Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator Apsara DiQuinzio joined BAMPFA in the fall of 2012, and since then has organized dozens of exhibitions, including Charles Howard: A Margin of Chaos, Color Shift; Ballet of Heads: The Figure in the Collection, and MATRIX exhibitions with Nicole Eisenman, Paz Errázuriz, Anna Maria Maiolino, Geta Brătescu, John Zurier, Eric Baudelaire, Tarek Atoui, and many others. Before coming to BAMPFA, she was assistant curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA, where she organized solo exhibitions with Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, R.H. Quaytman, and Paul Sietsema, as well as the major group exhibitions Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art and The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality. Prior to SFMOMA, DiQuinzio worked at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she co-organized the 2004 Whitney Biennial, among numerous other exhibitions. She has contributed to journals such as Artforum, Mousse, Cura, and The Exhibitionist, in addition to writing for many exhibition catalogs.
Film Curator Kathy Geritz focuses on international documentary, avant-garde, and independent film. In 2010, with Steve Anker and Steve Seid, Geritz edited the major book Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–2000 and organized the companion film series, which toured nationally. Geritz was the 2015 International Curator in Residence at the new Len Lye Centre in New Zealand; in 2013 she gave special presentations at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival and the Ambulante Film Festival, and in 2012 she guest curated programs for the Ann Arbor Film Festival and The Brakhage Center Symposium. Geritz is a member of the Flaherty Film Seminar's programming committee and teaches a course on film curating in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
Prior to coming to BAMPFA in 2016, MacKay served as the programmer and interim artistic director of The Images Festival in Toronto, one of North America's largest festivals of alternative cinema and media art. MacKay's programming activities have also included positions as guest curator at the Ryerson Image Centre; guest programmer for TIFF Cinematheque; programming associate for Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival; and curator of installations for The 8Fest. She cofounded Early Monthly Segments, a screening series that presents historical and contemporary experimental works, and has served as the chair of the Board of Directors of the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT). Her wide-ranging areas of interest span historical and contemporary periods with an emphasis on independent film.
Since her appointment as Senior Film Curator in 2005, Susan Oxtoby has organized several major film series for BAMPFA, including retrospectives of Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Beavers, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Demy, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Howard Hawks, Akira Kurosawa, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Satyajit Ray, and Agnès Varda, among others. In 2014, Oxtoby co-curated Discovering Georgian Cinema, the largest retrospective of Georgian film ever mounted in North America. Prior to her arrival at BAMPFA, Oxtoby was director of programming at Cinematheque Ontario, the year-round public screening division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG). In 2005 and again in 2010, she was appointed to five-year terms on the National Film Preservation Board, which advises the Library of Congress on films to be named to the National Registry. From 2001 to 2005, she served as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Oxtoby has directed two independent films, All Flesh Is Grass (1988) and January 15, 1991: Gulf War Diary (1992). In 2015 she was honored with a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication for her help furthering the arts in France and throughout the world, and a Medal of Honor by the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
Director Lawrence Rinder has held positions at the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, where he was chief curator of the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Among the exhibitions he has organized are In a Different Light (with Nayland Blake), The American Effect: Global Perspectives on the United States, 1990–2003, Tim Hawkinson, Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, Create (with Matthew Higgs), Barry McGee (with Dena Beard),The Possible (with David Wilson), Architecture of Life, and Way Bay. He was the founding director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, where he also served as dean of graduate studies. His writing on art has appeared in nest, Artforum, The Village Voice, Fillip, Atlantica, and Flash Art, among others. Art Life, a collection of his essays, was published by Gregory R. Miller in 2005.
Julia White has organized exhibitions on a variety of areas in Asian art including Chinese historical painting, Neolithic ceramics, and early gold jewelry, as well as Japanese woodblock prints and paintings and esoteric Buddhist art from Japan and the Himalayan region. Recent projects at BAMPFA include Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, organized with James Cahill; Flowers of the Four Seasons: Ten Centuries of Art from the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture; and Taking Refuge: Buddhist Art from the Land of White Clouds. White is currently researching the work of Chinese painter Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) in preparation for a major loan exhibition in 2017. Prior to coming to BAMPFA in 2006, White was associate curator of Asian art at the Denver Art Museum and curator of Asian art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She earned her BA in China regional studies from the University of Washington and her MA in art history from the University of California, Berkeley. Her graduate studies included language training at Taiwan National Normal University in Taipei and graduate research at Beijing University.
Guest curator Jacquelynn Baas served as BAMPFA's director from 1988 to 1999 and as interim director from 2007 to 2008. She has organized over thirty exhibitions, including The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty, Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life (voted Best Show in a University Gallery by the International Association of Art Critics), and Berkeley Eye: Perspectives on the Collection (2016–17). She was founding director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. In 2000 Baas cofounded the arts consortium Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness, which over the course of its five-year existence generated some fifty exhibitions, educational programs, artist residencies, and two books: Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art and Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today.
Curator Emerita Lucinda Barnes joined the BAMPFA curatorial staff in 2001, and served as chief curator and director of programs and collections from 2004 to 2016. At BAMPFA Barnes has curated and co-curated more than forty exhibitions, including Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction (2019), Creation in Form and Color: Hans Hofmann (2016, for the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany), Rudolf de Crignis / MATRIX 245 (2013), Indeterminate Stillness: Looking at Whistler (2010), Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet (2009), and Measure of Time (2006). Barnes has also directed numerous major exhibitions that have traveled to Berkeley, such as Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage (2011), James Castle: A Retrospective (2010), and Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens (2005). Prior to BAMPFA, Barnes held senior curatorial posts at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, and the Newport Harbor Art Museum (now the Orange County Museum of Art).
As senior curator at BAMPFA from 1999 through 2007, Constance Lewallen organized many major exhibitions that toured nationally and internationally, including The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951–1982); Everything Matters: Paul Kos, a Retrospective; Ant Farm, 1968–1978 (with Steve Seid). As adjunct curator at BAMPFA she has curated A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s and State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970 (with Karen Moss), BAMPFA's contribution (with the Orange County Museum of Art) to the Getty's Pacific Standard Time project. She is currently working on an exhibition of Conceptual art from the BAMPFA Collection, Mind over Matter, to be presented in 2016.
Sandra S. Phillips is curator emerita of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She joined SFMOMA's curatorial staff in 1987, and assumed the positions of senior curator in 1999 and curator emerita in 2017. She has organized numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions of modern and contemporary photography including Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, Diane Arbus Revelations, Helen Levitt, Dorothea Lange: American Photographs, Daido Moriyama: Stray Dog, Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, and Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence. Phillips was previously curator at the Vassar College Art Museum, and has taught at various institutions including the State University of New York, New Paltz; Parsons School of Design; San Francisco State University; and the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome and received a grant from The Japan Foundation in 2000.
Philippe Pirotte is director of the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule and of Portikus in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and curator of the 2016 edition of La Biennale de Montréal. As adjunct curator for BAMPFA, Pirotte organized the 2013 retrospective Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works 1993–2013 and the forthcoming Regarding the Pain of Others. In 1999 he cofounded the art center objectif exhibitions in Antwerp. From 2005 to 2011, he was director of Kunsthalle Bern. Since 2004, Pirotte has held the position of senior advisor of the Rijksakademie for Visual Arts in Amsterdam. He has organized solo exhibitions by artists such as Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Owen Land, Oscar Tuazon, Jutta Koether, Allan Kaprow, and Corey McCorkle, and group shows, including the trilogy The Idea of Africa (re-invented) and Voids—A Retrospective of Empty Exhibitions.


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It is delightful to find out that I had some progress in watercolour. I am more confident in using brush and paints, and according to our teacher, I gradually know what I am doing.
Apart from the class once a week, I also did some practice at home.
Here is our teacher showing us how to do a watery effect.
I love the fluffy, soft edges and the clean colour she painted. This is a simple demonstration, but I can feel her control and casualness. There is a huge distance between us, across time. Wish there is one day that I can paint like this.
Here she showed how to use the colour from one side to give the shape of the other side, like sky and snow mountain.
Here are some colour charts of varied types of watercolour paints.
The following images are other students' work. Most of them are elder people. Even each course lasts for about 6 weeks, they have been here for many years, doing what they like and making friends.
They are not literally skilful, but I found their paintings are inspiring and beautiful. There is a sort of joyfulness and peace inside. I always found that I try to cover all of the paper that there is no breathing space in the end, becoming stiff. Even the way I use my brush is full of stiffness. I wonder why. Even I consciously want to change the way I paint, it seems not really helpful.
Because I keep painting icebergs and snow mountains, our teacher showed me this work. I think it is amazing, especially the way that mountain and grass in the front were painted. The brush stokes are so vivid, and the shape, size and direction of the stokes are just at the place they should be. My practice is far less than enough.
Here are some work I did.
Our teacher recommended these two paper to me, since I want to achieve the water wash feeling and have the watery edge. I feel more satisfied about the colour in these two work than the work before. Especially, I like the subtle colour in the sky, and the comparison between the strong orange and blue. I also tried to use some casual brush strokes to give some energy to the work. Which worked to some extend, but I think the brush strokes on the back of the mountain in the work below are a bit too strong. However, in a way, these stokes give a sense of how the mountain turn, from one side to another.
Saunders Waterford 300g, hot pressed ( needs to be wetted on both sides, otherwise hard to wash.
For the following two yellow, I used a sponge to paint them instead of brush. And I deliberately did not put on my glasses, trying to get a overall effect.
I enjoyed using sponge, because there is more playfulness inside. Comparing these two, the one above has better volume, while the one below has better colour. The colour above is too strong.
I painted the one above later than the one below. I was suggested that for the side of the mountain, I can paint across the surface instead of following the line of the mountain,which gives it more volume.
This bowl was the one I made in the first class, now after firing, it looks like this. I quite like this rusty rough surface. People think it gives a feeling of antique.
The following images show our teacher's demonstration of throwing.
push forward and press to push it down.
push it inwards to pull it up.
pull it up and to the centre.
Then pull it up. Keep the inner finger higher than the finger outside. Use fingers push against the clay and form an 'S' on the clay body.


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Scillies 20-30 October. My first autumn migration.
This was my 3rd visit to the Scillies in a little over a year, but my first trip for the autumn migration. From the ferry I saw 2 Manx shearwaters, several guillemots, 1 or 2 razorbills and a lot of gannets.
Wednesday 20th
I arrived at St Mary's about midday. As my case was being delivered directly to the B&B I went straight off to see the sub-alpine warbler. I met David Abbott who had been to the Scillies many times and we looked together. After a brief glimpse of the bird (it was very elusive) I got the 2 o'clock boat to St Martins for the red-flanked bluetail. On arrival, I met Colin Mackenzie-Grieve, who kindly showed me the way as it was quite a walk. Within minutes I was getting close views and pictures of this handsome and obliging bird.
Red flanked bluetail
I rushed down to the south of the island for the melodious warbler. After a few minutes the bird also appeared. I didn't want to miss the last boat so I made my way north again to the quay. On arrival, I learned of a jack-snipe on a very small pond near the beach. It was in full view and didn't move all the time I was there. Jack-snipe rely heavily on camouflage not to be seen. They will remain motionless until you almost step on them before they move.
Jack snipe St Martins.
The bluetail and the 2 warblers were all lifers. My first day had been a success. I sent a few grip texts to David Campbell!
That evening I had a meal in the Scillonian club, followed by the bird log. The bird log is where a full list of all birds seen on the islands is compiled. You can then know which birds have been seen where and decide what to do the next day.
Thursday 21st
I spent the morning on St Martin's, at Porth Hellick. There were a number of yellow-browed warblers, goldcrests and a common snipe close to the seaward hide. News came over the pager of a common rosefinch on St Martin's. I got the 2 o'clock boat.
The bird was quite a long way from the quay. I stopped to watch a pair of male pheasants fighting.
Further on, I surprised a group of red-legged partridges.
When I arrived at the field where the rosefinch was I learned that it was in a flock of about 300 chaffinches. They were in a field of quinola and they were difficult to see when they dropped down. There were also 3 brambling, as well as fieldfare and redwing. Every 15 minutes a sparrowhawk would swoop down and scatter the chaffinches. After 45 minutes the rosefinch hadn't reappeared and I had to get back for the boat. I watched some rock pipits and a cheeky wren on the quayside. No lifers today but I enjoyed the pleasant walks and the fine weather.
Friday 22nd
I decided to go back to St Martins for more pictures of the bluetail. I spent much of the day with a birdwatcher from West Yorkshire. On arrival, the bluetail was amazingly tame. On its circuit it would flit between the bushes and the path, jumping down literally at my feet 1 or 2 metres away! Sometimes it was too close to photograph and I had to wait for it to go further away! We watched it for quite a while before taking a walk through the gorse looking for Dartford warblers.
Red-flanked bluetail
After lunch we walked further up the island to the top of the hill where we saw 2 ravens and an aerial display by 2 sparrowhawks.
Goccha!!
Nah! I can fly upside down. . . . . .
We started back to the quay from the far end of the beach hoping to see the Richard's pipit which had been seen there for a few days. There were 2 birdwatchers in front of us who flushed it at one point. We quickly made our way towards them and I managed to get a few shots of the pipit before it went into the marram grass again. Another lifer!
Richard's pipit
Back on St Mary's we went to see a common scoter in Porthcressa Bay. Whilst there, I watched the turnstones dodge the spray whilst they were on the rocks.
Turnstones
At the B&B I sorted through my photos, had a cup of tea, listened to the Archers and relaxed until dinnertime at the Scillonian. Lovely!
Saturday 23rd
I spent today on St Mary's. In the morning I took some pictures of a kite surfer as he was lifted by the strong wind.
I explored Lower Moor where some water rails were very vocal and occasionally came out. I wandered through the lanes to Porthloo beach, where 3 pale-bellied Brent geese were very close inshore. News came on the pager of a cattle egret. The light was fading and we called Spider to pick us up. On the way there Spider picked the egret up in flight. We got out of the cab and watched it circle over Porth Hellick before it disappeared. Not many people saw it and it was gone the next day.
Sunday was quiet. The highlight was a serin up near the riding stables. A serin is a very small bird and it was with a mixed flock of other finches. Quite a few people were watching it so it was eventually picked out and I was able to take some distant photographs.
Serin
David Campbell was due to arrive today at midday so I decided to stay on St Mary's and go and see the serin again. On the way I looked at the feeding station, took some pictures of a large flock of siskin and watched some redwing eating berries.
Redwing
As soon as he got off the boat, David joined me at the serin site. He was very keen to see the sub-alpine warbler so we wandered down there. Typically, someone had just seen it but it was as elusive as ever. After a while, I decided to go to the pumping station and Porth Hellick. While in the seaward hide a water rail flew in and dropped down right in front of me before running quickly into a clump of reeds. Later I met 2 birdwatchers who said they had just come from seeing the sub-alpine warbler. I asked them if young blond lad had also seen it. They told me that David had flushed it from round the corner but hadn't actually seen it! How very unfortunate for David.
I wandered back to meet David and we waited 2 or 3 hours until dusk, but the elusive warbler did not show.
David and I decided to go to Content Farm. We wandered up there slowly via Porthloo, stopping for elevenses at Juliet's garden, then up round the golf course to Telegraph and then to the farm. This yielded 2 black redstarts, which we watched for some time.
Black redstart
Spider had told us about a small, strange raptor that he had seen on several occasions and which exhibited features of a sharp-shinned hawk. The bird had been seen again by Newford Duck Pond, so David and I went to join quite a large crowd. At one point I did notice a small raptor for a few seconds over the tree line, but it was too quick to get a photo. The general opinion amongst the assembled birders was that it was the subject bird. David didn't see it because he was showing me something on his iPhone. I got the blame! We stayed until dusk with no further sighting (echoes of the sub alpine).
After dark, news came through of a red-breasted flycatcher up on the garrison.
Immediately after breakfast, David and I went to the garrison. After 10 minutes or so we saw the red-breasted flycatcher in the pines. After watching this nice bird for a while we went to the pumping station where a dusky warbler had been seen. This bird was very mobile but we did eventually get reasonable views.
David decided to go to Tresco after lunch but I stayed on St Mary's. I had good views of a reed warbler at the pumping station.
Reed warbler
After that I went back to the garrison to get some better shots of the red breasted flycatcher. I managed to find a spot a little closer with the light behind me away from everyone else. Patience paid off. The flycatcher came quite close at times, as did some goldcrests, which were very mobile.
At the Scillonian club there was a lot of talk about the mystery bird and David was keen to track it down. However, we decided to go to St Agnes the following day. A spotted Sandpiper had been reported and we were both keen to see it. However, we arranged with Spider to pick us up at 8 AM so we could spend a couple of hours looking for the mystery accipiter. Our acquaintances Peter and Jamie agreed to come with us.
After an early breakfast, Spider arranged for us to go into the field of a local farmer where the hawk had been seen. The 4 of us watched for an hour and a half before Spider picked us up to take us to the harbour. Amazingly, the boat for St Agnes was full and they wouldn't take us! David and I therefore went back to the field to continue the vigil until the next boat at 2 PM. Although we saw a couple of sparrowhawks there was no sign of the mystery bird.
We were entertained by a hunting Merlin which scattered a flock of chaffinches in the next field and caught one of them. The noise was tremendous. The Merlin then took his prey into a nearby tree.
On St Agnes we looked in vain for a turtle dove which had been seen. We continued on to the beach where we enjoyed spectacular views of the spotted sandpiper which foraged only 10-15m from us.
Also present were some rock pipits and meadow pipits
Rock pipit
Meadow pipit
This was a fairly relaxed day with no new birds. David and I went to Porth Hellick where we finally managed to see a firecrest, as well as a jack snipe on the Lake. We ended up at Porthcressa beach to see a single red-breasted merganser.
Surprisingly, the ferry sailing was cancelled today, apparently because of poor weather. Some cynics, however, said it was because the ferry wasn't very full!!
A trip to Lower Moor gave us wonderfully close views of a greenshank.
Greenshank
We were due to get the ferry at midday but, even more amazingly, it was cancelled for a second day, something which the owners of our B&B said had not happened for the last 35 years! The B&B had closed and we had to move next door for one more night. As we had more time, David and I went back to the garrison. While he looked at the red breasted flycatcher from the usual path, I ventured into the pines, making my way carefully round the back to a position where I hoped I would be able to take shots of goldcrests or the flycatcher. I had carefully manoeuvred myself into position over a fallen tree when David rang. He had seen a warbler which looked good for Blyth's reed warbler and he urged me to go back immediately to take a picture. This was easier said than done. I had to get myself off the trunk, make my way back through the pines and along the path again. When I was nearly there I heard someone shouting demonically at the top of his voice but couldn't hear what he was saying (maybe that was just as well!). On arrival I realised it was David screaming in desperation because the bird had just disappeared. Unfortunately, it did not reappear that day or at all. I got the blame for that as well! David was in poor humour for the rest of the day!
At first light we went back to the garrison hoping to see the promising warbler. It did not reappear and we had to be at the ferry by 8.15. The crossing was uneventful. Here is a juvenile kittiwake.
Juvenile kittiwake
An American bittern had been seen north of Penzance. I was travelling back to Sutton with David and his parents and Josh Jenkins Shaw. The weather was awful but we drove north hoping to see the bird. After 45 minutes in the driving rain, cold, hungry and with the long journey to Sutton ahead of us, we gave up. David's parents had thoughtfully bought us Cornish pasties. They were really tasty. Thanks to Gordon and Lois.
At Exeter we just had time before dark to see the American golden plover (a lifer).
Overall, the trip was very satisfying and relaxing. I met several friendly birdwatchers and I enjoyed the evenings at the Scillonian club. 5 lifers on the Scillies and one more on the way back was a reasonable number. Thanks, as always, David for your company.
Labels: melodious warbler, red-breasted flycatcher, red-flanked bluetail, richard's pipit, Scillies, Scilly Isles, spotted sandpiper, St Agnes, St Martins, St Mary's, sub-alpine warbler, Tresco
Rustic bunting in Whitstable.
Waxwings finally come South.
Lesser yellowlegs in Oxford

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Congrats! Looks like the front of Milne's?
That was just on TV the other day. I told you I was going to buy one.
Congrats on the new ride Mike.
My brother grabbed me one from target. I still need the Camaro set.


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First Observation of Columnar Jointing on Mars
This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows an exposure of layered rock that exhibits a type of fracturing -- called columnar jointing -- that results when cooling lava contracts.
The observation is cited in a report, "Discovery of Columnar Jointing on Mars," in the February 2009 issue of the journal Geology. The authors propose that flooding by water was likely what caused a quick cooling of lava to result in this jointing.
The image, taken Oct. 31, 2007, shows a portion of an unnamed crater 16 kilometers (10 miles) in diameter and centered at 21.52 degrees north latitude, 184.35 degrees north longitude. Shown here is a section about one kilometer (0.6 mile) wide from the image catalogued by the HiRISE team as PSP_005917_2020. The column-forming fractures resemble textures common on Earth in locations such as the Colombia River Basalt Group and in the Colorado Plateau.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona


Apartment block "Indiana", 2 storeys, built in 2006. 4 km from the sea, 4 km from the beach, in a cul-de-sac. For shared use: natural state property (fenced), swimming pool angular fenced (5 x 10 m, 01.06.-30.09.). Supermarket 650 m, bakery 200 m, sandy beach "Fréjus" 4 km. Sports harbour 4 km, golf course (18 hole) 5 km, tennis 1 km. Nearby attractions: Cannes 40 km, Saint-Tropez 40 km, Nice 70 km, Gorges du Verdon 90 km. Well-known lakes can easily be reached: Sainte-Croix 90 km. Hiking paths: Estérel 8 km. Groups of teenagers on request only. Please note: 4 km. Motorway 10 km from the property. Airfield 65 km from the property. Neighbourhood highly sensitive to noise. Quietness and good behaviour expected.
2-room apartment 40 m2 on 1st floor. Living/dining room with panoramic window with 1 double sofabed (1 x 140 cm, length 190 cm), dining table and TV. Exit to the terrace. 1 room with 1 french bed (1 x 140 cm, length 190 cm), bathroom, separate WC and TV. Open kitchen (oven, dishwasher, 4 ceramic glass hob hotplates, microwave, freezer, electric coffee machine). Large terrace 10 m2. Terrace furniture. Facilities: washing machine, iron. Reserved parking space n 22. Please note: non-smokers only. Maximum 1 pet/ dog allowed. Smoke alarm.
T2, 4 people, AHIPEL residence.
House in Gardanne between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, 3 bedrooms private pool.
A cottage near the lake and not very far from the tracks ..du happiness!


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Read or listen to a book, story of some kind. Try to do this once a month or every two months. You can borrow a book from the library, or buy one. It might be gifted to you, or it might have been waiting for you in some pile beside the bed collecting dust. Perhaps you prefer an e-book or an audio-book. It can be any kind of book, story or a non-fiction book like a memoir or a cookbook or a travel book. It could be a graphic novel. A comment piece, investigative journalism, or even a textbook. Anything!
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During the year I will post a quarterly list of all the titles and reviews you have read / submitted so that you can swap ideas and reviews. I'll also be asking you to donate the money you set aside from your completed books and stories to Pencils of Promise. When you donate that money is up to you. Just make sure you have registered as a team member first. It will feel great to help someone else to experience the pleasure and joy that reading brings. The world needs more writers and readers. Let's spread the word!


The 2016 US Presidential Elections, vaccinating children, 9/11, chimp/human hybrids, Edward Snowden, combatting Holocaust denialism, spotting sociopaths, cancer cures, Julian Assange, false flags, UFO sightings, homes for homeless, universal healthcare..…These are just a few of the threads in our Underground Knowledge discussion group on the literary site Goodreads.com.
Group membership has just topped 1,900 confirming its status as one of the fastest-growing (as well as most active) groups on Goodreads!
New members welcome! In fact…y'all welcome!


This month we launched a new farming topic page on GOV.UK.
It brings together all farming content, hopefully in a way that makes it much easier for people to find what they're looking for.
It also allows government to point farmers to information they might need to know but are unlikely to be searching for, such as the launch of a new scheme or grant.
The page is in beta. We want your feedback so that we can continue to shape the way we present this content based on what works best for users.
This has been a collaboration across many organisations within government.
Far too often in the past, if a farmer wanted to know something, apply for a grant, or report something to the government, they'd first need to know which part of government dealt with that aspect. They'd also probably need to know what the government jargon was for it so they could find the content or service.
Defra, Government Digital Service (GDS), the Animal and Plant Health Authority (APHA), the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and Natural England have all been working together to make sure the focus is on farmers and not on individual organisational processes.
The farming topic page is the first stage in a much wider programme of improvements.
There's also a project underway to look at how we can simplify the number and complexity of transactions farmers have to undertake. By focusing on user needs, we should be able to reduce the burden on users drastically.
A new helpline number also gives farmers a single number to call when they need more individual advice tailored to their specific needs.
This work fits into a much larger GDS project to improve the way users can browse through content on GOV.UK.
Through regular rounds of user research and testing, information architects at GDS are able to understand the mental model users bring to the site, so they can match that as closely as possible in the way it's organised.
At Defra, we've used analytics data and insights gained from user research to apply that principle to farming content in a way that plugs into what GDS are doing with their needs-based topic/subtopic site structure.
Now the page is live, we'll watch how users interact with it and make changes accordingly. We'll also be conducting regular user testing of our own to get a deeper understanding of users' experience. This will allow us to keep improving the way we present content based on evidence.
Take a look at the farming topic page. You can let us know what you think by leaving a comment below or use the feedback form that's linked to from the page.


Working For Free … Should You Do It?
These are the words editors cringe to hear from their writing friends. Yet, all too often we're faced with this dilemma. After all, our circles tend to include many writers and most of them could claim to be "friends." How do we decide who is a friend that deserves free services and how do we establish friends who pay full price?
Certainly, every editor needs to determine their own comfort level with this topic, but here are a few ways I decide.
How much time will it take me? A novel with a hundred thousand words would take me quite a bit of time—even just to read through "quickly." My time is money, so I would not do this work for free. But I might offer a bargain or discount. (I'll discuss that later in this article.) However, if we're talking about a short poem, or even a concise blog post, I might be willing to bend my rules for payment.
Are we really friends? What is the actual level of friendship? Have I known this person for years? If not providing the free service would harm an otherwise long-term and dear friendship, determine how you could bargain or exchange services in order to maintain a good relationship.
If, by using the above guidelines, you determine the work should not be done for free, how then should you diplomatically engage a "friend" into a business arrangement?
Ask your friend for clarification. Do they want you to read their story and give simple feedback or do they intend for you to provide your editing services? If they're only looking for feedback, perhaps you could agree to read the manuscript—at your leisure. This helps a friend to understand that you are a busy professional and that paying customers will come first. If it truly is editing services they demand, check out number two.
Advise your friend of your current rate and then offer to give a discount of some amount. This way they understand your time is money, but you are willing to provide them a bit of a break for your friendship. You could offer a discounted rate, an exchange of services, or to edit only a small portion of their book. If they will be paying you for your services, make sure you outline how that will happen in clear, concise terms. I still use a contract, even for my friends. This avoids any misunderstandings.
What happens if the friend seems put off by your professional leanings?
Simple. Retain a friendly, professional manner and move on. At that point, the decision truly rests on the friend's shoulders—not your own. You have conveyed how you handle business arrangements, even between friends. If they choose not to utilize your services, you can move onto other business without guilt. Hopefully, the friend—if they truly are one—will understand your position and work with you to achieve the results best for each person. If not, maybe they were not a friend after all.


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71 years later, the full implementation of the Declaration is still far from becoming a reality. Now, it is time for the youngest generations to pick up the baton.
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As part of the European Union's Global Beach Clean-up campaign to raise awareness about the increasing challenges posed by marine litter, the Delegation of the EU for the Pacific led a beach clean-up initiative along the Suva Foreshore on 29th November, 2019.
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The European Union reaffirms today its support to the universal ban on chemical weapons. It is a tribute to all those who have lost their lives or loved ones and suffered harm from chemical weapons as well as a commitment to promoting peace and security. The Chemical Weapons Convention and the
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There's a party on the Eastern front, and we haven't been invited. We're coming anyway. And arriving early.
The Pentagon recently announced a major shift of troops to Poland and the Baltic States, scheduled for February. However, The Associated Press has learned that troops from Colorado are already moving out.
Polish Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said he was "very happy that a decision has been taken by the U.S. side for an earlier deployment," according to the AP.
But though Armored Brigade Combat Team from Fort Carson, Colorado, has been loading on ships and will be deployed in early January, the Army told the AP that the deployment was not accelerated and was taking place according to the previously set schedule.
The mystery, therefore, involved why the U.S. Army denied the acceleration. Perhaps this was just a way of keeping the Russians off balance — not that Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't seem unbalanced already.
Eastern Europe has been nervous — especially in the wake of Putin's Ukraine intervention. His annexation of the Crimea region has had some allied nations worrying that they could be next.
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work said the new plan should allay such worries, but the apparent change in the timetable may indicate that American intelligence and military leaders shared some of those concerns.
Military.gov reported the U.S. plan for the constant presence of a third brigade in Europe. Two permanent brigades — one Stryker and one airborne– have already been stationed there.
In March, U.S. News reported plans to position American troops, tanks and other armored vehicles full-time along NATO's eastern borders to deter Russian aggression, in what would be the first such deployment since the end of the Cold War.
For months this summer, the U.S., Germany and Britain have led joint exercises in Operation Swift Response, preparing for rapid deployment. Their initial base of 5,000 troops included airmen from the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
The Pentagon now aimed to rotate in an Army armored brigade each year and divide the rotational force of 4,200 among six eastern members — Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.
Just a little New Year's surprise. Nice party, Vladimir.
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Work-life balance is about creating and maintaining supportive and healthy work environments, which will enable employees to have balance between work and personal responsibilities and thus strengthen employee loyalty and productivity.
Numerous studies have been conducted on work-life balance. According to a major Canadian study conducted by Lowe (2005), 1 in 4 employees experience high levels of conflict between work and family, based on work-to-family interference and caregiver strain. If role overload is included, then close to 60 percent of employees surveyed experience work-family conflict.
Of all the job factors that influence work-life conflict, the amount of time spent at work is the strongest and most consistent predictor. The higher levels of work-to-family conflict reported by managers or professionals often are a function of their longer work hours. Other reasons include: job security, support from one's supervisor, support from co-workers, work demands or overload, work-role conflict, work-role ambiguity, job dissatisfaction, and extensive use of communication technology that blurs the boundaries between home and work.
Today's workers have many competing responsibilities such as work, children, housework, volunteering, spouse and elderly parent care and this places stress on individuals, families and the communities in which they reside. Work-life conflict is a serious problem that impacts workers, their employers and communities.
It seems that this problem is increasing over time due to high female labour force participation rates, increasing numbers of single parent families, the predominance of the dual-earner family and emerging trends such as elder care. It is further exasperated with globalization, an aging population, and historically low unemployment.
Long work hours and highly stressful jobs not only hamper employees' ability to harmonize work and family life but also are associated with health risks, such as increased smoking and alcohol consumption, weight gain and depression. Work life conflict has been associated with numerous physical and mental health implications.
According to a 2007 study by Duxbury and Higgins, women are more likely than men to report high levels of role overload and caregiver strain. This is because women devote more hours per week than men to non-work activities such as childcare, elder care and are more likely to have primary responsibility for unpaid labour such as domestic work. Furthermore, other studies show that women also experience less spousal support for their careers than their male counterparts. Although women report higher levels of work-family conflict than do men, the numbers of work-life conflict reported by men is increasing.
Work-life conflict has negative implications on family life. According to the 2007 study by Duxbury and Higgins, 1 in 4 Canadians report that their work responsibilities interfere with their ability to fulfill their responsibilities at home.
Employees, especially the younger generation who are faced with long hours, the expectations of 24/7 connection and increasing pressure of globalization are beginning to demand changes from their employers. Also, people in the elderly employee segment are working longer now than in the past and are demanding different work arrangements to accommodate their life style needs.
Employers are becoming increasingly aware of the cost implications associated with over-worked employees such as: operating and productivity costs, absenteeism, punctuality, commitment and performance. There are five main reasons why companies participate in work life balance programs: high return on investment, recruitment and retention of employees, legislation, costs and union regulations.
There are a wide variety of practices currently being used to help employees achieve work-life balance. It is important to note that some work-life balance programs help employees handle stress and otherwise cope more effectively while other programs help to reduce the absolute stress levels by rebalancing work life.
A growing number of employers have implemented wellness programs or pay for their employees' gym membership as part of a benefits package. Some companies invite fitness trainers or yoga instructors into the office to hold lunchtime sessions.
Some companies undertake initiatives to improve employees' healthy eating habits. Others offer stress management programs which include stretching, yoga, counseling, as well as bringing in Registered Massage Therapists to work.
Many employers are offering longer vacation times than the mandatory 2 weeks per year imposed by Canadian legislation. Additionally, some companies will offer "flex" days. Interestingly, sick days tend to go down once some is "entitled" to three weeks or more a year of holidays.
Human resources policies that can be used to increase work-life balance include implementing time off in lieu of overtime pay arrangements, providing a limited number of days of paid leave per year for child care, elder care or personal problems, or having policies around weekend and evening use of laptops and Blackberrys.
There are some issues that arise when employees have flexible work hours such as lack of face-time with other staff and not being as available to clients; these issues can be solved by ensuring employees discuss scheduling with supervisor and let clients and other employees know their hours of availability.
Sometimes in order to accommodate workers need for work life balance, firms may need to reduce the amount of work given to each employee. To accomplish this, employers can hire new people, reduce time spent in job-related travel, allow for job sharing, or reevaluate the work itself and how it is structured and organized with work process improvements and/or reengineering of work.
According to a study by Messmer in 2006, flexible scheduling is the benefit valued most by employees. However, increased flexibility, if implemented without conditions and used to facilitate business ends without provision for worker consent, could compromise instead of enhance work life balance.
Evidence suggests that improvements in people management practices, especially work time and work location flexibility, and the development of supportive managers, contribute to increased work-life balance. Work-life balance programs have been demonstrated to have an impact on employees in terms of recruitment, retention/turnover, commitment and satisfaction, absenteeism, productivity and accident rates.
Companies that have implemented work-life balance programs recognize that employee welfare affects the "bottom line" of the business. Parameters are required to ensure that programs are having the desired effect on both employees and the company. Six parameters that can be used to evaluate work life balance programs are: extent of management buy-in and training, how programs are communicated to employees, corporate culture, management controls, human resources policies and employee control.
Finally, self-management is important; people need to control their own behaviour and expectations regarding work-life balance.
Melissa Abercromby has an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University with a focus on Strategy and a Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Waterloo with options in Management Science and Water Resources. She is currently employed with Corix Utilities Inc. doing Project Management and Business Development for Ontario Region.


Sarah Gayle Meech looks like a nouveaux rockabilly woman, but her music is straight up traditional country. Her debut album, One Good Thing, shares Meech's original tunes with an amazing backing band and stellar studio musicians. Just try not to dance while you listen. Don't let the A-list players distract you, though, because Meech's live show brings the energy that fills the gap in instrumentation changes from recorded versus live.
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The .357 String Band Lightning From The North "Lightning from the North" Compadre band.
Bob Wayne Till the Wheels Fall Off "All My Friends" The lyrics reference cocaine, heroin & lsd use. I left the lyrics intact to contrast the traditional country music in this song with the surprisingly straightforward lyrics about hard drug use. People love or hate Bob Wayne, but he seems to be pretty honest about the lives a lot of people live, without judging them. I don't know if it's a persona or character or real, but this song works.
Buck Owens The Instrumental Hits "Buckaroo" Meech plays regularly at Layla's Bluegrass Inn and Robert's Western World on Broadway, mixing her original tunes with Buck Owens and Loretta Lynn covers.
Hank III Rebel Within "Gettin' Drunk and Falling Down" I've always avoided listening to any of Hank III's music because he can't seem to let the rebel flag go away. I'm a lifelong Southerner, and I don't care about the "Heritage Not Hate" argument because it DOES represent hate. Move on, Shelton. Your music is sometimes really great. Quit being your own caricature. Get rid of the stupid stars and bars. That said, his long-time player and producer, Andy Gibson, is the thread connecting many of these bands.
Bobby Bare 16 Biggest Hits "Numbers" Grant Johnson is currently on tour as Bare's lead guitar player. He has also been heard on this radio show in the Derek Hoke program.
Scott Chism and the Better Half Long Haul Steady "Jet N Dewdrop's Farm" I chose this one because of the Chris Scruggs connection.
Matt Woods (Country Fried Rock alum) The Matt Woods Manifesto "Beating Down My Door" One of the best songwriters I know. Woods was one of the other bands on the lineup in Illinois in 2013.
Hillbilly Casino Tennessee Stomp [Explicit] "The Ballad of Psycho Steve" (ft Dale Watson) On Watson's upcoming EP, Hillbilly Casino is his backing abnd and Meech does backing vocals and a duet. I chose this song for the connection to the rest of this album, and the BR 549 Chris Scruggs connections, and Geoff Firebaugh, who co-wrote this tune.
The G-ddamn Gallows Seven Devils [Explicit] "7 Devils" Another compadre band.


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A. SQL 2012 Enterprise allows unlimited virtual instances. In order to this with the 2008 version you would of had to license Datacenter edition. (way expensive btw). SQL 2012 does allow license mobility within server farms as well. Check out the SPUR for details.
A. Yes, as long as you are reporting SQL 2012 cores, you can run 2008 and prior. Keep in mind, it has to match version. For example, if you license Standard, you cannot run Enterprise. If you license Enterprise, you can run Enterprise or Standard.
Q. Can I just license the virtual, not the physical machine?
Yes. SQL does allow you to license just the virtual machines. You would report the number of cores you assign to the server. (minimum of 4 cores).
Q. Can I license SQL Enterprise by user?
A. No. Unfortunately SQL Enterprise can only be licensed by core. SQL Standard and SQL Business Intelligence SKU can be licensed by user.
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I wrote an earlier blog post about the generalities of SharePoint (you can check it out here) but thought I would review further by providing an example. Here's a fictitious story about SharePoint, and why I think there is so much confusion.
Dave worked for an insurance software company XYZ. They were in a pickle to say the least. His focus was developing software, not licensing it. He used a SharePoint site to host a line of business application that he charged a fee for customers to consume. I will save you the details of the application, but hopefully you will get my point.
This application went out to the insurance broker community as well as the broker's customers. That being said, not all the information accessed was the same. Every broker (non employees of the insurance software company; not affiliated in any way) had access to their own unique information through their own credentials. Every end customer (the broker's customer) had access to their own individual information as well. Dave decided that the number of users would be in the thousands, surely a processor based license would do the trick.
He went ahead and used SPLA because he knew his company was hosting and providing a commercial service. (he also read page 9 of the PUR for volume licensing "prohibit commercial hosting") For two years he licensed by processor that covered all the users. Secondly, he never reported SQL. SQL is not being accessed directly, just used to collect the data. He also licensed Windows via SPLA.
One day Dave stumbled upon my blog. After doing a little research, he found a blurb "need a SPLA license for direct or indirect access." He wondered if SQL would be considered "indirect." While contemplating whether he should have licensed SQL, he thought of his solution in its entirety. If he removed the SQL server from SharePoint, would it still work? Of course it wouldn't, which is why he needed a SQL SPLA license too. Now his heart was really pumping. Dave almost had a stroke. Then one night he was having a difficult time sleeping, and decided to check out the SPUR. After all, the SPUR surely would put him to sleep pretty quickly! Before his tired eyes closed for the night he happened to read "Hosting SharePoint 2013." Curious what this was all about, he poured a cup of coffee and sat down only to find what he was doing was completely wrong. Here's the blurb he read aloud, waking not only his dog, but his wife as well. Ouch.
The first sentence almost put him over the edge "ALL content, information, and applications by internal must also be accessible to external" He called SPLA 911 and got help. He owed two years of SQL and SharePoint user licenses, not processor. Why? All content was different for each individual user. No content was the same; user license would apply. If the company had a public site with the same information, and everyone sees the same thing, he could have used the processor license to cover everything.
Poor Dave…he lost his job, his company owed thousands of dollars in underreported licenses, and his dog and wife were still upset with him from waking them up in the middle of the night.
1. Service Providers (and resellers) get mixed up by the definition of "external user." External user under SPLA is not your customer, but your customer's customer. (the end customer). All information must be accessible by the external user and your customer. SPLA is not always the same as volume licensing.
2. Never…under any circumstance…wake your wife up in the middle of the night.


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Screen Media and Young Children: Who Benefits?
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Audrey Berger Cardany
General Music Today
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Lane was rated a Category 5 storm, the most powerful on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
The most powerful storm on record hitting Hawaii was the Category 4 Hurricane Iniki, which made landfall on Kauai island on Sept. 11, 1992, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It killed six people and damaged or destroyed more than 14,000 homes.
On Tuesday, Hawaii residents scrambled to prepare for the storm's arrival. Cars waited in long lines outside gasoline stations in Honolulu and members of canoe clubs pulled their boats from the water.
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ECRI and RLDatix Launch Empathetic Communication and Caring for the Caregiver Training during COVID-19 Pandemic
by OR Today Magazine | Apr 14, 2020 | Industry Insights, News and Notes
PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA and CHICAGO, IL—ECRI, an independent trusted voice in healthcare improving the safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness of care, and RLDatix, the leading global provider of intelligent patient safety solutions, announce a new collaboration to meet the needs of care teams in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their collaboration will initiate with a free empathetic communication and caring for the caregiver training program.
Both ECRI and RLDatix bring decades of experience in patient safety and reducing preventable harm. The goal of this collaboration is to develop tangible programs that can be used immediately in the battle against COVID-19. Additional ways to provide value in patient safety and training for healthcare organizations will continue beyond the COVID-19 crisis.
One area that the two companies will collaborate on immediately is a live webcast program that combines the clinical side of the COVID-19 battle (the head) with the need to provide emotional first aid for caregivers (the heart).
"The mental health of frontline staff is now a key concern of leaders as our caregivers struggle with the personal challenges of combatting the pandemic while dealing with their own feelings of isolation, sleep deprivation, and emotional exhaustion," says Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD, president and CEO, ECRI. "We are proud to be working with RLDatix on programs that provide the communications skills that care teams need to handle unimaginable life and death situations."
The April 16 training program features internationally recognized patient safety expert Timothy B. McDonald, MD, JD, chief patient safety and risk officer, RLDatix. Dr. McDonald served as a lead architect for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) toolkit.
Dr. McDonald will share the importance of implementing the CANDOR process and how the lines of communication for patients and care teams can help mitigate the negative consequences of this crisis and support healthcare workers as they seek emotional first aid, a sense of well-being, and morale. The webinar includes two role-playing videos that address real-world scenarios facing healthcare workers today.
"As the COVID-19 crisis continues to spread through communities around the world, it is imperative that we work together to mitigate its impact," said Jeff Surges, CEO, RLDatix. "Our unique perspectives at the intersection of mental health and patient safety play a pivotal role in developing resources aimed at reducing the impact of the virus, and we are excited to work closely with ECRI on this initiative."
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Good Samaritans Helping a Sea Lion Cross a Highway Reeks of Maine
Jadd Published: January 11, 2022
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A sea lion recently crossed a highway in San Diego, California
It's definitely not a sight you see every day or possibly any day of your life. For whatever reason, according to ABC7 in California, a sea lion in San Diego ended up somehow wandering from its usual ocean habitat and stumbled upon a major California highway -- state Route 94.
Thankfully, two good Samaritans risked their lives and darted out on the highway to direct traffic and help the sea lion cross.
ABC7 reports that where the seal was found in state Route 94 was about three miles from San Diego Bay and eight miles from the ocean -- nowhere near water. It almost sounds like a scene out of the 1990s movie Homeward Bound, except with a sea lion instead of the dogs and cat. Thankfully, two good Samaritans risked their lives and darted out on the highway to direct traffic and help the sea lion cross.
This could easily happen in Coastal Maine with a seal
Sure, this happened out on the West Coast, but can't you see a similar thing happening here on the East Coast, more specifically Coastal Maine? It could even happen somewhere on the Seacoast in New Hampshire, too. This isn't just because of the fact that Maine is home to tons of gray seals and, according to Seacoast Science Center, harbor seals are most commonly found in New Hampshire. It goes beyond that.
(Photo Credit: Marine Mammals Of Maine Via Facebook)
The most Maine or New Hampshire Seacoast thing ever would be for residents to beach (no pun intended) their car in the breakdown lane and play a bit of Frogger along I-95 or Rt 1 just to make sure that any stranded seal trying to cross the highway could do so safely. We're just that kind of good human.
Photo by Keith Luke on Unsplash
The difference between seals and sea lions
Seals' stubby front feet are why seals travel on land by dragging themselves on their bellies
Although they look super similar, there are some pretty glaring differences between seals and sea lions. According to the National Ocean Service, possibly the most glaring difference can be seen in their front feet. While seals have stubby little front feet with a claw on each toe, sea lips have massive flappers that they use to hoist themselves up and "walk" on. Seals' stubby front feet are why seals travel on land by dragging themselves on their bellies (which, for some reason while typing this, is mentally reminiscent of the time David Hasselhoff was intoxicated eating a cheeseburger off the floor.)
Craving fish like seals do? Here are 15 must-have items for ice fishing season in Maine
Ice fishing is an excellent way to embrace the cold winter months in Maine. It will get you outdoors for some fresh air, it's family friendly, and a successful day could yield a tasty dinner. If you're new to the sport, we put together a list of gear you'll need for a fun, comfortable, and successful day on the ice. Some of these items are more essential than others. Some gear may not be essential at all, depending on how you plan to fish. Again, the items we listed are geared towards those who are new to ice fishing.
Before we get to the list, remember to dress appropriately for the cold weather. We didn't put warm outerwear on the list, but it's definitely a must-have. Dressing in layers is important to ensure you're warm enough throughout the day on the ice. If you start getting too warm, you can simply take a layer off. Hand warmers are also worth packing.
Or maybe you want ocean views like a seal? How 'bout this $1.975 million oceanfront property with a lighthouse?
The historic Keeper's House on Isle au Haut in Penobscot Bay is for sale and who wouldn't want to spend some time there? The property comes with the iconic and fully automated lighthouse on Robinson Point, which is maintained by the town itself, so you wouldn't have to do anything with it but sit back and enjoy it. Now, that's a big-time bonus in our book.
Source: Good Samaritans Helping a Sea Lion Cross a Highway Reeks of Maine


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Q: Nodeport is not sending the traffic to service port in GKE private cluster I have a private cluster created in GKE and gitlab is running as a pod in this cluster.
Here, nodeport is not sending the traffic to service port and hence unable to push images to gitlab.
Error response from daemon: Get http://localhost:32121/v2/: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting
Can we connect to private docker repo using localhost from within a private cluster.

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Q: Why not allow quoted arguments in macros I've asked this question recentely on reddit but I thought perhaps I'd get a better answer here.
Often macros I write take either a symbol or a list of symbols and sometimes these symbols represent a variable or a function. And in these cases I'm tempted write the macros so that their arguments can be quoted or sharquoted. Here's a concrete example:
In emacs lisp the function add-hook adds HOOK-FN to a list named HOOK.
(add-hook 'hook #'hook-fn)

Often you want to add several items to HOOK or you want HOOK-FN to several hooks, but add-hook only takes in one hook or one hook-fn at a time. So, I made a macro for this called add-hook! which can accept multiple arguments.
(add-hook! hook-name (fn1 fn2 fn3))

;; or

(add-hook! (hook-name1 hook-name2) hook-fn)

I am inclined to allow arugments to the macro to be quoted or sharpquoted. Just as they would be in a function call.
(add-hook! 'hook-name #'fn)

To do this I'd use a function like this to strip off the quotes from each argument.
(defun unquote (form)
  "Unquote a form if it is quoted, otherwise return form."
  (if (member (car-safe it) '(quote function))
      (cadr form)
    form))

I am inclided to do this because quoting and sharpquoting (1) makes it clear whether I mean a function or a symbol and (2) triggers my autocompletion, which helps me type the function or symbol faster.
However, I am under the impression that this is not the convention in lisp. Why? Are there good reasons why you should not allow quoted arguments in macros?

A: You certainly can do that, but it looks a little strange, because it mixes visual signals that say "Function here, normal evaluation" and "Macro here, special evaluation".
Why don't you make add-hook-fns a (quite simple) function, just like add-hook is?  Then all the quoting naturally falls into place and is even required.
(defun add-hook-fns (hook fns)
  (dolist (fn fns)
    (add-hook hook fn)))

This would then look on invocation like this:
(add-hook-fns 'some-hook (list #'foo #'bar #'baz))

If you don't want that explicit call to list in there, you can use a macro to eliminate just that:
(defmacro add-hook-fns* (hook fns)
  `(add-hook-fns ,hook (list ,@fns)))

Et voilà:
(add-hook-fns* 'some-hook (#'foo #'bar #'baz))

However, I don't recommend that, see reasons at the start.
Instead, I'd still use just a function, but with rest parameters:
(defun add-hook-fns (hook &rest fns)
  (dolist (fn fns)
    (add-hook hook fn)))

Now:
(add-hook-fns 'some-hook #'foo #'bar #'baz)