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Here's Every Model Walking in the 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show [Updated]
Your complete guide to who's been confirmed for the lingerie spectacle later this fall.
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Following two years abroad, Victoria's Secret is returning to New York City for its 2018 lingerie spectacle. In about two months time (the exact air date hasn't been announced), a pack of Angels will touch down in the Big Apple ready to hit the runway in crystal-encrusted wings and glitter-dusted briefs. The lingerie giant has yet to confirm which performers will join the army down the catwalk, but we can pretty much guarantee that the night will be filled with sparkly chests, air kisses and Adriana Lima. And, thanks to the magic of social media, we've also been able to compile a list of more than 55 models confirmed to walk in this year's show.
The lineup is stacked with all the Angels (presumably still including Lily Aldridge, who's pregnant with her second child), 18 first-timers and the return of many high-fashion faces who've all mastered the scantily-clad strut. It also includes some models we haven't seen on the Victoria's Secret stage in a while, like Barbara Palvin, who last walked in 2012, and Toni Garrn, who last walked in 2013. As of now, we don't know for certain if certain Instagirls (Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Kendall Jenner) will join — rumors surrounding Gigi and Bella's castings, in particular, have been circulating for weeks — but we won't be surprised if they do.
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler grilled by senators
By Cameren Barnes	 Last updated Sep 15, 2021
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler testifies at a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing on systemic risk and market oversight on Capitol Hill in Washington May 22, 2012.
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WASHINGTON — Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler on Tuesday assured lawmakers that Wall Street's top regulator is working overtime to create a set of rules to oversee the volatile cryptocurrency markets while balancing the interests of American innovators.
Gensler told the Senate Banking Committee that he and his team are trying to protect investors through better regulation of the thousands of new digital assets and coins, as well as oversight of the more-familiar bitcoin and ether markets.
The SEC chief noted the enormity of the task, telling Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., that the regulator could use "a lot more people" to evaluate the 6,000 novel digital "projects" and determine whether they all qualify as securities under U.S. law.
"Currently, we just don't have enough investor protection in crypto finance, issuance, trading, or lending," Gensler said in prepared remarks. "Frankly, at this time, it's more like the Wild West or the old world of 'buyer beware' that existed before the securities laws were enacted."
Still, some lawmakers pressured Gensler to pick up the pace, arguing the opaque definitions and an uncertain marketplace not only lead to unchecked speculation but could also stifle innovation.
Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican and the committee's ranking member, pressed Gensler early in the hearing over whether stablecoins meet the definition of a security since investors don't necessarily expect those assets to return a profit.
Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency linked one-for-one to dollars or other traditional currencies and, as such, tend to be less volatile than their peers in the asset class.
"My whole point is, I think we need clarity on this," Toomey said. "I think you should publicly disclose this. … And we certainly shouldn't be taking enforcement action against somebody without having first provided that clarity."
But where Toomey and his Republican colleagues voiced concern about the SEC's potential to stifle innovation without a public set of guidelines, Democrats tended to highlight speculative risk they see as rampant in the cryptocurrency market.
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Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., jokingly criticized Gensler for putting only one "wild" in his description of the cryptocurrency industry as the "Wild West" of financial regulation.
"As someone who shares some of your concerns about crypto, I will acknowledge that you only put one 'Wild' in front of 'West,' as opposed to two," he quipped. "As somebody who managed to do pretty well financially because of innovation, I'm all in. But we do need some guidance. We do need some direction."
"I would go to the two 'Wilds' in terms of the description of this area, as good as some of the innovation is," he added.
Controversial practice under scrutiny
Lawmakers also peppered Gensler with questions about the SEC's ongoing analysis of payment for order flow, a controversial practice that online brokerages such as Robinhood Markets use to make money.
Firms such as Robinhood sell their customers' trades to market makers such as Citadel Securities that execute the buy and sell orders. Market makers generate profits by pocketing the difference between the price at which they buy shares on the open market and the price they receive from selling them to Robinhood clients.
That means there is an incentive for market makers to inflate the price they quote to Robinhood's customers. And given Citadel's commanding market share, some regulators are concerned that investors may not be getting the best deal, since online brokerages themselves have an incentive to keep rosy relations with the companies that buy their trading volume.
"The United Kingdom, Canada and Australia have bans," Gensler told reporters following the hearing. "We're taking a look at the whole market structure."
The retail public is paying in that "they don't necessarily have order-by-order competition," Gensler said, meaning that trading orders are bought up by just a few market makers known as "wholesalers" and aren't fought over with promises of the lowest price.
Robinhood's chief legal officer said on Monday that he believes the SEC will ultimately "arrive at the conclusion that payment for order flow is undoubtedly an amazingly good thing for retail investors and they're not going to ban it."
Diversity and climate
Democrats and Republicans respectively praised and faulted Gensler for the SEC's move to approve Nasdaq's rule to require diversity on the boards of companies that list with the exchange operator and increased efforts to require corporate climate disclosures.
The Nasdaq's new rule, which is expected to face legal challenges, compels company boards to meet gender and racial diversity requirements or explain in writing why they have failed to do so.
Senator John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana.
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Nasdaq's goal for most U.S. companies is to have at least one woman director in addition to another board member who self-identifies as a member of a racial minority or the LGBTQ community.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., perhaps offered the most direct critique of the SEC's decision to approve of Nasdaq's rule.
"As to the people and the companies that you regulate, do you consider yourself to be their daddy?" Kennedy asked of Gensler. "Why do you impose your personal preferences about cultural issues and social issues on companies, and therefore their customers and their workers? Like climate change and the Second Amendment."
"I'm sure you have personal feelings about abortion," Kennedy continued. "Do you have plans to impose those values on companies?"
"I think that I am not doing that," Gensler replied. "I think what I've been trying to do is say, if investors want information about climate risk … we at the SEC have a role to put something out to notice and comment, do the economic analysis and really see what investors are saying."
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Traders Rush Open Access in Power Sector
BUSINESSMEN have asked the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to fast track the implementation of open access and retail competition.
In a position paper, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), Philippine Exporters Confederation Inc., and
European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (ECCP), urged the ERC "to complete the administrative requirements needed for the effective implementation of open access and retail competition," given that the "legal conditions [were] already complied with."
The business groups are asking ERC to start coming out with rules, terms and conditions to meet minimum requirements for open access and retail competition to be implemented. "Open access and retail competition is long overdue. Completion of the administrative requirements together with identifying the responsible organizations or office for implementation and setting up clear milestones for the information of all stakeholders will assure the business community that this will soon be declared," Francis Chua, PCCI president, said.
"By assuring buyers of their electricity retail competition makes the market more attractive for investments in power generation projects.
On the other hand, providing end users the freedom to choose their electridty supplier allows them to get the most reasonable cost and the most efficient service," said Jose Alejandro, PCCI chairman for energy.
Chua said interim open access in Luzon "on an optional and voluntary basis should proceed until the actual open access starts."
"The pursuance of interim open access will not only gauge how competitive forces will play under the deregulated power market, more importantly, it will enable the ERC and stakeholders in the electric power industry to identify and address, if any, other issues not initially conceived," he said.
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Discussions about social life, academic success and meal plans still dominate college freshmen orientations, but a more somber note also is being heard this season as new students lug their laptops and mini-fridges into dorm rooms.
In the wake of the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech in April, many colleges and universities are forcefully tackling issues of security and mental health.
Some are introducing new emergency notification systems or reinforcing procedures already in place. Many are more explicitly telling students how and when to seek mental health counseling for themselves and urging them to report a classmate who seems to need intervention, as the Virginia Tech gunman, Seung-hui Cho, apparently did before he killed 32 people and himself in the campus massacre.
"I think it's safe to say that the incident at Virginia Tech brought campus security issues to a higher priority level, and we actively talked about those issues," Amy Johnson, associate dean of students at the University of Southern California, said of the series of two-day orientations the Los Angeles school held during the summer.
Students at the University of Maryland College Park and Towson University can register to receive emergency text messages on their cell phones. In case of a campus emergency at Towson, the school's Web site says, text messages will be "sent instantly and simultaneously to all registered text-message capable mobile phones, Blackberrys, wireless PDAs, pagers, smart or satellite phones, and e-mail addresses." The messages will also "pop up" on the computer screen for anyone using Google, Yahoo or AOL as their home page, the Web site says.
At USC, more than 8,600 of the school's 40,000 students, professors and staffers have signed up to receive emergency notices since the new system, named "Trojans Alert," became available Aug. 1, according to campus police chief Carey Drayton. "It's one of those things we have and hope to never use," Drayton said, stressing it would be triggered only by serious events like a major earthquake or reports of a gunman on campus.
Still, the references to violence and how to avoid it were often inescapable as the school term started on campuses around the country, officials report.
"Many, many campuses are addressing this forthrightly," said Kevin Kruger, associate executive director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, a Washington group that focuses on student life. "There's been a lot of dialogue throughout the summer."
Yet, while those talks introduced a dark tone to orientation and freshman welcome weeks, they did not dominate, Kruger added. "College remains an exciting opportunity for young people. The excitement still exists. This is not changing the basic delivery of orientation," he said.
The Virginia Tech attack prompted the University of California, Los Angeles to add a new feature to its orientation sessions, which were offered 18 times throughout the summer to groups of 400 freshmen and transfer students. The new half-hour video presentation, called "How Bruins Handle It," detailed ways to cope with such stressful factors as academic pressure, homesickness, making friends and depression, according to Roxanne Neal, UCLA's orientation program director.
Discussions also focused on mental health resources on campus and how to watch for signs - such as not leaving dorm rooms - that a friend might be having psychological troubles. The goal was early prevention, Neal explained: "What to do in a more proactive sense, rather than focusing just on when something happens."
UCLA freshman Daysi Alonzo said she felt "very reassured" by seeing those videos and hearing about security measures on campus. But Alonso, an 18-year-old from South Gate, Calif., said she does not think many students dwell on the possibilities of danger. "We are more nervous about things like leaving home, being independent for the first time," she said. "Am I going to pass my classes? Will I have time to do all my reading?"
Contemporary parents already are much more involved in their children's college education than previous generations, and their worries about another Virginia Tech-like incident prompted discussions as they dropped off students at schools across the country, officials said.
Anticipating questions from parents about the Virginia Tech killings, University of California, Santa Barbara added new material to the handbook it gave out to more than 3,000 families during a series of two-day orientations during the summer. One section stated that the massacre showed "that universities are not ivory towers insulated from the concerns and dangers of the real world."
"We really wanted to put it all out here for them," said Debbie Fleming, UC Santa Barbara's associate dean of students. The campus sought to reinforce the philosophy that new students should be "proactive in safeguarding their own emotional and physical health."
Larry Gordon writes for the Los Angeles Times.
In the wake of the April shootings at Virginia Tech, many coilleges an universities are forcefully tackling issues of security and mental health. Some are introducing new emergency notification systems or reinforcing procedures already in place. Many are more explicitly telling students how and when to seek mental health counseling for themselves and urging them to report a classmate who seems to need intervention.
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The HS1 connects London to the Channel Tunnel but a report from the National Audit Office said that the passenger numbers are falling short of forecasts. The cost of the HS1 was £6.16 billion which has met its aim to cut the journey time but the passenger numbers between 2007 and 2011 were only two thirds of the levels forecast.
This is what has caused the concern over the HS2. The evidence will be given to HS2 Ltd, the company set up by the Government to over see the new railway project, at the end of the month by the Transport Secretary, Ms Greening. She will also reveal the sites that the Government plan to build the stations and tracks for the HS2.
The report will ask the question if the HS2 has a business case that stands up to analysis and it will also point out flaws found in the plans including several assumptions made in crucial areas that will cause serious questions.
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Q: Pygame - calling surface.convert() on animated sprite causes transparent background to become white Everyone says to use .convert() on surfaces to speed up animations (which will be an issue with my game because it will be an MMO to some extent, so it might have a dozen or a couple dozen characters moving at the same time), the problem is that my transparent PNG images work great without convert but as soon as I use .convert() all of the transparent backgrounds suddenly become white
Do I need to sample the color and make it transparent using color_key?

A: convert_alpha should do the trick
http://www.pygame.org/docs/ref/surface.html#Surface.convert_alpha

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Catalonia creates the first state investigation commission on pederasty in the Church
April 27, 2022 by thecanadian
PSC and Junts support the initiative after introducing an amendment to extend research to other areas of society
The Parliament has approved the proposal of ERC, CUP and En Comú Podem to create an investigation commission on sexual abuse and pederasty in the Catholic Churchalthough PSC and JxCat have managed to introduce an amendment to extend the investigation to other spheres, in addition to the ecclesiastical one.
This investigation commission, which is the first of these characteristics to be created in a Parliament of the Spanish State, has had the favorable votes of the three proponent groups: ERC, CUP and En Comú Podem, as well as PSC-Units, JxCat and Cs, while Vox and PP have voted against.
The PSC-Units deputy Ramon Swordler He has expressed his reluctance about the text, as the Christian Democrat deputy that he is, and has abstained in the committee's vote, which has finally been approved with 116 votes in favor, 13 against and 1 abstention.
The objective of the commission is to "clarify the scope of pederasty within the Catholic Churchas well as in the school, sports and leisure areas, or other areas in which collaboration has occurred, to know the whole truthassume and purge responsibilities and open a process of reparation to all victims of sexual violence".
In the statement of reasons for the proposal, it is stated that "sexual violence against children" is "a serious problem that is often underestimated and silenced", and it is recalled that "in Catalonia 1,009 complaints of sexual violence against children were filed during the year 2019, although it is estimated that the reported cases only represent 15%".
After recalling the numerous complaints of abuse filed against Catholic religious, the approved text indicates that "before the inaction of the Catholic Churchthe Parliament promotes" the investigation commission.
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The Nature of Conflict: Managing Wildlife Damage
Published on September 23, 2019 September 22, 2019 in Column/Range Writing/wildlife
By Cat Urbigkit, Range Writing columnist for Cowboy State Daily
I spent last week in our nation's capital, one of 20 citizens from around the country gathered to serve on the national advisory committee for USDA Wildlife Services. The committee's job isto provide recommendations to Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Purdue, on policies and program issues necessary to manage damage caused by depredating wildlife to safeguard our nation's resources and safeguard public health and safety. Since Wildlife Services is tasked with resolving wildlife conflicts, much of what we discussed was about conflict.
From fellow committee members, we learned about the millions of dollars of bait fish and food fish lost annually to depredation by cormorants, and the inability to utilize measures to combat those losses due to a federal court ruling and the bird's protect status under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act despite its abundance. That prompted discussion of similar conflicts involving other wildlife species protected under federal laws, from eagle and black vulture depredations on livestock, to conflicts involving large carnivores.
We learned about feral swine issues that plague most of the country, with an annual cost of more than $1 billion for damage and control efforts. Some states seek to eradicate this invasive species, while others use feral swine as an economic engine that funds wildlife agencies through license sales and wild pig hunting enterprises.
Wildlife Services personnel led the committee through thenational program to combat rabies in the United States, and its current focus on controlling the disease in raccoons. Although the canine rabies variant has been eliminated in the United States, wildlife populations continue to harbor the disease, with raccoons responsible for spillover infections into dogs, cats, and other wildlife species. Last year Wildlife Services distributed more than 10 million vaccination baits in 17 states to reduce rabies in wildlife. Rabies has the highest mortality rate of any known disease on the planet, and still kills one person every nine minutes globally, so the importance of this program to publichealth can't be overstated.
Although our discussions moved from one conflict to another, our recommendations targeted methods to minimize or reduce conflict.
We talked about chronic wasting disease in ungulate populations, and how to position Wildlife Services and its National Wildlife Research Center to assist state and tribal governments in advancing scientific understanding of this disease to help combat its spread in ungulate populations.
We advanced recommendations on providing for emergency response to natural disasters, animal disease outbreaks, and other national emergencies, as well as emerging wildlife conflict issues and techniques to minimize these conflicts.
We expressed support for the development and registration of wildlife toxicants for lethal control of depredating animals, and to continue the use of existing toxicants, including M-44 devicesfor coyotes and sodium nitrite for feral swine. As animal activists work to eliminate each method of lethal control of problem animals (either through litigation or the ballot box), it's important that Wildlife Services continue to be innovative in method development.
The use of lethal methods to resolve wildlife conflicts will remain a hot-button issue for some members of the public, and we recommended that Wildlife Services become more proactive in communicating the positive impacts of protecting resources through integrated wildlife damage management, and the relevancy and value of Wildlife Services activities to the public's quality of life.
And no surprise to those who know me, I worked with biologists on the committee to advance a recommendation addressing scientific research, urging publication of objective science-based reviews that incorporate economic and ecological effects of wildlife damage management and the value of wildlife management for the promotion of healthy ecosystems.
Wildlife Services employs a fleet of about three dozen aircraft for conducting wildlife damage management and emergency response nationwide. From dropping rabies vaccine baits in eastern states, to capturing and tagging various species, and aerial gunning of targeted predators in the West, the aviation program involves high-risk flying, often at low altitudes and relatively slow speeds. Aviation safety has to be a top priority within the agency, and the committee's recommendation was that the Secretary of Agriculture create and sustain the Wildlife Services Aviation Center of Excellence in Cedar City, Utah to focus on providing unmatched training services to personnel, to modernize and standardize the agency's aerial fleet, and to encourage pilot recruitment and retention.
Although Wildlife Services may make headlines for killing millions of animals each year, those headlines never reflect that half of those animals were invasive species, and that 80 percent of the millions killed were starlings or blackbirds actively causing damage. The headlines should have read that the agency protected more than 8 million head of livestock last year, andprotected 185 threatened or endangered species, and protected the flying public at more than 800 airports.
Contrary to the slant adopted by animal activists, this agency isn't rogue or secretive. Want to know how many animals the agency has killed in each state, for any species, any given year?It's all available on the agency's website.
Wildlife conflict management isn't an easy or pleasant task, but it is necessary. The issues addressed by this federal agency have far-ranging impacts to human and animal health, public safety, and food security.
Cat Urbigkit is an author and rancher who lives on the range in Sublette County, Wyoming. Her column, Range Writing, appears weekly in Cowboy State Daily. To request reprint permission or syndication of this column, email rangewritesyndicate@icloud.com.
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Жюль Франсуа Луи де Роган (; 16 января 1697 — 6 мая 1724) — французский дворянин и принц де Субиз. Он умер от оспы в возрасте двадцати семи лет.

Биография
Родившийся в Париже 16 января 1697 года. Единственный сын Эркюля Мериадека де Рогана, герцога дле Роган-Роган (1669—1749), и его жены Анны Женевьевы де Леви (1673—1727). В качестве члена дома де Роган, он имел право на титул высочества. Его мать была единственным ребенком мадам де Вантадур.

В возрасте семнадцати лет он женился на Анне Жюли де Мелён (1698 — 18 мая 1724). Супруги поженились в Париже 16 сентября 1714 года. Его жена была дочерью Луи де Мелёна и Элизабет Терезы Лотарингской, которая сама была правнучкой короля Франции Генриха IV Бурбона. У супругов было пять детей.

В мае 1724 года он и его жена подхватили оспу. Жюль первым умер от болезни 6 мая, и 18 мая за ним последовала его жена.

Дети
 Шарль де Роган, принц Субиз, герцог де Роган-Роган (16 июля 1715 — 4 июля 1787), 1-я жена — Анна Мария Луиза де ла Тур д'Овернь (1722—1739); 2-я жена — принцесса Анна Тереза Савойская (1717—1745); 3-я жена — ландграфиня Анна Виктория Гессен-Ротенбург (1728—1792).
 Франсуа Арман Огюст де Роган, кардинал де Субиз, принц Турнон (1 декабря 1717 — 28 июня 1758)
 Мария Луиза де Роган (7 января 1720 — 4 марта 1803) вышла замуж за Гастона Жан Батиста де Лоррена, графа Марсана, брата мадемуазель де Марсан. Брак был бездетным.
 Франсуа Огюст де Роган, граф Турнон (16 сентября 1721 — 6 августа 1736), не был женат
 Рене де Роган, аббат Люксёя (26 июля 1723 — 7 февраля 1743), не был женат.

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 Генеалогия принцов де Гемене, герцогов де Монбазон

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Дом де Роган
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The new luxury apartments feature a Marks & Spencer Simply food store as part of the development (Image: Dawsons Property)
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Based in Newton Road, the luxurious development features nine exclusive apartments (Image: Dawsons Property)
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Q: Grouping characters in R using as.factor I'm trying to find the maximum number of flights delayed from certain origins using the library(nycflights13) and I'm not able to figure out how to group by "chr"
library(nycflights13)
library(dplyr)
flights2 <- mutate(flights,factori = as.factor(flights$origin))
flights2 %>%
filter(dep_delay > 2) %>%
select(dep_delay, factori) %>%
group_by(factori)

Sample of output:

How can I get them grouped together? How can I find the max count?

A: group_by doesn't change anything in the structure of the data. The number of rows and column remain the same after group_by. It is what you do after group_by that decides the output.
To get max dep_delay for each factori you can do :
library(nycflights13)
library(dplyr)

flights2 %>%
  filter(dep_delay > 2) %>%
  select(dep_delay, factori) %>%
  group_by(factori) %>%
  summarise(max = max(dep_delay, na.rm = TRUE))

#  factori   max
#* <fct>   <dbl>
#1 EWR      1126
#2 JFK      1301
#3 LGA       911

summarise usually gives only one row per group whereas mutate would keep the number of rows same as original data.


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Ships of History – Early Boats (Egypt & The Nile)
June 16, 2019 Tim Migaki Ships of the World Leave a comment
Caveat: I am NOT a naval/marine engineer or an archaeologist. These posts cover various eras in history, many of which I have very little knowledge or expertise in, but I do my best to provide accurate information. In short, I'm no expert and I intend to focus on broad ideas.
Moving further along into history, we jump from the Pacific Ocean to the Nile River in Egypt. Part of the Fertile Crescent, ancient Egypt is famous for its Pharaohs, pyramids, and mummies. While it is probable that boat-building did occur earlier in Mesopotamia on the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, in this post, we are going to examine the role of the Nile River, the boats that plied it, and the role of trade in ancient Egypt.
The Nile River
View from space of the Nile, Nile River Delta (note they are the only green areas and surrounded by desert), and the Sinai Peninsula.
The Nile River served as the lifeline of Egyptian civilization. Flowing north from the mountains in east-central Africa, the Nile is over 4,000 miles long. North of Khartoum, the river is broken by six cataracts (sets of rapids) with the northernmost First Cataract at Aswan. In ancient times, the First Cataract was a natural barrier between Egypt and northern Sudan to the south. North of Aswan, the Nile valley widens but is bordered by the Sahara on either side before discharging into the Mediterranean Sea.
Map of ancient Egypt (Cairo and Jerusalem are shown as reference points).
Ancient Egyptian civilization was dominated by the Nile and geographically divided into two regions called Upper and Lower Egypt. Upper Egypt consisted of the southern area roughly south from the First Cataract, deriving its name from the highlands where the Nile flowed from. Lower Egypt was defined by the Nile River Delta (Paine, 2013, p. 39). While the names may seem counter-intuitive, remember that they correspond to the direction of the flow of the Nile, not their true geographic orientation.
The area to the west of the Nile is largely desert with only remote oases that are used by caravan routes. To the east of the Nile are mountains which are rich in quartzite, alabaster, and gold. Seasonal streams, known as wadis, cut through the mountains and form narrow valleys allowing access to the Red Sea. The most strategically important settlements were located where these wadis reached the Nile. In Lower Egypt, the city of Memphis lies not far from modern-day Cairo and straddled the boundary between the Nile delta and cities to the south. Most commerce going in or out of Egypt went through Memphis since it served not only the Nile but also many of the overland routes (Paine, 2013, p. 39).
Paddling north with the Nile's current toward the Mediterranean was relatively easy. Going the opposite way, however, could prove challenging due to the gradient of 1 meter per every 13 kilometers between the First Cataract and the sea, particularly during the annual flood season between June and September. However, the wind blows from the Mediterranean making sailing up the Nile a more viable option than paddling. Although the first use of a sail on Nile river boats is unknown, the oldest known depiction of a sail in the world appears on a vase discovered in Gerzeh, Egypt and dated to around 3300-3100 BCE. The Gerzean vase depicting the first known use of the sail shows a single square sail on a mast that is positioned well-forward on the vessel (Paine, 2013, p. 43).
Gerzean vase with the first depiction of a sail.
According to legend, in 3100 BCE, King Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt to form the First Dynasty with the capital at Memphis (O'Brien, 2010, p. 30). It is further speculated that the development of the sail allowed the more technologically advanced Upper Egypt to bring Lower Egypt under its control (Paine, 2013, p. 40). In any case, the development of more reliable boats and methods of propulsion along the Nile allowed for the better transportation and movement of goods and people throughout the region.
Early Egyptian Boats
It is thought that the earliest boats on the Nile river were made of bundles of papyrus and pictorial record traces their building from pre-dynastic times. While the earliest use of papyrus reed boats in Egypt is unknown, they likely began being used sometime around the 4th millennium BCE (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 18). Indeed, this is not surprising given that reed boats were some of the earliest boats in many cultures throughout the world. Even after the introduction of wooden vessels, reed rafts up to ten meters or longer were still used for hunting, fishing, and navigation. The benefits of papyrus are that it is readily available, inexpensive, and needs little technical skill to work with. The downsides are that it is reliant on its inherent buoyancy and the rafts lose shape as they become waterlogged. Subsequently, papyrus rafts rarely last more than a year. Some reed rafts had planks in the center to distribute weight more evenly and provide a more stable platform. To prevent the ends from sagging, they were often secured by running stays to an upright pole on the vessel, known as a hogging truss. The upturned ends would become less prominent when Egyptian shipwrights began stiffening their rafts with taut railing ropes along the upper edge of the outer bundles of reeds (Paine, 2013, p. 41 – 42).
Early Egyptian papyrus boat with bipod mast and sail (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 14).
Sickle-shaped papyrus boat with cabin (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 18).
The introduction of wooden vessels in Egypt is thought to have occurred after the development of copper tools sometime in the fourth millennium, possibly as early as 3400 BCE. The first engravings of wooden boats date to around 2800 BCE and there is hieroglyphic documentation that Pharaoh Sahure sent an expedition to Syria to obtain rare wood sometime in the early third millennium BCE (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 18 -19).
Illustration of one of the ships Sahure sent to Syria (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 18).
The benefits of wood over papyrus are that it is stronger, more versatile, has greater longitudinal strength, and a true displacement hull can be made from it. Interestingly, the wooden boats on the Nile had upturned ends similar to the reed boats. It has been thought that the builders retained the papyrus shape at first due to inexperience in working with wood, and later, as an imitation of the earlier reed boats and for funeral boats. The upturned stem and stern pieces on these wooden boats also included stylized finial carvings in the shape of papyrus leaves (Paine, 2013, p. 42).
Working Boats on the Nile
Given the importance of the Nile and boats to Egyptian society, it makes sense that they used both of them in the construction of their famous stone monuments at places such as Memphis and Thebes. Since stone was not available at these burial sites, that means the Egyptians had to move thousands of tons of stone from their quarries. The granite likely came from Aswan, limestone from farther north, and quartzite from both Memphis and Aswan. Paine (2013) describes the logistics of using barges to move two granite obelisks weighing 330 tons each from Aswan to Thebes during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut around 1500 BCE. These barges are depicted on bas-reliefs at the temple of Der-el-Bahari. After the stone for the obelisks was moved to the water's edge via rollers, a canal was dug underneath them and the barges, loaded with twice the weight of their intended cargo to give them a heavy draft, were moved underneath the obelisks. In the first century, Pliny the Elder described the process of getting the stone onto the barges when he wrote, "the ships were able to come beneath the obelisk, which was suspended by its ends from both banks of the canal. Then the blocks were unloaded and the ships, riding high, took the weight of the obelisk." It is postulated that the materials used to build the pyramids were transported in the same fashion several millennia earlier as well as the Colossi of Memnon after that (p. 46 – 47). Angelucci and Cucari (1975) describe the barge used to carry the obelisks as the largest boat on the Nile at the time of the Pharaohs, weighing in at 700 tons and requiring 27 smaller vessels to pull it, each with 30 oarsmen (p. 21). However, other sources disagree and contend that such stones were too large to move by boat and were likely moved overland instead (Mark, 2017).
Drawing of the barge used to transport the obelisks (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 21).
Whereas ceremonial vessels used planks of imported cedar, ordinary boats used local materials such as sycamore figs and acacia. Since these trees do not grow in very straight or long lengths, Herodotus noted that "the method of construction is to lay them together like bricks." Inscriptions from the Sixth Dynasty noted cargo vessels made of acacia wood with a length of 31 meters (as cited in Paine, 2013, p. 47). Furthermore, since these early wooden boats did not possess ribs or a keel, the planks were joined together with pegs or notches. The boats themselves were flat-bottomed and held firm by their tension and the pressure of the water. Later boats did have keels and a thick hawser cable that ran from bow to stern, propped up and tensioned by rods. This prevented the middle of the boat from collapsing. Masts were often in a bipod configuration to distribute the weight more evenly. The mast on Pharaoh Sahure's boat could be lowered, possibly to make rowing easier (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 19).
(photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 18).
Drawing of a Nile river boat constructed of small wooden boards (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 21).
Drawing of a wooden ship with a hawser cable running from bow to stern (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 21).
More accurate documentation of Egyptian boats comes from the models found in Mektire's tomb who was buried in the early 2nd millennium BCE. Some of the models lack the hawser cable and instead have a beam running from stem to stern with pairs of frames branching off and movable planks between them. Perhaps the first example of dunnage. The two steering paddles have been replaced with a single paddle over the stern. The mast is also no longer a bipod and has stays and shrouds.
Drawing of the one of the models found in Mektire's tomb (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 20).
Along with wooden models, there were papyrus models in Mektire's tomb indicating that the former did not completely replace the latter (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 20).
Ceremonial Boats
Aside from working boats, archaeologists have discovered various buried vessels, seemingly serving a ceremonial purpose. One of the most significant discoveries occurred during a dig around the Great Pyramid of Giza in 1954. Archaeologists opened up a rectangular pit and found a perfectly preserved 44 meter long disassembled vessel dating from around 2500 BCE. The boat was likely built for Khufu, the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty. Over 1200 pieces of wood were found, ranging from small pegs to timbers longer than 20 meters in length. It was determined that 95% of the wood was cedar, imported from Lebanon, and the rest was domestic acacia, sidder, and sycamore. Reconstruction of the vessel took 13 years and it was finally opened to the public in 1982 (Paine, 2013, p. 37 – 38).
The Khufu ship
Studies of the Khufu ship indicates that it is of a "shell-first" construction where hull planking is attached edge-to-edge to form a shell before the frames are inserted. The hull planks were fastened by cordage running perpendicular (transverse) to the centerline of the vessel. In contrast to other boat building traditions where planks were sewn together along the seams, the Egyptians used transverse lashings. The reasons for this is unknown, but it is a more efficient use of cordage than seam sewing. To overcome the problem of seams opening up, the planks were irregular in shape and fit together like a puzzle. The cordage ran from gunwale to gunwale and passed through shallow channels in the planks that were cut at an angle so as not to penetrate the hull. In total, the Khufu ship used about 5,000 meters of cordage passing through 276 channels. Caulking was not needed due to the fact that wood swells and the cordage shrinks when wet to form a watertight fit. It is theorized that the Khufu ship was meant to either carry the pharaoh's body to Giza or that it was used by Khufu to visit holy sites during his lifetime. In any case, the Egyptians made use of boats both for rituals and work (Paine, 2013, p. 44 – 45).
Military Boats
There is some evidence of an Egyptian navy given that reliefs from the 12th century BCE do depict naval battles against the Sea Peoples during the time of Ramses III. The vessels, probably influenced by foreign boats, appear to have boards around the sides of the hull to protect the rowers, a crow's nest atop the mast, and sails capable of being shortened without the yards being lowered (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 21).
Illustration of an Egyptian naval vessel during the time of Ramses III (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 19).
Trade in Egypt
The Egyptians developed extensive trade links throughout the region during the Old Kingdom period (2686-2181 BCE) to include West Asia, the Sinai Peninsula, the Red Sea, and south of the First Cataract. Timber was imported from Byblos on the Lebanese coast while turquoise, copper, and malachite was mined in the Sinai desert. East of the Nile, the land provided copper, granite, and limestone, as well as access to ports on the Red Sea. South of the First Cataract lies an area known as Nubia or Kush which provided gold and open routes to central Africa (O'Brien, 2010, p. 30). On the Mediterranean coast, one account from the delta city of Piramesse built in the 1200s BCE noted the abundance and variety of foods being loaded and unloaded from boats. These included barley, emmer wheat, onions, leeks, lettuce, pomegranates, apples, olives, figs, wine, honey, fish, and salt (Paine, 2013, p. 48).
The earliest references to overseas Egyptian trade comes from reliefs from the Fifth Dynasty. One scene in Pharaoh Sahure's temple shows six ships returning from the Levant with foreigners wearing Syro-Canaanite clothes. However, the good they carried suggested that they were traded through the Levant. The Red Sea also provided a substantial amount of trade for the Egyptians who made several expeditions to the land of the Punt (possibly Ethiopia or Somalia) to bring back various kinds of goods (Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 20). One of the best documented of these expeditions occurred during the reign of Hatshepsut around 1470 BCE as is depicted on her mortuary temples. The expedition is shown as using five ships, each about 23 meters long. What is interesting is that the ships were likely carried overland from the Nile, 150 kilometers to the Red Sea to be reassembled. From there, they made their journey south. Upon their return, the cargo included myrrh trees, and according to the Tales of a Shipwrecked Sailor, exotic goods such as cosmetics, frankincense, ebony, ivory, gold, cinnamon wood, lapis lazuli, apes, monkeys, dogs, cattle, and slaves (Paine, 2013, p. 51 – 53). However, according to Seth Richardson, it is believed that such tales were embellished in royal accounts (as cited in Parker, 2012, p. 28).
Illustration of one of the ships sent on an expedition to the Punt (photo credit: Angelucci & Cucari, 1975, p. 19).
Egyptian expansionist policies appear to have been fairly limited although evidence suggests that they had trade contacts throughout the Levant and up into Mesopotamia. During the reign of Kamose during the 1560s BCE, a series of riverine campaigns pushed the Hyksos people out of the Nile delta and into Canaan (Paine, 2013, p. 54 – 56). The subsequent establishment of the New Kingdom (1550-1069 BCE) resulted in a cultural renaissance and expansion. Thutmose I (r. 1504-1492 BCE) campaigned as far as the Euphrates and by the time of Thutmose III (r. 1479-1425), the Egyptians controlled several Levantine ports such as Byblos, Ulazza, and Ardata. They also secured the area of Nubia up to the Fourth Cataract. During the reign of Sety I (r. 1294-1279) the Egyptians entered into competition with the Hittites over control of the Levant. After the Battle of Qadesh in 1275, Damascus was under Hittite control. Meanwhile, the recovering Assyrians captured the Mitannian capital of Washukanni and became a power on par with Egypt. They would later sign a non-aggression pact with the Egyptians which brought stability to the region (O'Brien, 2010, p. 37).
Ancient Egyptian culture is more well-known for its monuments in the desert than for its trade and boats along the Nile River. While the Egyptians may not have ranged as far as the peoples of the Pacific, we see no less ingenuity in them adapting to their environment. The people of ancient Egypt made phenomenal use of a river in the middle of the desert to build their civilization around and trade with other people in the region.
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POLICE officers have issued a dispersal order for the whole of Gosport, following reports of gatherings and anti-social behaviour.
By David George
Friday, 27th March 2020, 9:57 pm
Updated Friday, 27th March 2020, 9:57 pm
In the wake of what police have called 'recent incidents', an order has been put in place which allows police to arrest anyone seen out and about in the town, if they have already been dispersed.
Anyone under 16 will be taken to their home address, and follow-up work will be done with their parents.
The order will be in place until 4am on Sunday, March 29.
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Portsmouth man arrested after Fratton corner shop is broken into
Posting on Facebook this evening, Inspector Matthew Wake said: 'The team have had a really busy day on patrol, engaging with the public and investigating reports of crime and anti-social-behaviour.
Please keep reporting these incidents to us using 101 and the online facility – every report you make helps assess where to concentrate our resources and what action to take to maintain order and protect the most vulnerable.
'Officers in uniform can disperse persons who cause members of the public in the locality to be harassed, alarmed or distressed; or contribute to crime and disorder occurring in the locality.'
Dispersal orders have been enforced in Gosport before.
In November last year, dispersal orders were issued twice in seven days at Brockhurst Gate Retail Park, due to ongoing anti-social behaviour in the area.
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Vegan Runner Eats » Articles » Vegan Runner Eats Blog is 6 Months Old! 6 Things I Learned about Plant-Based Diet Since Starting This Blog.
I looked at the calendar the other day and realized that this week marks a half-a-year anniversary for Vegan Runner Eats blog! What started as a way for me to document the training for my first marathon since I went vegan has now turned into something bigger and better: the marathon turned out to be a success; my story was shared on Forks Over Knives site; people have been reaching out to thank me for the inspiration on their plant-strong journey.
Best of all, I've got lots of ideas of what I want to do next with the blog to make it useful to anyone who's interested in plant-based diet, exercise, and healthy lifestyle. Stay tuned, and if you haven't yet, please subscribe to the updates via email (the box on the right), Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.
Since starting Vegan Runner Eats, I've learned so much about the plant-based (vegan) diet that today I'd like to share six of the most valuable points – one for each month of the blog's existence!
1. It's possible to successfully run a marathon on a vegan diet! Being fueled by plants has dramatically improved my endurance: not only was I able to run a marathon last November, but I've also been enjoying my stamina that now allows me to push hard in my workouts up to 6 days a week, and then have lots of energy for the day-to-day activities with no mid-afternoon energy slumps.
2. Healthy plant-based food doesn't have to be complicated. I get inspired the most in the kitchen by playing around with the simplest ingredients. In fact, most of the things I eat at home are so simple, they don't even have proper recipes! For example, I love putting leftover black bean-potato stew or some lentils on a bed of kale for lunch, or wrapping a bunch of chopped fresh vegetables in a tortilla with some hummus spread on it. It's quick, effortless, and can easily be the healthiest food I'll eat all day!
3. Vegan diet allows for more experimentation than omnivore (the common meat-eaters') diet! I realized this shortly after I started creating my own recipes for this blog: while omnivore diet usually implies filling a plate with some variation of meat, starch and vegetables, we vegans go above and beyond in trying new ingredients and techniques to achieve more than one amazing result!
Take mac and cheese: while the omnivore version has no meat, it's hard to do a lot of variations to this recipe that calls for pasta, cream and cheese. Plus, no one's going to argue that it's terribly unhealthy with all that fat and dairy. Vegan mac and cheese? Dozens of amazing recipes all over the internet, all of them using different base ingredients like cashews, almonds, tofu, butternut squash, etc. There are even fat-free mac and cheese recipes that taste great, like the one I made the other night using a recipe from my favorite Happy Herbivore Cookbook.
4. Cooking without oil is easy, healthier, and doesn't affect the taste. Numerous doctors and researchers have talked about the benefits of ditching oil from our diet for heart health and other benefits, particularly Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. in his life-changing book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure. Most of the recipes I've created for Vegan Runner Eats contain very little to no oil and still taste amazing!
– I found new wholesome ingredients like nutritional yeast, ground flaxseed, chia seeds, kombu, blackstrap molasses – I can't imagine my kitchen without them now!
– I'm not afraid of experimenting, even tweaking some baking recipes (that's the only way I was able to come up with a few dessert recipes on Vegan Runner Eats!). I love it that I can now eat all of the raw cookie dough I want – no salmonella there!
And yet, we never feel lonely on our plant-based journey – the support of the vegan community we get through the blog helps a lot, plus the knowledge we now have about the benefits of plant-based diet makes a huge difference.
If you've just stepped on this path yourself and feel like the lack of support from family and friends could derail you, please know: you're not alone, and you are making a difference right now! It is estimated that by not eating meat one person can save lives of at least a hundred animals every year – that's a lot of animals!
Thank you everyone who's been following Vegan Runner Eats blog in its first six months of life! Stay with us, and there will be more awesome stuff in the future!
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4 Responses to Vegan Runner Eats Blog is 6 Months Old! 6 Things I Learned about Plant-Based Diet Since Starting This Blog.
Congrats on the six months! I've been reading your blog and trying your recipes for the past two weeks. I'm committed and starting the plant based diet and my husband is getting converted one dish at a time. The chickpea sandwich spread was a huge hit with him and my 4 year old daughter. The barbecue seitan was outstanding and loved by the two of them also. I'm now hooked on steel cut oatmeal with blueberries. Your recipes are easy to make and are accepted by my family….the latter is huge! They don't feel like they are compromising anything to be healthy. I'm also a runner but like to keep it to 6 miles or less. I'm giving it some more time to make a definite conclusion but this diet is working very well for me and my running. I love reading about your accomplishments in running and diet.
Thank you doing what you do!
Brenda, thank you so much! I'm thrilled that you chose recipes from my blog to convert your family to go vegan 'one dish at a time'! Great to hear that your husband and daughter are loving them! Good luck on your plant-based journey!
Thanks Eve, hope you have better luck this time around!


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The balance strikes back: power, perceptions, and ideology in Georgian foreign policy, 1992-2014
Kevork Oskanian
Centre for Russian and East European Studies
Tbilisi's recent foreign policy presents analysts working from a balance-of-power perspective with something of a puzzle: with Russia very much the regionally dominant power, against the predictions of structural-systemic theories, small state Georgia has ended up balancing against, rather than bandwagoning with great power Moscow. As a result, domestic, ideological explanations that implausibly ignore or minimize inter-state considerations of power have predominated in analyses of Tbilisi's foreign policy. In response, this essay examines Georgia's post-Soviet foreign policies from a neoclassical realist theoretical viewpoint, combining systemic, balance-of-power and domestic, ideological factors: throughout the period under review, Tbilisi's policies were thus due to ideologically conditioned perceptions of shifting power-political realities in its neighborhood, with an ideological adherence to liberal norms playing a particularly important role in distorting these perceptions during the Saakashvili administration. Through this combination of power and ideology, neoclassical realism ends up providing a more comprehensive and continuous account of Tbilisi's shifting policies since 1992 than either domestic or alternative realist frameworks, like balance-of-threat theory, or omnibalancing; as an important implication, Georgia's, and other former Soviet states' continued pro-Western orientation will depend as much on their perceptions of the West's continued commitment to regional power-projection, as on domestic ideological preferences.
Foreign Policy Analysis
https://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orw010
Published - 1 Oct 2016
Neoclassical Realism
10.1093/fpa/orw010
Georgia FP
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Ryld's Shadows by Angel Martinez & Bellora Quinn
Book 4 in the AURA series
General Release Date: 8th March 2022
Word Count: 74,271
Book Length: SUPER NOVEL
GENRES: CONTEMPORARY, EROTIC ROMANCE, FANTASY, GAY, GLBTQI, PARANORMAL
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Ryld must learn to control his dangerous shadows before they kill someone he cares about or someone unscrupulous learns how to control him.
AURA's offices have been quiet since the mage tower incident—as quiet as they can be for an agency dedicated to policing holes in reality—and the department heads have been free to turn their attention back to mundane matters. The return to quiet bureaucracy gives AURA's Director of Research, Kai Hiltas, the time to turn his energy to a new issue—a young drow with unusual and dangerous powers named Ryld.
Though his shadows always lurk at the edges of his vision, Ryld does his best to live peacefully and not let them hurt anyone. He has his work, his apartment and a succession of minders assigned by AURA who are, ostensibly, there to keep him safe in his new world and to prevent him from causing any scenes with his shadows. Most of the time, the arrangement works. But one disastrous incident causes Ryld's minder to leave him unattended and lost—the precise thing he was hired to prevent.
To replace the faithless minder, Kai suggests Hank, a half-goblin accountant recently in the middle of a string of terrible luck, while Kai works out how best to get Ryld the magical training he so desperately needs. For his part, Hank truly likes Ryld and insists he would be happier working as Ryld's companion rather than as a controlling minder.
As Hank and Ryld slowly come to terms with sharing space—and eventually more—Kai's search for a teacher for Ryld takes them out west on the invitation of the Elvenhome's aelfe queen and right into the lap of inter-elven feuds, ancient prejudice, conspiracies and trafficking rings. What should have been a pleasant visit soon turns into more than even forever-scheming Kai can handle.
Reader advisory: This book contains references to past trauma and PTSD, kidnapping and kidnapping of a child.
"I thought you guys were supposed to be more…buff."
"Buff?"
"Stacked."
Ryld looked at the man blankly.
"Bigger. Muscular."
"Oh. Yes. Most of the aelfe are, as you say, buff. My kind, the drow, are as tall, but usually lighter in frame."
The man took a sip of his beer. "So what happened to you? Did you miss the call when they were handin' out the tickets for the tall and ripped lottery?"
Ryld processed that for a moment. None of that made much sense. Nothing had happened to him, he'd missed no calls as far as he knew, and he wasn't sure what gambling had to do with anything. He wasn't sure how, but his best guess, given the previous question, was the man was asking why he looked different from other elves he must have met.
"Simple genetics. I was bred for certain characteristics. My coloring. My…ability with magic." Ryld took a sip of his own beer. "Those genetic traits also carry markers for a smaller height and build." And madness. But Ryld had already learned humans had a deep fear of madness, so he kept that to himself.
"Yeah, no shit. You can't be mor'n five and a half feet and a buck fifty, if that."
Ryld blinked again. Five and a half feet was an Imperial measurement, presumably of his height, which, while accurate, was terribly inefficient. Since they were discussing his size, the other observation should have been about his weight, but instead he spoke of money.
"I have more than a dollar and fifty cents with me. The drinks here are known to be expensive. I made sure I brought enough."
His drinking companion laughed. "Never mind. You're a funny one."
That was odd. Usually, he didn't understand human humor and they could be more uncomfortable with his presence than amused by it.
"It's time to go, Ryld."
Ryld looked up from the human he'd been studying into the face of someone who had exactly the elven characteristic the human had commented Ryld lacked. Tall and broad shouldered, with dark, ash-blond hair, and a countenance that made sure all but the most inebriated of bar patrons stayed well out of his way. Ryld sighed and set his drink down half finished.
He stood without argument and bid the human good night, as was their custom, and followed his minder outside. As he crossed the threshold, a small flicker of dark caught his eye, but he ignored it and kept moving.
"The establishment isn't closed for the evening yet," he pointed out as they walked down the row of vehicles in the parking lot.
Cress gave his own sigh. "No, but it will be very soon. We've been over this, Ryld. You don't have to stay until everyone else has gone, and they kick us out."
"But…there were still a few humans I hadn't spoken to."
"Nor do you need to speak to everyone in the place in one night."
"Oh. Did I transgress? Make a mistake?"
"I know what transgress means, and no, you didn't. They don't have a rule dictating how many people you should or should not speak to."
Ryld stopped. "How do they know then? How many is appropriate? Without a rule, how do they know?"
Cress stopped too and turned to look at him. Ryld managed to meet his eyes for a moment, then shifted his gaze to a spot over Cress' shoulder. Better to look at a point over the other person's shoulder than drop his eyes, he'd learned. A downward-cast gaze was viewed as subservient, rather than simply respectful.
"When there isn't a rule, they decide for themselves how many people they speak with, and who."
Ryld caught another flicker out of the corner of his eye and swallowed. "If there were a rule, it would be so much easier to know."
"I know, but that's how it is. Sometimes there are rules, and sometimes there aren't."
Cress spoke in a low, soothing tone. The one he used when he was being extra patient. When he wanted to avoid a scene. Ryld didn't want there to be a scene either. His head would ache for days after, and sometimes he couldn't even get out of bed if it had been particularly bad. It wasn't as if they hadn't had this conversation about rules before. There was no reason to get upset.
"Okay? Are you ready to go now?" Cress asked.
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my old time - the history of psychiatry in the drawings of Robert Burda
3rd of July - 25th september 2022
With meticulous fascination for details, Robert Burda records his life story. Born in 1942, he spent his childhood and youth in Bremen-Blumenthal/Germany, where he was particularly interested in streetcars, buses and ships. Robert Burda draws his motifs with technical precision, and provides them with descriptions that allow an insight into his inner world. Even at a young age, he had repeated stays in mental institutions, where he documented his surroundings and his work in drawings. He drew the dormitories and dining rooms from a bird's-eye view in order to locate not only himself but also other people. Since 1968, Robert Burda has been living in the residential area of the Alexians in Münster, and has also captured his world on paper here. If you look at his pictures from a historical perspective, you can see in them documented the gradual reform of psychiatry. The inhumane conditions in mental institutions after the end of the war and the slow improvements are often told from the perspective of the reformers.
But what have these ultimately changed in the lives of those affected?
In the pictures in which Robert Burda tells of his life, an answer to this question can be discovered. His pictures tell of large bed halls during the post-war period, which he still experienced himself, and of the loving relationship with his mother, who has stood by him despite the stigma attached to mental disabilities. However, one can also see in his pictures the first improvements in living conditions and the gradual social recognition of mentally ill and mentally disabled people. By giving us an insight into his life, Robert Burda takes us into the history of a social reform.
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