I'm not usually one to pick up a novel that has potential to be depressing unless I'm really in the mood for it. In spite of a stressful few weeks of work and real life drama from a variety of sources, I decided to spend some time with this anthology of sorts because it claimed to be a modern spin on The Canterbury Tales. I do plan to reread this one when I have the time to soak it in a bit more, but in spite of outside forces, I did enjoy my time with this one. It's been ages since I've read Chaucer (probably since college many moons ago), but I remember loving it. I wanted to see how Hutchinson and the other authors could breathe new life into the classic tale and make it more relevant for teens.
The story revolves around a group that has been sent to a wilderness camp after committing various crimes or due to various mental health problems. The beginning of the tale starts when the group is dropped off in the wilderness. They are charged with finding their way back to the main camp and learning to work together. Gio, the narrator, decides to make the trek a bit more interesting by offering prize money to whomever comes up with the best story. Some of the teens choose to tell stories about why they are at Zeppelin Bend working on whatever is troubling them while others tend to take more poetic license with their stories. Most of the stories also have surprising elements - some of which were rather disturbing.
As with all anthologies, there were some stories that I enjoyed more than others, but I did like that the various authors gave each character a distinctive voice and that all the stories played out together in the larger setting of the wilderness excursions. I want to reread this one and reread The Canterbury Tales in order to better find the allusions from the classic text in the modern update. Some of them are glaringly apparent such as the journey and the motley assortment of characters. My favorite stories were "Look Down" by Robin Talley, "A Cautionary Tale" by Stephanie Kuehn, and "A Violation of Rule 16" by Suzanne Young. Since the story revolves around youth who are troubled in some way or who have gotten themselves into trouble, some of the stories are difficult to read. Jenna's, in particular, hit me the hardest and tugged at my heart, but because it was difficult, I didn't count it as one of my favorites.
Youth is a difficult time for many of us. We all felt during that stage that we were something other. Finding out who you are and where you place in the world is requires work and isn't an easy process. It's also a time to make mistakes and learn from them. I certainly feel that teens will gravitate towards this book as they will see something of themselves or their thoughts reflected in at least one of these characters.
One Last Gripe: I wanted to know if some of the stories were true and not just the character trying to one up the previous storyteller. For example, I really want to know what happened to David's sister.
Favorite Thing About This Book: I love that it adds a fresh spin based on inspiration from an old favorite while calling attention to problems in our society.
First Sentence: I'm not a liar.
At Zeppelin Bend, an outdoor education program designed to teach troubled youth the value of hard work, cooperation, and compassion, ten teens are left alone in the wild. The teens are a diverse group who come from all walks of life, and they were all sent to Zeppelin Bend as a last chance to get them to turn their lives around. They've just spent nearly two weeks learning to survive in the wilderness, and now their instructors have dropped them off eighteen miles from camp with no food, no water, and only their packs, and they'll have to struggle to overcome their vast differences if they hope to survive.
Inspired by The Canterbury Tales, Feral Youth features characters, each complex and damaged in their own ways, who are enticed to tell a story (or two) with the promise of a cash prize. The stories range from noir-inspired revenge tales to mythological stories of fierce heroines and angry gods. And while few of the stories are claimed to be based in truth, they ultimately reveal more about the teller than the truth ever could.


Another iconic scene in Fremont, the Fine Arts Foundry founded by Peter Bevis in 1981. He originally conceived the 2-story concrete structure as a gathering place for artists, housing a number of studios, a gallery, stone carving yard, sculpture garden, darkroom, and offices. In 2013, after 10 years of vacancy, Dhruv Agarwal renovated the building for his business True Fabrications, which designs and sells a variety of wine, bar, and gift products. The building also incorporates a creative arts venue for product launches, company meetings, client events, and winery/brewery tastings.
Last Sunday, the Seattle Urban Sketchers met at the Country Village in Bothell, a small community northwest of Seattle. Built around an original farm house from 1901, the complex comprises a layout of shops, offices, and restaurants set amid duck ponds, streams, and walking paths. There's even a scaled-down train offering rides on a half-mile of track. This particular view attracted me because of the eclectic mix of elements—a caboose, a windmill, and a land-bound ship—all surrounding a pastoral pond foregrounded by tall grasses.
After the Orange County workshop, Deb and I spent a day at the Getty Center, a campus of the Getty Museum in the Brentwood neighborhood of LA. The complex of galleries, library, offices, and research institute designed by Richard Meier is situated along two ridges of a hill in the Santa Monica Mountains. The architecture is striking, but as I noted on my sketch of the museum courtyard, the most attractive and enjoyable part of our visit were the landscaped open spaces and gardens created by the architecture. Notable is the Central Garden designed by artist Robert Irwin.
We spent two wonderful and gratifying days in Orange County last weekend, drawing at the Mission San Juan Capistrano, along the Laguna Beach promenade, and in the confines of the Lumberyard courtyard. Thanks to all of the workshop participants for their enthusiasm, hard work, and high spirits.
Despite the numerous books, and now videos, on sketching and drawing that are available, they cannot match the immediacy of hands-on teaching and learning. It is difficult to replicate the experience of standing or sitting side-by-side, looking out at the same scene, and discussing and demonstrating the ways of seeing that are crucial to on-location drawing.
Urban Sketchers Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic are hosting the 6th International Urban Sketchers Symposium this year. There's a great lineup of faculty and presenters who will be offering workshops, lectures, and other activities from the 22nd through the 25th of July. For more information about the schedule, programming, and registration information, please visit: <http://singapore2015.urbansketchers.org>.


Philnewsph.com was started last August 2016 which aims to provide the latest and trending news in the Philippines – current events, politics, health, entertainment, sports, business and money, etc.
This site was inspired by the author's previous site www.iamjammed.com which was a blog-turned-news and information site. Iamjammed.com was ranked as one of the top websites in the Philippines which reached a Google Page Rank of 5. However, the author went on hiatus and the domain was inactivated. She was unable to retrieve the domain name thus she has decided to create another website with the same content, thus the birth of Philnewsph.com.
JB Macabanding (JBM) has been blogging since 2005. She started her first blog at Xanga.com then Blogger.com. It started out as a hobby but as her site gained online presence and a considerable amount of views/audience, she was encouraged to continue her writing and started iamjammed.com on August 2006.


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Q: How do I sort array on click by table header  var teamData = [{"teamName":"Liverpool","GW12FIX":"FUL (A)","GW12":0.61,"GW13FIX":"TOT (H)","GW13":0.51,"GW14FIX":"CRY (A)","GW14":0.63,"GW15FIX":"WBA (H)","GW15":0.68,"GW16FIX":"NEW (A)","GW16":0.56,"AVG":0.60},
    {"teamName":"Chelsea","GW12FIX":"EVE (A)","GW12":0.62,"GW13FIX":"WOL (A)","GW13":0.54,"GW14FIX":"WHU (H)","GW14":0.55,"GW15FIX":"ARS (A)","GW15":0.58,"GW16FIX":"AVL (H)","GW16":0.59,"AVG":0.58},
    {"teamName":"Manchester United","GW12FIX":"MCI (H)","GW12":0.52,"GW13FIX":"SHU (A)","GW13":0.68,"GW14FIX":"LEE (H)","GW14":0.61,"GW15FIX":"LEI (A)","GW15":0.53,"GW16FIX":"WOL (H)","GW16":0.54,"AVG":0.58}];

I have an array and I am trying to add an onClick sort function to the th while loading the table using a function like this
function sortColumn(columnName) {
    const dataType = typeof teamData[0][columnName];
    sortDirection = !sortDirection;

    switch(dataType) {
        case 'number':
        sortNumberColumn(sortDirection, columnName);
        break;
    }

    loadTableData(teamData);
}

function sortNumberColumn(sort, columnName) {
    teamData = teamData.sort((f1, f2) => {
        return sort ? f2[columnName] - f1[columnName] : f1[columnName] - f2[columnName]
    });

}

I am loading the table like this
 window.onload = () => {
     loadTableData(teamData);
};

   function loadTableData(teamData) {
    var columns=Object.keys(teamData[0]).filter(key=>key.includes("FIX")).map(key=>key.slice(0,key.length-3));
    var tableHTML="";
        tableHTML+="
";
        tableHTML+="
";
        tableHTML+=""+"FDR"+""+"RELATIVE"+"	"
    for (var i=0; i<columns.length; i++) {
        tableHTML+=""+columns[i]+"	";

    }
        tableHTML+=""+"AVG"+"	"
        tableHTML+="
";

    for(var t=0; t<teamData.length; t++) {
        tableHTML+="
";

        tableHTML+=""+teamData[t].teamName+"	";
        for(var c=0; c<columns.length; c++) {

            tableHTML+=""+teamData[t][columns[c]+"FIX"]+"
"+Math.round(teamData[t][columns[c]]*100)+"%"+"	";

        }
        tableHTML+=""+Math.round(teamData[t].AVG*100)+"%"+"	";
    tableHTML+="
";
    }
    tableHTML+="
";
    document.getElementById('teamData').innerHTML=tableHTML;
}

If I try to add the function like this the table won't load
for (var i=0; i<columns.length; i++) {
    tableHTML+=""+columns[i]+"	";

}

It worked fine when I had the th in HTML, I figured it'd be the exact same thing like this just loaded by JS but it isn't and I can't seem to find a solution. Is there an easy fix to this?

A: I believe your problem comes from how you stringify your function:
// try to log the result of this:
console.log(""+columns[i]+"	");
// you will probably have something like this:
//   GW12

// but what you want should look like:
//  GW12

// So try this:
for (var i=0; i<columns.length; i++) {
    tableHTML+=`<th onclick='sortColumn("${columns[i]}")'>${columns[i]}</th>`;

}

A: This is because you are actually calling the function. Do something like this:
tableHTML += `<th onclick='sortColumn(${columns[i]})'>${columns[i]}</th>`;

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Civic Duty | B4HEART - Humanity Envisioned And Realized Together!
No! Not any more, not on our watch. It is time to address the culture of corruption that has infected our government. It is time for our voices to be heard. Change is a critical must or else.
Our children are our greatest resource as they are our future but, if we don't act now; they won't have any future worth pursuing. This book deals with historical facts that they don't teach you in school. Imagine that?
Ironically, we believe what we are taught in school to be true, including history? Realistically, what we come to believe is the result of the conditioning from all aspects of society as we know it. But there is more to life as we know it, there is much more to learn; more than we can comprehend at this time.


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Q: how to get wishlist id according to the product id? I have a product id but i want to know the wishlist id according to that product id.
Is there any way to find that wish list corresponding that productid?

A: Try this:
$productId =1;
$wishlistItem = Mage::getModel('wishlist/item')->getCollection()
    ->addFieldToFilter('product_id',$productId);
if(count($wishlistItem)) {
    $wishlistIds = $wishlistItem->getColumnValues('wishlist_id');
    print_r($wishlistIds);
}

//OR

if(count($wishlistItem)) {
    echo $wishlistId = $wishlistItem->getFirstItem()->getWishlistId();
}

A: Not sure to fully understand the question but there is no function to get all wishlist IDs linked to a product.
The way to do that is make a query in wishlist_item table.
For example : SELECT wishlist_id FROM wishlist_item WHERE product_id = {your_product_id}
Or if you want in a Magento way :
$adapter    = $this->_getReadAdapter();
$select     = $adapter->select()->from($this->getTable('wishlist/item'), array('product_id'))->where('product_id=:product_id');
$bind       = array(
    'product_id' => $productId
);
$data       = $adapter->fetchRow($select, $bind);
Edit with you example :
$wishlistIds = Mage::getModel('wishlist/item')->getCollection()->addFieldToFilter('product_id',$collection1['entity_id'])->getAllIds();


Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from Poptone, Ultravox's Midge Ure, Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet, and Violent Femmes.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from Shriekback, The Smithereens, The Fall and Bow Wow Wow.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from Belly and Brian Eno, and the 'Burning Britain: A Story of Independent U.K. Punk 1980-1983' box set.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's new relesaes include a live album from Yazoo's Alison Moyet and a disc of early The Flaming Lips tracks.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from The Damned, Juliana Hatfield, Bush Tetras, U2 and David Bowie.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from The Cars, The Mission, The Damned and The Essence. Full details here.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's releases include titles from Alice Bag of The Bags, Guided By Voices and The Messthetics, featuring Fugazi's rhythm section.
Record Rack: A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's titles include a series of expanded reissues from The Alarm, plus a new studio album from Yo La Tengo.
A round-up of the week's new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week's titles include new and reissued music from The Breeders, Buffalo Tom, Pet Shop Boys, The Art of Noise, Annie Lennox and UB40.


NEW GOOGLE LOGO: WHY DO BUSINESSES DO THIS?
So Google has changed it's logo again. It's not the first time and it probably won't be the last, but the question we find ourselves asking is, why? Google is probably the most progressive and innovative company in the whole world and the logo is instantly recognisable world wide. So what rationale did the creative team at Google have for refreshing such a world renowned logo?
Well it's the same reason as any other business. Times change, audiences change and the market moves forward, so in order to thrive, you have to go with the tide, not resist it. In other words, it is essential that businesses adapt to new audiences via branding, design, marketing activity and endorsements. Knowing your audience well is the key, and it has been said that the previous Google Serif typeface is a style predominantly used by traditional companies that have lots of deep heritage to speak of. Google felt that a new more contemporary typeface is more appropriate for the most innovative company in the world.
So to celebrate the new logo, in true #ThrowbackThursday style we thought we would take a look back at the logo development of some of the worlds most renowned and recognisable company logos from launch to present day.


In ancient literature the hero's struggle was against the gods who represented moral ideas everyone believed in; modern man struggles only against himself.
For most readers in nineteenth century Europe, Scotland was less a nation than a Romantic literary myth. The poetry of Ossian (published between 1760 and 1763) and the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) fostered a continental mania for all things Scottish that had little if anything to do with the country itself. That craze gave birth to operas such as Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti, 1835) and La Jolie Fille de Perth/The Fair Maid of Perth (Georges Bizet, 1867), both of them based on stories by Scott. Also to such half-remembered fictional characters as Marmor de Karkoël, the demonic Scottish nobleman in Barbey d'Aurevilly's Les Diaboliques (1874), who sets hearts fatally aflutter in a French provincial salon. It scarcely mattered that Ossian was soon exposed as a literary hoax, or that Scott — who was once widely considered the greatest author since Shakespeare — is now read by hardly anyone, apart from school pupils under duress. For most of the nineteenth century, the myth of Scotland as a remote and mystical 'otherworld' remained a potent literary and cultural force.
One of the most important architects of that myth, the French Romantic author Charles Nodier (1780-1844), is also one of the least known and least talked about today. A bizarre and rather self-contradictory figure, Nodier was a passionate and visionary Romantic who spent the last two decades of his life working as a librarian at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris. A generation older than Victor Hugo and other French Romantics, he had witnessed the horrors of the Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars at first hand. He feared — in a way his younger and more wide-eyed confrères did not — that the liberation of human instincts implied by the Romantic Movement might easily give rise to a vague des passions, a 'wave of passions' that threatened to engulf civilisation as we know it. In 1821, on the cusp of middle age, Nodier declared open war against les frénétiques — those authors who practiced the more extreme and violent strains of Romanticism. What he advocated instead was Romanticism in a milder and more balanced form, one that might allow for a smooth continuity of Christian culture.
His ideal of Romanticism along these lines was to be found in the novels and poems of Sir Walter Scott. So enamoured was Nodier that, in the spring of 1821, he and three friends embarked on a seven-week pilgrimage from Dieppe on the Norman coast all the way to remote reaches of the Scottish Highlands. Their itinerary took in Edinburgh and Glasgow and all the usual sights — but their ultimate goal, of course, was Ben Lomond, where they might pay homage at the home of their idol, Sir Walter Scott. Unfortunately, the Great Man was not at home when they called. Nodier, however, was a resourceful writer and did not let his disappointment faze him unduly. Returning to France, he swiftly published a 334-page account of his trip, Promenade de Dieppe aux montagnes d'Écosse/A Journey from Dieppe to the Scottish Highlands. The book was successful enough to be published in English and a review in Blackwood's Magazine expressed 'surprise that a Frenchman could describe Scotland as seen through the eyes of a great poet'.2 Sir Walter Scott's wife, meanwhile, was dismayed that a book should be so indiscreet as to describe young Scottish maidens wandering about without shoes!
Of far more lasting value than this travel guide was the wealth of Scottish myth and folklore that Nodier managed to pick up along the way. Much of it would find its way into his 1822 novella Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail/Trilby, or the Imp of Argyll — which Nodier designed consciously as a Romantic fiction in the style of Sir Walter Scott. The story's tragic heroine, Jeannie, has a name almost identical to that of Scott's heroine Jeanie (with one 'n') in his 1818 novel The Heart of Midlothian. It is a supernatural tale of thwarted and impossible love involving Jeannie — a fisherman's wife on the shores of Loch Beau — and the eerily seductive Trilby, an imp who is half-angel and half-demon. Yet as the critic Pierre-Georges Castex so rightly notes, 'what matters in Trilby is not really the legend, or the Scottish setting in which it takes place, but the drama that plays out between the characters and, above all, in the soul of the heroine herself.'3 As much as any character in the Romantic literary canon, Jeannie is a victim of la vague des passions, which threatens to engulf her mind, her soul and her entire being.
Like all the best Romantic imagery, this passage is deeply ambiguous — and unreadable, perhaps, in any clear or unequivocal way. Trilby is at once a demon luxuriating in the hot flames of Hell and a heavenly being who bears a sublime message. The angel with the flaming sword who guards the way to Eden, the burning bush through which God speaks to Moses, the tongues of fire that dance (but do not burn) above the heads of Christ's apostles. Is Trilby more one than the other? At this point, it is impossible to say.
Wolves are seen wandering amid the ruins of an abandoned chapel. Pagan spirits invade the monasteries, snuff out the flames that burn at the altars and tempt or terrorise the monks. The Church may be doing its best to defeat and subdue pagan nature; the Church is plainly losing.
Clearly, the demon Trilby is still haunting her subconscious. The laws of fiction declare he is long overdue for a comeback.
The antecedents of this box stretch back to the dawn of the Western mythical tradition. The box of demons that Pandora opens and thereby unleashes evil on the world; the box that Psyche carries out of Hades and that sends her, once it is open, into a deathlike sleep; the box of jewels that Mephistopheles uses to lure Gretchen in Part I of Goethe's Faust (1808). Yet it is, at the same time, a visual echo of the reliquaries used by the Roman Catholic Church to preserve the heart or bones or skull of some martyred saint. In whatever guise he takes on, Trilby is too complex and contradictory a figure to sum up by a single reading.
Once he re-enters the house in this form, Jeannie becomes powerless to deny her obsession with the demon. 'Back on the barren loch,' writes the critic John Clute, 'her entrapment becomes more severe, and another dance of dreams and death is enacted, like a sorcerer's joke.'9 The tragic end of the story might almost seem incongruous had the gradual — nay, almost imperceptible — journey from dreams to damnation not been traced by Nodier with such seamless and devilish skill. 'Like Jeannie,' writes Castex, 'Nodier uses fiction to build an imaginary paradise; yet he remains too lucid to get trapped by his own dreams.'10 Yet this dream entrapped readers across Europe in a wider dream vision of Scotland. It still has the strange power to trap us, as readers, today.
Charles Nodier, Preface to The Works of Lord Byron (Paris, 1822), quoted in Charles Nodier: Pilot of Romanticism by A. Richard Oliver, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse NY, 1964, p. 138.
Pierre-Georges Castex, 'Le Cycle Écossais (1821-1822)' in Contes by Charles Nodier, Éditions Garnier Frères, Paris, 1961, p. 93. Translation from the French by the author.
Charles Nodier, "Smarra" & "Trilby" (translated from the French by Judith Landry), Dedalus European Classics, London, 1993, p. 71.
Charles Nodier, "Smarra" & "Trilby" (translated from the French by Judith Landry), Dedalus European Classics, London, 1993, p. 95.
John Clute, 'Introducing Charles Nodier' in "Smarra" & "Trilby", Dedalus European Classics, London, 1992, p. 15.
Pierre-Georges Castex, 'Le Cycle Écossais (1821-1822)' in Contes by Charles Nodier, Éditions Garnier Frères, Paris, 1961, p. 93.
David Melville studied Literature at Harvard University and worked as a journalist for many years. He now teaches Literature and Film for Short Courses at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Open Learning. He also writes for various magazines and journals worldwide.


Let the small town of Lithia Springs, Georgia, be your respite during recovery. Lithia Springs is located 15 miles from Atlanta, along a beautiful scenic drive from the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. Or, if your travels take you by rail, the Amtrak station in Atlanta gives you easy access to a taxi, or rental car to bring you to this small town.
Once here, expect to find average temperatures in the mid-60's. If you enjoy outdoor winter activities, the 30-degree winters are comfortable for your cold-weather fun. The longer spring and fall seasons provide opportune weather for the Six Flags Theme Park located just outside of Lithia Springs. If you enjoy amusement park rides, food and entertainment, this is the ideal location for you. Plus, the weather and location are near the Sweetwater Creek State Park in which you can fish, hike, picnic, feed ducks, kayak, rent a pedal boat or test your balance on a stand up paddle board. Spend time in nature during your recovery to help keep you focused and centered.
Lithia Springs is home to the Cobb/Douglas County Community Service Board Douglas Outpatient Services center. Located in the middle of town, this rehabilitation center provides outpatient treatment for all types of substance abuse and also has services for those suffering from dual diagnosis addictions. If you are seeking holistic or alternative treatments, this is the place for you. The center accepts many insurances and also uses a sliding self-pay fee scale based on your income. Your treatment is convenient, effective and affordable.
Since the Cobb/Douglas center is an outpatient facility, you will need local accommodations. Many hotels are near the Six Flags park, which is South-East of Lithia Springs. Choose from the Courtyard at Six Flags, the Hampton Inn and Suites or the Springhill Suites Marriott. If you are looking for something less family-friendly and closer to town, select the Fairfield Inn, Courtyard by Marriott or the Intown Suites.
If you decide to remain in Lithia Springs and need to work during and after treatment, the Six Flags park has many opportunities from admissions to the warehouse. Also, the 88 restaurants in town are terrific food service positions. Or, seek employment in one of the various bank, grocery stores or retail sales positions.


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Where do Hunting Trophies Come From?
American hunters are some of the biggest participants in the global trophy hunting business, killing large numbers of wildlife every year.
Antelope trophies on the wall.
Trophy hunting is a recreational activity in which hunters target specific animals. The goal is to keep the animal as a souvenir for later display. Some countries offer hunting packages to visitors as a means of promoting its tourism industry. These packages provide a hunting experience to tourists with a guarantee of going home with a trophy. US hunters hoping for exotic trophies travel as far away as Africa for the experience although there are many opportunities available in North and South America. The cost of these trips or the required big game permits can range from $10,000 to upwards of $100,000 depending on the animal. In some areas, this industry accounts for as much as 2% of all tourism-related income. This article looks at where the majority of hunting trophies in the US originated.
Origin of Hunting Trophies in the US
Canada provides the largest number of hunting trophies taken to the US and offers both wild and "canned hunting" experiences (where animals are released into an enclosed area). Common animals here include mule deer, moose, elk, black bear, grizzly bear, and polar bear. Hunters took home 508,325 trophies between 2004 and 2015. The grizzly bear population is on the decline and over the last century has gone from 35,000 to 6,000. Canada is the single nation that permits hunting polar bear for sport. In just 45 years, the polar bear population has declined by 30% which has caused other countries to ban killing for anything other than sustenance. In 2008, the US government banned importing the species as trophies.
The second biggest provider of hunting trophy imports to the US is South Africa. This country contributed 383,982 trophies to US collectors over an 11-year span. Rhinoceros, lion, leopard, hippos, giraffes, and elephants are some of the most sought after animals. Some experts believe hunting these endangered animals is leading to an even greater decline in the population, especially in rhinos, and that the government does not actually control the quotas allotted for each permit. Criminals have also taken advantage of the opportunity to access normally protected animals and illegally trade the horns from their kill. In addition, some individuals capture these animals from protected, public land and use them for hunting on private land. The situation is similar for other African countries that supply large quantities of hunting trophies: Namibia (76,347), Zimbabwe (44,740), Tanzania (36,028), Zambia (10,694), and Mozambique (5,704).
Latin American countries like Mexico and Argentina are also big destination spots for US trophy hunters. Mexico supplied 47,026 animals from 2004 to 2015. The majority of hunting in Mexico also takes place on ranches like the previously mentioned countries. Hunters come here for black bear, mountain lion, whitetail deer, and wild pig (among others). This trophy hunting industry is a $200 million industry for the country, and most ranches are based in the northern part of the country, close to the US border.
Argentina is a popular sport for hunters hoping for red stag, boar, wild goat, and antelope. Imports to the US totaled 28,419 over 11 years. The country did ban the export of native species in 2010 although it is still legal to hunt them.
Pros and Cons of Trophy Hunting
The practice of trophy hunting has both supporters and opponents. Proponents of the practice suggest that the money generated supports wildlife conservation efforts. Opponents agree that trophy hunting can generate significant income for countries but that the animal can actually earn more money over its natural lifetime by attracting a larger number of ecotourists. They also suggest that it contributes to rapidly declining populations. The majority opinion in the US is against trophy hunting. This fact is ironic, however, given that the country also imports more hunting trophies than any other nation.
Top Countries Of Origin For Hunted Trophy Imports To The US
Number Of Trophy Imports To The US (2005-2014)
1 Canada 508,325
2 South Africa 383,982
3 Namibia 76,347
4 Mexico 47,026
5 Zimbabwe 44,740
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3D Na'Tee is calling out all the Instagram fronters in her newest music video
"Yo Instagram is a liar!"... Lol.
So, I just came across this "Do It For The Gram" music video online by 3D Na'Tee. I never heard of this female rapper, but I'm feeling her flow and this new song. The 27-year-old just released these dope visuals which is about male and female Instagram users frontin' on the Instagram app for "likes."
Now I know people who make themselves look lighter or give themselves a tan with the filters, or you may crop out what you don't want showing in the picture, but painting this whole picture that you're living a certain lifestyle when in fact you're not is a front.In this hilarious video, 3D Na'Tee has had enough and is calling out all the Instagram posers. The rapper says she has seen a lot of people get lost all for a follower.
"Waist training but not training your kids?," she raps. Funny, but also sad. Some females out there are really like that.
In the video, we see a female painting her shoes red to fool her followers into thinking she has a pair of Christian Louboutin pumps. In another scene, a guy is frontin' like he's in a recording studio, but when in reality, he's in his momma's bathroom.
And, regular folks aren't the only ones frontin' on social media. Back in July, Soulja Boy was called out by fans for posting fake 100 dollar bills and when comments started pouring in, he deleted the photo. Smh.
Question... people who front this much, don't they know any of their followers? Isn't their that one friend that could be like, "why you lying, you know you're not in a studio!" ... Or are these people putting on a front for people they don't even know or hang out with? I really don't get it.
Not everyday is a turn up day, not everyone can afford a $500 pair of heels, not everyone is taking photos of blue beach water on vacation and that's okay. Don't front, keep it real. I rather see a funny picture of a "struggle meal" versus you frontin' like you cooked but the picture is of someone else's meal.
We live in a world now where kids are obsessed with wanting to be popular and wanting to fit in and social media plays a big part of that. There is this need to have thousands of followers, rate photos and get souped when over 100 people like a photo.
I think when used the right way, social media is a great marketing tool and is also entertaining at times, but some people are really too obsessed.
I'm just glad this distraction and "like" obsession wasn't around back when I was in school. See, when I was a freshman in high school, people still rocked beepers, payphones were around and you were lucky when you got that ol' school Nokia pre-paid phone (you know the one with the Snake video game on it). But now, kids got these fancy IPhones, IPads and every app and social media tool right at their fingertips, always worried about their profile, their pictures and who is liking what photo.
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Does Peace Need a Business Plan?
February 23rd, 2018 - by admin
David Swanson / David Swanson.org – 2018-02-23 23:46:31
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(February 21, 2018) — If you had just asked me if peace needed a "business plan," I'd have replied, "Sure! Just like it needs a toupeed golfing fascist reality-TV creep in the White House! That'll just about fix everything! War is over! Thanks!" But after reading Scilla Elworthy's book The Business Plan for Peace, I say, "Yeah, OK, that sounds pretty good, actually. Here, let me tweak it some!" In fact, I've added this book, despite some quibbles, to my bookshelf of war abolition advocacy. (Read 'em all! Send me others!)
The Business Plan For Peace: Building a World Without War by Scilla Elworthy, 2017.
War Is Never Just by David Swanson, 2016.
A Global Security System: An Alternative to War by World Beyond War, 2015, 2016, 2017.
War: A Crime Against Humanity by Roberto Vivo, 2014.
Catholic Realism and the Abolition of War by David Carroll Cochran, 2014.
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination by Laurie Calhoun, 2013.
Shift: The Beginning of War, the Ending of War by Judith Hand, 2013.
War No More: The Case for Abolition by David Swanson, 2013.
The End of War by John Horgan, 2012.
Transition to Peace by Russell Faure-Brac, 2012.
War Is A Lie by David Swanson, 2010, 2016.
Beyond War: The Human Potential for Peace by Douglas Fry, 2009.
Living Beyond War by Winslow Myers, 2009.
Elworthy's book makes the case against war that is somewhat familiar if you've read from the above list or perused the World Beyond War website or debated any West Point "ethics" professors (the rebuttals to the claims in support of war are sort of obvious to a lot of people who haven't been paid not to see them).
But Elworthy's book does something unique. It lays out an array of initiatives that work to move the world toward peace and puts price tags on them. The list of 25 items includes such things as funding locally led peace building, supporting women's organizations, and setting up truth and reconciliation commissions.
It's a great list, built on persuasive examples, including Elworthy's involvement, in December 2002 — January 2003, in negotiating a peace plan for Iraq that Tony Blair declared "too late."
Elworthy's plan is a list that stimulates thought, which I hope is what was intended. Here are some thoughts I have. While Elworthy is clearly very open to recognizing the leading role that the Pentagon and NATO nations play in war making and in weapons dealing, she nonetheless mostly focuses on addressing war as something created by poor countries that in reality manufacture no weapons and suffer from Western "interventions."
I don't want her to replace that with something else, but to shift emphasis. I think we must first go after the weapons dealers and the leading war makers and secondarily go after the conditions that create or facilitate war making in financially poor but resource rich places.
Even in US domestic politics, many have caught on to the need to stop the flow of guns to mass shooters first and worry about policies that lie somewhere between addressing conflict potentials and blaming the victims later.
One of Elworthy's ideas is to build a physical building for peace work in each of the 10 most "conflict-affected" countries: Libya, Sudan, Central African Republic, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, South Sudan, Syria. I'm not against it. I think it's a wonderful and creative idea, and it's strengthened by Elworthy's revelation that Germany has helped the African Union build a Peace and Security Department building.
But I would propose that (1) the funding for each building come from the US military budget for destruction of each country, and (2) a top floor be included in each building for luxury penthouses for white Western celebrities, which — from a business perspective — would radically decrease the overhead for insurance policies.
Addressing the Sunni-Shia divide makes it onto Elworthy's list of top 25 things to do, while addressing the US/Hollywood culture of violence does not. Seriously?
"The main cause of fighting is humiliation." Really? So, why does Lockheed Martin buy all those advertisements in Washington, D.C.? Why not mock and embarrass people instead? (Of course, humiliation will show up as a big factor in a survey of violent prisoners, or in the recruitment of fighters in occupied countries, but does it explain any recent bombing campaigns?)
Elworthy thinks Rwanda suffered from "an entire lack of action" rather than three years of a US-backed Ugandan war followed by US backing of a terrorist future president significantly responsible for many times the killing in the Congo as had occurred in Rwanda, though I've never ever heard anyone shout "Not another Congo!"
Keeping the glorification of terrorists out of world media does make Elworthy's list. I agree only in part, because Elworthy would also have censored the crimes of Abu Ghraib, which was exactly the Pentagon's scheme for avoiding accountability.
I would agree with Elworthy on the value of truth and reconciliation commissions, and I think they could apply to many aspects of wars, including the wars themselves and atrocities like Abu Ghraib. But I don't think they work in secret. I think crimes have to be exposed as part of a policy of preventing their repetition (and the risk of later exposure of a longer string of covered-up atrocities).
Of course, the big weapons-dealing and war-mongering nations could invest in good peace-building activities for a tiny fraction of what they spend making situations worse, if they came to favor what they are well-paid to oppose. This is what some items in Elworthy's plan amount to.
But her budget in these cases is not for the cost of implementing peace initiatives, but rather for the cost of the activism and education and lobbying that might persuade governments to pursue peace initiatives: lobbying the UN and NATO to fund the prevention of conflict (and stop starting conflicts?), researching conversion to peaceful industries, encouraging pension funds to divest from weapons, creating public education on the evils of weapons dealing, educating media outlets not to glorify terrorists, producing documentary films to defuse violent responses to terrorism and to welcome refugees, persuading wealthy countries to invest in poor ones.
This is all exactly right, and much of it is just what World Beyond War and other organizations are working on with budgets that make Elworthy's tiny proposals look enormous.
Now here come my quibbles. Elworthy relies a little much on some flawed institutions, some more deeply flawed than others. Starting with the smallest quibble: the Global Peace Index (GPI) ranks the United States near the peaceful end of the scale on the factor of military spending. It accomplishes this feat through two tricks.
First, the GPI lumps the majority of the world's nations all the way at the extreme peaceful end of the spectrum rather than distributing them evenly.
Second, the GPI treats military spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) or the size of an economy. This suggests that a rich country with a huge military can be more peaceful than a poor country with a small military.
This is not just an academic question, as think tanks in Washington urge spending a higher percentage of GDP on the military, exactly as if one should invest more in warfare whenever possible, without waiting for a supposed defensive need.
In contrast, SIPRI, on which Elworthy also relies, recognizes the dominant role of the United States as the far-and-away dominant leader in military spending — and in weapons dealing.
A bit bigger quibble: Elworthy recognizes the weakness of the United Nations which gives veto power in the Security Council to the five biggest dealers of weapons of death, yet she proposes working through an unreformed UN in numerous items on her list. I think we need a serious discussion about reforming or replacing this structure.
Perhaps the Global Challenges competition will produce a starting point. (I submitted an entry and am confident that others more talented did so too.)
Because Elworthy's budget for peace includes both things governments should do and ways people can attempt to move oligarchic governments to do things, it's tricky to compare it to the costs of war. But, as she makes clear, it is a relatively miniscule expense.
Her total budget is less then $200 million per year. That's 0.01 percent of the roughly $2 trillion spent on war and war preparations by the world's governments each year, never mind the even greater cost of the damage and destruction done by wars each year.
I think this minimal effort would show results such that any rational system would subsequently increase it. How that's relevant to this world I couldn't say. I think we need a much bigger investment in peace.
In particular, I think the weakest link is the proposal to end centuries of Western war madness with five documentary films. Some darn good films exist. More would be wonderful. But how do we get people to watch them, believe they can act on them, act on them, and nonviolently escalate that activism? That's the mission.
So, how is this a business? How does it make peace profitable? And should we describe peace in such terms? Well, Elworthy does point out the business advantages of peace, "especially for shipping, tourism, and insurance industries." And we already know from the University of Massachusetts studies that military spending is an economic drain.
But can our capitalist oligarchies minus weapons and war profiteers come to see a profit motive in peace (whether or not including the reduction of war taxes) sufficient to invest in it? And to invest in it through the campaign contributions formerly known as bribery at a greater pace than the war mongers? Or can the profitability of peace be created by making advocacy for peace a public relations benefit for corporate images?
I do not know, but am all for attempting it, at least up to the point where it becomes prioritization of lobbying our corporate overlords over demanding that their wealth be taxed away and put to good use.
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director ofWorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk Nation Radio. He is a 2015, 2016, 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. Follow him on Twitter: @davidcnswanson and FaceBook


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Brighton has some strong literary connections. Its seaside setting was used in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and William Thackeray's Vanity Fair
By Claudia Dowell
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A buzzy city vibe, elegant Regency architecture, seaside fun, and beautiful countryside are normally a big enough draw for caravanners/motorcaravanners to book a weekend pitch at the Brighton Caravan and Motorhome Club Site (https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/). And in the month of May the appeal is greater, with artists from all genres descending on the city of Brighton and Hove for the annual Brighton Festival.
Sadly, this year's festival has been cancelled, but with sites currently closed until 30 June there is time to plan a visit that could still involve one of the festival's themes – literature.
Brighton has some strong literary connections. Its seaside setting was used in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and William Thackeray's Vanity Fair.
Alice in Wonderland courtesy of Hannington's Lanes
Rudyard Kipling lived in Rottingdean, where he wrote Kim and some of the Just So stories, and Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, and Charles Dickens were frequent visitors.
Kipling Gardens courtesy of VisitBrighton
Graham Greene set his classic murder thriller 'Brighton Rock' in the city, it was also the setting for Ian McEwan's spy novel Sweet Tooth and Peter James' DS Roy Grace Series of detective stories.
By exploring a theme you can get so much more out of your tour and may find places you might otherwise not have come across. For details of the places in Brighton's literary connections take a look at www.visitbrighton.com.
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HIROSHIMA, Japan, Jul 29, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation's production and sales results for June 2022 and for January through June 2022 are summarized below.
I. Production
1. Domestic Production
(1) June 2022
Mazda's domestic production volume in June 2022 increased 1.3% year on year due to increased production of passenger vehicles.
[Domestic production of key models in June 2022]
CX-5: 35,989 units (up 1.3% year on year)
CX-30: 7,152 units (up 9.3%)
MAZDA3: 6,589 units (down 39.6%)
(2) January through June 2022
Mazda's total domestic production volume in the period from January through June 2022 decreased 20.7% year on year due to decreased production of passenger vehicles.
[Domestic production of key models in the period from January through June 2022]
CX-5: 161,963 units (down 8.6% year on year)
MAZDA3: 38,027 units (down 36.1%)
CX-30: 31,484 units (down 19.1%)
2. Overseas Production
Mazda's overseas production volume in June 2022 increased 16.5% year on year due to increased production of passenger vehicles.
[Overseas production of key models in June 2022]
CX-30: 12,398 units (up 9.2% year on year)
MAZDA3: 7,847 units (up 13.2%)
Mazda's total overseas production volume in the period from January through June 2022 decreased 12.9% year on year due to decreased production of passenger and commercial vehicles.
[Overseas production of key models in the period from January through June 2022]
CX-30: 60,140 units (down 4.4% year on year)
MAZDA3: 46,242 units (down 4.3%)
II. Domestic Sales
Mazda's domestic sales volume in June 2022 increased 21.4% year on year due to increased sales of passenger vehicles.
Mazda's registered vehicle market share was 4.7% (up 1.6 points year on year), with a 1.8% share of the micro-mini segment (unchanged) and a 3.5% total market share (up 0.9 points).
[Domestic sales of key models in June 2022]
CX-5: 1,937 units (up 64.6% year on year)
MAZDA2: 1,935 units (up 115.5%)
Mazda's domestic sales volume in the period from January through June 2022 decreased 12.6% year on year due to decreased sales of passenger and commercial vehicles.
Mazda's registered vehicle market share was 5.0% (up 0.2 points), with a 1.9% share of the micro-mini segment (unchanged) and a 3.8% total market share (up 0.1 points year on year).
[Domestic sales of key models in the period from January through June 2022]
CX-5: 15,481 units (up 24.3% year on year)
CX-30: 8,163 units (down 29.9%)
III. Exports
Mazda's export volume in June 2022 decreased 8.4% year on year due to decreased shipments to North America, Oceania and other regions.
[Exports of key models in June 2022]
CX-30: 5,578 units (up 57.9%)
Mazda's export volume in the period from January through June 2022 decreased 25.4% year on year due to decreased shipments to North America, Europe, Oceania and other regions.
[Exports of key models in the period from January through June 2022]
CX-5: 143,004 units (down 11.0% year on year)
CX-9: 24,959 units (down 20.2%)
IV. Global Sales
Mazda's global sales volume in June 2022 decreased 36.8% year on year due to decreased sales mainly in the U.S., China, Europe and other regions.
[Global sales of key models in June 2022]
CX-5: 19,146 units (down 43.3% year on year)
Mazda's global sales volume in the period from January through June 2022 decreased 22.0% year on year due to decreased sales mainly in the U.S., China, Europe and other regions.
[Global sales of key models in the period from January through June 2022]
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The day was very entertaining and I liked the exercises that reinforced the eight habits training. I also enjoyed the creativity of this workshop, the partners painting 'blind' was a good communication exercise that we can hopefully bring into future meetings. All great!
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The new edition of the Rock 'n' Roll Festival will highlight women with its theme "The Ladies of Rock 'n' Roll." The Billy Bob's Western Street Saloon's Podium, Street and Stage will feature concerts and dance demonstrations, while an exhibition of vintage cars and American motorcycles, animations and decorations will reinforce the fifties atmosphere at Disney Village. An event not to be missed!
Outdoor showcases will follow on the Podium for everyone's pleasure. The artists of the Hot Slap Trio, the Wheel Caps and The Freaky Billy will bring a fifties vibe to Disney Village with their covers of the greatest rockers and their original Rockabilly music and songs.
The Podium will come alive thanks to these artists come straight from the 50s! Dancers, singers and artists of all kinds will perform the numbers and demonstrations throughout the festival.
And icing on the cake, an exhibition of collector cars and American motorcycles, will add a retro touch to Disney Village. Perfect for soaking up the fifties atmosphere for the duration of the festival.
The Billy Bob's Country Western Saloon hosts four Rock bands with very different influences, featuring their female group head.
9:30 pm — The Miss Victoria Crown group will open the evening. Composed of five artists, including Victoria the singer, it will put the audience in a very Rockabilly atmosphere.
11 pm — American singer Gizzelle will go on stage. Her repertoire navigates between 1950s Blues, Rhythm and Blues and 60s Soul. She is considered one of the best voices on the Rock scene.
9:30 pm — The Cactus Candies, a French quintet of shock from Nantes, offers a very roots and relaxed music.
11 pm — The concerts will close with the band Rhythm Sophie & Tom Stormy Trio. This duo is a meeting that sparkles between Tom Stormy's Rockabilly and the Red Hot Rhythm and Blues from Rhythm Sophie.


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Changing your name on your passport is accomplished by filling in the HM Passport Office application form, gathering together all the necessary documents and sending it all, with the appropriate fee to HM Passport Office. The information booklet that comes with the HM Passport Office application form, gives further details of the documents required. In some cases, it is not necessary to have a change of name deed; which documents you need to send will depend upon why you are changing your name. For instance, if it is because you are getting or have been married, you may just need your marriage certificate. Set out below are some of the different scenarios that may apply to you.
1.1. If you are taking your partner's surname and giving up your own, if you have your UK marriage certificate, you can apply to HM Passport Office using your marriage certificate. If you have lost your original UK marriage certificate, you can apply to the General Register Office for a replacement marriage certificate. Or you can change your name by Deed Poll, and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If your marriage was not in the UK and your certificate is not in English, you will have to have it officially translated by an accredited translator, or you can change your name by Deed Poll and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If you are a national of another country, you will also have to follow the procedure for changing your name in that other country.
1.2. If you are taking your partner's surname, but still want to use your surname professionally, if you have your UK marriage certificate, you can apply to HM Passport Office using your marriage certificate. In your application to change your passport you should state that you are continuing to use your maiden name professionally only. Your new passport will be issued in your new name and there will be an observation that you will also continue to be known by your previous (stated) name. If you have lost your original UK marriage certificate, you can apply to the General Register Office for a replacement marriage certificate. Or you can change your name by Deed Poll, and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If your marriage was not in the UK and your certificate is not in English, you will have to have it officially translated by an accredited translator, or you can change your name by Deed Poll and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If you are a national of another country, you will also have to follow the procedure for changing your name in that other country.
1.3. If you are taking your partner's surname and keeping your own surname as a middle name, if you have your UK marriage certificate, you can apply to HM Passport Office using your marriage certificate. This is less common than simply changing your name to your partner's surname, so we advise changing your name in your passport first, in order to facilitate changing your name on your other records, such as with banks. However, if you do not want to update your passport immediately (it costs £72.50 currently) then you can update your other records most easily by applying for a Deed Poll. If you have lost your original UK marriage certificate, you can apply to the General Register Office for a replacement marriage certificate. Or you can change your name by Deed Poll, and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If your marriage was not in the UK and your certificate is not in English, you will have to have it officially translated by an accredited translator, or you can change your name by Deed Poll and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport.
1.4. If you are using your own surname double-barrelled with your partner's name, you will need to apply for a Deed Poll. You will need to send it to HM Passport Office with the application form, your marriage certificate and other supporting documents. If you have lost your original UK marriage certificate, you can apply to the General Register Office for a replacement marriage certificate.
1.5. If you are using your own and your partner's surnames to make a new name, it is not possible to just use only your marriage certificate to apply for a new passport and update your other records. You will need to apply for a Deed Poll.
1.6. If you are making some other change to your name, it is not possible to just use your marriage certificate to apply for a new passport and update your other records. You will need to apply for a Deed Poll.
2.1. If you want to go back to your maiden name, you can change your name on your passport by applying to HM Passport Office and sending your decree absolute, original birth marriage certificates to them. You must also send a signed statement that you have reverted to your maiden name for all purposes. If you have lost your original UK birth or marriage certificates, you can apply to the General Register Office for a replacement certificate. Or you can change your name by Deed Poll, and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If your marriage was not in the UK and your certificate is not in English, you will have to have it officially translated by an accredited translator, or you can change your name by Deed Poll and use the Deed Poll to change the name on your passport. If you are a national of another country, you will also have to follow the procedure for changing your name in that other country.
If you are a UK national and you are living abroad, you should consider carefully how best to change the name on your passport, as your passport, travel bookings and tickets must always be in the same name. If they are not, you may be denied entry into another country or refused passage by an airline or other transport provider. If you want to update your passport whilst visiting the UK, you will need to have an address in the UK for long enough for the passport to reach you there. Alternatively, you could use the premium one-day service at HM Passport Office and apply in person and make an appointment in advance for a specific day and time. If you are not visiting the UK, you can apply for a new passport through the Foreign Office, British Embassy or High Commission. Any such bodies will accept a Deed Poll, but generally advise that it must be witnessed by a solicitor or notary public, which will increase your costs. You will also have to provide other documentary evidence and should check first with the relevant office which documents you will need.
If you are not a British citizen and you are living in the UK or abroad, to update your records in your country of origin, you will have to follow the procedure for changing your name in your country of origin. If you are living in the UK, you can use a Deed Poll to update your records in the UK, such as your driving licence and tax records. If you have to travel to your country of origin in order to change your name on your passport, you should wait until you return to your country of origin before changing your name. This is because your passport, travel bookings and tickets must always be in the same name. If they are not, you may be denied entry into another country or refused passage by an airline or other transport provider.
Although it is not necessary to renew your passport to reflect your change of name, if you are not planning to travel immediately, some organisations or financial institutions require sight of your updated passport and/or other documentary evidence of your use of your new name, before they will amend their own records.
If you have already updated your name on your passport, the DVLA may check directly with HM Passport Office. The change of name on your passport would be sufficient evidence for the DVLA to change their records and, in fact, a changed passport will be seen by many organisations as such. It is often an advantage to change your name in your passport before updating your other records.
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BAS > Data > Explore polar data > Our publications > Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea
Spatial demography of Calanus finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea
Continuous Plankton Recorder data suggest that the Irminger Sea supports a major proportion of the surface-living population of the copepod Calanus finmarchicus in the northern North Atlantic, but there have been few studies of its population dynamics in the region. In this paper, we document the seasonal changes in the demographic structure of C finmarchicus in the Irminger Sea from a field programme during 2001/2002, and the associations between its developmental stages and various apparent bio-physical zones. Overwintering stages were found widely at depth (>500 m) across the Irminger Sea, and surviving females were widely distributed in the surface waters the following spring. However, recruitment of the subsequent generation was concentrated around the fringes of the Irminger Sea basin, along the edges of the Irminger and East Greenland Currents, and not in the central basin. In late summer animals were found descending back to overwintering depths in the Central Irminger Sea. The key factors dictating this pattern of recruitment appear to be (a) the general circulation regime, (b) predation on eggs in the spring, possibly by the surviving GO stock, and (c) mortality of first feeding naupliar stages in the central basin where food concentrations appear to be low throughout the year. We compared the demographic patterns in 2001/2002 with observations from the only previous major survey in 1963 and with data from the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) surveys. In both previous data sets, the basic structure of GO ascent from the central basin and G1 recruitment around the fringes was a robust feature, suggesting that it is a recurrent phenomenon. The Irminger Sea is a complex mixing zone between polar and Atlantic water masses, and it has also been identified as a site of sporadic deep convection. The physical oceanographic characteristics of the region are therefore potentially sensitive to climate fluctuations. Despite this, the abundance of C finmarchicus in the region, as measured by the CPR surveys, appears not to have responded to climate factors linked to the North Atlantic Oscillation Index, in contrast with the stocks in eastern Atlantic areas. We speculate that this may because biological factors (production and mortality), rather than transport processes are the key factors affecting the population dynamics in the Irminger Sea.
Authors: Heath, M.R., Rasmussen, J., Ahmed, Y., Allen, J., Anderson, C.I.H., Brierley, A.S., Brown, L., Bunker, A., Cook, K., Davidson, R., Fielding, S., Gurney, W.S.C., Harris, R., Hay, S., Henson, S., Hirst, A.G., Holliday, N.P. ORCIDORCID record for N.P. Holliday, Ingvarsdottir, A., Irigoien, X., Lindeque, P., Mayor, D.J. ORCIDORCID record for D.J. Mayor, Montagnes, D., Moffat, C., Pollard, R., Richards, S., Saunders, R.A., Sidey, J., Smerdon, G., Speirs, D., Walsham, P., Waniek, J., Webster, L., Wilson, D.
Progress in Oceanography / 76
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2007.10.001
Community ecology (Research topic)
Ocean circulation (Research topic)
Population ecology (Research topic)
Observations of Thermohaline Convection adjacent to Brunt Ice Shelf
Estimating food consumption of marine predators: Antarctic fur seals and macaroni penguins
Breeding distribution of the snow petrel Pagodroma nivea
Oceanic regimes at the ice fronts of George VI Sound, Antarctic Peninsula
Population size and status of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) at South Georgia, 1951?1985