Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards (Uromastyx aegyptia) are reptiles that originated in the Middle East. Not only do they exist throughout Egypt, they also are found in other nations, such as Yemen, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Kuwait. Many of these family Agamidae creatures also reside as pets in captivity. Egyptian mastigure is another name for the species.
Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards are seen in scattered clusters throughout their geographic scope. The Red List for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature tagged the species as being "vulnerable" in 2012, a result of their dropping numbers from habitat ruination. The living environments for Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards are in jeopardy largely because of factors, such as farming development and excessive grazing. They sometimes even are taken by humans for their flesh. In nature, these lizards generally gravitate toward rugged regions.
Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards are members of the genus Uromastyx. Not only are Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards the biggest Uromastyx lizards, they also are believed to have the lengthiest average life expectancies of them all, as well. The typical life expectancy of Uromastyx lizards in captive environments isn't easy to predict, however, as many individuals that were taken in as pets originally came from other countries. Once these lizards began living as pets, their exact ages were uncertain and, therefore, impossible to track accurately. Some Uromastyx lizards have surpassed 30 years in age. However, half of that length, or about 15 years, generally is considered to be more of a standard life span for these reptiles.
Keep your Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard in strong health to potentially maximize his life span. Diet is a crucial aspect in their care. These guys adore munching on plants, but they also don't hesitate to feed on bugs if they have access to any. Regular feedings of fresh produce also go a long way in keeping Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards in optimal condition. Some examples of veggies that they eat frequently are dandelion greens, collard greens, kale, carrots and peas. Regular dietary supplementation for additional nourishment also is vital for them, something you can mix in with their fruits and veggies. Calcium is a common supplement for these lizards, and usually is offered to them two to three times weekly. Multivitamins that include vitamin A also are used commonly. Consult your veterinarian as you plan your lizard's diet. Never offer your pet anything unless you have the prior "OK" of the professional, for safety reasons.
Lighting is another component that, like diet, often can keep your Egyptian spiny-tailed lizard in strong physical condition for years to come. Ample ultraviolet B (UVB) is crucial for the living environments of Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards. They require UVB to take in calcium properly. If a specimen doesn't receive enough of this type of lighting, he might suffer metabolic bone disease, an extremely risky and common ailment in many reptiles. Some typical indications of the disease are absence of appetite, anorexia, swelling of the legs, exhaustion, loss of walking skills, overall feebleness and fragile bones that are quick to shatter. If metabolic bone disease remains ignored in Egyptian spiny-tailed lizards, it could cause life-threatening results, thereby shortening their life spans. Urgent veterinary attention is a must for any reptile you suspect might be living with this illness.
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Nikolas Cruz, who faces 17 counts of murder, escaped from the school by dropping his rifle and leaving with the crowd of students being evacuated. He then went to a Walmart and bought a drink.
PARKLAND, Fla. — The Florida teenager who is accused of killing 17 people at his former high school admitted to police that he carried out one of the country's deadliest school shootings, authorities said Thursday. But what may have motivated Nikolas Cruz remained unknown, even as investigators delved into his troubled, violent life and the red flags that littered his path back to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday afternoon.
As Cruz, 19, remained held without bond on murder charges, authorities scoured the high school where they say he aimed his AR-15 and fired round after round into classroom after classroom, leaving a trail of blood and agony before trying to elude police by hiding among those running to escape the carnage.
On the first full day after the school was transformed into a war zone, this idyllic suburb north of Fort Lauderdale grappled with a massacre that added its name to the ever-growing roster of places synonymous with tragedies in public spaces: Columbine (Colorado). Newtown (Connecticut). Aurora (Colorado). Charleston (South Carolina). Las Vegas (Nevada). Sutherland Springs (Texas). And, now, Parkland (Florida).
The country mourned with Parkland, living through what has become a grim routine. Names slowly emerged Thursday, revealing that the bullets cut down the young and old alike, including a student who had recently gotten into the state's flagship college, a senior who had just gained U.S. citizenship and a football coach who was working at his alma mater. Those killed ranged in age from 14 to 49, police said. Most were teenagers, just one of them old enough to vote. Three were staffers.
The familiar response played out as the shooting again cracked open fissures in American politics and culture over guns, a debate that seems ever more immovable. President Trump, in brief remarks at the White House, echoed Florida Gov. Rick Scott in emphasizing a response focused on mental health, eschewing the calls for stricter gun control that follow every attack without any changes being made. In this case, some of the loudest pleas came from students who survived the attack as well as grieving parents.
He began firing into rooms, returning to two of them as he continued pumping round after round inside at the huddled, terrified teachers and students. Cruz went up the stairs, firing at another room as he went through the school building.
As students began to flee the carnage, Cruz dropped his rifle and bag of extra ammunition and joined "others who were fleeing and tried to mix in with the group . . . fearing for their lives," Israel, the sheriff, said Thursday. He went to a Walmart, bought a drink, sat at a Subway, and eventually left on foot.
Michael Leonard, a police officer from nearby Coconut Creek who came to assist with the police response, spotted him walking down a residential street not far from the school.
A day after being arrested, Cruz made his first court appearance, facing 17 counts of premeditated murder. He mostly looked down at his hands and answered the judge in a low voice. His attorneys did not specifically say Thursday that he had confessed to the shooting, nor did they explicitly deny his involvement, describing him as a "broken young man " who is "very saddened" by what happened.
Israel, the sheriff, vowed that authorities would make sure that "justice is served." More than a dozen people had been wounded, and some remained in critical condition Thursday, hospital officials said.
Investigators have already interviewed more than 2,000 people as part of the probe and hope to speak to unnamed people who "might enlighten us as to why he did what he did," Israel said, though he emphasized that a day into the investigation, police did not believe Cruz had any accomplices.
Cruz bought the AR-15 himself legally in Coral Springs, officials said. So far, it is the only gun authorities have recovered as part of the investigation, said Peter Forcelli, special agent in charge of the Miami field division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The court filing Thursday said Cruz bought the gun about a year before the rampage.
Federal authorities were facing questions about whether they had missed a chance to encounter the gunman before. The FBI was contacted last fall about a comment left on YouTube that mentioned becoming "a professional school shooter." The YouTube user's name was Nikolas Cruz. FBI agents spoke to the person who submitted the tip, searched law enforcement databases and were unable to determine who posted the comment, said Robert Lasky, special agent in charge of the FBI's Miami division. Officials now believe Cruz posted that message.
Others were left worried about returning to normal life in the coming days. Judy Weiss, whose 17-year-old son Justin goes to Douglas, was uneasy about sending him back to school when it reopens. Her anxieties were compounded because her son is disabled and unable to communicate. Because of that, he is taken outside by nurses before the flood of students leaving at the final bell, which meant he was already arriving at the handicap bus when panicked students fled the gunfire.
Weiss said she and her husband bought a home in Parkland 20 years ago because it was considered so safe. Now she has to face sending her son back to Douglas when the doors reopen.


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Earl Peirce, Jr. (1917-1983)-Part Five
In Washington, D.C.
By July 1937, when he wrote to Weird Tales about the death and legacy of H.P. Lovecraft, Earl Peirce, Jr., was living in Washington, D.C., with his family. His father had been appointed to a position there with the U.S. Forest Service. Earl Peirce, Sr., would spend the rest of his forestry career in the nation's capital, retiring in 1951 after more than forty years on the job.
"The Death Mask" may have been the last story that Earl Peirce, Jr., sent to Weird Tales from his Milwaukee home. It was published in the issue of April 1937. "The Homicidal Diary" followed in October 1937. Nearly a whole year went by before Peirce had his next story in "The Unique Magazine." Written with Bruce Bryan, "The White Rat" was published in September 1938.
Born in Washington, D.C., Leslie Bruce Bryan (1906-2004) was an archaeologist and anthropologist known for his work in the American Southwest and on the Channel Islands. He worked at the County Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art (now the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History) and the Southwest Museum of Los Angeles, not only as a man in the field but also as a curator and a staff writer for The Masterkey, the magazine of the Southwest Museum. Between 1932 and 1939, he wrote or co-wrote five stories published in Weird Tales and its sister title, Oriental Stories. During the same period, he had twelve letters printed in weird fiction magazines.
Bryan's first collaborator in weird fiction was Dudley S. Corlett (ca. 1880-1946), with whom he wrote "The Dancer of Quena," published in Oriental Stories in Spring 1932. Born in England, Corlett lived in southern California for many years. Like Bryan, he worked in scientific or semi-scientific fields, in his case, botany and tropical agriculture.
Bruce Bryan returned to his native city during the early or mid 1930s. He married his second wife, Mary Katherine Fahrenwald, in Washington, D.C., in November 1936. In 1940, he registered for the draft while living there, and like Earl Peirce, Jr., he called himself a writer. During the previous decade, Bryan had had stories not only in weird fiction magazines but also in Argosy, as well as in Western, crime, mystery, and detective titles. Bryan returned to California in the 1940s.
While living in Washington, D.C., Bryan became a member of a Weird Tales fan club. Fan and letter writer Julius Hopkins led the group. Other members included Everill Worrell (1893-1969) and Seabury Quinn (1889-1969). Earl Peirce, Jr., joined, too. Unfortunately, I don't have any details on him except that he was a member and that he co-wrote a story with Bruce Bryan.
After collaborating with Bryan, Earl Peirce had just two more stories in Weird Tales, "The Stroke of Twelve" (June/July 1939) and "Portrait of a Bride" (Jan. 1940). He followed up with "Legacy of the Dead" in Terror Tales (July 1940) and "The Shadow of Nirvana" in Strange Stories (Feb. 1941). Although Peirce had other stories in the pulp magazines of the 1940s, these were his last in the weird fiction titles.
On April 16, 1940, Earl Peirce, Jr., was counted in the U.S. census in Washington, D.C. He was with his family at 3738 Huntington Street, N.W. If the house at that address now is the same as in 1940, then it was a pretty fine one. Later that year, on October 16, 1940, Peirce filled out his draft card, giving his employer as the General Federation of Women's Clubs. On May 7, 1941, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. (His younger brother Dudley Beach Peirce enlisted the same day.) On December 26, 1941, less than three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Earl Peirce, Jr., married Gloria Hallett Grimm (1922-1999), also in Washington, D.C. The world had suddenly become a very serious place.
I don't think it was mere coincidence that Peirce's writing for the pulps went on pause in 1941. Military service, marriage, and world war have ways of interrupting a person's plans. He had just one story published during the war and only three more after that. His last came in October 1949, just thirteen years after his first.
To be continued . . .
Earl Peirce's fifth story in Weird Tales was "The White Rat," cowritten with Bruce Bryan and published in the September 1938 issue. "The White Rat" is set in Norway. It begins as a club story, but the middle and end take place in a remote northern location. Despite the weird-fiction or gothic-romance elements of separation and isolation, "The White Rat" actually approaches science fiction. I guess we can call it a weird science story.
If there is weird science, there should probably be a weird--or mad--scientist, and there is in this story. There is also a tale told of a medical doctor with psychopathic or sociopathic proclivities. We have seen characters like that before. They're also with us in the real world.
"The White Rat" has similarities to Frankenstein. It's sort of a Frankenstein's monster of a story, too. There are elements not only of Mary Shelley's seminal gothic romance/proto-science fiction novel but also of stories by H.P. Lovecraft, including "The White Ape" (Weird Tales, Apr. 1924), "The Whisperer in Darkness" (Weird Tales, Aug. 1931), "The Dunwich Horror" (Weird Tales, Apr. 1929), and "Cool Air" (Tales of Magic and Mystery, Mar. 1928). The story was written before Watson and Crick found out about DNA, so maybe we can forgive some of its fumbling about genetics. There are, however, suggestions of Lamarckian evolution or Lysenkoism in its pages. I'm pretty sure that both would have been discredited by the time Peirce and Bryan wrote their story. Finally, the weird fiction or science fiction trope of the body frozen in a block of ice and waiting to be revivified is central to the plot. In that, "The White Rat" anticipated Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943), The Thing from Another World (1951), and the Minnesota Iceman hoax of the 1960s. There is also something of The Fly (1958) in it, another film from the future.
The illustration above is the work of Virgil Finlay. It appears as a heading to the story. In combination with the first few pages of the story, it gives away part of the plot and part of the surprise. Before long, we've got it all figured out pretty well. Only the details are missing until the end. The issue in which "The White Rat" appeared was an all-star issue with stories and poems by Seabury Quinn, Algernon Blackwood, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Edmond Hamilton, Clark Ashton Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, and Paul Ernst. That was pretty good company for young Earl Peirce, Jr.
Thanks to Randal A. Everts for information on Julius Hopkins' fan club.
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39 Russians dead as military plane crashes in Syria
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A Russian An-26 military transport plane. (Interpress/Vladislav Belogrud via Reuters)
MOSCOW — A Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria on Tuesday killing all 39 people on board, Russian officials said, an incident that sharply raised the death toll from the Kremlin's intervention in the Syrian war.
President Vladimir Putin, who is running for re-election later this month, declared in December that the Russian mission in Syria was largely completed, but casualties continue to mount.
The Kremlin said in a statement that the plane, a Soviet-designed An-26, crashed at Russia's Hmeymim air base in Latakia Province. The cause may have been a technical malfunction, the Kremlin said.
"According to the latest updates, the An-26 transport aircraft, which crashed while landing at Hmeymim airbase, was carrying 33 passengers and six crew. All of them were members of the Russian Armed Forces," Interfax news agency quoted the Russian defense ministry as saying.
"The crew and the passengers were killed."
Originally, Russian news agencies cited the defense ministry as saying that 32 passengers and crew were killed in the crash but this was later revised.
Russian state TV cited military officials as saying the aircraft had not been brought down by enemy fire. It said the plane came down around 500 meters short of the runway at Hmeymim as it attempted to land.
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, in a telegram offering his condolences, said when the crash happened, the service personnel on board were returning to base after completing an unspecified combat mission.
Putin, on an election campaign stop in the Ural mountains, was briefed on the crash via telephone by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and expressed his condolences to the relatives and colleagues of those killed, the Kremlin said.
Costly campaign
Russia's armed intervention in Syria turned the tide of the conflict in favor of Putin's ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It has been portrayed inside Russia as a display of Russia's resurgent military might.
It has, though, come at a cost.
According to a Reuters tally based on official announcements before Tuesday's crash, 44 Russian service personnel have died in Syria since the operation started in September 2015.
In one incident last month, Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane. The pilot ejected and died on the ground in a gunfight with rebels.
In addition to those deaths, in December 2016 a plane carrying a Russian military orchestra to Syria crashed in the Black Sea, killing all 92 people on board.
Under a decree signed by Putin, the Russian authorities do not have to disclose all deaths of service personnel in Syria because they are classified as a state secret.
The official toll does not include private military contractors who, according to people familiar with the deployment, are in Syria fighting in support of the Russian operation. Moscow denies they exist.
About 300 men working for a Kremlin-linked Russian private military firm were either killed or wounded in Syria last month when their column was attacked by U.S.-led coalition forces, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Russian officials said a handful of Russian citizens may have been killed in that incident, but said they were not members of Russia's armed forces.
Opinion polls indicate most Russians support the Syria operation. But Dmitry Gudkov, a former member of parliament and a member of the anti-Putin opposition, said the Kremlin had questions to answer about the campaign.
"How does the draw-down of forces look now? For the sake of what are these people dying? When will this senseless war end?" Gudkov said in a social media post.
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The daughter of former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputy Leyla Güven has claimed her mother was threatened with physical violence by a prison guard in eastern Turkey's Elazığ T-Type Prison, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported, citing the Duvar news website.
Sabiha Temizkan tweeted that a male guard told her mother to take her hands out of her pockets while she was being taken to be vaccinated. When Güven failed to comply, he told her she would pay for it.
According to Temizkan, other guards intervened to diffuse the situation but the guard continued his threats. "My mother will be filing a complaint," she added. "There were security cameras where the incident occurred, so we will request that the recordings be reviewed."
Temizkan said she feared for her mother's safety after the incident. "When I went to see my mother in prison, she was escorted by six other guards. Normally only two guards escort prisoners, so this makes me wonder if they also fear for her safety," she said.
Temizkan pointed out that the same male guard had similar confrontations with other prisoners in the past and said it was mystifying why his actions had not been investigated by the prison administration.
Reports of mistreatment, torture and threats in Turkish prisons have become worryingly common. However, according to a recent Human Rights Watch report, authorities are reluctant to investigate such claims.
İbrahim Temel, also an inmate in Elazığ T-Type Prison, complained about being threatened by prison guards in December. During visitation Temel showed his family the bruises on his body and asked them to save him. Temel said he was put in a solitary cell and a guard would come by and ask him why he had not yet killed himself.
Although Temel's family filed a complaint, the Elazığ Chief Public Prosecutor's office found no grounds for legal action against the guards. According to the prosecutor, there was no evidence other than the allegations of the complainant to indicate there had been mistreatment.
According to a report by the UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, on his mission to Turkey from November 27 to December 2, 2016, "torture and other forms of ill-treatment were widespread" in Turkey. "[T]here seemed to be a serious disconnect between declared government policy and its implementation in practice," the special rapporteur noted.
The report found there were numerous consistent allegations received by the special rapporteur in the immediate aftermath of a failed coup in 2016 and that torture and other forms of ill-treatment were widespread.
The special rapporteur heard persistent reports of severe beatings, punches and kicking, blows with objects, falaka, threats and verbal abuse, being forced to strip naked, rape with objects and other sexual violence or threats thereof, sleep deprivation, stress positions and extended blindfolding and/or handcuffing for several days, according to the report.
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Home Fashion Be bold, be brave: A foreigner's message for Indian designers
Be bold, be brave: A foreigner's message for Indian designers
Lisa Lang
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Mumbai– Indian designers can achieve a lot more in the international market if they take craftsmanship to a different level and become a tad bolder and crazier with designs, says Lisa Lang, founder of Germany-based ElektroCouture, a fashion technology house which pioneered bespoke innovative electronic wearable technology for the fashion.
"I can see huge potential in Indian designers, but I would like to see them challenging themselves to be little bold and crazy. I see designers putting so much energy here, but they can do more. The great thing is you (Indian designers) have substance and infrastructure, so I just want you to go little bit more crazy," Lang told IANS on the sidelines of the ongoing Lakme Fashion Week (LFW) Summer-Resort edition.
ElektroCouture made its Indian ramp debut in association with six other international designers at LFW with a sensational high-tech digital electronic fashion fantasy show.
Lang said: "There are a couple of designers I have seen and I am going to sit down with them and talk about the future perspective with. My message to Indian designers is to be bold and be brave. If you want to lead a change, you have to take risks… You have to be brave enough to be different.
"You guys are so out there in terms of colours, but I think when it comes to tradition and mixing new patterns, you can do more. I would love to see techniques applied to more modern patterns. I am saying this in terms of international and global modernity and I think it is possible."
Lang is known for bringing creative minds together to create new, innovative and beautiful products.
Raised in a Franconian craftsman family, she has studied art, new media, and international business management. More than 10 years into her technology and media career, she has lived and worked all around the world, gaining a reputation for being a game-changer in digital product and media innovation.
Lang, who established ElektroCouture in 2014, and is also a mentor to several European hardware start-ups, says "India as a market makes absolute sense" for her brand.
"Lakme Fashion Week invited us and I can see huge potential here in the market because what we do on a daily basis is like bringing fashion and technology together and we have both of that here, so it makes total sense for us to come here.
"You have (India has) technology, a long tradition and design. I can't emphasise enough how important craftsmanship is for me, because we are into high fashion. We hand-stitch pearls as well as micro chips. I think fashion is a very emotional subject and we use emotions to produce designs."
She has loved her maiden visit to the country, and India's "patterns and bold colours" have left her spellbound.
"In Germany, people are not so bold enough, so I love colours in India and I love big and bold patterns," added Lang, who wants to stay in India longer and is hoping to associate with Indian designers.
How about bringing her forte to the world-famous Bollywood too?
"That would be so fantastic! I am such a Bollywood fan since years. If that happens, then that would be my dream come true. It's on my bucket list," she said, concluding that she has been enjoying exchanging hugs as Indian are very open to it unlike Germans who are a "bit stiff" at times. (IANS)
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Add two black silencers (sku 019506) to finish the "look" and stop the tags from rubbing together.


You didn't actually think I was done?
I've actually been playing around some more with my eOS MBA and after installing a few more things and trying a few alternatives managed to break it again! It wasn't broken in the same sense that it wouldn't boot, but I couldn't install or update anything through the AppCenter (or Ubuntu Software Center I'd installed as an alternative) so after not too much trying to fix I thought I'd start again, hence Take 3.
I've kind of left this until the very end as I knew accessing my mail would be pretty straight forward. Webmail would always be an option if not, but I've configured other mail client in other Linux VM's so knew this would be fine.
I have 4 e-mail addresses, or which I really only use 2. The 2 I don't really use are iCloud.com (I actually used me.com long before iCloud) and Gmail.com. I still receive some mail into both, so have them configured but don't send anything. The 2 I use are both hosted by Pickaweb on my own domains – aw1.co.uk and the one you're viewing this on apeconsulting.co.uk.


Equally useful for seasoned professionals and those new to the field, Carolyn Handler Miller covers effective techniques for creating compelling narratives for a wide variety of digital media. Written in a clear, non-technical style, it offers insights into the process of content creation by someone with long experience in the field.
Whether you're a writer, producer, director, project manager, or designer, 'Digital Storytelling' gives you all you need to develop a successful interactive project.


Smoked Leather by firehouse definition is leather gear worn and used by firefighters. The title "Smoked Leather" was inspired by a few big city firefighters who said "your shields look like they belong on old leather lids; nothing's better than wearin' smoked out leather". Smoked Leathe This statement sums up what is seen hand-tooled into each and every one of our pieces from that moment on.
Smoked Leathe Tooling leather is not only an art form, but has been a long lost skill for some time and is mostly seen today in western style horse saddles and belt work. Our goal was to bring this traditional element back into the fire service by hand-carving and tooling every detail seen on each and every piece, Smoked Leather. But it wasn't until teaming up with Ivan Rubio for the paint work that the image was complete and Smoked Leather was officially born. Today, Smoked Leather's work has made its way from its birthplace in Northern California all the way across this great American freedom loving nation of ours. Smoked Leathe Not a trend, just back to American hand-made quality.
Smoked Leather is a small Firefighter-Owned business that focuses on the traditional hand-carving style of leather gear for the fire service. All products are made by hand from the artistic swivel -knife carving to the delicate hand painted lettering. One piece at a time, It's a Pride thing!
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Tollywood Upcoming Actress Charishma Shreekhar (R U Married movie fame) formally launches the 8-day Hasthakala Silk and Cotton Expo-2017 at Kalinga Cultural Hall, Hyderabad. It will be on till 26th December 2017 from 10.00am to 9.00pm.
"Main social objective of the handloom exhibition was to promote weavers and encourage and provide a market to the handloom industry. Through these exhibitions, we have been able to create good market for the weavers and their handloom woven ware" said organizer Chikka Jay Prakash.


Howes explores the idea of how men put up psychological "walls" from other people in order to seem strong, capable, and competent. Growing up in a world where being "cool" was a huge deal in middle and high school, I have found that in the past it was particularly difficult for me to overexert my own feelings in any given situation, even when the situation calls for it.
The mentality of "toughness" was embedded in my life growing up with family members, students in middle and high school, and friends' family members who didn't have to tell other people they were "cool" in any way. Their actions and words revealed so much about themselves that exuded a deserved sense of power and respect.
I didn't have much of a father growing up because he had died when I was in the second grade, just around the beginning of the time I started to really begin observing the things around me. I had a step-dad come into my life, but he had only just begun his journey of learning to be a dad to his new children. By that time, it was a little too late for me. I saw him as a dad, but not a father, it was different and it just wouldn't be the same.
Later on, I realized that I did not respect my dad the way I should have. His bursts of anger and frustration, impatience and negativity, all of these things subconsciously contributed to the anger and frustrations that I had built up inside of me growing up. Who could blame him though? He was married to a controlling Asian wife who had lost her husband, starting and running a business that he had no experience in, and had to take on three kids after years of never being around any children.
However, being a younger kid, I didn't completely understand the struggles of being a father, let alone a dad, and at some point, I had enough and took it upon myself to be my own "man" in my own life.
To do this, I looked to other people to be my role models, which in the end, lead me to become the nonchalant, unemotional "cool" guy of my circle of friends so that I could seem "put together" and live a life on my own terms.
Being "put together" was what every man seems to want. It wasn't ideal for a man to be fearful, especially in the environment of a toughness that was forced upon me with the friends I was hanging out with. They ultimately had to be "tough" and be given that sense of respect to the eyes of the world.
Below are the main points from Howe's chapter on the Stoic Mask that were bolded which resonated a lot with me as I read it.
This is a summary of a good portion of my life.
Growing up, I had deep, dark secrets that I just came naturally for me to hide in order to maintain the peace. In the end, all I wanted was to show people how composed I was in spite of the mess I had made in my life.
Recently, one very important person in my life had to deal with my desire to keep something secret, which in the end, only ended up making things very complicated and much worse for the both of us since it showed in my emotions throughout the day.
It started off with a comment she made about my room and apartment not too long after she got there. As much as I joked about it and tried to play it off, it hurt me, but I wasn't about to simply allow that to let it get into my head (even though it did anyway).
I was hurt because I hold my bedroom in high regards.
My work is done in there. Everything I have built for myself, my reading, my self-development, business, meditation, and escape from the world as an introvert. I strategically made my room into the safe haven I needed to grow and develop myself as well as have the ability to relax and engage in having time for myself. I'm an introvert. An introvert's room is almost everything to him/her to escape from the draining day to day activities.
However, when she rejected it in her way, it just put a ton of pain in my heart.
Here, a girl that I want to accept me and love me, I had failed. It was as if I had done all of that building for nothing. Yet the worst part of it all, I kept it all inside of me, not allowing her to see the pain in my heart, almost near tears because of the thought I put in to build the room just right for myself only for her to essentially tell me that it was…a bit unwelcoming.
And it is. I agree. It's not a welcoming place for visitors because it's not supposed to have visitors. IT'S A PLACE FOR ME AND ONLY ME. An office space, a studio, and a bedroom all in one.
At the same time, I felt all of this was just so utterly insignificant and petty. I didn't think it was something worth getting upset about whatsoever. And of course, it really wasn't, but as much as I wanted to ignore these feelings, I couldn't. And it was especially NOT FAIR for my lady to experience the pain coming from me without knowing what it was that was bothering me.
At the end of the day, things were better between us. We talked about it, shared a drink, laughed, but the day was indeed quite rough for the both of us. So rough in fact, that she still couldn't sleep at night and had to call me up to confirm that we moved past the situation. We spoke for ten minutes about it and confirmed that yes, I realized my mistake in the matter.
Revealing the true pain in my heart is difficult for me. It's still a work in progress but I learn as go along that it's better to simply reveal it then to let it explode or let it tear you apart from the inside out. The actions that I took, the choices that I made, resulted in catastrophic emotions on both sides and it wasn't until I finally let go of the Stoic mask and revealed to her what was REALLY going on, that was when I was able to find peace with her, TRUE peace.
Now, being an introvert, it's quite easy to remain seemingly stoic around others.
However, as a huge "FEELER" type of person, I found it difficult to keep my feelings from showing to others. My feelings got hurt easily, I was sensitive and didn't take criticism very well what-so-ever as you can see from the situation with my lady.
Yet when I didn't express myself right away, I ended up exploding or allowing it to dwell to the point of no return. If I didn't somehow talk about my feelings, write about it, or outright confront them, eventually, it would come out in a negative way whether it be through drinking, smoking, or some other form of escape.
I had a somewhat of a bully in college once during my Sophomore year. He lived in the same household as I did and being the unconfrontational person that I am, I didn't lash out at the inconsiderate and hurtful comments that he would often make.
About a few months later after a specific comment, I had enough. I walked upstairs talking about how I was going to "explode" and sure enough, the room looked like it had gone through a tornado after I was done with it. I threw stuff around, cussed, and cried my eyes out, something I haven't done for at least a few to several years.
After about a year or so I finally was able to have my outlet, a close friend of mine who eventually became my best friend because of all the things I was able to tell him. I need someone to listen, and he was perfect for that, he listened to everything that I spoke to him about. Those were vulnerable moments of my life, unfortunately, they were the only TRUE vulnerable moments.
Most of my conversations with people were fabricated to hide the deep emotions that I held back within me. I left my old church without them fully knowing how I really felt and what I really wanted to do with my life. At least, not until recently. I posted a blog post about the reality of my life and the choice that I made.
Even though it's a bit difficult, I think this is a good time to reveal the hardships that I have had in my life and the choice that I decided to make for myself. Being with the lady that I am with right now has allowed me to bring both worlds together and I have to embrace that in order to truly be happy with who I am.
Lewis tells us to let down our guard down. To allow ourselves to embrace the reality that we have emotions, feelings deep within us that aren't typically what the world may consider "masculine" but who is really to tell us that?
I think that actually being able to have someone to talk to is what allowed me to keep from being so utterly depressed in this life. Having that outlet and being vulnerable allows a man to fully embrace the reality that they aren't superhuman, that they don't have things under control all the time and things do indeed hurt them.
I'm a sensitive person, no doubt. To the world, I might even be considered a "crybaby". But, I'd rather speak on these feelings than to allow my soul to slowly die inside as I cope by drinking and then eventually exploding in some way that I would cause a significant amount of regret and guilt.
I don't want to go down that lonely road that Lewis speaks about. I know that in order to truly have a life that is full and lively, is to embrace the pains and deep emotions that I have rather than masking it by allowing others believe that I have it all put together.


Based on China naturalistic driving data, a driver model for emergency braking was set up and the general characteristics of driver's braking behavior were analyzed. The results show that the driver's emergency braking response time is related to the urgency of emergency scenario. By taking the inverse of time to collision 0.2 s-1 as dangerous trigger threshold, the driver's emergency braking reaction time is the normal distribution of mean 0.5 s. The maximum braking deceleration do not vary with the urgency of the scenarios. The maximum braking deceleration jerk increases with the urgency of the scenarios.


If you preserve energy, your monthly payments will probably be reduced and your financial situation will improve. These recommendations are easy so you can accomplish them. You need to make sure that you will stick to these ideas and enjoy your low monthly bills.
The most practical way to save electricity and lessen your bills is to close your lights when you are not making use of them. all-natural light throughout the day as well. It is best to open your curtains and permit all-natural light to go inside. You won't have to open your lights in daytime.
Some individuals don't really care about lighting as they believe that your light bulbs will not really up plenty of energy. Lights can have a large effect on your monthly bills as they can consume lots of energy if they are used often. If you're making use of incandescent bulbs, you need to substitute them immediately with CFL or LED bulbs.


We often hear about domestic violence, but do we know what it is? Could we identify it if we saw it? This presentation will provide information and an opportunity for discussion on the complex dynamics of domestic violence, its prevalence, red flags, supporting survivors, available resources, and how to get involved.
Karla Arenas-Itotia, LMSW, has primarily spent her career working in higher education and with victims of relationship and sexual violence. She previously oversaw the Relationship Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention (RVSP) Department, as well as served on the Behavior Intervention Team (BIT) as Case Manager at The University of Texas at Arlington. She has served clients in many capacities (e.g. counselor, case manager, educator, advocate) both at non-profits and in higher education. In her previous position she connected many student survivors of IPV and sexual assault to community and university resources, served as a contact for student survivors, provided supportive services, collaborated with other campus organizations and departments, in addition to developed and implemented educational and outreach programs for the UTA campus and Arlington community. Additionally, she worked with students experiencing concerning behaviors on campus and helped ensure that all students obtain necessary resources to achieve student success. She now currently holds a position as Assistant Professor in Practice in the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington teaching both undergraduate and graduate students.


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The РА-900 and РА-1000 Grach mineral fertilizer spreader allows carrying out uniform spreading of dry, granulated, milled, and crystallized fertilizers providing their more efficient application and high yield, respectively. The РА-900 and РА-1000 Grach mineral fertilizer spreader is an ideal spreader for agricultural enterprises and individual businessmen. Operation of one of the sides of spreader is made possible by switching off the mechanism of fertilizer delivery to one of the discs. Due to its open design, the РА-900 and РА-1000 Grach fertilizer spreader does not deed any special care, and its robust and almost maintenance-free design provides long-term and trouble-free operation of the equipment. The РА-1000 model spreader has also an option – V-500 tanker extension, which allows increasing the fertilizer tanker capacity by 500 liters.
Operation of one of the sides of spreader is made possible by switching off the mechanism of fertilizer delivery to one of the discs.
Due to its open design, the РА-900 and РА-1000 Grach fertilizer spreader does not need any special care, and its robust and almost maintenance-free design provides long-term and trouble-free operation of the fertilizer spreader.
Feeding fertilizers to the center of the distribution disc is especially efficient, because the peripheral speed of the distribution discs in very low in that sector.
The system contains special-shaped scrappers, which allow removing fertilizers out of the tanker in the most convenient way. Consequently, the tanker is discharged uniformly over its surface.


Community Leaders — Pink Heals Inc.
Our Politicians are elected into office by the vote of the people, they are put there to lead us forward, they are doing their work not for personal gain, but to serve their communities selflessly.
This movement is perfect for our leaders to support; it is one that has to be supported by elected officials, why? By adopting our program in their community, they show their leadership skills, selflessness and compassion. Pink Heals gives elected leaders and local businesses the ability to align with an initiative that benefits the whole community, without aligning with a single cause or one specific disease. Best of all this program is given to communities for free and ensures any funds raised in a community stay in a community. Perfect!


Thanks for an incredible 2018 BBE conference!
Together, we did it! We aimed high and pulled it off. With over 15 speakers, many gracious volunteers, and more than a dozen sponsors, Burn Both Ends brought together the small business community in a passionate way.
We asked questions, we grappled with new ideas, we bared our souls a bit, and then celebrated the realness with a bit of moonshine and pink wine. All in all, we think that's a pretty fantastic way to spend a Friday.
Sad you missed it? Don't worry - we're planning another one! Make sure to get on our mailing list so you're the first to know.
Education and community for small businesses that like to have fun. If you're going to take the road less traveled, you might as well enjoy it.


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Ben Bernanke's Speech: "Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty"
By CNBC.com
Below is a prepared speech given by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called "Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty" on October 19, 2007:
Monetary Policy under Uncertainty
Bill Poole's career in the Federal Reserve System spans two decades separated by a quarter of a century. From 1964 to 1974 Bill was an economist on the staff of the Board's Division of Research and Statistics. He then left to join the economics faculty at Brown University, where he stayed for nearly twenty-five years. Bill rejoined the Fed in 1998 as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, so he is now approaching the completion of his second decade in the System.
As it happens, each of Bill's two decades in the System was a time of considerable research and analysis on the issue of how economic uncertainty affects the making of monetary policy, a topic on which Bill has written and spoken many times. I would like to compare the state of knowledge on this topic during Bill's first decade in the System with what we have learned during his most recent decade of service. The exercise is interesting in its own right and has the added benefit of giving me the opportunity to highlight Bill's seminal contributions in this line of research.
Developments during the First Period: 1964-74
In 1964, when Bill began his first stint in the Federal Reserve System, policymakers and researchers were becoming increasingly confident in the ability of monetary and fiscal policy to smooth the business cycle. From the traditional Keynesian perspective, which was the dominant viewpoint of the time, monetary policy faced a long-term tradeoff between inflation and unemployment that it could exploit to keep unemployment low over an indefinitely long period at an acceptable cost in terms of inflation. Moreover, improvements in econometric modeling and the importation of optimal-control methods from engineering were seen as having the potential to tame the business cycle.
Of course, the prevailing optimism had its dissenters, notably Milton Friedman. Friedman believed that the inherent complexity of the economy, the long and variable lags with which monetary policy operates, and the political and bureaucratic influences on central bank decisionmaking precluded policy from fine tuning the level of economic activity. Friedman advocated the use of simple prescriptions for monetary policy--such as the k percent money growth rule--which he felt would work reasonably well on average while avoiding the pitfalls of attempting to fine-tune the economy in the face of pervasive uncertainty (Friedman, 1968).
Other economists were more optimistic than Friedman about the potential benefits of activist policies. Nevertheless, they recognized that the fundamental economic uncertainties faced by policymakers are a first-order problem and that improving the conduct of policy would require facing that problem head on. During this decade, those researchers as well as sympathetic policymakers focused especially on three areas of economic uncertainty: the current state of the economy, the structure of the economy (including the transmission mechanism of monetary policy), and the way in which private agents form expectations about future economic developments and policy actions.
Uncertainty about the current state of the economy is a chronic problem for policymakers. At best, official data represent incomplete snapshots of various aspects of the economy, and even then they may be released with a substantial lag and be revised later. Apart from issues of measurement, policymakers face enormous challenges in determining the sources of variation in the data. For example, a given change in output could be the result of a change in aggregate demand, in aggregate supply, or in some combination of the two.
As most of my listeners know, Bill Poole tackled these issues in a landmark 1970 paper, which examined how uncertainty about the state of the economy affects the choice of the operating instrument for monetary policy (Poole, 1970). In the simplest version of his model, Bill assumed that the central bank could choose to specify its monetary policy actions in terms of a particular level of a monetary aggregate or a particular value of a short-term nominal interest rate. If the central bank has only partial information about disturbances to money demand and to aggregate demand, Bill showed that the optimal choice of policy instrument depends on the relative variances of the two types of shocks. In particular, using the interest rate as the policy instrument is the better choice when aggregate demand is relatively stable but money demand is unstable, with money growth being the preferable policy instrument in the opposite case.
Bill was also a pioneer in formulating simple feedback rules that established a middle ground between the mechanical approach advocated by Friedman and the highly complex prescriptions of optimal-control methods. For example, Bill wrote a Federal Reserve staff paper titled "Rules-of-Thumb for Guiding Monetary Policy" (Poole, 1971). Because his econometric analysis of the available data indicated that money demand was more stable than aggregate demand, Bill formulated a simple rule that adjusted the money growth rate in response to the observed unemployment rate. Bill was also practical in noting the pitfalls of mechanical adherence to any particular policy rule; in this study, for example, he emphasized that the proposed rule was not intended "to be followed to the last decimal place or as one that is good for all time [but] . . . as a guide--or as a benchmark--against which current policy may be judged" (p. 152).
Uncertainty about the structure of the economy also received attention during that decade. For example, in his elegant 1967 paper, Bill Brainard showed that uncertainty about the effect of policy on the economy may imply that policy should respond more cautiously to shocks than would be the case if this uncertainty did not exist. Brainard's analysis has often been cited as providing a theoretical basis for the gradual adjustment of policy rates of most central banks. Alan Blinder has written that the Brainard result was "never far from my mind when I occupied the Vice Chairman's office at the Federal Reserve. In my view, . . . a little stodginess at the central bank is entirely appropriate" (Blinder, 1998, p. 12).
A key source of uncertainty became evident in the late 1960s and 1970s as a result of highly contentious debates about the formation of expectations by households and firms. Friedman (1968) and Ned Phelps (1969) were the first to highlight the central importance of expectations formation, arguing that the private sector's expectations adjust in response to monetary policy and therefore preclude any long-run tradeoff between unemployment and inflation. However, Friedman and Phelps retained the view that monetary policy could exert substantial effects on the real economy over the short to medium run. In contrast, Robert Lucas and others reached more dramatic conclusions, arguing that only unpredictable movements in monetary policy can affect the real economy and concluding that policy has no capacity to smooth the business cycle (Lucas, 1972; Sargent and Wallace, 1975). Although these studies highlighted the centrality of inflation expectations for the analysis of monetary policy, the profession did not succeed in reaching any consensus about how those expectations evolve, especially in an environment of ongoing structural change.
Developments during the Second Period: 1998-2007
Research during the past ten years has been very fruitful in expanding the profession's understanding of the implications of uncertainty for the design and conduct of monetary policy.
On the issue of uncertainty about the state of the economy, Bill's work continues to provide fundamental insights regarding the choice of policy instrument. Money demand relationships were relatively stable through the 1950s and 1960s, but, in the wake of dramatic innovations in banking and financial markets, short-term money-demand relationships became less predictable, at least in the United States. As a result, consistent with the policy implication of Bill's 1970 model, the Federal Reserve (like most other central banks) today uses the overnight interbank rate as the principal operating target of monetary policy. Bill's research also raised the possibility of specifying the operating target in other ways, for example, as an index of monetary or financial conditions; and it provided a framework for evaluating the usefulness of intermediate targets--such as core inflation or the growth of broad money--that are only indirectly controlled by policy.
More generally, the task of assessing the current state of the economy remains a formidable challenge. Indeed, our appreciation of that challenge has been enhanced by recent research using real time data sets.1 For example, Athanasios Orphanides has shown that making such real-time assessments of the sustainable levels of economic activity and employment is considerably more difficult than estimating those levels retrospectively. His 2002 study of U.S. monetary policy in the 1970s shows how mismeasurement of the sustainable level of economic activity can lead to serious policy mistakes.
On a more positive note, economists have made substantial progress over the past decade in developing new econometric methods for summarizing the information about the current state of the economy contained in a wide array of economic and financial market indicators (Svensson and Woodford, 2003). Dynamic-factor models, for example, provide a systematic approach to extracting information from real-time data at very high frequencies. These approaches have the potential to usefully supplement more informal observation and human judgment (Stock and Watson, 2002; Bernanke and Boivin, 2003; and Giannone, Reichlin, and Small, 2005).
The past decade has also witnessed significant progress in analyzing the policy implications of uncertainty regarding the structure of the economy. New work addresses not only uncertainty about the values of specific parameters in a given model of the economy but also uncertainty about which of several competing models provides the best description of reality. Some research has attacked those problems using Bayesian optimal-control methods (Brock, Durlauf, and West, 2003). The approach requires the specification of an explicit objective function as well as of the investigator's prior probabilities over the set of plausible models and parameter values. The Bayesian approach provides a useful benchmark for policy in an environment of well-defined sources of uncertainty about the structure of the economy, and the resulting policy prescriptions give relatively greater weight to outcomes that have a higher probability of being realized. In contrast, other researchers, such as Lars Hansen and Thomas Sargent, have developed robust-control methods--adapted from the engineering literature--that are aimed at minimizing the consequences of worst-case scenarios, including those with only a low probability of being realized (Hansen and Sargent, 2007).
An important practical implication of all this recent literature is that Brainard's attenuation principle may not always hold. For example, when the degree of structural inertia in the inflation process is uncertain, the optimal Bayesian policy tends to involve a more pronounced response to shocks than would be the case in the absence of uncertainty (Söderstrom, 2002). The concern about worst-case scenarios emphasized by the robust-control approach may likewise lead to amplification rather than attenuation in the response of the optimal policy to shocks (Giannoni, 2002; Onatski and Stock, 2002; and Tetlow and von zur Muehlen, 2002). Indeed, intuition suggests that stronger action by the central bank may be warranted to prevent particularly costly outcomes.
Although Bayesian and robust-control methods provide insights into the nature of optimal policy, the corresponding policy recommendations can be complex and sensitive to the set of economic models being considered. A promising alternative approach--reminiscent of the work that Bill Poole did in the 1960s--focuses on simple policy rules, such as the one proposed by John Taylor, and compares the performance of alternative rules across a range of possible models and sets of parameter values (Levin, Wieland, and Williams, 1999 and 2003). That approach is motivated by the notion that the perfect should not be the enemy of the good; rather than trying to find policies that are optimal in the context of specific models, the central bank may be better served by adopting simple and predictable policies that produce reasonably good results in a variety of circumstances.
Given the centrality of inflation expectations for the design of monetary policy, a key development over the past decade has been the burgeoning literature on the formation of these expectations in the absence of full knowledge of the underlying structure of the economy.2 For example, considerations of how the public learns about the economy and the objectives of the central bank can affect the form of the optimal monetary policy (Gaspar, Smets, and Vestin, 2006; Orphanides and Williams, 2007). Furthermore, when the public is unsure about the central bank's objectives, even greater benefits may accompany achieving a stable inflation rate, as doing so may help anchor the public's inflation expectations. These studies also show why central bank communications is a key component of monetary policy; in a world of uncertainty, informing the public about the central bank's objectives, plans, and outlook can affect behavior and macroeconomic outcomes (Bernanke, 2004; and Orphanides and Williams, 2005).
Uncertainty--about the state of the economy, the economy's structure, and the inferences that the public will draw from policy actions or economic developments--is a pervasive feature of monetary policy making. The contributions of Bill Poole have helped refine our understanding of how to conduct policy in an uncertain environment. Notably, we now appreciate that policy decisions under uncertainty must take into account a range of possible scenarios about the state or structure of the economy, and those policy decisions may look quite different from those that would be optimal under certainty. For example, policy actions may be attenuated or augmented relative to the "no-uncertainty benchmark," depending on one's judgments about the possible outcomes and the costs associated with those outcomes. The fact that the public is uncertain about and must learn about the economy and policy provides a reason for the central bank to strive for predictability and transparency, avoid overreacting to current economic information, and recognize the challenges of making real-time assessments of the sustainable level of real economic activity and employment. Most fundamentally, our discussions of the pervasive uncertainty that we face as policymakers is a powerful reminder of the need for humility about our ability to forecast and manage the future course of the economy.


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Delia Owens, născută Cordelia Dykes, () este o scriitoare și zooloagă americană.

Biografie
Dykes s-a născut pe 4 aprilie 1949 ca fiica lui Maurice Dykes (1918–1975) și Mary Helen (n. Johnson) (1920-2015). A crescut în Thomasville, în sudul Georgiei, împreună cu fratele ei geamăn, Robert Roy ("Bobby"), sora ei Helen și fratele ei Lee Hawkins. Familia ei și-a petrecut aproape în fiecare vară în munții din Carolina de Nord. A început să scrie în copilărie și a câștigat o serie de concursuri la școala ei. După ce a absolvit liceul, Dykes a continuat să studieze zoologia la Universitya of Georgia din Atena, absolvind cu o diplomă de licență în științe . Apoi și-a câștigat doctoratul în Animal Behaviour (Comportamentul Animalului) de la University of California, Davis.

În 1971 l-a cunoscut pe zoologul și biologul Mark Owens (n. 1944) la universitate. Cuplul s-a căsătorit în 1972 și a mers pentru prima dată în Oregon pentru a ajuta la planificarea unui parc cu animale sălbatice. În 1974 și-au vândut bunurile și au călătorit în Botswana cu bilete de avion dus, rucsacuri și 6.000 USD pentru a începe un proiect de cercetare în Central Kalahari Game Reserve. Au cumpărat un vehicul de teren și echipament de camping și au pornit spre Kalahari, unul dintre cele mai îndepărtate deșerturi din lume. Nu existau drumuri, nici așezări și doar câteva grupuri San. În cele din urmă, s-au stabilit în Valea Deception River, valea râului Deception care a fost uscată de mii de ani și se află la mai bine de opt ore de cel mai apropiat avanpost al civilizației. Cuplul a petrecut șapte ani acolo, studiind sălbăticia curată și creând cercetări fundamentale despre leul cu coamă neagră din Kalahari și hiena maro. Ei și-au publicat experiențele în cartea lor Cry of the Kalahari și într-o serie de articole în publicații populare și academice.

Din 1986, cuplul a lucrat în Parcul Național North Luangwa și în anii 1990 în Mpika. Ulterior s-au stabilit în Comitatul Boundary, Idaho.

Romanul de debut al Deliei Owen, Where the Crawdads Sing, a stat câteva săptămâni pe lista celor mai bine vândute din New York Times în 2019.

Cărți
 Cry of the Kalahari (cu Mark Owens), 1984
 The Eye of the Elephant (cu Mark Owens), 1992
 Secrets of the Savanna (cu Mark Owens), 2006
 Where the Crawdads Sing, 2018

Cărți traduse în limba română
 Acolo unde cântă racii, Editura Pandora M, traducător Bogdan Perdivară, 2020 ISBN 978-606-978-538-6

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Well hello there kind peeps.
Let's start off this post with a little game. Let's see if you can spot my bicycle in the following picture. I know the pics are small here on SP, but try your best.
Got a Facebook update from one of my former collegues, saying he was at a local bar. So I popped in and wound up seeing a few more people I knew. It was a nice surprise. I never go bars anymore, so that was about the extent of my 'grown-up' weekend. Two delicious Newcastle Brown Ales. It turned out my one friend, Massage Michelle, sat right next to me at the bar, and didn't know it was me, because of my manly he-man macho beard.
Went bike shopping on Saturday, and... (What's that, department manager? Oh, ok.) Well, sorry, everyone! Gotta get back to work.
Reminds me of my Monday mornings at work with my GF that rides a motorcycle and actually turned me onto SP. I can never measure up to her miles. Last paragraph reminds me of how lucky you are that you can spark from work! I live behind a banned wall of life in general at work. Religion and Restaurant menus are not even accessible! Have a great week youse, and engage that saddle!
Oh look! It's a rare sighting of the Grand Patriarchis Comfortado Bicyclus, commonly known as the Grand Marquis of Bikes! It's funny how we now have to savor the beer because it has become like an ice cream bar (a rare treat). You forgot to mention meeting your old friend CHUBBYLISA, a weekend highlight!!!
maybe she didn't recognize you because you lost weight and gained attitude.you owe me one wild weekend blog. i am waiting patiently here and all i get are finding waldo,juicy apples,and visit to grandmas . you could have thrown in one lube at least. glad you are on track and doing well.
As always your blogs continue to make me smile. Happy to hear your grown up weekend brought smiles and time with friends too.
Another soul cleansing belly laugh. Is it ever as funny on your end as it is on ours?
Keep us hanging with that cliffhanger I see how you are!
Thanks for your grown up weekend update. Sounds like you had fun. Mmmm...crisp apple. BTW, He Man didn't have a beard. You look like a lumber jack or what's that guy with the blue ox... uhm. Damn my horrible memory! Well anyway have an awesome week!
Sounds like a great weekend! Are you having motorcycle envy? LOL!
I think I found it, what's the prize? Funny. What "they" say about riding a bike...not true. Last time I tried, lets just say I had a skinned knee, elbow and a bruised ego. That was about 5 years ago.
Please beware of mutant fruit. Specifically, we've had recent reports of certain apples engineered for extreme juiciness, which could easily cause people's fingers to stick together and thus render them unable to dial our 800# to report suspicious bikers who try to hide their subversive bikes in the midst of innocent motorcycles.


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Interview no. U-0383
Project U.15. Long Civil Rights Movement: Economic Justice in Charleston, S.C.
Date June 26 2008
Interviewee Scott, Dorothy Simmons, 1949-
Interviewee occupation Civil rights leaders
Political activists
Interviewee DOB 1949
Interviewee ethnicity African Americans
Interviewer Taylor, Kieran Walsh.
Abstract Dorothy "Dot" Scott describes life on the farm where she grew up; her parents' background; family home; the death of her brother; move to new house; her stepfather's work; stepfather's Alzheimer's. Scott tells about her role as a jack-of-all-trades growing up; her childhood years in North Charleston, South Carolina; paternal grandmother's view of females; paternal grandfather's entrepreneurial spirit; her family�����s access to land; uncertainty after high school graduation. Marriage; moving to New York; divorce; work in high school. Discriminatory hiring practices at Bell South; working at AT&T in New York; Scott's return to Charleston. Scott reflects on racist practices at Bell South and Charleston housing; realization of civil rights movement; her mother's sacrifices for her children; her diversity goal as NAACP president; racial discrimination lawsuit against Bell South; Scott's retirement in 2002; other discrimination against black employees; perception due to lawsuit; Scott's eventual attainment of college education; conflict with other blacks. Scott tells of her pride in her work; making concessions with Bell South; the fallacy of a finished movement; disillusionment with Charleston public schools; the continuation of civil rights struggles; race superseding gender. Scott shares her thoughts on Barack Obama and the diminished voice of black ministers; the Reverend Joseph Darby's image as a newcomer. Scott discusses political figures in the NAACP who are native to Charleston, as well as her thoughts on Congressman James E. Clyburn, Donna Brazile, Joseph Biden, and Hillary Clinton. The NAACP's policy of non-endorsement; changes in the NAACP; Scott's impression of Reverend William Barber; perceptions of skin tone in NAACP; implications of interracial relationships. Scott returns to why she became active in NAACP; some basics of the NAACP's structure; the Charleston Five; International Longshoremen's Association's unionizing efforts; Charleston County Schools Superintendent Maria Goodloe; mayoral influence in hiring practices; mobilization on racial discrimination; the endemic conservatism of Citadel Broadcasting; the long-term impact of 1969 Charleston protests; Senator Robert Ford; Scott's evaluation of elected officials; William "Bill" Saunders; neo-Confederates; John Graham Altman; Act 189 protecting Charter Schools and school board politics. Finally, Scott reflects on her own activism being rooted in her experiences.
Subject Topical African American women civil rights workers--South Carolina--Charleston.
African American women political activists--South Carolina--Charleston.
African American families--South Carolina--Charleston.
Discrimination in employment--United States.
Subject Name National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Subject Geographic Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations.
New York (N.Y.)--Race relations.
Citation Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Interview Database
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A Tokyo court ruled Monday that vagina-shaped objects created by a Japanese artist qualify as art, but found her guilty of obscenity for distributing digital data that could be used to make a realistic three-dimensional recreation of her genitalia.
Tokyo District Court ordered Megumi Igarashi, who also uses the name Rokudenashiko, or good-for-nothing girl, to pay a 400,000 yen ($3,700) fine for distributing the data, her lawyers said.
The court said a set of three vagina-shaped ornaments, decorated and painted in bright colors, did not look like skin or immediately suggest female genitalia and therefore were not obscene, her lawyers said. However, the judges said the data, from a scan of her own vagina, could be used with a three-dimensional printer to create a realistic shape that could sexually arouse viewers.
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Igarashi has also sold a bright pink vagina doll with frilly decorations and other related goods.
She says she initially chose the subject matter because of her personal interest, rather than as a statement about women's rights, but in recent years has teamed up with feminist activists.
Igarashi was charged over the display of the objects in 2014 and the distribution of the digital data in 2013 and 2014. She has argued that she is using a vagina as a motif in art, and not for obscenity. Despite Japan's lucrative pornography industry and tolerance of displays of scantily dressed women in ads and in magazines, its obscenity laws prohibit public displays of genitalia.
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Global rice trade expanded 9 percent to a record 43 million tons in 2014, supported by abundant exportable supplies in India and Thailand, lower prices, and strong demand. With a record crop and large stocks, India actively pursued markets overseas. Thailand also aggressively sought export opportunities to reduce massive stocks from the discontinued Paddy Pledging Scheme. Competition from these two countries pushed prices down and stimulated imports, but squeezed opportunities for other exporters, especially Vietnam, Pakistan, and the United States.
For 2015, global trade is forecast to be marginally lower as India's smaller crop and use in the Public Distribution System are expected to curb exports. Increased trade by Vietnam, Pakistan, and the United States are expected to partially offset the slowdown from India. Thailand's exports are forecast to remain strong due to government-led sales. The impact from ongoing dry weather on exportable supplies is expected to be minimal as the country has ample stocks. Global trade is forecast to remain strong spurred by declining prices.
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Pakistan is down 500,000 tons to 3.4 million on a slower pace.
Thailand is up 669,000 to a record 11.0 million on final data.
Vietnam is down 175,000 tons to 6.3 million on final data.
China is up 200,000 tons to 4.1 million on larger shipments from Thailand and Burma.
Iraq is down 350,000 tons to 1.1 million reflecting a larger crop and slower purchases.
Nepal is up 100,000 tons to 450,000 on stronger shipments from India.
Sri Lanka is up 200,000 tons to 500,000 on larger shipments from India.
Thailand's exports are cut 300,000 tons to 11.0 million on a reduced crop.
Bangladesh's imports are up 100,000 tons to 600,000 on expectations of continued strong demand.


SPOILERS! Just wanted to say that because if you haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2*, this fan music video will reveal some things that are best not know of beforehand. I knew I wanted an 80's song for this movie and this one worked out very well to tell the story of Peter's two paternal influences.
* If you've seen the first GotG movie, you can find my fan music video for it over here.
New favorite aspect of the Marvel Cinematic Universe: the Doctor Strange movie. So much in this movie. If it works for you, watch it a couple of times to get all the nuances.
Another Florence + The Machine song that I still listen to on repeat for hours.
Another Benedict Cumberbatch performance I can watch over and over.
Haven't read a lot of comics, not really interested. Absolutely *love* the Marvel Cineverse.
This is what I got out of Captain America: Civil War … relationships, values, choices. This is a slow, could-be-considered-spoilery fan music video that is everything I wanted it to be.
Because beneath all the Asgardian magnificence and superhero stuff, it is a family drama about two boys and their father.
Had the idea, sat down to edit it, wondered what the 'ell I was thinking, then cut the first 2/3 in almost record time.
Thanks to the Forever TV show for awareness of this song.
Even with all of the specific things mentioned in the song, the clips from the movie were there to support it, just had to find them. And step away from the computer every now and then to think about which images would best support the portrayal of each character.