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Tsodilo és el nom d'un paratge solitari format per quatre cims que emergeixen del desert del Kalahari, al nord-oest de Botswana, a prop del delta de l'Okavango. El 2001, la UNESCO el va catalogar com a Patrimoni Mundial de la Humanitat per la quantitat de pintures rupestres que s'hi troben i pel seu significat religiós i espiritual. Els turons es denominen "Mascle", el més alt; "Femella", la que té més pintures; "Nen", i el quart no té nom. Els san que hi habiten les consideren un lloc sagrat i també les anomenen "Muntanyes dels Déus" i "Roques que xiuxiuegen".

Geografia
Està situat en quatre cims. El més alt està a 1.400 metres sobre del nivell del mar. Està localitzat a . És el punt més alt de Botswana.

Entre els dos turons més alts, hi ha un càmping amb serveis, a prop de la pintura més famosa, la Laurens van der Post Panel. Es pot arribar al lloc amb una carretera de 40 km des de Shakawe. També hi ha un petit museu i una pista d'aterratge.

Importància cultural
Aquests cims tenen un gran significat cultural i espiritual per als pobles san del Kalahari. Ells creuen que són el lloc a on descansen els esperits que causen mala sort als que cacen o causen qualsevol mort a prop dels turons. El poble san creu que aquests turons són el lloc de la Primera Creació. Així, el poble san van pintar més de 4.500 pintures a les roques, cosa que fa de les muntanyes Tsodilo unes de les més significatives de l'art rupestre del món. Els san van fer la majoria de les pintures, tot i que n'hi ha algunes d'estil diferent que foren pintades pels bantu. No es coneix l'edat exacta de les pintures, però es pensa que algunes tenen més de 20.000 anys. Els cims contenen més de 500 llocs que representen milers d'anys de la vida humana.

Els turons són referits amb noms d'atributs humans: home, dona, nen i la primera dona de l'home. El segon més gran és la dona. Els san creuen que les coves de la "Dona" són els llocs dels ancestres i de diversos déus que governen el món des d'aquí. La gent d'Hambukushu creuen que el seu déu, Nyambe, va portar la seva tribu i ramats a la terra des d'aquesta muntanya. L'evidència d'això són petjades de cascos que estan gravats en una roca a la part alta del turó. Al nord-oest del turó de la "Dona", hi ha una antiga mina que s'ha omplert d'aigua. Aquesta aigua es considera sagrada i que confereix bona sort als que s'hi renten la cara. El lloc més sagrat és a prop del cim de l'"Home", la roca més gran, a on es diu que el Primer Esperit s'agenollà i pregà després de crear el món. Els san creuen que encara es pot veure la impressió dels genolls dels esperits a la roca. La muntanya més petita és "el Nen". Finalment, segons la llegenda, el quart turó és l'home de la primera dona, que va marxar amb una dona més jove i que ara roman al fons.

Pintures a la roca
Segons la UNESCO, hi ha unes 4.500 pintures a les roques a les muntanyes Tsodilo. La majoria de les pintures san estan en "la Dona". La més famosa d'aquesta és "Whale". "Dos Rinoceronts" i el "Lleó" està a la cara est del "Pare". Algunes de les pintures han estat datades almenys de fa 24.000 anys. Hi ha moltes pintures, però relativament poques són a la part visible de les muntanyes. De fet, hi ha tantes pintures en llocs foscos que és poc probable que se n''hagin descobert i documentat totes.

Recentment, s'hi ha instal·lat senders i senyalitzacions, però és difícil de trobar les pintures sense un guia. De fet, els visitants estan obligats a agafar un guia local. Això proveeix de diners l'economia local i ajuda a protegir el lloc.

Lloc de rituals més antic conegut
El 2006, el lloc conegut com a Cova del Rinoceront va esdevenir molt preeminent en els mitjans de comunicació quan Sheila Coulson, de la Universitat d'Oslo, va declarar que els estris de 70.000 anys d'antiguitat i una roca que sembla una serp pitó, representaven els primers rituals humans coneguts descoberts. Va recolzar la seva interpretació de l'indret com un lloc de ritual basat en altres animals dibuixats: "A la cova, trobem només animals importants per als san: la pitó, l'elefant i la girafa". Des de llavors, alguns dels arqueòlegs involucrats en les primeres investigacions del lloc als anys 1995 i 1996, van canviar aquestes interpretacions. Diuen que les osques (conegudes pels arqueòlegs com a cúpules) descrites per Coulson no eren necessàriament de la mateixa època i que hi havia "moltes de les depressions molt fresques mentre d'altres estaven cobertes per una pàtina pesada." Altres llocs propers (uns 20) també són depressions i no representen animals. La datació basada en el carboni-14 i la datació amb termoluminescència d'aquest lloc no ha trobat cap figura que arribi als 70.000 anys i això suggereix dates més recents.

Parlant sobre la pintura, els arqueòlegs diuen que aquesta descriu com un elefant és en realitat un rinoceront, que la pintura vermella de la girafa no és d'abans del 400 aC i que la pintura blanca del rinoceront és més recent, i aquests experts en art rupestre creuen que les pintures vermelles i blanques són de grups diferents. Refereixen la interpretació de Coulson com una projecció de les creences modernes al passat i diuen que la interpretació de Coulson és una història composta enganyosa. Responen a la declaració de Coulson que aquestes no són les úniques pintures de la cova i que ella ha omès les pintures geomètriques vermelles que hi ha a la paret de la mateixa cova.

També discuteix la datació de l'època la Middle Stone Age, dient que no hi ha res d'estrany en l'ús de materials no locals. Rebutgen l'afirmació que no es va trobar cap eina ordinària al lloc, observant que molts dels raspadors que es troben són eines comunes i que no hi ha constància de la fabricació d'eines in situ.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Tsodilo - UNESCO Web del Patrimoni de la Humanitat.
 Gotoafrica.com, .
 http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english .

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The Marine Corps has also largely kept the tradition of relieving officers — most notably during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 when its top ground officer, Maj. Gen. James Mattis, fired the commander of the First Marine Regiment. During his tenure, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has fired secretaries of the Army and the Air Force and an Air Force chief of staff.
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The description below seems to provide a perfect, if tragic, summary of the condition of world society -- particularly in terms of the condition of collective memory. It is in fact Ronald Laing's description of a patient suffering from chronic schizophrenia. Readers can replace "Julie" in the text by "world society" or "international community" bearing in mind their relationship to collective memory.
"Even when one felt that what was being said was an expression of someone, the fragment of a self behind the words or actions was not Julie. There might be someone addressing us, but in listening to a schizophrenic, it is very difficult to know " who" is talking, and it is just as difficult to know "whom" one is addressing... One may begin to recognise patches of speech or fragments of behaviour cropping up at different times, which seem to belong together by reason of similarities of the intonation, the vocabulary, syntax, the preoccupations in the uttrance or to cohere as behaviour by reason of certain sterotyped gestures or mannerisms. It seemed therefore that one was in the presence of various fragments, or incomplete elements, of different a personalities e in operation at thence time...
With Julie it was not difficult to carry on a verbal exchange of a kind, but without her seeming to have any overall unity but rather a constellation of quasi-autonomous partial systems, it was difficult to speak to "her". However... even this state of near chaotic nonentity was by no means irreversible and fixed in its disintegration. She would sometimes marvellously come together again and display a most pathetic realisation of her plight. But she was terrified of these moments of integration, for various reasons. Among others, because she had to sustain in them intense anxiety; and because the process of disintegration appeared to be remembered and dreaded as an experience so awful that there was refuge for her in her unintegration, unrealness, and deadness. Julie's being as a chronic schizophrenic was thus characterised by lack of unity and by division into what might variously be called partial "assemblies", complexes, partial systems, or "internal objects". Each of these partial systems had recognisable features and distinctive ways of its own. By following through these postulates, many features of her behaviour became explicable.
The fact that her self-being was not assembled in an allover manner, but was split into various partial assemblies or systems, allows us to understand that various functions which presuppose the achievement of personal unity or at least a high degree of personal unity could not be present in her, as indeed they were not.
Personal unity is a prerequisite of reflective awareness, that is, the ability to be aware of one's self acting relatively unself-consciously, or with a simple primary non-reflective awareness. In Julie, each partial system could be aware of objects, but a system might not be aware of the processes going on in another system which was split off from it. For example, if in talking to me, one system was "speaking", there seemed to be no overall unity within her whereby "she" as a unified person could be aware of what this system was saying or doing.
In so far as reflective awareness was absent, "memory" for which reflective awareness would seem to be prerequisite, was very patchy... The absence of a total experience of her being as a whole meant that she lacked the unified experience on which to base a clear idea of the "boundary" of her being. Such an overall "boundary" was not, however, entirely lacking... Rather, each system seemed to have a boundary of its own. That is to say, to the awareness that characterised one system, another system was liable to appear outside itself... It was only "from the outside" that one could see that different conflicting systems of her being were active at the same time. Each partial system seemed to have within it its own focus of centre of awareness: it had its own very limited memory schemata and limited ways of structuring percepts; its own quasi-autonomous drives or component drives; its own tendency to preserve its autonomy, and special dangers which threatened its autonomy. She would refer to these diverse aspects as "he", or "she", or address them as "you". That is, instead of having a reflective awareness of those aspects of herself, "she" would perceive the operation of a partial system as though it was not where, but belonged outside. She would be "hallucinated".
(R.D. Laing. The Divided Self; a study of sanity and madness. London, Tavistock, 1960, pp. 214-7).


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Bio Ryan is a pediatrician and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University's Division of General Pediatrics. His primary clinical practice is at Gardner Packard Children's Health Center. In addition to his work at Stanford, Ryan also serves as the Medical Director for The Primary School, a new integrated health and education model that serves low income children and families in East Palo Alto, CA. His work and leadership focuses on the intersection and reform of primary pediatric care and childhood education. He works to integrate systems and promote models that ensure high quality care is accessible to all children.
Ryan graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and earned his MD at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He completed his pediatric residency at UCSF and participated in UCSF's Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved (PLUS) program. He went on to complete a chief resident year at The San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
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Israel Aerospace Industries Unveils New AESA-based Electronic Warfare Family of Systems
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is excited to unveil the Scorpius family of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Scorpius is the first electronic warfare (EW) system in the world capable of simultaneously targeting multiple threats, across frequencies and in different directions. Scorpius is based on the Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) technology, which provides a breakthrough in EW performance – enabling a new generation of electronic warfare capabilities. With AESA's multi-beam capability, Scorpius can simultaneously scan the entire surrounding region for targets, and deploy narrowly focused beams to interfere with multiple threats across the electromagnetic spectrum. The system is able to target a range of threats, including: UAVs, ships, missiles, communication links, low probability of interception (LPOI) radars, and more. Scorpius effectively disrupts the operation of their electromagnetic systems, including radar and electronic sensors, navigation, and data communications.
Scorpius is available across multiple domains:
Ground: Scorpius-G (ground) is a ground-based EW system designed to detect and disrupt ground- and airborne threats. Scorpius-G is a mobile system, and can be quickly deployed by vehicle.
Naval: Scorpius-N (naval) is an EW system dedicated to defending ships against advanced threats in the marine arena, including: Over-the-Horizon Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles, Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAV) and airborne imaging radars.
Air: Scorpius SP, a self-protection pod for combat aircraft, and the Scorpius SJ, a standoff jammer that disrupts enemy aerial and ground-based electromagnetic operations across a vast sector.
Training: Scorpius-T (training), unveiled last month, provides EW training for pilots. Scorpius-T can emulate a variety of modern air-defense systems, simultaneously, from a single platform.
Scorpius-G ground-based Electronic Warfare (EW) system
Adi Dulberg, General Manager, Intelligence Division, IAI: "The modern battlefield depends on the electromagnetic domain for sensing, communications, and navigation. Protecting the use of the electromagnetic domain for our forces, while denying its use by the enemy, have become mission-critical for success in combat and for ensuring the superiority of our forces in the field. The new technology, developed by IAI's talented engineers, tips the scale of electronic warfare, providing world-first breakthrough capabilities for electronic defense and disrupting enemy systems".
Scorpius' technological breakthrough is characterized by unprecedented receiver sensitivity and transmission power (ERP), far exceeding those of legacy EW systems. This allows Scorpius to detect multiple threats, of different kinds, simultaneously, from dramatically increased distances, and to address each threat with a customized response.
Israel Aerospace Industries (ha-ta'asiya ha-avirit le-yisra'el) is Israel's major aerospace and aviation manufacturer, producing aerial and astronautic systems for both military and civilian usage. It has 15,000 employees as of 2018. IAI is completely state-owned by the government of Israel. IAI designs, develops, produces and maintains civil aircraft, drones, fighter aircraft, missile, avionics, and space-based systems. Although IAI's main focus is engineering, aviation and high-tech electronics, it also manufactures military systems for ground and naval forces. Many of these products are specially suited for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) needs, while others are also marketed to foreign militaries.
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Homebase's Andover store is set to close in the near future
ANDOVER'S Homebase store is on course to become the retailer's latest casualty with the branch set to close in the near future.
Signs have appeared at the Andover store, in Enham Arch Retail Park, touting a "store closing" sale and noting that "everything must go".
Staff at the outlet that no date has been confirmed yet, but they believe the closure will happen in February.
The signs outside the store also note that the closure affects the Andover location only.
The Advertiser has contacted Homebase for a comment.
More than 50 Homebase stores have shut up shop in recent years.
A wave of closures were announced in August 2018, affecting 42 locations across the country. Then in July of this year it was revealed that another 15 outlets would cease trading.
The Newbury store was one of those to close down earlier this year. It means that Andover residents will have to travel to 17 miles to Winchester or 20 miles to Basingstoke to find their nearest Homebase store.
The closures capped off a tumultuous few years for the company. In February 2016, Homebase was sold for £340 million to Australia conglomerate Westfarmers – the firm behind Bunnings, the leading household hardware chain down under.
Westfarmers planned to rebrand the stores under the Bunnings name, but plans were nixed amidst mounting losses.
The company was then forced to pull the plug and sell the Homebase brand to Hilco Capital, a retail turnaround specialist, for just £1 in June of last year.
The Westfarmers venture was widely touted as one of the most "disastrous" acquisitions in retail history, according to experts.
Following the sale to Hilco Capital, a "comprehensive turnaround plan" was put into action. And for the six months ending December 30, 2018, the company announced a 22 per cent rise in gross profits and an 81 per cent decline in EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) losses.
However stores have continued to close since then with the Andover branch set to become the latest to cease trading.