Not too much exploring recently, at least, not with great purpose. 🙂 I started classes on Monday with Alliance Français, and if you are looking to learn French, I HIGHLY recommend them. I'm only 3 days in and think both our professor and the class structure are brilliant. I will defintely be continuing my studies with them in Calgary when I return home.
I took an online placement test before I was put in this class, and it definitely made me feel discouraged by how little I understood. The beginner class is A-1, and I was placed in A-2.
There are 10 students in my class- 2 from Italy, 2 from China, 2 from Canada, 1 from Spain, 1 from Turkey, and 1 from Japan. They all took A-1 together so I am the only newbie to the group, but they are all very friendly. It's a good mix of people, and what I truly appreciate is how close we all are in our level of comprehension, and just vary a bit in our speaking skills (or at least, our confidence in our speaking skills). There are definitely moments in class where I feel intimidated or frustrated with how difficult the language is, but I find that the challenge really tests my skill and I feel like I will make great improvements in my speech and comprehension as a result. It's awesome!!
I was starting to feel a bit homesick the other night and decided to research ways to meet people in Paris.
I found many options. One was "Franglish" (www.franglish.eu) a twice-weekly event held at various pubs and cafes, where the purpose is to speaking both English and French to practice your second language. It's kind of like speed-dating, without the dating part. 😉 You speak one-on-one with an assigned partner: entirely in French for 7 minutes, then entirely in English for 7 minutes (or vice versa) , then switch partners. It ran from 7pm to 9pm and I spoke to six people in total. It went quite quickly and I made friends with the lovely woman sitting next to me (who was from the UK who moved to Paris in January), and the Parisians I chatted with included a lawyer, a retiree, three students and an urban planner. It was fun and exciting, but it was definitely a real challenge for me, since my nerves sometimes get the better of me when I try and have a conversation in French.. I definitely plan to do it again, and told my classmates all about it today. Several of them are hoping to try it in the next week or so.
These are photos on my walk after class today through the 4th and 5th Arrondissements. When the weather is this nice, I try and walk as much as possible, before I take the metro anywhere. However, this morning on my way to school, there were two saxophone players in our car on the train, 'dueling' with jazz music. Hearing "Take Five" by two talented musicians to start your day is fantastic. I hope it catches on back home….
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Looking for dispensaries that offer weed delivery in Vancouver, like Weeds Vancouver and Vancity Weed? You would have never guessed that wanting to buy weed online in Vancouver, BC is actually very common lately.
Open debates with the law has lead towards more fair, reasonable, and safe Canadian marijuana laws today. Dedicated marijuana advocates and counterculture leadership figures fight tirelessly to overturn marijuana prohibition in Canada.
And their defiance started in Vancouver.
If not for Vancouver, smoking weed in Canada may have very well been illegal to this day. Learn the history of weed in Vancouver, how weed delivery and dispensaries like Weeds Vancouver began, and how marijuana is within the cities culture.
A Peaceful Smoke-In Protest Leads to the Gastown Riot
In 1923, the Canadian Parliament passed the first federal laws making marijuana use illegal. Very few people were arrested at first under the law. In fact, it wasn't until 1937 when the first documented seizure of marijuana by Canadian law enforcement took place.
But the relatively unknown drug soon became more popular in big cities around the world. Vancouver, being located on the west coast of North America, was one of the first cities where marijuana use took root on a large scale.
At the start of the 1960's, students and the hippie counterculture began buying, using, and growing pot more often. Weed delivery Vancouver became a thriving underground business. Although nothing compared to today's convenience of being able to buy weed online in Vancouver.
By 1962, the number of yearly convictions for marijuana possession in Canada almost equaled the total number of arrests from 1930 to 1946!
By 1968, 2,300 people were arrested for marijuana use and possession every year. Vancouver's students and "hippies" were common targets of these arrests.
But marijuana-loving subcultures saw nothing wrong with their love for a plant they observed to be safe, enjoyable, and therapeutic. The medicinal uses of marijuana to those suffering from chronic illness made people especially opposed to the prohibition laws.
So, to fight back, they rolled up some joints. A public cannabis "smoke-in" protest took place in Vancouver's Gastown district in 1971. Even though the protest was peaceful, the open defiance of the law struck a nerve with Vancouver law enforcement.
Mounted police officers descended on the crowd, arresting individuals, beating some, and terrifying everyone else. The incident came to be known as the "Gastown Riot."
Research Encourages Canada to Change Their Mind About Weed
In 1972, a year after the Gastown Riot, academics and those in the medical community grew curious about marijuana's medicinal benefits and social effects. They concluded that arrests for marijuana use had more of a negative social impact than smoking the substance ever could.
Accordingly, they recommended that the Canadian government decriminalize marijuana possession immediately. This groundbreaking report was the first of many that pushed for the ability to have weed in Vancouver be decriminalized.
The 4/20 Festival Starts and the Arrest that Ended Prohibition Happens a Year Later
Echoing the spirit of the Gastown protest, marijuana advocates in Vancouver decided to organize Canada's first ever pro-cannabis rally. The event was on April 20th, mirroring the popular "420" association with weed smoking.
On April 20, 1995, two workers at the "Prince of Pot" glass shop in downtown Vancouver organized a protest and event advocating legalization. 200 people took to Victory Square to publicly denounce Canada's anti-marijuana laws. They also enjoyed music and some herb of their own during the small but vibrant peaceful gathering.
The next year, 500 people attended the 4/20 rally.
Just a few months later, Canadian citizen Terrance Parker was arrested at his home in Ontario. His charges were for cultivation, possession, and trafficking of marijuana.
The thing was, Terry Parker didn't grow marijuana for fun and profit; he used marijuana to treat his epileptic seizures. Since the age of four, his seizures were constant, due to an accident. His doctor and him realized that cannabis was the only way to reduce and prevent his episodes.
In 1997, an appeals judge overturned Parker's conviction, agreeing with his defence that his rights were violated by Canada marijuana laws. The case went to the Ontario Court of Appeal, and on July 31, 2000, Justice Marc Rosenberg declared marijuana prohibition unconstitutional.
Slow Legislation Leads to Weeds Vancouver and Other Dispensaries in Vancouver Operating Under the Radar
Despite the fact that medicinal weed in Vancouver was essentially legal after the Terrance Parker ruling, there was no update on Canada's marijuana laws for regulating the safe sale of cannabis.
Instead, those looking to treat chronic pain with marijuana, or any other medical conditions, had to resort to black market dealers and underground options for weed in Vancouver.
Realizing this, Vancouver business owners decided to take action once more, even if it meant operating under the radar. Against Canada's current federal laws, they vowed to provide safe, fair access to medicinal marijuana through dispensaries in Vancouver.
Some of the first options to buy weed online in Vancouver began to appear around this time, as did a flourishing mail-order seed business.
Mark Emery, owner of the "Prince of Pot" glass shop, was one of the first to openly flout the law and offer marijuana for sale in addition to paraphernalia. He also sold seeds for select strains with quality genetics so that marijuana lovers could grow their own product at home.
Emery's operations eventually caused him to be extradited to the U.S. in 2002 for charges related to selling and shipping cannabis seeds.
Vancouver dispensaries, like Weeds Vancouver, helped establish the model for high-end businesses catering to select clientele through weed delivery Vancouver. When the U.S. Washington state legalized medicinal marijuana in 2014, many business owners used these Vancouver weed shops as inspiration.
Confusing Regulations Still Keep Weed Delivery Vancouver a Grey Market… Until Recently
Even though many Vancouver marijuana shops were in operation since 2010, they weren't always operating on the right side of the law. 2012 federal marijuana laws in Canada actually declared the non-medicinal use of marijuana illegal and enforced minimum sentences for possession.
Yet people like Weeds Vancouver owner, Don Briere, insisted on keeping their doors open and also paying taxes like any legitimate business owner would.
By 2015, Vancouver had more dispensaries than the rest of Canada combined.
The options to buy weed online in Vancouver are now endless.
People with a prescription or a doctor's note can obtain medical marijuana legally from any local establishments or places that offer weed in Vancouver.
One visit to Vancouver is all it takes to see just how pot-friendly the city remains. In fact, things like marijuana tours in Vancouver draw more cannabis-loving tourists to the city each year than ever before.
Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced legislation to make recreational marijuana legal at the federal level, more people than ever can enjoy Vancouver's dispensaries. They can also get high-quality marijuana more conveniently when they buy weed online in Vancouver.
We truly live in great times these days. For that, we have the dedicated cannabis community and marijuana advocates in Vancouver to thank for all the progress we've made!
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Much of what is 'vain, mendacious or even evil and criminal in the Church' has come to light not 'because the pope has made mistakes,' says conservative German Bishop Stefan Oster
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A conservative-minded Catholic Church leader in Germany, who admits he has hitherto questioned much of Pope Francis' teaching, says he is now fully convinced that the current Bishop of Rome is pursuing the path of holiness.
Bishop Stefan Oster SDB, who heads the Diocese of Passau on the Bavarian-Austrian border, has surprised some people by defending Francis against abuse cover-up charges made by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò.
But the 53-year-old bishop caused even greater astonishment by expressing gratitude for the way Francis is leading the Church on the right path.
Oster, a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco and bishop of Passau since 2014, made his comments on Sept. 2 in three-page blog post. Under the title "Why I believe Pope Francis," the bishop explained how he came to the conclusion that history's first Jesuit pope is genuinely trying to renew the Church.
He confessed that he now fully accepts the pope's "sincere endeavors to deepen the faith, spread more hope, greater love and mercy – and his indefatigable commitment to justice, peace and the preservation of creation."
Bishop Oster says he reached this conclusion by re-studying what he calls "the four most significant texts of Francis' pontificate thus far" – Evangelii gaudium (the 2013 apostolic exhortation on renewing the Church), Laudato si' (the 2015 encyclical on care of creation) Amoris laetitia (the 2016 exhortation and marriage and the family) and Gaudete et exsultate (the 2018 exhortation on the call to holiness).
Oster points out that Francis' writings have caused wide and heated discussion within the Church. For example, they have prompted Catholics to debate whether the 81-year-old pope is liberal or conservative and to question whether he is seeking to preserve, develop or even change Church teaching.
The German bishop said liberals, for instance, tend to interpret Evangelii gaudium as an effort to decentralize the Church more than as a call for evangelization.
They see Amoris laetitia as a paradigm shift in the Church's view of sexual morality. And, in their eyes, Laudato si' is basically a summons to make political, ecological and social concerns the Church's first priority.
"For traditionalists such views are very worrying," said Oster.
"They are most concerned that too much change is a threat to the Church, or that the wrong issues are being prioritized, which, in the end, will lead to a totally different Church and totally different church teaching," he continued.
"They question whether the Magisterium, faith, liturgy and the call to conversion are not getting too raw a deal," the bishop said, adding, "and I must admit that I am familiar with such questions since I have asked them myself."
Bishop Oster has been labeled a conservative because he has ("for the moment") instructed priests of the Passau Diocese not to allow re-married divorcees to receive communion under any circumstances.
Oster is also one of the seven German bishops, including Cardinal Woelki of Cologne, who wrote to Rome for clarification on whether to allow interdenominational couples to receive the Eucharist at Catholic liturgies after two-thirds of country's bishops voted in favor of doing so.
But in his latest blog post he said it was especially after studying Gaudete et exsultate, that he felt "more deeply and less fearfully" that Francis is following Christ's path of holiness.
"Holiness is neither banal liberalization nor simple cementation of what already exists, but living one's every day life with Jesus and taking up the ever-changing challenges the world presents and urges the Church to find new answers," Bishop Oster wrote.
"I am therefore also confident that, by virtue of his office, he (Francis) has that special charism which is given to the Church's leader," he said.
And he expressed his conviction that much of what is "vain, mendacious or even evil and criminal in the Church" has come to light not "because the pope has made mistakes in his leadership."
Rather, he said, it is actually the way Francis "proclaims and practices the faith (that) has caused a light to shine on how much in the Church is abysmal."
In the final paragraph of his blog post, Bishop Oster explained why he is now deeply thankful to Pope Francis:
"No, I do not see a pope who wants to overturn church teaching nor do I see a pope who wants to hush anything up or to establish an old boys' network. I see a pope who resolutely wants to pursue a path of renewal and one who is neither liberal nor conservative."
In conclusion, the bishop said: "I am thankful to Pope Francis for his service and for this witness!"
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, is simply a point estimate for the population mean. This will be further discussed in the following section. The median is the middle measurement when all of the measurements are sorted in ascending or descending order, which can be a better measure of central tendency in skewed distributions. In normal (bell-shaped) distributions, the average and median values are the same. The mode is the measurement with the highest frequency. Based on these three measures of central tendency, one can understand the shape of the distribution. Furthermore, depending on the type of measurements and shape of the distribution, one may choose one or more of these measures of central tendency to describe their data set.
25.2.2 Measures of Spread: Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation
Sample range is the difference between the highest and the lowest measurements. Therefore, it is a very sensitive measure of variability because it is influenced by the extreme observations. For situations in which there are extreme observations, some researchers use the interquartile range (IQR) which represents the difference between the 25th percentile and 75th percentile. Sample variance (s 2) is another important measure of variability, which is calculated by the following formula (Eq. 25.1), where x i are the individual measurements, is the sample mean and n is the sample size:
Since the unit of variance is squared of the original unit of measure, the sample standard deviation (s) is often used as another measure of spread, which is simply the square root of the sample variance (Eq. 25.2):
It is important to distinguish the difference between population and sample measures of spread. For example, population standard deviation (σ) is a measure of spread over the entire population of size N with a mean of μ (Eq. 25.3); similarly, population variance is denoted by σ 2. The reason for using "n − 1" in calculating sample variance (s 2) and standard deviation (s) is to ensure that the estimates for variability remain unbiased. This concept is discussed in standard statistical textbooks, and we refer the reader to Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Bernard Rosner for additional information.
25.2.3 Normal Distributions
In practice, many measurements including weight and height have a bell-shaped distribution. Mathematically these distributions can be characterized by a normal (Gaussian) distribution with mean μ and standard deviation σ. The normal distribution is symmetrical and has the property that about 68 % of the observations lie within one standard deviation from the mean, 95 % within 2 standard deviations, and 99.7 % within 3 standard deviations (Fig. 25.1).
Fig. 25.1
A normal distribution of the population with mean μ and standard deviation (sigma)
25.2.4 Skewed Distributions
Not all distributions are normal in nature. In fact, skewed distributions are common in clinical data. In a negatively skewed distribution (i.e., skewed towards the left), the mean is less than the median. In a positively skewed distribution (i.e., skewed towards the right), the median is less than the mean. In a bimodal distribution, there are two modes, one mean, and one median. For irregular distributions, one may be interested in describing the data in terms of the median and interquartile range (Fig. 25.2).
A negatively skewed curve has a mode that is greater than the median, which is greater than the mean (left-skewed). A positively skewed curve has the opposite finding (right-skewed)
25.2.5 Estimation and Bias
As stated earlier, one of the objectives of statistics is to infer the properties of the underlying population from a sample (i.e., subset of the population). Statistical inference can be subdivided into two main areas: estimation and hypothesis testing. Estimation is concerned with estimating the values of specific population parameters. It is therefore, very important to understand the relationships between the sample characteristics and population parameters [ 5 – 10 ].
25.2.6 Point and Interval Estimators for the Population Mean
A natural estimator for μ is the sample mean , which is referred to as a point estimate. Suppose we want to determine the appropriate sample size for estimating the mean of a population (μ) which is unknown. We can start by taking a random sample to determine the sample mean and sample variance. However, the sample mean values can change from sample to sample. Therefore, it is necessary for us to determine the variation in the point estimate (e.g., sample mean). Assuming that the sample size is large (n > 30), we can determine an interval estimate (e.g., 95 % confidence interval) for the population parameters. For example, if the population parameter is μ, a 95 % confidence interval can be calculated by the following formula (Eq. 25.4). The value 1.96 is the exact value determined from the normal distribution, which is based on the fact that 95 % of the measurements are within 1.96 (approximately 2) standard deviations of the mean.
The quantity to the right of the mean in Eq. 25.4 is known as the margin of error or the bound on the error of estimation (B). In general, as sample size increases, B decreases. However, this inverse relationship is not linear. In order to decrease B by half, one must increase the sample size by a factor of 4. This relationship between margin of error, B, and sample size allows researchers to calculate the appropriate sample size to achieve the desired bound on the error with 95 % confidence and will be further elaborated in the sample size determination section.
25.2.7 Standard Error of the Mean
The standard error of the mean (SEM) or standard error (SE) is the standard deviation of sample mean. There is a mathematical relationship between the standard deviation of the measurements in the population and the SEM. This mathematical relationship helps to calculated SEM based on one random sample of size n. SEM is equal to the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size n. The SEM is affected by the sample size; as the sample size increases, the SEM decreases (Eq. 25.5):
25.2.8 Point and Interval Estimators for the Population Proportion
In clinical studies, one is often interested in assessing the prevalence of a certain characteristic of the population. In this case, it is important to determine the point and interval estimators for the population proportion (p). The point estimator for the population proportion is defined as the proportion of the observed characteristic of interest in the sample (Eq. 25.6):
For large samples with a 95 % confidence interval, the population proportion p is calculated as follows:
The quantity to the right of the sample proportion in Eq. 25.7 is known as the margin of error or the bound on the error of estimation (B). As shown before in the case of point estimates for the population mean, this relationship can be used to estimate the appropriate sample size, which will be explained later.
25.2.9 Bias
Generally, bias is defined as "a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue." In statistics, bias means "a tendency of an estimate to deviate in one direction from a true value." In terms of the population means and proportion estimates described in the previous sections, bias can be defined as:
From a statistical perspective, an estimator is considered unbiased if the average bias based on repeated sampling is zero. For example, is an unbiased estimator of μ and is an unbiased estimator for p. However, there are multiple sources of bias inherent in any study that may occur during the course of the study, from allocation of participants and delivery of interventions to measurement of outcomes. Bias can also occur before the study begins or after the study during analysis. Late-look bias occurs with re-examination and re-interpretation of the collected data after the study has been unblinded. Lead-time bias occurs when earlier examination of patients with a particular disease leads to earlier diagnosis, giving the false impression that the patient will live longer. Measurement bias occurs when an investigator familiar with the study does the measurement and makes a series of errors towards the conclusion they expect. Recall bias occurs when patients informed about their disease are more likely to recall risk factors than uninformed patients. Sampling bias occurs when the sample used in the study is not representative of the population and so conclusions may not be generalizable to the whole population. Finally, selection bias occurs when the lack of randomization leads to patients choosing their experimental group which could introduce confounding [ 11 – 14 ].
25.3 Hypothesis Testing
25.3.1 Developing a Hypothesis
A research question can be formulated into null and alternative hypotheses for statistical testing. The null hypothesis states that there is no difference between the parameter of interest and the hypothesized value of the parameter. Whereas the alternative hypothesis is that there is some kind of difference. The alternative hypothesis cannot be tested directly; it is accepted by default if the test of statistical significance rejects the null hypothesis. In the case of comparing two population parameters, the null hypothesis is that there is no difference between groups (A or B) on the measured outcome, whereas the alternative hypothesis is that there is a difference between the measured outcome and the group (A or B). Alternatively, the null hypothesis can be written as no association between group (A or B) and measured outcome vs. alternative hypothesis that there is an association between group (A or B) and the measured outcome. In later sections, you will see that some researchers prefer to write the hypotheses in terms of the ratio of the two population parameters [e.g., relative risk (RR) or odds ratio (OR)]. In this case the null hypothesis can be written as RR = 1 (OR = 1) vs. RR ≠ 1 (OR ≠ 1).
25.3.2 Other Elements of Testing Hypothesis
In addition to the null and alternative hypotheses, we must have a test statistic, a rejection region, and p-value to conduct a formal testing hypothesis. A test statistic calculates the difference between the observed data and the hypothesized values of the parameters assuming the null hypothesis is true. For example, for comparing means of two normal distributions, we can use a test statistic, which has a t-distribution under the null hypothesis. Rejection region is the range of values of the distribution of the test statistic for which the null hypothesis is rejected, in favor of the alternative hypothesis. Traditionally, for each testing hypothesis one must determine a cutoff value for the rejection region, based on a probability of type I error (α = 0.05).
25.3.3 Types of Error
Type I error occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected despite being true. The probability of type I error (α) is usually considered acceptable at 5 %. P-value is the probability of observing more extreme values than what has been already observed in the sample assuming the null hypothesis is true. If p-value < α, then the null hypothesis can be rejected. On the other hand, type II error occurs when the null hypothesis is not rejected when it should be. The probability of type II error (β) is more difficult to calculate because we usually do not know the true value of the parameter of interest under the alternative hypothesis. Additionally, it is important to note that as alpha increases, beta decreases and the power of the study increases.
25.3.4 Power
The power of a test is the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false. Mathematically, power is defined as 1 − β. The power of a test is directly related to its sample size; increasing sample size results in a higher power. However, the power is also directly dependent upon the variance of the measurement. In fact, it is inversely related to the variance of the measurement. If the variance is higher then the power will be lower. Using more sensitive and specific instruments that can measure a finer gradient (such as reliably estimating high-density lipoproteins to three decimal places) can also improve the power of a study. An insufficiently powered study can lead to false acceptance of the null hypothesis and thereby lead to a higher likelihood of type II error. In other words, a study may incorrectly conclude that there is no difference between two groups (e.g., two treatments) when one really existed. To avoid these errors, the power of a study must be determined by an estimate of the expected differences between two groups.
25.3.5 Sample Size Determination
The sample size (n) is the total number of patients enrolled in a particular study. This number plays a critical role in the statistical power and relevance of the findings from the study. The sample size can be determined through two inferential techniques. First, for determining the minimum sample size required to estimate a certain parameter of interest within a certain margin of error, we need the variance of the measurement, level of confidence, and the margin of error. Referring back to the definition of margin of error, we can calculate the sample size for estimating the difference between two means (μ 1 − μ 2) based on two independent samples of equal size with the following formula:
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What are the signs of pug dog encephalitis?
Usually, this condition strikes quickly, and it often affects pugs between the ages of two and three years old. Since pug dog encephalitis causes brain inflammation, affected pugs exhibit neurological symptoms like seizures or a loss of muscle coordination. Your pug's personality may also change; aggression or agitation that are out of character may be caused by the inflammation.
There are two different classifications of pug dog encephalitis. In slow progressive cases, the seizures only last for a few minutes and then don't occur again for weeks. In between these episodes, affected pugs seem normal and healthy. In rapid progressive cases, the seizures happen frequently, and in between seizures, the pugs exhibit additional symptoms.
What causes pug dog encephalitis?
Recent research has shown that pug dog encephalitis is a genetic disease. According to UC Davis Veterinary Medicine, 11% of pugs carry two copies of the gene markers associated with this disease, and one in eight of these dogs will develop the disease at some point during their lives. Genetic testing can be performed to find out if your dog has these genes, but since the test only shows that they have a raised risk of the disease, no that they will definitely develop it, it may cause unnecessary anxiety for you and your family. Your vet can help you decide if genetic testing is a good option for your pug.
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Pug dog encephalitis can't be cured, so sooner or later, all pugs that are affected by this disease will eventually succumb to it. However, treatments are available to control the symptoms and help your pug live a healthy life. These medications include anti-inflammatories, immunosuppressives, and anti-convulsants. If your pug needs to take a lot of medications, use a pill tray and an alarm clock to keep track of their doses. Try hiding their pills inside favorite snacks, like cheese or peanut butter, to make them think they're getting a special treat.
If your pug is suffering from seizures, take them to a vet, like Robert Irelan DVM, right away. Seizures can be a sign of pug dog encephalitis, a serious genetic disease of pugs.


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By NY - NewsRoom on August 4, 2018
Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction that encourages kids to read by presenting stories in the form of text message conversations, is now going free. Previously, Amazon had been charging $2.99 per month for a subscription that allows unlimited access to its story collection, which now numbers in the hundreds.
First launched in November 2016, Amazon Rapids was meant to capitalize on kids' interest in chat fiction apps like Hooked, Yarn, Tap and others, which tend to cater to a slightly older teenage crowd. Amazon Rapids, meanwhile, was the schoolager-appropriate version, without the swearing, alcohol, sex and yeah, even incest references you'll find in the Hooked app, for example. (Yuck. Delete.)
Instead, Amazon Rapids' stories are aimed at kids ages 5 to 12 and generally just silly and fun. They're not meant to addict kids through the use of cliffhangers and timeouts, nor are they scary.
Some of the app's stories also serve as crossovers that helped promote Amazon's kids' TV shows, like "Danger & Eggs," and "Niko and the Sword of Light." These were authored by the shows' writers, allowing them to extend the show's universe in a natural way.
In addition, the app included educational features like a built-in glossary and a read-along mode to help younger readers.
However, the app wasn't heavily marketed by Amazon, and many parents don't even know it exists, it seems.
According to data from Sensor Tower, Amazon Rapids has been installed only around 120,000+ times to date, three-quarters of which are on iOS. (Subscription revenue goes through Amazon, not the app stores, so the firm doesn't have a figure for that.)
Amazon Rapids is ranked pretty low on the App Store, at No. 1105 for iPhone downloads in the Education category, and No. 1001 on iPad. The highest it ever reached was No. 65 on iPad.
Oddly, it chose not to compete in the "Books" category, where the other chat fiction apps reside, as do the other non-traditional "book" apps, like Wattpad's crowd-sourced fiction app, Audible's audiobooks app, various comics apps, and others.
Amazon now says that the hundreds of stories in Rapids will be free going forward. Families can also listen to some of these stories through the Storytime Alexa skill, launched last summer, which includes stories from Amazon Rapids, along with others.
Given Amazon Rapids' small user base, it's clear that Amazon no longer believes it makes sense to try to sell subscriptions, and likely now sees its database of stories as more of a value-add for Alexa owners.
That said, it's unclear what this means for Rapids' future development and story catalog, which may not continue to grow.
Update: Amazon tells us its immediate focus is not going to be on adding new content to Rapids, but on adapting its stories for the Amazon Storytime skill.
Monthly subscribers will no longer be charged and annual subscribers will be refunded for the remainder of the year. As a "thank you," each customer will also receive a $5 promotional credit.


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Imagine the outrage in the world, if the Lebanon invasion wouldn't be there?One of the possible explanations for the completely un-Israeli show of incompetence that is going on in Lebanon at the moment, could be, that it conveniently diverts the attention of the world from what is being done to Palestine.


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She was laid down as USS Schley on 21 June 1916 at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company yard in Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Electric Boat Co. of New York, renamed AA-1 on 23 August 1917 to free the name Schley for a destroyer, launched on 25 July 1918, sponsored by Mrs. Lilian Hovey-King, and commissioned on 30 January 1920 at Boston, Massachusetts, with Lt. Comdr James Parker, Jr. in command.

AA-1 was one of three boats designed and constructed under a project charged with developing fleet submarines; that is, undersea boats possessing the sea-keeping qualities and endurance capability required for long-range operations, as scouts for the surface fleet. On 17 July 1920, while the submarine was being fitted-out, the Navy adopted its modern system of alpha-numeric hull numbers, and the fleet submarine was designated SF-1. On 20 September, she was renamed T-1. Thus, by the time she began active service that fall, she was known as T-1 (SF-1).

T-1s commissioned service lasted less than three years. She operated out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, training crews and conducting maneuvers along the east coast with other units of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Throughout the entire period, she remained a unit of Submarine Division 15. However, during her service, flaws in her design and construction—particularly in her propulsion plant—became apparent. On 5 December 1922, T-1 was placed out of commission and laid up at the Submarine Base, Hampton Roads, Va. Later, she was moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After almost eight years of inactivity, her name was struck from the Navy list on 19 September 1930. Her hulk was broken up, and the materials were sold for scrap on 20 November 1930.

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There is no more prestigious trophy for a fly fisherman than taimen trout. Taimen fishing is difficult and requires traveling to some of the most remote places on earth. Mature taimen is very territorial and is rarely found in proximity to another taimen. Taimen for a good reason is frequently called by the local people water tiger or river wolf. Taimen trout is a tenacious, merciless, swift, and strong predator, who prays not only on fish, but also on birds and small mammals – ducks, snipe, mouse, squirrels, and muskrats. Having excellent sight, it is capable of seeing well in the water, and also distinguishing the objects on the shore. Taimen can jump and snatch small animals on dry land when they are in close proximity to the shoreline. With the autumn temperature drop, Siberian taimen migrates into the deeper, not freezing through parts of the rivers. Taimen lives longer than other Salmonidae, up to 50 years and more, continuously growing during the entire life. Most rapid growth occurs during the first 10-13 years, when its length increases annually by 8-10 centimeters (3-4 inches). Maturity is reached on the 5-7 year of life. Young taimen usually stays in small groups of 3-7, adult – in pairs or as singles. Larger congregations of taimen are observed sometimes prior their migration into the lower streams of the rivers just before winter; during this period very deep holes can have up to 10-15 large specimens. The activity of taimen into the summer-autumn season is subjected to very specific fluctuations. It is most high soon after spawning. During hot weather, when water becomes warm, which happens often in the slower flowing rivers of the South Siberian and Northern Mongolian planes, taimen become sluggish. In the opinion of some fishermen, a drop in their activity at this time is also caused by the painful process of replacing the teeth. Therefore during July and the first half of August catching large taimen in Mongolia and Southern Siberia is rather difficult. Near the end of August taimen becomes more active, and during September in anticipation of ice formation, it becomes very active and even aggressive. In summer the best time to catch taimen is early in the morning and after 5-6 PM, up top the twilight. In autumn biting is more uniform during the day. Taimen can be caught with spinning, using yellow or silver spoon baits between 2 to 4 inches long, or fly rod, using "mouse". Large taimen, when attacking the "mouse", may "suppress" it by a violent strike of the tail before turning and taking the bait. In September taimen is not very discriminate in its diet and would take any bait, but during the summer different size and color baits has to be tried.
There are four known species of taimen: Danube taimen (Hucho hucho), Korean taimen (Hucho ischikawai), Sakhalin taimen (Hucho perryi) and the most numerous, Common or Siberian taimen (Hucho taimen).
SAKHALIN TAIMEN (Hucho perryi)
Also called chevitsa is the only species of taimen that migrates to the sea. Sakhalin taimen is found in the Sea of Japan, from where it enters rivers of Hokkaido island, Sakhalin island and Primorsky Krai for spawning in spring and early summer. Sakhalin taimen can reach more than 1 meter in length (40 inches) and 25-30 kg (60-70 lbs) of weight. While at the sea it has a silvery body and in the river body acquires reddish color similar to Siberian taimen. The sides have 5-8 light raspberry-colored transverse strips. Chevitsa usually feeds on small fish. Sergei Shushunov and Russian Hunting LLC offer Sakhalin taimen fishing on the mainland, in Khabarovsk region of Russia.
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Siberian taimen, also called Common taimen is the most widely distributed and best-known taimen. This is also the most prized taimen trophy. It spawns in spring, right after rivers clear of ice. Siberian taimen can exceed 1.5 meters in length (60 inches) and 100 kilograms in weight (220 lbs). It inhabits rivers with clean water, gravel or stony bottom and large, flowing, cold-water lakes and it never migrates to sea. It frequently stays in the pools and deep holes, under steep shores and in the mouths of tributaries.
Sakhalin taimen trout fishing with Sergei Shushunov
The area of distribution is very wide, extending from the Ural mountains to the Pacific Ocean and from the Arctic Ocean to Northern Mongolia and China. Siberian taimen can be caught basically in all Siberian rivers and large lakes: Norilsk, Zaysan, Teletskoye, and Baikal, as well as in some rivers in the north of Mongolia and China. Occasionally Siberian taimen can be caught in some rivers of the European part of Russia. Sergei Shushunov and Russian Hunting LLC offer Siberian taimen trout fishing expeditions to different parts of Russia, including Northern Urals, Siberia, Altai, Tuva, and Yakutia. Current IGFA record of Siberian taimen, caught in 1993 in Keta river of Khabarovsk region of Russia is measured at 42 kg (92 lbs). Unofficial records: Kotui river 105 kg., Amur river 80 kg., Yenisey river 63 kg., Lena river 60 kg.
DANUBE TAIMEN (Hucho hucho)
Also called Danube salmon, is found in the drainages of Danube and Prut rivers. This rare fish can usually reach a weight of 10-12 kg (22-24 lbs). However, the literature described the case of catching specimen weighing 52 kg (115 lbs). Danube taimen feeds on small fish. It usually spawns in April.
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This taimen trophy expedition takes you to one of the most remote places in Russia. Tuva is a mountainous republic located on the border of Russia and Mongolia. The area is very sparsely populated and has few roads. As the result, it has seen very little fishing pressure and offers outstanding fishing for many species of trout, including Siberian taimen.
The tour starts in the town of Abakan with a 360 km (200 mi) drive to a tiny village on the shore of Yenisey river. The expedition will then board two large airboats for a spectacular ride along Yenisey and Hymsara rivers . Taimen fishing will start on the evening of the first day following 200 km trip and will continue for the duration of the journey during frequent stops at the mouths of tributaries feeding the Hymsara River, the favorite places for Taimen to feed.
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The new endeavor, called Lever Press, will allow roughly 40 small liberal arts college libraries to combine resources to publish, share, and archive digitally native content.
Haverford is a part of a group launching a pioneering new scholastic press. Known as Lever Press, it is the creation of Michigan Publishing, Amherst College Press, and a consortium of 41 liberal arts college libraries, including Haverford's. This new endeavor, which leverages the resources of those colleges to create a collaborative, open-access monograph publisher, aims to address some of the publishing industry's current problems, namely the barriers to publication that researchers at smaller institutions face and the current inadequate options for sharing and archiving digital-native content.
"We are looking at this press as something that strikes at the heart of the liberal arts experience," says Librarian of the College Terry Snyder. "The liberal arts environment fosters interdisciplinarity and collaboration in scholarship in a way that may not be happening as readily at larger institutions. And we're hoping this press will tease out the best of that experience."
Lever Press will publish digital-native titles distinguished by their editorial alignment with the mission and ethos of liberal arts colleges. One of the publisher's key commitments is to provide open access to its content—meaning, anyone internationally is free to read, cite, or reuse the content without copyright or licensing restrictions. But unlike typical "open-access" publishers, which ask authors to pay for operating costs, Lever Press is offering a "platinum" approach in which the pledging institutions front all publishing expenses.
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In this nail-biting sequel to Tehlor Kay Mejia's critically acclaimed fantasy novel We Set the Dark on Fire, La Voz operative Carmen is forced to choose between the girl she loves and the success of the rebellion she's devoted her life to. Perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and Anna-Marie McLemore.
Being a part of the resistance group La Voz is an act of devotion and desperation. On the other side of Medio's border wall, the oppressed class fights for freedom and liberty, sacrificing what little they have to become defenders of the cause.
Carmen Santos is one of La Voz's best soldiers. She spent years undercover, but now, with her identity exposed and the island on the brink of a civil war, Carmen returns to the only real home she's ever known: La Voz's headquarters.
There she must reckon with her beloved leader, who is under the influence of an aggressive new recruit, and with the devastating news that her true love might be the target of an assassination plot. Will Carmen break with her community and save the girl who stole her heart—or fully embrace the ruthless rebel she was always meant to be?
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"A second—and final—volume that not only surpasses the accomplishments of its celebrated predecessor, but takes it to a higher, brighter level. Thrilling, timely, and terrific." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Where the first volume was subtlety and shadows, this is emotion and adrenaline, and it will carry readers through to an ending that feels entirely earned." -- Booklist (starred review)
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"A powerful series that defies the tropes of dystopian young adult fiction." -- Tor.com
"Carmen's struggle to save Dani is fast-paced, the plot full of arresting events that mirror current political and racial divides, and readers will surely root for the couple as Carmen fights for a happy ending. Mejia writes an utterly captivating and thoroughly satisfying ending for the two young women." -- Shelf Awareness
"With a Latinx cast, a queer romance, and a timely challenge to a corrupt government, readers will be clamoring for this story about finding home, purpose, and family–and taking down a patriarchal dictatorship along the way." -- ALA
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TEHLOR KAY MEJIA is a bestselling and award winning author of young adult and middle grade fiction.
Her debut young adult novel, We Set the Dark on Fire, received six starred reviews, as well as the Oregon Spirit Book Award for debut fiction, and the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award runner up honor for debut speculative fiction. It has been featured on Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, and O by Oprah Magazine's best books lists, and was a 2019 book of the year selection by Kirkus and School Library Journal. Its sequel, We Unleash the Merciless Storm, followed to continuing acclaim, while Miss Meteor (co-written with National Book Award Nominee Anna-Marie McLemore) was named to the American Library Association's 2021 Rainbow List, honoring outstanding contributions in LGBTQIA teen fiction.
Tehlor's debut middle grade novel, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, was published by the Rick Riordan Presents imprint at Disney/Hyperion. It received four starred reviews, and was named Amazon's best book of 2020 in the 9-12 age range. It is currently in development at Disney as a television series to be produced by Eva Longoria.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great ending to an awesome duology
So, truth time.
I really enjoyed this book so much more than the first! I did like the first but some things felt a little off such as the pacing and the relationship.
This book though was told from Carmen's POV and where in the first book I wasn't a huge fan of her as seen from Dani's POV, but, turns out, I love her more than Dani and would fight for her honor lolol.
Anyway, this second book has a much quicker pacing, it's more about the rebels and the power struggle between them and the government in power so that is probably another reason why I loved it.
This book also broke my heart, Idk why I bother having a favorite character when authors are so cruel! But! I suppose it just means she was very good at her job, crushing my soul, stomping on my heart.
Carmen goes through an amazing amount of character development through so many heart breaking challenges, and the end to this duology was everything I could have hoped for.
There was so much girl power, love of friends and the rise of those oppressed by a government built to keep them down. I loved it all, the lore wasn't as heavy but the learnings of the history and the people and government more than made up for the lack of lore.
Great ending to an awesome duology, 4.5 cups of coffee from me.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good follow up
I liked that the sequel is told from the perspective of Carmen. Adds a new dimension to it and you get to see more if La Voz. I really liked how this was told and how it ended but I thought it was a bit obvious who the big bad was. Other than great story. Love Carmen and Dani!
2.0 out of 5 stars LOVED the First Book, Disappointed by this Second Book
Reviewed in the United States on 2 January 2021
So I'm really sad to write this review, as I LOVED the first book. I felt that this book left a lot to be desired.
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Just a heads up, the second book is from Carmen's perspective rather than Dani's. That's the first thing I didn't love. Because of this, Carmen's character for me becomes rather unlikeable. Dani doesn't come back into the mix until halfway through the book, which is also disappointing. Other characters are lackluster as well, and one of the only likeable characters gets killed off because of Carmen's mistake. The story itself is also rather predictable and overall just very disappointing. I will say that despite all this, I still loved the author's writing style. I just was not a fan at all of the second book and I would recommend to just stop after the first book.
5.0 out of 5 stars This. Book.
Reviewed in the United States on 27 February 2020
I really liked We Set the Dark in Fire. But We Unleash the Merciless Storm? Both blew the first one away and makes me desperate to re-read the duology again.
This is a true duology in the way they were designed to be. Two books not just telling one story in two parts, but complementing each other, weaving together and entwining until there are a thousand reasons one could not stand without the other.
The queer representation is glorious, well portrayed and the feminist aspects? So beautiful.
Read. This. Book.
Linda A. Naquin
3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first
Reviewed in the United States on 26 June 2020
This did not pack the OOMPH of the first book. There was so much suspense and "OMG is she about to get caught??" moments in the first one, it really kept the book going. This one did not have a lot of that, nor did it have any big surprise twists. The last hundred or so pages was just a really long path to the ending we all saw coming by now. I still enjoyed Carmen and Dani's story, but I think I liked Dani's POV way better.


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Hannah Bruce & Company
[image: Sarah Dixon]
We are a team of artists directed by Hannah Bruce, working with sound, movement, technology and light. In, around, and with architecture, we create bespoke atmospheric encounters which encourage visitors to engage with unique places. We aim to inspire emotional human connections with bricks and mortar and create a dramaturgy of place. We bring you to the brink of your own history. We show you the story that's already inside your head.
"The Look of the Thing @wiltonsmusichall does mesmerising things with bodies, words and time in a beautiful survivor space."
Ben Walters, @not_television
The venues we've worked in range from a family home in Hackney, to West Yorkshire Playhouse's hidden subterranean depths. We have conjured figures from the past in the National Trust property "Max Gate", danced in the cupboards of Wilton's Music Hall (Europe's only surviving Grand Music Hall), and sent shivers down the spine of visitors in Shoreditch Town Hall's derelict basement.
"Selected for their boldness and innovation." Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust
As a company we always collaborate across artistic disciplines, and each commission is a journey of discovery.
"Contributing to this project has been incredibly liberating for me as a writer... In these collaborations, I am able to reconnect with the value of the individual word and image, and see how those elements of language connect with other expressions of space, movement and time." (Matt Morrison, writer)
Summary of works
2016: Edgelands - an interactive composition and App for the Barbican
Launching the use of bluetooth technology in an ambitious new foyer programme, the work invites visitors to reimagine the edgelands of the Barbican, seeking out the extraordinary inside a building famed for its radical design and ambition. Leave day-to-day at the door, and you'll discover an architecture of other spaces, resounding with the echoes of its Utopian foundations. Edgelands is an interactive composition, created by Seth Scott in association with Hannah Bruce & Company, and commissioned by the Barbican. The app was developed through a University of York research grant, and supported by the Department of Music.
2015: A Collection of Small Choices - a new piece and BLE App for Hoxton Hall
Mischievous and ghostly by turns, this is not a heritage tour as you know it... We were delighted that the team at Hoxton Hall - a magical place with a tangible history - invited us to get involved with their creative approach to the future of the building. Focussing on the unique archive and historic architecture, we created a pioneering experience for visitors. Using creative tools alongside historical research, and drawing on the archive material and inspirational spaces at Hoxton Hall, we invite visitors to feel closer to the past, and let their imaginations run amok.
27-30 March 2014: The Claim (Transform 14 at West Yorkshire Playhouse)
Hannah Bruce and Company were commissioned to make The Claim for West Yorkshire Playhouse as part of Transform 14, West Yorkshire Playhouse's festival of experimental theatre. Using the latest in digital technology audiences were invited to explore a building they thought they knew, uncover a city lost behind closed doors, and gently preserve their future dreams in an unexpected urban desert.
10-15 March 2014: Cosi-Cosi (Infecting the City, Cape Town)
A 30 minute walking through Cape Town's city centre took audiences on a tour guided by their own personal guardjie calling out the city's secret depths. 'Cosi-Cosi' was developed to wrap listeners in the bricks and mortar of the cityscape whilst opening their ears to the sea of voices that have long lapped Table Mountain's slopes. A group of artists brought together through an AIDF grant (see below) responded to contemporary observations and experiences of the city told by Cape Town's archetypal urban watchers - taxi drivers, guardjies, parking marshals, street sweepers, stall holders and shop workers.
October 2013: The Price of Admission (Jabberwocky Market, Darlington)
A bespoke site-responsive journey made for Darlington, this piece tracked imagination and memory through the streets of the town. Piloting an innovative approach to interpreting the dramatic history of Darlington's Market Hall, the work formed a very personal experience for a limited number of people, and included development with Strong Voices NE.
May 2013: Some Reflections (Max Gate National Trust property, Dorchester)
Hannah co-directed Some Reflections with Sam Lawrence, a pilot project that focussed on heritage interpretation using performance. This pilot was the result of a partnership between The National Trust and Bath Spa University. It took place at the National Trust property Max Gate, originally home to Thomas and Emma Hardy
January 2013: The Look of the Thing (Northern Stage, Newcastle)
The Look of the Thing was runner-up for Title Pending (the Northern Stage Award for New Theatre 2012) resulting in a residency week at Northern Stage in January 2013.
October 2012: The Look of the Thing (Shoreditch Town Hall and Wilton's Music Hall)
This unique approach to integrating text, music, movement and promenade performance using the Tlott App was performed in the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust mini-festival in October 2012, co-produced by The Barbican, CREATE and Shoreditch Town Hall. It was then re-developed and performed at Wilton's Music Hall funded using public money by Arts Council England and R&D funding from the Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust.


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Good News for the Western Bumble Bee, Bombus occidentalis
Entomology Today	 February 8, 2016	 Leave a Comment
By Harvey Black
Bombus occidentalis used to be the most common bumble bee species in the Pacific Northwest, but in the mid 1990s it became one of the rarest. The reason or reasons for the species decline remain unsolved, but one possibility points to a fungal pathogen known as Nosema bombi.
Harvey Black
Whatever the causes were for the decline, an article in the Journal of Insect Science offers some good news for the bee.
"The population seems at least to be re-emerging where it hadn't been seen in the last 10 years," said James Strange, one of several co-authors and a researcher at the USDA's Pollinating Insects Research Unit at Utah State University. "There is some resilience in the population of Bombus occidentalis. They do seem to be coming back."
The researchers sampled sites from the San Juan Islands and the Olympic Peninsula to northern Idaho and northeast Oregon. They excluded the dry central region of Washington because Bombus occidentalis is not usually found in such areas. Its natural habitat is typically wetter areas.
In addition to the wild populations, Bombus occidentalis was once used to pollinate crops in greenhouses.
"They were raised in large numbers commercially and shipped around to greenhouses," said lead author Paul Rhoades, a graduate research fellow at the University of Idaho, who notes that the Nosema bombi pathogen might have been in the bees' semen and transmitted within the bee colonies. "Some of the individuals might have escaped and spread the parasite," he said.
The bee is no longer used commercially in greenhouses, but in the wild it pollinates a large variety of plants. It is a generalist, pollinating a range of crops including pumpkins, raspberries, apples, cherries, and canola, among others.
According to Dr. Strange, the Nosema parasite might have been a factor in the bee's decline, but whether it's the sole factor remains an open question. Trying to better understand the impact of Nosema on Bombus occidentalis is difficult, he said, because laboratory studies are hard to do.
"When we try to raise the bees in captivity, they die, so we can't do a lot of experimental work to show that this is really the thing [killing bees]," he said. "We have a lot of correlation, but we can never get the species without the pathogen. We can't clean this pathogen out."
"If you look at [bumble bee] populations up in Alaska, they have Nosema, but they are present in fairly high abundance," Rhoades said. "There's also evidence that there's genetically distinct populations that are in northern British Columbia and Alaska compared to the northwestern part of the United States and southern British Columbia."
The study's findings raise the question of why the population decline appears to have stopped. Dr. Strange's answer is "evolution."
The pathogen's virulence may have declined. If the pathogen wipes out its host, "that's clearly not in the best interest of the pathogen," he said.
Another possibility is that some individuals of Bombus occidentalis are able to resist the pathogen, "and that's probably more of what's going on," said Strange.
So what will the future of Bombus occidentalis in the Pacific Northwest look like? It's a fairly large concern, according to Rhoades.
"What we seem to detect is that there are bees in northern Idaho and some in the Olympic Peninsula, and there are very few if any in the intervening region. That raises the problem of a lack of gene flow between these populations. If there aren't immigrants, there's a whole host of problems associated with the lack of genetic diversity and inbreeding."
– Evidence for Bombus occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Populations in the Olympic Peninsula, the Palouse Prairie, and Forests of Northern Idaho
Harvey Black is a freelance science writer. A long-time resident of Madison, Wisconsin, he has written for numerous publications including Environmental Health Perspectives, Scientific American Mind, New Scientist, The Scientist, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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Q: Action based on visiblity and duration of element in viewport I am using IntersectionObserver to know whether a particular element is visible to the user or not. If it is visible then I am fetching some data from the server-side. Now I would like to know whether there is any API/approach to know how long an element is visible to the user.
The use case that I am trying to solve is this - If an element is visible in the viewport for 5secs then fetch some data from the server.
Thanks in advance.

A: const scrollArea = document.querySelector('.scroll-area');

let executeApiCall = null;

const observer = new IntersectionObserver( event => {
  console.log(`intersect`, event);

  if ( event[0].intersectionRatio === 0 ) {
    console.log('element not in viewport');
    clearTimeout(executeApiCall);
  } else {
    console.log('element is in viewport');
    if(!executeApiCall) {
      executeApiCall = setTimeout(() => {
        console.log('api call');
      }, 5000);
    }
  }
}, {
  root: scrollArea
});

See: https://stackblitz.com/edit/intersection-observer-hynpuj

A: If return true
after setTimeout execute your next code...

let elem = document.getElementById("app");

function isInViewportFunc(el){
    var rect = el.getBoundingClientRect();
    return rect.bottom < 0 || rect.right < 0 || rect.left > window.innerWidth || rect.top < window.innerHeight;
}

console.log(
isInViewportFunc(elem)

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Daniel Giorgetti is a British composer of concert music and film and television scores . Giorgetti was born 1971 in London and studied piano and composition at the London College of Music with Martin Ellerby, and the Royal College of Music with Edwin Roxburgh. His concert music has been performed in festivals and concert series in the US, the UK and mainland Europe – including the Park Lane Group Series, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and the Gaudeamus Foundation New Music Week in Amsterdam.  It has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His music has been awarded several prizes, among others the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Silver Medal, a Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust award and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Young Composers' Award in 2000.

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External links
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1971 births
Living people
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OpinionDavid Cameron
Stroppy Tories seem to have forgotten they didn't actually win
Andrew Rawnsley
Nick Clegg is delighted when Conservatives complain that he's stopping them from being more rightwing
Sat 10 Sep 2011 19.35 EDT
Conservative MPs are getting cross and that is never a pretty sight. The autumn political season has opened to Tories barking their discontents. They gnash that "this government isn't doing anything for our people", they wail "you wouldn't know that most of the cabinet is supposed to be Conservative", and they clamour "David Cameron must show us he is a proper Tory".
These generalised complaints are accompanied by a set of specific grievances. For a body on the right of the party, the government is letting them down by being too soft on immigration and failing to seize on the summer riots to get much tougher on law'n'order. For others, the greatest disappointment is the absence of rapid tax-cutting and a bonfire of business regulation. There are even some rightwing Tories who think that the main thing wrong with government economic policy is that the spending cuts are not severe enough. Probably the largest cohort of restive Conservatives are those who yearn to exploit the crises in the eurozone to declare war on Brussels.
They can't contain their frustration that their cabinet generals seem shy of battle. A new Tory backbench group, which has been created to campaign for Britain to rewrite its relationship with the European Union, will meet for the first time tomorrow. William Hague says he and David Cameron are relaxed about these backbench agitators. I'm not sure I would be entirely sanguine were I at the top of the Conservative party. Whenever Europe has aroused Tory passions over the past two decades, it has proved to be incendiary, factionalising and self-destructive.
When they are looking for someone to blame for what they see as the timidity of the coalition, the obvious place for Tory MPs to start is with Nick Clegg. To many critics of the left, the Lib Dem leader was a dupe when he jumped into bed with them last year. But seen from a certain Conservative perspective, it is he who has made a hostage of the Tory party. They would have a truly, boldly, radically Conservative government – or so they think – were it not for those pesky, meddling Lib Dems forever demanding concessions and compromises. These Tories have persuaded themselves – though they don't convince me – that Mr Cameron would be mobilising for conflict over the European treaties were it not for the presence in government of those Europe-loving, fifth columnist Lib Dems led by a half-Dutch, part-Russian former MEP.
It's not just Europe that brings foam to their mouths. On issue after issue, some Tory MPs can be heard to complain, the yellow tail of the coalition is wagging the blue dog. This boiled to the surface in the Commons when two Tory MPs used the platform of prime minister's questions to protest that Mr Clegg had too much sway. Complaining of Lib Dem influence over "our free school policy, health, many issues including immigration and abortion", the ineffable Nadine Dorries demanded of David Cameron that "it is about time he told the deputy prime minister who is the boss". The prime minister laughed her off with a bit of sexual innuendo about Ms Dorries being "extremely frustrated" and sat back down without offering an answer. Then Mr Cameron squeezed Mr Clegg on the arm as if to console the Lib Dem leader.
Mr Clegg did not need any comforting. Far from hurting him, Ms Dorries had inadvertently paid a very welcome compliment to the Lib Dem leader. Since the inception of the coalition, he has been cruelly caricatured by the cartoonists as the trodden-upon servant or the naive fall-guy of the prime minister. Here was a Conservative MP suggesting that, to the contrary, Mr Clegg is a cunning manipulator who has David Cameron wrapped around his little Lib Dem finger. If he has to choose between being depicted as the puppet of the Tories or the puppet-master, the Lib Dem leader would much rather be seen as the man holding the strings than the man dangling from them.
It will help Mr Clegg to get through what could be a tricky party conference later in the month if Lib Dem activists are persuaded that their ministers are punching above their numbers and running rings around the Conservatives. He could not have a better endorsement for that claim than Tory MPs moaning that the Lib Dem influence within the coalition is disproportionate to their weight.
It has been Mr Clegg's strategy since the defeat on the AV referendum, which followed the debacle over student tuition fees, to be more assertive of his party's identity and to pick more open fights with the Conservatives. That increased aggression is another reason for Tory MPs to get lathered. They loathe to be told by prating, sanctimonious Lib Dems that it is only their presence that prevents this from being a thoroughly beastly government. The response of the Tory right – though they do not know it – plays into the hands of the Lib Dems. At the next election, Mr Clegg will be well-served if middle Britain thinks of his party as the liberal leash on what would otherwise have been a rabid, rightwing government. As one Lib Dem strategist says: "That's what we'd like to put in voters' minds."
Thoughtful Tories see this risk. Damian Green, a minister on the liberal wing of the Conservative party, has given a timely caution that the "seductive chorus" urging a lurch to the right would leave the Lib Dems in possession of the "moderate and progressive" aspects of the coalition.
The truth is that Nick Clegg is not really the person who most aggrieves stroppy Tory MPs. He may irritate them like hell, but they can comprehend that he is bound to fight for the Lib Dem corner. The person they are most angry with – deep down and maybe not so deep down – is David Cameron. One simplistic school of Tory thought has it that their leader is too lacking in conviction, energy and steel to secure a full-on rightwing agenda. He allows the Lib Dems to have their way more often than he should because he can't be bothered enough to fight.
A more sophisticated school of unhappy Tories think that David Cameron uses the Lib Dems as an excuse for not doing things he didn't want to do anyway. Too often, for their tastes, he calls himself a "liberal Conservative" with almost as much emphasis on the first word as the last. This has more plausibility as an analysis. Most of the things about this government that upset rightwing Tories are not actually down to the Lib Dems. The chancellor has not retained the 50p tax rate on higher earners, which a lot of Tories would like to scrap, because that was forced on them by the Lib Dems. It was in opposition, when they expected to form a government on their own, that David Cameron and George Osborne made a commitment to keep Labour's top rate for a period. They did so because they feared to look like a party that was only interested in looking after their friends among the rich. The increase in spending on overseas aid – another target for the wrath of the right – was another Tory pre-election commitment designed to demonstrate that they were a changed party. The stiffest opposition to tighter curbs on immigration has come from Conservative cabinet members who don't think slamming the door on all foreign workers is either practical or desirable. As for crime and punishment, both the home secretary and the justice secretary are Conservatives.
The Tory right give too much credit to Mr Clegg when they complain that he has prevented David Cameron from marching off to Brussels, swinging the Margaret Thatcher memorial handbag, to demand the return of British sovereignty. The prime minister is a Eurosceptic, but he is also acutely aware how much damage his party did to itself in the past by going demented on the subject. Long before he started his cohabitation with Mr Clegg, the Tory leader warned his party that he thought he would probably have better and more productive things to do as prime minister than trying to entirely re-write the terms of Britain's relationship with the EU. He got his "betrayal" on Europe in early. He dropped his pledge to hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty before the last election, not after it.
Whichever leader they blame for their disappointments, the eyes of these angry Tories are too fogged with blue mist to see the world clearly. One thing they neglect is how much of the government's agenda is actually led by Conservatives. They appear to be too consumed with their grievances to notice that, on welfare reform and schools to name but two, this government is pursuing a more ambitious programme than anything ever attempted by Margaret Thatcher when she led solely Conservative governments with landslide majorities of more than 100. That is quite an achievement for a Tory party that didn't actually win the last election. The voters, in their supreme wisdom, declined to give any party a parliamentary majority. That is why, duh, there is a coalition. Conservative MPs are demanding that David Cameron govern as if the Tories had a landslide when their party did not win any sort of majority at all. They seem to have forgotten that failure. Or perhaps their real problem is that they cannot forgive it.
Nick Clegg


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