Low Carb Diabetic Diet Success Story: Sheryl's Life-Changing Results!
We love when our members and subscribers experience great improvements with their health because it's the reason we do what we do. And it proves that what we do here works!
Plus, sharing stories of success helps inspire YOU and other people in our community to get motivated, take action, and reap the benefits of rewards of doing so.
So today we've got the story of an inspiring woman who has completely turned her life around – even after having type 2 diabetes for 20 years!
My name is Sheryl; I am a 66-year old retiree survivor of two heart incidents. Heart problems are common in my mother's family; however, I am the first to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Sheryl started off as a free DMP subscriber , then joined as a member of the 30 Day Turnaround Program and she has now been a VIP member for over one year.
"My fasting lab results are great, and my doctor is very pleased that I found a plan that makes a great difference for me," says Sheryl.
Sheryl achieved great results in just 3 months and it has only kept getting better and better for her.
What was your lifestyle like prior to becoming a member?
For the past 30 years, my preferred form of exercise has been walking. Then, 10 years or so ago, I added limited resistance training. Although there have been extended times I didn't exercise, for the past 2 years, I have consistently gone to a gym three times a week, walking 1-1.5 miles (1.6-2.5 km) on a treadmill, followed by a variety of other resistant training for 30 minutes during each visit.
I have attempted to eat "healthier" food for many years: limiting sugar, including whole wheat flour, brown rice, and never drinking a sugary drink (soda or other). Breads, and cookies were always my weaknesses. Although I rarely ate fatty meats for the past decade; I allowed myself to eat as much turkey, chicken and fish as I desired.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the spring of 2007, with an A1C of 7.2. I was very concerned that one day because controlling diabetes only through medication could limit future options for cardiac medications. My goal became to control my diabetes as much as possible with oral medication only, by modifying my diet and exercising regularly.
I was given the typical introduction to diabetic nutrition, and limited my daily carbohydrates to 130-140 grams/day. My A1C quickly dropped to 6.5, and although I changed medications over the next few years, my A1C hovered around 6.3 until spring, 2016. I was taking 1 daily janumet XR, 50-1000mg .
During my recuperation from surgery in March 2015, I lost about 10 pounds (4.5kg), weighing in at ~145-150. I liked that my weight was lower; but I also knew from past experience that as I recuperated, my weight would again creep higher. By the end of 2015, my weight began creeping up toward 150; I also discovered that my morning glucose tests changed from about 140-150 to 160-180.
Because of changes in eligible medication due to my new Medicare allowances, I began taking metformin HCL ER, 750mg and glipizide ER, 2.5mg, each twice daily. I was still unable to lower my daily glucose readings to the previous ranges. Once again, I realized that I would have to figure out something more effective in my diet, or face increased medication.
I "happened" onto the Diabetes Meal Plans site when I was browsing the internet for something that I could try, something that would make sense. When I first decided to sign up as a free subscriber, the "Daily Emails" were most informative and helpful; it was the best information I had read in years. I liked the simplicity in the presentation, and that information was backed up by research.
I read, and reread the guidelines that said I could eat eggs, cheese, and nuts; that this wasn't the type cholesterol that would increase my levels. I learned that watching my daily cholesterol levels wasn't the way to lower my cholesterol, that I would do better by lowering carbs and increasing fiber.
Most importantly, I learned that my present diet wasn't working because I was trying to prevent diabetes, not treat the disease I already had!
At first, I wasn't sure I could trust this website when I learned that I would have to limit my daily carb intake to 50-75 carbs each day and would increase my cholesterol intake!
I asked lots of questions, and with fear and trembling, decided in March 2016, to see what the Diabetes Meal Plans could do for me. After taking the 30 Day Turnaround Program, I then joined as a VIP Member. When I returned to the doctor for my next 6-month checkup, my health was already improving: My weight had dropped 6 pounds (2.7kg), and my A1C had dropped to 5.8!
This was an all-time low for me. Best of all, my doctor reduced my daily amounts of metformin and glipizide by half: The same tablets one time daily!
What did you change in your diet?
I changed my eating to treat diabetes and stopped eating anything made from flour, including wheat flour; sugar, grains, and changed to rarely eating legumes either. I eliminated all pastas, breads (including high fiber varieties), granola bars, cereals (especially oatmeal), potatoes and rice.
Instead, I added zucchini, cauliflower, cabbage and spaghetti squash as my new best friends. I also added a variety of other vegetables and leafy greens. I learned to use almond flour, coconut flour, and flax meal.
I discovered a small amount of a low carb dessert kept me from craving foods I missed. I scoured the DMP Members site for recipes and new information on how to treat my disease. The updated information keeps me current in treating my disease. And the Thanksgiving recipes were a wonderful resource that kept me on track all during the Holiday season.
What results have you got from switching your diet?
Note: The lab results are shared above.
In November, I had my second 6-month checkup, and my weight had dropped to 133 pounds (60.3kg); my A1C was 5.7. I have changed from wearing sizes 10-12 to wearing sizes 4-6!
Eating low carb and following the information from this website, I continue to be healthier and stronger than I have been in years!
Cooking still requires more work but no longer presents the challenge it did; I no longer miss categories of food because I can find something comparable in a low carb recipe, which is easily accessible inside the DMP Members site where you can find hundreds of meal ideas and options.
Best of all, I no longer have the intense cravings and I find I don't get nearly as hungry as often as I once did.
How has being a DMP member helped you?
The only recommendation I have for this website is that everyone gets to know it well!
The information provided is very solid, and I have found the plan works for treating this disease!
From reading all the information provided by Diabetes Meal Plans, I have increased understanding about the frustration of all my past food experiences and struggles with diabetes, because of the explanations provided for many topics. My part is to be committed to do what I need to do.
This site has helped me to become an educated, supported consumer who is becoming successful in treating her disease!
My A1C levels continue to be 6.0 and below. I've maintained 1 year on lower dosages of medication! I am now 2+years with NORMAL BMI… something I once thought was forever out of range for me!
My significant other began serious heart difficulties (not diet related), resulting in open heart surgery to remove growths from his aortic valve. In the weeks and months following, my health had taken second place… I ate many meals on-the-run, and my exercise was poor because of keeping up with a cardiac rehab schedule.
I am very grateful that eating low-carb had become somewhat second nature, although I still gained about 5 pounds and struggled with my daily glucose numbers. Fortunately, he is recovering well and we are back on a regular schedule: I am again exercising three times a week, and I immediately lost the gained 5 pounds (2.2kg).
I can cook regularly again, paying attention to my intake details. My daily glucose numbers are also back in line; I am anticipating a return to an A1C of 5.8 or less! When life threw some serious health curves for my partner, I am glad I was in a place to reasonably maintain my personal health! Now I'm looking forward to trying some of the new recipes that have been accumulating in my inbox!
Of note, I recently had a colonoscopy. Although I hear that there is no research to determine whether low carb is better for colon health, for the first time EVER, I won't have to return for another for 10 years!
As always, I am grateful for your researched information, and innovations to guide toward success!
Thanks so much for sharing your story Sheryl. That's why we do what we do. We share the latest research and the real truth about diabetic nutrition science so people like you and Sheryl can transform your life!
What did you learn most from what she shared? Or what inspired you the most? Please leave your comments below.
Congratulations…your story is a challenge to me to take up this program.
Keep us posted on your progress, Siliva. And for even more motivation check out some of these other awesome success stories!
Dear Sheryl, Congrats………. your sharing was very inspirational and it makes me feel that I too should join this reversal program immediately. But for my bad luck I am in India, and all the diet and food items are of foreign food style chart, so I am not able to have all that here. I wish Diabetes Meal Plan team creates an Indian diet chart for people like me.
l wanted to try this DMP. Can you introduce me through sample meal plans. Im diabetic for 5 years and got still very high A1c.
Perhaps you would like to take our 30 Day Turnaround Program Emilia. It's a step-by-step diabetic nutrition program that also has a 7 day meal plan and lots of recipes. The other alternative is to join as a meal plans member – we have monthly and annual options. We're proud to say our members are lowering their A1c very effectively.
What is involved with joining DMP?
We have different online products and programs you can purchase Deb. Sheryl first did the 30 day program and later joined as a VIP member – which also includes the 30 day program. VIP's get access to our smart meal planners, ready-made meal plans, 500+ low carb recipes, a library of info, menus and tons of helpful stuff they can use. Click here to find out more about what's inside.
Congratulations Sheryl. I am newly subscribed to Diabetes Meal Plan and have learned far more from their web site than I ever learned from doctors over the years. I was diagnosed over 20 yrs ago and currently since using DMP web site have dropped from 7.9% to 7.1%. Not much but it is a start. A year ago I was 5.9% but fell off the wagon and started eating foods that are not good for diabetics e.g. potatoes, rice, mac and cheese, etc. I learned these foods are not good for diabetics thanks to DMP and that I need to eat low carb for life! I am 76 yrs old and striving to get back on track and learn to eat low carb. I have tried a few of DMP recipes like mashed and riced cauliflower, zoodles made from zucchini among others. Good health to you Sheryl and to myself and many thanks to DMP team!!!
Sheryl, thanks so much for sharing your story. It was very inspiring and has definitely spurred me on to do more than what I'm currently doing.
Congratulations Sheryl! I am 63 and was diagnosed with type 2 last year. I have always been overweight so that's a huge factor in my diagnosis. I lost 20 lbs and lowered my A1c, but I need to lose more. Your story inspires me to try harder, exercise more and to try more of the recipes from this site. Thanks for sharing and you look great!


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The phrase 'games as a service' was coined a few years ago, and it has since become a buzzword in the industry. Companies have been using it to justify continuously charging customers, in an attempt to turn players into 'payers'.
The introduction of lootboxes especially has been a major sticking point for members of the gaming community. With random in-game items dropped from virtual boxes, most of these items have been largely cosmetic. However there have been instances where these objects provide players who fork out more money an advantage over those who keep their money in their wallets. While this practice has been going on for years, it has never been so egregious as it has gotten in the last year.
With the release of Star Wars Battlefront II, and Destiny 2, it is clear that the situation is getting out of hand. While these 2 examples are extreme, they are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. But more on them later.
The uproar from players has sparked conversations on a larger scale. From the mainstream media to politicians, everyone has begun talking about the detrimental effects micro-transactions have been having on younger, more impressionable gamers.
Some might argue that over the years, the price of games have not seen a huge change, with most AAA games largely staying at the 60 dollar price point at launch for as long as most can remember. However, in this day and age, the 60 dollar price point is merely an entry level price, with the introduction of season passes, special editions, Downloadable Content (DLC), and of course micro-transactions, the price of a single game can easily climb into the hundreds.
Take for example Watch Dogs, which was released in 2014, where players had to follow a chart on Wikipedia to try and get all the collectibles.
Looking back at 2017, the chase for collectibles has entered the digital realm, with special editions often including exclusive in-game items, like skins or pets. Where different tiers of special editions giving players different levels of rewards, these rewards usually have little impact on the final experience, other than a feeling of exclusivity where you have something a portion of the player base doesn't.
We cannot argue that games have evolved to being more than just something we can enjoy for a few hours, put it down and never return to again. The introduction of multiplayer has also added countless hours of playtime to many games. (Thank goodness the idea of the online pass is dead and buried). Another way some companies add playtime to the game is by adding content to it, in the form of expansion packs or DLC.
Since the introduction of expansion packs, and DLC companies have added hours upon hours of playtime to their games from the base experience.
We've all seen the memes, expansion packs were originally seen as additional content, expanding on the experiences provided by the base game. However, in this day and age, DLC especially are seen as essential parts of the game's experience. Instead of being add-ons to the base experience, DLCs are now seen as locks on content unless you are willing to cough up the additional cash.
Recently the addition of lootboxes have added an additional way for players to 'support the game' after it has been released. Like pre-order bonuses, these lootboxes contain in-game items that can be purely cosmetic.
Developers often provide longevity to their games through time exclusive events and as a result time-exclusive lootboxes. These lootboxes are seen as especially sought after as they are not available at all times.
With the bases covered, let's take a look at, what in my mind, are this year's biggest culprits. Star Wars Battlefront II, and Destiny 2.
A game which courted much controversy even before it was released, Star Wars Battlefront II, did not start on the right foot with fans. It all began with the realization that the franchises most popular characters were squirreled behind lootboxes which would have required players to go through an unbelievable grindfest.
If players were unwilling to grind for them, they could shell out cash for a chance to unlock those characters. Outraged at the blind side, players turned to reddit to vent their frustrations, and while their voices were heard it led to EA receiving the unwanted distinction of having the most downvoted comment in reddit history.
Following the torrent of negative reactions, the developers reduced the price of all hero characters by 75%. With the reduction, however there the reward for completion of the campaign also saw a 75% reduction, falling to 5,000 from the original 20,000.
Before the game's official launch, according to various reports, Disney stepped in and pressured EA into deactivating the option to buy currency, as it worked to figure out a way to retool the micro-transactions, with the aim of reintroducing it at a later date.
Disney's intervention came too late, as the conversation on lootboxes and their effects had already begun. On a larger scale, lootboxes are also being investigated by several governments to determine if they violate gambling laws, with Star Wars Battlefront II, and Overwatch among those being closing scrutinized.
Destiny 2 was a game which promised so much, and yet failed to deliver on multiple levels. From the lackluster end game, to the focus on lootboxes, Destiny 2 is arguably the worst example of the implementation of micro-transactions. The problems with micro-transactions in Destiny 2 have grown to such massive proportions that the movement #RemoveEververse has dominated the game's official forums, with close to 30 pages of forum posts demanding that Bungie remove Eververse, Destiny 2's micro-transaction storefront.
At launch, Bungie's Destiny 2 was greeted with a ton of fanfare. Fans of the original Destiny were excited for a new experience. New worlds to explore, more lore to sink their teeth into, more aliens to shoot, Destiny 2 looked to continue giving Destiny fans what they wanted.
Everything started out well enough, with an enjoyable story and entertaining cast of characters, things looked good for Destiny 2. However, things quickly changed when players hit the game's original level cap of 20. Where in the original Destiny, players played for hours on end to get the piece of armor, or gun that would help them turn the tide of battle. Or where players would need to complete the toughest challenges the game had to offer, the raid, to increase their character's level.
All of this changed in Destiny 2. No longer were you required to play the toughest activities for the best loot. You didn't even need to complete the most difficult activities for the best loot. As the loot pool in the normal version of the raids and Nightfalls were similar to the loot pool in their prestige counterparts. This changed the way players viewed the toughest challenges in the game, as there was no reason to attempted the highest difficulty activities.
Destiny 2 ditched all of that in favor of grinding for Bright Engrams, the game's name for lootboxes. If players did not want to grind for said engrams, they could shell out money to get them. Contained in these Bright Engrams are items ranging from gun and armor ornaments, to ships, to Sparrows (mounts) and ghost shells. One might say that these are merely cosmetic, but Sparrows and ghost shells also have different attributes tied to them. Some Sparrows may have increased mobility, and some ghosts may highlight chests located on different planets, or drop materials when performing kills with guns containing certain attributes. These perks may not be 'game-breaking' but they certainly influence the way players interact with the game.
Then came the launch of Destiny 2's first of two 20 dollar expansions, The Curse of Osiris. Judging from the pre-release live streams, and blog posts, I thought Curse of Osiris could have been a turning point in Destiny 2's player count. But boy was I wrong. From a dismal campaign that took be little over 2 hours to complete, to a small and unsatisfying new play area, Mercury. Curse of Osiris was a slap in the face to Destiny fans hoping for more from Bungie. Not only was the content dissatisfying, Bungie introduced over a hundred new items to the game, only for more than half of these newly introduced items to be hidden behind Bright Engrams.
However, this was not Curse of Osiris' biggest infringement, players who did not buy the expansion were locked out of prestige activities, activities they originally had access to. While Bungie later backpedaled a little bit later on, the damage was already done.
Finally, we have the Dawning, Destiny 2's Christmas event. Together with the event, came Dawning Engrams. Where in other loot based games awarded players leveling up with the event's lootboxes, Destiny 2 only awarded players with the original Bright Engrams. While you could earn loot from a selected pool while doing in-game activities, these items are not valued similarly as items you could get from the Dawning Engrams, going so far as to stack the same shader you get from the different means in two different slots.
I've gone on about the evils of a lootbox system and a couples of the more serious examples. But the question still remains, if a game wants to be a service and have a lifespan lasting years after its release, how can it sustain itself? How can it fund the development of future content? Well, my answer is simple albeit contentious. Instead of putting a skin behind a lootbox system, place them in plain view, with a reasonable set price attached to it. In this case, we as players can get the skins we want as well without going to the slot machine to try and get said item. Here we know what we want and how much it will take to get it.
I'm not here to say that you must not spend your money on items like loot boxes and the like. In fact, what you do with your cash is your problem. However, I must say this. I believe that these kinds of predatory lootbox systems have no place in a fully priced game.
As gamers, we must vote with our wallets. We have the power to tell companies that what they are doing is wrong. We have the power to change the way games are viewed by the rest of the public. Will you take a stand and say enough is enough, or will you continue to kowtow to publishers and continue to support their money grabbing schemes? The choice is yours.


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UEFA Nations League finals draw: Netherlands vs Croatia, Spain vs Italy; all you need to know
Here is all you need to know about the UEFA Nations League draw that happened on Wednesday.
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25 January, 2023 17:13 IST
The Netherlands will host the 2023 Nations League finals, with matches at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadion and the FC Twente Stadion in Enschede. | Photo Credit: AFP
The UEFA Nations League draw was made on Wednesday as host Netherlands is set to face Croatia in the semifinals .
The Dutch, under new coach Ronald Koeman, will face World Cup semifinalist Croatia on June 14 in Rotterdam at the De Kuip home stadium of Feyenoord.
In the other semifinal, Spain will play European champion Italy on June 15 in Enschede at the home of Twente.
Here is all you need to know about the UEFA Nations League finals:
How many teams have qualified for the UEFA Nations League finals?
Host Netherlands, Spain, Croatia and Italy are the teams that have qualified for the UEFA Nations League finals.
What is the format of the UEFA Nations League finals?
Wednesday's draw, conducted at UEFA headquarters in Switzerland, has the Dutch hosting the Croats, fresh from reaching the World Cup semi-finals in Qatar, in Rotterdam on June 14 with Italy and Spain clashing in Enschede the next day.
The winners advance to the final in Rotterdam on June 18, with the third-place playoff earlier the same day in Enschede.
How did the teams qualify?
The four countries were winners of their respective League A groups last year and will compete in the mini-tournament in mid-year to decide the 2022-23 title.
When and where are the 2023 Nations League matches happening?
The Netherlands will host the 2023 Nations League finals, with matches slated to be conducted at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadion and the FC Twente Stadion in Enschede.
FULL SCHEDULE:
Semi-final 1: Netherlands vs Croatia - 14 June (Rotterdam, 1:15am IST)
Semi-final 2: Italy vs Spain 15 June (Enschede, 1:15am IST)
Third-place match: 18 June (Enschede, 7:30pm IST)
Final: 18 June (Rotterdam, 1:15am IST)
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News - Archive for January 2013
Trending Property News - Week 5
This weeks property news highlights in brief: Boris Johnson gets a party invite, economists question house price stats, a journalist complains and Vanilla Ice tells us about investing in US real estate...
London's Pre-Completion Residential Units Selling Well
Nearly half of all residential units under construction in London have been snapped up before completion, according to new data...
US House Prices Continue to Grow in S&P (Official) Index
The latest release from the S&P Case-Shiller house price index, (which is as close to being an official house price index as it gets in America) shows US house prices up by between 4.5% and 5.5% in the 12 months...
Prime Central London Property Prices Keep Rising
Prime central London property prices have been on the rise for the last four years, according to new research. In its Spring 2013 London Residential Review...
Commercial Property Boost ''Through Easier Office Redevelopment''
The coalition government is looking to relax planning restrictions that govern the conversion of offices into buildings which will eventually have a residential purpose, according to Henry Lancaster, a senior investment analyst at Coutts...
Middle East Hotel Sector On the Up
The latest information from STR Global shows positive performances in the Middle East/Africa hotel sector across most regions when reported in US Dollars...
Manufacturing Recovery ''Good News'' for Commercial Property
The recent recovery of the UK manufacturing industry is good news for the commercial property sector, according to property consultants D&P Holt. The Confederation of British Industry recently revealed that while orders were flat in the three months to January...
Foreign Office Investors Drive London Back to Pre-Crisis Levels
It is no secret that London is a bright spot in a bleak UK property market, or that the residential sector in the capital returned to pre-crisis levels long ago, but now the office sector has followed it...
Leeds Office Market Gaining Ground
The Leeds office market picked up momentum in 2012, achieving its greatest level of occupier demand since the beginning of the recession. Figures from the Leeds Office Agents' Forum revealed that last year take-up totalled 405,951 square feet...
Housing Vital to Northern Economic Recovery
A new report has shown how vital housing is to the North's economic recovery according to shadow housing minister Jack Dromey...
US Investors to Increase Activity in Hotel Market
Property investment is set to intensify in the US hotel market, with buyers becoming more aggressive in 2013. According to Jones Lang LaSalle's Hotel Investment Outlook, 2012 was a positive year for the sector...
Retail Investment Strong in Europe
Property investment deals have been lively in the European retail sector, according to a new report. Jones Lang LaSalle claim that retail unit sales were strong in the final quarter 2012 across the continent...
Western Corridor Office Take-up Solid in 2012
Property investment deals could likely rise in the Western Corridor of London on the back of a solid 2012 performance. Figures from Jones Lang LaSalle showed the area witnessed a rise in office take-up, peaking at two million square feet...
US House Building Momentum Continues
For a while now the US housing market has seemed unstoppable in its path of recovery, but still the doubters have their doubts and with good reason, there are a lot of factors to make the future uncertain...
Eurozone Collapse: Were Predictions Misguided or Premature?
The eurozone is undoubtedly in crisis but its predicted collapse has yet to materialise. In fact, there have been small signs of recovery - a shock to those such as Nobel-Prize winner Paul Krugman who expected the implosion of the monetary union to occur before 2013...
Credit Crunch Killed the Emerging Market Star
During the boom it didn't take much for a property market to be given the title of "hot emerging market". In fact for a time it looked like all it took was a few beach resorts with celebrity endorsed golf courses, although a Trump tower thrown in certainly helped...
Farmland to Defy Trend for Minimal Growth
With many UK growth markets - including central London - experiencing a slowdown this year, it seems farmland is the safe bet for property investment in 2013. According to research from Savills...
Student Property Investment Doubled in 2012 - Tripled Since 2009
According to the latest figures from CBRE some £2.7 billion was invested in student property last year, an astonishing 125% increase compared to 2011...
London Hotel Sector Set for a Positive 2013
Solid growth is expected in the London hotel sector this year according to a new report from STR Global and Tourism Economics. The report predicts strong growth in both supply and demand in the coming year...
Russian Real Estate Investment Up Says JLLS
According to the latest data from Jones Lang La Salle, Russia has come back to life in terms of investor demand, sentiment and, most importantly investment...
Down and Dirty with the Recovery: The World in 2013
It is now going on 7 years since America started to crumble, 6 years since the UK caught the disease, and between that and 5 years since most the rest of the world followed suit, and still we aren't back out the other side in any real way...
Well Located Configured Retail Units in Demand
Configured retail units in good locations continue to be in demand, according to Jones Lang LaSalle. Despite structural changes currently taking place in the sector and a constant stream of businesses going into administration...
Is Asian Property Growth Too Good To Be True?
You should never put all of your eggs into one basket, or so the old saying goes. The Asian property market is no exception to this rule and while there is undoubtedly growth, several factors call for trepidation, if not outright concern...
Singapore Tightens Property Measures
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Universal vote by mail — it's a secular issue
The injustice of forcing citizens to endanger their lives to vote in the midst of a pandemic was recently brought home to the Freedom From Religion Foundation during the debacle that was Wisconsin's in-person primary election.
Several FFRF staff members were forced to risk their lives — and the lives of their families — on Tuesday, April 7, in order to vote, after requesting absentee ballots that never arrived. Both the Wisconsin and U.S. Supreme Courts compelled the state's voters to violate stay-at-home orders and risk health and plague to exercise their constitutional right to vote. (Note that both courts safely issued these undemocratic decisions
Several FFRF staff members were forced to risk their lives — and the lives of their families — on Tuesday, April 7, in order to vote, after requesting absentee ballots that never arrived. Both the Wisconsin and U.S. Supreme Courts compelled the state's voters to violate stay-at-home orders and risk health and plague to exercise their constitutional right to vote. (Note that both courts safely issued these undemocratic decisions via remote work.)
Dissenting Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned that the decision would result "in massive disenfranchisement" and wrote that the reasoning of her conservative colleagues "boggles" the mind.
All evidence so far backs up Ginsburg's prediction. Only five polling places were even open in Milwaukee, a county of nearly 1 million people (down from more than 180 polling sites in normal elections). Lines were long at many polling stations, making social distancing a joke. Poll workers had to sit close to each other, and handle countless IDs, thanks to Wisconsin's unnecessary voter ID requirement. Even worse, the decision to override Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' accommodation, which would have allowed a longer time frame to mail in ballots, was purely ugly partisan politicking, a preview of coming attractions in November.
The pandemic has brought renewed attention to the advantages of universal vote by mail — and has strengthened calls to put it in place by the November election.
Why is universal vote by mail a secular issue?
American secular voters are becoming a force. Secular voters sharply increased their share of the U.S. electorate to 17 percent by 2018: a massive 55 percent increase. The Freedom From Religion Foundation wants to see those numbers continue to climb. After all, the nonreligious are 26 percent of the U.S. population, so we have secular muscle to flex.
Currently, five states conduct all elections entirely by mail (Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington and Utah) and 21 allow voting by mail in lesser elections. Conveniences include privacy, fewer barriers for those with disabilities, more time to vote (ballots are sent out in advance), and to consider one's vote. Even better, voting by mail costs less — in one study up to 40 percent less. Best of all, the convenience tends to increase turnout and enhance democracy at work. When Colorado moved to voting by mail in 2014, turnout was higher than predicted by 3.3 points. During the 2018 primaries, states with voting by mail had a 15 percent higher median turnout than states which focus on in-person voting.
Why FFRF supports voting by mail
First, it's based on evidence, science, reason and compassion, which should be the basis for our public policy.
Voting by mail will specifically help turn out the secular vote, since studies suggest that voting by mail will help younger voters cast ballots. Nationally, 38 percent of younger Americans are nonreligious. This includes about 21 percent of younger Americans who are either atheist or agnostic. For instance, in Utah, counties that moved to voting by mail in 2016 had 10 percent higher voting among 25-34 year-olds. Younger voters, even in Utah, are largely secular. The average age of FFRF members is 67, so voting by mail will also accommodate the needs of secular senior citizens.
There are, of course, pitfalls. For instance, while data suggest more minorities and younger Americans will vote, those same voters are more apt to have their absentee ballots thrown away or challenged more often. The danger is five times more likely in states like Florida. But these problems are surmountable — and they can't be compared to the risks of in-person voting during a deadly pandemic.
Universal vote by mail will not just help secular voters, but will assist all Americans exercise their supreme right of citizenship. FFRF supports it. We hope you will, too.


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Tesla Strikes New Deal To Manufacture Electric Vehicles In China
By JJ Foster - January 9, 2018
Tesla has announced a groundbreaking deal to manufacture cars in China. The business move makes sense seeing that the Asian country is the largest market for electric vehicles on the planet.
One reason that this deal is like no other is that Tesla is the first car manufacturer to go local without 50:50 local partners.
This means that Tesla has more control over two key aspects of its business, the I.P. (intellectual property) as well as the production side of the company.
Another important detail is that production costs will be reduced for cars that are sold in China. Also, rumor has it that purchasers will benefit from tax breaks similar to the deals that Chinese companies provide.
This shouldn't come as too much of a shock, especially seeing that China is at the forefront of the electric vehicle industry. Chinese companies goals are to create a more stable, environment-friendly driving community.
This also coincides with China's 19th Congress, which established the government's goals that cover many more aspects beyond car manufacturing.
However, who needs who the most? The answer can probably be found in certain statistics. For example, this chart from the IHS Markit: Light Vehicle Forecast proves just how essential China is in the global market.
In 2009, China usurped the U.S. to become the number one car manufacturing company.
Another important statistic is that China produced 45% of the total of the 2016's electric vehicles, a staggering total of 336,000. The U.S., on the other hand, produced a much more modest 160,000.
Ultimately, Tesla needs China more than the other way round. Regardless of whether Tesla is in the fold or not, China's electric vehicle market will continue to grow.
But being a part of China's technological talents should only prove to help maintain Tesla's reputation as a leading electric vehicle company.
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15 × a5 = 15a5.
3a means 3 × a.
3a2 and (5a3b + 6ac) is 15 a5×b + 18a3c.


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Special delivery? I think not
Scott Bradner
I don't know why people think I need to see their name in bold when they send me e-mail. Or why they think I'll be impressed if they have a logo on their electronic stationery. Unless someone is sending me a picture, I wish the person would stick to plain text e-mail. I've felt this way for a while on general principles, but now a number of security problems are strengthening my opinion.
Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an annoying standard. The use of Internet Engineering Task Force MIME e-mail between consenting adults is fine. It's a useful way to send a picture of the family to grandma. But unless the sender knows what software the receiver uses, MIME can be a way to standardize the transmission of gibberish. If you send me a perfectly standards-compliant MIME message containing an AutoCAD drawing, you have sent me standards-compliant gibberish because I don't have AutoCAD support on my machines.
MIME is also a way to standardize the transmission of maximally inefficient messages. It's not all that unusual for me to get a message of more than one million bytes whose useful content is less than 200 characters. The rest is Microsoft Word overhead and fancy stationery complete with multi-colour logo and a list of corporate management. It sure is pretty, but it's no more informative than just sending the 200-character message by itself. Getting such a message does not put me in a cooperative mood, especially if it just took me 10 minutes to download it to my desktop in a hotel room. Transmission efficiency is higher if the message is in HTML (the Web protocol), but unless you are using a Web-based mail reader – which I do not – the message looks like a newspaper that was used to wrap up an order of fish and chips.
So for message size, software compatibility and message readability reasons, I've always asked people to send me plain text e-mail. But now there is a growing number of privacy and security reasons to insist on it. MIME-transmitted Word files can be full of viruses, executables can destroy your disk and HTML messages can tell the sender when you open the message and even send a copy back to the sender of any comments you might add when forwarding the message to someone else. None of these problems occur if it's a plain text message.
It's particularly annoying that many e-mail packages come preconfigured to be in abuse mode, and it can be hard to figure out how to tell them not to send pretty messages. Finally, to me it's a sign of ignorance or arrogance to send nontext messages to mailing lists. The sender is implicitly assuming that all list subscribers use the same software they do and that they all want to waste download time.
Bradner is a consultant with Harvard University
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ZEC Suspends All Electoral Activities Indefinitely
ZEC Chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has suspended all electoral activities, including the holding of by-elections in line with the government's measures to suppress the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
In a statement, ZEC Chairperson Justice Priscilla Chigumba said the suspension means that the Chiredzi Rural District Council ward 16 by-election will no longer be held on 4 April 2020 as been scheduled, but at a later date to be advised. She said:
The suspension affects a byelection which was due to be held in ward 16 of Chiredzi Rural District Council on 4 April 2020 and the filling of any other vacancy which may arise during this period.
New dates for the conduct of any by-election will be notified in due course.
Zimbabwe has so far confirmed three cases of coronavirus, with one of the patients sadly passing away on Monday this week.
The government has hitherto been reluctant to put the country on lockdown but there are fears that the virus could spread rapidly and affect a lot of people.
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Travis Fortnum is a journalist from Ontario, Canada.
He has previously worked in two of Canada's largest newsrooms - simultaneously.
He worked as an Assignment Editor and Writer with CTV Toronto and CP24 as some of the city's biggest stories broke.
Before taking these positions, he studied journalism at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario and wrote for a handful of local community newspapers.
In his final year of journalism school, Travis went abroad on assignment to work on a documentary and series in Trujillo, Peru.
The Fort St. John Public Library hosted a 'Fortnite' themed Nerf gun battle for local youth.
I was there to cover it, and put together this fun piece.
A cougar was spotted in the nearby community of Charlie Lake, around the time the story of a seven-year-old Vancouver Island boy was attacked.


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Threat-Intel Sharing Communities Spring Up to Aid Network Defenders
Robert Lemos
Three years ago, companies that wanted to exchange information on the latest cyber-threats needed to belong to one of several exclusive clubs, such as the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), Microsoft's Active Protections Program (MAPP) or the Anti-Virus Information Exchange Network (AVIEN).
Since then, new information-sharing tools and networks have emerged to allow businesses to exchange attack information with other companies. In September 2013, for example, Hewlett-Packard launched a threat-intelligence sharing environment, dubbed Threat Central, which allows its customers to upload threat data and share it with other subscribers.
Security and network-management provider AlienVault supports the Open Threat Exchange that allows anyone to upload threat data and post analyses. Security services firm Cyber Squared offers companies a similar environment known as Threat Connect.
While each provider has a different goal for their platform, the offerings allow business customers to gain intelligence and share information on threats, usually in machine-readable format that speeds their response to attacks, Jerry Bryant, lead security strategist for the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), told eWEEK. Defenders need to counter attackers' ability to quickly share information on network weaknesses, he said.
"I don't think that attackers are that much better at sharing information," Bryant said. "This is less about attackers sharing information amongst themselves, and more about countering their level of automation."
On June 23, Microsoft launched its own threat-intelligence sharing environment, known as Interflow. The platform allows cyber-security specialists and analysts to create communities of peers and exchange machine-readable threat information using a variety of open specifications.
Interflow supports the Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX) format, Trusted Automated Exchange of Indicator Information (TAXII) protocol, and Cyber Observable Expression standards (CyBOX), according to Microsoft. Currently, the platform is open only to a few customers as a private preview and eventually to all members of the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP).
Such programs could be used as a way to lock customers into using a specific vendor's security platform, but Microsoft sees the creation of these platforms as a way for security providers to execute better, not create walled communities around their data.
"Years ago, AV [antivirus] firms used to compete on the size of their malware databases," Bryant said. "But companies need to stop competing on the data that they have and compete more on the execution. As an industry, we are not going to get ahead of the threat landscape by using these siloed models and competing on the data."
Whether the platforms openly share information across the broader security community remains to be seen. Yet, having generalized platforms can help industries create tight communities that can share threat information between security teams, he said
The focus on interoperable formats could help create such communities more easily. In addition, he said, the push for faster exchange of machine-readable information could speed response to incidents much more quickly.
Robert Lemos is an award-winning freelance journalist who has covered information security, cybercrime and technology's impact on society for almost two decades. A former research engineer, he's written for Ars Technica, CNET, eWEEK, MIT Technology Review, Threatpost and ZDNet. He won the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 2003 for his coverage of the Blaster worm and its impact, and the SANS Institute's Top Cybersecurity Journalists in 2010 and 2014.


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Life Theft – Britt Archer
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Hailey has always lived a life of luxury, and as a Dominatrix, she dominates some of the most powerful and influential men in the world. But when she meets Logan, she knows immediately she wants to own him completely. He's rich, powerful, and would look amazing under her stiletto heels. The only problem is that he has a wife and a family.
But Hailey won't be denied, and she sets a diabolical plan into motion to steal Logan away from his family. First, she will humiliate him, and then she will use him harder than she has ever used a lowly man before. And when he's on his knees, completely broken, she's going to make him hers forever – even if she has to give Logan's wife photos of him doing the most degrading and twisted acts imaginable.
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"What are you talking about?" Logan's brow wrinkled slightly as he regarded her.
"I mean I'm going to take control of your life tonight, dear." She leaned forward, and roughly grabbed the back of his hair, and kissed him hard. Her lips mashed against his, and she increased the pressure until he gasped in pain.
She pulled his head back, and released him, before straightening up. "I've chosen you to be my slave, and I can finally let out my true dominant side."
"You mean when you were dominating me before- "
Hailey cut him off. "I was only being the sexy Mistress you wanted. Some cock sucking, followed by a light spanking. Do you really think that's what a Mistress wants? Now I'm going to do what I want. And first of all, you're going to sign some papers for me."
"Have you gone crazy?" Logan asked, half rising to his feet.
She grabbed the front of his shirt, and twisted it in her fist, forcing him back to his knees. "Did I say get up, worm?"
Logan gaze darted from side to side, but he sank back to his knees. "What is on the papers?"
"It's nothing to worry your little male brain about," she said.
"I'm not signing shit, until you tell me what it is," he said, his eyebrows sinking into a deep grimace.
Hailey sighed, and walked over to pick up a remote from the breakfast bar near the kitchen. "Are we really going to have to do this?"
"Do what?" he asked, crossing his arms in front of him. "What the hell has happened to you? It's like you're a totally different person tonight."
"I've chosen you," she said, shrugging, her round breasts nearly slipping free of her top. She made a small surprised sound, and adjusted them with her hands and smiled. "That was a close one."
"Oh yeah," Logan said, "the horror."
"Well, I'm not quite ready to go topless, yet," she said, pressing a button on the remote. The television mounted on the far wall sprang to life, the image of her and Logan on it.
"You taped me?" he said, the color draining from his face.
"You said you wanted to be outed and humiliated," she said, trying to look as innocent as possible.
"But taping me…" His eyes widened as he watched the screen. On it, Hailey was forcing him down, and holding an enormous black strap-on in one fist.
"Oh no," he whispered.
"Oh, that's right," she said, biting her lip, and trying to fight down her rising urges. "This is the time I fucked you silly. How did you explain to your wife why you couldn't walk, anyways?"
"I told her I had hemorrhoids."
Hailey burst out laughing, and raised a hand in front of her mouth. "Did you really?"
"What else was I supposed to say?" he said, glaring at the floor as though it had angered him.
She licked her lips, and looked down at him kneeling on the floor. "You could have told her your sexy Mistress popped your cherry. You could have said I bent you over with my massive strap-on cock, and took your slutty little ass. But why tell her, when I can show her the tape?"
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His offensive schemes are lacking bigly.
So the BOT are busy tripping over their dicks in an effort to make the back up plans know they are back up plans, back up plans who don't like being back up plans.
that would be correct, idiotic lot they can be!
I'm sure the guys demanding Beard to be made to say "no" see him as the next Sutton.
Go find the next Nolan.
Several coaches have taken Arkansas the final four.
Several have put an unentertaining product on the court.
Only one has won a legitimate national championship in the big 3 sports, although if Neighbors can recruit he has a chance.
i mean, he's proven he IS a coach, but lets not act like having a long career bouncing and coaching the Venezuelan national team is moving anyones needle.
hes basically being evaluated and considered for the job on 4 years at Nevada, where he did a great job. what we don't know is how he handles roster management over time, how he deals with re-builds, how he sustains a program, ect... those are too many unknowns to say hes "proven," especially compared to guys like Sampson and Marshall. hell, marshall is about the same age and has been a head coach since 98. Musselman has nevada and a few years of NBA head coaching 13 yrs ago. he has less college head coaching experience than Beard, who's 10 years younger.
proven should mean you know what you're getting, and we dont with musselman. that said, i do think he'd a be good hire, but i think he carries significant risk.
Using this logic Chris Beard isn't a proven coach either. He's never had a HC position more than 3 years.
Funny thing is we could go hire Eddie's boy.
I wouldnt say thats an unreasonable position either. But hes been a head coach in college nearly twice as long as musselman.
But Beard has a very high level of success across two programs in a very short amount of time. That certainly adds up.


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Being the president of one the most powerful countries in the world is not an easy task. You need to have a loyal cabinet, a strong Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a dedicated group of men and women who are willing, ready, and able to implement your policies and ideas for the good of the country.
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Whether dog, cat, horse, or even pig (yes, you read right: pig), U.S. Presidents have had a companion from the animal kingdom while they were in office.
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George Washington was not only the first president of the United States but he was an avid horse and dog lover. He owned more than a half-dozen horses and 15 dogs. Plus, Mrs. Martha Washington, his wife, had a parrot.
John Adams may have been the second president, but he was the first to live in the White House and his dogs were the first to run on the White House lawn. President Adams and Abigail, the First Lady, were fond of dogs and horses too. And an affinity for unusual pet names: Juno, Satan and Cleopatra.
Thomas Jefferson had a mockingbird named Dick, a horse name Caractacus, and two grizzly bear cubs that were given to him as a gift by Captain Zebulon Pike.
James Buchanan, also known as "America's First Bachelor President", was an explorer who took part in the original Lewis and Clark Expedition. Buchanan was the proud pet parent of two American bald eagles, toy terrier named Punch and Lara a Newfoundland dog.
Abraham Lincoln, known as "The Great Emancipator", loved animals so much that besides owning dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, and goats, he also had a pet pig. Before becoming the 16th President of the United States, Lincoln had received a patent for a floatation device that was used for boats in shallow waters.
James A. Garfield while in office was the first president to appoint African-Americans to federal positions. Known for having a wry sense of humor, Garfield named his Newfoundland dog Veto as a not so subtle reminder to Congress that he might not sign all the bills passed by Congress.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was a larger-than-life president who was known to have many interests including exploring, protecting the environment, writing, and sports to name a few. He was an avid animal lover who kept dogs, cats, horses, birds, snakes, and rats. He also had a collection of exotic animals that included a lion, a hyena, five bears and a zebra among others.
Herbert Hoover, the United States 31st president, was an independently wealthy mining engineer who had his salary as president redistributed. You can say he worked for free. Mostly a dog lover, Hoover kept two alligators in the White House. The gators belonged to his son, and they were allowed to roam around the White House grounds.
John F. Kennedy was voted "most likely to succeed" in his school's yearbook. This was an appropriate term that foreshadowed his being the youngest president to be elected into office, and being the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize. Unfortunately, his life was cut short by an assassin's bullet halfway through his term in office. An animal lover, Kennedy had several dogs, cats, ponies, parakeets and even hamsters.
Ronald Reagan was an actor and the governor of California before becoming the 40th President of the United States. Aside from being the pet parent of a wide variety of dogs (which included a Bouvier des Flanders, a Cavalier King Charles spaniel, a golden retriever and a Belgian sheepdog), Reagan loved horse which he kept on his ranch.
Barack Obama is the current president of the United States (at the time this blog was written). He is currently serving his second term in office. Known as being the first African-American mixed-race president in U.S. history, Obama is also a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Keeping him company during his presidential duties are Bo and Sunny two Portuguese water dogs.
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Mongabay Series: Global Forests
Combining negotiation, legal backing and orchids to create ecotourism reserve
by Sarah Foster on 22 October 2019
In Ecuador, the Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation has worked with local landowners to create conservation agreements and sustainable ecotourism ventures in areas otherwise fragmented by intensive human activity.
After nearly 20 years, the impacts of two small, family-based initiatives are rippling outwards into the rest of the Andean cloud forest and coastal dry forest.
Negotiation, relationship-building, and transparency helped Ceiba earn the landowners' trust and enable the success of the initiatives.
On the 650-hectare (1,600-acre) El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in Andean cloud forest, you can find over 300 species of orchids, and even a handful of endangered spectacled bears. If you had visited the area, in the northwestern corner of Pichincha, Ecuador, 20 years ago, you might not have imagined that this landscape, heavily affected by logging and agriculture, would have become part of an ecological corridor. But time and negotiation have had a positive impact. El Pahuma's owners used to make their living cutting down timber, and they now run a successful ecotourism business.
Ceiba's founders Catherine Woodward and Joe Meisal (center) with the Lima family at El Pahuma Orchid Reserve in 2000. Image by Catherine Woodward.
This unlikely transition came about as the result of a chance encounter. Joe Meisal and Catherine Woodward, (the founders of Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation and biology professors at the University of Wisconsin- Madison) stopped to look at a waterfall that they had spotted during a visit to Ecuador in 1997. When they met the landowner along one of the trails, he asked, "Would you like to see my orchids?" He showed the biologists his garden, a small collection of orchids that he had collected from fallen trees, and asked them if they thought tourists would be interested in visiting the forest.
Woodward and Meisal agreed to meet with the landowner, Ephraim Lima, a week later. When they arrived at the meeting, they found that four generations of the Lima family had turned out to meet with them. In the four-hour conversation that followed, Woodward and Meisal agreed to look for legal solutions to help the Lima family conserve their land.
Woodward and Meisal explored the option of forming a conservation easement. This legal figure ('servidumbre ecológica' in Spanish) was uncharted territory in Ecuadorian law. It was the first time that a nongovernmental organization and a private landowner entered into a legally-binding conservation agreement. Woodward told Mongabay that this was both a help and a hindrance: it meant that they had to craft the legal framework from scratch, but it also gave them the flexibility to tailor the agreement specifically to the landowner's needs.
Woodward herself wrote much of the original document, with the help of an environmental lawyer. The land was carefully divided up into usage zones. While most of the land was designated as a conservation zone, another section of the land was designated for trails and tourist cabins, and a final patch of land was left to the Lima family, zoned for residential and agricultural use. Woodward said that there was a lot of dialogue back and forth about which parts of the land would be designated for what purposes. The Lima family knew the terrain well and offered suggestions as to which places would be good for trails, lookout points, and bridges.
The Stanhopea napoensis orchid from Ecuador. Image by Andreas Key via Flickr. CC 2.0.
They took three years to work out the final agreement, which stipulated that the Lima family was obligated to leave the conservation area untouched –no logging, no hunting –for 25 years. (While most conservation easements in the United States are negotiated for perpetuity, Woodward said that such long and definitive time frames are rare in Latin American easements, which tend to range from 25 to 99 years.) In exchange, Ceiba agreed to invest in the infrastructure needed to build an ecotourism business, which would allow the family to make a sustainable income from the land.
With the guarantee of a signed easement backing their conservation goals, Ceiba was then able to approach potential donors. The San Diego Orchid Society and Fauna and Flora International funded the next phase of the project: outfitting El Pahuma as an ecotourism destination. The foundation hired a guard and a local project manager to oversee the building of trails, signs, bridges, cabins, and an interpretation center. The Lima family learned book-keeping and management and even received training on how to take care of the orchids, to keep them from flowering too often.
Within five years of the initial investment, El Pahuma Orchid Reserve was up and running, and within 10 years, it had become a self-sustaining operation with thousands of visitors.
With a successful business in their hands, the family was able to apply for a bank loan to build a restaurant across the highway from the reserve's entrance. Woodward credits the visibility of the reserve for part of its success in ecotourism: El Pahuma is located less than an hour outside of Quito, along a major highway that many travelers take to the coast or to other tourist destinations like Mindo. They now receive local tourists escaping from the capital city, foreign tourists who visit as part of a tour package, and study abroad students sent by Ceiba to learn about tropical ecology.
Catherine Woodward with students at Lalo Loor reserve. Image courtesy of Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation.
In the case of El Pahuma, the conservation easement helped to buy time. Now, in 2019, there are other opportunities and mechanisms in place that encourage conservation. Since 2015, the Lima family has received an economic incentive from the Ecuadorian government's Socio Bosque program, and the dozens of other reserves and ecolodges that have popped up throughout the cloud forest are evidence of the growth of the ecotourism market. But in the late 1990s, none of these options were available to rural landowners. By working with Ceiba, the Lima family was able to take the lead, becoming ambassadors for conservation in the local community.
In 2018, Ceiba was also able to support the Mancomunidad del Chocó Andino (Andean Chocó Commonwealth) and the Maquipucuna Foundation in a petition to declare the Northwestern Pichincha Corridor as a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve, protecting over 280,000 hectares (690,000 acres) of cloud forest ecosystem.
Expanding to other areas
Ceiba has more recently applied similar efforts to a family reserve in an entirely different ecosystem, the tropical dry forest in Ecuador's coastal province of Manabí.
This 200-hectare (500-acre) tract of primary forest is one of the best-preserved semi-deciduous forests in northwestern Manabí province. It's home to several of this ecosystem's threatened species, including the critically endangered Ecuadorian white-fronted capuchin (Cebus aequatorialis) and the grey-backed hawk (Pseudastur occidentalis).
The Ecuadorian mantled howler monkey is one of the threatened species that lives in the coastal dry forest ecosystem at the Lalo Loor Reserve. Image courtesy of Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation.
Eduardo (nicknamed "Lalo") Loor, a dairy farmer, inherited hundreds of hectares of land from his father. When he found that this patch of primary forest was among them, he decided to leave it as it was. "My father is a nature-lover," Mariela Loor, the landowner's daughter, told Mongabay.
When Ceiba approached him in 2000, he welcomed their suggestion to designate the land for conservation. There was not as much urgency here as at El Pahuma. The Loor family had another livelihood and had no desire to cut down the forest. Ceiba hired a local guard and local ranch hands to work on the trails, and signed a notarized (but not legally-binding) agreement in 2004, stipulating that the Ceiba would manage the reserve and give Loor a percentage of the revenues. In 2008, Ceiba received a grant to build the visitor's center and dormitories.
The reserve now receives a variety of tourists, volunteers, interns, and students who stay anywhere from a day to a semester. This year, the reserve is transitioning to family management, with Mariela Loor taking over day-to-day operations at the reserve. In addition, this year her father will sign a 30-year conservation easement with Ceiba.
The entrance to Lalo Loor reserve. Image courtesy of Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation.
Woodward said that on both reserves, time and relationships have been important factors. "Building a relationship of trust with the landowner is critical. You can't just show up and ask someone to sign the rights to their land away."
Building a conservation corridor
The Lalo Loor Reserve sits at a meeting point between two major ecosystems: the Tumbesino tropical dry forest coming up from Peru and the humid Chocó forest system coming down from the Pacific Coast of Panama. The unique mix of plant and animal species native to the area have earned it a designation as a "biodiversity hotspot." But sustaining the delicate balance of this ecosystem is an uphill battle here on the coast, where the growth of cities and monocultures have left the forest badly fragmented.
Carolina Toapanta, Ceiba's executive director, based in Manabí, is spearheading the foundation's next conservation project, collaborating with county and provincial governments: an ecological corridor that will knit together the remaining patches of primary forest in the area. Ceiba hired a team to map out 200,000 hectares (500,000 acres) of conservation area in the counties of Pedernales, Jama, San Vicente, and Sucre. The ACUS (Área de Conservación y Uso Sostenible — Conservation and Sustainable Use Area) agreement will be enforced by local government through zoning restrictions. Toapanta is convinced that working with local people and institutions is the best way to ensure a lasting impact.
The El Pahuma and Lalo Loor reserves both started out as small projects –helping a single family find a way to make conservation sustainable. But as the influence of the local families ripples outwards, an entire region begins to come together to work for solutions. Toapanta sees conservation work as a way of empowering the community by helping them think in a different way. "We're really passionate about seeing that change take place in Manabí."
Article published by Sue Palminteri
Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecotourism, Forests, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Rainforest Conservation, Rainforests, Research, Tropical Forests


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Interview with Elizabeth Bugg
Personal details: Born Elizabeth Ann Hasler, 23rd March 1934 in Gravesend hospital. Father was a general practitioner. Her parents lived in a house called Moy near Meopham Station.top
Schooling: She went to school with her sister, who was one year younger. At first a small private primary school in a house called Mayfield near Meopham Station and then to another private school at Meopham Green. It took a direct hit from a bomb during the war so they then went to another private school in Hartley. After a short period at Rochester Grammar School, she moved to a boarding school in Buckinghamshire, although her sister remained at Rochester. She had found the 11+ difficult and felt that she would not have been good enough to stay at the Grammar school.top
Hobbies and pastimes: When young Brownies and later Guides. A bit later she joined the church choir.top
After leaving school: She did a one-year catering course at Queen's College in Harley Street, London, where she learned general cooking, followed by a six-month course at Good Housekeeping. Her first job was a six-month contract working on a tourist yacht in Holland, going around the canals. She enjoyed to work. After this she found a job at Middlesex Hospital, where she did large scale cooking for five years. The constant standing was taking its toll so she completed a course in secretarial training and did a variety of jobs, including working for the Consumer Association for five years. She ended up working for the Country Houses Association, a preservation company, which owned eight large country houses. They had been converted into apartments for retired and semi-retired people. She was dealing with the residential side, which she enjoyed and where she stayed until retirement. After a few years living in London she moved back to Meopham and commuted to work.top
Shops and trades in the village: Elizabeth could remember many of the shops and trades in the village. On Meopham Green there were Kings the butcher, Walter Parsons the grocer and Derhams the baker. At the station end of the village she remembers another Kings the butcher, another bakery, a Co-op and a bank, whilst on the parade were a florist and another bank. At Christmas time the baker on the Green cooked the turkeys for his customers and they would be collected in time for the Christmas dinner.top
Transport: There were buses and trains. Everyone cycled. Her father, because he was a doctor, had a car.top
Farm work as a child: Elizabeth's brother worked on a farm at harvest time and once she helped with the harvest when she was at boarding school in Buckinghamshire. During the war she used to help collect for the Red Cross with her team.top
Farming in the village: The French family owned a large house on Hook Green. The farm is still worked by the younger generation. It was mainly crops. She does not remember any cattle but they had lots of fields.top
Work other than farming: She remembers Waller Engineering in Harvel - the company have now moved away and also Sherwin's Polish. Ronald Sherwin's house took a direct hit in the war but because he was very deaf, he slept through it.top
Memories of the War: Elizabeth remembers ARP wardens making sure that the blackouts were in all the windows. She describes balloons going up, which she describes as looking like baby elephants and she can remember watching the doodlebugs being tracked and caught as they passed above. There was a military camp at Vigo. The officers attended dances at the village hall and went to nearby houses if they wanted a good bath. Everything was on ration so it was difficult to make ends meet. Outgrown clothing was passed on by a family friend with slightly older children. Gas masks were supplied and two shelters, one for indoors for night time and one outside for attack during the day.top
Vigo Camp: Elizabeth did not have anything to do with the camp but she had relatives there. An uncle came on his motorbike and would take the children on the back for a run around. After the war homeless people moved into the camp and were there for quite a few years. As the local doctor her father was often called out there.top
Bombs in Meopham: Quite a few bombs fell as those not dropped on London would be dropped by the aircraft on their way back to France or Germany. For a long time afterwards it was possible to see the pits that they created. Her father would disappear for stretches and the family though he was doing secret work. Even her mother did not know where he went.top
Major events in Meopham: Elizabeth went to VE celebrations near the station. She had forgotten to mention earlier that stone bollards were put at the side of the road during the war. In the case of an invasion they could be put across the road.top
Celebrations: Elizabeth remembers one instance when the Guides had to get from Meopham Green to the station without being recognised. There were football teams, cricket and many people went to church. She was working in London at the time of the Coronation and did not get the day off so she did not take part in any of the Meopham celebrations.top
Clubs and Societies: Elizabeth was in the Brownies and Guides and there was probably a youth club, although she was not a member. There had always been a cricket club. Unlike today, there was no keep-fit because everyone was slim during the war.top
Important local people: The French family, farmers, lived at Hook Green. The Arnolds lived at Meopham Court. They had their own entrance to the church and their own pew. The Smith-Masters were at Camer. Camer was a hospital during the war and a family friend, Bussell, was an army doctor based there looking after casualties. The Edmeades were at Nurstead Court. They went back a long way. Elizabeth's father did not work at the Camer hospital as he had a very large practice with only one partner. It was later split.top
House: Elizabeth spoke about the house she lives in now in Cheyne Walk. It was built in the 1960s on fields. After she married she first lived for a couple of years in Northfleet and then moved to Cheyne Walk in 1983.top
Changes: They have been gradual. Earlier, she knew about half the people in the village. It has spread out and grown. There are more societies. She regrets that the shops have disappeared from Meopham Green. Earlier, after finishing primary school, the children had to go to secondary school out of the area.top
Societies: Elizabeth belongs to the Meopham Historical Society and she was a member of the evening flower arrangers, until their society folded last year. She did voluntary work at Age Concern. She is the secretary for her father's bursary, which helps young people with their further education by paying for books and equipment. She also serves on the parochial church council.


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THE GUN CARRIER MACHINE – PART II
Marketing	 Aug 09, 2017
David Fletcher, HEADLINE NEWS, Tanks
The tank was not the only tracked vehicle to be developed during the First World War. In this article, David Fletcher discusses the production and service history of the gun carrier machine.
For some time, in the summer of 1916, there appears to have been some disagreement between the Ordnance Board, who did not really want the new machines, and the builders, who did. In the end the matter had to be taken to the Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George. He inspected the new vehicle and decided to order fifty, over the heads of the Ordnance Board. The order was placed with Kitson and Co. of Leeds, renowned locomotive builders. Things had changed since the prototype was first discussed and more tanks were being built. Even so it was June 1917 before the type first entered service, and of the fifty built, one went to the Tank Corps testing ground at Dollis Hill in London, three were sent to Bovington to be used as driver training vehicles, two were completed as salvage machines and the remainder were split evenly between the 1st and 2nd Gun Carrier Companies for service in France.
Gun Carriers, with their tails removed, in the supply carrying role.
Production Gun Carriers were similar to the prototype but with small armoured cabs, one on each track frame, near the front. They were for the driver and brakesman, while the two men required to change the secondary gears were located at the forward end of the superstructure, at the rear half of the vehicle. Mounting and dismounting the guns was a labour intensive process with a limited amount of power assistance. It relied on an ingenious arrangement of ramps at the front, but the gun's wheels had to be removed when it was mounted and hung from each side of the superstructure.
Gun Carrier in Service
In the event the Gun Carriers were rarely used in their intended role, although the claim that only the six inch howitzer could be fired from the vehicle was disputed by the users who occasionally fired the sixty pounder gun in the same way. Due to their prodigious carrying ability Gun Carriers were more commonly used as supply tanks, a role in which they were very popular. Indeed in due course all the Gun Carriers belonging to No. 1 Gun Carrier Company were permanently adapted to this role by removing all the gun carrying equipment. However they were seriously disabled in an orchard near Villers-Bretonneux just before the Battle of Amiens, when German artillery ranged on them at random and destroyed a large number.
The 2nd Gun Carrier Company, by contrast, retained its gun lifting capability and although also used as Supply Carriers, fired artillery on occasions. By this time they were being operated by the Tank Corps and had become part of that organisation. What remains a mystery is to what extent the Royal Artillery was involved, men from existing batteries on the Western Front were told off for duty with the Gun Carriers and seem to have enjoyed it, but in the higher echelons one feels, they were not so enthusiastic.
The two Gun Carriers completed as Salvage Machines had the two front cabs removed and the men housed in an elevated portion of the main superstructure. Ahead of the superstructure a manually operated crane was mounted on a turntable above the redundant gun well. This crane could handle about 3 tons, although special sheerlegs were carried at each side to be used when heavier lifting was required, and power operated winding drums were fitted to the track frames, although rarely used by the look of it. The two Salvage Machines appear to have been used at Central Workshops in France.
A Mark 2 version of the Gun Carrier was designed in 1917. It looked a lot more like a tank of the time, although only a full-size wooden mock-up was produced, no prototype and no production machines were ever built. It was arranged to carry the gun, complete with its wheels, at the back. A Salvage version was also mooted but likewise, never built.
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