Pachypodium horombense, also called Pachypodium rosulatum var. horombense, is one of several species of the genus Pachypodium. Madagascar is the native home of the plant along with its closest relatives in the genus. A considerable population of the plant can grow in the Horombe plateau in Southern Madagascar. Common names for the plant include the Yellow bell pachypodium and Horombe clubfoot. Pachypodium horombense has a conspicuous bottle shape with several arms at the top of it. Each of these arms is thick and has a rosette of leaves above it. This succulent plant, which has spines all over its branches and trunk, can reach a height of 1.5 metres. The rosette also has a long inflorescence that is the site of growth for 3 to 10 flowers. Each flower is gold in colour and cup-shaped. The leaves, on the other hand, are thick, shiny, dark green and have a yellowish midrib. The tree trunk serves as a storage location for water for use during the dry periods of the year. Pachypodium horombense is one of the most beautiful species within its genus. It, therefore, follows that it's also an impressive ornamental plant. The beautiful rosette of leaves coupled with its eye-catching golden flowers makes it a useful addition to any garden or front yard. It's important to ensure that excessive moisture isn't present in the soil during the winter season given that might lead to rotting of the roots. Ideal soils for the plant should be gritty, well drained and be slightly acidic. Pachypodium horombense is cold-sensitive, and one should shield it from extremes of the same. However, if the conditions are mild, then the plant can survive the winter season provided the soil is kept completely dry. Pachypodium horombense tends to shed its leaves and go dormant during the winter season.


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Q: I wonder why there is a LimitedBox here in Flutter Container when child is null, what's the point about maxWidth == 0.0? I wonder why there is a LimitedBox here in Flutter Container when child is null, what's the point about maxWidth == 0.0?
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A: thanks to @pskink, i finally found the reason. it explained well  flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/layout/constraints
class _MyHomePageState extends State<MyHomePage> {
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  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    return Scaffold(body: Column(children: [Container1(color: Colors.red)]));
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class Container1 extends Container {
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    if (child == null && (constraints == null || !constraints.isTight)) {
      current = ConstrainedBox(constraints: const BoxConstraints.expand());
    }

    return current;
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  Container1({Color color}) : super(color: color);
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The following assertion was thrown during performLayout():
RenderConstrainedBox object was given an infinite size during layout.

This probably means that it is a render object that tries to be as big as possible, but it was put inside another render object that allows its children to pick their own size.
The nearest ancestor providing an unbounded height constraint is: RenderFlex#a3fb7 relayoutBoundary=up1 NEEDS-LAYOUT NEEDS-PAINT NEEDS-COMPOSITING-BITS-UPDATE
The constraints that applied to the RenderConstrainedBox were: BoxConstraints(0.0<=w<=390.0, 0.0<=h<=Infinity)
The exact size it was given was: Size(390.0, Infinity)

LimitedBox(maxWidth: 0.0, maxHeight: 0.0) make container width or height to 0 when Container(no child) as a child of Row\Column\UnconstrainedBox\OverflowBox which has no tight width or height constraint. otherwise it width or height will overflowed.
without it, you can never use code like this:
Column(children: [(boolValue) ? Widget1() : Container()])

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March 28, 2011 at 12:27 pm by Monica Westin
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Amy J. Carle with Lawrence Grimm, Thomas J. Cox, Adrian Danzig and Kevin Douglas/Photo: Michael Brosilow
It's not a big surprise that the somewhat airy, twee writing style of Sarah Ruhl makes this "Orlando" less verbally piercing than the original Virginia Woolf novel, and the show is nothing if not thematically light, even as it takes on the big questions about romantic love and personal identity. But what Ruhl and director Jessica Thebus, who are longtime collaborators, pull off is somehow entirely fitting for a novel that began as an extended love letter from Woolf to her sometimes lesbian lover. A young nobleman during the Renaissance, Orlando is a favorite of Queen Elizabeth at court; he falls in love with a Russian princess; he travels to Istanbul as a consul, where he wakes up from a centuries-long sleep to find himself a woman in order to face our last three centuries of history. Ruhl is faithful to the epic plot of the story, and if the writing is occasionally insipid, Thebus easily makes up for it with inspired physical theater. A four-man chorus, comprised of 500 Clown's Adrian Danzig and three of Lookingglass' most agile performers, breathes life into the show with graceful clowning and exquisite choreographed movements. The technical theater is equally beautiful, with layers of billowing curtains and delicate but powerful lighting design. Overall, the performance is pure romance. (Monica Westin)
At Court Theatre, 5535 South Ellis, (773)753-4472. Through April 10.
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The Big Bang Theory spin-off series Young Sheldon is coming to CBS this September and fans can't help wonder of the two shows will crossover in the future episodes to come.
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Creator Chuck Lorre told reporters at the 2017 Television Critics Association summer press tour that there would certainly be callback moments in Young Sheldon moving forward and added that there was no crossover planned just yet.
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Today Lane College held the first annual dr. Martin Luthe King Jr. Celebration brunch today to kick off their week of celebration of Dr. King and those that continue the work.
"And we all can get together, laugh, joke, you know, be there when people need us to be. That's all he wanted. And I feel like an event like today shows just a piece of what he wanted for his dream," said President of Campus Activities council President Lane Senior Malcolm.
The brunch today at Lane College celebrated the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior and also those that are continuing his work today.
"Oftentimes people think where it's finished, the work has been done. No, he was just the start of the work he initiated the work and has a lot of work to be done," said Vice President of Student Affairs for Lane College Darryl Mcgee.
Two students and two community leaders received "Drum Major Awards" for their work.
Harrell Carter of the Jackson-Madison County chapter of the NAACP says there is still a lot of work to be done, "Well, obviously, we've come a long way, but we have so much a ways to go. It's not that we had made some improvements, but there's still a lot more to make."
Senior Malcolm wants to be a part of that work, "I want to keep that vision going just by helping the people in my community and do whatever I can to help his vision come true."
Carma Wilson believes that it's going to take everyone coming together to continue the fight for justice.
"Whether it's younger kids, high school kids, college kids just moving forward, being able to move through anything, whether it's good or bad," she said.
Lane is continuing the celebration of Dr. King's life all week.
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"We need to all come together and remember what he did for us and how he sacrificed his life in order that we could be here right now," Mcgee said.


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'True Country' by Kim Scott
December 18, 2016 December 19, 2016 kimbofo
Fiction – paperback; Fremantle Press; 299 pages; 2010.
You listen to me. We're gunna make a story, true story. You might find it's here you belong. A place like this.
True Country, Kim Scott's debut novel, was first published in 1999. It tells the story of Billy, a young teacher, who moves to a remote settlement in Australia's far north to take up a job at a local school.
Here, in a Christian mission now in decline and a government administrative outpost struggling to keep staff, Billy and his wife, Liz, find themselves thrust into an Aboriginal community that appears to be in disarray. Yet Billy is drawn to the people and the astonishing landscape in which they live in ways that surprise him.
An immensely powerful read about dispossession, the clash between cultures and finding your rightful place in the world, I found True Country the perfect follow-up/companion read to Stan Grant's memoir Talking to My Country. Both books sing from the same hymn sheet, as it were, and paint a stark, disturbing portrait of what happens when one culture tries to subjugate another.
A remote settlement
When Billy and Liz fly into Karnama this is what they see from the plane window:
We flew over a large curved pool in the river, and saw the mission with its lawns and buildings and plantation. There were small huts and large trees, and a scratch of track that dipped through creeks. It scratched past the powerhouse and the school, turned the corner of the basketball court near the mission gates and continued, lined with coconut palms, past corrugated iron huts to a gravel airstrip in the shape of a cross. Not far from the airstrip the river flows through a gorge before widening to a mangrove-lined mouth and into the sea.
This first impression of a beautiful, semi-ordered landscape is tarnished when the plane banks over the bush on the other side of the settlement and Billy sees that it was "littered with old car bodies, tins, plastic, all sorts of rubbish". And perhaps that's a metaphor for this whole, carefully structured, novel, which scratches the dark underbelly of what it is to be a forgotten people living in a community beset by problems, many of them caused by decades long interference from others who think they know better.
It's only when Billy and Liz settle into their new lodgings and begin work that they pick up on the very real "them" and "us" mentality that exists between the whites and the blacks. Grog is forbidden for Aboriginals, but the priest has his own private supply, for instance, and all the white staff live in well-built air-conditioned housing and have access to vehicles, while the blacks sweat it out in hot corrugated iron shacks and travel everywhere by foot.
Tensions arise between these two cultures, caused primarily by a different set of values. Many of the Aboriginals living in Karnama have so little respect for education that the teachers must wake up their students and practically drag them into the classroom every morning. There is no understanding of the concept of personal property, so that if they "borrow" a car and crash it, it is simply abandoned by the side of the road, and children think nothing of going into a teacher's unlocked house without their knowledge to rifle through their belongings. And there's a strong (cynical) belief that the white people, whether teachers, government administrators or clergy, are there simply to make money or to further their careers, they have no real interest in helping the Aboriginal community.
There are deeper, more disturbing problems here, too: alcohol abuse and petrol sniffing is rife (to "kill the world", as Billy puts it) and the men are violent with each other and their wives (usually after drinking too much grog).
Room for hope
Strangely, for all the shocking incidences in this book (including a violent murder committed by white men), it is not a depressing one. That's largely due to Billy's "assimilation", for want of a better word, into this community, for part-way through the story you come to realise that Billy is not white: he has Aboriginal ancestry, and his reason for moving to this community is to discover that part of himself which, for so long, has remained dormant and unknowable.
There are wonderful descriptions of outings to go fishing and to learn about bush culture and to fall that little bit in love with the varied landscape around him and to appreciate the vagaries of the seasons.
This time of the year […] it is getting hotter. Late in every day the sky comes low, it sags down like it is swollen and bruised. The flies are sticky drinking your sweat. Over on the edge of the sky the lightning stabs the hills. But no rain comes yet. It will.
He strikes up a particularly lovely friendship with Fatima, one of the oldest Aboriginal women living in Karnama, who sits at his kitchen table and tells him stories that he records on audio tape with a view to transcribing them for his students. It's perhaps telling that this form of oral history, so much a part of Aboriginal culture, never makes it into written form, for Billy realises that to do so would require too much time and too much editing and he doesn't think he has the right to alter Fatima's words: these are not his stories to tell.
An engaging portrait
The novel is largely structured around a series of vignettes and what I would call sketches of characters or scenes, some of which are only a couple of pages long. But this style builds up an engaging portrait of the community, so that you come to learn about the way it works and the people who inhabit it in ways a normal straightforward narrative might not have been able to do.
It's largely written in the first person, past tense, but there are snatches of present tense to heighten tension and there are passages told in Aboriginal vernacular which lend a vivid, authentic flavour to the prose. It is that vernacular that I loved most, perhaps because much of it so wonderfully conveys the spiritual connection between people and the land:
And it is a beautiful place, this place. Call it our country, our country all 'round here. We got river, we got sea. Got creek, rock, hill, waterfall. We got bush tucker: apple, potato, sugarbag, bush turkey, kangaroo, barramundi, dugong, turtle… every kind. Sweet mango and coconuts too.
In case you haven't guessed, I really loved this novel. I loved the way Scott writes about confronting, often shocking, problems but in an intelligent, empathetic way. I loved his poetical use of language. I loved his characters, the whole complex range of them. I loved his descriptions of the landscape. I loved his sense of humour evidenced in descriptions of shambolic corroborees put on for American tourists expecting polished performances. And I loved the redemptive ending. But most of all I loved its big beating heart.
True Country has been widely published, so British and North American readers should be able to source a copy online without too much difficulty.
Kim Scott is of Aboriginal descent. He has won the Miles Franklin Literary Award twice — for his novels Benang: From the Heart (in 2000, jointly with Thea Astley's Drylands) and That Deadman Dance (in 2011).
This is my 47th book for #ReadingAustralia2016.
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8 thoughts on "'True Country' by Kim Scott"
DebraB says:
Sounds like a great book! I'll have to check it out.
It's a wonderful eye opening look at how indigenous people have been relegated to the margins yet are expected to fit in with the norms of white society, even out in the most remote places of Australia.
I've got this one, so I've only scanned your review. I'll try to get to it next year…
I think you'll like it a lot, Lisa. It really paints a vivid portrait of the community, both the good and bad aspects of it.
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The Office of Sustainability Initiatives will offer two unique, one-credit sustainability workshops to students in the fall 2014 semester. These hands-on workshops are open to undergraduates from all disciplines. "CLIMATOPIA!" (SOL 300) will explore climate change and the barriers to implementing solutions, and will invite students to develop scenarios for crossing those barriers and envisioning a positive future. The class will meet on four Friday afternoons, Sept. 5-26, from 2:15- 6 p.m. and will focus on creative writing and visual expression, aimed at creating a zine for distribution on campus and online.
New research indicates costs for wind energy and natural gas are virtually equal.


We're looking for the best of the best. So, if you are someone who's got talent, experience and the right qualifications, keep reading.
First you can explore our career opportunities and submit your resume online. All you have to do is click "Apply now" and complete the online application form. Each application is thoroughly reviewed to ensure that potential candidates meet all the requirements of the specific role.
If when we find the right fit for you within our organisation, things will move pretty quickly. You'll first have a conversation with a recruiter. It could be an interview over the phone or maybe at one of our offices.
At the interview, we'll get the opportunity to learn more about you and most importantly, you'll get the chance to learn more about us. Together we can assess if you are the right fit for us. Remember, you will be considered based on your strengths and passions, not just your written qualifications.
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This project was the second of two medical office buildings that were part of the larger 90-acre Waverly mixed-use development. Due to our on-going working relationship with the owner, architect and general contractor on the first medical office building, we were selected to provide a similar scope of services on this project. The project consists of a Class A medical office building providing space for Horizon Eye Care in the growing Providence Road corridor. The property was ultimately sold to Horizon Eye Care following the completion of construction. As with the first medical office building, the project was on a fast track schedule due to tenant delivery obligations. The parcel for this project was very small and maintaining the required number of zoning ordinance required parking spaces was a challenge, but ultimately achieved for this compact suburban site.


Healthy yet absolutely mouthwatering Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles with chocolate and peanut pieces stuck to them. Are you drooling yet?
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If you are only a little tiny bit like me, you love dessert and anything sweet but you don't love the consequences of eating them (hello love handles *wave* Ugh!). In order to satisfy my sweet tooth without terrible repercussions I've been inspired to create a healthy refined-sugar-free dessert recipe and that is how these Peanut Butter Banana Popsicles were born! *applause* Thank you, thank you!
The 10 popsicles are sweetened with only 1/4 cup maple syrup and the rest of the sweetness comes from the ripe bananas and a little dark chocolate drizzled on top of them. The base is milk and peanut butter and then at the end chopped up peanuts sprinkled on top of them, which makes it an awesome protein-rich snack not only for adults but also for kids! They will think you are giving them a treat when in reality you are filling their bellies with only healthy ingredients. I would say we have a win-win situation here: hero mom (uncle/grandpa/aunt/babysitter) – happy child/ren.
If you have trouble getting your popsicles out of their molds in one piece and/or you are looking for more inspiration for healthy popsicles go check out this Greek Yogurt Berry Popsicles recipe, I've listed all little tips and tricks on how to get the popsicles out of the molds in that post and I promise, it really, really works. If you don't have any molds, don't despair, you can still make healthy ice cream at home without any fancy equipment. Yes, that's right! I have a great recipe over on Green Healthy Cooking called Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream and it doesn't require molds or ice cream makers or anything at all but a pan, a bowl and a whisk really.
Add milk, bananas, peanut butter and maple syrup into a blender and blend until smooth.
Add creamy liquid into popsicle molds, insert sticks, and freeze for at least 4 hours, better over night.
Coarsely chop peanuts and set aside.
Melt chocolate in a double boiler over very, very low heat making sure the chocolate doesn't get to hot and is constantly stirred. Once melted, remove from heat and keep stirring until the pot isn't hot anymore. Set aside.
Take popsicles out of freezer and carefully remove popsicles from mold (for tips and tricks on how to check link in text).
Lay popsicles flat on the baking sheet, drizzle chocolate on it by filling a teaspoon with chocolate, holding it over the popsicles and tapping the wrist of the hand with which you are holding the chocolate-filled spoon with two fingers. That way, the drizzle will be perfect.
Quickly sprinkle peanuts on top and immediately return to freezer for another 15-20 minutes.


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Safe Harbor is Christian boarding school offering a unique maritime program designed to coach troubled boys in critical life skills and to build character. The Safe Harbor boarding school story is portrayed in the 2009 movie "Safe Harbor" on the Hallmark Channel, which still airs periodically today. Safe Harbor has been featured nationally in People Magazine, and on CBS This Morning, NBC News Today, CNN, and CBN.
Safe Harbor is a Christian boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida with more than 25 years of success in producing men of character, integrity, and vision. While we are located in Florida, we accept and provide education to boys from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Safe Harbor turns wayward teenage boys into mature and dependable young men. Boys who find help at Safe Harbor may be dealing with depression, defiance, behavioral and academic issues, minor drug use or trouble with the law, or the upheaval of a loss in their life. Typically, young men who are struggling need to see a less narrow view of the world, one not so centered on themselves or keeping up with their peers.
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At Safe Harbor, practical knowledge holds as much weight as academic knowledge. Besides all aspects of boating and seamanship, we provide vocational training in a number of topics, including woodworking, boat refurbishing, navigation, log keeping and map reading, welding, boat maintenance and repair, and basic electrical concepts.
We also believe boys should be able to handle basic life skills. Students of Safe Harbor are taught to balance a checkbook and handle credit responsibly, find a job using appropriate resume and interview skills, understand basic nutrition, and handle grocery shopping and cooking, to name just some of the topics we cover. Our goal is to make your boy respectful, self-reliant, confident, and competent.
Safe Harbor teaches teens practical lessons based on the biblical book of Proverbs, and our overall methods are grounded in God's Word. We want residents to ask the important questions about life and find out the answers for themselves.
Concerning counseling, our program incorporates group and individual counseling, both from a mental health professional and from a pastoral counselor. The small number of boys in our program ensures an abundance of interaction time for boys from Ann Arbor, Michigan with professional staff and mentors.
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Remarks by Acting Under Secretary for International Affairs Clay Lowery on Sovereign Wealth Funds and the International Financial System
San Francisco--The financial crisis that struck East Asia ten years ago had many causes – fixed but adjustable exchange rate regimes, balance sheet mismatches in the financial and corporate sectors, and inadequate financial sector regulation and supervision, among others. Ultimately these causes manifested themselves in large-scale capital outflows and insufficient official foreign exchange reserves.
The financial crisis that struck East Asia ten years ago had many causes – fixed but adjustable exchange rate regimes, balance sheet mismatches in the financial and corporate sectors, and inadequate financial sector regulation and supervision, among others. Ultimately these causes manifested themselves in large-scale capital outflows and insufficient official foreign exchange reserves.
At the time, a number of working groups were established to address issues coming out of that crisis. One group recommended that the international community – largely led by the IMF – improve the coverage, frequency, and timeliness of data on foreign exchange reserves. The idea was to improve financial stability by providing clarity on what had been shown to be misleading data regarding gross reserves. Though much has been accomplished, further progress, particularly on coverage, is needed.
East Asia today looks considerably different in many respects, but perhaps none more so than foreign exchange reserve holdings. In East Asia, and around the world, reserve accumulation has sharply accelerated. From 1997 to 2001, global foreign exchange reserves including gold increased at 6 percent per year on average. Since 2002, the annual average increase has been a phenomenal 20 percent. Global reserves currently stand at roughly $5.6 trillion. Many countries with large reserves surpass, by several multiples, benchmarks of reserve adequacy developed after the Asian Financial Crisis.
But reserves do not tell the whole story as they generally do not include Sovereign Wealth Funds. Sovereign Wealth Funds are not new – they have existed for over three decades, even if the term as such was only coined to my knowledge in 2005. What is new is the number of Sovereign Wealth Funds and their sheer current and projected sizes. Private analysts put current Sovereign Wealth Fund assets in a range of $1.5 – 2.5 trillion, which would bring total foreign assets held by sovereigns to roughly $7.6 trillion, or 15 percent of global GDP.
These trends raise broad, strategic issues for the international financial system. What are the underlying policies driving the accumulation, and should they be adjusted? What financial market and, over the medium-term, financial protectionism challenges could arise from this tremendous increase in sovereign cross-border asset holdings? How can countries in which these funds are invested best promote openness and welcome foreign capital? The common objective should be an international financial system where countries do not accumulate more foreign assets than they want or need, and where cross-border investment remains healthy and open.
At Treasury we are actively considering these issues, and potential steps that could be taken multilaterally, bilaterally, and by national authorities. While we clearly do not have all the answers, I would like to walk you through some of our initial thinking. I believe that the IMF and World Bank could take a very constructive step through the drafting of best practices for Sovereign Wealth Funds. Complementing the work of the International Financial Institutions, I would expect that the issue of sovereign foreign asset accumulation will increasingly arise in informal multilateral discussions. National authorities will also have an important role to play. Moreover, the U.S. government itself has responsibilities.
Definitions and Differences
First let us be clear on what we are talking about. There is no universal, agreed definition of a Sovereign Wealth Fund. I will use the term to mean a government investment vehicle which is funded by foreign exchange assets, and which manages those assets separately from official reserves. Sovereign Wealth Funds generally fall into two categories based on the source of the foreign exchange assets.
Commodity funds are established through commodity exports, either owned or taxed by the government. They serve different purposes, including stabilization of fiscal revenues, inter-generational savings, and balance of payments sterilization. Given the recent extended sharp rise in commodity prices, many funds initially established for fiscal stabilization or balance of payments sterilization purposes have evolved into savings funds.
Non-commodity funds are typically established through transfers of assets from official foreign exchange reserves. Large balance of payments surpluses have enabled non-commodity exporters to transfer "excess" foreign exchange reserves to stand-alone investment funds to be managed for higher returns.
There are three key differences between these two types of funds:
First is their asset-liability structure. Commodity funds often derive from foreign currency accruing directly to the government, so the foreign currency is not converted to domestic currency, does not enter the domestic economy, and does not need to be sterilized through the issuance of domestic debt to avoid unwanted inflationary pressures. In contrast, non-commodity Sovereign Wealth Fund assets often derive from exchange rate intervention, much of which is usually sterilized. These funds' net return will depend on the difference between the yield they earn on their investments and the yield they pay on their sterilization debt. So they may be thought of more as "borrowed funds" than traditional "wealth."
A second difference involves how countries have allocated their foreign assets to Sovereign Wealth Funds and reserves. Commodity exporters have typically chosen Sovereign Wealth Funds, while Asian countries have chosen reserves. There are exceptions – Singapore created its Government Investment Corporation back in 1981 and Russia established its oil stabilization fund only in 2003 – but the general trend has stood. Now, though, Asian countries are increasingly establishing non-commodity Sovereign Wealth Funds.
A third difference concerns the future pace of asset accumulation. Oil exporters in particular are essentially replacing a real asset in the ground with a financial asset in an account. If oil prices remain high, these governments are likely to accumulate foreign assets going forward even after the implementation of sensible domestic fixed investment plans. In contrast, the extent of asset accumulation in non-commodity funds will depend heavily on how successful emerging markets are in shifting to increased exchange rate flexibility.
The creation and expansion of Sovereign Wealth Funds is understandable given the significant increase in official reserves. To be considered reserves, foreign currency must be invested in liquid and marketable instruments that are readily available to the monetary authorities to meet a balance of payments need. The idea of a Sovereign Wealth Fund is to diversify foreign exchange assets and earn a higher return by investing in a broad range of asset classes, including longer-term government bonds, agency and asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, equities, commodities, real estate, derivatives, alternative investments, and foreign direct investment.
Some back-of-the envelope math demonstrates why this trend toward higher risk-return management of official assets is to some extent inescapable, or what has been perceptively called "forced diversification." In 2006, official foreign exchange reserves grew by 20% or $843 billion. If we assume for simplicity a similar percent increase in Sovereign Wealth Fund assets, we add $336 billion. Setting aside valuation changes, this brings total 2006 official flows to nearly $1.2 trillion.
In comparison, 2006 net issuance of the most traditional reserve assets – U.S. Treasuries, U.S. Agencies, euro area government securities, and UK Treasuries – totaled $461 billion. So even if reserve and Sovereign Wealth Fund managers had purchased all 2006 net issuance of these traditional reserve assets, they would still have had some $720 billion left over. Of course this remainder can be invested in the existing stock of these securities, but part is also likely to find its way to other assets and asset classes.
These trends can bring benefits to countries in which these funds are invested. From the U.S. perspective, we unequivocally support international investment in this country – both portfolio and direct investment – and are committed to ensuring that the United States continues to be the most attractive place in the world to invest. Most market estimates, though highly dependent upon underlying assumptions, expect future official flows to have a material though moderate impact in bidding up prices and lowering risk premia of riskier, less liquid assets, while at the same time resulting in continued strong demand for traditional reserve assets. This may contribute to continued benign financing conditions.
There are also risks, however. The first concerns these funds' potential impact on financial market stability. To be sure, there is much that is reassuring. Sovereign Wealth Funds are, in principle, long-term investors that can be expected to stick with a strategic asset allocation despite short-term losses. They are not highly leveraged. They cannot be forced by capital requirements or investor withdrawals to liquidate positions rapidly. They have access to, and frequently make use of, well-regarded private fund managers, consultants, administrators, and custodians.
Yet it is hard to dismiss entirely the possibility of unseen, imprudent risk management with broader consequences. Sovereign Wealth Funds are already large and projected to get much larger. Little is known about their investment policies, so that minor comments or rumors will increasingly cause volatility as market participants react to what they perceive Sovereign Wealth Funds to be doing. Sovereign Wealth Funds are typically not directly regulated by their domestic financial authorities, and the extent of indirect regulation may also be limited. Investor discipline will depend on what their citizens know and how active they are in monitoring fund activities, rather than the market discipline of savvy institutional investors. Further, the funds' counterparties and any creditors may simply assume a sovereign guarantee and fail to exercise market discipline.
The second risk is that, over the medium term, the size, investment policies, and/or operating methods of these funds fuel financial protectionism. It is no secret that globalization, despite its benefits, is raising sensitivities around the world. This is not just a U.S., European, or even industrialized country issue. Emerging markets have also at times expressed sensitivity to certain investments by other emerging markets. There will likely be much public attention to whether Sovereign Wealth Funds exercise the voting rights of their equity shares, and if so, how. If Sovereign Wealth Funds obtain operational control of the companies in which they invest, the fact that they are government entities may invite additional scrutiny. Finally, these sensitivities and pressures to block sovereign investment would worsen if Sovereign Wealth Fund investment decisions were made for non-economic reasons.
I think I can identify two other risks, which are largely domestic but could potentially be international. One is that with so much money invested across a wider range of asset classes, Sovereign Wealth Funds will need to have strong fiduciary controls and good checks and balances to prevent corruption. Another is that, while Sovereign Wealth Funds should be managed as professionally and independently as possible, my experience in government suggests that once a bureaucracy is created, shutting it down becomes difficult. Therefore, a fund created to handle what could be a temporary phenomenon should not impede thorough examination of underlying policies and avoid becoming self-perpetuating.
The Work Ahead of Us
We want of course to maximize the benefits of these funds while reducing the risks. A sound global financial system and the maintenance of open markets are in the common interests of all. Sovereign Wealth Funds raise issues of the appropriate institutional arrangements, governance, operational and risk management, accountability, and – critically – transparency of the funds' rules, operations, and asset management guidelines and performance.
So what to do?
First, I believe that the IMF and World Bank could take a very useful step by developing best practices for Sovereign Wealth Funds, perhaps through a joint task force. The IMF has the requisite expertise on wider systemic and macroeconomic subjects, such as the link to fiscal policy. The World Bank is knowledgeable about country governance and accounting and fiduciary issues, including the fiduciary duty these funds have to their citizens as investors. The IMF and World Bank also have the broad membership of 185 member countries, including countries that have these funds, countries in which they invest, and countries that simply have a stake in a healthy overall international financial system.
One caveat is that I do not think that the International Financial Institutions should be in the business of competing with the private sector to manage reserves or Sovereign Wealth Fund assets on behalf of countries. This is clearly beyond their mandates. Proposals along these lines have been justified by the concern that an individual reserve manager may be reluctant to invest excess reserves more aggressively for fear of disapproval (or worse) if returns are negative in a given year. This issue is best addressed by building support domestically, including through the establishment of a stand-alone domestic institution if appropriate. A country naturally also retains the right to fire asset managers that underperform their designated benchmarks. Finally, it is critical that the International Financial Institutions avoid feeding a misperception that more reserves are necessarily better, both for the countries themselves and the broader system.
Second, the subject of sovereign foreign asset accumulation will increasingly arise in informal multilateral discussions, which can complement and provide impetus to the work of the International Financial Institutions. At last April's meeting of G-7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, the Treasury Department hosted a special outreach dinner with Russia, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates to discuss investment flows from oil exporters, including in the form of Sovereign Wealth Funds. In May, Treasury and the Federal Reserve co-hosted with the South African Treasury and Reserve Bank a meeting of G-20 Finance Ministry and Central Bank officials on Commodity Cycles and Financial Stability, where we discussed, among other topics, Sovereign Wealth Funds.
Third, national authorities will have an important role to play, and certainly at Treasury we will continue to explore ways to address the challenges and opportunities provided by Sovereign Wealth Funds. Finance Ministries and Central Banks are in increasing contact with these funds to promote common understanding. National securities regulators should treat these funds as they would any large institutional investor. National governments also maintain mechanisms to review foreign direct investment in a manner that preserves national security without creating unnecessary and counterproductive barriers.
Long-established and well-run Sovereign Wealth Funds may wonder why they should adjust their practices, particularly on transparency. I hope they will find that transparency is good for the funds as well as the international financial system. Lack of transparency puts heavy demands on the quality of fund administration. Even where fund administration is solid, greater transparency would enhance the likelihood that the fund serves its intended purposes and reduce the likelihood of future governance problems. The experience of large corporations in the industrialized world demonstrates that potential for error and abuse exists even in apparently highly-rated and well-managed organizations. From a systemic perspective, transparency will facilitate the maintenance of openness to investment. What may have been tenable in a world where Sovereign Wealth Funds manage only several hundred billion dollars may not be tenable in a world where Sovereign Wealth Funds manage several trillion dollars.
Finally, the U.S. government also has a direct responsibility – which is making our investment regime as open and consistent as possible for welcoming Sovereign Wealth Fund investment. We are doing that by working with Congress to get a sound CFIUS bill and we are doing that by reaching out around the world to explain the U.S. investment climate. Just this week for instance Deputy Secretary Kimmitt has been traveling in Beijing and Moscow meeting with government officials and business leaders to promote open investment policies and to gain clarity on their new investment laws and to better understand the nature and investment priorities of their soon to be established sovereign wealth funds. The message delivered clearly to the Deputy Secretary from officials in both countries is that the funds would focus primarily on portfolio investments such as corporate bonds and equities. When asked about the possibility of foreign direct investment acquisitions, officials in both countries indicated that is not in their current planning but if such an opportunity arose in the future, it would be in non-sensitive sectors.
Never Forget the Underlying Issues
In considering Sovereign Wealth Funds, we should not lose sight of the underlying issues – the need for increased exchange rate flexibility in many emerging markets and the need for oil exporters to formulate and implement fixed investment plans even if further foreign asset accumulation can reasonably be expected. Otherwise the official sector would be doing the equivalent of treating the symptoms rather than the condition.
However, Sovereign Wealth Funds are not going away, and it will be increasingly necessary to work to integrate these funds as smoothly as possible into the international financial system.


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How did Earth's layers develop?
Scientists know that the outer core is liquid and the inner core is solid because S-waves stop at the inner core. To the Mayans, the world was flat, and at it corners, four jaguars known as bacabs held up the sky.
Sonar technology provided scientists with unprecedented detail about seafloor topography , and revealed the extent of mid-oceanic ridges and deep sea trenches. There is more to the Earth than what we can see on the surface.
Just as when we pondered the universe, it pays to make assumptions and to see if they are supported by the facts. Scientists are continuing to refine the chemical and mineral composition of the Earth's interior by laboratory experiments, by using pressures 2 million times the pressure of the atmosphere at the surface and temperatures as high as C.
This kind of " unmixing " or segregation is often described as differentiation by geologists , and differentiation caused the heavy metals iron, nickel and related elements to be concentrated in the core of the earth, whereas the light elements oxygen, silicon, aluminum, potassium, sodium, calcium etc.
Tile 1 Description. Solid Composition: What is Geology Why do we study geology?
The rising material begins the convection current. This theory, which stated that earthquakes occur when accumulated energy is released along a fault line, was the first scientific explanation for why earthquakes happen, and remains the foundation for modern tectonic studies.
Peel back one, and you find another, distinguished from the last by its chemical and geological properties, as well as vast differences in temperature and pressure. Click Here to return to the search form. Of the heavy metals, iron is cosmically most abundant , and thus a perfect candidate. This occurs mostly because the inner core cannot dissolve the same amount of light elements as the outer core. Oceanic crust is composed of magma that erupts on the seafloor to create basalt lava flows or cools deeper down to create the intrusive igneous rock gabbro.
However, it was not until the 16th and 17th centuries that a scientific understanding of planet Earth and its structure truly began to advance.
Since it is rigid and brittle, when stresses act on the lithosphere, it breaks. You are here: By observing changes in seismic waves as they passed through the core over the course of many decades, scientists estimate that the inner core rotates at a rate of one degree faster than the surface. By the turn of the century, geologists now believed the Earth to be 2 billion years old, which opened doors for theories of continental movement during this vast amount of time.
The basic data for this theory come from the recognition that the continents have moved around on the Earth through time, an idea that was most prominently advocated by Alfred Wegener in the first few decades of this century. Because plates press against each other in these places, the crust tends to get buckled up and thickened, and we see the formation of mountain ranges and lots of earthquakes.
Along the center of these ridges basaltic magma rises up from the mantle, and fills cracks that are caused by convective stretching of the ocean crust.
And what we know about our world is still subject to theory and guesswork, given that we can't examine its interior up close. These are used, along with measurements of the gravitational and magnetic fields of the Earth and experiments with crystalline solids at pressures and temperatures characteristic of the Earth's deep interior, to determine what Earth's layers looks like.
During the imperial period of the 19th century, European scientists also had the opportunity to conduct research in distant lands.


I've got a serious weakness when it comes to cheesecake – and these Cream Cheese Crumb Bars are an easy (and delicious) way to get my fix!
This recipe is another huge score from my mother's old recipe box and it's the perfect option for when you have a craving for cheesecake – but don't have the time to prepare the full dessert. The same light and buttery walnut-crumb mixture makes up the bottom crust as well as the topping – and a light and creamy cream cheese filling sweetens up the middle. The filling also has a slightly lemony flavor (thanks to the addition of fresh lemon juice) and it adds a perfect amount of brightness so that these bars are sweet – but not too sweet!
We cut our cream cheese crumb bars into 18 triangles for a bite-size treat – or you could serve this as larger squares for dessert. Either way – these are a delicious – and any cheesecake lover in your life will surely love these cream cheese crumb bars!
Line an 8×8-inch pan with foil pressing tightly up sides. This will help remove the finished bars once baked.
In the bowl of a stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream the butter and the 1/3 cup of brown sugar until fluffy.
Add flour until just combined.
Remove from mixer and blend ½ of the chopped nuts in by hand and stir mixture until a small crumb forms. Reserve one cup of this mixture. Take remaining mixture and press into the prepared 8X8 pan and bake for 12 minutes. Place on rack to cool.
To the reserved cup of crumb mixture, add the remaining 2 tablespoons brown sugar, remaining ½ cup chopped nuts and the one tablespoon of oil. Mix thoroughly and set aside.
Place stand mixer bowl back on with paddle and cream the sugar and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Scrape bowl and mix again.
Add egg, milk, lemon juice and vanilla and beat until very light and creamy.
Pour this mixture into cooled pan over the cooked crust and top with reserved topping pressing just slightly into mixture.
Bake for 25 minutes and cool on a rack in the pan. Once cool, lift the foil edges up and place the bar on a cutting board. Fold the foil down flat and slip the foil out.
With a sharp serrated knife, cut the whole pan into 3 rows x 3 rows for total of nine squares. Then, if you'd like, cut each square in half corner to corner yielding 18 triangle pieces like we show in our photos.
Place stand mixer bowl back on with paddle and cream sugar and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Scrape bowl and mix again.
Hi Sammy – In the step you quoted, "cream" is used as a verb – creaming is a common term using a baking where sugar and another soft ingredient such as cream cheese or butter is mixed together until soft and light. To clarify, I will edit so it reads "cream the sugar and cream cheese" – hope that helps!
I'm anxious to try these because they are made with natural, wholesome ingredients, not canned crescent rolls. The chemical taste of processed crescent dough is off-putting to me.
This looks amazing…was just wondering if I could skip,using aluminum foil and just leave them in the pan. Can they be cut and taken out easily with using the foil?
Hi Bee – Yes – the purpose of the foil is to allow you to lift it out of the pan and more easily cut into bars. I suppose you can skip that step and just serve it right from the pan with a spatula. I'd make sure you grease the pan very well to avoid sticking. Enjoy!
Hi Sheri – Yes – if you are baking them a day ahead, I would suggest refrigerating them. But I think they are best served closer to room temperature. Hope that helps!
Hello, just wondering if the crust can be baked a day ahead of making and baking the filling. I need to make a whole bunch of these for a work function and that would be a big help!
Hi Victoria – I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work! If you chill the crust overnight after it is baked, I would suggest bringing it back up to room temperature before adding the filling and baking again. You could also do a test batch ahead of time just to be sure.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this recipe. My mother, who passed away suddenly six years ago, made these each year for Christmas. I have searched high and low for this recipe and when I came across your and saw your pictures I knew I had found it. I can't wait to make these for my father, sister, and the rest of my family each Christmas from now on.
You're very welcome Victoria! I hope they are as delicious as your mother's!
I am definitely going to make these. I don't have walnuts on hand, but I have slivered almonds and I also have pecans. I am going to try substituting for the walnuts. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Rebecca – Either of those nuts will substitute nicely for the walnuts! Hope you enjoy the recipe!
This recipe looks delicious. And I wanted to thank you for making it available in a "print" format that actually prints on one page with the photo and no other garbage. How refreshing! Can't wait to try these – will be great with our morning cup of coffee!
Thanks Sandi – We do still have a few older recipes in a different printable format but we're working our way through to update them all to this format. Hope you enjoy the recipe and thanks for the feedback!
So excited to try this but I only have a hand held mixer. Do you think that will work?
Yes Liz – A hand held mixer should do just fine!
Yummy! Nice snack with coffee..
LOL Laura – Yes – delicious trouble indeed!
I LOVE cheesecake, but cheesecake takes SO long to bake. AND I'll be the only one eating it. My family swears they hate cheesecake. These look amazing and easy. I'm going to have to sneak these in and call the cheesecake "filling".
These look amazing! I adore cream cheese desserts!
Do you have to use nuts? I'm allergic, and these look so yummy.
Hi Shannon – No – you can leave the nuts out – or substitute in some oatmeal for a little bit more texture in the crumbs!
What a great flavor and texture combination! I am with you – I love cheesecake but don't always (almost never) have time to make it. Pinning these!
I love finding old family recipes. These look so scrumptious.
I do so love how you raided your mother's recipe box for this scrumptious dessert. A hint of lemon in any dessert just makes it so delicate and delicious for me. And once again, my Russian grandmother would be proud, she was famous for making cheese cake bars (and I was famous for eating them, so yes, I was quite a pudgy kid =) haha. She loved it though, I remember when I would ask for seconds.
LOL Laura – I was a pudgy kid too! 🙂 Hope you enjoy the recipe!
These look so good and they are easy to make the coffee club will love them. The old time deserts are the best. Thanks for sharing them with us.
I agree Richard! There is something very special about old family recipes! Thanks for writing to us today!


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About " Charles Morgan "
Charles Langbridge Morgan was a playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage The main themes of his work were, as he himself put it, Art, Love, and Death , and the relation between them Themes of individual novels range from the paradoxes of freedom The Voyage, The River Line , through passionate love seen from within Portrait in a Mirror and without A Breeze of Morning , to the conflict of good and evil The Judge s Story and the enchanted boundary of death Sparkenbroke.Morgan was educated at the Naval Colleges of Osborne and Dartmouth and served as a midshipman in the China Fleet until 1913 On the outbreak of war he was sent with Churchill s Naval Division to the defence of Antwerp He was interned in Holland which provided the setting for his best selling novel The Fountain.He married the Welsh novelist Hilda Vaughan in 1923 He was the drama critic of The Times from the 1920s until 1938, and contributed weekly articles on the London theatre to the New York Times His first play, The Flashing Stream 1938 , had successful runs in London and Paris but was not well received in New York The River Line 1952 was originally written as a novel in 1949 and concerned the activities of escaped British prisoners of war in France.He was awarded the French Legion of Honour in 1936, a promotion in 1945, and was elected a member of the Institut de France in 1949 From 1953 he was the president of International PEN.While Morgan enjoyed an immense reputation during his lifetime and was awarded the 1940 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, he was sometimes criticised for excessive seriousness, and for some time rather neglected he once claimed that the sense of humour by which we are ruled avoids emotion and vision and grandeur of spirit as a weevil avoids the sun It has banished tragedy from our theatre, eloquence from our debates, glory from our years of peace, splendour from our wars The character Gerard Challis in Stella Gibbons s Westwood is thought to be a caricature of him.
Roger Norman
I found this 1936 book in a secondhand bookshop in Istanbul and bought it for its striking cover and for some echo that the author's name sounded in my mind. It cost me about a quid and turned out to be a first edition. tells me that Morgan's reputation during his lifetime was 'immense' and other internet sites were evidence that he is still remembered, and read, here and there, especially in France. Part of my curiosity in reading the book was to see why a writer of the 30s with an immense rep [...]
My all time favorite book, ever, always
Hermione Laake
The subject matter in this book is death, its meaning, and relevance in life. Morgan must have read Freud's, Das Ego und das Id; there is a long piece during which the reader is cast straight back into this text ( l accept that a reader not familiar with Freud's work will not get this reference, although it is not subtle). Piers is characterized as tormented, as warring with different facets of his self; this is a deep enquiry, although not on a par with feminist theory of the late twentieth cen [...]
I'm so disappointed. Charles Morgan is one of my favorite authors. I couldn't believe my luck at finding one of his books, not to mention one I hadn't read yet, at the library. I could only flog my way through the first half. Morgan really could have used a good editor. His writing style here leans towards the self indulgent. That and his sentences are often impossible to decipher and go on for ages. Don't even get me started on the paternalistic tone that is taken towards the key female charact [...]
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ISSUES | spring 2011
34.1 (Spring 2011): "Peril"
Featuring the winners of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize and work by Patricia Bjorklund, Josh Booton, Sarah Cornwell, Jennifer duBois, Erin Flanagan, Nadine Sabra Meyer, Molly Schultz… and an interview with Jo Ann Beard.
CONTENT FROM THIS ISSUE
Books with Bite: The Evolution of the Vampire in Contemporary Literature
Featuring reviews of:
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Tor Books, 2007 (Reprint), 320 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Ebba Segerberg (translator). St. Martin's Press, 2008, 480 pp., $15.95 (paper)
Dracula The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt. Dutton Adult, 2009, 432 pp., $15 (paper)
The Passage by Justin Cronin. Ballantine Books, 2010, 784 pp., $2 (paper)
At Home in Storyville: the Brothel Pictures of Ernest Bellocq
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At twenty-two, I joined the Peace Corps. There are plenty of reasons why people do this; some are ill conceived and don't get shared aloud, perhaps because they can't be articulated. For me, it was the need to escape what seemed the loneliest feeling in the world: I was in my twenties and sure I'd never be loved, equally sure that no one but I had ever felt this way before. I was years away from reading Lyn Hejinian, who illuminated the direness the woman I was at that time was certain of but couldn't have expressed. "I would be single all my life and lonely in old age," she explains of her own thoughts as a young woman. "In such a situation it is necessary to make a choice between contempt and an attempt at understanding, and yet it is difficult to know which is the form of retreat." My retreat? I left the "Country Preference" line blank on my application and hoped whereever I was sent would be far enough away that nothing could follow me. I was assigned to a small village in the middle of Uzbekistan. It could have been anywhere: Africa or China or South America; it didn't matter.
U.S. and Them, 1971
My father worked in a white T-shirt, off-white overalls and construction boots that were spattered with paint and crusted with Spackle. His fingers looked like wooden spindles, whitish as if they'd been stripped and then antiqued, and no matter how he scrubbed or what he wore, my father always smelled like turpentine: kind of clean and kind of poisonous. Maria said her father was an executive at General Electric. Terri's father worked at the New York Stock Exchange. Donna told me her dad was a corporate attorney, and I had heard enough. Corporate attorney, commodities trader, CEO: suit-and-tie occupations. With the luxury of sitting behind a desk, my classmates' fathers might as well be wearing slippers, too. I never went out of my way to tell anyone that my father was a house painter but I never denied him or what he did for a living. Whenever someone asked me who my father worked for, I was happy to announce that he worked for himself. I took pride in the fact that my father really worked for our bread and butter.
Although we weren't exactly drug-dependent, at least in terms of how drug dependency had been defined in the mimeographed packet we'd been handed while undergoing volunteer Helpline training, and we weren't stoners compared to some of our friends who toked even more than we did, most of us who worked shifts at the university's telephone crisis line smoked a lot of marijuana. We joked that it was an occupational hazard. All that stress. All those panicked calls from people not right at that moment enjoying the effects of their own drugs of choice, or telling us at great length the ways their lives truly and deeply sucked. We lit up the second our shifts were over, often on the way to our cars in the union building parking lot, sharing a joint and, if someone had thought ahead, a bottle of something, anything, alcoholic. And then, weather permitting, adjournment to a nearby city park to smoke and drink some more. All that drug talk on the phone; all that human misery we couldn't avoid ingesting a fair amount of as it cascaded over the phone: fears of where bad trips were heading, thoughts of suicide, more mundane yet really depressing narratives of loneliness—I'm so ugly, I'm so alone, I'm so pathetic I'm calling you.
A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard
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Poetry Feature: Nadine Sabra Meyer
Featuring the poems: And Then, Atrium, Invocation: A Fragment, Sanctuary: A Premonition
Poetry Feature: George Looney
Winner of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize for Poetry
Featuring the poems: To Account for Such Grace, Early Pastoral, The Consolation of a Company of Acrobats, A Temporary Delaying of the Inevitable
Poetry Feature: Josh Booton
Featuring the poems: Sketch with Yellow Asterisk, As One Stone May Be Used to Shape Another, Strange Shapes the Night Makes, Finches
On the evening of June 17, 1994, when Al Cowlings drove O.J.'s white Bronco fifty miles down I-405 followed by twenty helicopters and god knows how many police cars, I was working in nearby El Segundo, California, at a halfway house for men, debating what to do with the rest of my life. Through the first half of college I had planned to apply to law school, but my parents had gotten me a job at their firm the summer before my junior year, and most of my time was spent in a storage closet searching cases for mention of water rights, which made law school look much less appealing. That fall I took a social work elective on human development and began working with underprivileged children, a job I liked because it suited my nosy nature and gave me the opportunity to tell people what to do. As a lawyer I would only be involved in one side of a case (and a boring one at that, it seemed), with the verdict left in someone else's hands, but as a social worker, I learned, I'd be making actual decisions with consequences that would better people's lives. Plus, I wouldn't have to go to grad school to start practicing. So I switched majors my junior year and started my job a week after graduation.
The first time I went to visit Dr. Hill at Park View, I brought him a bouquet of flowers. It would be six weeks before the headstone would be in, and the grave was gutted-looking still, like new gardening. It all looked a little vulgar and exposed, and I didn't like to look at it straight—though it was true I'd seen Dr. Hill much more exposed than this. "Don't get used to this," I said, laying the flowers at his grave. Dr. Hill didn't respond, but then he'd never been talkative when I knew him in this life, either.
The Floating Life
We cluster around the radio in the teachers' berth. I twist the dial to 16, the hailing and distress channel, and Dave holds a hand up for silence, even though nobody's talking. Most of the message is static, but it sounds bad. Ports are closed all along the northern coast of Puerto Rico, Haiti, the Virgin Islands. The throaty, Spanish-inflected voice of the Coast Guard broadcaster tells us to switch to 22A, and we do, straining for specifics of the attack, or whatever it is. I can make out snatches only: stay at sea . . . hazards . . . we don't know . . . repeat stay . . . as it comes in. The distant sound of hip-hop drifts from the dormitory berths; the students are enjoying a normal afternoon below deck, unaware. The satellites are down. The computers and the handheld devices search endlessly for signals.
The Long Net
Winner of the 2010 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors' Prize for Fiction.
The summer I was ten, among other troubles, there was a heat wave unlike anyone could remember, including my mother, whose memory was as strong as most people's forgetting. Heat is shocking when you're close to the ocean but not in it. It feels like an injustice, a spectacle—even children do things they might not otherwise do.
When he was a professor at the University of Missouri, psychologist Jeffrey Jensen Arnett began to wonder whether there wasn't something identifiably different about people in their twenties-if it wasn't in some ways a unique stage of life.


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12 May 2020 / SF Restaurants, Food & Drink / Jay Barmann
Newsom: When Restaurants Reopen They Will Need to Sanitize Everything Often, Should Add Air-Cleaning Systems
Though no date has yet been announced for when California restaurants — in some counties — may begin to reopen and start dine-in service again, Governor Newsom today unveiled some initial guidelines for restaurant owners to begin thinking about. And it's going to involve, at least, paper menus, tables that aren't pre-set, and the frequent disinfecting of doorknobs, bus tubs, and more.
Newsom's comments today in his daily press briefing came with the release of this 12-page document, written in collaboration by Cal-OSHA and the state's Department of Public Health. It lays out how workers at dine-in restaurants, wineries, breweries, brewpubs, and bars will need to be protected as the state begins allowing some businesses to open up. But it makes clear that, at least as a first step, "alcohol can only be sold in the same transaction as a meal," which means bars with no food can't open for quite a while after this next phase — although exceptions can be made for bars, wineries and breweries that want to contract with a food vendor or have a food truck park outside.
"There have been multiple outbreaks in a range of workplaces, indicating that workers are at risk of acquiring or transmitting COVID-19 infection," the guideline document says. "Examples of these workplaces include long-term care facilities, prisons, food production, warehouses, meat processing plants, and grocery stores. As stay-at-home orders are modified, it is essential that all possible steps be taken to ensure the safety of workers and the public."
As KPIX reports, the new guidelines include common-sense protocols about clearing and cleaning all dishware, utensils, and glassware used by all customers, and the frequent sanitizing of high-traffic areas. Also, credit card and ATM terminals, light switches, waiting area chairs, and all door handles will require frequent disinfecting.
And all of this is moot for now for many of the 58 counties across California, where lockdown orders are very much in place and officials are only barely nearing a Phase 2 of reopening. But the reason Newsom is discussing it now is because of the diversity of pandemic conditions across so many counties — some of which are rural and have seen very few, or no, COVID cases thus far. The criteria for moving into Phase "2.5," which includes dine-in restaurants with modifications, will include a county having zero COVID deaths for two weeks, and less than 1 active case per 10,000 residents, as Newsom discussed last week. (The first half of Phase 2 includes the opening of some retail for curbside pickup and some offices and manufacturing, which the Bay Area may begin doing next week.)
"I don't anticipate every one of the 27 counties that we've engaged with already, the four that we will be engaging with this afternoon, all will be able to self-attest [to certain reopening criteria], and I know this is a point of concern and consternation," Newsom said today. He mentioned, by example, that Kern County had asked state officials to "consider to allow a modification of sorts, based upon data, based on science, based upon their unique circumstances where we can apply some flexibility."
In addition to various new cleaning procedures, restaurants are encouraged to keep kitchen workers at separate work stations, to keep tables at least six feet apart, and make employee breaks staggered. Restaurants that haven't typically taken reservations are being encouraged to start doing so so that proper cleaning of tables can occur between parties.
Restaurants are also being asked to "Consider installing portable high-efficiency air cleaners, upgrading the building's air filters to the highest efficiency possible, and making other modifications to increase the quantity of outside air and ventilation in all working areas." This may include the use of ultraviolet light technology that's been used in hospitals for decades and has been shown to be highly effective at killing airborne pathogens.
Among the good news in the report: To-go cocktails are here to stay! At least for now. On the last page of the report it says, "Licensed restaurants may sell "to-go" alcoholic beverages, prepared drinks, and pre-mixed cocktails provided they are sold and delivered to customers in conjunction with the sale and delivery of a meal/meals."
Also, restaurants are being encouraged to take over sidewalks and more outdoor spaces in order to create more distance and offer more outdoor seating. This follows on a request by the Golden Gate Restaurant Association last week for San Francisco to allow such moves, letting restaurants take over plazas, street parking spaces, and other public spaces when they are given the go-ahead to reopen, so that they can increase table capacity outside indoor dining areas.
In chilly SF, this will hopefully come with a lot more heat lamps.
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Home History The Consett Iron Works
The Consett Iron Works
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The Derwent Iron Company, the original owners of the Consett Iron Works, realised from the very start that they would need to amass a better class of workmen. In order to
Consett Iron Works in 1895
do this they began to put in place plans for a new town, with suitable housing, businesses and also churches to provide for the peoples spiritual well being. Schools and reading rooms were also supplied at a small fee to the workforce which the company then matched. The company was set up in 1841 and by 1847 had already grown to become the biggest of its kind in the kingdom. At that time it consisted of 14 Blast Furnaces, two mills capable of puddling, hammering and rolling 900 tonnes of Iron bar per week; 12 refineries for refining and founding; 22 steam engines to turn machinery and 35 coal and ironstone pits to supply the material. Although the Coal resources flourished the ironstone ran out rapidly. The company began to source from further a field, firstly from Cleveland and then Whitby.
The Company had suffered disruption from early strikes, labour disputes and off course the sectarian problems which prompted the Battle of the Blue Heaps, but by the mid 1850's the town they had planned was starting to take shape and the Iron Works had become a industrial leader. However, with the collapse of the Northumberland District Bank which had been keeping the works a float the creditors were beginning to gather.
The Iron Works was forced into receivership in the late 1850's and was kept running by 3 Inspectors. It was about this time that a group of local business men got together and created the Derwent & Consett Iron Company. They took control of the struggling Works and began to turn the business around. 6 years later it was found necessary to form a new company and in 1864 Consett Iron Company (Limited) was born.
A few years later in October 1869 John Priestman, the manager at the time left and was followed by Mr William Jenkins formerly of Dowlais Iron Company, Wales. Initial Jenkins had been warned against taking up a position at Consett as most people had forecast its doom due to its isolated location and lack of ironstone. It was credit to his great foresight that he decided instead to make a visit to Consett to assess not only the natural resources of the area but also its workers.
A new chapter of the Consett Iron Works had begun. Jenkins was a force to be reckoned with and brought in a new way of thinking about business. He took note of trends and new innovations and began to specialise in plate and he also invested in a small steel plant inside the works site itself initially as a small part but which eventually became the parent of the company by pure demand. He was forward thinking, an advocate for his workers and a man held in great esteem throughout the iron and steel community.
Jenkins died in 1895 in Consett Hall, where he had resided for 26 years only a few days after his beloved wife. He was respected and loved by the whole community, from businessmen to the humble workers and the town mourned. This mans foresight and drive had taken Consett Works through times of industrial decline of Iron and driven forward to making it the giant of Steel, surpassed by only a very few others in the country. The little usurper on the desolate hillside, miles from the sea, had done what most other Iron Works in the North had not, it had survived and thrived.
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