CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS: INVITED.
"Solving the Puzzles of Higher-Order Vagueness", Panel on Indeterminacy, Central APA Meeting, Chicago, February 26th-29th 2019.
"Reality Engineering", Keynote Speaker, KCL Cumberland Lodge Reading Party, 11-12th October 2019.
"Self-Knowledge and Meta-Scepticism", Knowledge Beyond Natural Science Workshop, Stirling, May 2019.
"Conceptual Engineering and Philosophical Progress", ConceptLab Workshop on Philosophical Progress, Tokyo, 16-17th May 2019.
"Conceptual Engineering: Representation Engineering or Reality Engineering?", April 9th, Arché, St Andrews.
"Knowledge: In Sickness and in Health", Knowledge First, Epistemology and Mind: Themes from Tim Williamson, Cardiff, 7-8th May 2018.
"Neutralism and Conceptual Engineering", ConceptLab Workshop, Zermatt, 19th-20th February 2018.
"Strengthened Sceptical Pardoxes", Metaphysics of Knowledge II Workshop, Arché/Eidyn, University of St Andrews, 2-3rd December 2017.
"Comments on Eklund's Ineffable Facts and Alien Facts", ConceptLab Workshop, Buenos Aires, 3-5thOctober 2017.
"Against Schiffer on Scepticism", ConceptLab Flash Workshop, University of Oslo, 19th May 2017.
"Conceptual Engineering: Cappelen Style", ConceptLab Work in Progress Workshop, Zermatt, 19th-21st February, 2017.
"Philosophy: In Sickness and in Health", Philosophers and the Philosophical Life Workshop, St Andrews, February 10th, 2017.
"Conceptual Engineering Without Concepts (and Without Engineering)", Second Leuven Epistemology Workshop, KU Leuven, December 2016.
"Indexing Knowledge to Bases and Methods", Workshop on Metaphysics of Knowledge 1: Epistemic Indexing, Arché/Eidyn, St Andrews, September 3rd-4th 2016.
"Conceptual Engineering Without Concepts (and Without Engineering)", Conceptual Engineering Workshop, ConceptLab/CSMN, Oslo, June 16th-17th 2016.
"The Semantic Error Problem for Epistemic Contextualism", Arché Flash Epistemology Workshop, 4th May 2016.
"Strengthened Sceptical Paradoxes", First Leuven Epistemology Workshop, KU Leuven, 17th March 2016.
"Philosophy: In Sickness and in Health", Philosophical Progress Workshop, CSMN, Oslo, January 2016.
"Is the Concept of Knowledge Incoherent?", Epistemic Incoherence Workshop, Arché, St Andrews, December 2015.
"Knowledge: In Sickness and in Health", Epistemic Paradoxes Workshop, Lisbon, October 2015.
"Indexing to Methods", First Workshop of the Fallibility, Rational Belief, and Knowledge Network, LOGOS, Barcelona, September 2015.
"Conceptual Engineering", Roundtable Presentation at CSMN Workshop on Conceptual Engineering, Oslo, January 2015.
"Truth: A Curate's Egg?", APA Symposium on Kevin Scharp's book Replacing Truth, Eastern APA, Philadelphia, 29th December 2014.
"Conceptual Engineering: The Case of Truth", Conceptual Engineering Symposium, Arché Graduate Conference, 9th November 2014.
"Mental Plasticity", Bergen Workshop on First-Personal Data, 29th-30th August 2014.
"Paradox and Disease", Graz Epistemology Workshop, 20th June 2014.
"Minimal Externalism", Graz Epistemology Workshop, 20th June 2014.
"Knowledge for Nothing?", Graz Epistemology Workshop, 21st June 2014.
"Weak Tolerance", Workshop on Vagueness, University of Pamplona, December 2013.
"Soft Facts", PETAF Workshop on Subjectivity, Institute of Philosophy, London, June 2013.
"Implicature and Moore's Paradox", Arché Implicature Workshop, St Andrews, November 2012.
"Truth Pluralism and the Liar Paradox", NIP Workshop on Pluralism about Truth, Aberdeen, October 2012.
"Classical Logic and the Liar", AHRC Workshop on Metaphysical Indeterminacy, Leeds, May 2012.
"Externalism, KK, and Meta-Epistemic Scepticism", ANU Kioloa Workshop Epistemology Meets the Philosophy of Mind, Jan 27th -30th 2012.
"How to be a Neo-Cartesian", PETAF Workshop on Subjectivity, CEU, Budapest, September 2011.
"Response to Robin McKenna's "Interests Contextualism"', Edinburgh Graduate Conference, March 2011.
"Incoherentism", Weekly Project Seminar for Philosophy of Perspectival Facts and Thought, LOGOS, Barcelona, 25th February 2011.
"Truthmaker Gluts", Metaphysical Indeterminacy Workshop, Leeds, January 2011.
"Facts and Indeterminacy", PETAF Workshop, Geneva, 8-9th December 2010.
"Permissible Disagreement", Workshop on the Nature of Disagreement, UConn, November 4th 2010.
"Truthmaker Gluts", workshop on Vagueness and Metaphysics, LOGOS, Barcelona, 16-17th September 2010.
"What Price Common-Sense?", Workshop on Composition, Constitution, and Parthood, University of Otago, NZ, June 2010.
"What is it to Disagree?", Workshop on Disagreement, Social Epistemology Research Group, Copenhagen, September 2009.
"Truth-Relativism and Norm-Relativism", Winter-School, Centre for Time, University of Sydney, 20th-21st July 2009.
"Pluralism about Truth", Winter-School, Centre for Time, University of Sydney, 20th-21st July 2009.
"Knowledge for Nothing?", Workshop on the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, ANU, July 16-17th 2009.
"Wright on Entitlement", Arché Basic Knowledge Workshop, St. Andrews, 13 – 14th June 2009.
"Truthmaker Gluts", Conference on Truth and Pluralism, University of Connecticut, May 2009.
"Relativism, Assertion, and Belief", Workshop for The Pragmatic Foundations of Language Project, University of Sydney, January 21st 2009.
"Testing for Vagueness", Workshop on The Psychology and Philosophy of Vagueness, Institute Jean Nicod, Paris, November 21st – 22nd 2008.
"Assertion", Epistemology Workshop, Australian National University, Kioloa Campus, NSW, Australia, 16th February 2008.
"Contextualist Theories of Vagueness", Pamplona Workshop on Vagueness, Navarre, June 2007.
"Knowledge, Assertion, and Future Contingency", Bled Conference on Epistemology, May 2007.
"The Future", The Edinburgh Philosophy Society, 15th February 2007.
"Knowledge and Certainty: Reply to Stanley", First Arché Basic Knowledge Workshop, 24th – 25th November 2006.
"The Open Future", Logic and Language Seminar, University of Stockholm, 5th October 2006.
"Contextualist Theories of Vagueness', Final Arché Workshop on Vagueness, 3 – 4th November 2006.
"The Open Future", main speaker at Reasoning about Probability and Vagueness, Prague, September 5th – 8th 2006.
"The Open Future", Scots Philosophical Club Annual Meeting, 6th May 2006.
"Higher-order Vagueness", Joint Session of the Mind and Aristotelian Society, 10th July 2005.
"Is Life a Lottery?", Epistemology Workshop, University of Connecticut, 28th February 2005.
"Safety, Luck, and Lotteries", Epistemology Seminar, Brown University, 25th February 2005.
"Truthmaker Gaps", Truth Seminar, University of Connecticut, February 16th, 2005.
"Truthmaker Gaps", The ad hoc Seminar, Free University of Berlin, January 23rd, 2005.
"Contextualism about Vagueness", Free University of Berlin, January 22nd 2005.
"Truthmaker Gaps", Conference on Metaphysics and Paradox, University of Leeds, 13th Nov 2004.
Commentator at Epistemological Contextualism, University of Stirling, 20th – 21st March 2004.
"The Bearable Lightness of Knowing", DeRose Workshop on Epistemology, Stirling, 15th March 2004.
"From Modalism to Fallibilism", Pre-conference for Modalism and Mentalism, Denmark, 27 – 28th January 2004.
"From Mentalism to Fallibilism", Pre-conference for Modalism and Mentalism, Denmark, 27 – 28th January 2004.
"Looks", Workshop on Vagueness, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bologna, January 2004.
"Are We all Externalists Now? ", NAMICONA workshop on epistemology, Kolding, Denmark, 5 – 7th December 2003.
"Why is the (Phenomenal) Sorites so Seductive?", First Arché Workshop on Vagueness, 1st – 2nd September 2003.
"Logic for Liars", Recent Thoughts about the Liar, SUNY/Buffalo, 19th October 2002.
"Minimal Epistemology, Gettier cases, and Lucky Knowledge", The Limits of Knowledge, Berlin, 9th – 10th July 2002.
"The Minimal Theory of Vagueness", Workshop on Vagueness, University of Bologna, 22nd – 24th November 2001.
"Margins for Error", St. Andrews Reading Party, Raasay, Scotland, 25 – 27th May 2001.
"Minimal Margins for Error", symposium on Tim Williamson's Knowledge and Its Limits, given at the conference The Limits of Warrant, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 18th – 20th May 2001.
OTHER CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS.
"Externalism and Scepticism", Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, July 2011.
"Knowledge for Nothing?", SEFA Workshop on the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, Barcelona, 15-17th December 2010.
"Permissible Disagreement", Australasian Association of Philosophy, UNSW, Sydney, July 2010.
"Truth and Indeterminacy", Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 2010.
"Deflationism about Facts", AAP-NZ, Massey University, Dec 4th, 2009.
"Truthmaker Gluts", Australasian Association of Philosophy, Melbourne, July 2009.
"Our Cognitive Homes", SIFA, Bergamo, September 2008.
"Our Cognitive Homes", Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, July 2008.
"The Open Future', Australasian Association of Philosophy Annual Conference, New Zealand Division, Auckland, November 2007.
"The Open Future", Joint Session of the Mind and Aristotelian Society, 7th – 9th July 2006.
"Truthmaker Gaps", Fifth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Lisbon, 27th – 31st August 2005.
"The Minimal Theory of Vagueness", Fourth European Congress for Analytic Philosophy, Sweden, June 2002.
"Free Assumptions", Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Poland, 20 – 26th August, 1999.
"Anti-Realism and the Liar Paradox", Logica '99, Liblice, Czech Republic, 22 – 25th June, 1999.
"Plastic Meanings and Reality Engineering", ConceptLab Seminar, University of Oslo, 11th May 2017.
"Conceptual Engineering Without Concepts (and Without Engineering)", Edinburgh Philosophy Society, 30th March 2017.
"Indexing Knowledge", KU Leuven, 16th March 2017.
"Many Norms?", Normativity Seminar Series, King's College London, 18th October 2016.
"Strengthened Sceptical Paradoxes", University of Glasgow, 4th October 2016.
"Epistemic Coherence", ConceptLab, CSMN, University of Oslo, 10th May 2016.
"Epistemic Coherence", LOGOS, University of Barcelona, January 2016.
"Philosophy: In Sickness and in Health", Bristol, December 2015.
"Truth: a Curate's Egg?", Logic Seminar, NIP, December 2014.
"Internalisms and Externalisms in Philosophy", The Glasgow Philosophy Society, March 2013.
"Moore's Paradox and Implicature", University of Brighton, May 2012.
"Moore's Paradox and Implicature", University of Edinburgh, March 2012.
"Closure and the Mereology of Warrant", ANU, February 2012.
"Pragmatics in Thought: The Case of Moore's Paradox", ANU, February 2012.
"Scepticism: Disease, Diagnosis, Treatment", University of Western Australia, February 2012.
"Pragmatics in Thought: The Case of Moore's Paradox", CSMN, Oslo, September 2011.
"Scepticism and Indiscriminability", Northern Institute of Philosophy, 8th November 2011.
"Scepticism and Externalism", Northern Institute of Philosophy, 9th November 2011.
"Indeterminacy: Going Glutty, Staying Classical", ANU, June 2011.
"Indeterminacy", University of St Andrews Philosophy Society, May 2011.
"Vagueness", University of Dundee Philosophy Society, March 2011.
"Vagueness", University of Brighton Philosophy Society, March 2011.
"Truthmaker Gluts", University of Bristol Philosophy Colloquium, Feb 11th 2011.
"Permissible Disagreement", Dublin, December 10th 2010.
"Indeterminate Identity Defended", UConn Logic Group, November 2010.
"Pragmatics in Thought: the Case of Moore's Paradox", UConn, October 2010.
"Pragmatics in Thought: the Case of Moore's Paradox", University of Singapore, July 2010.
"Norm-Relativism", University of Auckland, June 11th 2010.
"Norm-Relativism", University of Connecticut, Departmental Colloquium, April 2010.
"Deflationism and Truth-Value Gaps", University of Connecticut, Logic Group Meeting, April 2010.
"Relativism and the Open Future", University of Connecticut, Brown Bag, April 2010.
"Relativism, Assertion and Belief", Institute for Philosophy, London, February 12th 2009.
"Relativism, Assertion and Belief", RSSS, Australian National University, January 13th 2009.
"Our Cognitive Homes", University of Nottingham, 19th November 2008.
"Our Cognitive Homes", University of Leeds, 30th October 2008.
"Relativism, Assertion, and Knowledge", University of Sydney, August 5th 2008.
"The Open Future", University of Sydney, March 2008.
"Our Cognitive Homes", PhilSoc, RSSS, Australian National University, 29th January 2008.
"The Open Future", Philosophy Seminar at RSSS, Australian National University, 20th September 2007.
"The Open Future", LOGOS Seminar Series, University of Barcelona, May 2007.
"Fallibilism", University of Stockholm, December 2006.
"The Open Future", Central European University, November 2006.
"The Open Future", University of Sheffield, 3rd November 2006.
"Phenomenal Continua", NYU, 4th March 2005.
"Phenomenal Continua", Ohio State University, February 2005.
"Phenomenal Continua", University of Connecticut, February 2005.
"Knowledge: A Minimal Theory", University of Leeds, 11th March, 2004.
"Phenomenal Continua", University of Bristol, 5th March 2004.
"Looks", University of Stirling, 19th February 2004.
"Phenomenal Continua", University of Edinburgh, 13th February 2004.
"Phenomenal Continua", University of Glasgow, 21st October 2003.
"The Title of this Paper is Not Meaningful", University of Aberdeen, 12th December 2002.
"Minimal Epistemology", University of Bristol, 14th November 2001.
RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS GIVEN AT ST ANDREWS.
"Conceptual Engineering: Representation Engineering or Reality Engineering?", Summer Reflectorium, June 2019.
"Conceptual Engineering: For and Against" (with Kevin Scharp), St Andrews PhilSoc, 4th April 2017.
"Are we All Mentally Ill?", Talk at University Hall, University of St Andrews, November 2016.
"Knowledge for Nothing?", Summer Reflectorium, 6th June 2016.
"Strengthened Sceptical Paradoxes", Winter Reflectorium, December 2015.
"Is the Concept of Knowledge Incoherent?", St Andrews Philosophy Society, April 2015.
"Knowledge for Nothing?", University of St Andrews Philosophy Society, April 2014.
"Knowledge", Summer Reflectorium, May 2014.
"Paradox and Disease", University of St Andrews Philosophy Society, October 2013.
"Soft Facts", Summer Reflectorium, June 2013.
"Internalisms and Externalisms'", University of St Andrews Philosophy Society, October 2011.
"Scepticism and Externalism", Sept 2011, Arché Epistemology Group.
"Meta-Epistemic Scepticism", Sept 2011, Arché Epistemology Group.
"Vagueness", Honours Reading Party, The Burn, May 2011.
"Pragmatics in Thought", Winter Reflectorium, 11th January 2011.
"Truthmaker Gluts", Winter Reflectorium, 11th January 2010.
"Relativism, Assertion, and Belief", Arché Contextualism and Relativism Seminar, May 2009.
"Relativism", St. Andrews Philosophy Society, May 2009.
"Our Cognitive Homes", Summer Reflectorium, 18th September 2008.
"Contextualist Theories of Vagueness", Arché Vagueness Audit, June 2007.
"Knowledge and Future Contingency", Knowledge and Language Seminar, February 2007.
"How to be a Reliabilist", Arché Epistemology Seminar, June 2006.
"The Open Future", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 17th April 2000.
"The Open Future", Winter Reflectorium, 10th January 2006.
"Contextualism and Higher-order Vagueness", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 9th February 2005.
"Safety and the Kripke-Closure Puzzles", Arché Epistemology Seminar, 14th January 2005.
"Shapiro on Vagueness and Higher-Order Vagueness", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 24th November 2004.
"Truthmaker Gaps", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 10th November 2004.
"Is Life a Lottery?", Arché Epistemology Seminar, 1st October 2004.
"Phenomenal Paradoxes", 3rd Arché Vagueness Workshop, September 2004.
"Truthmaker Gaps", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 21st July 2004.
"Epistemic Tolerance, Vagueness, and Ignorance", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 5th May 2004.
"Theorising About Vagueness", Arché Vagueness Seminar, 28th January 2004.
"Fallibilism", Winter Reflectorium, 14th January 2004.
Respondent for Jim Mawby's 'Heaps and Heartbeats', Arché Graduate Conference, 4th – 6th September 2003.
"Vagueness: As Deep as it is Broad?", Philosophy Society, 12th March 2003.
"Higher-order Vagueness and the Dream of a Precise Metalanguage", November 18th, 2002.
"Minimal Epistemology, Gettier cases, and Lucky Knowledge", 14th May, 2002.


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The Most Stunning Celtic Artworks
Esther Newman
Updated: 18 February 2016
Today, 'Celtic' means many different things to many different people: a football club; a style of traditional music; a group of languages; the 'modern Celtic' nations of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, and Brittany; and the mythology and legends of the British Isles. But, in the most traditional sense, who were the Celts?
The Celts were an Indo-European people who spread across mainland Europe as far west as the British Isles and as far southeast as Galatia (in Asia Minor) during the period before the Roman Empire. The name 'Celt' (Keltoi) is a homogenised one, used by the Classical writers of Greece and Rome to refer to their barbarian neighbours. While Celtic groups across Europe have some similarities – namely languages – they were a complex, multicultural, and diverse group of people. Even today, when we use the term 'Celtic,' it's often in reference to the cultural groups of the British Isles and Ireland, ignoring their European counterparts.
One of the great legacies of the Celts is their art. Beautiful, elaborate, and intricate, woven within these abstract swirls are indicators of who the Celts really were and how they lived. Also known by scholars as La Tène art – a designation inspired by a site in Switzerland where many objects of this style were found in the 19th century – Celtic art dates from 500 BC to 100 AD (and the period continues to 1000 AD on the Western fringes of Europe, such as Ireland and Scotland).
Dedicated to unfolding the hidden meanings in this rich artwork is Celts: Art and Identity, a major exhibition organised in partnership by the British Museum and the National Museum of Scotland. In anticipation of this event, read here about five of the most exquisite Celtic art pieces from across Europe.
The Battersea Shield: 350 – 50 BC
Found in the River Thames at Battersea Bridge, this ornate shield has become an iconic image of Celtic art. Owing to its thinness, excellent condition, and beautiful decoration, many scholars argue that this shield was ceremonial rather than created for battle. There has been much debate about why it was found in the Thames, with some suggesting that it was a ritual offering, possibly for the god of the river. This corresponds with the discovery at La Tène in Switzerland where swords, shield bosses, lance heads, brooches, various chariot pieces, and human and animal bones were found.
These findings suggest another ritual type activity took place here, involving human and animal sacrifice, and the offering of weaponry. The high quality and beautiful design of Celtic weaponry reveals the warrior culture these people lived in; war influenced ritual and religion, and warriors were held to high esteem. Celtic art often includes images of animals either in reference to the power of the natural world or an associated deity. This shield is embossed with abstract swirls and stylised bull or cow heads with bulbous horns. Perhaps the owner hoped that the ferocious anger of a bull or cow would spur him on in battle.
The Battersea Shield can be found in the British Museum's Celts: Art and Identity exhibition.
© British Museum/Wiki Commons
The Desborough Mirror: 50 BC – AD 50
Often, thoughts of Celtic cultures are of brutal, war-like peoples. These thoughts are informed by Classical attitudes, who saw their barbarian neighbours (here, 'barbarian' takes on the ancient meaning and refers to 'non-Romans' or 'non-Greeks') as bloodthirsty and base. In fact, Celtic tribes were highly sophisticated – trading, travelling, communicating, creating and preserving their rich, oral culture. This mirror – one of the highest examples of La Tène or Celtic art made in Britain – proves this. The back depicts intricate swirling decoration which, when studied, has been found to depict a face. Only 30 bronze mirrors like this one have been found in Britain, and they appear to be singularly British-made; the others were found to have been traded across Europe.
The Desborough Mirror can be found in the British Museum's Celts: Art and Identity exhibition.
The Desborough Mirror
© The Trustees of the British Museum
The Gundestrup Cauldron: 1st century BC
Found in a peat bog in Denmark in 1891, the Gundestrup Cauldron is a religious vessel. It is believed that it was placed in the bog as a religious offering. As the largest surviving piece of Iron Age silver work, the cauldron has garnered a lot of scholarly interest, not simply because of its high quality of craftsmanship, but also because of its disparity of style; Thracian in workmanship, but Celtic in imagery. The panels depict different images, from a woman wielding a sword on the central panel to woodland creatures and mythic beasts such as stags and dragons encircling the rest of the plates. Other images include zoomorphic deities from Celtic mythology, including a horned figure believed to be Cernunnos, a woodland god.
Exotic images of elephants and griffins are derived from the cauldron's Thracian influence and the images circulated on Roman coins. These diverse cultural influences reflect the trade relations that united Celtic tribes across Europe and the tribes' relationship with the Roman Empire.
The cauldron can be found at the National Museum of Denmark.
The Gundestrup Cauldron
© Petrus Agricola/Flickr
The statue of Tarasque de Noves: 50 BC – 1st century AD
The statue of Tarasque de Noves is attributed to a Gallic tribe, the Cavares, who were located in the lower Rhône valley. Sphinx-like, with the head of a lion or wolf, reptilian qualities, and the body of a human, the beast rests on two La Tène-style heads, while a dismembered arm hangs from its snarling jaws. Some scholars have suggested that the fearsome beast acts as a tribute to local or tribal gods, while others propose that it celebrates the fierce, warrior culture of the Cavares. Similarities with other sculptures of lion-anthropophagi discovered in Provence have suggested that this object could be associated with Gallic Celtic funerary cults. These findings suggest that the beast represents death, 'swallowing' up the body before it enters a new world.
The statue can be found at the Musée Lapidaire.
The statue of Tarasque de Noves
© the Musée Lapidaire
The Vix Torc: 6th – early 5th centuries BC
Found in Northern Burgundy, the Vix Burial is arguably one of the grandest Celtic monumental burials found. The burial of a high status lady ('Lady Vix,' as she is now known), it gave historians great insight into the high status possible of Celtic women. Lady Vix's exact status is still debated – whether she was a Celtic princess or a Druidess in service of a King or Queen – but it is clear from the opulent pieces that she accumulated great wealth and respect. One such object is the Vix Torc, a pure gold band that is decorated with delicate filigree and small flying horses. In Classical depictions of Celts, Torcs feature most often. Bands of metal that encircle the wearer's neck, Torcs became an easy and identifiable way to signal if someone was Celtic. Differences in design and metal signified the wearer's tribal or regional identity, class, and status.
The Vix Torc, and the rest of the Vix treasure, can be found at the Musée du Pays Châtillonnais.
The Vix Torc
© Xuan Che/Flickr
Celts: Art and Identity will be at the British Museum until the 31 January 2016.
British Museum, Great Russell Street, London, UK +44 (0)20 7323 8299

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Isabel de Maranges i Valls (La Bisbal d'Empordà, 1850 - Barcelona, 1922), fou una religiosa fundadora de la congregació de les Germanes Josefines.

Fundà, el 1875, amb el jesuïta banyolí Francesc Xavier Butinyà, de la congregació de les Filles de Sant Josep, conegudes con a josefines, de la qual fou la primera superiora general entre 1898 i 1912.

Preocupada per les dures condicions de les joves obreres, adreçà aquesta comunitat religiosa a assistir a les treballadores des de la dignificació que el cristianisme social reclamava pels obrers. Era una idea que trencava motllos: fer la vida religiosa basada en el treball industrial de las monges. Una proposta que el bisbe Joaquim Lluch i Garriga veié com una entitat cooperativa que feia realitat propostes socials avançades gràcies a la pietat, l'abnegació i la pobresa voluntària.

Per diferències de criteri amb la seva comunitat, va ser deposada del seu càrrec en 1912. En 1913 va viatjar a Roma per  justificar el seu govern davant la cúria vaticana. Allà decidí, el 1913, deslligar-se de l'Institut per evitar problemes i facilitar que fos aprovat el seu institut. Malgrat les seves peticions posteriors, no va ser readmesa.

Va morir en un convent de Dominiques de Barcelona el 24 Juliol de 1922

El 1962, en un gest de reparació de la seva memòria, les seves restes foren enterrades a l'església de la casa generalícia de la congregació a Girona on també hi reposen les del pare Butinyà.

Referències

Bibliografia
 MURALL, José Maria, La madre Isabel de Maranges Valls, fundadora del Instituto de Religiosas "Hijas de San José". Girona; Casa generalícia, 1964
 MARTÍN TEJEDOR, Jesús, «Francisco Javier Butiñá Hospital». Real Academia de la Historia. Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (DB~e).http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/19873/francisco-javier-butina-hospital

Bisbalencs
Religiosos catalans del sud contemporanis
Morts a Barcelona

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Caramel Walnut Apple Dumplings for Two | I Wanna Bake!
For my first trick, I give you my take on apple dumplings. I confess that I had no idea what an apple dumpling was until I saw them in the grocery store a couple weeks ago and decided to give them a try. The grocery store apple dumplings followed the standard preparation with brown sugar inside and sugary sauce outside, and it was delicious. Since I clearly had enough apples, I decided to give it a go, Katie style.
I used this recipe for guidance, but as usual, I experimented. I used Jonagold apples (my favorite) because they are sweet but slightly tart, bake nicely, and have a nice size to them. Any apple that's good for baking and is decently large will work well, so use whatever you like best. I decided against cooking the dumplings in a sauce because I didn't like the idea of soggy pie crust. I also decided to dress up the filling a little bit by adding caramel and walnuts. The result was akin to an inside out caramel apple that oozed nutty caramel deliciousness, all wrapped in a sweet, flaky pie crust shell. Mmmmm.
If you really like the idea of the inside out caramel apple but are more of a purist, you can use peanuts instead of walnuts, or swap in some mini chocolate chips instead. Alternatively, you could leave the nuts out and just fill up the apple centers with caramel bits. I used Kraft caramel bits because they're a lot easier to work with than the individually-wrapped variety, and a lot less fussy than making your own caramel. In fact, if you use pre-made pie crust, this recipe quickly falls into the easy category.
We ate these plain right out of the oven, and they were delicious as they were. However, if you're in the mood for a little extra indulgence, they would pair nicely with vanilla ice cream, honey, or freshly whipped cream. They're also good cold, so if you want to increase the recipe and save the rest, you can have a nice surprise for the next day waiting for you in the fridge. I did have a bit of leftover pie crust, so you can probably get at least one more apple out of a full recipe of sweet pie crust (for a total of 5 apple dumplings).
I've had "Once in a Lifetime" by the Talking Heads stuck in my head for… I don't know how long now, so I gave in and streamed some Talking Heads on Amazon Prime. Stop Making Sense is a classic staple, but I was really into Remain in Light during my season of apple madness.
If you are making your own pie crust, do so at least an hour in advance so it has time to chill. You can make the full recipe and just freeze the other half or use it in some other bakeventure. It will be easier if you form the half of the dough you will be using into a flattish rectangle before chilling, but the shape isn't entirely vital.
Preheat your oven to 425°F. In a small bowl, stir together the sugar and cinnamon and set aside.
When your pie crust has chilled, roll it out into a 14″x7″ rectangle.
As you can see, you'd have to really use your imagination to call mine a rectangle, but it's ok as long as you have an unbroken rectangle of the required size within that blob because you're going to trim it to make it neat. If parts aren't quite the right size around the corners, or if you accidentally tear your dough, you can use the trimmed off scraps as patches. Once you've made your rectangle pretty(ish), slice it in half to form two squares of dough.
Once you've cut all the way around the core, push the core out and discard it.
Place one apple in the center of each square of crust. At this point, it's a good idea to make sure that your crust squares are big enough. Bring the corners together over the center of the top of the apple (see below for pictures). If they don't overlap, slice off enough of the bottom of the apple to make it fit (unplanned snacks, yea!).
Drop 5 caramel balls into the core hole (push them all the way to the bottom of needed), then drop 1 teaspoon of chopped walnuts on top of those. Fill the hole the rest of the way up with caramel balls, squishing them in as best you can and letting them overflow the top a little.
Sprinkle the top of each apple and the exposed crust square generously with cinnamon sugar (you will probably have some leftover).
Carefully pick up two opposite corners of pie crust and bring them together over the top of the apple. Pinch them together to make them stick.
Repeat with the remaining two corners, pinching the edges of the dough along the way to seal the apple all around. Check it all over to make sure there are no cracks.
Brush each apple with heavy cream and transfer them to a greased baking dish. Sprinkle them with coarse sugar if desired (I didn't, but I would have liked to).
Bake the apples for 30-40 minutes, or until they are nicely browned and the apples are softened. Enjoy the delicious smells of fall wafting through your home.
Let the apples sit until they are cool enough to handle (for me this was about 15 minutes, for Josh it was more like 30-45). Serve warm with honey, vanilla ice cream, or plain.


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Vaccinations at Kaikōura marae realise decades-long dream
As Kaikōura prepares for a tourist boom, a decades-long dream for Te Tai O Marokura and Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura to protect its whānau with the flu vaccine and other vaccinations is coming to fruition.
For the first time, Kaikōura based health and social service provider Te Tai o Marokura and its partner Māori/Indigenous Health Innovation (MIHI) have been funded to deliver free influenza, MMR, and COVID-19 vaccinations at the same time, starting with a whānau health day at Takahanga Marae today.
The health day marks the first time these vaccines have all been delivered together by a kaupapa Māori health organisation in Te Waipounamu. Free general health checks are also available for the wider community and entertainment will be provided for tamariki.
Te Tai O Marokura has the mandate from Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura to care for the health and wellbeing of Ngāti Kurī and all those who reside in the takiwā. The health and social service provider based at Takahanga Marae says the whānau health day has been a long time coming.
"For more than a decade we have dreamt of protecting our people with vaccines at our marae. Our people fare better when they are greeted by our people, and we are so pleased we can offer them a kaupapa Māori environment to receive vaccines on their pā where they feel safe and at home," says Lisa Kahu of Te Tai O Marokura.
Takahanga Marae General Manager Chevy Allen says the whānau health day is timely, with winter around the corner and a predicted tourist boom in Kaikōura as travel and border restrictions ease.
"We want to see whānau staying healthy and well, especially with winter coming up and the borders easing. Kaikōura is a tourist hot spot, and we fear influenza and COVID-19 could spread quite quickly here. Every person protected is better for the health of our people. There is a high risk of getting very unwell from the flu and COVID-19," he says.
COVID-19 booster rates for Māori and tamariki vaccinations continue to remain low in Canterbury and throughout the country. According to Ministry of Health website, as of 25 April, Canterbury booster rates for Māori is at 61.4% and only 44.6% of tamariki Māori in Canterbury have been partially vaccinated.
"It's important whānau Māori look after themselves. Health outcomes for Māori are often worse than the wider population. Health experts are worried the flu will hit extra hard this year, coupled with the risk of getting COVID-19. That's why it's important to get vaccinated," adds Chevy.
By holding the health day at Takahanga Marae, Te Rūnanga o Kaikōura aims to remove as many barriers as possible for whānau Māori to access health services. Dr Maira Patu, GP and co-clinical lead of MIHI vaccination team says these barriers are not just the cost of healthcare or transport, but also the time vaccine clinics are run.
"Whānau can't easily take time off mahi to see their GP or get vaccines, which is why our health day is running from 2.30pm to 7.00pm, to allow for those working to have an opportunity to come for their health checks after work.
"There are also whānau who are not registered with a GP or may have outstanding bills. So even if they are eligible for free vaccines, they are not accessing them – there is a whakamā (embarrassment)," explains Dr Maira.
She also wants to highlight that these vaccines are safe to be administered at the same time. Whānau will get assessed, can ask any pātai (questions), and can then receive the vaccines they need.
Several hundred people have already booked to attend. People can drop-in anytime between 2.30pm and 7.00pm. With manaaki at the centre of the kaupapa, the rūnanga and MIHI want whānau to feel welcome to get their vaccinations and discuss any health questions they may have. Kai and bouncy castles will be provided to entertain whānau.


The UFC champion, Cody Garbrandt, just welcomed his first child into the world with his wife. The 26-year-old star and his spouse gave birth to Kai Fisher Garbrandt on the 12th of March, and they just revealed it on Instagram.
According to a representative who spoke with People Magazine, Cody and Danny delivered Kai who weighed 6 pounds and three ounces at birth. The baby was also 19 and 1/4 inches long; the couple added several photos on Instagram to show off their new child.
Fans will remember when Cody and Danny got married back in July of 2017 and announced in October that they would have a baby.
One Happy Little dude ❤??
Cody recently wrote a book detailing his life and rise to the top called, The Pact: A UFC Champion.
Last year, the UFC star wrote on his social media platform that he and his wife were beyond thrilled to announce the upcoming birth of their baby.
Previously, Garbrandt and his wife thought the baby would be a girl, and he said during a video montage that he would be surprised if it were a boy.
Despite the good news, not all has been well for Cody, as he recently lost his title to TJ Dillashaw in UFC 217. Cody is now #11 in the pound-for-pound rankings of the organization.


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The variant of Jew's Harp presented here is called the khakassian temir khomus. BIGGEST jews harp with a unusal shape and deep low sound!
Handmade, material of the temir khomus is a steel. Size approx, mm: 190 x 20 x 4. This khomus is made by craftsman Tamir Khomatov (Abakan, Khakassia, Russia).


Brok the Brachiosaurus is tough and easy going, but don't get on his bad side! This 2-in-1 toy switches between a dinosaur and a truck. Press the talk button to hear fun phrases and facts. Press the sound button to hear sound effects. Just Switch and Go!
LCD screen displays driver and Dino faces and action buttons play awesome facts and sounds.
This toy costs approximately £19.99 (for the latest and best prices make sure you check our retailer list for the VTech Switch and Go Dinos Brok the Brachiosaurus above).
In our review of VTech Switch and Go Dinos Brok the Brachiosaurus we classed it as being suitable for ages 3 years, 4 years, 5 years but recommend you check the manufacturer specific advice before purchasing.


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from collections import namedtuple
import numpy as np
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from matplotlib.pyplot import savefig
from numpy import meshgrid, pi, power as pow, isnan, diag
from numpy.linalg import svd, inv, det
from scipy.interpolate import LinearNDInterpolator, interp2d
from scipy.special import gamma
import sympy

#written by Enzo Michelangeli, style changes by josef-pktd
# Student's T random variable
def multivariate_t_rvs(m, S, df=np.inf, n=1):
    '''generate random variables of multivariate t distribution
    Parameters
    ----------
    m : array_like
        mean of random variable, length determines dimension of random variable
    S : array_like
        square array of covariance  matrix
    df : int or float
        degrees of freedom
    n : int
        number of observations, return random array will be (n, len(m))
    Returns
    -------
    rvs : ndarray, (n, len(m))
        each row is an independent draw of a multivariate t distributed
        random variable
    '''
    m = np.asarray(m)
    d = len(m)
    if df == np.inf:
        x = 1.
    else:
        x = np.random.chisquare(df, n)/df
    z = np.random.multivariate_normal(np.zeros(d),S,(n,))
    return m + z/np.sqrt(x)[:,None]   # same output format as random.multivariate_normal

def multivariate_t_distribution(x,mu,Sigma,df):
    '''
    Multivariate t-student density:
    output:
        the density of the given element
    input:
        x = parameter (d dimensional numpy array or scalar)
        mu = mean (d dimensional numpy array or scalar)
        Sigma = scale matrix (dxd numpy array)
        df = degrees of freedom
    '''

    d = Sigma.shape[0]
    Num = gamma(1. * (d+df)/2)
    Denom = ( gamma(1.*df/2) * pow(df*pi,1.*d/2) * pow(det(Sigma),1./2) *
              pow(1 + (1./df)*np.dot(x - mu,np.dot(inv(Sigma), (x - mu).T)), 1*(d+df)/2))
    d = 1*Num/Denom
    return diag(d)

def save_plot(ax, extension, scriptname, count=None):
    if ax.title._text != '':
        fname = ''.join([IMGS_DIR, scriptname, '_', ax.title._text.replace('.','').replace(' ','_'), '.', extension])
    else:
        fname = ''.join([IMGS_DIR, scriptname, '_%d.' % count, extension])
    savefig(fname, dpi=300)

def rref(x):
    res = sympy.Matrix(x).rref()
    return np.array(res[0].tolist(), dtype=float)

def nullspace(a, rtol=1e-5):
    u, s, v = svd(a)
    rank = (s > rtol*s[0]).sum()
    return rank, v[rank:].T.copy()

def date_mtop(matlab_date):
    return datetime.fromordinal(int(matlab_date) - 366) + timedelta(days=float(matlab_date) % 1)\
           -timedelta(microseconds=divmod(timedelta(days=float(matlab_date) % 1).microseconds,1000)[1])

def time_mtop(matlab_time):
    matlab_time += 700000
    return datetime.fromordinal(int(matlab_time) - 366) + timedelta(days=float(matlab_time) % 1)\
           -timedelta(microseconds=divmod(timedelta(days=float(matlab_time) % 1).microseconds,1000)[1])

def datenum(s):
    d = datetime.strptime(s,'%d-%b-%Y')
    return d.toordinal()+366

def interpne(V,Xi,nodelist,method='linear'):
    if method =='linear':
        grids = meshgrid(*nodelist)
        flatten_grids = [grid.flatten() for grid in grids]
        cartcoord = list(zip(*flatten_grids))
        interp = LinearNDInterpolator(cartcoord, V.flatten('F'), fill_value=np.nan)
        Vpred = interp(*Xi)
        if isnan(Vpred):
            interp = interp2d(*flatten_grids, V, kind='cubic')
            Vpred = interp(*Xi)
    else:
        raise NotImplementedError('Method {method} is not available.....yet.'.format(method=method))
    return Vpred

def struct_to_dict(s, as_namedtuple=True):
    if as_namedtuple:
        if s.dtype.names:
            nt = namedtuple('db', s.dtype.names)
            nt = nt(**{x: s[x].flatten()[0] for x in s.dtype.names})
            return nt
    else:
        if s.dtype.names:
            return {x: s[x].flatten()[0] for x in s.dtype.names}

def nt_to_dict(s):
    d = {k: v for k, v in vars(s).items() if not k.startswith('_') and not isinstance(v, property)}
    return d

def convert_dtont(dictionary):
    for key, value in dictionary.items():
            if isinstance(value, dict):
                dictionary[key] = convert_dtont(value)
    return namedtuple('GenericDict', dictionary.keys())(**dictionary)

def matlab_percentile(in_data, percentiles):
    """
    Calculate percentiles in the way IDL and Matlab do it.

    By using interpolation between the lowest an highest rank and the
    minimum and maximum outside.

    Parameters
    ----------
    in_data: numpy.ndarray
        input data
    percentiles: numpy.ndarray
        percentiles at which to calculate the values

    Returns
    -------
    perc: numpy.ndarray
        values of the percentiles
    """

    data = np.sort(in_data)
    p_rank = 100.0 * (np.arange(data.size) + 0.5) / data.size
    perc = np.interp(percentiles, p_rank, data, left=data[0], right=data[-1])
    return perc

def mkdt(d):
    ll = []
    for k, v in d.items():
        if isinstance(v,np.ndarray):
            ll.append((k,v.dtype))
        elif isinstance(v,(np.float, np.int, np.int64, str)):
            ll.append((k,type(v)))
        else:
            ll.append((k,mkdt(v)))
    return ll

def copy_values(d, A):
    if A.dtype.names:
        for n in A.dtype.names:
            copy_values(d[n], A[n])
    else:
        A[:] = d

def dtorec(d):
    ll = mkdt(d)
    out = np.zeros(len(d), dtype=ll)
    for k, v in d.items():
        if isinstance(v, dict):
            out[k] = dtorec(v)
        else:
            out[k] = v
    return out

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Капел Бонанс () насеље је и општина у јужној Француској у региону Миди Пирене, у департману Аверон која припада префектури Мијо.

По подацима из 2011. године у општини је живело 94 становника, а густина насељености је износила 6,66 становника/-{km²}-. Општина се простире на површини од 14,12 -{km²}-. Налази се на средњој надморској висини од 650 метара (максималној 855 -{m}-, а минималној 444 -{m}-).

Демографија

График промене броја становника у току последњих година

Види још
 Списак општина у департману Аверон

Референце

Спољашње везе
 База података: -{Insee}-
 Capelle-Bonance на страници Националног географског института Француске
 Capelle-Bonance на страници организације -{INSEE}-
 Најближа насеља (километража, правац и координате)
 Положај места Capelle-Bonance на мапи Француске (са основним подацима о месту)
 План насеља Capelle-Bonance на мапи (-{Mapquest}-)

Департман Аверон у Француској
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Selena: The Series Part 3 Predictions
Selena Part 3 Predictions
If Selena: The Series Part 3 comes, what does it contain? Have you ever thought about it, or do you want it to come? If you've watched the series Selena, which aired on May 4, 2021, and you probably want the sequel to come, you're exactly where you should be. This biopic really affected us all deeply. We are saddened by the death of this successful and beautiful young woman. But we're more interested in her life, aren't we? Now let's look at what might happen in Selena: The Series Part 3.
Will Selena: The Series Part 3 Come out?
Selena: The Series Part 3
As you know, this series is about the sorrowful life of Selena Quintanilla who is a Tejano Music Icon. We watched her get killed in 1995 by Yolanda, who was her fan and the manager of her boutique. Everything happened quickly, just like her sudden death. And now we are curious and worried about the continuation of the show. It may seem like it's over with her dead, but of course there's something we don't know about her. And it would be great if we could see them in Selena part 3 with the help of flashbacks.
Whether the third season will come is a matter of curiosity. We want to know a lot more about her life, her family. Other viewers, like us, want to see about her murder trial process or what her family went through after Selena's death. We have some information about the thoughts of Zamora who is the producer of the show on this issue.
What Could Be The Plot Of Selena: The Series Part 3?
As for whether a sequel to this series will come, he says: "That's up to Netflix's discretion to say how many more," They initially set the number of episodes to 20 episodes, but now we have watched 18 episodes. Zamora says that whether the third party will arrive or not will also depend on the audience and their will. That's why your comments are very important. If you are suggesting that the third season is coming, show him this request and we will have the opportunity to watch Selena's story, her family, her husband Chris after this death.
He also adds the following words. "We actually did so much research that there were a lot of storylines we wanted to include but we couldn't. It was very clear to us that this was a family drama because she started so young." As we understand from these words, there are many more scenes that need to be shown to us and we are only too glad to watch them!
We hope they don't frustrate viewers' hopes and provide us with other information about Selena's life. Selena: The Series Part 3 could be a season with flashbacks about aspects of her life that we don't know about. It would also be good for us to see what her husband Chris and Selena's parents did after her death. How long did her fame last, or does it last now? Are her songs still being listened to or how much she has been listened to? That's what we want to know.
Selena: The Series Part 3 Release Date
Selena Quintanilla Perez
Based on the release date of the previous seasons, we think that the new season of this series will be released in December, in the last months of 2021. For the Selena: The Series Part 3 trailer date, we think it can be published in November with the same logic. It's just our idea. What do you think?
You probably want to see more, just like us. Stating your wishes in the comments will be a great help in terms of the arrival of the third season. Thank you for watching the video. See you!
Also Read: Selena: The Series Part 3 Release Date, Trailer – After The Death
In this article:Selena,Selena: The Series part 2,Selena: The Series part 3,The Plot of Selena


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Trump Leaves No Slight Unturned: Now He's Fighting With Rapper Jay-Z on Twitter
Donald Trump leaves no slight unturned. Despite having the weight of the nation on his shoulders, the president is wasting his time in a Twitter feud with rapper Zay-Z. And, who said Trump doesn't watch CNN. The 41-year-old rapper was interviewed bt Van Jones on Saturday. So what prompted Trump's Twitter outburst?...
Donald Trump Guilty of Obstruction of Justice: Robert Reich Explains (Video)
Donald Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice for attempting to thwart the investigation of Russian collusion with his 2016 election campaign. In fact, the case is almost a mirror of obstruction charges faced by disgraced President Richard Nixon, says Robert Reich....
New Trump Cheating Scandal Hinted in Book; Here's the Clues and Suspects!
Donald Trump is still double dipping in the White House, claims Michael Wolff, author of the Trump tell-all "Fire and Fury." But who has the audacity to be his mistress right under First Lady Melania Trump's nose? Wolff dropped the bombshell during an interview last night on "Real Time with Bill Maher." He refused to identify the woman, although he said he was "absolutely sure" Donald has been cheating all along....
Donald Trump Still Cheating on Melania Amid Porn Star Scandal, Author Says
Donald Trump has been caught with his pants down by reports of his affair with a porn star, but it doesn't end there. Michael Wolff, author of the controversial Trump book "Fire & Fury," says Trump is still being unfaithful to wife Melania. Wolff intimated that Trump is currently having an affair during an interview on "Real Time with Bill Maher."...
Trump Sets HUUGE New Record as President: Tells 2,000 Lies! (Watch!)
Donald Trump likes to be the President with the biggest and best of everything, and today he's being recognized for a major accomplishment. He told his 2,000th lie in less than year in office! Every president is known for something and Trump's legacy will be presidential lying. Nobody has done it better....
Trump White House Shit Storm Hits Category Five After Book Publication
The crisis surrounding Donald Trump's White House has risen to a Category Five Shit Storm following publication of Michael Wolff's book. The administration's only media strategy is to cry "lies" and "fake news," but it's clearly not enough. Trump has gone to that well once too often to deflect critical news media reports....
MEDIAPOLITICS
Fox News Scrambling Furiously to Salvage Trump Shipwreck (see!)
The Donald Trump administration is a shipwreck, torpedoed by insiders who confirmed the worst about the new President. But at Fox News the band plays on, furiously trying to mitigate the damage and keep the president's tattered reputation afloat. This time the damaged was caused, not be the fake news media, or left-wing activists. Instead, the very people Fox News has been hyping for months took the Trump, led by right-wing buccaneer Steve Bannon....
Billy Bush Sets Record Straight; That's Trump on 'Pussy Grabbing' Tape (vid)
Billy Bush, the other half of the conversation on Donald Trump's infamous "pussy grabbing" comments on an open mic, has come forward to confirm that, yes, that's The President of the United States uttering those words. He said it. "Grab 'em by the pussy," Bush writes in an op-ed piece published in The New York Times today....
CELEBRITIESCULTUREPOLITICS
Donald Trump Gets Midnight Visit From Christmas Ghost–Mike Flynn! (See!)
Donald Trump can't escape Mike Flynn. The disgraced National Security Adviser makes a midnight appearance in Trump's bedroom bound in chains in a hilarious "Saturday Night Live" spoof of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." The ghost in this case is far scarier than those who visited Scrooge....
COMEDYPOLITICS
GOP Congressman Joe Barton 'Retiring' After Nude Sexting Scandal
Rep. Joe Barton, the randy Texas congressman, said today he is changing course and will not seek re-election when his term ends next year, following revelations that he texted photos of his penis to a woman. He claimed the incident occurred several years ago when he was separated from his wife, but even more sexting messages have surfaced from when he was married....
Last Refuge of Scoundrels: Trump Hits NBC Despite His Own Misconduct
Politics really is the last refuge of scoundrels. In the height of hypocrisy, President Trump lambasted NBC and "Today" show host Matt Lauer, despite facing serious allegations of sexual misconduct himself. During the 2016 presidential campaign, more than a dozen women accused Trump of sexual harassment or sexual assault....


She loves to use the swiper at the entry to our building. She loves to open our front door with the key.
In fact she loves using keys so much she keeps asking when she can get her own set!
Seeing as my answer to this question is never the answer that Ava wants to hear she decided that she would make her own set of keys to use.
To make sure her keys "work" Ava traced around my apartment key, mailbox key and building swiper. She then coloured them in and I laminated them to make them a little more sturdy than paper.
To go with Ava's special set of keys she made a special lock for our front door.
Ava's set of hand drawn keys are the perfect accompaniment to her hand drawn credit cards and driver's license etc. You can find a post about these here.
Ava's keys, credit cards camera and money. The $100 bills are tissues!
The contents of Ava's handbag?


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This is a long overdue tour of our new(ish) apartment in Park Slope. Check the slideshow below or click here for the gallery of images.
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This is year two for the Infinite Regress Collective Mixtape project on Tim's blog of the same name, Infinite Regress.
Tim collects all of the cover songs people submit, and begins posting them day by day for listening and commenting.
Once it's all finished up he burns them all to CDs with killer original cover art and sends them out to participants, friends and loved ones.
For me, it's a great excuse to be creative and make something for the sake of making something. What a country!
This year I decided to stay in this century and had a go with "Ready for the Floor" originally by Hot Chip. You can check the post on Infinite Regress with more description.
Here is the cover itself for your listening pleasure.
I highly recommend keeping up with the daily posts on IR - they are sure to be varied, inspirational and good ol' fashioned fun.
0 Comments Published by Matt on Monday, December 8, 2008 at 10:50 AM.
I mean - how awesome are these?
Love the little adventure dudes on the ends of these teabags, custom designed for a posh cafe in Istanbul.
Yeah, I'm in one of my "posting a lot" moods. Why not?
0 Comments Published by Matt on Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM.
Well here's a little ditty just for you ! I've put together this (almost) hour long mix called groovetime. It's a collection of some of my favorite songs I've heard in the last few months, pasted together with a few extra edits and treats along the way.
3. Paper Planes (DFA Remix) - M.I.A.
Hit me up with some comments and tell me what you think!
2 Comments Published by Matt on Friday, December 5, 2008 at 3:00 PM.
I've had this task floating around my mindgrapes for the past few months and am finally ready to check it off the list.
Taking a cue from Rebecca at eensies, I hooked up Stupidfresh with some Feed Burner services. For starters, the RSS link on the right hand side of the page should work much more smoothly now. This is for the blog reader nerdusses out there like myself.
There is also now the option to sign up to receive an email in your inbox every time I post to this here site. What could be easier! Pop in your email address in the box on the right side of the page, or just click here to subscribe to Stupidfresh.
3 Comments Published by Matt on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 9:48 AM.
Mashups are cool and all. You know - when a DJ takes the instrumental of one song and layers the acapella vocal of a different song on top of it? They've been created by DJs for years - some would contest it started in the 80s. But the medium really hit it's stride in the past three years or so.
Some of you might be familiar with the work of Girl Talk who seamlessly combines dozens of tracks into one cohesive song. While I do love his stuff, it goes beyond the pure mashup format - a winning combination of just two tracks.
A mashup is at it's best when the resulting song becomes a new entity unto itself. It goes beyond two disparate songs which blend well together, or just creating funny moments hearing two disparate styles/genres/decades/etc. combined.
The best mashups transcend the work of the originals and form a new wholly realized song.
The finest example I've heard to date is "Easy Heaven" by BRAT productions. It takes the instrumental of The Commodores "Easy (Like a Sunday Morning)" and replaces the lyrics with The Cure's "Just Like Heaven." It's perfection.
And finally, yes - I did create that image of Robert Smith as a member of The Commodores. Not bad eh?


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Q: How to mount all bucket in Google Cloud Storage From document https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gcs-fuse, when use FUSE GCS there is only mound predefine bucket to the specified path.
In case I have many buckets, show how I can mount all buckets as root directory can access or create any bucket as the directory?

A: gcsfuse doesn't support mounting multiple buckets in a single process, nor does it support creating buckets for you. You'll need to create buckets in the usual way outside gcsfuse, then run one gcsfuse process per desired bucket.

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2021 Week 11 Discussion
Discussion in 'NFL General Discussion' started by TJ, Nov 18, 2021.
TJ Dez Caught It
We have Patriots vs. Falcons today, on a Super Bowl LI rematch. I mentioned in the picks I sent to SportsChump how the Patriots will own the Falcons for all eternity and the 7 point spread is not high enough for me. If I still had money to gamble, I'd bet a lot on the Patriots -7.
But of course, what everybody is talking about is the game of the week: Cowboys vs. Chiefs. Dak vs. Mahomes mano a mano (even though they'll never be on the field at the same time). I can't understand why the Chiefs are STILL 2 point favorites. Feels like Vegas is overreacting to last week: "Oh, KC is back to normal...good". The Cowboys, a top 2 team in the NFC should feel disrespected. Again, if I still had money I'd put a lot on the Cowboys moneyline...maybe include them in a teaser. Too bad those days are gone...
TJ, Nov 18, 2021
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That Cowboys-Chiefs game should be a good one. Seems like a battle of two teams going in different directions. I'm really looking forward to it.
Eagles host the Saints this Sunday. The Eagles have been the best rushing team in the NFL the past 3 weeks and the Saints are #1 in the NFL against it. Miles Sanders will be returning from the injured list so kind of a tough game for him to come back to. The Eagles have been much improved overall recently but still haven't won at home this season. This is a good game to show that they really have turned things around and would find themselves in the thick of the wildcard race with a win.
DawkinsINT, Nov 19, 2021
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28-3 = 25. The Patriots beat the Falcons 25-0.
It's like poetry...it rhymes...
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TJ's name in bright lights!!!
And nice call on the Pats. Already off to a healthy lead.
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SportsChump, Nov 19, 2021
YES!! I'm 1 for 5 so far. I'm only nervous about the Bengals and Giants picks...the others look very solid to me.
Amari Cooper has been placed in the Covid list and will miss the next two games, against the Chiefs and Raiders.
Usually I would write a full essay about how it's not the end of the world and we can still have a good game, since Gallup is back and Jerry was smart and resisted the urge to trade him (re-signing him will be next to impossible), but this time I only have one word and only one:
F*CK!!!
The Eagles ran for 242 yards against the NFL's #1 rush defense. The defense is still pretty bad but I wish earlier in the season that Sirianni would have ran the ball to help disguise it a bit. I love the physical football this team is playing offensively.
I'll never get excited about a football game again...What a letdown...it's ok to lose, especially against a team like the Chiefs. It's not ok to lose playing like that. If you tell me our defense would limit them to 19 points, I would've jumped and said COOL!!! WE WON BY 20 AT LEAST,RIGHT?
I don't understand this team, I swear...
Teej went 2-3 against the spread this week. Ya' boy bounced back and went 4-1. Giggity.
Dawk, you got time to try this week? I'll need your picks by no later than Wednesday morning.
Oh.... and here's my take on Matt Stafford and Matt Ryan, if you're so inclined.
A tale of two Matts - Sports Chump
TJ and DawkinsINT like this.
SportsChump said: ↑
No thanks. This year I am being a "fan only". No fantasy sports, no pick'em leagues....just rooting for whomever I want to win the game. This is my first year being this way since I was a teen. Loving it.


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The 10th National Conference of ABISY was held at Mysore from December 24th to 26th 2015 on "Women in Indian culture: From ancient to Modern" (2).
12.18 am (24-12-2015) Senate Hall, Mysuru: M. A. Jayashree sang an inagural song, read "Sankalpa" for the Conference and then, all stood up to sing Janaganamana!
The governors and VIPs arrived and the inagural ritual started.
Those who were on the Dias:
Balamukund.
Prof K. S. Rangappa, VC, University of Mysuru was the Chief Gust of Honour
HE Vajubhai Vala Karnataka
HE Mridula Sihna Goa
Sri Suresh Joshi Bhayyaji, Sarkaryavah, RSS was the guest speaker.
Satish Mittal.
Tontadarya, ex-MLC
The speech of Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi: 12.25 pm: The 10th national conference of the Akhil Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Yojana began here on Thursday with RSS general secretary Suresh Bhaiyyaji Joshi finding fault with the tradition of confining women to household work[1]. Talking in Hindi, he said, family system was the root of the country, that should be protected by ensuring education, health and safety of womenfolk. Delineating on the need to set right the history of the country, Joshi said, the samiti has taken up many works to introduce the core strength of the country to the people. "While Aryans were indigenous people of India, Britishers falsely propagated that they came from outside. The truth was established after researching deep into the issue. The origin of Sindhu-Saraswati River has been traced", added Joshi[2]. Addressing the gathering at the inaugural of the conference titled 'Woman in Indian culture through the ages' by the yojana, Mr. Joshi said there was a need for women to emerge from the confines of their homes and assume roles in industry, education, politics and other spheres of life. If a country were to achieve progress economically, socially and geographically, there was a need to empower women, he said emphasising the importance of creating awareness on the issue. He also said women should populate not only the army, but also the air force and navy. While favouring bringing Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and various adivasis into the mainstream, who he said "may be weak, but not unwise", Mr. Joshi said that issues relating to rural and tribal women, who comprise 70 per cent of women, should be brought on the agenda of the discussions. He called for the need to establish a just society on the basis of equality that is free from western influence. Mr. Joshi emphasised the need to present correct history. Research helped bust the myth that Aryans had invaded India before the Mughals and the British. That Aryans were not foreigners, but were locals, had been proved by scientific evidence, he claimed[3].
What HE Mridula Sihna Goa spoke: 12.50 to 1.15 pm: HE Mridula Sihna Goa spoke in Hindi. Referring to the practice among a section of the women to avoid bearing children, Goa Governor Mridula Sinha described motherhood as nature's best gift to a woman[4]. Speaking after inaugurating the national conference organised by the Akhila Bharatiya Itihasa Sankalana Yojana here on Thursday, Ms. Sinha said that she still advises her daughter against forgetting to serve her husband his food even if she does not have the time to cook[5]. "But, never should a woman go hungry," she said. Also, she went on to say that it was important for men to discuss women's issues[6]…………the three-day meet should discuss the relevance of nature, culture and decency as they are inter-connected with each other. While nature remains intact after being created, the Indian culture is largely dependent on the nature.Describing motherhood as god's gift to womenfolk, Sinha regretted that new-age women were avoiding motherhood, that was once protected and preserved, equally contributing to the welfare of the society[7].
HE Vajubhai Vala spoken on the conference: 1.16 to 1.23 pm: HE Vajubhai Vala Karnataka spoke in Hindi. Governor Vajubhai Vala, who presided over the event, said that women, who play a strong role inside their houses, should display their strength even outside. Though he regretted the delay in the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill that seeks to set aside 33 per cent of the seats in Parliament and State Assemblies, Mr. Vala said that many women are now occupying powerful posts in the bureaucracy. ….Women nowadays have taken a lead in many fields, with 70 per cent women bagging top honours on the academic front[8]. Most importantly, it's women who inculcate culture among children. Be it any women, men should ensure their safety and security[9].On the role of women in politics, Vala said, there are examples of women leaders occupying top posts like president and prime minister in India, while in western countries it is more common to see women leaders occupying key positions. Thus, the entire inagural session was carried on in Hindi. After lunch, the paper-reading session started in different rooms of the building situated next to library. The Kannda and Sanskrit sessions were arranged seperately, whereas, the Hindi and English papers were mixed together and the paper-presenters, particularly, those who presented in English could find difficult, as their papers were interpersed between many Hindi papers.
25-12-2015 (Friday): Paper reading session. Most of the papers were in Hindi and the delegates who did not know Hindi could not understand what was presented. They felt they missed important information, data and information that might have been contained in such presentation. And many papers were in the form of "articles" and not of the nature of "reseach paper". The emphasis made the title and the sub-themes made the presenters to repeat, duplicate and even rehash the same points, aspects and subject matter. Of course, the "cut and paste" methodology was also noted and pointed out by the organizers themselves.
2.30 to 4.40 pm: General Body Meeting of ABISY.
5.00 to 7.40 pm: Visit to Mysuru palace lightning.
26-12-2015 (Saturday): Paper reading session continued with the same conditions pointed out above. Had the papers been scrutinized properly, such things could not have been occurred. The corrections, modifications and rewriting could have been intimated so that the quality of paper presentation could have been maintained. Such exercise would be useful and educative for budding researchers in paper preparation and presentation. Women paper presenters had not addressed the issues, problems faced by the Indian women. Some women appeared to have felt that "they are happy" and therefore, other "women are also happy". Most of the woman paper presenters had not been aware of the current issues dealt with in India in different spheres and thus, papers had been of "glorification of the past" nature. Even in the globalization context also, though only few papers were presented, they had been in a dilemma as to whether to point out the positive aspects or the negative aspects that affect the Indian society.
Why papers deviated much away from the theme taken for the conference: The hospitality had been excellent, but, unfortunately, the academic proceedings had been marred by some inherent factors. The subject matter of the whole proceedings was to concentrate on women-issues focussing on the current relating to ancient moral values. The first circular declared that the central subject proposed was "Women in Indian culture: From ancient to present" adding that research papers were also invited on the following topics such as –
History in the Puranas
Vaavasi (Tribal) history
Miscellaneous (Archaeology, inscriptions, numismatics, art and architectue, spread of Indian culture abroad etc)
But, the Second circular still enlarged the topics deviating from the women and women-issues givilng the list as follows:
Origin of Indian culture and women
Women in Saraswati-Sidhu civilization.
Women in epic-age
Women in Puranas
Women in Jaina-Buddhist period.
Women in Mauryan and post-Mauryan period.
Women in Gupta and post-Gupta period
Women depicted in indian art / performing art, paintings, wooden, terracota, stone and metallic art / folklore, music, dance etc.
Women in folk tradition and culture
Women in medieval age.
Role of women in freedom struggle
Globalization and Indian women
Other general topics are also as follow:
Other Academic subjects:
Archaeology, Epigraphy, numismatics, art and architectue, Indian culture.
The final circular dated 16-10-2015 repeated the above. Thus, the circulars deviated from the theme of the conference, with the diverged subjects and digressing from the idea of the subject matter conceived. Accordingly, the paper-presenters, particularly, the majority of the casual-types had taken full liberty to take any subject and came with "hurried-haste-rehassed" stuff that was criticized by the organizers and the sectional presidents. As they seperated Sanskrit and Kannda paper presentation, Hindi paper presentation or the English paper presentation could have been held seperately. As most of the paper presenters did not follow any "style-sheet" and research methodology, they can be taught about. Incidentally, as ABISY and BISSs have been working on "history writing and re-writing", they should conduct some workshop for their "paper-presenters" as to how to prepare a reasearch paper. They should be asked to attend IHC, SIHC etc., to listen to historians, interact with others and get experience.
Valedictory function: The valedictory funstion was held at the A.V. Hall without any lack lusture and the same speakers again dwelt upon the same issues in the same manner. Again, the entire ritual was in Hindi. Instead of getting opinion from the delegates about the academic conduct of the conference, it was wound up in a much routine manner. When a particular person was speaking "over-enthusiastically", the audience started clapping several times. Instead of getting the hint, he continued to talk with spirit provoking them to clap again. There was no indication as to when the 11th National Conference would be held after three years in 2018.
[1] Laiq A. Khan, Don't restrict women to household word, The Hindu, Mysuru, December 25, 2015, Updated: December 25, 2015 05:46 IST
[2] http://www.deccanherald.com/content/519415/men-should-empower-women-says8200governor.html
[3] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/dont-restrict-women-to-household-work/article8028161.ece
[4] http://newsnirantara.in/?p=6305
[5] Star of Mysore online, Goa Guv opens Women's Meet, December 25, 2015; http://www.starofmysore.com/searchinfo.asp?search1=45313&search2=newsheadlines
[8] Deccan Herald, Men should empower women, says Governor, Mysuru: Dec 25, 2015, DHNS.
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The 6th Vedic workshop held at Kozhokode, Kerala India from 7th to 10th 2014
Bhaskaran Nayar. T. P. Mahadevan
The sixth international Vedic workshop [hereinafter mentioned as SIVW for brevity] was held in Kozhiokode from January 7 to 10 2014 and there have been a lot of publicity in the Indian media and internet by the interested and involved carried on. Ironically, in facebook[1], twitter[2] and blogs[3] also there have been entries, but when I asked for or tried to get more details they could not give. Incidentally, there has been some opposition to the workshop, as I could note from the internet search[4]. As I could not attend it, because of the clashing of dates with the international conference on Mahabharata [mentioned as ICMB] in Tirupati from 7th to 11th 2014. In fact, I was eager to note how the non-Indians could have acted and interacted in the proceedings of the Vedic workshop. So I just started enquiring and gathering details about it. During the ICMB itself, I was discussing about SIVW with the hundreds of Sanskrit Pundits, professors and scholars came there to present papers. Particularly, I interacted with the research students from Rastriya Sanskrit Vidhyapeeth, Tirupati who registered with the ICMB more than 170. Very few knew about it, but they did not want to attend for many reasons. When enquired, they gave the following:
The delegate fees was very high, perhaps half of the salary they receive in teaching Sanskrit in schools and other places.
They cannot get leave, as they have already in their jobs.
Even if they forego salary cut etc., their Masters / Gurus / Employers did not encourage.
They are not familiar with the Vedic studies, as they have chosen different topics for their M.Phil, Ph.D research and dissertation.
Of 100, only few – two from Chennai, one from AP and another from Pondicherry know him[5]. Ironically none of the Sanskrit Pundits, scholars and professors responded that they do not know him even after showing his photograph!
Elizabeth Tucker, Cezary Galewich
Non-Indian or Foreign domination in the 6th Vedic Workshop conducted in India: This observation is made for the purpose of Vedas, Vedic studies and Vedic research carried on in India and outside. When Max Mueller translated Vedas without seeing or coning to India, and other translators also did, reservations were expressed about their quality of translations. In spite of such doubts expressed and mistakes pointed out, their printed books were, are and being printed, sold and filled in the libraries of Universities, colleges and even in Sanskrit schools. When critical editions have been published for Ramayana and Mahabharata, none has done for Vedas. About the dates of Vedas also none has fixed conclusively, yet different dates are followed for research and historical purposes. Under such circumstances only, this aspects is noted and discussed. The Doctors / Professors who chaired the sessions have been as follows as per their programme:
Vedic workshop – old photo
Masato Fujii,
Michael Witzel,
M. G. S. Narayanan
Alexander Lubotsky
Didhiti Biswas,
Mislav Ježić,
Patrick Olivelle,
Joanna Jurewicz,
Cezary Galewicz,
S. A. S. Sarma,
Michael Witzel ,
Kiyotaka Yoshimizu,
Joel Brereton,
C. M. Neelakantan,
Jarrod Whitaker.
Renate Sohnen-Thieme,
S. S. Bahulkar,
P. Bhaskaran Nayar
Micheal Witzel, F B J Kupier, Fredrik Kortlandt
Of the 18, only 6 have been Indians, i.e, 33% and 67% been non-Indians. So, in India, I have to take that even in subjects on Vedas, 2/3rds scholars had to be from outside India and dominate the show. However, the chantings, rites, rituals, rites etc., have to be done by Indians and the non-Indians would go on photographing, videographing, commenting, criticizing and even recommending that such and such rituals should have been performed like this and not like that.
Demonstration of Veda chanting in progress at 6th international workshop on the Vedas at Iringal Artand Crafts Village, Vadakara, on Wednesday 08-01-2014 (Coutesy – The Hindu)
Experimental "Yagnas" conducted for research: In fact, traditional Vedic scholars say that chantings, rites, rituals, rites etc., can be performed only for the purpose and not for demonstration, fun or observation, as being done in laboratories. No doubt, scholars like Frits Staal could have recorded "The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar". Yagnas are conducted in different parts of India, even in homes depening upon the exigencies, but they are not publicized. Nowdays, just for publicity, some sort of "Yagnas for Peace" are conducted. In Kerala, the conduct of different Yagnas have been reported and attracted by the foreigners. At every time, the "sacrifice of animal" had become a controversial issue[6]. Doing Yoga by persons and getting benefits is different from doing Yoga by somebody and that is watched by others either directly or through film or on TV. Such seeing cannot bring any benefit. Here, in the case of "Conduct of Yagnas" for experimental purposes and shooting them, carrying to aboard and screen them as proof, this is the way Yagnas are conducted in India or were conducted 5000 years ago.
map-Simplified plan of the sacrificial area.with abbre.details
Reenacted, demonstrated and imitated Vedic representations could be taken as original, authentic and accurate: Here, in 6th Vedic workshop, Brahmins were asked to chant Vedas and recorded by the foreign researchers. Ironically, the Brahmins were questioned by Brahmins only or act as interpreters, while the foreign delegates were watching, photographing, and videographing. When mantras are meant for chanting at a particular time, place and purpose and they are done for the purpose demonstration, exhibition and display, how the real effect could be produced is not known. In Tamilnadu, the DK-fellows were imitating some of the rituals to show that they could also do without believing God, religion etc. Later, under the guise of Rationalist Society etc., some people started doing such rites. Thus, now for the purpose of International Workshop, such reenactments are carried on. Therefore, the reality is not there, but only, some sort of dramatic performance is taken as real.
Map used by the priests to lay out the sacrificial area -Barsi 2001
Vedic chanting at odd hours: Nowadays, Yoga has become some sort of international business. Even non-Hindus started claiming that it is not Hindu. Thus, we have many Yoga-experts, teachers and gurus of US, Europe and even Arabia. The poor Christian and Muslim authorities many times have to take contradicting stands about their respective believing clergy turning into heathen or kafiri mode. Of course, in Tamilnadu, ot the land of "Dravidas/Dravidians", Karunanidhi has already accepted and started doing Yoga, that too, from a "Aryan" master! So here also, Vedic job-workers have started doing their work on request or contract basis. Amazing and wonderful programme has been chalked out to accommodate them to chant according their tune.
For example, there were programs like this[7]:
4 08.45 – 09.1508-01-2014 Assembling in the Veda chanting hall
5 09.15 – 10.15 Rgveda chanting session – Kerala tradition
8 11.30 – 12.30 Sāmaveda chanting session – Kerala tradition
9 12.30 – 01.30 Yajurveda chanting session – Kerala tradition
11 02.30 – 03.00 Sāmaveda chanting session – Tamil tradition in Kerala
22 03.45 – 04.1509-01-2014 Akshara Sloka demonstration (only Sanskrit and Manipravaala slokas)
How these chanting would demonstrate the reality of chanting, the chanters and the listened within half-an-hour before lunch, after lunch and at odd hours.
(To be concluded)
[1] https://www.facebook.com/events/630662076946959/?ref=ts&fref=ts
[2] https://twitter.com/RajivMessage/status/418567638755729408
[3] http://sanskritnetloka.blogspot.in/2013/03/6th-international-vedic-workshop-2014.html
[4] http://sookta-sumana.blogspot.in/2014/01/organizers-of-vedic-workshop-adequately.html
[5] https://vedaprakash.wordpress.com/2014/01/13/international-conferences-on-mahabharat-held-at-tirupati-and-vedic-workshop-at-kozikode-contrasted-in-the-indian-context-2014/
[6] Frits Staal, The Vedic Ritual of the Fire Altar, Motilal Banarasidas, New Delhi, 2001, Vol,II, pp.464-468.
[7] http://ivw2014.org/images/IVW-Program-Format.pdf
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An idea is a powerful weapon: why radio is the answer
By Nicholas Stuart
October 23, 2018 — 10.00pm
Warning: put down any power tools and ensure you're not operating heavy machinery before you read the next sentence. We've been outflanked!
Of course, unless you're completely benighted or under some sort of strange, personal news blackout that prevents you even glancing at the front pages of newspapers, you'll probably have already realised that China is extending and developing its relations with our close Pacific neighbours. This was, after all, only to be expected. Beijing and Taipei have long recognised the value of these countries' votes in the United Nations; it's not much of a step from there to glance at the map and recognise the islands' have other significance as well. As China began expanding its international reach it was only natural it would similarly strengthen other relationships, including defence links.
And this is the point at which our conservative friends can start hyperventilating again.
China is extending and developing its relations with our close Pacific neighbours. Credit:PLA
It's hardly a surprise though, is it? Nature abhors a vacuum and so, as we've been demonstrating less and less interest in this region, others have occupied the space.
The clearest example of this has been the strategically idiotic, fiscally-driven and wilfully blind destruction of Canberra's lone voice in the region, the (once vital) ABC shortwave service, Radio Australia.
Sure, the internet's better than a crackly radio signal. But simply to access the net requires computers and bandwidth, neither of which are readily available to the audiences in the South Pacific. And even if someone can manage to obtain a connection, the next problem is finding services, particularly news and information ones, that are relevant to your situation.
Someone in Apia (Samoa) is unlikely to be transfixed by events in Adelaide (South Australia) unless, of course, it's their Seven's team playing at the oval. Similarly a person in Buka (Bougainville) is likely to be bored by reports from Belgrade or Bulgaria, although not information about BHP Billiton. RA provided an independent, reliable news service specifically dedicated to the needs of its audience. Critically, it offered a vital, secure and trusted way of connecting islanders to their capitals and, through that, to the world.
The big advantage of shortwave services was that they could be heard; were relevant; and formed a starting point for a community. But as far as the ABC was concerned the broadcasts were nothing more than a big bag of money to raid in order to boost its domestic budget.
Our critical means of Pacific engagement – using the soft power of news – has been ditched and replaced by penny-pinching myopia.
It's strategy could represent a masterly case study of how to achieve a pre-desired outcome. Firstly, the corporation reduced the strength of the broadcasts. Then, because no one could hear the signal anymore, it could accurately announce there was no audience, giving it the opportunity to pull the plug and "redeploy" the money.
Michelle Guthrie's pay packet wasn't directly aligned to maintaining our voice in the Pacific. And so a vital link to our neighbours, together with decades of irreplaceable broadcasting experience, was callously discarded. And the towers that used to beam that vital signal across the waters? Well, some people think this audience is valuable. Al Jazeera is expanding in the region and is re-broadcast in Fiji. China and NHK (Japan) are also expanding services. And now, amazingly, we've got one last chance to resurrect this vital capacity.
Graeme Dobell, Geoff Heriot, and Jemima Garrett have just produced what's potentially the Australian Strategic Policy Institute's most important strategy paper ever. As experienced broadcasters they've had long personal relationships with the key players in the region – PM's and opposition parliamentarians, business leaders and the shapers of civil society. They're the right people to compile this paper because they comprehend, intimately, the shape of the region and how it works.
Together they bring more than a century of understanding to this significant issue; their recommendations are critical.
The answer? Measured words spell out the need to immediately engage by establishing an independent broadcaster that can pick up the pieces and re-connect us to our neighbourhood. I fear, if anything, they're not ambitious enough, so let me put it more brutally, harshly, and emphatically. Unless we urgently refund international broadcasting we may as well abandon any 'leadership' role in the region and double our defence spending.
The F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter. Credit:Reuters
If anything we should add to this, using the terrific base of the brilliant academic forums (like the ANU's New Mandela) to reinforce and amplify the news discourse by illuminating it with a conjoined intellectual discussion.
The Communications and Foreign Affairs department's are currently reviewing our broadcasting services in the Asia-Pacific and the issue of soft power. This means there's finally a chance to undo the neglect and repair our relationship.
It's that simple. The choice is stark.
Our critical means of Pacific engagement – using the soft power of news to influence the region positively – has been ditched and replaced by penny-pinching myopia. The good news is we can now calculate, exactly, the strategic cost of this shortsightedness.
The Joint Strike Fighter (we received our tenth on Monday; 65 more to come) program costs, extremely roughly, $15.5 billion. We'll need to spend a similar amount keeping the aircraft flying, although that's without ancillary costs of training pilots, maintaining airfields, buying missiles, etc, etc. That's hard power.
RA's yearly cost: $20 million. Soft power.
Weigh up the comparison yourself.
Nicholas Stuart is a Canberra-based writer.


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Albemarle to decide in January on Pantops pedestrian bridge study
Pedestrian bridge across Wards Road in Lynchburg
A key goal of the 2008 Pantops Master Plan was to find ways to make it safer to travel without using a vehicle, but some Albemarle County residents are not satisfied that enough has been done to support the rapidly developing growth area.
"We need a pedestrian bridge to join both sides of Richmond Road as a first step in integrating us into a cohesive walkable community," said Diane Berlin, a member of the Pantops Community Advisory Committee.
"The great divide [of U.S. 250] would finally be breached and Pantops would be one step closer to the walkable community it is supposed to be," she told the Board of Supervisors earlier this month.
Berlin's request came during the early stages of the county's budget review process.
"This will be an issue in the budget deliberations in March," said County Executive Tom Foley.
Between now and January, Albemarle County planning staff will further refine a request to include a pedestrian bridge in the capital improvement program, a budget that allows for infrastructure to be planned for and invested in over multiple years.
Berlin said Albemarle should begin its search by investigating a bridge that carries pedestrians across Wards Road in Lynchburg between Liberty University and shopping centers.
The $1.5 million bridge opened in 2011, two years after the Lynchburg City Council adopted a concept.
"It includes an elevator and stairs on one side and stairs and exit ramps on the other," Berlin said. "It could easily accommodate hundreds of pedestrians — parents with carriages, dogs, walkers, runners, bikers, wheelchairs and scooters."
However, cities in Virginia have more authority to construct improvements, whereas counties generally do not have public works departments. The Wards Road bridge, for instance, was built with no involvement or funding from the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Pedestrian bridges on Pantops or along U.S. 29 would almost certainly need funding from VDOT.
A possible option would be to use VDOT's revenue-sharing program, which allows for localities to receive up to $10 million for transportation projects provided a local match is made.
Albemarle recently used the program for several sidewalk projects.
But according to David Benish, Albemarle's chief of planning, VDOT has discouraged the county from applying for any more revenue-sharing money until the sidewalks are completed.
"There have been cost over-runs on those projects and it has made it difficult to complete the funding," Benish said.
To prepare for an application next year, Benish said the county could undertake a study to evaluate specific locations and develop a more accurate budget.
The Board of Supervisors, with two new members, is expected to vote in January on whether to proceed with a study.
Outgoing supervisor Jane Dittmar cautioned her colleagues about the many competing infrastructure needs in Albemarle. She suggested the county try to raise funds through people who would directly benefit from a Pantops bridge.
"Maybe the shopping centers managers and owners, some of the stores, the Montessori school should be all part of that discussion," Dittmar said.
Supervisor Ann Mallek said the Friends of the Crozet Library group raised $1.7 million to help ensure that facility was constructed.
"Citizens do have a lot of power and influence to do this and it takes a lot of effort to work together, but it's certainly a worthy thing to work on," Mallek said.
Across the nation, similar bridges are built and funded using a variety of approaches.
For instance, the Metropolitan Council of St. Paul, Minnesota, recently approved a $9.65 million bridge that will connect Vikings Stadium to light rail across a busy highway. The NFL team is paying up to $6 million for the bridge, with $4 million coming from the council. The Vikings will be repaid in kind through advertising at a new rail station.
Earlier this month, officials in Ypsilanti, Michigan, opened a 185-foot-long bridge that crosses the Huron River. The city contributed about $285,000 to the project, which cost about $1 million, with the rest coming from grants from entities such as the Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund and contributions from other local governments.
Officials in Evansville, Indiana, dedicated a pedestrian bridge connecting a state hospital complex with a future park. The project cost about $2.2 million, with 80 percent of funding coming from the federal government and the rest from local sources. Construction took 32 weeks.
Jamestown, New York, broke ground last month on a $2 million project for two pedestrian bridges over the Chadakoin River. Eighty percent of the project was paid for by a transportation alternative grant from the New York Department of Transportation, with the city paying the rest.
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A team led by University of British Columbia researchers is hoping to find out if road salt in streams could be harming Pacific salmon. (Courtesy Pacific Salmon Foundation)
Is road salt killing salmon in B.C.? Researchers look to study impacts
A group of researchers and community volunteers are teaming up
Tricia Weel
Nov. 8, 2022 12:00 p.m.
A group of B.C. university researchers is hoping to find out if road salt in streams could be harming Pacific salmon.
Because Pacific salmon are in decline and all the factors involved aren't known, the team will investigate the seasonal impact of road salt in more than 20 streams around the Lower Mainland and will also grow baby salmon from eggs in high salt water in the lab.
Even though adult salmon live in salt water, they grow up in fresh water, UBC researcher Chris Wood noted in a release. There's also evidence that moderate salt levels t a young age have caused mortality and stunted growth, he said.
While there are federal and provincial regulations that set maximum salt levels in streams, but these levels are not routinely monitored.
No one has looked yet at patterns of salt exposure, and with use of road salt in Canada increasing by about 2.5 per cent each year – with many municipalities using thousands of tonnes of salt for winter maintenance each year – the team of researchers and community partners is hopeful they'll be able to find whether road salt is a factor in the decline of the Pacific salmon population.
Thanks to a Natural Sciences and Engineering Resource Council of Canada grant, UBC researchers Patricia Schulte, Chris Wood and Colin Brauner are joining forces with partners from Simon Fraser University, the British Columbia Institute of Technology and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, along with 13 local streamkeeper organizations to monitor salt levels in streams.
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Instruments will be st up to monitor salt levels continuously, with volunteers downloading the data onto their phones every two months, to help the research team discover any patterns as well as 'pulses' in winter.
Once they collect that information, the team will take freshly fertilized salmon eggs and raise them in salt 'pulses' based on what has been measured in nature during the five-year project.
"We'll watch them hatch and see how they're doing, answering questions like, is a short, high spike not a problem if it comes down quickly enough?" Woods said.
There's ways for the public to help as well – the team says community engagement is key and they're looking for streamkeeper groups and volunteers to become 'citizen scientists' to help.
The public can help too, by using sand instead of salt, using pet-friendly salts that are thought to be less dangerous for animals, including salmon, and if using road salt, to spreed it out evenly, not in clumps.
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package com.epam.catgenome.util.sort;

import htsjdk.tribble.readers.AsciiLineReader;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import static com.epam.catgenome.util.sort.AbstractFeatureSorter.isEmptyLine;

public class Parser {

    private static final Pattern TAB_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("\t");

    private int chrCol;
    private int startCol;
    private String commentPrefix;

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SortableRecordCodec.class);

    public Parser(int chrCol, int startCol) {
        this.chrCol = chrCol;
        this.startCol = startCol;
        this.commentPrefix = "#";
    }

    public SortableRecord readNextRecord(AsciiLineReader reader) {
        String nextLine;
        try {
            nextLine = reader.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            LOG.error("Error reading line: {}", e);
            return null;
        }
        if (nextLine == null) {
            return null;
        } else if (isEmptyLine(nextLine) || nextLine.startsWith(commentPrefix)) {
            return readNextRecord(reader);
        }

        try {
            return createRecord(nextLine);
        } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
            LOG.error("Error creating record: {}", e);
            throw e;
        }
    }

    public SortableRecord createRecord(String nextLine) {
        String[] fields = TAB_PATTERN.split(nextLine, -1);

        String chr = fields[chrCol];

        int start;
        try {
            start = Integer.parseInt(fields[startCol].trim());
        } catch (NumberFormatException e) {
            start = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
        }

        return new SortableRecord(chr, start, nextLine);
    }
}