Mom Tri's Boathouse is proud to announce the appointment of Thailand's only Maître Cuisinier de France, Chef Jean-Noël Lumineau, as the Boathouse Wine & Grill's executive chef.
Chef Lumineau earned his distinction as Maître Cuisinier de France, an elite group of the most famous chefs in the world with about 700 members worldwide, more than 13 years ago.
For over 25 years Chef Lumineau was renowned as executive chef at the Gault-Millau and Michelin-star rated Château- Hôtel Le Prieuré in the Loire Valley in Anjou, France.
He was executive consultant at all of Mom Tri's restaurants (www.momtriphuket.com) for the past two years prior to his recent appointment as executive chef for the Boathouse Wine & Grill exclusively.
Boathouse executive chef for almost 20 years, Chef Tummanoon Punchun, is now appointed as executive Food Director of an exciting new venture in Chiang Mai, part of Mom Tri's project the PTIS IB International School and The Traidhos Three-Generation Community for Learning (www.threegeneration.org). The Boathouse and Guests will miss Chef Tummanoon's outstanding cooking skills and winning smile and we wish him all the best with this new challenge.
Chef Lumineau is dedicated to continuing with the Boathouses reputation for the finest food and wine and developing new, creative recipes.
The popular Boathouse weekend cooking classes will be held as usual from 10:00 – 14:00 hrs with Chef Rattana Pholtaisong, Boathouse sous-chef. Chef Rattana has been working at the Boathouse since 1990 and has been a regular assistant to Chef Tummanoon in the kitchen and classroom.
A multiple award-winning restaurant with a magnificent wine cellar and spectacular seafront view the Boathouse Wine & Grill has been honoured with Wine Spectator awards since 1995. This August yet again, the Boathouse was distinguished with the even more prestigious 'Best of Awards of Excellence', as the only establishment in Thailand for the fifth consecutive year.
Mom Tri's Boathouse, Phuket Thailand, is the creation of renowned Thai architect, entrepreneur and artist Mom Luang Tridhosyuth Devakul known as Mom Tri. Favourite with discriminating visitors it appears on numerous lists of the world's best small hotels. The Boathouse Wine & Grill has been distinguished with Wine Spectator Awards since 1995 and has won the sole Best of Award of Excellence in Thailand since 2006.


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InnoGames acquires Wooga's strategy game Warlords
Dean Takahashi@deantak
Warlords is a hardcore mobile game from Wooga's new Black Anvil Games.
Image Credit: Black Anvil Games
InnoGames has acquired Wooga's strategy game Warlords.
Hamburg, Germany-based InnoGames will pick up ownership of Warlords and continue to operate the game, but it will not acquire any employees as part of the agreement. The deal comes shortly after the announcement last week that Sweden's Snowprint Studios would open a new office in Berlin that employed many of the people who worked for Wooga on Warlords.
The sale reflects the contrast between the two companies. InnoGames is focused on strategy games while Wooga is focused on casual titles.
"Warlords was very well-received by players and press at launch, and the team at Wooga are happy to see the game continue under the stewardship of InnoGames," said Jens Begemann, Wooga founder and CEO, in a statement. "The agreement further reflects Wooga's commitment and focus on producing the very best casual mobile experiences."
Armin Busen, the chief product officer at InnoGames, said in a statement, "Warlords is a fantastic game with an enthusiastic fan base, and we're more than happy to get the chance to acquire it. The game represents a very good fit to our overall games portfolio and is another important step in our transition to mobile. Our dedicated team will make sure to add new features and improve the general game experience, so Warlords fans can look forward to the relaunch of the game."
Existing Warlords accounts won't be affected by the transfer, nor will they lose any game progression. Measurement firm Sensor Tower estimates Warlords has had 690,000 downloads since September and revenue of about $500,000.

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June 11, 2019 hashtagliberasi Opinions
Spilling the Tea on Lynas
By Arveent Kathirtchelvan
I am not even surprised anymore at how seemingly nobody is doing their due diligence in learning about Lynas before commenting on it. Since I have extensively covered this topic factually in Liberasi, let me take a different route in replying to Mr. Dennis Ignatius's article titled 'Lynas, a betrayal of trust'.
Unlike what Mr. Ignatius believes, the one who has betrayed his trust is not Dr. Mahathir but the very environment minister he deems to have undertaken sterling efforts.
Let me ask a simple question. If the cadre of YBs Wong Tack, Fuziah Salleh and Yeo Bee Yin are so adamant of the dangers of Lynas, why can't they prove their claims? Let's look at the checklist shall we? Until today, the three have made some pretty wild claims based on absolutely no solid evidence. Fuziah Salleh insists the groundwater near the Lynas Advanced Material Plant (LAMP) is contaminated due to Lynas when the Executive Committee report makes no such claims and her own compatriot, Dr. Xavier Jayakumar's ministry, admitted there is solid evidence to absolve Lynas of this blame.
Wong Tack keeps pouting and repeatedly insists that Lynas has broken Malaysian laws when the Executive Committee report has found the LAMP to be highly compliant to local laws and even shows proof of Lynas having the proper documentation to store their wastes. From his stance of closing the LAMP, Wong Tack has now backed down to insisting that strict conditions be placed on Lynas to remove their wastes. Again, we see no such recommendation in any audit reports thus far and the proper waste disposal method is permanent disposal, which Lynas is ready and willing to undertake.
Then we come to the most disappointing member of this trio, Yeo Bee Yin. UTP-educated on a Petronas Scholarship in Chemical Engineering, Cambridge-educated on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship in Advanced Chemical Engineering is YBM Yeo. I was initially so impressed with her that I thought she could do no wrong. Yet, months later, like a petulant child throwing tantrums when their proven to be wrong, YBM Yeo has insisted to go to Western Australia herself to meet with their government and attempt to convince them to import the LAMP wastes. Hilariously, the Western Australia government has doubled-down on their stance of not accepting any such waste, whilst stating it is up to YBM Yeo if she still wants to meet.
Additional Mistakes
But let me go further. Mr. Ignatius is painfully misled if he believes there is any nefarious undertones to situating the LAMP in Malaysia. It's basic business. Things are cheaper in Malaysia compared to Australia. Simply the steel involved in building the LAMP costs many times more in Australia compared to Malaysia. This was the bargaining chip the former government used to bring in Lynas in exchange for upskilling our workforce, bring in more foreign direct investment and potentially build downstream industries dependent on Lynas products.
Moreover, the environmental regulation in Malaysia is more onerous, not less, compared to Australia and international standards. For example, placards indicating radioactivity is unnecessary for material below 10 Bq/g internationally. In Malaysia, this necessity kicks in at 1 Bq/g. On top of this, as proven throughout the years Lynas has operated in Malaysia, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the leading experts in the field, has successfully audited LAMP and found them compliant as well. When it comes to the LAMP, there has been no slack in monitoring.
On the use of Lynas wastes to produce soil conditioner, the Condisoil product has been proven to be safe to use and laboratory research has shown that certain plants (corn, kenaf and grass) grow better with Condisoil. The radioactive and supposedly dangerous metals in the Condisoil have been assessed by experts to be diluted enough to not be dangerous. This is part of the internationally accepted method of waste management called dilute and disperse, which is what Dr. Mahathir was probably alluding to when he suggested to "spread [the radioactive waste] around somewhere so as not to have concentrated radioactive material in one place". It isn't absurd or flippant, as Mr. Ignatius puts it, rather it is surprisingly erudite from the famously anti-nuclear Prime Minister. However, if not producing Condisoil, it is much easier and straightforward to simply store the Lynas waste material in permanent disposal facilities instead.
Finally, Mr. Ignatious, bereft of any useful ideas, throws a Hail Mary in linking Lynas with the horrific Asian Rare Earth incident in Bukit Merah. Time and again it has been pointed out by experts, most recently in the Executive Committee report mentioned earlier, that Lynas is not the same as ARE. Lynas is much more compliant, well-managed and stringently audited so there is no possibility of a 'toxic legacy' to be left by the plant.
All in all, Mr. Ignatius's rant has been a tiring slog to get through. He, like other anti-Lynas mouthpieces, is deeply misled and does not understand the process, management and business of the LAMP to comment on how it is run. Moreover, he shows a deep lack of knowledge on waste management and radiation. Perhaps it's his bias to favour Yeo Bee Yin. Perhaps not.
The Tea
If it was the former though, let me state it very clearly. The drama she, Wong Tack and Fuziah Salleh have orchestrated is a simple-minded attempt to gain political traction. How else would we explain this ridiculous video of YB Fuziah Salleh slandering Lynas of causing mutations (without any proof) or this video of our finance minister blatantly lying about Lynas being a nuclear power plant or YBM Yeo Bee Yin not visiting the LAMP after 9 invitations or the fact that Wong Tack has repeatedly made false assertions, which have been refuted by the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia here?
Look, facts are facts, and it blatantly obvious now that the Harapan machinery, particularly that of DAP, are propagating nonsense about Lynas for political clout. It is even clearer when they haven't said a word about petroleum sludge or coal fly ash which are much more radioactive substances than Lynas wastes anyway. It is time we grow up and reject these lies being fed to us. And that is the tea, served piping hot.
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3 thoughts on "Spilling the Tea on Lynas"
Politischeiss says:
You've got an ally in an old colleague of mine – Helen Ang, who has quite a thing against DAP
"'Exploding' in Guan Eng's face"
https://helenang.wordpress.com/2019/06/07/exploding-in-guan-engs-face/
Well, this is a relief of sorts from all the noise and thunder online over Mahathir;s unilateral appointment of Lateefah Koya as MACC chief, since Day 1 of Hari Raya, when usually there has been a truce of sorts on the furst two days of Hari Raya.
Meanwhile, the economy flounders, whilst the proverbial "Neros" fiddle.
Perhaps if you can somehow convince Mahathir himself that Malaysia would benefit economically by being the world's first with a commercial Thorium-electric power plant, which will help boost Malaysia's sluggish economy, he may decide to drop National Car 3.0 in favour of it and invest the funds in Thorium reactor development.
This short article by the CPB-ML, lamenting the state of nuclear energy development in Britain may interest you.
"Nuclear disarray"
https://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/nuclear-disarray
One reason why I am outright anti-nuclear power is because major socialist countries or former socialist countries such as the Soviet Union, China and North Korea (whichever way you regard them today) have had and still have nuclear power generation facilities and China today is working on developing Thorium nuclear-electric generation and is also working on developing nuclear fusion, all to protect its energy security.
Also, I support the right of small countries such as Iran and North Korea to develop nuclear weapons, which serve as a deterrent against large, heavily nuclear-armed imperialist powers such as the United States from invading them, even though they would probably be destroyed in an outright nuclear war with the United States but they could at least give the U.S. imperialists a bloody nose first, such as sending some of their aircraft carrier battle fleets the bottom of the sea before they are destroyed by the hail of U.S. nuclear in retaliation.
If Iraq indeed had nuclear weapons, they most probably would not have been bombed and invaded with impunity.
Thus, I regard the various pacifistic anti-nuclear proliferation NGOs as de-facto serving the interests of western imperialism, especially U.S. imperialism.
If the U.S. and western imperialists want to tell other countries that they cannot have nuclear weapons or must disarm, then destroy their own nuclear weapons and stockpiles first.
Until then, the western powers have no right to tell others – "Do as I say but don't do as I do".
As for the CPB-ML, it was formed from one of the factions within the original CPGB, led by Reg Birch, which broke away due to disagreements over the CPGB's alignment with the Soviet Union under Krushchev revisionism. The NCP led by Sid French broke away later over the CPGB's turn away from the Soviet Union to a more Eurocommunist position.
At first, the CBB-ML aligned with Mao's China but following Albania under Enver Hoxha which split with China in 1977, the CPB-ML split with China and aligned with Albania. What's now called the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) (RCPB-ML), which was also aligned with Mao's China also split from China and aligned with Albania at the time. However, both parties have now distanced themselves from Enver Hoxha's Albania today, and now focus on Britain.
On thing about the CPB-ML is that it retains its legacy from its CPGB days of being closely aligned with the working class, especially trade union struggles, though I cannot tell from its website whether it actually has close links to the working class today, nor whether the party has much influence in Britain's body politic today, even though its founding leader Reg Birch was an engineer and a prominent member of an engineers union at the time.
However, from its website it's pretty obvious that the party takes a very strong British national-patriotic line in favour of Britain's independence from foreign control.
Also, amongst Britain's far-left, it is one of the most vocal and active in calling for Britain to leave the EU.
On the other hand, many British far-left parties, mostly Trotskyite, though including some newer Marxist-Leninist parties is that they began within the student movement, especially during the anti-Vietnam War protests and 1960s student radicalism, so their membership was or still is largely petty-bourgeois in nature.
Before its split with China, the RCPB-ML was called the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) CPE-ML and an infamous Malaysian or Singaporean – Aravindran Balakrishnan ("Comrade Bala" or "Ara Balakrishnan") was a leading member of the CPE-ML who was expelled for his disruptive activities and went on to found the Workers Institute of Marxism, Leninism, Mao Tse Tung Thought, based in Brixton.
This guy was under some weird illusion that China would send its People's Liberation Army to "liberate" Brixton..
This guy ran what can be regarded as a kind of secular religious cult based upon the "theology" of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tse Tung thought.
Hishamuddin Rais may be able to tell you something about this "Comrade Bala" guy, sine he fairly recently helped wean a Malaysian woman, Aisha Wahab, from his grip. Alternatively, there are more detailed accounts of his relationship with the CPE-ML on Marxists.org and his subsequent fall-out with and expulsion from them.
Below is Wikipedia's account of Aravindran Balakrishnan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workers%27_Institute_of_Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism%E2%80%93Mao_Zedong_Thought
Thus, when you find a far-left group which takes a strong stand against nuclear power, you may want to analyse its majority class composition and orientation and that may tell you something about them, and you may find that generally speaking, if they are mostly comprised of petty bourgeois, they will be more likely to be anti-nuclear power, more strongly into into identity politics and so forth.
Have you ever thought of writing an article such as – The Socialist Case of Nuclear Power, even though it may be premature within the current framework of capitalist society?
CORRECTION: "One reason why I am NOT outright anti-nuclear power…."
Our Environmentalists Should Not be Broken Mouthpieces
Wong Tack Disappoints Again on Lynas


Inter Striker Icardi: "Milan Is Only Black & Blue"
Mauro Icardi has taken to social media to celebrate the Nerazzurri's 3-2 Derby Della Madonnina victory over city rivals Milan on Sunday.
The Argentine played no part in the game and has not played since February 9, officially due to a knee injury, but still took the time to post.
"Milan is only black and blue," a photo he posted to his official Instagram read.


Filter Designer is an interactive Macintosh OS 10.7 (Lion) or greater application which allows the designer to enter electronic filter specifications and subsequently obtain the element values. Low-pass, high-pass, band-pass and band-stop lumped element filters in Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel configurations are supported. S-Parameter analysis of the filter is performed, and a schematic generated.
Bug fix, correcting unreadable table of normalized low pass prototype values..
This is a very good filter calculator for low pass, band pass, high pass, and bandstop filters using a Bessel, Butterworth, or Chebyshev response. It calculates for up to 10 elements and plots response and group delay as well as providing a schematic. For microwave implementation, it will provide a basic coupled line filter implementation and s parameters. About the only thing separating this *free* calculator from those that cost several thousand US dollars is that it doesn't provide some of the more difficult, but widely used filter responses such as elliptic or inverse Chebyshev. I have AWR at work and I still reach for a tool such as this (especially since it saves me time in powering up a virtual machine on my mac).
I'm not crazy about the colors, but hey… what do you want for free. Four out of five stars in my book.
THe user interface is quite confusing. Even when you have selected a bandpass configuration, it shows a "low pass" example. Seems like the program always shows the low-pass example, no matter what. Values calculated are sometimes unrealistic, and there is nowhere in the user interface where limits can be placed on those values to prevent, for example, femto-farad caps from showing up. This software seems pretty simplistic, and I realize that it's merely a simple app, but it really needs some help to be useful.
The current version does what is says and it does it well.


Q+A with 'Off the Page' co-author Jodi Picoult; writing YA, favourite scenes and 'Gone with the Wind'? – MP!
'Off the Page' is the fabulous follow-up to Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer's 'Between the Lines' and MP! got the chance to ask one of the authors all of our burning questions.
Tell us what 'Off The Page' is about in the length of a tweet. When the love of Delilah's life – Oliver – escapes the pages of the book in which he's written, everything should be Happily Ever After. But what if it's not?
This book obviously ties in with 'Between The Lines', but should we read it first, before trying 'Off The Page'? Are there any *dramatic pause* spoilers? Of course you should read Between the Lines first! It's a great read! But seriously, it puts 'Off The Page' into context and explains how Oliver and Delilah 'meet' each other and how inventive they have been in their efforts to actually, physically, meet. There's a lot of drama – and a cliff! And a great deal of will they/won't they actually find a way to get together. You can enjoy 'Off the Page' on its own merits — we'll catch you up on what you've missed — but it's a much richer read if you've been on the journey with Oliver and Delilah from the start.
What's the process of writing between you and your daughter, Samantha van Leer? Sammy and I literally sat together day after day and spoke the book out loud, line by line, until we were finished. She'd offer a sentence, and then I'd jump in, and so forth. Yes, it was hard sometimes, but yes it was also the most fantastic time – I mean, how many Moms can say they actually wrote a book with their daughter?! By the time we had to edit the novel, Sammy was back at college, and very busy. We edited via speakerphone from 11PM to midnight, the only time she was free.
What character do you wish you could pull out of a book? I'm pretty sure Mr. Darcy is still waiting for me.
And if you could jump inside a book – where would you go? I would get straight into 'Gone with the Wind'.. simply so I could wear the gowns and dance at a ball. But I think I'd be an abolitionist.
You've written so many wonderful adult books! What do you think is different about writing YA? Writing YA is fun! My adult books all have humour in them, sure, but the subject matter comes from stuff that I'm worrying about, or wondering about, so there are different questions that need to be asked in them and they tend to be darker. The YA books were a breath of fresh air.
What was your favourite scene to write in 'Off The Page'? By far, the scene where Seraphima goes to the mall. We laughed a LOT during that.
And finally, because we want to know where the magic happens, send us a snap of where you write!
Sweet! Muchos gracias to Jodi Picoult for answering all our questions.
You haven't read it yet? No worries. You can get your copy here.


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Q: Assigning Records VHDL Good time to everyone.
Resently I try to improve code in new project and found some interesting decoder.
It has 2 processes: in first all data formed and in second all bus triggered in out registers by control signal. But some wires need to be reset in some period of time (in second process).
So I deside to write this code for correct resettind some signals ([cm_regA/cm_regB] are records with different types of data):
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LOAD_DATA_PROCESS: process(clk_i)
begin
  if rising_edge(clk_i) then
    if (reset_reg) then
      cm_regB.reg_1 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_2 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_3 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_4 <= '0';
    else
      if (load_reg) then
        cm_regB <= cm_regA;
      else null;
      end if;
    end if;
  end if;
end process;
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But this construction Synthesized with lot of multiplexers betwen reg_5...reg_10, so next code give me good synthesized construction and great speed:
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LOAD_DATA_PROCESS: process(clk_i)
begin
  if rising_edge(clk_i) then
    if (reset_reg) then
      cm_regB.reg_1 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_2 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_3 <= '0';
      cm_regB.reg_4 <= '0';
    else
      if (load_reg) then
        cm_regB.reg_1 <= cm_regA.reg_1;
        cm_regB.reg_2 <= cm_regA.reg_2;
        cm_regB.reg_3 <= cm_regA.reg_3;
        cm_regB.reg_4 <= cm_regA.reg_4;
      else null;
      end if;
    end if;

    if (load_reg) then
      cm_regB.reg_5  <= cm_regA.reg_5;
      cm_regB.reg_6  <= cm_regA.reg_6;
      cm_regB.reg_7  <= cm_regA.reg_7;
      cm_regB.reg_8  <= cm_regA.reg_8;
      cm_regB.reg_9  <= cm_regA.reg_9;
      cm_regB.reg_10  <= cm_regA.reg_10;
    else null;
    end if;

  end if;
end process;
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So the questions next:

*

*How make this construction more compact (like first example)?

*Or how to make any changes in buses [cm_regA/cm_regB] visible for second example (in case changing first process and forgot add this changes to LOAD_DATA_PROCESS)?

P.S. Type of cm_regA and cm_regB are declarated in package. Here it is:
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type cm_t is record
    reg_1   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_2   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_3   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_4   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_5   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_6   : BOOLEAN;
    reg_7   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_8   : STD_LOGIC;
    reg_9   : STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(CONST_1-1 downto 0);
    reg_10  : STD_LOGIC_VECTOR(CONST_2-1 downto 0);
end record cm_t;
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A: In the case of your first code, you are indeed adding a dependency to reset for reg_5 to reg_10. This is because of the if-else statement. This is the effective code you write for these registers.
if not(reset_reg) and load_reg then
    cm_regB.reg_5 <= cm_regA.reg_5;
    [...]
    cm_regB.reg_10 <= cm_regA.reg_10;
end if;

So, you should separate the reset block from the other assignment. You can achieve that by using the fact that for signals only the last assignment in a process will be applied the next delta cycle. So something like this:
LOAD_DATA_PROCESS: process(clk_i)
begin
    if rising_edge(clk_i) then
        if load_reg then
            cm_regB <= cm_regA;
        end if;
        if reset_reg then
            cm_regB.reg_1 <= '0';
            cm_regB.reg_2 <= '0';
            cm_regB.reg_3 <= '0';
            cm_regB.reg_4 <= '0';
        end if;
    end if;
end process;

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Including Animals' Perspectives Can Expand How We Define Cities
Chris Hensley, Fresno.
23 November 2015 Place & Design, Review, Science & ToolsAwareness, Biophilia, Experiencing Nature, What is urban nature?, Wildlife People InteractionsChris Hensley
A review of Urban Animals: Crowding in Zoocities, by Tora Holmberg. 2015. ISBN: 978-1-138-83288-6. Routledge, New York. 164 pages.
Cities are largely viewed as cultural constructs, built by humans for humans. However, the reality is that animals, whether wild or domesticated, also participate in the creation and definition of cities as sociopolitical spaces. Animals are a part of everyday urban life. Whether you are a pet-owner, a birdwatcher, or simply a person who walks on sidewalks or in the park, interactions with animals are unavoidable. We often take these encounters for granted, rarely pausing to consider their ramifications.
In Urban Animals: Crowding in Zoocities, Dr. Tora Holmberg, a sociology professor and lecturer at Sweden's Uppsala University, asks the question: What are the multi-species experiences and politics of living in a city? The book explores a number of controversies regarding human/animal relations in urban areas, including the politics of space (who belongs where?), and the ability of animals to challenge established social norms.
Animals in the urban space have the ability to influence social, political and cultural processes.
Urban Animals begins with a chapter outlining the analytical framework employed throughout the book. Here, Holmberg claims that by expanding sociological theories beyond human perspectives to animal perspectives, human/animal crowding can be explored in ways that classical sociology is unable to achieve. Holmberg aims to remove humans from the center of analysis, placing the experiences of our nonhuman urban neighbors at the fore. She also emphasizes that studying crowding of any sort is, by definition, a spatial process. Urban areas consist of numerous types of spaces: domestic, public, commercial, industrial, etc. The spatial context of human/animal interactions has major effects on the manner in which the participants—human and animal—and the nature of the interaction, are perceived. Although wild animals certainly participate in these sorts of encounters, Urban Animals focuses on interactions between humans and their pets, mainly cats and dogs. How do our pets contribute to the delineation and definitions of our urban spaces? How do they influence perceptions of their human counterparts?
In order to answer these questions, Holmberg splits the book into three parts. Part I consists of two chapters, the first of which looks at how dogs have helped shape political and social processes centered on a public beach in Santa Cruz, California, and another about how urban cats in Sweden are defined and correspondingly treated. Swedish law is specific about how to deal with feral cats, but deciding which cats qualify as 'feral' is a different process entirely. Part II also contains two chapters, the first of which addresses animal hoarding through multiple lenses, such as behavioral scientific accounts, animal welfare data and U.S. reality TV shows. The next chapter takes a look at 'cat ladies,' investigating connections between species and gender through analysis of the portrayals of so-called 'crazy cat ladies.' Part III outlines the promises of crowding. A chapter on the opportunities presented by crowding is followed by a closing chapter, which consists of a conversation between Holmberg and Swedish artist, Katja Aglert.
Urban Animals does many things very well. The most important thing this book does is simple: it asks questions. Many of the themes explored here are relatively new in sociological research. The contribution of this book is its ability to form the foundation for future work in the field, more than any answers it provides to existing questions. By using a nonhuman-centered framework, it sheds light on issues from a very different angle than that from which we are used to approaching such subjects. As Holmberg notes early on in the book, cities are expanding worldwide, with more and more humans and animals living in cities. Using the animal-focused framework presented here will be crucial in understanding urban life of the present and future.
Another thing Holmberg communicates quite well through the book is that animals aren't just along for the ride. As shown by the case of Its Beach in Santa Cruz, California, dogs, though they may be 'mute' in that they don't explicitly speak English, do have 'agency,' a sociological term for the ability to exert influence. An iconic 'dog beach' in the local culture, Its Beach has recently come under fire from citizens who'd like to see the beach cleaned up and dogs excluded. In excerpts from the political arguments, it is clear that the rhetoric revolves around the dogs, with the pro-dog side pointing out not only the beach's benefit to the dogs, but also the dogs' benefit to the community. Here, dogs are actively participating in the sociocultural definition of a place.
Holmberg also demonstrates the role of space in human/animal interactions. A great example of how space influences definitions of animals is the case of urban cats in Sweden. Cats can be categorized (Holmberg uses the pun 'cat-egorized') according to their perceived place of belonging: house, farm, alley, etc. How a cat is placed in these cat-egories influences both how the cat is viewed in relation to feral animal laws, as well as how the people who associate with the animals are portrayed. For example, twenty cats living in an alley are viewed quite differently than twenty cats living in a living room. The alley cats can be considered technically feral, and therefore subject to municipal interference, e.g., population control measures. House cats are generally exempt from these injunctions, because they are perceived as closer to humans, somehow more human than feral cats through their close relationship with one or multiple humans.
There is a tipping point, though. Too many cats in a house can invert the relationship between master and pet once the care requirements of the cats exceed the capabilities of their human companion. At this point, the ownership dynamic between human and cat blurs. Holmberg relates a number of cases in which the cats have taken over the house, seemingly subjecting their human to answer to their every beck and call. In these cases, it is possible for animals to exert influence, i.e., to have agency, over the perception of their human counterparts. 'Crazy cat ladies' are formed in this way. In contrast, a citizen feeding alley cats is less likely to experience this sort of role inversion, maybe because alley cats are perceived as further from 'human,' so it is more difficult for them to 'rise above' their masters. Clearly, animals have the ability to influence social, political and cultural processes.
Despite all the strengths of Urban Animals, it is not a book for the faint of heart. Although it investigates familiar events and themes, the analytic content is quite dense. The text is rife with sociological theory, making the finer details of the analyses relatively inaccessible to a reader without experience in the area. Holmberg refers to the previous work of numerous sociologists, seemingly assuming that the reader is already somewhat familiar with them. This book is clearly aimed at practicing sociologists. To an outsider (such as the reviewer), this certainly clouds the points being made, but to a professional it would only serve to enhance and strengthen Holmberg's arguments.
The other trying aspect of Urban Animals is its structure. Because it asks questions instead of seeking answers, it is not organized into a strict framework of presenting the problem, finding methods to address it, and conclusions. Each chapter instead dwells on a certain case, and addresses slightly different issues. Some common threads run though all or many of the chapters, such as the politics of space, while others, such as the 'verminization' of cat ladies, appear in one, or maybe two, chapters. This makes following the main point of the book difficult, though not impossible, and Holmberg does well to reiterate the goals, conclusions and opportunities brought to light in the book's concluding chapters. Some readers may find this an obstacle, while others may appreciate the meandering nature of the narrative.
Despite the difficulties faced when reading Urban Animals, I can certainly say that it expanded my awareness of the perceptions of urban animals. As a biologist, I definitely felt slightly marginalized by the book's sociological language, but for anyone interested in the nature of human/animal interactions, this book is sure to be a valuable resource. Professional sociologists will find that it advances the field toward a nonhuman-centered framework, and brings nonhuman perspectives to light. Interested lay readers may have to battle through some technical terminology and theory, but the case studies examined are both enlightening and challenging. Ultimately, I believe that Urban Animals would be an instructive read for anyone with an academic interest in urban animals, and an eye-opening experience for those without much sociological knowledge.
Chris Hensley
Chris is a MS student at California State University, Fresno studying the socioecological dynamics of cities. He has also contributed in various fieldwork projects across the United States.
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Chepangs in crisis: CNP's eviction is latest in already long series of their trouble
Rabin Sharma July 29, 2020
A scene of Kusumkhola, Chitwan, after the eviction of locals by the Chitwan National Park, in July 2020.
Chepangs, one of Nepal's most marginalised groups, are living in the most vulnerable areas that have scored very low in the Human Development Index. According to the 2011 census, this indigenous Tibeto-Burman community inhabiting the hills of the Mahabharat mountain range of central Nepal has a population of 68,399. Around 90% of them live in four districts of central Nepal (Chitwan-40%, Makawanpur-29%, Dhading-20%, and Gorkha-5%). Most of them are unable to read and write. Though some Chepang kids get enrolled at schools, many of them drop out. They are missing out on access to very basic services such as health facilities, drinking water, electricity, and even adequate land.
According to a government report, around 95% of Chepangs are landless and depend on forests for food. Some of them are dependent on daily wage works. The government also launched the Chepang/Praja Development Programme, but their lifestyle and living standards have not changed much. Only 15% Chepangs are literate and almost 90% Chepangs are below in the poverty line.
As they have been suffering each day to survive, other historic crises such as the 2015 earthquake and border blockade and the recent Covid-19 lockdown have had an additional impact on them. Even annual floods and landslides hamper their smooth living. Now, a new crisis has emerged; some Chepang families have been evicted, without prior information, from their settlement in Madi-9, Chitwan, where two houses were burned and eight others were destroyed mobilising elephants of Chitwan National Park. They were accused of encroaching the park.
Current crisis
Madi municipality's mayor Thakur Prasad Dhakal says the Chepangs were living there since the mid-1990s without any coordination with local authorities. However, the park's act of evicting them without any alternative is reprehensible, according to him.
Around 160 Chepang households resided in small huts in that area without basic facilities such as electricity, drinking water, roads, hospital, and schools. After the 2017 floods, most of the families were migrated to different places, but still, 15 households were living there. Out of 15, 10 houses were fully destroyed, and the remaining five are badly damaged.
Now, the families have not only lost their livelihood opportunities, but their fundamental right has also been violated. They have been deprived of shelter at the peak of the monsoon. Certainly, they will have to live at the risk of floods and landslides now.
Meanwhile, Environment Minister Shakti Basnet said the media reporting of the incident was not accurate. He claimed not the houses, but cattle sheds were destroyed. However, the victimised Chepangs share a different reality claiming they used to stay in the sheds as they were their houses. They have also complained of losing money and significant official documents during the eviction.
After this unforeseen event, the Chepang families have been taking shelter in a nearby school hostel. They still fear if other members of their community living around the Chitwan National Park could also suffer the same fate. A similar incident was reported a month ago with Tharus living on the edge of Bardiya National Park.
This type of violence can lead to physiological and mental problems as most of them are surviving with the global Covid-19 pandemic in this rainy season when a house is critical to keep oneself safe. Building new houses without having any support from the local government is tough for them, and they are always overlooked by the central government.
Meanwhile, many social activists are raising voice for the victimised families, demanding immediate compensation for the damaged houses. As the Chepang families are dependent on daily wage works and this is the session of planting paddy, in which they make money by engaging in cultivation. One of the victims has said, "I earned Rs 10,000 in a month; the same money was burnt along with the house." He also lost his citizenship and other documents.
Past crises
Chepangs have been significantly impacted by several crises in the past few years such as the April 2015 earthquake, annual floods and landslides, and the current Covid-19 pandemic.
The Chepangs have been struggling with very basic services in their daily life. Now, in addition, the Covid-19 put them at a higher risk. According to the WHO, to avoid the virus spread, we have to wash our hands regularly and eat healthy food. But, they are suffering the lack of basic facilities such as healthcare, drinking water. The government could have done something to help them, but they have not received adequate support yet. Nor has there been sufficient media coverage of the issues.
Amid the lockdown imposed to control the Covid-19 outbreak, those working in the construction sector, furniture industry, hotels and restaurants have lost their job. The lockdown has recently ended, but due to the lack of awareness on how to protect oneself from Covid-19, they are facing another round of crisis. Locals are unaware of the need for physical distancing and personal hygiene, and they roam around as they used to do during normal times. Moreover, Chepangs, especially children, aged, and women, are in bad health due to lack of regular care. The children often suffer from malnutrition, pneumonia, diarrhoea, and typhoid, etc. Similarly, dysmenorrhea and uterine bleeding are very common in women of Chepang communities due to child marriage, low diet, and unhygienic sanitation.
The Chepangs were highly affected by the April 2015 earthquake. More than 80% of their houses were damaged. A few of them were relocated, but they had to struggle a lot for food. They could not rebuild their houses due to the lack of proper land and insufficient money. According to a National Reconstruction Authority report, most of the quake-hit Chepangs are yet to rebuild their houses.
Because most of the Chepangs are living in highly vulnerable areas, they have to frequently face regular natural disasters. Lack of land and income opportunities have forced them to settled either on riverbanks or hilly slopes, areas prone to floods and landslides, or nearby forests, prone to attacks from wild animals. In Chitwan and Makawanpur districts most of the Chepangs are living in flood- and landslide-prone areas. They have faced such crises repeatedly.
Many Chepangs grow crops like millet and maize in the rugged land around the forests and riverbanks, but the produce hardly lasts for three months a year. Recently, some Chepangs living in the Kararkhola area of Makawanpur told researchers from the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation (NWCF) that landslides and floods would erode their land every monsoon. One of them said, "I am afraid floods and landslides will sweep away us one day. Even if we want to leave these multi-hazard-prone villages, we do not know where to go." The organisation has run a new project in 2018 to help them enhance resilience against such disasters.
Now, it is high time these people were protected. Any further attempt to force them out of their homes must be stopped. The people who have been forcibly evicted must be given effective remedy including adequate alternative housing and compensation right now. For the future, the problems they are facing since long have to be resolved by providing them adequate land, housing, basic health, education, electricity, drinking water facilities from the government.
Pains of Chepang were not new. Similar incidents were reported in the past also, but they were left unsolved. Chepangs are compelled to live in high-risk zones even today. If the national park authority wants to remove them, it also has to give them safer and peaceful options.
They are an indigenous community, which should have been protected as per international human rights documents. Nepal's law, however, failed to protect them. Also, the ineffective implementation of relevant provisions has put Chepang families into several crises. It has to stop.
Sharma graduated in Crisis, Emergency, and Disaster Management from Tribhuvan University. He works as a researcher at the Nepal Water Conservation Foundation (NWCF), Nepal.
Rabin Sharma
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Une constellation est un « groupe d'étoiles voisines en apparence depuis la Terre sur la sphère céleste, présentant une figure conventionnelle déterminée, à laquelle on a donné un nom particulier » ; c'est aussi une « région du ciel conventionnellement délimitée qui inclut ce groupe d'étoiles ».

De nombreuses cultures ont imaginé des formes en reliant certaines étoiles par des lignes imaginaires. Ils les ont associées à des mythes.
Ces constellations ont aussi servi aux repérages céleste et terrestre, ainsi qu'à l'orientation des marins.

Une constellation est généralement plus complexe qu'un astérisme qui peut représenter une partie seulement d'une constellation ou appartenir à plusieurs constellations.

Les étoiles des constellations nous paraissent groupées dans le ciel nocturne mais, en réalité, elles sont généralement très éloignées les unes des autres ; on peut s'en persuader en effectuant ce voyage imaginaire vers la constellation d'Orion (dans cette animation les distances ont été respectées).

Sauf mention contraire, ici, le terme de constellation se réfère aux constellations modernes. Actuellement, l'Union astronomique internationale (UAI) divise le ciel en 88 constellations avec des limites précises, afin que tout point du ciel appartienne à une constellation et à une seule. Ces 88 constellations sont réparties en deux groupes, 44 pour chaque hémisphère terrestre, nord (boréales) et sud (australes). Les constellations boréales sont les plus anciennes et correspondent aux civilisations mésopotamiennes et méditerranéennes. Elles nous ont été transmises par les Grecs puis les Romains. Les constellations australes n'ont été nommées par les astronomes occidentaux qu'à partir du .

Constellations occidentales et modernes

Historique

Les plus anciennes désignations de constellations de l'hémisphère Nord, conservées dans les langues ancienne et/ou vivantes, remontent aux cultures de chasseurs-pêcheurs paléolithiques et sont des noms d'animaux (Anton Scherer sur les désignations indo-européennes) ; Une strate peut être attribuée à des cultures néolithiques. Par exemple Ursa est l'"Ourse", dite plus tard Septentrion "(attelage de) Sept-boeufs". C'est une donnée de la linguistique et de la paléoastronomie. Leur haute ancienneté est établie aussi par des correspondances entre groupes humains séparées par des millénaires : même conception d'une "ourse" sur l'axe polaire commune aux Amérindiens septentrionaux et aux vieux-Européens, alors que plusieurs constellations se succèdent à cet emplacement, sur plusieurs millénaires.

L'explication du réseau, sélectif, des constellations anciennes par un système de repères maritimes a été proposée par Sir Isaac Newton (Ancient Kingdoms), idée suivie et précisée par Kai-Helge Wirth (Ursprung der Sternbilder, 2000).

Les premières mentions écrites d'étoiles nommées (désignations) sont mises en évidence dans un lexique bilingue sumérien/éblaïte daté de 2450 avant notre ère. Mais à ce moment, les étoiles sont identifiées individuellement. Chaque étoile est identifiée à un dieu. En effet, dans la cosmogonie mésopotamienne, dans l'épopée de la création, Marduk, le roi des dieux suscita pour les dieux, sur la voûte céleste, des astres à leur image. Et un texte d'Assur d'époque sargonide nous apprend par ailleurs que les dieux évoluent dans les « Cieux intermédiaire et supérieur » tandis que les corps célestes appartiennent au « Ciel inférieur ».

Une seconde étape est franchie lorsqu'à l'époque kassite, soit les , des kudurru-s, qui sont des stèles de donation foncière, invoquent toute une liste de divinités, figurés par des symboles astraux et dont les noms sont dûment gravés dans la pierre, ce qui permet de les identifier sans discussion possible.

Ainsi l'image du Capricorne et du Scorpion peuvent être reconnus sur une stèle trouvée à Suse et conservée au Musée du Louvre, datée du  à Babylone, la stèle de Meli-Shipa.

En Grèce, l'une des plus anciennes représentations se trouve sur un vase grec datant de 625 avant notre ère.

Près de la moitié des constellations modernes proviennent des astronomes grecs.
Dès le  avant notre ère, Homère mentionne la constellation d'Orion dans l'Odyssée.

Au  av. JC, Aratos de Soles fixa l'essentiel des noms de constellations. Ils seront repris par Ptolémée.

: les constellations d'Ovide
 Ovide, Fastes III, 407-414 : Ampélos, amant de Dionysos qui, après un accident tragique, le transforme en constellation.
 Ovide, (volume 7) : la Vigne, placée sur une des ailes de la Vierge. Elle se lève le 3 des nones, le même jour que se couche le Bouvier.

: les constellations de Claude Ptolémée

Au , Claude Ptolémée, dans son Almageste, groupe  en quarante-huit constellations. Cette œuvre sera la base de travail des astronomes occidentaux jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Âge. Cependant, cette liste ne comprend que les étoiles visibles d'Alexandrie où Ptolémée faisait ses observations.

En plus des douze constellations du Zodiaque (le Bélier, le Taureau, les Gémeaux, le Cancer, le Lion, la Vierge, la Balance, le Scorpion, le Sagittaire, le Capricorne, le Verseau et les Poissons), Ptolémée en inventorie trente-six :

Les quarante-huit constellations inscrites par Ptolémée dans son Almageste seront utilisées pendant plus de  en Occident.

La constellation Antinoüs, inventée sous le règne de l'empereur romain Hadrien à partir d'une partie de la constellation de l'Aigle (Ptolémée), sera supprimée par l'UAI en 1930.

Mis à part l'immense Navire Argo, découpé plus tard en trois puis quatre constellations, les constellations de Ptolémée seront toutes adoptées sans modification par l'UAI, qui en définira cependant les contours précis. En effet, les délimitations des constellations n'ont pas été fixées à l'époque antique ; seule l'appartenance des étoiles brillantes l'ont été. Par la suite, Johann Bayer puis John Flamsteed recensèrent les étoiles moins brillantes dont ils décidèrent de la constellation d'appartenance (voir Désignation de Bayer et Désignation de Flamsteed). Les délimitations modernes des constellations ont été élaborées afin de préserver les appartenances de l'ensemble des étoiles catalogués par Bayer puis Flamsteed.

LAlmageste de Ptolémée passa dans les mains des astronomes arabes qui complétèrent ses observations, ajoutant quelques constellations qui ne sont plus utilisées actuellement, rallongeant certaines (comme l'Éridan) afin de mentionner des étoiles visibles depuis les latitudes plus australes que celle d'Alexandrie.

En Europe, l'''Almageste s'était perdu. Ce n'est qu'à la fin du Moyen Âge que les astronomes, à partir de traductions arabes du latin, purent l'étudier, en même temps qu'un certain nombre d'observations des astronomes arabes.

  : Hémisphère sud

À partir du , lorsque les Européens partent explorer les mers de l'hémisphère sud, ils découvrent de nouvelles étoiles qui n'étaient mentionnées dans aucune constellation connue.

En 1603, l'astronome allemand Johann Bayer publie lUranometria, le premier atlas astronomique couvrant toute la sphère céleste. Il contient, outre les constellations de Ptolémée, douze nouvelles constellations visibles dans l'hémisphère sud. Ces constellations ont vraisemblablement été cartographiées par les navigateurs hollandais Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser et Frederick de Houtman, qui ont fait bénéficier Bayer de leurs découvertes :
 le Caméléon ;
 la Colombe ;
 la Dorade (espadon) ;
 la Grue ;
 l'Hydre mâle ;
 l'Indien ;
 l'Oiseau de paradis ;
 le Paon ;
 le Phénix ;
 le Poisson volant ;
 le Toucan ;
 le Triangle austral.

Ces nouvelles constellations, aux noms exotiques, arrivèrent les premières sur un planisphère céleste encore vierge et connurent un tel succès qu'elles sont toujours utilisées de nos jours.

Elles témoignent également d'un changement de perception dans ce qu'est une constellation. Les Grecs anciens divisaient le ciel en deux parties : les constellations et les espaces entre celles-ci qui étaient censés n'appartenir à aucune. Johann Bayer, en produisant une carte du ciel pour chaque constellation, commence à rattacher tout point du ciel à une constellation donnée.

À partir de la publication de l'''Uranometria, les astronomes européens vont tenter d'imposer leurs créations, sans toutefois rencontrer le même succès que Bayer.

En 1624, l'astronome allemand Jakob Bartsch définit cinq nouvelles constellations. Les constellations de la Licorne, de la Girafe et de la Croix du Sud nous sont restées; celles du Tigre et du Jourdain ne seront pas retenues.

Vers la même époque, Tycho Brahe élève au rang de constellation l'astérisme de la Chevelure de Bérénice.

En 1627, Julius Schiller publie le Coelum Stellatum Christianum, un atlas stellaire où les constellations sont renommées d'après des personnages ou des événements bibliques. Cette tentative de « christianiser » le ciel restera vaine.

En 1643, Anton de Rheita imagine une Figure de Jésus entre le Lion et l'Hydre, une Mouche près du Bélier, rebaptisée Fleur de lys sous . Les courtisans se prennent au jeu : en France, Augustin Royer utilise un groupe d'étoiles qu'il nomme le Sceptre entre Andromède, Céphé et Pégase. En Prusse, l'astronome royal Gottfried Kirch crée un second Sceptre sous l'Éridan afin de lui donner la réplique. Ces revendications de prestige ne s'imposent pas dans la communauté des astronomes.

Vers 1690, Johannes Hevelius, bourgmestre de Dantzig, propose plusieurs constellations :
 les Chiens de chasse ;
 l'Écu de Sobieski ;
 le Lézard (en lieu et place du Sceptre d'Augustin Royer) ;
 le Lynx (car ses étoiles sont, pour paraphraser Hevelius, si faibles qu'il faut des yeux de lynx pour les voir) ;
 le Petit Lion ;
 le Petit Renard (originellement le Renard à l'oie, décrit comme un renard qui s'enfuit en emportant une oie dans sa gueule) ;
 le Sextant.

Ces dénominations, non rattachées à un quelconque souverain, modestes, auront finalement plus de succès que toutes les autres et subsisteront jusqu'à notre époque.

Dans son ouvrage Coelum australe stelliferum (1763), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille référence plusieurs nouvelles constellations afin de compléter les espaces de ciel encore vierges de toute dénomination :
 la Boussole ;
 le Burin ;
 le Compas ;
 le Fourneau ;
 l'Horloge ;
 la Machine pneumatique ;
 le Microscope ;
 la Mouche ;
 l'Octant ;
 le Peintre (originellement le Chevalet du peintre) ;
 la Règle ;
 le Réticule ;
 le Sculpteur ;
 la Table (originellement la Montagne de la Table, depuis laquelle il avait effectué ses observations) ;
 le Télescope.

Les noms choisis reflètent les idées de l'époque, plus portées vers la science et les techniques que vers l'aventure et la mythologie. En outre, La Caille démantèle le Navire Argo en trois constellations plus petites afin de le manier plus facilement. À la même époque (fin ), d'autres constellations ont eu l'honneur des cartes mais n'ont pas été retenues : ainsi l'Aérostat de Lalande ou le Quadrant qui, bien qu'oublié, a donné son nom à l'essaim d'étoiles filantes des Quadrantides. Ce sont ainsi quarante-quatre constellations éphémères qui ont brièvement figuré sur les cartes.

: Constellations de l'UAI

Dans les années 1920, l'Union astronomique internationale décide de mettre de l'ordre dans les constellations et d'en définir rigoureusement les limites. L'atlas officiel des constellations, défini en 1930 par Eugène Delporte, divise le ciel suivant le système de coordonnées équatoriales, divisant le ciel suivant des lignes d'ascension droite et de déclinaison. Déterminées à l'aide des coordonnées de l'époque B1875.0, les limites des constellations ne sont plus parfaitement horizontales et verticales sur une carte du ciel moderne en raison de la précession des équinoxes (cf. #Mouvement et position).

Le tracé est fait de manière à respecter les appartenances des différentes étoiles brillantes à leur constellation traditionnelle. Dans la mesure du possible, le rattachement d'étoiles ou d'objets célestes plus faibles, qui avaient été cités dans la littérature scientifique, est également respecté. De ce fait, ces limites sont parfois très tortueuses, poussées d'un côté ou de l'autre pour inclure telle étoile et laisser telle autre dans la constellation voisine.

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Constellations chinoises

À l'instar des astronomes grecs, les astronomes chinois ont regroupé certaines étoiles en constellations, d'abord sur la zone de l'écliptique, de manière analogue au Zodiaque occidental, puis sur l'ensemble du ciel. Les vingt-huit constellations (ou astérismes) de la zone écliptique sont appelées maisons lunaires. Elles sont divisées en quatre zones de sept astérismes, correspondant aux quatre animaux de la symbolique chinoise (Dragon azur à l'est, Oiseau vermillon au sud, Tortue noire au nord et Tigre blanc à l'ouest). Contrairement au zodiaque, ces astérismes sont de taille extrêmement variable ; leur origine est à l'heure actuelle inconnue.

Par la suite, l'ensemble de la sphère céleste visible depuis le monde chinois (soit tout ce qui se trouve à une déclinaison supérieure à -55 degrés environ) a été nanti d'astérismes. Contrairement à la méthode occidentale qui a peuplé le ciel de personnages et créatures mythiques, les chinois ont figuré le ciel à l'image de leur société, avec divers palais (Ziwei, Taiwei) habités de différentes classes de la cour et de la société chinoise. Certains détails pittoresques y sont même inclus tels l'astérisme Ce, représentant des latrines et l'astérisme Tianshi, représentant les excréments destinés à être utilisés pour l'agriculture.

L'origine des maisons lunaires est très ancienne. Leur antériorité manifeste sur le reste du ciel chinois est vraisemblablement due à leur nécessité pour établir un calendrier, la place du Soleil dans ces astérismes étant un moyen de repérer le cycle des saisons. Les autres astérismes ont semble-t-il été bâtis vers la fin du  avant notre ère. Trois traités astronomiques les décrivent : le Shi Shi, le Gan Shi et le Wuxian Shi, qui ont semble-t-il été écrits dans cet ordre. Les astérismes du Shi Shi comprennent la quasi-totalité des astres les plus brillants, contrairement à ceux des autres traités qui ont été introduits peu après pour compléter les précédents et peupler les zones encore vides d'astérismes. Le Wuxian Shi fait régulièrement référence au Gan Shi alors que le contraire n'est pas vrai, ce qui assure l'antériorité de ce dernier.

La composition exacte de ces astérismes n'est pas établie avec certitude. En général, seule la position de l'une des étoiles des astérismes, appelée étoile référente, est donnée dans les traités astronomiques, et de façon relativement imprécise parfois. Le reste de l'astérisme est déduit de nos jours à l'aide des cartes du ciel en provenance du monde chinois, cartes dont la précision est approximative et qui fait rarement la distinction entre les différentes magnitudes apparentes des étoiles les composant.

Ce sont en tout environ deux-cent-quatre-vingts astérismes qui peuplent le ciel chinois, un nombre notablement plus grand que celui des constellations occidentales. Certains astérismes sont très vastes, notamment ceux représentant les murs d'enceinte des différents palais (tels Tianshi). D'autres sont bien plus petits, se restreignant parfois à une seule étoile (Dajiao, par exemple, correspondant à α Bootis/Arcturus, ou Tianguan, correspondant à ζ Tauri). Les astérismes à une seule étoile mis à part, les étoiles ne sont pas individuellement nommées à l'exception de celles de certains très grands astérismes, comme celles de Tianshi dont les noms correspondent aux différences provinces de l'Empire chinois de l'époque (dynastie Han) où ces astérismes ont été créés.

Mouvement et position

La rotation terrestre entraîne un mouvement des constellations autour des pôles nord et sud célestes, alignés avec l'axe de rotation terrestre. Dans l'hémisphère nord, le pôle coïncide avec la position de l'étoile polaire; dans l'hémisphère sud, avec σ Octantis. C'est pourquoi sur les cartes célestes de l'hémisphère nord telles la carte du ciel mobile, l'étoile polaire figure au centre.

Selon la latitude de l'observateur, l'heure du jour et la période de l'année, les constellations se lèvent à l'horizon Est et se couchent à l'horizon Ouest, tout comme le soleil, la lune et les planètes. Les constellations qui ne passent jamais sous l'horizon sont appelées circumpolaires. Plus l'observateur est situé près des pôles, plus il a accès aux constellations circumpolaires.

Ainsi, pour la plupart des observateurs de l'hémisphère nord, des constellations telles que la Petite et la Grande Ourse, Cassiopée, Céphée et le Dragon sont circumpolaires. À l'inverse, d'autres constellations, cachées le jour par le soleil et couchées la nuit, ne sont visibles qu'en certaines saisons, comme Orion, visible en hiver, la Lyre, visible en été, le Lion, au printemps, ou encore Andromède, visible en automne.

Vues de la Terre, les constellations changent peu à peu de position avec le temps en raison de la précession des équinoxes.

Zodiaque

Les constellations du Zodiaque se situent dans la bande de ciel, nommée écliptique, contenant les orbites du soleil et des planètes. Elles sont généralement les plus anciennes, de par leur importance pour le repérage et l'observation du mouvement de plusieurs astres.

Les douze constellations du zodiaque sont : le Bélier, le Taureau, les Gémeaux, le Cancer, le Lion, la Vierge, la Balance, le Scorpion, le Sagittaire, le Capricorne, le Verseau, et les Poissons qui achèvent le cycle. Certains y ajoutent le Serpentaire (Ophiuchus) entre le Scorpion et le Sagittaire et le considèrent comme le treizième signe du zodiaque. Astronomiquement, il est exact qu'une petite partie du Serpentaire se glisse entre le Scorpion et le Sagittaire.

Annexes

Sources antiques
 Claude Ptolémée, Almageste.

Bibliographie
 L'astronomie dans les  et  des Fastes d'Ovide

Articles connexes
 Astérisme chinois
 Astronomie d'observation
 Catastérisation
 Constellations disparues
 Désignations stellaires
 Liste des constellations
 Liste des constellations par date de création
 Liste des étoiles par constellations avec traduction en français et brillance
 Repérage des constellations

Liens externes
 Constellations disparues
 Constellations Automne, Hiver, Printemps, Eté, sur Astronoo
 Storia della cartografia celeste
 Stellarium est un excellent logiciel (gratuit) qui, après quelques réglages, permet de visualiser la totalité des constellations officielles (avec les objets célestes). On peut aussi y faire apparaître plusieurs lignes dont celle de l'écliptique (zodiaque).

Notes et références

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Rare giant manta born at Japan aquarium
By MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press WriterSun Jun 17, 7:35 AM ET
What is believed to be the first giant manta ray born in captivity has arrived at a southern Japanese aquarium, the facility said Sunday.
The baby manta, a female, was born late Saturday in a huge fish tank at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium, more than a year after its parents mated, the aquarium said in a statement posted Sunday on its Web site.
In a video capturing the birth, the baby manta, rolled up like a tube, came sliding out of the mother manta, then quickly spread its fins and began swimming around.
The scene, recorded by the aquarium, was broadcast by national broadcaster NHK on Sunday.
The event marks the first birth of a manta in captivity, according to the aquarium, which started raising manta rays in 1988.
Noriyasu Suzuki, an official at the Izu-Mito Sea Paradise commercial aqua zoo in western Japan, said he thought the birth in captivity could be a world first.
"I've never heard of any other case before," he said. "Aquariums that raise manta rays are rare to begin with ... because they get so big."
According to the aquarium, the newborn manta was more than six feet wide.
The mother manta, which was brought to the aquarium in 1998 after hitting a fishnet off the southern island of Okinawa, about 1,000 miles southwest of Tokyo, mated with its partner on June 8, 2006, and was pregnant with the baby for 374 days, according to the statement.
Aquarium official Minoru Toda said little has been known about the life of manta rays, and the record of pregnancy and the birth would provide valuable scientific data to the studies of the species.
"We unfolded some of the mysteries about the life of manta rays, including the length of their pregnancy," Toda said. "Now we have to make sure the baby grows in good health."
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Boston College defensive coordinator Don Brown is headed to Ann Arbor, Mich. to fill the same position for the University of Michigan, Sports Illustrated's Thayer Evans reported Sunday afternoon. BC Athletics has not yet confirmed.
Brown has been the defensive coordinator throughout head coach Steve Addazio's tenure in Chestnut Hill, and his defenses have improved every year. In 2013, the Eagles finished 97th in yards per game (427) and 78th in points allowed per game (28.9). In 2014, BC improved to 12th (313) and 18th (20.5), respectively. This year put Brown's defense on the map, as BC finished first (254) and fourth (15.3) in those two categories. Many of the Eagles' defensive standouts can be credited with joining the program because of Brown's recruitment. The 254 yards per game was 13 better than second-place University of Wisconsin.
Brown will replace D.J. Durkin, who left Jim Harbaugh's Wolverines after only one season to take the reins at the University of Maryland, College Park. He will join a defense that ranked 11th in points per game (17.2) and fourth in yards per game (281). That defense looked dominant at times, shutting down opponents for 14 points in a five-game stretch in the middle of the season, including two shutouts against Northwestern University and Brigham Young University. No. 14 Michigan, in Harbaugh's first season as head coach, finished 9-3 in the regular season and will take on the University of Florida in the Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1, 2016.
Despite the Eagles' shortcomings in the win department after a 3-9 campaign, many had assumed that Brown, a Spencer, Mass. native, would not leave the program. The 60-year-old coordinator has strong family ties to the New England area and has only spent two seasons of his 34-year career outside of the area, at Maryland. But, Brown has never spent more than five years on a job in his entire career—his longest stretch was a five-year stint as Yale University's defensive coordinator from 1987 to 1992. He is the second coordinator to leave the program this season. Special teams coordinator Coleman Hutzler left the program last week to rejoin former boss Will Muschamp, who is now the head coach at the University of South Carolina.


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Earthly Powers:
Earthly Powers was published 40 years ago. It won the Best Foreign Novel of the Year award in France, and was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize for Fiction, alongside Alice Munro, Anita Desai and William Golding. To celebrate #EarthlyPowers40, we're revisiting one of Anthony Burgess's most acclaimed novels. Expect highlights from our archive, a series of podcasts and new articles on Earthly Powers.
'It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.'
What is Earthly Powers about?
As told by the central character himself, a distinguished British writer in his eighties, Earthly Powers is the life story of Kenneth Marchal Toomey — from the First World War to his later years of sun-drenched idleness in Malta.
A gay man who is unable to reconcile his nature with the teachings of the Catholic Church, Toomey opts as a young man for a life of loneliness and exile — first in the Paris of James Joyce and Ezra Pound and later in Hollywood at the height of its glamour and corruption.
His travels, his many assignments and, indeed, the affections of his heart, bring him face to face with the most savage manifestations of evil in the modern world: the murder of a beloved friend in Malaya; the brutalities of Mussolini's fascists; a Nazi death camp; mass suicide in the name of love in California.
Breathing the stench of Buchenwald, Toomey sees finally that evil comes from man himself, it is inborn; for his brother-in-law Carlo, the saintly but sybaritic priest, it is a force at large in the world that must be challenged constantly in all its guises.
How did Anthony Burgess approach writing Earthly Powers?
Earthly Powers comes from a period when Burgess was thinking about writing his autobiography.
During the 1970s, he began to write about his early life in Manchester and his experiences as an education officer in Malaya. Fragments of his autobiography were written in the mid-1970s (it was published in 1987 as Little Wilson and Big God), and he began to write novels such as The Pianoplayers (published in 1986) and Beard's Roman Women (1976), which deal with the events of his own life.
In the early stages of writing Earthly Powers, he was thinking about his early years as a Lancashire Catholic, his family's relationship with the Church and the evolution of his own Catholic faith. Although Burgess did not identify himself as a practising Catholic after 1933, he refused to describe himself as an atheist, stating: 'I have never been able to doubt the existence of God … But whether really this affects the way I live, I don't know.'
His reluctance to describe himself as an unbeliever may be connected to the more devoutly Catholic branch of his family. Burgess remained on friendly terms with his cousin, George Patrick Dwyer, the Catholic Bishop of Leeds and later the Archbishop of Birmingham. George Patrick was part of the inspiration for Carlo Campanati, Kenneth Toomey's brother-in-law in the novel.
Other fragments of autobiography which feature in Earthly Powers include Toomey's expedition to the Federated Malay States, his employment as a Hollywood screenwriter, and his deep interest in music. Lyrics from Burgess's musical Blooms of Dublin appear in the novel: this adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses was completed in 1975 and broadcast in 1982 on RTÉ and BBC radio.
Which writers influenced Earthly Powers?
The genesis of the novel came not only from Burgess's own life, but also from his wide reading, and from his work as a literary critic for the Observer and other newspapers.
In the second volume of his autobiography, You've Had Your Time (1990), Burgess claims that he was wrote Earthly Powers as a technical exercise which would demonstrate what the novel form could do, as Ford Madox Ford had done in The Good Soldier.
The novel's narrator, Kenneth Toomey, bears many resemblances to the writer W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), and Toomey's adventures in Europe, Hong Kong and colonial Malaya reflect Maugham's life and writing. Speaking about the connection between Toomey and Maugham, Burgess said: 'I had to start with a real person.' He was fascinated by Maugham, a popular novelist who, rising to fame after the Oscar Wilde trial, lived as a gay man but never wrote directly about his sexuality. Burgess was drawn to the idea of the writer as a sexual dissident whose life-story might be used to raise questions about mainstream, hetero-normative culture.
Other important influences are visible in the book. James Joyce, who did more than any writer to determine Burgess's idea of what the literary novel could be, appears as one of the characters. His novel Ulysses is adapted by Toomey as a stage musical.
In a letter to his German translator, Burgess wrote that Earthly Powers was 'an attempt to show that I could write a novel as long as one of those nineteenth-century blockbusters, although Dickens and Tolstoy were long because they wrote for serial publication — no longer, alas, an available outlet for the novelist.' He added that the novel 'is also meant to be funny.'
How much did Burgess rely on historical research for the novel?
Despite the novel's beginnings in Burgess's autobiography, his relationship with other writers, and the history of the twentieth century, he is quick to remind readers that this is a fiction which takes liberties and creates its own autonomous world. 'Oh, there are a lot of lies in it,' he said, 'a lot of things which could not have happened — my publishers were very worried that I might be making mistakes. George Russell, for instance, could never have seduced my author in that Dublin hotel. But this book is about memory. We rely on memory, but we don't know how reliable it is.'
The history of the twentieth century plays a major part in the novel, from two world wars and the decline of the British Empire to the complexities of Hollywood and the Jonestown massacre.
Although historical events anchor Toomey's story in the real world, Burgess did not intend his fictional story to be entrenched in historical research. He said in an interview: 'When Nothing Like the Sun came out, one reviewer said, "Learning drips from every sentence, like sweat from the nose." I thought: I'll never do that again. Let's bamboozle the reader rather than feed him history.'
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Q: iPhone View Switching I have what I think is a simple problem.
I have three views in my app, View1, View2, View3.
I know how to go from View1 to View2, and from View2 to View3, but how do I go from View3 back to View1?
I am using the following method in the View1ViewController.m to go from View1 to View2:
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And the same thing to go from View2 to View3.
I am including the View2 view controller in the View1 XIB file, and am including the View3 view controller in the View2 XIB file.
I've found that if I use [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated:YES] from View3 I can only go back to View2, whereas I need to go all the way back to View1.
Any help/direction would be greatly appreciated.
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A: Don't think of calling -presentModalViewController: as a way of going from one view controller to another; think of it as a way of, well, presenting a view controller modally. If you want to implement navigation, you should take a look at UINavigationController.

A: From your description, it sounds like you're using modal views incorrectly. They are not a way to transition between views, they are a way to briefly show some dialog that will be dismissed soon after (like selecting a date or something). Are you sure that both your views are actually modal views, and not completely distinct?

A: You might consider using a navigation controller to switch between views.  Adding views with the pushViewController method.  You could then use the (NSArray *)popToRootViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated method in the UIViewController class.  There is also popToViewController:animated: that will allow you to pop to a specific viewController.
If you are set on using modal views you can implement a protocol in view3 that view2 implements.  When you are ready to pop to view1 from view3 you can call [self dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: YES]; then use your protocol to notify view2 that it should also dismiss its modal view.
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Eliteserien round 5
Posted on April 22, 2017 May 31, 2017 by ValueWins.com
Round 5 of the Norwegian 'Eliteserien' is on the steps and we will have a look at the match ups. It is a weekend with many tricky matches. Many teams have yet to find the form they were expected to find, while others are ahead of any expectations.
Flamur Kastrati has been involved in most of Sandefjords goals this season
18.00 – Strømsgodset – Sandefjord
First up is Strømsgodset – Sandefjord. Promoted as a local derby this is an important match for the home team. They have not got the start to the season as they hoped, and only managed to get a draw at home to Aalesund and a draw against Sogndal. Being a team that chases medals, this got to get better for SIF. Sandefjord are more than happy to have 6 points after 4 rounds. In fact, they might even deserve more, as they barely lost in overtime to LSK and Rosenborg were helped by a stupid red card. At face value this match should be done and dusted for Strømsgodset, but considering how they have looked on the pitch lately, this one is far from easy to predict. But we still think Drammens pride will end up with the win here, as they are usually strong side to face at 'Marienlyst'
18.00: Rosenborg – Aalesund
Rosenborg is been unbeaten so far, but has not impressed anyone
Rosenborg are, as expected at the top of the league. But if you look closer at their performance so far, it is a pure miracle they have 12 out of 12 points so far. Very lucky to get away with a win against Viking last weekend, and has not frightened anyone with their play yet. But it is always a good sign when you win without impressing. Aalesund has struggled with their defence, and get their biggest challenge so far. Looked much better against Strømsgodset two weeks ago, and snatched the win at home against LSK. Aafk will be happy they have managed to turn the bad trend around, but we think RBK will win at home, as usual.
18.00: Vålerenga – Songdal
Ronny Deila came to Vålerenga as a saviour but has so far produced little. There are clear signs that their defence needs a lot of work, and the potential of their attacking force has yet to be utilized. Tollås Nation is back this weekend, giving some strength back to the back four. Sogndal is not the best away team either, and has not played to the same level as Eirik Bakkes boys managed last season. Sogndal is quite a lot worse away from home, and usually plays at artificial turf at home, which could make a little difference in this match as well. Another tricky game here, and VIF have the most pressure to keep up with the top 5-6 teams. We do not dare to predict a winner, but we might see quite a lot of goals in this one!
18.00: Viking – Odd
Samuel Adegbenro is back in action, and will be very important for Viking this season
Odd faces a Viking team that finally got a positive feeling after meeting Rosenborg last round. Despite the loss, Viking had Rosenborg to its knees at several occasions and could very easily got away with both 1 and 3 points in that match. Odd has either looked great, or struggled to get their play going. 6 points is not as much as they want, but the team is strong enough to be a contender for the gold alongside Rosenborg and Molde. Many tipsters predict few goals here and we do not disagree.
18.00: Sarpsborg 08 – Kristiansund
If there is one team that has performed up to, and beyond their expectation this season, its Sarpsborg 08. 3 straight wins gave them the league lead after 3 rounds but a costly red card against Stabæk, gave Ohi the chance to score his second hat-trick of the season, and give S08 the first loss in 2017. Kristiansund have 3 points from the home game against a strong Brann team. They have showed proof that they can "park the bus" but will need to come forward if they wish to survive this season. Sarpsborg has showed great attacking power and will give their guests a challenge here. Suspended Rosted will be missed for Sarpsborg, but Trondsen and Mortensen are in amazing form and could very well be the ones to decide this match. We think the home team will win it, but don't expect to many goals here
18.00: Tromsø – Stabæk
Two hat-tricks for "Ohi" so far, can he and Stabæk keep this up?
A very interesting match between two teams that has showed everything from amazing performances to the most dreadful stuff you can imagine. Ohi has two hat-tricks so far, but these result does not tell the full story. Stabæk has been very good at home, but struggled away to a pretty weak Sogndal, losing 4-1. Stabæk also have a very challenging home pitch, and this is a lot of the reason they have managed to outplay Odd and Sarpsborg at home. The artificial turf in Tromsø should give them a new type of challenge, just like it did in Sogndal. With Tromsøs history as a good home team, and Stabæks history as a horrible away team, we think this rounds best pick, is to bet on Tromsø. Currently at 1.93 at Pinnacle
20.00: Lillestrøm – Brann
This rounds main match. Two teams with great history in the league, but with a darker recent history. Brann won the league in 2007, but has since been down one division, but yet, managed a sensational silver last season. Brann has approached this season as the last one, with defending in focus. Except a loss away to newly promoted Kristiansund, Brann has looked like they are one route. In the last game Børven finally showed what he can do in front of the goal. If he manages to keep this up, Brann will be a big contender for the medals also this season. Lillestrøm barely managed to survive last season, and looks like it could be hard this season as well. But Erlandsen have managed to straighten the defence up and the do look somewhat better this year. Still we think LSK should be glad there are so many worse teams in the league at this point, or else they would be in real danger of relegating. Åråsen is always a challenge for visitors, but Brann is a solid team that should be capable to take all the points from this tie. Difficult match to put too many units on, but the odds might be good for Brann to win it.
19.00: Haugesund – Molde
Björn Bergmann Sigurdarson got his scoring account started against Vålerenga.
Molde really disappointed many last season with not being able to give Rosenborg a fight for the gold medal. So far, this season, they seem to have made the adjustments necessary. Sander Svendsen looks like he could be locating his potential, and Gregersen has really filled Forrens shoes in defence. Still Molde have some challenges in the back. Are their wing backs good enough? Sigurdarson had a great match against Vålerenga, and MFK are very dependent on him finding the goal many times this season to keep up. Haugesund is a team you never really know where you got. Usually a very good home team, and historically this is a match up they are comfortable with. Gykjær and Shuaibu.
As mentioned, alot of difficult matches this weekend. But our free bet this weekend, is Tromsø at home at around 1.90. Good luck, and have a great weekend!
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OpenSSH is an implementation of SSH (secure shell) which is used for secure communication between two machines (a client and a server). OpenSSH is the best tool you can use for secure data transfer. Below, we'll run through how you can start using it for your data transfer needs.
The server side of the communicting machines needs to be running sshd (secure shell daemon) which listens for and handles incoming connections. The basic usage for ssh is to allow execution of commands on a remote machine. It is also used to provide the underlying secure data transfer for both scp and sftp.
The server side (sshd) normally needs to be installed as it's not there by default. Below, we'll run through some basic usage of ssh, these assume the server side has sshd installed. See the installation instructions here.
Note that if you want several commands to execute on the other box, they must be within the quotes and separated by a semicolon as shown, otherwise only the first command will run remotely, the rest will run locally.
The ssh client configuration file is /etc/ssh/ssh_config. We'll cover some of these options in future ssh tutorials.
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Meet Bentley! He is an approximately 2 year old black Lab who hails from Texas. Bentley is neutered, up to date on vaccines, was heart worm positive but has completed treatment, crate trained and house trained. He weighs around 67 pounds. Bentley is a typical young Lab! He is active, loves to play, good with other dogs and loves people too. Because he is so young and active he would love a home with a fenced yard where he can run and play. He's a really great dog with lots of love to give!
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