A British Special Forces dog is being awarded the highest honor possible after heroically saving lives and protecting soldiers from Taliban attack.
Mali, an 8-year old Belgian Malinois, is a trained sniffer and attack dog for the British Special Forces. Today, he will receive the PDSA Dickin Medal, which is the highest honor for an animal to receive in the country.
The PDSA award is the equivalent of Britain's Victoria Cross, which is the highest award in the British honors system.
Mali is receiving credit for saving the lives of elite British troops during an operation in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
Mali's group had a mission to mentor Afghan soldiers to take charge of their own military situations.
They had trained dogs on the ground to assist in operations requiring their human and explosives detection skills.
In 2012, a Taliban suicide bomb cell was detected near Kabul's diplomatic district. When the British and Afghani troops had to storm the cell, Mali was there to help, and saved lives in the process.
Mali was sent up in front of the soldiers to detect explosives and give them a safe route to follow.
While the troops were making their way through the six story building, Mali sniffed out Taliban booby traps and alerted the soldiers to Jihadis. He also ran in front of live fire.
This operation lasted for eight and a half hours, and left many injured – including Mali.
He suffered severe injuries by shrapnel from grenade blasts, with wounds to his ears, chest, and stomach.
By Mali leading the way and detecting what the soldiers could not detect, he saved them from injury and death.
The medal is being awarded to Mali by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA), a top British veterinary charity. Mali happens to be receiving this award on the PDSA's 100th anniversary.
PDSA's director, Jan McLoughlin, said that Mali by exposing himself to close combat during such an intense enemy attack, Mali's heroism makes him an incredibly worthy recipient of the PDSA Dickin Medal. She was happy that Mali got to help the charity bring in their 100th anniversary.
Mali's handler (who cannot be identified for security reasons) was also awarded a gallantry medal for the bravery he displayed during the critical mission.
Mali is the 69th recipient of this most honorable award. He joins other heroic animals, including 31 dogs, 4 horses, 32 messenger pigeons, and one cat.


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So, as part of setting up our new kitchen I bought a nice combination sandwich press/griller. It makes a good toasted sandwich and I'm very happy with it… but it hasn't been used as much as I expected because I stumbled upon an even better way to make them using the oven griller.
This recipe for a tuna toasted sandwich is an example of the technique. It can easily be modified for any fillings you like although I recommend keeping the tapenade no matter what else you change!


Medicare is vital to the health and well-being of many American seniors. However, due to its complexity, beneficiaries often need assistance navigating the federal health insurance system. GeorgiaCares, Georgia's State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), provides free and unbiased Medicare information and counseling. The aims of this thesis were to evaluate GeorgiaCares outreach events to discern the social and demographic characteristics of participants and decipher how to best market the events. Participants of nine GeorgiaCares outreach events (n=81) completed anonymous surveys; mixed-methods data analysis revealed the typical participant to be a 71-year-old African American female. Findings suggest an effective way to assist beneficiaries in Medicare-related decisions is through the formation of community partnerships. Suggestions to market outreach events include partnering with churches and grocery stores to disseminate information and enlisting the support of community leaders to overcome barriers of distrust.
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I've seen some great posts online this week and wanted to share a few of my favorite teen parenting articles that I've found helpful, interesting or humorous.
Yalda T. Uhls is Director of Creative Community Partnerships for Common Sense Media (one of my favorite sites) with a Ph.D. in child psychology. She's written the new book, Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age.
"Everything that happens offline happens online, often with more intensity. Also, research shows that teenage brains react to social exclusion more powerfully than at other ages. Leaving their family and finding a new one—their friends, typically at school—means that they are highly attuned to exclusion or inclusion. The permanent, 24/7, public nature of the online world can make it seem more emotional. But it's still the usual teenage things: trying to fit in, trying to make friends, hoping to do well."
"The best approach for parents is to remain calm, composed and patient when interacting with a moody teen, [Hans Koot, a professor of developmental psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and principal investigator of the study] says. Listen openly to the teen's feelings and offer solutions or alternate interpretations if the teen is open to them, he says. 'If mood swings do not gradually dissipate with this type of approach – or when, despite careful parental attention, mood swings stay high in late adolescence – professional help may be needed,' Koot says."
This one may not be about parenting, but I'm pretty sure it applies to a lot of us. While "tween" may apply to our kids, a lot of grown-ups also feel not firmly entrenched in any given life stage.
"I do not feel old, by any means, but there is no way I could be considered young anymore. This is why I have an appreciation for the word "tween." It's a special word, created for another group of people finding themselves in a no man's land. We need our own. One that sounds better than "middle-aged." Perhaps "the experienced young" or the "youngderly" would do the trick. I'll keep working on that."
I liked the juxtapositions she explores, including "I'm too old to sleep on the cold, hard ground./ I'm too young for a group tour." And having gotten a haircut yesterday, numbers 9 and 10 resonated with me.
What have you read recently that really resonated with you as a parent? Please share in the comments and I may include it in the next roundup.


Since its introduction during the 1920's the instrument which bears Leon Theremin's name has been evocative in image and tone. PAiA's Theremax theremin captures this spirit in an instrument based on the same heterodyne principles as the original but with embellishments made possible by the economy of integrated circuits and solid state electronics.
In addition to the traditional mellow sine-like tone, Theremax's Timbre control can mix in a harmonic rich square wave to produce a signal that's ideal for use with external filters and processors. And to control outboard units, there are Pitch and Volume Control Voltage outputs.
But the features that really set Tmax apart as a gestural controller are it's Velocity Control Voltage (proportional to how fast you increase the Volume) and Gate/Trigger outputs. A convenient foot switch input allows muting the internal tone source without disabling the CVs.
Panel Controls are conveniently grouped at the front of the instrument to minimize unwanted interactions during set-up. Tech-heads will appreciate the use of four r.f. oscillators to maximize sensitivity and provide wide dynamic range, as shown in the schematic and design analysis.
What do builders think? Tomas Mulcahy has written for Sound On Sound and describes his theremin experiences on his web site . In addition to a Theremax review there are also links to current theremin manufacturers.
How does it sound? FunkyT.mp3 and here's a short .wav file, with thanks to Denny Genovese of the Southeast Just Intonation Center.
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Regarding stock trains or stock extras as they were sometimes referred to:
I know that SR's Harrisonburg Branch had them and that 27 or so miles away in Potomac Yard there were stock pens at one time, not to mention stock pens at many of the stations along the line. They also had icing platforms for the reefers and I suspect those may have also been used to cool off the subjects of this discussion sometimes in summer.
There were certain rules to be followed regarding these special trains, chiefly as I recall that the cars had to halted at least every 24 hours and emptied and the animals given a chance not just to be fed and watered but also cooled for at least 24 hours before proceeding to the next location in their travels.
Many of the stations had quite extensive stock pens as the local farmers would drive their herds literally to market or the local pen in this case. Harrisonburg as one place in particular even still has auctions but of course those animals are brought and taken away by truck.
By the early 1950's the practice of the stock trains and extras had become far fewer and by the late 1950's I have been told, were the last such trains for whatever the animals were: cattle, hogs, sheep, maybe even horses.
If you know where to look along that 111 mile long line even today, you can figure out where some of these once important things were located. Many have long since disappeared. In Mt. Jackson in the 1917 period I seem to recall, health issues started to become a factor as the odor (putting it mildly here) as well as the leftovers from the animals had become a serious problem. Other depots like New Market were several miles out of town and that presented less of a problem. However when the wind blew JUST right ........ oh never mind, you can get the idea.
Further south in the area south of Broadway, the Daphna valley region, used to be sheep country and I am told, still is. In Linville, the next depot south from there and the last before Harrisonburg is even today, rendering plant where the station once was.
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Although not many, there are records, photos and drawings of Southern stock pens in the archives, including the Harrisonburg Branch.
On Jun 6, 2021, at 9:59 AM, Cohen Bob via groups.io <orl96782@...> wrote:
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At the SE Narrow Gauge Museum this past weekend we were opening and cleaning out our 40ft SR boxcar/shop and one of our volunteers worked at a furniture factory in Lenoir, NC along the Carolina & North-Western.
It seems that in the mid to late 70's, he and his co-workers opened a 40-footer and found the floor littered with straw and cow manure... somebody at some point had used this in service boxcar as a cattle car!
Interesting anecdote.
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When were the last movements of livestock on Southern? We lived by the K&O line in Knoxville from 56-64 and I remember seeing an occasional stock car in a train. We moved to Chattanooga in July of 64. There were covered stock pens by the crest of the hump at the yard. My Dad would pick up his paycheck at work and when the check came on his off days he would go pick it up. I would always go along and after getting the check at the yard office Dad would often drive through the yard or down by the diesel shop for my entertainment. I recall that on one of these trips in probably 64 or 65 as we came out of the yard office we heard the baaa of sheep coming from the stock pens. That had to have been near the end for within a couple of years the Signal Dept. was using the stock pens for material storage.


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A: Typically Grails developers use the grails run-app script to run a local Tomcat instance pointing at their source code. It's not optimized for performance so it'd be a bad idea in general to run a public server this way, but if you're ok with the performance tradeoffs then you could do that. You can make things a bit faster using the 'prod' environment, e.g.
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Conor Daly gets a long-awaited IndyCar test with Schmidt Peterson
By Tony DiZinnoJan 29, 2015, 7:09 PM EST
There is some good news to report on an otherwise cloudy day for IndyCar in the wake of its Brasilia race cancellation announced earlier Thursday, in the form of American Conor Daly getting his first test in a Dallara DW12 in almost two full years next week.
Daly, who tested for and later raced for A.J. Foyt Enterprises in 2013, will step into the second Schmidt Peterson Motorsports Honda alongside friend James Hinchcliffe, the team's first confirmed driver for the 2015 Verizon IndyCar Series season.
"This is the chance I've been working toward for a long time," Daly told MotorSportsTalk. "I know Sam has always had a strong team and I hope to show them what I've learned over the last four seasons in Europe. It will be very helpful working with an experienced teammate and friend, James. I can't wait to get on track again."
Since Daly's Sebring test and Indianapolis 500 debut in 2013, he has spent time in several different open-wheel championships. He spent the majority of the 2014 season in GP2 with the Lazarus squad.
Daly joins a host of others who have tested for SPM – Davide Valsecchi, Stefano Coletti, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Rocky Moran Jr. and Gabby Chaves among them – all auditioning for the second seat alongside Hinchcliffe.
In Daly's case, it would be great to see an American who has worked for – and spoken tirelessly of – his desire to get into an IndyCar seat full-time actually have the opportunity to do so.
Been waiting a long time to share something like this again. Testing for @SPMIndyCar at Sebring nxt week. #ImBack pic.twitter.com/DpgtDaq9Uv
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Steel roofing is also more versatile. It can be used on any pitch and made into all kinds of shapes.
And arguably, a new Colorbond roof just looks a lot better!
This is really a question of what look you are after and your budget. Colorbond has Zincalume steel as its base and is then painted with multiple layers using patented methods that have been tried and tested in Australian conditions.
Zincalume is a fantastic product but Colorbond is far Superior in terms of its durability and look. It comes in 20 different colours. Zincalume has that silver steel roof colour that many people like and it is slightly cheaper, which is why it is used more commonly on commercial buildings with large roofs.
This is a common question and fundamentally depends on two factors: How bad the existing roof is and your budget. The only way to know how bad the roof really is is to get a un-biased professional opinion. Some companies only do roof replacements so they will only try and sell you a new roof. Some only do restorations and will tell you you can get 20 years more out of your roof when atually it really is best to replace it now.
If you are wondering if you should get your roof replaced or restored the best thing to do is to get a free inspection done and a qualified ARS estimator can advise you on your best course of action.
Another important thing to take into consideration is how much value you will add to your home. ARS roof restoration and roof replacements are very aesthetic and look great for years to come – guaranteed. Approximately one third of what you can see of your home from the street is roof, so installing a new Colorbond roof or doing the next best thing and completely restoring it can make a big difference and add a lot of value to your home.
The cost to replace your roof can vary considerably depending on a whole range a factors such as access, how steep the roof is, whether guttering and insulation is to be done at the same time to name a few. Basically, every roof is different so an experienced estimator will come out, at a time that suits you, and provide a free quote that will tell you exactly how much it will cost to replace your roof.
Heat Reflective Paint works by reflecting the suns energy before it can hit the roofing material – kind of like a reflective shade for you roof. This means that your roof is cooler, meaing your roof space (if any) is cooler which in turn keeps your house cooler! And it is surprisingly effective in doing so. There is a lot of technical information and test results avaialble from Aztec paints if you would like more information.
Yes it will to some degree but only for a while – standard paint breaks down much faster and loses most of its solar reflective capacity. You can notice a white powdery substance wipe from the surface as the standard roof paint breaks down.
Aztec Energy Star paints in white will reflect at least 90% and continue reflecting for well over 10 years.


d&b audiotechnik has announced that it will lend its support to next week's Pro Sound Awards as live/touring sound category sponsor.
The German company, which manufactures loudspeakers and amplifiers for the touring and installation markets, will join studio equipment specialist Focusrite as the 2015 award's second category sponsor (Focusrite is studio categoriy). Other sponsors include Martin Audio (drinks reception), Soundcraft (Rising Star), Renkus-Heinz (afterparty) and and Technicolor Sound Services (photobooth).
Recognising outstanding achievement in professional audio, PSNEurope's Pro Sound Awards return to the Ministry of Sound nightclub in London for the third time on Thursday 24 September. For a full list of finalists, see PRO SOUND AWARDS 2015: The finalists.


There is a famous quote, usually along the lines of "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." This has been attributed to Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) who was an Irish political philosopher, Whig politician and statesman, who somewhat ironically has been regarded as father of of modern conservatism. Although perhaps Burke does not seem to have actually said these words. Regardless. the fact that these words are attributed in some way to a founder of the conservative movement is sobering given Donald Trump's latest foray into playing fast and loose with anything he finds that goes against his world view.
Today Trump said that he finds the idea that Russia would interfere in the US election as unbelievable. Exact quote, "I don't believe it." In fact he blames the Democrats for this idea. So he is going against the CIA and intelligence services that will now report into him. This is very scary. He is serving notice that if he finds some intelligence to be outside of his preconceived worldview, he will very likely say it is wrong or politically motivated.
Then he goes on to suggest that his new Secretary of State will be Rex Tillerson, who has absolutely no foreign government experience, but it turns out is buds with many Russians. Plus of course we have no idea of Trumps Russian involvements as he has refused to disclose his taxes or his business dealings.
So you'd think, those paragons of virtue, the GOPers. to whom character matters, transparency matters and being beholden to a foreign government would matter, that they would be jumping up and down asking for some clarification from Sir Donald on exactly what his intentions are. But noooo..
The most weasly of these cowards is House Speaker Paul Ryan whose office said today "rejects any politicization" of intelligence matters regarding Russia's meddling in U.S. elections. But stopped short of calling for an investigation into the CIA's conclusion that Russia attempted to skew the election toward Donald Trump. Now I get it. The GOP or any party is loath to criticise a fellow party member, let alone the future president of the United States, Who, to be fair has not even been sworn in yet. But the fact is, he WILL be president. And in a short time. And we don't know who he's beholden to. If anyone.
If good men, but perhaps misguided people like Ryan, are not willing to stand up and be counted, then it is up to others to do so. The question is who? The so called Party of Lincoln are not only letting themselves down, they are letting the country down.


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Christopher Katkowski QC
Call: 1982Silk: 1999
Email: ckatkowski@landmarkchambers.co.uk
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Chris Katkowski QC specialises in planning work in the main either preparing for and appearing at planning inquiries or acting in judicial reviews of planning decisions. The majority of his clients are from the private and corporate sectors together with a number of local planning authorities. Prior to taking silk Chris was a member of what is now the "A" Panel of Treasury Counsel as a result of which he has appeared in many court cases and continues to do so. He completed his term of office as Head of Chambers in May 2009.
Chris is consistently recognised in UK legal directories and in Planning magazine's annual survey of planning lawyers as one of the foremost leaders in planning work in the country.
The Legal 500 UK Bar Guide 2021 ranks Chris in the top tier of planning silks and says: "At planning inquiries, his reputation creates a sense of mystique…. There's no snoozing when Chris is in the room or indeed when he is going to be in the room."
Chambers UK Bar Guide 2021 says of Chris: "Universally regarded as a leading silk, .. a planning specialist with a remarkable track record of success at inquiry or in judicial review. Clients and peers, who speak warmly and at length of his creativity, sound judgement and concise advice, assert that he remains a leader at the Bar for complex planning cases. Incisive and experienced, he has the ability to get on with all stakeholders at an inquiry and he's extremely accommodating, even when time is tight. A top player."
The 2020 Planning Law Survey ranks Chris as the top planning QC. Chris has topped the poll 11 times. He has been ranked the number 1 planning silk more times than anyone else in the history of the survey. Planning magazine says of Chris that he "combines huge intellect with an unrivalled work ethic and a keen sense of humour" he has "the utmost charm" and "commands the highest respect of judges, inspectors, his peers, clients and even third parties" being "popular, approachable and successful".
Chris' eye-catching successes have changed the face of London.
In his book "The Shard" Howard Watson reports that the late "Irvine Sellar said…"I'm a genius at picking geniuses:… the best QC in Christopher Katkowski." "As a tough and critical man with extraordinarily high expectations of others, Sellar rarely hands out compliments, but his view of Christopher Katkowski remains undimmed by time: he describes the QC's closing as "poetry". "During the lengthy inquiry… the Queens's Counsel himself was the pivotal figure in carrying the arguments in favour of the …scheme. The transcripts reveal Katkowski's point-by-point dismantling of the counter-arguments and several masterstrokes."
In his book "Leading from the Front" Gerald Ronson describes Chris as "a brilliant QC" having won the inquiry for the Heron Tower in the City.
Chris' caseload is diverse. As Planning Magazine says "he has seen it all [and] done it all".
He has appeared at hundreds of planning inquiries and court cases.
A good deal of his work involves advising clients how to avoid planning applications ending up at planning inquiries or being challenged in court.
Chris was appointed by the DCLG as an advisor to the Local Plans Expert Group in 2016 and by MHCLG as an advisor to the Rosewell Review in 2018; he was a keynote speaker at the Planning Inspectorate's Annual Training Event in 2018. Chris was the planning lawyer appointed by the Government to the Task Force which drew up the proposals for sweeping changes to the planning system set out in the Planning for the Future White Paper published by the Government in August 2020.
Chris is down to earth and approachable and enjoys team working. He must be the only planning QC to have been awarded a gold disc (by MTV to celebrate the successful planning appeal for a new studio). His cases have appeared in episodes of the Archers and Judge John Deed.
Chris graduated from Cambridge with a BA (Law) in 1978, an LLB (First Class) in 1979 and MA in 1982.
He is a Bencher of Gray's Inn.
Secretary of State grants planning permission for 1300 new homes in London and awards Appellant full costs.
Spurs regeneration scheme approved
Comer Homes Group has secured planning permission on appeal for the redevelopment of the North London Business Park. The permission is a hybrid permission comprising full planning permission for 376 residential units in five blocks reaching eight storeys, the provision of a 5 Form Entry Secondary School, a gymnasium, a multiuse sports pitch and associated changing facilities, and improvements to open space and transport infrastructure, and outline permission for up to 824 additional residential units in buildings ranging from two to eleven storeys, up to 5,177m2 of non-residential floorspace (Use Classes A1-A4, B1 and D1) and 2.9 hectares of public open space, associated site preparation/enabling works, transport infrastructure and junction works, landscaping and car parking. The Secretary of State awarded Comer its full costs of the appeal. The appeal is also notable for the time it took for the Secretary of State to issue his decision, the inquiry having closed in November 2018.
Christopher Katkowski QC and Robert Walton QC acted for Comer Homes Group, instructed by Alistair Watson at Taylor Wessing LLP.
Tottenham Hotspur FC has secured planning permission on appeal for the residential-led mixed use regeneration on the former Goods Yard site on White Hart Lane, London.
The scheme will deliver up to 316 new homes. It was promoted on a hybrid basis, with "matters of layout, scale, appearance, landscaping and access within the site reserved for residential-led mixed-use redevelopment to comprise the demolition of existing buildings/structures and associated site clearance and erection of new buildings/structures and basement to provide residential units, employment (B1 Use), retail (A1 Use), leisure (A3 and D2 Uses) and community (D1 Use) uses, with associated access, parking (including basement parking) and servicing space, infrastructure, public realm works and ancillary development". The scheme also included the change of use of No. 52 White Hart Lane (Station Master's House) from C3 use to A3 use.
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During Archie's long career in broadcasting he has commentated on many high profile events including six FIFA World Cups and four Olympic Games. He has also covered numerous UEFA European Championships and European Cup Finals. In 1985 he was installed as the Rector of the University of Edinburgh, a post he held until 1988. In 1992 Archie won the Sony Gold Award for Sports Broadcasting and in 2005 he was recognised by Scottish BAFTA when he was presented with an award for 'Special Contribution to Scottish Broadcasting'. Archie is also an acknowledged author having written extensively on the subject of Scottish football.


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Butterflied, the whole chicken is marinated in a soy sauce, sesame oil, sweet chili sauce, garlic, ginger and scallion marinade and roasted at a high temperature. This is a great way to introduce Asian flavors to a family favorite. The advantage of butterflying the chicken is that you never have to turn it. (Ask your butcher to prepare the chicken for you; you can also cut the chicken into 8 pieces).
In a bowl, whisk together soy sauce, KA•ME Sriracha Sauce and sugar until sugar is completely dissolved. Add sesame oil, ginger, garlic, scallion and stir.
Place chicken in a large sealable plastic bag and pour marinade on top, making sure to coat the bird evenly throughout. Marinate for 1 hour at room temperature or 4 hours refrigerated.
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Place a flat roasting rack in a baking dish filled with about 1/2-inch of water. Place the marinated chicken on the rack, skin side up and roast until crispy and juices run clear, about 1 hour.


Guanfeng (Andy) An, chief engineer of Guangzhou Municipal Group, first saw Sprayroq protective and structural coatings at an industry conference last year. He found a trenchless rehabilitation project on 200 ft of an arch tunnel in old town Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of the People's Republic of China.
As general contractor on this project, Guangzhou Municipal Group contacted Xiamen Anyue Trenchless Technology Engineering Ltd., southeast China's Sprayroq certified partner. They would be responsible for rehabilitation of the tunnel following inspection and cleaning.
The brick-and-masonry structure was more than a century old, and root intrusion and corrosion had caused severe damage. With one of China's largest rivers just a block away, the high groundwater table's hydraulic pressure had collapsed the line, causing severe leaking. Heavy silt covered more than 3% of the bottom.
The city was seeking a structural rehabilitation and infiltration control solution with a 50-year service life. Sprayroq and Xiamen Anyue provided consultation on specific technology, installation and design.
The tunnel had an irregular shape—800 mm sq at the bottom and 800 mm diameter rounded top—providing an unusual design challenge. This also is a relatively small size line to accommodate necessary man entry for the application process. Traffic is heavily congested, so work started after 8 p.m. Occupying one traffic lane, equipment had to leave before 6 a.m.
Xiamen Anyue fielded a 10-man crew for the one-month job: three weeks cleaning and preparation and one week applying 6 mm of Spraywall structural coating. Tons of silt were shoveled out by hand. The collapsed section was reinforced with a steel plate and the entire surface repaired with concrete prior to spraying. The bypassed line was returned to service after final inspection, 24 hours later.


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A graph is a collection of edges and vertices, a pair (V,E), where
V is a set of nodes, called vertices
E is a collection of pairs of vertices, called edges
Vertices and edges are positions and store elements
Examples of graphs include routes between locations, users of a social network and their friendships, and the internet.
There are a number of different types of edge in a graph, depending upon what the edge represents:
Directed edge
Ordered pair of vertices (u,v)
First vertex u is the origin
Second vertex v is the destination
For example, a journey between two points
Undirected edge
Unordered pair of vertices (u,v)
In a directed graph, all edges are directed
In an undirected graph, all edged are undirected
Graph Terminology
Adjacent vertices
Two vertices U and V are adjacent (ie connected by an edge)
Edges incident on a vertex
The edges connect to a vertex
a, d, and b are incident on V
End vertices or endpoints of an edge
The vertices connected to an edge
U and V are endpoints of a
The degree of a vertex
The number of edges connected to it
X has degree 5
Parallel edges
Edges that make the same connection
h and i are parallel
Self-loop
An edge that has the same vertex at both ends
j is a self-loop
A sequence of alternating vertices and edges
Begins and ends with a vertex
Each edge is preceded and followed by its endpoints
P1=(V,b,X,h,Z) is a simple path
A circular sequence of alternating vertices and edges
A circular path
A simple cycle is one where all edges and vertices are distinct
A non-simple cycle contains an edge or vertex more than once
A graph without cycles (acyclic) is a tree
The number of edges in a path
The number of edges in a cycle
Graph Properties
n is the number of vertices
m is the number of edges
deg(v) is the degree of vertex v
The sum of the degrees of the vertices of a graph is always an even number. Each edge is counted twice, as it connects to two vertices, so ∑vdeg(v)=2m. For example, the graph shown has n=4 and m=6. deg(v)=3⇒∑vdeg(v)=2m=12
In an undirected graph with no self loops and no multiple edges, m≤n2n−1. Each vertex has degree at most (n−1) and ∑vdeg(v)=2m. For the graph shown, m=6≤n2n−1=6
The Graph ADT
A graph is a collection of vertices and edges, which are modelled as a combination of 3 data types: Vertex, Edge and Graph.
A Vertex is just a box object storing an element provided by the user
An Edge also stores an associated value which can be retrieved
public interface Graph{
int numVertices();
Collection vertices(); //returns all the graph's vertices
int numEdges();
Collection<Edge> edges(); //returns all the graph's edges
Edge getEdge(u,v); //returns the edge between u and v, if on exists
// for an undirected graph getEdge(u,v) == getEdge(v,u)
Pair<Vertex, Vertex> endVertices(e); //returns the endpoint vertices of edge e
Vertex oppsite(v,e); //returns the vertex adjacent to v along edge e
int outDegree(v); //returns the number of edges going out of v
int inDegree(v); //returns the number of edges coming into v
//for an undirected graph, inDegree(v) == outDegree(v)
Collection<Vertex> outgoingEdges(v); //returns all edges that point out of vertex v
Collection<Vertex> incomingEdges(v); //returns all edges that point into vertex v
//for an undirected graph, incomingEdges(v) == outgoingEdges(v)
Vertex insertVertex(x); //creates and returns a new vertex storing element x
Edge insertEdge(u,v,x); //creates and returns a new edge from vertices u to v, storing element x in the edge
void removeVertex(v); //removes vertex v and all incident edges from the graph
void removeEdge(e); //removes edge e from the graph
There are many different ways to represent a graph in memory.
Edge List
An edge list is just a list of edges, where each edge knows which two vertices it points to.
The Edge object stores
It's element
It's origin Vertex
It's destination Vertex
The edge list stores a sequence of Edge objects
Adjacency List
In an adjacency list, each vertex stores an array of the vertices adjacent to it.
The Vertex object stores
A collection/array of all it's incident edges
The adjacency list stores all Vertex Objects
Adjacency Matrix
An adjacency matrix is an n×n matrix, where n is the number of vertices in the graph. It acts as a lookup table, where each cell corresponds to an edge between two vertices.
If there is an edge between two vertices u and v, the matrix cell (u,v) will contain the edge.
Undirected graphs are symmetrical along the leading diagonal
Subgraphs
A subgraph S of a graph G is a graph such that:
The vertices of S are a subset of the vertices of G
The edges of S are a subset of the edges of G
A spanning subgraph of G is a subgraph that contains all the vertices of G
A graph is connected if there is a path between every pair of vertices
A tree is an undirected graph T such that
T is connected
T has no cycles
A forest is an undirected graph without cycles
The connected components of a forest are trees
A spanning tree of a connected graph is a spanning subgraph that has all vertices covered with a minimum possible number of edges
A spanning tree is not unique unless the graph is a tree
Multiple spanning trees exist
Spanning trees have applications in the design of communication networks
A spanning forest of a graph is a spanning subgraph that is a forest
DFS is a general technique for traversing a graph. A DFS traversal of a graph G will:
Visit all vertices and edges of G
Determine whether G is connected
Compute the spanning components of G
Compute the spanning forest of G
DFS on a graph with n vertices and m edges takes O(n+m) time. The algorithm is:
For a graph G and a vertex u of G
Mark vertex u as visited
For each of u's outgoing edges e=(u,v)
If v has not been visited then
Record e as the discovery edge for vertex v
Recursively call DFS with on v
DFS(G,V) visits all vertices and edges in the connected component of v, and the discovery edges labelled by DFS(G,V) form a spanning tree of the connected component of v.
DFS can also be extended to path finding, to find a path between two given vertices u and v. A stack is used to keep track of the path, and the final state of the stack is the path between the two vertices. As soon as the destination vertex v is encountered, the contents of the stack is returned.
DFS can be used for cycle detection too. A stack is used to keep track of the path between the start vertex and the current vertex. As soon as a back edge (v,w) (an edge we have already been down in the opposite direction) is encountered, we return the cycle as the portion of the stack from the top to the vertex w.
To perform DFS on every connected component of a graph, we can loop over every vertex, doing a new DFS from each unvisited one. This will detect all vertices in graphs with multiple connected components.
BFS is another algorithm for graph traversal, similar to DFS. It also requires O(n+m) time. The difference between the two is that BFS uses a stack while DFS uses a queue. The algorithm is as follows:
Mark all vertices and edges as unexplored
Create a new queue
Add the starting vertex s to the queue
Mark s as visited
While the queue is not empty
Pop a vertex v from the queue
For all neighbouts w of v
If w is not visited
Push w into the queue
Mark w as visited
For a connected component Gs of graph G containing s:
BFS visits all vertices and edges of Gs
The discovery edges labelled by BFS(G,s) form a spanning tree of Gs
The path of the spanning tree formed by the BFS is the shortest path between the two vertices
BFS can be specialised to solve the following problems in O(n+m) time:
Compute the connected components of a graph
Compute a spanning forest of a graph
Find a simple cycle in G
Find the shortest path between two vertices
DFS cannot do this, this property is unique to BFS
Directed Graphs
A digraph (short for directed graph) is a graph whose edges are all directed.
Each edge goes in only one direction
Edge (a,b) goes from a to b but not from b to a
If the graph is simple and has n vertices and m edges, m≤n2n−1
DFS and BFS can be specialised to traversing directed edges
A directed DFS starting at a vertex s determines the vertices reachable from s
One vertex is reachable from another if there is a directed path to it
Strong Connectivity
A digraph is said to be strongly connected if each vertex can reach all other vertices. This property can be identified in O(n+m) time with the following algorithm:
Pick a vertex v in the graph G
Perform a DFS starting from v
If theres a vertex not visited, return false
Let G′ be G with all the edge directions reversed
Perform a DFS starting from v in G′
Else, return True
Transitive Closure
Given a digraph G, the transitive closure of G is the digraph G∗ such that:
G∗ has the same vertices as G
If G has a directed path from u to v, then G* also has a directed *edge* from u to v
In G∗, every pair of vertices with a path between them in G is now adjacent
The transitive closure provides reachability information about a digraph
The transitive closure can be computed by doing a DFS starting at each vertex. However, this takes O(n(n+m)) time. Alternatively, there is the Floyd-Warshall algorithm:
For the graph G, number the vertices 1,2,...,n
Compute the graphs G0,...,Gn
G0=G
Gk has directed edge (vi,vj) if G has a directed path from vi to vj with intermediate vertices v1,...,vk
Digraph Gk is computed from Gk−1
Gn=G∗
Add (vi,vj) if edges (vi,vk) and (vk,vj) appear in Gk−1
In pseudocode:
for k=1 to n
Gk = Gk_1
for i=1 to n (i != k)
for j=1 to n (j != i, j!=k)
if G_(k-1).areAdjacent(vi,vk) && G_(k-1).areAdjacent(vk,vj)
if !G_(k-1).areAdjacent(vi,vj)
G_k.insertDirectedEdge(vi,vj,k)
return G_n
This algorithm takes O(n3) time. Basically, at each iteration a new vertex is introduced, and each vertex is checked to see if a path exists through the newly added vertex. If it does, a directed edge is inserted to transitively close the graph.
Topological Ordering
A Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) is digraph that has no directed cycles
A topological ordering of a digraph is a numbering v1,v2,...,vn of the vertices such that for every edge (vi,vj), i<j
The vertex it points to is always greater than it
A digraph can have a topological ordering if and only if it is a DAG
A topological ordering can be calculated using a DFS:
public static void topDFS(Graph G, Vertex v){
v.visited = true
for(Edge e: v.edges){
w = opposite(v,e)
if(w.visited = false)
topDFS(G,w)
v.label = n
n = n-1
The first node encountered in the DFS is assigned n, the one after that n−1, and so on until all nodes are labelled.


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There is a crack in everything: Reflection by Dan Misleh
October 5, 2018 October 2, 2018 by jvcnw
A compelling reflection by former Jesuit Volunteer Dan Misleh (Fairbanks, AK '82-83) who shares his own lived experiences and the importance of community. First published on June 13, 2018.
This is a reflection on the loss of our son Zachary who died by suicide over a year ago. I offer this reflection to the JVC Northwest community for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that Susie and I met through JVC Northwest 35 years ago and Zach, along with his older siblings, Ben and Anna, are the fruits of that relationship. It is posted, too, to remind us all of the fragility of life and the need to be attuned to one another as we navigate life's sometimes difficult terrain. I urge you to watch for the cracks in the lives of all people but especially teens and young adults. Be sure to check in with them. Ask the hard questions including the dreaded but pointed one: "Do you feel like you might hurt yourself?" Being attuned and asking the tough questions may save a life. To learn more about this extraordinary young man, please visit: zachmisleh.net.
Dan (Fairbanks, AK '82-83) and Susie Patridge Misleh (St. Mary's, AK '80-82), with their son, Zachary.
Today is about Zach Misleh; but it is also about all of you.
June 13, 2017: a random day in the middle of a random year by which I now mark time. On June 12, our family was whole, and life was cruising along. Ben: happy in Colorado with good friends a solid job, and the mountains to lure him away in any season. Anna, too: life-giving work, living at home with Susie and I and finished with her first year of graduate school. Zach: home after his first year of college and a service trip to Puerto Rico with his classmates from St. John's University and getting steady hours lifeguarding at the local swimming pool.
But at about half-past 2:00 pm on June 13, our whole world shifted. That was when we knew Zach was gone. The rest of that week was spent sharing and receiving heart-wrenching sobs, planning for a funeral and a burial, (Are we really doing this?), welcoming other mourners, consoling them as they consoled us. Family and friends arrive from out of town. Neighbors bring food, open homes. Hundreds leave their Father's Day dinners to wait in line forever just to offer a word of condolence and say goodbye to Zach at the wake. Hundreds more fill St. Ambrose Church beyond its capacity for a funeral and farewell on Monday morning. We place Zach's ashes in a niche at Ft. Lincoln Cemetery on June 23 and celebrate his 20th birthday on June 24.
Within a couple of weeks, I am back at work but not really. How does the world continue spinning after such a tragedy? How will life ever be normal when this pain—felt so acutely by so many—weighs me down like a millstone? The rest of the summer was going through the motions, visiting the cemetery, shedding tears often, sighing heavily and saying repeatedly, "Oh dear Zachary, what happened?"
Today, one year since Zach took his life, the rawness of the open wound is healing but it will never fully close. Many have described the hole left when someone so beloved leaves so unexpectedly. That's really what it feels like: a big hole.
But I think the hole, the wound, never heals for a reason. It is a place where I can store memories of happy times. It is an opening like a knothole in a wooden fence where I can still have a conversation with Zach and listen in stillness to his reply from the other side.
In Leonard Cohen's song, Anthem, part of the refrain says:
"There's a crack, a crack in everything. That's where the light gets in."
We are all wounded, cracked, broken, battered. Some of us more so than others. We all carry scars and walk through life as cracked and imperfect vessels. Now I see that those imperfections are the places where empathy resides and where kindness can seep through. Sometimes I wonder if kindness and brokenness are not really just kindred spirits. How much kindness and empathy can we really have without heartbreak and deep wounds?
Zachary certainly had his share of cracks. It doesn't seem fair that someone so young should have so many holes to plug. In the end, I suppose he was just tired of trying to hide them or gave up his search for the right tool to fill them. But maybe his undeserved brokenness was also where he found the strength for 20 years to be so incredibly kind, gentle and empathetic. We've learned from some of his friends who shared their own haunting depression that in Zach they found a very sympathetic ear—that he would go out of his way to reach out. Maybe his cracks also let in an abundance of humor and stoked his ability to enter fully into life's moments. Maybe they were the places where hyperbole found an escape: "Inception (or Star Wars or Interstellar or…) was the best movie I've ever seen!" "Kendrick Lamar just put out the best album ever. Period."
Today, I miss my boy so, so much. I miss laughing with him, watching him stifle a smirk at my bad jokes, and having short-burst conversations using only Pink Floyd or Bruce Springsteen lyrics. I miss his deep and thoughtful reflections about current events. I miss watching him grow into a man.
But today is also about you, dear family and friends.
I appreciate—more than I ever thought possible—all who have shared this year-long odyssey with me and with our family. Today, I realize—thankfully, even if a bit late in life—that big holes and gaping cracks offer us a choice. We could allow them to sink us further into despair as we try in futility to plug and patch them. Or we can leave them open, enter into their rawness and allow them to nurture much greater empathy and understanding. Lucky for me that I've had a circle of compassion this past year, a cocoon of love and friendship that left me only one real choice. Because of each of you, I think I'm coming out of this okay. Because of you I have chosen to leave the cracks open and the holes unfilled and let some light in. Thank you.
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What do you eat with a $168,000 bottle of Wine?
The most expensive wine ever sold directly from a winery will go on sale this week, from the venerable Australian vintner Penfolds.
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Top wine trading company filled vintage bottles with cheap alcohol as part of million dollar fraud
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2159245/Top-wine-trading-company-filled-vintage-bottles-cheap-alcohol-multimillion-pound-fraud.html#ixzz1xn9BkYxJ
World's largest Antique Wine Barrel Cellar goes on sale!
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Alcohol in a spray!
Ever wished that there were times when you could just end up with that drunk sensation?
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The term natural wine is nothing more than a drawer in which to put all the winemakers who didn't make enough effort to convert to organic and bio dynamics.
http://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2012/05/joly-natural-wine-means-nothing/
Costco's Wine Buyer Doesn't Think Wine Is Different Than Toilet Paper
France's greatest wine list
Guests have been known to arrive 2 hours early just to read a part of the wine list (14,970 bottle selection). The full list weighs a bicep-straining 20 lbs.
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The US consumes more bottles of wine than any other nation in the world. But almost 80 years after the end of the Prohibition, buying a drink can still be tricky. By Jane O'Brien--May 2, 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17900577
So you want to start a Wine Cellar? with Paul Ippolito
http://www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/food_wine/starting-wine-cellar.htm
10 signs you are a wine Geek!
http://blog.letspour.com/wine/signs-of-a-wine-geek/
1- You can recount the details of every wine harvest in the 9 districts of France since you're 21.
2- You've asked for a wine list at Denny's.
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Watch these videos to see what lengths people will go to open a bottle of wine in a pinch.
5 Creative ways to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew.
Adorable actress Drew Barrymore has a lot to celebrate. An engagement to art consultant Will Kopelman. A rumored baby on the way.
And now, a gold medal for her newest business project — the launch of Barrymore 2011 Pinot Grigio — to compete with her Golden Globe.
"I love wine, and it's always fun when you can do something in your work life that you love in your personal life," the actress told Wine Spectator magazine last month.
Drew Barrymore is the latest celebrity to launch her own wine. The difference is, her vintage has gone gold.


Sometimes a metaphor can be useful for clarifying and reinforcing the instructions for mindfulness meditation. A classic Buddhist metaphor for a human being is a one-room house with five windows and a door. The windows and door represent the six senses posited by Buddhism: the five primary senses we have in the West plus a sixth sense which perceives what goes on in our minds, our thoughts. Imagine that you are in the middle of the house sitting in an easy chair, relaxed and at ease with nothing to do. The windows are open and the door is open. A cat peeks its head in the door and then goes away. Soon a bird lands on the windowsill and then flies away and then a squirrel runs by. Various animals come and go. Rather than getting up to follow the animal outside or closing the doors and windows, you could stay in our easy chair and simply watch what comes and goes. The instructions for mindfulness meditation is to just stay in the easy chair of awareness and let sensations, emotions, thoughts or attitudes simply appear at the door or window of our sense perceptions. We notice them come and go. The emphasis is on being at ease. We are not trying to force our meditation to become anything. You are encouraged to remain focused on breathing but when compelling experiences come to awareness, neither get involved with them nor close your awareness to them. Explore how to be easefully aware.
Developing mindfulness is a way of living a skillful life. Life can then unfold a lot better, with a lot less stress, and more sense of freedom and wisdom. Once the basic instructions for mindfulness are understood, one can build on this foundation. The two primary ways of doing this are (1) Practicing mindfulness in daily life and (2) Developing more concentration with the mindfulness.
As in meditation, it is possible to develop greater presence and awareness in our daily lives. Some people find it useful to have cues throughout the day that remind them to notice what is happening in the present, i.e. what they are doing, feeling, or thinking. A common cue is the phone ringing. Rather than rushing to immediately answer the phone, the ringing is a prompt to be mindful. This is also a great way to prepare for the phone conversation.
Some people use walking through doorways as a mindfulness cue. Whenever they walk through a doorway into a different room they notice and pay attention to what is happening with themselves and in the new room. Waiting for traffic lights to turn green can be another cue for a bit of mindfulness.
It can also be useful to bring a heightened mindfulness to particular daily tasks. Some people do this by choosing to eat one meal a day in silence without doing anything else besides eating. Others will do mindfulness while walking – some people will park in a distant parking place so to have a short period of walking meditation. Cleaning can also be a great time to cultivate mindfulness.
A fascinating area for mindfulness is during a conversation. Much can be discovered by listening more actively and tracking one's internal responses and impulses during the conversation. The qualities needed to listen well are the same qualities needed to meditate well.
The second way to build on the foundation of our mindfulness is to develop greater concentration. Concentration helps provide steadiness and strength to mindfulness. If mindfulness is a telescope then concentration is the tripod that gives stability to the telescope so we can see more clearly.
One way to develop concentration is with regularity of practice. One of the most important things is just practicing every day, day after day. Just as young children benefit from routine and repetition in learning, the mind benefits from regularity of practice.
Another way to develop concentration is going on meditation retreats. This allows us to step out of our lives so we can get a better perspective and perhaps better let go of the regular concerns that often entangle us. Retreats are a time to meditate frequently throughout the day and so get more settled than meditating once a day at home. It can be a great delight to have many of our preoccupations fall away. We can make an analogy of living on the Peninsula and not really being aware of the air quality, then one day, the air is crystal clear and we can see the Mt. Hamilton range across the bay. It is so refreshing to suddenly have that clarity. We didn't realize what we were missing because we were so accustomed to the smoggy air. To be really present and not have the mind be murky, foggy or distracted is one of the great delights of life. This happens slowly over time if we practice everyday at home, but it happens quicker and deeper when we go on retreat.
If we're new to meditation we don't necessarily want to go on retreat right away, but to start doing a regular practice. If we meditate regularly at some point we will probably feel that we would like to do more and then we might consider a retreat. IMC offers many retreats throughout the year. At our Redwood City center we offer daylong retreats monthly. In addition, about six times a year we offer residential retreats that last from two days to two weeks in length at other locations in the Bay Area.
Mindfulness coupled with concentration helps with the unfolding of what Buddhism calls wisdom. Wisdom happens when we are present for our lives and see through our concepts, ideas or judgments and instead understand the bigger picture and context of what's happening. Some of the concepts or judgments we use are innocent and appropriate enough. However, some concepts bring with them much suffering. Part of the function of mindfulness is to help us cut through all the concepts, interpretations, and "shoulds" so we can see more clearly. And the more clearly we see, the more choices we will discover for living a wise and satisfying life.
Another function of mindfulness is to reveal the difference between the stress of clinging and the peace of releasing that clinging. An important part of wisdom is then learning how to act with this knowledge so that we become more peaceful and more free.


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Months of the Year Cycle by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"The Harvesters" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (MET)
"The Harvesters" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts the harvest time, which most commonly occurred within August and September. This painting is one in a series of six works that represent different times of the year.
As in many of Bruegel's paintings, the focus is on peasants and their work.
Bruegel shows some of the peasants eating while others are harvesting wheat; this was done to illustrate both the production and consumption of food.
The painting shows the activities representative of the 16th-century Belgian rural life during the harvest period. Numerous details have been carefully added to create a sense of distance; these include the workers carrying wheat through the clearing and the ships far away.
"The Harvesters" is one in a series of six works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The focus of the works is on peasants and their work and does not have the religious themes common in landscape works of the time.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder was one of the first generations of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the dominant subject.
The Harvesters
Title: The Harvesters
Artist: Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: Height: 119 cm (46.8 in); Width: 162 cm (63.7 in)
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET
"The Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
"The Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder, shows a wintry scene in which three hunters are returning from their hunt accompanied by their dogs.
The expedition does not appear to have been successful as the hunters seem to trudge through the snow with their heads bowed. The dogs similarly appear downtrodden and miserable. One man carries the small corpse of a fox, to highlight the scarcity of the hunt.
In front of one of the hunters in the snow are the footprints of a rabbit that has long gone.
The overall impression is one of a cold and overcast winter's day. The colors are muted whites, browns, and greys, the trees are bare of leaves, and wood smoke hangs in the air.
On the left, several adults and a child are preparing food at an inn with an outside fire. The landscape consists of a flat-bottomed valley with a river meandering through it and with jagged peaks visible on the far side.
On the bottom right, the watermill has its wheel frozen. In the midground, figures are ice skating and playing games.
"The Hunters in the Snow" is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting, which is just one of a series of works that depict different times of the year.
As in many of Bruegel's paintings, the focus of the series is on peasants and their work through the season of the year. The pictures show the activities representative of 16th-century northern European rural life.
Numerous details have been carefully added to create a sense of distance; these include the remote town and mountains.
The Hunters in the Snow
Title: The Hunters in the Snow
Alternative: The Return of the Hunters
Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw
Dimensions: 117 cm × 162 cm (46 in × 63 3⁄4 in)
Museum: Kunsthistorisches Museum
"The Hay Harvest" by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
"The Hay Harvest" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder was in 1565, represent two months of the year, June and July. This panel belongs to the Months of the Year Cycle series created by Bruegel, illustrating the months of the harvest.
Bringing-in the harvest is not just the grain; the foreground shows vegetables and berries as well. While each painting in the cycle series shows the traditional work of months, Bruegel also featured the changing landscape and its ever-changing appearance.
Human activity is integrated with the life of the cycles of the landscape, which dictate people's work on the land.
The Hay Harvest
Title: The Hay Harvest
Alternative: Haymaking
Dutch: De hooioogst
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: Height: 114 cm (44.8″); Width: 158 cm (62.2″)
Museum: Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle, Prague
"The Return of the Herd" by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
"The Return of the Herd" by Pieter Bruegel depicts the autumnal colors of the landscape, and the bare trees connect this particular painting to represent the October and November months.
The herd returning was a motif of autumn, which was introduced into paintings by Bruegel and represented the scenes that he saw on his travels. Once again, Bruegel's focus is on the landscape with its autumn colors and mood.
The Return of the Herd
Title: The Return of the Herd
Medium: oil on oak
Dimensions: Height: 117 cm (46″); Width: 159 cm (62.5″)
Museum: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
"The Gloomy Day" by Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
"The Gloomy Day" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicts the scene set around February and March, portrayed by the bleak atmosphere and leafless trees.
The paper crown around the boy's head and the eating of waffles are references to the Carnival time before Lent. The sky, the ships crashing against the shoreline, and the children preparing themselves in the foreground suggest that harsh weather is coming.
The Gloomy Day
Title: The Gloomy Day
Pieter Bruegel's Months of the Year Cycle
Months of the Year Cycle consisted of a series of six works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year.
The focus of the works is on peasants and their work and does not have the religious themes common in landscape works of the time. Bruegel is famous for his paintings of scenery and nature.
Most of his paintings of the countryside tell a story with a moral message. The surviving months of the year cycle are:
"The Gloomy Day" – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The scene is set around February and March, portrayed by the bleak atmosphere and leafless trees.
"The Hay Harvest" – Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle, Prague
The scene is set around June and July, portraying the hay harvest.
"The Hunters in the Snow" – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
This scene is set in the depths of winter during December and January.
"The Return of the Herd" – Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The scene is set around October and November with the autumnal colors of the landscape and the bare trees.
"The Harvesters" – Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET, New York City
The scene is set around August and September, portraying the harvest time.
The sixth painting in the series, which was "High Springtime," with a scene set around April and May, is lost.
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525 – 1569) was the most significant Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting artist. He is a painter known for his landscapes and peasant scenes.
He significantly influenced the Dutch Golden Age painting with his innovative choices of the subject matter. He was one of the first generation of artists to grow up when religious subjects had ceased to be the dominant subject matter of painting.
All his most famous paintings come from the decade before his early death when he was in his early forties and at the height of his artistic powers.
He dropped the 'h' from his name and signed his paintings as Bruegel, and he is sometimes referred to as "Peasant Bruegel" to distinguish him from the many later painters in his family, including his son Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1638).
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Name: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Birth: 1525-1530 – Breda, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands
Died: 1569 (aged 39 – 44) – Brussels, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands
Movement: Dutch and Flemish Renaissance
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Massacre of the Innocents
The Triumph of Death
Netherlandish Proverbs
The Wedding Dance
The Harvesters (1565) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The world of Pieter Bruegel the Elder
"Things used to be that way,
now they're this way,
and who knows what they will be like later."
– Belgian Proverbs.
Photo Credits: 1) Pieter Brueghel the Elder [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


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Suicide-Prone West Suffers From Stigma, Few Services
NWNews | By Jessica Robinson
Published November 7, 2011 at 4:57 PM PST
Image by the American Association of Suicidology
Idaho is releasing a new plan that seeks to combat the state's high rate of suicide. Idaho ranks sixth in the nation for suicide, according to the latest figures. Oregon's not far behind at number 12. It's part of a trend in the West, where the suicide rate is higher than the national average.
Alaska typically tops the list, followed by the Lower 48's intermountain states. Experts say, frankly, they're not sure why. But many have a hunch about the factors: isolation, depression-inducing climates, and lack of access to mental health services.
Ann Kirkwood is a researcher with the Idaho State University's Institute of Rural Health. She helped write the state's new suicide prevention plan.
Kirkwood says she sees another factor: what she calls a "cowboy up" culture that tends to stigmatize seeking help.
"And there have been some studies done that indicate stigma is even more accute in rural and frontier areas," she explains. "So, if you were in a small town and the coffee shop is across the street from the mental health clinic, the act of going in the mental health clinic would be stigmatized."
Kirkwood is working to get a suicide hotline office set up in Idaho, the only state without a line. Currently, calls Idahoans make to the national 1-800 hotline are directed to the Oregon Partnership in Portland.
American Association of Suicidology map
http://www.suicidology.org/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=228&name=DLFE-394.pdf
Idaho Suicide Prevention Plan
http://www.spanidaho.org/ispplan.pdf
Copyright 2011 Northwest News Network
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'Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3' reviewed
7 October 2016 Ian McCann Audio 0
❉ Big Finish has just released volume three of their Eighth Doctor 'Doom Coalition' series, and River Song is back as a nun with a gun. Spoilers, sweetie!
Somewhere in the depths of the Time Vortex, the Doomsday Chronometer is counting down; and if the travellers can't find all eight of its pieces, they may never be able to uncover the truth behind the Doom Coalition. It's a race against time through the fourth dimension, with the TARDIS travelling to England in 1998, 15th century Prague, modern day Rome and the court of King Henry VIII.
First up is the superb Absent Friends, by John Dorney. It's a much quieter story than I was expecting, which is good. It's set in the late 90s with the beginnings of the mobile phone boom. A new cellular mast has been erected in a village who greatly opposes its presence. To appease the villagers they are all given free mobiles. Unfortunately, soon after, they all start receiving calls from dead love ones. It's a spooky, personal story. I love that it really gives some more insight into Liv, and most importantly, Helen. Helen has been rather sidelined as a character ever since her first appearance in The Red Lady, but here she is finally given some breathing space. I won't spoil the surprises but it's an absolute tear jerker. Also, works brilliantly on the consequences of time travel. Which 'Doctor Who' can never do enough of, in my opinion. But really, it's a very low key story. It even made me wonder several times during the story who would call me in such a situation. The tease of who the Doctor's caller was damn infuriating.
Next up is The Eighth Piece by Matt Fitton, which is a remarkably busy story. The Doctor, Liv and Helen are in all separate timelines trying to track down the alien technology that caused the problems in the village in the previous story. Helen is in the modern day in a Rome museum, Liv is in Fifteenth Century Prague mixing it up with a Timelord known as 'The Clocksmith', and the Doctor's getting into all sorts of trouble with Thomas Cromwell, clockwork robots and a mysterious Nun with a Gun. The Nun, for those not paying attention, is River Song. Yes, you did read that right. The worlds of Classic and Nu Who are merging together beautifully and we Big Finish to thank for that. There was some concern by the fandom when River was announced to be appearing in these stories. It's safe to say this is no cause for worry. She fits in perfectly with the proceedings and her chemistry with McGann is just as good with anybody. In order to disguise her appearance, she's using a psychic wimple…. Mm-hmmm. One that makes her look like Rita Hayworth. We've got to keep the continuity safe, dontcha' know? Alex Kingston practically steals the story, but John Shrapnel is also terrific as Thomas Cromwell. McGann and Shrapnel work very hard to not let Kingston steal the entire show. It's all good fun though.
The Doomsday Chronometer also written by Matt Fitton really just serves as a two-parter with The Eighth Piece. The Eighth Doctor finally meets River Song face to face, so to speak. The plot starts pulling together all the threads from the previous box sets and you find out how the Eleven is involved. If you didn't know there was another story after this, you could easily be fooled into thinking this was the finale of the set. The storyline with Liv and Helen ends up being very reminiscent of Mawdyrn Undead, but shhhhh. Spoilers, sweetie.
The Crucible of Souls by John Dorney (again) is an absolute delight. An imposter in the TARDIS, a return to Gallifrey, and River Song and the Doctor in full team-up mode. Robert Bathurst makes a very welcome return as Padrac here. Revelations and surprises come thick and fast and the members of the eponymous Doom Coalition are starting to make themselves known. Oh, and that cliffhanger is a stunner! Best box set finale of the series, so far.
The best box set since 'Dark Eyes 2', hands down. The stories work, the whole season arc is coming together beautifully, and I fully care for the characters. Up until this volume Helen's main purpose was to confuse me into thinking she was Liv (They do sound a bit alike) but now she shines as her own entity. Robert Bathurst and John Shrapnel are superb guest actors to have around and they bring so much to the proceedings. I was a bit put off by the Eleven's disappearance in the second set, and not seeing Mark Bonnar's name here was a bit of a worry, but fear not. Big Finish have been very clever and it adds a surprising element for sure.
I haven't been a fan of the box sets, I must admit. 'Dark Eyes' fell into a pit of it's own muck. It started brilliantly but sets 3 and 4 just didn't work. Thankfully, the lessons have been learnt and 'Doom Coalition' has been getting better and better with each set. Honestly can't wait for set 4 to land.
Highly recommended. 9/10.
❉ 'Doctor Who: Doom Coalition 3' was released on 22 September 2016. It will be exclusively available to buy from the BF website until October 31st 2016, and on general sale after this date.
ALEX KINGSTON
CRUCIBLE OF SOULS
DOOM COALITION
DOOMSDAY CHRONOMETER
EIGHTH PIECE
HATTIE MORAHAN
JOHN DORNEY
JOHN SHRAPNEL
LIV CHENKA
MARK BONNAR
MATT FITTON
NICOLA WALKER
ROBERT BATHURST
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Q: How to add a constant value to every element of a Numpy array but the diagonal elements? I need to finish defining the function below.
def add_val_to_non_diag(A, val):
    pass

Here is what I want to happen:
A = [[1, 2, 3],
     [4, 5, 6],
     [7, 8, 9]]

add_val_to_non_diag(A, 1)

Output
[[1, 3, 4],
 [5, 5, 7],
 [8, 9, 9]]

A: You can add the value to each element, and subtract back from the diagonal.
import numpy as np

def add_val_to_non_diag(A, v):
    return A + v * (1 - np.eye(A.shape[0]))

A = np.array([[1, 2, 3],
              [4, 5, 6],
              [7, 8, 9]])
add_val_to_non_diag(A, 1)
=> array([[1., 3., 4.],
          [5., 5., 7.],
          [8., 9., 9.]])

A: This is rather hacky than straight one (the one that applies np.eye):
import numpy as np
A = np.array([[1, 2, 3],
              [4, 5, 6],
              [7, 8, 9]])
def add_val_to_non_diag(A, v):
    x, y = np.indices(A.shape)
    return A + v*(x!=y)

A: Numpy already has that feature built in.
Use code example below:
#To fill the diagonal
np.fill_diagonal(A, 100)
#then to add to the diagonal use the code below
np.fill_diagonal(A, A.diagonal() + 100)


Socks aren't scary. Sweaters are scary!
I *knew* that sockknitting was obsessive LOL but I do like that apricot yarn.
Yup, guilty as charged. Socks have kept me happily occupied and relatively sane for the last 5 years. It has got a bit out of control though.
Wow – 32 pairs of socks! I'm a bee, so busy and flitting to the next project that I unfortunately don't finish a whole pair before starting on a new one! That Sherman heel looks interesting, I haven't tried that one.
I'm not convinced by the Sherman Heel, but it was interesting trying it.