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In the feature for Long Island's BEACH magazine, the two pals talk pasta, boats and their undying love of New York.
Billy, who grew up in Hicksville, Long Island and now has a home in Sag Harbor, says he loves being able to take his boat out on the water.


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The origin of life and the early evolution of cells and organelles
Colloque organisé par Walter Gehring et Manfred Eigen du 10 au 16 septembre 2004
Gustav Arrhenius, Steven Benner, André Brack, Christian De Duve, Manfred Eigen, Walter Gehring, Gerald Joyce, William F. Martin, Leslie Orgel, J. William Schopf, Christoph Schuster, Alan W. Schwartz, Jane Shen-Miller, Jack Szostak, Edward N. Trifonov, Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch
Du 10 au 16 septembre, les participants à la conférence sur les origines de la vie ont pu profiter de la généreuse hospitalité de la Fondation des Treilles. La chaleureuse atmosphère de ce magnifique endroit associé à l'ambiance si particulière qui s'en dégage ont généré de vivants échanges très animés au sein des différents experts. Tous étaient conviés à réfléchir sur une problématique aussi vieille que la biologie et la philosophie elles mêmes: les origines de la vie. Une réelle approche interdisciplinaire de cette thématique a permis de l'envisager sous différents angles. De plus, les diverses interventions ont conduit les auditeurs jusqu'à la pointe des connaissances des disciplines scientifiques concernées.
L'évolution biologique a dû être précédée d'une évolution chimique. Jusqu'à récemment un paradoxe entravait les réflexions sur les origines de la vie: on pensait que seules les protéines pouvaient catalyser la réplication des acides nucléiques, considérés comme les dépositaires du patrimoine génétique, et qu'elles seules pouvaient assurer le transfert de l'information génétique aux protéines. Ainsi, on croyait que l'existence préalable des protéines était nécessaire avant toute synthèse d'acides nucléiques mais on pensait également qu'en absence d'acides nucléiques aucune synthèse protéique ne pouvait avoir lieu. Ce point de vue a profondément été modifié par la découverte des propriétés catalytiques de certains ARN: les fameux ribozymes. De plus, de récentes études aux rayons X ont révélé que le site actif impliqué dans la formation des liaisons peptidiques (donc dans la synthèse protéique) était entièrement constitué d'ARN. Cela a conduit à la conclusion de l'existence probable d'un monde ARN bien avant que les protéines génétiquement codées ne jouent un quelconque rôle. Le problème principal de la chimie prébiotique est donc devenu celui de l'origine de l'ARN. Il est parfaitement envisageable que de petites protéines prébiotiques aient été produites à partir d'acides aminés extraterrestres, originaires du milieu interstellaire ou d'acides aminés formés dans les océans, près des sources hydrothermales sous marines, là où les premières briques de la vie ont pu être concentrées comme dans un réacteur. Même au niveau de la reproduction des molécules prébiotiques, variation et sélection, qui sont les conséquences nécessaires de leur capacités inhérentes d'autoreproduction ou de reproduction complémentaire, sont déjà les maîtres mots de l'évolution. La transition d'une évolution chimique à une évolution biologique est liée à la formation de doubles membranes lipidiques. Il a été démontré que des vésicules composées d'acides gras simples peuvent grandir et se diviser en réponse à des forces purement physiques et chimiques, indiquant qu'aucune machinerie biologique complexe n'est requise dans les processus de croissance et de division de telles vésicules. De plus, l'assemblage spontané et l'incorporation d'acides nucléiques dans des vésicules membranaires sont accélérés sur des surfaces minérales, aboutissant à la formation de vésicules proches de cellules primitives. Des études paléontologiques indiquent que les fossiles les plus agés découverts jusqu'à présent sont vieux d'au moins 3,5 milliards d'années. Ce sont des stromatolites constitués de plusieurs couches de cyanobactéries probablement déjà douées de capacités photosynthétiques. La comparaison avec des cyanobactéries actuelles suggère en effet que ces organismes les plus primitifs étaient déjà capables de détecter la lumière. Des analyses bioinformatiques suggèrent fortement que les toutes premières protéines, de courts oligopeptides de 6 ou 7 acides aminés, étaient codés par des oligonucléotides d'une longueur de 18 à 21 bases organisés en motifs d'épingle à cheveux. Des vestiges de tels motifs d'épingle à cheveux sont par ailleurs toujours détectables dans les séquences d'ADN modernes.
En résumé, une approche interdisciplinaire allant de la paléontologie, à la chimie en passant par la bioinformatique permet désormais d'entrevoir de nouvelles perspectives sur les origines de la vie. Ainsi, il sera peut être possible, dans un proche futur, de reconstruire les origines physico-chimique de la vie sur Terre.
The participants of the workshop on the Origin of Life enjoyed the generous hospitality of the "Fondation des Treilles". The warm atmosphere of this beautiful place with its unique "ambiance" led to the most lively and animated discussions among the invited experts on a problem that is as old as biology and philosophy themselves. The topic was approached from many different angels in a truly interdisciplinary fashion, and the various talks lead to the forefront of the various scientific disciplines that are concerned.
The meeting covered topics of molecular evolution from physical theory through chemical models up to biological realization.
The following abstracts provided by the participating authors give a good survey of the problems that were discussed.
André Brack, Catalytic prebiotic peptides
Experimental data were presented to support the possible formation of prebiotic catalytic miniproteins from extraterrestrial amino acids made in the interstellar medium. Sixteen amino acids have been identified when irradiating in the laboratory ices of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, water, ammonia and methanol under interstellar conditions. Exposure experiments in Earth orbit onboard satellites demonstrated that amino acids can be transported safely in space by cometary grains provided a mineral protection thicker than 5 microns. Amino acids can be polymerised into short miniproteins under conditions simulating the submarine hydrothermal systems. Short miniproteins made of alternating sequences of hydrophilic and hydrophobic amino acids can be selected via the formation of stable and one-handed sheet structures. Some of these selected structures exhibit catalytic activity, thus foreshadowing the modern enzymes. New chemical approaches have been discussed aiming at improving the performances of the prebiotic catalytically active mini proteins reconstructed in the test tube.
Christian de Duve, Singularities in the Origin and Evolution of Life
The origin evolution of life involve a large number of singularities, for example, the universal genetic code of the LUCA, the last universal common ancestor of all known living beings. A number of mechanisms may theoretically account for such singularities.
One mechanism is deterministic necessity, which rules chemistry. The early steps in the origin of life, being chemical in nature, were bound to take place under the conditions that prevailed.
Another important mechanism is selection, which depends on environmental factors and also on inner constraints, such as genome structure or body plan. In the talk, attention was drawn to the distinction between direct or molecular, selection and indirect, or cellular, selection, and it was pointed out that the second type must have started very early, which implies that cellularization must have taken place at the latest as soon as translation started developing. Early cells cannot have freely shared their genes, as postulated by some theories. For selection to occur, they must have been capable of Darwinian competition.
Selection is often mutual. Selected entities often fish out reciprocally from the environment the entities involved in their selection. Thus RNAs selected to become RNAs may have selected from the prebiotic pool, for use in protein synthesis, the amino acids with which they interacted.
Selection can be optimizing. All that is needed is for the evolving systems to be able to explore the whole range of possibilities open to them (ex. sequence space, or mutational field) exhaustively or nearly exhaustively, for the variant best adapted to environmental conditions to emerge with a high degree of probability. This phenomenon may occur more frequently than is suspected. A surprising example is the genetic code, which seems to be close to optimal in minimizing the harmful consequences of point mutations.
Some singularities are due simply to the extinction of other lineages without selective pressure (pseudo-bottleneck). Frozen accidents are extremely rare if they occur at all (chirality?). There is no room, or need, in the history of life, for fantastic luck or intelligent design.
Conclusion: Little contingency, much necessity
Manfred Eigen, The Molecular Causes of Life
The lecture reviewed the physical prerequisites for a living system, taking for granted that life started at the molecular level according to a Darwinian mechanism. For a physical theory Darwin's criteria appear to be necessary, but they require additional conditions in order to be experimentally realisable. Reproduction, variation and selection do appear at the molecular level, where they are necessary consequences of inherent self- (or complementary) reproduction. Nucleic acids represent a class of information carrying macromolecules which provide such properties, including selection as a consequence of reproduction and variation, rather than as an independent prerequisite. Proteins as a class of molecules are devoid of inherent self-reproduction, which could occur only for particular cyclic mechanisms. An additional prerequisite is error-proneness in relation to the size and reproduction rates of the information carrying sequences, which has two consequences: selection appears to be a first order phase transition, and it stabilizes a defined mutant distribution which is the target of selection. The theoretical frame work for describing such systems has been outlined in the lecture and three model experiments were described that allowed for testing the results of the theory. In fact, "life in the test tube" is the basis for a new industry called "evolutionary biotechnology".
Walter Gehring, The Evolution of Eyes and Photoreceptors
Recent experiments on the genetic control of eye development have opened up a completely new perspective on eye evolution. The demonstration that targeted expression of one and the same master control gene, i.e. Pax6 can induce the formation of ectopic eyes in both insects and vertebrates, necessitates a reconsideration of the dogma of a polyphyletic origin of the various eye-types in all the animal phyla. The involvement of both Pax6 and six1 and six3 genes which encode highly conserved transcription factors, in the genetic control of eye development in organisms ranging from planarians to humans, argues strongly for a monophyletic origin of the eye. Since transcription factors can control the expression of any target gene provided that it contains the appropriate gene regulatory elements, the conservation of the genetic control of eye development by Pax6 among all bilaterian animals is not due to functional constraints, but a consequence of its evolutionary history. The prototypic eyes postulated by Darwin to consist of two cells only, a photoreceptor and a pigment cell were accidentally controlled by Pax6 and the subsequent evolution of the various eye-types occurred by building onto this original genetic program. A hypothesis of intercalary evolution is proposed which assumes that the eye morphogenetic pathway is progressively modified by intercalation of genes between the master control genes on the top of the hierarchy and the structural genes like rhodopsin at the bottom. The recruitment of novel genes into the eye morphogenetic pathway can be due to at least two different genetic mechanisms, gene duplication and enhancer fusion.
In tracing back the evolution of eyes further, beyond bilaterians, we find highly developped eyes in some box-jellyfish as well as in some Hydrozoans. In Hydrozoans the same orthologous six genes (six1 and six3) are required for eye regeneration as in planarians, and in the box jellyfish Tripedalia a pax B gene which may be a precursor of Pax6 was found to be expressed in the eyes. In contrast to the adults, which have highly evolved eyes, the Planula larva of Tripedalia has single- celled photoreceptors similar to some unicellular protists. For the origin of photoreceptor cells in metazoa I propose two hypotheses, one based on cellular differentiation and a more speculative one based on symbiosis. The former assumes that photoreceptor cells originated from a colonial protist in which all the cells were photosensitive and subsequent cellular differentiation to give rise to photoreceptor cells. The symbiont hypothesis, which I call the Russian doll model, assumes that photosensitivity arose first in photosynthetic cyanobacteria which were subsequently taken up into red algae as primary chloroplasts. The red algae in turn were taken up by dinoflagellates as secondary chloroplasts and in some species evolved into the most sophisticated eye organelles, as found e.g. in some dinoflagellates like Erythropsis and Warnovia which lack chloroplasts. As dinoflagellates are commonly found as symbionts in cnidarians, the dinoflagellates may have transferred their photoreceptor genes to cnidarians. In cnidarians such as Tripedalia the step from photoreceptor organelles to multicellular eyes has occurred. These two hypotheses, the cellular differentiation and the symbiont hypothesis, are not mutually exclusive and are the subject of further investigations.
Gerald Joyce, The in Vitro RNA World
It is believed that an RNA-based genetic system, usually referred to as the "RNA world", preceded the DNA and protein-based genetic system that has existed on Earth for the past 3.5 billion years. Questions concerning how the RNA world arose and the degree of complexity it attained can be addressed through laboratory experiments in prebiotic chemistry and RNA biochemistry.
In the realm of prebiotic chemistry, one seeks to explain how the chemical components of RNA (ribose, phosphate, and nucleotide bases) arose and assembled to form polynucleotides in the presence of a complex mixture of closely related compounds. Ribose, for example, would have been accompanied by many other sugars, and is more reactive and degrades more rapidly than these other sugars. Taking advantage of the greater reactivity of ribose, we found that it reacts especially rapidly with cyanamide to form a stable bicyclic adduct. This product crystallizes spontaneously in aqueous solution, forming discrete homochiral domains. Ribosecyanamide in turn reacts with cyanoacetylene to form cytosine α-nucleoside in nearly quantitative yield.
Central to the operation of the RNA world is the ability of RNA to catalyze the replication of RNA, thereby enabling RNA-based evolution. Through methods of test-tube evolution, we have developed RNA enzymes that catalyze the template-directed joining of RNA. One such enzyme contains only three of the four subunits of RNA (A, U, and G, but lacking C). This subsequently was evolved to produce a more reactive variant that contains all four subunits, as well as a less reactive variant that contains only two subunits (lacking C and G). Once Darwinian evolution begins to operate, even a highly restricted set of chemical building blocks can give rise to macromolecules with complex biochemical function.
William F. Martin, FeS, thioesters, RNA, hypercycles, and chemical energy at a Hadean hydrothermal vent: A geobiochemical model for the origin of life that seems, in principle, to work in considerable detail
There are many, many problems concerning the origin of life. One of them has been termed, inter alia by C. de Duve, the "concentration problem". In essence, it relates to the circumstance that under any scenario for the origin of life, with whatever form of prebiotic chemistry, there must be some form of concentrating mechanism that will provide sufficient chemical concentrations of the building blocks of life such that they could react with one another in order to bring forth the chemistry of living systems. It is proposed that a hydrothermal vent, or "hydrothermal reactor" could, in principle, provide a conceptional alternative solution, to the concentration problem. From that, the somewhat radical corollary follows that the last common ancestor of all cells was not free-living, but confined to the reactor instead.
Leslie Orgel, Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of the RNA World
Recent X-ray studies show that the active site for the synthesis at peptide bonds on the ribozome is made up entirely from RNA. This makes it almost certain that there was once an RNA world in which genetically coded proteins played no part. The principle chemical problem for prebiotic chemistry is therefore the origin of RNA. There are two possibilities: either RNA was formed de novo on the primitive earth or RNA was the invention of some simpler genetic system based on easily synthesized monomers. Arguments for and against each hypothesis were presented. Basically, it is very hard to make a molecule as complicated as RNA, but we cannot think of anything much simpler that would work.
J. William Schopf, Palaeobiologic evidence of early life on Earth
In comparison with the fossil record of the Phanerozoic Eon (the most recent ~550 million years) and the Proterozoic (< 2, 500-million-year-old) Precambrian, that of the Archean Eon (encompassing Precambrian Earth history earlier than 2, 500 million years ago) is minuscule — chiefly because of the paucity of such very ancient rock units that have survived to the present. Nevertheless, three independent lines of evidence from Archean rocks point to the same conclusion, namely, that Earth hosted a diverse, thriving microbial biota at least as early as 3, 500 million years ago.
(1) Stromatolites — megascopic, finely layered, commonly mound-shaped mineralic (commonly carbonate) structures produced by mat-building microbial communities – are known from units dating from ~3, 490 million years ago, in the Dresser Formation of Western Australia, they occur at localities scattered over many tens of square kilometers.
(2) Thousands of carbon isotopic measurements of co-existing carbonate- and organic-carbon, including hundreds from Precambrian geologic units, trace the characteristic signal of biologic photosynthesis to ~3, 500 million years ago, both in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia and the Barberton Mountain Land of South Africa.
(3) Cellularly preserved microscopic fossils have been reported from seven geologic units dated to be between 3, 300 and 3, 500 million years in age, including the Dresser Formation (~3, 490 million years old) and the slightly younger (~3, 465 million years old) Apex chert, both of Western Australia. Techniques newly developed to study individual microfossils — carbon isotopic analyses by secondary ion mass spectrometry and analyses of the chemical-structural composition, geochemical maturity, and the two- and three-dimensional distribution of the carbonaceous (kerogenous) components of such fossils by Raman spectroscopic imagery — provide important new bases by which to evaluate the biogenicity of such minute cellular fossils.
Taken together, such data indicate that life's origin must appreciably predate 3, 500 million years ago.
Peter Schuster, RNA evolution, kinetic folding and molecular switches
The evolution of RNA molecules in populations through mutation and selection is modeled in silico by means of optimization of molecular structures in the spirit of an aptamer selection experiment. Neutrality in the sense that many RNA sequences form the same secondary structure is indispensable for success and efficiency of the optimization process. The degree of neutrality is substantially larger for conventional AUGC sequences than for GC-only molecules, and hence evolutionary optimization of structures derived from GC sequences is a much harder task. A deeper explanation of this fact is obtained when the relation between sequences and structures is considered as a mapping from sequence space into a space of structures called shape space. Most of the common structures of AUGC sequences form connected neutral networks in sequence space on which populations can migrate almost everywhere, whereas the neutral networks of GC-only sequences consist of many islands that require hopping strategies with low probability events of jumping from one component to the other. The concept of sequence structure mapping makes an interesting prediction called intersection theorem when extended to suboptimal structures: For every pair of secondary structures there has to be at least one sequence that can form both conformations, commonly one as the minimum energy structure and the other one as a suboptimal structure or both as suboptimal conformations. Intersection sequences can be designed with predefined barrier heights separating them. A few experimental examples of RNA sequences with two or more (meta)stable structures are presented.
Jack W. Szostak, The Transition from Chemical Evolution to Darwinian Evolution
All modern life uses bilayer lipid membranes as the fundamental cellular boundary structure. We have been using simple model systems to ask how the first cellular structures might have replicated. We have shown that vesicles composed of simple amphiphiles such as fatty acids can grow and divide in response to purely physical and chemical forces, i.e. biological machinery is not required for growth and division. We have also found that the spontaneous assembly of such vesicles from fatty acid micelles is accelerated by the presence of mineral surfaces; moreover, specific minerals such as the clay montmorillonite may have helped bring nucleic acids into membrane vesicles – thus uniting the key components of cellular life. Vesicles that contain RNA exhibit interesting and unexpected properties. For example, we have found that competition between vesicles for membrane material can be driven by the osmotic pressure resulting from encapsulated RNA. We suggest that RNA replicating inside vesicles could have driven vesicle growth, resulting in competition at a cellular level.
Edward N. Trifonov, Decipherable past of the triplet code
Modern genetic sequences, of proteins and nucleic acids, carry an immense information about functions and malfunctions of millions of various species. With all complexity and volume of the sequences, they also have to contain vestiges of what they have been a long time ago, in the very beginning of life. After all, life is likely to have started with something very simple, perhaps, even astonishingly simple.
With the arsenal of the sequence available for bioinformatic analysis it is not only possible to glimpse into the life's past, but the full reconstruction of evolutionary history of the genetic code became possible. The resulting evolutionary chart is highly suggestive, and many predictions that follow from it, indeed, are confirmed. Further reconstruction of the earliest molecular evolution reveals that the earliest proteins – short oligopeptides of 6-7 amino-acid residues appear to have been encoded by 18-21 bases long oligonucleotides, folded in hairpin structures. The vestiges of the hairpins are still detectable in modern sequences, as well as further sequence and structure elements of evolving early life, to be deciphered.
Étiquettes : Alan W. SchwartzAndré BrackbiologieCatalytic prebiotic peptidescellsChristian De DuveChristoph SchusterEdward N. TrifonovEvolution of eyesEvolution of lifeEvolution of photoreceptorsGerald JoyceGustav ArrheniusJ. William SchopfJack SzostakJane Shen-MillerLeslie OrgelManfred EigenMolecular causes of lifeorganellesOrigin of lifeorigines de la vieRNA worldRuthild Winkler-OswatitschSteven BennerWalter GehringWilliam F. Martin

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Under the auspices of his excellency the President of Al Yamamah University, Dr. Hussein Al Freihi and her excellency the General Director of the INTERLINK Language Program at YU, Dr. Nebila Dhieb-Henia, and as part of the continuous cooperation between INTERLINK and Al Yamamah University, INTERLINK at YU offered free of charge English language classes to YU employees and faculty. The courses were conducted simultaneously on both campuses, men's and women's. The training program started on April 3rd and continued until May 12th. The training program consisted of three levels of English and it focused on the functional English and English for Specific Purposes based on the needs of the trainees. The English courses were very successful and the trainees, who were YU faculty and admin staff members, both enjoyed and benefited from the courses a great deal. At the end of the course, the President of YU, Professor Hussein Al Freihi along with the General Director of INTERLINK at YU, Dr. Nebila Dhieb-Henia, handed out certificates to the participants.
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Davis, CA and Eugene, OR twin cities?
Last week I was in Eugene, OR for a day in transit. Being from Davis, CA I was struck by how similar Davis and Eugene are.
They are both college towns.
They both also have an unusually powerful sense of community. I snapped the picture to sign above about "community" that struck me for how could apply to Davis just as much as Eugene.
I like that a lot Paul. I do or have done just about everything on the list. Makes me want to try harder:) Thanks for sharing!
I realize community is important and value it, but I am also realistic too. There are some bad actors out there and sometimes we have to take the gloves off.
Hi Paul- of course you know that I went to graduate school in Eugene, and then moved to Davis for my first job. Those towns are similar and they both suited me. San Diego isn't quite the same, but it has its merits!
That explains a lot! 🙂 Meaning how awesome you are! I've lived in La Jolla and Portland, but not Eugene although I've visited there many times. I prefer the NW. Seattle is my favorite city.


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The Nation's Global Warming Freak-Out: Sports Will Either 'Sink Into Sea or Burn'
By Jay Maxson | January 20, 2020 10:00 AM EST
The smoke and heat plaguing the ongoing Australian Open tennis tournament and threatening the health of contestants aren't just an unfortunate set of circumstances. Oh no, it's a matter of the sports world sticking its head in the stand and ignoring the world's ongoing climate catastrophe, writes The Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin.
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By Bill D'Agostino | January 20, 2020 10:00 AM EST
It doesn't take a skilled code-breaker to figure out the liberal networks' stance on President Donald Trump's impeachment: There's no doubt we need witnesses if the Senate is going to conduct a fair trial; impeachment is necessary to prove that nobody — not even the President — is above the law; and there's no more pressing task for Congress if we're to keep this President, and future Presidents, from acting like tyrants. But when the President being impeached was a Democrat, the spin was completely reversed.
VIDEO On Ukraine Corruption, NBC's Przybyla Sounds Like Biden Press Secretary
By Mark Finkelstein | January 20, 2020 8:08 AM EST
Question: in addition to her duties as an NBC correspondent, is Heidi Przybyla also serving as a PR flack for the Biden campaign? You have to wonder after watching Przybyla's performance today on Morning Joe. Przybyla didn't merely highlight the memo that the Biden campaign has put out as a pre-emptive response to charges of Ukraine corruption—she passionately embraced the memo's findings.
VIDEO New Immigration Series 'Little America' Puts Big Focus on Deportation, Illegals
By Lindsay Kornick | January 20, 2020 7:00 AM EST
In the Trump era, TV and liberal media always seem to want to talk about immigration. Of course, they never seem to know the difference between legal and illegal immigration, so it usually comes off as nothing more than bashing Trump and border laws. Based on the Epic Magazine collection of stories with the same name, the Apple TV+ series Little America is sadly another example of a show being political at the expense of good characters.
VIDEO CNN Anchor Frets 'Iconic' Photo of 'God Hates Trump' Sign Was Censored in D.C. Exhibit
By Brad Wilmouth | January 20, 2020 6:53 AM EST
On Saturday's CNN Newsroom, weekend anchor Fredricka Whitfield touted "shock and outrage" over the National Archives blurring part of a sign from the annual anti-Trump Women's March declaring "God hates Trump." Lauding the photograph of the sign as an "iconic image," Whitfield seemed surprised when Bernice King -- daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- was critical of the sign itself and not so much of the National Archives for censoring it.
VIDEO HBO's Larry David Wears MAGA Hat: 'It's a Great People Repellent'
By Karen Townsend | January 20, 2020 12:57 AM EST
Instead of directly trolling President Trump by name, the red MAGA hat made famous by the Trump campaign was weaponized in the season premiere of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm. In three scenes of the episode titled "Happy New Year" airing on January 19, a MAGA hat made an appearance and was met with scorn.
VIDEO Gay Superhero 'Batwoman' Comes Out as Openly Gay in 'Historic' Reveal
By Lindsay Kornick | January 20, 2020 12:10 AM EST
It's 2020 and liberal television still thinks it's a big deal to have a character be gay. It's so important that characters outing their superhero alter egos on television is also a big deal. CW's Batwoman goes the extra mile by "outing" Batwoman as a lesbian in the universe of the show. Apparently, that's the latest milestone for the LGBTQ community.
VIDEO 'That's Your Baby:' Lesbian Show Surprisingly Plays Sound of Unborn Child's Heartbeat
By Elise Ehrhard | January 19, 2020 11:40 PM EST
Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q is usually a love letter to left-wing hedonism, promoting a radical matriarchal vision of sexual revolution. (I say "matriarchal" because straight men do not exist in the show except as villains or annoyances who briefly pop in and out now and again.) That is why it was surprising to see the show spotlight the heartbeat of an unborn child in this week's episode, "Lose it All," on January 19.
VIDEO Robert De Niro to Cheers at SAG Awards: 'We're in Such a Dire Situation'
By Rebecca Downs | January 19, 2020 10:26 PM EST
It seemed only natural that January 19's 26th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on TNT and TBS would get political. Why is that? Well, known Trump-basher Robert De Niro was being honored with a life achievement award.
Even Leftists Can Be Right About Opinionated 'Fact Checkers'
By Tim Graham | January 19, 2020 9:01 PM EST
Conservatives are not going to agree with a lot of points in The New Republic -- and it's more liberal than it used to be in the last century. But there's some common ground when it comes to the media's "fact-checking" operations. There is a lot of opinion smeared all over the "facts."
NYTimes: Trump's 'Conspiracy Theory' on Pelosi, Impeachment Pure 'Disinformation'
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The New York Times' double standard on ideas it considers "conspiracy theories" was ably demonstrated in Sunday's New York Times by reporters Annie Karni and Jeremy Peters: "How a Pelosi Conspiracy Theory Spread, From Twitter to Fox to Trump." That headline hit the paper's two main enemies: Fox News and President Trump.
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WashPost Smears 'Civil War' on Gun March, Touts 'Hope' in Feminist Fury at 'Rapist' Trump
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One of the most dramatic contrasts in media bias is shown in coverage of protests. The Washington Post published a gushy article on the "Women's March" in D.C., but on the front page, the Post smeared the coming gun-rights protest in Richmond as an occasion to "fan the flames of a civil war."


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Q: Unable to get my answer from old Questions. MySQL is accepting null string values Even after i have declared it to be NOT NULL while creating table? CREATE TABLE abc (
    name char(20) NOT NULL,
    age int NULL,
    mob varchar NOT NULL UNIQUE
);

I have created Table and defined the name column as NOT NULL..
but still it is accepting the empty string like ' '
INSERT INTO abc VALUES ('',25, 8945252635);

please guide how to overcome this.?
//when i tried with NULL keyword instead of ' ' empty string then it is showing error as expected.
INSERT INTO abc VALUES (null,25, 8945252635);

A: To avoid empty values while inserting a record we can have a check in the table DDL itself. Use -> Check(condition)
CREATE TABLE abc (
    name char(20) NOT NULL CHECK(name <> ''),
    age int NULL,
    mob varchar NOT NULL UNIQUE
);

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describe "Apps :new" do

  after { `rm #{@err} ` if File.exists?(@err) }

  before {
    extend Unified_IO::Local::Shell::DSL

    @apps = begin
              e = Dir.entries("#{FOLDER}/Mind/apps").sort
              e.shift
              e.shift
              e
            end

    @name = @apps.last
    @err  = "#{FOLDER}/Mind/apps/#{@name}/config/thin.err.yml"
  }

  it 'creates an array of apps from ./apps/*/config directory' do
    chdir {
      Uni_Mind::Apps.new.to_a.map(&:name).sort.should == @apps
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_Chdir if chdir is not /apps/app_name' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /wrong/dir/#{@name} -u #{@name} -g #{@name} -e production"
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_Chdir)
      .message.should.match %r!/wrong/dir/#{@name}!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Duplicate_Port if the same port overlaps with another' do
    target = "#{[1002].inspect} in #{["apps/bye_02/config/thin.one.yml", "apps/hi_01/config/thin.err.yml"].inspect}"
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 1002 -u #{@name} -g #{@name} -e production"
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Duplicate_Port)
      .message.should.match %r!#{Regexp.escape target}!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_Port if port is less than 1000' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 102 -u #{@name} -g #{@name} -e production"
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_Port)
      .message.should.match %r!102!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_User if user is not the same as app name' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 1000 -u #{@name}s -g #{@name} -e production"
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_User)
      .message.should.match %r!#{@name}s!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_Group if group is not the same as app name' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 1000 -u #{@name} -g #{@name}g -e production"
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_Group)
      .message.should.match %r!#{@name}g!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_Env if environment is not production' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 1000 -u #{@name} -g #{@name} "
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_Env)
      .message.should.match %r!development!
    }
  end

  it 'raises Invalid_Server_Count if :servers is zero' do
    chdir {
      shell_run "thin config -C #{@err} --chdir /apps/#{@name} -p 1000 -u #{@name} -g #{@name} --servers 0 "
      lambda { Uni_Mind::Apps.new }
      .should.raise(Uni_Mind::App::Invalid_Server_Count)
      .message.should.match %r!0!
    }
  end

end # === describe Apps :new

describe "Apps :to_a" do

  it 'returns an array of Uni_Mind::App objects' do
    chdir {
      Uni_Mind::Apps.new.to_a.each { |a|
        a.should.be.is_a Uni_Mind::App
      }
    }
  end

end # === describe Apps :to_a

describe "Apps :to_mustache" do

  it 'returns an array of hashes to be used in mustache templates' do
    chdir {
      target = Uni_Mind::Apps.new.to_a.map { |app|
        [app.name, app.ports]
      }.flatten
      Uni_Mind::Apps.new.to_mustache.each { |m|
        m['ports'].size.should.not.be.zero
        target.should.include m['name']
      }
    }
  end

end # === describe Apps :to_mustache

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Q: What is the purpose of XML attributes on classes that will be serialized to XML? In researching the serialization of .NET objects -- be they native or custom classes -- I've noticed that people put XML-specific attributes on the class and its members.  However, when I seriliaze a custom class to XML for the purpose of saving customizable application settings, I never use such attributes and it serializes and deserializes just fine using XmlSerializer.  Is the purpose of XML attributes just to be able to customize the output of the XML or is there a time when not using attributes can be to the detriment of output to an XML fuke?

A: Those attributes affect not only serialization, but also deserialization. And because you often already have some xml schema which you can't change, you can apply xml attributes to control deserializaton of some objects from existing xml. Also xml attributes are useful when xml and .net classes have different naming standards, or when xml schema and your .net classes are changed independently.


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From academic year 2018/19 all University assessments will be marked on a 0-100 scale (or a categorical marking scale aligned to a 0-100 scale).
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And, just enablekarma and rename it. That shouldn't cause problems.
Unless glitch power WAS originally karma.
Yeah, I'm a total prick, aren't I?
right here is a prime example of what I mean. Already things are making people's blood boil. (well only two people but still.) I just hope it doesn't result in another admin leaving for good. I know if I ever become admin, I'm never leaving even if I have a big disagreement with someone.
Didn't everyone spam the comments? And I mean EVERYONE.
Still, I think you fail to see the point. Refer to the Chaos Theory and you will see a pattern here. Its funny I mention that since I barely understand the Chaos Theory but understand it well enough to know that your plan will have some bad consequences.
...yeah, and it was removed. And people got riled up about glitch power sometime in the past.
Which is why it was removed.
I don't see where you're going with this.
Hey maybe this topic should be moved to debate wars because its beginning to sound like one.
No, but what's the reason? The fact that it caused some kind of epic drama sometime back when it was available? Or is there an underlying cause?
I say it has everything to do with both things you just said Flashy. The fact is if drama over this feature happened once then its going to happen again. We have too many immature members who are going to fool around with it a lot (i.e. me) They won't be able to control themselves and things will get out of hand. I think it is a very wise decision to keep the feature disabled.
I was refering to when Glisp said he did some things that he wasn't supposed to in the comments, not the matter of Glitch Power itself.
I could also make it to where it's once a half month or every half year or a lengthy time frame.
Your terrible! I love it! however you still need to convince Abwayax! You've got my approval but I don't really count as a victory. The real victory is convincing Abwayax which evidentially will not be an easy task as you know all too well.


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A fierce rivalry is set to renew when Arsenal take on Barcelona in the round of 16 of the European Cup in the Champions League. Arsenal, the world's third most valuable football club, bring an incredible attack, although the men from North London lost to the Spanish club at the top in the finals in 2006 and again last year in the quarter-finals last. Manager Arsene Wenger insists his club are not bent on revenge, though. They also don't particularly care about the pairing.
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"I know who we'll get," he said. "If I say we want Barcelona, you won't believe me. I'm not even thinking about it." As for the game last season when Arsenal were thwarted by Barcelona, Wenger calls it "some of the best football I have ever seen." He marvels at the skills of the Barcelona club. "What was surprising was that they didn't have a weak moment in that game. Their determination and focus for 90 minutes was spot on and the quality was unbelievable."
Despite the fact that Arsenal have only won twice on Spanish soil, Wenger takes an anything-is-possible attitude, saying, "On a night, anything can happen." Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola feels the same way and is showing no measure of overconfidence. "Arsenal scares me, but that's true of all the clubs in the draw," he said, calling the Gunners "a classic of English football", and he emphasizes the boldness and daring of an offence. Arsenal. "If you're not at your best, Arsenal will outrun you."
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Torat HaRav Aviner: Chanukah: Chareidi or Secular?
-- Daddy, how did we beat the Greeks?
-- With the help of G-d, obviously.
-- And who was G-d helping?
-- The Hasmoneans, as is well known.
-- Al HaNissim calls them "Holy priests". They were great saints.
-- Yes… They were soldiers…. Yes.
-- And they fought with weapons?
-- So they were secular or National Religious?
-- Who says! They were Chareidim!
-- Chareidim went to the army?
-- To save the Jewish People, obviously.
-- So why don't we go?
-- No need. The Torah we learn protects us.
-- So we don't need an army?
-- No! The Torah protects us.
-- And back then, the Torah DIDN'T protect us?
-- Certainly it protected us. That's how they won – thanks to the Torah.
-- So why did they fight with weapons?
-- Because… thanks to the Torah… they won with weapons.
-- So why shouldn't we go to the army and win thanks to the Torah?
-- No need. The secular and the National Religious go and they win thanks to our Torah.
-- So why didn't the Hasmoneans sit and learn Torah, so that the secular and National Religious of those times could win, thanks to the Torah?
-- There were none. Back then, everyone was Chareidi.
-- The Hasmoneans weren't National Religious?!
-- G-d forbid! Adding nationalism to Torah is a new invention.
-- A country, an army – things like that.
-- And the Hasmoneans didn't fight in an army and didn't establish a country?
-- Actually they did… Maybe they didn't really want it… but there was no choice.
-- And now there is a choice? Now we don't need an army? We've got enemies!
-- I told you. If we learn Torah, G-d will perform a miracle and destroy all our enemies.
-- So why didn't G-d destroy all the enemies in the days of Chanukah? Maybe they didn't learn Torah?
-- G-d forbid! It's a fact that "the wicked Hellenic regime rose up against Your People Israel, to make them forget Your Torah and violate the laws of Your will" (Al HaNisim).
-- So if the Hasmoneans fought, they must have been National-Religious?
-- G-d forbid! G-d forbid! They were Chareidim… Entirely Chareidim….
-- With the army, obviously.
-- We had an army back then?
-- But why didn't they organize it before? What happened?
-- The Greeks didn't let the Jews keep the mitzvot – Shabbat and things like that.
-- Things the religious do?
-- And over that we went to war?
-- So the Hasmoneans who fought the Greeks were religious?
-- No way! You know the religious don't go to the army.
-- So maybe the Hasmoneans were National-Religious?
-- No way! Adding religion to nationalism is a new invention.
-- What's wrong with that?
-- It's wrong. It's wrong. Religious confuses and weakens nationalism and militarism, which are good and healthy things.
-- But you said that the rebellion broke out because the Hasmoneans wanted to keep mitzvot?
-- So if they went with religion, how did they win?
-- Is there such a thing?
-- But precisely those assimilated to Greek culture didn't fight?
-- Obviously. They were in favor of the Greeks!
-- So they weren't nationalists? And precisely the religious were the nationalists?
-- So why shouldn't we be religious? Then we'd be more nationalist!
-- Now things are different. You've got to be a secular nationalist. That's the healthiest.
-- But I understand that the Hasmoneans were National-Religious, right?
-- No way! They were secular… Maybe secularists of a different type… but still secular.


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Russian Lana Chromium says body painting is unique because "it connects art, body and mind." (Photo: Courtesy GSN)
Body painters put to the test in TV contest
Season 2 of 'Skin Wars' features an eclectic cast from around the world.
by Gerri Miller | Tuesday, June 9, 2015
by Gerri Miller
A dozen artists – paints and brushes at the ready – begin creating their first assignment, inspired by chess pieces. The twist: their canvases are alive.
Welcome to "Skin Wars," Game Show Network's body painting competition that begins its second season on June 10, airing Wednesdays at 9 p.m. Hosted by Rebecca Romijn – who was airbrushed head-to-toe as Mystique in the "X-Men" movies – the contest offers the winning artist $100,000, a custom brush line and a trip to the World Body Painting Festival in Austria.
"The competition is tougher, and the quality of painting is exceptional this season. No one will be bored watching it," promises judge Craig Tracy, a world-renowned champion body painter who runs a gallery for the art in New Orleans. "The challenges are so creative. We're asking them to create miracles in four or five hours," he says, likening the pressure to "boot camp for Navy SEALS. It's insane, but they deliver."
Israeli Avi Ram was so inspired by the first season of "Skin Wars" that he auditioned to appear on the new season. (Photo: Courtesy GSN)
As a judge, Tracy looks for artistic technique and "magic, a spark of creativity that blows my mind." To win, "it takes nailing the challenge, making it stand out and not being cliché, and amazing visuals. It's the overall package," adds executive producer Jill Goularte, who spends much of the year traveling to body painting festivals and networking within the community to scout contestants.
"We'll get a pool of maybe 100, chisel it down to about 40, set up a stage for them to do a painting on models. We give them six or seven hours to paint. We can see their character, who they are, what their style ability is and what they can complete in the time frame," says Goularte.
Of the 12 who made the cut, many hail from all over the United States, but several have international provenance: Lana Chromium was born in Russia, Marcio Karam is from Brazil, and Avi Ram is from Israel.
Ram took up airbrushing 10 years ago, teaching himself a technique he later employed on T-shirts and other items as the owner of the flea market shop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he opened five years ago, after coming to the States. The first season of "Skin Wars" inspired him to try painting flesh. "It's a canvas that can move," he explains of the lure. "It's a challenge to paint different body shapes, and I love a challenge."
North Carolina native Cheryl Ann Lipstreu shows off her artistic side on the new season of "Skin Wars." (Photo: Courtesy GSN)
Painting since she was a child in different mediums, Chromium painted on skin for the first time while at university and became a body painter six years ago after moving to San Diego. She loves its versatility and using different techniques, combining paintbrush and airbrush, in her pieces. "Body painting is a very unique art form for me," she says. "It's temporary – you paint, take a photograph and wash it away. It's very inspirational. It connects art, body, and mind. It's always fresh and new."
With its ticking clock, "Skin Wars" was absolutely that for the competitors. "It was a lot harder than I expected," says Cheryl Ann Lipstreu, who wasn't used to dealing with cutthroat competition and jealousy she attributed to having won competition titles, including the North American Body Painting Championship in 2013, two months after she'd first tried the art form.
Lipstreu, from Belews Creek, North Carolina, is a classically trained portraitist and muralist who was introduced to body painting as a model for world champion Madeline Greco, for whom she first posed on her (also painted) horse, Peanut. The first "Skin Wars" episode indicates she's a frontrunner, underscored by how well she's done lately.
Artist David Gilmore came in second at the inaugural Body Fine Art Competition in Los Angeles. (Photo: Gerri Miller)
In May, she returned to Los Angeles, where "Skin Wars" was filmed last winter, for the inaugural Body Fine Art Competition, and took the $5,000 first prize for her most elaborate opus to date. Lipstreu, who's on a body painting tour of Europe this month from Madrid to the World Championship In Austria, also plans to create a body-painting magazine.
Chromium also competed at Body Fine Art with "Skin Wars" participants Lipstreu, Ram and Rio Sirah, and thrives on the competition – and the series provided plenty of that. "Every time, you need to surprise the judges and make your piece stand out to them while expanding your boundaries," says the mother of a 5-year-old budding artist daughter. "You never know on who you will be painting, or who you will be painting with. You always need to be alert and ready to paint using only your imagination."
Gerri Miller is a veteran entertainment and lifestyle journalist. She's a former Jeopardy! champion and plays Scrabble online every day.
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Q: Is mounting BitLocker-encrypted drives an Ubuntu/Kubuntu feature or a Linux kernel thing? Is the ability to mount BitLocker encrypted drives in the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu a *buntu feature or does it have to do directly with the Linux kernel?
In fact, I noticed that in Kubuntu 22.04 it is possible to mount these partitions without any problems, and when connecting a USB drive it automatically asks for the opening password.
Even the file manager respects the properties of folders created/modified in Windows, for example, if a folder is marked as "hidden", in Ubuntu/Kubuntu it also appears as hidden, unlike previous versions which ignored these properties.

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Is the ability to mount BitLocker encrypted drives in the latest versions of Ubuntu and Kubuntu a *buntu feature or does it have to do directly with the Linux kernel?

Neither. This feature was not added by Ubuntu specifically, but it also isn't a new kernel feature – it's the standard cryptsetup encrypted volume setup tool (more commonly used for LUKS) that learned how to recognize BitLocker metadata and mount such volumes through the kernel's existing dm-crypt facilities.
Handling of encrypted volumes on Linux is usually split across two programs: cryptsetup deals with volume metadata (passwords, keyslots, etc.) while the kernel only takes a raw AES key and an offset into a device.
This separation allows the same dm-crypt kernel subsystem to be used by several different encryption tools regardless of format. (For example, the official TrueCrypt app relies on dm-crypt as well, and there already were tools to open BitLocker via dm-crypt long before Cryptsetup gained support for that. There were no kernel changes for Cryptsetup's migration from LUKS1 to LUKS2 either.)
None of the above features are specific to Ubuntu – even though cryptsetup is not part of the kernel, it is nevertheless part of the "standard" Linux tool set that is common across nearly all Linux distributions.

Even the file manager respects the properties of folders created/modified in Windows, for example, if a folder is marked as "hidden", in Ubuntu/Kubuntu it also appears as hidden, unlike previous versions which ignored these properties.

This has nothing to do with BitLocker. Files, folders, and their attributes are managed by the file system – typically NTFS for Windows, ext4 for Ubuntu – which behaves the same way no matter what kind of storage it's put on.
Hiding files is partly a kernel feature and partly a userspace program feature, as even the latest Linux kernel doesn't have anything like a "hidden" attribute at OS level – so even though the Linux NTFS driver can read the "hidden" flag from disk, it has no way of providing that to programs in a standard way.
(It does expose the DOS attributes through Linux's generic "extended attribute" facility, but this method has several problems – it's filesystem-specific and makes listing files a bit slower – so it's only used by very few programs.)
So the most likely difference is that recent Linux kernel versions do come with a new NTFS driver (ntfs3, vs the older ntfs-3g), and among other differences the new driver honors the "hidden" flag on its own and completely skips hidden files when listing entries in a directory – which actually makes them stay hidden even if "Show hidden files" is checked, because the file manager is not in control of it anymore.
But another possible difference is that the KDE file manager decided to pay attention to the NTFS-specific "DOSATTRIB" attribute, hiding files without requiring any kernel changes.


Social Club member FERN has revealed all details regarding his upcoming solo-debut EP.
68 & Douglas is the title of the new project, the cover for which can be seen above.
The EP boasts a feature from East Coast hip-hop legend N.O.R.E., from the legendary duo Capone-N-Norega, also Cap 1 who is signed to 2 Chainz label, and executive production credit from Multi-Platinum GRAMMY Award Winning producer StreetRunner (Eminem, Lil Wayne, 2 Chainz).
68 & Douglas is set to release December 4, 2015. Check out the tracklisting below.


Maybe split a gym membership? This feature has not been activated yet. Chris Pratt Pratt showed off his pound lighter frame at the premiere of his new movie "Guardians of the Galaxy. But what about the people who are doing this for weight loss as a primary goal? And don't forget to add in something physical, too, whether it's doing a few dance moves before dinner, shooting hoops, or taking a quick stroll. Do others find they need to cut out the carbs completely?


Other than that---this song is awesome!
General CommentThis song is absolutely great! It has so much umph! I love how it leads into calm touching!
General CommentMy favorite Evaline song EVER.POYO!!! Ha, and to think I found such an awsome band because my old girlfriend was named Evaline.POYO!!!
General CommentThis song makes me think of vampires. Maybe love. To the point where... the vampire (like a girlfriend/boyfriend or even maybe like a parent) used to act like they needed them alot but now they act like they don't care about them no matter how much of anything they have sacrificed for them. And its just someone going la de da --like whatever i'm done with it.
---my interpretation. its just what i invision in my head when it plays.
General CommentI love this song. But i dont get it, as far as what its about. I'm metaphorically challenged, i guess.
That we were all forged out of them all"
"Well, you were catalogue coming script of boyish tales"
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i dont know. it was a shot?
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"if you're leaving, let me know"
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Power snatches should have a few warm up sets prior to going for the four sets of three. We are super setting these with a hollow hold, because core is life. Focus on finding comfort in breathing while your body is under tension. This training is develop that capacity, as it is key in all gymnastics, endurance, strongman, and all barbell movements..
Mistletoe is meant to be speedy. Pick a KB weight that you can cycle. Those without doubleunders should scale to singles.
At 12 minutes, this is longer than a standard sprint, so adjust to 90-95% of your max speed and TTB capacity. If 10-15 is your TTB max, consider breaking these on the first round into manageable sets with brief rest.
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Madagascar general info…
A room with two beds and a private bathroom with hot water ranged from 35,000 to 55,000 Ar in various places. The more expensive places were Tana, Tulear, Ranomafana and Andasibe (of course I'm not counting Vakona Lodge, which was about 200USD total for the stay plus meals and activities).
Typical "western-friendly" meals at hotels cost up to about 10,000Ar per person if you'd like a drink and maybe a small dessert. Going to a Malagasy restaurant frequented by locals usually costs no more than 6000Ar. You can stock up on roadside snacks like samosas, sausages, fried mashed potato things, fried plantains, fried doughey curry filled things, etc for about 200Ar each (and 2100Ar = 1USD).
Hiring a 4×4 for a day in Ifaty cost us 120,000Ar; our private car hire was 35EUR/day and you pay for gassing up the car at gas stations (fuel is pricey there– similar to Europe).
Every park has a park fee on top of a guide fee. It's usually the varying guide fees that are the most expensive, which depend on the duration of the hike, which route, which park, etc. At Ranomafana and Andasibe where we did a 1.5 hr night walk and 3-4 hr day hike, we paid about 150,000Ar each (which included tips for guides). The smaller parks cost about half that.
Our three day trek in Isalo included three meals a day and our own porters, a cook and a guide. It also includes tent, sleeping pad and sleeping bag. That was 255,000Ar per person, and we paid an extra 45,000Ar total for the one-way 4×4 transfer to the trailhead (to avoid the several kilometer long walk through farmland to the trailhead).
GENERAL LOGISTICS
There is contradictory information in the Bradt and Lonely Planet guides! Although, LP is coming out with a new edition in a few months, so maybe some things have been corrected. We had some trouble communicating the names of places sometimes; a lot of places go by several different names that not everyone is aware of. For example, "Perinet" has been linked to Andasibe, but no one seemed to know what I was talking about even when I wrote it out. Fianarantsoa is also known as Fianar, Tulear is Toliara, etc.
Passport control is a nightmare at Tana. Try and be one of the first off the plane and in line. They collect passports in groups and you have to wait in a big group until they wave your passport in the air.
The majority of roads in Madagascar are not paved, and some are not accessible by a regular car.
I wasn't able to get a concrete answer for the electrical outlet plug shape. But now, I can tell you that everywhere we stayed used the two round European style plugs.
You won't encounter a lot of English speakers outside of Tana who aren't guides. Most people speak French, but some of the older people only speak Malagasy (but can usually grab a nearby French speaker to help out).
Ranomafana has mostly narrow dirt baths, some scrambling through bushes. You'll definitely need good shoes, and a walking stick or trekking pole may come in handy in some isolated areas.
Reniala Spiny Forest and Tortoise Village are right next to each other. They're both sandy and very easy/flat, so sandals are probably ok.
Zombitse was also an easy walk, but I wouldn't recommend sandals. It's hard to spot animals here, and I think we may have gotten overcharged and/or this park is overpriced. We paid about as much for this as we did the larger parks like Ranomafana and Andasibe.
Isalo is full of huge ups and downs with no shade, lots of sharp, brittle, steep surfaces. The walk to the Blue and Black Pools near Namaza Camp is very perilous– slippery, narrow walkways over ledges. Very sturdy hiking shoes recommended for Isalo, but don't forget sandals so you can kick them off at the end of a long day's hike and still be able to get around.
Mantadia is closed until further notice due to cyclone damage (along with some trails in Vakona Lodge), but Andasibe trails are great for everyone. They're wide and clear, though you might have to scramble through some foliage depending on where some wildlife has been spotted. Initially, there is a steep ascent to the plateau where the indri are, but this can be detoured (which we did because Sara had a leg strain). Don't forget to bring a raincoat– the guide said that we were extremely lucky to be there during a 3-day dry spell.
Mitsinjo is steep at first, climbing up to that same plateau. It is more dense than Andasibe and is also a lot more muddy. There were also a lot of mosquitoes at the lower elevations, a little less so in Andasibe.
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Tagged as andasibe, isalo, madagascar, madagascar travel, mantadia, mitsinjo, ranomafana, reniala, zombitse
Beautiful, amazing, wild Madagascar…
Well, I've been back from Madagascar for 2.5 weeks now and it's only been lately that I feel like I'm back into the rhythm of things. This post is about the trip itself, and then I"m going to put up a second post listing general tips, facts, prices, etc. Sara and I grew very frustrated with both the Bradt and Lonely Planet books because both had conflicting information! In one book, village A was north of B, in the other, village A was south of B! I also feel like there just isn't enough information on traveling in Madagascar, so I hope these will help anyone else planning a 'backpacker' style trip there. Anyway…
Not surprisingly, Madagascar was amazing! Maybe except for Antananarivo (Tana for short)– it is so smoggy and polluted there that both Sara and I had sore throats within minutes of walking around outside. We arrived late at night, meeting with Andry the following morning to hammer out details of our private driver hire through his company, Madagascar Tour Guide. Considering we only had 16 days to hit as many of the national parks as possible, we thought it would be worth it to spend a little more on a driver (35EUR/day split between us) instead of trying to get around on taxi-brousses. That method of transportation is unreliable to say the least, as anyone that has traveled in Africa can attest to. The route we decided to do was along national road RN7, one of the few national roads that you actually don't need a 4×4 to drive on. This was our route:
We spent most of the first day driving south to the village of Ambositra and stayed at Hotel Artisan, which I highly recommend! A bungalow with two beds (one in the loft area) was 55,000Ar or 26USD. We continued on the next morning after a cheap, very satisfying European-style breakfast. Our first park stop was a short hike at Ialatsara Lemur Forest Camp, which led through some farmlands before the actual forest area. The trackers here operate similarly to the mountain gorilla trackers in Rwanda– they all communicate via radio and span out ahead of the guides. Our first lemur sighting of the trip was the Milne-Edwards Sportive Lemur! We also saw a few small chameleons (the second smallest ones, before they discovered the species that can fit onto a matchstick) and crab-spiders with large, elaborate webs. They have an option to camp there overnight as well, but we decided to drive on to one of the big parks, Ranomafana. This park is bisected by a paved road, along which the village of Ranomafana is found. Prices here were a little more than Ambositra. Up until this point, the drive along RN7 has been super windy– Sara and I both got motion sickness, which is very rare! The road is less insane after Ambositra.
(Milne-Edwards Sportive Lemur at Ialatsara)
We signed up for a night walk with our Ranomafana guide, which was just along the paved road (they used to have night walks in the park but there were too many tourist accidents). The guide explained that since the pavement holds heat, a lot of cold-blooded reptiles come down there at night. Even just walking along the road, we saw so many different types of chameleons, a ground boa and even a brown mouse lemur. Spotting the reptiles/lizards aren't so much an issue of how rare they are– it's how good your eye is. They are EVERYWHERE! We started the Ranomafana day hike as soon as the park opened (to avoid the heat and to catch animals at a higher activity level). The hike first starts as steep steps down to a river, before climbing back up to the peaks via different side trails. They are mostly narrow dirt paths, but there is some scrambling through dense brush depending on where lemurs are when they're spotted. If they're not busy munching away on leaves, they're leaping from tree to tree. The wildlife here is similar to Ialatsara since they are in the same area, but it is at a much larger, wider scale. We got to see a red giraffe-necked weevil and a tiny leaf-tailed gecko; its camoflage was so good that we were staring at a branch that had maybe 3-4 green leaves and 2-3 brown leaves..? Neither of us could spot it after several minutes, and were in disbelief when the guide traced its outline for us!
(tree boa in Ranomafana at night)
(find the leaf-tailed gecko!)
After Ranomafana, the plan was to spend the night in Fianarantsoa. Sara and I decided to keep driving on for another 1.5 hours to Ambalavao. Fianarantsoa is insanely huge, crowded, noisy, dusty– it was so disorienting after having stayed in small villages for the previous 5 or 6 days. On our way to Ambalavao, we stopped at Lazan'i Betsileo Vineyards– yes, Madagascar produces wine! We took a tour (Sara was the French translator since most people in Madagascar only speak that and Malagasy), and then had a tasting. They produce a large variety of wines in their 1960's equipment, including a "grey" wine which is apparently white wine that has been aged extra long. We spent the night in quaint little Ambalavao at a place that had algae coming out of its tap and frogs that appeared in the bathroom (we're assuming they came out of the tap).
(beautiful landscape at the vineyard)
At this point, since we were both getting over a cold, we decided to finish driving all the way to the east coast before hitting the parks coming back up to Tana. So, we spent the next day driving to Tulear, a large-ish city that serves as the entry point to a village called Ifaty– that is, if you have access to a 4×4 to take you on national road RN9 or are willing to deal with the taxi-brousses. The locals live in simple thatched huts that are fenced off with upright branches in between all the resorts for rich, older French tourists. It's a very stark contrast. Ifaty is also where you can visit Reniala Spiny Forest and the Tortoise Village, which is working to breed several species of endangered tortoises. Reniala Spiny Forest has several trails that lead you around to different types of trees, including bilbaob trees. The trails are on flat sand, so no hiking boots are necessary. We had lunch on the beach at one of the restaurants before heading back to Tulear.
On our drive from Tulear back up north to Ranohira, we stopped by Zombitse-Vohibasia National Park. This park isn't one of the big popular ones, but it's still worth checking out especially if you're interested in birds. Our guide spotted a Hubbard's Sportive Lemur and it took us a few minutes to actually SEE it– we have no idea how he spotted it! We also drove by Ilakaka village, the hub of the sapphire trade. My Bradt guidebook described it as a Wild-West town, with prostitutes mingling with hired security with villagers risking their lives going into the mines for a chance of finding a sapphire that could potentially take care of them and their family for the rest of their lives. In fact, our Reniala Spiny Forest guide used to work in the mines and told us that several of his friends had died. Have any of you ever watched Blood Diamond with Leonardo DiCaprio? Do you remember the scene when he pops a diamond out of his tooth and sells it in town? That's exactly how Ilakaka looks/feels like. Out of curiosity, I asked to stop. Our driver Bio recommended that we go to the village of Sakaraha instead, since it was a little more safe. He took us to this "shop" which had several men hanging back near the entrance, two plastic lawn chairs in front of a vinyl-covered desk with another chair behind it. A sleazy Sri Lankan man came out and started showing us cut and uncut stones. We left after a horrible attempt to rip me off. I don't regret going– he still talked to me and showed me some of the stones he had.
When we arrived in the pseudo-desert town of Ranohira (which really is in the middle of nowhere, it's probably only there because it's the jumping-off point for Isalo National Park), we booked a 3-day trek with Momo Trek complete with porters and meals, and decided to stay at one of his bungalows that night. The Isalo area used to be full of rivers but now it is arid and airy, with massifs coming out of the ground every few miles. I should point out that the Bara people believe that pointing with your finger is fady (taboo). You can point with your middle knuckle instead. Anyway, the next morning we took a 4×4 to the trailhead and began a very steep, difficult ascent up a canyon face. There was barely any cover from the sun, plus this was at some elevation (not a substantial amount, but enough to notice!). This was the Canyon of the Monkeys. We camped that night in a valley and showered under a natural waterfall. We met two girls– one Malagasy with a French teenager. Apparently, France has a program that judges or parents can enroll disenchanted teens in, which pairs them with a local Malagasy mentor for 6-9 months. The next day's hike was a little easier, going by the Piscine Naturelle and ending in Namaza Camp. This is the campsite where families of ring-tailed lemurs meander through the campsite and mingle with visitors. Sara and I had plopped down overheated and exhausted at one of the stone benches and were about to dig into some delicious pineapple slices (those things were like ambrosia at that point), when a ring-tail jumped onto the bench! They were like aggressive squirrels that I'm sure you've experienced before when picnicking at a park at home! The last day was really fast, walking from Namaza Camp back to Ranohira.
(beginning of our Isalo trek)
(ring-tail!)
On our way back up, we stopped again at Ambalavao, but stayed at a place that had a great shower (with no frogs or algae!), Bougainvillees. It was so nice!! Near the top of my list for Madagascar accommodations. Our next stop was Anja Park, which is actually a co-op run by the village. There wasn't much wildlife to be spotted except for another family of ring-tails, but it was so much fun, scrambling up and down huge boulders on all fours!
We had to stop in Fianarantsoa to exchange more money (only Ariary is accepted everywhere), and got totally screwed by the exchange rate. Andry had warned that the further you get from Tana, the worse the rate gets. The trade-off is space, surprisingly. Their largest note is 10,000 Ar and that's only about 5USD! Our original pile of 1000USD (which we got an outstanding rate on through Andry in Tana) came out to be $2.1 million Ariary which was at least 3 or 4 inches thick. You may have heard that there has been political tension– the last presidency was kicked out in a coup and is now ruled by a self-proclaimed leader who no one acknowledges. There are police and military checkpoints at every other village (even if it only takes a minute to drive through the entire village), but I'm not sure if that was always the case or if it started since the coup. People are not happy with the situation. When we were leaving Fianar (seems like there's nicknames for every big town), we drove through a student protest full of teenagers that had walked out of class. Oh and I think there was a cockfight about to start at the gas station we stopped at.
From Ambositra, we drove to Andasibe-Mantadia National Park. This is actually two parks, the much larger one being Mantadia. We encountered no notice of this in all our online research, but MANTADIA IS CLOSED INDEFINITELY thanks to the huge cyclone earlier this year! Lame, especially since we had planned on spending several nights here since there were so many trails in Mantadia! Andasibe has three trails, but the third one covers the first two anyways. Andasibe is popular because of the largest existing lemur, the Indri indri. Besides their size and the lack of a tail, another distinguishing feature is that instead of grunts and shrieks, the indri sing. It's very eerie– almost like whale song. They sing in the morning to call to their family and to protect their territory. At this park, we also saw the colorful Diademed Sifaka (sifakas are like larger lemurs) the Eastern Wooly Lemur and the Common Brown Lemur. And of course, so many chameleons! We also went for a night walk along the road, but at this point, we were chameleon'ed out. There was supposedly a mouse lemur, but no matter how hard the guide tried to point it out with his two different colored flashlights, we just could not spot it.
(indri)
Mitsinjo Park shares the same area as Andasibe, and is actually run by a local NGO. Their goal is to protect the endemic flora and fauna of Madagascar and one way of doing that is by slowly removing invasive/introduced trees and replanting native trees once they've grown enough in their tree nursery. It really is an impressive organization. Our Mitsinjo guide spoke great English (probably the best English speaker out of all our guides!) and was genuinely interested and invested in his cause. Still not convinced that Mitsinjo is worth checking out? They have something that Andasibe doesn't– the territorial line that splits two families of indri! During our hike, one of the families was leaping through the trees above us to take up arms after sounding the alarms! (The territory-alarm sounds similar to their regular call, except it goes on for longer.) Our guide found another species of leaf-tailed gecko, this one much larger than the Ranomafana one. He tested us and gave us a minute to find it– we stared at that two foot long part of the tree trunk but managed to barely spot it! I'm still not sure where its tail ends though, even if I stare at the picture.
(just a tree trunk?)
We decided to splurge and stay at Vakona Lodge. What a beautiful place!!! They have their own private reserve with several trails (a lot of them were closed because of cyclone damage as well, since this is closer to Mantadia than Andasibe), a crocodile farm with a tree boa you can handle and some tortoises you can feed flowers to, a pair of caged fossa (kind of sad)– they even have a private island, Lemur Island. It's called that because it's full of habituated lemurs that were donated as ex-pets that run and jump all over you! They're mostly the common brown lemur, but there are a few black & white ruffed lemurs. They seemed to be the more mellow species, but both loved plantains (and also, the salt from dried sweat– agh!!). There is a family of ring-tails on another small island; they don't like to be pet, but they'll clamber on you.
(so mellow– black and white ruffed lemur on Lemur Island)
Our flight out of Madagascar wasn't until 1am so we spent the last day roaming in and near Tana. We checked out the ruins of Ambohimanga, where the emperor used to live a few centuries ago, then onto Ilafy to visit a small museum that focused on the different tribes of Madagascar where we befriended some teenagers studying to be guides. Back in Tana, we had lunch near the prime minister's palace, which contained some artifacts of the queen that survived a huge fire that occurred not that long ago. Our last two stops of the day were the croc farm near Tana which was also a zoo and an orphanage, Akany Avoko.
I would suggest that if you're out in an area with any kind of forestry or shrubs, keep your eyes and ears peeled! You're bound to spot something, like…
… a bumbling lowland tenrec
… or Parson's chameleon!
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Biografia
Ha frequentato l'Università IUAV di Venezia laureandosi in architettura ed ha iniziato la sua carriera in uno studio di grafica, poi si è dedicata a scrivere e ad illustrare libri per ragazzi.

La stessa scrittrice racconta di esser stata portata per il disegno fin da bambina, l'autrice inoltre afferma che vinse da piccola un concorso per un disegno e dovette dimostrare agli organizzatori che fosse realmente un disegno fatto di sua mano perché sembrava opera di un adulto.

Ha esordito a soli dodici anni con Il pesciolino piccolo. Le sue riproduzioni si possono trovare anche in zone extra-librarie, come nell'arredamento per bambini, sui giocattoli, sulle felpe Benetton 012.

Ha vinto numerosi premi ad iniziare da una targa al premio "Catalonia d'illustracciò" di Barcellona nel 1986, il "Golden Pen" di Belgrado dedicato agli stranieri nel 1988, il premio Andersen - Il mondo dell'infanzia a Sestri Levante nel 1989 (per Il libro tuttofare) e, nel 1994, ancora il premio Andersen per la migliore autrice. Nel 2002 vince il Premio Grinzane Junior con Giulio Coniglio, personaggio da lei creato. Ha creato anche La Nuvola Olga e la Strega Teodora.

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Studenti dell'Università IUAV di Venezia

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