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Moving Forward on the Shoshone's latest winter travel plan
The Shoshone National Forest has published a revised Proposed Action outlining its vision for winter travel management on the forest. When finalized, this plan will have major repercussions for skiing and snowboarding on the Shoshone, especially on Togwotee Pass and Beartooth Pass.
We now have until December 10, 2017, to provide comments to influence the plan as it takes shape. Your comments matter (even if you commented last year, it's important to weigh in again).
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The Shoshone National Forest bills itself as a wild backcountry forest, and indeed there are some amazing adventures to be had deep in the Wind River, Absaroka, and Beartooth mountains. What's at stake in this travel plan, however, and where most skiers go, is the Shoshone's relatively accessible world-class front-country terrain. Specifically Togwotee Pass and the Beartooth Pass.
The current Proposed Action —revised from the Proposed Action of May 2016—was developed based on suggestions the Forest Service received from the public as well as from groups like Winter Wildlands Alliance, Togwotee Backcountry Alliance, and the Wyoming Wilderness Association. This revised Proposed Action doesn't change much from how snowmobiles and other over-snow vehicles (OSVs) are currently managed on the forest, and for the most part we're pretty supportive of what the Forest Service is proposing. You can review the latest plan, and look at maps of what the Forest Service is proposing here.
Discrete Motorized Season
For the first time ever, the Shoshone is considering a set season for winter motorized use. We like that they're proposing specific dates before and after which snowmobile use would not be allowed, but the current proposal is confusing — there are different season dates for each ranger district and even different dates within ranger districts. We suggest they simplify things with a single season: December 1 through April 30, with a slight extension to allow snowmobile use on the Beartooth Pass until May 15.
Implementing these season dates would reduce conflicts between over-snow vehicles and wildlife and is a balanced way for skiers and snowmobilers to share the Beartooth Pass while recognizing that the two user groups have traditionally used this area during different and distinct seasons. These season dates also bring the Shoshone in line with how it's neighbor, the Bridger-Teton, manages winter use on Togwotee Pass.
Protection for Cross-Country Skiing on Togwotee Pass
We are pleased to see that the Shoshone is proposing to formally close the cross-country ski trails on Togwotee Pass to motorized use (excepting for grooming purposes). The local trails group in Dubois — DART — spends a lot of resources grooming these trails for skiing and their efforts can be completely undermined by just one or two irresponsible OSV users. By closing, and signing, these areas cross-country skiers on Togwotee Pass will finally have non-motorized trails to enjoy.
Compliance With OSV Rule and Wilderness Act
In general, we think the Shoshone needs to do more to comply with the OSV Rule. The OSV Rule requires that the Forest Service designate discrete areas for OSV use, located to minimize impacts on wildlife and the environment and in areas that won't cause conflict with other uses. Right now we're not so sure the areas they're proposing to designate really will minimize impacts and we expect them to explain how they've complied with this requirement when they write an Environmental Impact Statement.
We are especially concerned that the Shoshone has proposed to designate the entire High Lakes Wilderness Study Area (WSA) open for OSV use. This violates the Wyoming Wilderness Act, which states that snowmobile use in the WSA is only permissible if it's at the same "manner and extent" as occurred in 1984. Unfortunately nobody thought to collect any baseline data showing how many people were snowmobiling in the WSA in the early '80's or where they were going, so we have to give it our best guess. While it's pretty hard to guess how many snowmobiles were up there in the 80's, we are confident that the machines people were riding then weren't as powerful as what they're riding today and therefore people weren't traveling very far into the WSA. Therefore, we think the Forest Service should limit where snowmobiles can go within the WSA, restricting them to areas near the designated trail network (where it seems most likely people were riding in the past). After all, until Congress changes the status of the WSA the Forest Service is legally bound to comply with the existing law.
Wyofile.org. 12/8/2017: Skis and Snowmobiles: National forest examines winter travel.
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Q: What is the sportula?
A: We are a group of Classics Graduate Students and Junior Faculty committed to making sure that students from working-class and historically looted communities (like the ones we ourselves come from) don't fall through the cracks left by traditional scholarship programs; all too many of which have a poor understanding of what our lives are *actually* like and what we *actually* need.
A: It means that, in our experience, a lot of programs/resources that might provide money for tuition or a specific course/project don't take into account the further realities of our lives–that we often also needed $$$ for the work shifts we were missing by taking that class, or to bail our mom out of jail, or to buy the textbooks, or to pay our cellphone bill so we could have access to our online course materials from home, or subway fare, or just a freaking sandwich and fancy coffee so we could concentrate on a full belly/have a bit of sweetness in our survival as financially marginalized Classicists in training. None of those were theoretical examples, and this is why we want to smoothe the way for the next generation of Greek and Latin students like us!
Q: What does the sportula do?
A: We provide microgrants–petty cash ranging from $5 to $300, no questions asked, to Classics undergrads who need it. We can also work to find you larger amounts of money and/or connect you with mentorship for non-monetary needs (e.g. if you need a classicist from your racial/ethnic group to talk something over with, or if you have an issue impacting your academic career that you don't feel comfortable letting your department know about, or you need access to a certain journal/manuscript etc). In short, we are the informal old boys club for ppl who never had access to the old boys club, and we wanna give you the cash you need to thrive.
Q: How do your microgrants work?
A: Contact us through our contact page, tell us what you need, and we will make every effort to send it to you through PayPal, venmo, mail, western union, etc (tell us how much you need, what mode of delivery you'd prefer, and when you need it by). You don't have to explain yourself–we get that our lives can be complicated and strongly believe that we as financially marginalized people are the best arbiters of what we need and the experts on our own lives. We reject the all too common pattern in academia (and everywhere) that demands working class people "prove" their worthiness or expose/perform their need and trauma for some committee in order to get the money that we need and deserve. That being said, do also let us know if it's for something like a book or an item we might be able to hook you up without having to spend money.
Q: Where does the money come from? Are you a charity?
A: No, we are an informal group of Classicists–mostly grad students, mostly at UC Berkeley, who pooled our tax returns this year to start a relatively small (couple thousand dollars) bank account for this, and have committed to growing this slush fund larger. Keep this in mind when you consider your request, but also don't be shy to ask for what you need! There is no wrong ask–if what you need to survive this week of Greek participles is $100 so you can take off work for the day to study, or $50 so someone can babysit your kid for 2 hours while you write that paper on Thucydides, or $10 so you can take a cab to school after working the nightshift, we got y'all! (Issa Rae voice).
A: Any classics/classics adjacent student who needs it! Students of color and students without parental/family support or who lack access to other forms of financial aid by virtue of being undocumented etc. to the front!
I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.
Q: Who can I contact if I have more questions, or want to get involved?
A: Feel free to leave us a note through this page, or contact the sportula coordinator Stefani Echeverría-Fenn: lustralsonnet@gmail.com.


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By Bruce Edwards
LEXINGTON, KY.—No one would be upset if Amare Stoudemire was the only entry in the All-Star Weekend Slam Dunk Contest.
After the All-Star break, the NBA shows why it's the NBA… Serious Ball by Serious Players. And by the way, if both are healthy, write down the San Antonio Spurs and the Detroit Pistons for the NBA Championship. Speaking of San Antonio, I haven't seen a white player break down brothers and go to the hole the way Manu Ginobili does since Pistol Pete Marivich back in the day. Give him his do…He's one of the most exciting players in the game and should be on the all-star team.
The big diamond stud earring worn by many NBA players in both ears must cost them thousands right? Well, a source that I'll give a 9.999 in credibility says most of the players have cubic zirconium earrings in their ears. People think they are real diamonds because those wearing them are NBA millionaires…I mean who's going to check right?
I receive brutal e-mails from Serena's fans from time to time about my commentary on her attire. I must now say she looked absolutely fabulous in her multi-piece outfits worn in the semi's and finals of the Australian Open. She looked like the winner she is… Fine, fine, fine.
This off week before the Super Bowl is the worst week of the NFL season. Two weeks is entirely to much time between the conference championships and the Super Bowl. You can drown from the hype and the mindless time filling stories leading up to the big game. I mean how many times can you compare Tom Brady to the greatest quarterbacks who ever lived?
Jamal Lewis climbed out of a barrel of s**t smelling like a rose didn't he?
The smart money has University of Kentucky freshman Joe Crawford leaving the Wildcats after this semester because of his lack of playing time. The McDonald's All-American from Detroit has Michigan and Michigan State drooling more than they did in the late seventies when both coveted Lansing native Magic Johnson.
You mean to tell me that between ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN, ESPN2, Fox Sports and Fox Sports South they can't find one Saturday afternoon in the regular season to air a basketball game from the SWAC and MEAC….c'mon now.
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Well, that's one way to get out of an argument.
Think it had anything to do with her cooking?
One Flordia woman was arrested over the weekend for hitting her boyfriend with a frozen pork chop.
Friday night 48-year-old Jennifer Brassard and her boyfriend must've gotten into a pretty heated debate because according to the Pasco County deputies it ended when Brassard threw frozen meat at the victim.
It must've been a bone-in chop because the police report states that it left him with a half-inch laceration above his eyebrow.
After the fight, Brassard left their home and was arrested domestic battery the next day when she returned.


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The Vintgar gorge is not actually in Bled, it's in Gorje, but only four kilometers away from Bled.
It's about 1.6 km long gorge in River Radovna with a trail that is very easy and comfortable to walk on. The only steeper part is just after the trail ends, if you want to walk down to see the Šum waterfall (last picture in the gallery). The trail ends on top of that waterfall.
There is a ticket booth in both ends of the Vintgar gorge, it costs 5 Euros for adults to enter. You can also buy water etc. from there. And at the usual starting point (marked on the map) there is also a restaurant and a big parking lot. A smaller parking lot at the Šum waterfall.
The gorge is very popular among tourists and it's advisable to go there outside the peek hours. I was there on a Monday in early June, around 10.30-12.30, and it was still pretty quiet then, especially in the morning. Although it seems a little less crowded in the pictures, because I took breaks at times and waited for the people to pass.
The problem is, the path is sometimes so narrow that it can be hard for even two people to pass each other. And if there are 15 people coming from one way and 15 from the other, you can guess how that can be. So I wouldn't necessarily go there on a July weekend. And there can be a long line sometimes to even get a ticket and get in.
But if you can avoid the crowds, it is definitely a must go place!
Bus runs a few times daily between Bled and Vintgar gorge, the route is Bled-Vintgar: alpetour.si.
A taxi costs about 15 Euros for one way.


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Nedbank Group is a holding company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) Limited with a market capitalisation of R125 billion at 30 June 2018. Nedbank Group is one of Africa's largest banking groups. Its principal banking subsidiary is Nedbank Limited. Nedbank Group owns subsidiaries and banks in Namibia, Swaziland, Malawi, Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe, and offshore on the Isle of Man, and in Guernsey and Jersey. It also has representative offices in Angola and Kenya and has key global financial centres to provide international banking services for South African-based multinational and high-net-worth clients in London, Toronto and Dubai. It is a diversified financial services provider, offering a wide range of wholesale and retail banking services, as well as insurance, asset management and wealth management solutions.
At the Morningstar Fund Awards held in Cape Town this week, Nedgroup Investments was awarded the key award of the evening, namely the Best Fund House, Larger Fund Range.
New home-buying kit and HeyNed virtual personal assistant makes the Nedbank MoneyApp about much more than banking.
South African Airways (SAA) Voyager and Nedbank today launched a first in the world – a cheque card which guarantees users to earn air miles per transactional swipe.
The Nedbank Private Wealth App has been ranked second overall in the 2018 Mobile Apps for Wealth Management benchmarking report.
While the vast majority of South Africans are feeling the financial pressures of challenging economic times, there's one group of people who are typically hit very hard by money difficulties – students.
As part of its ongoing commitment to providing financial and banking solutions that help all South Africans live their best lives, Nedbank has created a unique offering that's specifically aimed at helping SA students manage their money and maximise their lifestyles. It is called Unlocked.ME.
Unlocked.ME offers students a bank account with zero monthly maintenance fees – a first for students in South Africa. If the student doesn't withdraw cash and only uses their card to buy items, they can bank for free. The account can be opened in less than 5 minutes from the Nedbank MoneyApp, with no paperwork and no signature required.
Chironga continues, "in addition, we are passionate about helping students unlock their full career potential. We provide access to personalised, digital career advice based on the student's matric results; and they can search up to 500 jobs online from a job portal specially designed for them. In short, we want to help students unlock their money, their lifestyle, AND their full potential".
Nedbank's new free mobile bank account, that lets you sign up in seconds, attracts 50 000 users in less than eight weeks.
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Natural Science Illustration
In early 20th centuries, color photography had not yet been invented, and only an artist could capture the vivid, ephemeral colors of fresh-caught fishes and other marine organism. Kumataro Ito, a Japanese fish artist (a resident in Tokyo) was selected to be the principal scientific illustrator for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Steamer Albatross during the Philippine Expedition from 1907 to 1910 (Kumataro Ito, Japanese Artist on Board the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries Streamer Albatross During the Philippine Expedition, 1907-1910. Marine Fisheries Review, Fall, 1999, Springer V.G.; http://vertebrates.si.edu/fishes/albatross/ito_illustrations.html .)
There were more than 120 of his original fish sketches and paintings stored at Smithsonian and I had a chance to see some of his work. The color was still vivid and his remarks of old-style Japanese were still visible on the thin rice paper that he used for the preliminary sketches! Those were amazingly beautiful.
His work inspired me so much. I shall do some fish drawings in my spare time :D


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Gap year for God
The risk, prayer and faith of discipleship programs
The "gap year" – when a young person takes time to travel and experience new things during the period between graduating high school and starting university – has been an established rite of passage for Europeans for decades and is increasing in popularity among Canadians. Mennonite Brethren schools in Canada offer programs that give young people the new experiences and friendship-building opportunities of a gap year under the parent-reassuring guidance of mentors and teachers, in programs designed to foster faith development. Participants in MB colleges' discipleship programs aren't just finding themselves and making lifelong friendships; they're building their relationship with God.
God in the stillness
Cecely Doerksen in Burkina Faso
More than 10 years ago, Canadian Mennonite University launched a School of Discipleship, later renamed Outtatown: an eight-month program of instruction, service, travel and experiential learning with the purpose of awakening youth to radical faith in Jesus. The four-month French Africa track was added in 2011.
Cecely Doerksen knew she was headed to CMU (where her father is a professor) after high school, but "I needed a break from school [after Grade 12]," she says. CMU's Outtatown French Africa program fit the bill.
Starting in Winnipeg's French Quarter, the group spent time with hosts in Quebec City and Montreal, retreated to Camp Peniel, spent several weeks in Burkina Faso, West Africa, seeing all parts of the country before heading to Paris, then wrapping up in the Taizé community in Burgundy, France. The word hectic could be applied to the four-month program, but it taught Doerksen to slow down.
"We often go at God with requests in our prayers," she says, but "my perspective changed to listen and be quiet." That listening went beyond hearing: "You don't have to understand [what others are saying], and you can still feel God just as much."
Living in close quarters with fellow students where there was no chance to "turn on" image management, "I learned about my strengths and weaknesses," Doerksen says, and she learned to appreciate the support and accountability of the team.
The group encouraged each other as they encountered grinding poverty, openly shared their faith stories, learned to see the world through the eyes of people with a different set of problems and confronted their own idols. A talented musician, Doerksen fasted from music for a time while she struggled to reconcile her greatest avenue of worship with her greatest temptation to make things about herself.
Doerksen also learned about interdependence in the body of Christ, especially in Burkina Faso where the small minority Christian Mennonite churches "were super-dependent on each other" as they worked to build the kingdom of God together.
And Doerksen learned that dependence on God "is crucial." There were moments when everything was out of their control; the only thing they could do was "give it to God…. It's humbling."
But it wasn't always tough. After hiking to a waterfall in Burkina Faso with "the most breathtaking view," the team was deluged by a warm rainstorm. "I stretched out my hand," she said, and in that moment, "I have never been more certain that God is real. It was one of the best moments of my life."
Set apart for Jesus
The newest in Columbia Bible College's suite of one-year programs, Praxis is designed for students who are socially minded, artistically inclined and culturally engaged. With a focus on the integration of faith, community and culture in urban settings, the program includes a 10-day trip to New York City.
Jesse Zak (r) in conversation with a Praxis teammate
"I have been around Christianity my whole life, but it wasn't that real for me until I went to Pines Bible Camp," says Jesse Zak. "After that, I started taking my faith much more seriously."
After graduating from high school, the next step for this pastor's son was Bible school, Columbia Bible College, to be specific, where he was directed to the brand-new Praxis program as a good fit for his personality. "In-class learning is important, but I was really looking for the community aspect," he says.
He found that – and more. Learning both about and in cities in the loving embrace of the Praxis community, Zak is becoming less "intimidated by a bunch of people."
Evangelism "is a smoother conversation than I thought it would be. I always thought evangelism was going up to people and showing them the Bible," says Zak. "Praxis has taught me to get to know people, and invest in them, and once I do, there's trust. Then I can ask them about faith."
Before coming to Columbia, Zak "didn't think I was much of a pray-er." But now, having learned there are lots of different ways to pray, "not just dry stuff," he's "realized how beneficial prayer is" not only in his personal life but also in ministry. "It's something that can really break lots of barriers. My prayer life has increased significantly since I've come here. I've realized how much power prayer has and how underused it is within Christian society today."
Prayer has girded Zak as he is thrown into new roles where he has had to let go of fear of what others think while also becoming aware of his responsibility as a leader: someone others may look up to.
"I want to live a Christian life, I want to be set apart from people, I don't want to just blend in. I want to demonstrate what being a Christian is like."
"I've turned over a new leaf since coming here. Praxis and CBC have played a huge role in me developing into the person I am today."
Gospel as good medicine
In its second year, Expérience 19/24 at (ETEM) takes students through several months of team-building, classroom instruction and city exploration, followed by a local church internship, then an international mission experience.
Newly graduated RN Andie Joseph had only one year of studies left to receive her bachelor of nursing certification, but she thought, "Maybe I should take some time, do some experience with God."
Because her father is a pastor and church planter, Joseph had always been involved in church and was baptized at 15, declaring her faith her own. But the Haitian immigrant to Montreal "felt lost for a few months" after her mother died of cancer in 2012. She couldn't pray and was questioning why God allowed things to happen as they did.
Enter ETEM's Expérience 19/24. The four students in the 2013–2014 year are a close-knit group supported by the teachers and mentors in not only learning about their theology but practising their faith.
Following several months of learning together, Joseph interned in her church, Assemblée de Grace, with the children's and youth ministries, and will complete the program with international mission, likely to North Africa with MB Mission, in summer.
"When you go to church you listen to the preacher and you get the message," she says, but "when you have to practise it yourself, getting [the Word of God] involved in your life – that's changing me." She's begun regularly meditating through prayer and reading the Bible for transformation – not only on her own, but also with her family.
"I'm learning a lot about God, about his holiness," she says. Discovery has also come through fellow students and the people at her church. "You're learning by hearing other people; your faith grows when you hear stories about what other people experience with God."
Building a stronger base of theological understanding and deeper relationship with God has given her more boldness in taking risks and sharing her faith. Through Expérience 19/24, she's learning to "bring the gospel everywhere I go."
"I always had the heart to become a missionary," she says. With her nursing skills and desire to minister the gospel, she feels called "not only [to] care for people in a medical perspective but also in a spiritual perspective."
"It's one of the best decisions I ever made," says Joseph of signing up for Expérience 19/24. "It helped me a lot."
—Karla Braun
Read more about Praxis here: Praxis visits Big Apple
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Karla is a writer for Mennonite World Conference who lives in Winnipeg.
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Finally! Our party is here to bring you the present you really want this season: Lots and lots of perfectly expressive GIFs.
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Untitled (Dissent/Descent) is about the failure of protest and activist politics to generate social change. I have been painstakingly reproducing North American suffragette banners and objects that invert the messages of hope they once carried, and will temporarily surrender my own agency so that an Other might perform them. This is not a strident reclamation of 'women's work', I just needed time to think.


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Construction of a commercial space that will provide education programs designed specifically to create a pathway into science and technology for the low-income residents of St. Louis.
What: 4260 Forest Park Avenue
Where: St. Louis, MO
Cost: $30MM
UACD contribution: $6.1 MM QLICI
Closing: June 2016
The project's sponsor established a Community Benefits Fund of over $500,000 to support the North St. Louis Youth and Community Complex, a multi-use indoor/outdoor education and recreation facility housing academic, life skills, and enrichment programs. Borrowing from the Rec2Tech model developed in Baltimore by Digital Harbor Foundation, the facility, in partnership with PGA REACH, will provide K-12 students in low-income communities access to STEAM technology and a satellite makers' space in addition to community programming and a golf clinic. The Community Benefits Fund will also support a collaboration between Cortex, Alcami, and St. Louis Community College to create a pathway for neighborhood residents into lab tech training programs and ultimately jobs in the life science industry.
Urban Action Community Development provided $6.1 million in NMTC allocation to 4260 Forest Park in St. Louis, a 58,000 SF commercial space that will create STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) education programs designed specifically to create a pathway into science and technology for the area's low-income residents. The Project's anchor tenant, Alcami, is a pharmaceutical research company that will be creating over 100 new jobs and providing important analytical drug discovery and development services to the regional bioscience companies and universities. The 1st floor tenant is TechShop, an open access maker space that will serve as a critical element of the local innovation economy, lowering the barriers of production and providing entrepreneurs access to machines, tools, and knowledge. The Project will create 160 new permanent positions, of which 144 will provide a living wage plus benefits and 20% will be accessible to low-income persons (LIPs). These numbers don't include the entrepreneurs and businesses that will be launched from TechShop, which has a targeted membership of 1,000 with an estimated 25% of memberships being small businesses.
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Survivalists get ready for meltdown
Survivalists believe in preparing to cope after the total collapse of society
They move to remote areas and stockpile food, water and guns and ammunition
Disaster scenarios include global hyperinflation and climate change
Survivalism has been linked with far-right political views -- which advocates deny
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By Paul Willis for CNN
LONDON , England (CNN) -- Derek is compiling a survival guide on how to cope after the total collapse of society. It is, as you can imagine, a big job.
Survivalists believe in preparing against the worst: stockpiling food and guns.
Already he has 58.8 gigabytes of material stored on his computer, he tells me impressively.
Derek (this is not his real name -- he says he doesn't want me to use his real name "for obvious reasons" that he never gets round to explaining) considers himself a survivalist.
The survivalist movement grew up in America in the 1960s. Encouraged by Cold War-era government's calls to build nuclear fallout shelters, and concerns over currency devaluation, individuals and groups began to take steps to prepare themselves against the worst.
Many survivalists in the U.S. relocate to the northwestern state of Idaho, stockpiling food, and quite often guns and ammunition, and learning how to be self-sufficient in order to survive or "disappear."
To those who have heard of it at all, survivalism is sometimes associated with extremist views. In the U.S., the movement has occasionally been hijacked by far-right groups attracted by its rejection of much of government and its fierce defense of the right to bear arms.
For example, Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh was obsessed with survivalism as a teenager, setting up a generator and a store of canned food and potable water in his basement.
Gaia straits: Planetary doctor says condition terminal
'Two dead' inside doomsday cult cave
Jim Rawles' Survival blog
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For defenders of the movement, like Jim Rawles who runs a survivalist blog and lives "in a very lightly populated region west of the Rockies" this perversion by a "lunatic fringe" distorts the true message of survivalism, which is, in many ways, just about personal freedom.
Derek, 60, who moved from London to the countryside in the southeast of England four years ago, puts it another way.
"There's going to be absolute pandemonium when it does happen, so I just want to be prepared so that I'm not a burden on anyone," he says.
What this disaster might be is anyone's guess, says Derek, but he's got his hunches.
Climate change is high up on the list. Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.
Even so, Derek suspects he may not live to see the meltdown he predicts is on its way.
This is perhaps why his own preparations are rather spartan. Aside from the survival manual, he has a backpack filled with a few essentials - what survivalists term a "bug-out." He keeps the rucksack in the trunk of his car; it contains a stove, dried food, blankets, boots, clothes and "a spare set of me and the wife's pills."
Jim Rawles is taking no such chances. A former U.S. army intelligence officer, he lives on a ranch in an undisclosed location with his wife (who he refers to in his blog affectionately as "the Memsahib") and their children.
Their life is almost entirely self-sufficient: They keep livestock, hunt elk and the children are schooled at home. Stored away in the ranch somewhere is a three-year supply of food.
For a city dweller it sounds almost idyllic, though Rawles -- a gently spoken and affable man -- insists it's a lot of hard work.
"The majority of survivalists live in suburban areas and they see a life away from that as an ideal," he says. "Unfortunately, from a practical standpoint it's not possible so I think for some of these people we're living out their fantasies."
When he's not looking after the ranch or re-ordering the food supply, he devotes much of his time to the blog, which he says now receives up to 70,000 visits a week.
A life-long devotee of survivalism -- he had his first "bug-out" packed when he was just 14 -- the 48-year-old has become an unofficial spokesman for the movement.
He has penned a number of books on preparedness, including a novel called "Patriots: Surviving the Coming Collapse." Set in the near future, it imagines a period of hyperinflation and socio-economic collapse, providing guidance on how to cope.
Although a work of fiction, Rawles believes the reality is not far off.
"I've come to the conclusion that the biggest lynchpin is the power grid. If it were to go down, either through economic collapse or a terrorist atrocity, then the cities are going to become unglued."
Of course, none of this kind of talk is that new. The nature of the threat may have changed but groups of various descriptions have been predicting a breakdown of society since biblical times -- and very occasionally they've been right.
What does seem to have changed, according to Rawles, is the type of people willing to take that threat seriously.
Not only does he believe that the movement is experiencing its largest growth since the late 1970s, but he counts among the new converts an increasing number of greens and left-wingers.
"They're worried by peak oil; the climate shift; the fragility of the economy. They share a lot of the same concerns as our conservative readers," he says.
But with so many possible doomsday scenarios to choose from, isn't it difficult to know what preparations to make?
Rawles says you need to be versatile. For example, a home shelter, he says, should be able to serve as a storm shelter against hurricanes, a pantry, a secure room for storing weapons, and as a fallout bunker in the event of nuclear attack.
It all sounds vaguely terrifying -- but Rawles insists he's not being paranoid.
"I really don't consider it alarmist, and knowing what I know about the fragility of society I wouldn't sleep soundly if I hadn't taken the preparations that I have." E-mail to a friend
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ITS Contest
NEWS | THE SEISMOGRAPHER
The Scouting Tour
March is definitely the most exciting period of the year for us, leaving out the finals in July, of course. The reason is very simple: one of the first things we do the minute March begins is pack our bags, drive to the nearest airport et voila, our trip to visit schools begins. We travel to meet with the graduating students and see what they are up to, to understand what is happening out there with young creativity, have a little taste of what we will receive. Perhaps even meet with a future finalist, or believe that we have met one before our opinions get crushed by the decisions of the juries in April…
In the past we've been travelling literally all over the world. We've been to Japan to visit schools in Tokyo, Kobe and Kyoto. We've travelled to India to meet with students in New Delhi. We went to Iceland, Denmark, the United States, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, France, Brazil, Israel, Spain… we even went to Cuba, where at that time it was hard for students to even have fabrics to work with, aside from the fact they didn't even have glass on the windows. We are always willing to travel further and go to schools that at the moment we are just in touch with via phone and via email. Always willing to discover new places and meet with new people. The fact is that we simply cannot do this every single year. Sometimes we just can't afford enough time to travel really far and two weeks are already too much for us to stay away from the office. Sure, today with technology one can handle a lot of work using tablets and wireless connections, but still it's not like being there in person, like our job would require.
So this year we travelled for a week before being forced back to office work. It has been a very intense week though, even if we went to London and Antwerp only. We had the chance to meet with very interesting talents and of course we also spent a few evenings with friends. Some of you – we've already received comments about this on our Facebook page – wrote us that it's unfair we met only with students from these schools and that it feels like those we met are going to be privileged in the selections… We've been hearing this again and again and would like to reassure everybody about it. There's no relation between meeting us in person during the scouting tour and being selected as a finalist in April, and for a very simple reason: we're not the judges involved in the selection. Barbara is just one of several, so what she likes might not match the individual tastes of the other members of the jury, and vice versa. We've met designers we utterly loved who later did not convince one single juror, except for Barbara. There is always a long list of "favourites though not chosen" at the end of April and we actually write an article about it each year. So please, if by the end of April you'll read the list of finalists for ITS 2012 and see people coming from the schools we've visited don't think "ha! of course! it's the guys they met in person!" because it really does not work that way.
One final thing before we begin our brief report of the tour. We would like to thank the DIESEL team composed of Vladimiro, Marina and Alice, it was a pleasure to have them with us during the whole tour! A big thank you goes also to Fabio Talpo from YKK who attended all of our meetings with accessories designers giving them great tips on possible zipper and fastening uses and to designer Kei Kagami, accessories juror and consultant for YKK who joined us too in viewing a number of accessories students.
Alex Mullins at RCA, Former finalist Hiroaki Kanai at RCA
We landed in London on Sunday 4 March afternoon, welcomed by a snow storm we hadn't expected. Luckily it lasted only that day, soon to be replaced by a very, very lucky series of sunny days. Our first school was the Royal College of Art in Kensington Gore where Wendy Dagworthy (Fashion Dept. Dean), Heather Holford (Fashion Dept. Tutor & Project Manager) welcomed us as usual making us feel at home, though we always happen to be at the school in a hectic period for them, when they are as well interviewing new candidates who apply to enter the course. This means we are in a room interviewing their students and they are in another room interviewing potential new RCA students…
We'd love to describe each and every person we met, but that would take so many words and this article would turn out to be so long that the writer might be asked to shorten it. So we'll just focus on a few of the people we met. And we cannot but speak about Alex Mullins. We had first met Alex two years ago when he was doing his BA at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, and some things about him haven't changed while others indeed have. Alex has a tremendous ability to research and experiment with graphics, treatments, combinations, etc… A single outfit can include a huge variety of references, graphics, fabrics & colour combinations, always showing his own surreal outlook on reality. He can combine apparently clashing themes, which isn't easy at all. We were fascinated by him two years ago, and still are today. At Royal College we also met a past finalist who decided to get back to school to improve his already excellent technique. We've already seen this happen in the past (with Adrian Sommerauer, for instance) and this time it was the turn of ITS#FIVE finalist Hiroaki Kanai. Several years' experience as a freelance designer and now the menswear course by Professor Ike Rust have definitely shaped Hiroaki into an even more mature and talented designer since the last time we met him. We'll see if the jury decides to include him in the "exclusive" club of the finalists being selected more than once… The jewellery students we saw there were equally interesting, one for all was Emma Montague. Last year we didn't have the chance to have her enrol because she had broken her arm just a few days before our interview. But this year, wow, we were blown away by her ideas and how she developed them in jewellery!!
Barbara & Aitor
After our first day at Royal College of Art we took a cab and headed to Aitor Throup's studio. We hadn't seen Aitor for a very long time and had never been to his new studio. He's got an amazing space now, that really fits perfectly his work and allows him to organise and follow each step of the process, since everything is done internally here (a bit like us…), from conceiving the idea to nailing it down on paper, turning it into paper cutting, right down to the final product. Aitor Throup designs will all come from over here, this is the space where each piece is conceived and is sent out to the world, not before an amazingly accurate check of every single detail. You can smell revolution in here, and as usual we could go on for hours talking about what we saw, but everyone will understand in June. So if you are looking for excitement in fashion, wait until then.
We also had a wonderful dinner with other long-time friends of ITS like designer Elisa Palomino, Head of Print Design and a true legend at Central Saint Martins Natalie Gibson and Mandi Lennard, the founder and head of Mandi Lennard Publicity. Also our former Head of Press Office Manuela Spiga, who now works at Marangoni London, joined us! Thanks girls for the lovely evening together!!
Marina modelling for Octavia Xiao Zy Yang at LCF – Kei Kagami views Nuo Chen's footwear at LCF
We must thank MA Fashion Course Director Darren Cabon, MA Fashion Artefacts Course Director Dai Rees and Creative Pattern Cutting Course Director Dennic Chunman who took awesome care of us during our stay at London College of Fashion to meet with their fashion and accessories/artefacts students. Among the several very interesting projects we saw there were the jewellery pieces by Octavia Xiao Zi Yang. Her collection "Joinery in Jewels" is inspired by Asian joinery used in timber architecture and furniture for about 7,000 years in history. Each part of the jewels can be removed thanks to the peculiar construction of the piece, giving the possibility to change parts according to trends and taste. There's a picture showing Marina from DIESEL modelling while Octavia is mounting one of her items around her neck… Equally interesting was the footwear project by Nuo Chen. From YKK's point of view it was even more interesting since it was a collection of deconstructed, transformable shoes. We had never seen the reversible concept applied to shoes, but Nuo found a very smart technique that plays with the inner and outside parts of the shoes interchanging them easily, thus radically transforming the whole shoe into a completely different version.
When we finished our interviews at LCF we went round the corner where jewellery prodige and ITS#SEVEN finalist Tomasz Donocik was waiting for us to dine together. We really can't help it, when we're with Tomasz we automatically switch to "fun" mode since it's impossible not to have fun with him… In the rare moments of seriousness, we had the chance to see a prototype of the gloves collection he developed in collaboration with former finalist Thomasine Barnekow and the result is breathtaking… Also amazing was the new collection of scarves that Tomasz is developing together with designer Emma Shipley, a former RCA with an incredible hand drawing skills.
Miyaei Kimura at CSM, Sara Arnold at CSM
The following day we finally had the opportunity to see for the first time the new building of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, located in King's Cross. A wonderful new space with lots of light coming in and a grand entrance… apparently there's plenty of room for everyone but at the Fashion Department not everyone's so happy about the change. Leaving aside the history and the location (Soho) of the old building, there's still a lot to do before fashion can really call the new building their home. By the way, we're not interested in the box but in the content, and we did find substance! One for all was Yong Kyun Shin, finalist at ITS#NINE who has now graduated from Professor Louise Wilson's MA course. In 2010 Yong had obsessively padded hundreds of hair clips using them to create shapes on his outfits. He probably thought it wasn't complicated enough, so this time he decided to go for springs, not just in one size but in several different sizes. And he didn't just cover them in fabric, he used them to drape, add tension… in other words, a terribly complicated job with a wonderful final result! Another fascinating project was that of Craig Green, whom we also had already met in the past, when he was in his BA. Very graphic, with a very strong signature style, Craig is very 'tactile' in what he does, experimenting with unusual materials, fabrics and stuff and is able to put his creativity to the test also with hats and footwear, for instance. He aims at launching his own personal line and we believe won't be difficult for Craig to set himself apart from the rest of the pack.
We also met with professor Caroline Broadhead's BA jewellery students at CSM. The new jewellery department at King's Cross seemed really wonderful to us, and we were happy to see many students asking us questions about ITS, eager to enrol and take the chance. In the middle of the jewellery lab we met with students like Charlotte Le Hardy and her wonderful idea of transforming traditional sayings like "walls have ears" into pieces of jewellery, and graduate Tomono Hirai with her pieces inspired by animal horns and fangs. We'd also like to thank Caroline Broadhead for the interesting chat we had at the end of the interviews, it's a totally different thing being able to meet somebody in the flesh rather than just being in touch from afar.
Marius Janusauskas at Hogeschool Antwerpen, Former finalist Marisa Leipert
Our time in London ends with Central Saint Martins, and we fly to Antwerp for our final stop at the Hogeschool Antwerpen where designer Walter Van Beirendonck (Head of the Fashion Department and 3rd year Design Bachelor) together with beautiful Yvonne De Cock (Graphics teacher for all 4 years) warmly welcomed us, as usual. Our interviews started out with a big "BANG!" thanks to the beauty of Marius Janusauskas' work which left us utterly breathless and ready to clap our hands when he finished presenting his final collection… Another great project we saw among several ones was that of Umit Esbulan, with his sportswear concept mixed with lace and crochet resulting in a very elegant and tailored look. During our interviews finalists Jantine Van Peski, Tabitha Osler and Marisa Leipert, who now teaches at the school, stopped by to say hello, and, what an incredible surprise!!! Both Jantine and Marisa are expecting a baby, and they were just so beautiful in their pregnancy… as you can easily see in the pictures here!
Left to right: Jantine Van Peski, Yvonne Dekock, Tabitha Osler and Barbara
This Scouting Tour week rushed by real quick but we managed to do so much in these few days and meet a lot of people who hopefully will all enrol in ITS. Luckily, we also had the chance to spend some time with past finalists, though never as much as we'd like to. It was a great pity, for example, not to be able to catch up with Daniel Ivarsson, Tomasz Donocik's "alter ego" in a way, who recently moved to Antwerp to work for a new company… but it was a great pity not having the time to meet with loads of other finalists like Justin Smith, Yang Du, Weronika Lesniak, Ali Forbes, Una Burke… way too many to mention them all. But we are trying to work out something for May, to meet with everyone…
As we emphasized in the beginning, we were able to talk about just a few of the designers we met, so we'd like to apologise to everyone else who isn't mentioned here. You were so many, but you can be sure you're all in our minds, and we will never forget what a privilege we had meeting you. If we do have a quality, is that we remember people's faces and projects years after we've met them.
In the history of contemporary fashion, documented through the perspective of the ITS Arcademy Collection, there are designers who made history. Interestingly, it's not always names that made it through to…
Looking for either controversy, beauty, culture or symbolism, it is no mystery why fashion drives inspiration from religion. They are undeniably intertwined: religions and religious orders have dress codes and use…
Stepping into a museum space can often feel like everything's stuck in time, frozen. As if it were a place where not much happens, other than cleaning and occasional moving of…
Assigned annually in London by the British Fashion Council, The Fashion Awards might seem like they've only existed since Craig Green won Designer of the Year in 2016. But the ceremony…
"Aitor Throup is an Argentinian-born British artist, designer and creative director." This is the only sentence that sounds vaguely complete about what Aitor is. All attempts to pin down every aspect…
ITS Finalist Hazuki Katagai wins at Tokyo Midtown Award 2022. Interview with artist Hazuki Katagi, Runner-up prize at the Tokyo-based event for emerging artists.
The Tokyo Midtown Award, established to support young artists and designers, is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. The art competition accepted ideas for site-specific works for the iconic Tokyo Midtown…


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Faculty of Photonics School of Physics and Engineering
History of Faculty
Applying for Master's program
Timetable and Study Groups
Intellectual Property (Patents)
Research Summer Camp in Photonics 2021 ONLINE
ITMO University's traditional summer school in photonics is back! After the enforced break last year, the Faculty of Photonics and Optical IT has made a decision to move Summer School 2021 to online to ensure the safety of participants.
Day of Russian Science
QPM Lab in 2020: Academic Degrees and Defenses
New Way to Improve Quantum Encryption in Optical Fiber Communication Lines
Staff members of the Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements have found the cause of errors that occur on subcarrier frequencies in quantum key distribution (QKD) systems – as well as a way to eliminate it. Their research was in Optics Express.
Researchers Develop Supersensitive Method to Measure Surface Topography With THz Radiation
The method allows scientists to get an image close to a holographic one in its properties but with less energy input. In theory, the method could be applied in industrial quality control or acquiring images of concealed objects, for instance, in transillumination of envelopes.
Scientists of the Faculty of Photonics and Optoinformatics have developed a method of encoding information for the 6G standard
The information encoding method for 6G standard Scientists from the Faculty of Photonics and Optoinformatics at ITMO University have developed a method for coding information in the terahertz pulse. This method can be used to create wireless data transmission devices in the 6G standard. Such systems will accelerate data exchange by two to three orders of magnitude. Today, scientists around the world are working on ways to transfer data in the terahertz (THz) range, which would make it possible to send and receive information much faster than what is allowed by today's technology. But the issue they're facing is that it is much more difficult to encode data in the THz range than in the GHz range, which is currently used by 5G tech. A group of scientists from the laboratory of Femtosecond optics and femtotechnologies has demonstrated the possibility of modifying terahertz pulses in order to use them for data transmission. An article on this subject was published in Scientific Reports (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66437-4) .
Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements Launches at the Faculty of Photonics and Optoinformatics. Interview with Researcher
ITMO University has recently launched a new unit that specializes in studying quantum processes. According to the founders of the new laboratory, they are planning to introduce breakthrough theoretical developments of fundamental physics into an experimental science. ITMO.NEWS contacted Anton Kozubov, the head of the new laboratory's theoretical department, in order to learn more about the tasks that the scientists have set for themselves, as well as why their completion can expand the horizons of modern physics.
ITMO University Launches Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements
Laboratory of Quantum Processes and Measurements (QPM) of ITMO University was created on February 17, 2020, in ITMO University with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. QPM Lab is engaged in the creation and expansion of quantum models of elements of quantum optics and their application in the basic protocols of quantum communications and quantum informatics.
Research is the work of my dreams!
Evgeniya Ponomareva, the graduate student of the Photonics and Optoinformatics Department, winner of the university contest "Student of the Year-2019" in the nomination - the best in scientific and technical creativity, put wise concerning her scientific work and shared her study experience in Finland.
Scientists of International Institute of Photonics and Optoinformatics at ITMO University won the Ministry of Science and Education Grant
At the end of December 2019, the results of scientific projects bid carried out by teams of research centers and scientific laboratories of higher educational institutions subordinate to the Russian Ministry of Education and Science were summed up. The project developed by scientists from the International Institute of Photonics and Optoinformatics of ITMO University won this competition. The project "Quantum dynamics and correlation measurements of multimode photonic systems and topologically non-trivial polarization states" has received the status "performed within the framework of the state assignment in the field of science", with appropriate funding from the federal budget.
Scientists of the International Institute «Photonics and Optical Information Technology» of ITMO University for the first time in the world measured nonlinearities in the terahertz frequency range.
Researchers from Laboratory of Femtosecond Optics and Femtotechnologies of ITMO University have, for the first time in history, managed to directly measure the nonlinear refractive index of matter in the terahertz range. The results of their experiments were compared with previously existing theoretical predictions in order to confirm the presence of nonlinear effects. The obtained data can be used to control light, as well as in fundamental and biomedical research. The results have been published in Optics Express.
International Day of Light in the Laboratory of Femtosecond Optics and Femtotechnologies
Congratulations to colleagues on the International Day of Light! We wish you success in research.
Physicists of the International Institute «Photonics and Optical Informatics» Conduct Study of Terahertz Radiation in Liquids
A research team from ITMO University and the University of Rochester (the USA) have conducted a study on the formation of terahertz radiation in liquids. Previously, the generation of such radiation in a liquid medium was considered impossible due to high absorption. However, in their new research, the scientists described this phenomenon's physical nature and demonstrated that liquid radiation sources can be equally effective to traditional ones. The results have been published in Applied Physics Letters Nov. 1, 2018. The Editors felt that this article was one of the journal's best, and have chosen to promote it as a Featured Article.
Scientists of the International Institute «Photonics and optical information technology» of the ITMO University participate in «SPIE Photonics Asia-2018».
The largest international conference of Asia on optics and Photonics «SPIE Photonics Asia-2018» was held in Beijing (China), October 11-13. The conference «SPIE Photonics Asia-2018» was attended by a group of scientists of the International Institute «Photonics and optical information technology» leaded by its head, Professor Sergei А. Kozlov. The head of the international laboratory of «Femtosecond optics and femtotechnologies» Anton Tcypkin and the PhD student Maksim Melnik presented their scientific works at the conference.
The cooperation of the International Institute of Photonics and optical information technology of the ITMO University and the National Institute of telecommunications of Brazil.
The international institute Photonics and optical information technology of the ITMO University, visited professor of National Institute of telecommunications of Brazil Joel Rodrigues, by the invitation of the professor Sergey Kozlov. Professor Rodrigues directs the laboratory registered in National scientific fund of Brazil. Its laboratory works in two main research directions: one is bound to work in the field of the Internet of things, and the second assumes working on by the next generation of networks and applications.
Leading scientists of the International Institute of Photonics and Optoinformatics made presentations at the largest international forum «IRMMW-THz 2018».
Leading scientists of the International Institute of Photonics and Optoinformatics of ITMO University took part in the 43rd international conference on infrared, millimeter and terahertz waves "IRMMW-THz 2018", which was held from 9 to 14 September in Nagoya, Japan. This conference dates back to 1974 and is the best known largest continuous forum specifically dedicated to the field of microwave electronics and applications. The conference venue alternates between Europe, Asia and America in a three-year cycle. Every year the conference gathers more than five hundred participants from all over the world. Year by year the interest to the conference only grows, the geography and the number of its participants expands. This year the conference was attended by about 800 people with 392 oral and 335 poster presentations.
European Commission supports DigiTwins
18th of May, DigiTwins received an invitation from the European Commission to enter the next stage of the competition to become an EU Flagship for Future and Emerging Technologies. DigiTwins, a large research initiative in Europe and beyond aims at revolutionizing healthcare and biomedical research for the benefit of citizens and society and at contributing to Europe's Digital Single Market strategy through the creation of Digital Twins.
A personal Digital Twin for every European citizen – the DigiTwins initiative will make it happen
DigiTwins, a European research initiative, aims at revolutionizing healthcare and biomedical research in Europe through the creation of individual Digital Twins for every European citizen. The initiative is seeking the support of the European Commission to become an EU Flagship for Future and Emerging Technologies.
International Conference "Basic Problems of Optics"
You are kindly invited to participate in сonference organized by ITMO University
3rd International Conference Terahertz and Microwave Radiation: Generation, Detection and Applications
TERA-2018 conference is devoted to the discussion of fundamental and applied problems related to the generation and detection of terahertz and microwave radiation as well as its interaction with matter.
Maser Emission from Gravitational States on Isolated Neutron Stars
A New Paper "Maser Emission from Gravitational States on Isolated Neutron Stars" by Nikita Tepliakov, Tatiana Vovk, Ivan Rukhlenko, and Yuri Rozhdestvensky has been recently accepted to The Astrophysical Journal (with a 2016 Impact Factor of 5.533). Nikita Tepliakov and Tatiana Vovk are the fourth-year bachelor students and Yuri Rozhdestvensky is a professor with the Department of Optical Physics and Modern Natural Science. This paper is a unique demonstration of the high cross-disciplinary nature of research conducted at Modeling and Design of Nanostructures Laboratory headed by Dr Ivan Rukhlenko.
Quantum network connects young scientists from Russia and U.S.
Nine students from the Institute of Optics (Rochester, USA) have arrived to ITMO University to participate in the Summer Research camp in Photonics–2016. They spent two summer weeks there not only for sightseeing, but also learning about the emerging practical applications of femtosecond optics, terahertz biomedicine and quantum information technologies. Together with their ITMO fellows, two guests, Eric Herbert and Barry Magenya, were involved in unique quantum communications project.
International workshop "Quantum informatics and applications in economics and finance"
International workshop "Quantum informatics and applications in economics and finance" is organized by research laboratory Fin Q at ITMO University, and is a consolidating meeting, which purpose is to bring together the Fin Q research team with other researchers, including students (bachelor, master, graduate), interested in Quantum Information and Quantitative Methods in Economics and Finance. Everybody local (from St. Petersburg) who is interested in this subjects is invited.
International laboratory Fin Q now on Facebook!
Follow Fin Q Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/finq.international?ref=hl and join our forthcoming events!
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Gun ammo shortages felt in the Chippewa Valley
By Leeann Stapleton
LAKE HALLIE, Wis. (WEAU) - The gun deer hunting season in Wisconsin has arrived, but some hunters might have a hard time getting their hands a crucial piece of equipment. Ammunition.
Shortages of gun ammunition have been felt around the country, including the Chippewa Valley. Dan Marcon is the owner of Marc-On Shooting in Lake Hallie. He says his business has felt the squeeze of getting ammo supplies.
"I've been in the sporting industry, sporting good industry since I was 12," Marcon said. "You know, I was hunting from northern Wisconsin and I've never seen ammunition this scarce, ever."
Marcon says he contacts 12 vendors every day, but the supply just can't keep up with the demand.
"this spring I had several cases of hunting ammunition in stock, I was out by September," Marcon said. "So, I've probably had several hundred boxes of any caliber hunting ammunition and gone. I get them every day. I get two boxes or 20 boxes and within hours, it's gone."
Marcon says just like many other products, supply chain and shipping issues have affected ammo.
"The problem is we've lost one manufacturer in the United States, Remington we lost this past year in 2021," Marcon said. "Hodgdon is a powder manufacturer, I was just informed in the last couple of weeks that they're no longer in business, so they're a powder supplier. All the primers come from different places, there are only five manufacturers of primer, only two manufactures of glue."
Often times with supply shortages, come price changes.
"The average price is going up 6 to 7 to 9 bucks a box for basic hunting ammunition, my cost," Marcon said.
Marcon says the way it looks now, the shortage doesn't look like it will get much better.
"Handgun ammunition is supposed to be coming scarce again this winter, we're told from our suppliers," Marcon said.
Marcon suggests not waiting to get ammo for hunting or other seasons.
"It's been drilled into our systems over the past years that you buy ammo in September, October, November for your hunt in November. Now, you have to buy them in January, February and put them away," Marcon said.
Marcon says he's talked with other midwest gun shop owners, and they are being impacted by the gun ammunition shortage as well.
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Golden Spear of the East
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1 The Challenge of the Golden Spear (shamelessly stolen from the Iron Ring in the Rapier community)
3 How to acquire the Spear
The Challenge of the Golden Spear (shamelessly stolen from the Iron Ring in the Rapier community)
The Iron Ring is a symbol of prowess (and only prowess) in rapier fighting within the bounds of a particular Kingdom. Currently there are five Rings active in the Society - in the Middle Kingdom, East Kingdom, Ealdormere, Meredies, and Northshield. As this has become a popular way to bring the Rapier community together, the Thrown Weapons community in the East Kingdom has decided to take a similar approach and create the Golden Spear. Please don't confuse this with the Golden Lance, which is an Award for prowess in the equestrian lists and demonstrated service to the Kingdom in marshalling, teaching, and helping to promote and expand the knowledge of equestrian arts.
In AS 53, Duke Brennan and Duchess Caoilfhionn (then King and Queen of the East) participated in King's and Queen's Thrown Weapons Championships at Panteria. In the final of the tournament, the outgoing Champion Bryon de Burgh, the King and the Queen threw the Golden Spear and the participants in the final had to come as close to that spear as possible. Because this Spear was blessed by the King and Queen that day, we decided to use this to symbolize prowess with the spear within the Kingdom
How to acquire the Spear
The only way to acquire the Golden Spear of your Kingdom is to challenge the current holder. The format of the challenge is fixed and shall be strictly followed to insure this does not alter from its original intent:
To declare the challenge the challenger declares 'I request the Challenge of the Golden Spear'.
The Golden Spear may only be exchanged once in any given day; if another challenger requests a Challenge to the new holder on the day they have won the spear from another, the holder is required to decline the Challenge. Otherwise, the holder may accept up to three Challenges in a given day, assuming the holder is the victor of each preceding Challenge that day.
The holder of the Golden Spear is required to accept the first Challenge in a day. The second and third Challenges are optional, and the holder should only accept those if they feel that they can show sufficient prowess and stamina after the exertions of the first Challenge.
A challenger for the Golden Spear may only issue a single challenge per day.
Terms for what the contest will be determined by the participants. The challenger, as part of the challenge, will name the terms of the contest at the time of the challenge. The holder of the Spear can change ONE of the terms (distance, number of throws, method of throw, etc.).
Weapons must be SCA and East Kingdom legal. If it looks like a spear and throws like a spear, it's a spear.
The Golden Spear may not reside outside of it's Kingdom's borders. As such, it will revert to the previous holder if the current holder moves from the Spear's home kingdom or stops playing.
The Golden Spear shall be displayed prominently while at events and practices so potential challengers may know who is the current holder.
Lastly, it is the duty of the outgoing holder of the Golden Spear to make sure the incoming holder is fully aware of these rules.
Syr Cedric of Thanet (first bearer of the Golden Spear) Pennsic 8/8/2018
THL Arngeir Refskegg Otter's Welcome 5/11/2009
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Ichthyophthirius multifiliis est une espèce de ciliés de la famille des Ichthyophthiriidae, responsable de l'ichtyophthiriose ou maladie des points blancs chez les poissons.

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Références biologiques

Oligohymenophorea
Espèce de ciliés (nom scientifique)

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