Before a club even begins to build a website they should ask themselves who they intend their audience to be and how they are going to reach out and grow that audience.
In effect, they are discussing the purpose of a website.
When Doxess created ClubRunner, it conceived of a system which would assist Rotarians in the management of a club. Each of its competitors (Roster on Wheels (ROW); DACdb; and Club Collaborator) also created names which put the focus on the business of managing a club. Each company could have created software management programs which functioned independently of the Internet; however, as futurists, each recognised that data integration was on the horizon so built software platforms for the Internet.
This decision had the added benefit of creating a public face for the organisational entity purchasing the management system. Hence each platform was divided into two components — the club management component, hidden from view and only accessible to members with a login name and a password, and a public space viewable to everyone. Regrettably, the issue of what to do with that public space has not been the topic of much discussion among either Rotarian leaders or website managers.
In 2017, at the Atlanta RI Convention, the four businesses above were given an opportunity to provide an overview of their products. Each put their emphasis on the club management components. This is true for ClubRunner as well, but they did it graphically with pictures not a list of features. They were also the only company to express a vision for their product.
The key word on their slide is "Attract". That simple word changes the focus of the product from club management hidden behind a wall to what is in front of the wall. When the focus changes, the purpose is changed. The purpose is now to attract! The what of attract is an audience. But note too, that ClubRunner very succinctly answers the "why and who" questions with "nurture prospects".
We now have the What, Who and Why but the How remains. That is the question we rarely discuss. How do we use a club website to attract an audience? That brings us to the issue of content.
Before I address the issue of content, there needs to be some thought given to the concept of audience. Since your goal is to "nurture prospects," then your audience is "out there," and they are not Rotarians. On the Internet "there" is a very big place. If a club is the only one in town, then it likely has the same name as the community in which it exists. That is going to define the geographic parameters of your nurturing. However, if the club is in a large city, it is competing with many other clubs for the same audience, and that may require considering additional strategies.
Building an audience also means you have to have some way of knowing whether you even have an audience. And since your audience could be anywhere in the World, you have to know what fraction of that audience is from within the catchment area for your club. Hence if you have a club website, and it does not have a counter embedded into it you are literally in a room with no windows and the lights are out.
Virtually free or low-cost products like Statcounter and Google Analytics will tell you how many page views, unique visits, first time visits, repeat visits, the geographic location of each visitor, the amount of time on your site, the stories they visited, where they entered and left the site and how they found the site.
ClubRunner's second step envisions the website being used to "engage" the members of the club. That makes Rotarians the focus of the website. It creates a secondary audience requiring different content. Addressing that audience's need can both compete with the needs and content of the first audience and occasionally compliment the needs of the first audience. Fortunately, ClubRunner's third vision is an extension of the second step.
The primacy of purpose for a club website, in my opinion, must go to attracting the first audience. The "how" of attracting an outside audience requires two very different pieces of content.
The content creators, of the majority of club websites, have given a lot of thought to one of the two components — my term for this component is "invitational content". This area of the content invites visitors to join the club and provides an overview of the Rotary movement and the club's activities. It can even have a form or portal by which you can contact club members or request to join the club.
One good example of a "home" page, independently designed, with invitational content as its primary feature is this one.
If this is the only content, you have on your front page then other assumptions click-in. A visitor has purposefully come to the site to learn more about Rotary. It also means that they have heard about Rotary elsewhere and wanted to learn more.
If this is the sole content of your publically visible site, I will hypothesise that your external audience is small, infrequent and return rate low to non-existent. Also, it is a constant therefore easily maintained, since it is infrequently updated.
When I reviewed ClubRunner back in 2010 for my club, to purchase I told them that the cost of the "management" component alone was good value, in fact, a bargain. The public face I told them, was "a free bonus".
If one wants to grow the number of non-Rotarian visitors one needs to create what I term "community content". The content must reach out to the community. The traditional word for this content is "news".
Ask yourself how does Rotary produce "news"? It does many activities, supports many local causes, has work parties, and sponsors youth competitions to name a few. Each event is a news story. Each event is a story for a club website.
There is, however, one other feature of Rotary meetings that is "news" worthy. The speaker and speech of the week! Up until this year, our speakers were very rarely covered by the local weekly newspaper or Radio Station. Club activities and guest speeches have been the weekly content put on the website to attract website visitors.
Two crucial events follow from this. Over time you amass a large body of content, on a wide variety of topics. You also amass a significant sub-set of content which provides particular examples of what we do as Rotarians in the community — another, even smaller but vitally important sub-set is the "vocational" speeches given by your members. This volume gives search engines like Google and Bing many opportunities to find articles on the website and bring unsuspecting future client-members to a site.
After the first year, the number of page views was around 5000. It was plus or minus that number for the next five years. Then we must have reached a tipping point because page views doubled and have stayed near 10,000/yr. since.
The challenge now is to go to the next plateau which I have defined as 20,000 page views. I know how to do it, but it will take the cooperation and courage of all members to achieve it. I want each member to post the week's Club news story once it is on the website, to their personal Facebook page.
Additionally, each story is a source of pictures for the Club's Pinterest Collection and the content of the Club's Twitter posts. Think of it as an information pyramid with the club website as the base. Work from the premise that social media sites should drive visitors down to the club website.
Finally, something new is beginning to emerge in the Dryden data. It is possible that visits to the Dryden site, especially, if they are return visits may be the catalyst which causes a person to search out membership in a Rotary Club many kilometres away, even in another country.
It is at the city level where things get interesting. Dryden thank goodness is first at 29.2 %. The figure rises to 34.7% when thirteen other communities within Dryden's local orbit are factored in. The Facebook initiative, described above, would help in raising the Dryden area to above 50%.
The second community with 233 page views is Angus, a small town about 1 hour NW of Toronto which is next at 218 pageviews. To place that in perspective Toronto is 300 times the size of Angus. But Angus is not alone. Other small communities show pageviews way out of proportion to their size. More in-depth analysis revealed that in two of them one individual had visited the site over 400 times. That is why I think if every club built content stories combining service events and speaker's presentations there would be a cumulative effect which would in fact "Attract" and "nurture prospects" across an entire country.
As a result, the Rotary Club of Dryden's website puts the most current stories first. The Join Rotary custom widget is next. A Facebook insert follows.
You will also notice that we place all of the ads on the Home page. The number of click-throughs on many of those ads are totally out of proportion to the traffic the site receives. I think some members of the public are coming to the site to access the websites of those clients. They in effect have become content drawing visitors repeatedly to the site.
At this point, you might ask do you know the number of visitors who have gone to the "Explore and Join Rotary" pages? The answer is 1% or 14 of 1331 visits. I am not surprised by that statistic. A review of the 2016 census data, reveals that the Dryden Club's membership is almost exactly 1% of the adult population in the Dryden area.
Something else has occurred during 2018. We have in attendance at our weekly lunch meetings reporters from three other news gatherers, the local weekly newspaper, the local radio station who posts local news on their website, and our local cable operator. The latter creates videos and broadcasts them to the community. I can not prove there is a direct correlation with the decision to create the Club website as a community news portal but at the very least it validates my belief that our speakers are newsworthy. Together we are all building an audience.
Add to that mix, a talented member who invigorated the Public Relations portfolio, and a ridiculously dynamic Rotarian whose talent is recruiting new members, and you have a club which has increased its membership by 18.5% during the past twelve months.


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Upon entering Chichén Itzá, El Castillo (aka the Pyramid of Kukulcán) rises before you in all its grandeur. The first temple here was pre-Toltec, built around AD 800, but the present 25m-high structure, built over the old one, has the plumed serpent sculpted along the stairways and Toltec warriors represented in the doorway carvings at the top of the temple. You won't see the carvings, however, as ascending the pyramid was prohibited after a fatal accident here in 2006.
The structure is actually a massive Maya calendar formed in stone. Each of El Castillo's nine levels is divided in two by a staircase, making 18 separate terraces that commemorate the 18 20-day months of the Maya Vague Year. The four stairways have 91 steps each; add the top platform and the total is 365, the number of days in the year. On each facade of the pyramid are 52 flat panels, which are reminders of the 52 years in the Maya calendar round.
To top it off, during the spring and autumn equinoxes, light and shadow form a series of triangles on the side of the north staircase that mimic the creep of a serpent (note the carved serpent's heads flanking the bottom of the staircase).
The older pyramid inside El Castillo has a red jaguar throne with inlaid eyes and spots of jade; also lying behind the screen is a chac-mool (Maya sacrificial stone sculpture). The entrance to El Túnel, the passage up to the throne, is at the base of El Castillo's north side. You can't go in, though.
Researchers in 2015 learned that the pyramid most likely sits atop a 20m-deep cenote, which puts the structure at greater risk of collapsing.

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With all the hype going around, I finally gave in. I finally found the inner will and guts to sign up for my first obstacle race ….in the mud.
I am doing the race with my husband. We thought we'd try something different this time for a change. I've never done this before, so honestly, I don't know what to expect. So, I began researching about these types of races online. I'm glad that majority of the people who have done it say it's doable and fun.
I added a Mud-stash race countdown widget at the left side of my blog page and it says 15 days to go as of today (Aug 24). Yikes! I am both nervous and excited.
How do we prepare for it? What type of training do we need to do for mudruns? What should we wear?
This entry was posted in All About Running, My Everyday Journey and tagged blogger, fitness, health, life, mudathlon, mudrace, mudrun, mudrunner, mudstash, obstacle race, runner, running, running blog on August 24, 2012 by Ja @Ja on the RUN.


Discussion in 'Virus & Other Malware Removal' started by xfile47, Feb 2, 2005.
So I don't no what it is but the F2 thing in the log looks suspious to me and a couple of others but I didn't want to mess it up farther so I haven't touched the log, can someone help please?
Place a check beside this in your Hijack This log and press ' Fix Checked "
I know it takes time but this is the third day I have been waiting for some help, can anyone help or are you trying to tell me to go elsewhere in a nice way??
Hi xfile I got your PM .
After doing all the above please post another log here If you are still having trouble I will ask for a moderator to assist here .
There is nothing in your log. How old is your system. Do you hear unusual noise from the fans or hard drive?
every other log I had looked at most of them never had that and the ones that did din't have the shell after it they all had other stuff so I finally deleted that. I hope that does not screw my system up, could you give me some help and some feedback on if I screwed up bad by taking that out? I would appreciate any help. Also when I said I had trouble with all the programs opening and running it is like when I keep trying to save the HJT Log I will click save log and have the screen kind of turns white like its trying to save but never does, so you go to the taskmanager and surre enough it is not running so you have to end it and try again over and over again.
Sounds to me like your hard drive could be going out.
Can you download the diagnostics from the hard drive manufacturer and run it?
Do you know the location of these infected files?
No, cwshredder caught them and it doesn't say where they are, is there a way to find them, I thought cwshredder took them off?
You clicked on Fix and not Scan only?
Perhaps it's looking in the recovery folder Spybot creates.


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Q: How to do a projection on Freemarker sequences to extract a property? Let's say I have some object container in a freemarker variable and container.content gives me a sequence of objects (I will call them "things") with names and a String getName() accessor. I would like to produce a comma-separated list of the names from the container.content sequence.
If I already had a sequence of names instead of a sequence of things with names, I could simply do names?join(", "). Is there something concise to extract the .name-s from container.content and join them afterwards? More generally, I am looking for a functional programming map (collect, projection) operation, but did not find one in the docs.
What I have tried for now:
Currently, I have <#list container.content as x>${x.name}<#if x?has_next>, </#if></#list> to reproduce that map-then-join operation, but I find that rather verbose and it looks like a smell to me to have basically reimplemented join.
Previously I had container.content?join(", ") and I got "Thing[name=A, otherStuff=...], Thing[name=B, otherStuff=...]" instead of "A, B", of course. I do not wish to modify that Thing#toString method to only return the name instead. I would like to keep that detailed representation for debugging purposes.

A: You can create function which will extract key values from input sequence:
<#function map seq key>
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</#function>

And then use it like that:
${map(container.content, "name")?join(", ")}

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�??Play in May�?? Attitude Pushing �??Global Markets to Five-Year Highs
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�??Play in May�?? Attitude Pushing �??Global Markets to Five-Year Highs (Reuters)
Beginning with last week�??s positive U.S. jobs report, the world�??s markets appear set to hug-it-out of the current economic malaise, with European shares reaching for five-year highs. Japanese stocks even advanced based on the news, despite the government�??s best efforts to tank the yen. Next up, the European Central Bank jumped aboard the love train, saying it would cut rates again to stimulate growth and continue the feel-good market in May. Back to the United States, the S&P 500 scooped up all of the good will in its arms and ran to another new high. Certainly, the world�??s bourses are doing their best to keep the momentum alive, but with �??sell in May and go away�?� advice lingering for three additional weeks, what happens to investors over the long hot summer?
Government Multi-tasks Its Way to �??Fairness�?? (CNNMoney)
With the Senate�??s recent approval of the �??Marketplace Fairness Act,�?� it is killing two, maybe three birds, with one stone. First, the Fairness Act will allow 45 states, plus the District, to require online retailers to charge sales tax. That�??s expected to add some $12 billion in additional funds for states. It also is expected to drive consumers back to existing brick-and-mortar businesses and remove an incentive to use cheaper, tax-free online retailers. The Fairness Act also will help reinvigorate local and state-owned investments. Of course, groups like Americans for Tax Reform only see this move as another way government is reaching into our pockets. How do you see it?
Gold $1,600 Was the Breaking Point for Many Investors (Bloomberg)
As gold prices continued to fall through the $1,600 level in April, many heavy hitters in the market took the removal of this support as the time to bail on gold for a while. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) reduced its gold holdings from a former 6-7 percent in its portfolios to today�??s 1-2 percent levels, according to Gary Dugan, RBS�?? chief investment officer for Asia and the Middle East. English Private Banking giant Coutts & Co. also scaled back, not expecting the barbarous relic to return to $1,600 unless an international crisis develops, the dollar drops more or war breaks out. This year, gold is 13 percent lower already — after a dozen straight years of appreciation. It�??s anyone�??s guess whether global events will push investors back to gold in 2013, or if the fall continues.
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'Play in May' Attitude Pushing 'Global Markets to Five-Year Highs (Reuters)
Beginning with last week's positive U.S. jobs report, the world's markets appear set to hug-it-out of the current economic malaise, with European shares reaching for five-year highs. Japanese stocks even advanced based on the news, despite the government's best efforts to tank the yen. Next up, the European Central Bank jumped aboard the love train, saying it would cut rates again to stimulate growth and continue the feel-good market in May. Back to the United States, the S&P 500 scooped up all of the good will in its arms and ran to another new high. Certainly, the world's bourses are doing their best to keep the momentum alive, but with "sell in May and go away" advice lingering for three additional weeks, what happens to investors over the long hot summer?
Government Multi-tasks Its Way to 'Fairness' (CNNMoney)
With the Senate's recent approval of the "Marketplace Fairness Act," it is killing two, maybe three birds, with one stone. First, the Fairness Act will allow 45 states, plus the District, to require online retailers to charge sales tax. That's expected to add some $12 billion in additional funds for states. It also is expected to drive consumers back to existing brick-and-mortar businesses and remove an incentive to use cheaper, tax-free online retailers. The Fairness Act also will help reinvigorate local and state-owned investments. Of course, groups like Americans for Tax Reform only see this move as another way government is reaching into our pockets. How do you see it?
As gold prices continued to fall through the $1,600 level in April, many heavy hitters in the market took the removal of this support as the time to bail on gold for a while. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) reduced its gold holdings from a former 6-7 percent in its portfolios to today's 1-2 percent levels, according to Gary Dugan, RBS' chief investment officer for Asia and the Middle East. English Private Banking giant Coutts & Co. also scaled back, not expecting the barbarous relic to return to $1,600 unless an international crisis develops, the dollar drops more or war breaks out. This year, gold is 13 percent lower already — after a dozen straight years of appreciation. It's anyone's guess whether global events will push investors back to gold in 2013, or if the fall continues.


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Topic 1 - What events do you enjoy attending? Not enjoy attending?
Topic 2 - What works for you at events?
Topic 3 - What could be improved or added?
Topic 4 - What should be eliminated, or re-imagined?
Topic 5 - Should we see more "independent" events combined (or parallel to) "vendor" events?


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California Governor Approves 50 Percent Raise For State's Notaries
By Michael Lewis on August 18, 2016
California Notaries got their first raise in more than two decades this week after Governor Jerry Brown authorized a new $15 fee cap for acknowledgments and jurats — a 50 percent increase over the state's previous maximum allowable fee for notarial acts.
AB 2217, effective as of January 1, 2017, also raises fees for other notarial acts. The last time maximum allowable fees were increased in California was in 1993 when the cap was set at $10.
California Notaries React To Raise
Excitement spread quickly across social media with Notaries from California and the national community celebrating the news amid calls-to-action for fee increases in other states. "What a great day for us California Notaries!" wrote Anna Gutierrez of Sacramento. "Finally! Two decades is a long time to wait for a raise, but now it's our time as Notaries to succeed like never before," wrote Jennifer Singleton of Los Angeles.
Longtime Notaries said the increase will help in many ways, particularly in offsetting their cost of doing business. But more important, it will help improve the public's perception of Notaries as professionals.
"Raising fees was so necessary. What Notaries have to know to perform their duties has changed so much," said Valerie Barrett, owner of Notary Docs in Orange County, California. "I think it's so exciting that the state is increasing our fees. Congratulations to NNA for supporting Notaries on this issue."
A Champion Of Notaries
While Governor Brown signed the bill, AB 2217 was the brainchild of California State Assembly Member David Hadley (R-66) — a champion of Notaries as small businesspeople who believes they should be allowed to set their own prices like other professional service providers.
"I am so pleased that AB 2217 passed both houses of the Legislature and was signed by Governor Brown," Hadley said. "This accomplishment was significantly aided by the passionate and overwhelming support of Notaries across California who engaged in the legislative process by adding their voices to this effort in record numbers. An increase in the maximum allowed fee is long overdue as is evidenced by the over 50 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index since the last time the Notary fee cap was raised, and I would like to thank Governor Brown for signing this common-sense measure."
How Notaries Contributed To AB 2217
California Notaries played an important role in getting the fee increase approved. More than 1,200 sent messages of support to Hadley after an article appeared in the Notary Bulletin encouraging Notaries to speak out. As a result, the measure sailed through the California State Legislature.
California Notaries weren't the only ones to react to the news, as many from other states chimed in. "I think they did the right thing. It's about time Texas raised Notary fees," wrote Bobby King.
"When will Pennsylvania do this?" asked Brian Stennett. "I wish we could charge more than $2 in Indiana," wrote Latauria Keya Williams.
The California measure is part of a larger trend to increase the fees Notaries may charge for their services. Earlier this year, Kentucky, Hawaii and the District of Columbia enacted fee measures, and a number of other states are considering them.
Michael Lewis is Managing Editor of member publications for the National Notary Association.
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Is it just acknowledgments and jurats that are raised to $15?
National Notary Association
Hello. The new law also increases the maximum fee for several other notarial acts, such as raising the maximum fee for taking a deposition to $30. You can read the full list of fee increases here: https://www.nationalnotary.org/knowledge-center/news/law-updates/ca-assembly-bill-2217
CAROL CLOW
Well it's about time. Thank you Governor Brown. Twenty three years is a long time with no raise for us self employed Notaries. This will definitely help offset our expenses that we endure and the knowledge that we have to learn year after year for the changing laws associated with being a Notary Public. Hopefully, the Nationwide Signing Services, for loan document signings, will follow, and charge their clients accordingly and pay us notaries fairly.Loan signings are the bulk of our business. This $15 per signature, per document fee doesn't do us much good if our loan signing fees remain the same. As a Certified Notary Signing Specialist, we are paid a flat fee which never amounts to the $15/signature/document. If it did, us notaries would be very well off. So, hopefully, our signing fees will increase too. Again, thank you Governor Brown.
Diana Monzon
So happy!!!! California raising the price is a goal accomplished! !!yooohooooo...
Awesome news!
To the guy from Indiana: when you pay California prices, i.e., 1.5 million for a 1 bedroom apartment or $3500 in rent for same, you will deserve the raise from $2.00.
Thank you Gov. Brown. This will aid in furthering the acknowledgement and importance that Notary Public's play in conducting legalized business in the state of California.
MANISHA PHANASGAONKAR
Thanks Governor Brown. 23 years is really a long time. I am trying to get my Notary singing Specialist lic soon and hope that fees will also increase. Thanks again Governor Brown,.
Alicia Hille
I am a small business owner and am very pleased with Governor Browns decision to raise the Notary fees. With the cost of liability insurance, education and time it takes for us to complete an acknowledgement the 10.00 charge was not enough. I hope other States follow California. I also pay royalty fees for owning a franchise so now hopefully more money will be in my pocket. With minimum wage going up in January this will help offset my employees increases.
Clare Corre
What Carol said... Documents in a common loan signing package needed notarization: DOT, Occupancy Statement, Compliance Agreement, Correction Agreement, Signature/Name Affidavit, Trust Certification, Owner's Affidavit, among others -- that's 7 x 2 husband and wife signers = 14 notarizations for which I currently usually get $100 per signing. Do you think the title companies will increase the signing fee on their own? Nope. Notaries have to start insisting on a fair wage and turning lowball offers down. Just my .02 for what its worth.
@Carol Clow. Well stated. A fair system in the loan signings would be to count the number of signatures required to be notarized, and disclose this ahead of time to the signing agent. Then we signing agents could decide if the flat fee offered was fair or not, and whether or not to accept the assignment. I have had packages with 22 signatures to be notarized. Experienced signing agents: you recognize the problem here.
Murial Taylor
Thank you Governor Brown for the passing of AB2217.
Guillermo Reyes
I would like to thank David Hadley for AB 2217 and Governor Jerry Brown for signing it and to all the Notary Public's that voiced their support for this bill.
Carol Palinkas
And here in Arizona it is still at the low, low fee of $2 per.
LUIS E VARGAS
THANKS GOVERNOS BROWN FOR PASSING THE AB 2217 IT IS ABOUT TIME CONGRATS TO EVERYONE, AND I HOPE OTHER STATES FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE THANKS AGAIN
Mona Meza
I'm happy for the increase. However, the majority of my small business is working with signing companies which as mentioned in other comments they pay a flat rate. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a law passed that they had to pay notaries the states fees per notarizations? Instead, they keep more then half the fees that are paid out for closings while we do all the work. It so costly, wear and tear on our cars, gas, toners for our printers, paper, pens, etc. While it is good fees are going up, I still think it isn't enough. We are still being taken advantage of. I'm tired of being low balled.
rosemary cowan
YAHOO !!!! - I HOPE THAT OUR DEAR SIGNERS WILL APPRECIATE THIS R. COWAN (GINGR)


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Changes in emotion processing following brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for functional neurological symptoms
Williams, I.A., Howlett, S., Levita, L. et al. (1 more author) (2018) Changes in emotion processing following brief augmented psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for functional neurological symptoms. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 46 (3). pp. 350-366. ISSN 1352-4658
BACKGROUND: Functional neurological symptoms (FNS) are considered non-volitional and often very disabling, but are not explainable by neurological disease or structural abnormalities. Brief Augmented Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (BAPIT) was adapted to treat the putative emotion processing deficits thought to be central to FNS aetiology and maintenance. BAPIT for FNS has previously been shown to improve levels of distress and functioning, but it is unknown whether improvements on such measures correlate with changes in emotion processing ‒ which this treatment focuses on. AIM: To determine (a) whether the recently developed Emotional Processing Scale-25 can be used to demonstrate BAPIT-associated changes in patients with FNS, and (b) whether changes in the EPS-25 are associated with changes in previously validated outcome measures. METHOD: 44 patients with FNS completed questionnaires including the EPS-25 and measures of clinical symptomology (health-related quality of life (SF-36), somatic symptoms (PHQ-15), psychological distress (CORE-10) and illness understanding (BIPQ)) pre- and post-therapy. RESULTS: At group level, emotion processing improved following therapy (p = .049). Some measures of clinical symptomology also improved, namely health-related quality of life (p = .02) and illness understanding (p = .01). Improvements in the EPS-25 correlated with improvements in mental health-related quality of life and psychological distress. CONCLUSIONS: Emotion processing and some measures of clinical symptomology improved in patients with FNS following BAPIT. The EPS-25 demonstrated changes that correlated with previously validated outcome measures. The EPS-25 is a suitable measure of psychotherapy-associated change in the FNS patient population.
Williams, I.A.
Howlett, S.
Levita, L.
Reuber, M.
© British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 2018. This is an author-produced version of a paper accepted for publication in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
emotion processing; functional neurological symptoms; psychopathology; quality of life
Filename: Proof for submission.pdf


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Bartaz est un village de la région de Zangilan en Azerbaïdjan.

Histoire
En 1993-2020, Bartaz était sous le contrôle des forces armées arméniennes. Le 22 octobre 2020, le village de Bartaz a été restitué sous le contrôle de l'Azerbaïdjan.

Voir aussi

 Mamedbayli
 Itcheri Muchlan
 Kolluqichlag

Notes  références

Ville en Azerbaïdjan

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West Wycombe Village, Buckinghamshire
1000 Years of History
West Wycombe village dates back at least 1000 years. As the village buildings date mostly from the 16th to 18th centuries, they provide an interesting walk-about. The buildings survived almost intact because they was part of the West Wycombe estate until 1929. At that time the Royal Society of Arts took on the care of much of the village, later passing it to the National Trust to oversee.
It was in the late 16th century that timber-framed houses were built in the village. Much wood came from the nearby Chiltern woods. Brick was made in local kilns taking advantage of local clay on the chalk hills. In the 18th century there was some remodeling done and new buildings appeared using Queen Anne and Georgian architecture.
The earliest surviving building, the church loft, dates from the 15th century. It was a rest house for pilgrims. When first built it had four rooms below with a wagon way at each end and an accommodation hall above the rooms. The building has been altered over the ensuing centuries.
A walk around the village highlights the places to stop and enjoy the architecture. Pick up a leaflet at one of the local stores. West Wycombe Park's entrance is a good place to start. A brick and flint wall, part of an 18th century malt house, is located here. On the High street, buildings numbered 2, 3, 4, and 5 are timber-framed dating from late 17th or early 18th century. Panels of brick between the timber replaced wattle and daub used earlier.
Aston house has modern door and window frames, but its lintels are 18th century. The Swan Inn has 18th century brick fronts, although its extension only dates from 1932. Across from Aston house is a former Methodist chapel, dating from 1894. Check out the nine inscribed foundation stones. Next door No. 59 is of flint construction, laid in random patterns. Next along the street is Apple Orchard, a 16th century half-timbered house with a 19th century shop front. Don't miss the chimney and overhanging storey.
Continue to the entrance of the Black Boy yard where there is a half hatch door at No. 11. The yard belonged to a coaching inn in the 18th century. Cobbles and setts were used in the archway and yard. Looking through the arch brings into view a weather-boarded building, part of the original coach house.
On the High street nos. 57 and 58 were once the village poor house. The George and Dragon pub was another village pub, dating from 1720. Beyond the pub, in the 18th century, were three wheelwrights' yards. Steps House, across the street, reflects Queen Anne or early Georgian style popular at the beginning of the 18th century. The village hall, built in 1960, occupies the site of a chair-making factory and before that, a malt house.
Crown Court at the eastern end of West Wycombe had 11 cottages in 1767. Much of the original brick and flint construction can be seen. On Church Lane was a furniture factory with workshops on the second floor. Look for dates on the buildings in this lane. No. 43 was built for a craftsman or possibly a tradesman or professional. On the lane are an old pump, interesting doors and windows, canopies, and brickwork. Further along, on Church Hill, the West Wycombe cave entrance is visible. The 19th century village school is found on the way down the hill back to the west end of the village.
West Wycombe is a fascinating village not to be missed by anyone interested in architecture and how the history of a place is reflected in its buildings.
West Wycombe village is located in Buckinghamshire on the A40, just north-west of High Wycombe
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Daniel Passarella
star players:
Gabriel Batistuta
Ariel Ortega
World Cup Pedigree
Saturday, May 2, 1998 Published at 19:01 GMT 20:01 UK
Teams | Argentina | Players
Daniel Passarella - Argentinian manager
Daniel Passarella is one of the heroes of Argentinian football. In his distinguished career he amassed 71 caps and scored 22 goals for his country, the high point coming when he led Argentina to World Cup success on home soil in 1978.
As a coach he is a strict disciplinarian. At the start of 1998 he told the Real Madrid midfielder Fernando Redondo that he would not pick him unless he got his hair cut. Redondo complied, but Passarella is still not satisfied and his place in the national team is still in doubt.
Along with long hair, Passarella has also banned homosexuals and says earrings are forbidden. At the World Cup players' wives and girlfriends are banned from the training camp - although they have been allowed to fly to France.
Passarella is not averse to making changes to the team and used 46 players during qualification for the World Cup. But the former defender is criticised for being short on attacking ideas. His side has struggled to find a settled striking partnership.
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The Effects of Economic News on Bond Market Liquidity
Chris D'Souza and Charles Gaa
Staff Working Papers from Bank of Canada
Abstract: The authors contrast the impact of two sources of information flow on the volatility of prices, trading activity, and liquidity in the brokered interdealer market for Government of Canada bonds. Liquidity varies with the amount of asymmetric information in the market, and order flow plays a central role in the processing of information. The authors find a two-stage adjustment process in the period before and after a scheduled 8:30 a.m. macroeconomic news announcement that is similar to the adjustment process documented by Fleming and Remolona (1999) for the U.S. Treasury market. They contrast these dynamics with the adjustment that occurs around a Government of Canada bond auction. Results are somewhat inconsistent with the patterns observed around macroeconomic news events, but are explained by theory.
Keywords: Financial markets; Market structure and pricing; Debt management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
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Susan A. Cahoon
scahoon@kilpatricktownsend.com
Susan Cahoon, a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, has chaired the firm's Litigation practice group and is the firm's General Counsel. She joined the firm in 1971 and was admitted to partnership in 1977. Ms. Cahoon has spent all of her career as a litigator. Her diverse experience includes patent infringement litigation, complex commercial disputes and securities litigation. She also is trained as a mediator and as an arbitrator.
In addition to her membership in the American College of Trial Lawyers, Ms. Cahoon has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for more than 20 years. In 2019, she was listed in the areas of Arbitration, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation and Patent Litigation Law. Ms. Cahoon was named a 2013 "Atlanta Lawyer of the Year" in the area of Patent Litigation by The Best Lawyers in America®. She is listed in the 2019 and the ten years immediately preceding editions of Chambers USA for General Commercial Litigation. Ms. Cahoon was named a Top 100 Georgia "Super Lawyer," a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in the area of Intellectual Property Litigation, and a Top 50 Women Georgia "Super Lawyer" in 2019 and the ten years immediately preceding by Super Lawyers magazine. She has been listed for several years in the Practical Law Company's Which Lawyer? and was named a "recommended lawyer" in Georgia for Dispute Resolution in 2009. Ms. Cahoon was recognized as a 2011 and 2012 "Legal Elite" for General Practice/Trial Law by Georgia Trend magazine, and again in 2013 for General Practice Law. She received the Emory College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Award of Distinction in recognition of her contributions to her profession, to the community and to her college alma mater and she began a six-year term as a Trustee of Emory University in 2009. Ms. Cahoon has also been named to the Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America and recognized in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers for Patents in 2009, 2013 and 2014 and The International Who's Who of Patent Lawyers in 2011. In 2008, 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016, she was recognized by Benchmark Litigation as a Georgia "Litigation Star" and Ms. Cahoon was also named one of the "Top 250 Women in Litigation" in the 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of Benchmark Litigation. She has been selected as a 2012 Top Rated Lawyer in Commercial Litigation by Martindale-Hubbell in the Litigation Special Report issue of The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazines. Ms. Cahoon was named by Legal Media Group to its 2013 Guide to the World's Leading Patent Practitioners and to its 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 Expert Guide to the World's Leading Women in Business Law. She was honored in 2017 by the Fulton County Daily Report with its "Lifetime Achievement" Award. Ms. Cahoon speaks and reads French and reads Spanish. She is AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell.*
Lead counsel for Porex Surgical, Inc., and Porex Corporation in patent infringement litigation. Soon after filing the suit, we filed a motion for preliminary injunction, engaged in expedited discovery and had a hearing date for an evidentiary hearing on the motion. At the same time the case was proceeding, our client was engaged in confidential negotiations for an asset sale transaction that included the operating business and the patent involved in the litigation that made the resolution of the case an important consideration in closing that transaction. Against that backdrop, we were able to negotiate a settlement of the lawsuit with Synthes on terms that pleased not only our client but the third party with which our client was negotiating and enabled our client to close its significant asset sale transaction. Porex Surgical, Inc. et al v. Synthes USA Sales, LLC et al., No. 3:10-cv-00023 (N.D. Ga. filed Feb. 10, 2010).
The firm served as lead counsel for Biotec Pharmacon, ASA, a Norwegian pharmaceutical company, in patent infringement litigation initiated by patent owner Biothera, a Minnesota corporation, in the District of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The 14 patents involved in the litigation relate to, among other things, beta glucan compositions for immunotherapy. The District Court granted summary judgment of non-infringement as to 12 of the 14 patents, and the case subsequently settled. Biopolymer Eng'g, Inc. v. Immunocorp, No. 05-536 (D. Minn. filed Mar. 14, 2005).
Represented Smith & Nephew Endoscopy-Andover in a patent infringement litigation brought by KarlStorz Endoscopy-America Inc. that included several patents directed to systems for controlling operating room equipment. Case settled. Karl Storz Endoscopy-Am., Inc. v. Stryker, Inc., No. 07-02702 (W.D. Tenn. filed Nov. 2, 2007).
Represented a Fortune 500 brewery to secure a judgment as a matter of law that there was a likelihood of confusion between our client's mark and the defendant's mark. We prevailed on summary judgment on their unfair competition counterclaims and then successfully defended against an appeal and a petition for certiorari.
Represents an engineering and manufacturing firm accused of developing machinery using the confidential information and trade secrets of a supplier of the same type of machinery in breach of a distribution agreement and trade secret statutes. The matter involves AAA Arbitration in Chicago, Illinois, that is being administered by the International Centre for Dispute Resolution – AAA because the contract concerns international arbitration. The opposing party resisted arbitration and the firm first had to secure orders in federal courts in W.D. of Washington and N.D. of Illinois before arbitration of all disputes was compelled by the court in the N.D. of Illinois.
The firm served as lead counsel on behalf of a number of defendants, including Motorola, AT&T, and Cox Communications in two parallel patent infringement actions in the Western District of North Carolina and the Eastern District of Texas regarding technology involving wireless telephone handset equipment, and digital cable or satellite set-top boxes. After a favorable claim construction ruling for our clients in the North Carolina matter, the plaintiff agreed to dismiss its claims for infringement with prejudice in both North Carolina and Texas. Thomas v. Motorola, Inc., No. 05-00493 (W.D.N.C. filed Nov. 28, 2005); Thomas v. Cingular Wireless LLC, et al., No. 05-00495 (W.D.N.C. filed Nov. 28, 2005); Thomas v. Cox Commc'ns, Inc., et al., No. 07-0231 (E.D. Tex. filed June 6, 2007); Thomas v. Adelphia Commc'ns Corp., et al., No. 05-00497 (W.D.N.C. filed Nov. 28, 2005); Thomas v. Alltel, et al., No. 05-0506 (W.D.N.C. filed Dec. 6, 2005).
Served as lead counsel on behalf of Molnlycke Health Care Group AB in a patent infringement suit against two competitors in the Northern District of Georgia involving silicone-based wound dressings. The court entered a favorable claim construction ruling for our clients, and the case settled while summary judgment motions were pending after the manufacturer of the accused products removed them from the U.S. marketplace. Molnlycke Health Care Group AB v. Ossur & Medline, No. 06-1027 (N.D. Ga. filed Apr. 28, 2006).
Represented Smith & Nephew in a patent infringement suit against Synthes Corp. in the Western District of Tennessee. After a three-week bench trial, the court found Smith & Nephew's patents to be valid and infringed. The court entered a permanent injunction in September 2006 enjoining Synthes from continuing to sell infringing bone repair devices. This is one the first permanent injunctions entered in a patent case after the Supreme Court's eBay opinion. After briefing and argument in the Federal Circuit, the parties reached a confidential settlement of the case. Smith & Nephew Inc. v. Synthes (U.S.A.), 466 F. Supp.2d 978 (W.D. Tenn. 2006).
The firm served as lead counsel on behalf of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation in a patent infringement suit brought in the Northern District of Oklahoma against Alexion Pharmaceuticals. The patents related to complement-inhibition technology and their use in a drug marketed by Alexion to treat a rare, debilitating and life-threatening disease. After replacing OMRF's previous counsel in the matter and soon after claim construction briefing was complete, we obtained a settlement. It included payment to our client as well as public acknowledgement that individuals affiliated with OMRF were the true inventors of the technology at issue. Oklahoma Med. Research Found. v. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 07-163 (N.D. Okla. filed Mar. 15, 2007).
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Harvard University, J.D. (1971) cum laude
Emory University, B.A., History and Economics (1968) summa cum laude
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The Carter Center, Board of Trustees
USO Council of Georgia, Vice President
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Dyson invests £5m in robotics lab at Imperial College
Sam Loveridge | July 29, 2016 12:05 pm BST
Dyson has invested £5 million in a robotics lab at Imperial College London, where it will develop new robotics technology.
The investment will allow Dyson and Imperial College to create a joint robotics lab that will focus on creating a new generation of visually aware robots.
"My generation believed the world would be overrun by robots by the year 2014," said James Dyson, founder of Dyson. "We now have the mechanical and electronic capabilities, but robots still lack understanding – seeing and thinking in the way that we do. Mastering this will make our lives easier and lead to previously unthinkable technologies."
This isn't Imperial College and Dyson's first robotics venture together though, as the two have been researching together for 15 years previously.
Dyson has worked with Imperial College's Professor Andrew Davison since 2005, and Davison will now become the Direcot of the Dyson Robotics Laboratory.
"A truly intelligent domestic robot needs to complete complex everyday tasks while adapting to a constantly changing environment," explained Professor Davison. "We will research and develop systems that allow machines to both understand and perceive their surroundings – using vision to achieve it."
The 5-year investment, along with £3 million match-funding from alternative sources, will support a 15 scientist strong team including some of Dyson's own engineers.
Imperial is currently recruiting for the team members, which will include 5 PhD researchers and six post-doctoral researchers.
Dyson launched a prototype robotic vacuum cleaner in 2001 called the Dyson DC06 (above), although it never made it into full production. Sir James Dyson pulled it because he thought it was too heavy and expensive.
Other manufacturers have launched their own robot vacuums, including the LG Hom-Bot Square and Samsung Navibot SR8855.
Read more: Dyson Cinetic DC54


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![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/react-virtual-kanban.svg?style=flat)
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A Kanban component in React.

Demo available here:
https://edulan.github.io/react-virtual-kanban/

## Features
* Fully virtualized
* Built-in drag and drop support
* Dynamic heights
* Custom Item and List components

## Installation
Via npm:
```shell
npm install react-virtual-kanban --save
```

## Usage
### Basic example
```javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { VirtualKanban } from 'react-virtual-kanban';

// Import only once
import 'react-virtual-kanban/lib/styles.css';

// Declare lists with the following structure
const lists = [
  {
    id: 'list#1',
    rows: [
      {id: 'item#1'},
      {id: 'item#2'},
      {id: 'item#3'},
      {id: 'item#4'}
    ]
  },
  {
    id: 'list#2',
    rows: [
      {id: 'item#5'},
      {id: 'item#6'},
      {id: 'item#7'},
      {id: 'item#8'}
    ]
  },
  {
    id: 'list#3',
    rows: [
      {id: 'item#9'},
      {id: 'item#10'},
      {id: 'item#11'},
      {id: 'item#12'}
    ]
  }
];

ReactDOM.render(
  <VirtualKanban
    lists={lists}
    width={800}
    height={600}
    listWidth={200}
  />,
  document.getElementById('root')
);
```

## API
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|:---------------------------|:------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| lists | Array | `[]` | Array of lists to be rendered |
| width | Number | | The width of the kanban board |
| height | Number | | The height of the kanban board |
| listWidth | Number | | Width of each list |
| listComponent | Function | `List` | List decorator component |
| itemComponent | Function | `Item` | Item decorator component |
| itemPreviewComponent | Function | ItemPreview | Item preview decorator component |
| listPreviewComponent | Function | | List preview decorator component |
| onMoveRow | Function | | Move row callback |
| onMoveList | Function | | Move list callback |
| onDropRow | Function | | Drop row callback |
| onDropList | Function | | Drop list callback |
| overscanListCount | Number | 2 | Number of lists to render before/after the visible part |
| overscanRowCount | Number | 2 | Number of row items to render before/after the visible part |
| itemCacheKey | Function | `id` | Key generator function for caching Item components |

## TODO
* Auto scrolling
* Performance++
* Doc and examples
* Integration with state managers (Redux, Mobx...)
* Animations

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Smells and tastes while walking in the cities
A decade ago I left a little piece of myself in Catalonia, and certainly brought back in my soul many stimuli from its culture. Taking a walk along its ramblas is always a mnemonic game that stimulates the senses. The images charged with the peculiar colours of the Mediterranean vibrate to the eyes, but there are other stimuli that manifest themselves when we wander and that we do not always notice. In this case I am referring to the sense of smell, and in paying attention to this sense we also treat the sense of taste, as both are physiologically connected.
More than a decade ago this magical combination was awakened in my condition as a researcher, when I was living in Tarragona and was developing an Urban Anthropology exercise. It made me more aware of the smells of the cities, as so I have started an exercise to perceive them from the perspective of food. Compared to the visual appeals — we live in mediatized contemporaneity, when we watch images devouring individuals in a process of iconophagy (Baitelo, 2014) —, the sense of smell seems to be a minor asset. However, we are dealing with a complex, unpredictable sense, the most evolutionarily primitive, and which is tied to the singular life stories of each individual (Lauretti, 2017). Smells are beyond the (un)pleasant sprays of perfumes, the sense of smell being too complex in the face of its inherent and innumerable connections. The way they link to the insular cortex, the main region of the cerebral cortex related to feelings, also contributes to the arouse of emotions (Damasio, 2010). Located in the periphery of the body, the nostrils interact with the brain and present themselves as a receptor of the environment through which we circulate. With this, it can be inferred that they share — and even command — our walking in the cities.
Discovering the smells in a city is a stimulating exercise, and this dynamic is amplified when we add to them their potential flavours. With this, we touch the traps of memory (Ferreira, 2003), that is, we trigger our mnemonic registers, fragmented, that play between remembering and forgetting. We also provoke, in this scope, the capture of images! Let's think, for example, of eating a crèpe in the streets of Paris, but adding it to a scene with the smell of mud, as it was exhaled in the French capital in the 17th century. According to Elias (1989), it was detestable and could not be bearable. More realistically, it is worth relating a restaurant that keeps a sewer with the smell of sewage at its door. It doesn't sound good!
Burke (2004) discusses his opinion regarding putrid smells in the face of the contemporary hygienization paradigm, linked to a civilizational advance and to an exercise of tolerance and olfactory impoverishment. The historian shies away from linking food to the discussion, yet the marketing teams of the large multinational chains demonstrate that they are attuned to this tune. The smells of the greasy fries from McDonalds or the oregano from Subway franchise stores are some examples of this relationship of smell and its summons to the palate that has been explored in different spaces in the cities. These peculiar strategies alert, entice, and summon consumers to move their wallets. In turn, they indicate a standardization of olfactory patterns on a global level, as well as the asepsis linked to the smells that are conferred in the cities. Upon returning to Tarragona, for example, I noticed two heresies related to the installation of the recently restored municipal market: a store of the Mercadona supermarket occupying the first floor of the building; and the absence of smells in the upper environment, in front of a glittering space in which hygienic standards are attested. This maxim corrupts the iconicity of municipal markets, which reserve environments that host the food of the local culture, loaded with stories and symbolic representations. However, to avoid scaring away tourists, they are adequate by sanitary measures, being sanitized with the purpose of avoiding possible odours and pests (Roim, 2016). With this, the very smells related to these environments are inhibited.
This frustrating scenario was compensated by a visit to a tea house, one of the objects I once dedicated myself to exploring in the anthropological onslaught around Tarragona. Located in the upper part of the city, close to the famous Cathedral, it was like a balsam to see that the store was still there, even though I was told by its owner, the Argentinian Montse, that after two decades, the space is about to close. However, I still had the opportunity to once again immerse myself in the aromas that mingle in that environment, which holds a complex combination of fragrances from the agglutination of the smells that waft from each can that is opened. And as Montse says, in each one there is a real world. Indeed, it is a universe that baffles the brain from the nostrils. When boiled, they slip and explode the taste buds, bringing back memories with repertoires that include Tarragona, as well as the evocation of various elements that make up the intoxicating flavours with each sip.
One of the opened cans exuded a distinctive aroma. It was a peculiar combination, reminiscent of Chartreuse liqueur, the drink that waters the different taste proposals promoted during the days of celebration of the feast of Santa Tecla, which takes place that week in the city. After two long years of pandemic, the wandering around the city indicated that the festivities were taking over the streets. The parades, rhythmic with the beating of drums, announced the arrival of the different characters to the event, who let off huge fireworks that lit up the streets, amidst the smoke and the smell of gunpowder that covered them. Other characteristic smells of the popular festivals were also felt, such as the odour of urinals, displayed in various corners of the city, as well as the aromas of churros, a characteristic delicacy of the Iberian culture that is present in moments of celebration.
The loss of smell gained visibility in the period of the pandemic linked to COVID-19, as it was included in the repertoire linked to the symptoms of the disease. However, little was said about taste, or perhaps about the relationship between the two. But it is pertinent to claim this theme in the light of culture, for there is much to be explored about the potentialities of the physiology of taste (Savarin, 1995). There are already curator works in museums that advance on experiences to deal with this theme. We can also see artistic expressions that stimulate the public to perceive the sense of smell in the circuits of cities (Khoury, 2022). But this movement is still shy, and advancing on this dynamic can be a contribution to sensitize the bodies to (re)capture the senses of smell and its connections with the papillae, daring and perceiving its immense possibilities when walking through cities.
Text and photos: Cynthia Luderer
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Cuito Cuanavale - wie het werklik Gewen? 'n Strategiese en Operasionele Ontleding
Scholtz, Leopold (1998)
CITATION: Scholtz, L. 1998. Cuito Cuanavale - wie het werklik Gewen? 'n Strategiese en Operasionele Ontleding. Scientia Militaria, South African Journal of Military Studies, 28(1):16-61, doi:10.5787/28-1-199.
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The Angolan campaign of 1987- '88 came as the culmination of a long and bitter war between South Africa and Swapo. Although South Africa's underlying intention was to limit Swapo's guerilla war to the territory of Ovambo, this could only succeed if the Angolan rebel movement Unita could continue covering the southeastern part of Angola. It was, therefore, in South Africa's interest to prevent Unita from being removed from the equation by the massive MPLA offensive of late winter and spring 1987. This was the basic reason for the county's intervention with Operation Modulêr. The operation was, however, run with excessive operational control from Pretoria. Instead of allowing the officers on the ground a classic Liddell Hartian indirect approach by marching northwards west of the Cuito river to cut the advancing MPLA forces from their logistical hinterland and dislocating their offensive by attacking them from behind, Pretoria forced them into a direct head-on approach east of the river. The reason was to keep the South African involvement secret or, at the very least 'plausibly deniable' - a naïve expectation. This did indeed result in a spectacular South African tactical victory at the Lomba River, where the MPLA offensive was decisively beaten back. But thereafter the South African forces were forced into a series of frontal attacks on increasingly well prepared MPLA defensive positions, including three final attacks on well fortified positions at Tumpo, which were beaten back, resulting in a subsequent stalemate. The stalemate was then brilliantly broken by Cuban forces, who marched to the southwestern Namibian border, threatening to cut the South Africans off at Tumpo, or alternatively to invade Namibia. The campaign is analysed in the light of military theory, especially the ideas of Clausewitz and Liddell Hart. The conclusion is that the MPLA lost badly, that South Africa reached its strategic objectives but did badly operationally, and that Cuba came out of the affair with flying colours.
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