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Old water reserve becomes 'ark to the future'
October 24, 2016 by Kate Guthrie
In Nelson they're building an ark to the future. The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is at the site of a long-abandoned water reserve – a huge area comprised mainly of pristine old-growth forest. This ark for indigenous wildlife is 691 hectares in size, making it 2½ times the size of Zealandia or Orokonui.
School pupils inspect the new pest-proof fence at Brook Waimarama Sanctuary
Like Wellington's Zealandia and Orokonui, just north of Dunedin, the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary is surrounded by a pest -proof fence. Completed in September this year, the fence is 14.4km long and took 2 years to construct, with years of fundraising efforts before that. Next winter the last of the predators will be removed from inside the fenceline.
"It's a highly technical operation involving a lot of logistics," according to sanctuary manager, Hudson Dodd. "When you're aiming to remove 100% of pests, you have to do it right."
Once predators are removed, the 'fun part' can begin with the reintroduction of species that have been lost from the Nelson region.
"There's already a rich ecology of plants," says Hudson, "The Nelson Botanical Society love coming out here. And there's a lot of biodiversity already, with relatively rare birds present in low numbers. There are riflemen, falcons, robins, tomtits, along with kereru and bellbirds. It's ready to explode once predators are removed!"
It all began back in 2002 with an initial idea for a sanctuary. After an initial feasibility study backed the concept, a charitable trust was formed in 2004.
The founding and current chair of the Brook Waimarama Trust is Dave Butler, who has previously worked with the Department of Conservation. He was the first manager of the DOC's Nature Recovery Programme at Lake Rotoiti. That programme involved an intensive suite of trapping and baiting predator control operations, but had limited success.
"While great spotted kiwi and kaka can defend themselves against stoats from a relatively young age, some of our most vulnerable endangered species can't," says Hudson. "It showed Dave why we needed to build a predator proof fence."
Volunteers transport traps.
There has, however, been a great deal of predator control at the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary, while funds were being raised and the fence built.
"With trapping so far, over 8 years, we're removed about 30,000 pests," says Hudson. "In the early years it was rats, stoats, possums, mice, feral cats and hedgehogs. We've also been culling ungulates – deer, goats and pigs."
It's had a noticeable effect.
"In the first few early years bird monitoring saw an increase in birdlife," says Hudson. "But you only get so far. That's the justification for the fence. Sanctuaries embrace the long-term vision for a predator-free New Zealand, but we don't yet have the tools and means. "
The volunteer input for pest control and track cutting at Brook Waimarama has been phenomenal.
A group of volunteers with tracking tunnels.
"Around 400 volunteers are putting in 30,000 hours of work per year," says Hudson. "There are all ages involved, retired people, college students, families."
The sanctuary has also partnered with the Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology and DOC to develop the Brook Conservation Education Centre, to deliver the national trainee ranger programme. Trainee rangers complete fieldwork components of their course at the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary.
Early on in its development, the Brook Waimarama Trust built a visitor centre. The award-winning centre opened in 2008 and provides a base for volunteer teams to work from and where the general public can visit and learn about the sanctuary project. Hudson considers the sanctuary's education programme to be very important.
"This is a long term, multigenerational initiative. It's crucial we bring the next generations along with us on the journey," he says. "It's important to give kids a grounding in environmental and conservation issues so that they understand the issues and get involved. We have 100 school groups visit per year – that's 3000 kids learning about science and ecology and getting out in nature."
Pupils from Nelson College for Girls discover a giraffe weevil.
In partnership with local iwi, Ngati Kuia, an outdoor classroom "in the heart of the bush" opened last February. An educator is employed at the sanctuary and visiting classes learn about monitoring rodents, invertebrates and water quality and how to identify native plants.
In 2013 the major capital fundraising campaign to build the perimeter fence was launched.
"A total of $4.7 million was raised by July 2014," says Hudson. "It was a big undertaking for Nelson. Sponsored fence posts raised $340,000 of that total, with 1400 posts being sponsored so far. Nelson City Council is also very supportive. We lease the site from Council and they contributed $1 million towards the fence. They also provide a modest annual grant for operating costs."
The new pedestrian bridge.
Hudson hopes the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary will create a "remarkable experience" for visitors.
The Trust are exploring phone apps and Bluetooth options to enhance visitor experience, along with more traditional interpretive signage. One pedestrian bridge has been built as part of the public track system with more bridges, view points and picnic areas planned. And then there are the reintroductions to look forward to, as well as the expected increases in species already present once all predators are finally removed next winter.
Saddlebacks and mohua may be among the birds reintroduced in future, along with kiwi and kaka.
"There are a whole suite of species that used to be here," says Hudson. "Reintroductions will happen over a number of years. There's a lot of planning and permissions. We will work closely with DOC and iwi. It also costs money."
The fundraising won't be stopping any time soon… Building an ark to the future is an incredible venture – but it doesn't come cheap.
Brook Waimarama Sanctuary from the air.
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How long should I wait to start exercising?
If you had a natural delivery, wait 6 weeks before starting any exercise. If you had a Caesarean, it's best to leave it 10 weeks. Starting earlier than this may cause long-term damage so always check with your doctor before starting any kind of exercise routine.
When you do start exercising again, take things easy at first.
The easiest way to do this might be simply to go out with your pram for brisk walks that make you break a bit of a sweat. Listen to your body and if you feel dizzy or overly tired, stop and rest.
This post-natal exercise programme has been specially developed by mum and personal fitness trainer Liz Stuart. Liz is also the creator of the exercise craze Powerpramming, which encourages you to exercise while out and about with your new baby.
Liz advises all new mums who want to start exercising again to drink plenty of water and invest in a good sports bra.
pregnancy and take roughly 6-12 weeks to repair themselves.
above belly button and push down firmly.
closing in on your finger tips.
gentler movements like pelvic tilts (below) and posture instead.
on to more advanced exercises only when stronger.
posture and protecting your back.
over both feet. Ensure the whole foot is in contact with the floor.
* Pull in and tighten the abdominal muscles.
* Lengthen the spine by lifting up out of the hips.
* Relax the shoulders and 'open' the chest.
* Don't over-arch your back. Do 3 sets of 12 then relax.
These will tone and strengthen your bottom and thighs.
sure your stomach muscles are tight.
your back flat and let the weight go down through your heels.
further back than your toes.
* Come back up to starting position. Do 2 sets of 12.
These will also strengthen and tone your bottom and thighs.
* Stand with your feet about hip distance apart. Take a large step forwards with one foot and hold this start position.
* Bend your back knee first and your front knee second. Lower your body straight down.
* Push back up through the heel in front. Do 2 sets of 12 then change legs and do another 2 sets of 12.
Make sure you've performed the 'Rec Check' before doing the following exercises.
These will help tone and strengthens your stomach.
* Lie on your back with your knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
Knees and feet should be about hip distance apart.
and increase the number of sets.
These exercises will help strengthen and flatten your stomach.
* Lie on your back with your legs in the air. Flex your feet. Place your hands on the floor by your sides, palms down.
* Keep your head on the floor. Breathe out and push your feet up towards the ceiling. This will raise your pelvis off the floor.
* Do not let your legs swing. Gently return to the start position.
* Do 2 sets of 12.
that run down your sides.
floor. Knees should be bent and in line with your toes.
opposite knee twisting your torso as you do so.
and come back down to start position.
* Do 2 sets of 12 on each side.
This will help strengthen and tone the bottom and thighs.
* Go down onto the floor on all fours. Breathe out and draw your tummy button back towards your spine.
* Keep this tension in your stomach muscles but make sure you are able to breathe normally. Extend one leg out behind you.
* Keeping the back flat raise the extended leg to hip height. Lower until the toe nearly touches the floor.
* Repeat but don't let your back arch. Do 2 sets of 12 on each leg.
This works your stomach muscles and bottom – a double bonus!
* Lie down on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor.
Breathe out and draw your tummy button back towards your spine.
* Lower and repeat. Do 3 sets of 12.
These will help lengthen and tone your muscles. Try to do them at least four times a week.
* Sitting up straight with tummy muscles tight, tilt head to the right and hold for five seconds.
* Tilt head left, hold for five seconds.
* Tilt head up and hold for five seconds.
* Tilt head down and hold for five seconds.
* If you slouch try this. Sitting down, tighten your tummy and breathe normally.
* Place both hands, palms down, on the small of your back.
* Keep back straight and imagine you are trying to get your elbows to meet.
* Enjoy the feeling of the chest being stretched. Hold the stretch for about 10 seconds and repeat five times.
* On the floor, get onto all fours. Tighten up your stomach muscles and make sure your back is flat.
* Arch your back upwards. Keep the rest of your body relaxed. Hold for 10 seconds.
* Return to starting position and repeat five times.


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16 schools served notice for not admitting poor children in UP
Sixteen private schools in Gautam Buddha Nagar were today served notice for allegedly not giving admissions to poor children under the provision of the Right to Education (RTE) Act.
District basic education officer M P Verma has sent notices to these schools in Gautam Buddha Nagar for not admitting poor children under the provision of the RTE act, under which private schools reserve 25 per cent of total seats for students from economically weaker sections.
"Under the RTE act, the district magistrate had recommended admission to 1,493 students to various schools. These schools are demanding admission fee, building funds and other charges from parents," Verma said.
"They are refusing to give admissions without the payment of the charges," he said.
The students were recommended by the state government through offline and online receipt of applications in three phases, he said.
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Now, on the face of it, this method seems bizarre. Imagine a group of Italian undergraduates coming to New York for a semester to study, and taking all their classes in Italian. The difference, of course, is that English is taught in all Western European countries, beginning at a young age. In the United States, we start teaching foreign languages later, and we teach them with far less urgency than our European counterparts — in large measure because, as native English speakers, we don't feel we "need" another language. Because study-abroad programs want to encourage students to experience a different culture, they are loath to set a language bar that excludes eager but untaught learners.
Maddie (several years of university-level French): I'd gotten used to one voice, my professor's voice. I've found it difficult to adjust my comprehension to all the other voices I've been hearing. It's not that the language is too complicated. It's that I can't untangle the words in a different voice or accent. I have to listen really hard.
Electra (no French at all before arriving): I found language itself hard as a child. I spoke late and I read late. Everyone else was reading, and I couldn't seem to. Then, all at once, I started making out words, and I remember the excitement of the moment I caught on to reading. Like, "Hey! I know what that sign means!" I'm having the same experience now, and it's very exciting. Signs and announcements that were just letters to me before are starting to make sense, and now I want to go farther, I really want to speak the language. I do find that the French speak awfully fast. I do better with a sort of Germanish accent, with the words slower.
Emily (some university-level French): Being what I would call semi-proficient in the language has forced me to self-reflect. I really wanted to speak French when I got here. Then I became reluctant. I knew I would make so many mistakes. I have to push past that. I have to step it up. If I don't make myself speak, I'll leave without much more confidence than I had when I arrived.
Besides me, there was Molly, from Ohio, who was sharply witty in private but painfully shy in public; and Mary, from Connecticut, who was an effervescent chatterbox. Mary embarrassed Molly and me because she made so many awful mistakes when she spoke French — she mixed up her tenses and genders and felt free to substitute an English word with a faux French accent whenever she didn't know the word in French. On our departure, the girls at the school threw us a little party. They raised their glasses, "to Molly who is so intelligent, and Lucy who is so nice, and Mary who speaks such good French." Mistakes are not the issue; willingness is.
I remember being in an English poetry evening class in the mid-70s. The group included two German students of 18 or 19, I think, who seemed to enjoy the class and to have no difficulty in following. Towards the end of one session, our tutor, an outstanding person in his concern for teaching, gave us an unseen piece and asked us to comment and if possible identify the period and the author. The two Germans, without much hesitation, thought it was 20th century poetry: it was actually a Shakespeare sonnet. I have never forgotten this lesson in how difficult it is for a learner to achieve the native speaker's innate sense of language — or, as the Germans say, Sprachgefühl.
…I was able to give up my post to professional educators and start working on another language, Polish. Classes were announced and students were invited to enroll. When I enrolled, I used a trick that I highly recommend to all my fellow linguaphiles who are serious about learning a language: sign up for a level much higher than what you are entitled to by your actual knowledge. Of the three levels available (beginner's, intermediate, and advanced), I asked to be enrolled at the advanced level.
"Then why on Earth do you wish to attend an advanced course?" He was astonished.
Hm, I am surprised by Maddie. Even when I was trying to learn English, which was so long ago that it might have been actually Middle English, we had a listening lab and recordings on cassette tapes with conversations and such. So either Maddie haven't tried that hard or her problem was not one speaker's style, but the usual situation when speech presented in the class is much slower and much better articulated, with "dictionary pronunciation", all sentences are spoken as if they are written etc. and then the everyday speech is a mess.
I didn't study any language beyond the (British equivalent of) high school, but I can relate to what Maddie says. For French and German classes, we had conversational lessons with the help of native speakers — recent graduates or possibly undergraduates who spent a year at our school. I felt I had a decent ability to follow spoken French, but that disappeared the first time I went to France and was bewildered by the blizzard of actual language spoken in the wild by actual French people.
On the other hand, I found German much easier to follow when I first went to Germany. Much less elision and slurring, compared to French.
Well, the Germans were only off by a century, which is excusable; as I keep saying, Shakespeare was the very greatest of the second rank of 19C German Romantic poets. But indeed, to the native speakers of today, Shakespeare might as well have written in Middle English.
"The Beholder bless the poor in soul, for they gets the Kingdom of Heaven. God, he bless the no-way cats. You gone be cool and easy, Guig. Santo, hear, all meek dudes because they gone grab the whole scene. Feliz, Guig, if you flip for the right-on. Then you be filled by the Beholder. Bendito all mercy types; they gone, y'know, reap misericordia.
I would never have guessed! I thought it was a hizpanicized spelling for /gɪg/, whatever that meant. The sequence gn is the single sound written in Spanish as ñ.
The French name Guignol stars with /gi/. It might be derived from the word la guigne 'bad luck', a colloquial if not slangy word.
It originates from the area of Lyon (with Franco-Provençal substrate) and names the main character in a traditional puppet show (still popularly performed in some places, especially for children) known by the same name. The Grand Guignol was an adult version apparently known for its gruesome details.
When I was about 14 and my sister 12, our principal (a former English teacher) organized a school trip to England, where we stayed about a week, Our group was together during the day but boarded with families at night, in our case a couple with two children several years younger than us. I could carry on a conversation with the parents reasonably well (given limited topics!), but when the children tried to talk to us we found them totally unintelligible. I guess they did not have the adult ability to adapt their speech to different people, or even to understand that we did not understand.
Not to give away too much, Guig is called that because he keeps trying to save people's lives and ends up killing them faster and more unpleasantly instead, so he is horribly cruel with only the best of motives. He doesn't like the nickname, but he can't deny it's appropriate. Presumably it's an English-language spelling pronunciation.
We know the pronunciation because his wife can't say /w/ (she's a native speaker of Mohawk, which doesn't have labials) and calls him Glig. Apparently the sound written w in Mohawk is a velar approximant.
When I was in my early teens I decided I wanted to know calculus, and found a textbook and studied it. I was not interested in algebra, which did not sound glamorous at all, even though it was a prerequisite, and didn't study it until later in school. I got through the whole calculus book, even though obviously there were many steps which I didn't understand.
Starting out with an advanced language course makes sense to to me, but I recognize that it's masochistic, and wouldn't work for everyone.
However, I went to learn Irish in the Gaeltacht last summer. Languagey things are my strong suit. But it would have been ridiculous for me to jump right into the advanced class. I took the beginner class twice on purpose because it was being taught by two different teachers. The second time filled in the gaps of the first time, and was necessary. Math and language are just… different, I guess.
For a certain kind of linguaphile, getting to the advanced stage is usually done entirely through self-study (and quite fast too).
Advanced class is needed to learn to speak a language, because learning to speak is the only part of learning a language which can't be achieved by self-study – (by definition, in order to learn to speak a language you actually have to speak in it with someone else).
Kato Lomb's approach only seems bizarre, because she didn't even bother to start learning Polish before she enrolled in advanced class, but I suspect that's because she knew that she would catch with class very quickly through self-study.
According to Wikipedia, Kato Lomb had been studying Russian for 14 years before she started Polish. I'm thinking that jumping straight into an advanced Polish course would be less successful for Joe Schmo from Schenectady lacking any background in Slavic roots or morphology.
In any event, Lomb was famous as an autodidact, so for her the classroom instruction would have been of secondary importance anyway. And if jumping into the deep end were all that one needed to become an accomplished polyglot, I think there'd be more of them wandering about..
According to Wikipedia, Kato Lomb had been studying Russian for 14 years before she started Polish.
Oh, in that case skipping the beginner stuff makes all the sense in the world! It's not a representative example of language learning, and her claim to "know nothing" was completely disingenuous.
Maybe, except that he speaks Polish like a Russian.
On board a train speeding toward Warsaw, four strangers were sharing one compartment: a Russian Imperial officer, a beautiful young girl, an old peasant woman, and a patriotic Polish professor of logic. For mile upon mile they traveled in silence. Suddenly — the train had entered a tunnel — darkness fell. Then the silence was broken by the sound of a kiss, quite loud, followed by the sound, even louder, of a slap. As the train roared out of the tunnel the Russian officer had a rueful expression and one cheek much redder than the other. Still no one spoke. But what were they thinking?
The problem should now be to describe the positions of the passengers in the train.
The term Neo-Elizabethan was bandied about for a while in the hopes that it would trigger or reflect some great transformation, but when it didn't, the term was dropped. There are no terms for the reigns of George V or George VI either (except the war years, I suppose).
The positions of the passengers is indeed a hard problem. A priori we would expect that the men would be sitting side by side facing the women, who are also sitting side by side. But in that case the Russian should be able to tell if the slap came from across the aisle or from his neighbor. If the young woman and the Pole are sitting side by side, then the Russian might legitimately not know who slapped him, but he would be even more surprised than he is: how could the girl have believed it was he rather than her immediate neighbor who kissed her? In both cases the geometry is wrong.
Numerous British monarchs have no widely used terms for their reigns, even when there is no naming conflict: Charleses, Williams, and others farther back. Queen Anne doesn't have a dedicated adjective for her reign; just "Queen Anne" suffices for most purposes.
@marie-lucie: Martin Gardner gave a similar situation as a logic puzzle in one of his books (probably Aha! Insight). He placed the events in a Parisian elevator, circa 1943. There was a Nazi officer in uniform, the two women, and a member of the Resistance. The increasingly confused reactions of the old woman, the young woman, and the German are given, and the goal is to figure out what happened.
That loses the idea of using a professor of logic. I had hoped that it might be Jan Łukasiewicz, but alas and dammit, he was an Austrian Pole, not a Russian Pole. Still, he did study and then teach at Lwów (now Lviv) University 1897-1915, so just maybe.
Polish notation (+ 3 * 4 5 = 23) and reverse Polish notation (3 4 5 * + = 23) are called that because anglophones can't say, or even spell, Łukasiewicz.
The peasant woman was the owner of the zebra.
There was a Nazi officer in uniform, the two women, and a member of the Resistance.
This is a vastly inferior version, and not just for the reason JC gives. However fraught the relations of Poles and Russians in the 19th century, apart from the few years of actual rebellion there would be no expectation that a Polish patriot would try to do away with a Russian officer on the spot, and none that a Russian officer would just up and kill somebody he suspected of being a problem. Neither of these holds true for Paris in 1943; the suggested meeting is far too fraught and dangerous for a jolly logic puzzle to be enjoyable on its own abstract terms (in my opinion).
@languagehat: I can't really argue with that.
What you say does remind me of what I was telling a friend a couple days ago about the movie The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Burt Lancaster. (It was named, perhaps superfluously, as the best train movie of all time by Trains Magazine.) The first half of The Train is a (relatively) light-hearted caper film. There is then a sudden and violent reminder that the villains of the piece are the Nazis, and the second half of the movie takes on a much darker tone.
Interesting; did you feel it worked? And that reminds me of The Grand Budapest Hotel, which had a similar irruption of quasi-Nazi violence (in a train, coincidentally) in a (relatively) light-hearted film.
Later, in a linguistics class, when I first encountered SOV left-branching languages (like Japanese) I exclaimed "Hey, that's reverse Polish notation!" Everyone looked at me strangely.
@languagehat: I thought the plot was pretty effective, and it worked thematically: The train of the title is loaded with stolen art, which the Nazis are trying to get out of France; the overriding question of the film is whether inanimate things like paintings can be worth the sacrifice of human lives. After we saw it, my wife and I were both surprised that it wasn't a better known war film.
Still, he did study and then teach at Lwów (now Lviv) University 1897-1915, so just maybe.
That belonged to the Kingdom of Galicia & Lodomeria, whose king was the Austrian emperor.
Here are the Ngram frequencies for "[monarchial adjective] England." Not surprisingly, "Victorian" and "Elizabethan" are the most common, while "Georgian" and "Jacobean" are also present at a visible level.
"Williamite" is too small to be seen on the first plot, but it is there. If you plot it on its own, it turns out to be three orders of magnitude less common than "Victorian." So the term in getting used, although I do not recall every having come across it myself (and if I did, I would not know whether it referred to the the William and Mary period, or the time when Victoria's father was king; the reigns of William the Conqueror and William II are covered by the adjective "Norman" instead).
Searching for "Britain" instead of "England" brings all the incidences down. "Victorian" goes down the least, unsurprisingly. Also unsurprising are that "Caroline Britain" and "Williamite Britain" are not in the corpus at all.
Now, that y'all in the correct mood solve this problem. Four well-known characters sit around the table: Baba Yaga, Kashchey the Deathless, honest policeman, and One-eyed Jack. There is a large pile of money in he center of the table. The light goes off then on and the pile disappears. Who took the money?
I'm gonna guess the honest policeman.
One-Eyed Jack. The other three are figments of your imagination.
Nobody took it. None of them really exist.
I'm glad to see you make it 'the Deathless' and not 'the Immortal'.
To me, One-Eyed Jack means either the Jack of Spades or the Jack of Hearts, because they are shown in profile. In either case he doesn't steal money (tarts, yes). The King of Diamonds is also one-eyed, so collectively the three cards are "the one-eyed jacks and the man with the axe", the weapon borne by the King.
As I say, a bit sketchy. The Russian version of the riddle that I tried to translate involved "one-eyed Joe", a purported protagonist of a Western turned by inescapable force of Russian humor into a Marx brothers-style comedy.
I only ever knew the Polish train story as a joke, with the Russian updated to a Soviet soldier and the Pole to a Solidarność activist. I didn't know that it was supposed to be a logical puzzle.
I saw a version of the joke with a German soldier and a Dutch soldier in WW2.
That might help with the geometrical arrangement.
In both language and music learning classes, I've tried jumping up a level (just one level though), and it really has increased my learning. But it's tough on your ego, because every single other person there is way better than you, so you're continually trying to figure out "Wait. What was that?". Which is actually a good learning experience, but tiring after a while.
I once tried to place out of a music theory class in college based on my memories of learning music theory with my piano instructor as a child. I got through the first part of the test just fine: what is a quarter note, what is common time, how do you beat two against three, etc. etc. The second part was "Compose a fugue on this theme". I bailed out instead of placing out.
William IV wasn't Victoria's father.
@Brett: Some of these less-prominent adjectives may be commonly used in more specific contexts such as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Divines, or semi-scholarly book titles (not giving links to avoid getting stuck in moderation) like "Jacobean and Caroline Poetry: An Anthology," which presumably includes at least some poets and poems that any well-educated Anglophone ought to be familiar with, or "Danish Troops in the Williamite Army in Ireland, 1689-91: For King and Coffers," which may be intended for a more specialized audience.
If you leave the n-gram viewer and search the google books corpus directly you will find some hits for "Williamite Britain." They're all admittedly in an academic-writing-register kind of context, but the phrase doesn't seem unduly jargony or obscure within that context. "Caroline Britain" is there too, albeit with the handful of relevant uses buried among false positives like mentions of "Radio Caroline, Britain's first offshore radio station," which floruit three centuries after the Restoration.
Maybe "Windsor" or "Windsorian" in reference to the dynasty.
Compare Stuart & Tudor eras.
Because technically, Charles should become the first king of the Mountbatten dynasty.
I think his surname is Mountbatten-Windsor, but the House remains the House of Windsor.
"Elizabethan" in the relevant sense is a subset of "Tudor" in the same sense, because it has been found useful to have a more specific word to specify that subset. So "Windsorian" could be parallel to "Tudor" but unhelpful if one wants a narrower focus on the era from 1952 until 20??. And of course there has not actually been an actual change in dynasty since 1714 – one continuous group of monarchs has been rebranded from time to time for transient public-relations advantage.
Official British royal styles notwithstanding, just changing the monarch's surname does not actually produce a new royal house or dynasty, under any traditional definition of the terms.
Ken Miner, I had a similar experience in my first japanese class except I said it was like the Forth computer language (which works like reverse Polish). It hit me when we were chanting sentences with a pause after each postposition. It's not just the SOV, the postpositions are also an important aspect.
Thus the current "House of Windsor" is still part of the ancient Wessexian dynasty.
One of the things that is supposedly "unique" about the Japanese imperial dynasty is that there has never been a change, meaning that the emperors are supposed to be descended from the gods. (This assumes that Keitai, traditionally the twenty-sixth emperor, did not actually found a new dynasty, right around the time that the imperial chronology is believed to become reasonably accurate.). However, it is equally true that the current British monarchs could have traced their ancestry back to Wotan.
The current British monarchs are indeed descended from this Wessexian family. This tends to be overlooked, since William the Conqueror had to enforce his dynastic rights (he was the first cousin once removed and chosen heir of Edward the Confessor, although the designation of William as heir was probably made under duress) by invading the coutry and defeating the Saxon nobility. There was also a sharp change in the monarchial culture with the Norman conquest. For (exactly) 150 years after the Battle of Hastings, the king's if England were L1 French speakers. And there were major changes in the structure of the government. (The Norman conquest has been described as either the beginning or the end of feudalism in England, depending on what a particular historian means by "feudalism."). Finally, by the Angevin period, the kings had given up on claiming a continuous line of descent through the Wessexian monarchs; they instead elevated the semi-fictional character of King Arthur as the rightful originator of the English/Welsh monarchy.
But even if the descendants of Egbert are not quite so numerous as those of Charlemagne, he must have tens if not hundreds of millions of currently living descendants (the vast majority of anyone with a substantial quantum of English ancestry, I should think). So we're all likewise descended from Wotan, I suppose.
Who no doubt all have an unusual aptitude for computers.
…well, that's the traditionally accepted version, anyway. It had been noted that the name Egbert appears among the previous rulers of Kent but not of Wessex, and the father of Egbert of Wessex was probably one Eahlmund of Kent (who, in turn, has a traditional but otherwise unattested Wessex descent). So there's some suspicion that the "Wessexian" dynasty following Egbert is actually an offshoot of the Kentish line.
In pre-Christian England, there were a number if lines of kings, and what separated the kingly lines from those of other warlords was that the king's had a tradition of claiming descent from Wotan.
Except they hadn't sent him through the High German consonant shift, and AFAIK called him Woden.
There is genealogical descent involved at each transition, so it can be shown that Elizabeth Windsor does descend from Cerdic of Wessex.
Of course, she is also descended from Charlemagne, Rurik of Rus or even prophet Mohammed (pbuh).
It's not just the SOV, the postpositions are also an important aspect.
Right. If I remember correctly, it's been claimed that SOV languages generally have postpositions rather than prepositions.
I keep feeling like there ought to be a fancier and less transparent adjectival derivative of "Wessex" than "Wessexian" (a la "Haligonian" from Halifax, something more Latinate or at least mock-Latinate) but the internet isn't helping me out.
And per a little googling it looks like the Latin for "Sussex" is "Sussexia" with the super-boring genitive "Sussexiae," which may be bad news for the chances of Latinate obscurity here.
Well, make one up! How does "Wesigian" sound?
Occidentalis Saxus per venerabilis Beda presbyter.
So that doesn't really give you a convenient long Latin form to remove a desinence from.
But on the pattern of Saxon, I'd give Wessaxon a go.
Ten generations back, for example, the number of ancestral stretches of DNA is around 757 but the number of ancestors is 1,024, guaranteeing that each person has several hundred ancestors from whom he or she has received no DNA whatsoever. Twenty generations in the past, the number of ancestors is almost a thousand times greater than the number of ancestral stretches of DNA in a person's genome, so it is a certainty that each person has not inherited any DNA from the great majority of his or her actual ancestors.
[…] The Bible and the chronicles of royal families record who begat whom over dozens of generations. Yet even if the genealogies are accurate, Queen Elizabeth II of England almost certainly inherited no DNA from William of Normandy, who conquered England in 1066 and who is believed to be her ancestor twenty-four generations back in time.
Both the premise and the conclusion might be true, but the logical step is faulty. Most basic explanation of the "lost" stretches is inbreeding — your grand10-mother can pop up on your father's and on your mother's side (to say nothing of the generations mixture).
Yes, he goes into all that. It's really an excellent book, written by an expert but in language even I can understand (my eyes tend to glaze over when the details of genetics are being discussed).
@D.O. You beat me to pointing this out. Not realizing that a given person can have far fewer than 1024 ten-generation ancestors is a common innumeracy. See, for example, my answer this this question about how much elven blood Aragorn had.
Regarding adjectival alternatives to Wessexian: I checked what Thomas Hardy used, and his preference seems to have been for bare attributive Wessex.
And by his wife, whose name is so infelicitous for the subject they apparently agreed to hide it in the acknowledgments.
That reminds me of the German translation of the game Civilization II. "The Zulu kingdom/empire" was mechanically rendered as "das zulue Reich", which can't be done because there is no adjective to Zulu and it isn't possible to form one – all you can make from it is a noun prefix: das Zulu-Reich.
I'll have to remedy that: zuluisch. Das zuluische Reich. Die zuluische Sprache.
And I have Who We Are and How We Got Here on top of my wishlist. Glad to hear it's no mistake.
That could work as the name of the language, but as a declinable adjective it's still majorly weird.
If you google zuluisch , you'll find that it has been formed occasionally by people looking for an adjective for (mostly) the language or (more rarely) the culture. Some of the cases are written with quotation marks or with a hyphen (zulu-isch ), showing that people are aware that it's a spontaneous formation.
What is the constraint? A quick survey of Googlable German reveals that bantuisch fares an order of magnitude better than zuluisch. Navajoisch is currently under 10 (but we'll quickly improve that count, as we do with zuluisch). There are no real hits for tainoisch or pamaisch. As for adjectives with an army and a fleet, togoisch and panamaisch both make around 10 kGhits.
Perhaps against unstressed unreduced vowels. Perhaps adjectives really are an almost closed class. I'm not sure.
12700 ghits for togolesisch from French togolais. 673 for panamanisch.
Probably from English ("Panamanian"), not Spanish ("panameño").
I don't know whether there is a real constraint. Maybe Germans talk about Zulus and Navajos less frequently than about Bantus and that's why an adjective in -isch didn't have the opportunity yet to establish itself.


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Q: Remove white markers in leaflet map enter image description here
I am using Leaflet map in my Project. After integrating map along with location markers in my dotnet core project and when I run the page. A group of white markers is showing which is shown in above image link.
Can any one give idea how to remove those white markers on map.
My Jquery code is bellow:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/Map/leaflet.css" />

<link href="~/lib/Leaflet.markercluster-master/dist/MarkerCluster.css" rel="stylesheet" asp-append-version="true" />
<link href="~/lib/Leaflet.markercluster-master/dist/MarkerCluster.Default.css" rel="stylesheet" asp-append-version="true" />

<link href="~/lib/leaflet-fullscreen/leaflet.fullscreen.css" rel="stylesheet" asp-append-version="true" />

<link href="~/lib/leaflet-search/leaflet-search.css" rel="stylesheet" asp-append-version="true" />

var markers;
var markerclusterlatlng = [];
var locations = [];

var mbAttr = 'Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ' +
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var cbd = L.tileLayer('https://{s}.basemaps.cartocdn.com/light_all/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', { attribution: '© OpenStreetMap', maxZoom: 20 }),
    grayscale = L.tileLayer(mbUrl, { id: 'mapbox/light-v9', attribution: mbAttr }),
    streets = L.tileLayer(mbUrl, { id: 'mapbox/streets-v11', attribution: mbAttr }),
    osm = L.tileLayer('//{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png', { maxNativeZoom: 19, maxZoom: 22, attribution: '© OpenStreetMap' }),
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    "Streets": streets,
    "osmhot": osmhot
};
L.control.layers(baseLayers).addTo(map);

var devicemarkericon = L.icon({
    iconUrl: 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pointhi/leaflet-color-markers/master/img/marker-icon-2x-orange.png',
    iconSize: [48, 48],
    iconAnchor: [24, 42],
    popupAnchor: [0, -42]
});

var markerclustering = L.markerClusterGroup();

$(function () {
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        dataType: 'json',
        success: function (data) {
            if (data != null) {
                var stringResult = JSON.stringify(data);
                markers = JSON.parse(stringResult);
                console.log(markers);

                for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
                    var devlocation = markers[i]["Location"];
                    var lattitude = markers[i]["Latitude"];
                    var longitude = markers[i]["Longitude"];
                    var address = "";
                    if (markers[i]['Address'] !== null && markers[i]['Address'] !== '') {
                        address = markers[i]['Address'];
                        if (markers[i]['City'] !== null && markers[i]['City'] !== '') {
                            address += ", " + markers[i]['City'];
                        }
                        if (markers[i]['State'] !== null && markers[i]['State'] !== '') {
                            address += ", " + markers[i]['State'];
                        }
                        if (markers[i]['Zip'] !== null && markers[i]['Zip'] !== '') {
                            address += " " + markers[i]['Zip'];
                        }
                    }
                    if (address === "") {
                        address = "No Address";
                    }
                    var searchstr = devlocation + ' | ' + address;
                    var mark = L.marker([lattitude, longitude], { icon: devicemarkericon, title: searchstr });
                    mark.bindPopup(devlocation);
                    markerclustering.addLayer(mark);
                }

                map.addLayer(markerclustering);
            }
        },
        failure: function (response) {
            alert(response.responseText);
        },
        error: function (response) {
            alert(response.responseText);
        }
    });
});

L.tileLayer('https://api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/{id}/tiles/{z}/{x}/{y}?access_token=pk.eyJ1IjoibWFwYm94IiwiYSI6ImNpejY4NXVycTA2emYycXBndHRqcmZ3N3gifQ.rJcFIG214AriISLbB6B5aw', {
    attribution: 'Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, Imagery © Mapbox',
    maxZoom: 18,
    id: 'mapbox/streets-v11',
    tileSize: 512,
    zoomOffset: -1,
    accessToken: 'your.mapbox.access.token'
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var lassoControl = L.control.lasso().addTo(map);

map.on('lasso.finished', event => {
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                        locations.push(loc);
                        console.log(locations);
                        console.log(childlayer._latlng);
                        //var popup = L.popup().setLatLng(childlayer._latlng).setContent("<input type='checkbox' id='id_" + locationCount + "' name='loca' />" + loc + "");
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Hello
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            if (loc !== null && loc !== '' && typeof (loc) !== 'undefined') {
                if (locations.indexOf(loc) === -1) {
                    locations.push(loc);
                    console.log(locations);
                    console.log(childlayer._latlng);
                    //var popup = L.popup().setContent("
Hello
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            locationCount++;
        }
    });
}

var controlSearch = new L.Control.Search({
    position: 'topleft',
    useMapBounds: false,
    textPlaceholder: "Search Device Location",
    layer: markerclustering,
    initial: false,
    zoom: 12,
    marker: false,
    propertyName: "title",
    zoomToResult: true,
    expanded: true,
    collapseAfterResult: false
}).on('search:locationfound', function (e) {
    var layer = e.layer;
    setTimeout(function () {
        layer.openPopup();
        controlSearch.collapse();
    }, 500);
});

map.addControl(controlSearch);

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The Nature of Love
Nature of Love, oil on canvas w/acrylic, 36"x 36", 2013
I've experienced both sides of the coin… i've manipulated another, i've been manipulated. I controlled another, I've been controlled. I've been the abuser, I've been the abused. Jealous, insecure, and conditional. I've been the one with power, I've been powerless. I've been loved by another while not loving myself, and I've loved another while she didn't love herself. I've given. I've taken. I've hurt another deeply. I've been hurt by another deeply. I've made threats with ultimatum's. I've been threatened by ultimatum's… All in the name of love. The emptiness of these experiences as a whole, has led me to the question… "This is Love?". Like so much of what we as a collective define as reality, love is another example that i am concluding as being far from thereof…
I've grown up in a world that has conditioned me in the various aspects of life that as a society we hold of high value, thru societal constructs such as schooling and media. There are the peers, and the family even that tending to be influenced by these constructs as well, become simply part of it in shaping the blank slate of any individual growing up in it's environment. There is always that potential however, for one to take responsibility for themselves in the way of questioning it all. Going behind all the learned knowledge and re-defining how one see's the world. This re-defining comes from not only direct experience with anything, but with awareness. Awareness is what exists behind the stored collection of all that has been gained in memory. Behind the ego. This art piece is an expression of this re-defining. It is from the realization of what love wasn't/isn't thru the direct experience of intimate relationships, that has me arriving at a realization of what love perhaps is. From the learned idea of "love", to the realization of 'The Nature of Love". Though the realization is perhaps bottomless, this is where I have arrived at it at this point in time. A surprising realization for myself is how in the words to the piece i write "love is like the sun and it's rays illuminating all things, unselectively." I once viewed love as something with strict boundaries, now Im experiencing it as completely boundless. And it is with the heart as the indicator with it's uplifting fullfillment, that has me devoted, defining love as the latter… The following are the words in the piece…
Love is formless. It is boundless. It is experienced. Ineffable. And when we begin to give it shape, we begin to take ourselves away from it. For love shapes us. And it is in trust that we allow it to do so. And from this trust, we find ourselves uplifted. Above it all. In our ignorance we hide our love underneath layers of mental thoughts and emotions. And we confuse love with these thoughts and emotions. And our love becomes conditional in this manner. As long as the world outside ourselves feeds these thoughts, these emotions, we love. And when it doesn't, we take our love away. But this is not in the nature of love. For love is not conditional. Love is not outside one's self. Love is a body whose heart is contentment. Love is like the sun and it's rays illuminating all things, unselectively. Love is energy. It is the blood that pumps the heart giving the body motion. It is the passion that has one fearlessly opening up to the world. Love is not lip service. It is not an "I love you". It is unspoken. It is felt. It is in the moment. It is an internal smile. Love is surrender. Surrender to the hearts will to experience directly, openly the nowness of the world's constancy. Love is non-dualistic. It doesn't flee at the moment of loss. It yields to loss willingly and experiences the pain with love just as intensely as it did so in the beginning with gain. Love is wholesome in this way. It is the complete experience. Experienced it is the complete human. Love is not fear. And fearing the pain experienced at loss, and denying it, one will never feel complete. And in this denial, one may try to find this completeness outside one's self, but one will only suffer in doing so. For love is harmony in the interdependence of all things working together. Love is not manipulating the universe to work for it. This is the illusion that we mistake as the world we live in. This is our illusion of love when experience the emotions in the attainment of all that we work so technically towards. But it's when these illusions fall, as does that heartfelt enthusiasm that was attached to it, is our love tested. And how it often fails in this way, where the face our 'love' reveals itself in was a revelation of fear. Love is a gift. Given and received. Given, it is making one's self vulnerable to the world. Raw, open, exposed in complete tenderness without skin. Received, it is allowing another to be genuinely human. Fully embracing another wholly, in this spotlight of nudity, beyond acceptance, transparent to the shadows of shame. Love is honesty in this way, love is simple in this way… seeing the world as it truly is and and fearlessly wrapping one's arms around it like a mother holding it's newborn bringing it's fragile body to one's heart. Love is a warm kiss that expresses it's indescribable nature. It is a first kiss, like taking a leap into a body of water from up high, one know not how one will land, one not know if one will make it back to shore. Love is the leap, not the thought of leaping. Love is empathy. It is the transcendence of self, experiencing the world from another. Love is at the center of it all. Holding it all in place. It is like the infinite black space of the universe , empty in nature, but filled with the planets, suns, moons, and stars. Love is unity. Man, woman, child. Love is spaciousness. It is the floor of the earth that has a space for all, beyond age, gender, creed, and title. It is the sky above that the clouds pass in, that the sun rises and sets in. Love is the answer that we desperately search for in all our actions. Wether going to the pub or going to the temple. It is the communion of mind, body, spirit uplifted to it's climatic peak that has us like an out of body experience where one is soaring in the sky. It is like a spasm where one is jerked intensely into the moment, void of any suffering, void of the self. Like at the moment of orgasm. Love is the foreplay that leads one to this peak as well. Love is the restfulness that follows as well that has one glowing in an exhaustion of bliss. When love is expressed physically, know that it is love if one is glowing. Love is the glow, whose light is the hidden god inherit to us all, whose universal sacred being when we pay heed to, devote our existence to, worship, illuminates all aspects of our lives, internally then externally liberating us from our individual suffering and healing the world of it's neglect giving the roots of life nourishment with every passing step, flourishing the planet with rich nature, tending to it's garden and leaving it more beautiful than it was when one was first delivered into it.
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Now, the Cailler brand is a part of the largest food and beverage Teuscher has more than 200 The only downside is Läderach is relatively expensive but you won't regret its heavenly taste. owner Jacobs Suchard sold them in 1990. But in 1819 Francois-Louis Cailler created the first chocolate bar. Although they are mostly known for their variety of Swiss chocolates, their products include different food items beyond their famous Swiss chocolate division, like baby food, pet food, medical food, snacks, coffee, cereal, etc. Original Swiss full milk chocolate. See also: How to send gifts to family and friends in Switzerland. Undoubtedly, they are one of the best chocolate brands in Switzerland. eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-box-3','ezslot_12',102,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-box-3','ezslot_13',102,'0','1'])); So if you consider yourself as a chocolate lover and if you are looking for the best chocolates in Switzerland, you must visit these popular chocolate shops in Switzerland. Swiss products are generally renowned for their quality, and chocolate is no exception. Chocolat Frey is another top-class Swiss chocolate brand, steeped in tradition since 1887. The popular product of this brand is the Lindt is considered as the best chocolate brand in the world due to its rich and high quality ingredients and its taste. They're popular for their "FrischSchoggi" (fresh chocolate) barks and fancy bonbons. The craft of being a Swiss chocolatier is not an easy role to fill. has about 50 chocolate boutiques in Switzerland for private customers. Swiss chocolates are widely favored by chocolate lovers over any other kind of chocolate. Exploring Swiss Chocolates We were in Vevey, the home of nestle, for a couple of days, but never got an opportunity to visit the their factory. Swiss chocolate is known for its taste, as it is made up of high quality cacao beans. A high standard of quality, typically Swiss. some brief detail that you should know about these chocolate brands: Mövenpick is a Swiss holding company, which has four in the form of unique and distinctive triangular shape. Unsubscribe at anytime with a single click. The name Auer comes from the family name who is running a chocolate business for five generations. run by Dolf Teuscher, Jr. Swiss chocolate is known for its taste, as it is made up of high quality cacao beans.That's why Swiss chocolate brands are successful in the International market of chocolate. If you love to eat chocolate and you are a chocoholic, then you are million Swiss francs. Lindt also runs several factory outlets and cafés across all the major tourist places in Switzerland. They use pure Swiss milk, natural honey, and some of the finest raw materials from around the world.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'budgettravelbuff_com-medrectangle-4','ezslot_3',104,'0','0'])); Most chocolate lovers believe that the unique triangular shape of Toblerone is inspired by the famous Matterhorn peak. you should give a try this year. They opened their visitor's center in 2014 near Aarau. The silky texture and intense taste of their chocolate are praised and loved all over the world. Uele Pager, who was the son of a Swiss hotel manager We hate Spam. Sep 15, 2020 - Indulge in Chocolate in Zurich. If you are on a honeymoon in Switzerland, joining a chocolate making class together could be a great idea. In a small bowl, combine eggs and sour cream. Sprüngli has its cocoa processed by Felchin of Schwyz, one of the best cocoa processors in the world. in 1908. one of those countries, which dominated the chocolate sales in the world. Milka is a traditional Swiss chocolate brand which was Gottlieber stands out from the rest of Switzerland's top chocolate shops as it makes Swiss chocolates without using any artificial ingredients or preservatives. Switzerland as Frey chocolate brand. See more ideas about swiss chocolate, chocolate, chocolate bunny. 1 talking about this. Your email address will not be published. Russia, United Kingdom and United States. baking pan. Being Swiss somehow seems to make me an expert in matters concerning Chocolate. Now, thousands of Chocolat Frey is a Buchs based Swiss chocolate company which If you're in Switzerland, you must try the world famous Swiss chocolate! Many famous Swiss chocolate companies have been around for centuries, making them the leading producers of their trade. After that, he came back to the Switzerland and then The process starts in the tropical rain forest and ends with the live demonstration of how Läderach chocolates are being made. Read Also: 10 Best Chocolate Brands You must Try in 2019. hundreds of products are of chocolate. Swiss manufacturer invented the first milk chocolate in 1875. Get all latest content delivered to your email. Stir into dry ingredients. The best part is that the quality of their original chocolates has not faltered in the least throughout the years. I personally find it hard to decide. Mövenpick Fine Foods. There are plenty of chocolate factories in Switzerland that produce incredibly delicious chocolates. They serve their customers in more than 80 countries. Stir in sour cream mixture until well blended. They make chocolates, truffles, and pralines by hand every day. We crossed their chocolate factory a couple of times, but couldn't stop. Chocolate, Chocolate Chips, Delicious Hazelnut, Maple Walnut, 72% Cacao and handmade chocolate, which has its headquarter in Zurich. person generally eats 25 pounds of chocolate per year. Milk Chocolate, Nestle Crunch, Orion, and Nestle wonder ball are some of the At the end of the tour, visitors loiter in luxury in an all-you-can-eat chocolate tasting room. Switzerland is Your email address will not be published. Swiss chocolatier Lindt, has long been a family favourite, saved for only the very best occasions. You must visit Max Chocolatier if you are looking for the best chocolates in Lucerne, Switzerland. Don't miss the chance to try a roasted cocoa bean if you have not tried it before. Walking into a Bachmann's shop, I immediately noticed something different. It may be a young chocolate factory in Switzerland, but with premium, local ingredients and high attention to detail Max Chocolatier are able to garner a lot of attention.eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-box-4','ezslot_1',105,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-box-4','ezslot_2',105,'0','1'])); They are popular in Switzerland for making 100% natural and handmade chocolates. With great quality and wide availability help Lindt to maintain its position as one of the finest chocolate producers in the world.eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_6',103,'0','0']));eval(ez_write_tag([[320,50],'budgettravelbuff_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_7',103,'0','1'])); Lindt offers its visitors tastings and workshops at their Chocolateria in Kilchberg for 70-80 CHF. which includes Albania, Argentina, Romania, company in Glarus. Ranging from big brands to boutiques, these are the best chocolate shops in Switzerland.. Visit elegant chocolate shops, museums and chocolate factories for the best finds. Swiss Chocolate - The best Chocolate from Switzerland - Swiss Made Shop - Buy the best Swiss Chocolates from us - The Online Shop for Swiss Chocolate - Swiss Made Origin Swiss Schokolade Swiss … Opening Hours: Open 10:00 – 18:30, Mon 13:00 – 18:30, Sat 10:00 – 17:00. I am swiss and tried a lot of the chocolate that you can buy here. Toblerone is the second best Swiss chocolate brand I will recommend trying particularly three famous chocolates, each of which is award-winning chocolate – Coline, praline Imperial and Mocca Glace. In fact, while traveling in Switzerland, some people's topmost priority is to taste the Swiss chocolate brands. Further the question was which Swiss Chocolate brands are best. Swiss chocolate is famous aross the world, with good reason. Now, this Swiss chocolate company is The best affordable Swiss chocolate box Lindt You don't have to spend a ton of money to get great chocolate, and Lindt is the ultimate proof of that with its delicious creations . The last one is made to a recipe kept secret for more than a century. 10 Best Chocolates in Switzerland for Die Hard Chocolate Lovers, 10 Off the Beaten Path in Switzerland for Solitude Seekers, What to Wear in Thailand – Ultimate Thailand Packing List, 10 Best Ways to Eat Cheap While Traveling, 6 Cheap Visa Free Countries to Visit from India, 7 Best Apps for Traveling in Europe in 2020, #1 LINDT – Best Chocolates in Switzerland, #6 MAISON CAILLER CHOCOLATE FACTORY – BROC, 10 Best Ski Resorts in Switzerland to Visit This Winter, How to Spend 2 Days in Zurich on a Budget, 10 Best Dog-Friendly Beaches in California, 22 Best Christmas Markets in Europe for a Festive Winter, 10 Best California Ski Resorts You Must Visit This Winter. places other than the main store of Zurich. Undoubtedly, one of the best Swiss chocolate brands that can bring instant happiness to your taste buds and soul on every single bite. If you are a chocolate lover, you must take a bite of this classic Swiss chocolate. Read up on the biggest names in chocolate below! Their Lindor milk truffles see perfectly round chocolate shells … Nestle is a well respected brand which is also credited with making some of the best mass produced Swiss chocolate. the Switzerland opened in Dubai in 2014. Now, around 500 employees work in this company and it chewing gum. If you like to keep a traditional souvenir, pick up an assortment box in specially designed packaging.eval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'budgettravelbuff_com-leader-3','ezslot_17',111,'0','0'])); Chocolat Frey is another top-class Swiss chocolate brand, steeped in tradition since 1887. That is mostly because of its smooth texture and heavenly taste. Germany's best chocolates ranked A German consumer foundation put 25 milk chocolate brands — including Milka, Lindt and Merci — through rigorous testing and tasting. I know you are. Some believe that Cailler is the finest Swiss chocolate—but that it doesn't receive the recognition it deserves, as it is not widely exported. Here are my Top 10 Picks of Swiss chocolate available here - includes a … Now, Toblerone Website: Durigeval(ez_write_tag([[250,250],'budgettravelbuff_com-leader-2','ezslot_16',112,'0','0'])); Gottlieber is a famous chocolate brand in Switzerland founded in 1928 by Elisabeth Wegeli. Toblerone is my personal favorite Swiss chocolate for its long-lasting flavor and insanely delicious taste. 1819. Try best Swiss Fresh Chocolate. Migros Group as it was bought by them in 1950. Switzerland trip is incomplete without tasting the world-famous Swiss cheese and Swiss Chocolate. Cailler company in Vevey. Toblerone Swiss Milk Chocolate with Honey & Almond Nougat, Holiday Christmas Chocolate Gift, 24 - 1.23 oz Bars 4.6 out of 5 stars 213 $16.70 $ 16 . He also invented the process of thin walled hollow balls for in this company and the revenue of this company is around 396 million Swiss Rudolf Läderach Jr., who was a Swiss Chocolatier founded this Läderach is one of the best selling chocolates in Switzerland. But I don't think it's too far fetched. This post may contain affiliate links. The Läderach family has been in the chocolate craft for three generations now. Don't forget to taste their white chocolate with crushed raspberries and blackberries. They don't have their company name plastered all over the place like some companies do. They also offer an hour-long chocolate making workshop which involves decorating and setting the chocolate. You can sniff, touch, and taste the high-quality ingredients used to make chocolates. View all Is Lindt chocolate considered good in Switzerland? 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Are We Entering An Age of Empathy?
Jeremy Rifkin, a prolific writer, and advisor to the European Union since 2002, and principle architect of the Third Industrial Revolution, describes in his new book, The Empathetic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World of Crisis, how the Age of Reason during The Enlightenment triumphed over the Age of Faith in the feudal era, and has been with us since. Rifkin says that today, with the challenges of a global economy and our degrading biosphere, a new generation of scientists, scholars and reformers are challenging the underlying assumptions of the Age of Faith and the Age of Reason.
These Age of Empathy advocates argue that the previous explanations of the human condition left us with incomplete stories of our human nature. In our modern era, with its emphasis on rationality, objectivity and detachment, human emotions are considered to be irrational, and difficult to quantify, with a common view that emotions get in the way of sound reasoning and judgment, Rifkin says. Yet, how can we truly appreciate and understand our lives without being alive to pain, suffering, joy, love and other emotions?
New research in evolutionary biology, cognitive sciences and neuroscience are laying the foundation for a wholesale reappraisal of human consciousness. The Age of Faith notion that God's grace is the window to reality and the Age of Reason's idea that reason is the apex of human consciousness is giving way to a more sophisticated and integrated theory of mind.
Researchers in a diverse range of disciplines are arguing that all human activity is embodied experience–what Rifkin calls participation in the lives of others–and that the ability to read and respond to another person as if it was you, is the key to how people engage with the world, create identity, develop language, make decisions and define reality.
In the empathetic civilization, spirituality replaces religiosity and is a deeply personal journey of discovery, in which the empathetic experience becomes the guide. The World Values survey and countless other surveys show a generational shift in attitudes away from institutionalized religion and toward personal spiritual quests that are empathetic in nature.
We are witnessing also a reframing of the notions of reason and rationality away from strict analytical and empirical perspectives to include mindfulness, reflection, introspection and rhetorical ways of thinking. The Age of Enlightenment views, as best expressed by philosophers such as Descartes and Kant, that reason exists independently of experience, does not actually conform to the way we reason in the real world. Reason can never be disembodied from experience. In that context, empathy is both experiential and a thinking experience. Of empathy did not exist, we could not understand the way we feel the way we do or conceptualize emotions. Rifkin concludes his arguments by saying that by reimagining faith and reason as intimate aspects of empathetic consciousness, we create a new age–the Age of Empathy.
On a similar theme, Frans de Waal begins his book, The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons For A Kinder Society by saying that greed is out and empathy is in. De Waal is a biologist, professor of psychology and director of the Living Link Center at Emory University. In 2007, Time magazine selected him as one of the world's most influential people.The distinguished scientist says it is long overdue that we jettisoned our beliefs about human nature–proposed by economists and politicians–that human society is modeled on the perpetual struggle for survival that exists in nature. De Waal says this is mere projection on our part. Nature is replete with examples of cooperation and empathy.
Unfortunately, philosophy and religion as well as science have long suggested that caring and kindness do not come from our biological nature, but are ways that humans overcome biological instincts. In contrast, aggression, dominance and violence have been attributed to our DNA. According to de Waal, for humans and other advanced animals, sharing, compromise and justice matters.
He argues that feeling and acting with empathy for others is as automatic as aggression. Empathy, de Waal explains, is the social glue that holds human society together. He argues that modern psychology and neuroscience research supports the concept that "empathy is an automated response over which we have limited control." He points to the fact that many animals survive not by eliminating each other, or by keeping everything for themselves, but by cooperating and sharing.
Given all we know about empathy in other animal species, why do we persist in seeing human existence, particularly in business, as a fight for survival, with winners and losers? De Waal calls this the "macho origin myth" which insists that the human species has been waging war on itself as millennia as a reflection of our true nature. What has been ignored is the fact that empathy has been evident during that entire time. De Waal points to a mass of examples of sacrifice, empathy, co-operation and fairness in humans and other animals' species. For example, how many people know that most soldiers are unwilling to fire at the enemy, even in battle?
He suggests that the historical predominant view of humans as slaves to a "selfish gene" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We have competing genes–some selfish and aggressive, an others selfless and empathetic–and they are constantly jostling for position. People are complicated and complex, not instinctively cruel and selfish; they are capable of caring and empathy with equal passion and depth.
What then are the implications for the arguments advanced by Rifkin and de Waal for leaders in organizations? First, understanding and accepting that logic and rationality will never motivate or persuade employees or customers of the value of decisions or actions. Second, that people yearn for embodied experiences to bring meaning to their lives, and live in empathetic reality. And without assessing the need for embodied physical and emotional experience, sustained change in beliefs or behavior will not happen. Leaders need to understand and act upon the need for employees to find opportunities to act from an empathetic perspective–their desire to know and feel others' perspectives of reality. And finally, leaders need to construct their training and development programs that are founded on the empathetic perspective, combining the best of faith and reason and tapping into the latest brain research on human behavior.


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Don Casey: High school, college and NBA coaching great - AIR076
High school, college and NBA coaching great, Don Casey.
To say that Don Casey is an important figure to the game of basketball, is to massively undersell his contributions. His head-coaching journey began in 1958, when he was just 21 years old. Almost by accident, Don found basketball; perhaps, basketball found Don. He enjoyed great success, leading Bishop Eustace High School to two state championships (Class B and A in successive seasons) in six years.
We discuss Don's transition to the college ranks, where he spent nine seasons as the head coach of Temple University. We also chat about his long-time mentor, the legendary Harry Litwack.
The NBA came calling for the 1983 season. Don remained at the highest level (as an assistant and/or head coach) for almost 20 years. We talk about his memories and experiences from that stage of his life. He went from the sleepless nights and frustrations of leading the L.A. Clippers (through 1990), to joining Chris Ford's coaching staff on the Boston Celtics (1991). We reflect on Don's memories of Boston, including his links to the great Jack McCallum, who at one time, lived with Don whilst researching Unfinished Business. Don would move to New Jersey after the 1996 season, to work for John Calipari, before finishing his NBA (coaching) career as head coach of the New Jersey Nets.
The conversation concludes with a brief discussion about Don's post-NBA interests.
Links discussed (include):
* Boston Celtics vs Indiana Pacers (1991 NBA Playoffs)
* New Jersey Nets vs Chicago Bulls (1998 NBA Playoffs)
People mentioned in this episode, include: Terence Stansbury, Chuck Person, Jim McIlvaine, Kendall Gill, Bob Hill, Jim Lynam, Larry Bird, Red Auerbach, Reggie Miller, Sherman Douglas, Ernie Grunfeld, Gene Shue, Don Chaney and John Bagley.


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Increased environmental penalties and enforcement powers in NSW
Lucinda Morphett and Maysaa Parrino
In brief - Bill increases maximum penalties in Contaminated Land Management Act
A new Bill in NSW will strengthen environmental penalties, give greater powers to the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) and make other significant changes, particularly for environment protection licence (EPL) holders, those who cause contamination and the waste industry.
Higher contaminated land penalties
While NSW already has some of the highest penalties for environmental crime nationally, the state government is incrementally reforming environmental regulation in NSW to "give the Environment Protection Authority back its bite". Parliament assented to the Protection of the Environment Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 on 28 October 2014.
The Bill increases the maximum penalties in the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 (NSW) ("CLM Act") to be the same as penalties for similar environmental offences in other legislation and makes the following additional changes:
There are significant increases in penalties for offences relating to the duty to report contamination and other offences. For example, the penalties have increased significantly for a person or corporation that does not comply with a Management Order (by over $800,000 for corporations).
Where a deadline is missed for a notice issued under the CLM Act, parties are still obliged to comply.
The EPA is now permitted to require financial assurance to secure funding for the carrying out of a Management Order.
Reform of penalties for environmental offences
The Bill introduces further sweeping reforms in relation to the CLM Act, the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (NSW) ("POEO Act") and the Radiation Control Act 1990 (NSW), such as:
The EPA can now require waste transporters to be fitted with approved GPS devices.
A range of alternative sentencing options for the court, including monetary benefit orders (allowing recovery of monetary benefits gained from an offence), publication orders, orders to provide financial assurance, to attend training courses and to restore or enhance the environment.
Undertakings are now enforceable by the EPA and the courts.
Greater powers afforded to the EPA to remedy or restrain statutory breaches of legislation and to revoke or suspend EPLs. Statutory notices of intention to suspend or revoke EPLs are no longer required.
In addition to occupiers and contaminators, owners and landlords may now be issued with clean up notices under the POEO Act.
Previously, pollution incidents involving the emission of odour were not required to be notified. Pollution incidents involving material harm must now be reported, even though odour may be the only indication that an offence has occurred.
Penalty notice amounts are now increased for repeat offenders. The NSW government has also recently increased penalty notice amounts for individuals and corporations, as outlined in our earlier article Tenfold increase in scale of penalties for environmental offences in NSW.
EPA likely to pursue offenders vigorously and issue larger penalties
The bill is yet to commence, but we expect that as a result of the reforms, we will see greater activity by the EPA in the detection and prosecution of environmental incidents, particularly the issuing of larger penalties.
The changes are also complementary to the reforms made in relation to higher penalties for planning offences in NSW. (Please see our article New powers and tougher penalties for breaches of NSW planning laws.) If you have any queries in relation to the above, please do not hesitate to contact us.
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i tweeted recently that i agreed with charlotte church that i would happily pay 70% tax if it meant that we could live in a more equitable society with better health care, education and social services. predictably i got a number of ill-tempered replies from people who didn't read my tweet carefully, or pretended not to have read my tweet carefully, accusing me of hypocrisy or suggesting that i send a cheque to HMRC forthwith (predictably the replies to charlotte church were nastier - largely, i suspect, because she's a woman who dares to have an opinion in public).
so, in order that i don't have to keep repeating myself, here are my answers to those people.
i was saying, in effect, that i wanted a different tax system in which the rich paid more (as i've said before, during this period of austerity i have been asked to contribute virtually nothing while the poor and the sick and the disabled have been squeezed from all sides). sending a cheque to HMRC would not change the tax system. for the record i pay all my tax, don't practice tax avoidance, don't claim most of the expenses i could claim and give a decent chunk of extra money to oxfam. and 70% is an illustrative figure, not the exact amount of tax i want to pay, nor the top rate of tax i think is necessary for a government to maintain decent health, education and social services. indeed, if tax evaders were properly investigated and prosecuted and if the tax system were radically simplified so that the wealthy were deprived of the manifold ways in which they radically reduce the tax they pay then i susoect we might not even need a top rate of 45%.
One final point; to those who say that if tax rates are set too high then the rich won't pay... i do not want to live in a society where rules and regulations are dictated by what the rich are, or are not, willing to do, especially when it is the poor and disadvantaged who suffer as a result of their unwillingness to contribute.


For the mountain yellow-legged frog, severe population fragmentation has led to population estimates of fewer than 200 individuals remaining in the wild. Along with our partners, our aim is to manage and propagate this species in captivity as part of a large-scale reintroduction effort. To date, our Recovery Ecology team has released hundreds of tadpoles back into high elevation mountain streams and monitored their continued success.
The goal of our current work is to improve husbandry and breeding protocols in collaboration with the San Diego Zoo's Reptile Department. To promote breeding, we emulate the seasons by providing a chilly environment to trigger hibernation in the frogs at the same time they would be inactive in the wild. We also simulate natural light cycles to stimulate reproduction, and study the frogs' nutritional requirements to maximize health. Our ultimate goal is to rear froglets for reintroduction into the wild. Despite some breeding success, numbers of offspring produced every year remains low. To give the colony a boost, our Reproductive Sciences team uses assisted technologies to promote reproduction including hormone therapies and in vitro fertilization.
To preserve the genetic diversity of this species over the long-term, we cryopreserve sperm for storage in the Frozen Zoo®.The first cell cultures from this species, established by our Conservation Genetics team, are being utilized for genome annotation and documenting genetic variation. Finally, to effectively manage the offspring we produce, we are conducting research on embryonic and tadpole development, as well as metamorphosis.We are the first and only team in the world to study the reproductive physiology and natural history of this species with the ultimate aim of developing management protocols that will help rescue these frogs from extinction.


Protection Engineering Consultants uses risk-based design approaches to adequately mitigate the consequences of armed aggressor, active shooter, and marauding terrorist firearms attack (MTFA) scenarios.
Site Layout – Structural drawings, architectural layouts, site plans, and available BIM/GIS data is used to develop a three-dimensional model of the site incorporating important obstructions for egress calculations.
Egress Model Development – An egress model is developed wherein building occupants are represented and a credible threat scenario is selected. Occupants are referred to as 'agents' and are populated with a set density throughout the site (interior and exterior locations).
Risk Assessment – Occupant risk is evaluated using an assessment of the time taken for individual agents to evacuate the premises and avoid the armed aggressor(s), active shooter(s), or marauding terrorist(s). Consideration of the potential benefits of forced-entry/ballistic resistant (FE/BR) doors within the simulation is also possible.
Choke Point Identification – During mass egress of a facility by occupants, building and site geometry can result in a large volume of occupants moving through confined spaces and small openings. This results in 'choke points', which inhibit egress and are critical to capture in an armed aggressor assessment. Using the agent-based system discussed here, such features may be captured with reasonable accuracy and their relative significance may be evaluated.
PEC can also support the development of mitigation measures for such scenarios which may allow occupants to shelter in-place, and/or provide specific egress systems that allow expedited options to exit. For more information on PEC's efforts to mitigate and defeat armed aggressor, active shooter, and marauding terrorist firearms attack (MTFA) scenarios, contact Eric Sammarco, PhD, PE.