So! I'm using a runspace pool to parallelize a task. One of these gets hung up (running query.exe user /server:blah).
Odd, turns out you can't edit a post?
Anyhow, Jaykul helped out a bit – just need to provide a callback scriptblock. Now (presumably) the powershell pipeline is stopped and I dispose of it... Unfortunately, when I call the close method on the runspacepool, it hangs! If I use beginclose on the runspacepool, bye bye powershell. My apologies if this is simple stuff, it's beyond my understanding!
Try PowerShell.Stop() instead of BeginStop. BeginStop is an asynchronous method, but your code structure looks like you'd be better off using the synchronous version.
The updated code is here. One of two things happen when I run this with a timeout and a thread freezes (script block running an external command that hangs): I get stuck at closing the runspacepool (previously got stuck when disposing the powershell instance), or PowerShell crashes.
So basically, I want to forcefully kill the powershell instance. If you ctrl-f for '#this is not working properly', that is where I presume I am stumbling. Also at the very end of the function when I close the runspacepool.
Even looking at the complete code, it looks to me like you should be using the synchronous version ( Stop() instead of BeginStop() ). I'm not sure what the consequences are of calling BeginStop() and then immediately calling Dispose() on the object.
On a side note, you should be able to skip that and just call Dispose(), if you prefer. Among the other things that it does, Dispose() will call Stop(), if it's needed.
Yeah, that's how the original function was written / borrowed from Boe. $runspace.powershell.dispose(). This is where it hangs.
Adding the beginstop() gets me a bit further, but now the session hangs or Powershell crashes when closing the runspacepool.
Any thoughts? Is there no way to kill a stuck powershell pipeline? Was hoping to go with something generic where I don't need to rely on the powershell code running to avoid these issues. For now just using diagnostics.process and waitforexit() on the process that gets hung up occasionally.
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Published: Jan 24 at 7:47 p.m.
Nova Scotia's Kaitlyn Jones rink kept its playoff hopes alive at the Canadian junior curling championships with an 8-4 win over New Brunswick's Justine Comeau on Thursday.
Jones, the defending Canadian and world champion, is 5-3. They played Manitoba in a late draw Thursday.
In men's action, Saskatchewan's Rylan Kleiter scored four in the first end for a 12 -2 victory over Nova Scotia's Graeme Weagle.
The loss dropped Weagle to 4-5 and out of contention in the championship pool.
On Friday, Weagle plays British Columbia's Tyler Tardi (7-1).


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The state forest is in central and eastern Garrett County, off Interstate 68.
Savage River State Forest
127 Headquarters Lane,
Grantsville, Md 21536
(301)895-5759
The southern section of the Big Savage Hiking Trail has been rerouted to avoid the area of unstable ground and is again open for visitors. Hiking Trail Reroute Map.
Savage River State Forest, at over 54,000 acres, is the largest facility in the state forest system. It preserves a strategic watershed in Garrett County. Trail maps are available at the forest office, for all trails, including the 10 miles of cross country ski trails. The forest is classified as a mixed hardwood forest. More than 11,000 acres of the forest has been designated as Wildlands.
St. John's Rock ORV Trail
The St. John's Rock Off Road Vehicle (ORV) Trail is the first trail on Department lands ever designed specifically for ORV enthusiasts. Features include a multi-site primitive campground designed to support ORV riders, children's riding trails within the campground, technical spur loops and hare scramble style trail sections for all terrain vehicles and motorcycles, a full-size rock crawl area for jeeps and four-wheel drive vehicles, and miles of forest access roads for all purpose riding opportunities. The total trail system is approximately 13 miles in length with varying challenges for riders of all skill levels. The accompanying map provides more detail on the extent and locations of the different areas. This Trail System requires a reservation for Daily Riding, the Rock Crawl and Camping. Reservations can be made on the department's COMPASS System (compass.dnr.maryland.gov/DnrCompassPortal). For more information, contact the Savage River State Forest Headquarters at 301-895-5759.
Driving directions from Interstate 68: Take Exit 29 on to Maryland 546/Beall School Road heading south. Travel approximately 1 mile and turn left at the intersection of Old Frostburg Road. Travel approximately 1 mile to the St. John's Rock ORV Trail access road on the left.
Map of St Johns Rock/Red Dog Road.
Click here for special trout management fishing areas in Western Maryland.
Biking trails, boat launch, cross country skiing, campsites, fishing, flat water canoeing, hiking trail, historic interest, hunting, picnic, riding trails, shelters, snowmobiling, white water canoeing. Pets are permitted but must be under control at all times.
State Forest regulations are posted in conspicuous locations throughout the forest.
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Firewood for camping must be purchased from local vendors. Please do not bring personal firewood in to the State Forest. A wide variety of forest insect pests are accidentally transported and introduced to new areas by transporting personal firewood between distinct geographic locations. Please keep our forests safe!
70 primitive sites are available. Self register for these sites at the Headquarters Office or at any of the six self-registration sites on the forest. You must register for the campsite within the first hour of occupancy. Campsites are limited to no more than 6 people per site, and no more than two camping units (tent, dining canopy, pop up, RV, or combination thereof) and two vehicles per site. Leave No Trace standards apply to all campsites as we try to accommodate use while minimizing our impact on the soils and vegetation in these areas.
Backpack camping is also permitted throughout the forest. Self register for these sites at the Headquarters Office or at any of the six self-registration sites on the forest, by filling out an envelope, enclosing the appropriate payment ($10/ night/ site) and enclosing a trip itinerary and the names of the people in your party. The same restrictions apply as listed above in terms of numbers of people and tents per site. Campfires are permitted in most areas of the forest. However, Wildland regulations prohibit the use of campfires in these 12,000 primitive acres of the forest for safety issues and to minimize impact of these fragile and sensitive areas. Be sure to check area maps for Wildland boundaries so that if you are backpack camping in a Wildlands area you are not building campfires. Again Leave No Trace guidelines apply to backpack camping as well. The day use of the area is free.
Hunting is permitted throughout the forest except where posted with safety zone signs. Hunters should consult their hunting guide for exact seasons and bag limits. Please be aware of boundary markers indicating private property. The State Forest boundary lines are marked with yellow paint on trees. For more information about hunting on Maryland's public lands and obtaining a permit, see the Guide to Hunting & Trapping in Maryland.
Several access roads are available to hunters with disabilities. Hunters must possess a valid Universal Disability Pass. Detailed maps of the access roads are available from the forest headquarters.
Shooting enthusiasts can also take advantage of the forest's shooting range on New Germany Road. Please be familiar with range rules and pay the appropriate service charge in the honor box provided at the site.
Yearly passes are available at the range by completing the self registration information. The permits can also be obtained at the forest headquarters.
Horse Back Riding
Horseback riding in Savage River State Forest is permitted on all maintained forest roads that are open to public vehicle traffic, except for the East Shale ORV Trail and the St Johns Rock ORV Trail. Horseback riding is NOT permitted within any state park boundaries, designated wildlands or on any designated foot trails, which include the Big Savage Hiking Trail, Poplar Lick Hiking Trail and the Monroe Run Hiking Trail.
Savage River State Forest Horseback riding brochure with map.
Trail Maps:
For a complete Savage River State Forest Trail Guide contact the Savage River State Forest Headquarters at 301-895-7579.
Meadow Mountain Trail System
Margroff & Negro Trail System
Monroe Run Trail System
Big Savage Hiking Trail System
Trail maps are available at the forest office for all trails. The 10 miles of cross-country ski trails at New Germany State Park are available at the New Germany State Park Office.
The Big Savage Trail is now open but the going is rough and recommended for only the most experienced hikers with excellent navigation skills. The ice storm of 2002 and Gypsy Moth defoliations in 2006 and 2007 have ravaged the forest canopy over large areas of the trail, allowing sunlight to proliferate an abundance of vegetative growth on the forest floor thus obscuring the trail in many locations. Volunteer efforts are underway to clear these overgrown sections but until the forest canopy reestablishes itself at some point in the future keeping the trail open will continue to be a challenge.
Mountain Bikes - Mountain bikes are allowed on all hiking trails except for Monroe Run and Big Savage. Visitors can ride non-motorized bikes on many of the trails and roads in the state forest but are asked to exercise extreme caution, especially on blind curves.
Backpackers - A permit may be obtained at the Savage River office to backpack and camp in the state forest.
ORV Use - Trails for off-road vehicles,(ORV's and snowmobiles) are available in Garrett, Potomac and Savage River State Forests. Off-road vehicles must be registered annually with DNR and display a registration sticker. Registration stickers are available from any DNR Regional Service Center. Trail maps are available at the State Forest office where ORV use is permitted.
The Poplar Lick ORV is permanently closed see the ORV page for details at Off-Road Vehicles; The Meadow Mountain ORV trail remains open.
Geocaching Guidelines and Approval Form
Pets - Allowed in all areas with a leash.
Accessibility for the Disabled
Savage River State Forest offers several disabled hunter access roads which are open to hunters throughout the hunting season. These roads will be recognized by the "Vehicle Access by Special Permit Only" sign at the road entrance. Hunters must have a valid Universal Disability Pass (formally Hunt From a Vehicle permit) in their posession. You may download and print the application here, or applications may be obtained from the Western Region Main Office, 12512 Pleasant Valley Road, NE, Flintstone, MD 21530. For further information you may contact our office at (301) 895-5759.
For additional accessible amenities in Maryland State Forests and Parks, visit the Accessibility For All section of this website.
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Upgrading knowledge with the latest technologies is must for every generation. Practical and personal experience is the uttermost requirement of the today's workplace. So, the department organizes workshops, seminars, and industrial visits for students as these improve knowledge base of the students. Thus, a unique program that involves communication with the expert panels, helps to give new direction to the raw innovative ideas of the students. We strategize and develop such an interactive curriculum to nurture the students of a new technological era. Thus, Jain University as one of the top universities in Karnataka, provides new opportunities to be a shining star of the future.
Technical workshops provide a real workplace environment to students, where they enhance the level of their understanding. This helps them to know how to resolve workplace issues within limited resources. For better education & training, we provide the best technical support system.
It is highly difficult in a student's life to get in touch with mentors on one to one basis. Seminars act as the platform to get the best industry outcome where experts share their knowledge and experiences. Undisclosed facts and workplace issues remain no more hidden and recruiters revert back with a lot of excellent feedback which boost our morale to work better than ever.
The experience of industrial visits always remains memorable for students as they get the real demonstrations to resolve issues. Assistance with demo solves their on-site queries & develops better analyzing skills to optimize resource usage. So, Jain University School of Engineering & Technology regularly plans industrial visits for the engineering students to get authentic experiences.
The basic agenda of the workshop was to provide full hand knowledge about the transformers that are to be manufacture these transformers. Full knowledge of materials to be used in the manufacturing of transformers and its advantage over other materials.


Uploading a PDF, image files and other document types enables you to create hyperlinks and refer your users to external documents. This feature can be used throughout all modules in the OneSport console.
5. Once saved a hyperlink will appear, and this link can be used to refer your users to external documents via email, or on websites.


The U.S. Department of Education created the verification process to confirm the accuracy of information provided on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). By federal regulation, the post-secondary institution in which the student is enrolled is responsible for conducting the verification process on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education.
The UGA Office of Student Financial Aid (OSFA) cannot award UGA students selected for verification any Federal Student Aid (FSA) until the students complete the process and OSFA has transmitted to and subsequently received any necessary FAFSA corrections from the U.S. Department of Education. The entire process may take up to four weeks during peak periods.
When a FAFSA is selected, we notify the student via his or her UGAMail account and the parent (when applicable) via the parent e-mail address provided on the student's FAFSA. Verification requirements can be viewed in Athena.
The deadline date published annually in the Federal Register, which for the 2017-18 Award Year was September 15, 2018, and for the 2018-19 Award Year is September 15, 2019.
Example: A student completes her 2018-19 FAFSA prior to fall semester 2018. Her FAFSA is selected for verification and OSFA e-mails her requesting verification documentation. She attends fall semester which ends December 12, 2018. She does not enroll for spring semester 2019. OSFA must receive all requested documentation no later than 120 calendar days following December 12, 2018, since that is earlier than September 15, 2019.
A student's failure to provide all requested documentation prior to the earlier of the two dates listed above will result in the student not being awarded any Federal Student Aid (FSA) for the Award Year.
Also see Retroactive Federal Student Aid for additional deadlines affecting the awarding of FSA once the Award Year begins and after a student is no longer enrolled in the Award Year.


The following is a collection of questions which I can imagine authors or even readers who wanted to learn about the technology of ebooks asking. I frequently hear a lot of misinformation about what formats are and how they work, so hopefully this will be of sufficient help to beginners. If you have any corrections, please let me know!
Q. What is plain text?
A. Plain text is a collection of letters, grammatical markers (such as ",./;'\") , and whitespace. This gets complicated when we ask "What is a letter?" because while English has a simple collection of letters (a-zA-Z), many worldwide languages don't. These letters, grammatical markers, and whitespace are each assigned a unique number, and then these numbers are written down together in order to comprise a "file". Usually these string of numbers representing characters are saved with the extension (last few letters) of .txt. An extension is really just a helper to the computer, so it knows what program it should try to open up the string of numbers with. The program will then turn the string of numbers back into your recognizable letters, grammatical markers, and whitespace.
Q. How is HTML Different?
A. HTML allows authors to mark some parts of the plain text as having extra meaning, and allows you to specify what that meaning is and how it looks. CSS can be used to specify the styling of certain elements that have been marked to have extra meaning. HTML and CSS files are also stored as a string of numbers and written to your hard drive. The extension of HTML files is usually ".html". When a program opens up an HTML file, it has two options. It can try to "render" (draw) it as the reader might want, without the extra text used to tell how to draw it. For example, you can open an HTML file in your computer's browser, and just read it. Another way of opening an HTML file is to look at the marked up text. This is generally called a "source" view, because it is the "source" of what is drawn into your browser.
Q. What is the ePub format, and how does it relate to HTML?
A. An ePub is a collection of HTML files, any resources (like images or fonts), and styles, all zipped into a file with information about the order to display the chapters in. The zip file is then given the extension "ePub". Most modern eBook formats use some form of compression to make the files smaller to reduce storage costs. An ePub file can be opened by any software which knows how to unzip the file and render the html files in order. Alternatively, anyone could unzip an ePub, open the chapters folder, and open the first chapter's HTML file in any HTML renderer, like their favorite browser.
Q. What is a Word document?
Converting it into a PDF and sending that PDF to someone else, so that the document cannot be edited.
Converting it into HTML and putting it on the web for others to read.
Sending the Word doc to others, who open the .doc or .docx file in software that tries to understand the special language Microsoft created (like WordPerfect or LibreOffice).
A. Word has a set of rules built-in it that can convert its specially marked up text to other kinds of formats that it knows about. Some parts of the Word languages cannot convert easily to all parts of the XML language, because they were designed to control how the document looked when it was printed. Not all formats are designed for printing, as some formats are designed only for reading on computer screens.
Q. What is the Mobi format?
A. The mobi format is similar to the ePub format in that it takes HTML documents and resources (images, fonts, etc) and compresses them together into a single package. However, the Mobi format has a specific way of compressing these files together that cannot be easily done with normal compression tools (like 7zip or Winzip) that people have on their system. So Mobi files need to be constructed by a tool that knows how to do this construction.
Mobi files are not actually read by modern Kindle readers, instead they are first converted to an AZW file.
Q. Why do PDFs look so weird on most eReaders?
A. PDF is very different from ePub and Mobi. It does not use HTML. Instead, a PDF is "rendered" (drawn) onto a page, which displays the content of the document. This rendering (drawing) only happens once: when the PDF is created, so content that broke across the line when the PDF was created will always break exactly the same way.
This is different from HTML, where the content is not rendered (drawn) until the screen shows it, and may be re-rendered if the screen changes size. HTML can do this because it stores information about what the content is, and doesn't tell the screen where every letter should go. Instead, it relies on the rendering software inside the end user's reader or browser to know what a title or paragraph should generally look like, and only specifies the difference between that default rendering and what the author wants.
Q. What is the AZW format?
AZW is a more general format that Amazon has created for use primarily on their readers. AZW was originally just a wrapper around mobi files, but now is much more complicated. AZW files may contain an ePub inside of the book for Kindle readers that can read that format. They also have a mobi inside the file for legacy readers that don't support ePub. (This doesn't mean that you can give ePubs to Kindles, they will not recognize these files.) AZW are also compressed formats and must be constructed with a special tool that know how to insert the files and metadata (information about the book), and it can't be done by hand.
AZW also has a format for textbooks that is similar to PDF, because textbooks often have very complex layout requirements.
Q. What are other legacy formats, and when do they matter?
A. Many legacy formats such as lrf and pdb use HTML internally, and wrap the html with a mechanism to determine what order the chapters should be displayed in. They often differ in their use or selection of compression algorithm. Some formats, such as RTF, use a custom markup language. Some formats store images inline, while others store them separately. Because eReaders are expensive, when possible, it is best to provide a copy in each major format from the last ten years.
Q. What formats convert well to other formats, and why?
A. Formats based in HTML can usually be converted without loss to other formats based in HTML. So it is perfectly reasonable to convert your ePub to Mobi, or to AZW.
Formats that pre-define how each character looks and where each line break is (like PDF) should not be converted to other formats that do not do this, because determining which line breaks can be ignored and which are required for the reader is not stored in the file. Humans must manually correct these documents to look good, and this is an error-prone process which usually results in sub-standard files. While there are some algorithms that attempt to do a better job of this process, it is unreliable and not recommended.
Q. What does a format validator like epubcheck do, and why would I care?
A. HTML isn't just a collection of text and markup. The markup must occur in a specific structure that is considered valid. For example, it is not valid to put text inside the body of an image with HTML, even though it would be physically possible to write that in an HTML file. Validators such as epubcheck also verify that the zip isn't corrupted, and that the resources requested in the html (like images) are in the file, and that the chapters specified in the table of contents are present.
These tools help to make sure that your book will look good on many reading devices. Because each device may implement its reader in its own way, and deal with complexity slightly differently, it is important to verify that your file follows the required structure as closely as possible.
Q. How can I easily use Word to create better files for eReaders?
Unless you are only going to release your book in PDF, it is best to stick to the features of Word that match what is in available in HTML. For example, do not use features like page numbering, page headers, and page footers, unless you plan to manually create an ePub file from your Word document and add those features by hand — which you probably don't want to try! When you are thinking about using a feature, try to see if that feature exists in your favorite browser. If it doesn't, it probably is not available in the eBook reader either, so don't use it, or your book conversion will be made much more complex.
Use the semantic features of Word (such as paragraph, headers, and page break) to tell Word what you mean, rather than using manual styling to tell Word what you want the text to look like. If you make text bigger manually in Word, that doesn't tell the converting software why that text is important when it tries to turn your document into useful HTML that will look good on the user's reader. You want to give the conversion engine as much information as you can about why this text is different, not just that you want it to look different, so the reading software can determine what it should do with what you have given it.
You should probably turn off Word's automatic helper tools. It may generate special characters and markup that complicate the conversion.
Don't assume that the reader's screen will look similar to your screen. It is best to use percentages to specify image widths instead of pixels or inches. Usually, 95% for most image widths will make the most sense, because as long as your image has enough pixels, it will look good on small smartphone screens as well as desktop screens. It is often good to pair a percentage width with a maximum width that is the width of your image, so it doesn't get stretched on large screens.
Don't assume that the reader's screen will use the same color scheme as you may want to apply in Word. Some devices are only black and white, and even among tablets, readers often prefer to reverse the text and use white text on a black background when reading at night.
Be consistent. A book that uses fifty different styles of headings or paragraphs will look unprofessional to readers.
Simple is almost always better. This may change in the future, but for now, it is better to try and simplify your text styling than to try and make something complicated work specially for each and every reader. Just focus on the text, and let the reader's imagination do the rest!
Q. How can I use other tools to create better ePubs? When should I bother?
If you are making a more complicated book, such as poetry, cookbooks, children's books, or travel guides, you may find that you need more fine-grained control of the html layout than Word is giving you. In this case, there are many tools for creating ePubs such as Scrivener and Calibre's eBook editor (which Sigil merged into). These tools are WYSIWYG tools that only provide features that are available in HTML and ePubs, so they may be easier to use for books with complex layout.
Q. How does DRM work, and what does it do to the formats above?
DRM generally is applied to the string of numbers that represent all your content before or after they have been zipped. It takes the numbers that represent letters, grammar, whitespace, and apply a bunch of math to turn them into very different numbers that can be reconstructed into your original numbers only if the correct key (string of numbers) is given. When the reader has the right string of numbers, he can unshuffle the numbers and then use his reading software to read the book as usual.
Bonus: Q. What is an alternative markup language, and when might I want to use one?
You may notice that the book you are using does not have much complex formatting, and that you don't feel the need to use any of the special features that Word offers. In fact, most fiction books could be written in just plain text chapter files, with little lost! For those who want to write in plain text, but still want to store very simple information in the plain text such as bold, italic, headers, and links, this is what Markdown is designed for. Markdown can be easily converted later to other formats with more complex formatting such as Word documents and HTML with nothing lost. Some authors may find that, particularly for the first draft, Markdown is less distracting than a full-fledged editor.
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Visiting Scientist Feature: Ms. Emily Hartop
A while back, we hosted Ms. Emily Hartop from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLA), who was here to examine recently collected fly specimens.
Ms. Hartop is an entomologist well versed in phorid flies from the genus Megaselia, a large group consisting of around 1,400 known species. Flies from this genus are known to be difficult to identify, as the differences between the various species are subtle.
How do scientists like Ms. Hartop identify and differentiate between the various species then? Well, mainly by examining their…genitalia. Ms. Hartop examines the flies under the microscope, focusing mostly on their genitalia, and draws sketches of what she sees.
"It's (sketching fly genitalia) what people know me for," she said.
Ms. Hartop at her work station in LKCNHM's research lab. Photo by Clarisse Tan.
During her visit here, Ms. Hartop examined around 2,000 specimens of phorid flies from the genus Megaselia, as well as other genera. The specimens were pre-sorted into various groups based on genetic analysis.
Also, back in Los Angeles, NHMLA launched an initiative called Biodiversity Science: City and Nature (BioSCAN), with the aim to discover the biodiversity in Los Angeles. Under this initiative, Malaise traps were set up in the back yards of citizens living all over the city, and the insects collected were sorted and identified.
After three months of collection, the researchers, which included Ms. Hartop, suspected that they found thirty new species of the genus Megaselia, which was later found to be true. The findings came as a pleasant surprise for the researchers, who did not expect to find so many new species in a large, urbanised city. The findings were later reported in a research paper (click here to read).
Ms. Hartop was also in discussion about holding a BioSCAN project here in Singapore, so keep your eyes peeled! Maybe in time to come, you will see Malaise traps pop up around your neighbourhood!
Posted in LKCNHM, Media, Museum, News, people, research, visitors and tagged citizen science, insects, Nature, people, phorid flies, research, science, singapore, visitors on June 21, 2017 by clarissetan. Leave a comment


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Rewilding: The Last Truly Wild Horses Return Home
November 23, 2015 The Happy Environmentalist	Leave a comment
The Przewalski's horse has rebounded from near extinction. There were once only 12 of these pony-sized wild horses remaining in the entire world. Even just a few years ago, all the existing Przewalski's horses lived in captivity, and the species was listed by the IUCN as "extinct in the wild."
Now, thanks to a captive breeding program, there are over 2,000 of them worldwide, with about 350 living in the wild in Mongolia. These little horses are the last truly wild horse species in the world. The American mustang and other well-known "wild horses" are actually feral rather than wild — they descended from domesticated horses that got free and chose to live in the wild rather than go back to captivity.
The Przewalski's horses are not out of the woods. There are concerns about their survival in the age of climate change should Mongolia begin to experience unusually harsh winters. And it is possible that they may interbreed with feral horses, diluting their bloodline so that they would no longer be a distinct species. But the Przewalski's horse seems to have avoided the biggest threat to species recovering from near-extinction — a lack of genetic diversity leading to inbreeding and health problems.
Read more at Smithsonian here.
Read more at Newsweek here.
All images taken from the sites linked above.
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A Good Day for Chimps
November 23, 2015 The Happy Environmentalist	1 Comment
It has been a season of good news for wild animals in captivity. I recently posted an article about SeaWorld's announcement that it will be ending (some of) its killer whale shows. While this big announcement amounted to no more than media spin to deflect the public outcry raised by the film Blackfish, it does look like SeaWorld is eventually going to have to bow to pressure and end its captive orca programs entirely.
Now, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which has long been the government body tasked with approving research projects using chimpanzee test subjects, has announced that it will no longer be keeping a supply of captive chimps for this purpose. It will also continue to phase out all the chimp research funding it has, in the past, provided to outside facilities.
Since 2013, the NIH has been in the process of reducing researcher reliance on chimps. Most of its 360 captive chimps were to be retired, with a group of 50 to be kept in case they were needed for future research. Now, in a document leaked by an NIH employee, the head of the agency has stated that these last 50 chimps would be retired, as well.
Last June, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service listed captive chimps under the Endangered Species Act, making it that much harder for the NIH to approve them for research uses. In addition, any researcher wanting to use chimps would have had to show that the planned research would in some way benefit wild chimps. These strict conditions were apparently enough to deter new chimp-based research, because no new applications for chimpanzee projects were received after the status change went into effect.
Some who would like to have access to captive chimps for use in studies to benefit wild chimps and other primates may be disappointed by this news. Chimp research has already been outlawed in many places. So, overseas researchers who, for example, wish to test ebola vaccines meant for wild chimps on their captive cousins may have trouble finding test subjects. The NIH's director, however, believes that other species of primates still available to researchers can serve as suitable test subjects for these types of vaccine trials.
The NIH is in the process of preparing a retirement plan for its captive chimps as well as those in other facilities it has been funding.
View the Science magazine article here.
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The Resurgence of the European Bison
November 19, 2015 The Happy Environmentalist
I recently posted a story about the return of American bison to the state of Colorado. Looks like this great effort is shared with our brothers and sisters on the European continent. Thanks to Gordon Eaglesham for writing the story below. Three cheers for rewilding!
Source: The Resurgence of the European Bison
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Just a Beautiful Photo: Delicious Meal
What a cutie.
Photo credit: Howard Sheridan, National Wildlife Federation wildlife contest.
View the original National Wildlife Federation post here.
New Desert Energy Plan is Good News for Wildlife
Kim Delfino, California Director for Defenders of Wildlife and alumna of my law school, has written the post below, explaining the implications of the very important new Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan. It's a must-read!
One of the rarest sightings in the California desert is not what you think it might be. It is not the appearance of water, the presence of a desert tortoise emerging from its burrow, or even the spying of the mysterious mountain lion. It is the sighting of a Mohave ground squirrel above ground.
These elusive mammals spend perhaps two months of their lives above ground when conditions are right, and they can only be found in the West Mojave Desert of California. Unfortunately, the sighting of the Mohave ground squirrel is becoming rarer as their habitat is lost to energy development, industrial development and other land-intensive development and their population shrinks. The specter of large-scale renewable energydevelopment is the latest potential threat to the survival of this state-protected species.
Several years ago, the fate of the ground squirrel – along with other desert wildlife – hung in the balance as hundreds of thousands of acres of desert lands were proposed for industrial renewable energy development. Fortunately, California and the Department of the Interior joined together to propose a new approach to energy development – a landscape scale look across the California Desert to determine where projects could be placed on already disturbed and degraded lands, while protecting those areas most important for desert wildlife, recreation, and other natural resources. This new approach started with the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Solar Energy Development in Six Southwestern States (Solar PEIS), but was significantly expanded in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP).
The DRECP represents a paradigm shift in how renewable energy development is planned in California and nationally. If done well, the DRECP could mean that desert wildlife like the tortoise and the ground squirrel have a future even in the face of climate change.
This week, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released a new part of the plan that addresses how and where different types of land will be used for renewable energy. It is an important step forward for the DRECP, and is expected to be finalized in early 2016.
There is a lot to celebrate in the BLM's latest plan. It protects 3.8 million acres of lands with important natural resource, scenic and recreational values by designating them as part of the National Landscape Conservation System. Iconic areas such as the Silurian Valley, Chuckwalla Bench and the Amargosa River watershed are designated as National Conservation Lands. Most importantly, these protections are permanent and cannot be overturned in the future.
The plan also includes 388,000 acres of BLM lands in the desert where renewable energy projects can be built without significant impacts to wildlife. These projects will help California meet its aggressive climate change goals without putting vital wildlife habitat under development.
So, is the new plan a win for desert wildlife conservation? Should we celebrate the conservation of desert tortoise and Mohave ground squirrel for future generations?
Not yet. While the latest plan has some important benefits, there are still pieces of it that are damaging to wildlife, and must be improved when the BLM issues its final plan in early 2016. The fate of the West Mojave hangs in the balance.
Continue reading New Desert Energy Plan is Good News for Wildlife →
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ReWilding Endangered Black-Footed Ferrets in Colorado
More good news from northern Colorado! I recently posted a story about the return of wild bison to Colorado for the first time in over a century. Now, 30 black-footed ferrets, an endangered species once so rare that only 18 of them remained in the wild, have been returned to a 1,300 acre prairie dog colony north of Fort Collins.
They will join the over 500 other ferrets that have been reintroduced into the wild since they almost went extinct in the 1960s. They are still critically endangered, but they are on the rebound!
This National Geographic video is a short and sweet story about these very ferrets. Thanks to Gordon Eaglesham for sharing it on his blog.
Read about these and other good wildlife recovery efforts at Defenders of Wildlife blog.
[Image downloaded from Wikipedia.]
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"The Devil," East Africa's Most Wanted Elephant Poacher, Arrested
Known as the "The Devil" by law enforcement who conducted a year-long manhunt for him, Boniface Matthew Mariango was arrested in Tanzania a few days ago. East Africa's most prolific elephant poacher and illegal ivory trafficker, Mariango was responsible for thousands of elephant deaths.
Earlier last month, task force members of the National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit were also able to arrest "The Queen of Ivory," Yang Fenglan, who was responsible for a worldwide network of illegal ivory exports. The Devil was her major supplier; he also supplied weapons and vehicles to his own network of poachers. Having these two major players in custody, along with commitments by the U.S. and China to ban ivory, should lead to major breakthroughs in international ivory trafficking.
A documentary film crew was embedded with the task force and will be releasing a film about the manhunt for the Queen of Ivory and The Devil next year.
View the Elephant League post here.
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Wild Bison Return to Colorado
November 10, 2015 The Happy Environmentalist	2 Comments
This is my favorite kind of story — when wildlife are allowed to return to habitats they used to live in before being hunted nearly to extinction. Last week, on National Bison Day, 10 bison were reintroduced to northern Colorado, where they haven't roamed free for more than 150 years.
The National Wildlife Federation worked to bring brucellosis-free bison to a 1000-acre parcel of open space owned by the city of Fort Collins and Larimer County. Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can cause female bison to miscarry. Because it is possibly transmissible to domestic cattle, ranchers have long fought the reintroduction of bison in areas where their cattle might come into contact with them. The 10 bison released in Colorado last week were bred using a new technique that should guarantee they are free of brucellosis. The eventual goal is to have a herd of hundreds of bison roaming about 10,000 acres. Bison from this large herd could go on to repopulate other areas or provide fresh bloodlines to other bison herds.
Only a few bison were left in the U.S after the herds of 30 million were reduced to just a few individuals by the late 1800s. Ten bison is just a small start, but someday large herds could roam parts of Colorado again.
View the National Wildlife Federation blog post here
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Washingtonians Vote to Protect Wildlife
November 5, 2015 The Happy Environmentalist	Leave a comment
The citizens of Washington state just voted to enact a new law that will "prohibit the purchase, sale, and distribution of products made from a list of 10 endangered animals being exploited to the point of potential extinction, and will be enforced by strong penalties. The animals protected by I-1401 include elephants, rhinos, lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, marine turtles, pangolins, sharks and rays."
This is great news, as these are some of the most targeted and trafficked animals in the world. The U.S. Senate will soon be considering a bill (recently passed by the House) that will strengthen federal criminal penalties for illegal wildlife trafficking. Although we are still sad about the death of Cecil the Lion, it is certainly true that his death has shined a spotlight on the issue of international wildlife crimes.
You can view the original National Wildlife Federation Action Fund post here
Save Animals Facing Extinction (bill sponsor)'s site here.
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California Dairy Farmer Provides Habitat for 15,000 Imperiled Birds
I am reposting this great article from my law school colleague's blog, The California Crow. The blog discusses the evolving world of food and agriculture policy. One hopeful story involves incentive programs in California to help farmers delay harvest long enough for imperiled birds to fledge their young. Read on.
The California Crow
Frank Mendonsa, a dairy farmer in Tipton, California, and the President of Western United Dairymen was recognized earlier this week for his significant contributions to protecting two colonies of the California emergency-listed Tricolored Blackbird. Since April, Mendonsa's silage fields became a temporary nesting habitat for the colonies of nearly 15,000 birds, and Mendonsa is delaying harvest to help the birds safely fledge their young.
"When the birds first appeared on my property this spring, I didn't know what kind they were," said Mendonsa. "Once it was pointed out to me how few of these birds are left in the world and how many were on my property, I was very moved. I could see how much they needed my help and protection to build back their populations, so I have taken it upon myself to ensure their safety on this farm."
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The PCI-SIG (Special Interest Group), PCI spec controller group, announced the transfer rate for the upcoming PCI-Express 3.0 specification, expected to debut by the end of 2009 or early 2010. According to information, current specifications exist in the version 0.7, whereas series products with the support of new interface will appear not earlier than 2011. PCIe 3.0 will have transfer rate of 8GT/s, compared to PCIe 2.0's 5GT/s. GT stands for GigaTransfers per second, and differs from the standard unit of measurement due to PCI-Express encoding system. The encoding system is 8bit or 10bit. PCI Express 3.0 uses the same connector and is backward compatible with PCIe 2.0.
A PCIe 1.1 system has a transfer rate of 2.5GT/s. PCIe 2.0 has double of PCIe 1.1 i.e; 5GT/s. PCIe 3.0 will increase the transfer rate from 5 GT/s of PCIe 2.0 to 8 GT/s, but will not require the same encoding mechanism. therefore PCIe 3.0 will double total available bandwidth as compared to PCIe 2.0. PCI express 3.0 support will be released on 65 nm technology or thinner. The first products with PCI express 3.0 support will be motherboard , video card and some server solutions.
One benefit of PCIe 3.0 would be the ability to build higher-end graphics cards that uses a smaller PCIe slot interface. This, in turn, could open up chances for higher-end graphics capability in system form factors that are currently too small to use large x8 or x16 slots.


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Here are some more of my Nfu Oh 'on sale' flakies haul. I certainly can't rave about these polishes on their own. At least they are wearable (unlike the yellows), but the colours are non descript and so incredibly sheer.
#55 is a sheer green polish with a green shimmer and orange flakies. This swatch was three coats. Reminds me of bottle green.
Up close angled shot to see the orange flakies.
#57 is similar to the above polish except it is a lighter green tint. Same green shimmer and orange flakies. Three coats.
Up close it's very similar to #55.
Again, over black the magic happens. This shows #55, then #57, #55 and #57. As you can see, over black both these polishes are identical.
Same in the sun. Notice how these flaky polishes are really much prettier indoors than in the sun. You loose all the flaky bits in the sun.
Finally a zoom in, #57 on the left, #55 on the right. You can clearly see the green shimmer and the orange flakies, but notice here you can really see a duo chrome effect in the flakies and they go from green to yellow to orange. Very cool.
Anyway, gotta run. Survivor Heroes v Villains final episode just started and I'm tragically addicted to the show.
Great post! Love the comparisons.


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Carter Jenkins, American actor who took part in movies such as Aliens in the Attic and Valentines Day, was born in 1991.
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Hi, I hope someone can give me some advice. I just began writing so, it has few chapters (20) and I would really appreciate some feedback in any form ( reviews, a pm with your opinion or a post here, anything would help).
Alright, i read the first few chapters, and here's my primary critique and advice.
• The misuse of common words. I noticed this very early on, and wanted to point it out. For instance in the scene aboard the spaceship, the word 'will' used in one sentence indicated instead of 'would', threw off the entire paragraph, switching to another tense entirely before switching back again.
• Okay, this is more or less personal preference, but I kind of dislike characters who talk to themselves to explain obvious readers. Don't get me wrong, mentally talking is just fine, but not explaining obvious things to empty air with dialogue. This implied the reader needs handholding. Instance: Again, the very first chapter. When Matthew talks about the new planet to thin air, it would have been just fine to remove the dialogue marks and write it normally. This is done more than a few times, and to most readers, it off-putting. Very much so since it always feels like it's spoon-feeding you information. For instance, why would he be talking about ship evacuation procedures out loud in the middle of an emergency?
• Sometimes, it hard to understand what you're saying, or your sentences are wrong-ish. 'a complex machinery' is one. Instead, what you should have done is just put down 'a complex machine'. 'machinery' doesn't fit there.
• Now, while most of your grammar basics (Proper capitalizing, periods and commas in the right place), are correct, I have noticed times when the first letter of a sentence was lower-case. Just pointing that out.
• Quotation makes, such as ", go right next to the sentence it wasn't to indicate as dialogue. I've noticed a few times when it's spaced by a single pace, and that's incorrect.
• The actual prolgue of the story is unique, being something I haven't seen before in this genre, but it needs a little bit of work. For instance, ending the chapter with 'BOOOM'. This feels a little wonky. It would have been much more efficient to end the chapter with say 'A flash of light and a sudden, wrenching pain'. He wouldn't have been able to hear the explosion, with the size and desctructive capability, instead, those would have been the feelings he registered before dying.
• Inner monologues are fine. But, as I said before, not as actually dialogue. Out loud monologues by other characters are the same.
• Again, misplaced words can throw off entire sentences. If you think a word is going to be akward, try and search the meaning beforehand.
• For some reason, your 'God' doesn't come off as all that godly, but instead as just a powerful human. This has always been a pet peeve for me, when 'Gods' think and act like Uber powered humans. I had a little hope that you'd be different with the start of it's intro, but was disappointed that you made him/it a dime-a-dozen deity.
• No story's pace isn't 'too slow', unless you, the writer, decide it.
• Chapter 3 has a sentence without a period. Same chapter: 'wats' should be 'What's'.
This about wraps up the critique I have for you. While you have a somewhat flawed execution, you have some VERY good and original ideas, as well as moments to ponder on. I read a few more chapters, and was pleasantly surprised by what I saw.
With me not liking Xianxia, that's saying something. Honestly, you have a story with the potential to be very pleasing, and if you take the time and iron out what I pointed out above, you could actually have a very good story.
That's all for ow. Cheers, L.


The most recently revised English translation of the Gita, as revealed by Swami Sri Atmananda. The material-oriented English language often lacks precise counterparts for the spiritual concepts expressed in Sanskrit, thus as Swami Sri Atmananda's interactions dive continually deeper into the experiential depths of Gita, this translation is updated on an ongoing basis. Miniature pocket-size paperback, 9 x 6 cm.


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Iowa mom gets 3 life sentences in girl's starvation death
An Iowa woman convicted of murder in the starvation death of her 16-year-old adopted daughter has been sentenced to three life terms.
The consecutive sentences were handed down on Friday to 43-year-old Nicole Finn. She was found guilty last month of first-degree murder of Natalie Finn and three counts of kidnapping for confining Natalie's siblings.
Finn said after Friday's hearing that she intends to appeal the verdict but made no other comment after hearing the sentences.
Locked up for life: Nicole Finn, 43 (pictured left in court Friday) was sentenced to three consecutive life terms for the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter, Natalie (right)
Not pleased: A judge on Friday called Finn's actions inexcusable and ordered her to not have any contact with her surviving adopted children
Seeking a do-over: Finn said after Friday's hearing that she intends to appeal the verdict
House of horrors: Nicole boarded up some of windows inside the family's home in West Des Moines to stop Natalie and her siblings from going looking for food
Natalie Finn weighed only 85lbs when she died in October 2016, authorities have said.
Experts testified that her siblings, Mikayla and Jaden, were at risk of starving to death as well and spent months recovering after Natalie suffered cardiac arrest.
Judge Karen Romano called Finn's actions inexcusable and ordered her to not have any contact with her surviving adopted children.
Skeletal: When Natalie died form cardiac arrest in October 2016, she weighed just 85lbs and hardly had any fat or muscle
'The court cannot imagine what kind of mental trauma these children have suffered,' Romano said.
Finn's ex-husband, Joe Finn II, has pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, neglect or abandonment and child endangerment.
He wasn't living with the rest of the family when Natalie died. His trial is scheduled to begin April 30.
During trial, prosecutors described Nicole as more concerned about her cats than her children.
The mother-of-five kept three of her children locked in a bedroom without furniture and didn't allow them regular access to food or a bathroom for months.
The children would at times climb out a window of their home and beg for food from neighbors.
Neighbors and school officials reported their concerns about Natalie's treatment to state child welfare authorities.
After obtaining a court order and visiting the home, the officials declined to remove the girl or her siblings. A child protective worker was later fired amid inquiries by the Department of Human Services, legislators and the Iowa Office of Ombudsman.
In final arguments, the defense said Nicole was detached from reality.
Nicole and her husband Joseph (left) were estranged when Natalie died. He was charged with child endangerment and kidnapping and will stand trial in April


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Minnesota ranks second in volunteer rate; North Dakota comes in 15th
Minnesota and North Dakota were among the top states for volunteering last year, a report released Tuesday said. The Corporation for National and Community Service said 35.4 percent of Minnesota residents volunteered in 2015, which was second-hig...
Pat Donahue delivers a meal to Harriet Omlie last year during a weekly Meals on Wheels shift. North Dakota ranked 15th and Minnesota second in a report on state volunteer rates. (Garrett Richie | Forum News Service)
By John Hageman
Minnesota and North Dakota were among the top states for volunteering last year, a report released Tuesday said.
The Corporation for National and Community Service said 35.4 percent of Minnesota residents volunteered in 2015, which was second-highest in the country, including Washington, D.C. North Dakota ranked 15th, with 30.7 percent of its residents volunteering last year.
"People help one another here," said Pat Berger, president and CEO of the United Way of Grand Forks, East Grand Forks and Area. "Whether that's part of the 'Minnesota Nice' or not, I don't know, but I just know that people are very willing to help out."
Utah's volunteer rate ranked No. 1 in the country, while Louisiana came in last.
The Twin Cities ranked No. 1 for large cities with a volunteer rate of 37.1 percent in 2015. Fargo came in 12th among midsize cities, up from 20th in 2014, according to the CNCS, a federal agency that includes programs such as AmeriCorps.
Grand Forks wasn't included in the rankings.
In both Minnesota and North Dakota, the top volunteer category was collecting, preparing, distributing or serving food.
In North Dakota, 187,819 volunteers logged 15.8 million hours of service in 2015, compared with the more than 1.5 million Minnesota volunteers who spent 155.4 million hours, the report said.
Berger said many smaller communities in North Dakota rely heavily on volunteers, including through fire departments.
"Here in Grand Forks, absolutely none of the nonprofits that I know of could really do all that we do without our volunteers," she said.
That goes for the Grand Forks Senior Center. Jami Schumacher, spokeswoman for the Senior Center, said they wouldn't be able to run their meal delivery programs without the help of volunteers. Overall, the organization had 228 people contribute 12,756 volunteer hours in 2015.
"There are a lot of people, especially once they retire, who feel really strongly about giving back, and it's finally a time in their life that they're able to do that," Schumacher said.


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A guide to the lanes and jungle of Arena of Valor and how players in each lane should fulfill their roles throughout a match.
Players in a lane should focus on defeating the minions and dealing damage to the enemies. Fights throughout the game are heavily influenced by how much gold and experience either team has collectively gained, so keeping a good pace is incredibly important. When an ally wants to try for an ambush, letting the enemy minions push up to your tower can be a good strategy in drawing enemy heroes down the lane. Likewise, be wary of enemy junglers when pushing towards the enemy tower. The main goal a hero should have early game is gaining gold and experience, letting your team know when there aren't any enemies in lane. An empty lane could mean that the enemy is moving to gang up on another lane.
One should always pay constant attention to the map and locations of teammates and enemies. Junglers should always look out for teammates being ambushed, helping them if possible. Helping the team in fights is much more important than defeating monsters or minions. Heroes give much more gold and experience when killed, so preventing opponents from getting kills will make the game easier overall. However, it is better to retreat than to keep fighting if an ally is close to dying. Their death will leave you vulnerable to being attacked by the enemy. On the other hand, don't be too greedy when chasing after an enemy with low HP. Rushing into a bad situation trying to get a kill can lead to a reckless death.
Avoid combat when one or more of your teammates are dead, leaving your team outnumbered. Stay under a tower and wait for your teammates to respawn. If there is no chance of defending the tower, abandoning it is much better than dying.
Giant monsters live near the top and bottom lanes. Constantly check up on them, as letting the enemy team defeat them will give them a huge advantage.
If all enemies are missing from the map, they are most likely fighting one of these monsters. Killing the blue bird which can be found patrolling the river will send a scout around the enemy's jungle and show the location of any enemies it spots. This helps prevent the enemy from attacking the giant monsters, the risk too big when their position is known. It can additionally be used to keep track of enemy heroes when attacking the monster yourself. If you find the enemy team fighting against the monsters, rally your allies rather than going in alone.
As they aren't close to either of the monsters, players in the middle lane can focus more on gaining gold and experience. However, those in the middle lane should move to the sides to help out lanes when needed. Additionally, extra attention should be paid to the enemy in the middle lane and when they are missing. The chance of a side lane getting ambushed is much greater when the middle lane's position is unknown.
All of the monsters in the jungle should be defeated by the jungler. When the jungler is fighting a golem, you can help by dealing some damage, but don't attack after it's HP falls past half. If you don't go back to your lane fast enough, the XP earned from defeating the golem will be split between you and the jungler. You will also miss out on killing the minions in the lane, giving the enemy an experience advantage. Helping the jungler does come with some risk, but it helps prevent being ambushed by opposing junglers. Allied junglers also tend to look out for those that help them out.
Once the monsters start to respawn, the jungler should let mages get the sage buff. The buff can be very useful to spellcasters who don't yet have the items to regenerate their mana. A jungler should cover the lane if they see a mage attacking the sage golem. If lacking in experience, one shouldn't ignore the sage golem completely, however.


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Shanahan responds to Vlasic's complaints on Kessel punishment
By Joe YerdonSep 26, 2013, 10:24 AM EDT
San Jose's Marc-Edouard Vlasic now knows everyone is listening when he speaks, especially the NHL.
Head of player safety Brendan Shanahan heard Vlasic's complaints about the punishment handed down to Phil Kessel and offers up an explanation for his decision. David Pollak of the San Jose Mercury News dug in and got the story.
"My door is always open to any player. If he truly wants an explanation, he can reach out to me anytime and I will give him an explanation. That is an easy route and not something that he necessarily needs to do through the newspaper.
"On each incident, we dissect the details. We use our experience to try to establish intent, degree of recklessness. For someone to say the judgment is too lenient of the judgment is too harsh, that's perfectly acceptable because this is a subjective job and we respect that other people have other opinions."
Shanahan teaches him a lesson and lets him know he should do it man-to-man instead of through the media. Safe to assume Shanahan didn't like reading complaints from another player about how he's doing his job. He even went so far as to explain past actions involving Vlasic.
People may not agree with how Shanahan doles out punishment, but he's owning every bit of it.
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Tags: Brendan Shanahan, Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Phil Kessel, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs
As we await the crucial element of salary retention, let's ponder both players.
Lucic's tough times
After a productive first season in Edmonton where Lucic scored 23 goals and 50 points in 2016-17, Lucic plummeted down the depth chart and in production. This past season was rock bottom, as Lucic scored just six goals and 20 points in 79 games.
The bet on Lucic, some might say in part leading to the dreadful Taylor Hall trade, stands as one of the landmark gaffes of Peter Chiarelli's Era of Error in Edmonton. It was clear that both the player and team needed to part ways, so now there's at least that peace in that regard.
Tags: Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, James Neal, Milan Lucic, Connor McDavid, Evgeni Malkin, James Neal, Milan Lucic, Taylor Hall


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PHE draw targets to cut calories in 75 per cent of foods
Health chiefs have warned that everything from pizzas to burgers, packs of crisps and ready meals will have to shrink in an attack on obesity.
The Government watchdog, Public Health England, is drawing up targets to cut the calorie content of 75 per cent of food on sale in the high street.
The organisation is expected to press for an across the board reduction of more than 10 per cent.
The reductions will be achieved by a mixture of reformulation, taking out some high calorie ingredients, and shrinking products.
PHE have previously set targets to cut the sugar levels in a vast range of products, such as chocolate bars and children's yoghurts, by an average of 20 per cent.
The Government is drawing up guidelines aimed at drastically cutting the calories in popular savoury foods such as pizzas, burgers and crisps
As a result, a number of famous brands have changed the ingredients or cut the size of chocolate bars or the weight of packs of sweets.
Reductions in sugar
Nestle has reduced the sugar content in a number of products like KitKat and the Milkybar on health grounds.
At the same time, everything from Toblerone bars to some Kitkat brands, Maltesers, M&M's and Minstrels have come down in size.
Now, PHE experts are turning to other foods such as pizzas, ready meals, fast food and shop-bought sandwiches.
Chief nutritionist at PHE, Dr Alison Tedstone, told The Grocer that the attack on calorie counts will dwarf its current campaign on sugar levels.
She said proposals that are being drawn up to take calories out of products such as ready meals, burgers and crisp packets would test how far the public would go to prioritise a healthy diet.
Tackling ready meals, sandwiches and snacks
She suggested PHE would be looking for a doubledigit reduction in calories across thousands products, with popular foods such as pizzas having to shrink.
CUT CALORIES TO WARD OFF CANCER
A drastic diet to cut your daily calories by a fifth could ward off cancer and diabetes.
Scientists have found it is possible to turn back the clock and live longer using extreme dieting in middle age.
In monkeys, stopping them from eating between 5pm and 8am extended their lives by 10 per cent, compared to eating normally.
University of Wisconsin researchers said the findings that dieting can fight ageing will also apply to humans, who share 93 per cent of the same genes.
The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, follows research showing that fasting in middle age, or going without food after dark, can help people to live longer, healthier lives.
Restricting the food we put into our bodies appears to make them more able to fight off the illnesses which accompany old age.
Dr Tedstone said: 'The work we have done on sugar has tackled foods responsible for about 25 per cent of the calories people eat.
'We are now looking to move on to those responsible for the lion's share, like ready meals, sandwiches and snacks.
'It is going to be a test because in the crackdown on sugar we had three years of huge noise, whereas there hasn't been that buildup with calories. It has been products that are high in sugar where we have seen things like portion reduction. I don't see portion reduction happening in pizzas.'
Dr Tedstone said the scale of calorie reduction has not been decided yet, but she said it would have to be substantial.
'We haven't decided yet what the figure will be. It doesn't follow that it will be 20per cent like sugar, but we're not going to set a ridiculously low target. It can't be 5 per cent.'
She said the changes would require a change in the ingredients of some products, while others would have to be cut in size.
Backlash from consumers
The proposals risk a backlash from both the food industry and consumers. There is some suspicion that a number of food companies use health concerns to shrink products without cutting prices.
Dr Tedstone said the efforts by PHE were not only designed to improve the health of individuals, but are also important in terms of the wider economy.
'I hope that people will realise we are already paying for the size of the pizzas we eat in the taxation we pay for dealing with obesity in the NHS. What you eat today, your taxes pay for tomorrow,' she said.
The PHE has no legal powers to force companies to cut calorie levels, however it can name and shame those that fail to do so. Just this tactic has been used successfully to force through sugar reductions.


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Battala woodcut prints are the woodcut relief prints produced in the Battala region of Calcutta. Although woodblock printing on fabrics has been in India for centuries, the paper adaptation of woodblock  printing appeared relatively late, because of the late entry and early exit due to advent of lithography the Battala woodcut printing had a remarkably short run. The Battala woodcuts were printed on a very cheap newsprint like paper to keep the cost of these prints low. Because of the short run, cheap paper and humid conditions of the region very few of these prints have survived.

History
In the early 19th Century, the Battala area became known for the prints, which typically had a religious or mystical theme. They made their first appearance in the 1820s as book illustrations;  by the mid nineteenth century printmakers started printing the smaller prints, which often represented Kalighat paintings.

Demand for the prints began to decline with the introduction of  color lithography printing.

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NEW EXHIBITION BY THE SYRIAN-ARMENIAN ARTIST KEVORK MOURAD TAKES THE TOWER OF BABEL AS ITS INSPIRATION
Portrait of Kevork Mourad. Photo: by Connie Tsang
Syrian-Armenian artist Kevork Mourad's way of creating work is unique to himself, and this month — starting June 21 — visitors can witness him putting together a six-metre structure at the Ismaili Centre in South Kensington, London. The work will be completed by July 1, the official opening date, and will then be on display at the Centre's Zamana Space until August, 2019
The exhibition, entitled Seeing Through Babel, comes through a partnership with the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, where Mourad had an exhibition in 2019, and the Ismaili Centre, and has been inspired by the Old Testament story of Babel.
In that story, mankind is punished for attempting to construct a tower to heaven, an act of hubris that led God to create multiple languages so as to prevent such collusions happening again. For this exhibition, Mourad explores the story of Babel, using visual imagery as a means to connect people across the language divide.
Making artworks in public is integral to Mourad's practice, and in addition to inviting the public to witness him creating it he will also hold talks at 11.30am and at 2.30pm every day during this period. The work, which uses the artist's trademark techniques — monotypes and drawing onto the surface of the work — is designed to allow visitors to walk in and around it, allowing closer consideration of its themes.
Observes Kevork: 'I have often thought of this story, as it is said to be a moment that divided mankind. I see it as a moment when diversity was created.' Describing his work, he points to how, through visual language, 'it can connect people who speak different languages and come from different cultural backgrounds. Where Babel separated, visual art connects.'
Says Henry S. Kim, the Director and CEO of the Aga Khan Museum: 'We are very pleased to be able to present an exhibition in London for the very first time and even more so that it is Kevork's premiere in the city. He is an extraordinary artist who has developed a unique technique to tell stories visually.'
Atassi Foundation, In the Age of New Media exhibition: installation shot. Photo: Nairy Shahnian
Liakat Hasham, President of the Shia Imami Ismaili Council for the United Kingdom, says: 'The reopening of the Zamana Space after such a long hiatus is an important moment, as it offers the opportunity for The Ismaili Centre to contribute to the thriving arts corridor of Exhibition Road.'
The Ismaili Centres — they are many all over the world — are symbolic markers of the permanent presence and core values of Ismaili communities around the world. Meanwhile, the Aga Khan Museum has been established and developed by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC), which is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The Museum's mission is to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the contribution that Muslim civilizations have made to world heritage while often reflecting, through both its permanent and temporary exhibitions, how cultures connect with one another. Designed by architect Fumihiko Maki, the Museum shares a 6.8-hectare site with Toronto's Ismaili Centre, which was designed by architect Charles Correa. The surrounding landscaped park was designed by landscape architect Vladimir Djurovic.
A video documenting the creation of Seeing Through Babel will be shown during the show. In addition, visitors can also explore the world of jewellery, textiles and one of a kind objects for sale at the Centre inspired by the Collections at the Aga Khan Museum.
Exhibition dates: 1 July 2019–15 August 2019
Open invitation to view the artwork being created: 21–30 June, 11am–6pm
Meet the Artist Public Day: 6 July 2019
For more information see: https://the.ismaili/united-kingdom/seeing-through-babel
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Construction: 1998. Steel, copper, brass and marble.
This console table was designed for placement in a hallway or foyer. It not only serves as a pedestal for ornamentation, but its visual presence and ornate detail work make for a singularly elegant statement.


F&B and I made muffins yesterday, two batches which took well over an hour. Little helpers do not make for quick cooking in any way, shape or form.
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Clinoptilolite-K: (Na,K,Ca)2-3Al3(Al,Si)2Si13O36·12(H2O)
Comments: Thin, bladed aggregates of authigenic clinoptilolite covering an altered rock fragment. SEM image of a core sample.
Location: Unknown. Scale: Picture size 50 µ-m.
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Corrensite Image
Corrensite: (Ca,Na,K)(Mg,Fe,Al)9(Si,Al)8O20(OH)10·n(H2O)
Comments: Platy, authigenic chloritic mixed-layer clays (Corrensite?), lining the pore spaces of a sandstone. SEM image from a core sample.
Illite Image
Illite: (K,H3O)(Al,Mg,Fe)2(Si,Al)4O10[(OH)2,(H2O)]
Comments: Wispy, authigenic illite crystals lining a pore space in sandstone. SEM image from a core sample.
Kaolinite Image
Kaolinite: Al2Si2O5(OH)4
Comments: Authigenic kaolinite plates covering a quartz grain overgrown with authigenic quartz. SEM image of a core sample.
Montmorillonite Image
Montmorillonite: (Na,Ca)0,3(Al,Mg)2Si4O10(OH)2·n(H2O)
Comments: Authigenic smectite (montmorillonite) overgrown on pore spaces and authigenicly-overgrown quartz grains in a sandstone. SEM image of a core sample.


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Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes
The Whiting Literary Magazine Prizes acknowledge, reward, and encourage organizations that actively nurture the writers who tell us, through their art, what is important. Prizes are awarded in print and digital categories to smaller and mid-sized journals with budgets of up to $500,000. Each prize includes an outright gift in the first year, followed by substantial matching grants in the next two years and capacity building opportunities. read more >
2020 Print Prize Winner
($150,000 to $500,000 budget)
One Story is built on a singular vision: to publish one short story at a time. Each month, subscribers receive a single work of carefully curated fiction, printed in a pocket-size chapbook designed to give readers a chance to slow down and think deeply. To spotlight new voices, One Story only publishes authors once. It extends its devotion to nurturing talent with One Teen Story, a magazine featuring teen writers. Since its founding in 2002, One Story has worked to increase and expand the readership, creation, impact, and value of short stories in the world.
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Over the last two decades, One Story has become a standard-bearer for elegance in magazine publishing; each lithe issue, its design an homage to zine culture, contains a single riveting short story. This form is often likened to the sonnet, being short and perfectible, but the fictions in One Story create sumptuous, almost novelistic worlds. The magazine has assiduously built a warm and vital community of writers and mentors. Favoring new and untested writers and never publishing the same one twice, One Story is a critical port of arrival.
(under $150,000 budget)
Conjunctions has propelled literature forward for four decades by publishing groundbreaking fiction, poetry, plays, and creative nonfiction that marry visionary imagination with formally innovative execution. Each issue illuminates a complex theme—such as exile, desire, the body, or climate change—in a book-length format that gives space to long-form work and a multitude of perspectives. From its home in Bard College, Conjunctions and its founding editor, Bradford Morrow, have earned recognition for uplifting both new writers and contemporary masters who challenge convention.
Every issue of Conjunctions is a feat of curatorial invention, continuing the Modernist project of dense, economical writing, formal innovation, and an openness to history and the world. Its longevity is a testament to its cultural staying power. Organized around a unifying idea, each issue stitches together work by storytellers and scholars to create a fluid and expansive survey of our most pressing human concerns.
Foglifter
2020 Print Development Grantee Winner
Rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foglifter is a platform for LGBTQ+ writers that supports and uplifts powerful, intersectional, and transgressive queer and trans writing through publication and public readings to build and enrich our communities as well as the greater literary arts. Since 2016, this biannual journal has provided a path to representation for a broad selection of LGBTQ+ voices, centering queer and trans literary artists of color, youth, elders, and those beyond traditional LGBTQ+ cultural centers so that readers and audiences can see their own experiences authentically represented through queer and trans literary arts.
A passionate commitment to building community, a collaborative editorial project, and an unflagging sense of imagination are Foglifter's abiding trademarks. A journal made by queer and trans writers imagining the journal their past selves would want to read, Foglifter is a bright spot on the literary map for thinkers, artists, and readers of many generations. The work it publishes is fresh, alive, and ripe with creative energy.
2020 Digital Prize Winner
Kweli's mission is to nurture emerging writers of color and writers identifying as women by creating opportunities for their voices to be recognized and valued. Founding editor Laura Pegram has guided Kweli since 2009, publishing a triannual online journal and investing in writers' growth through workshops, fellowships, readings, an annual conference, and an international festival. Kweli, which means "truth" in Swahili, celebrates cultural kinship and the role of the literary imagination to envision a world where the narratives we tell reflect the full truth of history and blaze a path of new possibilities for the future.
Reading this journal is a revelation. Here are stories of deep, lived-in materiality. The abundant respect animating its editorial process means its writers, many of them women of color, do not have to justify their concerns and can simply dive into the pleasures of form and narrative. With its vibrant internationalism and the career- and craft-building opportunities it offers its writers, Kweli strives to publish a more generous, humane world into existence.
Nat. Brut
2020 Digital Development Grantee Winner
Nat. Brut (pronounced "nat broot") is an online journal of art and literature dedicated to advancing inclusivity in all creative fields. Since 2012, it has published two issues annually—as well as folios that collect work at specific intersections of marginalized experiences—bolstering voices that are buried, ignored, or absent from public consciousness. As a home for the playful, the unruly, the formal, and the experimental, by artists who are trained and untrained, Nat. Brut believes in the power of juxtaposing diverging voices to form surprising and unfamiliar connections.
Nat. Brut has carved out a corner of the internet and filled it with style and ingenuity. Its aesthetic is one of fascinating unorthodoxy, gracefully pairing each piece with a creative commons image sourced from the depths of cyberspace. Innovations in low-cost but creative career support demonstrate real empathy between editors and writers. Nat. Brut shows us how to relish what mainstream culture has overlooked or forgotten.
The Common is a print and digital literary journal with a mission to deepen our individual and collective sense of place. Based at Amherst College and under the direction of founder and editor Jennifer Acker, it features literature and images suffused with the particularities of place, including portfolios and works in translation from vital literary communities around the world. Through its print issues, open access website, public programs, and mentorship of the next generation of writers, readers, and editors, The Common serves as a space for the global exchange of ideas and experiences.
In the pages of The Common, "location" is understood as a roving artistic and intellectual GPS point. Stunning portfolios, sophisticated design, and an intuitive sense of literary connectivity give readers access to a deep reservoir of global perspectives, and unite them as students of the human condition. The Common's exemplary resources for teachers and its devotion to elevating new writers will help bring into being a new generation of readers and thinkers.
American Short Fiction
American Short Fiction publishes stories that dive into the wreck, that stretch the reader between recognition and surprise, that conjure the world with delicate expertise. Founded in 1991, ASF has earned a national reputation for first-rate fiction and a commitment to fostering the careers of a diverse range of writers. Each issue, assembled by coeditors Adeena Reitberger and Rebecca Markovits, publishes works by well-known authors alongside emerging voices that enrich our understanding of ourselves, our world, and the possibilities of the form.
Thirty years after its founding, American Short Fiction continues to build on its legacy of artful innovation. Budding talent appears in company with venerated masters, and the magazine's deep investment in its Austin community gives it a strong foundation for creating national resonance. It remains urgent and fresh, its purpose clear: to shake us awake and bring the peculiarity of existence into full focus.
Named for the river that runs along The University of Alabama, Black Warrior Review is the oldest continuously-run literary journal produced by graduate students in the United States. Since its founding in 1974, it has become known for nurturing writing that moves outside boundaries of form and genre, and has a rich history of taking risks and championing the unexpected. BWR continues to create space for experimentation by showcasing uncommon literature by intergenerational and international writers that push against expectations and subvert structures of oppression.
Full of elegance and grit, fluidity and resolve, Black Warrior Review is a singular beacon for adventurous writing that shines forth from Alabama. This journal brings together what is gorgeous and necessary in literature today, treating each piece it publishes as an act of optimistic revolution. Black Warrior Review dissolves convention and leaves possibility in its place.
The Margins
The Margins is a literary, arts, and ideas magazine dedicated to inventing the Asian American creative culture of tomorrow. As the editorial arm of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, it draws upon a commitment to social justice to imagine a vibrant, nuanced, multiracial, and transnational Asian America. The digital magazine currently houses three special projects: Open City, A World Without Cages, and the Transpacific Literary Project, and works in tandem with AAWW's fellowship programs to nurture emerging Asian American writers.
An indispensable incubator for audacious intellect and human complexity, The Margins reshapes literature even as it creates space for nuance, voice, imagination, and connection. As an institution, it has a profound impact on our cultural consciousness: the legion of writers The Margins has nurtured redefines our understanding of what it is to be Asian American in this country, and in the world.
The Offing
The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. It champions writing that digs deep into the wonder and horrors of the world, examines everyday curiosities and cultural artifacts, and challenges aesthetics, politics, ideologies, literature, and the human experience. The Offing makes compensating writers a priority and actively amplifies voices marginalized in literary spaces. The Offing is a place for new writers to test their voices and for established writers to test their limits.
The Offing is a cross-genre concourse of art and ideas that engage the world and our present moment head-on. The magazine's vibrancy is due in no small part to its unswerving commitment to amplifying marginalized voices, and its sharp but compassionate understanding of what writers need to thrive. The Offing sets the mark and pushes us past it.
A Public Space welcomes voices and conversation unheard elsewhere. In print, online, and in person, the singular literary, arts, and culture magazine nurtures writers and readers, too, expansively challenging them to move beyond borders. Under the direction of founding editor Brigid Hughes since 2006, A Public Space is committed to excavating archives of distinction, and devoted to nurturing new talent through its fellowship program as well as dynamic events for everyone.
Every issue of A Public Space juxtaposes finely wrought, carefully edited pieces, putting them in dynamic conversation with one another. An expertly assembled mix of contributors includes emerging talents as well as writers rediscovered through a kind of archival derring-do. Through its sought-after fellowships, meanwhile, APS extends to out-of-the-mainstream writers an admirable level of editorial support. It stands as a paradigm of what literary magazines can be: a gorgeously curated collection we experience as a cabinet of wonders.
Fence is a biannual print journal of poetry, fiction, art, and criticism. Founded by Rebecca Wolff and in continuous publication since 1998, their mission is to maintain a dedicated venue for writing that speaks across genre, socio-cultural niches, and ideological boundaries. Fence publishes largely from unsolicited submissions, and is committed to the literature and art of queer writers and writers of color. Fence encourages collective appreciation of variousness by showcasing writing that inheres outside of the constraints of opinion, trend, and market.
If American contemporary literature can be described as a site for novel language experiments, we owe a great deal of that to Fence and the writers it's championed. Fence burst on the scene twenty years ago, changing the landscape of work published by literary journals. The magazine remains as vital now, and its campaign against literary homogeneity as urgent. Open an issue at random and you'll find something vivid, strange, and beautiful, something joyfully pushing at the limit of poetic form and trusting its readers to keep up. This pioneer remains central to the canon.
Words Without Borders is the premier destination for global literary conversation. Founded in 2003, WWB seeks to expand cultural understanding by giving readers unparalleled access to contemporary world literature in English translation while providing a vital platform for today's international writers. To date, its free digital magazine has published work by more than 2,200 writers from 134 countries, translated from 114 languages. WWB's online education program, WWB Campus, brings this eye-opening international literature into the classroom.
Working tirelessly to bring a robust, insightful array of otherwise unavailable international literature to grateful readers—and publishers—Words Without Borders has singlehandedly expanded the breadth of the contemporary literary conversation. This is writing that places you inside a culture. In focusing on translators as artists, it plays an essential role in the publishing ecosystem. With translations from more than a hundred languages now available in its archives, and through its organizational partnerships and other readership-building endeavors, the project stands as a monument to international collaboration and a shared belief in artistic possibility.


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