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Empathy and Rage: Female Genital Mutlilation in African Literature
Augustine H. Asaah, Tobe Levin
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This is an important book about an important topic that some misguided cultural nationalists would rather keep wrapped under the silences and perversions of tradition. A subject that has generated intense debate about culture, gender, sexuality, women's rights and human rights; this book offers the searing, unsparing gaze that only literature can provide. The collection derives its freshness and power from its excavation of representations in the work of African and Diasporan writers.
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Augustine H. Asaah
Augustine H. Asaah is a Professor of French.
Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen (born February 16, 1948), a multi-lingual scholar, translator, editor and activist, is an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM) and professor of English Emerita at the University of Maryland, University College. Having received her PhD in 1979 from Cornell University, she is most known for combining her advocacy against FGM with her academic scholarship in comparative literature.
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Onlookers weep with joy as crew rescues 2 girls from rubble in Turkey
By Mehmet Guzel and Suzan Fraser
Rescues continue in Turkey after earthquake in Aegean Sea
Crews continue to pull survivors from collapsed buildings in Turkey after an earthquake in the Aegean Sea. (Credit: AFAD via Storyful)
IZMIR, Turkey (AP) - When firefighter Muammer Celik reached a 3-year-old girl trapped for three days under the rubble of a deadly earthquake in a Turkish coastal city, his heart sank. She was lying motionless, covered in dust, and he asked a colleague for a body bag.
But as Celik extended his arm to wipe her face, the child opened her eyes and grabbed hold of his thumb.
"That's where we saw a miracle," Celik of the Istanbul fire department's search-and-rescue team told The Associated Press, recounting Monday's operation 65 hours after the quake hit, killing at least 94 people in Turkey and Greece.
RELATED: Death toll reaches 38 in earthquake that hit Turkey, Greek island
It was the second dramatic rescue Monday after a 14-year-old was also pulled out alive. Onlookers applauded with joy and wept with relief at both scenes in the Turkish city of Izmir, where the vast majority of the deaths and nearly 1,000 injuries have occurred. Two teenagers also died and 19 people were injured on the Greek island of Samos, near the quake's epicenter in the Aegean Sea.
The U.S. Geological Survey rated the quake 7.0, though other agencies recorded it as less severe. Many buildings were completely reduced to rubble or saw several floors pancake in on themselves in Turkey, which has a mix of older buildings and cheap or illegal construction that do not withstand earthquakes well. Regulations have been tightened to strengthen or demolish older buildings, and urban renewal is underway in Turkish cities, but it is not happening fast enough.
On Monday, authorities detained nine people for questioning about six building collapses, including contractors and officials who approved plans, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported.
Celik, whose team was among several who traveled to Izmir, said he found Elif Perincek lying on her back between her bed and a closet in a space that was just big enough for her.
Rescuers are at work during the ongoing search operation at the site of a collapsed building as they look for survivors and victims in the city of Izmir on Nov 2, 2020, after a powerful earthquake struck Turkey's western coast and parts of Greece. (P
"At first I was very upset," he said. "Then I stretched out my hand to clean her face and she grabbed my thumb. ... I froze because right before that moment, I had asked my team for a blanket and a body bag."
His voice breaking with emotion, he added: "This is a firefighter's joy."
The child spent nearly three full days in the wreckage of her apartment and became the 106th person to be pulled alive from the rubble. Her mother and two sisters — 10-year-old twins — were rescued two days earlier. Her 6-year-old brother did not survive.
Health Minister Fahrettin Koca tweeted that both Elif and 14-year-old Idil Sirin were doing well.
RELATED: Magnitude 7.0 earthquake kills 6 in Turkey; Greek island rattled
Video broadcast by HaberTurk television showed Elif holding a doll and waving at a camera from her hospital bed, with one eye slightly swollen.
Elsewhere in Izmir, rescue workers scrambled to find more survivors used listening devices to detect any signs of life.
"Can anyone hear me?" a team leader shouted, asking possible survivors to bang against surfaces three times if they could.
Powerful earthquake causes destruction on Greece's Samos Island
A powerful earthquake that leveled multiple buildings and killed at least four people in Turkey on October 30 also caused flooding and damaged buildings on the Greek island of Samos. (Credit: @iamfragkoss via Storyful)
Officials said 147 quake survivors were still hospitalized, and three of them were in serious condition.
The quake also triggered a small tsunami that hit Samos and the Seferihisar district of Izmir province, where one elderly woman drowned. The tremors were felt across western Turkey, including in Istanbul as well as in the Greek capital of Athens. Hundreds of aftershocks followed.
Turkey sits on top of fault lines and is prone to earthquakes. In 1999, two powerful quakes killed some 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. Earthquake are frequent in Greece as well.
Fraser reported from Ankara, Turkey.
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I only receive IP traffic from connections initiated by my own hosts. MTU should consequently be what my hosts have negotiated with the hosts that my hosts are connected to. The MTU should not therefore exceed the size negotiated. All traffic from hosts I have not sent SYN packets to is rejected so the MTU of unsolicited packets is irrelevant.
That is my understanding of the MTU situation.
If I am wrong (and I often am), I always welcome advice correcting any errors in my understanding since I would rather stand corrected than delude myself that I am right. TCP/IP is an intensely complicated subject so misunderstandings are inevitable and I rely on others to advise me when they believe that I am in error.
If I am wrong (and I often am), I always welcome advice correcting any errors in my understanding since I would rather stand corrected than delude myself that I am right.
Yes indeed. It can be uncomfortable to have ones own cherished beliefs shot down in flames, but it's certainly better to find out the truth.
I've been known to be wrong too.
As have I, many times!
That's right... it will never exceed (a) what you have set on your PC, and (b) what the other end negotiates with you during startup handshake. However there could still be a router somewhere along the line with a lower MTU value which is also blocking ICMP, causing Path MTU to fail. This would then cause packet fragmentation, or worse still, no traversal at all (which is what seems to happen with ebay and microsoft). Lowering the MTU helps overcome this.
You seem to have a pretty sound understanding of TCP/IP and how it works. As you say, it's an insanely complex subject and there's far more to it than meets the eye!
I like this forum. I expect to be lowering the tone of it for some time to come.
I like to know how things work. TCP/IP is a very interesting subject because it is very likely to be the basis of future worldwide communications and because it is very intellectually demanding, especially because it is so dynamic a system. I will be giving RFC1323 a serious bashing this week. I might even understand some of it!!!
I won't be making my RWIN more than 65228 (=1418*46) because I have found that the 5+MB bandwidth that adsl max has just given me seems to be more than the capacity of most servers to fill, except for Microsoft's: I downloaded WinXP SP2 (266MB) for fun and the MS server belted it out at 4.5MB. Most servers seem to be limited to 2MB or less (often considerably less) so I am happy with RWIN appropriate to 2MB. The fast connection enables my wife and me to surf without slowing each other's traffic.
I have already found the contributions made by forum members to be very valuable to my efforts to further my knowledge and I hope to put something back.
Kitz's RWIN tips really added pzazzz to my adsl connection. I like it when things work just perfectly and I have a lovely Internet connection now.
I'll shut up now since my posts are becoming irrelevant to this thread.
and welcome.. we're quite a friendly bunch when you get to know us.
psssst just watch out for those mods roseway and astral in the chat section..
I just leave em to it sometimes and go... huh??
You could go on for ever with tweaking trying different settings.. Im now at the point when.. ok this seems to work well for me.. and I leave it at that.
>>I'll shut up now since my posts are becoming irrelevant to this thread.
hmmmm you should fit in quite well on this forum then..
I was only joking, Kitz.


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Pakistan's "Strategic Shift" is Pure Fiction
C. Christine Fair
Is Pakistan undergoing a "shocking strategic shift" away from its long-standing India-centric policies and preference for supporting non-state proxies? That is just what Sameer Lalwani provocatively argues in a recent article. He claims that the prevailing characterization of Pakistan as a "belligerent, unyielding, and destabilizing force in international affairs" has obscured an important "reorientation of Pakistan's national security policies." He describes three inter-locking shifts that warrant examination: that Pakistan is reducing its bellicosity toward its long-time foe India, turning inward to address domestic security threats instead of continuing its competition with India, and re-examining its very strategic culture in the process. I wish it were so, but unfortunately Lalwani's arguments are far more shocking than Pakistan's putative strategic shifts. The latter have yet to occur and, indeed are unlikely to occur in any policy-relevant time frame. Rather than seeing in Pakistan what they wish to see, the United States and its partners must see Pakistan for what it is and plan accordingly.
Faux Shift 1: "Aggressive" or "belligerent" Pakistani behavior toward India has been significantly reduced.
Lalwani asserts a significant diminution of Pakistan's aggression towards India. To buttress his claim, he contends that "Overall violence on the Indo-Pakistan border has declined due to substantial reductions in militant activity and cross-border firings, based on open-source data, including that of the government of India." Lalwani's data must be put in context, and once we do that the argument that Pakistan's belligerence has significantly reduced begins to fall apart.
First, it is true that Pakistan made an effort to rein in its proxies, thereby contributing to a reduction of hostilities in Kashmir. But this restraint was under severe U.S. pressure. The United States was focused upon fighting its war in Afghanistan and wanted to minimize any possibility of a conflict between India and Pakistan, which would justify Pakistan swinging its troops from the west to the east. Such a maneuver has precedents. It happened after Jaish-e-Mohammad's December 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and the May 2002 attack on army families by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Kaluchak, Kashmir and the ensuing Indian military buildup upon the border. Second, this reduction was never supposed to be permanent. Pakistan was forced to put Kashmir on the "backburner" while it sought to develop new strategies in South Asia while keeping the India-focused jihadi movements in cold storage.
It is worth noting that Pakistan's military has actually escalated its rhetoric on Kashmir in recent years, in opposition to Lalwanis's claims to the contrary. General and President Pervez Musharraf famously dropped Pakistan's long-standing (and unfounded) demand for a plebiscite in Kashmir, according to which Kashmiris were to decide whether they want to join India or Pakistan. Pakistan—despite its support for this option—violated the first, necessary but insufficient condition for the plebiscite by refusing to de-militarize Kashmir. It was Musharraf who also agreed to the 2003 ceasefire and offered India a number of options to resolve the Kashmir dispute, all of which legitimized Pakistan's varied equities in some measure. There was never any chance of India accepting these offers because India remains committed to ratifying the status quo and is loath to validate any of Pakistan's claims. Thus there were never any real costs imposed upon Musharraf in offering these putative "concessions." Moreover, doing so made Musharraf appear more statesman-like in the eyes of the international community, which was convinced Musharraf was a man of peace in the region and beyond.
Many of these policies disquieted the army's other senior generals. As soon as Musharraf left the scene, under pressure from those same generals, his successor General Ashfaq Kayani reversed Musharraf's policies. Under Kayani's tenure as army chief (November 2007-November 2013), Pakistan reverted to the outrageous plebiscite demand and resumed hostilities in Kashmir, as evidenced by Figure 1. The current army chief, Raheel Sharif, has persisted with Kayani's rhetoric and has repeatedly emphasized that Kashmir is the "jugular vein" of Pakistan and remains the unfinished business of partition.
This brings me to my second point. In 2003, both sides agreed to a ceasefire in November 2003. In both 2004 and 2005, there were no "ceasefire violations." As the below chart attests, Pakistani cease fire violations have grown steadily since 2009. Lalwani concedes this uptick but dismisses it as largely irrelevant because the violations have not hit the historic highs of 2002, which numbered well over 5000. Lalwani says that this diminution in hostility is due to a major "strategic shift" in Pakistani calculus, arguing that while "Pakistan still supports Kashmiri separatists … infiltration attempts, violent incidents, and fatalities have all steadily decreased by over 90 percent since 2001."
What Lalwani does not explain explicitly is why Pakistan engages in such shelling. Historically, under the cover of shelling, Pakistani militant groups infiltrated into India either across the line of control or the international border. Shelling served the purpose of infiltrating militants through a particular sector. What then accounts for this increase since 2009? Does it matter that this remains about one tenth the level of shelling in 2002? Maybe not. As I describe below, Pakistan has long developed new routes of infiltration that are less dependent upon the old standard of "shelling" to provide cover to the militants who squirt into India.
Third, and related to the second point, Lalwani is correct: there has been a shift in Pakistan's calculus, but it is not necessarily the shift he had in mind. As the Line of Control (LOC) became more difficult to penetrate and subject to considerable international scrutiny, Pakistan developed alternatives routes to cause mayhem in India. Pakistan, and its proxies such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (operating under the guise of Jamaat ud Dawa and Filah Insaniat Foundation), have cultivated the territories and citizens of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, European and Arab Gulf States to recruit militants, raise funds, organize documents, secure weapons. Pakistan has used Bangladesh and Nepal as infiltration routes as well. .This is in addition to infiltration by sea. More importantly, for Pakistan's security managers and the militants they support, Kashmir is but a gateway to the ultimate prize of spreading communal discord in India. To this end, Pakistan has cultivated the Indian Mujahideen (IM), an indigenous jihadist movement that Pakistan has supported with safe haven, money, and training, among other things.
Faux Shift 2: Pakistan is gradually pivoting away from competing conventionally with India to turn inward and seriously tackle domestic threats.
Lalwani next claims that a "strategic reorientation" away from conventionally fighting India towards its myriad domestic threats. While Pakistan's military has been engaged in military operations in the tribal areas with mixed results and dubious resolve, there is no reason to believe this represents a strategic shift as he intimates.
Lalwani asserts that such a shift "is evident in Pakistani defense resourcing, procurement, deployment, and operational choices since 2001. Based on open-source data, defense allocations declined substantially over three decades." There are several problems with this claim. First, he cites data from the Stockhom International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) to buttress these claims. Both SIPRI and IISS maintain data on military force structures and expenditures; however, SIPRI and IISS data are only as good as Pakistani reporting on these issues. Alas, Pakistan's defense budgeting is notoriously opaque as is information about its force structure. (Readers should compare multiple years of IISS data to learn how slowly their reported figures change, likely reflecting poor information in the first instance.) Pakistan's military does not submit detailed budgets to the parliament, obscures defense spending by locating them in other parts of the budget, has considerable off-budget activities, and does not account for its nuclear program in its budget. Thus there is virtually no way to sensibly comment comprehensively upon Pakistan's defense budget. In recent years, the military has submitted more details about its requirements. While this is an improvement it is a far cry from the transparency observed in democracies with civilian control over the military. Equally important, it is impossible to garner insights into Pakistan's crucial financial relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Second, he contends that Pakistan's procurements of weapons systems are consistent with this assessment. He notes that the "rate of major weapons procurement and replacement has slowed considerably. From the 1950s through the 1990s, Pakistan's offensive arsenal (tanks and combat aircraft) grew roughly 50 percent per decade, but in the 2000s, this growth slowed to roughly 7 percent."
There are historical reasons for this, as Lalwani surely knows or should know. After partition, Pakistan's army was in a shambolic state. The British Indian Army had an end-strength of 400,000 personnel, of which less than 150,000 would go to Pakistan. Pakistan inherited no complete units and suffered an acute officer shortage. (For this reason, Pakistan retained British officers well into the 1950s.) All of the major ordinance and production plants were in India. Pakistan was desperate to capitalize—not recapitalize—its armed forces. After wooing the United States from 1947 onward, the United States finally agreed to bring Pakistan into its alliance structure in 1954. Pakistan's main goal in that partnership was grow its military and the capabilities of its armed forces. Despite turbulence in U.S.-Pakistan relations from 1965 to 1982, the defense relationship again resumed. Pakistan took advantage of being a front-line state in the anti-Soviet jihad to massively expand its army. By 1989 the army had reached an end-strength of 450,000.
Consistent with this tripling in size between 1947 and 1989, Pakistan had to restructure the organization. At independence, all of the army's divisions were commanded from the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. Pakistan added I Corps (now located in Mangla) in 1957. The IV Corps (Lahore) was formed in 1965. Several Corps headquarters (II, V,X, and XI) were added in the 1970s, and several others (XII, XXX, XXXI) were added during the 1989s. The current army is comprised of nine corps and the Strategic Forces Command, which was created in 1999 to exercise command and control over Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The current Pakistan army has an active strength of about 550,000. Clearly, the rate of expenditures should have declined because the bulk of the growth occurred during the periods described above. Moreover, the vast majority of the weapons systems that Pakistan has acquired from China and from the United States are designed to combat conventional enemies—not domestic ones.
How is this a "strategic shift"? Lalwani notes that Pakistan has not attained "conventional parity" with India. He implies that because Pakistan does not seek to attain such parity with India, that Pakistan is more concerned with domestic threats. First, Pakistan does not seek to attain conventional parity with India because it cannot. Second, it does not seek overall conventional parity because it need not do so. Pakistan need only have parity along the international border with India and the LOC. Indeed, along these terrains, both states are relatively evenly matched. Pakistan's military doctrine assumes that India's massive conventional advantages begin to kick in only over the course of a long war when India can move its assets from the east to the west. Pakistan believes that the nuclear arsenals of India and Pakistan will force the international community to intervene early in the conflict, if the arsenal fails to prevent a conflict in the first place. Indeed, this is how Pakistan gets away with using terror as a tool of foreign policy: nuclear weapons raise the cost of Indian retaliation and force the international community into the crisis cycle before a full-blown war can erupt.
Turning to Lalwani's assertion that the Pakistan's military now understands the magnitude of its domestic militant threat, here too the evidence is thinner than Lalwani concedes. First, if Pakistan were truly of the view that domestic Islamist militants are the threat Lalwani claims, we should see evidence of Pakistan shutting down the myriad Deobandi militant groups that give manpower to the Pakistani Taliban. Here, we see no evidence. (Since Lashkar-e-Taiba does not attack Pakistanis and operates under ISI's command and control in India and Afghanistan, the army's continued fostering of that group is not inconsistent with the kind of shift Lalwani posits.) So what does account for Pakistan's military operations in South Waziristan and elsewhere?
To understand what Pakistan is doing, it is important to understand what Pakistan is not doing. First, Pakistan is not abandoning the strategic utility of Islamist militancy simply because it is experiencing blowback from this policy. While Pakistanis are wont to blame a variety of external actors for its domestic insecurity, it is a simple fact that there would be no Pakistani Taliban had there been no Afghan Taliban, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Sipah-e-Sahaba-e-Pakistan and the like. All of these groups were and, to varying degrees remain, assets of the state. The state has at best waged a selective war against those elements that cannot be coerced or cajoled back into the fold of the ISI.
What Pakistan is trying to do is regain control over these varied assets gone wild. Many in the Afghan Taliban reject Pakistan's efforts to manipulate the movement and are as hostile to Pakistan as they are to the Americans. Pakistan needs to divide and conquer the emerging Taliban factions as soon as possible if it hopes to have any reasonable ability to dictate the future of Afghanistan. Turning to the Pakistani Taliban, Pakistan has been trying to persuade some commanders to rejoin the fight in Afghanistan while trying to persuade others to rejoin the fight in India. This is why Pakistan has resuscitated Jaish-e-Mohammad, a Deobandi militant groups raised to kill Indians. Those militants who cannot be rehabilitated to support state goals can only be eliminated.
Finally, if Pakistan were serious about the nature of its domestic threat, we should expect Pakistan's military to be more forthright in describing the terrorists who are savaging Pakistanis. Here too, we see considerable evidence of Pakistani perfidy. Pakistan's intelligence agencies go to considerable effort to orchestrate a media message that these militants are not Muslim. Pakistan's media is rife with reports that these terrorists are not circumcised, indicating that they are "Hindu" or "Indian agents." As is well known, Mehsuds (a tribal from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas) do not circumcise and they swell the ranks of Pakistan's domestic terrorists. Even the notorious attack on a Peshawar school was immediately described by Pakistan's media (as well as former President Musharraf) as an Indian conspiracy.
As I argue in my own book, Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War, Pakistan uses this strategy to intrinsically link its internal strive to its conventional foe: India. This is how Pakistan's army continues to legitimize the need for a large conventional army even though the numbers of Pakistanis killed by domestic terrorists since 1988 outnumber, by an order of magnitude, the 9,000 battlefield deaths from all Indo-Pakistan wars in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999 combined. If Pakistan's army is genuinely serious about the nature of its domestic militants, it would discontinue this canard of blaming India for these attacks, thus fostering the perception that Pakistan's conventional nemesis is the cause of Pakistan's internal insecurity.
Critically, Pakistan gains materially from these internal operations. Pakistan argues that as long as it is "killing terrorists," it should continue receiving American subsidies for doing so. This argument has some merit: unfortunately, the United States has not insisted that Pakistan cease its efforts to create terrorists elsewhere. Essentially, Pakistan has turned its war on terrorism into an endless revenue stream.
Faux Shift 3: A fundamental evolution in Pakistani strategic culture appears to be underway.
Lalwani claims that "Pakistan's officer corps and national security experts have engaged in significant self-examination in their strategic literature over the past 15 years." His evidence for this is thin and based upon a highly selective reading of Pakistan's defense publications which I have treated in my own book Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War. Having read through all of the publications he cites and hundreds more, I find it difficult to agree with him. In fact, heaving perused six decades of the army's publications, I find considerable evidence that the army seeks to construct its conflict with India in ideological, rather than strategic or military, terms. This lays the foundation for a civilizational war with India that has no end. This buttresses the army's ideological, organizational and material objectives of remaining the single most important organization within Pakistan and protects the rights it arrogates to itself to run and ruin the country when it feels compelled to do so.
It is possible that Pakistan's military is undergoing a strategic shift although Lalwani does not provide genuine evidence for this claim. After all the Pakistan army has been fighting its own people since 2002. While Pakistanis may believe they are killing Indian agents with their foreskins intact, the men in uniform know full well whom they are killing and who are trying to kill them. Whereas before 2002, most Pakistani army unit losses occurred in some context or another that involves fighting the Indian enemy. Since then, increasingly unit losses are coming at the hands of Pakistanis. Such a situation would discomfit any military as no military embraces the concept of killing its own citizens over prolonged periods of time.
Another important driver of potential change in the Pakistan army is its base of recruitment, which now stretches well beyond the Punjab. As I have shown elsewhere, the districts from which they are recruiting have very different beliefs and values from the traditional bastions of recruitment. These officer recruits come from districts that do not share the "jihadi" commitments of those in the Punjab and they do not see India as the most important threat to the nation.
Taken together, these combat deaths in the tribal areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the shifting geographical bases of recruitment could auger important ideological shifts over time. However, armies are very good at managing social change. Individuals are incentivized to toe the organization line for purposes of promotion and postings. The Pakistan army offers serious enticements to those who stay in line, including lucrative land grants and an entire system of amenities including schools, hospitals and housing areas that civilians cannot access. Thus it is far from obvious that these recent pressures exposited above will produce the much-anticipated organizational changes that optimists, like Lalwani, hope for.
Unfortunately, Americans are constantly looking for signs that Pakistan has turned a new leaf. Every new army chief produces the same chorus of notables who argue that "This army chief is a straight shooter. We can work with him." Alas, at the end of each army chief's tenure, we learn that he was not substantively different than those he proceeded. Acknowledging the durability of the dangers that Pakistan presents seems to be too overwhelming for Americans. However, our efforts to see positive change where they do not exist come at a great cost. The United States must get over this idea that Pakistan can be a force for good in the region when the preponderance of evidence speaks to the contrary. Once the United States rids itself of this preposterous notion, perhaps it can get to the real business of crafting policies that will contain the multifarious threats that Pakistan pose to U.S. interests in South Asia and beyond.
C. Christine Fair is an assistant professor at Georgetown University's Security Studies Program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and a visiting scholar at the Gateway House in Mumbai, India. She is the author of Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army's Way of War and co-editor of Pakistan's Enduring Challenges. The views here are her own and do not represent that of Georgetown or the Gateway House. The reader is advised that the author embraces sarcasm robustly.
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Avoid activities that stir it up.
Do not allow children to play in it or be in an area where ash-covered materials are being disturbed.
Wash it off toys before children play with them.
Clean-up of larger quantities should never be done by people who have lung or heart conditions.
If you must clean up a larger quantity, wear a tight-fitting respirator mask (such as an N95 or P100 mask found at hardware stores), gloves, long-sleeved shirts and long pants. The mask should cover your mouth and nose and seal properly.
Sweep gently with a push broom, then hose lightly with water. Take care to conserve water. It can be bagged and put into trash cans.
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Do not use leaf blowers, which can stir it up and can contribute to large particles becoming smaller, more hazardous particles.


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As promised, here is the second, and final, installment of my recent travels. I'll try to be concise, but as you may know, I've a tendency to ramble. So my apologies in advance if my narrative gets too involved, and too full of pictures.
After a brief period at home after our trip to see family in Wales, we embarked yet again for far-off places. This time we stayed stateside, flying across the country to California to visit family and friends, old haunts, famous landmarks, and celebrate two weddings – my daughter's and my sister's!
My daughter's wedding was on the central coast, and we spent a wonderful week there. Our home away from home was a mobile home in a spotlessly tidy mobile community in Pismo Beach. It was the perfect size for us, steps from the beach, even fewer steps to a golf course, and a few minutes drive from the wedding venue and my daughter's home.The little home was clean and comfortable, with one notable exception – the ceramic fairy in our bathroom. She was about 12 inches high, crouched in a corner, with eyes that followed you! Creepy. I threw a towel over her post haste and she remained covered until we left.
During our stay, we did a little shopping, sampled lovely beach eateries and coffee shops, walked to the shore, took mom to sit near the water, walked around the mobile home community and explored the neighboring communities.
My step-grandmother lived in a mobile home (it was pink and black!) when I was a youngster. In spite of many attempts over the years, this was first time I've been able to find her neighborhood, still watched over by this grand old Victorian (now badly in need of some paint).
Mama liked meandering through the mobile home park. We'd sit at the end with coffee and wave at the homeowners and/or vacationers, then head back to our own little spot.
Oh yes, hubby and I did walk on the beach at sunset.
Leading up to the wedding, daughters and I did some last-minute shopping, had a nice lunch, picked up the wedding dress from the tailor (first real tears of the visit), and stopped for a little lunch out and about. Youngest daughter arrived to assist, and on Friday the festivities were underway. First came the rehearsal, held at the outdoor location with the most incredible views, crisp, clear, blue ocean, brilliant blue sunny skies. This was followed by the rehearsal dinner, where we enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by the head chef, a long time friend of the bride and groom. Only one more sleep now.
The morning of the wedding broke cloudy, rainy and cold. But we were up early, scurrying to dress and get prettied up. Fortunately I had lots of help in this endeavor, as I was having hair and makeup done with my daughter and all her bridesmaids in the resort's bridal suite. Such exquisite pampering. And such silly girls to hang out with. A mother's dream, to be certain.
All made up and coiffed, with somewhere very special to go!
It's worth mentioning that Saturday was the one rainy day of the entire week! The staff hustled to get the chairs set up in the ballroom arranged for the reception. Not as spectacular as outside perhaps, but done to perfection on a moment's notice. It was a touching and sometimes funny ceremony; tears of joy on my face and my beautiful daughters' faces. The reception followed, full of great fun, family, children, grandchildren, lots of old friends, fabulous food, beautiful cake, elated newlyweds, great music and dancing.
And you know how it's always that one song that gets everyone dancing? Well, in this case it was "Thriller", requested and dedicated to me by my hubby for my upcoming birthday. Nice touch, eh?
The wedding could not have been more lovely, and after a long, busy day the happy couple returned to their home nearby, as the honeymoon in Hawaii will not be happening until Spring.
So, with the first wedding accomplished, and happiness in abundance, we took our leave and drove north to Sacramento for the next week. Along the way is San Simeon, home to famous Hearst Castle. We didn't visit the castle, but amongst the horses and cows, we spied these interesting beasts roaming the property along the highway.
Upon arriving in Sacramento, we plopped our belongings at our dear friend's home where she had dinner waiting for us. The next day, hubby and I took off for a 2-day excursion on our own. We drove about 2-1/2 hours to the town of Groveland, where we would spend the night, and then drove on to our destination, Yosemite National Park.
We spent the majority of two days touring this remarkable place. Waterfalls, enormous redwood trees, massive rock formations, miles and miles of miles of forest and wildlife. I would highly recommend a visit if you're ever in California. This second week was capped by my sister's wedding, a small affair, held in an old mansion in downtown Sacramento, converted now to a bed and breakfast, with lovely event facilities. The immediate family members and close friends entered the courtyard to the soft sounds of flute and harp. The ceremony was short and sweet, and quite moving. My sister was a radiant and happy bride, with her groom beaming from ear to ear. The following luncheon was exquisite, with the ideal wine pairing for every course. So fancy! After lunch, the happy couple exited the party, to be transported via limo to their hotel and then off to honeymoon in Hawaii.
The attendants were a 14-year old bridesmaid and 3-year old groomsman.
One happy bride! She's not really a two-fisted drinker, one of these glasses was for me.
Hope you've all enjoyed my little wanderings. Next up: a Christmassy sewing post!


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Deep-fried catfish with sweet potato fries, collard greens and cornbread.
Kids today have it so easy. When a family of friendly New Orleans natives opened TC's Rib Crib 14 years ago, catfish fry days only happened on Fridays. Sometimes, if you were lucky and they had leftovers, you could snag some at Saturday brunch; otherwise, it'd be another week until the Mississippi-raised bottom-dwellers made their way back to the Valley.
These days, TC's catfish has become so popular, it's a menu mainstay. Anticipation has given way to instant gratification, and having the flaky, fried fillets rolled in a spicy cornmeal blend available daily isn't a bad thing. Give these crispy critters a good dose of Louisiana Hot Sauce and you'll be transported to the Gulf Coast.
You can order a catfish three-piece a la carte for $13, but why would you when a couple bucks scores you two sides? I suggest Cousin Joe's greens— sharp and vinegary collards hinting of swine-y smokiness—and Grandma Georgia's macaroni and cheese, gooey and greasy as the best versions always are. Wash it all down with TC's expertly balanced sweet tea—sweet enough to satiate a sugar craving but not so cloying as to send you into a diabetic coma.
Now that the menu has been adjusted, a name change might also be in order. TC's Catfish Crib has a bit of a ring to it, doesn't it?
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With Rayman Legends on the way, A trademark has shown up out of the random on the Australian Classification Board for a title called Rayman Forever.
What is the game exactly? @lifelower on Twitter found a picture that looks like an enhanced version of the first game in the series that came out on the PC. Sadly, it does not look like it'll come with a free magnet. The rating is for a multiplaform release.
Ubisoft hasn't announced many details regarding the issue but we'll follow up with them in case of anything. In any case, Rayman Legends is coming in September for Wii U, PS3, PS Vita, and Xbox 360.


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using std::string;
using std::map;
using std::pair;
using std::list;
using std::exception;
using std::vector;

alliance_member::AllianceMember *palliance = NULL;
color_license::ColorLicense *plicense = NULL;
block_miner::BlockMiner *pblkminer = NULL;
miner::Miner *pminer = NULL;

// Namespace for cache of license structure.
namespace color_license
{

bool ColorLicense::SetOwner(const type_Color &color, const string addr, const CLicenseInfo *pinfo)
{
    // If the owner is assigned for the first time, license info should be assigned at the same time.
    // If the license already exists, license info should not be assigned.
    if (IsColorExist(color)) {
        if (pinfo)
            return false;
    } else {
        if (pinfo)
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        else
            return false;
    }
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    return true;
}

string ColorLicense::GetOwner(const type_Color &color) const
{
    return (*pcontainer_)[color].address_;
}

bool ColorLicense::IsColorExist(const type_Color &color) const
{
    if (color == DEFAULT_ADMIN_COLOR)
        return true;
    return (pcontainer_->find(color) != pcontainer_->end());
}

int64_t ColorLicense::NumOfCoins(const type_Color &color) const
{
    Tc_t::iterator it = pcontainer_->find(color);
    if (it == pcontainer_->end()) {
        return 0;
    }
    return it->second.num_of_coins_;
}

map<type_Color, pair<string, int64_t> > ColorLicense::ListLicense() const
{
    map<type_Color, pair<string, int64_t> > list;
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        list[it->first] = make_pair(it->second.address_, it->second.num_of_coins_);
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    return list;
}

bool ColorLicense::GetLicenseInfo(const type_Color &color, CLicenseInfo &info) const
{
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        info = it->second.info_;
        return true;
    } else
        return false;
}

}

// Namespace for cache of block miners.
namespace block_miner
{
bool BlockMiner::Add(const string &addr)
{
    while (pcontainer_->size() >= 100) pcontainer_->pop_back();
    pcontainer_->push_front(make_pair(addr, pminer->NumOfMiners()));
    return true;
}

unsigned int BlockMiner::NumOfMined(string addr, unsigned int nAlliance) const
{
    unsigned int count = 1, nSameMiner = 0;
    for (list<pair<string, unsigned int> >::iterator it = pcontainer_->begin();
         count <= Params().DynamicMiner() && count < nAlliance && it != pcontainer_->end(); it++) {
        if (it->first == addr) nSameMiner++;
        count++;
    }
    return nSameMiner;
}
}

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The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians was dealt a good hand in 2012. The state signed a 30-year compact with the tribe that allows table games with dealers at Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel and opens the possibility of two more casinos on tribal land. Also, work was completed on the $650 million expansion of Harrah's, managed by Las Vegas-based Caesar's Entertainment Corp., doubling gambling space to 150,000 square feet and the number of hotel rooms to about 1,100. Both the compact and expansion mean more revenue for the tribe, though Principal Chief Michell Hicks won't say how much. He did talk with Business North Carolina about how the Cherokees are investing their share in the community. The interview was edited for brevity and clarity.
How has the addition of table games affected business at the casino and hotel?
They've helped increase revenue about 15% over last year. There are about 140 tables now and plans for more. There has also been an expansion of the demographics of our guests. We're seeing more men and younger men.
The tribe is planning a second casino in Murphy. What's the status of that project?
We expect to begin moving dirt in September, weather permitting. Construction is projected to take 18 months, but if all goes well it could open by the end of 2014. It's a $110 million investment and will include about 300 hotel rooms, a couple of restaurants, an entertainment venue and about 60,000 square feet of gaming space, which will include live dealers.
How many people are employed in the tribe's gambling operations?
We're at 4,600 employees, and it continues to grow. By this time next year, we should be around 5,000. When the casino in Murphy is finished, we should be up to 5,500. Some of our employees are commuting an hour and a half to work. We pay good wages — a dealer can earn $45,000 a year — plus benefits, which I believe are second to none in the state. That's helping us recruit and retain employees.
How has money from the casino been spent in the community?
We allocate funds based on need. The Cherokee Preservation Foundation has disbursed $51 million of grants to create new businesses and economic opportunities. A quarter of the casino's operating revenue in 2010 — about $80 million — went to local construction companies for capital improvements.
How big is the market in western North Carolina for casino gambling? Is there more room for growth?
It remains to be seen. Early forecasts say there is a lot of room for growth. We have an opportunity to expand on a site in Robbinsville, but that is on hold till we see what the casino in Murphy brings. We're keeping our eyes and ears open.
FLETCHER — Continental Automotive Systems, a division of Hanover, Germany-based Continental AG, will expand its local plant, which makes brake parts, adding 40 jobs to its 626 and investing more than $35 million over five years. The average annual wage for the jobs will be $49,450, more than the Henderson County average of $34,202.
ASHEVILLE — Developers broke ground on The Retreat at Hunt Hill, a $20 million, 180-unit apartment complex slated to open in February. Sullivan's Island, S.C.-based Kassinger Development Group, Greensboro-based Richardson Properties and Asheville-based Pulliam Properties have completed about $85 million of development here since 2008.
WILKESBORO — Key City Furniture closed, shuttering its upholstery factory and laying off 97. The company had seen decreased demand for its high-end products.
ASHEVILLE — Forest Commercial Bank will merge with Spartanburg, S.C.-based Carolina Alliance Bank by the first quarter of 2014. It will operate as Carolina Alliance Bank, be headquartered in Spartanburg and have $385 million of assets.


gut feeling | To Health With That!
Everyone has gut feelings, but what does that mean in a culture that wants everything to be logical? Is it valuable to listen to your gut or is the evolution towards listening only to your brain/mind a good way to go? I'm a big believer in the inherent wisdom and knowing that your body holds – especially your gut.
Technically, your gut has some 100,000,000 neurons (that's a hundred million) which is more neurons than are in your spinal cord. Over 30 neurotransmitters are present within the digestive tract and 95% of your body's serotonin is found in your bowels. The brain and the gut communicate, but while only 20% of the information flow goes from brain to gut, 80% goes from gut to brain. There isn't that much information about digestion, so the gut must be giving other information as well, potentially about emotional state and also potentially contributing to the "gut feeling". This second brain certainly influences your state of mind. "A big part of our emotions are probably influenced by the nerves in our gut," says Emran Mayer, professor of physiology, psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.).
Butterflies in the stomach, which are signals from the gut in response to stress, is a simple example of how your "second brain" might contribute to emotions and information processing. Everyday emotions, according to Michael Gershon, author of The Second Brain, may rely on messages from the brain below to the brain above. One example given by Gershon is the new depression treatment which involves electrically stimulating the vagus nerve. This may actually mimic the healthy signals from your gut, therefore telling your brain that all is well.
In a general sense, your gut feeling is your body's only way of telling you yes, or no, or if something feels unsafe. As a doctor (and as a woman) I always encourage people to trust their gut feelings – about people, about situations, even about foods that they eat or supplements that they take. If you stop to listen, your body will give you a gut feeling about many situations that has the potential to be a far more relevant signal than what you think about that thing. It's easy to get into convoluted thought loops about things, but your gut and your intuition are pretty direct. Bottom line? Gut feelings are usually important – pay attention.
This entry was posted in Healthy Mind, Natural Health and tagged gut feeling, gut feelings, inner knowing, intuition, second brain, serotonin on June 1, 2014 by amyneuzil.


Stupid question. Why would we deport those potential Democrat voters?
Hell NO!! They are not our countrymen. Let them fend for themselves in their country like we are forced to do here in this country.
I agree, and they should not be allowed any public programs what so ever.
get into our country? Certainly, but let's plug all the holes we can and make it harder for them to get into this country.
If there are no jobs for them and no government help for them they will leave on their own. There would be a mass exodus of illegals leaving. Also, not granting citizenship to babies born here to an illegal mother would definitely help. This action alone would make people thinking of coming here just for that reconsider.
Also, there is simply not enough jobs for everyone. These people come here with no or low skills. How many dish washing jobs need to be filled? How many construction jobs need to be filled? How many warehouse jobs need to be filled? How many hotel maid jobs need to be filled? It's obvious the new-era illegal comes here for the handouts.
what the hell is undocumented?
throw all criminal illegal aliens out of the USA. also any child born here can go to until the are 18 or are emancipated from their parents, or are willing to be adopted to a resident of the USA.
They are potential voters for the Democrats. It would be crazy to deport them, losing those votes.
Apparently those in power do.
Give them money and return them home? Ah, no! Since they broke the law, have no respect for our laws, no application for citizenship.
The humanitarian thing to do is stop them from coming into the country but that won't happen because they are a source of cheap labor. It is just a fact that this could have been gotten under control a LONG time ago but that the elected officials simply refuse to serve the legal citizens and for some reason that I will never understand, people keep voting the same losers in election after election. Cheap labor/votes - makes them all happy!
At this point, I wouldn't mind the government giving me and my family a free ride to another country along with some money to set up.
No one that breaks the law should be rewarded. E-verify alone would work wonders and makes a rule that anyone in the country illegally that gives birth gives birth to an illegal immigrant.


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SOCIAL SECURITY IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT, LIKE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE!
Vito Lupis
#Civil Rights
To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled:
We the undersigned signatories in the event of unemployment, retirement or from the inability to perform work, are aggrieved of being deprived of our inalienable right to a basic liveable income derived from the resources of the Commonwealth to which we are entitled to as human beings and citizens of Australia.
The signatories to this petition ask the Senate to consider the following proposition below and then cast a majority vote in the affirmative for the question to be presented in a referendum to the Australian People in the following form.
DO YOU APPROVE the proposed law for the alteration of the Constitution entitled-
"An act to alter the Constitution, so that an Australian citizen, regardless of marital status, in the event of unemployment or retirement, has the inalienable right to a nontaxable monetary allowance equivalent to the cost of living, measured twice yearly by an independent commission, without government interference on how the individual spends the allowance."
Every Citizen in the event of unemployment or retirement has the right to a decent standard of living for themselves and their family, including sufficient food, clothing, and proper housing.
There are not enough jobs for everyone who wants to work, and the situation will worsen in the future, as technology creates new jobs but destroys millions more. If interested, please sign the petition.
In 1946, in a referendum, the Australian people changed the constitution, to entitle themselves access to unemployment benefits, and other social security benefits. Thus, Social Security is an entitlement from the Australian people to themselves and not from the government. See Australian Constitution s51(xxiiiA)
Therefore, Australians then, as now, recognized that every Citizen in the event of unemployment or retirement has the right to a decent standard of living for themselves and their family, including sufficient food, clothing, and proper housing.
Now let's take a look at these shocking figures:
According to Roy Morgan Research, in August 2020, there were 1,980,000 unemployed Australians with 1,290,000 underemployed Australians looking for extra hours of work. That's a total of 3,270,000 people, 22.8 percent of the workforce!
Roy Morgan Research
At the same in August 2020, according to trading economics, there were approximately 109,103 vacancies. (Vacancies taken from the internet and newspapers)
Trading Economics statistics
For the same period, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics, there were approximately 206,000 vacancies. An estimation based on a job survey.
Now, how many job seekers are there per vacancy expressed as an average? Is it 29 job seekers per vacancy? Or, is it 15 to 18 job seekers per vacancy? Any way that you do the math, the news is grim!
On a personal note.
I would like to see the Australian Government give a job guarantee to every Australian who wants a job.
I also note for 25 years, no Australian government increased the rate of Newstart/jobseeker in real terms adjusted for the cost of living; why is that? Why the sudden reversal and give people on unemployment benefits $550 a week? Was this out of the goodness of their collective political hearts? If so, why didn't they do this before and save people experiencing needless hardship and suffering?
WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THIS?
Governments and banks create money on computers when it suits their interests. For example, during the corona virus, the Australian Government had personnel from the Reserve Bank of Australia type and create tens of billions of dollars on a computer screen, with no ensuing inflation, as there were enough goods and services to meet demand.
The Plan (Very important, please share this petition.
There are approximately 6,000,000 adult Australians who receive a social security benefit from the Government. If this petition gets 250,000 signatures, I will personally contact senators and ask them for their support.
Plan B: We call upon the government of the day to hold a national plebiscite.
Plan C: To conduct a postal survey to ascertain the will of the people on this matter.
Plan D: We call on the government to implement the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in relation to articles (9,11) to which it is a signatory. Article 9 The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to social security, including social insurance.
Article 11 1. The States Parties to the present Covenant recognize the right of everyone to an adequate standard of living for himself and his family, including adequate food, clothing and housing, and to the continuous improvement of living conditions.
Below is a list of books and videos that explain how banks and governments create money.
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How money is created documentary
Where does money come from?
The Web of Debt
A History of Banking in America
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The SOCIAL SECURITY IS A FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT, LIKE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE! petition to To the Honorable President and Members of the Senate in Parliament assembled: was written by Vito Lupis and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.


Among all natural disasters, earthquakes stand out as the least predictable and the most destructive. The extensive damages they cause that have made them feared since antiquity. Since there are no scientifically proven means of predicting earthquakes (at least, not yet), the only lesson that we've learned from past quakes is that mitigation is more reliable than forecasting.
It's important that, rather than adopting techniques or practices based on myths (e.g. standing in doorways during an earthquake), we educate ourselves about the importance of earthquake engineering as the best way to minimize damages and save thousands of lives.
Ice quakes (also called frost quakes or cryoseisms) happen when the moisture trapped beneath the ground suddenly freezes and expands. Such sudden expansion builds up pressure, which is then released, causing the ground to crack and a loud booming sound to escape.
Ice quakes have been reported in Canada and the northeastern United States, where they were often mistaken for earthquakes. This rare phenomenon can occur when temperature rapidly drops to subzero. It might be accompanied by similar tremors, but unlike an earthquake, the effects of a cryoseism are localized, as the vibrations they create do not travel very far.
In some cases, people only a few hundred meters away from the epicenter do not hear or notice anything. Because of their rarity, there isn't much scientific data about cryoseisms. Most of the information we have is based on news reports and witness accounts.
It is believed, however, that cryoseisms are generally harmless, with exception to the terrifying noises they produce that may wake a whole city at night.


Antarctica is the highest, whitest, driest, coldest and windiest continent on Earth. It's so cold that creatures often retreat to the sea to warm up. Add 24 hours of darkness during the winter months, and it's a wonder anything lives there. Yet, Antarctica has thriving ecosystems on land and in the water.
An ecosystem is an interacting system made up of animals, plants, microorganisms and the physical and chemical environment they live in. Antarctica has marine ecosystems and terrestrial (land-based) ecosystems. Ecosystems rely on food webs – where energy and nutrients are passed from one living thing to another.
Two of the three research themes supported by Antarctica New Zealand involve protection, conservation and management of Antarctic ecosystems. Scientists study large marine creatures like Adélie penguins and Weddell seals, but they are also interested in really small benthic marine organisms.
Knowledge of megafauna like seals is crucial for understanding the ecosystem for its own sake and for understanding climate change. The top predators are like the gauge on the petrol tank.
Scientists also research what lives on the land. Antarctica is a polar desert. Terrestrial life is limited to the very small. There are no trees or shrubs, so vegetation is mainly mosses, lichens and algae. Springtails are one of the largest living terrestrial organisms – however, these invertebrates are only 1–3 mm in length! Mites and microscopic organisms like nematodes and bacteria live in the soil.
Animals and plants that live in Antarctica have special adaptations that allow them to survive in the extreme conditions.
Penguins have thick, windproof and waterproof feathers. Penguins, whales and seals have thick layers of fat called blubber. Blubber acts as an insulator, helping to keep the animals warm. Antarctic animals often have small extremities (flippers and feet) to reduce heat loss.
Dr Amy Whitehead counts Adélie penguins – continuing research that began in the 1980s. Scientific knowledge is developed by a process of on-going inquiry, sometimes over months, years, decades or even centuries.
Plants are small and close to the ground to help protect them from fierce winds and dehydration. Algae can live in spaces between sandstone rocks where moisture and light are available. Lichens can carry out photosynthesis at very, very low temperatures and can survive dry periods by becoming dormant. Some invertebrates intentionally dehydrate to avoid damage caused by freezing.
People living in Antarctica become part of the ecosystem. In the past, we weren't too worried by this. Adventurers took pack animals to carry goods. Rubbish, huts and fuel spills were left behind when boats arrived to take explorers off the continent and back home. It's very different today. People living in Antarctica do their best to minimise their impact on the environment.
Nigel walks along the tracks made by others while he crosses the Dry Valleys and carries a special bottle to store his urine to ensure he leaves nothing behind.
One way Nigel and those living at Scott Base cannot avoid changing the landscape is with the buildings and transportation. Unlike the native plants and animals, humans have precious few adaptations for extreme weather living and travel! As an introduced species, we depend on well insulated clothing, buildings and vehicles to survive and navigate the icy continent.
Nigel gets up close with some of the Antarctic natives – from the very big (minke whales) to the very small (springtails). Use these Science Learning Hub resources to read about the animal, plant and microscopic life in Antarctica.
Nigel sits in a small building (called a room with a view) and muses on Adélie penguin adaptations. These activities also get students musing about adaptations for life in the freezer. Both activities include a literacy component in which students use reading skills to locate and integrate information.
Animal and plant adaptations – design a unique animal or plant capable of living in Antarctic conditions.
Hiding in plain sight – investigate fish camouflage adaptations.
The activity Making a food web enables students to describe relationships between organisms within the Antarctic ecosystem and build their own food web to show the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem.
Find out more about food webs in this Food webs Pinterest board that we set up.
Find out more about the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
Listen to Adélie penguins on the Landcare Research website.
Listen to Weddell seals yawn and breath.


The course has a double orientation: theoretical exchange and critical discussions will be combined with practical sessions (lab-based sessions) through which participants will work collaboratively in common projects.
3rd – 8th September, 2018.
The course is organized around THREE TRACKS.
What is the story of art that data tells us? How can data analysis create new views on the history of art? What is the meaning of a pixel? In this track B, lead by Harald Klinke (LMU Munich), you will learn the basics of data acquisition, scripting and visualization in order to gain knowledge and experience necessary for pursuing a data-driven Art History (data literacy). No prior knowledge necessary, bring your own laptop.
This track, lead by Justin Underhill (UCB), will explore interactive media using the Unity game engine. We will experiment with different ways of exploring virtual space, and will see how we might use augmented and virtual reality to practice Digital Art History. We will also ask ourselves how to best design visualizations and historical reconstructions for these environments.


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"Time Heist" Recap of 'Doctor Who'
By Tori Michel
The episode was fantastic in a sort of Memento way, working backwards to reveal the reason for the heist. However, as a fan it was slightly predictable. Still, the clever writing prevailed throughout, and some of my favorite lines are merely in passing at the end of the episode in the Tardis. Next week, the Doctor becomes a caretaker at Clara's school, according to the teaser at the end!
"Spoilers, sweetie." If you have not yet seen the September 20th episode of Doctor Who, "Time Heist", do not read any further!
The Doctor arrives to interrupt yet another of Clara's dates, and the phone of the Tardis rings. He is confused, because so few people in the universe have the number. When he answers, he and Clara are transported to a room in the most secure bank in the universe, with memory worms in their hands. They are presented a case with a recording from someone claiming to be the Architect, telling them they are to rob the bank. They also are seated with two others: a hacker convict named Cy who is half computer, and a genetic anomaly human named Saibra who shifts into the form of whatever living cells she has last touched.
Their presence is announced and they must escape with Saibra transformed into a prominent bank customer. But, they discover the bank is protected by a creature called the Teller. It hunts guilt and feeds on memories, detecting bank robberies before they even happen. When it does, it then turns the rest of the brain "to soup", killing the guilty party. The person's family is notified and also killed as payment for a heist that never happened. The creature looks unhappy, and the head of bank security, Ms. Delphox, explains it is the last of its kind.
When they enter the private depository, they are given a bomb to break into the bowels of the bank via the floor. The team is worried that they are not supposed to survive the heist, but when the bomb goes off, it is merely a time shift bomb that displaces the floor particles to another dimension temporarily.
The team descends into the tunnels of the bank. They slowly are given pieces to the puzzle about what they are stealing in the first place, as a case is presented them with six vials inside. However, their presence is again announced to the security team, who sends the Teller after them. Saibra and the Doctor discuss why she is alone: she believes one cannot be trusted after "looking at you through your own eyes". The Teller finds Saibra and locks on to her brainwaves, so the Doctor gives her a "shredder" that kills her instantly and painlessly, "in a moment", in contrast to the painful death she would face with the Teller.
Once they escape, Clara learns that Cy has had to delete every person he has ever loved from his memories in order to keep them safe. He manages to begin to unlock the 24 locks of the main vault for them to enter. When Clara herself is confronted with the Teller, Cy lures it away by taunting it with all the memories of all the bank robberies in the universe. He tells Clara that he is saving her because while she will see the faces of all those she loved when her life passes before her eyes, he will see no one. He too takes the shredder route, as given by the Doctor.
http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/s/ads.jsThe Doctor and Clara realize that one of the 24 locks didn't disengage, and Clara is angry that Cy died for nothing. The Doctor attempts to unlock it with his sonic screwdriver, but to no avail. He is stumped as to why the Architect would get them this far and then allow them to fail. At this very moment, a solar storm erupts which confuses the bank's security systems and allows the final lock to the vault to open. Clara wonders how the Architect knew the storm would hit, but the clever Doctor realizes that it is in fact a time travel heist instead and that the Architect is in the future, thus knowing the precise time the storm would occur, and why they couldn't complete the task in the Tardis.
Inside the vault, Clara uses the message from the case by the vault locks to figure out what they are supposed to be stealing. The first box finds something to restore computer data, presumably for Cy's payment. The second box reveals a gene suppression serum, to fix the problem for Saibra. However, their prize lies in the private vault. Before they can reach it, they are captured and brought to Ms. Delphox. In the wake of the solar storm, she leaves her guards to do away with the Doctor and Clara, but the guards turn out to be Saibra and Cy. They were not dead after all. The shredders were really escape teleportation devices, which allowed them to survive, and helped the Doctor and Clara believe they were dead so as not to tip off the Teller creature.
They go into the private vault where they are met by the wealthiest person in the universe, Madame Karabraxos. She informs them that she has sent for the Teller to kill them, and that her clone, Ms. Delphox, would be tossed into the incinerator, or "fired". The Doctor realizes why she hates her clones based on what Sabra had told him earlier about seeing one through their own eyes, and pieces together why he hates the Architect so much: he is the Architect. Unfortunately, the solar storm is destroying the bank, and she must escape with some of her most prized possessions, theoretically leaving the Doctor and his crew to burn. Before she leaves, the Doctor gives her the telephone number to the Tardis and tells her he is a time traveller.
Flash back quickly to the phone call from the Tardis. It is actually Karabraxos on her death bed. She tells about how she lived a life full of regrets, but that the Doctor can help her alleviate at least one and make it right.
The Doctor allows the teller to lock on to his brainwaves in order to remove the block that reveals the reason they are robbing the bank in the first place, which the Teller does. It also unlocks the final vault, as it knew the combination from being linked to Karabraxos. Inside is it's female companion; it was not the last of its kind, it was one of the last two. The horrible things it did in its captivity were to keep her safe and alive. The Doctor then realizes it's actually a rescue mission to save the Teller and its companion, and that the six teleportation devices were meant to help with their rescue.
The Doctor returns the Teller and its companion to solitude on their home planet. He then returns Cy and Saibra to their homes as well. Finally, he returns Clara to her flat just in time for her date, but not before taunting her with a quip about calories on the Tardis being meaningless, which is merely a joke. When she leaves, we are teased with a slight bit of jealousy on the Doctor's part in regards to Clara's date.
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When Safe Software launched in 1993, the company's first cramped office in Surrey, B.C.'s Newton neighbourhood had no windows.
The City Centre 2 building in Surrey, B.C.'s Health and Technology District. (Image courtesy Lark Group)
The firm's second office, while a step up from its original digs, often smelled like the nearby fibreglass factory, joked Don Murray, who is co-founder and president of the enterprise systems and data automation program maker.
But now the burgeoning company of 150, which has topped 20,000 customers in more than 100 countries, is moving up and into the top section of City Centre 2 (CC2), the second-phase building in Surrey's ambitious Health and Technology District.
The recently completed CC2 building by Surrey-based Lark Group sits next to Surrey Memorial Hospital at the south end of Surrey City Centre.
Murray was among a group of about 200 stakeholders and guests at the CC2 launch ceremony May 10 in a large, yet unfinished third-floor office space in the 12-storey building at 9639 137A Street.
"Expanding our headquarters into the Health and Technology District is a pivotal move for Safe Software that will grow our company to the next level," Murray said.
District to house 15,000 health, tech workers
CC2 is the latest addition to the emerging cluster of health and technology-focused office and service buildings. CC2 is a 185,000-square-foot LEED-certified GOLD strata building which will sit, eventually, amid seven other buildings.
The district will have more than 1.5 million square feet of work space for lease or sale over the next decade.
Neighbouring City Centre 1, also 12 storeys, was completed four years ago and houses more than 90 medical professionals, several health agencies and research groups. CC1 is 95 per cent occupied.
The developer, Lark Group, says the District will eventually hold 15,000 workers and will generate $1.1 billion for the provincial economy.
"The third building will start in June, and then, as we get more infrastructure, we expect more interest," said Lark Group president Larry Fisher. "We're trying to attract technology and health innovations from around the world," he told RENX on the sidelines of the launch party.
Fisher said the second building is being sold as strata units — mostly to health and tech start-ups, medical companies and healthcare specialists.
"It gives (the buyers) a great nest egg," he said, noting Lark will keep about 20 per cent of the units. "We would love to keep it all," he said, but the secondary lease market in Surrey is also an attractive option.
Core plank in Lark Group's portfolio
In business for more than 40 years, Lark Group's development portfolio includes a mix of multi-family projects, commercial buildings and community infrastructure such as schools, community centres, clinics and hospitals.
They're mostly active in the Lower Mainland but also have projects in other parts of B.C.
"This has been our home," Fisher said. "This is where our company has grown up. The city has had its ups and downs, but it's on such a dynamic path."
Bruce Ralston, B.C. Minister of Jobs, Trade and Technology, said the district will become a place where professional clinical practices and tech companies will intersect with teaching and research.
"The opening of City Centre 2, in the heart of Surrey's Health and Technology District, exemplifies our government's vision for B.C.'s growing tech sector," he said in a release.
For its part, Safe Software will occupy the top five floors and more than 54,000 square feet of the building, including a 4,000-square-foot cafeteria and a 6,000-square-foot rooftop garden.
Fellow anchor tenant Surrey-based Regent Christian Academy will be adding a campus at the building in the form of an 11,000-square-foot English Language Learning centre. It plans to open this fall.
City Centre 3 is expected to complete in spring 2020 and will include 100,000 square feet of office space plus 6,100 square feet of retail space.
Evan is a freelance multimedia journalist in Vancouver, who has covered business, news, politics and more. In addition to RENX, his work has appeared in the Vancouver Sun, B-Magazine, The…
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