AirFusion, developers of innovative AI-powered damage detection and predictive analytics SaaS solutions, today announced a long-term contract with Mexion (Mexico) for its AirFusion Wind solution. Mexion is a company who is leader on the service and consulting areas related to the repair and maintenance of wind turbine blades and other composite components from the wind industry, founded in Mexico City in 2010 and now with new offices in other states.
The Mexion team are specialists on the inspection and repair of damage on wind turbine blades, spinners, hub covers and nacelles both on the ground and up tower. Furthermore, we offer cleaning services for wind turbines as well.
AirFusion, developers of innovative AI-powered damage detection and predictive analytics SaaS solutions, today announced a long-term contract with AirPix India for its AirFusion Wind solution. AIRPIX is a leading drone solutions provider in India. AirPix provides data processing and analytics solutions derived from unmanned aerial vehicles or drones and has paying customers across across various industries (government planning bodies, mining, oil and gas, railways, roads, agriculture, wind and solar power, and more). By utilizing a network of enrolled UAV operators across India and in-house UAV operation teams, Airpix gathers high quality UAV data and carries out data processing and analytics to generate valuable insights for customers. In particular, we capture high resolution aerial imagery in visual / thermal / near infrared spectrum, process it to generate high density point clouds, 2D & 3D outputs like orthophoto, Digital Surface Models, asset inspection reports and more, to generate insights such as planimetric and volumetric analyses, change tracking, defect identification, etc. Benchmark customers include Indian Railways, Govt. of AP, MSRDC, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, Larsen & Toubro, Shapoorji Pallonji and more. We have also been awarded and supported by the India Innovation Growth Program 2017, a program undertaken by Lockheed Martin, Tata Group and Department of Science and Technology, India. We are also currently a part of Airbus Bizlab Aerospace accelerator.
AirFusion, developers of innovative AI-powered damage detection and predictive analytics SaaS solutions, today announced a long-term contract with Natural Power for its AirFusion Wind solution. Natural Power is recognized across the renewables sector for its leading position in inspection services for energy infrastructure including wind turbine blades. The company will use AirFusion Wind as part of its wind fleet inspection services specificly for processing the image based data capture during the blade inspections for wind turbines, improve reliability, and streamline workflows to maximize energy production, revenue, and profitability.
"We are delighted to be able to add AirFusion as a key partner in delivering the quality reports we produce on behalf of our clients," said Craig Gordon Global Head of inspection services at Natural Power. "We wanted an approach that delivered fast and accurate analysis of our image based inspection data – for onshore and offshore assets --- so that our clients, the asset owners, are able to make data-driven decisions about their fleet."
AirFusion Wind transforms pixel-based inspection imagery from drones, ground-based sensors and other image capture tools, in minutes, into a complete analytic report – that provides all data online to the user --- that can be used across the enterprise/asset owner. AirFusion Wind delivers faster, more accurate analysis of wind turbine inspection data, enabling proactive, predictive maintenance that significantly reduces the risks of failure, excessive downtime and performance-based revenue loss.
"Natural Power prides itself on partnering with companies at the leading edge of inspections technology and Air Fusion was selected on this basis. They are able to match our focus on excellence in the delivery of reliable, quality driven services to the market place. The AirFusion solution enables Natural Power to deliver timely data to our clients to assist them to make value led judgements on their assets. The team at Natural Power is committed to delivering the full suite of inspections to the renewable industry and the partnership with AirFusion clearly adds strength to our offering," said Euan Fenelon, Director of Operations and Asset Management at Natural Power.
Natural Power is a leading independent renewable energy consultancy and products provider offering consultancy services, project management and due diligence across the onshore wind, offshore wind, wave, tidal, hydro, solar and biomass sectors. We have built a successful ethos for delivering environmentally balanced and rewarding projects that allow Clients to achieve their objectives with our trusted support and expertise.
"AirFusion, developers of leading AI-powered damage detection and risk prediction software solutions, today announced that its AirFusion Wind platform has been named as one of the top three finalists for the Most Exciting Industry Newcomer of the Year Award presented by New Energy Update at the Wind Operations O&M Dallas, 2018 Conference."
"Implementing drones for the inspection of wind turbines is an easy decision -they are high, dangerous, and difficult: the perfect job for a drone. Combine drone inspection with Boston-based AirFusion's software solution, however, and the ROI increases exponentially."
"Today, the O&M market faces numerous challenges: ageing infrastructure that requires +95% uptime and maximum generative efficiency, price pressure across energy markets, the requirement for inspections to deliver better, instantly actionable data, the transition to drone-based inspections with more data increasing the time and costs required for inspection reporting and analysis, all causing unaided, 100% human-centric analysis to be economically unsustainable. AI is the only solution that can provide the accuracy and scale needed."
"AirFusion Wind monitors turbine conditions, identifies damage and asset degradation, and streamlines inspection workflows and reporting. The platform delivers fast, accurate analysis of wind turbine inspection data – enabling proactive, predictive maintenance that significantly reduces the risk of catastrophic failure, excessive downtime and performance-based revenue loss" the company says.
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The first step that you have to take is to ascertain if your broker offers depth of market. Access to this information will provide you with an insight into volume and liquidity data.
You will be able to get a feel of the market sentiment. This knowledge can be invaluable when placing a trade.
Let's see how you can actually make use of depth of market. Consider a situation where the data reveals that the bid side liquidity exceeds offer side liquidity. This could indicate a bullish trend for the currency pair.
Conversely, if offer side liquidity exceed bid side liquidity, it could be a bearish indicator. Of course, depth of market should not be used in isolation. You can combine this data with other technical analysis charting tools to make a prediction about the direction that the market will take.
Remember that if you are a short-term trader, liquidity information can be crucial to your success. Depth of market, which provides details about the constant shift in liquidity, provides you with information that you can put to immediate use.
One category of forex traders who use depth of market extensively are those who practice scalping. This refers to entering into a series of trades, each of which has the potential to give you a small profit.
This technique of skimming the market involves holding positions for a very short period of time. You can enter and exit the market several times a day and pocket small gains each time. If you use this technique, you don't carry a trade over to the next day.
Scalping makes extensive use of depth of market information. That's because technical indicators and candlestick charts don't work very well in extremely short time frames.
Depth of market provides information about the direction that the market could take. This data and the order flow can give scalpers a very good idea about the short-term market for the currency pair that they are proposing to trade.
A scalper is usually satisfied with a profit of five or ten pips on a particular trade. Although this is a relatively small amount, it can add up to a substantial sum if the process is repeated successfully several times.
Again, depth of market should not be used in isolation. You need to combine it with other tools to make an accurate judgement of the direction that the market will take in the very short term.
A word of caution is warranted here. Scalping is not for everyone. It requires a high degree of concentration and the willingness to remain glued to your trading desk looking out for the smallest profit opportunity.
You also need to have the ability to process various pieces of information in real time and to make quick trading decisions based on the conclusion that you reach.
What if you are not cut out to be a scalper? The prospect of looking closely at your computer screen continuously for hours on end does not appeal to you. Can you still make use of depth of market?
In fact, forex traders who take large positions also use depth of market data extensively. This information plays a crucial role as it allows them to see the liquidity at each price level.
What if you don't fall into either category? You are not a scalper and neither a large trader. While it is true that depth of market will not be a crucial input for you, it will still play a role in helping you to get a feel of the market.
Don't ignore this key source of intelligence. It can help you to make the right trade if you are not sure about the direction that the currency pair that you are trading will take.
The depth of market data that you see on your screen does not represent 100% of the trading volume. That's because the forex market is decentralized. As such, market depth determination for the forex market is very different from that in the stock market.
Unlike investors in the stock market, Woon explains that investors who participate in the forex market will have to understand the exchange-traded model versus the OTC (over the counter) model.
"In the exchange, liquidity is determined by the number and profile of participants who would assume the role of both 'maker' and 'taker' and match orders among themselves. Most exchanges operate in the Central XXX_GLOSSA Book and investors will be able to see their own orders, as well as the liquidity depth of the market," explains Woon.
Due to this reason, it's important to find a good intermediary between the investors and the market maker i.e. a broker, which can provide you with extensive details about depth of market.
As one of Asia's top brokerages for trading foreign exchange, Phillip Futures act as an intermediary between the investors and market makers, where we help to negotiate for liquidity requirement and customization from banks and institutions based on different needs of investors. With a "guarantee" of a market depth of 5 million, you will have access to a large volume of data that can indicate the supply and demand position for a currency pair as well as its liquidity.
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Hospitals in 2019 are faced with many challenges in addition to the everyday challenge of great patient care and outcomes. Many are struggling to keep their doors open and searching for avenues to reduce cost. So how can hospitals reduce cost without compromising the core of patient care? How can the C-suite make decisions to scale effectively and have immediate bottom line impact without compromising quality?
Be sure the vendor is listening to your top areas of concern and offering a creative solution unique to the situation. The vendor should serve as the subject matter expert, providing new and innovative approaches to resolve the problems presented.
How will this solution serve the hospital better than an in-house model? Is there a creative approach that hasn't been considered? Does the potential partner offer a team of six sigma experts to deliver process improvement roadmaps along with supportive data and analytics?
There are various components that support a successful implementation with your newly selected partner. Ensure the vendor has a clearly defined implementation process. There should be clear action items that show what the vendor is responsible for and what the hospital is responsible for.
A defined schedule and timeline from training to "go-live" is also essential. What does the project plan look like? Is there an Account Manager overseeing the implementation and throughout the contract?
Once the partnership is in place, it's important to make sure the customer service meets your expectations. There is internal customer service and external customer service.
Internal customer service is how the vendor services the hospital employees. What are the hours of availability? What is the escalation process? Are they accessible? You'll be working closely (hopefully!) with this vendor, so you want to make sure the foundation is set for great communication.
External customer service is how the vendor serves your patients if they're doing any telephonic workflows. How well do they interact with your patients? Do they treat patients as their own? An ideal partnership is when both the vendor and hospital view the vendor as part of the care team for your patients and not just a vendor.
If this hasn't been your experience with vendors, or you're interested in exploring vendor solutions for the first time, send us a message! We'd love to help you solve your hospital's issues and help you scale.
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An 83-member Bangladeshi youth delegation arrived Yunnan on Monday to attend Bangladesh-China Youth Camp as part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen people to people contact and cultural ties between the two countries.
Another group comprising around 70 participants will be departing on Tuesday to join others.
"Together it's a 150-member delegation," a Chinese Embassy official accompanying the first group told UNB.
Bangladesh and China have dedicated 2017 as the Year of Friendship and Exchanges between the two countries when Chinese President Xi Jinping paid a state visit to Bangladesh in October14-15, 2016 seeking a promising future.
"I am excited to be here. We will be able to share our experience with our Chinese friends. We will explore ways to strengthen friendship with China through building bridges between Bangladesh and Chinese youths," Intishar Karim, a member of Bangladesh youth delegation, told UNB upon his arrival in beautiful Yunnan.
Syeda Fabiha Islam, a student of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) said, "Bangladesh and China are good and old friends. It's an opportunity for us to know more about China and build friendship with Chinese youths and strengthen people to people contact."
Sabrina Nuzhat, another youth delegation member said she is visiting Yunnan for the first time.
"In fact, this is my first trip abroad. I am extremely happy to be here. Over the next two weeks we will highlight Bangladesh and explore ways to widen our friendship with our Chinese counterparts," Sabrina said.
Earlier, an orientation programme for the participating students was held at the Chinese Embassy in the city to give an idea about the Youth Camp.
Chinese Ambassador in Dhaka Ma Mingqiang and Dhaka University Vice Chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique, among others, spoke on the occasion highlighting growing relations between Bangladesh and China and building bridges of friendships between youths.
The Chinese government, earlier, chalked out yearlong events in Bangladesh and China to mark the Year of Friendship and Exchanges, including high-level visits, fairs, cultural events, to further strengthen the bilateral relations.
Bangladesh and China signed 27 deals worth about $24.45 billion in soft loan for various key development projects apart from signing of 13 joint venture agreements involving $13.6 billion of Chinese investment in Bangladesh last year.
The 150-member student delegation from Bangladesh will pay a two-week extensive visit to Yunnan Province under the China-Bangladesh Youth Exchange Programme.
China will train 500 Chinese-language teachers for Bangladesh, 100 Bangladeshi cultural professionals, and invite 600 Bangladeshi students to visit China during 2016 to 2020.
This is the first such student delegation from Bangladesh to China.
Members of the delegation, drawn from various educational institutions, including Dhaka University, North South University and other universities, colleges and schools from different parts of the country, will visit prominent cultural and historical sites, top educational institutions across Yunnan Province and are expected to call on the prominent figures there.
DU VC appreciated the initiative of the Chinese government to arrange such visit by young students who will ultimately be the bridge of China-Bangladesh ties.
He highlighted the Chinese development and historical backgrounds of Bangladesh-China relations and the cooperation between the Dhaka University and Yunnan University.
Ambassador Ma said during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the two sides announced the year 2017 as the "Year of Friendship and Exchanges" between China and Bangladesh and termed youths of the two countries as future leaders.
The two countries also agreed to expand exchanges and cooperation in culture, education, tourism and other fields, and to promote interactions between the media, think tanks, youth, women organizations, non-governmental groups and local authorities of the two countries.


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Pearl Jam announce first album since 2013 and North American tour dates!
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Beloved Seattle grunge-rock band, Pearl Jam announced today their long-awaited album, Gigaton, will be released on March 27 through their own label, Monkeywrench Records. In addition to announcing their first album since 2013's Lighting Bolt, the legendary '90s rockers revealed their 2020 North American tour dates.
"Making this record was a long journey," guitarist Mike McCready said in a statement. "It was emotionally dark and confusing at times, but also an exciting and experimental road map to musical redemption. Collaborating with my bandmates on Gigaton ultimately gave me greater love, awareness and knowledge of the need for human connection in these times."
The limited tour dates don't include any shows in the Carolinas, but the band will be coming to Nashville on April 2. Tickets go on sale Friday, January 24.
Announcing Gigaton: A new album and tour coming Spring 2020!
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— Pearl Jam (@PearlJam) January 13, 2020
Check out the 2020 tour dates for Pearl Jam:
March 18 – Toronto, ON at Scotiabank Arena
March 20 – Ottawa, ON at Canadian Tire Centre
March 22 – Quebec City, QC at Videotron Centre
March 24 – Hamilton, ON at FirstOntario Centre
March 28 – Baltimore, MD at Royal Farms Arena
March 30 – New York, NY at Madison Square Garden
April 2 – Nashville, TN at Bridgestone Arena
April 4 – St. Louis, MO at Enterprise Center
April 6 – Oklahoma City, OK at Chesapeake Energy Arena
April 9 – Denver, CO at Pepsi Center
April 11 – Phoenix, AZ Gila at River Arena
April 13 – San Diego, CA at Viejas Arena
April 15 & 16 – Los Angeles, CA at The Forum
April 18 & 19 – Oakland, CA at Oakland Arena
Melissa Etheridge, Lukas Nelson, and The Marcus King Band added to MerleFest 2020 lineup!
Deniro Farrar, Elevator Jay and Lute connect on new song and video "Gon' Be"

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The amateur musicians of the Syrian Songs and Percussion workshop present their work. On the program? Muwashshah-s, pieces taken from the Syrian classical repertoire featuring a nuanced blend of melody, rhythm, and poetry.


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The entire procedure of going down to the neighborhood store and leasing a rug cleaner is time consuming and also the work itself is difficult. The other option would certainly be hiring expert carpet cleaners to come out as well as clean the carpetings. That experience is not much better than renting the carpet cleaner and doing the work yourself.
When thinking about the choices, a close friend said to me that it would certainly make even more feeling over time to simply buy your own rug vapor cleaner and also have the ability to utilize it over and also over. If you do your research as well as discover the most effective carpeting cleaner on the market, it should wind up costing less than just one cleaning by a professional carpeting cleaner. And the reward is that you can use it over as well as over once more.
As soon as you have a carpeting cleaner, there are numerous points you can do to ensure that you are effective in obtaining it as tidy as possible. Many carpeting cleansers will certainly make use of water or heavy steam to clean. By reducing the quantity of dirt already entraped in the carpet in development, you're going to boost the performance of the carpeting cleaner.
Second, you need to pretreat any kind of heavy spots on the rug. There are several excellent pretreatment products on the market that aid loosen up the dirt and also discolorations from the carpet. An additional alternative would be to use OxiClean and also mix that with some warm water to pretreat stubborn stains.
As soon as you begin the procedure of cleaning up the rug, you're going to have to be really patient as well as try not to rush points. You do not desire to leave water entraped in the rug if you can prevent it.
As soon as you have actually finished working through your area cleansing, if you have ceiling fans in the space, I would certainly recommend transforming them on and letting them compete an amount of time. You want to do all you can to promote the drying out procedure. You can even setup flooring or oscillating followers to urge air flow blood circulation around the area.
As soon as you have actually completed the procedure of cleaning your carpets, you'll locate that they look fresh as well as scent a lot far better. Having tidy rugs can really make the furnishings and the room appearance entirely various. Consistently vacuuming will certainly help to keep a healthy and balanced and also clean carpet.
The web other option would be hiring professional carpeting cleaners to come out and also clean the carpetings. If you do your research as well as discover the best rug cleaner on the market, it needs to finish up costing less than just one cleaning by an expert carpet cleaner. As soon as you have a rug cleaner, there are a number of points you can do to ensure that you are successful in getting it as clean as possible. A lot of rug cleansers will certainly use water or heavy steam to clean. By decreasing the amount of dust currently trapped in the rug in advancement, you're going to boost the performance of the carpeting cleaner.
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Muslim Brotherhood's Mohammed Morsi declared Egypt's new president
My colleague Barbara Slavin reports:
Mohammed Morsi of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is the new president of Egypt, although his powers and term in office are likely to be limited. Results of a June 16-17 runoff announced Sunday after a laborious rendition of election challenges and decisions gave Morsi 52 percent of the vote to 48 percent for Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak. About 51 percent of eligible voters participated and nearly a million of the 26 million votes cast were disqualified.
The military council that has ruled Egypt since Mubarak fell on Feb. 11, 2011 has pledged to turn authority over to the new president by the end of this month. But the SCAF has also announced that it will assume some legislative powers since Egypt's highest court ordered the dissolution of an Islamist-dominated parliament. The SCAF also says that it will appoint a new constituent assembly to write a new constitution, after which more elections must be held for parliament and president. So it remains unclear how much power Morsi will wield and for how long. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Ahmed Shafiq, Benjamin Netanyahu, Egypt, Elections, Hosnii Mubarak, Israel, John Kerry, Middle East, Mohammed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, SCAF, Senate, Tahrir Square, Turkey
The Counterrevolution: Egypt court dissolves parliament
Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court issued two momentous rulings Thursday that analysts in Washington and Cairo describe as amounting to a soft coup.
The court ruled that one third of Egypt's parliamentary seats should be voided, thus effectively calling for the dissolving of Egypt's recently-elected legislature. It also ruled that former Mubarak-regime prime minister Ahmed Shafiq be allowed to stand in Egyptian presidential run-off elections, scheduled to be held June 16-17th.
"That's it for Egypt's so-called transition," Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University, wrote at Foreign Policy's Middle East channel blog:
"Today's moves by the Constitutional Court on behalf of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) seem difficult to overcome and likely to push Egypt onto a dangerous new path," Lynch wrote. "With Egypt looking ahead to no parliament, no constitution, and a deeply divisive new president, it's fair to say the experiment in military-led transition has come to its disappointing end."
"The revolutionary promise of Tahrir Square is clearly slipping away," said Steve Cook, an Egypt expert at the Council of Foreign Relations, in a call with journalists Thursday.
"Determined counterrevolutionary groups in Egypt appear to have outmaneuvered a variety of new groups that thought in inspiring 18 days in 2011 they had finally done away with the regime that the Free Officers ushered in in 1950s," Cook said. The court's move suggests Egyptian players seeking greater democracy "have largely been outmaneuvered by the military and the system is one that goes back to the founding of [the Egyptian military] regime back in 1950s."
"This is clearly going to go on for a long time," Isobel Coleman, an Egypt expert who directs the women and foreign policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Thursday. "We are seeing a big push by counterrevolutionary forces."
Coleman noted a series of decisions in advance of the court's ruling Thursday suggesting it had been in the works for some time. In particular, she noted the SCAF's reinstatement of an emergency law Wednesday. A similar law had been in place for thirty years of Mubarak's rule, but expired May 31st.
But this week, the expired Mubarak-era emergency law "was replicated with a new law, that citizens and human rights groups can be arrested and tried in military courts," Coleman said, in apparent "anticipation of what they were girding for: some big demonstrations and protests coming up."
"These counterrevolutionary forces are not moving over," Coleman said. "The big question becomes what will the major players do." Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Ahmed Shafiq, Arab world, democracy, Egypt, Elections, foreign policy, Isobel Coleman, Marc Lynch, Middle East, Muslim Brotherhood, politics, SCAF, Steven Cook
Egypt reacts to Mubarak verdict: "What Egypt needed was a truth and reconciliation commission"
Posted on June 2, 2012 by Laura Rozen
Huge demonstrations have erupted in Cairo's Tahrir Square and cities throughout Egypt hours after an Egyptian judge sentenced deposed president Hosni Mubarak and his Interior Minister to life in prison for accessory to murder, while acquitting six senior security officials in the killing of unarmed protesters.
Al-Monitor reached out to several veteran Egypt watchers for their reaction to the verdicts.
"What Egypt needed was a truth and reconciliation commission about the crimes committed during the Mubarak era, not an ordinary court where prosecutors did their job poorly and is limited to the 18 days of the 2011 uprising," Issander El Amrani, a Middle East analyst who blogs at "The Arabist," told Al Monitor Saturday.
Issander El Amrani, who blogs at "The Arabist":
These verdicts give you two parts: on the one hand, there's a crowd pleasing part against Mubarak and his minister of interior as the two chief villains of the Egyptian uprising. On the other, every other security official is exonerated, sending a message to the entire security apparatus that their corporate interests are secure and they
won't be abandoned by the regime, which still needs them. In the context of a presidential election where one of the two remaining candidates represents a restoration of the old order and the other wants to eliminate it, that amounts to a call to arms. But away from the verdicts, the entire process was flawed to start with.
What Egypt needed was a truth and reconciliation commission about the crimes committed during the Mubarak era, not an ordinary court where prosecutors did their job poorly and is limited to the 18 days of the 2011 uprising.
Steven Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and author of The Struggle for Egypt: From Nasser to Tahrir Square:
I can understand why people are upset, but the verdicts aren't terribly surprising. Mubarak et al were tried under the old regime's unstable legal order with Mubarak-appointed judges.
It seems this gives a lift to [Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohamed] Morsi, people are coming out of the woodwork for him now. That said, hard to make a judgement definitely on the pres elections. Were Ayman Nour and his minions going to vote for [former Mubarak regime Air Force chief Ahmed] Shafiq? Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Ahmed Shafiq, CFR, Council on Foreign Relations, CSIS, Egypt, Habib al-Adly, Hosni Mubarak, Jon Alterman, Mohamed Morsi, SCAF, Steven Cook, The Arabist
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
Former Egypt strongman Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison by a Cairo court Saturday.
Mubarak and his former Interior Minister Habib al Adly should be sentenced to life terms for being accessories "to murder in the killing of more than 240 demonstrators in the last six days of January 2011," the presiding Egyptian judge Ahmed Refaat said in delivering his sentence, the New York Times reported.
"Judge Ahmed Rifaat said Mr. Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib al Adli, were guilty on charges of accessory to murder and attempted murder of protesters," the Wall Street Journal's Matt Bradley reported from Cairo. "But he acquitted the six senior interior ministry officials whom prosecutors had also accused of killing protesters."
Scenes of chaos erupted outside the courtroom as the sentence was read.
Mubarak, 84, observed the proceedings from a cage inside the courtroom. He was later reported to have suffered a health crisis after arriving by helicopter at a military prison, Egypt state television reported. He was admitted to the prison hospital after initially refusing to leave the helicopter, reports said.
Analysts said they found the verdict somewhat confusing. Namely: how could the judge find Mubarak and the ex-Interior Minister Adly guilty of being accessories to the murders of the protesters, while acquitting the six Interior Ministry police accused of having actually carried out the killings. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security	| Tagged Ahmed Refaat, Ahmed Shafiq, Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Human Rights Watch


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The Monument to the Battle of Monte Cassino () is a monument in Warsaw, Poland located in the square between General Anders Street and the gates of the Krasiński Gardens near the National Archaeological Museum in the Warsaw Arsenal.

History

In December 1994 the Social Committee for Construction of the Monument of the Battle of Monte Cassino in Warsaw chose the current location for the monument. In June 1995, the Association of Polish Architects (Stowarzyszenie Architektów Polskich) announced a competition for a monument commemorating the Polish contribution to the Battle of Monte Cassino. The monument was financed by contributions from veterans of the Polish Army 2nd Corps, who captured Monte Cassino on 18 May 1944, and grants from numerous institutions.

It was unveiled on 30 May 1999 by Irena Anders, widow of General Władysław Anders (commander of the 2nd Corps), assisted by an honor guard of the Polish Army, in a ceremony that also commemorated the 55th anniversary of the battle. During the ceremony, the President of Poland was represented by the Head of the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland, Ryszard Kalisz.

Construction

The monument was designed by sculptor Kazimierz Gustaw Zemła and architect Wojciech Zabłocki. It is made of reinforced concrete covered with white Carrara marble and weighs 220 tonnes. To stabilise the ground under the 70-tonne column which is the highest element of the composition, six metre holes were dug into the ground.

The statue is a headless Nike with traces of fighting and injury, in the form of a 12-metre column. Within the base of the monument can be seen the hill of Monte Cassino covered with a shroud, the figure of the Virgin Mary and scattered helmets. The two-metre pedestal is engraved with the Cross of Monte Cassino, the emblems of the five Polish units that took part in the battle, a Polish eagle and an urn containing ashes of the heroes.

There are two smaller memorials adjacent to the main monument. The first is adorned with a plaque featuring an image of General Władysław Anders and the second is a "monument of gratitude" to the people of Persia (now Iran) who generously welcomed over 120,000 Polish refugees escaping from the Soviet Union with the Anders Army in 1942.

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Written by James S. Rockefeller Jr.
Softcover, 312 pages, 5.5 x 8, Adult Nonfiction/Memoir
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Winner of the 2019 Maine Literary Award for Memoir
In this vividly wrought memoir, author James S. Rockefeller Jr. recalls the moments and milestones in his long, adventurous life. From his old-fashioned childhood—filled with characters and wildlife—as a grandson of William G. Rockefeller and Sarah "Elsie" Stillman, to expeditions as a young man on his Indian motorcycle and his sailboat, Mandalay, to the fateful evening on Cumberland Island, Georgia, when his heart was stolen by the luminous author Margaret Wise Brown, Rockefeller recounts his youth with wit and clarity. As he matures, his adventurous spirit takes him from Maine to Tahiti to Norway and back again. Throughout his travels, he embraces deep loss and wondrous turns of fortune, including danger, love, death, marriage, fatherhood, and—always—an enduring passion for planes, boats, and engines—a passion that leads him to establish the Owls Head Transportation Museum. A brilliant storyteller, Rockefeller writes the remembrance of a time gone by with the perspective of a 20th-century wayfarer; a voyager on the seas of time. His memoir stands as a moment "between the old and what was to come" and reveals with perspicacity and humor what he calls "this slender crack of time."
The author is donating any earnings he would have received from book sales directly to Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.
"Gripping, honest and impassioned, this is memoir writing at its best."
––The Miramichi Reader
"Coupled with his knack for descriptive writing (e. g. a farmer "as gnarled as a hemlock root, with a face so red and pointed it could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm"), the result is a candid and captivating story whose connective tissue is the people he embraced on his travels and the four strong and indelible women that he fell in love with along the way [...] Wayfarer stands out as a vividly remembered and entertaining tale of a life lived fully, a journey in itself."
––The Portland Press Herald
James S. Rockefeller Jr. was born in 1926 and raised in Greenwich, Conn., and served in the Army Air Corp during World War II. A graduate of Yale University, he spent his youth traveling an
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February 2nd is world wetlands day . Me and all the family went except daddy. So we went to "Smith and Bybee wetlands" .
We went there so we get a good walk and explore the area and have a picnic in the sun.
So I saw some cool animals they are ,Bufflehead ducks ,mallard ducks ,coots ,nutria , chickadee, humming bird, spotted towhee or robin,Hawk, but the best of all a juvenile Bald eagle!
my favorite was the juvenile Bald eagle , it was so cool my first time knowing that it was a bald eagle [I was seeing]!
So on the way back flower girl fell asleep exhausted from our adventure in the wetlands, I tried to go to sleep but I could not and got motion sick, it was not fun .
So that was it for this adventure I'm sure the next one will be fun too!
Princess Girl is 10 year old and lives with her parents, grandparents, and little sister in the Pacific Northwest. She loves horses, watching youtube, playing with her firends , and gymnastics. As well as anything to do with My Little Pony. She has been homeschooled her whole life and likes learning but hates having to write. Though she did enjoy writing this, her first article for publication.
Daffodils about to bloom!!! I have seen several plants peaking their heads up here and there, but nothing this far along. February 2nd and blooming flowers! I think it would take me a couple more years living here to get used to how early Spring comes in this part of the world.
I find it ironic that this quote is at the entrance of a park which is right on a very busy trucking route. The sounds of traffic never faded completely, even though we walked 3/4 of a mile to the end of the trail. But I do like the quote. And maybe when we go back again this spring/summer as Princess Girl begged to do, the animals will be more plentiful and loud enough to provide that chorus.
This entry was posted in "Daily Life" journaling, Adventures, Portland Interlude 2014-2016 and tagged Homeschool, Homestead Kids, PNW Treasures, Seasons on February 3, 2016 by Maridy.
Very well done. Princess girl! You are now an official blogger! I will bet that your mother is very proud of you. You should write another guest post soon. Who knows, you may actually begin to enjoy writing!
Let Princess Girl know that I enjoyed her story about the wetlands. She will need to be your guest blogger some more!


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Polebridge and North Fork Country of Glacier Park Reveal Remote Gems: Covey/Hidden Meadows, Kintla/Bowman Lakes, Numa Lookout
It was quite the three days staying in Polebridge in the North Fork area of the Flathead River for nine gals from the Canadian WoW group and seven from the GiG.
It started on Monday with both groups, two cars each, meeting in West Glacier and then heading north along the gravel/dirt Camas road and then the Outside NF road to Polebridge. Upon arrival, about 50 minutes later, we briefly went into the Mercantile to survey the baked goods and souvenirs. Then we headed for two short hikes: the first a two-mile into Covey Meadows for a gorgeous view of the mountains and then a three-mile into Hidden Meadow.
The Covey hike took us downhill on a trail made in a cut path through lodge pole pines growing so close together after the Red Bench fire in '88 that not even a deer could navigate between trees. At the end of almost a mile, we broke into the open to reveal views of Kintla Peak, Numa and Rainbow, to name a few. We could even see the lookout tower on the shoulder of Numa, the place we would hike tomorrow.
In the meadow, Susan found an elk shed, so huge and lovely. We realized the value of such a beautiful horn, and then she set it back right where she found it. We ate our lunch, enjoying the few remaining flowers: butter and eggs (common toadflax) and mullein were the most common along with a few late asters and going-to-seed fireweed.
What really surprised us were all the fungi: so many different mushrooms dotted the sides of the trails and clung to every downed log. We even saw the turkey-tail on standing trees.
After we returned to our vehicles, we headed three miles down the road the Hidden Meadow trailhead. This hike is similar, in the trees until it breaks out into a meadow. However, this meadow has a small lake and marsh. We saw some merganser ducks, but no swans or wolf prints, which usually are there. We did see many indents in the tules and rushes, indicating that elk, moose and deer probably bed down there at night.
Along the side of the trail, we also saw many boulders removed, exposing the holes from which they came. We knew griz were in the area. We also came upon a place where the griz had rototilled an entire 10 x10 spot. However, we didn't see any bear scat. We surmised that they were very polite bears who didn't poop on the trail.
Then it was time to split up. For the WoW group, along with Susan and Anita, they all wanted to go see Kintla Lake, which required a very long, but short distance-wise, drive on a very rough and narrow road, while the rest of us went to the Merc to chill. Some had a beer; others a huckleberry bear claw, some both, as we waited for the 5:30 check-in time of the hostel where we were staying.
The gals who went to Kintla said it was very beautiful, but the drive was hairy. Many large vehicles were approaching from the opposite direction, requiring us to drive backwards for a wide spot in the road. Other times, the other truck got by with only inches to spare.
The other gals checked into the hostel, bringing in whatever gear they could as well as arranging food in the refrigerator and getting the low-down on procedures from Oliver, our host.
The others got in around seven and got right to work making dinner: homemade soup, chips and dips, cheese and crackers as well as many, many yummy desserts.
Then it was time for a "get-to-know-you" activity and then bed. No one was up for any other games as we had our big hike day ahead of us.
The next day brought many low-lying clouds and rain, but we bundled up, put on our rain gear and headed to Bowman lake. One group (all the Canadians plus Katie, Susan and Sara) planned to climb Numa ridge to the lookout while Gail, Maria, Anita and Jo Ann opted for the walk around the north shore of the lake.
The Numa group took off at 7:30, while the lake hikers left Polebridge at 9.
When we arrived at the Bowman Lake, it was drizzling rain so we put on our rain gear and headed down the trail. We stopped for lunch when the rain stopped, about half way. Along the way, we observed Bead Lily berries which are colored a striking, deep porcelain blue; bright red Bunchberries; dusty blue Oregon Grape berries; and Red Clover, which is actually a light purple color. At the end of our 7 mile hike, we took photos of the lake and paused on a bench to enjoy the scenery. Then, we headed back to Polebridge with a stop at the Mercantile for huckleberry bear claws and other pastries before returning to the hostel. At the hostel, Oliver, the owner, generously answered our questions about the facility and his world travels. Oliver also helped us start the oven to prepared the lasagnas for dinner.
The Numa group hit the trail at 8:40 after a quick picture at the lake. The weather was only threatening showers at this point, so we had a nice hour of walking before the rain hit and the clouds lowered to zero visibility. We all started questioning our sanity for doing such a hard hike if we wouldn't have a payoff at the end with views. But we soldiered on. We wondered if the other group would bag the whole thing, since they started later after the rain. At least the Numa group had a bit of hiking before getting wet.
Loural mentioned that on many hikes with clouds, she "blew" the clouds away, so some of us challenged her to do the same for this hike. And it seemed to work. About an hour from the top, the clouds lifted and gave us peeks of the peaks and into the Bowman Lake valley. We also caught a glimpse or two of Polebridge and the North Fork Flathead River.
Another distraction on the way up were all the fungi, from huge white-colored ones, to orange to velvety brown to small orange mushrooms aligned on a log, and huckleberries. We were surprised to see so many this late in the year among the leaves changing to red.
Susan led the way to the top; and with a handshake, welcomed each of us to the lookout. After looking around, we enjoyed our lunch on top amid mist and clouds that continued to reveal sights every once in a while.
Then it was down, down, down. We formed two groups, as one was eager to get down to alleviate sore knees while the other was enjoying the views that were starting to open up into the valley across the lake. Rainbow mountain even showed off a bit.
By the time we reached the lake and flat ground again as predicted at 5 p.m., both Sharon and Sara were hurting, nothing that a huckleberry bearclaw from the Merc wouldn't fix. As we all gathered to admire the gorgeous vista of Bowman Lake and the surrounding mountains, Katie suggested we drop our packs and head to the other side of the lake to see the view from the bridge over the outlet/Bowman Creek. So we did and were immediately rewarded with the sun hitting the shoulder of Numa Peak, shining a light on the look from where we had just been.
With our picture taking, we were about 40 minutes behind schedule to meet the other gals, so we skedaddled to the cars and back to Polebridge. When we arrived the Numa group found that the lake hiking group had dinner waiting lasagna, Caesar salad, bread and the many leftovers from the night before. Everyone raved about the Rice Krispie treats with caramel sauce and the Eat More Bars. Both the young couple staying in the Goat Chalet and Oliver joined us as we had plenty of extra.
After dinner and clean up, some played a rousing game of Left, Right, Center, with Susan and Maria each winning a game. We were sorry to learn that Sara's knees were still bothering her, so she put her feet up early.
Oliver told us that showers were likely the next day, so we really didn't plan a hike. The Canadians opted to go to Columbia Falls to pick up parts and possibly shop. We said goodbye to Oliver, giving him a thank-you card and getting pictures in front of the North Fork Hostel. His cat, a tuxedo tom also named Oliver, made a surprise appearance too.
Then it was one last stop at the Merc to pick up pastries to go for family and friends. Then the two cars from the States ventured into Apgar and did some shopping, getting some end-of-season deals on earrings, T-shirts, scarves. Gail's' car headed back to GF while Susan's car with Anita and Katie did do some hiking and sightseeing once Katie and Susan discovered that Anita hadn't seen much of the westside of Glacier Park. We hiked Rocky Point from the campground with some bushwhacking thrown in for good measure, then to Trail of the Cedars/Avalanche Gorge, and Sacred Dancing Waters. Finally, we stopped at Lake McDonald, visited the lodge and walked to the boat dock. We arrived home around 7 p.m.
Side Note: Maria entered the 100-Miler club on this trip!
Who went: Susan, Anita, Maria, Sara, Gail, Jo Ann, Katie; From Canada: Sharon, Dina, Doreen, LaVern, Laura, Linda, Lorna, Joan, Loural
Hannan Gulch, Sept. 14, 2019
Hannan Gulch Day of Bushwhacking, Pictographs, Skull Tree, Views
Some of us had more bushwhacking than we planned; others wanted a bit more, but we all made it to the top of the "Crago" Cliff, so named because it is by Mary Crago Nicholls' family cabin.
The day started at 7 a.m. after a late start due to Kuntzie oversleeping. Happy Camper Susan called her to wake this retiree who never has to get up early anymore--except for GiG hikes. So all seven of us crammed into Judy's car to await Kuntzie before the trip to Augusta, where we would meet with Viki and newbie Shelley N.
In Augusta, we looked around the Mannix Mercantile General Store while we lined up to use the sole bathroom in the place. A few of us purchased some items too.
Then it was off to our trailhead, just across from the Sun Canyon Lodge.
Our hike was divided into three two-mile sections: First up was a hike along the river, up and back to see the better of two pictograph sites on our day. We marveled at the ancient drawings and hand prints, one of a shield and another of an animal eating or perhaps drinking from the river; it had it's head down anyway.
Then before we retraced our steps to the car, we arrived at a side trail that would lead us to the top of a cliff, where we would have views of Gibson Dam on the way up and then of the canyon ad surrounding plains once we arrived at the top.
This section was the most challenging, requiring route finding as well as bushwhacking through mostly scrub junipers and knickknick along with a few pines and fir trees. Judy, Kuntzie and Viki did most of the route finding. They did an excellent job as we didn't have to backtrack even once.
Once we were on top, we marveled at the gorgeous views of the turquoise Sun River, so different from what the river looks like in Great Falls, after all of the irrigation run off. And we marveled at how we were protected from the wind that blew us a bit on the way up. Luckily, it was a warm wind, so it didn't bother too much.
We ate a snack on top, but saved our hunger for later when we would eat at the Buckhorn Bar in Augusta.
After our snack, we walked the ridge the entire distance until we reached a bit of rock climbing that would lead us to a trail. We had a very easy path down to the road by the ranger station. As we walked the road, several gals pointed out the marker for the Mercy Flight that went down on its way back from a training in Glacier Park. The four medical personnel on board all perished. They had taken a sightseeing detour on the way home, one person videotaping the bighorn sheep in Hannan Gulch. Read more here.
Kuntzie and Mary S pulled the weeds from around the marker as we all pondered the fate of the local people who had died.
Then we continued down the road until it split leading into the Wagner Basin area, which we took, except for Shelley and Jo Ann, who felt a bit tired after bushwhacking up the cliff. The rest of us headed into the basin to view the skull tree, while Shelley and Jo Ann went back to the cars and brought Judy's van around to the trailhead to await our return.
We enjoyed the hike into the basin, saw the skulls on the trees, thinking about Mary Nicholls' niece who paints the skulls and mounts them. We also enjoyed the last few flowers of summer: goldenrod, hymenoxys and gay feather (aka blazing star).
Then it was off to Augusta for a fun meal at the Buckhorn Bar (a huge group of bikers were there so the staff turned up loud 70s-era classic rock from artists such as Eric Clapton, Three Dog Night and the Eagles) before saying goodbye to Viki and Shelley who live in Fairfield and Conrad respectively.
We arrived back in Great Falls around 4:30.
Who went: Viki, Shelley, Judy, Kuntzie, Jo Ann, Gail, Susan, Mary S, Katie
Firebrand Pass, Sept. 7, 2019
No Wind at Firebrand Shocks Gals After Last Year's Gale-Force Gusts
The GiG met the WoW for another trip: This time to the rarely crowded Firebrand Pass area in the southern part of Glacier Park. We started out at 6 a.m., met Ann from Rudyard in Browning at 8 and then the WoW Canadians at 8:30 at the Firebrand trailhead parking area.
The day started out very foggy, misty and wet, especially since this hike is very brushy at the beginning. It had rained all night, so we also faced mud in places. The beginning of the trail is along some moose ponds, which we didn't see, but in this area, we saw quite a bit of fresh bear scat, making us think we better make noise. We never saw any bears either, even though the huckleberries were plentiful and very delicious. They were a welcome reprieve during the uphill climb.
Even though most of us put on our rain pants or gaiters, we still got wet. The trail crew had cleared some of the brush away from the trail in the areas where the leaves can reach shoulder high and the nettles troublesome; but other sections that reached thigh level weren't cleared. However, the color of the groundcover was so pretty, we hardly noticed. There was also a plethora of fungi: colorful mushrooms of darkbrown, rust, bright orange and yellow.
Besides huckleberries, we also enjoyed saskatoons/service berries, grouse whortleberries and thimbleberries. We saw other inedible (or mostly so) berries: bane berries, elderberries, Oregon/holly grape, red twinberries, bead lilies, false Solomon seal and twisted stalk berries!
These distractions along the trail helped Desirae in particular as she was on her first moderately strenuous hike and loved it; however, she had not tackled so much uphill before.
The clouds started to lift as we approached the pass, making us think that we might have some views on top. The whole way, we had no wind, so even though it was damp and misty, we didn't feel cold. Even at the pass, no wind! A first for those who have been before. In fact, last year, we had gale-force gusts of 70 mph, which knocked some gals off their feet.
This year, the only surprise at the top was the view: the clouds had lifted to the west, revealing Summit, Little Dog, the Barrier Buttes, Red Crow, and most of 8888 and Despair. Since we had no wind, we spent a whole hour on top, eating our lunch and enjoying. But it was a bit colder on top of the pass, so some of us pulled out our buffs, at which point, Brenda gave us a lesson on how to make a buff into a do-rag, our new fashion statement.
The day had gotten so nice with blue skies and puffy clouds that it was hard to head back down the mountain. The whole way, we stopped off and on to pick more huckleberries. A few of us even saved a few for our husbands.
We arrived back at the cars, after crossing the train tracks, at 4 p.m.
The WoW group headed home after getting some ice cream as they were helping with a community picnic. The GiG went to the Glacier Park Lodge for lunch (someone wanted mixed drinks and not the beer/wine served at the other restaurants).
We arrived back in Great Falls around 7:30
Who went: Josy, Amber, Viki, Brenda, Ann, Desirae, Katie Canadians: Lorna, LaVern, Laura, Carol, Linda, Doreen, Joan
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Here's a funny thing about the Neptunes: for a group who ushered synthesized future-funk production through the last days of the recording industry's bottomless-budget era, they sound remarkably minimalist. Consider the precedents and successors in their lineage, the digital-minded producers who wrung maximalist depth out of simplicity: compared to the cyberfunk Roland/Ensoniq gearheadedness of the Jam/Lewis '80s and the Nicktoonish full-spectrum glitch overload of recent SOPHIE-and-scions hyperpop, Chad and Pharrell's jams sound borderline austere.
But that's one of the rare examples of austerity actually working for the masses, the simplicity of the idea that you need a Beat and you need a Hook and everything else is an asterisk. Why build a wall of sound when a patio door makes for more light and easier accessibility? And so they took over the world, at least for an unrelentingly transformative half-decade on the charts (and a fair amount of time afterwards), with their choppy-rolling symphonies to negative space sounding more punk-funk — or at least new [and] wavy — than Rick James's wildest dreams.
Back in MC Hammer times, Pharrell Williams used to hang out with Virginia Beach buddies Timbaland and Magoo making boom-bap-goes-pop beats under the snarkily named collective Surrounded By Idiots. Turns out he'd surrounded himself with geniuses. He'd started working with Chad Hugo by the time the Neptunes-to-be found themselves under the aegis of Teddy Riley, right about the same time that Mary J. Blige's What's the 411? popularized hip-hop production tropes for mainstream R&B. (One month after that album dropped, the Riley-produced Wreckx-n-Effect hip-hop crossover classic "Rump Shaker" gave Pharrell his first big-hit writing credit on a major hit record, though his contributions were strictly lyrical.)
But it was the Neptunes' '98 breakout, riding off a two-fer of hip-hop crossover hits for Ma$e ("Lookin' At Me") and Noreaga ("Superthug"), that made their trademark musical identity both immediately identifiable and provably successful. In part it's because their musical components were so counterintuitively weird, building off the simplicity of the Korg Triton synthesizer and finding all the off-kilter ways they could break its limitations. Throughout the late '90s and early 2000s, the Neptunes made a barrage of hits out of twangy/plinky synth hooks that pinged somewhere between guitar and harpsichord, rhythmic programming so crisp and tight and frictionless that their low-reverb impacts hit like a one-inch punch, and melodies that simultaneously vibed off celebratory invincibility and unresolved tension. Even Pharrell's own voice, an askew falsetto like Curtis Mayfield trying to hold in a toke, sounded just disorientingly odd enough to make circa-2000 hits like Jay-Z's "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" and Mystikal's "Shake Ya Ass" seem at least a bit alien.
Another reason The Neptunes so capably took over music is that their ascent, already co-signed by hip-hop and R&B's most pop-savvy kingmakers, hit right when mainstream pop was in its first truly massive reckoning with the dominance of that crossover potential. When TRL-bred surname-unnecessary icons like Britney and Justin turned towards the Neptunes, it meant that not only were these performers looking to tap into a sound that was a bit more outlandish than their usual Euro-pop Max Martin machinery, it meant they were engaging with a hip-hop-rooted sound as a way to push themselves further into more innovative creative contexts.
That's a big burden, having that much chart-busting weight resting on your sound — but it was a sound that proved as effective as it was omnipresent, whether you were into hardcore hip-hop (Fabolous's "Young'n (Holla Back)"), rap's pop-friendler club jams (Nelly's "Hot In Herre"), or its Soulquarian/bohemian strains (Common's "Come Close"). Expand that to cover top-shelf dancehall (Beenie Man's Janet Jackson duet "Feel It Boy"), teen-pop maturation efforts (NSYNC's "Girlfriend"), and VIP room R&B (Usher's "U Don't Have to Call"), and you've got a stylistic versatility that defied repetition or formula. And that's just 2002, one year in an early-decade stretch so soaked with their presence that "43% of songs played on American radio in 2003 were Neptunes productions" became a widely-believed (if completely apocryphal) pseudostatistic. Even accounting for their gradual taper-off in hit-factory hyperproductivity that began around 2004, you could pull up a playlist of well over 800 songs Chad and/or Pharrell had a hand in and still find yourself wondering "yeah, but is that everything they did?"
Here's another funny thing about the Neptunes: their story's borne out best in their individual tracks, and this guide is largely album-driven, so we're looking at them from a sort of obtuse angle. Full-lengths where they actually handled most or even more than half of the production duties are surprisingly rare, and ones that are front-to-back great taper off after the mid 2000s (apologies to Snoop Dogg's Bush and Madonna's Hard Candy). But that just reveals another facet to the Neptunes that speaks to a necessary restlessness beneath the surface of their dominance. Their ability to spread so much wealth while still remaining loyal to a core of collaborators they'd practically drop everything to work with — particularly their hometown coke-rap dons Clipse and pop'n'B-mutating singer Kelis — offset the mercenary-for-everyone ubiquity that would've ground down less-insightful producers. That ubiquity receded after half a decade, leading to an increasingly sporadic but still curious and readily-engaged elder statesmen status, even if much of it was overshadowed by Pharrell's sole-billed efforts beginning with the double whammy of "Blurred Lines" and "Happy" in 2013. But just ask Odd Future — or anyone else who came of age when Pharrell and Chad seemed like the biggest thing since the LinnDrum: no sound ever really dies.
If "Caught Out There" wasn't one of the greatest debut singles of the '90s — and it was, a ferocious contrast to her memorable if personality-concealing guest-star turn on (also '99 Neptunes-produced) ODB classic "Got Your Money" — it at least had to be one of the most startling. (That I hate you so much right now hook is as directly, relatably pissed-in-love betrayed as it gets, though the way she growls/belts aaaagh in the midst of it proves it's not all in the lyrics.) But Kelis can do way, way more than scream, and Kaleidoscope is built to prove it, from its slow-jam reveries to its aching anthems of desire. The Neptunes sounded fully-formed in unleashing their first full album-length slate of signature-sound beats — boasting an already hypernatural sense of surprisingly intricate percussive directness, lot-from-a-little synth riffage, and some of the giddiest computerworld melodic flourishes since peak Atari. And for the first of several times, Kelis' and the Neptunes' mutual-muse working relationship carried out a classic of leftfield R&B with better deep cuts (the oddly chirpy romantic ambivalence of "Game Show"; the ether frolic retrofuturist soul of "Suspended"; the crystalline palatial funk of "Roller Rink") than records of this era are typically given credit for.
Wanderland
There's raw deals, and then there's what happened to Wanderland. What should've been a sophomore solidification of everything that made Kelis and the Neptunes click so forward-mindedly was just a little too weird for Virgin, so the singer ditched the label, which subsequently left what should've been a trans-continental smash stranded in Europe. But don't say this album didn't warn you: when its lead single ("Young, Fresh N' New") takes her just-turned-21 escapist liberation and goes "what if that cascade of exploding synths from the intro to Rush's 'Tom Sawyer' was a whole-ass funk jam," it becomes apparent that the Neptunes wanted to take their showcases for Kelis's butter-to-napalm vocal range even further than Kaleidoscope did. It's definitely a vibe-over-genre sort of eclecticism, where a descriptor like "futurist R&B" only scratches the surface of its pleasures — the synthetic carousel-slash-church organ scattering glitter everywhere in "Popular Thug" (featuring Clipse's Pusha T in charming-sociopath mode), the prickly twitch-disco of "Digital World," and No Doubt sidestepping ska-punk to give in to their arena-rock destiny for "Perfect Day." If that all sounds like a sprawling mess, at least the star at the center of it all sings like it's the self-proving star turn she deserved.
Hell Hath No Fury
As the Neptunes transitioned from perpetual hitmakers to occasionally-brilliant legacy names, their greatest partners in hip-hop had the good fortune to still get their best beats — and use them to increasingly on-edge ends. If Lord Willin' was surprisingly joyful, even magnanimous, in the Clipse's sense of coke-trade resilience and the spoils that come with it, Hell Hath No Fury is the frank, cold-blooded counterpoint/counterpart. The whole vibe rides on a guarded, throne-defending "fuck around and find out" stance, heat-treated by some of the most elaborate-flowing and irreverent (and occasionally over-the-line) punchlines of hip-hop's harshest decade. The beats have a ton to do with that, as though the Neptunes decided going for avant-adjacent broke was a better move than attempting to coast off '02 fumes. Here they've unleashed their most diabolical rhythmic mutations (no more muted cardboard-box snares, this bangs) and decorating them with some of the most bizarre melodic flourishes ever heard on a hardcore hip-hop record. That encompasses post-Madvillainy accordions ("Momma I'm So Sorry"), endlessly echoing harp-from-hell swoons ("Ride Around Shining"), latex-bound trap-Reznor hedonism, ("Trill") and, somehow, the actual honest-to-Brak Space Ghost teleportation sound ("Mr. Me Too"). That only heightens the contradictions of Pusha T and Malice's triumphalist bravado, where it all sounds like the thrill-chasing excess that Bilal-laced, Geto Boys-interpolating closer "Nightmares" predicts will eventually turn into the third act to Scarface. Until then, victory is certain if you're willing to fight for it: "Who gon' stop us? Fuck the coppers, the mind of a kilo shopper/Seein' my life through the windshields of choppers/I ain't spent one rap dollar in three years, holla."
Lord Willin'
This wasn't Pusha T and Malice's first go with the Neptunes — 1999 debut Exclusive Audio Footage sat around in Elektra's junk drawer after debut single "The Funeral" stiffed — but they could have hardly hoped for a better introduction to the world than this. The Thornton brothers pierced through the all-glamour opulence of pop-rap's gilded age with something colder, meaner, and more lyrical than the era's big crossover stars; even peak Jay-Z was less an apropos precedent for their calculating, bleak-punchline coke raps than Raekwon and Mobb Deep. But the catch — much to Lord Willin's benefit — is that their hardcore-head lyrics are bolstered by some of the most joyously hook-riddled productions of the Neptunes' peak era. "Grindin'" is an eternal beat, thanks to Chad and Pharrell deciding to forego their percussive minimalism for a suicide-door-slamming density that C4 couldn't penetrate. But it's hardly alone: the sax-riffing I learned it by watching you coke-heir origin story "Young Boy," the kingpin royal-court triumphalism of "Cot Damn," and top-tier Obligatory Club Track "When the Last Time" (replete with a synth hook that sounds like an impossibly catchy Nokia ringtone) would be any other debut album's clear high points.
Twenty years on from his clean break with NSYNC, Justin Timberlake's "time to grow up" solo debut feels like a dispatch from another world, one where he hadn't thrown Janet Jackson under the bus post-Super Bowl or proven to be less sympathetic than "Cry Me A River" subject Britney Spears. Those personal shortcomings are probably as good a reason you could have to dismiss Justified, because it's a lot harder to casually discard on a purely musical basis. The Neptunes Empire took the potential of Justin's MJ-adjacent pop'n'B aspirations as far as anyone could have possibly taken it — at least until Timbaland, who sounds like he's merely warming up here ("(Oh No) What You Got"; Bubba Sparxxx feature "Right for Me"), ushered him through his "actually I'm Prince now" phase four years later. And if the Neptunes' weirdness here is a little more pared back than what they provided for Kelis or Britney or their own N*E*R*Dy selves, Justin's able to match its still-high energy level right on the mark — and sound thoroughly geeked with enthusiasm doing it. It could all be chops and technique in the service of a persona that hasn't held up, but we'd need at least a few more Man of the Woods-caliber faceplants to cancel out how well jams like "Like I Love You," "Rock Your Body," and "Señorita" carry out its libidinous affability.
Before poptimism took over, Serious Music Aficionados liked to question the legitimacy of the idea that knob-twiddling, synth-playing studio producers could ever be Real Bands. It's a question that the Neptunes addressed with a bit of fence-straddling over the course of releasing their first album as N*E*R*D, which first dropped in Europe during the summer of '01 before they decided to revamp the whole project with a live-band rerecording for its American version a year later. No slight to Spymob, but the serrated-edge weirdness of the original "electronic version" fits the material a bit better than the "rock" one, even if it put some technological constraints on the album's ambitious eclecticism. Could be because Pharrell's voice just harmonizes better with those tinny Triton riffs, could be because it's funnier (and cooler) to call yourself a "Rock Star" over stripped-down beep-boop music actual rock stars would (foolishly) consider inauthentic, could be because even when things threaten to get maudlin ("Run to the Sun"; "Bobby James") the "artificial" vibe gives enough distance from skepticism to make the emotion feel as legit as Pharrell's almost naively delivered sincerity deserves. But it's probably because the savory-sour funk of "Lapdance" and the dilated-pupil psychedelia of "Am I High" and the fucking-around-as-action-blockbuster oomph of "Truth or Dare" would still get embedded in your brain even if you played them on a Fisher-Price toy.
NO ONE EVER REALLY DIES
The Neptunes empire seemed to wane in the 2010s in favor of the Pharrell Williams Show, the producer-turned-singer-turned-mogul embedding himself in the musical establishment so thoroughly it's almost possible to forget he built his legacy on sounding like an iconoclast. But given a chance to express his weirder side again with a reconstituted N*E*R*D — albeit with less input than previous from braintrust members Chad Hugo and Shay Haley — his creative-eccentric side broke through the respectable-vet facade to prove that he could still summon that air of unpredictable eclecticism without contorting himself too much. There are just enough guest-spot slots given to A-plus-listers to give this the sheen of cool-celeb Importance: Rihanna puts on a bubbly quasi-Houstonian drawl on the Nintendo-punk opening salvo "Lemon," Future lurches maniacally through dissonant AutoTune on Devo-via-Mannie Fresh explosion "1000," we get a rare and welcome dispatch from the psychedelically abstract world of Andre 3000 in the window-rattling, hyper-shifting mini-suite"Rollinem 7's," and Kendrick pulls double duty as cop-violence deconstructionist over mordant lounge-bossa on "Don't Don't Do It" before bursting through the skulking tension of "Kites" to demand a revolution that celebrates humanity. But the famous-friends atmosphere is less interesting than the absolutely untethered too-many-ideas energy Pharrell brings as producer and songwriter, where nothing's ever really settled and the mood and form of his songs snaps into new shapes with the unpredictability of an ambush.
Fly or Die
If the only real legacy of the second N*E*R*D album was the moment in "She Wants to Move" where Pharrell warbles "her ass is a spaceship I want to ride," Fly or Die would still be remembered fondly, albeit with a sort of memetic semi-ironic kind of fondness. It's a damn sight more interesting a record than that, though, teeming with a guitar-heavy yet post-genre panache that proved the likes of Gnarls Barkley would someday be possible. They're enthused with the possibilities of rock without getting all self-consciously rawk about it — you can hear as much singer-songwriter-tradition Ben Folds ("Jump") and Steely Dan ("Breakout") in the album's post-alt DNA as you can in guitar heroes like Lenny Kravitz ("Maybe") and Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Backseat Love"). Considering how often these songs re-center a primordial notion of rock less as its own self-contained world than as a subgenre of R&B, you can forgive Pharrell if he still sounds a little short on vocal chops at this point in his career. But even then, the oddly delicate, even vulnerable timbre to his voice makes songs like the teen-angst title cut and the your move, Green Day anti-war power-pop flip-off "Drill Sergeant" strong arguments for the musical effectiveness of naive pop idealism in a world of cynics.
The Neptunes Present Star Trak
The Neptunes, DJ Enuff
Record label red tape means officially-released "Neptunes' greatest beats" compilations are logistically impossible, so unless you count a listicle filled with YouTube embeds or an enterprising fan's self-made streaming playlist, this is as close as you'll get to an actual album (OK, mixtape) that gives you a bigger-than-a-sliver picture of their pop dominance. And while most of their early superhits are confined to the masterfully cut-and-scratched N.O.R.E./Hova/Busta/Mystikal/Luda snippet barrage in the intro track, any mixtape that goes from the original all-electronic '01 version of N*E*R*D's borderline-glam "Rock Star" to Clipse's moody Lox-featuring Lord Willin' closer "I'm Not You" to Nelly's deathless libido-catalyst club jam "Hot in Herre" will make a good case for those initial singles being just a warmup. There's plenty more from Clipse ("When the Last Time"; "Hear Me Out"; a remix of "Grindin'" featuring N.O.R.E. and Baby) and Kelis (teaming with the Thorntons on "Popular Thug" and "Daddy") to maintain their muso-familial connections, but the hits keep on coming, too — the "Co-Ed" remix of Britney Spears' "Boys," Jadakiss's "Knock Urself Out," and Queen Bey herself closing with "Work It Out" position the Neptunes as the ultimate crossover production unit of their era.
The Neptunes Present… Clones
In retrospect, this might've made for a great curtain call for the Neptunes' imperial phase. Clones is a wall-to-wall house party featuring nearly every major hip-hop and R&B star they'd notched a Top Ten hit with, delivered right at the brink of an overexposure that the following year's scaled-back presence helpfully mitigated. Maybe that's why so much of this album feels like it's on the brink of hubris-fueled disaster, only to be rescued by its almost completely irony-free dedication to a good time. Are Busta Rhymes' ass-driven hyperfixations ("Light Your Ass on Fire"), Ludacris's invincible, bellowing shit-talk against the remotest possibility of falling off ("It Wasn't Us"), and Nelly swearing up and down that he can be a paradoxically faithful player ("If") the most W's-first-term clubland agenda thinkable? Yeah, but they're also respectively more maniacally futurist, dissonantly weirder, and populuxe sleeker than that grotesque era really deserved. And even if their "hey, we heard Rock Is Back" deep cuts (featuring In Search Of….-bolstering power-poppers Spymob and adenoidal demi-Weezeroids High Speed Scene) seem like a bewildering detour, at least they were ahead of the curve (and better at it) when it came to the Travis Barker-fueled punk-hop cultural tide that'd eventually dump Machine Gun Kelly on our heads. Oh, and not to bury the lede, but this is the one with "Frontin'" on it — the track where Pharrell finally just steps out and reveals he wants to be Prince. That he wound up just being Pharrell instead is still a good consolation prize.


This is an original 1898 halftone print of a portrait of the famous nineteenth century Dutch painter Johannes Bosboom by P. A. M. Boele Van Hensbroek after a drawing by Pieter de Josselin de Jong.
This 113+ year old Item is rated Near Mint / Very Fine+. Light aging throughout. There is light bleedthrough on this piece from the verso. No surface rub. No tears. No water damage. Please note that there is print on the verso.
This piece was illustrated by Josselin de Jong, Pieter de. Artist signature in print - bottom left of image.
Photography by Boele Van Hensbroek, Pieter .


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MissSir
Tue, 01/27/2015 - 09:39 — everythingstaken
Hey, if you wanted to have a melancholy video game experience similar to reading a Peanuts comic, here you go, this is what you've been waiting for!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_honorifics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppermint_Patty#Relationships_with_other_characters
Charles M. Schulz and me
Klik of the Month Klub #91 "Better Late than Never!"
broken english
Cool Joe Peppermint Patty
dating simulator
newspaper comics
sunday comics
this isn't cracked at all I just wanted to be cute
too much talking
You Have to Put the Racially Progressive Message in the Funnybook
Tue, 02/21/2012 - 16:35 — Healy
Yet another entry in the storied "You Have to Put the Noun in the Other Noun" series, this one pays tribute to the late, great Dwayne McDuffie, who died a year ago today. The sharp-eyed will note that this is kind of a sucky tribute to the man, and I'd agree. I wish I could say something witty and profound here, but all I can do is link this and hope that most of you will find it as amusing as I do.
(Oh, and before I forget: You'll need an interpreter to play this game. I recommend Zoom for the Mac, and Windows Frotz or Gargoyle for Windows.)
ending's kind of a downer
Milestone Media
MOURN YOU TIL WE JOIN YOU
softsoft
sucky tribute
they're called GRAPHIC NOVELS mom
you have to put the noun in the other noun


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FNC Parliamentary Division participates in 208th session of IPU's Governing Council in Madrid
MADRID, 28th November, 2021 (WAM) -- A delegation from the Federal National Council (FNC) Parliamentary Division, led by Dr. Ali Al Nuaimi, Head of the Parliamentary Division at the IPU, participated in the 208th session of the IPU Governing Council held in Madrid.
The session was held as part of the IPU's 143rd General Assembly, which is being hosted by the Spanish Parliament from 25th to 30th November, 2021.
The Emirati division included Sarah Falkinaz, Marwan Obaid Al Muhairi, Mira Sultan Al Suwaidi, and Afraa Al Busti, FNC's Assistant Secretary-General for Parliamentary Communication.
During the meeting, the participants discussed its agenda and the minutes of the previous meeting, and elected Meritxell Batet, President of the Spanish Parliament, to head the current IPU General Assembly.
Duarte Pacheco, IPU President, also presented an overview of the IPU's activities over the past six months.
Dr. Al Nuaimi, who is the representative of the Arab Group in the IPU's Executive Committee, highlighted the UAE's keenness to support the IPU, especially during the current transitional period, and during the implementation of its new strategy.
CONAKRY, GUINEA - Former Guinean President Alpha Conde left the country for medical treatment in the United Arab Emirates after ...


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Inline computed tomography
To date, the high costs resulting from long measurement times have been the chief impediment to the use of 3D computed tomography (CT) for inspections in the manufacturing process. In addition, there was no reliable software available for automatic evaluation. Fraunhofer EZRT is addressing this deficit with new developments, such as highly efficient algorithms for artifact correction, volume calculation and image analysis. These innovations now permit the fully automated inspection of an object within very short cycle times.
Characteristics of the system
At the Fraunhofer location in Deggendorf, Germany, scientists have developed a state-of-the-art inline CT system in cooperation with HEITEC PTS. The system has unique properties and allows inline CT to be used for monitoring many new component classes:
Power of X-ray source: Because the X-ray source built into the inline CT system possesses an accelerating voltage of 450 kV, it is possible to quickly and reliably scan even large objects such as cylinder heads and crankcases.
Fully automated defect recognition with 3D-ADR: The CT allows users to pinpoint the exact position of irregularities in the object being inspected and their shape. In contrast to other techniques, our automatic defect recognition for 3D data (3D-ADR) notably also detects irregularities on and near the surface and is particularly resistant to pseudo-detections caused by artifacts. The advantage of a 3D analysis is that it is able to properly identify defects in places that will be subsequently removed at the rework stage and also smaller irregularities that impair neither stability nor functionality; as a result, the object is not immediately considered scrap. In other words, the software reliably diagnoses only critical defects. In addition, the shape and position of geometrical structures can be measured in the 3D data set, even when they cannot be accessed by tactile systems, such as coolant ducts.
Improved image quality and shorter measuring times:
With the firefly [flexpress] reconstruction module, scanning time for the component inspection can be reduced by 50 percent or more, depending on the condition of the object being inspected. The technique requires far fewer projections in order to compute a comparable reconstruction quality for its nondestructive testing application.
The firefly [descatter] software module corrects for the radiation scattered by the test object and for the X-rays scattering inside the detector into the recorded X-ray projections – with just one additional calibration measurement.
Automation concept: The inline CT system possesses a novel automation concept that works quickly, reliably and safely. It uses a shuttle system that permits the loading and unloading of one component while another is being scanned in order to minimize non-productive time and thus obtain the minimum possible scanning time. Furthermore, the developers used tried-and-true industrial X-ray components and deliberately eschewed the use of movable axes where possible, so as to facilitate 24/7 operation in foundry production environments.
Demonstrator system at Deggendorf location
With the inline CT system at the Deggendorf location, Fraunhofer researchers are able to carry out feasibility studies in short order and make the technology accessible to the industry. Moreover, the constant generation of realistic measurement data contributes to the further development of the underlying algorithms.
Collaborating with the Fraunhofer Development Center for X-ray Technology EZRT on the project are German mechanical engineering firm HEITEC PTS GmbH and materials testing specialist BMB Gesellschaft für Materialprüfung.
Christian Kretzer
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Природно-заповідний фонд Черкаської області нараховує 562 природних комплекси та об'єкти (станом на 2020 рік), котрі виділені з метою збереження природного різноманіття ландшафтів, генофонду тваринного і рослинного світу, підтримання загального екологічного балансу регіону.

Загальна характеристика
Площа заповідних об'єктів станом на 2016 рік становить 63117,55 га, що складає 3,0 % від загальної площі території області (показник заповідності). Для порівняння, середній показник заповідності у сусідніх областях складає: у Полтавській — 4,1 %, Київській — 2,8 %, Кіровоградській — 1,4 %, Вінницькій — 1,02 %; в Україні — 5,4 %, в Європі 12—15 %.

Протягом 2005−2010 рр. площу природно-заповідного фонду області збільшено на 21730,2 га, кількість об'єктів — на 67 (4 скасовано), показник заповідності — на 1,04 %.

Розподіл об'єктів та територій природно-заповідного фонду в межах адміністративних районів області є вкрай нерівномірним. Дана ситуація зумовлена в першу чергу значною розорюваністю земель. Зокрема, площа сільськогосподарських угідь області становить 1 454 800 га (70 % загальної площі області — 2 091 668 га), з яких ріллі — 1 273 600 га (88 % площі сільськогосподарських угідь). Відсоток розорюваності для більшості районів коливається від 62 % до 80 %. Лише два райони області мають вищий від середнього по Україні показник заповідності (Золотоніський, Канівський райони) та 1 — наближений до нього (Чорнобаївський район). Велика площа об'єктів природно-заповідного фонду у Канівському районі існує за рахунок Канівського природного заповідника, Національного природного парку «Білоозерський», Регіонального ландшафтного парку «Трахтемирів». У Золотоніському районі — за рахунок орнітологічного заказника «Липівський», ботанічного заказника «Пташині острови». Три райони мають показник від 3 до 7 % (Чорнобаївський, Корсунь-Шевченківський, Черкаський), чотири — від 1 до 3 % (Маньківський, Монастирищенський, Смілянський, Чигиринський), десять — найнижчий — до 1 % (Городищенський, Драбівський, Звенигородський, Кам'янський, Катеринопільський, Лисянський, Тальнівський, Уманський, Христинівський та Шполянський.

11 вересня 2020 року до природно-заповідного фонду Черкаської області було додано ще 2 об'єкти Чорнобаївського району: ландшафтні заказники «Довжанський» площею 29 га в межах села Хрестителеве та «Мацькова гора» площею 101,7202 га в межах Іркліївської сільради.

Значення для формування екомережі України
Природно-заповідний фонд Черкаської області є важливою складовою екологічної мережі України. Він забезпечує підтримання Галицько-Слобожанського (лісостепового) широтного екокоридору та Дніпровського меридіонального екокоридору.

Характеристика природно-заповідного фонду області
Серед об'єктів природно-заповідного фонду області:
 Канівський природний заповідник найстаріший (створений у 1923 р.)та найбільший (площа 2027 га) об'єкт ПЗФ області.

 Дендрологічний парк «Софіївка» — пам'ятник краєвидного типу світового садово-паркового мистецтва кінця XVIII — першої половини XIX століть, де зростає понад 2000 видів дерев і кущів.

 Національні природні парки:
 Національний природний парк «Білоозерський» площею 7014,44 га створений згідно з указом Президента України 11 грудня 2009 року на території Переяслав-Хмельницького району Київської області та Канівського району Черкаської області.
 Нижньосульський національний природний парк площею 18635,11 га створений згідно з указом Президента України 11 грудня 2009 року на територіїна території Глобинського, Оржицького та Семенівського районів Полтавської області та Чорнобаївського району Черкаської області.

 Черкаський зоологічний парк заснований 1 травня 1979 року. На площі 4,5 га утримується колекція тварин, що нараховує 200 видів, що становить 500 особин.

 Регіональний ландшафтний парк «Трахтемирів» розташований на території Канівського району Черкаської області та Миронівського району Київської області. Має площу 5562,5 га, створений без вилучення земель.

А також 222 заказника, 193 пам'яток природи, 57 парків-пам'яток садово-паркового мистецтва, 52 заповідних урочища. Серед них об'єктами загальнодержавного значення є:
 Атаманський парк
 Урочище Бурти
 Закревський Бір
 Козацький Вал
 Липівський орнітологічний заказник
 Мошенська Діброва
 Русько-Полянський ботанічний заказник
 Сулинський ландшафтний заказник
 Тарасів Обрій
 Холодний Яр
 Шуляцьке Болото
 Урочище Школа
 Святе Озеро
 Горіхове Озеро

Перспективи розвитку
Загалом на території Черкаської області сформовано загальну мережу природно-заповідного, яка здебільшого охоплює найцінніші природні комплекси або їх ділянки. Проте ще не всі природні комплекси та об'єкти, які заслуговують на увагу, належать до ПЗФ. Загальнодержавною програмою формування національної екологічної мережі України на 2000—2015 р. та «Національною програмою екологічного оздоровлення Дніпра та поліпшення якості питної води» (1997 р.) у Центральному Лісостеповому Придніпров'ї (в межах Черкаської обл.) передбачається створення національних природних парків, зокрема: «Трахтемирівський» — 10 тис. га (Черкаська та Київська обл.), «Черкаський бір» — 40 тис.га (Черкаська обл.), «Холодний Яр» — 6 тис.га (Черкаська обл.); «Середньодніпровський» — 300 тис.га (Черкаська та Кіровоградська обл.); розширення територій Канівського природного заповідника (довести площу до 5 858,6 га) з присвоєнням йому біосферного статусу; формування п'ятьох регіональних ландшафтних парків: Тимошівський, Рось, Сунківський, Світловодський, Дніпровсько-Тясминський, Шуляцький, Долина Гірського Тікича та інших об'єктів ПЗФ у межах водно-болотяних угідь, лісостепових масивів, головних річок (Дніпро, Тясмин, Синюха, Велика Вись, Чорний Ташлик, Рось, Вільшанка, Гірський Тікич), водосховища, які мають основні площі біоландшафтного розмаїття. Внаслідок цього доведення площі природного-заповідання в межах Черкаської області складатимуть більше 10 %. Згадані об'єкти на сьогодні не створені.

Див. також
 Природно-заповідний фонд України

Примітки

Література
 Природно-заповідний фонд Черкаської області / Укл. Коноваленко О. С., Карастан І. М. — Черкаси: Вертикаль, 2006. — 196 с.