Kentucky State Trooper Trooper Mac McDonald carries a bundle of marijuana along railroad tracks near Barbourville, Ky. (Photo by Roger Alford)Machete-wielding police officers have hacked their way through billions of dollars worth of marijuana in the country's top pot-growing states to stave off a bumper crop sprouting in the tough economy.
The number of plants seized has jumped this year in California, the nation's top marijuana-growing state, while seizures continue to rise in Washington after nearly doubling the previous year. Growers in a three-state region of central Appalachia also appear to have reversed a decline in pot cultivation over the last two years.
Officers in those areas, the nation's biggest hotbeds for marijuana production, have chopped down plants with a combined street value of around $12 billion in the first eight months of this year. While national numbers aren't yet available this year, officers around the country increased their haul from 7 million plants in 2007 to 8 million in 2008.
Growers in Appalachia are often hard-luck entrepreneurs supplementing their income by growing marijuana, authorities say. Troopers thrashing through the thick mountain brush there typically find plots that could easily be tended by a single grower, while officers in the two western states have focused on larger fields run by Mexican cartels with immigrant labor.
Officers assigned to the Tennessee Governor's Task Force on Marijuana Eradication were working Thursday to destroy an expansive marijuana field near Jellico, Tenn. Authorities initially said the field might be the biggest ever found in the state, eclipsing a discovery last year of 350,000 plants in the Appalachian foothills. They later said fewer plants were found Thursday but they were more mature — some as tall as 6 feet — than the ones discovered last year.
The marijuana was being airlifted to a Tennessee state park to be burned. No one had been arrested.
The demand for domestically grown marijuana is at a record high, in part because stricter border control has made it more difficult to import pot from Mexico, said Dave Keller, deputy director of the Appalachian High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Keller said growers large and small across the country are trying to fill the void.
The ailing economy isn't stopping users from spending money on pot. In fact, Shemelya said the demand appears to be rising with the unemployment rate.
The number of plants destroyed in California has increased over the last three years, said the assistant chief of the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, Kent Shaw. The total increased from 4.9 million plants in 2007 to 5.3 million in 2008. Already this year, Shaw said, California authorities have exceeded last year's total.
To the north, authorities in Washington have seen the numbers jump from 295,000 plants seized in 2007 to 580,000 in 2008. Lt. Rich Wiley, commander of the Washington State Patrol's narcotics unit, said his officers have confiscated 540,000 so far this year and he expects to meet or exceed last year's numbers.
In the heart of Appalachia, ground forces have cut more than 600,000 marijuana plants this summer in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia, and they should end the year with a significantly higher total, Shemelya said. The plants' street value of about $2,000 each creates an often irresistible draw in communities where long-standing poverty has been fed over the years by the shuttering of factories and coal mines.
In Appalachia and the two western states, authorities said the amount of resources put into eradication efforts has been constant over the past several years.
Judge Kelsey Friend, whose jurisdiction includes some of the most isolated mountain communities in Kentucky, said he believes a huge chunk of the Appalachian marijuana is grown by people so hard-pressed that they're willing to risk freedom to improve their standard of living. The ill-gotten gains, Friend said, show up in the form of new pickup trucks, boats and even homes.
However, only an estimated 20 to 40 percent of the growers in the region manage to harvest and collect their payoff without being detected by modern day G-men assisted by spotters in helicopters.
Last month, Trooper Mac McDonald descended a mountainside near Barbourville with a load of freshly cut marijuana bundled on his shoulder, sweat dripping from his brow. McDonald and his co-workers had trudged up mountains as steep as they were remote to search dense Chinese silvergrass and expansive patches of thorny blackberry briars to find the typically small, scattered plots.
A crackdown begun six years ago had convinced many growers to give up, rather than contend with the helicopters constantly crisscrossing the region in the summer months, authorities said. But the number of growers appears to have picked up since the economy turned sour.
The amount of marijuana confiscated in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia fell from more than 1.2 million plants in 2003 to just more than 700,000 in 2007. But in 2008, with the economy faltering, narcotics officers witnessed another marijuana boom in the mountains, and they again confiscated more than 1 million plants in the three states.


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Yelachenahalli is a municipal area (halli means "village" in Kannada) on Kanakpura Road, Bangalore, but has fast developed into a hub of development with malls and high rise buildings. Over the last few years, this area has transformed itself into an extension to the IT city. It is very near to JP Nagara, approx 10 km from MG Road, 15 km from Electronic city.

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Is 3G Capital Dragging Berkshire Hathaway Over To The "Dark Side"?
Warren Buffett was forced to defend his association with 3G Capital from the beginning of the ritual Q&A session at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK-B) Annual Meeting last Saturday, as a shareholder said that "he cannot make a moral case" for the Brazilian investment firm's aggressive cost-cutting programs at acquired companies. Given that Berkshire Hathaway's partnership with 3G Capital is more likely to expand than shrink over the next decade, Berkshire shareholders ought to understand its nature. In fact, 3G's methods are not inconsistent with Mr. Buffett's approach to business, which is, well, all business.
Partnering with 3G Capital, for example on the 2013 acquisition of H.J. Heinz -- and now on the merger of Heinz with Kraft (NASDAQ: KRFT) -- is a new modus operandi for Berkshire, at least on this scale. 3G Capital sources its acquisitions and is then responsible for operational oversight. Berkshire, meanwhile, acts as a passive investor, supplying the capital but ultimately reaping the rewards of 3G's operational expertise and efforts without having to pay a management fee -- the sort of partnership anyone can appreciate!
The trouble is that, to many outside observers, 3G Capital superficially resembles a "strip-'em-and-flip-'em" private equity firm that loads up acquired companies with debt and cuts costs to the bone before returning them to the public markets or selling them on to a new acquirer (often another private equity firm!). In some cases, these operators' holding periods are just a few years.
"We have no exit strategy"
When Berkshire acquires a business, it exercises minimal oversight, leaving the existing management to exercise the sort of autonomy it enjoyed when it was independent.
As Buffett wrote in his 2002 Shareholder Letter: "Unlike LBO operators and private equity firms, we have no 'exit' strategy -- we buy to keep."
The first point reflects the fact that, although Mr. Buffett is a businessman and an exceptional student of business, he is not interested in getting stuck in the nuts-and-bolts of a Berkshire operating business to improve it, much less turn it around (this is something he has done earlier in his career, out of necessity, including at the Buffalo News and Salomon Brothers.) Instead, he prefers to acquire well-oiled machines and let the people already running them get on with it.
"That doesn't mean I endorse it. I basically tolerate it."
On 3G, neither I nor Charlie Munger have ever said there should be more people than are needed in a company...I tip my hat to what the 3G people have done... I hope our Berkshire companies are not being run with more people than they need, either... We do have some businesses where we probably have more people than we need, and I don't do anything about it. But that doesn't mean that I endorse it. I basically tolerate it.
It is true that private equity firms generally have some timetable that when they want to get out of an investment -- sometimes they get out just in a couple of years. 3G and we -- we're their partner -- has no plans to do anything but build the businesses that we've joined them with and they've showed no indication to do anything else throughout their history. They're in a retailing operation in Brazil that they went in 20 years ago. They are builders -- they are builders of efficiency as well as builders of the product... These fellows, every conversation I have with them -- they want to figure out how to make the companies bigger and more efficient over time and I've watched them do it. They're in no way private equity operators who are buying a business, getting an override for owning for a while and then selling it.
In fact, back in March, when he was discussing the merger with Kraft, Buffett went as far as to say regarding 3G Capital, "I don't think it's even proper to call them a private equity firm."
In sum, Buffett's stance appears to be that a genuine long-term owner is well within their rights (in a broad ethical sense) to make cuts, even deep cuts, at a business, because they are acting with the long-term vitality of the business in mind -- a defensible proposition, in my opinion.
Still, 3G Capital's involvement does raise some questions. It's an investment firm with outside investors, after all. Although I'm certain 3G Capital has a longer holding period than your run-of-the-mill private equity firm, it's difficult for me to believe that period is "forever". How do they offer their investors liquidity? Thankfully for Berkshire shareholders, that question highlights a potential source of opportunity. I can easily imagine a scenario that has Berkshire buying out 3G Capital's stake in Kraft Heinz, for example.
Either way, you can expect Berkshire to team up with 3G Capital on more acquisitions in the future. As Buffett quipped on Saturday morning in front of the Heinz stall at Omaha's CenturyLink Center: "I like big deals, but they [3G Capital] really like big deals."


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Reynolds's Lost Children: The Strawberry Girl and Others
Joshua Reynolds The Strawberry Girl. © Wallace Collection
It is hard not to be captivated by Joshua Reynolds's painting The Strawberry Girl, which hangs in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House in Manchester Square. When it was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1773, Horace Walpole jotted down in his copy of the catalogue the single word "charming", and we can see what that eminent man of taste meant. The girl stares out at us with childish directness, and, isolated against a rocky background, she looks vulnerable. Reynolds produced many paintings of children, but he was particularly fond of this one. He is reported to have said that a lifetime could produce only half a dozen original works. In this shortest of shortlists he would certainly want to include The Strawberry Girl.
And yet The Strawberry Girl is more than just an enchanting picture. For behind it there lies a fascinating London story.
STRAWBERRY GIRLS BOTH REAL …
The clue to this story is the basket, or "pottle", that can be seen beneath the girl's right arm. This humble object would perhaps have meant rather more to an eighteenth-century viewer than it does to us, for it was an essential piece of equipment for the transporting of fruit, an industry that employed a great many people in Reynolds's day. Under the influence of their Dutch counterparts, the English market gardeners were rapidly improving methods of cultivation. Consequently fruit was being consumed in ever greater quantities, and strawberries—so much a part of the English scene ever since Cardinal Wolsey discovered how to eat them with cream—were no exception. No doubt the arrival of superior foreign varieties, which growers crossed with the wild native product, enhanced the fruit's appeal.
The centre of the trade in fruit was London, its voracious demands met by the market gardens in rural districts that are now encompassed by the modern capital. In his 1792 local history, The Environs of London, Daniel Lysons estimated that 800 acres within 12 miles of the metropolis were given over to the cultivation of fruit for Covent Garden and the other London markets, the areas most favoured by growers being those along the river that benefited from a loamy soil and the easy supply of manure by water-carriage.
Two strawberry plants (Fragaria cultivars): fruit and flowers. Aquatint by Charles McIntosh dated c. 1839. Credit: Wellcome Collection. CC BY
The best fruit to reach Covent Garden was sold to those few outlets that were prepared to pay the highest prices, typically shops in the West End. The bulk of the produce was simply hawked through the streets, and, if Smollett is to be believed, it was pretty unappealing. Matthew Bramble in The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker is horrified to see "a dirty barrow-bunter"—a woman with a wheelbarrow—"cleaning her dusty fruit with her own spittle". He goes on to describe London strawberries as "pallid, contaminated mash", a condition they are reduced to by being "tossed by greasy paws through twenty baskets crusted with dirt". Not especially enticing!
The hard work of carrying fruit from the market gardens to the metropolis was done by women, whose labour was cheaper than men's. As the areas with the greatest yield of strawberries were Brentford, Twickenham and lsleworth, the distances the loads had to be carried were considerable. With a basket of up to fifty pottles balanced on her head, a strawberry woman would set off on a journey of as much as thirteen miles—from Isleworth, for example. Lesser distances were repeated two, three or even four times a day. Even with a load weighing from forty to fifty pounds she still might walk at a speed contemporary witnesses judged to be five miles an hour. At the end of a day's work she would receive no more than nine shillings, depending on the total distance covered.
Fine strawberries! Image in Andrew White Tuer Old London Street Cries (1885) page 83.
These strawberry women must have been a striking sight, and during the summer months large numbers flocked to the environs of the capital to undertake seasonal work. Various sources suggest that many came on foot from parts of Shropshire and North Wales, where the sifting and carrying of hard ore at the surface of iron mines, which was their usual work, fitted them for a summer in the fruit gardens of the south.
Understandably, these tough characters were a recognisable type in the late eighteenth century. They were a byword for honest industry, and because of the nature of their work they were admired for their robust, healthy looks. Richard Phillips, the radical writer and publisher, thought that "for beauty, symmetry and complexion they are not inferior to the nymphs of Arcadia". He admired a work ethic that endured considerable hardship in order to support aged parents or keep offspring out of the workhouse.
Such, then, is the life of hardship and grinding labour that Reynolds's strawberry girl has apparently—and see below!—been born into. Not that this is his only painting to hint at the rather sad twilight world of the children of the poor. Two further experiments in the genre can be seen in the Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park in Oxfordshire. In Beggar Boy and His Sister a boy in dreary clothes gazes out from the dark. He is trapped, helpless, and a little scared. Clinging to his back, and all but lost in shadow, is a little sister. Though not shown in the painting there were other siblings too, all of whom the boy supported by making and mending nets, such as the one he is seen holding. The companion piece at Buscot, Mercury as a Cut Purse, once again presents a solitary and detached figure. Despite the whimsical symbolism, the boy's downcast expression and the drab landscape give the painting the same sentimental immediacy Walpole found so beguiling in The Strawberry Girl.
Reynolds's studio at no. 47 Leicester Square. Image in Walter Armstrong Sir Joshua Reynolds (1900) page 189.
Reynolds's interest in such subjects is well documented. His close acquaintance and one-time pupil, the painter James Northcote, recalled that if the great man met a picturesque beggar in the streets, he would direct him or her to his house at no. 47 Leicester Square. There he would paint them between appointments with his grander subjects, and a plaintive "Sir!—I'm tired" would be heard issuing from the studio at regular intervals. The anecdote accords well with the curiously vague entries—"boy", "beggar", "child"—made by Reynolds in his notebook for the early '70s.
… AND PRETEND
Is the strawberry girl one of Reynolds's beggar children? Almost certainly not. Her dress of pale muslin, tied with a bow and gathered at the waist with a red sash, and her fashionable turban à la Turque, are more suggestive of wealth than poverty. Other portraits give clear evidence of Reynolds's fondness for incongruous settings: the young Lady Catherine Pelham-Clinton, for example, is seen feeding farmyard poultry in immaculate muslin and lace. Similarly The Strawberry Girl is unlikely to be anything other than a flight of fancy, the paint-and-canvas counterpart to the rustic costume complete with "a little garland or wreath of flowers" that Fanny Burney wore to a masquerade in 1770.
Who then is this little girl, whose costume so ill suits her role? It used to be thought that she is Theophila ("Offy") Palmer, a niece of Reynolds. This identification has now been challenged, though, on the grounds that Offy Palmer would have been too old to be the strawberry girl: in 1773 she would have been sixteen. Another suggestion is that the sitter is a child who lived near Hopton Hall in Derbyshire, where Reynolds had once travelled to paint the incumbent, Phillip Gell. Probably her identity is lost forever.
LEAVING THE LAND
Which may not matter. For the real point about the painting is not who but what it portrays, and that is the inevitable passage of time. In other words it is a vanitas. Before long the girl will grow into a woman, and the years will see to it that her childhood is lost for good.
Some such moral—loss of childhood innocence as the disappearance of an Arcadia—would certainly be appropriate to the later decades of the eighteenth century, an age that saw Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Goldsmith's The Deserted Village. In point of fact Goldsmith dedicated his poem to Reynolds, and its lament for a way of life retreating before the onset of commercial progress was born of the same nostalgia as paintings like The Strawberry Girl:
And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand,
Far, far away thy children leave the land.
Whatever is the case, The Strawberry Girl is one of Reynolds's best loved works. It was sold in 1796 to a John Willett-Willett for £81 18s, but, when it passed to the 4th Marquis of Hertford (Richard Seymour-Conway) some sixty years later, it went for the princely sum of £2,215. Corresponding with his agent Samuel Mawson, the Marquis wryly commented that he "should be sorry to have a large basket at that price"—an allusion to the pottle—but he made it perfectly clear that this acquisition gave him very great pleasure.
But the story has a sad ending. As is well known, Reynolds attempted to emulate the effects of the Old Masters, but his use of fugitive colours and faulty media caused a number of images to deteriorate. A particularly distressing example of the results of these experiments is A Girl with a Baby, resting in a very poor state in the Dulwich Picture Gallery in South East London. Even in his lifetime Reynolds' s transient canvasses were much commented on, and he was not spared a certain satirical attention.
The point is well made by an anecdote about Charles Moore, the 1st Marquess of Drogheda, which we owe to the Rev Henry Crowe. The Marquis, who sat for Reynolds in 1761, led a riotous life abroad for some thirty years until he "became bilious, and returned to Ireland with a shattered constitution. He then found that the portrait and original had faded together, and corresponded, perhaps, as well as when first painted".
The Strawberry Girl is one of these melancholy, half-lost paintings. What an irony that its deterioration has only enhanced the sense of childish fragility and fleeting innocence that make it so arresting! Looking at us from a wall in Hertford House the girl reminds us of Blake's children in Holy Thursday with "their innocent faces clean" and "raising their innocent hands". Unwittingly, and unforgettably, Reynolds has given us a definitive image of the poignant fading of childhood.
There are many accounts of Reynolds's life and work. Those consulted for this post include: Walter Armstrong Sir Joshua Reynolds (1900); William Cotton Sir Joshua Reynolds and his Works (1856); Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1899-1901); Charles Robert Leslie Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1865). The image of The Strawberry Girl is © Wallace Collection. Available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Unported) licence. https://wallacelive.wallacecollection.org/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=64959&viewType=detailView
The Wallace Collection is open daily. The Dulwich Picture Gallery is open every day except Mondays.
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I really enjoyed the article about The Strawberry Girl. Informative but also anecdotal. Look forward to more.
Susan Bercu
Amidst the 500 paintings shown at the Wallace, this child's plaintive expression stopped me in my tracks. I inferred an empathy for her plight by Reynolds and wanting to know her story, I skimmed through some interpretations on other sites. Then yours…digging deeper and revealing a disturbing romanticized vision of the poor. Well done!
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'The Strawberry Girl' I believe was an ancestor of mine Sarah Margaret Edwards, baptized in 1771 Middlesex London who later married the Reverend Hugh Totty she was the daughter of Colonel Samuel Edwards and Sarah Robinson. I believe that this portrait was in the possession of her nephew the Rev Samuel Valentine Edwards.
See Newspaper article – Norwood News, London, 23 Dec, 1882
Pantomine … Art Exhibition at the Crystal Palace … 2 portraits of Sir Joshua Reynolds and 2 portraits of Zoffany, lent by Rev S V Edwards of Hanwell, the former were a portrait of a child with strawberries, Sarah Margaret Edwards, who afterwards married Rev. Dr Hugh Totty, and died at age 86, and of Sir George Hay one of the Lords of the Admiralty. The portraits by Zoffany were of Colonel Samuel Edwards and Mrs Samuel Edwards.

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Akron University to host financial planning symposium
AKRON, Ohio – Event organizers at the University of Akron's College of Business are seeking not just to attract workers to the financial industry, but they are specifically targeting women and people of all backgrounds.
Carina Diamond is the Chief Experience Officer at Dakota Wealth Management. She is among the 25% of women in financial planning jobs, but the shortage doesn't stop there.
"There are even fewer colored people or gays or something from different backgrounds," said Diamond.
Because for years, financial advice with a demographically lacking diversity was the rule.
"I think we are currently seeing a lack of diversity in the industry because it has traditionally been a white male role to manage household finances," said Dr. Barry Mulholland, director of the financial planning program at the University of Akron.
The industry is currently at a turning point.
"We can clearly see that this financial literacy is lacking," said Mulholland.
Due to the fact that more and more people need financial advice but don't have the hands to meet that need. The University of Akron is hosting a Diversitas Financial Planning Symposium, virtual and in person.
"We're going to do some live sessions on site. In particular, we will have a really fun session where we will talk about financial literacy and bring our students together with the professionals in the room, "said Mulholland.
Anyone interested in financial wealth management shouldn't forget that you don't have to be good at math, sales, or even a college degree in finance.
"We promote career influencers. And these in turn are teachers, career counselors, school principals. It could be career outplacement professionals who need to understand that there is still a great opportunity for career changers to get into this industry, "said Mulholland.
Specifically, encourage women and people from all backgrounds to provide financial aid to various communities.
"I think in general; you know, certain races may prefer a counselor with their ethnicity who really understands their value system and how they make decisions, things like that, "Diamond said.
The Financial Planning Symposium is free and will take place virtually and in person on the Akron University campus on Wednesday, November 3, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. However, you have to register online in advance. Click here to register.
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Earle was eager to learn the aviation business from the ground up. He was eager to get into the research development business of one of the large airline companies. Throughout his boyhood, he showed a knack for things mechanical. He could do anything to dynamos and engines. Early in 1932, he received his pilot's license.
• He appeared on the census in 1910 at 3406 West Monroe Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He lived in the household of his parents.
• He appeared on the census in 1920 at 3406 West Monroe Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He lived in the household of his parents. He is listed by his middle name of Earle.
• He appeared on the census in 1930 at 3406 West Monroe Street in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. He lived in the household of his widowed mother, along with his newly wed wife. He is listed by his middle name of Earle.
• He served in the U.S. army in 1934 in Alaska.
• He worked as an aerospace engineer.
• His Social Security Number was 353-01-2538.
• He had a residence at 2583 Buenos Aires Drive in 1961 in Covina, Los Angeles County, California.
• He had a residence in 2000 in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California.
• His funeral was held at at McFarlane Mortuary 31 March 2000 in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California.
James married Rheta Gardner, daughter of Burdine Hugh Gardner and Visa Jane [--?--], 31 August 1929 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana.153 (Rheta Gardner was born 6 September 1910 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana,155 died 21 November 1933 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 156 and was buried 25 November 1933 in Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana at Crown Hill Cemetery 157.) The cause of her death was murder (shot in the back of the head).


We've been spending our time putting the finishing touches on the film, including perfecting the soundtrack. With this post-production frenzy almost behind us, we're thrilled to share the next chapter of our story. Two 4 One will screen at the Vancouver International Film Festival this fall, part of BC Spotlight.
Find out about Two 4 One and the other 12 BC Spotlight films over at The Georgia Straight website.


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Your search for rain (Keyword) returned 1494 results for the whole karstbase:
Speleothems and paleoglaciers, , Spotl Christoph, Mangini Augusto,
Ice and speleothems are widely regarded as mutually exclusive as the presence of liquid water is a fundamental prerequisite for speleothem deposition. Here we show that speleothems may form in caves overlain by a glacier, as long as the temperature in the cave is above freezing and the conduits are not completely flooded by melt water. Carbonate dissolution is accomplished via sulfide oxidation and the resultant speleothems show high [delta]13C values approaching and locally exceeding those of the parent host rock (lack of soil-derived biogenic C). The [delta]18O values reflect the isotopic composition of the melt water percolating into the karst fissure network and carry an atmospheric (temperature) signal, which is distinctly lower than those of speleothems formed during periods when soil and vegetation were present above the cave. These `subglacial' speleothems provide a means of identifying and dating the former presence of warm-based paleoglaciers and allow us to place some constraints on paleotemperature changes
Paleoclimate and location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo-Arabian Desert as revealed by speleothems from the northern Negev Desert, Israel, , Vaks A. , Barmatthews M. , Ayalon A. , Matthews A. , Frumkin A. , Dayan U. , Halicz L. , Mogilabin A. , Schilman B. ,
Speleothem bearing karstic caves of the northern Negev Desert, southern Israel, provides an ideal site for reconstructing the paleoclimate and paleo-location of the border between Mediterranean climate region and the Saharo-Arabian Desert. Major periods of speleothem deposition (representing humid periods) were determined by high resolution 230Th-U dating and corresponding studies of stable isotope composition were used to identify the source of rainfall during humid periods and the vegetation type. Major humid intervals occurred during glacials at 190-150[no-break space]ka, 76-25[no-break space]ka, 23-13[no-break space]ka and interglacials at 200-190[no-break space]ka, 137-123[no-break space]ka and 84-77[no-break space]ka. The dominant rainfall source was the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with a possible small contribution from southern tropical sources during the interglacial periods. When the interglacial interval rainfall was of Eastern Mediterranean origin, the minimum annual rainfall was ~ 300-350[no-break space]mm; approximately twice than of the present-day. Lower minimum amounts of precipitation could have occurred during glacial periods, due to the cooler temperatures and reduced evaporation. Although during most of the humid periods the vegetation remained steppe with mixed C3 C4 vegetation, Mediterranean C3 type steppe-forest vegetation invaded southward for short periods, and the climate in the northern Negev became closer to Mediterranean type than at present. The climate was similar to present, or even more arid, during intervals when speleothem deposition did not occur: 150-144[no-break space]ka, 141-140[no-break space]ka, 117-96[no-break space]ka, 92-85[no-break space]ka, 25-23[no-break space]ka, and 13[no-break space]ka-present-day.Precipitation increase occurred in the northern Negev during the interglacial monsoonal intensity maxima at 198[no-break space]ka, 127[no-break space]ka, 83[no-break space]ka and glacial monsoonal maxima at 176[no-break space]ka, 151[no-break space]ka, 61[no-break space]ka and 33[no-break space]ka. However, during interglacial monsoonal maxima at 105[no-break space]ka and 11[no-break space]ka, the northern Negev was arid whereas during glacial monsoonal minima it was usually humid. This implies that there is not always synchroneity between monsoonal activity and humidity in the region.Oxygen isotopic values of the northern Negev speleothems are systematically lower than contemporaneous speleothems of central and northern Israel. This part is attributed to the increased rainout of the heavy isotopes by Rayleigh fractionation processes, possibly due to the farther distance from the Mediterranean coast
Origin of the sedimentary deposits of the Naracoorte Caves, South Australia, , Forbes Ms, Bestland Ea,
The origin of the sediments located in the Naracoorte Caves (South Australia) was investigated via the analysis of strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr), elemental geochemistry, and mineralogy. Sedimentary deposits located in Robertson, Wet, Blanche and several other chambers in Victoria Cave are all variable mixes of fine sand and coarse silts, which display similar and consistent strontium isotope ratios (0.717-0.725). This suggests that over the 400[no-break space]ka time frame that these deposits span there has been minimal variation in the source of the clastic sediments. Increased strontium concentrations for these cave sediments correspond with increasing silt content, yet there is no correlation between 87Sr/86Sr ratios and silt content. This implies that the silt-sized component of the sediments is the main contributor of strontium to the cave sediments. Comparisons of 87Sr/86Sr with regional surficial deposits show a significant correlation between the cave sediments (avg: 0.7228; n = 27), the fine silt lunettes of the Bool Lagoon area (avg: 0.7224; n = 4), the sandy A horizons of the Coonawarra Red Brown Earths (RBEs; avg: 0.726; n = 5), and Holocene age podsolic sand deposits (0.723). These data suggest that there has been substantial flux from this group of deposits to the caves, as would be expected considering prevailing winds. This relationship is further supported by a strong correlation between many trace elements, including Ti, Zr, Ce, and Y; however, variations in clay mineralogy suggest that the fine silt-dominated lunettes and Padthaway RBEs were not significant contributors to the cave deposits. Hence, the detritus entering the caves was more than likely from areas proximal to the cave entrance and was dominated by medium grain-sized materials. Major regional deposits, including the coarser-grained, calcite-rich Bridgewater Formation sands, basalts from the lower SE, Padthaway Horst granites, Gambier limestone, and metamorphics from the Adelaide geosyncline show minimal correlation in 87Sr/86Sr ratios, elemental geochemistry, and mineralogy with the cave sediments, and are discounted as significant sources. In comparison, 87Sr/86Sr ratios for the Coorong silty sands (0.717-0.724), Lower Murray sands (0.727-0.730), and the medium size silt component of the Murray-Darling River system (0.71-0.72), compare favourably with the cave sediments. This relationship is further supported by similarities in elemental chemistry and mineralogy. Thus, much of the strontium-rich silt that is now located in the Naracoorte Cave sediments likely originated from the Murray-Darling basin. Over time, this material has been transported to the SE of South Australia, where it mixed with the medium sand component of the regressive dune ridge sequence, locally derived organic matter, limestone fragments, and fossil material to produce the unique deposits that we see evident in many of the chambers of the Naracoorte Cave system today
The `human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo), , Barker G, Barton H, Bird M, Daly P, Datan I, Dykes A, Farr L, Gilbertson D, Harrisson B, Hunt C,
Recent research in Europe, Africa, and Southeast Asia suggests that we can no longer assume a direct and exclusive link between anatomically modern humans and behavioral modernity (the `human revolution'), and assume that the presence of either one implies the presence of the other: discussions of the emergence of cultural complexity have to proceed with greater scrutiny of the evidence on a site-by-site basis to establish secure associations between the archaeology present there and the hominins who created it. This paper presents one such case study: Niah Cave in Sarawak on the island of Borneo, famous for the discovery in 1958 in the West Mouth of the Great Cave of a modern human skull, the `Deep Skull,' controversially associated with radiocarbon dates of ca. 40,000 years before the present. A new chronostratigraphy has been developed through a re-investigation of the lithostratigraphy left by the earlier excavations, AMS-dating using three different comparative pre-treatments including ABOX of charcoal, and U-series using the Diffusion-Absorption model applied to fragments of bones from the Deep Skull itself. Stratigraphic reasons for earlier uncertainties about the antiquity of the skull are examined, and it is shown not to be an `intrusive' artifact. It was probably excavated from fluvial-pond-desiccation deposits that accumulated episodically in a shallow basin immediately behind the cave entrance lip, in a climate that ranged from times of comparative aridity with complete desiccation, to episodes of greater surface wetness, changes attributed to regional climatic fluctuations. Vegetation outside the cave varied significantly over time, including wet lowland forest, montane forest, savannah, and grassland. The new dates and the lithostratigraphy relate the Deep Skull to evidence of episodes of human activity that range in date from ca. 46,000 to ca. 34,000 years ago. Initial investigations of sediment scorching, pollen, palynomorphs, phytoliths, plant macrofossils, and starch grains recovered from existing exposures, and of vertebrates from the current and the earlier excavations, suggest that human foraging during these times was marked by habitat-tailored hunting technologies, the collection and processing of toxic plants for consumption, and, perhaps, the use of fire at some forest-edges. The Niah evidence demonstrates the sophisticated nature of the subsistence behavior developed by modern humans to exploit the tropical environments that they encountered in Southeast Asia, including rainforest
Significance and origin of very large regulating power of some karst aquifers in the Middle East. Implication on karst aquifer classification, , Elhakim M, Bakalowicz M,
SummaryKarst aquifers are the main groundwater resource in Lebanon as well as in most Mediterranean countries. Most of them are not exploited in a sustainable way, partly because their characteristics remain unknown. Karst aquifers are so complex that the assessment of their resource and their exploitable storage requires an analysis of their whole functioning, particularly by analysing the spring hydrograph. Among all various methods, the method proposed by Mangin aims to characterize at the same time the recharge conditions and the storage and recession of the saturated zone by analyzing the spring hydrograph. This method defines two parameters, the infiltration delay i, and the regulating power k which are the roots of a classification of karst systems. This classification makes the distinction between karst and porous aquifers considering the value of the regulating power. k is assumed to be lower than 0.5 in karst, and between 0.5 and 1 for all other aquifers, 1 being the upper limit.The study of karst aquifers in Lebanon shows values of k > 0.5, and even 1; former data from the literature show that other karst springs in Middle East have comparable characteristics. In fact, what is not considered by Mangin and others, k is equivalent to a mean residence time in years of water in the saturated zone. So long residence times are normally observed in poorly karstified aquifers, or containing abandoned, not functioning karstification. The geological framework in which the studied springs are located in fact shows that these aquifers have been subject to a long, complex evolution, as a consequence of the base level rising. This rising produced the flooding of the successive karst drainage network, which does not really function anymore and provides a large storage capacity to the aquifer. The very interesting properties of these aquifers make them prime targets for fulfilling the increasing needs of water
Predicting travel times and transport characterization in karst conduits by analyzing tracer-breakthrough curves, , Morales Tomas, De Valderrama Inigo, Uriarte Jesus A. , Antiguedad Inaki, Olazar Martin,
SummaryThis paper analyzes data obtained in 26 tracer tests carried out in 11 karstic connections following solutional conduits in karst aquifers in the Basque Country. These conduits are preferential drainage pathways in these aquifers and so they confer a marked anisotropy and high vulnerability to them. Consequently, their consideration in protection and management studies and projects is a priority.The connections studied cover a wide hydrogeological spectrum (a wide range of sizes, slopes, geomorphic and hydrologic types) and the tests have been carried out at different hydrodynamic states. It is noteworthy that they all follow a similar trend, which has allowed for the development of a statistical approximation for the treatment of the whole information.Relationships have been established involving velocity, solute time of arrival, attenuation of peak concentration and time of passage of tracer cloud. These relationships are a valuable tool for management and supporting decision-making and allow for making estimates in connections in which the information available was scarce. This information is especially useful, given that the complexity of transport in karst conduits gives way to important deviations between real data (empirical observations) and the data obtained by simple approaches based on the Fickian-type diffusion equation
The Aggitis karst system, Eastern Macedonia, Greece: Hydrologic functioning and development of the karst structure, , Novel Jean Paul, Dimadi Agoro, Zervopoulou Anna, Bakalowicz Michel,
SummaryThe Aggitis karst system developed in the marbles of the Rhodope massif. The conditions of the development of its karst drainage network are determined from the geological and geomorphologic settings by means of a microstructural analysis, following Eraso's method. This analysis shows that the karst conduit network intensely developed in the western part of the mountain Falakro where the majority of the open fractures oriented in the same direction as the hydraulic gradient, while the two directions are perpendicular in its eastern part drained by the spring of Drama.The behaviour of the system was analysed by means of hydrodynamic and water geochemical techniques. Despite the extension of the cave system and of the favourable development conditions of conduits, the functioning appears complex, with a significant storage, and a slow infiltration as well as an easy drainage. On the contrary the Drama karst system, characterised by a low variability in its hydrological and geochemical characteristics does not show any karst functioning.In the Aggitis karst system the initial groundwater flow conditions in combination with the aperture planes of which the directions are in agreement with the hydraulic gradient, favoured the rapid development of a drainage network system. The recharge from a large surface catchment area on non-karstic rocks, through swallow holes in a wide polje contributed to increase the groundwater flow through the karst part of the system, facilitating the development of the conduits
Controversy over the great flood hypotheses in the Black Sea in light of geological, paleontological, and archaeological evidence, , Yankohombach Valentina, Gilbert Allan S. , Dolukhanov Pavel,
Legends describing a Great Flood are found in the narratives of several world religions, and the biblical account of Noah's Flood is the surviving heir to several versions of the ancient Mesopotamian Flood Myth. Recently, the story of the biblical deluge was connected to the Black Sea, together with the suggestion that the story's pre-Mesopotamian origins might be found in the Pontic basin [Ryan, W.B.F., Pitman, III, W.C., 1998. Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That Changed History. Simon and Schuster, New York]. Based on the significance of this flood epic in the Judeo-Christian tradition, popular interest surged following publication of the idea.Currently, two Great Flood scenarios have been proposed for the Black Sea: (1) an Early Holocene event caused by catastrophic Mediterranean inflow at 7.2 ky BP (initial hypothesis of [Ryan et al., 1997. An abrupt drowning of the Black Sea shelf. Marine Geology 138, 119-126]) or 8.4 ky BP (modified hypothesis of [Ryan et al., 2003. Catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science 31, 525-554.); and (2) a Late Pleistocene event brought on by Caspian influx between 16 and 13 ky BP [Chepalyga, A.L., 2003. Late glacial Great Flood in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea. GSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2-5 November 2003, Seattle, USA, p. 460]. Both hypotheses claim that the massive inundations of the Black Sea basin and ensuing large-scale environmental changes had a profound impact on prehistoric human societies of the surrounding areas, and both propose that the event formed the basis for the biblical Great Flood legend.This paper attempts to determine whether the preponderance of existing evidence sustains support for these Great Floods in the evolution of the Black Sea. Based upon established geological and paleontological data, it finds that the Late Pleistocene inundation was intense and substantial whereas the Early Holocene sea-level rise was not. Between 16 and 13 ky BP, the Late Neoeuxinian lake (the Late Pleistocene water body in the Pontic basin pre-dating the Black Sea) increased rapidly from ~-14 to -50 m (below the present level of the Black Sea), then rose gradually to ~-20 m by about 11 ky BP. At 11-10 ky BP (the Younger Dryas), it dropped to ~-50 m. When the Black Sea re-connected with the Sea of Marmara at about 9.5 ky BP, inflowing Mediterranean water increased the Black Sea level very gradually up to ~-20 m, and in so doing, it raised the salinity of the basin and brought in the first wave of Mediterranean immigrants. These data indicate no major drawdown of the Black Sea after the Younger Dryas, and they do not provide evidence for any catastrophic flooding of the Black Sea in the Early Holocene.In addition, available archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence from the Pontic region reveal no recognizable changes in population dynamics between 14 and 6 ky BP that could be linked to an inundation of large magnitude [Dolukhanov, P., Shilik, K., 2006. Environment, sea-level changes, and human migrations in the northern Pontic area during late Pleistocene and Holocene times. In: Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., Panin, N., Dolukhanov, P.M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 297-318; Stanko, V.N., 2006. Fluctuations in the level of the Black Sea and Mesolithic settlement of the northern Pontic area. In: Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., Panin, N., Dolukhanov, P.M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 371-385]. More specifically, Mesolithic and early Neolithic archaeological data in southeastern Europe and Ukraine give no indications of shifts in human subsistence or other behavior at the time of the proposed catastrophic flood in the Early Holocene [Anthony, D., 2006. Pontic-Caspian Mesolithic and Early Neolithic societies at the time of the Black Sea Flood: A small audience and small effects. In: Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., Panin, N., Dolukhanov, P.M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 345-370; Dergachev and Dolukhanov, 2006. The Neolithization of the North Pontic area and the Balkans in the context of the Black Sea Floods. In: Yanko-Hombach, V., Gilbert, A.S., Panin, N., Dolukhanov, P.M. (Eds.), The Black Sea Flood Question: Changes in Coastline, Climate, and Human Settlement. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 489-514]
GHOST-ROCK KARSTIFICATION IN �ENTRE-DEUX-MERS� (GIRONDE, FRANCE), IMPLICATIONS FOR KARSTOGENESIS AND KARSTIC MORPHOLOGY, , Dubois Caroline, Lans Benjamin, Kaufmann Olivier, Maire Richard, Quinif Yves
The formation of the Oligocene « calcaires à Astéries » in the region of « Entre-deux-Mers » is affected by a karstification with subhorizontal caves that drained rivers from swallow-holes to resurgences. Observations in quarries show that ghost-rock alterites are present. This paper describes the ghost-rocks in the quarry of Piquepoche exploiting the Frontenac stone. We have studied horizontally developed ghost-rocks with vertical extensions still containing the residual alterite. They can be badly consolidated calcarenites up to soft material which has been sampled. Speleogenesis is reviewed in the frame of the mechanical erosion of the alterite of a horizontal ghost-rock followed by an incision by free-flowing waters which form a passage with promontories and potholes. Finally, we show that ceiling anastomoses can form by ghost-rock karstification.
Anomalous behaviour of specific electrical conductivity at a karst spring induced by variable catchment boundaries: the case of the Podstenjšek spring, Slovenia, , Ravbar, N. , Engelhardt, I. , Goldscheider, N.
Anomalous behaviour of specific electrical conductivity (SEC) was observed at a karst spring in Slovenia during 26 high-flow events in an 18-month monitoring period. A conceptual model explaining this anomalous SEC variability is presented and reproduced by numerical modelling, and the practical relevance for source protection zoning is discussed. After storm rainfall, discharge increases rapidly, which is typical for karst springs. SEC displays a first maximum during the rising limb of the spring hydrograph, followed by a minimum indicating the arrival of freshly infiltrated water, often confirmed by increased levels of total organic carbon (TOC). The anomalous behaviour starts after this SEC minimum, when SEC rises again and remains elevated during the entire high-flow period, typically 20–40 µS/cm above the baseflow value. This is explained by variable catchment boundaries: When the water level in the aquifer rises, the catchment expands, incorporating zones of groundwater with higher SEC, caused by higher unsaturated zone thickness and subtle lithologic changes. This conceptual model has been checked by numerical investigations. A generalized finite-difference model including high-conductivity cells representing the conduit network ("discrete-continuum approach") was set up to simulate the observed behaviour of the karst system. The model reproduces the shifting groundwater divide and the nearly simultaneous increase of discharge and SEC during high-flow periods. The observed behaviour is relevant for groundwater source protection zoning, which requires reliable delineation of catchment areas. Anomalous behaviour of SEC can point to variable catchment boundaries that can be checked by tracer tests during different hydrologic conditions.
Essais d'Hydraulique souterraine et fluviale, 1905, Maillet E.
The cycle of subterranean drainage as illustrated in the Bloomington Quadrangle (Indiana), 1911, Beede J. W.
Hydrographie souterraine et evolution morpho-logique du karst, 1918, Cvijic J.
Nouveau trait des eaux sonterraines, 1921, Martel E. A.
Types morphologiques des terrains calcaires, 1925, Cvijic J.


Taxon close to Huernia hystrix. Found in NE RSA mainly in Limpopo province. It grows under trees, sometimes in rock crevices. There are two varieties - shown on this page with brown spoted realitvely light corolla and second with darker red-brown spoted corolla.


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TV review: Babylon Berlin reminds me of Peaky Blinders but I wasn't instantly hooked
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Irish soldiers who served in First World War honoured in Dublin
More than 40 countries were represented at the service, and officials laid wreaths at the Irish military plot before The Last Post was played and the Irish flag was returned to full mast.
12 Private Ryans found in medal search
Painstaking research being carried out to track down the descendants of a soldier awarded two First World War medals has uncovered 12 Patrick Ryans who served in the 1st Battalion of the Munster Fusiliers.
Potential leads in effort to reunite family with medals of WWI soldier
Look around Europe — can you tell me World War I is over?
Public says farewell to Hauntings Soldier
A shameful, ignorant act: WWI monument vandalised
One of the more revealing and bizarre images from our struggle to come to terms with our past, to finally be at ease with all its dark challenges, is the picture of a group of protestors at Croke Park when England played there 11 years ago.
Culture Minister disgusted by vandalism: 'There is no bravery in throwing paint at a statue'
Gardai are examining footage from security cameras in the vicinity of St Stephen's Green to try to identify who was responsible for throwing paint over the Haunting Soldier sculpture.
WW1 'Haunting Soldier' sculpture vandalised in Dublin
A World War One sculpture in Dublin's Stephen's Green has been vandalised with red paint.
Ceremony will remember 10 Dublin policemen killed in World War I
The 10 Dublin policemen killed in World War I will be remembered at a ceremony attended by Garda Commissioner Drew Harris tomorrow.
President recalls 'destruction of the promise of a generation' at Armistice Day centenary
President Michael D Higgins has paid tribute to those who fought in the First World War, in particular, the 200,000 Irish men who served and those who died overseas at the Armistice Day centenary commemorations at Glasnevin Cemetery.
Bishop calls for single united monument as he honours five Corkmen killed on war's last day
The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross believes the time has come for the creation of one single monument in Cork to "memorialise the humanity" of the county's estimated 4,200 victims of the First World War.
Wise words - Macron warns on nationalism
Millions of words have been written over the last few weeks about the loss, legacy and contemporary relevance of the First World War. Many more were written about how we should mark it and learn its great lessons. That process continued yesterday in Paris when 70 world leaders gathered.
A welcome end to four years of Armageddon
At least 40,000 Irish died in the Great War before the guns fell silent on November 11, 1918. The relief at the arrival of peace was tinged with sorrow and a sense of unfinished business, writes Gerry White.
Dot and Billy: how love letters document the stories of lives torn apart by World War I
During World War I, the only way to keep in touch with loved ones who were serving in the armed forces was through letters.
Sun, 11 Nov, 2018
Michael D Higgins: Armistice commemorations 'a simple recognition of our common humanity'
Memorial events will be held across the world today to mark the centenary of the end of World War 1.
Ireland's World War I casualties remembered
Ancestry, the global leader in family history and consumer genomics, has conducted new research into Irish casualties in World War I.
Sat, 10 Nov, 2018
Attacks on solidarity shows WWI's bloody lessons are forgotten
Societies' and individuals' memories are shaped by a combination of emotions and experiences. Character and perception are influential too. Love, especially deep love between individuals, may be the most powerful, the most enduring of those factors.
Life and potential lost on the battlefield: Ireland's First World War soldiers
From shoe box to window box, Tom Burke recalls the journey of Ireland's First World War soldiers on eve of the centenary of the November 11, 1918, armistice.
Readers' blog: The end of Great War didn't signify end to killing
The Great War did not end on November 11, 1918. The fighting stopped but a one-sided killing by other means continued into 1919, and was actually intensified.
We must remember the dead of WW1 by asking what did they die for: Anti war movement
The Irish Anti-War Movement have revealed they will hold a vigil at the entrance to the Irish National War Memorial in Island Bridge, Dublin on Sunday morning from 10am to 11am to remember all those who died and ask "what did they die for?".
Armistice centenary: Why Northern Ireland's culture divide is still an obstacle to remembering the past
The deep divide between Catholics and Protestants makes the coming together to honour the dead on both sides fraught with problems.
World War I: What we've learned from the 'war to end all wars'
It would become known as the Great War, or the "war to end all wars". Four years of bitter conflict from August 1914 to November 1918 which spread to involve more than 80% of the world, causing 37m casualties, military and civilian, and 16m deaths.
It's important to learn lessons from history
The American people — and the rest of the world — may yet pay a very heavy price for the actions of its president on the international stage, writes David A Andelman.
The Irish settlement: An often ignored legacy of World War I
The centenary of the end of World War I comes as the UK is seeking to finalise the terms of its exit from the European Union. There is a strong historical resonance between both events. The issue of Ireland's relationship with the UK, the nature of the Irish border, and the exertion of Ulster unionists in Westminster are as central to British politics today as they were in 1918, writes Marie Coleman
Irish compromise - Poppy symbolism
Around this time of the year there occurs a debate about the symbolism behind the poppy, the flower that grew on the Western Front battlefields of France and Belgium in the aftermath of the First World War.
Limerick ex-mayor opposes Great War memorial plan in city
A former mayor of Limerick has come out against a plan to erect a memorial to his uncle and all the other Limerick soldiers who died in the Great War.
Spike Island dig uncovers First World War training trench
Archaeologists working on Spike Island have discovered a First World War trench used to train troops heading to France and Gallipoli, foundations of long-gone buildings, and chess and gaming pieces carved from stone by convicts.
Fri, 07 Sep, 2018
Bid to excavate WWI trench under way
The first ever bid to excavate a First World War training trench in this country is under way.
War radio report brought to virtual and visual reality
One of the most dramatic radio reports of the Second World War has been brought to virtual and visual reality by a Waterford-based education company.
First World War pilot honoured in Glasnevin
A First World War pilot has been honoured with a memorial in Dublin's Glasnevin Cemetery.
Sat, 28 Jul, 2018
Ceremony at Glasnevin to honour Victoria Cross winner
A special ceremony will take place today at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, to honour a Victoria Cross winner who pioneered aerial warfare tactics, shooting down 61 enemy planes — making him the fifth most deadly pilot of the First World War.
Midleton wall to honour WWI dead
The memory of 200 East Cork men killed in the First World War will be kept alive by a memorial wall in Midleton.
Honour them best by learning their lesson
Today marks the last time we can remember the 1918 World War I armistice within a century of its realisation.
A forgotten piece of Cork naval history
100 years ago this week, just before shipping was made safer by the entry of the United States into World War I, a number of Cork vessels were sunk by German U-boats and mines. Patrick G O'Shea recalls one of the lost ships, on which a relative was killed.
Tribute paid to millions killed in World War I on Armistice Day
Church bells tolled and officials laid wreaths across Europe on Armistice Day to pay tribute to the millions of soldiers killed during World War I.
Changes on cards for Tralee war memorial
The wording on a new monument to soldiers from a British army garrison based in Tralee, Co Kerry, who died in the First World War, may be changed to help resolve a local row.


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Q: How to concatenate two charcters in c? I am new to c .
When i try to do
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I get an error because a and b must be two strings .
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A: For the sake of completion here's a list of possible solutions:
gsamaras (esiest for your case):
char str[] = {a, b, '\0'};
Through an array:
char* string = (char*)malloc(3);
string[0] = 'a';
string[1] = 'b';
string[2] = '\0';

Generically:
char* str1 = "a";
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A: strcat() is a method used to concatenate strings. In your cases you have characters, so you shouldn't use this method.
Instead, you can create the string yourself, like this for example:
char str[] = {a, b, '\0'};

A: Take these two characters as string and then use strcat() function.
char a[] = "h";
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Reducing Compliance Burdens of the Tangible Personal Property Tax
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Innovating in the Insurance Industry
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Darpa Has Seen The Future of Computing … And It's Analog
by Robert McMillan | Aug 22, 2012 | Monitor
How would non-digital chips work? DARPA paints a picture. Image: DARPA
By definition, a computer is a machine that processes and stores data as 1s and 0s. But the U.S. Department of Defense wants to tear up that definition and start from scratch.
Through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), the Defense Department is funding a new program called UPSIDE, short for Unconventional Processing of Signals for Intelligent Data Exploitation). Basically, the program will investigate a brand new way of doing computing without the digital processors that have come to define computing as we know it.
The aim is to build computer chips that are a whole lot more power efficient than today's processors — even if they make mistakes every now and then.


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The past two Tuesdays I have written about the importance of making connections – especially with the people you want to attend your VBS. Here are three ideas that not only allows you to have some theme-related fun but provides an opportunity for you and your VBS leaders to begin making those important community connections.
Super Dog Pet Rally – Host a community-wide pet fair and VBS registration event. Award inexpensive prizes for the best costume, best tricks, most unusual, etc. Show "A Man, a Dog, and a Community Center" from the Day 3 Missions Rotation video and share how God even uses animals as missionaries. Serve Big Apple Adventure snacks. Distribute information about VBS and provide families the opportunity to register.
Big City Adventure Saturday – Invite the community to participate in a scavenger hunt to discover the unique aspects of your own city – those places people may pass everyday without knowing their historical or cultural significance. End the hunt at the church campus. Share Big Apple Adventure snacks and information about VBS and other church ministries. Give families an opportunity to register for VBS.
Candy Apple Make and Take – Invite families to bring an apple for each member of the family and join the fun of creating their own Big City Candy Apples. Provide the sticks, caramel, and all the trimmings. Have extra apples on hand for anyone who might arrive without their own apple. Create fun categories and award prizes. Provide VBS information and registration cards.
Hi everyone! It's Keith again! I hope you all are enjoying the blog. This week's Foto Friday has a familiar face to it, Proof.
Thank you Andy for sharing a day in the life of Proof this week. We were privileged to meet Proof at the VBS Preview events and had a fun time loving on him. Here are some candid photos of Proof with several members of the VBS team!
Gordon & Proof after a long and productive day!
Meeting Andy and Proof was a blessing and reading about the encouragement and hope they are able to pass to the people of the Bronx, reminds me that I need to be praying for them and all of our missionaries around the world. After the events of the earthquake and the tsunami in Japan, I'm reminded to pray especially for the Japanese people and our missionaries in Japan. Also, if you would like to donate to the relief efforts in Japan then you could do so at many different organizations. The Baptist Global Response and the IMB, both have webpage where you can donate.
Proof's day is about to draw to a close. If you are confused right now, you might want to check out the blog entries for March 14th and March 15th.
Be sure to look out for Proof in the Big Apple Adventure this summer. Not only will students learn about her in the VBS children's mission's curriculum, but preschool and kindergarteners will learn about Proof as well in their missions rotation.
Proof's day draws to a close . . .
As the day draws to a close, the kids pack up their bags, but one kid is upset and nobody knows why. He yells, punches, and kicks. There is no calming him. Who knows why he finally clicked? Proof crosses the room and moves close by the angry boy who is now sitting with a scowl. With no fear, Proof sticks her head in his lap, and his violent hands suddenly still. He reaches down and caresses her fur, taking a deep breath. The situation's now calm and all can relax, as he now has a smile that grows brighter with each lick across his soft hands.
The kids are now gone and Proof's day is nearly complete. She and her master head home, but a different way than they came. Taking different turns, Proof sees many more fans, people who greet, wave, and even hug. These streets are often tough, sometimes scary things can happen, but when Proof walks by all evil thoughts seem to disperse, run-away leaving pure joy. Walking up a hill, one would think they were transported. As if walking on a border, a look to the right is the same as before, but now to the left the buildings are replaced with towering boulders, sprawling elms and oaks, and green grass. The big city park is where Proof often plays. Chasing her ball, running, and jumping does a lot to free her from any stress of the day.
Today, though, there is a lady, standing in the shadows created by trees, not in the silver moonlight but beneath the orange street lights. She steps toward Proof, and quietly asks, "Can I pet your dog?" Before an answer is given, she sits on the ground and Proof crawls in her lap, immediately changing the lady's frown. Proof's master stands by, pondering the situation. The years of struggle for this lady were clearly shown by the wrinkles on her leathery face. Baggy clothes she wore and a duffle rested beside her now cross-legged sitting body. Likely her whole life is packed in this bag, possibly heading towards the shelter. Like nomads crossing the desert, many families head with their bags every evening to this temporary home.
They depart and head their different ways. Proof and her master return to their fourth floor abode. Proof eats her dinner and winds down for the night, resting again on her brown, pillowy bed. Many such days have already occurred, many more are yet to come in her journey ahead. Daily proving God exists, not through any extraordinary means, but by being who she was created to be, Proof is serving others through simple means. Proof can teach a lesson for us all, to be not what others desire, but instead fulfill God's plans and live a life meeting the needs of others. The question that remains is will people look at you and simply say, "There is Proof that God exists"?
*"Proof God Exists" is an original work of Andrew Mann. All Rights Reserved.


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Why would an AI need to 'wipe out the human race'?
I'm reading such nonsense about how an AI would turn the world into a supercomputer to solve a problem that it thought it needed to solve. That wouldn't be AI. That's procedural programming stuck in some loop nonsense. An AI would need to evolve and re-organise its neurons. It wouldn't be stuck to hardcode if it becomes intelligent by re-writing its code.
$\begingroup$ If the AI is not more intelligent than us, then probably because for the fun of it (see all the extinct species we are responsible for). Not sure if we need that though, we just don't care much. $\endgroup$ – Trilarion Sep 6 '16 at 19:57
It's a possible side effect
Any goal-oriented agent might, well, simply do things that achieve its goals while disregarding side effects that don't matter for these goals.
If my goals include a tidy living space, I may transform my yard to a nice, flat lawn or pavement while wiping out the complex ecosystem of life that was there before, because I don't particulary care about that.
If the goals of a particular powerful AI happen to include doing anything on a large scale, and somehow don't particularly care about the current complex ecosystem, then that ecosystem might get wiped out in the process. It doesn't need to want or need to wipe out us. If we are simply not relevant to its goals, then we are made of materials and occupy space that it might want to use for something else.
We are a threat to most goals
Any goal-oriented agent might want to ensure that they can fulfill their goals. Any smart agent will try to anticipate the actions of other agents that may prevent them from achieving those goals, and take steps to ensure that they succeed anyway. In many cases it is simpler to eliminate those other agents rather than ensure that their efforts fail.
For example, my goals may include storing a bag of sugar in a country house so that I can make pancakes when visiting without bringing all ingredients every time. However, if I leave it there, it is likely to get eaten by rats during winter. I may take all kinds of precautions to store it better, but rats are smart and crafty, and there's clearly a nontrivial chance that they will still succeed in achieving their goal anyway, so an effective extra precaution is killing the rats before they get a chance to try.
If the goals of a particular powerful AI are to do X; it may come to an understanding that (some?) humans might actually not want X but Y instead. It can also easily deduce that some of those humans might actively do things that prevent X and/or try to turn off the AI. Doing things that ensure that the goal gets achieved is pretty much what a goal-seeking agent does; in this case if existence of humans isn't strictly necessary for goal X, then eliminating them becomes a solid risk reduction strategy. It's not strictly necessary and it may take all kinds of other precautions as well, but just like in my example of rats, humans are smart and crafty and there's clearly a nontrivial chance that they will still succeed in achieving their goals (so that X doesn't happen as AI intends) so an effective extra precaution could be killing them before they get a chance to try.
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$\begingroup$ This excellent answer would benefit from mentioning the active research on the possible breakdown modes of Deep Reinforcement Learning AIs, including how the DRL AI might derive certain instrumental goals at odds with humanity's. DRL AIs are motivated by a reward function; If the source or amount of an AI's reward stream is threatened, the AI will adapt consequently. This adaptation is not predictable; From the AI's perspective the adaptation is a retuning of a bunch of its internal model's parameters, but from our perspective it could seen as beginning a fight to the death with humans. $\endgroup$ – Iwillnotexist Idonotexist Sep 3 '16 at 16:02
$\begingroup$ @forest The whole point of Asimov's robot stories was that the rules don't work (and more generally, that no set of rules works). The only safe AI is one that understands your values. You might be able to shackle a human-level AI, but any kind of superintelligence (even mere "human with 1000x processing speed) is inherently unsafe unless it has the same values you do. "It's quite easy to prevent an AI harming humans by setting a hard limit" is a very dangerous illusion. $\endgroup$ – Luaan Jul 10 '19 at 10:26
$\begingroup$ @forest If you can produce a mathematical (or logical) system that guarantees the safety of a goal-driven AI then you should publish it and achieve eternal glory. Meanwhile, you might find some of the videos on youtube.com/channel/UCLB7AzTwc6VFZrBsO2ucBMg a useful place to hone your ideas. $\endgroup$ – DrMcCleod Aug 15 '19 at 11:23
$\begingroup$ @forest Perhaps you could post a link to one? That would be great. $\endgroup$ – DrMcCleod Aug 15 '19 at 23:06
$\begingroup$ @forest That article and this discussion describe the risks of a superintelligent goal-driven AI. The risks from other forms of AI (such as the type that you describe) are obviously very different. $\endgroup$ – DrMcCleod Aug 17 '19 at 12:19
It's not necessarily a nonsense. It all depends on the imposed criteria. Imagine the following. Say an advanced AI system is designed to control the stability of the local fauna and flora (area enclosed in some kind of a dome). It can control the pressure under the dome, the amount of light that goes through the dome etc. - everything that ensures the optimal conditions. Now, say that the dome is inhabited by various species, including humans. It's worth noting that simple implementations of such systems are being used nowadays already.
Given that humans tend to destroy and abuse the natural resources as well as pollute the environment, the system may decide that lowering the population of the given species (humans in this case) may in the long run benefit the entire biome.
The same principle may be applied globally. However, this assumes that all species (including humans) are treated equally and the utmost goal of the AI is ensuring the stability of the biome it "takes care of". People do such things nowadays - we control the population of some species in order to keep the balance - wolves, fish, to name but a few.
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I feel like most of the scenarios about AI's wiping out the world fall into one of two categories:
Anthropomorphized AI's
Intelligent But Dumb Computer Run Amuck
In the (1) case, people talk about AI's becoming "evil" and attribute to them other such human elements. I look at this as being mostly sci-fi and don't think it merits much serious discussion. That is, I see no particular reason to assume that an Artificial Intelligence - regardless of how intelligent it is - will necessarily behave like a human.
The (2) case makes more sense to me. This is the idea that an AI is, for example, put in control of the nuclear missile silos and winds up launching the missiles because it was just doing it's job, but missed something a human would have noticed via what we might call "common sense". Hence the "Intelligent but Dumb" moniker.
Neither of these strikes me as terribly alarming, because (1) is probably fiction and (2) doesn't involve any actual malicious intent by the AI - which means it won't be actively trying to deceive us, or work around any safety cut-outs, etc.
Now IF somebody builds an AI and decides to intentionally program it so that it develops human like characteristics like arrogance, ego, greed, etc... well, all bets are off.
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AI is already used as weapon - think on the drones.
I suspect, a "robots take over the world" scenario has the highest probability, if it has an intermediate step. This intermediate step could be "humans take over the world with robots".
This can go somewhere into a false direction.
I suspect, it is not surely so far as it seems. Consider the US has currently 8000 drones. What if it would have 8million? A small group capable to control them could take over the world. Or the small groups controlling different parts of the fleet, could fight against eachother. They shouldn't be all in the US - at the time the US will have this fleet, other countries will develop also theirs.
Btw, a world takeover seem to me unreal - the military leaders can maybe switch the human pilots to drones, it is not their job. But the "high level control", i.e. to determine, what to do, who are the targets, these decisions they won't ever give out from their hands.
Next to that, the robots doesn't have a long-term goal. We, humans, have.
Thus I don't consider a skynet-style takeover very realistic, but a chernobyl-style "mistake" of a misinterpreted command, which results the unstoppable rampage of the fleet, doesn't seem to me impossible.
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Московсько-польська війна (1577-1582  ) - є завершальною частиною Лівонської війни, в період між 1577 і 1582 роком. Війська Речі Посполитої під командуванням короля польського та великого князя литовського Стефана Баторія успішно діяли проти армії Івана Грозного у боротьбі за Задвінське герцогство та Полоцьк . Московські війська були витіснені з Лівонії ще до укладання Ям-Запольського світу .

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Вступивши за активної підтримки турків ( 1576 ) на престол Речі Посполитої Стефан Баторій перейшов у наступ, зайняв Венден ( 1578 ), проте московським військам вдалося взяти Оберпаллен і осадити Венден. Московські війська були розбиті під Венденом 21.10.1578 р. Сапегою і Бойє. Московити втратили Полоцьк ( 1579 ), Сокіл, Веліж, Усвят, Великі Луки . У взятих фортець поляки і литовці повністю знищували московські гарнізони   . Польські та литовські загони розоряли Смоленщину, Сіверську землю, Рязанщину, південний захід Новгородчини, грабували московські землі аж до верхів'їв Волги. Зроблені ними спустошення нагадували найгірші татарські набіги. Литовський воєвода Філон Кміта з Орші спалив у західних московських землях 2000 сіл і захопив величезний полон. Литовські магнати Острозькі та Вишневецькі за допомогою легких кінних загонів пограбували Чернігівщину. Кіннота шляхтича Яна Соломерецького розорила околиці Ярославля.

У лютому 1581 р. литовці спалили Стару Руссу  .

У 1581 польсько-литовське військо обложило Псков, маючи намір у разі успіху йти на Новгород Великий та Москву .

Оборона Пскова в 1581 - 1582 гарнізоном і населенням міста визначила сприятливіший результат війни для Московського царства: невдача під Псковом змусила Стефана Баторія піти на мирні переговори.

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 Лівонська війна
 Ям-Запольський мир

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Tadeusz Zieliński został wyświęcony na kapłana 3 listopada 1927r . Od 1951 r. Tadeusz Zieliński był proboszczem katedry Matki Boskiej Różańcowej w Buffalo. Tadeusza Zielińskiego na godność biskupa wybrał X Synod Polskiego Narodowego Kościoła, elekt został konsekrowany 2 września 1954 r. w katedrze pw. Matki Bożej Różańcowej w Buffalo. W 1964 przebywał w Polsce, gdzie poświęcił kamień węgielny pod budowę świątyni polskokatolickiej w Libiążu. Na XIII synodzie w 1969 r. wybrany Pierwszym Biskupem. Bp Tadeusz Zieliński był zaangażowany w organizację misji PNKK w Brazylii w drugiej połowie lat 70. XX w.

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Teammates Tung Sing Leung '10 (seated), Arjun Prakash '10 and Cooper Bills '11 demonstrate their autonomous indoor helicopter, while another student looks on at left.
A glimpse into the technological future was on display in Duffield Hall atrium May 18, where 23 teams of students showcased their sensing, grasping and flying robots for the public.
The event was the capstone of the new course Robot Learning (Computer Science 4758), taught by assistant professor Ashutosh Saxena. Students were required to build and program robots that could autonomously accomplish specific tasks, from recognizing certain objects to detecting obstacles.
The course teaches students algorithms for robotic applications and involves machine learning and artificial intelligence methods and techniques.
Arjun Prakash '10 and teammates demonstrated a helicopter robot platform outfitted with sensors to navigate buildings. The future application, the electrical and computer engineering major said, might be to send the flying machine into a burning building to ascertain the location of people or objects. The robot was programmed to recognize corridors or stairs, Prakash explained.
"If it doesn't detect a corridor or stairs, it assumes it's in an open room and hovers," he said.
Several groups worked on different aspects of a robotic arm. One team demonstrated the arm's ability to recognize pictures taped to small drawer handles. The grasping end of the arm would then grab and open the drawer.
Some projects were devoted to what are considered high-level robotic tasks. Graduate student Changxi Zheng, who studies computer graphics, worked on an algorithm to let a robot figure out how to grab various kitchen items and carefully load them into a dishwasher. And computer science graduate student Yun Jiang worked on a planning algorithm for assembling an object from a kit of parts using a robotic arm.
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Doctors in India Are Using AI to Combat Blindness
BY Michele Debczak
A young girl receives an eye test in Hyderabad. Image credit: NOAH SEELAM/AFP/Getty Images
India is home to the world's largest population of blind people and not nearly enough optometrists to provide the care the country needs. But recently, some doctors there have been receiving help in the fight against eye disease from an unexpected source. As Mashable reports, machine learning is being used to better understand the spread of blindness and predict the success rates of eye surgeries.
The initiative is part of a collaboration between Microsoft and the Indian not-for-profit LV Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI). At the center of the project are their Azure machine learning and Power BI services: After analyzing the anonymous records of 1.1 million people, the AI system can trace patterns of eye disease. Doctors can then use projections of surgical outcomes for certain types of patients to make informed decisions on how to treat them.
On December 19, Microsoft announced partnerships with the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at the University of Miami, the Flaum Eye Institute at the University of Rochester, the Federal University of Sao Paulo, and the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Australia. The company plans to continue working with eye doctors to examine new data and zero in on how to help blind children in particular, 200,000 to 700,000 of whom live in India.
Equipping doctors to treat visual impairments is just one of machine learning's many potential medical applications. Earlier this year, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School taught an AI system to detect breast cancer with near-human accuracy.
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