AND LISTEN to them.
Read the entire AMPLIFY LGBTQ Q&A archive.
AMPLIFY LGBTQ is a series of blog posts designed to give a "signal boost" to the voices of our LGBTQ neighbors throughout Western Pennsylvania. We are using a Q&A format and will minimize editing their responses.
Our intent is to highlight the voices of marginalized members of our community who are not always invited to the table or whose voices are not heard. These are glimpses in to the lived experiences of LGBTQ people in Western Pennsylvania as told in their own voices. If you would like to participate, please email me pghlesbian at gmail or visit the online Q&A.
You can read the other Q&A responses here. AMPLIFY! LGBTQ is a project of Most Wanted Fine Art and Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents.
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