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Research shows that there are many important benefits from experiencing and connecting with nature, whether incidental or intentional, for mental, physical and social health – our general wellbeing. Like other contemplative practices, the benefits of nature contact are enhanced and deepened through regular practice.
Benefits to nature of increased nature connection include increased values around protecting nature, which can result in behaviours that are beneficial to nature such as picking up litter, donating to environmental conservation groups, reducing plastic use, eating less meat or many other actions that improve nature's wellbeing.
These include boosting the immune system, decreasing blood pressure, inflammation and blood sugar, restoring attention, reducing headaches, and fatigue, which contribute to improved sleep and much more. Surgical patients that can see a view of nature from their hospital rooms recover faster, use less pain medication and go home sooner than patients that cannot see nature. Other research has found that people that live closer to increased amounts of greenery, or forested areas have reduced mortality rates for some cancers, reduced health risk factors and reduced occurrence of illness.
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Watch: "Produce 48" Contestants Shine In First Performance Ahead Of Show's Premiere
by JulianneK
The contestants of the much-anticipated show "Produce 48" have showcased their talents in their first performance on "M!Countdown"!
On the May 10 episode of "M!Countdown," the Korean and Japanese contestants of "Produce 48" took to the stage to perform the show's theme song "Pick Me (Naekkeoya)."
"Produce 48" is the newest season in the "Produce 101" series, and it's a collaboration with Japan's AKB48 system. On the show, 96 Korean and Japanese trainees will be competing for a spot in the final girl group.
The "M!Countdown" performance features two contestants in the center positions: Miyawaki Sakura and After School's Kaeun.
This season's theme song was composed by Flow Blow, the producer team that has worked on the hit song "Never" that was first introduced on "Produce 101 Season 2," Wanna One's "Energetic," many releases by PENTAGON, and more.
Watch the "Produce 48" contestants' performance below!
"Produce 48" will begin on June 15 at 11 p.m. KST, and will be hosted by Lee Seung Gi. Trainers will include FTISLAND's Lee Hong Ki, Soyou, Cheetah, Bae Yoon Jeong, 1MILLION Dance Studio's May J Lee, and choreographer Choi Young Joon.
The first profiles for the "Produce 48" contestants will be revealed on May 11, so stay tuned for more information on who's taking part!
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The Siberian Sleigh Ride was an arctically-themed version of a normal rock n roll flat ride. It was nicely done, as the ride duration was very lengthy and the cars swooped quite well over each little hill. The cycle ran both forwards and backwards, and the backwards half was definitely a more intense, stomach-churning, head-spinning experience, and thats the reason we go one these rides, isnt it?
This is, easily, one of the most thrilling flat rides ever built. The cars spin around and around, with nothing above, below, or to the left side of them. They are attached to the ride with a pole on the right side of them. This allows them to swing freely, so you feel like you are riding on a suspended roller coaster. The trains travel very fast, and the ride is very long, and very thrilling. To make it even better, the trains eventually travel backwards too! A must ride at the Myrtle Beach Pavilion!


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Q: Python negative subscripting I'm currently reading Robert Sebesta's Concepts of Programming Languages, 10th edition (2012). In the chapter about data types, it reads "Ruby and Lua support negative subscripts, but Python does not". I thought negatives subscripts could be done in Python using list_name[-i]. What are negative subscripts then?

A: Python, Lua, and Ruby support negative subscripts. In Python, this feature was added as a footnote in version 1.4 and reaffirmed as extended slicing in version 2.3
On p.264 of Sebesta's book (10th ed.) he claims Python does not support negative indexing on arrays. The original text was overhauled and republished as edition 6 in 2004, while Python 2.3 was released on July 29, 2003. I'm guessing extended slicing was overlooked and been in error since the release of Sebesta's 6th edition.
I cannot find errata for the 10th edition. You may want to email the author and inform him.

A: In Python and Ruby, a negative subscript indexes backward from the end of the array. That is, when the subscript is negative, the array length is added to it.
This is not the case in Lua. A negative subscript has no special meaning; it simply references or creates a table entry with that negative number as the key.
Python 2.7.3:
>>> a = [ 'x', 'y', 'z' ]
>>> a
['x', 'y', 'z']
>>> a[-1]
'z'
>>> a[-1] = 'm'
>>> a
['x', 'y', 'm']
>>>

Ruby 1.9.3:
irb(main):001:0> a = [ 'x', 'y', 'z' ]
=> ["x", "y", "z"]
irb(main):002:0> a
=> ["x", "y", "z"]
irb(main):003:0> a[-1]
=> "z"
irb(main):004:0> a[-1] = 'm'
=> "m"
irb(main):005:0> a
=> ["x", "y", "m"]
irb(main):006:0>

Lua 5.2.3:
> a = { 'x', 'y', 'z' }
> for key, value in pairs(a) do print( key, value ) end
1       x
2       y
3       z
> print( a[3] )
z
> print( a[-1] )
nil
> a[-1] = 'm'
> print( a[-1] )
m
> for key, value in pairs(a) do print( key, value ) end
1       x
2       y
3       z
-1      m
>

JavaScript's behavior is fairly similar to Lua's. You can use a negative subscript on an array, and in fact you can use any arbitrary string as a subscript. A JavaScript array is actually an object with some additional methods, properties (.length) and behavior (updating .length as needed). When you use array[-1] you're adding or referencing a property with the key "-1", and .length is not updated.
Chrome 33:
> var a = [ 'x', 'y', 'z' ];
undefined
> a
["x", "y", "z"]
> a[2]
"z"
> a[-1]
undefined
> a[-1] = 'm'
"m"
> a[-1]
"m"
> a[2]
"z"
> a
["x", "y", "z"]
> for( var key in a ) console.log( key, a[key] );
0 x
1 y
2 z
-1 m
undefined

Don't be misled by the undefined printed at the end - that's not part of the  for( var key in a ) enumeration, it's just printed there because console.log() is the last expression evaluated in the loop and it does not return a value (it just prints a value).

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First Award Winner at Swiss Mountain Film Festival 2014.
Between the highest mountains of the world lies hidden a small valley, the former kingdom of Mustang. Almost a desert, that's how dry it is in Mustang, the land of the Lo-Pa. Yet for many hundreds of years there was still enough water to live. But now the climate has changed, the fields are drying up. The inhabitants of the small village Samzong at an altitude of 4000 meters have to relocate -- nobody knows what the future will bring. But one thing is certain - they will lose the land of their ancestors.
Defending the Virunga National Park in Eastern Congo and the last few existing mountain gorillas living there is a daily challenge. "360° GEO Reportage" portrays not only the rangers who risk their lives for the animals, but also the people who feel themselves deprived of their property and make a claim to the national park.
For 5 weeks the team accompanied the archer during her struggle for participation in the Olympics, and in so doing renders a very personal portrait of the likable sportswoman.
In the mysterious kingdom, archery is a centuries-old ritual. Almost every man has mastered the art of bow and arrows. It is then all the more astounding that, of all people, it is a young woman who has managed to reach world class level. Tshering Chhoden is considered the most talented archer in the country. When she proves her ability in the qualifying competition in front of the Olympic committee, she can travel to the Games. The documentary accompanies her along the way and shows a profile of the people and the countryside of this Himalayan state that even today remains isolated from the outside world.
The mighty Zambesi crosses Southern Africa, forming giant flood plains: in Zambia the flood forces an entire people to move every year. The Kuomboka – a great ritualistic spectacle for the Lozi, the inhabitants of the Zambesi, including their Queen, who is brought to safety by her subjects.
A place of legend in the Swiss Alps: The St. Bernard Pass is famous for its hospice, where, for a thousand years, hospitality has been provided to all those seeking shelter while travelling over the pass. And it is infamous for the avalanches which had cost the lives of many – unless, however, they were discovered and rescued in time by the legendary dogs of the hospice, the St. Bernards.
Within minutes of receiving the emergency call, George Field and his men are sitting in the helicopter. The mountain rescue team in the Canadian Rocky Mountains must attend to wounds, relieve pain and rescue people out of serious danger. Many times the team members themselves have had to look death in the eye.
We accompany the missions of George Field and his mountain rescue team from Kananaskis Public Safety. The three men from the mountain rescue team in Canmore and many additional rangers were deeply involved in the project. What impressed us in particular was their willingness to talk about the emotional stress of rescuing severely injured people or retrieving dead bodies. To all of them, and especially the head of the rescue team, George Field, I wish to express again my sincere thanks.
"Witch-hunt in Tanzania" is a documentary about an African tradition that is seen as a cause of the problems of development on the entire continent. The belief in witches is still very prevalent throughout Africa. Sickness, death and failure are often attributed to witchcraft. This opens the floodgates to witch-hunts. In Tanzania alone, hundreds of people, predominantly women, fall victim to an obsessive belief in witches. A journalist and a sociology professor have set out to find the real reason for the persecution of alleged witches and warlocks. We join them on their search.
Hardly any TV team has ever managed, up to now, to portray women in Yemen and their daily life, so hidden from the outside world. That we succeeded in this is due to the remarkable courage of a few of these women who break with the bonds of tradition and open up their very secluded world to the public eye.
Yemen is considered one of the most beautiful countries in the Middle East - and one with a multitude of problems. Weapons, the drug "khat" and the water that is so scarce in Yemen are the main sources of business in the countryside and reason for rivalry between the ruling tribes. In this atmosphere of poverty, violence and corruption, some women try to set up something they can call their own - very much to the disapproval of the traditionalists in power. Cause enough for a tangible power struggle.


James "Ted" Ryan brings more than 40 years of experience to estate planning and probate work in Connecticut. He assists clients in settling the estates of their loved ones, relieving the burdens of dealing with often confusing procedures and laws. Regardless of the size of the estate or the complexity of the probate issues, Ted has the experience and broad legal knowledge, and provides attentive personal service that his clients deserve and appreciate.
Estate planning is not a do-it-yourself project. Ted will work with you to understand your objectives and then express them through clear and concise documents that avoid the cost and delay resulting from family disagreements and the necessity of subsequent interpretation by a court.
Individuals, couples and families should regularly attend to estate planning responsibilities and update existing plans. Of special importance for parents with small children is providing for child care and support in the event of the parents' deaths; for older people, estate planning is crucial. Often overlooked documents include powers of attorney and instructions for medical treatment in the event of disability.
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Which are the best Blogger tools? Blogger has a simple and fine interface that takes care of many things for you. This is my suggestion to you for your first free essential must haves for your blog.
1. Feedburner – It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you.
2. Haloscan – Trackback is an essential component of blogging these days. Unfortunately Blogger does not have trackback. Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments.
The benefits are that you can edit Haloscan comments, and open them in a pop up and keep them separate from your post (Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not).
The main disadvantage is it will not email you these comments (like Blogger) for free and it is difficult to track where these comments were made. Another major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.
4. Technorati – Create and add a technorati profile. It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere. It allows you to put an excellent technorati search on your blog. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, technorati knows and a search for your blog on technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description. See why you need a technorati account.
5 – Sitemeter – Just takes 5 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you realtime site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data. I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Although you need to keep a counter visible (as a logo, visitor counter) and the statistics can be made private too.
StatCounter gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private. More options I like are Google Analytics for deep traffic statistical analysis and it is hidden too.
6. Feedblitz – It quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also.
7. w.bloggar – It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively.
8. Blogger Mobile – opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they're automatically posted to your new blog page.
9. Blogexplosion – helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours. For every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you. This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service.
10. Pingomatic – Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click 'Submit Pings' and in one click it pings all of them. Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. See many more one click pinging services.
11. Creative Commons – It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the "all rights reserved" of traditional copyright to create a voluntary "some rights reserved" copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content.
14. Google Adsense and Search – When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.


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Texas billionaire and populist presidential candidate Ross Perot's death Tuesday reminded Sanford's BJ Rudell of how important the Texan's 1992 presidential campaign remains.
"His political legacy lies with the ideals he set forth -- ideals that no national politician has come close to realizing since," BJ writes.
"In the summer of 1992, a plurality of the country craved someone different, someone who wasn't defined by party labels. Today, at a time when political and ideological purity are celebrated among Republican and Democratic leaders, Perot's passing reminds us that many Americans hate purity. They want authenticity."
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Latest op-ed in The Hill by Duke-POLIS's B.J. Rudell on what polls and history tell us about Donald Trump's re-election prospects. Hint: Sitting presidents who are re-nominated have won 70% of the time, and in the past 100 years souring economies have doomed three of the four losers. The state of our economy in September/October 2020 likely will determine the winner. ... See MoreSee Less
What polls and history tell us about Trump's reelection prospects
We already know the "definitely not" crowd is not 100 percent "definitely not." Their movability hinges almost entirely on how the economy's faring in September/October 2020.
Latest The Hill op-ed by POLIS's B.J. Rudell highlighting efforts by the Democratic and Republican parties to acquire power, exert power, and modify the rules to maintain power--and how these efforts lead to policies that a majority of Americans oppose. ... See MoreSee Less
Abortion laws and the foundation of political overreach
If one knew nothing about policy or politics, one would assume there is a rising tide of pro-life sentiment in the United States is because, quite simply, the public demands it.
An interesting electoral phenomenon in the past 35 years: "Next up" presidential candidates consistently win their party's nomination, and then lose in the general election. Why? POLIS's B.J. Rudell offers his insights in this latest The Hill opinion piece.
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Several factors have hindered 'next up' presidential candidates in recent years
Biden's nearly 50-year political career makes him arguably the most establishment non-incumbent presidential aspirant in U.S. history. He is the prototypical "next up" candidate.
In December 2017, POLIS Associate Director B.J. Rudell walked through how a slight uptick in voter participation in 2018 could lead one party to a wave election victory:
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"Now imagine what would happen if merely 10% of these normally disempowered citizens decided to cast a vote in the 2018 midterms. And suppose the Democratic Party captured two-thirds of these 15 million new entrants. That would mean five million more Democratic votes across the country.
"What's five million votes? In the 1994 wave election, congressional Republicans won a little over four million more votes than their Democratic counterparts. That equated to a pickup of 54 House seats and eight Senate seats."
According to the just-released U.S. Census Bureau report on the 2018 midterm elections, voter turnout last November was 11% higher than in 2014, disproportionately favoring Democratic candidates:
www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/04/behind-2018-united-states-midterm-election-turnout.html
B.J.'s premise in December 2017 was that with increased polarization comes opportunity in the form of 100 million or more non-voters. Only a few million are needed to help one party dominate an election. Democrats were able to seize the advantage in 2018. It would be naive to think the same can't happen for Republicans or Democrats in 2020.
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You may already be running a Search or Display campaign or a combination of both…Good.
You're right on track. Are you running Google/Bing text ads 24 hours a day? Bidding on your competitor's search terms? Showing your marketing banners on as many sites as possible to gain more awareness and lead? DON'T DO THAT.
If you answered yes to any of these questions, keep reading. We'll share why these marketing tactics sound great in theory but actually cost you more money, lower your conversion rate, and ultimately gain you FEWER quality leads.
Tanner Ross and Joel Cox just shared an amazing webinar (originally presented at the 2018 International Builders' Show in Orlando) covering common search and display marketing mistakes real estate marketers make every day that sound great in theory, but actually raise your cost per click and lower your conversion rate. Sounds backward, right?
From here, you have two choices: Learn how to fix these common mistakes by watching the full recording below (about 30-minutes), or enjoy a 10 minute read where we've also provided the exact time you need to skip to on a specific marketing NO-NO.
Phrase Match Keywords are actually a phrase that includes close variations of that phrase. These types of keywords are great for an initial campaign launch and to discover additional keyword search variations you want to show your ads for.
Exact Match Keywords are close variations of the exact keywords you're going for. These keywords offer a high level of bid control and ability to bid very competitively. You'll want to use Exact Match for smaller budget campaigns and for keywords that have shown a historical performance of driving results.
How do you determine the right mix of keywords to use? What are your budget restraints? Watch the webinar recording for a more in-depth look at the FOUR different keyword match types advertisers can use in most SEM campaigns.
And why would you even want to remove your ads from showing in a search? Because, it will eliminate irrelevant click-through traffic to your website and increase your keyword quality score.
Now, there are two levels of negative keywords: Campaign Level and Group Level. Campaign level keywords will help increase performance of the campaign as soon as it's turned live. Group level keywords will find common denominator keywords to add as a broad match keyword to the negative keyword list.
Negative keywords added in at the Ad Group level via the Search Terms tab.
However, there is also one no-no you want to watch out for when using negative keywords. Speed ahead to 7:15 to make sure you don't make this mistake!
And Speed ahead to 31:00 to hear Tanner answer a question on how to determine your negative keywords.
Bidding on competitor keywords is a no-no for a number of reasons, but the two major ones that should scare away any marketer is a lower CTR, and you're not actually allowed to use your competitor name in your ad copy because it's misleading and Google will ping you for it. Both of which raise your cost per click.
And yet, there is still a way to target home shoppers by leveraging your competitors and their model homes. Geofencing captures home shoppers that travel through a set target zone (such as your competitor's model) and send your ads straight to the captured smartphone they had in their pocket.
Don't begin any display marketing campaigns without first setting up your site Analytics (typically Google Analytics) and tracking of conversions/goals. You also want to use UTM tracking to separate your campaigns and get a clear review in Google Analytics. Skip ahead to: 14:26.
What do we mean by hold people accountable? Chances are you've teamed up with digital partners to help you with your digital marketing tactics. Just like you set up tracking and goals with Google Analytics for your website, you want to set performance expectations with your Digital Partners up front as well and hold them accountable to those said exceptions.
A/B Testing can get a bit tricky. When someone says, "We should A/B test," what exactly are they wanting to test?
In Display Marketing you want to ABT your Call to Actions, Imagery, Ad Size, File Type, and Audience Targeting.
There are 18 different ad sizes for display and remarketing ads. There are tall, long, skinny, fat, square, and rectangle ad sizes to put it plainly. Which means space on each ad size will vary tremendously: cutting off your photography, giving you limited text space, and the resolution and quality of your ad can even change.
Static, Animated (GIF), Video – the answer isn't always what you think.
Make sure to find the right balance between precision and scale.
For a more in-depth look at A/B testing, speed ahead to 18:43 in the webinar recording.
This solution sounds as simple as Do A/B Test. But it's not always easy. Especially, when we get comfortable with the results of one type of campaign. Unfortunately, that campaign may be showing great results today, but will it continue to show results tomorrow?
This is a section of the webinar you absolutely want to watch. Joel presents a wealth of information but also shares a look at the future and where Display Marketing is heading. Skip to 24:17.
Cross-Device advertising is no longer optional.
Consumer browsing habits change rapidly.
Video: OTT Advertising. It didn't exist 5 years ago but is now the fastest-growing medium in digital advertising.
The digital media landscape is shifting to video.
Still have questions about the NO-NO's of Search and Display Marketing? Contact our two presenters with your questions.
Want to learn more about leveraging your competitors' model homes with geofencing? Contact us at geo@smarttouchinteractive.com with your questions.
Tanner Ross, VP of Digital Marketing at SmartTouch® Interactive, drives the search engine marketing, search engine optimization, and social media marketing programs for more than 50 real estate clients. Certified in Google Adwords and Bing Ads, he has been with the SmartTouch® team for the past five years and has truly shaped the digital marketing department. He's mastered the ins and outs of SEO, SEM, Social Media, Analytic Integrations, and third-party media placements and has grown SmartTouch®'s digital services into the next age of digital marketing with the ambition of making SmartTouch® Interactive the go-to marketing agency for builders and developers.


KEITH OLBERMANN: The mind reels at the thought...What servant of any of the 42 previous presidents could possibly withhold information of this urgency and this gravity and wind up back at his desk the next morning instead of winding up before a congressional investigation or a criminal one?
BILL MOYERS: One of my closest friends always watched your nightly sportscast. And he remembers to this day, just got a word from him this morning, he remembers your saying about hockey is the most boring sport he's ever seen. And you went on to say, "Nevertheless, here without further comment are the game results for whatever they're worth." But you don't do that with politics. You don't-- you don't just give the scores. You have some strong things to say about politics.
KEITH OLBERMANN: It became necessary.
KEITH OLBERMANN: I was sitting on a plane in Los Angeles reading in August of 2006 about Don Rumsfeld talking to the veterans and talking about how every-- everyone who was in opposition to the Iraq War policy, the so-called war on terror, even to some degree the Bush administration, was the equivalent in his mind to the Nazi appeasers of the 1930s. And he went on at length about how, you know, here's the-- we're doing the Churchillian role. And I thought, you know, sir, I took history classes. Your group is not Churchill. Your group is Neville Chamberlain because Neville Chamberlain minimized and marginalized anybody who disagreed with him. Reading this ridiculous remark and waiting to see somebody respond to it. And no one did. I'm thinking, well, you know, somebody with a platform ought to be talking about this. Somebody with a-- with an avenue to respond should be-- oh, yeah, I have a platform.
BILL MOYERS: And we have the commentary you did after that incident. Let me show it to our audience.
KEITH OLBERMANN: The man who sees absolutes where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning is either a prophet or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet. Dissent and disagreement with government is the life's blood of human freedom and not merely because it the first roadblock against the kind of tyranny the men Mr. Rumsfeld likes to think of as his troops still fight this very evening in Iraq.
BILL MOYERS: You were angry.
KEITH OLBERMANN: I was. I was very angry. I was angry for a period of two days. After that first commentary, when I didn't know whether it was going to be greeted, I had support from management at MSNBC for that one. They-- I didn't surprise them. I said, "Look, I want to do this." And they went, "Yeah, you should." I didn't know what their reaction was going to be. I didn't know if I was going to be gunned down as I came out of the building or put in a black car or, you know, or lauded or whatever. People, for the most part, were ecstatic about this. And our ratings went up immediately. And the reaction from management was-- "Can you do one every night?" And I said, "No, I can't do one every night. I don't want to turn into that either." I don't want to be silent here. But I don't want to turn this into a manufactured thing. And they said, "Well, how 'bout once a week?" And I said, "No, you're not following me. It has to be organic." When I get angry on the air, it's because I'm angry about that particular subject and because of the revision of this country that has been done under our noses for the last seven years against the will of the people. And when something happens that touches into that general anger combined with the specific anger for the actual event that we're talking about, it swells up and I feel like, all right, here comes another one.
BILL MOYERS: --which is one of the top defense contractors in-- in the world. And you were criticizing the Secretary of Defense. This could have meant billions of dollars to them. Did they come down on you?
KEITH OLBERMANN: Not in the least.
BILL MOYERS: Not in the least?
KEITH OLBERMANN: The one advantage to it is the people who own television, commercial television will do whatever makes them money. And I make GE money. At a time when television money is increasingly scarce, they are delighted by my money. And I don't wanna minimize the idea that there is support for the point of view or freedom of speech. But ultimately, they don't have to make those choices as much as they have to make a choice about whether or not they're making money. Fortuitously, I help them do that.
BILL MOYERS: But if you were not making a profit for GE, you would not have this free speech.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Right. The right-wing crashed down on my masters at MSNBC and NBC. And they came in and they said, "Okay, look, we don't need-- you don't need to retract. You don't need to change. If the story happens again tomorrow, do it again tomorrow. But just do me a favor. Come on and say something that emphasizes when you did this story you were not criticizing the troops who actually did the raid." And I said, "I wasn't." And they said, "Well, if you could say that again, that would probably be all we need."
BILL MOYERS: These are your bosses talking.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Right. And I said, "Well, this would then allow me to tell the story again." And my particular boss said, "Mm-hmm." And there was a kind of, "We're going to shut down this criticism. We're going to answer these people. We're going to give them what they think they want. They've made the wrong request." This will give you another opportunity to tell the same story again. And it has gradually escalated where I've had more and more license ever since.
KEITH OLBERMANN: I think probably it won't happen. But I would say that there were circum-- there were circumstances in this show, there was one occasion where I was prepared to go out the door an hour before one of the shows because we had one of those conflicting moments. This is very early on again. This is 2003. When we were all still in that kind of, "Gee, should we suspend our disbelief? What if he's-- what if George Bush is right and this is the kind of threat that he portrays?" He-- it's probably exaggerated because he's a politician, number one. But number two, what if he's right? I think a lot of us were saying, "Well, okay, let's just tread gently." MSNBC hired a guy named Michael Savage. And he came on and did-- not only did he do a show once a week that was basically just spattering invective on people he didn't like and these people change from week to week, but it was terribly produced. I mean, it was an awful show. And he was-- he looked like he was standing in front of a chalkboard somewhere in somebody's basement with a camera. One night I walk in, my boss is out of town. And the guy actually running the show at the point said, at countdown, said-- "We're going to run a Michael Savage commentary. I've got to go now." And he ran away. And I said, "We're not running a Michael Savage commentary. That's in the"-- and he was gone. I called my agent. Now, I'd just gotten back to MSNBC. I left, as you said, under the Lewinsky circumstances. A lot of bridges were burned. Came back. Everybody hugged. It's three or four months in. I'm enjoying it. I think I'm making a difference. I'm getting that little sort of skeptical thing back. And here we're going to have a Michael Savage commentary in the middle of it. So I finally got a hold of my agent. And I said, "I have to walk out, don't I?" She said, "Yep, you do." And I said, "Yeah, I guess so. Well, it was a nice career." I'm going to try to get a hold of my boss in Washington. And I called him and I said, "I can't"-- he said, "Can you find some reason not to run it that doesn't pertain to the politics?" I said, "Are you saying to me if I go and look at it and it doesn't meet production standards we don't have to run it?" "I might be saying that, yes. Just give me something to work with." And I went in and looked at it and the guy repeated himself nine times. So I called the guy back and said-- "It's very badly produced. He's repeating himself. I don't think you should run it." "Okay, good enough." But those things still happen, and I'm sure they'll still happen.
BILL MOYERS: You said you were getting this little skeptical thing.
KEITH OLBERMANN: It's what we do. It is the necessity of-- of journalism. Skepticism. Especially if you're trained in sports. Skepticism.
BILL MOYERS: Why in sports? I mean, what does sports have to do with news reporting?
KEITH OLBERMANN: In sports reporting it is almost assumed that you need to have some predictive ability. And you have to be able to discern patterns and also discern when somebody's telling you, "No, our shortstop's great," and he really isn't." And what the difference between those two things are. When the results don't match up to the hyperbole, you need to be able to see that and you need to be able to say it in some sort of informed way. When you cover a sport like baseball or football or whatever, that you're just-- you're here for this part of the story. You're-- you've joined it 75 years in progress or 100 years in progress. It should be the same way when you're covering the news and particularly in politics. And yet, as we've seen, you know, people in the political world now don't know what the Cuban Missile Crisis was.
KEITH OLBERMANN: The definition now of being on one side is to have not-- flag wavingly supported the president in anything he wanted, not handed him carte blanche after carte blanche after carte blanche.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Exactly. It-- it is-- I said that-- I'm on the air with Chris Matthews on that day with miss-- mission accomplished on May 1st in 2003. And I-- and he's talking about this as George Bush's moment in history and this. And I said, "Don't you think that him wearing a flight suit's going to be a little bit of a problem during the election cam-- "No. This is American history at its finest." I thought, "Gee, I'm the guy's wearing a flight suit." You talk about the emperor's new clothes. Here it is. He-- his new clothes are a flight suit when there was a controversy over whether or not he-- he fulfilled his Air National Guard service. You-- you just-- to-- to say that suddenly became subjective, just to recognize that. It was as if you were saying, "I'm only going to report," back to the sports analogies. I'm only going to report the Dodgers scores when they win.
BILL MOYERS: You-- you've started a new feature that goes beyond just skepticism.
BILL MOYERS: And I have an excerpt from it for the audience. Let's look at it. OLBERMANN: COUNTDOWN`s list of the top three Bush administration scandals you may have forgotten about because of the latest Bush administration scandals. Number three, the U.S. attorneys firing scandal. Haven`t heard much about that lately. Number two, the when the hell are we going to get body armor to the troops in Iraq so they can stop protecting their vehicles using corrugated metal they found by the side of the road in Iraq scandal. And number one, ...The commutation of Scooter Libby`s sentence scandal. Today Libby dropped his appeal. So the case is closed. And finally the White House can answer questions about it, right? Right!"
BILL MOYERS: What inspired that? You're doing it every night.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Yeah, well, I seriously, it was-- when the NIE about Iran, the National Intelligence Estimate, was this overarching story consuming almost every news organization, left, right, and middle, for two or three days. And then, bang, here comes the water-boarding tapes, or if you prefer, Water-boarding Gate, out of nowhere. And no one mentioned the NIE again. Just-- it just vanished. And it occurred to me that this had been bothering me for some time, that we had had so many scandals, so much scandal fatigue that literally people were going, "What was the name of that attorney general who was-- who was-- who was-- what was-- didn't he get fired? Did he fire somebody? What was his name? What-- I can't remember. Who was it? Was it Ashcroft? But after Ashcroft? Who was it?" I said, "Well, look, this is-- this is-- this is literally a problem." I began to ask friends and people that I work with: How many scandals have we covered in this administration?
BILL MOYERS: It all happened so fast. Amnesia sets in immediately.
BILL MOYERS: What does it mean for journalism?
KEITH OLBERMANN: It means you have to do something like that. That part of the news is not just saying, "Well, this happened in the last 24 hours," but here's something that happened six weeks. There's been a development in it. You're just not reading about it, you're not hearing about it because there's so much else to worry about. The list, Bill, of things that we could attach the word "gate" to in the Bush administration is now 50 items long.
BILL MOYERS: One of the reasons I'm glad you came is because I wanted to give the young people who work for me a chance to ask you some questions. They're all aspiring to be journalists. So I circulated the fact that you're coming and said, "Give me some questions you would ask him."
BILL MOYERS: Quote, "I have long had mixed feelings about Keith Olbermann. While it's nice to have a cable anchor how doesn't obsequiously parrot Republican National Committee talking points, I struggle with the fear that angry histrionics on both sides create more of the ugly polarization that paralyzes our institutions and prevents Americans finding common ground. How does Mr. Olbermann differentiate his ad hominem attacks from those we see on the other side?" What do you say to Jesse?
KEITH OLBERMANN: Well, they're better written. The first-- no, I hate to-- I-- it's the most vulnerable point because it bothers me, too. It do-- it's the one criticism that I think is absolutely fair. We're doing the same thing. It is-- it becomes a nation of screechers. It's never a good thing. But emergency rules do apply. I would like nothing better than to go back and do maybe a sportscast every night. But I think the stuff that I'm talking about is so obvious and will be viewed in such terms of certainty by history that this era will be looked at the way we look now at the-- at the presidents and the-- the leaders of this country who rolled back reconstruction // I think it's that obvious. And I think only under those circumstances would I go this far out on a limb and be this vociferous about it.
BILL MOYERS: Another question from Gloria. "Yesterday I was scanning some of Mr. Olbermann's clips and I found one especially striking. He was calling Bush a war profiteer, more concerned about the profits of the defense industry than the lives of the soldiers. Right after he was done speaking, an ad came up for Boeing. Does Mr. Olbermann feel his credibility is at all undermined by the fact that his network is financed by some of the very industries he decries in his commentary?"
KEITH OLBERMANN: Yeah. If we're going to try to go corporation-free in any regard, I'm afraid everybody watching would just be prepared for that, you know that old test pattern with the Native American head appearing in the middle of it. 'Cause we're all, to some degree, involved in it. It's a nation of corporations, whether we like it or not. As I said earlier, the fortunate part about broadcasting is if I'm making them money, it doesn't make a difference to them and I'm on the air, how I'm doing it. And to be fair, many of these people on an individual basis have consciences that cannot be expressed in a corporate sense. Many of the people for whom I work-- say, "You are saying things that I cannot say." So I get support in a different way entirely from my bosses.
BILL MOYERS: Follow-up from Reniqua. And this could be to me, too. "You're a middle-aged white man who works for GE. What's so different from you sitting at the news desk than Walter Cronkite 40 years ago? Why should people listen to you?"
BILL MOYERS: --when he came back from Vietnam and said-- the war has been lost. And Lyndon Johnson said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost middle America."
KEITH OLBERMANN: But the point being that there was-- there were emergency circumstances that he saw, too.
BILL MOYERS: You keep using that word. Are we in an emergency?
KEITH OLBERMANN: Well, we're being-- what-- here-- this is one thing with which I agree with George Bush. We're in an emergency. He and I could just sit there-- we just talked about what an emergency we were in and never went into details, we'd have a great time.
BILL MOYERS: What is it, as you see it?
KEITH OLBERMANN: Well, it is the question of the future of the nation. It's one of those pivotal times in our history. And I don't know that necessarily everybody sees it in those terms because it is, once again, an opportunity not merely for any external threat but for internal threat. Governments exist based on power that is taken from people.	It is-- they are necessary. I'm not an anarchist. I believe in government. But there is-- there's no-- no possible interpretation other than to say that this administration and the Republican Party, to some degree the Democratic Party, have taken advantage of fear, of the unprecedented, nearly unprecedented attack that we saw in 2001, to expand their powers on the premise always of security, which is, you know, the famous Franklin, Jefferson warning about that is it's never been more applicable. So it is, yeah, it is emergency circumstances as Walter Cronkite saw it. I mean, here-- objective Uncle Walter, most trusted man in America. When I have an opinion on the most important political issue of the day, I'm gonna sink a president and maybe throw the election to the other guy right now. And he said, well, you know, the chips have to fall in this direction because people are dying and our country is, to some degree, wounded and bleeding. And our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.
BILL MOYERS: Alright, last question. Name the four 20-game winners on the 1971 Baltimore Orioles.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, Pat Dobson, and Jim Palmer.
BILL MOYERS: That is amazing.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Oh, come on. I was 12 years old and a huge baseball fan.
KEITH OLBERMANN: I better remember that.
BILL MOYERS: --there are only two teams in the history of baseball who've ever had four 20-game winners. That wasn't a trick question. I didn't think you would know it.
KEITH OLBERMANN: Oh, sure. I can do the Yankee managers from, like, 1901 on. 1903 on. They didn't exist in 1901.
BILL MOYERS: Keith Olbermann, thank you very much for joining me on The Journal.
KEITH OLBERMANN: An honor, sir.
BILL MOYERS: Even as Keith Olbermann is emerging as a contrary voice, in the monolith of corporate broadcasting, journalism lost an island of independence this week. Rupert Murdoch officially took control of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL from the now defunct Bancroft family. With THE JOURNAL, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News channel, and his new Fox Business Network, Murdoch now controls four of the major outlets that compete every day for the space in our heads. And when it comes to using his power for his own agenda, he's no shrinking violet. Back when THE WALL STREET JOURNAL was still a free agent - the paper itself reminded us that Rupert Murdoch "has blurred a line that exists at many other U.S. media companies ... - a line intended to keep the business and political interests of owners from influencing the presentation of news."
So it matters who owns the paper you read. That's why our next story is important and timely. The number of media corporations that dominate our lives has shrunk over the past 25 years from 50 to just a handful. Eighty percent of the country's daily papers are now owned by conglomerates. There's a restriction in place that prevents newspapers from buying radio and television stations in the same market, but the moguls, tycoons, and barons of the business have been lobbying to get the FCC- the Federal Communications Commission- to lift that restriction. They're about to get their way. And once again the heist of the public interest turns out to be an inside job. Here's our update from producer Peter Meryash and correspondent Rick Karr.
RICK KARR: Publishing conglomerates are prohibited from buying radio and T-V stations in their home towns under what's known as the "cross-ownership ban." Next week, though, the three Republicans on the F-C-C are expected to scrap the rule. That means newspapers from Seattle and San Francisco ... to Boston and Miami ... and Atlanta and Houston will be able to buy up local radio and T-V stations. As could papers pretty much everywhere else, according to critics of the proposal.
RICK KARR: The F-C-C - under Republican Chairman Kevin Martin - hit the road for a series of six public hearings, from Pennsylvania to Washington State. We reported on a few of those meetings ... which attracted hundreds of people ... who stayed for hours ... and told the five Commissioners - overwhelmingly - that they didn't want any more media consolidation.
CHICAGO FCC HEARING PARTICIPANT: So if the F-C-C is here wanting to know if Chicago's residents are being well served? The answer is no. If local talent is being covered? The answer is no. If community issues are being treated sensitively? The answer is no. If minority groups are getting the coverage and the input they need? The answer is no, the answer is no.
SEATTLE FCC HEARING PARTICIPANT: We told you a year ago when you came to Seattle that media consolidation is a patently bad idea, no ifs ands or buts about it. So with all due respect, I ask you, what part of that didn't you understand?
RICK KARR: That last hearing was last month, in Seattle. Members of the public spoke until one in the morning ... but all of those comments didn't persuade the F-C-C's Republicans that consolidation is a bad idea. In fact, no sooner had the Commissioners returned from Seattle to their Washington, D.C. offices ... than Chairman Martin announced that his mind was made up: THE NEW YORK TIMES gave him space on its Op-Ed page to argue for .... MORE media consolidation. The short span between the last public hearing and Martin's article ... landed the Chairman in the hot seat last week at a House Subcommittee hearing. Seattle-area lawmaker Jay Inslee asked the F-C-C Chairman whether he'd been paying attention to anything the public had told him.
REP. JAY INSLEE: When you have 1,000 people staying till 1:00 at night on a Friday, on the next Tuesday morning in THE NEW YORK TIMES, we see an op-ed by the chairman saying that he's going to propose rules that would basically ignore the testimony of these hundreds of people in Seattle the Friday before. Now, that troubles me because apparently, this is an op-ed that I can't believe wasn't written before this testimony was even listened to, and my folks in Seattle believe that they were treated like a bunch of chumps out in there that they had the FCC come out, fake like you're listening to them, and the deal was already done. So my first question, Chairman Martin, is was your op-ed, at least rough draft, written before you listened to these thousand people out in Seattle?
CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN, FCC: Sure, I was working on drafts of the op-ed. I'm sure I was working on it on the way out to Seattle.
REP. INSLEE: And when did you send the final draft to THE NEW YORK TIMES?
CHAIRMAN KEVIN MARTIN, FCC: I don't recall. It was some time over -- I'm sure it was some time over the weekend. I don't know. I don't know whether I submitted it on Friday or Saturday, I don't know.
REP. INSLEE: Well, knowing how THE NEW YORK TIMES works, I bet you submitted it before you heard the testimony in Seattle and I'm going to ask you to check that out and let us know.
RICK KARR: Inslee's staff says Martin hasn't responded to that request. THE NEW YORK TIMES didn't reply to our questions about when it received the F-C-C chairman's op-ed piece. Another House Democrat accused Martin of having made up his mind before he'd heard a single comment from the public: Pennsylvania's Michael Doyle said that in June of 2006 - almost eighteen months ago - Martin received this memo from F-C-C staff ... laying out how the Commission could justify allowing newspapers to buy into radio and T-V stations.
REP. MIKE DOYLE: Chairman Martin, a more cynical person than I might ask the question, did you know what you wanted to do on June 15th, 2006? I would hope that overturning cross-ownership rules wasn't a forgone conclusion, that you actually looked at studies, saw what they said, went to the field hearings, listened to the public and the stakeholders and then announced your rule.
RICK KARR: That's June of last year. Martin's answer seemed to confirm Democrats' suspicions that the F-C-C's hearings ... and academic studies ... were nothing more than a charade. They'd called for the subcommittee hearing because Congress may be the only body in Washington that can stop the proposal for more consolidation. House Republicans, on the other hand, were generally friendly to the idea of letting Big Media get even bigger.
REP. JOE BARTON: Well, I want you to know, Mr. Chairman -- Chairman Martin -- that some of us do support the relaxation of the cross-ownership rules so you have a few friends on that issue.
COMM. JONATHAN ADELSTEIN, FCC: Americans from all walks of life, from all political perspectives, from the right to the left and virtually everyone in between don't want a handful of companies dominating their main sources of news and information. People are not clamoring for us to relax the media cross ownership ban. They're concerned about how responsive their local media is to local communities, what's happening in their own community.
RICK KARR: Adelstein's Democratic colleague, Michael Copps asked ... why the rush to give Big Media what it wants in defiance of what the Commission heard from the public?
COMM. MICHAEL COPPS, FCC: We are rushing in to encourage more consolidation without addressing the real damage consolidation has already caused. What we have here is an unseemly rush to judgment, a stubborn insistence to finish the proceeding by December 18th, public and Congressional opinion be damned. When overwhelming majorities of citizens oppose this, when members of Congress write to caution us every day, and when legislation to avoid a nine-car train wreck is being actively considered on Capitol Hill, I think the FCC has a responsibility to stop, look and listen. The stakes are enormous.
RICK KARR: Newspaper conglomerates argue that they have to get into broadcasting: Business is bad, an industry spokesman told the lawmakers, and profits are down, so publishers need the new revenues that radio and T-V can provide.
JOHN STURM, Newspapers Association of America: All of the vital signs of the newspaper industry now are negative. That is very difficult for me to say, but it is true.
RICK KARR: Republican F-C-C Chairman Kevin Martin echoed the industry's argument ... and even took it a step farther: Unless newspapers are allowed to expand into broadcasting, he said, they may just disappear.
CHAIRMAN MARTIN, FCC: According to almost every measure, newspapers are struggling. At least 300 daily newspapers have stopped publishing over the last 30 years. Their circulation is down, and their advertising revenue is shrinking.
RICK KARR: Except ... that's not the whole story. Newspaper profits are down, but on average, publicly-traded newspaper firms still generate profit margins that are greater than the average for the Fortune five-hundred. Pennsylvania Democrat Michael Doyle asked Martin whether he'd really done his homework.
REP. DOYLE: Are you aware that Dean Singleton, owner of the YORK DAILY RECORD and dozens of other papers of the Media Newsgroup, said that the newspaper industry is, quote, "very, very, very profitable and it will continue to be for a long time?"
REP. DOYLE: He did say that. Are you aware that Scarborough Research, a firm that works closely with the Newspaper Association of America, their report concluded that, and I quote, "They continue to find that when online readers are considered, the story of newspaper readership for many papers transforms from one of slow, steady decline to one of vibrancy and growth?"
CHAIRMAN MARTIN, FCC: I'm sorry, what was the -- was the question have I seen that report?
CHAIRMAN MARTIN, FCC: I haven't seen that report, no.
RICK KARR: This week on Thursday all five Commissioners were BACK on Capitol Hill ... testifying before a Senate committee. This time, Martin didn't hear any words of support: Even his fellow Republicans - including Alaska's Ted Stevens - called on him to slow down.
RICK KARR: The Committee recently unanimously approved a bill that would delay the F-C-C vote by ninety days ... and require the Commission to do more research to justify any changes. But the full Senate isn't likely to vote on the bill before the F-C-C makes its decision on Tuesday. Florida Democrat Ben Nelson was one of several Senators who asked Martin point blank whether he'd yield to bipartisan criticism and postpone the F-C-C vote.
SEN. BILL NELSON: Mr. Chairman with all these questions raised by a committee of the United States Senate, do you intend to continue with this proceeding on December 18th?
CHAIRMAN MARTIN, FCC: Yes. At this point I think it is important for us to proceed.
RICK KARR: Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry blasted Martin for his defiance.
SEN. JOHN KERRY: It is really clear from the evidence that if the Commission intends to promote ownership diversity, you can't accomplish that goal while simultaneously increasing market concentration. It just doesn't -- it's just a complete contradiction. It just seems extraordinary to me that we're not able to have your agreement to wait a few days. Listen to American people. Listen to the Congress.
BILL MOYERS: What�s he not talking about that concerns them?
RONALD WALTERS: I will. BILL MOYERS Okay. Dr. Ron Walters, thank you for joining me on the Journal. That's it for this week. We�ll be back next week. I�m Bill Moyers.


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Good morning everyone! We're in the middle of Christmastide, and the New Year is almost upon us, as hard as it is to believe. Here's a bit about how things are going in our neck of the woods.
First of all, our Christmas services went great! Our early service Christmas Eve (a service of "Lessons & Carols") was well attended despite heavy rain, in large part due to the fact that the Salvation Army and Pentecostal churches in town also participated with us. We had a wonderful time singing and listening to the story of our redemption, and I think it also helped to build relationships between our various churches in the community, certainly among the pastors. Our later service (11:00 PM) that same evening attracted some attendees, but it was our Christmas Morning service where many of us gathered together to take great joy in celebrating the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for all of your prayers for our special celebrations!
In these days, we've had some other blessings for our church and its worship. A few weeks ago St. Hilda's purchased its first projector and laptop computer, though it has wiped out the savings the church had accumulated. This is a huge blessing, and we were able to first use the new apparati (apparatuses?) for our Christmas services, thanks be to God! In a few weeks, we hope to have a bell installed at the church and so be more able to call the community around the church to worship. Please keep all of this in prayer!
My hunt for a house continues, and it looks as though I might be able to find a home in the facilities that the (government) Ministry of Agriculture owns in Central Farm. The structures aren't the best, and they're a little expensive, but it is some of the only housing that I can find in the communities I principally serve: Georgeville and Central Farm. As far as a vehicle, the last I understood things stand as they did a few weeks ago: I still have about halfway to go with raising funds. Please pray for God's continued provision, and that he would give me his wisdom regarding how to proceed.
In the next week, things will probably be quite busy! My mother and a friend arrive tomorrow (New Year's Eve) to spend a few days with me here, and New Year's Day we will have special services in the church. I plan to make pastoral visits to people in our community, and especially to the latino families in Georgeville. And then next Monday we will celebrate the feast of the Epiphany that evening ... we're still working out the details, but I expect it to be great!
Thank you all for your prayers and support for us in this ministry. Have a Merry Christmas, a happy New Year, and eat lots and lots of chocolate!


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When God Was A Woman (Paperback)
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (Paperback)
By Margot Lee Shetterly
Lucky (Paperback)
By Alice Sebold
Wide Sargasso Sea (Paperback)
By Jean Rhys, Edwidge Danticat (Introduction by)
The Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care (Hardcover)
By Rina Raphael
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (Paperback)
By Saidiya Hartman
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison (Hardcover)
By Hugh Ryan
Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger (Paperback)
By Soraya Chemaly
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Paperback)
By Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Paperback)
By Dorothy Roberts
Women, Leadership, and Saving the World: Why Everything Gets Better When Women Lead (Paperback)
By Belinda Clemmensen


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Most Beautiful Ramsar Sites Of Nepal
by OMG October 8, 2021, 10:50 am 1.8k Views
Ramsar sites are the international treaty intended to emphasize the collective effort for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands. Its overall idea is based on the fundamentals of ecological functions of wetlands and their economic, cultural, scientific, and recreational value.
There are 2331 Ramsar sites around the world as per 2018. The Ramsar sites exist in countries like the United Kingdom, Bolivia, Mexico, Nepal, etc. Moreover, Bolivia is considered to have the most significant area of the Ramsar site, with around 148,000 square kilometres (57,000 sq mi). Meanwhile, this article covers the list of Most beautiful Ramsar sites in Nepal.
Ghodaghodi Tal
Ghodaghodi tal embraces the tropical deciduous forest that includes 388 vascular plants, and the wetlands serve as a wildlife corridor between the Terai lowland and the Siwalik Hills.
https://www.skylinetreks.com/destination/nepal/jungle-safari-tour/ghoda-ghodi-tal.html
It is situated in Kailali District and confines 13 shallow oxbow lakes and ponds with associated marshes and meadows. Furthermore, it was listed in the Ramsar site on 13 August 2003.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghoda_Ghodi_Lake.JPG
Jagdishpur Reservoir
Jagdishpur Reservoir fed by a canal from Bangaga River, which drains with Chure Hills. It lies in Kapilvastu District, Nepal. The reservoir is accompanied by grown land and a couple of smaller lakes that stand as a bird buffer zone, and it covers the area estimated around 556 acres.
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It was declared a Ramsar site in 2003 whereas it is also known largest reservoir in the country. However, the birds and other fauna around the Jagdishpur Reservoir haven't been extensively studied yet.
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Mai Pokhari
Wetland Mai Pokhari consists of most beautiful flora such as Schima, Castanopsis, laurel oak (Quercus laurifolia), epiphytic orchids cone trees, rhododendrons, and herbal plants are the vital source in this Wetland. It is situated in one of the most astounding districts of Nepal, i.e., Illam.
https://www.nepaltreksandtour.com/product/ilam-mai-pokhari-tour/
More than the Ramsar site, Mai Pokhari is considered the pilgrimage center for both Hindus and Buddhist religion. It is in the middle of the Himalayan range and covers 90 hectares of land filled with a white-rumped vulture, leopard cat, Eurasian otter, 300 species of birds, and a variety of lakes and ponds.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/45340264021
Gokyo Lakes
Gokyo Lakes falls under the Everest region of Nepal, and it is situated at an altitude of 5000m above sea levels. It was listed in the Ramsar site on 13 September 2007, and it is considered as the oligotrophic lakes of Nepal, which has 19 lakes spread over an area of 485 acres.
http://tasteofnepal.blogspot.com/2015/10/buckwheat-bread-phaapar-ko-roti.html
Bishazari Tal
Bishazari Tal is perhaps the extreme oxbow lake situated around the Chitwan National Park. This Ramsar site consists of 7900 acres and lies at an altitude of 938 ft situated between the Mahabharata mountain range and and the Siwalik range.
https://highlightstourism.com/2019/12/24/under-the-spell-of-bish-hajari-taal/
Furthermore, we have already cover some Ramsar site so in our website, so without wasting time, Let's Dive into renaming Rasar Site of Nepal which are listed below:
Gosaikunda
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve
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Description: A large 2.443 acre lot in Edna Bay. There have been no improvements done, however there is potential for either commercial or residential use. It does have good road access to the small store/post office and to the harbor/floatplane dock, which is served several times a week by flights from Prince of Wales and Ketchikan.


In June, I was fortunate to catch up with University of Northampton favourite, Dr Matthew Feldman (Teeside University) as he gave a talk on Samuel Beckett and BBC Radio at St. John's College, Oxford University (3 June 2014).
You can also Matthew's talk as an MP3 (53mb).
Other news from the Centre for Contemporary Narrative and Cultural Theory, includes congratulations to the 'TV Fangdom' conference organisers Dr Lorna Jowett and to Dr Mike Starr for their well received papers at the 2014 Slayage Conference at California State University, Sacramento (19-22 June 2014). This month Professor Janet Wilson and Dr Gerri Kimber also spoke on Katherine Mansfield at the Sorbonne in Paris. Finally, marking the centenary of the remembrance of World War One, at the end of this week, Professor Janet Wilson in collaboration with Professor Rod Edmond (The University of Kent) and the New Zealand Studies Network will be convening the 'New Zealand in the First World War' conference at Birkbeck, University of London (3-4 July 2014). Click here to access the New Zealand in the First World War Final Conference Programme.
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The Andromeda episode "So Burn the Untamed Lands" (season 5, episode 8) features some paintball markers dressed up as energy blasters.
The episode opens with Captain Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) shooting some glass bottles with a "crystal powered" energy gun.
The gun is never shown particularly clearly, but that angled part sticking out to the side is the pump grip off a Brass Eagle Talon.
With a little squinting (and a bit of cheating) we find the gun was built off a Brass Eagle Marauder.
with the barrel sawed off and the pump handle jammed in the feed neck.


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Sony's new A9 camera is a full-frame mirrorless with ludicrous speed
Unbelievable continuous shooting capabilities
By Chris Welch@chriswelch Apr 19, 2017, 11:15am EDT
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Sony just announced its most advanced full-frame camera for professional photographers yet. The new A9 is designed to pose a formidable challenge to Canon and Nikon, with a full-frame stacked CMOS sensor (24.2 megapixels), incredible continuous shooting capabilities, and 693 autofocus points. The A9 shoots 4K video, features 5-axis in-body stabilization, dual SD card slots, and it's even got an ethernet port. It launches May 25th for $4,500 in the United States.
But the continuous shooting is the story here, and is what Sony hopes will sell sports photographers and other pros with fast-moving subjects on the A9. It offers blackout-free — so you'll never lose sight of your subject — continuous shooting at up to 20 frames-per-second for up to 241 consecutive RAWs (or 362 JPEGs). That's... very impressive.
The camera's maximum shutter speed is 1/32,000sec, and Sony says the camera is capable of "calculating AF/AE at up to 60 times per second — regardless of shutter release and frame capture." The 693 phase-detect AF points cover near 93 percent of the frame. There's a focus joystick on the back to help you better pinpoint your subject.
Sony claims the A9's 35mm full-frame stacked Exmor RS CMOS sensor is "the world's first of its kind" and allows data speed processing twice as fast as the company's prior full-frame cameras.
Sony's new cameras show just how drastically photography is changing
The A9 also houses Sony's sharpest electronic viewfinder ever. It's a Quad-VGA OLED Tru-Finder with approximately 3,686k dots and sounds like a joy to look through. From Sony:
This all adds up to a luminance that is 2x higher than the XGA OLED Tru-Finder from the α7R II, creating a viewfinder image with a brightness level that is nearly identical to the actual scene being framed, ensuring the most natural shooting experience. The frame rate of the Tru-Finder is even customizable, with options to set it for 60fps or 120fps to best match the action.
Also important: the camera's battery provides 2.2x the capacity of previous Sony full-frame cameras. Battery life has consistently proven to be a weak point of mirrorless cameras, so it's good to see Sony working to extend how much time you can spend shooting. That's critical for the target market here. The company also claims that the camera can operate silently and free of any vibrations up to its maximum shutter speed (so long as you use the electronic shutter).
Sony is also positioning the A9 as a serious performer in 4K video. "Full pixel readout with no pixel binning makes it possible to condense the equivalent of the amount of data required for 6K into 3840 x 2160 4K output. This oversampling process plus full-frame pixel readout without binning results in the highest possible 4K movie image quality." Below is an example of what the end result looks like.


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Bataraza es un municipio (tagalo: bayan; cebuano: lungsod; ilongo: banwa; ilocano: ili; a veces munisipyo en tagalo, cebuano e ilongo y munisipio en ilocano)  de primera categoría perteneciente a la provincia  de Palawan en Mimaropa, Región IV-B de Filipinas.

La municipalidad fue nombrado en honor a Datu Bataraza Narrazid, un influyente cacique musulmán del lugar y padre del primer alcalde del pueblo y antiguo alcalde de Punta de Brooke. Bataraza era parte de esta municipalidad hasta 1964. Limita al noreste con el municipio matriz y también con el de Rizal,  al norte.

De acuerdo con el censo de 2000, tiene una población de 41,458 habitantes en 8,658 hogares. Entre las principales industrias de Bataraza se encuentran la agricultura y ganadería, la pesca y la extracción y tratamiento de níquel.

Geografía física
El municipio de Bataraza se encuentra situado en el extremo sur de la parte continental de la isla de Paragua, entre punta Segyam y punta Reposo, 775 kilómetros al suroeste de Manila y aproximadamente a 236 km de Puerto Princesa y a unas 5 o 6 horas de camino por tierra. Tiene un área total de 957 km².

Su término se extiende a lo largo de unos 80 kilómetros del noreste al suroeste entre aproximadamente 8.3 y 8.75 grados de latitud norte del ecuador, entre las puntas de Segyam y de Panimusán.

Linda al este con el Mar de Joló;, al oeste con una gran cadena de montañas conocida como cordillera de Bulanjao, que se extienden desde el monte Mantalingahan (el punto más alto en la provincia) hasta el monte Malitub, que sirven como división entre Bataraza y el municipio de Punta Baja (Marcos), hoy oficialmente Rizal, y al suroeste con el Mar de la China Meridional, frente a las islas de Bugsuk y de Pandanán que forman parte del municipio de Balábac.

Los barrios norteños situados a lo largo de la costa son Inobong, Marangas, Bono-bono, Malí Hood, Bulalacao y Tarusan. En el interior de la parte continental de la isla se encuentran los de Iwahig, Culandanum, Sandoval, Sumbiling, Ocayan, y Malibu. En la parte central de la costa Iwahig, Culandanum, Sandoval, Sumbiling, Ocayan y Malitub. A lo largo de la costa sur Tagnato, Puring, Buliluyan, Tabud y Tagolango.

La parte insular de este municipio lo forman las tres islas de Cabugán y el islote de Pagapaga, corresponden al barrio de Tagnato; la isla de Tarusán, del barrio de Puring; la isla de  Capayas, del barrio de Tabud.

Relieve
Municipio montañoso en su mayor parte cubierto por bosques. En el extremo noroeste se encuentra el pico más alto de isla Paragua: Monte Mantalingahan.

Clima
La estación seca  comienza en enero continuando hasta abril. La estación  húmeda discurre entre los meses de a septiembre a noviembre. En cuanto a pluviometría, la precipitación anual es de 1.644,9 mm, inferior al promedio filipino que se sitúa alrededor de 2.500 mm.

Geografía humana

Barangayes
El término se divide en franjas de aproximadamente 8 km de anchura, formado los siguientes 22 barrios:

Río Tuba con sus 16.577 habitantes es el barrio más poblado de Bataraza, destacando por sus reservas minerales de níquel. También es aquí donde los medios de transporte están disponibles para llegar a la mayoría de los barangays interiores de Bataraza. La extracción de níquel es una industria muy importante en la localidad. El sitio minero de Río Tuba Minning Corporation se localiza dentro de su jurisdicción.

Historia
En 1858, la provincia de Calamianes fue dividida en dos provincias: Castilla, al norte con Taytay como capital; Asturias,  en el sur,  con Puerto Princesa como capital y los municipios de Aborlan, Narra, Quezón, Sofronio Española, Punta de Broke, Rizal y Bataraza; y la pequeña isla de Balábac,

El 22 de julio 1878 el  sultán de Joló suscribe con España un tratado de paz y lealtad
con cesión de soberanía.
El Gobierno español de Filipinas encomienda a Haron Narrazid, unos de los firmantes en 1878, el gobierno de Balábac, para lo que abandona Joló estableciéndose en el barrio de Bono-bono y postreriormente en el barrio de Abo-abo en el municipio de Sofronio Española avanzando hacia el oeste hasta Cerros de Alfonso, hoy municipio de Quezón.
Acompañaban al sultán Narrazid sus hijos Datu Bataraza y Dato Zulkiple. A su fallecimiento le sucede Bataraza quien durante la ocupación estadounidense de Filipinas fue nombrado gobernador adjunto titulado Datu de la población musulmana.

El 1 de enero de  1964, a iniciativa del entonces congresista Gaudencio Abordo se promulga la Ley de la República Nº 3425 escrito por la que se divide en dos el municipio de Punta de Brooke. La parte sur se denomina municipio de Bataraza en honor del fallecido Datu
Bataraza Narrazid. Su primer alcalde fue Datu Sapiodin, el hijo mayor de Datu Bataraza. Esta familia ocupa el puesto hasta el año de 1971.

Referencias

Localidades de La Paragua
Municipios de Filipinas de Primera Categoría
Estados y territorios fundados en 1964


We visited Silver Creek Falls at the beginning of our hiking adventures last year. We had a large group, the weather was rather cool, and we hiked a longer distance, so there wasn't much time for exploring and playing. Luke had asked to return so he could spend more time exploring the caves in the rock behind the main falls. The weather forecast looked good for Thursday, so we added an extra hike to our schedule.
Holly and Ivy picked up Jake, Monet, Isabella, Julia, and Sophia. I brought my crew of four. The parking lot was almost empty at 10:30. We started the hike at 72 degrees and ended it three hours later at 78 degrees. We only hiked about 3 miles, with a good mix of incline, decline, and flat path.
The weather could not have been more perfect. Everything is so lush at this time of year.
We were rather hot halfway through our hike, and the kids thought the water looked inviting. We made time for wading and swimming. I am not sure these kids really understand the magnitude of the beauty surrounding them.
I think this is one of my most favorite hikes. Multiple spectacular waterfalls. Many walls of trickling water and perfectly child-sized waterfalls. Lush greenery. Places for wading and playing. Caves. Woods. Constant sounds of water rushing and water dripping. All less than a gorgeous hour's drive from our home.
I have recently (we started about a year ago) taken up hiking with my boys and it is one of the best things we've ever done. So much still to see!
I've been there (Silver Creek Falls) truly no less than one hundred times in my life, and it's breathtakingly beautiful every single time. Great pics!
It's such a beautiful place. We are headed to Multnomah and Weisendanger falls tomorrow - our hike to the top and beyond has become an annual trip in May. Even though Multnomah is the ultimate tourist stop, I still enjoy it every time I go.
This might be an off-the-wall question, but what have you found to be good hiking shoes for your kids? Any that don't cost an arm and a leg?