I wrote this post in 2010. Being part of this retirement celebration reminded me that when it comes right down to it, it is our humanity and what we do with it that makes the difference between success and failure. Nothing else really seems to matter that much.
The other evening I attended a retirement celebration for a former colleague. It was a wonderful gathering, a room packed full of people who were there because they genuinely liked and respected the man who was about to embark on the next phase of his life.
In his business career, the man did not rise to the top of the executive ladder. Nor, I would hazard to say, did he make lots of money or enjoy an opulent lifestyle. He may not even be widely known to people much beyond his immediate sphere of influence. But his impact has been felt. He is successful. He is a leader.
Throughout the course of the evening, many people got up to speak.
His bosses praised his leadership in community activities; his ability to galvanize his local workforce; and his good humour and cheerful disposition. Those bosses, who were younger than he, thanked him for his guidance and mentorship.
His colleagues spoke about lifelong friendship; told stories of the fun they had together and how they all managed to work hard in spite of their youthful exuberance.
His staff thanked him for his support and guidance. While they were happy for him as he moved on to other things, they were sad too, as they told their own stories of meeting challenges together; overcoming obstacles; achieving goals; and yes, having fun all along the way.
His sons told stories of their life as they grew up. The stories were witty and poignant and full of pride. They were two young men who had grown up to be fine, funny and thoughtful, two young men who thanked their parents for giving them a good start in life.
When it was his turn, the man did not talk about his accomplishments at all. Instead, he spoke with pride about the accomplishments of others, especially his children. He talked about the constant love and support he received from his wife. He talked about what he had learned over the course of his career and from whom. He made many self-deprecating remarks. And he said thank you…a lot.
Successful Leadership is not formulaic. It is open to interpretation and it requires the involvement of the whole self.
For instance, while we know that good communication is key to good leadership, how we communicate to get the desired result will vary depending on the leader. The man was successful because he did not pretend to be anyone else. His communication style included fun, laughter and humility. It worked for him simply because it is who he is.
Successful Leadership is more about love than we would like to admit.
Okay, I can feel people cringing as they read this because injecting the word love into a business environment starts to feel a bit, um, ethereal. But, there are all kinds of love…love of challenge; love of ideas; love of people; love of good honest work. And, it is this love that carries successful leaders through thick and thin.
At this retirement party there was indeed love, and respect, for the man who for thirty-five years, took all of himself with him wherever he went.
So, imagine your own retirement party. What do you want people to say about you? What kind of memories do you want to have? What do you want to give? What will it take for you to get what you want?
Think about it. And, if you feel so inclined, I'd love to hear what you come up with.
Adlai Stevenson once said, "It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse".
I'm not sure what he meant by that specifically, but I'm thinking it has something to do with allowing distraction to get in the way of getting things done.
Of course, staying focused (most of the time anyway) is easier said than done. After all, distraction, or the potential for it, is everywhere, rendering the leader's lot a tricky proposition.
But, there are a few things you can do if you want to avoid spending time on things that really don't matter that much. And, there are usually some habits lurking about too that you might well do without.
Here's a new flash. You're human. You are as vulnerable as anyone else to bouts of self-doubt and self-consciousness. When this happens, your focus is going to be on yourself more often than on those you are there to lead. You need to find ways to deal with that if you want to get out of your own way and keep the distraction factor down to a dull roar. Usually it involves spending some concentrated time on some "know thyself" activities, things that will allow you to see yourself from a variety of perspectives.
Take some Tests: There are many good psychometric tests available that will allow you to get connected and acknowledge yourself for who you are, warts 'n all. Here's a website that might help.
Hire a Coach: Leaders choose to do this for a variety of reasons. Working with a coach to gain clarity about yourself and particularly how others see you, are among them.
Just Ask people: This can be a formal process or an informal one but the point is, we only see ourselves from the inside out. If you want to know how you affect the environment and the people around you, and you trust the opinions of those you ask, sometimes it will be enough.
It is hard to stay focused when you are up to your neck in minutia. And yet, some leaders allow themselves to get embroiled with the smallest of details. When this happens, it is easy to lose sight of the larger goals and become bogged down with side issues that have little or nothing to do with very much of anything.
As a leader, you choose good people, train them, and give them the resources they need to do their jobs. If you have done this well, then you must trust yourself, and them, enough to let go and let them get on with it. Over- involvement in the nitty-gritty of the work takes you away from what you are really supposed to be doing. Your job is to find the right forest. Allow other people to take care of the trees.
It is easy to become distracted by new management approaches that "everyone is doing". You know, the kinds of processes that, when implemented, are purported to simplify your life, increase your bottom line and make everyone a hero. For instance, was there ever a time when you found yourself sitting in a "quality circle" ? I don't mean to pick on quality circles per se, but these things have a way of taking on lives of their own and before you know it, your goals are going one way and the people who are meant to achieve them are bound up in processes that get lost in bureaucracy, and complicated administration.
Management processes will help you get things done. However, it is important to put them in perspective, to use them as tools to reach your goals rather than have them use you for their own sake. Just because something is new and everyone is doing it, doesn't necessarily mean it will work for you.
Explore, challenge and experiment, by all means but always with the achievement of your goals in mind. And, by the way, if you are a leader who has not been given a choice about what processes to follow, perhaps the best thing to do is to find the bits you can use to get to where you are going and leave the rest.
The bottom line is, it is difficult to lead well while distracted. And, it is still possible to look funny on a horse even when you're focused. The difference lies in the amount of time you're willing to spend worrying about it.
I love the Snowbirds, no, not the ones that migrate in their RVs every winter to warmer climes, but the The Canadian Forces Snowbirds.
I love them because apart from putting on a pretty spectacular show, they offer a clear demonstration of what can happen when you get collaboration and teamwork right. The truth is, they have to get it right. Lives depend on it.
In most organizations, the necessity for getting it right is less dire. However, the extent to which we work effectively together usually dictates our capacity and potential for success. And so, I think there is something to be learned from precision flying teams like the Snowbirds.
In order to achieve optimal team performance, choosing the right participants is critical to getting the team off the ground. To do that, those decisions need to include very precise specifications around skill, experience, values, behaviour and potential. Poor choices can lead to some disappointing results at the very least. Indeed, a poor choice made for the Snowbird Squadron has the capacity for a disastrous result.
Principle #2: Each team member must be clear about the team purpose and his or her purpose within the team.
It is the job of the leader to ensure that each team member knows why the team exists; what the team must achieve; and his or her role within the team. Lack of clarity creates confusion and places team members out of alignment with each other and with their overall purpose.
In most organizations there are those who are more visible than others. These are the stars, the ones who are highly skilled in one particular area of the team's work. It is easy to assume that these people are the team. However, those in the air can only be there if they have the benefit of the skill and knowledge provided by those on the ground. For instance, there are nine CT-114 Tutor jets in the Snowbird fleet. Each plane has its own dedicated technician who ensures his/her plane will fly safely and optimally for the pilot. In other words, nine pilots in the air cannot do their jobs safely or well without the support of the rest of the team no matter how skilled they may be.
In any team, team members come and go. Every time a new member joins the team, its dynamic changes and those who remain are charged with responsibility of supporting, training and integrating those who join.
A Snowbird pilot is assigned to the squadron for three years. After that he is typically reassigned. The turnover is planned in such a way that the more experienced pilots play a role in the indoctrination and training of the new ones. In this way, the team continues to grow in depth and maturity while keeping the experience fresh for everyone.
I would suggest that in a team such as the Snowbirds, the absence of trust would keep them all grounded. This is also true of other teams in other organizations and that makes building trust among team members a very big deal.
Getting back to work ~ What Motivates Us.
Autonomy ~ freedom to, independently or with others of our choosing, work creatively and produce something we can be proud of.
Mastery: What opportunities do you provide for people to get better at what they do?
Purpose: What purpose does your organization serve?
I just happen to think that the autumn, (when we tend to need time to cast fresh eyes on our life and work), is one of those times.
The flaw in this kind of thinking is that caring for those under our charge isn't about mothering. It is about inviting people to bring all of themselves to work every day and helping them give their best effort willingly to something that matters both to them and to the organization. I think it safe to say that engaging people in this way gets results. That makes it pretty important.
Caring leaders know that it doesn't end there. Follow-up is necessary, first, because those under their charge may need some help; second they may need some encouragement; and finally they may need some reminding about the commitments they've made. Holding people accountable for doing what they say they are going to do sends the message that their efforts matter to the success of the whole.


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Economy Minister Diane Dodds (right) with Sam McCloskey (left), director of the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy and CASE chairman Trevor Haslett
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16 January, 2020 01:00
ECONOMY Minister Diane Dodds has confirmed £3.6 million in funding for an energy research centre based at Queen's University.
The first announcement since she took on the economy portfolio on Saturday, the funds from Invest NI will support phase two of the Centre for Advanced Sustainable Energy (CASE).
Based at Queen's University, CASE is an industry-led centre that uses research from Ulster University and government-backed research body, the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI).
It was initially set up in 2013 with the backing of Invest NI.
Ms Dodds said the CASE project had created opportunities for around 50 companies in the past six years, enabling them to collaborate with academic researchers to explore innovative technologies and services.
"CASE has also exceeded its targets," she said.
"This includes its support in securing over £3m of funding to Northern Ireland for the Bryden Centre – a cross-border renewable energy research centre funded under the EU's Interreg VA programme and led from Belfast.
"In the coming years, I look forward to watching the progress CASE makes with some of the world's major challenges in sustainable energy research for the benefit of the Northern Ireland economy."
Director of CASE, Sam McCloskey, said the centre had successfully helped leverage funding into the north's sustainable energy sector. He said the new cash would allow that work to continue.
"We are delighted that the minister and Invest NI has recognised the importance of continuing research in sustainable energy and has committed to funding CASE in this second phase. This R&D is particularly important in light of the links between decarbonising the energy system and reducing the impact of climate change."
Chair of CASE, Trevor Haslett, added: "Our ambitions are to capitalise on the positive R&D outcomes from our collaborative projects to date and to maximise the benefits for our industrial members."
He said more details will be outlined at a conference in Queen's University today.
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Jeffrey Sylvester Joins Chesapeake Utilities Corporation as Senior Vice President
DOVER, DE – Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) (Chesapeake Utilities) today announced that Jeffrey Sylvester has joined the Company as Senior Vice President responsible for the Company's natural gas transmission and regulated distribution businesses.
Jeff Sylvester – Senior Vice President, Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
In his new role, Mr. Sylvester will be responsible for the Company's regulated operations including the interstate natural gas transmission pipeline and distribution businesses on the Delmarva Peninsula; the intrastate natural gas pipeline and natural gas and electric distribution businesses in Florida; and the unregulated natural gas pipeline infrastructure operation in Ohio. The customer care operation that services customers on the Delmarva Peninsula and in Florida will also report to him.
"As we continue to evolve and grow as a company with expanded energy delivery service offerings, it's important that we position our organization to continue to deliver the best results possible to our stakeholders," said Jeff Householder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Utilities Corporation. "Jeff is a proven leader and his wealth of operational experience and energy industry knowledge will be of great benefit to the Company."
Prior to joining Chesapeake Utilities, Mr. Sylvester spent over seven years with Black Hills Corporation. Most recently, he served as Vice President of Nebraska Gas Operations, responsible for all financial and operational results associated with the continued safe, reliable delivery of natural gas to 300,000 customers in 300 Nebraska communities. In this role, he provided leadership and oversight for the natural gas distribution operations, which included over 10,000 miles of pipeline; the development of growth opportunities in these communities; and stakeholder engagement among various key constituencies, including external relationships with customers, regulators and government officials.
With his new position, Mr. Sylvester will be returning to Chesapeake Utilities Corporation. During his earlier tenure with the Company from 2004 to 2012, he held a series of leadership positions in the information technology, gas marketing and customer care operations.
Mr. Sylvester is a Board member for the Southern Gas Association. He earned both his Bachelor of Science in Financial Management and his MBA from Clemson University.
About Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is a diversified energy company engaged in natural gas distribution and transmission; electricity generation and distribution; propane gas distribution; and other businesses. Information about Chesapeake Utilities Corporation's businesses is available at www.chpk.com, through the Company's Investor Relations App and on the Annual Report Microsite at cpkannualreport.com.
Please note that Chesapeake Utilities Corporation is not affiliated with Chesapeake Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration company headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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The recipe I'm sharing with you is an old fashioned style of sponge cake, reminiscent of country cottages with rambling gardens, heirloom china and shabby chic furnishings. It's baked with fresh eggs, melted butter, warm milk and a dash of custard powder; then filled with whipped cream and topped with lip-smacking passionfruit icing.
Thank you ILVE for inviting me to contribute this guest post to the Live with ILVE blog. I feel honoured to be included among such esteemed company. I wish your readers happy baking and hope they will enjoy this Nougat Passionfruit Sponge as much as my family and I do.
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Raffrayia
In previous posts, I have introduced you to various representatives of the Pselaphinae, bizarre-looking little gorgon-headed beetles dwelling in soil. But as with all elements of the world's biodiversity, I have not even begun to scratch the surface of what this group has to offer. So for today, a post on another pselaphine genus: the African Raffrayia.
Male Raffrayia dilatata, from Jeannel (1955).
The genus Raffrayia was first established by Reitter in 1881 for a species found in Ethiopia and since then over twenty species have been recognised. The great majority of these have been from southern Africa, in particular from various locations in the Cape Province. Only the meerest handful have been described from scattered localities in east Africa. Nevertheless, it would not be at all surprising if this disparity between regions turns out to be in part an artefact of study effort; there may be more species yet to be described.
The most distinctive feature of the genus is one or two rings each of small button-like nodules on the median segments of the antenna (I am unable to guess the functional significance of these, if any). Jeannel (1955) recognised a number of smaller genera closely related to Raffrayia that share these antennal nodules but differ in having a more elongate basal segment on the abdomen and/or being uniformly flightless forms with the humeri ('shoulders') of the elytra reduced (flightless Raffrayia [see below] retain more distinctly pronounced humeri). Both of these features are derived and these segregate genera may well be expected to be derivatives of Raffrayia. Jeannel also distinguished two subgenera Raffrayia sensu stricto and Raffrayola based on the structure of the first abdominal segment. Raffrayola is restricted to southern Africa whereas Raffrayia sensu stricto is found across the genus' range.
Sexual dimorphism within the genus is strong: males are winged but females are flightless. Elytra are somewhat reduced in females as a result (but again, not as much as in consistently flightless genera). Unfortunately, while we can make some obvious inferences from this about their relative life styles, there seems to be little in the way of direct observations on how Raffrayia spend their lives.
Jeannel, R. 1955. Les psélaphides de l'Afrique australe. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, nouvelle série, Série A, Zoologie 9: 1–196.
Labels: Coleoptera, Holometabola, Pselaphinae, Staphylinidae, Staphylinoidea
Mites of Marine Sands
Mites may be the most ecologically diverse group of animals on the planet. It is something of a challenge to think of a habitat supporting complex life in which mites may not be found. Nevertheless, it can fairly be said that the marine environment has provided them with a challenge. Though a wide variety of mites can be found in habitats along the shoreline, few lineages have learnt to make a life for themselves beyond the littoral fringe. The most diverse group of truly marine mites is the Halacaridae, of which the genus Simognathus is a representative.
Simognathus sp., from Banks (1915).
Halacarids are notably armoured mites, their bodies protected by an array of reticulate plates. They are found in a wide range of marine habitats and pursue the gamut of lifestyles: representatives of halacarids include algal grazers, micropredators, and parasites. Despite their aquatic lifestyle, they are not swimmers. Instead, they cling to their substrate and crawl slowly on legs bearing large claws. The diversity of halacarid morphologies is reflected in their classification with over a dozen subfamilies currently recognised.
Simognathus is a genus of halacarids found around the world though the greater diversity of species are known from the Southern Hemisphere. They are found at depths ranging from near the low tide mark to around 500 m, and from the full range of tropical, warm-temperate and cold-temperate waters. Bartsch (2005) speculated that the only reason they are not known from even colder waters may be a question of sampling effort rather than true absence. Most Simognathus species are known to live among coarse sand, or in other interstitial microhabitats such as among coral rubble, among colonies of sessile animals such as barnacles or tubeworms, or within algal holdfasts. I haven't come across any specific comments on their diet but their robust chelicerae and grasping fore legs leads me to suspect that Simognathus species are probably micropredators.
Simognathus and the closely related genus Acaromantis form the subfamily Simognathinae. Simognathines differ from other halacarids in their spindle-shaped body with short rostrum, reflecting their interstitial habitat. The first leg ends in a pincer arrangement formed from the terminal claw and a spine on the underside of the tibia. Acaromantis species have a two-segmented palp, no lateral claws at the end of the first leg, and a spinose seta on the genu (the segment between the femur and tibia) of the first leg. Simognathus species have a three-segmented palp, a pair of slender lateral claws on the first leg as well as the terminal claw, and no spinose seta on the first genu. The defining features of Simognathus are all likely to be primitive relative to those of Acaromantis and it has been suggested for some time that Acaromantis may be a derived subgroup of Simognathus. This suggestion is bolstered by a recent molecular analysis of halacarids by Pepato et al. (2018) which found the two Simognathus representatives included to be paraphyletic to the included species of Acaromantis.
Bartsch, I. 2005. Lohmannella and Simognathus (Halacaridae: Acari) from Western Australia: description of two new species and reflections on the distribution of these genera. Records of the Western Australian Museum 22: 293–307.
Pepato, A. R., T. H. D. A. Vidigal & P. B. Klimov. 2018. Molecular phylogeny of marine mites (Acariformes: Halacaridae), the oldest radiation of extant secondarily marine animals. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 129: 182–188.
Labels: Acariformes, Arachnida, Euarthropoda, Halacaridae, Prostigmata
The Mouse Shrews of Africa
Shrews are one of the less appreciated groups of mammals. Small (some are among the smallest mammals on earth), skulking, they are often overlooked but are nevertheless represented by a diversity of species in many parts of the world. Among this diversity are the mouse shrews of the genus Myosorex.
Forest shrew Myosorex varius, from Roberts (1951).
Myosorex is a genus of nearly twenty known species of shrew, some of which have only been identified very recently, with more probably yet to be described. They are known in the modern fauna only from sub-Saharan Africa, though the fossil record indicates they once extended as far north as Spain (Furió et al. 2007). Mouse shrews differ from most other living shrew genera (except the closely related Congosorex) in the presence of a tiny vestigial tooth in the lower jaw behind the first antemolar (the tooth behind the incisors, so called in shrews because it is unclear whether it corresponds to a canine or premolar in relation to the teeth of other mammals). Because their teeth lack the red pigment found in shrews of the subfamily Soricinae, Myosorex have historically been classified with the white-tooth shrews of the Crocidurinae. However, the presence of white teeth is, of course, a primitive feature of questionable significance phylogenetically. Instead, more recent authors have pointed to the retention of the second antemolar and other features to support recognising Myosorex and related African shrew genera as relictual members of a third subfamily, the Myosoricinae, that may also include a number of earlier fossil shrews (this group has also been known as the 'Crocidosoricinae' but 'Myosoricinae' is the name with priority; the argument by Furió et al., 2007, that the latter name cannot be used for the broader subfamily because it was originally used only for the African genera has no standing under current nomenclatorial rules).
Foraging forest shrew, copyright Johnny Wilson.
In the modern fauna, Myosorex species have a very scattered distribution. Species found in central and eastern Africa are restricted to high mountains, among moist, densely vegetated environments. Species found in southern Africa are often found in similar habitats. However, the species M. varius is also found in drier locations at lower altitudes, closer to the South African coast. Nevertheless, it is still restricted to areas with high seasonal rainfall, or (in part of Western Cape Province) zones dominated by succulent vegetation where low levels of actual rainfall may be compensated for by precipitation from mist (Meester 1958). The distribution of the genus as a whole is marked by a broad gap of over 1600 km separating the northern limit of species in South Africa and Zimbabwe from their nearest neighbours to the north in the DRC and Kenya, a gap that they were presumably only able to cross in the past when climate conditions were more amenable.
This sensitivity to environment means that Myosorex species may be very vulnerable to changes in habitat. Several species are restricted to limited ranges and several are recognised as potentially endangered. The prospect of climate change makes this vulnerability even worse: as levels of rainfall decrease, mouse shrews will be forced to retreat to ever higher altitudes, and there's only so high they can go before running out of mountain.
Furió, M., A. Santos-Cubedo, R. Minwer-Barakat & J. Agustí. 2007. Evolutionary history of the African soricid Myosorex (Insectivora, Mammalia) out of Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27 (4): 1018–1032.
Meester, J. 1958. Variation in the shrew genus Myosorex in southern Africa. Journal of Mammalogy 39 (3): 325–339.
Labels: Boreoeutheria, Boreosphenida, Cladotheria, Eutheria, Pan-Lipotyphla
Five-fingers and Lancewoods
By Christopher Taylor at 1/18/2020 11:25:00 am
Longtime readers of this blog will know that my knowledge of plants has always been fairly rudimentary. As a young'un, I only ever learnt to distinguish some of the more common and visible varieties. As a student, I did take a few botany classes, but only really enough to learn that plant biology is complicated and terrifying. Since then, I've continued in much the same vein. But for today's post, I'm looking at something I do recall being aware of in my youth: the lancewoods and five-fingers of the genus Pseudopanax.
Horticultural variant of coastal five-finger Pseudopanax lessonii, copyright Leonora Enking.
Pseudopanax is a genus of a dozen species of small tree (mostly growing about five to seven metres in height) found only in New Zealand (Perrie & Shepherd 2009). Various species have also been assigned to the genus from locations around the Pacific (China, Tasmania, New Caledonia and Chile) but recent studies have lead to their exclusion. A handful of New Zealand species previously included in Pseudopanax have also been separated as the genus Raukaua (Mitchell et al. 1997). The historical taxonomy of the group is confusing, with species being variously attributed to genera Panax, Nothopanax, Neopanax and Polyscias. Things seem to have settled down a bit in recent years but there is still the possibility we may one day see Neopanax rise again (Perrie & Shepherd 2009).
Chatham Islands lancewood Pseudopanax chathamicus, copyright Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz.
Pseudopanax belongs to the family Araliaceae, a group that is primarily composed of tropical and subtropical shrubs and trees. Araliaceae are commonly referred to as "the ivy family", after one of their best-known members, the common ivy Hedera helix, but, as is not uncommon when a tropical family gets named after one of their European outliers, ivy is pretty weird by Araliaceae standards. Pseudopanax species are perhaps a bit more typical. They have large leaves, often more or less toothed or lobed along the margins. In a number of species, the leaves are palmately divided into three or five separate leaflets, hence the aforementioned vernacular name of 'five-finger'. In one group of species, the lancewoods, the lateral leaflets have been lost and the now undivided leaf is more or less long and narrow. Hybrids between five-fingers and lancewoods may have multiple leaflets like a five-finger but the leaflets shaped like those of a lancewood; New Zealand botanist Leon Perrie has written a post about hybridisation in this genus that you can read here. The trees are usually dioecious (male and female flowers are borne on separate trees) and the individually small flowers are borne aggregated in compound umbels. Fruits are fleshy berries.
Collection of lancewoods P. crassifolius showing the variation in leaf form, copyright Petra Gloyn. Two individuals on the left are young tress with hanging leaves; to the right is a more mature individual with spreading leaves.
Within Pseudopanax, the lancewoods are particularly renowned for their exhibition of heteroblasty, a phenomenon where the appearance of the leaves changes significantly as the tree matures. Juvenile leaves of the common lancewood P. crassifolius and toothed lancewood P. ferox are remarkably long, slender, strongly toothed along the margin, stiff and leathery, and hang downwards around the young tree like a skirt. As the tree approaches its mature height, it starts producing shorter, softer, less serrate leaves that are held in a more or less horizontal position.
Changes in growth habit with maturity seem to be surprisingly common among New Zealand plants and there has been a lot of discussion about why this might be. One suggestion that has certainly received a lot of public attention is that it is a relic of browsing by the large herbivorous birds such as moa that dominated the New Zealand environment prior to human settlement. Juvenile plants developed a habit that was energetically expensive but discouraged browsing by birds; as they grew high enough to escape the reach of such browsers, they changed to a less demanding form. I personally tend to be skeptical of these kinds of claims of historical baggage, not least because the extinction of one-half of the equation makes them very hard to test in any way, but I will admit that this case does perhaps have a bit more credibility than, for instance, claims elsewhere of giant fruits being dependent on long-extinct megafauna. Alternatively, it has been suggested that changes in growth habit may be related to climatic conditions; the juvenile leaves of P. crassifolius dissipate heat more effectively than those of mature trees (Gould 1993). Heteroblasty is less pronounced in the montane lancewood P. linearis of the South Island and almost absent in the Chatham Islands lancewood P. chathamicus, an insular derivative of P. crassifolius. Were these species insulated from the selective pressures affecting the other two? It should also be pointed out that the two proposals mentioned here are not mutually exclusive; the consideration of one as a factor does not automatically rule out the other.
Gould, K. S. 1993. Leaf heteroblasty in Pseudopanax crassifolius: functional significance of leaf morphology and anatomy. Annals of Botany 71: 61–70.
Mitchell, A. D., D. G. Frodin & M. J. Heads. 1997. Reinstatement of Raukaua, a genus of the Araliaceae centred in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 35 (3): 309–315.
Perrie, L. R., & L. D. Shepherd. 2009. Reconstructing the species phylogeny of Pseudopanax (Araliaceae), a genus of hybridising trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52: 774–783.
Labels: Apiales, Asteridae, Campanulidae, Gunneridae, Mesangiospermae


Stella's Tap and Tapa Bar on The Drive!
This is only my second review of and eatery in East Van. I have been to Stella's at 1191 Commercial Drive 3 times now. Once with my wife and kids and twice with just me and my wife.
Each time we have been treated to very good service and very good food.
Always fresh tasting and always very reasonable.
So why do I care enough today to write about Stella's?
Today I "stepped out" as it were and did not have the Eggs Benny nor the Huevos Rancheros. Today I thought I would try the Potato Latkes. How bad could smoked salmon atop cream cheese atop a potato pancake be?
OMG!!! It was freaking bananas (that's good)!! The latke itself was so crunchy on the outside and so soft on the onside and it married sooooo well with the cream cheese and smoked salmon. It was really good. I mean really good!!
I had the Caffe Ameicano with this and the actual plate came with really awesome potatoes. Flavourful and crispy!!
Service was great. Food was great. Price was great!
Check Stella's out at 1191 Commercial Drive in East Van.
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In 2009, the media of Australia, mostly in Melbourne, Sydney, and India publicised reports of crimes and robberies against Indians in Australia that were described as racially motivated. There were accusations of intense Hinduphobia along with the racist hate crimes.
Rallies were organised in Melbourne and Sydney, and intense media coverage of the perceived hate crimes commenced in India, which were mostly critical of Australian and Victorian Police. The Australian government initially called for calm as it began an investigation into the crimes. In June 2009, the Victoria Police Chief Commissioner, Simon Overland, stated that some of the crimes were racist and hinduphobic in nature, and others were opportunistic. A subsequent Indian Government investigation concluded that, of 152 reported assaults against Indian students in Australia that year, 23 involved racial overtones.
Indian students were at the time and are currently[when?] the second largest group of international students studying at a tertiary level in Australia. From 2004 to 2009 the number of Indians studying in Australia rose from 30,000 to 97,000 with 45,000 of these living in Melbourne, 32,000 in Adelaide and the remainder shared between Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Some students come from rural areas in India, with most coming to Australia to seek permanent residency and citizenship. Eapen Verghese stated in an opinion piece that the cost of living in Australian cities has made it necessary for many of these students to live in cheaper and more distant suburbs, where there is an increased risk of encountering violent crime. Others have indicated that Indian students face discrimination and exploitation in housing and jobs.
In 2007-2008, international education contributed A$13.7 billion to the Australian economy, measured through all categories of export earnings, including tuition fees, living expenses and tourism associated with visits from relatives. Inder Panjwani, General Secretary of the Association of Australian Education Representatives in India (AAERI) stated there was a possibility that a few Indian students who had been admitted to Australian universities might cancel their admissions [because they feared attacks].
There were 120,913 Indian students enrolled to undertake an Australian qualification in 2009. In the year 2007-2008, 1,447 Indians had been victims of crime including assaults and robberies in the state of Victoria in Australia. However, the statistics reportedly show that Indians were not over represented in assaults. In either case, the Victorian police refused to release the data for public scrutiny, the stated reason being that it was "problematic: as well as 'subjective and open to interpretation'".
On 29 April 2008, in Melbourne an estimated five hundred Indian taxi drivers protested at Flinders Street station with a sit-in protest following the stabbing of a taxi driver. A similar protest was held on 19 May 2008 in Adelaide, where about fifty taxi drivers protested after an assault on an Indian taxi driver. The Victorian Government brought in mandatory safety shields later that year, but this was met with protests because of the costs.
After incidents in May 2009, over 4,000 Indian students staged a protest opposite Federation Square in Melbourne on 31 May 2009, saying attacks on Indian students were motivated by racism and were not being sufficiently addressed by the Australian Government. One report said "Along with more police protection, the students also want a multicultural police section, and on-site accommodation for Indian students at all universities and colleges". 18 protesters were arrested.
On 31 May 2009, In Melbourne India's High Commissioner, Sujatha Singh, met with Victorian State Premier John Brumby to express her government's concerns over the violence. On 1 June 2009, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh phoned Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to express his concerns.
On 1 June 2009, in New Delhi roughly 100 people including members of the Indian political party Shiv Sena and student protesters held a demonstration outside the Australian High Commission in New Delhi, where effigies of Kevin Rudd were burnt. Shiv Sena MP Manohar Joshi warned that Australians living or travelling in India could face revenge attacks if Indians living in Australia continued to be attacked. On the same day Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd expressed regret for the attacks and declared that the perpetrators would be brought to justice. He did not state whether he considers the attacks to be racially motivated.
The left-wing All India Students Federation conducted a candle march at the India Gate, and demanded "stringent action against those behind the brutal attacks on the innocent students".
In June 2009, Indian student organisations called on the Indian government to declare Australia an "unsafe destination for Indian students"., the National Students Union of India met the Minister of State of External Affairs, Shashi Tharoor and demanded that the Centre should prevail upon the Australian government to ensure that such incidents do not occur again[unreliable source?] and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad political party, said it would consider an Australian boycott over the bashings if authorities did not do more to protect Hindus in Australia.
On 7 to 10 June 2009, rallies in the Sydney CBD and at Harris Park, were attended by hundreds of Indians and supporters. The rally started at Sydney Town Hall and marched to Hyde Park. Some attending the rally specifically mentioned Harris Park (a Sydney suburb where 20% of the population is Indian), as an area where Indians were frequently assaulted, and called on police to do more to make that suburb safe. The students said they were considered "soft targets". Some Indian protestors were reported to be carrying hockey sticks and baseball bats. According to police, the protest was sparked by an attack on Indians earlier in the evening allegedly by Lebanese men. In retaliation the protesters attacked three uninvolved Lebanese men, who sustained minor injuries. This was believed to be the first violent reaction by Indian students against attacks on them. A police dog squad was called in to control the crowd.
On 9 June 2009, Indian Prime Minister, addressing the Indian Parliament said that "he was 'appalled' by the senseless violence and crime, some of which are racist in nature,"
On 4 July 2009 Michael Danby heading a six-member Australian parliamentarian delegation to India said, "We are joining the Premier of Victoria in a march to express the views of the overwhelming majority of Australians condemning these attacks." but when the Harmony Day March Occurred On 12 July 2009, the Federation of Indian Student Associations in Australia was not given leave to address the crowd.
In September 2009, Victorian Premier John Brumby visited India at the end of September and tried to "repair Australia's reputation" as fewer Indian students are applying for Australian visas.
The murders of 25-year-old fruit picker Ranjodh Singh on 29 December 2009 in Griffith, New South Wales and 21-year-old student Nitin Garg on 3 January 2010 in Melbourne resulted in a protest in New Delhi. Three Indian nationals were put on trial for the murder of Singh in April 2011, with police alleging that the murder related to a pay dispute. Garg was stabbed by a 15-year-old male during a robbery in a city park.
On 5 January 2010, a cartoon depicting the Victoria Police as a Ku Klux Klan member was published in the New Delhi Mail Today This was condemned by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard who described it as "deeply offensive". In January 2010 the Indian Government issued a travel advisory for Indians in Melbourne, warning of the increasing crime rate "often accompanied by verbal abuse and fueled by drugs and alcohol". However, Simon Crean, the acting Foreign Minister, urged Indian leaders to "avoid fuelling hysteria" and stated that Melbourne was a safe place to visit.
On 26 January 2010, the Australian Prime Minister's nephew Van Thanh Rudd and Sam King, both of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, dressed up as members of the Ku Klux Klan, protesting against the allegedly racist violence against Indians during the Australian Open tennis tournament in Melbourne, with the signs "Racism - Made in Australia" on the front of their dresses. The protest took place in front of Melbourne Park and both reportedly fined for "inciting a riot".
Another student was stabbed in the bowel on 5 November 2010 in Melbourne. He required emergency surgery in the hospital with 26 stitches. Police reported that they believed the attack to have been random, rather than racially motivated.
Indian community leaders in Australia said Indian media has blown the issue out of proportion, and that their coverage could overcast the real issues faced by students.
The Indian media's coverage has been likened to hysteria by the Australian media. Australia's Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, said "There's been a lot of concern inside India and there's been, I think, some fairly hysterical reporting of what's occurred." The Herald Sun's conservative right wing columnist, Andrew Bolt, described the events as a "circus", whilst another said that Indian TV networks ignored the higher murder rate in India. The Victorian Premier said the Indian media's coverage of the incidents was "unbalanced" and emphasised that two Indian nationals were charged with the murder of Jaspreet Singh. An editorial by Radio Australia on the crimes used the words "media circus" in its headline.
On 8 February 2010, the weekly Indian newsmagazine Outlook published a 10-page cover story on the attacks called "Why the Aussies Hate Us", in which Vinod Mehta, the editor in chief wrote that the Indian Media were not overreacting in their coverage of the violence, and accused the Australian authorities of displaying a "smug and superior attitude". He expressed admiration for Australia but criticized the Australian responses.
Some in the Indian media have accused the Australian authorities of being denialist.
There were also concerns that reports of an Indian journalist being attacked in Australia, cited by several Indian newspapers as an example of the "ongoing attacks," did not mention that her assailant was Indian.
In an attempt to repair the relationship, some Indian journalists were invited to visit Australia.
In 2010, investigative reporter Andrew Marantz from Mother Jones magazine, gained employment selling mobile phone call plans with the Delhi Call Centre in order to investigate Indian perception of Australians following media reports of Indians facing racism in Australia. Marantz's training included a three-week course on Australian culture and "how to act Australian". During the course topic "dissecting the Australian psych", employees were told that Australia was known as "the dumbest continent on Earth" where college was "literally" unknown. Australians were technologically backward with the average person using mobile phones no better than the Nokia 3110 classic, were racist and that the best time to call was Friday nights as all Australians "drink constantly" and would likely be "smashed". In an interview on U.S. radio, Marantz stated he was shocked at the extent of Indian stereotyping of Australians.
A report about attacks on Indians in Australia was submitted to the Indian Parliament by the Overseas Indian Ministry, early 2010. According to this report, of the 152 attacks that the Indian consulate was aware of, 23 had "racial overtones", i.e., were accompanied by racial abuse, or "anti-Indian remarks". The majority were found to be either thefts, or robberies, or results of verbal disputes.
Yadu Singh, a cardiologist who heads the Indian Student Welfare Committee set up by the Indian Consulate in Sydney, said there had been at least 20 beatings of Indian students in Sydney in the past month, but most went unreported out of fear. He estimated over 100 attacks on Indian students in the last 12 months. He described the phenomenon as "curry bashing", and that "They are not random at all, the people are targeting them. They know these students are easy targets." He labelled the Indian press' reporting of the incidents as "irresponsible". Dr Singh believed Australians were "outraged with the way Indian media" was smearing the country. He went on to say that other Indians he had spoken to said they are not suffering and that they are doing well in Australia. He also expressed fear that the Indian media reports might lead to backlash against other Indian Australians. Others have objected to labeling Australia as racist based on the actions of a few.
Sitaram Yechury, a member of parliament representing the Communist Party of India (Marxist), wrote that both sides of the debate have points. Economic crises and downfalls often cause rising fascism and racism against minorities, such as the rise of Nazi Germany, the Great American Depression, as well as economic downturns in India itself resulting in racist-like violence between various ethnic groups and ultra-nationalist parties in the country. Yechury says that the racism directed against Indians in Australia can be explained in this broader context.
Chief Executive of Primus Telecommunications Australia, Ravi Bhatia, said the Australian government has shown "excellent sensitivity" towards the issue by announcing a slew of measures like Harmony march, reforms in the state sentencing law and setting up of Task Force to deal with attacks on Indian students.
Nama Nageswara Rao, leader of the Telugu Desam Party, visited Australia, and held a press conference on his return. He stated that he had interviewed many of the victims, and the attacks did not appear to be motivated by racism. He also noted that many of the perpetrators were immigrants from ethnic minorities, such as "Afghans, Lebanese and other nationals who settled in Australia". Sydney students interviewed by ABC's AM programme stated that their attackers were members of several ethnic groups, and while they said there was a "racial element" they also saw the attacks as opportunistic. The attackers have been described as being white, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Aboriginal, and Pacific Islander.
Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt criticised the automatic labelling of Australia as a racist country as unfair, noting comments from foreign victims of crime that their attackers were foreigners themselves. On 28 January 2010 two Indian nationals were arrested for the murder of Ranjodh Singh on 29 December 2009. People from a range of different ethnic backgrounds perpetrated these assaults and investigations revealed that at least two of the later attacks were perpetrated by Indians.
In October 2010 a number of Victorian police officers were dismissed or otherwise disciplined after sending around emails with a video of an Indian train passenger being electrocuted with distasteful commentary referring to the Indian student affair.
An Australian study into the statistics of these attacks concludes that "In the light of poor criminological evidence and a plethora of evocative images, the global media has propagated and fostered claims about crimes and racism related to that are well outside the evidence.".
A report was submitted to the Indian Parliament by the Overseas Indian Ministry, early 2010. According to this report, of the 152 attacks that the Indian consulate was aware of, 23 had "racial overtones", i.e., were accompanied by racial abuse, or "anti-Indian remarks". The majority were found to be either thefts, or robberies, or results of verbal disputes.
The NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research states there has been no recorded increase in assault crimes in Harris Park in the past two years. A member of the NSW upper house, Gordon Moyes, cited changing victim demographics for the suburb, "What has happened over the last few years is that a number of Indian students, attracted by fairly cheap accommodation, have come into the area, the target - always the soft targets - moved from elderly people walking on the street to Indian students with laptops.
New South Wales Police have stated that Indians are not over represented in Australian crime statistics.
This view was supported by Sydney-based United India Association president Dr Prabhat Sinha, who took the view that the attacks were not necessarily racially motivated. He said: "They become soft targets by groups of four to six drug users, for example, who just want cash."
The Victorian State Premier, John Brumby, has stated that internal police statistics show that Indians are not over represented in assaults. However, according to the Police Commissioner, Simon Overland, people belonging to a broad statistical category of "South Asian appearance" (which includes Indians) are over represented in robberies. In either case, the Victorian police refuse to release these statistics to public scrutiny, the stated reason being that they are "problematic: as well as 'subjective and open to interpretation'".
Newspaper columnist Greg Sheridan said that Victorian Premier John Brumby was in "indolent denialism" regarding these incidents by saying that "Assaults on Indian students are under-represented as a population share." According to Sheridan, the Victorian Police had initially denied gathering statistics on crime by ethnicity, then reversed that and said they did collate such statistics, but said that they were unreliable. Sheridan was concerned that there was also systematic under-reporting of all crime in Victoria as claimed in the Victorian Ombudsman report "Crime Statistics and Police Numbers".
Ruchir Punjabi, an Indian International student in Australia, claimed early in the debate about the cause of the events in the Sydney Morning Herald that labeling the crimes as racism was distracting from critical issues in the education sector that the Government needed to give due attention to.
An editorial in the Geelong Advertiser suggested that education institutions should take more consideration of safeguarding student safety, and other factors including inadequate policing numbers and liquor licensing should be addressed.
The Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs said it would conduct a national quality crackdown on education and training providers, in particular smaller education providers that have been the target of student complaints.
The People's Republic of China has also expressed concern over student safety in Australia. According to official figures, more than 130,000 Chinese students are currently studying in Australia.
New Zealand has responded to these attacks and subsequent incidents. The education sector in New Zealand has moved to distance itself from attacks on Indian students, saying they were "totally different societies". The Chief Executive of the New Zealand Education Trust, Robert Stevens, has stressed to prospective students from India that New Zealand "is a different country from Australia - in the nicest possible way", and is striving to market New Zealand to Indians in this manner. Education authorities in New Zealand are hoping recent attacks on Indian students in Australia will make New Zealand a more attractive option.
Domestically, the Indian government declared that it would formulate a policy to deal with racial discrimination against Indians abroad.
As part of the initiative to create an institutionalised mechanism to prevent racist attacks on Indians abroad, Vayalar Ravi, the head of the overseas Indian affairs ministry, has been tasked to protect the Indians in Australia. Ravi has called for a report on these incidents from the Indian High Commission in Australia.
There was a 46% drop in Indians applying for student visas for Australia from July to 31 October 2009 compared to the same period in 2008, and a total drop of 26% in student visa applications to Australia from all countries (including India). A study (completed before the deaths of Nitin Garg and Ranjodh Singh) forecast a 20% drop in Indian students expected to study in Australia in 2010, compared to 2009, partly due to a reduction in the number of visas allowed to be granted, stiffening of the regulations associated with them, the strength of the Australian dollar, and a clampdown on unscrupulous migration agents and colleges. After the attacks of 2009 and the deaths in Jan 2010, its expected to fall even further than the 20% drop.
In response, Victorian police were given new powers to conduct stop-and-search operations without the need for warrants.
The former head of its elite Special Air Service (SAS) regiment and current National Security Adviser, Duncan Lewis, was charged with leading a taskforce to examine the attacks on Indian students. Lewis chaired the task force's first meeting and coordinated Australia's response to the assaults. The Victorian government is considering enacting hate crime legislation that would consider prejudicial motivation as a factor in sentencing.
Bollywood's largest labour union declared that its members would refuse to work in Australia until attacks on Indian students there are stopped. Dinesh Chaturvedi, the general secretary of the Federation of Western India Cine Employees Association, has declared that their associates have been instructed not to shoot films in Australia as "the situation is not normal over there".
In response to the issue, Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan turned down an honorary doctorate from the Queensland University of Technology. Fellow Indian actor, Aamir Khan, has condemned the attacks, stating that, "[It is] most disturbing to hear about racist attacks on Indians living in Australia. Quite a shame. While this doesn't mean that all Australians are racists, the frequency and seriousness of such attacks, I think, calls for an extra ordinary reaction from the Australian authorities, and while we want action to be taken by authorities in Australia, equally we should remember all the various crimes against foreigners who visit India."
Overall, the number of foreign students coming to Australia over the period 2009-2011 declined. Factors included; a steep rise in the value of the Australian dollar, decreasing the country's attractiveness relative to its main competitors in Britain and the United States; a tightening of government regulation of the education and of visa requirements contributed to this decline; and reported concerns over safety. An Australian Council for Educational Research study found higher education visas for Indian students fell from 34,200 in 2007-08 to 9750 in 2011-12. In 2010, Federation of Indian Students in Australia (FISA) says that 30,000 Indian students have left Australia in the last year, and claims "race attacks is one of the major reasons behind the exodus. Other significant factors include that there are no jobs and students can't survive without that. Denying permanent residency to many Indians despite fulfilment of conditions has also been a reason.". The number of applications for student visas by Indians rose from 4000 in 2011 to 7700 in 2012 but there was a downturn on successful applications.
In order to establish reliable statistics for the examination of the safety of international students, the Australian Institute of Criminology is undertaking a research project on the safety of international students living in Australia. The project is intended to compare the rate of crime against international students with the rate of crime against the broader Australian population. The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is releasing data to Australian police jurisdictions and the Australian Institute of Criminology as part of a data-matching exercise which will enable identification of international students who have been victims of crime (Australian police jurisdictions do not collect statistics on victims' citizenship or visa status).
In 2011, the Australian Institute of Criminology released a study entitled Crimes Against International Students:2005-2009. This found that over the period 2005-2009, international students were less likely to be assaulted than the average person in Australia. Indian students experienced an average assault rate in some jurisdictions, but overall they experienced lower assault rates than the Australian average.
As of 2012 the number of Indians migrating to Australia has increased to such an extent that Indians are now the most numerous nationality moving to Australia per year, overtaking China and the UK.
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To print instagram photos is just a simple process, because the Net provides interested individuals online app particularly devised for this feature. What is a little complicated though is sourcing out materials intended for instagram prints.
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When a photo or video is posted on Instagram, such will appear or displayed in the person's profile. Other users who follow sees the post in their own feed, similarly also shows posts from other users that the person follows. Instagram is actually a simplified version of Facebook only with the intention on mobile use and visual sharing. Being in Instagram is social interaction, but through images and videos that can even be saved or printed.
Download and launch a free photo printing app and point out the Instagram icon on the home screen menu.
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Q: IF statement with variable in google Apps Script I am trying to make a google spreadsheet document with some buttons in it for a few colleagues. The colleagues can indicate which silo they're working with by pressing a certain button. In this case, it is either 1, 2, 3 or 4. This value is then stored in a cell. Afterward, they can keep track of their production by pressing a plus or minus button every time they have produced a pallet of material. The amount of pallets produced is stored in a cell (in this case 'M4:M5'). Now  I want to keep track of the number of pallets produced from each silo. So when they have selected silo 1, I want the number of pallets produced stored in a cell next to silo 1. When they select a different silo, I want to keep track of the pallets produced from that silo. I hope you kinda get what I am talking about.
I want to do this by using an If statement. So if silo 1 is selected, and they press the plus button because a pallet has been produced, I want a pallet to be added to a certain cell I made for silo 1. I tried to do this by storing the selected silo number as "temp" and then verifying it with an "if" statement. If it matches a certain silo number, the right cell will have a +1 added to it. The problem is that Apps Script is telling me that "temp" is unused in my code.
I am totally new to this coding language. Can someone please help me?
function PlusHVBB() {
var spreadsheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActive();
var tempHVBB = spreadsheet.getRange('M4:M5').getValue();
spreadsheet.getRange('M4:M5').setValue(tempHVBB+1);
var temp = spreadsheet.getRange('P4:P5').getValue();
if (temp = 1){

spreadsheet.getRange('C29').setValue(tempHVBB+1);
}

};

A: The problem is that you use getValue() on a range that contains more than one cell and that your comparison operator is incorrect

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*The problem with your if condition is that temp = 1 does not compare the value of temp against 1, but rather assigns it the value 1. To compare it against 1 you need to use the == or === operator: if (temp == 1)
Furthermore:

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*'M4:M5' is a range that contains two cells

*You need to either get (and set!) the value of each single cell indvidually:

var tempHVBB1 = spreadsheet.getRange('M4').getValue();
var tempHVBB2 = spreadsheet.getRange('M4').getValue();

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*Or you can use the methods getValues() and setValues() respectively to retrieve and set values from a range of cells. This will return you a nested array or values in the format [[row1/column1, row1/column2],[row2/column1, row2/column2]] or in your case: [['M4', 'M5']]

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Griswold civic groups are gearing up for a town-wide effort at cleaning up, on April 27, in observance of Earth Day.
The project has grown in the past few years into an annual event, involving members of the senior center, local Scout troops, and other organizations, as well as municipal employees. But even families and individual town residents can take part, especially through the "adopt-a-road" effort organized through town hall.
"The primary focus is to clean up yards and make the town more attractive," said First Selectman Todd Babbitt.
Groups will be encouraged to fan out to places like the Glasgo playground and Camputaro Field, on Sheldon Road, once yards are cleaned up.
Removal of roadside trash pick-up will also be part of the effort. Families, individuals, and businesses can adopt a road to take responsibility for picking up litter in their neighborhoods. Babbitt said that the inland Wetlands Commission, Jewett City Savings Bank, and Eastern Savings and Loan have already spoken for some of the town's main arteries. To adopt a road, participants should contact Griswold Senior Center Director Tina Falck at 860-884-5876.
The town's transfer station, on Route 138, will be waiving its normal fee for local residents on April 27 from 7 a.m. through 1 p.m. The transfer station will be accepting bulky waste, yard waste, furniture and scrap metal as usual, but not household or hazardous waste.
Residents can even get rid of their junk cars (provided they have the proper paperwork to prove ownership) by calling 860-884-5876 ahead of time.
Babbitt said that a crew of six volunteers will be on call to help pick up debris at the homes of elderly or handicapped residents; anyone wishing to arrange such a pick-up should call 860-376-6437.
Babbitt said that the project has received a $500 grant from The Last Green Valley to fund incidentals like trash bags and gloves for participants, as well as pruning shears and other tools. He said that he and Second Selectman Steve Merchant had each kicked in $100 in prize money, to be split between the group that has the largest number of participants and the group that collects the largest volume of trash.
"We hope it's going to create some competition," he said.
The Friends of Pachaug Forest will be joining the effort for the second year, spearheading a trash collection and trail cleanup in the forest.
This year, the focus will be on Green Falls on April 20 and on Hopeville Pond the following weekend.
"Hopefully, we'll be able to get some people out on kayaks to clean up at Green Falls and Hopeville Pond," said Mike Lane, also part of the Friends.
Interested participants should RSVP to the Lanes beforehand, by calling 860-861-5404 or 860-376-8287. Those wishing to help can meet at the pavilion near the entrance to Hopeville Pond State Park at 9 a.m. on April 27. Work will continue through noon, when the Friends will host a lunch and musicians will perform.


Using a computer screen – Computer screens are made up of pixels which are essentially dots of light. Dots of light don't have borders that are clearly defined, making it hard for your eyes to focus on them. This can lead to eyestrain, more so than reading on paper does. A research article, "Effects of Display Resolution on Visual Performance" by Martina Ziefle finds that reading performance is significantly better with paper than with screen and that reaction times and visual fatigue increased with lower resolution screens (less pixels per inch).
Glare on your screen – Glare can be caused by direct sources, e.g. the sun shining on your screen; or by indirect sources, e.g. light reflection off of the screen from a light or a window or from a surface such as a desk or a wall. If you have glare on your screen, you won't be able to see what you're working on very well. This can result in squinting, eye fatigue, and muscle cramping from moving your head, neck, shoulders, and back to avoid the glare.
Screen too dark or too light – It is hard for the eyes to adjust to areas of high contrast. For example, it would be hard on the eyes to have a really bright screen in a dark room or a poorly lit screen in front of a bright window. Putting strain on your eyes like this could result in headaches and fatigue.
Sitting too close or too far away from your screen – If you sit too close to your screen, it is hard for your eyes to focus which results in eye strain. If you sit too far away, you will squint, strain, and move forward to see the screen. This can result in eyestrain and muscle fatigue associated with leaning forward.
Using too small of a font – Many people work with fonts that are too small for their eyes to see. When fonts are too small, you will lean forward and strain your eyes so you can see.
Using the screen for too long without a break – If you focus on your screen for a long period of time, your eyes will be strained from looking at the same focal point. Your eyes need to vary in the distance they look at throughout the day so they get a break.
Using the screen for too long without blinking– Studies show that computer uses blink less when working on a computer than they would normally. Blinking less results in dry, irritated eyes.
Wearing improper glasses or contacts – Wearing glasses or contacts that don't allow your eyes to focus properly will result in eyestrain and blurred vision.
Use as high a resolution screen as you can. Alternate computer work with other tasks to avoid prolonged exposure.
Place your screen perpendicular (at a right angle) to the window for the least amount of glare.
Tilt your monitor down slightly to reduce glare from overhead lights.
Use opaque blinds to block sun from your screen. Make sure the blinds block out all the sun – rays can creep through the perimeter of the blind.
To allow natural light in without glare, used vertical blinds for east/west facing windows, and horizontal blinds for north/south windows.
Check surfaces for glare. Change surfaces to light-coloured, matte surfaces if possible.
Adjust your monitor brightness for the type of light you're in.
If you have control over the amount of lighting, reduce the lighting for computer work.
Avoid large contrast changes around your screen. Don't place your monitor in front of the window and don't use your smartphone in bright sunlight.
Sit an arm's length away from your monitor. Sit a bit farther away for larger screens.
Look to a far distance beyond your computer monitor (beyond 20 feet) every 20 minutes for at least 5 seconds. Then close your eyes for 5 seconds to reduce dryness.
Increase your font as much as you need to see properly.
Get your eyes checked regularly and keep glasses and contact prescriptions updated. Inform your doctor about your screen habits.
Monitor your screen habits. The more time you spend in front of a screen, the greater your chance for CVS.
Luckily, CVS is not thought to cause any permanent damage to the eyes. By making the changes above, your eyes should be happy and healthy and back to normal in no time. Screen time is great, but not when it affects your vision.
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For my second spread with this month's documenter kit, I used primarily black and white cards. My photographs for the week were extremely colorful and I was trying for a graphic, high contrast look. I loved the phrases in the Good Times stamp set, it's going to be one I reach for over and over.


putting their deposit & credit into the machine and getting one "vended"
(including the journey history) and returned to use.
(effectively non-refundable) deposit and using pre-pay.
I think this move will certainly achieve its objective.