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Savannah Philharmonic opens season, picnic Sunday
Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra started its 2016-17 season earlier this month, but what it calls the city's largest outdoor musical event, Picnic in the Park, is Sunday.
Free and open to everyone, the annual PIP has attracts 15,000-20,000 attendees in historic Forsyth Park in the past. It's a great way for families to experience live professional orchestral music.
You provide your own picnic and the orchestra provides the music from 4-9:30 p.m. in the park's bandshell.
Other events coming up in the Savannah Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus season include:
Oct. 14-15 at 7:30 both nights — Mozart's Requiem. This powerful evening of music features two of the famed composer's most compelling works; the fiery and passionate Symphony No. 40 in G minor and the dramatic Requiem, featuring local soloists Tina Zenker-Williams, Claire Watts, Stephen Dobson and Allen Henderson.
Nov. 19, at 7:30 p.m. — A celebration of French music. With opulent works by Hector Berlioz, Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, the performance will be at the Lucas Theatre. Pianist Alon Goldstein will join the Savannah Philharmonic's own Quynh Shannon and the orchestra to perform Francis Poulenc's witty and melodic Concerto for Two Pianos in D minor.
Dec. 17 at 3 and 7:30 p.m. — Philharmonic's Holiday Pops. The concert is guaranteed to put audiences in the holiday spirit.
You can expect traditional tunes, sing-along melodies and holiday classics. The evening performance will feature American Traditions Competition's 2016 Gold Medalist Michael Maliakel. The Family Holiday Pops matinee will include the Savannah Children's Choir.
Jan. 28, at 7:30 — The Best of Rodgers & Hammerstein. This exuberant evening of song and showmanship, featuring special guests from the Savannah Theater, will highlight hits from Broadway classics including The Sound of Music, Carousel, Oklahoma and more. It will be at at Johnny Mercer Theater
March 4, at 7:30 p.m. — Enigma Variations. The Philharmonic's performance of Bedrich Smetana's Moldau and Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations is sure to elicit mystery and awe. Concertmaster Sinisa Ciric and principal violist LiZhou Liu will round out the evening with the playful and virtuosic Sinfonia concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert is at the Lucas Theater for the Arts.
April 20 and 21, both at 7:30 p.m. — The American Spirit. The evening of exclusively American music will include everything from national treasures, with music by George and Ira Gershwin and Aaron Copland, to some of the finest Broadway, film and patriotic music ever written.
April 29, at 7:30 p.m. — Season culmination. This dazzling performance will feature pianist Fan-Ya Lin performing Sergei Rachmaninov's monumental Third Piano Concerto. Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 8 will serve as the orchestral conclusion, illustrating the wonders of the natural world. The season finale concert is at Johnny Mercer Theater.
For more information about Picnic in the Park or the Philharmonic, call 912-232-6002, visit savannahphilharmonic.org or email info@savannahphilharmonic.org.


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Proposals for improved access to the Somerset coast between Brean Down and Minehead.
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On 17 October 2013 Natural England submitted a report to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs setting out our proposals for improved access to the Somerset coast between Brean Down to Minehead. The period for making formal representations and objections on our final report will last for 8 weeks and close at 5pm on Thursday 12 December 2013.
Under the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, Natural England has a statutory duty to improve access to the English coast. As well as securing a long-distance route around the whole of the coast, its role is to provide improved levels of access for local residents and visitors where they can walk, rest and admire the view.
The report outlines key improvements to existing access along the coast in Somerset between Brean Down and Minehead, with proposals:
to identify a clear and continuous walking route along this part of the coast, bringing sections of existing coastal footpath closer to the sea;
to allow the route to 'roll back' if the coastline erodes or slips, solving the long-standing difficulties of maintaining a continuous route along the coast;
and to secure statutory rights of public access to areas of beach, cliff and coastal land for the first time in places where people currently enjoy access by long tradition or with the landowners' permission.
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Contents: Preface. Introduction. Taxonomy. Subfamily I. Antidesmatoideae: Tribe I. Antidesmateae: Subtribe 1a. Antidesmatinae. 1. Antidesma. Subtribe 1b. Hymenocardiinae. 2. Hymenocardia. Tribe 2. Bischofieae. 3. Bischofia. Tribe 3. Scepea. 4. Aporosa. 5. Baccaurea. Subfamily II. Phyllanthoideae. Tribe 4. Bridelieae. Subtribe 4a. Bridelineae. 6. Bridelia. Subtribe 4b. Pseudolachnostylidinae. 7. Cleistanthus. Tribe 5. Phyllantheae. 8. Breynia. 9. Flueggia. 10. Glochidion. 11. Margaritaria. 12. Phyllanthus. Tribe 6. Poranthereae. 13. Actephila. 14. Andrachne. 15. Leptopus. 16. Meineckia. Bibliography. Index. Botanical names. Vernacular names.
The family Phyllanthaceae is a segregate of the heterogeneous mega-family Euphorbiaceae, based on phylogenetic considerations, placed in the order Malpighiales under Eudicotidae, a clade in flowering plants. The family is distinct in their pollen grains showing three colpi or grooves paralleling the polar axis and biovulatelocules of ovaries. They also show bitegmic ovules with non-vascularized inner integument and exarillate seeds.
The family is cosmopolitan mainly distributed in humid tropics. The authors have revised the family as represented in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Burma (Myanmar) and Sri Lanka forming a distinct phytogeographical conglomeration. This work includes 2 subfamilies, 6 tribes, 16 genera and 214 species. The biggest genus is Phyllanthus with 67 species, which includes the medicinally important Amla, the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthusemblica). There are several economically and medicinally important species in the family.
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What is the best advice for the IELTS speaking exam?
There are many possible tips. The first and most important is to take it seriously and prepare properly for it. It's noticeable how IELTS forums are full of questions about the writing paper but contain very little about the speaking. That represents a problem. In my experience candidates fail as often on the speaking paper as the writing paper.
To redress matters this post gives you 10 of my top tips for the speaking paper. These are all general tips. In later posts I will be expanding on these and giving more particular advice for each part of the paper. Please note that easily the most important tip is number 1.
Eg "What sports did you play as a child?"
A good answer will use the past tense – the examiner will be listening for this.
Following on from the previous advice, you need to practice before the exam to make sure that the appropriate skills are automatic. This will only happen if you practice sufficiently. However, you also need to practise the right skills – each part of the speaking paper tests a different skill.
The problem for many people is not speaking English, rather it is moving from their own language into English. The advice here is plain: make certain that you are already speaking English before you go into the exam.
Question:" How many languages do you speak?"
Answer: "Two. Chinese and English."
Answer: "I speak two languages. My first language is Chinese and I speak English too. I've been learning English since I was 10. I started learning it when I was in primary school."
Be aware, however, that very long answers are not always a good idea. It is possible that you will go off topic and lose coherence.
A large part of communication is non-verbal. You are marked by the examiner in the room and you should do everything you can to show that person that you are a good communicator. If you do not make eye contact with the examiner, s/he is probably going to be less impressed with your performance.
One temptation is to learn answers before the exam. Do not. The examiner will notice and your score will be badly affected.
This is a speaking test and not a listening test. If you don't understand the question, ask the examiner to repeat or explain it – you should not be penalised for this. If you try to answer a question you do not understand, you will almost certainly become incoherent.
"What did I enjoy doing as a child? Let me see..."
This has several benefits. It is good communication. It allows you a little time to think. It should also make you answer the question and not the general topic.
If you make a mistake and you can correct it immediately, do so. This will show the examiner that you have control over the language. If, however, you are unsure how to correct yourself, move on: the examiner may not have noticed the mistake in the first place and if you try unsuccessfully to correct it, a small mistake may become a much bigger one.
This is an exam and you need to show the best side of your spoken English. If you relax too much and become too conversational, your English may suffer. You need to recognise that this is not a true dialogue between two people: it is more of an interview with one person speaking and the other listening.
In a conversation the speaking conventions are quite different: you expect the other person to share 50% of the talk time and to react to your comments, typically one person will not speak for any length of time.


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Spiked Railings Horror Fall Sees Manslaughter Convictions
A construction firm has been convicted of the manslaughter of two workers who died after falling from a central London balcony. One of the workers fell on to spiked railings, where he was pinioned.
Martinisation (London) Ltd and Martin Gutaj had denied corporate manslaughter and related health and safety offences but were convicted (on Friday 19) of all charges following a trial at the Central Criminal Court.
The trial heard how Tomasz Procko, 22, and Karol Symanski, 29, fell to their deaths after the railings at a flat in Cadogan Square gave way in November 2014. The men had been attempting to haul a heavy sofa up onto the balcony using ropes with only the Victorian railings for safety.
Nick Vamos, from the CPS, said: "Martinisation Ltd and its director Martin Gutaj showed an appalling disregard for the safety of their employees, with terrible consequences.
"Sadly, this incident was entirely foreseeable and preventable. Neither was it an isolated breach. The evidence put forward by the prosecution clearly demonstrated to the jury how these tragic deaths were part of a pattern of serious neglect of basic health and safety.
"Our thoughts are with the families of Tomasz and Karol."
Sentencing will take place in due course.
Picture: From the story published by ThisWeekinFM in late November, 2014 when the tragedy occurred
Article written by Brian Shillibeer | Published 25 May 2017
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This past weekend was a busy one. The Women's March drew millions worldwide, a new President was inaugurated, and the Patriots and Falcons handled business to advance to the Super Bowl. Aside from all that, some of the industry's biggest and brightest packed up and headed to Utah. Some of the most amazing movies set up to make their debut at Sundance Film Festival 2017. The annual film festival kicked off last Thursday and runs until the end of the month.
This year, there are some stellar projects hitting the screen. A solid list of filmmakers delivered this year with a variety of screenplays. From climate change to being poor to having to make life choices, these films hit home for some and provided insight for others. While all Sundance films hit the mark, the five listed below are making the most noise at the festival. Put these on your movie bucket list and be sure to check them out.
Time is the narrative of the life of 16-year old Kalief Browder and the sad story of how the criminal justice failed him. This story is a gripping tale of a situation that happens far too often without consequence.
The story of a young African American teenager named Dayveon who is from a poor town in Arkansas. The film highlights his life struggles and the hardship of having to pick between joining a local gang and or listening to the advice of a father-figure.
Michael Showalter brings relationship issues to the table. He chronicles a real-life couple who struggle with cultural differences within their relationship. Kumail Nanjiani (Pakistani) and Emily V. Gordon (White American) show what it's like to have to deal those differences with the help of Holly Hunter and Ray Romano.
Given the circumstances, this movie is extremely important. Peter Thiel, who now serves as a member of Trump's transition team, was behind a huge movement to take down Gawker Media. The bigger picture here… the threat of freedom of the press.
With the factual evidence of climate change being challenged, Al Gore returns with the sequel to his 2006 eye-opening documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.


On the summer afternoon I visited Lorenzo, Texas, the only people to be seen were the forklift operators, musicians, and farmers depicted in a mural celebrating the town's bygone days as a stop on the South Plains Railroad. Then Zane Reese arrived. Six feet tall, barrel-chested, he wore heavy work clothes despite the heat. Outside the Allsup's gas station, he shook my hand and said his name in such a way that a week later I found myself standing in front of a hotel mirror practicing introducing myself.
I was fresh out of college when I met Reese. Today, three years later, his voice blends with the voices of people I've since met in other grasslands, from Texas to the northern Great Plains to the Mongolian Steppe. Those voices remind me why I returned to a region I grew up wanting to leave, and why I spent so much time exploring a landscape most of the world long ago left behind.
I was raised in Lubbock, 20 miles from Lorenzo. It's a place so flat that, as the saying goes, all you have to do to see farther than the next guy is stand on a can of tuna. Home to more than 200,000 people, it is huge for a Great Plains city, and when the wind isn't blowing and the air doesn't carry the smell of the feedlots, you almost forget where you are. But venture to the edge of town and the Plains are there, waiting.
Growing up, I came to love the simple beauty of the Plains. But I also thought of Lubbock as a place where nothing ever happened.
When I later began to read about the depopulation of the rural Great Plains, what surprised me wasn't that people were leaving the region but that it had once been bustling. When I was a child, it had never occurred to me that the empty houses decaying all over West Texas had once been homes. To think of the small towns near Lubbock smelling of fresh paint—the farmers coming in to dance on Saturday nights—lit in my mind a map that stretched all the way to Canada. I became more curious as I began to hear about people who envisioned a new future for the Plains.
So I decided to take a road trip, and I didn't have to go far before the routes I traveled began to shrink. Interstates turned into U.S. highways. U.S. highways halved into farm-to-markets. Farm-to-markets faded into gravel. Soon, grasshoppers caked my windshield, and I found myself stopping frequently to investigate which hunk of metal had fallen off my car.
Lorenzo, population 1,372, was an island in a sea of blooming cotton when I went there to speak with Reese about farming. In his living room, a few blocks from the highway, he told me that his family had farmed in Mississippi, in Central Texas, in East Texas, and, for about 85 years, here in the Texas Panhandle.
Four years earlier, however, Reese's father, facing heavy debts, had sold off 6,000 acres. Reese was working as a roughneck in an oil field, and his daughter had just gone off to college.
"Sometimes I kind of miss farming and sometimes I don't," he told me. "If this house burned down or got blowed away, I'd be gone. There's no reason for me to stay here anymore. All the people I really liked are either dead or moved off."
Reese's story wasn't a new one on the Great Plains. As far back as 1890—when the U.S. Census Bureau, responding to the apparent success of the 1862 Homestead Act, declared the frontier "closed"—the idea that farmers could tame the dry heart of the country was unraveling. The 1890s turned out to be the "Dry Nineties," and 184,000 settlers in Kansas alone fled their land.
Since then, the rural Plains have seen the "Dirty Thirties," the farm crisis of the eighties, and several periods of slower decline. Between 1950 and 2009, most Great Plains counties' populations declined. By 19th-century Census Bureau standards, some 400,000 square miles of the Plains—an area nearly half the size of the Louisiana Purchase—currently qualify as frontier.
The day after meeting Reese, I headed north from Lubbock. Before dawn, the sounds were of wind, creaking oil derricks, and a preacher on the radio. I passed towns with names like Shallowater, Nazareth, Earth, Cactus, Canyon, and Halfway, which wasn't. At the junction for Happy, I peered into a schoolhouse with waist-high grass growing in the doorway. In Liberal, Kansas, home of Dorothy and Toto, I saw a meatpacking plant the size of a university campus and a playground called Munchkin Land.
Among the first serious grass men I met was Ken Warren. In his sixties, with straight white hair, Warren was a native Kansan who conversed with un-Kansan gusto. He'd completed graduate studies in biology and geology at Yale and Kansas State, and nothing excited him more than soil. Sometimes, when talking about aquifers or the "long, beautiful debate" about the origins of domesticated corn, he would lean forward in his chair, widen his eyes behind his glasses, and exclaim, "Wonderful!"
Warren was managing director of the Land Institute, outside Salina, Kansas, founded in 1976 by Wes and Dana Jackson. For 10,000 years, agriculture has consisted of annual plants grown in monocultures (think rice, wheat, corn). The Land Institute scientists were aiming to use the prairie as a model for an ambitious new kind of agriculture based on perennial polycultures. "If the plant scientists succeed," the editors of Scientific American wrote in 2007, "the achievement would rival humanity's original domestication of food crops . . . and be just as revolutionary."
In his office, Warren produced a poster-size version of the photo that had inspired me to visit him. On the left was annual wheat: raw bread. On the right was perennial wheatgrass, wheat's wild relative. Aboveground, the two plants looked nearly indistinguishable. Belowground, the annual wheat's roots were barely a wisp, while the wild wheat's roots dwarfed the upper portion. Thick and fantastic, the roots stretched down almost 10 feet.
I liked the poster because of how much history it squeezed onto one page. Perennials aren't much good for consumption, because people eat seeds and perennials don't produce many. But unlike the annual crops settlers imported to the region, the perennials that once blanketed the Plains were adapted to the vicissitudes of the place.
The upshot, Warren explained, is that annual agriculture survives on the Plains only because of government subsidies, nitrogen fertilizers, pesticides, and groundwater irrigation. Each input comes with an environmental cost, and each makes it difficult for small-scale farmers to compete with larger operations.
The Land Institute's strategy has been to breed wild perennials in the direction of seed production, and domestic annuals in the direction of perennialism, with the goal of eventually producing deep-rooted, high-yield plants. The new perennial crops will build soil, conserve water, better sequester carbon dioxide, reduce pesticide use, and be more resilient to climate change.
"Imagine agriculture where all you need is soil, sunlight, and water," Warren said. "It sounds almost strange, doesn't it?" In the institute's greenhouse, Warren and I stood in front of a display of grassland plants, their roots tumbling to the ground. In the quiet of the afternoon, the collection reminded me of a diorama in a natural history museum. Yet Warren and I were trying to catch a glimpse of history running in reverse.
"Look," Warren said with boyish wonder. "Look at that."
By the time I left the Land Institute, I wanted to see grassland writ large. I had been infected by tales from the old days, when nomads roamed across continent-spanning ecosystems.
But large expanses of grassland can be hard to find. Largely because of its suitability for agriculture, temperate grassland—a category including the Great Plains and the Eurasian Steppe, which stretches from Hungary almost to Manchuria—ranks as the world's most disturbed and least protected terrestrial biome.
Two years later, I found myself in a four-wheel-drive Russian van, rolling slowly across the world's largest remaining grassland. With me were two Mongols: driver Dondug and Jadambaa. In the Land Cruiser ahead of us, a Mongol named Otgo rode shotgun beside Kirk Olson, an American wildlife biologist.
After leaving Choibalsan, eastern Mongolia's largest city, three days earlier, the five of us bounced 300 off-road miles straight south to the Chinese border. Marked by two barbed wire fences of the sort common in the American West, it was the first barrier we encountered. Jadambaa took the opportunity to pee in the direction of China. Then we headed east, deeper into Mongolia's Eastern Steppe, an Oregon-size expanse at the edge of the Eurasian Steppe.
Encircled by environmental chaos, the Steppe was, and remains, a safe haven for birds on the Arctic-India flyway and home to more than 1 million migratory Mongolian gazelle. Sparsely populated even by Mongolian standards, the region is like an empty lot at the far reaches of the planet, where all the world's phone lines and roads, sidewalks and fences, terminate in a sea of grass.
Yet, as with most empty lots, developers have had designs on the Steppe. Long isolated by Mongolia's history of Khans and Communists, the Steppe has been open to the world since Mongolia transitioned to democracy in 1990, and it is now threatened by mining, oil drilling, agriculture, and the illegal wildlife trade. In 2006, the New York Times warned that continued overhunting could lead to an "extinction crisis" in Mongolia.
Olson, with an aquiline nose and neatly parted blond hair, responded to statements unsupported by fact with the glare of a Puritan preacher. Otherwise, he was patient and easygoing. He believed strongly in the old naturalist's maxim that the worst day in the field is better than the best day in the lab.
In the late 1990s, when Olson, who's fluent in Mongolian, first came here as a scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society, little was known about the Steppe. So he began tracing enormous transects in his Land Cruiser, following longitudinal lines from the north of the territory to the south and back again. He estimated he'd logged 70,000 miles—which he claimed made him the "world record holder for longest distance driven slowly in straight lines." It allowed Olson to see more of the Steppe than anyone before.
A week into our trip we encountered 2,000 gazelle streaming down a hillside. Once, Olson might have guessed the animals were making a recurring seasonal move, like African wildebeest. But his travels, combined with GPS collar and satellite data parsed by colleagues in the United States, convinced him that their migrations were less predictable. This is a hard truth, because it means that protecting the gazelle requires more than setting aside chunks of habitat, Olson said.
The dilemma stemmed from the vagaries of the place. As with those of the Great Plains, Steppe temperatures range from more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit to minus 40, and come with droughts, deluges, dust storms, and prairie fires. Under such conditions, many animals move constantly in search of food. The beauty of the Steppe is also, from a conservation perspective, its curse: Temperate grasslands require and are defined by immense space. "In terms of biodiversity, you can't compare the Steppe with the rainforest," Olson said. "But this place is much more fragile. One fence can break the whole thing."
As we traveled, we experienced the land's variability firsthand. Head-high grass along dry riverbeds faded into expanses of onions and lilies followed by shrubby apricots. Lake regions, where great bustards ascended heavily and flocks of demoiselle cranes crossed the sky, rose to plateaus dotted with gazelle bones.
Some days the sky burned silver in the heat. I remembered reading about how settlers crossing the Great Plains would "hail as old friends" the trees they encountered.
One afternoon we headed east along a road built by an oil company. Low mountains rose in the distance and a blue demon floated by—an escaped party balloon from China. We turned north and the sky darkened as we passed into the shadow of a storm system. The thunder coalesced into a continuous roar.
That night, after the storm, we made out a single light on the horizon. It was the southern edge of a large oil field. Of all the pressures on the Steppe, Olson considered this expanding Chinese-run operation the biggest threat. "I got here the year they started surveying this," he said. "Where we are now used to be deep in the wilderness."
Over the course of our journey, Olson and I talked about the Steppe's uncertain future. Environmental groups such as the World Wildlife Fund, the Nature Conservancy, and the Wildlife Conservation Society were all at work in the region, promoting protected areas, training park rangers, and organizing grazing management groups.
But Olson wasn't optimistic. Under the status quo, he believed, development would continue and the Steppe would break into pieces.
"We're now collecting historical data, recording how this place was before it changes," Olson said one night, as we drove toward a sky lit by long, sideways veins of lightning. "We're on the backside of being too late."
The February after I returned from Mongolia, I set out again across the Great Plains. I headed north from Bismarck, North Dakota, on U.S. Highway 83, which cuts a straight line through the Plains, then west along the Hi-Line, with its black road, black trains, and blue ice. As night fell, I passed town after town without a motel, restaurant, or gas station. Snow gusted across the road. On the radio there was Indian drumming and singing, then an announcer: "Now the weather! Tomorrow, fog. Monday, fog and snow. Tuesday, OK. Wednesday, pretty good. Thursday, snow snow snow go away way way."
I was traveling to the site of the largest conservation project in North America. As the Plains have been emptying, people throughout the region have been trying to restore some of their natural grandeur. In Phillips County, Montana, the American Prairie Foundation, a land trust spun out of an idea proposed by the World Wildlife Fund, has been assembling a grassland reserve that could eventually encompass 3 million acres—one-third bigger than Yellowstone National Park.
In the morning, the road crossed an expanse of ice. Before the southern Plains had the Dust Bowl, the northern Plains had the winter of 1886—a.k.a. the Big Die Up, a.k.a. the Winter of Blue Snows—when severe weather following years of cattle overgrazing abruptly ended the era of the open range. Among the many who left was Teddy Roosevelt. Tumbledown homes peppering the landscape told the story of what's happened since. Phillips County was home to 9,311 people in 1920. As of 2009, its population was 3,944. Yet northeastern Montana's toughness makes it ideal for conservation efforts. Most of the land has never been plowed, and many abandoned parcels have reverted to Bureau of Land Management ownership. The American Prairie Foundation's plan is to cobble together its own land purchases with BLM grazing leases and connect its acreage to the 1.1 million-acre Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge.
By noon, I arrived at the American Prairie Reserve, where I met Dennis Jorgensen, program manager for the World Wildlife Fund's Northern Great Plains Program, and Bryce Christensen. A native Nebraskan with a white mustache and fledgling handlebars, Christensen had spent 33 years with Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks before becoming the Prairie Foundation's manager of field operations. The three of us stood in the middle of a prairie dog town. In front of us was a seven-foot-high wind-screened, iron-barred fence. I couldn't help but think of King Kong.
I'd come at a good time. While North America is currently home to more than 500,000 American bison, decades of interbreeding with domestic cattle had left fewer than 20,000 animals free of cattle introgression. During its first five years of building a herd, the Prairie Foundation acquired and bred only 104 "purebreds." Then, a month before my visit, 94 baby bison from Elk Island National Park, Canada, arrived at the reserve.
We found the youngsters standing among bales of hay. As we approached, they wheeled away, then reversed direction, presenting a phalanx of horns. One began to bounce on four legs, like an enormous deer.
Watching the bison romp reminded me that they weren't cows but the largest wild animals native to North America. Once, the ecology of the continent shifted beneath their hooffalls. And the thought that they might roam again someday across a space big enough for all their thundering wildness filled me with hope for the prairie itself.
Thinking of the Winter of Blue Snows, I asked how the animals fare in Montana winters. Christensen and Jorgensen said the cold doesn't bother them at all. I picked a tuft of bison fur off the ground and clinched; my hand became uncomfortably hot. I asked whether they worried about bison trying to escape a blizzard and getting stuck against the smaller, electrified fences surrounding their pastures.
Christensen thought for a minute. "If they needed to leave, I think they'd just knock the fence over and go."
Back in Texas, I watch a perfect Great Plains afternoon blow away in a cloud of orange dirt. I'm visiting my favorite place on the Plains. I won't say where it is, because I don't want whoever installs Frisbee golf courses to get any ideas. Usually, the only shoeprints on the dusty, caliche-strewn road are my own.
If you throw a branch into the cattails in the canal here, hundreds of red-winged blackbirds shoot skyward. The kingfisher does anything to distract you from its nest. Big turtles sun themselves on logs. I've seen wild turkey and deer here too. The dry, curled buffalo grass makes a superb noise as you step from clump to clump. Like the rest of the Great Plains, it's an impure and beautiful place. And today cotton-field dirt blows ahead of a storm front. Half the Texas Panhandle is lofted over the city.
Canada geese fly backward. The first drops of muddy rain spatter around me. Elm branches trace wild circles.
I sit by the canal and think about the Great Plains and the Eurasian Steppe. The story of grass is at once a story of our impact on nature and of nature's resiliency. After more than a century of Homestead Acts, railroads, New Deals, tractors, wars, dust storms, Sharps buffalo rifles, and steel moldboard plows, the Great Plains still aren't settled. Like the Eurasian Steppe, the Plains remain a place where, in the long run, those who stay learn to change not the land but themselves.
I'm still not quite sure why I love the world's great grasslands as much as I do, but watching the storm come in, I realize it has a lot to do with the simple fact that they're huge. They stretch past the horizon, far beyond any plans we could ever make for them. I love their endless roads and their skies, which together form an irresistible invitation to daydream. And I love that the Plains will outlast us by a long shot.
Michael A. Parks, a former Sierra intern, is a graduate student at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His trip to Mongolia was funded by a Fulbright Fellowship.
This story was funded by the Sierra Club's Northern Plains Field Office.


Recap: Backstage, Miz and Maryse were interviewed. Miz asked that his wife be introduced first, since she had the spotlight tonight. Maryse noted that Daniel Bryan's comeback took three years, while she was able to return from pregnancy in mere months. Miz claimed that Brie Bella had to financially support their family, as Bryan spends too much time picking berries and reading books. Miz said that what his wife did to Brie in her main event match would be "awesome," and then the two kissed.
In the main event, Maryse continually dodged Brie. Brie then took the mic to call Maryse a coward. Miz then took the mic and said Brie did not deserve a match with a two time Divas Champion like Maryse. He announced the match over, and the heels made their way up the ramp.
Brie grabbed Maryse from behind and pulled her into the ring. She got the Yes Lock on Maryse, but it was broken up by Miz. This enraged Bryan, who attacked Miz. Miz tossed Bryan out of the ring, where he crashed into Brie. Miz took advantage of Miz tending to Brie by attacking him, as Maryse attacked an incapacitated Brie. Brie eventually made a comeback, punching Miz as Bryan clotheslined him out of the ring.
Bryan and Brie led the crowd in "Yes" chants as the show went off the air.
Evaluation: The crowd was really hot for the main event, so it definitely worked. I still think this feud is better without the wives, but tonight was as good as you could've wanted for the story they're telling.
Forecast: Since Miz won the first match in the series, I expect the faces to win on Sunday, with a one on one rubber match between Miz and Bryan at Survivor Series.
Recap: AJ Styles cut a promo via a video package filmed in an empty arena earlier in the day. He emphasized that he was different from Joe, as he would never bring another man's family into a dispute. He called Joe a piece of —-, stopping himself and saying "garbage." AJ emphasized that he has integrity, unlike Joe. AJclosed by saying that the house that AJ Styles built isn't for rent or for sale.
Later, there was a Samoa Joe video package promo. He told a bedtime story called "Night Night A.J. by Samoa Joe." Joe went through the pages of the book, rhyming a story about how the hero, Joe, would vanquish the villain, AJ, and then become a new husband and father for AJ's family.
Evaluation: Joe's promo was creative and well done. AJ's was straightforward and got the job done. Overall, this did a good job of building more tension into the existing story.
Forecast: I've gone back and forth regarding who will win on Sunday. I think it's a total tossup, but if I have to pick, I'll go with Joe.
Recap: Charlotte Flair cut a promo before her match with Sonya Deville. She said she had asked for the match because she likes competition. She said she hoped Becky was watching.
The crowd was totally dead during the match. After Charlotte's win, she did the rounds along the barricade slapping hands with fans. She was attacked by Becky Lynch, who was in the crowd disguised as a fan. Becky put the Disarm-Her on Charlotte before heading up the ramp and promising to take the title home on Sunday.
Backstage, Becky said she would break Charlotte's arm after taking back her title.
Evaluation: Even if WWE realizes that Becky won't be booed as a heel, this angle is still damaging Charlotte. Becky's popularity combined with Charlotte's lack of turn has resulted in total apathy toward Charlotte.
Forecast: Unless Becky is winning the title and the feud is ending, Charlotte badly needs to turn heel on Sunday. Even if Becky wins, I doubt the feud would end. I optimistically predict a Charlotte turn on Sunday.
Aiden English taking the Brogue Kick to save Rusev seems to officially end thoughts of a Rusev Day breakup….
I'm old enough to remember the NXT days, when Asuka was great….


FILA and the BNP Paribas Open have collaborated on a limited-edition sneaker style, debuting at this year's tournament in Indian Wells. FILA is the official apparel and footwear provider of the BNP Paribas Open, the largest ATP World Tour and WTA combined two-week event in the world.
FILA and the BNP Paribas Open Serve Up a Limited-Edition Footwear Collaboration. The FILA x BNP Paribas Open shoe will retail for $80 and will be available exclusively at the FILA retail shop on-site in Indian Wells.


There are certain moments in time that need to be captured; this is one of them.
Let's be a fly on the wall of an important meeting between Simon West, the Editor here at Magic Oxygen and the other good looking fellow on the right, Rob Windsor, a fabulous playwright and one of our latest authors.
They are currently huddled over a hot computer and working on Rob's début graphic novel of his published play, Off Her Facebook!
If you click the link above, it'll take you to Facing Tides Theatre, Rob's production company and it's tell you all about the actual performance play.
I've seen it several times and think I'm fairly well qualified to say, it's fabulously dark!
As soon as we heard Rob was looking for an artist to turn his incredible play into a graphic novel, we knew a connection to Jo Stroud simply had to be made.
Jo is the supremely talented artist we worked with on 365 Silly Jokes for Kids. She did us all proud with her striking front and back cover for the book and our research of her archives uncovered exactly what she was capable of.
Jo has an amazingly creative mind with lots of dark corners and to us, she was a clear and obvious partner to introduce to Rob!
If you'd like to have an exclusive sneak peek of a few pages from Off Her Facebook! the graphic novel, please visit the news page on Facing Tides Theatre and while you're there, why not subscribe to Rob's blog to be kept up to date with its progress.
All these high powered business meetings leave a humble office girl ever so thirsty.
I reckon it's time to pop the kettle on again…now where did I file the biscuits?


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For more than 15 years, Martin Messier has created works in which sound meets images and objects. In the form of performances and installations – with a choreographic tone – , these works place the body front and centre.
After studying composition at l'Université de Montréal, Martin began an experimental sound practice that integrated video images. He quickly developed performative audiovisual apparatuses that brought everyday objects and the sound potential of their various materials to the stage. A number of collaborative projects were carried out over the years, notably with artists Nicolas Bernier, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, Anne Thériault, and Jacques Poulin-Denis. Martin's latest performance project, ASHES, marks his first collaboration with French artist Yro (Élie Blanchard).
Presented in some 20 counties, Martin Messier's productions have received several prizes and nominations: a special mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 2010; listed for a Prix Opus in 2012; Best Experimental Short Film at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival in 2013; the Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in 2014; a special mention by the jury at the 2015 Japan Media Awards; and, in 2018, the World OMOSIROI Award in Japan.
Represented by Marc Langlois, Martin is also a member of Perte de Signal, an artists' centre. In 2010, he established 14 lieux, a company dedicated to producing sound works for the stage, and has been its general and artistic director since then. He lives and works in Montreal.
ARTISTIC APPROACH
Exploring links between sound and material both living and inert, Martin Messier's sound works are given tangible form in complex performative electromechanical and digital devices. He is interested in the motifs of the visible versus the invisible, presence versus absence, and the potential of metamorphosis through the transformation of objects and the manifestation of the imperceptible properties they possess.
Placing the body front and centre, his works – whether they are installations, performative pieces, or more directly choreographic – express a recurrent commitment to an acknowledged physicality – that of the performers, the artistic collaborators, and the artist himself. Underpinning his choreographic works is the desire to overturn the hierarchical relationship that exists between music, lighting, scenography, and dance, to allow sound to drive the movement (Hit and Fall, Derrière le rideau, Soak, Corps mort).
Martin Messier's objects have a life of their own. He gives voice to the material by endowing it with movements and sound waves. His works involving invented machines (La chambre des machines, Machine_Variation) or audiovisual devices (Sewing Machine Orchestra, Projectors, Boîte noire, Field, Impulse) are always guided by a powerful principle of synchronicity between sound and image. Developing this link consistently and repeatedly, Martin becomes the motor of the creative process.
Light is also a powerful element in Martin Messier's works. Crossing through the space of the screen and that of the seating area, light acts as a visual support that reveals the invisible and the imperceptible. Treated as a material like everything else, light is a participant in a holistic approach on the cutting edge of transdisciplinarity.
STATEMENTS ABOUT MESSIER
" This artist can transform ordinary objects and it's the closest thing to real magic you'll ever see. "
— Leah Collins, CBC
" Messier's stage presence is mesmerizing; he communicates abstracly but directly with his audience, without artifice. "
— vanclassicalmusic.com
« Le jeune artiste montréalais est devenu l'une des références lorsqu'il s'agit de mettre en scène des oeuvres sonores. »
— Adrien Cornelissen, Culture des musiques digitales
«En acceptant la triple posture de concepteur sonore, scénographe et chorégraphe, Martin Messier fait dialoguer tous les éléments du spectacle pour créer un objet équilibré et harmonieux»
— Sara Thibault, montheatre.qc.ca
«Ces apparitions brouillent les étiquettes de l'intervention scénique. En confondant le spectateur sur ce qui est à l'origine du son ou de l'action, l'objet ou celui qui l'active, le concepteur ou celui qui l'opère, ses oeuvres semblent chaque fois enrichir les termes de « mise en scène » et de « performance » d'un sens premier, concret. »
— Marion Gerbier, La scena musicale


An introduction to those you'll wanna watch this LFWM.
Where are you from and what is the nicest thing about your home town?
Melbourne, Australia. Was originally going to be called Batmania.
What is the funniest thing that's happened to you on a shoot?
Model driving over the director's foot while shooting a music video.
Collecting rude sunglasses and severe Netflix binges.
Most interesting modelling job you've had so far?
The most interesting job I've ever had was my shoot for a cover of a novel. Not your typical model job.
Mindhorn. It is a hilarious movie, British humour is ridiculous!
I play professional beach volleyball as well as indoor volleyball. I was a varsity athlete for a couple years before I started modelling.
London, I like the fast paced lifestyle and people. It always feels as though something is going on.
When I was younger Slash from Guns N Roses, more recently my Dad.
I plan to model as much as possible and go travelling in Europe with friends.
I'm from South Korea. The nicest thing is that I live there.
Actually, it is amazing to me that I am being photographed.
What is the most interesting modelling job you had so far?
It's hard to choose, I find all the different approaches to shoots interesting, working for Burberry has always been some of my favourite work.
The Trip to Spain with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Really nice, understated English humour, with a sensitivity towards some of the issues of ageing, love, death, and coming to terms with them.
In Berlin on a history trip when I was 15.
My parents are the closest to role models I have.
I'm very spaced out and don't usually notice things being funny. Sometimes I can tell that a collection is bad, but it's mean to laugh.
I've got a tattoo I like on my wrist – dunno if D1 know about that. It says "I can't explain it with words".
Going interrailing. I had to plan my outfits in advance to be enthusiastic about it, but it'll be sick. I'll look back and be grateful for the time with my friends.


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Before the Second World War there were 228 brigades in Scotland, or so I thought after reading History of the Second World War CIVIL DEFENCE, then I read the third Statistical Account for Scotland Vol. 15 and it said there were 288 Brigades before the war, so which one is correct?
These are some of them. If you know of any others please let me know.


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Twin Cities Daily Planet (https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/transportation-revitalization-and-safety-table-bringing-broadway-back-forum/)
Transportation, 'revitalization' and safety on the table at 'Bringing Broadway Back' forum
By Kristen Spargo and Margo Ashmore (North News) | April 22, 2014
Jamil Ford, Alissa Pier, Paul Bauknight and Paula Pentel, during their panel discussion. It was noted that in the map behind them, the compass direction north is down, the river is at the left. (Photo by Margo Ashmore)
Which comes first, reduction of negative factors, or positive development? That chicken-egg question was the heart of the matter when about 45 community leaders, developers, residents, business owners and city planners gathered at the YMCA on West Broadway April 17 in the morning, to discuss plans to improve the area, addressing a campaign pledge of City Council Member Blong Yang to hold a "summit" on the issue. The objective was to develop "solutions, visions and improvements to revitalize West Broadway."
In his introductory remarks, Yang said that he wanted to implement changes that have been discussed for decades; that his personal motto is "Get stuff done!" (With a smile he noted that he sometimes uses a different word for "stuff…")
Paula Pentel and Erin Heelan from the West Broadway Business and Area Coalition (WBC) led the agenda with a discussion of "West Broadway Alive: A Revitalization Plan for North Minneapolis's Main Street," a plan that according to the city's website, "guides future development and public realm improvements, and offers a roadmap for revitalization by naming near- and long-term actions to be undertaken around which the energy and resources of stakeholders can be focused."
During her remarks Pentel, an urban geographer by training, noted that the two-year planning process for West Broadway Alive (August 2006 – March 2008) involved "the most culturally inclusive public participation and outreach" she had ever seen. All of the neighborhood associations that bordered West Broadway endorsed the plan. Pentel noted that she was particularly struck by the plan's use of the word "cherished" to describe the West Broadway area – "that doesn't happen too often."
Heelan followed up with an overview of some of the specific projects underway such as Broadway Flats, Broadway Crescent, Cookie Cart's expansion as well as infrastructure investments from Juxtaposition Arts and the Capri Theater. She also described design enhancements planned for the area including holiday banners and streetscape improvements.
Yang's associate, Yer (Ger) Yang, and policy director, Niki Mitchell, led the group through a "word cloud" exercise, asking participants to describe West Broadway with a single word without repetition.
The dichotomy of the words – historic/emergent/potential, opportunity/underutilized– reflect conflicted perspectives of the area and the complexity of determining how best to address the issues. Participants also offered up words such as "support locals" and "vital, alive" as well as "misunderstood," "patchwork," and "disjointed."
The exercise provided context for the subsequent presentation by Jimmy Lloyd and Jim Voll from the city's Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) department as well as the open discussion that followed when the meeting was running 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Yang praised the speakers for following his directive to "be concise."Lloyd highlighted CPED's top three goals: create jobs, increase the tax base and create neighborhood vitality. Part of those aims, Lloyd described, is to make West Broadway a destination shopping area to draw people to the area. Business owner Susan Friedman of Friedman's Department Store at 400 West Broadway, a business started in the late 1890s, took offense to Lloyd's statement as a "destination" business and shared some anecdotes about safety concerns she had. An audience member jumped in, noting that Lloyd's point was that the area needed more business like Friedman's to draw customers to West Broadway.
Jackie Cherryhomes, a consultant and former council member who described herself as an "eternal optimist" and 37-year resident of North Minneapolis, challenged the attendees to frequent existing business and restaurants in the area such as Avenue Eatery and the local Cub Foods. She also said it is important to increase the population density in order for businesses to thrive on West Broadway.
The underlying chicken-or-egg issue is what needs to happen first to increase the vitality of the neighborhood: Does improved safety and livability of the area need to happen before more businesses will invest in the area or will more business investment in the area help improve the safety and livability of the area? For Lloyd and others the answer would be both, that a "holistic solution" is needed. Lloyd for one is "confident and hopeful" that the community can make it happen if everyone works together.
DeVon Nolen, who made it clear she was speaking as a resident, asked the group to recognize the people in the area as "assets" and that many people in the area are living in poverty and consequently their foremost concerns are making a livable wage, safety and shelter – their basic needs. She said that until we address these issues the conversation is "just a dream and won't come to a reality."
In a panel of developers, George Sherman, who developed Hawthorn Crossings in the 1990s and now proposes to renovate 800 West Broadway for a Workforce Center, said that he will be collaborating with the Minneapolis Public Schools, community colleges, and possibly others to make West Broadway the place to go to see beyond high school education.
"This is not a welfare office, it is an opportunity office with training courses to "get beyond $8 and $10 an hour jobs, to get jobs that earn $30,000 and $50,000."
There will be a meeting Tues., April 29, 6-8 p.m. on the Workforce Center at the Capri.
Tim Baylor spoke about his motivation to do the Satori project (see the April edition of NorthNews). "I'm here to cause trouble, to be the lightning rod to make it happen. Maybe it won't be me, but I can tee it up." For all the money that's being spent on transportation arteries which cut up and cut off the Northside, to the money spent on stadiums, Baylor said, "You need to demand…to insist that this happen. I can't believe we don't have a few hundred million" to put toward a project that will revitalize Broadway.
Steve Minn, developer for a project at Penn and Broadway that will house workforce housing and a new Broadway Liquor store with other retail space, talked about the quality development that owner Dean Rose seeks, "as good as any in South Minneapolis."
Local perspective came from another four-person panel, which included Pentel and three architects. Pentel highlighted the need to respond to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement now out for the Bottineau (transportation). She talked about West Broadway Coalition's efforts toward a self-managed Business Improvement District for common maintenance, "I think that will change perceptions." With the FLOW art crawl, the West Broadway Farmer's Market, and other initiatives by an effective staff, "we are respected by the city and grant makers," Pentel said.
Paul Bauknight called for more people to come to the table, that professional skills are important but "it's the people (who) will make the difference and allow us to do this."
The design profession is inequitable, Bauknight said, and told of his effort, Community Renewal for Innovative Building (CRIB), to bring more people of color into the profession.
Alissa Pier said "the planning dictate should not be 'just better than what it is now,'" we should not settle. "I really want to spend my money here, and there's no place to. We do have crime, but our lives are not defined by it."
Jamil Ford asked for a show of hands, and determined that well over 50 percent of those in the room do not live in North Minneapolis. He remembers growing up being able to get on the bus with no fears, and a local bike shop owned by a black resident. We need to "inspire our youth to be entrepreneurs. If we don't get this right today, outsiders will define for us." He urged "turn North Minneapolis into the front yard, not the back yard," of the city.
Then Gretchen Nicholls of Local Initiatives Support Corporation briefly talked about the Accelerator program that was available to businesses along the University Avenue corridor during light rail construction.
Russ Adams pointed out the boxing in and cutting off of neighborhoods by I-94, I-394 and Highway 55. His organization, Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, supplied the map of people of color that was hanging on the wall.
Other thoughts captured: Keith Reitman said light rail should have gone down Broadway, all the way, and that he supports Baylor's project. Andrea Jenkins and Erik Takeshita said the inclusion of arts is important. Zoe Holloman of Appetite for Change offered to bring people together for discussion using their format that is built around preparing and eating food. State Representative Joe Mullery, whose district now extends to Broadway, said the City has not brought the legislature any projects that benefit the Northside. Everything brought recently has been by Hennepin County, he said.
Ford urged people to play by the rules and guidelines set out by WBC and the West Broadway Alive plan, and alluded to "Spike Lee on gentrification (after he moved to the East Side). When whites redefine communities," they make them to what they understand. "We should have defined areas, like Eat Street, for cultural tourism."
The morning ended with another word cloud exercise characterized as more cohesive and upbeat.
Margo Ashmore


Was reading the post about Shirdi Sai Baba's quote form Shri Sai SatCharitra and a Parable from Gospel of Shri Ramakrishna on Mr. Shastri's blog.
Sai Baba clearly indicated that those who injures others not just physically but with thoughts and words they injure Him, as He primates in all living and non living beings. That's the reason going to Temple or doing Worship of Sai Baba and then indulging in any act of hurting any being, with words, thoughts or deed, has little meaning whatsoever.
One incident comes to mind is about a devotee. One man had gone to Shirdi with his friend who was devotee of Sai Baba. When he went to Dwarkamai along with his friend, there was a great attraction of Baba's divinity over him. He found himself attracted to the Fakir of Shirdi. The divine love of Baba was taking over his mind, heart and soul. A feeling of serenity love and peace was felt. It made him sit in Dwarkamai and look at the Guru with love. It was difficult for him to take his eyes off the divine form of Sai Baba as it gave immense sense of peace in heart and body.
His heart felt thankful towards the friend who was instrumental in bringing him to Shirdi.
That was the first attraction that lasted few hours. During the short stay in Shirdi, Dwarkamai and Sai Baba was the attraction for him. Next day while sitting in Dwarkamai he saw devotees massaging Baba's legs, and a desire arose to get that opportunity for himself. It was granted.
The karmas and the impressions of mind are not easy to go. The conditioning of the mind is not that easy to be freed from. That's the reason for Shraddha (Faith) and Saburi (Patience). Shraddha meaning the Faith was instilled with the experience of the calmness deep within, now it's up to the devotee to meditate and love Sai .Because love includes everything the worship, taking interest in His leelas (divine play as this one we are going through) and thus creating some interest in, letting the self merge in the divine love .
Somehow thoughts against some devotees started attacking his mind, while he was doing the charan seva (massaging the legs of a Sadguru, the emitter of Divine love and grace) . At that moment Sai Baba asked him to stop and leave. Perturbed he went to the corner of the sacred and loving Dwarkamai and sat there wondering why he was sent away so quickly. Realization of the mistake that happened dawned on his mind. The mind was occupied against someone else's deeds rather than absorbing the divine and serene love that prevailed in the presence of Sai Baba.
He mentally asked for the forgiveness for what had happened. Sai Baba immediately called him back, do the charan seva and absorb some divine love that would give him peace.
It is the injured and insecure mind that would like to injure others. A mind that is whole, filled with love and compassion would never be attacked with the feeling of injuring others. So not to injure others or even the feeling or thought of not injuring others, deep love for divine is needed. When the mind heart and soul are merged and saturated with the divine love it happens. That's the reason when Jesus Christ was made to go through much sufferings, what came out of him was love. The forgiveness for the ones who were inflicting pain as he knew that they were unaware of the subtleties of what they were doing.
That's the reason when Gautam Buddha was attacked by abuses, the abuses did not have the strength to bring about even a little bit of disturbance in the calmness and peace that prevailed his heart and mind.
Let's pray to Baba, lets pray to the divine that even our hearts and mind gets saturated by the divine love so much, that nothing would disturb it and nothing would bring about insecurity.
Thank you, Alpesh; very nice exposition.
Satya Sai Baba says that samadhi means sama-dhi, i.e., being in equanimity irrespective of what happens. Good one to shoot for.
alpesh..it was beautiful explanation..even i want to be loving and caring..shraddha and saburi..
A small correction in the text : I hink the following sentence "So not to injure others or even the feeling or thought of injuring others, deep love ... " should read as "So not to injure others or even the feeling or thought of not injuring others, deep love ... "
Thanks Anonymous, have done it. Sometimes missing a word gives a total different meaning to that sentence.
mere baba please help me.Please show me the right path.
thanks to the one who gave the tremendous information.


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Metra increases rush hour and off-peak trains
The new schedule moves Metra closer to pre-pandemic service
by Igor Studenkov July 13, 2021 July 13, 2021
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Metra has increased weekday service levels on all of its lines. The change, which started on July 12, brings Metra's operating schedule in the west suburbs closer to what it was before the pandemic.
In a statement, Metra officials said they plan to offer more pre-pandemic off-peak options while also increasing service as more workers return to offices and vaccination becomes more widespread.
The Union Pacific West line, with serves Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood, as well as Oak Park, River Forest, Maywood, Melrose Park, Bellwood and Berkeley, will get four new trains in each direction, though only half of those trains stop at stations in all of those communities.
The Milwaukee District West line, which serves Chicago's Austin, Galewood and Montclare neighborhoods, will get three more inbound trains and four more outbound trains, though only one train in each direction will serve those stations.
And the BNSF Line, which has one station in Riverside and three stations in Brookfield, will see the biggest increase of the three, though Brookfield's non-downtown stations will see their off-peak and evening service frequencies reduced.
Metra Executive Director Jim Derwinski stated that the transit agency expects the ridership to rebound in the coming months.
"These new schedules are intended to help our customers' transition back to a regular work commute providing them with more choices and flexibility," he stated. "We expect ridership to continue to increase as the summer progresses and will continue to monitor conditions and make schedule adjustments that are responsive to our customers' needs."
Union Pacific West Line
While the schedule changes add four trains in both directions, the stations that will benefit most from it are the Oak Park station, which is located near Harlem Avenue, right next to Harlem/Lake Green Line 'L' station, and the Berkeley station, 5800 W. Park Ave.
The new schedule adds two rush hour inbound trains that arrive in Downtown Chicago at 7:20 a.m. and 8 a.m.
The former makes all stops, while the latter only stops at Berkeley and Oak Park at 7:30 a.m. and 7:38 a.m., respectively. The schedule also adds two inbound off-peak trains that will arrive in Chicago at 11:15 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. While the latter makes all stops, the former skips Bellwood station at 105 Fredrick Ave., Maywood station at 450 W. St. Charles Rd., as well as Kedzie station in East Garfield Park, though it does stop at Melrose Park station, which sits at Maywood/Melrose Park border at 1801 W. Main St.
The new schedule adds two mid-morning trains that leave Downtown Chicago at 9:05 a.m. and 9:40 a.m., making all stops. It also adds two afternoon rush hour trains that leave Chicago at 4:05 p.m. and 5:05 p.m. The former only stops at Oak Park and Berkeley at 4:21 p.m. and 5:21 p.m., respectively. The latter stops at all stations except Kedzie.
For more detailed information on the new Metra schedules, visit: metrarail.com/riding-metra/service-updates/alternate-schedules.
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Igor Studenkov is a winner of multiple Illinois Press Association awards for local government and business reporting. He has been contributing to Growing Community Media newspapers in 2012, then from 2015... More by Igor Studenkov


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When Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise travel back in time to the 1980s in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Dr. McCoy runs across an elderly woman with kidney failure languishing in the hospital. He offers her a pill to swallow. Minutes later, the cured patient rejoices before her baffled physicians: "The doctor gave me a pill and I grew a new kidney!"
To physician Leonard Zon of Harvard Medical School in Boston, the scene parallels his goals for the company he helped found, Fate Therapeutics. Fate, located in La Jolla, California, launched in 2007 with a US$12 million budget. Fate aims to develop small molecules and biologics that stimulate a patient's own stem cells, marrying the tried-and-true methodology of drug development to the relatively new science of stem cells.
Rather than delivering new or improved cells, Fate will target cells in patients' bodies: the tissue-specific stem cells that maintain homeostasis in many organs. These cells are apparently too few, or too unresponsive, to regenerate tissue after many kinds of disease or injury. Fate's approach, Zon says, "is a way of transiently tickling the cells that are already there." A handful of drugs like this already exist: for example, erythropoietin, or EPO, stimulates blood stem cells to divide, and Mozobil, a drug from Cambridge, Massachusetts?based Genzyme that boosts circulating stem cell numbers so doctors can harvest more of them for transplantation, received FDA approval in December.
Fate's approach "is a way of transiently tickling the cells that are already there." ?
Because investors and regulatory agencies are more comfortable with pills and proteins than with cells, Fate hopes its treatments will reach patients faster than therapies that require growing cells and transplanting them into patients. "We're talking about developing standard drugs by standard means," says Randall Moon of the University of Washington in Seattle, another scientific founder of the company.
Companies developing stem cell?based therapies can't be sure what obstacles will appear in their path, Moon says. Person-to-person transplants will likely require donor-recipient immunocompatibility or harsh immunosuppressive regimes. Whereas cell implants will persist in a patient's body indefinitely, drug treatments can be finely tuned or stopped altogether. And it's possible that small-molecule therapies could come in a simple pill, avoiding the needles and catheters that cell therapies would require, not to mention the manufacturing costs of vats of clinical-grade cells.
"In the long run, the small-molecule approach is definitely the cheaper route," says Chris Mason, a professor of regenerative medicine at University College London and scientific advisor to several regenerative medicine companies. However, that doesn't mean it's the fastest avenue. "The cell therapy ones are probably further ahead in terms of discovery," Mason says. Additionally, there are certainly things that small molecules can't do ? no simple drug is likely to mimic the effects of a bone marrow transplant, for example ? so both methods will have their place.
But stem cell therapeutics is a young and unpredictable science, making pharmaceutical companies and venture capitalists commitment-shy. There are still unanswered questions about whether implanted cells will proliferate and how long they will survive. "Fundamentally, the biology of growing cells outside the body is really complicated," says Alex Rives, cofounder of Fate and an associate with ARCH Venture Partners in Seattle, Washington. "Fate was about convincing people that this was a different approach that was more likely to be successful," he says.
Recent scientific advances have made stem cells, and the small molecules that stimulate them, a more appealing prospect for venture capitalists. In 2006, scientists showed that differentiated cells could be reprogrammed to pluripotency using just four genes1. Scientists are now searching for chemicals that could do the same thing, thus circumventing the need for an unpredictable viral vector that delivers potential oncogenes. Also in 2006, the lab of yet another Fate scientific founder, Sheng Ding, at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, identified a small molecule that allowed mouse embryonic stem cells to stay pluripotent in culture without the usual feeder cells or serum2.
Even big pharma is joining the party. In November, Pfizer announced the formation of a new regenerative medicine unit that will eventually employ a total of 70 people in Cambridge, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts. "Pfizer has decided that the time is right to really put some effort into this area," says Ruth McKernan, chief scientific officer for the unit. Small molecules are definitely on the menu. "Who has millions of compounds that might be useful for maintaining stem cells?" she asks. "We do."
In developing treatments, Fate seeks to tweak the body's developmental signaling pathways such as Wnt, Hedgehog and Notch. For example, Ding's group has identified a small molecule that modulates Wnt signaling3.
Moon compares Wnt signaling to music. During development, it's a full-sized orchestra playing a symphony. In adulthood, the music slows, but isn't silenced. It might crescendo during injury or disease, or drop to a whisper in a degenerative condition. Small molecules, Moon hopes, could act as an additional flute or bassoon to keep the song in the audible, harmonic range.
Alternatively, it's possible that other small molecules could turn down the volume. Such drugs could halt the rampaging division of cancer cells, where developmental pathways gone awry allow too much cell proliferation.
The small molecule approach, of course, is not without its own set of risks. "The biggest problem for Fate's approach is the delivery to a targeted site," says Luc Leyns, a developmental biologist who studies stem cells at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium. There are only a few biochemical pathways that trigger adult stem cell proliferation. "These 'usual suspects' are active in numerous tissues and acting on them in a body-wide way will probably have negative side effects," Leyns says.
"The biggest problem for Fate's approach is the delivery to a targeted site." ?
One option, Ding says, is to aim the drugs toward a particular body part ? eye drops for the eyes, inhaled medicines for the lungs and catheters for hard-to-reach tissues. A more biochemical approach would be to link the drug to signaling molecules or antibodies that home in on specific sites in the body. For example, Ding says, the bisphosphonate functional group targets bone.
Alternatively, Ding speculates that some ailments might call out for their own cure. If endogenous stem cells are already on high alert because of nearby tissue damage, they may be primed to respond to drugs, Ding says. And stem cells may be able to listen to the injured tissue's own signaling once small molecules jump-start the system. Adult stem cells elsewhere in the body, then, might be less responsive to the drug's effects.
Activating developmental pathways and stem cells systemically might not even be all that dangerous, Zon says. In an as yet unpublished study, his lab engineered zebrafish that turn on Wnt at high levels all over the body and have an increased blood stem cell population. "They seemed pretty normal, actually," he says. "Having more stem cells isn't that bad for you." The same will not necessarily be true in people; Wnt activation is implicated in many human colon cancers.
The company's lead candidate is based on work from Zon's lab. His group discovered that a natural small molecule, prostaglandin E2, boosts haematopoietic stem (HS) cell numbers in zebrafish. When fish HS cells were destroyed by radiation, administration of a prostaglandin E2 derivative helped kidney marrow recover4. More recently, at the December 2008 meeting of the American Society of Hematology in San Francisco, California, Zon presented data suggesting that prostaglandin E2 acts by increasing the activity of beta-catenin, a player in the Wnt pathway, to stimulate transcription for cell growth and proliferation.
The drug candidate will, Fate hopes, help patients who need their blood-forming system rebooted. High-dose chemotherapy or radiation obliterates the body's immune cells, so patients require a transplant of bone marrow or umbilical cord blood to reconstitute their immune systems. But that process happens slowly, leaving patients vulnerable to life-threatening infections for weeks or even months. "The trick is to make sure that you not only get rapid engraftment of those haematopoietic stem cells, but to make sure that you get a durable engraftment," says Paul Grayson, chief executive officer at Fate.
Fate plans to pretreat transplant cells from cord blood with the drug candidate to boost their engraftment potential. One advantage of this approach is that only the transplant material, not the actual patient, is exposed to the drug, limiting risk. Adult transplant patients typically require the volume of cells from two umbilical cords, and this provides the researchers with a neat trick to measure the therapy's success. By pretreating only one batch of cord blood, the scientists will be able to follow the relative success of treated and control cells within the same patient.
The company aims to test this first potential therapy in clinical trials early in 2009. That's quick-paced, particularly considering that Fate began in 2007, when venture capitalists ARCH, Polaris Venture Partners in Waltham, Massachusetts joined forces with five big-name scientific founders ? in addition to Zon, Ding and Moon, Philip Beachy of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and David Scadden at Harvard Medical School in Boston round out Fate's dream team. There are currently a dozen employees, and the company is growing fast.
"They're all extremely experienced," Mason says. "Those guys will come up with something, there's no doubt about it." Although a simple pill can't yet replace dialysis, it looks like patients won't have to wait until Star Trek's 23rd century for drugs that help the body heal itself. Someday pharmaceuticals may allow patients to regrow damaged tissues or even lost limbs like the starfish does. "I'm optimistic," Ding says. "Science fiction may happen."


For some people, life insurance on a pet makes perfect sense. On the other hand, livestock Insurance is a completely different matter. Livestock insurance applies to animals that are raised for business purposes, and it can be the difference between the payout of an insurance policy and the end of your business. Livestock are a serious investment, and if by some terrible chance a disease sweeps through your herd and kills all of your animals, the insurance can help soften what would otherwise be a devastating financial blow.
Working with a company that specializes in livestock insurance makes the claims process easier. Companies that specialize in this type of insurance are able to help you understand the various ins and outs of what is required, and will not need to split their attention between livestock insurance and other types of insurance.
The price of livestock insurance varies from provider to provider, and also changes based on your specific needs. When you are evaluating a potential policy for your livestock, keep this in mind. At the same time, keep in mind that you may be eligible for certain discounts on the policy. Even if you are not, livestock insurance counts as a business expense that can be deducted from your taxes.
If one of your animals dies and is covered by livestock insurance, you will receive a lump sum payout based on the coverage amount. Even if animal life insurance seems like an unnecessary expense to you, when it comes to livestock, it is better to have insurance then to not have it. Livestock insurance has kept many businesses afloat when they would have otherwise been destroyed by the loss of the herd.


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Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease
Advances in Genetics, Genomics and Control of Rice Blast Disease pp 185-190 | Cite as
Role of Ethylene, Abscisic Acid and MAP Kinase Pathways in Rice Blast Resistance
Tameka A. Bailey
Xiangjun Zhou
Jianping Chen
Yinong Yang
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A combination of genetic, molecular, biochemical and pathological approaches have been taken to elucidate the defense signaling pathways leading to rice blast resistance and susceptibility. Using transgenic rice lines defective in salicylic acid (SA) or jasmonic acid (JA) pathways, we have previously shown that SA is not an effective signal molecule in rice but acts as a constitutive antioxidant to protect rice plants from the pathogen-induced oxidative damage. On the other hand, JA pathway is involved in mediating rice defense gene expression and blast resistance. Recently, increasing evidence suggests that ethylene (ET) biosynthesis is important for rice blast resistance. Based on the analysis of transgenic rice lines defective in ET, abscisic acid (ABA), or mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase pathways, we have demonstrated that ET and its antagonistic interaction with ABA plays a crucial role in rice blast resistance. Furthermore, a stress-responsive MAP kinase was found to mediate the cross-talk between ABA and ET pathways and inversely regulate rice blast resistance and abiotic stress tolerance.
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I use this phrase a lot!
The Word says that Faith is the substance of things hoped for! Hope in this context is not a feeling it is an action. It is a real expectation of knowing what is to come. In my devotion this morning, I read that "if people would just expect God to move as much as a child expects his grandparents to arrive, He could move on their situation and change things drastically by the power of His Spirit."
Do you have young children? I don't know about your children, but if my kids hear that their grandparents are coming by to see them they STOP whatever they are doing, get everything together that they want to show their grandparents (artwork, dolls, clothes, etc), ask every 2 minutes -or less- WHEN they will be here even if we've told them it will be 4 more hours. They KNOW their grandparents are coming to see them, they EXPECT their grandparents to come through that door any second even though they know it might be longer, they ANTICIPATE the excitement of hugging them and playing with them, they LIVE for that moment, and NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!
Whew! What a revelation this is to me. I HOPE for God to move, but it often is in the form of "wishing" rather than pure expectation with a KNOWing that He will do what He has promised. What has he promised? Find his promises in the Word. I have promises I have been standing on...with expectation that the fulfillment of His promise will happen any second! Well, I wish I could say that was always true...sometimes doubt can cloud my hope. Sometimes fear can make my hope turn to frustration. Is my hope pure like a child waiting for their grandparents to walk through that front door? No, not always. I should have such strong hope in the promises of God's Word that NOTHING ELSE MATTERS! Circumstances do not matter. What people say does not matter. What the bills say does not matter. What the doctors say does not matter. Are you hearing what I'm saying here?! God's Word is more powerful than anything we can say or do. His Word is alive and sharper than any two-edged sword. Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things that you truly HOPE for.
Let's get our minds in gear. Let's focus on the promise and not the problem. Boy is that hard to do!! How do we do it? We get IN the Word. Read it-Speak it-Think about it-Believe it.
Your Spirit man is like the muscles in your body. If you do nothing, you lose muscle and gain fat! If you are active & eat right, you will gain muscle and lose fat! Not only that, but the muscle you build will be so full of life that it will continue to burn fat even when you are not working out. Oh man, this is good.... Well, when you feed on the word and speak and act on the Word you are building your spirit man -with FAITH- like those muscles, and burning up the FAT, aka: doubt and unbelief. And if your spirit man is built up, then even in those moments of discouragement that will inevitably come, your spirit "muscles" will still be working to burn up that doubt!!
I don't know about you, but I needed to hear this today and just had to share it with you.