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Wickr Secure Open Access
Psiphon is proud to announce an exciting new partnership. Over the last few months we have been
working with Wickr to create a new feature for their secure messaging platforms:
Wickr: Secure Open Access.
With this feature Wickr and Psiphon have made it possible for teams and enterprises in any part of
the world — US, Europe, Asia or Latin America — to have reliable end-to-end encrypted
messaging, calling, file and screen sharing with no interruptions in service. No other secure
communications platform enables unfettered connection anywhere in the world this way.
Wickr, already well established in the secure messaging environment with their versatile platform,
recognized that as organizations are increasingly global, there can be both security as well as
accessibility concerns when trying to ensure secure communication for people all around the globe.
Wickr believes their end users shouldn't have to worry about being able to connect to their
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You can read more about our new partnership here.
Social Media and Internet Ban in Turkey
Following the detainment of 12 pro-Kurdish lawmakers from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the early hours of November 4 th , Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, WhatsApp and Skype were blocked in Turkey . There were reports that Turk Telekom internet provider completely disabled access to the internet or throttled the connection to the point that it was impossible to connect. Despite lack of official decision about the restrictions, and BTK's explanation that there was a technical problem throughout Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim made a statement later in the day and said "For security reasons, these kinds of measures can be taken time to time. These are temporary measures. Everything goes back to normal after the danger is eliminated." Social media and internet bans ended the following evening in most of the country, but there were still some short-term connection problems during the weekend in some regions, and it was reported that some Turk Telekom users
Psiphon Usage Surges as Brazil Blocks WhatsApp
At 9PM ET on December 16th WhatsApp was blocked in Brazil . The ban came after a judge ordered that the messenger app be blocked for 48 hours when the company refused to hand over private user information related to a criminal case. For months, Brazilian telecommunications companies have been attempting to shut down WhatsApp because it provides free messaging and voice services. WhatsApp is the most popular messenger service in Brazil and telecoms blame it for luring millions away from paid cell phone use. Internet users in Brazil reacted strongly to the ban, criticizing the decision to block WhatsApp widely on social media. Millions turned to alternate messenger services and shared circumvention techniques over social media. Psiphon was praised by people in Brazil for being free, open source, and able to keep them connected throughout the blocking event. Psiphon's surge capacity was able to cope with the increased demand, with peak data use of more than 8x that of a normal day. Psip
Amid major network disruptions, 1.76M Psiphon users in Belarus
The Psiphon network supported a peak 1.76 million daily active users during significant network interference that started August 9th, a figure that represents nearly 1 in every 3 internet users. A large-scale disruption to international internet access was observed in Belarus, beginning during the contested presidential election on August 9th. Widespread filtering was reported across all Belarusian networks, affecting popular messaging apps including Telegram, Viber, and WhatsApp; social media platforms Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube; major app markets including Google Play and the App Store; email providers Gmail, Mail.ru, and Yandex; maps, banking, online media, and many other services. Rolling blackouts of the mobile networks also occurred nightly between 6PM and 6AM. The majority of VPNs were reportedly blocked as a result of generalized SSL/TLS filtering. Tor direct connections were disrupted by the increased network change, while Tor bridge users reached a peak 8,0
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The long hot summer of the Arab Spring
Andrew Sheng
Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:00 AM Last update on: Tue Aug 22, 2017 12:58 AM
White nationalists and neo-Nazis clash with counter-protesters during the "Unite the Right" rally on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/AFP
What has happened in Charlottesville showed that temperatures and tempers are flaring in this long hot summer. Is the Arab Spring spreading worldwide due to climate warming?
The Arab Spring broke out in 2011 with a wave of demonstrations and protests in Oman, Yemen, Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. This was hailed as the outbreak of democracy against authoritarian regimes, but what went unnoticed were the underlying causes of three interconnected factors—a growing youth unemployment bulge from rapid population growth, the inability of existing governance structures to deal with growing social stresses and the catalyst for social breakdown—climate change.
From February to August 2010, a large-scale, drought and famine occurred in Africa's Sahel region, the belt below Sahara desert stretching from Senegal, Northern Nigeria, Mali to Sudan. The drought killed an estimated 260,000 people and caused migration northwards to North Africa. Indeed, before the fall of Libyan leader Gaddafi in late 2011, the EU paid Libya Euro 50 million in October 2010 to stop African migrants passing into Europe. From 2006 to 2011, Syria suffered one of the worst droughts and famine that covered 60 percent of its land area, causing massive crop failure and loss of herds.
In February this year, the United Nations declared another famine in South Sudan, with famine risks in Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen. The famine in Yemen is already threatening 7 million people. The UN blamed the cholera outbreak there as man-made by the current civil war.
2016 was the hottest year in recorded history, since records began to be kept in 1880. 16 of the 17 hottest years have occurred since 2000. Indeed, by mid-year, 2017 may be the second hottest year ever, with increasing scientific evidence that the continual temperature rise will lead to more cyclones, rise in sea levels, faster decline in the polar ice caps and more unpredictable weather changes.
The January 2017 US National Intelligence Council's Global Trends report argued that global tensions will rise in the coming five years from five key stresses: economic, political, social, geopolitical and environmental. The economic stress comes from slowing global growth, creating fewer resources to deal with the huge welfare and social gaps that shape politics.
Political stress is rising because failing governments don't have the capacity to address the challenges that they face. This is particularly evident in the Middle East and North Africa, the most water-stressed region in the world.
The report argues that "societal confrontation and polarisation—often rooted in religion, traditional culture, or opposition to homogenising globalisation—will become more prominent in a world of ever-improving communications." The improved communications have not only enabled militant extremists and terrorist groups to have transnational presence, but also faster spread of infectious diseases.
Geopolitical stress has arisen because of growing inter-state rivalry for power and resources.
Finally, environmental stress is moving centre stage as global warming generates greater freakish storms, melting ice, rising sea levels, worsening the abilities of fragile governments, already weakened by corruption, social dissent and insufficient resources to cope.
These five stresses are mutually reinforcing, because deterioration in one makes the other stresses worse. For example, if the sea level rises, not only would food producing zones, such as the Mekong delta, be subject to flooding, but the increased salt content would reduce rice production. It has already been claimed that greater ocean weight stresses on continental shelves may lead to more earthquakes and volcanic disruptions.
The costs of dealing with natural disasters are becoming serious. The economic damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in the US in 2005 was estimated at USD 250 billion, of which only USD 35 billion was covered by insurance. According to the Economist magazine, in the 12 months to April 2014, the Indian central and state governments spent USD 92 billion dealing with floods, droughts and other disasters.
The Paris Climate Change Agreement has promised a measly USD 100 billion a year to help developing countries reduce their carbon footprint.
Trump's decision to pull the US from the Paris climate agreement will not only reduce these resources further, but his policies on growth at the expense of environment may also add to more carbon emission from the US, already a major contributor to carbon warming.
The Charlottesville protests over the dismantling of a Civil War statue resulting in violence between white supremacists and other protestors suggest that long hot summers are associated with violence. According to a study by Berkeley and Princeton published in Science magazine, a global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by over 50 percent in many parts of the world.
Another study by psychologists Plante and Anderson 2017 suggested a high correlation between heat stress and aggression and violence. Children growing up in climate stressed countries may become more antisocial due to under-nourishment from food and water shortages. The other impact is ecomigration-driven conflict. The illegal migration of over 15 million Bangladeshis into India, according to a Carnegie India 2016 study, created social tension along border areas.
Europe faces today more than 1 million annual migrants if the water-stressed regions of Middle East and North Africa suffer further deterioration in food, water and security. The dilemma for Europe is not just about how to police its borders, but how to deal with the climate change stresses in her neighbours so that the ecomigration pressure will be lessened. No one has quantified how much such investments will cost.
Simply put, climate change is no longer a long-term issue, but a clear and present danger. Each of us has to take responsibility for climate change, because it is the collective human excessive consumption that is changing our eco-system. A hotter and more violent earth is not fake news.
That is why Earth First comes before America First or individuals first.
Hotter climates will need cooler heads than President Trump to think through what we should be doing to deal with climate change.
Andrew Sheng writes on global issues from an Asian perspective.
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Roddino – Old Santa Margherita
Roddino is a small village at the edge of the Bassa Langa, in an area originally covered by woods and brambles. At an altitude of 610 metres above sea level, it offers exceptional views over both the Barolo vineyards and the equally beautiful Alta Langa landscape.
With its wide expanses of green and unparalleled peace and quiet, Roddino makes an enjoyable destination for walks and excursions.
During the medieval period there must have been a castle here—completely destroyed in later centuries—around which the first settlement developed.
Today the 15th-century parish church of Santa Margherita, with its celebrated baptistery, is of some significance. The bell tower was added in the second decade of the 20th century.
To the west of the village, on a rise with panoramic views, lies the chapel of Santa Margherita (known as "old Santa Margherita"). Though the façade was completely rebuilt in modern times, the original construction can be dated to the 12th century. The stone apse is of interest; it still preserves its Romanesque-style features, with uniform stone blocks and single-lancet windows arranged around the semi-circular wall.
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By Lauri Lebo Lauri Lebo November 3, 2010
Prepare for Attack on Science by Newly-Elected Republicans
I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
In addition to the drubbing Democrats took last night, it looks like science and reason got brutalized too.
Last night's Republican victories swept in a cadre of anti-science senators – Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), John Hoeven (R-ND), Pat Toomey (R-PA).
Most of the anti-science candidates are targeting climate change as their attack issue du jour, and will likely join forces with the new congressional Republican leadership, which has vowed to lead witch hunts in the form of congressional hearings into the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory policies. And even more frightening, to use the high-profile events to go after climate scientists.
As an example of the anti-science positions of the new Senate officeholders, Johnson, who beat progressive Russ Feingold, says sunspots are responsible for increasing temperatures in the Earth's atmosphere, a Republican-led "belief" that contradicts the overwhelming consensus of people who actually know what they're talking about, i.e. climate scientists. Ayotte, Toomey, Hoeven and Rubio have made similar comments.
In the case of Toomey, whose state of Pennsylvania sits on top of the Marcellus Shale, the largest natural gas deposits in the country, his position may have been helped along by his top contributors in the energy industry, Koch Industries and Murray Energy, according to the Huffington Post. Other climate change deniers who were just elected or reelected to the Senate and whose top contributors are these same two companies include Hoeven, David Vitter (R-LA) and Jim DeMint (R-SC).
Despite the fact that, just as with evolution, there is virtually no debate in the science community over the existence of man-made climate change, questioning it in the public sphere is pretty much boilerplate for Republicans kowtowing to big energy interests. Additionally, many of the newly elected last night are, if not outright creationists, at least sympathetic to their attempts to battle the teaching of evolution.
Rubio voiced support for parents trying to push creationism into Florida schools. Paul refuses to answer a question regarding his belief on the age of the earth. The new senators join incumbents like Vitter, a married "family values" candidate who sailed to victory after being outed for having sex with prostitutes (Just how much hypocrisy does it take to get a conservative Christian boosted from office in that state?), and who has earmarked funds for Christian organizations that challenge the teaching of evolution in public schools.
So what's the happy news? At least Sharron Angle, with her ties to the Christian Reconstructionist movement and who believed her candidacy was divinely inspired, was unable to beat out Harry Reid.
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How to Build a Computer Science Club in Five Weeks
When I was a kid, I had to work hard to get into the best schools.
When I got into college, I went to a lot of conferences, and I was lucky to get in, but the school was really good.
I was able to learn how to code in a language, but it was really hard to build something useful in that environment.
I'm not a computer science nerd by any means, but I was really into programming at that time.
So when I got to college, the computer science department was really focused on technology.
There were so many people that had a really hard time getting into the school, and the teachers weren't that great either.
I went there because I was excited about computer science.
I saw so many great projects that I wanted to try.
There was one program called Scratch, which was an open source project that used the Raspberry Pi to create interactive websites.
I downloaded the program, and there were so much possibilities.
It was just amazing.
I started playing with Scratch and programming, and eventually I had a bunch of projects I could build, and Scratch was my first real tool for doing that.
I remember when I first got into the program at UC San Diego, I remember getting into a meeting with a professor who told me to write a program that could simulate the physics in a 3D virtual world.
That was my introduction to virtual reality, so I started making a program for it, and it was pretty simple.
I used the mouse to move around and interact with the environment, and if I had an item on the screen, I would hold down the button and see what it was doing.
There weren't a lot more complicated things to do than that, so it was an easy enough learning experience to start making something.
It took me about a year and a half, but eventually I built it, called it Quizlet, and we had a lot success with it.
I think I've built about a dozen projects, and every time I built something new, I always wanted to improve on it.
It made me want to build more.
I wanted that next big thing, but this was the first time that I got the opportunity to build that, and that's when I really started to really enjoy the whole process of building something.
There are tons of resources out there for learning computer science and programming.
The most comprehensive one I know of is The Python Programming Language Guide by Scott Aaronson, which has tons of great resources out on it, including the best tutorials, as well as some really solid books like The Art of Programming and Programming Games.
That guide is the one I picked up at college, and now I feel like it has been around for a long time.
There's a lot out there.
I really feel like there are people that are just really passionate about learning the technology and creating amazing things.
The community of students in my class was so supportive of me, so if there was anything that I had any trouble with, they would always say, "Hey, you have to get help from this person or that person.
You can't do it alone."
That's really helped me grow as a person and a learner, and also a teacher.
There have been times when I would get a lot lost in the process of learning something and I'd be like, "Oh, this is a really easy thing to understand, but there's so much more to learn."
When I started learning computer programming, I thought that I was going to be an engineer for life.
That's not the case anymore.
I now work for a tech company that builds and sells software, and so when I do programming, it's actually quite fun.
It's so hard to learn something new at the beginning, but once I get into it, it becomes second nature.
If I can do it, I'm going to do it.
In fact, I think the one thing that I think people struggle with the most is just how to balance their work and family.
You're working from home, and you have your family around, and then you're working at a startup and you're also going to have your kids.
It just becomes a lot easier to just do one thing at a time and focus on that one thing.
There is a lot to learn when you're not home, so the biggest challenge is getting your head around how to do that.
The thing that really makes me feel really confident is that I've worked on a bunch, so there's a bunch more to come.
In terms of being able to help others learn, there are lots of great people out there that are making amazing things, and they are really passionate and want to share it.
There aren't a ton of resources available for students, so they have to really make their own decisions about where they want to go and what they want.
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Jones in lead role for Oakland Mills A star is born: Wide receiver puts on commanding performance for Scorpions.
Antiwan Jones has gone from Oakland Mills' Invisible Man to Superman in just one season.
Almost every time the Scorpions have needed a clutch play, Jones, a wide receiver, has come up with it.
Last season, he played in anonymity on the special teams.
Now he has 26 catches for 503 yards and nine touchdowns.
"He's our MVP right now," Oakland Mills coach Ken Hovet said. "He's emerged as the most productive guy on the team."
Jones has caught at least one pass in every game, including a high of six against Mount Hebron.
His game-by-game resume says it all.
In an opening-day win against No. 10 Aberdeen, he caught a 66-yard touchdown pass as the Scorpions won, 27-6.
Oakland Mills lost its next game to Linganore, which has lost only once. But Jones nearly turned the 14-6 defeat into a victory with two catches for 48 yards on a last-ditch drive that fizzled at Linganore's 20-yard line. He had four catches for the day.
The Scorpions also lost to another Frederick County power, Thomas Johnson, 25-22. On a wet field, Jones had four catches for 103 yards and three touchdowns.
Jones' would-be game-winning catch late in the game was nullified by a controversial offensive pass interference call. Thomas Johnson has lost one game.
Jones also plays safety. His only interception of the season came in a 15-7 victory over Centennial.
He again was sensational in a 28-6 victory over No. 13 Atholton, another playoff contender that has lost twice.
Against the Raiders, Jones caught four passes for 73 yards, and his 70-yard punt return for a touchdown gave Oakland Mills a 7-0 lead.
"No one will punt the ball to him anymore," Hovet said.
Jones followed that with an impressive performance against Wilde Lake by taking an end-around reverse 51 yards for Oakland Mills' second touchdown in a 29-15 win. Double-teamed the entire game, he also caught a 27-yard pass that led to the Scorpions' first touchdown.
"Wilde Lake was the only team that actually double-teamed him the whole game," Hovet said. "But everyone shades their safety in his direction. He made some circus catches against Wilde Lake."
Last Saturday against Hammond, he caught another game-winning touchdown in a 7-6 victory. Nine yards downfield, he snared a hitch pass, faked out Hammond's Tim Spruill and ran the final 30 yards to score.
"The hitch pattern is my favorite," Jones said. "All I hear is watch the hitch."
Hovet said: "Antiwan is the kind of receiver who has high yardage after the catch. Most of his patterns are short, but he averages 25 yards per catch. That makes other teams play him up close and opens up other things."
Jones is surprised about his sudden football success.
But it isn't the first time he's experienced it. He was a youth league football standout on the Columbia Bulldogs for one season and on the Howard County Trojans for two seasons.
"We've known about him," Hovet said. "He has great moves, breaks tackles in the open field, runs hard for his size and has clutch production. He's seldom brought down by the first tackler."
On a team typically deep in talented offensive players such as Oakland Mills, the 5-foot-7, 155-pound Jones had to wait his turn. Sam Smith was the team's wide receiver last season.
Jones also plays safety, and returns both punts and kickoffs.
Jones' brother, Keith Matthews, was an outstanding linebacker for the 1986 Oakland Mills team.
"He's one of my biggest boosters," Jones said.


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I'm ignoring the laundry hanging out back, the dog hair all over the floor and the dishes in the sink for something far more important – music!
So Amy Adams is currently attached to the long-gestating Janis Joplin film, 'Get It While You Can', and of course there are various threads circulating about her casting: good, bad, indifferent? I think Adams is great but I'd love to see a young newcomer in the role, remembering that Janis' best years were when she was only 24-25 years old. In fact I've got a possible candidate right here in lead singer and guitarist, Joan, from the band Little Foot Long Foot.
1. Joan's got a BIG voice and she's not afraid to use it. Can only imagine what they must be like in concert, but 'fricking awesome' comes to mind.
2. They list Sleater-Kinney, Black Keys and Neko Case as influences. In fact, they wrote a song about Neko Case, which sounds great, even though I have no idea what it's about. I'm not going to list the title here because I think EO has started reading this. Check out their website if you want to know.
3. They called their last album, Oh, Hell.
4. They're Canadian, and when you think about Canadian music (Bieber, Dion, Twain, B. Adams), you've got to give LFLF props for creating so much more than just sucky pop music. Aim high.


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There's nobody like H.E.R. on the R&B scene, and the anti-pop queen has come to claim her throne. She keeps her persona anonymous, an answer to the media's constant invasion of artists' privacy. The "secret identity" allows her to focus on her music; with I Used To Know Her–Pt. 2, it's evident that all that hard work has paid off.
H.E.R. glides in and out of different styles with the ease of someone who has been in the music industry for a lot longer. The album opens with the classic, breezy groove of "Carried Away". H.E.R. cites her careful indifference; "Fronting, I don't wanna be loved anyway," she sings. The sultry "Take You There" is the musical equivalent of a little black dress, filled with warped piano samples and moody harmonies. Fans of Rihanna and SZA will enjoy H.E.R.'s knack for atmospheric slow jams.
Jumping back into Top 40 territory, H.E.R. sings about the love she just can't quit in "Hard Place". "You've been testing my faith and my patience," she croons over a beach-ready beat. Her music is all about timeless struggles, which is most evident on "Lord is Coming", her EP's crowning jewel. The spoken-word opening spirals into a bluesy battle cry, exploding into a gospel-inspired chorus. "Right and wrong is something everybody knows," H.E.R. announces. It's a bold statement for an industry that often looks the other way—but H.E.R. is most certainly not here to play it safe.
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EXPLORE THE AMAZON RAINFOREST, ECUADOR [5 TOURS]
Where Best Explore the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador?
Imagine yourself exploring the Amazon rainforest. Of course, you really want to see wildlife. But only in Cuyabeno you actually get to see it. This is why: Most wildlife moves about through the canopy of the trees. From where you are on the ground, your vision is limited, because the undergrowth and the leaves are in your way. From the relative darkness where you are on the ground, you get blinded when you look up towards the canopy. That makes it difficult to distinguish the characteristics of the birds and mammals.
From the ground, the canopy of the Amazon jungle looks almost black and distinguishing fauna that moves around at 35 m above the ground is almost impossible, except for highly experienced birdwatchers. The contrast between the canopy and the light of the sky is blinding.
Dear visitor, our website gives you info about the Cuyabeno Park, our Cuyabeno Lodge, and Ecuador in general. Our lodge lies on a little seasonal island in the Cuyabeno Lake, which is the prettiest spot in the most beautiful Amazon park in all of South America. Here you can find our program and our prices. Our website has hundreds of high-resolution pictures of Cuyabeno and Ecuador, with thumbnails that open by clicking on them. If you love our pictures or find our info useful, please give our pages a
Explore the Amazon rainforest, Ecuador, from the Water
From the water, however, birding is great, because trees along the creeks are lower and also, many birds and mammals like to move about edges of the forest, not surprisingly, among them of course many water birds. The light shines on the trees from the side and you are not blinded by light overhead. Moreover, from a canoe, one can explore the rainforest comfortably watching wildlife from a seat with your camera, binoculars and a bird guide at hand.
As wildlife observation must take place very early in the morning, it is paramount to be in the heart of the location of observation. In the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, the Cuyabeno Lodge is on a peninsula on the border of the Laguna Cuyabeno, right in the heart of the lake system, while visitors coming from other lodges must first travel at least 45 minutes to get to the lake.
On the water one may move about conveniently to the best wildlife spotting sites, while watching birds as the scenery glides by quietly. During excursions, most of the time we use canoes powered by whispering silent electrical outboard engines.
By the way, we have several of the best fauna guide books at the lodge for consultation.
Wildlife observation and photography from from the comfort of an agile motorized canoe slowly gliding through a narrow river is convenient and effective. One always has his/her binoculars, camera and bird book at hand, as opposed to when one is walking through the forest.
Exploration of the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador
Having said that, there are also many things you want to observe in the jungle itself, like trees, forest birds and plants, etc. So, of course, we do take our guests into the forest as well, so that they can enjoy the feel of true virgin jungle and enjoy the plants of the Amazon forest. So you get the best of both worlds: excursions from both inside the Amazon rainforest and from the water. The guides of our Amazon rainforest lodge in Ecuador, the Cuyabeno Lodge, are widely known for the knowledge about birds as well as other Amazon Jungle Animals and Amazon Rainforest Plants. Find fabulous tours to discover the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador and experience Ecuador's rainforests in the Amazon.
Photo enthusiasts and bird watchers can live out their hobby to their hearts content in the Cuyabeno Nature Reserve!
And then of course we have our canopy observation tower which allows you to quietly watch what goes on in the canopies from above.
Some of our guests fall permanently in love with all the critters that move about in the jungle. Pictures are taken from Amazon jungle animals big and small.
A refreshing swim in Cuyabeno Lake.
Explore the Amazon in Cuyabeno.
To us, the most important thing is that you have a great time. We hope you fall in love with the tropical rainforest, just like we did many years ago. By joining us on an Amazon rainforest expedition, you help conserving the rain forest. Your visit generates income to the Siona Indians and it strengthens the local economy. Without ecotourism, there would be no incentive for the Ecuadorians to protect their national parks. Our motto is "Nature, use it or lose it"
Wide Rivers
Several lodges in Ecuador's Oriente and in the Amazon regions of other countries are located on large rives or small oxbows along them. Particularly along the big rivers, like the Rio Napo and the Rio Aguarico, the jungle has been cut down long ago with the exception of a few patches of deteriorated jungle and secondary growth; some at the periphery of a national park, but others not even that. But even when the big rivers were still forest clad "4 decades ago when we explored the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest for the creation of national parks, they never gave the "jungle experience" of the smaller rivers, because they are too wide and too open and as they are fairly straight, they lack the continuous change of landscape characteristic for small winding rivers.
Amazon Rainforest Ecuador Tours
It's the small rivers and small lakes that are important for observation of wildlife and for a great jungle experience, because there one glides through myriad "observation tunnels" with views of the exuberant vegetation on both sides of the river; often overhead. As the tree canopies partially cover the a narrow winding rivers, one enjoys being in the forest and at the small lakes one may enjoy the better visibility. Ecuador has only two such locations in its Amazon rainforests, both located in the Cuyabeno Faunistic Reserve, while the one around the Cuyabeno Lake being most suited for your visit to the Amazon. Nothing comes close to the landscapes of those wonderful lakes and canals of the Cuyabeno Lakes complex anywhere in the entire Amazon region. No other Amazon country has any virgin rainforest reserve so close to a major city with such rapid and inexpensive access. Small as it may be, Ecuador is your best option to explore the Amazon rainforest of Ecuador conveniently, while Cuyabeno has the best and most economical Amazon Rainforest Ecuador Tours, far better than offered around the Yasuní National Park.
Our standard Amazon visits are 4 days, 3 nights. For those with more time, longer stays in the Cuyabeno Faunistic Reserve are possible and highly recommended, as you can explore the park at a more relaxed pace and get to know the jungle and swamps much better. A very popular program is the Ecuador Amazon Expedition to Cuyabeno. Customized programs can be developed for special theme groups interested in birds as well as other Amazon Jungle Animals and/or Amazon Rainforest Plants. Check our Cuyabeno Lodge rates.
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Generally, there is a lot of ways to relieve arthritis pain which mostly attacks people who are over than 30 years old. Arthritis pain itself is known as an annoying pain that is generally caused by over pressure on certain parts of body with cartilage such as knees and hands. This pain sometimes make people cannot do their routine normally especially carrying things from one place to others. Instead of consuming some pills to relieve the pain, actually some natural remedies can be tried at home at least to heal it temporary.
First remedy is to get weight loss program. Yeah, appropriate yet healthy diet can help all of you to relieve arthritis pain in hands or other parts of the body. Some says that the arthritis symptoms may reduce even disappear when someone loses about 10 – 20 pounds. And the fact of this method is accepted by Roy Altman who is also a famous professor of medicine at University of California and rheumatologist. Doing proper exercise regularly also can help you to heal arthritis. In this case, the physical activities don't have to be so hard. Just try to do some cycling and running or even fast walking several minutes in every morning and afternoon.
Take an acupuncture therapy program is also a nice choice to relieve the pain of arthritis. Additionally, this alternative therapy effectively smoothen the blood circulation inside the body. Some benefits are also found when someone decided to take acupressure method. Nonetheless, according to Dr. Altman, this alternative therapy is not suitable for everybody. Well, there must be a specific condition for it. There is another alternative therapy that works for alleviating the pain of arthritis. It is hot and cold therapy. For the hot therapy, long soaking in a tub which is filled with warm water may effectively relieve the stiffness. To relieve arthritis pain in knees instantly, you can wrap ice cubes in a towel and then apply it on the joints where the pain is felt.


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Home picture of the day An Itsy-Bitsy Spider
An Itsy-Bitsy Spider
Mel Acheson November 30, 2014 November 30, 2014 picture of the day
Original caption: This image shows the APEX view in sub-millimetre light of the region around the Spiderweb Galaxy— a protocluster of galaxies in the early Universe surrounding a radio galaxy containing a supermassive black hole. Some of the blobs in this image correspond to dusty star-forming galaxies in the protocluster that cannot be seen in visible light due to absorption by dust. The fainter features here are artifacts of the difficult APEX image processing.
Credit: ESO
ESO (European Southern Observatory) has announced the discovery of a "huge" star-forming region obscured by dust in the Spiderweb Galaxy protocluster. Alternatively, it may be a tiny spatter of dusty plasma ejected from a nearby galaxy.
The Spiderweb Galaxy is a radio galaxy with a redshift of 2.16 in the middle of a string of 16 faint blobs, called submillimeter galaxies (SMGs), with redshifts around 2.2. The SMGs are thought to be in the process of forming stars on their way to becoming member galaxies of the protocluster. The unquestioned assumptions are that redshift is a Doppler effect of the expansion of the universe and that expansion velocity indicates distance. This requires the strings and blobs to be far away, and therefore they are "huge" and extremely luminous.
Astronomers are puzzled because, once they peer through the dust with radio telescopes, the highest energy region is off-centerfrom the dominant Spiderweb Galaxy. They propose that such large, massive starburst regions are "probably the precursors of present-day ellipticals"—some of the largest local galaxies known. [See paper—pdf]
Halton Arp, in Seeing Red, chapter 6, details the evidence that so-called galactic clusters appear as "faint little fuzzy spots" because they actually are low-luminosity, small, and wispy. "Everyone—myself included—thinks instinctively of galaxy clusters as galaxies like our own seen at great distances." [p. 143] But doubts arose: Many high-redshift clusters were aligned across low-redshift galaxies—along with quasars and x-ray objects. They were connected with the low-redshift galaxies by x-ray and radio bridges. They did not show the expected Hubble relation with magnitude: the magnitude range was around 4 magnitudes instead of the expected range of a few tenths of a magnitude.
He followed the evidence to the conclusion that his instinct was in error and that the clusters actually were small and faint wisps of ejection from the large and nearby active galaxies.
The ESO observations cover a field of 140 square arcminutes: They are afflicted with tunnel vision. If they expanded their view to 100 or 500 square degrees, they might detect the companion clusters of similar high redshift strung out in opposite directions from a low-redshift nearby galaxy. But of course if one never looks, one never has to doubt what "everyone…thinks."
Thunderblog Oct 20, 2014 — Wird NASA die Geschichte umschreiben?
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Who Is On The School District Consolidation Task Force? Live From Legislative Hall
We got a full house here at Legislative Hall. Seems a lot of suits showed up for this impromptu meeting. But who is on the Delaware School District School District Consolidation Task Force?
Secretary of Education Dr. Susan Bunting
Jon Sheehan (Education Policy Advisor for Governor Carney)
State Rep. Earl Jaques
State Rep. Joe Miro
Senator David Sokola
Senator Brian Pettyjohn
Woodbridge Superintendent Heath Chasanov
Caesar Rodney Superintendent Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald
Colonial Superintendent Dr. Dusty Blakey
Director of OMB Mike Jackson
DSEA Representative Jeff Taschner
DSBA Representative John Skrobot
GACEC Representative Robert Overmiller
Delaware PTA President Dr. Terri Hodges
New Castle Co. Parent Rep. Nacole Gardner
Kent Co. Parent Rep. Loretta Greig
Sussex Co. Parent Rep. Lauren Hudson
Vo-Tech School Districts Parent Rep. Mark Dufendach
Wilmington City Council Rep. Hanifa Shabazz
New Castle Co. Executive Matthew Meyer
Kent Co. Designee Michael Petit DeMange
Sussex Co. Designee Gina Jennings
State Rep. Earl Jaques ran introductions. He said there will be a lot of hard work for this committee. He is hopeful the report will be done by January but he doubts it. Everyone, members and audience members, introduced themselves. Jaques said there are 22 members on the task force, not 23. He said this task force is not just about money. If we aren't putting children first none of that matters. That's because the Charter Schools Network rep. was voted out on June 30th since the charters didn't want to be included in the conversation. Dr. Bunting is giving a history of past attempts at district consolidation. See the 2002 report (I will put a link up later).
Rep. Miro said there are districts across state lines that have a district with the same number of students as all of Delaware's public school student count. He mentioned Fairfax County in Virginia. Miro is opening the floor for nominations for the Chair of the Task Force. A motion for State Rep. Earl Jaques to be the chair. Motion seconded. Only nomination. Jaques is the Chair. I am shocked (not).
There will be four sub-committees of the group:
Structure, Transportation and Manpower: led by Dr. Kevin Carson and assisted by Jaques
Financial: led by Fred Sears (think Rodel) and assisted by Mike Jackson, will deal with property assessments
Academic and Children Needs: led by Dr. Bunting and assisted by Rep. Miro
Teachers And Staff: led by Dusty Blakey, assisted by Jeff Taschner
These sub-committees will meet between meetings. Miro invited members of the public to sign up for the sub-committees as non-voting members. I actually signed up for the money sub-committee. Next meeting will be at Woodbridge High School at 6:30pm on September 18th. This will be down in Sussex County so you might want to leave early if you live up north. October 16th meeting at William Penn High School at 6:30pm. November 16th meeting at Caesar Rodney High School.
Jaques said this committee is not going to decide on closing schools. Their job is to figure out if it works or doesn't work. I gave public comment urging more transparency for the group to which Jaques said that was his fault. I also urged the task force to make sure this is about students first and to have the State Auditor make sure they can properly audit funds that are already in play. Woodbridge Board Member Walter Gilefski said he is adamantly against district consolidation. Caesar Rodney teacher Natalie Ganc said she is here to check this out. She said she has a daughter in Smyrna School District and thinks they are awesome despite what I write about them.
Meeting adjourned.
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Jenn C. on August 1, 2017 at 7:23 pm said:
Thanks Kevin! Glad to see Heath and Mark D. on there. I would say I have faith but, well, you know… I can get to Woodridge and CR.
Jack wells on August 1, 2017 at 8:33 pm said:
Thanks for posting information.
What Not on August 2, 2017 at 10:09 am said:
For the record, "it doesn't work". NCC Schools have been compromised. Distractors abound and mixing learners of vast potential differences is not efficient past grade school.
It is time to restructure. All schools should be public, not Charter in any way. Schools should be taught in three levels A,B and C. Very high performance and potential (A). Very good performance and interest (B). C level should take into account the student's interests and limitations. Career disruptors should go to a C level or special schools. Get out of the way of students trying to make the most of their education. We, the tax payers, deserve an efficient system where best outcomes can take place in localized settings.
Josiah Andrews-Law on August 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm said:
Those charter schools are run by dictators! They fire people at will all of the time because the teachers have no protection. And don't get me started on those charter school boards led by some of THE DUMBEST mother fuckers on the planet! I could name a few, and one in particular.
Knave Holdnit on August 4, 2017 at 1:54 pm said:
Josiah:
"They fire people at will all of the time because the teachers have no protection."
Unlike our traditional schools that are unable to relieve ineffective/ inappropriate teachers until the teacher has devolved into a sexual predator OR the teacher simply decides to go to another school where their history is unknown.
How dare those scurvy m'effing Charter administrators try and insure the teachers in their school are appropriate and do their jobs well.
Dead weight needs to be unloaded but the alternatives offered by traditional public schools are worse:
http://nypost.com/2016/01/17/city-pays-exiled-teachers-to-snooze-as-rubber-rooms-return/
"And don't get me started on those charter school boards led by some of THE DUMBEST mother fuckers on the planet!"
-Are you aware of some of the decisions made by our traditional school district boards? They don't indicate the sharpest tools in the shed are at the helm.
CSD's Joe Wise's decisions approved.:
http://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/local/article_6bbc555e-8764-59ff-ad25-3eaeebdc558c.html
CSD Board withheld funds legally entitled to charter students.
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/education/2016/11/30/christina-could-settle-charter-suit-tonight/94667462/
The 'job' is to identify where savings could be had with consolidation. The difficulty is in the political and educational departments efforts to thwart basic reform and cost efficiencies. They will discuss the 'leveling up', they will debate the costs to administrate the change, they will discuss the cost to "plan" a consolidation, they will discuss what to do with underpopulated school buildings, they will discuss everything they can muster to NOT consolidate but at the root of it is there are too many districts. It is rather rudimentary that if you go from ~ 18 districts to 3 or 4, you will reduce costs. Transportation Feeder patterns would become more efficient. Contracts for supplies and other services would be consolidated. Cost to provide services could be value engineered. Processing between districts/ state/ and feds could be streamlined.
However, the players will distract and deflect to bury any effort to save money because the number of state employees will be reduced.
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How to preserve leaves
Written by Dr Anny Manrich on January 4, 2022 in Others, Food FAQs
In this brief guide, we are going to answer the question "how to preserve leaves" and discuss the methods used to preserve leaves.
The average daily vegetable consumption of adults was 51% in 28 EU countries in 2014. More women eat vegetables daily than men and older adults eat more fruits and vegetables daily than younger people do. About 12% of adults in 28 EU countries have reported a daily consumption of at least five fruits and vegetables (1).
Leaves can be preserved by:
Refrigerating
Leaves are an excellent source of nutrition with few calories. Kale, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, collard greens and watercress are some common leafy greens.
Unfortunately, green leaves have a very short shelf-life at room temperature and are susceptible to drying, wilting and yellowing.
How to preserve leaves by refrigerating
Changes in nutrient composition of vegetables occur postharvest due to its high water content (70-90%) and increased respiration rate resulting in qualitative losses such as loss in edibility, nutritional value and consumer acceptability. The rate of biological and biochemical degradation depends on both postharvest handling and on storage conditions (2).
Refrigerating is the best short-term preservation method for leafy greens.
Most leaves can be refrigerated for about 1-2 weeks, depending on the vegetable. Iceberg lettuce can be stored longer (2 weeks) than spinach (3-7 days), according to the US Department of Agriculture. Refrigerating is the easiest way to preserve leaves, and the flavor and texture are retained throughout. It is recommended to store green leaves in the back of the refrigerator where the temperature is most stable.
To refrigerate green leaves:
Rinse the leaves and pick out any yellow or damaged leaves.
Dry the leaves with a paper towel or a salad spinner. Make sure that the leaves are completely dry as even a little moisture can cause spoilage.
Wrap the leaves with a paper towel or line an airtight container with paper towels.
Place the leaves in a sealable bag or inside the airtight container.
Seal, label and refrigerate for up to 1-2 weeks.
Green leaves can also be placed upright in a glass of water and then refrigerated. This method is useful for hardier leaves such as kale and it will retain freshness for a longer time.
The vitamin C content of the selected vegetables subsequently decreased during storage period and is minimal after seven days. However, the level of degradation depended on the vegetable species: fragile and perishable vegetables, expressing great sensitivity to manipulation and processing as spinach and broccoli were more affected regarding the vitamin C content (2).
How to preserve leaves by freezing
To prevent microbial growth and enzymatic deterioration in leaves, thus extending their shelf life, freezing can be applied. Raw fruits and vegetables contain large quantities of water in proportion to their weight and, consequently, the water phase change occurring in freezing makes these products more susceptible to ice crystal formation and thawing than other types of food (3).
Most leaves are frozen whole. Leaves can also be frozen as a puree. Freezing whole leaves will retain the quality as well as the nutrient content. Some freezing methods recommend blanching before freezing and some say it is best to freeze without blanching.
Leafy greens such as kale, collard greens and spinach can be frozen for up to 9 months without blanching. Some endogenous enzymes are responsible for undesirable changes, such as off-flavors and odors, and color and nutritive alterations, during frozen storage. These deteriorative enzymes may have to be inactivated by applying particular treatments before the freezing step. Therefore, blanching is the most important pre-freezing treatment for vegetable tissues stabilization (3).
If the leaves are blanched before freezing, they can be preserved for about 1 year. This is because blanching reduces enzyme activities in the leaves which cause decomposition. Through blanching, the color, texture and flavor can be preserved for a longer time.
Blanching also removes oxalic acid in green leaves. A high concentration of oxalic acid is usually associated with kidney stones. During blanching, oxalic acid is released into the water (4).
How to preserve leaves by drying
Drying of fruits and vegetables is one of the oldest procedures for food preservation known to man and is the most important process for preserving food since it has a great effect on the quality of the dried products. The main objective in drying agricultural products is the reduction of the moisture content to a level which allows safe storage over an extended period. Also, it brings about substantial reduction in weight and volume, minimizing packaging, storage and transportation costs (5).
Drying is usually used to preserve herbs that are used for flavor and seasoning. Green leaves such as kale can also be dried and then powdered. The powdered leaves can be added to juices, smoothies and soups for an extra boost of nutrition.
Drying will preserve leaves for about a year. However, all the texture and some flavor and aroma will be lost by drying.
Dried leaves must be stored in an airtight container in a cool, dark place away from moisture. Dried leaves can also be frozen for about a year and a half but once again, there will be a loss of flavor.
Some herbs and leaves preserved by drying include parsley, basil, kale and spinach.
There are several methods to dry leaves, such as (5,6):
Air-drying
Sun-drying
Using a food dehydrator
Using an oven
Using a microwave
Using a food dehydrator is the easiest and most efficient method.
To dry leaves using a food dehydrator :
Wash and dry leaves using paper towels or a salad spinner.
Trim off the stems.
Arrange the leaves on the dehydrator tray.
Dry according to the temperature suggested in the dehydrator manual.
Store the dried leaves in an airtight container. The leaves can also be ground to powder in a food processor at this stage.
How to preserve leaves by canning
Canning Is the method of preserving food in which the food contents are processed and sealed in an airtight container. It is a two-step process, first the food is prepared by being packed into containers which are then sealed, then containers are sterilized or heated to ensure that all microorganisms are destroyed. The heating process in canned products kills many common pathogenic microorganisms (7).
Canning is not commonly used to preserve leaves. However, some leafy greens such as spinach, kale and chard preserve well by canning. If a pressure canner is used, leaves can be canned and stored for a long period.
A major drawback of canning includes changes in taste and technical difficulties. Canning green leaves require a pressure canner and it is also a time-consuming method.
To can leaves:
Rinse leaves and discard any damaged and yellowed leaves.
Blanch the leaves until they are just wilted.
Pack the blacked leaves into hot jars. Salt can be added at this stage, but it is optional.
Top off the jars with boiling water leaving about 1 inch of headspace.
Wipe off the rims of the jars and place the lids on the jars.
Process the jars using a pressure canner.
Allow the jars to cool.
Label and store the jars in a cool dark place.
More about canning leaves can be found here.
In this brief guide, we answered the question "how to preserve leaves" and discussed in depth the main methods used to preserve leaves.
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Evans, Judith A., ed. Frozen food science and technology. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
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Sigaqa, Hombisa Tozi. Effects of canning on the nutritional composition and consumer acceptance of African leafy vegetables. Diss. 2016. University of KwaZulu Natal
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This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby will co-host I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! with Declan Donnelly in the next series, ITV said.
Willoughby said in a statement: "I couldn't be more excited to have been asked to stand alongside Dec for the next jungle adventure.
Donnelly said: "I am hugely grateful to Holly for agreeing to accompany me to Australia this year. She was at the top of my list and I'm thrilled she said yes.
"It will be a different kind of series but we will try our best to ensure it is no less fun and eventful for our loyal viewers.
Ant McPartlin announced he will be taking a break from television presenting duties until 2019 follwoing a drink-driving charge earlier this year.


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Total advances of the bank for the quarter stood at Rs 20,48,387 crore, a 4.91 per cent rise.
NEW DELHI: Shares of India's biggest lender State Bank of India (SBI) jumped as much as 6.2 per cent on Tuesday even after it reported a whopping Rs 7,718 crore loss for March quarter.
The loss was way above Street estimates. Analysts in an ETNow poll had projected loss of Rs 1,795 crore.
AK Prabhakar, Head of research at IDBI Capital said that the management had already indicated that quarterly results will be "very bad", so this was anticipated. "SBI earlier indicated about Rs 50,000 crore of bad loans, but now fresh slippages came in at about Rs 33000 crore, which has been completely provided for," Prabhakar added.
The stock posted its biggest intraday gain since November 10, 2017.
Bad loan provisions doubled to Rs 22,096 crore from Rs 11,740 crore reported for the same quarter last year. NPA provisions stood at Rs 18,876 crore for December quarter.
Over 53 million shares traded against 30-day average of 16.5 million shares. At close, the stock of the bank stood at Rs 255.50 apiece on BSE, up 4.24 per cent.
Total advances of the bank for the quarter stood at Rs 20,48,387 crore, a 4.91 per cent rise against Rs 19,52,507 crore in the corresponding quarter last fiscal.
Domestic advances saw a 4.81 per cent YoY rise at 17,46,389 crore against Rs 16,66,288 crore.
Total non-interest income (NII) of the bank saw 4.61 per cent growth at Rs 12,495 crore against Rs 12,222 crore in the year-ago period.
The bank's statement showed personal segment continuing to drive loan growth.
Slippage ratio stood at 6.90 per cent for the quarter under review against Rs 5.29 per cent in December quarter.
On asset quality the lender said, "all stressed accounts from 9MFY18 Standard Stressed classification which continue to be under stress are included in the watchlist; and some new stressed accounts have been added."


1. What is important- Sit down, as a couple, and really discuss and hash out what you both want on that special day. Do you want a lot of emphasis on the ceremony and flowers or the party and cake? Maybe you want to honor certain people with a flower decoration so that will add more to the flower budget. This will also help you as a couple to see how you communicate and where your heart is for the wedding.
2. Don't invite everyone- This can get tricky if you have a close traditional family. But, if you only have a budget for 100 people to eat then opt out of inviting children that are over a year old. Or don't invite every 2nd cousin and grandparent that you haven't spoken to in five years. Respect your family, be clear with them the you are trying to stick within your budget and be sure to send announcements after the wedding. This will help everyone to stay informed and you can show off some great wedding photos as well.
3. Stick to it - Don't forget the details of each vendor category. You may have a dress budget of $3000 and found a dress for that price but what about shoes, and a veil and jewelry...etc. This is when a wedding planner can come in handy. It is easy to overlook the details of each category when you don't have someone experienced to help you. You don't have to blow your budget over shoes and jewelry if every detail has been accounted for. However if you spend less in one category then you budgeted, that can free up your budget in another category. But be sure to honor your spouse by sticking within the overall budget and communicating as different budget issues come up. This helps build trust before you even say I do.
And that leads to the next tip. . .
4. Communicate, communicate, communicate - I can't emphasize this enough on the wedding budget couple. Nothing is more complicated then having a bride and a groom both contacting me about flowers when one is saying roses and the other is saying peonies. So start practicing now on communicating about wedding details (who will be contacting who, and about what) and this will carry over into communicating in marriage. Some couples communicate better in texts or emails while others need to be face to face.
Whatever works best for you as a couple be sure to follow these simple rules of communication 1. Be kind 2. Listen well 3. Ask them to repeat what they heard. The later helps when there is a difference of opinion over wedding details or when complications arise before that big day.
5. Cut it out - don't be afraid to break tradition. Eliminate elements of traditional weddings that don't make sense for you and your spouse. This will help you stick with in your wedding budget. For example if neither of you really like cake, then don't have a cake - opt for a less expensive version of pie or do a candy bar with your favorite treats. If you and your spouse don't dance then don't have a DJ and dancing. This is your wedding. Make it your own. And enjoy the one in whom your soul loves.
Bonus Tip - By having a clear budgeted dollar amount for each category or vendor, helps not only you and your spouse learn to trust each other with money but it also helps the vendor who you are working with. If your cake budget is $450 and you choose a cake that is typically $600 then the baker can adjust size and how elaborate the cake will be in order to stay in your budget. That allows for no surprise invoice a few days from that special day.
Take a breath. Take a step back.
Remember how amazing this wedding day is going to be.
Enjoy the moments leading up to cuz they will be gone in a matter of hours.
If you need help with budgeting for your wedding or planning the details, I can help.


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THE GRAVES OF LOUIS GAROU
Louis Garou was a black slave on a sugar plantation in the French Caribbean colony of Ayiti. It was 1789 and the National Constituent Assembly of the French Revolution had promulgated the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
Louis Garou listened to a domestic servant Odetta LaSang who lamented, "The declaration did not revoke the institution of slavery."
Odetta LaSang long ago had taken pity on Louis Garou for the lashings upon his mind, body, and soul by overwork; inadequate food, shelter, clothing and medical care. Therefore, Odetta LaSang swore that she secretly would educate him. But teaching Louis Garou to read or write was forbidden by the fearful slave masters. There were ten times more slaves than white masters and Odetta LaSang had told to Louis Garou the words of Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau who had written that "the whites sleep at the foot of Vesuvius.
No, Odetta LaSang was not going to educate Louis Garou to ingratiate himself by learning the conventions of his tormentors. Odetta LaSang taught Louis Garou instead about vodou (spirit demons and deities) because Odetta LaSang was secretly a mambo (vodou priestess).
Some slaves already had run away from the plantation and lived in the jungle beyond the sugar plantation by stealing what they could not find to survive and by living in fear of being recaptured and violently punished. Runaway slaves when captured were whipped and many were tortured as a warning to the thousands of other slaves. Some were castrated. Some were burned.
A confederation of runaway slaves known as maroons ("fugitives, runaways") had congealed and they were perpetrating sporadic raids on the sugar plantation. But they had no leader.
Louis Garou had always sought his refuge within flickering dreams of rebellion but under the tutelage of Odette LaSang the pitiable slave was devoured slowly by a fiery conspiracy of ungodly revenge.
Louis Garou's macabre enlightening could not be hidden much longer under a bushel of sugar cane. One night he simply walked away into the jungle.
He appeared before the maroon camp, terrifying them with his apparition. They saw angels falling from his eyes. He grinned upon them with the teeth of a dog.
Louis Garou proclaimed himself the savior of the maroons and he gave them commandments of blood. Louis Garou convened the maroons in a vodou ceremony and inflamed their ever-present African ancestors. The disembowelment of a black female pig marked the beginning of the holocaust on Ayiti.
The slaves of the sugar plantation had been told in the epiphanies of Odetta LaSang that the descent of Judgment would be sudden and terrible upon the French grands blancs (wealthy white aristocrats). Yet even Odetta LaSang fell to her knees when she finally witnessed the horror that her epiphanies had refused to reveal.
Louis Garou led the attack on the plantation mansion. Grands blancs security guards and administrators were hacked down like sugar cane. Mulatto workers were not spared. Louis Garou finally broke into the kitchen where Odetta LaSang was shielding the innocent young grand blanc children that she had raised. Louis Garou told his rabid followers to bring the parents down to him alive. In order to force the mother and father to witness what would happen next he commanded that their eyelids be sliced off.
Possessed by his fearsome Djab (personal demon) Louis Garou snatched the children one by one away from Odetta LaSang and with his teeth he disemboweled them alive upon the lace cloth of the dining table. He flung their limp husks into the basket of garbage that was to have been given to the slaves to eat. Then, while the guts still steamed, Louis Garou reached into the face of the mother and pulled the eyeballs from her sockets, throwing them upon the heap of the children's entrails. She toppled forward spewing blood. The mind of the father had fled his body. To bring the father's mind back Louis Garou had him placed upon the table and his skin peeled off.
Louis Garou then took the gory lace tablecloth and commanded that it be raised as the flag of the rebellion and so it was done. Odetta LaSang chanted protection for herself as she followed Louis Garou outside.
The massacre soon covered the entire island of Ayiti. Louis Garou at last declared amnesty for the survivors who had hidden themselves, promising, "I will not kill you!" As soon as the survivors revealed themselves Louis Garou had them buried alive.
Odetta LaSang proclaimed to the sated followers, "We are free. We are the Republic of Ayiti!"
The sugar of Ayiti was too valuable to the economic interests of even a newly enlightened France. Napoleon Bonaparte eventually sent a formidable expeditionary force of French soldiers and warships to the island in order to restore French rule. Odetta LaSang and Louis Garou were forced to flee Ayiti by stowing away on a vessel bound for Nouvelle-Orléans, the capital of French Louisiana.
Odetta LaSang became a wealthy woman once in Nouvelle-Orléans. Louis Garou was not documented as being seen again although there have been strangely gruesome murders and inexplicable vanishings in New Orleans ever since. One day Odetta LaSang just disappeared and her devotees said that she entered the spirit world intact. Her abandoned mansion became a vodou pilgrimage site and finally it was declared the Historical Site known today. Lately there have been financial difficulties and maintaining the site had become problematic.
The real surprise came when potential developers were surveying the grounds of the mansion. An unmarked crypt was discovered that held a tightly sealed coffin. The publicity has been sensational. Of course the speculation is that the body of Louis Garou has been found. This discovery has resurrected the Historical Site as a viable endeavor: a lucrative exclusive television deal has been signed and tourism has returned with a vengeance.
I am the Forensic Anthropologist who has been contracted to open the coffin and document the findings and present my "mystery guest" in a televised special. This discovery has also resurrected my career. I was laid off in the recent State University budget massacres. Since then my desperate "consulting business" has consisted only of "consulting" with bill collectors. I eventually was hired only because my family could be traced back to the time of Odetta LaSang and Louis Garou. My family legends even say that the disappearance of one of my relatives was attributed to Louis Garou. I always figured that my ancestor's disappearance was attributable to a drunken stupor and a swamp.
Truthfully? I personally figure that the coffin will contain the remains of Odetta LaSang's favorite cat. But who am I to piss on my own parade?
A mobile cleanroom for isolation and temperature and humidity control has been set-up for me in the parlour of Odetta LaSang's mansion. The television broadcast will be early tomorrow for Good Mornin' All Y'all. Alone tonight I am expected to open the coffin with painstaking caution and to prepare my "debutante". I had insisted that I have no distracting assistant. Truth be told, I am not too confident of my rusty techniques.
OK. Turn on the video recorder. I am dressed like a surgeon. Nice touch if I do say so myself.
"The coffin is wrapped in an oily swaddling that bears symbols of vodou curses."
I place the excised strips of the cloth cocoon upon a large stainless steel table. The coffin itself is revealed.
"The coffin appears to be made of Bayou Cypress. It has been given a mirror-like finish," and then I expound for dramatic effect, "There are ancient religions that believe the cypress tree is sacred. Some believe that the cypress tree is last tree seen before entering the underworld," and then I joked, "I guess that was true for this resident, whoever it might be."
I lean very close to examine the highly oiled and polished coffin lid. I can see my reflection. I stare at myself. My shifting focus makes me feel light headed. My vision wavers.
Suddenly I am looking through a completely transparent coffin lid and I can clearly see that it is me! It is me laid out as the grim resident of the coffin!
I open my mouth to exclaim but something has me by the throat. I try to pull back but I am restrained. I panic! The sensation of strangling! All fades to blackness.
I must have fainted. People are standing around me, looking down at me. There is the Good Mornin' All Y'all hostess. There behind her stands her cameraman. There are children leaning over me; young boys grin with wicked relish, young girls grimace, "Eeeww!" There is laughter. I cannot yet speak. And then I see a familiar figure with his back toward me. He turns.
It is me! He is leaning down toward me. I am having a nightmare and I can't wake up! His eyes glint and I hear him saying, "The body is badly decomposed but we are fairly certain that it is not the body of a black man such as was Louis Garou. He will be returned with the coffin to the crypt out of respect for whoever he might have been."
The hostess of Good Mornin' All Y'all asks, "Could this have been one of Louis Garou's victims?"
I see the apparition of myself look back down at me and I hear it say, "Now why would Louis Garou have gone to so much trouble to bury a victim when he could have just thrown him into the swamp?"
The hostess sums up for the camera audience, "And so we have not found the coffin of Louis Garou after all…"
The apparition of me interrupts, smiling mischievously, "Well, we don't know that," and then the apparition of me makes a ghoulish face at the children, saying, "Maybe Louis Garou is just not in his coffin anymore!" and the children shriek.
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Sky News is to broadcast the first live TV news bulletins from under the sea to draw attention to the plight of the world's oceans.
Working with scientists from the Nekton mission we will use small submarines to descend past coral gardens into the dimly lit and little explored 'twilight zone' at a depth of 300m (984ft).
The dives, announced on the second anniversary of the Sky Ocean Rescue campaign, will take place around Aldabra, one of the world's largest and most remote coral atolls, 600 miles southwest of the Seychelles.
The island is known as the "Galapagos of the Indian Ocean" because it has so many endemic species. The large number of sharks and other predators in the area are a sign of a healthy reef.
John Ryley, head of Sky News, said: "Broadcasting pictures from so far under the sea will take our audiences to places no one has been before.
Oliver Steeds, the Nekton mission director, told Sky News: "I think we have been looking up when we should have been looking down.
"We have had this great era of space exploration and that has pushed back the frontiers of our knowledge.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently warned that even if global action to limit greenhouse gases succeeds in keeping the rise in the Earth's temperature to 2C, 99% of shallow reefs will die.
Paris Stefanoudis, Nekton mission scientist, said researchers are racing to document species before it is too late, adding: "This change is happening very quickly.
"Over the last 50 years coral reefs have experienced change they have not experienced for thousands of years.


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Update: Kevin Kiner Has Confirmed He Is Returning to Score 'Star Wars: The Bad Batch'
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Des Plaines, IL (January 5, 2016) — Peak Construction Corporation has been awarded a 283,000 square foot speculative building from Seefried Industrial Properties & Cabot Properties. Located in Hodgkins, the building will have a 32' clear height, ESFR Sprinklers, T-5 lighting, LED Site Lighting, 36 dock doors, 35 trailer positions, 131 parking spaces and four future rail docks. Peak is teamed with Cornerstone Architects, Ltd. and Kimley-Horn and Associates.
"Seefried Industrial Properties has been a long-term Peak partner. We're excited to be working with their team again, especially on providing Class A industrial space in such a desirable, robust and booming market," shared John Reilly, President of Peak Construction.
Seefried Industrial Properties was founded in 1984 by Ferdinand Seefried. Seefried focuses on industrial development in core markets and build-to-suits with corporate tenants and users in first and second-tier markets. Seefried's development, construction, leasing, property management and accounting teams firmly believe that client relationships are solidly built on trust and further developed by each individual experience. More information about the firm is available at www.seefriedproperties.com.
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The winter months naturally drop to an average of 12*C with six hours of sunshine each day – but with so many indoor attractions and activities, you're still promised a brilliant break on the western European country.
We love Monaco – check out our top seven reasons why we think you will too!
The region of Monte-Carlo is a must-visit on your holiday, located between the Alps and the Mediterranean Sea. Home to the renowned Monte Carlo Casino and Casino Square, a beautiful landmark in the city, offering a pretty water fountain, pretty landscapes and nearby shops, cafes and bars, a holiday to the country wouldn't be complete without the exploration of this major Monacan district.
The botanical garden of Jardin Exotique de Monaco is another reason why we love Monaco – located on a cliffside, the garden is a gorgeous place to visit on your holiday here, offering stunning views and fantastic picnic opportunities! The garden, which opened in 1933, brings together a wide variety of exotic plants in beautiful open-air surroundings.
The Oceanographic Museum is a brilliant museum dedicated to marine sciences in Monaco-Vile, home to an excellent collection of various species of underwater animals, from starfish to sharks. You can also find model ships and sea animal skeletons in the popular attraction, which is charmingly located rising from a Cliffside rock.
Monaco is home to an array of pretty beaches, most of which are man-made but still fantastic to visit due to the country's scenic Mediterranean coastline. Larvotto Beach is a popular stretch of man-made beach at the east end of the country's coastline, slightly pebbled with soft sands. The Larvotto area is actually made up of a handful of private and public beaches, surrounded by brilliant cafes and restaurants to enjoy.
The well-preserved Port de Fontvieille harbour is a popular attraction for tourists to Monaco, offering gorgeous views of the harbour, as well as a variety of shops, cafes and restaurants on the peaceful waterfront.
Monaco is renowned for hosting the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One motor race every year, on the Circuit de Monaco. The motor race is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world, held on a narrow course on the streets of Monaco. Being witness to this exciting and exhilarating race would be an unforgettable experience on your Monacan holiday!
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If there is one thing that I have learned from this whole sorry Michael Vick saga it is how hypocritical American sports reporters are. Forgiving Vick for his dog fighting is weak and pathetic.
Yes Vick served his time in prison, but are we just supposed to all go 'well gee what a model citizen he is is – we forgive him for being a sicko who trained dogs to maim and kill each other' ?
Am I the only one to see through all this utter nonsense and say Vick should not be earning millions of dollars doing something he loves?
I have always hated the Philadelphia Eagles, as a lifelong Redskins fan, but my hatred has been of a controlled divisional rival type, one where I do not wish an Eagles players to get hurt, just one where I hope the lose more games than they win each season.
All the mythology about Eagles fans at the Vet throwing snowballs at Santa Claus – forget that – I say any visiting fans should visit a building site before they arrive at Veterans Stadium in order to stock up with bricks.
In fact why not make the Eagles home opener on 20 September v the New Orleans Saints should be renamed 'Throw a Brick at Vick' Day.
I dont ask for much in life, but I would like to see Michael Vick stripped naked and then get him to step into a small cage and take on three starved pitbulls. Screw the jail sentence where he was probably seen as some cheap hero by his peers.
Roger Goodell you are a weak man. Jeffrey Lurie you need to look at yourself in the mirror.
Today is a sad day for the morality of mankind.


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