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June 20, 2007 | Comments (0) | by Governor X
They just don't make 'em like Dock Ellis anymore and frankly, that's probably for the best. While assholes are not in short supply in modern Major League Baseball, few if any are clinging to their fragile sanity like Dock was.
Ellis got started young, refusing to play for a high school coach he claimed was racist. To be fair to Dock, it was the early 60s so there was a 50/50 chance the coach was a racist, but it was just the first of many perceived slights that threatened to send him to a rubber room. This guy didn't take shit, or imagined shit from anyone.
A few years later while in the minors, Dock hurled a bat into the stands in response to a racist heckler. We would only find out later the heckler was blind and was shouting anti-asian epithets, but who cares (OK, I may have made that up).
On 12 June, 1970, Dock pitched the greatest game of his career, no-hitting the San Diego Padres 2-0...while on acid. Ellis only revealed this after he retired, but he also added the awesome detail that the ball was talking to him that day, telling him which pitches to throw. With a revelation like that, I'm surprised more pitchers haven't opted to try hard drugs (Turk Wendell, I'm looking at you).
In 1971, Dock predicted he wouldn't be able to start the All-Star game against Vida Blue because baseball would never start "two soul brothers" in the same game. Baseball did.
Not to be kept down (or up in this case), Dock stepped it up and got into a scrape with a security guard in Cincinnati in 1972. The guard didn't believe this guy carrying a half empty bottle of wine was a ballplayer. Go figure. Dock flashed his world series ring, but the guard wouldn't budge. The incident was slated to go to court but later settled.
Ebony magazine ran a piece on ballplayers' hairstyles in August 1973, and Dock responded like any of us would have: he started wearing curlers on the field. The team didn't like it, so Dock fired back charging discrimination. He claimed it was a nefarious plot against him and him alone by the commissioner's office because they didn't crack down on Joe Pepitone's bad toupee as well. If the commissioner's office was as poorly run then as it is now, he may have been right.
By 1974, the constant oppression of Dock pushed him over the edge. Feeling his teammates were lacking heart and too easily intimidated, he decided to bean the Big Red Machine...the entire Big Red Machine. Before the game, Dock announced "We gonna get down. We gonna do the do. I'm going to hit these motherfuckers." He gave it the old college try, nailing Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen. Tony Perez managed to dodge his attempts and walked. The next two pitches went right for Johnny Bench's head and the Pirates manager finally pulled Dock from the game. Given the umpires hastiness to toss players for throwing at people, you have to wonder if the guy behind home was asleep. With the hatred of Joe Morgan burning in my belly, I must say in my opinion, this was the crowning achievement of Dock's career.
Dock bounced around for awhile after his Pirates glory days, finally retiring after the 1979 season. He finished up with 138 wins and a career ERA of 3.46 - not too shabby. Today, at the age of 62, Dock spends his free time fighting racial injustice, real and perceived, marveling at "the colors", and talking to that god damned baseball from the Padres' game that still won't shut up 37 years later.
What a long strange trip its been.
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Yesterday, Kaviza announced a partnership with Citrix, which is business-speak for "Citrix invested some money into Kaviza." Brian wrote about Kaviza for SearchVirtualDesktop.
Yesterday, Kaviza announced a partnership with Citrix, which is business-speak for "Citrix invested some money into Kaviza." Brian wrote about Kaviza for SearchVirtualDesktop.com, and we've also featured them on Brian Madden TV.
For those that aren't familiar, Kaviza offers a product they call "VDI-in-a-box," which simplifies VDI deployments for small to medium sized environments by including all the important bits in a single virtual appliance. Currently, Citrix only has XenDesktop Express edition, which is pretty limited as far as functionality goes. It makes sense for them to take interest in a company that provides a product that falls in line with Citrix's other SMB product - XenApp Fundamentals (formerly Citrix Access Essentials).
What's interesting about Kaviza is that they're not leaving out many of the key features with their product. All the host servers belong to what Kaviza calls a grid, and the virtual appliances on this grid take care of load balancing, brokering connections, desktop templates (Kaviza uses linked clones, not just 1:1 VM's), and data replication. Updates are handled behind the scenes on the templates, then rolled out when complete. All in all, Kaviza has most of the important features that people look for from the big guys. Scaling up the Kaviza grid is nothing more than standing up a new ESXi server, loading the virtual appliance, and pointing it to the grid. The software takes it from there and replicates all the data and other information the server needs to become a grid member, even over the WAN.
So where will this go? Currently, Kaviza only runs on ESXi (the site says they are hypervisor agnostic, but all the docs say otherwise), so the next step for them is to add support for more hypervisors. That's something that's expected in mid-2010. I'll be very interested in seeing what Kaviza has going on at Synergy. I doubt there will be any co-branding or anything like that, but I wonder if this partnership can lead to something like a XenDesktop Fundamentals or the inclusion of ICA (arr...HDX now!) into the product. As far as I know, that hasn't happened before, but there's a first time for everything.
This underlines the fact that XD is overkill for the SMB. I still don't get Kaviza, if this is an SMB play, or XD Express what is the rocket science behind this? It's just HDX Connect to a desktop instance (oh yeah it can be done)..... Immature product that will lack the mgmt to scale. Uncertain for sure, and hence why they invested and did not buy, it miust have been pocket change to experiment with.
Appdetective, the key "rocket science" has to do with developing a solution that provides provisioning, load balancing and high-availability without shared storage. With our solution you can just chain a bunch of servers with DAS (direct attached storage) and have them all work in unison as if they all had access to some global shared storage and hence access to the same state information needed to coordinate and run all the servers in the system properly.
The challenge lies in doing this in a way that is scalable and very miserly with respect to the network BW it requires so that you can keep costs down and simplify its deployment and on-going management. You may recall that Left Hand Networks had solutions to create a shared storage from a bunch of DASs but this required additional NIC cards on each server and lots of CPU. Rather than use a brute force approach we leverage the fact that we are managing desktops to reduce the amount of information that needs to be moved-about the grid and how often they have to be moved about by orders of magnitude thus making it possible to create a very simple, affordable and scalable solution using just off-the-shelf commodity hardware.
The UI may seem deceptively simple but that's by design. The automation happens under the hood as it should be and takes much of the burden away from the administrator. Let me know if you have further questions.


In the first part of this post, we discussed mental prayer in general, meditative mental prayer and the unity underneath the various prayer methods. In Part II, we examined contemplative mental prayer, some characteristics of contemplation and the beginnings of infused contemplation. Today, we will look at the prayer of simplicity as "acquired contemplation" as well as other signs of growth in prayer and a recommendation for a more in-depth reading on this subject.
On the other hand, once God has begun to give us this gift, our meditative prayer should change a little bit. It should become simpler. This is what I will refer to as the prayer of simplicity. Some writers even call it "acquired contemplation," because it does serve, as your question points out, as a kind of bridge between more meditative and more contemplative mental prayer. The prayer of simplicity involves giving ourselves permission to be less busy during our time of meditation. Not focusing on too many ideas, not trying too hard to fill the time with a lot of words, not scrambling around noisily until we get a brilliant light.
This is the prayer of simplicity, which can indeed serve as a bridge between a mature habit of meditative prayer, and a welcoming response to the first stirrings of infused contemplation.
That is only a partial answer to your question, but it's about as good as I can do in a post. It would be worthwhile to explore more thoroughly other signs of growth in prayer, and especially the most important sign: growth in virtue and fidelity to God's will in our daily lives outside times of prayer. For a more complete discussion of these things, I highly recommend Chapter Six from Fr. Dubay's excellent treatise on Carmelite spirituality, Fire Within.
Thank you for your question. God bless you!
Art for this post on the prayer of simplicity: Teresa of Avila, Peter Paul Rubens, 1615, photographed by David Monniaux, CCA-SA 3.0 Unported, Wikimedia Commons.


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Research Article| September 23, 2020
Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent
Uwe Kirscher;
Uwe Kirscher *
Earth Dynamics Research Group, The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia
Department of Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen 72076, Germany
E-mails: ross.mitchell@mail.iggacas.ac.cn; uwe.kirscher@uni-tuebingen.de
Ross N. Mitchell;
Ross N. Mitchell *
State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Yebo Liu;
Yebo Liu
Adam R. Nordsvan;
Adam R. Nordsvan
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Grant M. Cox;
Grant M. Cox
Tectonics and Earth Science (TES) Group, Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
Sergei A. Pisarevsky;
Sergei A. Pisarevsky
Institute of the Earth's Crust, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irkutsk 664033, Russia
Chong Wang;
Chong Wang
Department of Geosciences and Geography, University of Helsinki, Helsinki 00014, Finland
Lei Wu;
Lei Wu
Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2R3 Alberta, Canada
J. Brendan Murphy;
J. Brendan Murphy
Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia B2G 2W5, Canada
Zheng-Xiang Li
Geology (2021) 49 (2): 174–179.
https://doi.org/10.1130/G47823.1
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Uwe Kirscher, Ross N. Mitchell, Yebo Liu, Adam R. Nordsvan, Grant M. Cox, Sergei A. Pisarevsky, Chong Wang, Lei Wu, J. Brendan Murphy, Zheng-Xiang Li; Paleomagnetic constraints on the duration of the Australia-Laurentia connection in the core of the Nuna supercontinent. Geology 2020;; 49 (2): 174–179. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G47823.1
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The Australia-Laurentia connection in the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic supercontinent Nuna is thought to have initiated by ca. 1.6 Ga when both continents were locked in a proto-SWEAT (southwestern U.S.–East Antarctic) configuration. However, the longevity of that configuration is poorly constrained. Here, we present a new high-quality paleomagnetic pole from the ca. 1.3 Ga Derim Derim sills of northern Australia that suggests Australia and Laurentia were in the same configuration at that time. This new paleopole also supports a connection between Australia and North China and, in conjunction with previously reported data from all continents, indicates that the breakup of Nuna largely occurred between ca. 1.3 and 1.2 Ga.
The hypothesized connection between western Laurentia (North America) and eastern proto-Australia (Australia-Antarctica shield, hereafter referred to as Australia), initially proposed for the latest Paleoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic, is one of the most intensively studied connections in the Proterozoic supercontinents Rodinia and Nuna (Dalziel, 1991; Moores, 1991; Idnurm and Giddings, 1995). In supercontinent Nuna (also known as Columbia), it is thought that Australia and Laurentia were connected throughout much of the Mesoproterozoic (Zhang et al., 2012; Pisarevsky et al., 2014a). However, critical uncertainties exist regarding the configuration and longevity due to a lack of high-quality paleomagnetic data and uncertain geological correlations (e.g., Morrissey et al., 2019).
Zhao et al. (2002) proposed that Nuna assembled between ca. 2.1 and 1.8 Ga during a period of global-scale orogenesis and broke up between ca. 1.6 and 1.2 Ga, placing Australia in a SWEAT (southwestern U.S.–East Antarctic) configuration (Moores, 1991) with respect to Laurentia. Based on paleomagnetic data, the original SWEAT fit was refined to a "proto-SWEAT" configuration for the 1.74–1.59 Ga interval, with Australia located further north in a Laurentian reference frame (Payne et al., 2009). Reinvestigation of the available paleomagnetic data for roughly the same time interval, including new data for ca. 1.8 Ga (Kirscher et al., 2019), suggests that the original proto-SWEAT connection is valid at ca. 1.8 Ga, but a reorganization between ca. 1.7 and 1.6 Ga would have led to a slightly modified (proto-SWEAT) configuration. Given the inherent paleomagnetic uncertainties, the reorganization between Australia and Laurentia in Nuna could reflect either (1) a connection between the continents at ca. 1.8 Ga, followed by dextral shearing or a divergence-convergence motion that led to separation and reassembly at ca. 1.6 Ga (Betts et al., 2016); or (2) that a small ocean existed between the continents at 1.8 Ga that closed by ca. 1.6 Ga (Betts et al., 2008; Pisarevsky et al., 2014a; Nordsvan et al., 2018; Kirscher et al., 2019). Nevertheless, this reorganization indicates that assembly of Nuna was a protracted process and took place until at least 1.6 Ga, which is supported by concurrent orogenesis in eastern Australian and western Laurentia (Pourteau et al., 2018).
Although the refined proto-SWEAT configuration between Australia and Laurentia is supported by ca. 1.58 Ga paleomagnetic data, the breakup age is poorly constrained (Evans and Mitchell, 2011; Meert and Santosh, 2017). The formation of ca. 1.5–1.2 Ga basins along the western margin of Laurentia has been used to argue that Australia rifted from Laurentia during this interval (Zhao et al., 2004). However, detrital zircon populations in many of the Laurentian sequences are thought to have been sourced from Australia (Link et al., 2007; Medig et al., 2014), suggesting that the basins were likely intracontinental (Davidson, 2008). Paleomagnetic data indicate that Australia and Laurentia were together at ca. 1.58 Ga (Betts et al., 2016) and that the breakup was achieved by ca. 1.2 Ga (Pisarevsky et al., 2014b). Here, we report a new high-quality paleomagnetic pole from the ca. 1.32 Ga Derim Derim sills of Australia and discuss the configuration and breakup of the Australia-Laurentia connection and the implications for the Nuna supercontinent.
DERIM DERIM SILLS
The Derim Derim sills intrude the ca. 1.5–1.35 Ga Roper Group of the McArthur Basin in northern Australia (Fig. 1) and are gently folded with tilts of <5° (Abbott et al., 2001). Thermal modeling of Mesoproterozoic natural-gas occurrences reveals that the Roper Group probably never reached temperatures >∼300 °C (Hoffman, 2016). U-Pb geochronology for the Derim Derim sills yields ages of 1327.5 ± 0.6 Ma (isotope dilution–thermal ionization mass spectrometry [ID-TIMS] on baddeleyite; Bodorkos et al., 2020) and 1312.9 ± 0.7 Ma (ID-TIMS on baddeleyite; Yang et al., 2020), both coeval (within uncertainty) with the 1325 ± 36 Ma (2σ) Galiwinku dikes in northern Australia (Bodorkos et al., 2020). Aeromagnetic expression of the poorly exposed Galiwinku dikes reveals a radial pattern that projects to where the Derim Derim sills intrude the McArthur Basin, further indicating that both sets of intrusions are part of the same large igneous province (LIP) (Zhang et al., 2017).
PALEOMAGNETIC RESULTS
We collected 170 oriented block samples from nine sites of the Derim Derim sills, where each site corresponds to one sill, in two outcrop areas (Fig. 1; Table S1 in the Supplemental Material1). One site of the Derim Derim sills was obtained from a subvertical drill core (Altree-2, drilled by Pacific Oil and Gas Pty Ltd.; 15°55′28.698′′S, 133°47′7.980′′E), where samples of the sedimentary rocks from the overlying Corcoran Formation were also collected for a baked-contact test (Table S4). One site of the Galiwinku dike was also obtained from outcrop. For all samples, measurements proceeded with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS), followed by natural remanent magnetization, then demagnetization using thermal (80% of all specimens) or alternating-field (AF; 20% of all specimens) treatments. Standard paleomagnetic laboratory and analytical procedures were used (see the Supplemental Material). AMS lineations range between northwest and northeast and define an average flow direction consistent with the orientation of the coeval Galiwinku dikes, supporting the hypothesis of a plume center located north-northeast of Australia (Fig. 1).
Rock magnetic studies of the Derim Derim sill samples indicate magnetite and/or Ti-poor titanomagnetite as the main magnetic phase (Fig. 1; Fig. S3 in the Supplemental Material). Prominent single-domain and/or pseudo-single-domain signals in most of the samples indicate that the sills carry stable remanence. Baked and unbaked sediments in drill core show slightly different magnetic mineralogy (Fig. S5). The degree of AMS is generally low (<1.06; Table S2; Fig. S1), typical of mafic intrusions (Ferré, 2002), and indicates the absence of any significant deformation after the emplacement of the sills. The Galiwinku dike is characterized by a different magnetic mineralogy, showing a prominent low-temperature phase potentially related to maghemite (Fig. S3i) and much weaker magnetic signals (Figs. S2e and S2f).
Thermal and AF demagnetization of the Derim Derim sill samples yield well-defined and comparable directional behavior leading to high-stability characteristic remanent magnetization (ChRM) directions that are generally well clustered (Fig. 1; Figs. S2 and S4). The ChRM directions are of one polarity except one site yielding an antipodal direction. Due to the lack of chilled margin contacts in outcrop, a baked-contact test was carried out in a drill core where chilled margins are exceptionally preserved. The azimuth of the drill core is unknown, so the drill-core sites cannot be used in the mean direction calculation. Nonetheless, the drill core has an azimuthally consistent reference line, so all drill core samples can be oriented relative to each other, which is sufficient for conducting the test. Two sedimentary host-rock samples near the contact with the Derim Derim sill (3 and 8 cm above) yield similar directions to the sill (Fig. 1G) and also have similar inclinations to those obtained from Derim Derim outcrops, indicating that the sill sites within the drill core likely retain a primary magnetization direction. Another three samples from the sedimentary host rock of the same core but ∼30 m stratigraphically above the contact show a well-defined ChRM with a completely different direction from that of both the sill and the baked samples (Fig. 1G), constituting a positive baked contact test, i.e., the sill ChRM was acquired at the time of cooling.
Combining eight site-mean directions of Derim Derim sill outcrops yields a mean ChRM direction of declination 183.6°, inclination 46.2°, and α95 (95% confidence for spherical distribution) = 13.7° for the 1.32 Ga Derim Derim sills, with a corresponding pole position at 76.5°S, 120.2°E, and A95 = 15.0° (Table S3). The Galiwinku dike site-mean direction was not included due to its large confidence interval (Table S3) and rock magnetic and directional differences. The Derim Derim sills pole demonstrably represents a primary thermoremanent magnetization, and can thus be used for paleogeographic reconstructions. This interpretation is based on: (1) the paleomagnetic results from the drill core, which constitute a positive baked contact test; (2) rock magnetic studies of the drill core, which reveal the presence versus absence of pyrrhotite in the baked versus unbaked zones of the sedimentary host rock, which indicates metamorphic changes in the mineral composition of the host rock due to baking (Fig. S5); (3) starkly contrasting paleomagnetic directions of the Derim Derim sills compared to the next-younger unit with paleomagnetism, the ca. 500 Ma Antrim Plateau Volcanics (McElbinny and Luck, 1970); (4) geomagnetic secular variation, which can be assumed to be sufficiently averaged given the number of sampled cooling units and a reasonable estimate of paleosecular variation (S [angular dispersion of poles] value of 21.51; see the Supplemental Material) for the paleolatitude; and (5) the presence of antipodal site-mean directions that overlap within uncertainties after reversing the polarity of one site (see the Supplemental Material for details; Fig. S4).
AUSTRALIA-LAURENTIA CONNECTION
The paleomagnetic inclination of the Derim Derim sills indicates that Australia was located at a paleolatitude of ∼30° at ca. 1.3 Ga. Comparing these new data with coeval poles from Laurentia (Murthy, 1978) using the modified Australia-Laurentia fit from 1.65 to 1.58 Ga (Euler rotation of Kirscher et al. [2019]; Fig. 2; Table S7) indicates the two continents were in a similar configuration at 1.3 Ga. We propose that the Derim Derim sills pole, showing that Australia and Laurentia were in the same proto-SWEAT fit at ca. 1.3 Ga as they were at ca. 1.6 Ga, strongly suggests that this configuration was maintained throughout that time interval. Although published 1.6–1.3 Ga paleomagnetic poles from Australia and Laurentia permit this proto-SWEAT configuration during this interval, comparative data are not always coeval, and some are of low quality and/or have significant age uncertainties (Table S5). This new pole, being coeval with poles in Laurentia and showing the same configuration at ca. 1.6–1.3 Ga, provides robust support for the proto-SWEAT interpretation at ca. 1.58 Ga and, by implication, the correlation of the ca. 1.6 Ga Racklan and Isan orogenies in northwestern Canada and northeastern Australia, respectively (Thorkelson et al., 2001; Nordsvan et al., 2018; Pourteau et al., 2018).
Collectively, these data suggest that following their amalgamation at ca. 1.6 Ga, Australia and Laurentia were contiguous in the same proto-SWEAT configuration for at least ∼300 m.y. This interpretation does not support the correlation of ca. 1.5–1.4 Ga A-type granites in northern South Australia and Mexico (Morrissey et al., 2019), but instead agrees with the interpretation of northern Australian (e.g., Mount Isa inlier)–derived detrital zircon in the ca. 1.5–1.4 Ga lower part of the Fifteenmile Group (PR1 unit; Yukon, Canada) of northwestern Laurentia (Medig et al., 2014). The divergence of ca. 1.2 Ga paleopoles from Australia and Laurentia indicate that the continents were separated by that time (Pisarevsky et al., 2014b), constraining the breakup age of the proto-SWEAT connection at ca. 1.3–1.2 Ga.
AUSTRALIA–NORTH CHINA CONNECTION
These new data also support the connection between northern Australia and the North China craton, as proposed based on the correlation of paleomagnetic poles (Zhang et al., 2012; Pisarevsky et al., 2014a), ca. 1.4 Ga oceanic euxinic events (Mitchell et al., 2020) and ca. 1.3 Ga LIPs (Zhang et al., 2017). Our proposed configuration of Australia and the North China craton (Fig. 3) is similar to that of Zhang et al. (2017) with the modification that the North China craton is rotated slightly clockwise relative to Australia. This modified configuration is more compatible with the paleomagnetic data from both continents (Fig. 2; Table S5), while inferring a plume center related to the Galiwinku-Datong dike swarm to the present-day north of Australia (Zhang et al., 2017) (Fig. 1). The exact amalgamation age between Australia and the North China craton is still unclear due to a lack of paleomagnetic data (particularly from the North China craton; Wang et al., 2019). Lithostratigraphic similarities between the McArthur Basin of Australia and Yanshan Basin of north China (Zhang et al., 2018; Collins et al., 2019; Wang et al., 2019) suggest that the two continents were neighbors from at least ca. 1.8 to 1.3 Ga, and detrital zircon in <1.2 Ga North China craton sedimentary rocks indicates they might have been together longer (Yang et al., 2019). However, in contrast, new ca. 1.2 Ga paleomagnetic data from North China indicate that Australia and the North China craton had started to break apart at this time (Ding et al., 2020).
IMPLICATIONS FOR SUPERCONTINENT NUNA
The core of Nuna, traditionally including Laurentia, Baltica, and Siberia, is thought to have been assembled by ca. 1.78 Ga (Wu et al., 2005). Paleomagnetic poles from these three core continents support the configuration in Figure 3 from ca. 1.7 Ga, although other arrangements have been proposed (Pisarevsky et al., 2014a). If the final collision between Australia and Laurentia occurred at 1.6 Ga, then the previously formed core of Nuna might represent a precursor large building block of the Nuna supercontinent, just like Gondwana was to Pangea (Nance and Murphy, 2019).
Our new paleomagnetic pole shows that the ca. 1.6 Ga Nuna configuration of Australia and Laurentia (Pisarevsky et al., 2014a ; Kirscher et al., 2019) likely remained until ca. 1.3 Ga, implying that Australia was a stable part of the Nuna core. While the connection between Laurentia and Siberia might have persisted longer, paleomagnetic data suggest that significant core components of Nuna were disassembled from 1.3 to 1.2 Ga (Fig. 2C) (e.g., Cawood et al., 2010; Pisarevsky et al., 2014b; Ding et al., 2020). Therefore, the ∼300 m.y. duration of a stable Nuna core between 1.6 and 1.3 Ga, during which the supercontinent exhibited a slow counterclockwise tectonic rotation (Fig. 2), is strongly supported by paleomagnetic data from several continents and implies that Nuna was the longest lived among the three known supercontinents.
Funding was provided by an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship grant to Z.-X. Li, Curtin University (FL150100133); a Key Research Program of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, grant (IGGCAS-201905), and National Natural Science Foundation of China grants (41890833 and 41888101) to Mitchell; a Ministry of Science and High Education of the Russian Federation grant (075-15-2019-1883) to Pisarevsky; and Future Energy Systems (FES) funds at the University of Alberta, Canada, to L. Wu. Access to the cores was provided by the Northern Territory Geological Survey and the Darwin Core Library (Australia). This is a contribution to the International Geoscience Programme 648 and is contribution 1526 from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (http://www.ccfs.mq.edu.au). We thank Dennis Brown for handling the manuscript and Alan Collins, Phil McCausland, and one anonymous reviewer for impartial and constructive reviews.
1Supplemental Material. Materials and methods, five supplemental figures, seven supplemental tables, and references providing further detail on paleomagnetic and rock-magnetic results, sampling descriptions, performed analysis, and reconstruction data. Please visithttps://doi.org/10.1130/GEOL.S.12935030 to access the supplemental material, and contact editing@geosociety.org with any questions.
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(A) Lithologic map of the North Australian craton with aeromagnetic expression of the Galiwinku dikes. Sampling sites (see Table S1 [see footnote 1]) indicate directions of magmatic flow inferred from anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) results, where K1, K2, and K3, respectively, refer to the maximum, intermediate, and minimum axes of the triaxial ellipsoid of magnetic susceptibility magnitude (Table S2; Fig. S1). (B) Stratigraphy of the Roper Group with sills sampled from drill core and age constraints. (C–E) Thermal and alternating-field demagnetization of the Derim Derim sill samples (see also Fig. S2). NRM—natural remanent magnetization. (F) Thermal susceptibility results of a Derim Derim sill (Fig. S3). χ—magnetic susceptibility (in SI units). (G) Directions of baked-contact test conducted on drill core samples. (H) Site-mean directions of high-temperature component of the Derim Derim sills (Table S3; Fig. S4). See the Supplemental Material for details. Triangle—overall-mean direction.
Paleogeographic reconstruction of supercontinent Nuna including its core constituents (L—Laurentia; B—Baltica; S—Siberia; A—Australia, including Mawson; C—North China craton) at assembly (A), tenure (B), and breakup (C), and associated paleopoles of the five continents at roughly the respective interval (D–F, respectively). Poles plotted include: GF—Gnowangerup-Fraser dikes; MtI—Mt. Isa Metamorphosed dikes; GRV—Gawler Rangev; Bu—Balbirini Dolomite, upper part; Bl—Balbirini Dolomite, lower part; Em—Emmerugga Dolomite; To—Tooganinie Formation; Ma—Mallapunyah Formation; WB—West Branch volcanics; FC—Fiery Creek Formation; Wo—Wollogorang Formation; PC—Peters Creek volcanics, upper part; HD—Hart Dolerite; LT—Liaoning and Taihang area; Ya—Yanliao mafic sills; Ti—Tieling Formation; Ya1—Yangzhuang Formation; Ya2—Yangzhuang Formation; Ta—Taihang dikes; Yi—Yinshan dikes; Xi—Xiong'er Group; Mac—Mackenzie dikes grand mean; NA—Nain Anorthosite; VF—Victoria Fjord dolerite dikes; ZZ—Zig-Zag Dal basalts; StF—St. Francois Mountains; WC—Western Channel Diabase; MB—Melville Bugt diabase dikes; CD—Cleaver dikes; Du—Dubawnt Group. Stars with red A95 intervals (NCC), circles/blue (Laurentia) and squares/yellow (Australia) indicate the studied continents. See the Supplemental Material (see footnote 1) for details.
Paleogeography of Nuna at ca. 1.3 Ga including its core constituents Laurentia (L), Baltica (B), Siberia (S), Australia (A, including Mawson, M), and North China Craton (C). Main orogens are indicated. Large igneous provinces (LIPs) emplaced during Nuna breakup are also shown with associated dike swarms (lines) and proposed plume centers color-coded by age (stars; Table S6 [see footnote 1]). See Table S7 for Euler rotations. McArthur-Yanliao Gulf is outlined (Collins et al., 2019), also known as the Gulf of Nuna (Mitchell et al., 2020). NAC—North Australia craton; NCC—North China craton; SAC, South Australia craton; WAC, West Australia craton.
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EIIB-Rasmala rebrands to Rasmala, intensifies focus on alternatives and real estate offering
No.0820I – Appointment of Chief Financial Officer
The National – Oil price uptick lifts Dubai Financial Market
Headquartered in London, Rasmala invests in the UK, USA, Europe, Middle East and Africa
Plans to launch further series of new alternative funds in H1 2016
London and Dubai 21 December 2015: EIIB-Rasmala, the London headquartered independent investment manager, today announced it has changed its name to Rasmala ('Rasmala' or 'the Group'), effective immediately. Rasmala is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (RMA: LSE).
The move underlines the Group's commitment to its strong Gulf investor base and its continuing role in investing GCC capital into international markets. The Group has also accompanied this rebrand with a refresh of its Rasmala brand identity and logo.
Established in 1999, Rasmala has grown to be a regional leader in asset management and asset-backed finance, and possesses a successful and consistent investment track record. The range of products now includes a number of highly innovative investment solutions in areas such as trade finance, leasing and real estate.
Rasmala's asset management business also covers equities, fixed income as well as money market funds. The combined assets under management of the Group have now increased to $1.1 billion.
Zak Hydari, Chief Executive, Rasmala, commented: "For more than 15 years, Rasmala has been one of the most recognised and respected brands with Gulf-based investors. Rasmala's regional pedigree and investment track record has allowed us to create a combined group that now presents a market leading offering of innovative solutions to both regional and international clients.
"We have positioned the combined business to focus on top tier investment management. Our rebrand to 'Rasmala' was a logical next step in unifying the group under one solid, trusted brand. We now look to accelerate the expansion of the group into more new products and markets," he added.
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Established in 1999, Rasmala is a London-headquartered independent investment manager. Rasmala provides asset management and asset-backed financing solutions to pension funds, family offices, corporates and financial institutions. The Rasmala team is highly experienced with in-depth market knowledge and a strong track record of investment performance. Rasmala is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Rasmala operates regulated subsidiaries in the UAE, Oman and Egypt.
The Rasmala Group announces senior leadership changes to implement its new strategic plan
The Rasmala Group acquires supermarket asset in Manchester as part of broader investment programme
Rasmala Acquires Prime Biomedical Laboratory in the Netherlands


Royal Oak, almost 12 square miles of beautiful homes, shops, restaurants, entertainment and the Detroit Zoo!. Downtown Royal Oak features a wide variety of nightlife experiences, including the Royal Oak Music Theatre and the Landmark Main Art Theatre. You can also visit Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle, an early stomping ground of Tim Allen and Dave Coulier. The large assortment of restaurants range from take-out sandwiches to high-end establishments specializing in cuisines like Italian, Belgian, Lebanese, Chinese and many others. Royal Oak's pubs and bars run the gamut from biker bars to upscale breweries, sports bars, and rooftop bars. During the summer, downtown Royal Oak becomes host to hordes of motorcycle enthusiasts from around Metro Detroit. Many evenings will find the streets lined with motorcycles, many Harley Davidson's. Dog walkers can enjoy all the restaurants and bars though outdoor seating they provide.
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Takami, loosely translated as 'Higher than the rest' is Mazda's new top of the line luxury variants. The concept is that any model bearing the Takami name is part sports vehicle, part luxury cruiser. These variants are currently available across the Mazda6, CX-3, CX-5 and our current review vehicle the CX-9.
Will the Takami variant make this CX-9 stand out from the rest?
The latest range has done away with the FWD version, so now all 3 models are AWD. It starts with the GSX ($56,695), then to the Limited ($65,295) and finally the Takami ($67,895) our test vehicle.
All share the same engine – the all-new 2.5 SkyActiv-G turbo four-cylinder. There are no diesel options for the CX-9 range. This engine offers 170kW of power, 420Nm of torque and a combined fuel consumption rating of 8.8 litres per 100km.
The GSX model is pretty well specced, with a bit more in the Limited and all of the goodies in the Takami. As standard, the GSX gets full leather, 3-zone climate AC, cruise control, electric and heated front seats, driver's electric lumbar adjustment, voice command system, 6-speaker audio with BlueTooth, a leather steering wheel, an 8" touchscreen central display, keyless entry and start, SatNav, dual exhaust tips, DRLs, electric park brake, Hill Launch Assist, automatic LED headlights and auto wipers.
The Limited goes further with an electric tailgate, electric tilt/slide sunroof, adaptive cruise control, a 12-speaker 294-watt Bose audio system, the option of 'natural stone' leather, 2 memory positions for the driver's seat, Adaptive Headlamps, proximity keyless entry, heated side mirrors, rear privacy glass, lighting signature tail lamps, rear pull-up windows shades, Active Driving Display (HUD) and one-touch power windows front and rear. That's quite a bit of extra kit for the $7K over the GSX.
The Limited model also has an incredible amount of driver assistance and safety features; Blind Spot Monitoring, Rear Cross Traffic Alert, Smart City Braking, Radar Cruise with Stop/Go function, Forward Obstruction Warning, Smart Brake Support, Lane Departure Warning, Lane Watch Assist, Driver Attention Alert, and a 5-Star ANCAP rating.
The Takami range comes complete with 3 years free Servicing, a 5 year factory warranty and a 5-Star ANCAP Safety Rating to keep you and your passengers safe.
There is no mistaking the Mazda CX-9, it's a bit of a beast. Slab faced with a chiseled chin, it's ready to take on the very worst that the everyday family can throw at it. I loved the shape back when it was launched in 2016, it's aged well and it still looks great today.
Most of the team at DriveLife prefer our Mazdas in the stunning Soul Red Crystal Metallic paint, sadly this review car has Jet Black Mica. It still looked great, but it's hard to beat that amazing red.
On the face of it, there was really not a lot that indicated this model was the new Takami spec. The visible difference can be seen between the GSX and the Limited, with larger wheels, different headlights, chrome trim running boards and chrome trim front bumper. From what I could see, there was nothing outside the CX-9, not even a badge to indicate that this was a Takami. I was curious to now why Mazda would do this, since they identify the Takami variant as their top spec that's higher than the rest.
I am generally a simple man when it comes to interior colour selections. Black is my go to, with some white or tan which both heavily depend on the vehicle. The Takami seems to only come with one leather option, Nappa Leather Auburn. Auburn as a hair colour is nice, but as a leather interior colour, not so much. Depending on the time of day or the sun light direction, it looked like light brown or off red. I did not like this colour, my wife did not like this colour and most people who got in started the conversation with, "Oh, thats different".
I was unsure if you can select the other trim levels for the Takami, however it would beat the purpose as the Nappa Leather option is only available for the Takami in Auburn. Moving past the colour, the Nappa Leather was really nice to touch, soft and comfortable.
Since the full review of the Limited Fred did back in 2016, 2016 Mazda CX-9 – Car Review – Super Smooth SUV not much has changed inside the the CX-9. The only visible differences are the wood inlay and digital driver's dash that come in the Takami.
My time with the CX-9 was never arduous, once inside you were always comfy, had enough space not to feel cramped and a safe feeling. This safe feeling came from the size of the CX-9 and how far everything around you seemed to be from the outside world. I can see why they have no problem selling them; feeling safe will be high on the list of family criteria.
The media screen has since become a bit dated, smaller than most seen in other SUV's and not as well integrated. The UI is also a bit clunky at times, some of this was due to not being used to it, but some was down to the interactive design, which could be improved. The screen size didn't matter too much, only when using the Satellite Navigation. I always felt that a more square screen would have helped to show more roads ahead compared to the widescreen style its has now.
The sound system in the Takami was impressive, the 12-speaker Bose audio system in the Limited is fantastic. My own Audi has a Bose system and I love it's clarity and volume. The system in the CX-9 had more speakers than my Audi, and sounded great, if not better.
You get some good media options with the CX-9: USB, phone, radio, Aha, Pandora and Sticher.
Fred never liked how you got in and out of the third row during his review. However things have changed, which means Fred was not the only one who had issues with it. Now getting in and out of the back is a bit easier. The seats don't flip forward, but moving the upright of the middle row back and seat forward is now a much easier action. Even for a big guy, I didn't find it too bad getting in and out of the back row. Leg room is still the same, not ideal for taller people, but I guess most will use this row for kids.
Middle row legroom is much better, as you could slide the seat forward anyway, on a long trip. On the middle row, the rake is adjustable so that's one bonus for those long trips. As a family SUV, the CX-9 was one of the better ones we have tested. Even with the baby seat in the back, the front passenger seat didn't have to move that far out of the way unlike most SUV's. Add to this the ability to slide the second row, gave my wife and the baby even more room in the back for baby bags, toys and the like. My wife even mentioned that we didn't even have this much space in the BMW X5.
Boot space is always a challenging one for us with 7-seat SUV's. Is there much of a boot with all rows in use or do you sacrifice space for seats? In the CX-9 with the third row up, the boot is reduced to 230 litres, and smaller than the previous model. With the third row down the boot space grows to an impressive 810 litres. With the middle row down the rear space becomes a whopping 2016 litres.
Even though the CX-9 is a bit of a monster in scale, you quickly forget that its powered by a 2.5-litre 4 cylinder engine. Surely it needs more power than that, but this engine pushes out 170kW of power and 420Nm of torque. So the answer is clear, you don't need more power, it's already there compared to the 321Nm of torque from the previous generations V6 engine.
With a smaller more efficient engine, comes smaller fuel consumption figures. The advertised figures are 8.8 litres per 100km, over the period of my review the best I achieved was 10.0. Not bad from a small engine in such a big vehicle.
The performance figures are not affected much from this engine, getting the CX-9 to 100km/h in 8.6 seconds, which is not too shabby for a two-ton 4-cylinder SUV. On top of that, it is incredibly smooth. So smooth you think it's hiding a V6 under the hood somewhere. Got to love this engine.
Noise level in the cabin is minimal – wind noise is almost non-existent, suspension noise and general NVH is top class. On the motorway, it is so quiet, making it easy to talk to anyone, regardless where they are sitting inside.
Daily driving the CX-9 is so easy, the engine and gearbox make this machine effortless to use. You never feel like you need more power, it's already there, ready to get you going. The automatic has a Sport mode, but as is common with cars with this much torque, it's all a bit pointless. Sport mode holds the gears longer, which seems great but when maximum torque is at 2,000rpm it's not going to change the driving feeling as Sport mode would indicate.
The AWD system is great, no matter the weather thrown at this beast, it just kept doing the daily run. General driving is not affected by the size of the car – you don't feel like it's as big as it is. Handling of the CX-9 was pretty good – small body roll through the corners, but still good and better than you would expect for the size and weight of this SUV.
Fred had found the steering heavy on the open roads, I have to say I did not experience this at all. It was not heavy or light, it just felt right, or what it should be. Maybe this has been updated since the time we tested the Limited model.
I only managed 400km in the CX-9 before it went back. It average 11.5l/100km from a 50/50 mix of open road and around town. What surprised me most, was that the fuel level indicated half a tank to go. I could only hope this would deliver another 400km.
The CX-9 had always placed itself well in the market, with a high-quality product for a really good price. However, since the Takami is touching on $70k, it opens up other options that may not have been available for lower budgets.
The CX-9 is a great vehicle; its big, spacious, has seven seats and does not cost the earth. I really like it, it's got a great shape and feel to it. It also feels big and solid which makes you feel safe.
The only downside to the Takami, is the increasing price, knocking on the door of $70k. It does offer more options for this additional cost, which are good value. If you can afford the Limited, then the Takami might be worth pushing the budget out for. However, if your budget only allows for the GSX, it's a hard sell to make the jump of $8,200 to the Takami.
It's a no-brainer option to try if you're in the market for a seven-seater SUV, but I am not sure that the Takami will be for everyone.


Will the state of Washington's unprecedented review of the Gateway terminal harm Washington's economy?
We think so and you can hear from a growing number of influential voices who agree in the recent article Ecology on Hot Seat About Coal-Port Analysis -- Business Calls it Bizarre, Worrisome. The story highlights concern across the region that the decision could set a far-reaching precedent that impacts every major enterprise in Washington, to the detriment of our economic future.
But you can tell the state that overregulation is not the answer by making your voice heard and commenting here. It will only take a few minutes and makes a big difference in protecting community priorities.
Through this decision the state would be able to decide which products can be shipped from the state whenever it feels the environmental impact will be "significant" -- effectively using environmental regulation to exert control over interstate commerce, which has always been the role of federal authorities.
This is a dangerous and slippery slope. The state has the responsibility to assess economic and environmental impact of proposed projects. It also has the duty to ensure that the process is guided by law, not politics.
Tell the state of Washington to make job creation and trade a bigger priority than overregulation.
A new city report has positive things to say about coal trains in Seattle, so is that why it spent five weeks in Mayor Mike McGinn's office before it was released?
A recent opinion piece from the Save Birch Bay group tried to pick apart economic estimates for the Gateway Pacific Terminal project, but the author misunderstands the data, in some cases reading the wrong sections of very long and complicated reports.
Also, she criticizes Gateway Pacific Terminal for stating that the project may be built over two years instead of a previously estimated four years. There's no mystery here, because whether to build in one or two phases is being considered.
The author points out that the early estimates of overall beneficial economic impact to the community (construction plus initial 10 years of operation) would be $1.4 billion, not the $1.8 billion current figure. Actually, the way costs seem to escalate in these big projects, I wouldn't be surprised to see that number approach $2 billion before it's all over. But pick any number you want; they are all huge.
The Birch Bay writer also gets confused about the wage data, stating that the estimates of wages at the terminal vary. That's correct, because you are talking about different kinds of jobs. She claims that our earlier regulatory filings said that rail workers, tugboat crews, longshoremen, would make $36,000 per year, not over $75,000 per year as stated in our recent report to the community. She's reading from the wrong section of the filings, a section that accounts for anticipated clerical and office workers. I can assure you that the highly skilled rail and maritime tradespeople earn more than $36,000 per year, and Gateway Pacific Terminal will create many more of those precious family-wage jobs.
Let's set the jobs numbers straight. Two prominent sets of economists have estimated the job creation that would result from Gateway Pacific Terminal, using two different but nationally accepted economic forecasting models.
Construction phase (full build-out over two years): Direct construction jobs (full-time equivalents), 2,120; indirect and induced jobs, 2,310; total jobs generated during construction, 4,430.
Direct jobs, 430; indirect and induced jobs, 820: total permanent jobs, 1,250.
Economists measure both the direct and economic impacts and those that result from the "multiplier effect" of economic activity. "Direct" employment involves workers who are engaged in terminal operations. "Indirect" employment includes jobs created through the purchase of goods and services from other businesses that would support Gateway Pacific Terminal's operations. As with the other industries at Cherry Point, this is a major generator of jobs in the economy. "Induced" employment results from workers spending their wages for clothes, cars, appliances, health care, etc.
As estimates are refined, we will report them to the public. Meanwhile, we are happy to provide the most current factual information to community residents upon request.
Finally, I need to remind myself that not all county residents share the same history.
Longtime residents will remember decades-long efforts to set aside a place for water-dependent heavy industry to operate outside of population centers, so that we could have both the benefits of high-wage employment and some isolation of impacts. More recent arrivals to the community may not appreciate that the Cherry Point industrial area is the result of longterm economic, land use and shoreline planning.
With poverty rates higher than the rest of the state and nation, we badly need industrial job growth. That's one reason why Gateway Pacific Terminal is so important to the future of working families.


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Little Emperors
A Year with the Future of China
JoAnn Dionne
Short-listed for the 2009 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Much has been made about how the New China has become an economic juggernaut in today's world while civil liberties and basic freedoms remain constricted. We know where the aging leadership has taken and is taking China, but what about the very young? What are they like?
When JoAnn Dionne arrived in Guangzho, she came prepared to live and teach elementary school in a Communist country. She expected to see soldiers in the streets, people in grey Mao suits, and lineups to buy toilet paper. Instead she found the world's oldest country, throwing itself headlong into the future. She found traffic jams and 24/7 constructions, neon lights and smog, shopping malls and modern high-rises. And then she met the people who would live in that future – her students. Along with crisp insights into Chinese culture as seen through the eyes of a North American, Dionne provides a funny, often poignant glimpse of a nation undergoing rapid transformation.
Short-listed
City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Immediacy of language and lightness of tone make the memoir readable, fun and vivid while at the same time providing insights into the minds of young Chinese.
In an often humourous way, JoAnn captures what it is like for a North American to explore China.
Lakeshore News (March, 2008)
JoAnn Dionne has lived in Japan, Mexico, China, and more recently, Hong Kong -- her home of five years, where she worked for a time as an editor at Oxford University Press. Little Emperors is her first book. Currently she lives in Victoria, B.C., but she grew up in Salmon Arm in the province's interior.
Read more about JoAnn Dionne


For many years now, SMEG has been established in America as a well know luxury appliance brand, who seamlessly manage to combine gorgeous Italian design, with cutting edge performance. In addition to the loyal customers, who from Canada to the USA, aspire to technology with style, an increasing numbers of customers are now coming from the different states across Mexico.
After having seen this raising interest as the result of market progress, where the increase of medium-high level residential building go hand in hand with the evolving tastes of the local consumer, Smeg officially marked in Mexico, by opening a branch in the capital. The store in Mexico City will strengthen Smeg reputation in the country and significantly increase the brand awareness.
The appeal of the Italian style is clear. Renowned for its excellent manufacturing and beautiful designs, there are a wide of product ranges available, including ovens, hobs, cooker, fridges, freezer, washing machines and dishwashers.
Smeg have also recently released a range of small appliances such as toasters and kettles, made with the same passion as the larger appliances.


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Comin' Home  is her second release overall and first extended play from American country music artist Jessie James Decker (previously credited as Jessie James).  Released on April 18, 2014 via 19 Recordings, the album reached No. 5 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. On January 30, 2021 a deluxe version was released including 2 additional songs previously released as singles.  The track order also changed.

Track listing

Track listing Deluxe version

Chart performance
Comin' Home sold 11,000 copies in its first week of release.

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Dear Lord, Barbara's sister is her clone!
Dear A Car, I agree she looks like Mo! But that's an old photo, I don't know what she looks like now.
she does look like mo in the eyes but that nose and mouth is all ringo. zak looks too young too be her dad, ringo looks looks too young to be her grandpa.


BART service has been restored between Hayward and Fremont after an earlier fire at a power substation near the South Hayward station. The South Hayward BART station has been reopened.
Service throughout the rest of the BART system was not affected by the fire, the cause of which is currently under investigation.


Well in the classic understanding of voter rights our family is finally equipped with the tools necessary to vote. We have bought a home. It is a small 3 bedroom ranch in Roselle, IL.
It was a treacherous journey getting here. On Friday at 3:30 the bank canceled our 4:00 closing. Even yesterday as we signed the papers and transfered the title, the bank had yet to fund the loan. Yet we walked out with our paperwork in order and a small wait ahead of us for the finality.


This conversion kit will take your RR12V2 to the all new RR12 T2 spec.
A: This will not work completely. You need part no rsd1231 as this one does not include the unimount. Additionally, the diff offset is not quite the same so some narrower settings may not be totally possible, but you should be able to get inside of the max rear width. Lastly, for the side tubes, you will have to replace the ball cups with AE TC6 ball cups (same as the steering ones on your R5).


Chelsea Richardson, PA-C is a physician assistant in Papillion, NE. She specializes in physician assistant (pa).
I saw Chelsea for the first time today and was extremely pleased with the care she provided. She was thorough, she took her time, and she worked with me to ensure my needs were met. It has been years since I've had a healthcare provider that I was this comfortable with.
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Inspired by the French almond custard Frangipane, Apricot & Almond Cake Bars have a soft and rich texture, reminiscent of European tea tarts. The Bar batter is layered with chopped dried apricots and apricot preserve, and topped with sliced almonds just before baking.
Sugar, unsalted sweet cream butter, organic unbleached unenriched wheat flour, almonds, cage free eggs, organic dried apricots, apricot preserve, natural orange extract, natural almond extract, baking powder, citrus fiber, and sea salt.


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La battaglia di Pozzuolo del Friuli fu una battaglia difensiva che si svolse durante la prima guerra mondiale tra il 29 e il 30 ottobre 1917 impegnando due brigate dell'esercito italiano che protessero la ritirata della 3ª Armata italiana dalle forze tedesche che cercavano di tagliarle la linea di ritirata dopo la rotta di Caporetto. Dopo due giorni di combattimento le forze italiane utilizzate nella battaglia erano quasi annientate, ma la 3ª Armata era riuscita a ritirarsi oltre il Tagliamento.

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In seguito alla rottura del fronte italiano a Caporetto la situazione della 3ª Armata italiana, schierata sul basso Isonzo, diventò critica, tanto che già il 25 ottobre Cadorna prese in considerazione la possibilità di ritirarla oltre il Tagliamento. Tuttavia il generale Montuori, comandante la 2ª Armata, schierata sull'alto Isonzo, dopo una serie di telefonate ai suoi comandanti di corpo, ritenne possibile una resistenza sulla "linea degli sbocchi", quindi, nella nottata, Cadorna ordinò alla 2ª Armata di resistere sulla linea proposta. Il giorno 26 anche la linea degli sbocchi fu sfondata, e solo nelle prime ore del 27 fu dato l'ordine di ritirata alla 2ª e alla 3ª Armata, perdendo così più di 24 preziosissime ore.

Mentre la 3ª Armata si ritirava utilizzando i ponti sul Tagliamento fra Codroipo e Latisana (i ponti più a nord erano destinati alla 2ª Armata) era pressata di fronte dal gruppo Boroevič (1. e 2. Isonzo Armee) che, comunque, non rappresentava un pericolo incombente, data la sua scarsa mobilità. Tuttavia il 28 ottobre alle 14 le forze tedesche entravano ad Udine, ed il comandante del 51º corpo d'armata, generale Hofacher propose di muovere, partendo da Udine, verso Latisana. Un'azione del genere avrebbe tagliato completamente la via di ritirata della 3ª armata, ma avrebbe diminuito la pressione austro-tedesca sui ponti della Delizia (presso Codroipo) e, ancora più grave dal punto di vista militare, avrebbe intasato le linee di rifornimento del gruppo Boroevič, quindi doveva essere autorizzata da von Below. L'azione, proposta alle 13 del 28 ottobre, fu autorizzata alle 22 dello stesso giorno, erano passate solo nove ore, e dodici ore dopo la proposta il gruppo Scotti (1ª divisione austro-ungarica e 5ª divisione tedesca), appoggiato dalla 117ª divisione tedesca, da Udine muoveva verso la foce del Tagliamento.

Intanto giorno 24 ottobre la 1ª divisione di cavalleria era stata richiamata al fronte ed il 29 fu messa a disposizione del VI Corpo d'armata, la 1ª brigata fu posta fra Udine e Codroipo a Pasian Schiavonesco, mentre la 2ª fu posta a sud di Udine a Pozzuolo del Friuli, mentre i due battaglioni di bersaglieri ciclisti furono inviati a est della 2ª brigata a Lumignacco. Il gruppo Scotti stava marciando direttamente sulle posizioni della 2ª brigata.

La battaglia
La 2ª Brigata di cavalleria era al comando del generale Giorgio Emo Capodilista e comprendeva il Reggimento "Genova Cavalleria" (4º) (comandante colonnello Bellotti)  ed il Reggimento "Lancieri di Novara" (comandante colonnello Campari), ed aveva il compito inequivocabile di difendere ad ogni costo l'ala destra della 2ª Armata, dalla quale dipendevano il 2º Gruppo volo ed il 6º Gruppo caccia (che, a sua volta, copriva la ritirata della 3ª Armata dalla quale dipendevano il 1º Gruppo e il 5º Gruppo), compito che sottintende il sacrificio dei due reggimenti di cavalleria.

La 2ª brigata entrò a Pozzuolo del Friuli alle 17.30 del 29 ottobre ed i due reggimenti furono schierati ad est (Genova cavalleria) e ad ovest (Lancieri di Novara) dell'abitato. L'abitato stesso fu organizzato a difesa e furono inviate pattuglie verso nord e verso est. Una pattuglia venne coinvolta in combattimenti a Campoformido, essendo caduta in un'imboscata. A notte il generale Capodilista tenne il rapporto ufficiali che si dice concludesse con «Signori, questo deve essere il nostro camposanto». La notte del 30 ottobre, burrascosa e di pioggia ininterrotta, passò relativamente tranquilla.

Mentre la 2ª brigata si stava preparando alla difesa, la 1ª brigata, attaccata da forze nemiche preponderanti, era stata costretta a ritirarsi fino a Codroipo. Di fronte a questo fatto il comando della 2ª Armata ritenne, erroneamente, che la 14ª Armata nemica stesse marciando verso ovest, e decise un contrattacco contro quella che riteneva l'ala sinistra del nemico, contrattacco che avrebbe utilizzato Pozzuolo del Friuli come perno di manovra. A Pozzuolo del Friuli venne quindi avviata la Brigata "Bergamo" (25º e 26º reggimento di fanteria), che era all'ala destra delle forze che stavano contrattaccando.

All'alba del 30 ottobre, pattuglie del Genova cavalleria e dei Lancieri di Novara furono inviate in esplorazione e segnalarono la presenza di nuclei nemici, armati di numerose mitragliatrici, nella zona di Terenzano. Il primo contatto col nemico fu preso da due pattuglie del Genova cavalleria, a nord dell'abitato di Pozzuolo. Verso le 11,00, l'avanguardia della 117ª divisione tedesca, proveniente da Terenzano, effettuò il suo primo attacco in forze, ma venne respinta dalle mitragliatrici e dal 2º squadrone del Genova Cavalleria.

Verso le 12.00 l'attacco venne rinnovato con maggiori forze, ma fu ancora respinto, questa volta alla baionetta e un successivo tentativo di aggiramento da parte delle forze tedesche fu sventato con una carica del 4º squadrone dei Lancieri di Novara, comandato dal capitano Sezanne. Mentre si svolgevano questi combattimenti la Brigata "Bergamo" prese contatto con la cavalleria, dopo una marcia forzata di cinque ore sotto la pioggia battente. Il comandante della brigata (colonnello brigadiere Piero Balbi), dopo un colloquio con il generale Capodilista, in ossequio agli ordini ricevuti ed alle informazioni che aveva avuto dal comando di armata, fece proseguire i suoi uomini verso Carpeneto a nord ovest di Pozzuolo, tenendo in paese due battaglioni ed il suo comando.

Alle 14,00 i reparti della "Bergamo" a nord di Pozzuolo furono attaccati dalle forze della 5ª divisione tedesca. Contemporaneamente a Pozzuolo affluivano unità della 60ª divisione di fanteria austriaca, che, provenendo da est, affiancò la 117ª divisione; gli attacchi delle due divisioni vennero sostenuti dal Genova Cavalleria fino alle 16.30, quando le truppe austriache e tedesche riuscirono a superare la barricata che impediva l'accesso da Terenzano. In questi combattimenti il tenente Carlo Castelnuovo delle Lanze del Genova Cavalleria fu ferito a morte (MOVM). Ancora una volta il 4º squadrone dei Lancieri di Novara caricò i nemici per respingerli. Intervennero nella battaglia diversi civili che soccorsero i feriti o si sostituirono a loro sulle barricate, tuttavia, nonostante tutti gli sforzi dei cavalieri e della popolazione, alle 17.30 il nemico riuscì a piazzare alcune mitragliatrici nelle case del paese, rendendo insostenibile la posizione della brigata di cavalleria.

Dopo otto ore di combattimenti il generale Capodilista ordinò ai reggimenti di rimontare a cavallo e di ripiegare su Santa Maria di Sclaunicco; in testa ai reparti in ordine di combattimento alle 18.30 il generale raggiunse la località. Ultimo a lasciare Pozzuolo fu il 4º squadrone del Genova cavalleria, che, stretto da presso dal nemico, effettuò un'ultima carica, in cui fu quasi completamente annientato perdendo il comandante, capitano Ettore Laiolo (MOVM).
Il maggiore Sante Ghittoni del Genova cavalleria, ricevuto ordine di abbandonare il paese, ordinò ai suoi uomini di andarsene, e rimase a coprirne la ritirata una mitragliatrice; esaurite le munizioni, fu invitato ad arrendersi ma rispose ancora al fuoco con la pistola, finché, ferito, si uccise per evitare la cattura.

Intanto anche la Brigata "Bergamo" era costretta a ripiegare su Santa Maria di Sclaunicco, lasciando moltissimi caduti sul campo e prigionieri in mano al nemico, compreso il comando della brigata, catturato a Pozzuolo del Friuli. La resistenza nell'abitato cessò solo alle 19, dopo una difesa che lo stesso nemico riconobbe valorosa.

La 2ª brigata di cavalleria a Pozzuolo la mattina del 30 ottobre inquadrava nei suoi ranghi 968 uomini fra ufficiali, sottufficiali e truppa, alla sera ne rimanevano solamente 501, quindi fra morti e dispersi aveva perso quasi metà dei suoi effettivi. Le perdite complessive della Brigata "Bergamo" ammontarono a ben 80 ufficiali e circa 3500 dei suoi fanti. Un sacrificio immenso quello della valorosa Brigata "Bergamo" degno delle dure tradizioni della Fanteria italiana vera Regina delle battaglie che a fine guerra ebbe tutte le bandiere dei reggimenti combattenti decorate della Croce di cavaliere dell'Ordine Militare di Savoja (Nei duri cimenti della guerra, nella tormentata trincea o nell'aspra battaglia, conobbe ogni limite di sacrificio e di ardimento; audace e tenace, domò infaticabilmente i luoghi e le fortune, consacrando con sangue fecondo la romana virtù dei figli d'Italia.).
Della lotta sostenuta dal II/25° e dal III/26°, tenaci nel resistere a Pozzuolo del Friuli al soverchiante urto avversario, è lasciato imperituro ricordo nella motivazione della medaglia d'argento concessa alle Bandiere di guerra dei due reggimenti.

L'onorevole comportamento dei reparti di cavalleria a Pozzuolo del Friuli valse comunque a riscattare l'arma dalle incertezze con cui il 24 maggio 1915 aveva esordito nella guerra allorché vi fu la mancata conquista dei ponti di Pieris da parte delle due colonne della 1ª divisione di Cavalleria, in marcia sin dall'alba di quel giorno avevano compiuto solo la metà dei circa 30 chilometri che separano Palmanova da Pieris; sicché gli austriaci avevano avuto modo e tempo di distruggere i ponti impedendo la prevista rapida avanzata delle fanterie italiane. Per tale insuccesso il 29 maggio 1915 il tenente generale Pirozzi era stato destituito dal comando della 1ª divisione di Cavalleria.

Motivazione delle medaglie al valore e resoconti sui bollettini di guerra

Furono proposte, per le azioni del 30 ottobre, ben 176 onorificenze. Fra queste fu concessa la medaglia d'argento agli stendardi del Genova Cavalleria e dei Lancieri di Novara. Il generale Emo Capodilista ebbe l'Ordine militare di Savoia, mentre il tenente Carlo Castelnuovo delle Lanze e il capitano Ettore Laiolo ebbero entrambi la Medaglia d'oro al valor militare alla memoria. Oltre a queste furono concesse, per i fatti della giornata, 48 medaglie d'argento, 43 medaglie di bronzo e 56 croci di guerra. Oltre alle onorificenze furono emessi 20 encomi solenni e 7 promozioni per meriti di guerra.

A questa battaglia è stata intitolata la Brigata di cavalleria "Pozzuolo del Friuli".

Stendardi dei due reggimenti di cavalleria

Bandiere di guerra dei due reggimenti di fanteria
Medaglia d'argento al valor militare

Tenente Carlo Castelnuovo delle Lanze

Capitano Ettore Laiolo

Resoconti sui bollettini di guerra

Note

Bibliografia
Mario Silvestri, Caporetto, una battaglia e un enigma, Mondadori, 1984, ISBN 88-04-34116-5

Voci correlate
 Prima guerra mondiale
 Brigata di Cavalleria Pozzuolo del Friuli
 Battaglia di Ragogna
 Ponte della Delizia (cenni storici)

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Battaglie della prima guerra mondiale che coinvolgono la Germania
Guerra nel 1917


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How Art Therapy Can Act as a Healing Agent
Guest post by Marliën Barnard
There is a lot of talk lately about art therapy. It's an area filled with fuzzy thinking and unqualified practitioners. But if art therapy really is able to help the process of psychotherapy, how does it work? How can it give us greater insight into people?
And is it really effective in psychological healing?
To Go Beyond the Theory
As a psychotherapist, academically grounded in psychological theorems, my experiences with clients over the years have attuned me to a key factor. No single person can be fully understood by a theoretical perspective on behaviour or personality. The theories may help us along by indicating the parts that contribute to the whole, but the whole remains an elusive ever-shifting concept that we only glimpse in those moments when a person is fully present.
I've often experienced that using language to conduct therapy removes us from experience. Experience is first and foremost felt, and then it is judged by adding interpretation, which is already one level removed from the raw experience.
The second level of removal happens when we use words to interpret. Words that almost always lack the ability to express the depth of meaning we actually experience. This lack of proximity is compounded by language barriers, especially in a multicultural society like South Africa, where a myriad different languages and dialects complicates matters.
The gulf between what we've experienced and how we express it grows and grows, to the point where words can't really be trusted. I've often felt like we're conducting an exercise in translation, rather than communication!
Digging Deeper to Find the Real Story
In the non-verbal communication of my clients, I have often picked up more valuable, therapeutic information than in the 'what is said'. Content clouds process. As a therapist, one is always digging underneath the content to unearth the processes and the patterns that tell the client's real story.
In my own journey with the arts (music and visual art) I have experienced that when words fail, I can still express my emotions accurately through music and art. It is the crescendo or diminuendo in a Beethoven sonata, it is the hard, agitated brush stroke on a canvas versus the fluid ease of letting go with watercolours, gently merging as they dry. Therein lies true expression and, more importantly, healing.
The expression of an emotion becomes healing when we realize that we have allowed ourselves to externalize feelings of hurt, anger, sadness, frustration and disappointment.
Internationally-renowned artist and author, Shaun McNiff, once said:
"Art can heal wherever it is practiced, whereas art therapy is a more circumscribed experience that takes place within the context of a therapeutic relationship between qualified therapists and clients and with resources that do no exist when a person creates alone."
Do What Works for the Client
Art also transcends the restrictions of working from a specific theoretical perspective. At a recent conference, Nancy McMillian, a US doctor of social sciences said that it has been proven that 10 psychotherapists who have been trained in the same paradigm would work more diversely than 10 psychotherapists trained in different paradigms, if the second group had been conducting therapy for at least 10 years.
This means that, as we gain experience as therapists, we do more and more of what works for the client, and not what makes us feel comfortable as therapists.
Art Becomes the Dialogue
In art therapy, the art becomes the framework we as therapists will work from. The artwork becomes the co-participant that has a life of its own and becomes the dialogue that serves the purpose of language in traditional therapy.
And in the group art therapy experience, that healing happens in reflection of the artwork, a meditative contemplation of the work, where the artwork speaks and enables the members of the group speaking to one another with complete acceptance and non-judgement. The role of the art therapist is to hold this safe, non-judgmental space and to facilitate the dialogue between client and image.
When the artwork speaks, it is:
similar to the process of free association in psychoanalysis,
it completes the "whole" in Gestalt therapy,
it exposes the limiting beliefs and behaviours in CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy),
it aids emotional regulation in DBT (dialectical behaviour therapy), and
it leads to increased awareness in Mindfulness training.
Irrespective of the perspective on behaviour with which the therapist arrives, the art work will say what the client is ready to hear.
Healing With Group Art Therapy
My own focus is on group art therapy, to reach more clients with this dynamic process. In the safe slipstream of group participation, clients reach deep within themselves and create art in a collaborative space. They discover creative resources within themselves that they wouldn't reach by themselves.
The creative energy generated when people meditate and reflect on art together far surpasses that from the individual. It is my challenge and privilege as a therapist to harness this energy and facilitate the process of helping clients to heal through art.
Marliën Barnard is a clinical psychotherapist with a busy practice in Alberton and Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. You can contact her on +2783 586 6406, or visit her Facebook page at www.faceook.com/marlienbarnardpsychology