The Psalmist tells us to "sing to the Lord a new song." (96:1) After traveling and photographing in South Carolina and Georgia the past six days I am, indeed, singing a new song to the Lord. I'll call it the "Song of the South." It doesn't include the words "zippedy doo-dah, zippedy dey" but the sentiment is close. It is a joyful celebration of all the new natural beauty I have seen. For whatever reason, I have not photographed South Carolina and Georgia before. I've discovered that this was a mistake.
In recent days I've traipsed through various swamps, strolled along the shores of barrier islands, and marveled at sunrises on the Atlantic Ocean. I've watched majestic alligators sunbathing and seen explosions of color in azalea bushes. I've gazed with wonder at tunnels of live oaks draped in Spanish moss and felt like a kid again picking up seashells on the coast. All of these experiences are cause for celebration and praise. I am well-aware that God is the Giver of all good gifts so I offer Him my song of gratitude for all I've seen and witnessed on this journey.
In times past I wondered how a person could be expected to always "sing a new song to the Lord" but it all seems pretty clear to me now. Each day we are given new blessings. A lot of these we take for granted because they come so routinely. Others are brand new experiences and therefore more obvious. Still, each day we experience God in new ways and this experience calls for a new song. It can't be the same old song because it's a new day, things are different, we are different. As we come to experience more and more of God's goodness, love and grace we have to keep coming up with new songs, new ways of expressing our own love, gratitude and worship in return.
I encourage you to take the time to think about what God has provided or done for you today. Give some thought to the routine blessings that were yours this day, as well as those things that were special or different. Once you've done this, offer in your heart or with your tongue a new song to the Lord. In light of what God has provided you, nothing less than a new song will do.


Sonai capped off a stellar year at Djarragun College not only serving as their School Captain, winning the Senior Dux Award. Sonai has excelled and set a great example to her peers across both primary and high school.
Sonai's contribution to the College has been exceptional and leaves a strong legacy blazing a path for a brighter future for Djarragun College students. Sonai has applied to CQU to study Bachelor of Paramedic Science.
We are so proud of your tenacity and enthusiasm to help others in your school and community. Keep up the great work in 2019 Sonai!


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namespace XeCore
{
	namespace Common
	{
	    enum BufferDataCopyMethod
	    {
	        BDCM_ELEMENTS,
	        BDCM_BYTES
	    };

		template< typename T, BufferDataCopyMethod BDCM = BDCM_BYTES >
		class Buffer
		{
		public:
                                        Buffer( unsigned int size = 0 );
                                        ~Buffer();

            FORCEINLINE void            clear();
            FORCEINLINE void            resize( unsigned int size, bool keepData = false );
            FORCEINLINE unsigned int    position();
            FORCEINLINE void            reposition( unsigned int p = 0 );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    size();
            FORCEINLINE void	        set( unsigned int id, const T& v );
			FORCEINLINE T&   	        get( unsigned int id );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    write( const T& v);
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    write( const T* data, unsigned int count );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    write( const T* src, unsigned int pos, unsigned int count );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    read( T& out );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    read( T* out, unsigned int count );
			FORCEINLINE unsigned int    read( T* dst, unsigned int pos, unsigned int count );
            FORCEINLINE T*              data( bool current = false );
            FORCEINLINE void            setAutoResize( bool mode = true );
            FORCEINLINE bool            isAutoResize();
            FORCEINLINE void            setAutoResizeCount( unsigned int count = 1024 );
            FORCEINLINE unsigned int    getAutoResizeCount();

			FORCEINLINE void	        operator() ( unsigned int id, const T& v );
			FORCEINLINE const T&	    operator[] ( unsigned int id );

		private:
			T*		                    m_data;
			unsigned int                m_position;
			unsigned int                m_size;
			bool                        m_autoResize;
			unsigned int                m_autoResizeCount;
		};

		typedef Buffer< char >          CharBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< byte >          ByteBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< short >         ShortBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< word >          WordBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< int >           IntBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< dword >         DwordBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< float >         FloatBuffer;
		typedef Buffer< double >        DoubleBuffer;

	}
}

#include "Buffer.inl"

#endif

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The Koutammakou landscape in north-eastern Togo, which extends into neighboring Benin, is home to the Batammariba people whose remarkable mud tower-houses have become a symbol of Togo. In this landscape, nature is strongly associated with the rituals and beliefs of the society. Despite recent transformations and persistent threats linked to foreign influences, as well as scarcity and absence of building materials (wood and straw), the original layout of the site, as well as management of the territory, expertise, authenticity, tradition and historical, cultural, religious, aesthetic, technical and economic values have been preserved. It is of considerable local, national and international importance.
In January 2002, the World Heritage Centre, working within the framework of the France-UNESCO Cooperation Agreement, sent an expert from CRAterre-ENSAG (international centre for earth construction-Grenoble National School of Architecture) to assess the Outstanding Universal Value of Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba, the current state of conservation and management, protection measures and resources expended. The expert assisted the Togo authorities and the directorate of museums, sites and monuments in the preparation of a nomination.
The mission assisted in the establishment of a conservation and management plan appropriate for the natural and cultural heritage revalorization policy oriented to ecotourism and cultural tourism for sustainable development of the area. The property of Koutammakou, the Land of the Batammariba was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004.


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Sports - Omni Sports
Volleyball: Egypt dealt ninth defeat in last match at World Cup
Egypt ended the tournament in 10th place on eight points
Volleyball: Egypt suffers seventh defeat as Tunisia secures first win at World Cup
Egypt remains in tenth place in the tournament, ahead of Tunisia and Australia who lie in the bottom of the 12-place ranking table
Volleyball: Hosts Japan hand Egypt their sixth defeat at World Cup
Egypt are in tenth place with two games left in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup
Volleyball: Poland hit Egypt with 5th World Cup defeat
With four matches left, Egypt is in 10th place with seven points from only two wins
Volleyball: Egypt dealt fourth World Cup defeat after loss to Italy
After conceding the fourth in the tournament to Italy, Egypt now lies in 8th place with 7 points
Volleyball: Egypt begin the 2019 World Cup with a victory over Australia
Volleyball: Egypt reach U19 World Championship semis after Belarus win
Egypt's team last reached the FIVB Volleyball Boys' U19 World Championship semis in 2011
Volleyball: Egypt played 'very badly' against Argentina, still winless in World Cup
Although having won no games in the current tournament, Egypt are aiming to improve their global ranking from eleventh position to seventh or eighth
Volleyball: Egypt lose to USA, suffer fifth defeat in World Cup
Egypt suffer their fifth loss at the FIVB Volleyball World Cup
Volleyball: Egypt dealt fourth defeat in World Cup by Australia
After four matches Egypt have failed to secure a win at the FIVB Volleyball World Cup
Volleyball: Zamalek clinch men's African Club Championship title
Egypt's Zamalek book their place in 2012 FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship after decisively beating Etoile Sportive du Sahel
Ahly exit from the volley ball club World championships
Ahly have been eliminated from the first round of the FIVB (Federation international de Volley Ball)club World championships after conceding a third straight loss on Sunday in Doha.

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Construction crews building the U District Station will be transporting a drill rig from the project construction site during the early morning hours this Friday, August 29.
Due to the size of the drill rig, the City of Seattle requires the transport of the equipment during off-peak travel hours to minimize disruptions to the traveling public.
Sound Transit crews have received a temporary noise variance from the City of Seattle to perform this work. Trucks must use broadband alarms. Sound attenuation will be used to minimize noise impacts to the extent possible.
Flatbed truck arriving onsite around 4 a.m.
This work is expected to be completed on Friday, August 29, by 8 a.m.
The U District Station is under construction on Brooklyn Avenue Northeast between Northeast 45th and Northeast 43rd streets. The station is part of the future 4.3-mile Northgate Link Extension connecting Northgate, Roosevelt, and U District neighborhoods to downtown Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport.


Retrofitting/upgrading existing gates is one of Dynotek's unique capabilities. Based on our examination of an existing structure, we may be able to retrofit a gate with a "smart" solar-powered actuator and control system connected to the existing gate. This is often the most cost-effective method of automating older gates, including slide/stem or radial style gates. Recent installations have ranged from relatively new Rotork gear boxes to a 100-year-old worm gear drive. Our objective is to provide the most cost-effective installation using as much of the existing gate as possible.
Dynotek has combined its expertise in remote monitoring and control with the actuator and hydraulic experience of Watch Technologies to provide smart, solar-powered actuator and control systems on new gates.
Dynotek, in conjunction with Watch Technologies, can supply complete solar-powered "smart gate" systems for new installations or replacement/retrofit of existing structures. Based on our field engineer's site evaluation, Dynotek will design a gate that best addresses the customer's site and flow requirements.
Gates include low-friction HDPM bearing surfaces, DC-powered actuators, 100-300-1 gear reduction, and a PLC to maintain operating parameters specified by the customer. Operators can control gates on upstream or downstream level, or on flume or other rated weir structure measured flow. All gates can be solar-powered with battery backup. Wireless telemetry can be added to provide continuous remote monitoring and system updates.
Please contact us for further information or price quotes.


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Q: How to install Firebase/auth in Vue js I am working on Vuetify. I wanna add firebase authentication
command:
npm install --save firebase firebase/app firebase/auth firebase/database

I got this error
npm ERR! Error while executing:
npm ERR! C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.EXE ls-remote -h -t ssh://git@github.com/firebase/database.git
npm ERR!
npm ERR! git@github.com: Permission denied (publickey).
npm ERR! fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Please make sure you have the correct access rights
npm ERR! and the repository exists.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! exited with error code: 128

I already added SSH into my Github. It works well until now
Please help me

A: I also first tried installing firebase/auth, @firebase/auth, none of them worked. I then installed only firebase with the command, as the answer above.
npm install --save firebase

In the main.js I had to add a configuration to initialize firebase.
var firebaseConfig = {
    apiKey: "yourkey",
    // authDomain: "configure if needed",
    // projectId: "configure if needed",
    // storageBucket: "configure if needed",
    // messagingSenderId: "configure if needed",
    // appId: "configure if needed"
};
// Initialize Firebase
firebase.initializeApp(firebaseConfig);

A: You just have to do npm install --save firebase.
Then in your firebaseConfig.js file, you would do:
import firebase from 'firebase/app';
import 'firebase/database';
import 'firebase/auth';
//...

More details in the doc here (Tab "Using module bundlers") and here (expand the "Available Firebase JS SDKs (using bundler with modules)" category).

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Hundreds of New Aviation-related Jobs Expected for Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, December 17, 2012 – The Jacksonville Aviation Authority (JAA) today announced that it will build a new 150,000-square-foot hangar at Cecil Airport to accommodate expansion of Flightstar Aircraft Services, Inc. operation, which is expected to generate 350 to 400 new aviation-related jobs.
The new $27 million hangar, which is being financed equally by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) and JAA, will be the largest building project ever undertaken by JAA at Cecil Airport.
Under the agreement with Flightstar, JAA will build the hangar and office facility on 11.5 acres of airport property. The project also includes an adjoining aircraft apron and vehicle parking lot.
Upon completion, JAA will lease the land and Hangar 935 to Flightstar for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) at Cecil Airport. Flightstar currently leases two MRO hangars and one large warehouse/storage building at Cecil Airport from the Authority.
"Flightstar has been a significant tenant at Cecil Airport, and we are thrilled to see them expand their operations," said JAA Chairman A.L. Kelly. "The decision to build Hangar 935 is beneficial for both Flightstar and the Airport, and will add a welcome boost to the Jacksonville economy."
JAA is providing $13.5 million for the project. FDOT is matching that with a $13.5 million contribution. Should the cost of construction exceed the total JAA and FDOT project participation of $27 million, any additional cost would be Flightstar's responsibility under the terms of the lease.


How would you like to go to work every day knowing millions of people rely on your work to live their lives? Volt Workforce Solutions is looking for Electrical Assemblers for a major provider of turbines and other power generation products. This is your chance to join a company dedicated to providing reliable and environmentally friendly products to an ever growing customer base.
This role is a contingent opportunity in San Diego, CA. As an Electrical Assembler, you would work to layout, create and install various electronic components, such as control consoles, junction boxes, instrument panels, relay panels and battery racks. Successful employees will have a strong attention to detail and take pride in providing a high quality product, both quickly and safely.
-Plan, layout, develop, fabricate parts, and build electrical/electronic wiring aids.
-Work from schematics, wiring diagrams, standard work sheets, engineering detail drawings, oral instructions and established shop practices.
-Review planning releases and engineering changes for their effect on wiring assemblies to incorporate required changes.
-Select, brand, cut, route, fasten, sleeve, tie and lug wires.
-Assemble and install wiring harnesses.
-Locate, drill, mount, and fasten components.
-Install various electronic components into control consoles, junction boxes and instrument/relay panels.
-Perform rework of the nature and level of difficulty described herein.
-Must have good organizational skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to focus on minute details.
-Must have demonstrated initiative and be self-motivated to learn new software, processes and skills with positive energy within a small, dynamic team.
-Previous electrical assembly experience and previous experience using hand and power tools is preferred.
-Blue print or layout schematic reading experience is highly preferred.
-Proven experience using Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, etc.) is preferred.


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Post-War and Contemporary Art
Darren Almond (B. 1971)
Fullmoon@Tide
signed 'Darren Almond' (on a label affixed to the reverse of the mount)
c-type print mounted on aluminium
47¾ x 47¾in. (121.2 x 121.2cm.)
Executed in 2005, this is an artist's proof from an edition of five plus two artist's proofs
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
These lots have been imported from outside the EU for sale using a Temporary Import regime. Import VAT is payable (at 5%) on the Hammer price. VAT is also payable (at 20%) on the buyer's Premium on a VAT inclusive basis. When a buyer of such a lot has registered an EU address but wishes to export the lot or complete the import into another EU country, he must advise Christie's immediately after the auction.
Please note this lot will be transferred to Cadogan Tate at the close of sale. Free storage until the fifth Friday after the sale still applies.
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The Devourer
Madeleine Schwartz
Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement.
The Cheffe: A Cook's Novel
by Marie NDiaye, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Knopf, 290 pp., $26.95
Dominique Nabokov
Marie NDiaye, New York City, 2009
Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement. "Stop reading this review, just read her books!" you want to say. For several weeks now I've been carrying around NDiaye's novels, telling friends to pick up her work. "She's the smartest writer working today!" I say. Or else: "She's going to win the Nobel Prize!"
Reading her books, you see a voracious, condensed history of much of twentieth-century literature. Here is an "I" reminiscent of what is often called autofiction, cool and probing; here is an interest in every tick of a woman's mind that recalls the miniatures of French writers like Marguerite Duras. Here, where the women turn into dogs, where the birds may have a human spirit, is what seems like magical realism, though the line between what is happening and what is imagined is never quite clear.
Self-Portrait in Green (2005) promises to be a memoir and then turns into a psychological thriller, with women who may or may not exist flitting in and out of the narrator's life, as the waters of the river by her home rise. In Ladivine (2013), a family goes to an unnamed country for a vacation and then finds itself surrounded by the supernatural. A man is killed and then appears as a servant in the home of a wealthy oil baron; a family loses its luggage and begins to see others wearing its clothes, even the shirts and dresses they know they did not pack.
NDiaye has written seventeen works of fiction, ten plays, and three children's books, which have won some of the biggest prizes in France. She also cowrote, with Claire Denis, the screenplay for the film White Material (2009). It's this kind of versatility that sometimes leads reviewers to call her books "unclassifiable." But reading NDiaye reminds you: Who wants to be classified? Why not be everything at once?
There's the evenness of her prose, eminently polished, deliciously rhythmic, that seems to glide over the violence underneath. An assurance of tone that almost seems to hide the fact that what you've just read in the preceding paragraph is a description of a young woman who has prostituted herself to rebel against her parents (as in Ladivine) or an account of another young woman who is raped while migrating to France (as in Three Strong Women, for which NDiaye won the Goncourt in 2009).
And then there's the political content of her books, the way they seem to take in every contemporary political change, without ever displacing their focus on the interiority of the characters' minds. It's tempting to compare NDiaye to a more famous French export like Michel Houellebecq, who needs to interrupt every few pages with a long exposition about the decline of manhood and the disaster of French politics. We get it! You read the paper, you want to say.
In NDiaye's work, the history is real because it's what the characters live. The cruel world they inhabit is big, centered around France but often traveling to the outre-mer. Her characters move from one continent to another and back again; they bear the marks and memories of those voyages.
In Three Strong Women, a lawyer named Norah returns to Senegal after her father has summoned her. She hates her father. He left her and her mother, a hairdresser, because he felt that the life of working-class Paris did not offer enough for his son, Sony—a genius, in his view.
Now, Norah learns, her brother Sony is serving time for a murder he claims he did not commit and she, the sister, the competent one, is expected to come in with her law degree and pick up the pieces. The story stops there and turns to Fanta, a cousin, who has left Senegal and is now living in small-town France. Her husband, Rudy Descas, spends his days hawking kitchen remodels, a job he only has thanks to his mother's intervention. The book shifts again: it turns to Khady Demba, a young maid—she used to work for Norah's father—who is trying to escape her home to travel to France, where, she is told, her cousin Fanta is rich. Her travels are dangerous. When she takes a boat across the Mediterranean, her leg is torn on a nail. She crosses the Sahara in a truck; in a checkpoint town, she is enclosed in a room with a foam mattress, where she is forced to prostitute herself to men waiting to leave. Another migrant shows her kindness, then steals her money. As the book closes, she climbs a large fence to the beyond:
She tried to go higher, remembering that a boy had told her you must never, never stop climbing until you've reached the top, but the barbed wire was tearing the skin off her hands and feet and she could now hear herself screaming and feel blood running along her shoulders and down her arms.
One way of describing these stories, as some have, would be to say that many of the women in them have survived traumas, and that what we're reading now is a trauma response. The experience of this trauma comes across as a kind of absence, an inability to connect with the world that the characters are living in. Norah, in Three Strong Women, finds herself wondering when, exactly, she was last in Senegal. Her father brings her photos that seem to show her living in his house: Isn't that her, wearing that dress? Her husband and children seem to agree. No, she says:
She wasn't sure of having spoken, or if she had, of being listened to.
She cleared her throat and repeated more loudly, "I've never lived in Grand Yoff."…
Norah, dismayed at appearing to beg just so they'd believe her, felt obliged to say, yet again, "I've never lived anywhere but France, you ought to know that."
Yet, her father tells her, "You must know why you came."
It is a particularity of NDiaye's books, and one of her strengths, that she often focuses on women who are uneducated and unlikely to be publishing accounts of their own experiences. Her work is populated by women of the working class, servants, maids, cooks—the kind of people whom certain readers might only want to hear from when the book they are reading comes stamped with the words "Prix Goncourt."
Clarisse Rivière in Ladivine is one of those women. She uses her birth name, Malinka, only when she visits her mother, a woman who has emigrated to France and works as a cleaner. The rest of the time she is Clarisse, a waitress working in a small restaurant, married to a man who does not even know that her mother is still alive.
She is hiding other aspects of her identity, too. At fifteen, Clarisse "heightened the natural pallor of her face with wan makeup." As an adult, she sheds any sign of her blackness or even of any particular past at all. When she sees her mother, Ladivine, she sometimes thinks of her as "the servant," or even as "a body." NDiaye writes, "She had deep, inexhaustible reserves of coldness inside her."
Clarisse does her best to live a boring, middle-class French life, and this coldness seems to take over her mind. She thinks with a spirit whose nuances and life seem to have been bleached out:
It tortured her that she couldn't hold back the numbness gradually overtaking her household, the cold torpor exuded in spite of her by her artificial, oblique self, until in the end she grew used to it, and came to believe this was how things were supposed to be in happy families.
You don't really realize the strength of this characterization until, a third of the way through the novel, NDiaye shifts the voice to Clarisse's daughter, herself named Ladivine, now an adult working as a teacher in Berlin. Ladivine knows nothing of her mother's history. Her mother's past is blank to her, and so, in a sense, is her mother herself. She cannot imagine what is going through the head of the person you have spent the preceding hundred pages living with. She describes Clarisse without understanding, as if she were describing an imbecile:
A vague, lost smile would come over her, like the smile that parted her hesitant lips when someone spoke to her in a foreign tongue, her damp eyes seeming about to well over with the anxious tears always set off in her by a failure to understand, whether the German language or other people's behavior, but the tears never flowed, and her smile took root and bloomed on Clarisse Riviere's delicate, mobile, scarcely wrinkled face like an ephemeral flower of innocence.
It's a somber, bitter moment: the depth of incomprehension between mother and daughter. But NDiaye has also delivered a small jolt to the reader. The woman whose story you've been absorbed in is one who, on the street, you might dismiss as unwell, or not even worth taking the time to dismiss.
Who is this writer? And how did she get to be so good? The biographical facts point to a person who would like to discourage being read biographically. The catalog copy for her books, only a handful of which have been published in English, describes NDiaye as "born in Pithiviers, France, in 1967; spent her childhood with her French mother (her father was Senegalese); and studied linguistics at the Sorbonne."
The parenthesis has an odd questioning quality to it, as if to highlight the apparent un-Frenchness of her name (oh, that's why). But if NDiaye has insisted on a single biographical fact, it is that she is a French writer, through and through. "My father returned to Africa when I was a year old," she told Paris Match. "I've never lived with him. I lived in the suburbs. I am 100% French." She has regularly told interviewers that she didn't travel to Senegal until she was in her late teens.
The statement has been seen by some as a cop-out, since her books so often take place in France's former and current colonial territories. But the heart of her work is just as often in towns like Pithiviers, population nine thousand, located somewhere between Paris and nowhere, with an increasing track record of voting for the far right. It's the kind of town that NDiaye evokes in Three Strong Women, where Rudy, the son of a colonialist who works at minimum wage, gets angry when he sees that the local Romani have cell phones: "How come—he wondered—all those people manage to have lives so much better than his?" He becomes paranoid that his Senegalese wife will leave him, that she is sleeping with his boss. Yet he is unable to fully admit what he has threatened her with: "You can go back where you came from." The book, it's worth mentioning, was published in France eleven years ago.
NDiaye spoke up once against Nicolas Sarkozy, saying that she hated the police atmosphere that he created as president. A member of Sarkozy's party publicly reprimanded her, saying that she had not shown sufficient "respect." She has made few political statements since. She lives in Berlin now with her husband, also a novelist, and their children. She rarely writes commentary or talks to the press. For all further information, we just have her work.
On first read, I was disappointed with The Cheffe. Compared to NDiaye's other great novels, The Cheffe feels a little simple: it's the story of a man's infatuation with his former boss. It's far more coherent in style and content than NDiaye's previous works, plays less with genre, lacks the strange plasticity that makes reading her books something like handing over your ticket at the entrance of a haunted house. And yet, as I thought about and reread NDiaye's mirror-smooth prose, I wondered: What am I not seeing?
The Cheffe of the title (she is introduced this way, without a name) is born in the small town of Sainte-Bazeille. Her parents are poor and pure, in the narrator's view. As a young teen, she goes and works for a family named Clapeaus, who later hire her as a cook. Her story is told by a nameless narrator, whose love for the Cheffe drives him to memorialize her life.
For the Clapeaus, there is no life outside mealtime. "They loved eating with a fervent, unrelenting love, stronger than they were, that forced them to keep food in the foreground of their thoughts at all times," the narrator tells us. "The prospect of a meager or mediocre dinner would plunge them into a sadness that she thought in no way trivial or ridiculous, or worthy of reverence either."
Soon after she takes over their kitchen, the Cheffe becomes pregnant by a man who is not her husband. She leaves her daughter with her parents for a short while and moves to Bordeaux, where she eventually opens her own restaurant. There, she is totally in control. She chooses the setting, the name, what will be served. She is successful, too. She is, the narrator tells us, the first woman to win a Michelin star. That she cannot always devote the necessary attention to her daughter is the price she must pay for her work.
NDiaye illustrates the class dynamics of the kitchen: who sips from a spoon and who wields a knife. Making food means, for the Cheffe, making it for someone else, and every time she walks into the kitchen NDiaye gives us a sense of the tension of this encounter. The Cheffe, we are told,
wanted to illuminate the Clapeaus with the cold, intense, irresistible brilliance of her mastery without having to enter their clammy hearts, without having to brush against their warm, sticky skin, neither provoking nor flattering, neither condemning nor excusing their tortuous emotions.
They worry that she knows their worst quality: their addiction to her. When they ask her what she will make, they are "astir, hopeful, but at the same time expecting a disappointment, and so at once pleading and dissatisfied, frustrated, furious, hating themselves."
It is, from NDiaye, a powerful reminder that any act of creation requires an act of patronage; there is no pure creation without the audience that consumes it. (Reading this book, I felt led to ask: Is this chef not like NDiaye herself, who manages to devour so many twentieth-century styles—from the pacing of thrillers to the intimate detail of the 1950s French nouveau roman—and create from them something new? The comparison feels stronger as the book unfolds.) The Cheffe builds her success by playing with her power to both delight and threaten. Her most beautiful dishes are also a form of punishment. The meal that heralds her as a genius is a chicken she has ground up, sliced, and put back in its skin, brought out "in its bloodred enameled cast-iron oven dish…massacred and then resuscitated, like a savage joke." Her dessert is famous because it has no sugar.
Translator Jordan Stump (who has done a wonderful job here, as with NDiaye's other novels) advises us that "Cheffe is a recently minted word in French; its meaning, of course, is 'female chef.' Because no good English equivalent exists, this translation will use the French word"—an awkwardness that stammers throughout the text.
The word for female cook, until recently, was maman—and it is one of the Cheffe's difficulties that she finds herself in what NDiaye knows is a familiar trap. Her desire to cook seems in constant conflict with her daughter's needs. She wishes to lose herself in her creations, the narrator tells us. She loves the puzzle of cooking and resents anything that takes her away from it:
At that early age the Cheffe acquired the habit of never going to sleep without first thinking back over all the food that was eaten that day, evaluating, analyzing, judging everything she'd put in her mouth and everything she'd studied with her sensitive eye, the arrangement of colors on a plate, the severe beauty of cast-iron casseroles, already sensing the interest, both for the eye and for the appetite, of bringing the casserole straight to the table rather than, as the cook did, as everyone did at the time, transferring whatever had been simmering inside it—soup, jugged hare, ragout of beef cheeks—to a tureen decorated with fussy, old-fashioned flowers.
But being an artist means selling your art, and being a woman artist can sometimes mean having to sell yourself as a woman. (I'm always surprised how common it is, still, to see the phrase "woman artist," as though it were a separate category.) This is a compromise the Cheffe hates to make. She resents being photographed, interviewed, approached: "The Cheffe would have rather they not even remembered her name, rather they never saw her face, rather they had no idea if she was plump or slender, short or tall, if her body was pleasingly put together." We are told that she would have been "happier with no hair at all, and if such a thing were conceivable back then she would have shaved it all off rather than torture and blight it by strangling it in a rubber band twisted over and over."
Her conflict between a need to exist in the world and a desire to be absorbed by her creations seems to haunt her relationship with her daughter, who cannot stand to be second to her mother's work. The Cheffe's daughter interferes in the kitchen in ways that make the restaurant unable to function and eventually leads to its closure. "She would hate the restaurant, yes, but that didn't mean she loved her mother any more." The daughter, the narrator assures us, was the cause of the Cheffe's downfall.
After a while, I began to wonder: Why is this guy talking so much? What's in it for him? How did he come to learn the intimate details of the Cheffe's life? And why does he seem to delight in these small nuggets of information, doled out as stingily as sugar in the pie crust? I remembered that someone famous—who?—once said that every first-person novel must be narrated by a lunatic: Who else would speak uninterrupted for three hundred pages?
This man certainly seems to have something wrong with him. He's talking to someone whom we don't recognize, answering questions we cannot hear. "Oh yes, of course, she got that question often." Or: "Forgive me this little boast, but I think I'm fairly perceptive." Sometimes, he gets defensive and says things like: "It troubles me to think she might already have hoodwinked you, it makes me feel less free to talk to you candidly." The more facts he gives about the Cheffe, the more we wonder about his own motives—the more it seems possible that his benevolent attempt to rescue the Cheffe from oblivion may well be a way to deflect from his own problems.
It is around the time you notice this erratic behavior that small bits of italicized text interrupt the narrative. We are in Lloret de Mar, a retirement community. It is revealed that the narrator is spending his time drinking. He tells his companions he never cooks. They know nothing of his life. He never speaks about it. All they know and all that he allows us to infer is that he is waiting for his own daughter and that she will soon come to visit.
Information leaks out, as do more questions. The narrator seems to be at once trying to elevate the life of the Cheffe—his idol! the woman he loved—and denigrating her daughter. We are told that the daughter is someone who lies. We are told that she has spread lies. Why is he poisoning our minds with these things?
As his own vendettas come into view, there's a temptation to read over everything we had earlier easily absorbed. The story he is telling about the Cheffe seems less like a straightforward hagiography and more like a means to achieve control.
I will not give away how NDiaye resolves this. But I will say that, as the book comes to a close, it is up to the Cheffe's granddaughter to deal with the weight of what has happened before. And so, as often happens in NDiaye's work, the violence of the past is merely punted to the next generation. For now, they may still hope to do things differently.
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machine2045> pwd
/eng/name/go_proj/

machine2045> env | grep GOROOT
machine2045> which go
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machine2045> go env GOROOT
go: cannot find GOROOT directory: /usr/local/go

machine2045> go get -u github.com/go-delve/delve/cmd/dlv
go: cannot find GOROOT directory: /usr/local/go

I do not want to modify my .bashrc  if possible since that is not recommended.

A: GOROOT (if not set manually via environment variable) defaults to /usr/local/go.
(EDIT: Well, it defaults to the parent directory of where the binary was compiled, but in many cases the end user is not compiling, they are downloading a precompiled binary... The point is that you need to be aware that there is a default GOROOT that will need to be overridden if you're using a non-standard directory for your go binary / installation).
Think of this as the parent folder of the bin folder that houses the go binary.
Go install instructions also encourage you to install to this location.
GOPATH specifies the root of your projects (to track sources and packages for imports, etc).
Think of this as the parent folder of the src, bin, and pkg folders used in go projects.
GOROOT should not be your workspace. GOPATH should.
If you don't want to modify your .bashrc or move your go installation to /usr/local/go, you should export a GOROOT and GOPATH variable manually, maybe in a launchmyproject.sh file:
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Actress Megan Fox and musician Machine Gun Kelly are engaged.
On Wednesday, Fox wrote in the caption of an Instagram post announcing the engagement: "In July of 2020 we sat under this banyan tree. We asked for magic. We were oblivious to the pain we would face together in such a short, frenetic period of time. Unaware of the work and sacrifices the relationship would require from us but intoxicated off of the love. And the karma. Somehow a year and a half later, having walked through hell together, and having laughed more than I ever imagined possible, he asked me to marry him. And just as in every lifetime before this one, and as in every lifetime that will follow it, I said yes … and then we drank each other's blood."
Kelly wrote on his Instagram along with a picture of the couple's ring: "Beneath the same branches we fell in love under, I brought her back to ask her to marry me. I know tradition is one ring, but I designed it with Stephen Webster to be two: the emerald (her birth stone) and the diamond (my birth stone) set on two magnetic bands of thorns that draw together as two halves of the same soul forming the obscure heart that is our love. 1-11-2022."
The pair met in March of 2020 while filming "Midnight in the Switchgrass," and the couple confirmed their relationship in June 2020. This will be MGK's first marriage, and Fox's second. Fox was married to '90210' actor Brian Austin Green for 10 years, with whom she shares three sons.
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[APRIL 14, 2005] SPRINGFIELD -- Today (Thursday), beginning at noon, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn will celebrate Illinois Main Street Day at the Capitol with representatives from 58 Illinois Main Street communities. Quinn will also drive home the program's message of preservation, growth and tourism.
"Main Street communities are great examples of how hard work, volunteerism and dedication can keep a strong community going," Quinn said.
The Illinois Main Street program provides training on how to develop a vision for preservation and growth, insight about creating a strong Main Street organization, and feedback from Main Street architects. Since its inception, Main Street communities have reported net gains of more than 1,500 new downtown businesses and created more than 3,200 full-time jobs.
As part of Illinois Main Street Day at the Capitol, community leaders will set up information booths and displays, speak to legislators about the benefits of the Main Street program, and have a group photo on the east steps of the Capitol.
"This is a great opportunity to showcase how the program works and how it's bringing new ideas, jobs and tourist dollars to towns all across the state," Quinn said.
One area Quinn wants communities to explore is technology. "Being connected to the World Wide Web will not only help introduce tourists to these areas but will also help businesses branch out across the globe," he said.
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The lieutenant governor's office administers the Illinois Main Street program, which is based on a national model that offers communities help with issues of historic preservation, economic development and downtown improvements. Illinois is one of 40 states that belong to the national Main Street program, administered through the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
"We inducted two new Main Street communities this year, Bloomington and Momence," Quinn said. "The excitement and energy in these communities are already catching on to those who live, shop and visit there."
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Homestead is known for its agricultural heritage, so it's only fitting that a new Farmer's Market will be coming to Downtown Homestead this fall. The Downtown Farmer's Market will take place at the City Hall Plaza, 100 Civic Court, Homestead, FL 33030, every second Wednesday from 3pm until 6pm beginning October 2021 and continuing through April 2022.
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Known for its historic roots unique to South Florida, Downtown Homestead is transforming into a vibrant community where small town charm meets modern amenities. Established in 1913, Homestead is known for its historic contribution to the development of South Florida as it served as a major hub for Henry Flagler's railroad starting in 1903. Today its beautiful natural setting, lush tree lined streets and unique vernacular architecture all serve as a reminder to visitors of the spirit of early South Florida communities. Currently, there are multiple developments in the works in the transportation, residential, and retail sectors that are contributing to a brighter tomorrow for residents and visitors alike. Whether you're looking for entertainment or history, there's something here for everyone. Learn more at www.discoverdowntownhomestead.com.
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EAZA has issued a statement on reports in the German media regarding the management of elephants at Hannover Zoo.
The Falconiformes and Strigiformes TAG is proud to present their Husbandry and Management Guidelines For Demonstration Birds of Prey, as TAG specific response on the more general EAZA guidelines on the use of animals in public demonstrations (2014). These Best Practice Guidelines were developed in order to manage the husbandry of "demonstration birds of prey" and factor in all aspects of management that optimise the welfare of the participating bird or species as well as the wellbeing of the broader animal collection and native wildlife in surrounding areas. To ascertain key information as to what species were kept for bird displays, how they were managed, and why they were included, input was collected and collated from EAZA member institutions recognised for their demonstrations with free flight birds or experience with displays, raining or zoo management. The guidelines are specifically approved as BPG for the species that fall under the umbrella of the Falconiformes and Strigiformes TAG, although there are also references to other species used in demonstrations.
The Born Free Foundation have launched a campaign in the UK making demands for legislation to increase scrutiny of zoos and positioning themselves as an independent body for the regulation of zoos. EAZA and BIAZA do not accept this positioning and have distributed a press release responding to the demands made by the organisation.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) has released a Position Statement on the EU Zoos Directive 1999/22/EC, the main guiding document for national zoo legislation in all EU Member States. The legislation is currently under a REFIT review involving the European Commission, National authorities, Zoo associations and other stakeholders.
The Directive clearly defines the tasks and roles of zoos and recognizes that zoos are conservation organisations contributing to biodiversity conservation in and outside of Europe. Furthermore, by outlining licensing and inspection processes for zoos, the Directive has proven effective in raising and harmonising standards across Europe. EAZA and its almost 400 Members appreciate and welcome the EU Zoos Directive as strong confirmation of and support for their role as conservation organizations. We are of the opinion that the existing EU Zoos Directive is sufficient, relevant, and has a strong purpose relating to the functioning of zoos; and therefore, it should be retained in European law.
The Position Statement reaffirms EAZA's support for the EU Zoos Directive, identifying its strengths (such as the harmonisation of high standards in zoo practice), and its status as the only legislation demonstrating the Union's compliance with Article 9 (on ex situ conservation) of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
EU recognition of Member States effectively implementing the Directive at reasonable cost, and provision of opportunities for those States to support and share good practice with those that are not.
Creation of a stakeholder platform that advises the EU Commission on supporting Member States to better implement the EU Zoos Directive.
Licencing and inspections of zoo to be carried out by experienced officials with expert knowledge of wild animal husbandry and ex situ management as it relates to progressive zoos.
Investigation of opportunities for EU Member States to recognize that accreditation by zoo associations like EAZA is an indicator that institutions are meeting the requirements of the EU Zoos Directive (for example as is seen in The Netherlands).
The EU Commission and EU Member States to encourage zoos to join zoo associations to help promote high standards, share good practice and meet the requirements of the EU Zoos Directive.
The EU Commission to investigate opportunities to allocate funding to support adequate implementation of the EU Zoos Directive.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria has been informed that on the night of 6-7 March, criminals overcame security measures and gained access to Thoiry Zoo near Paris, killing one of three white rhinoceros housed at the zoo and removing one of its horns. Police have launched a criminal investigation into this shocking and deplorable crime. Thoiry is a full Member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) the membership body of the continent's most progressive zoos; all other Members of the Association have been informed about the incident.
The criminals gained entry to Thoiry Zoo by forcing an exterior panel near to the African savannah exhibit, and made their way to the rhinoceros house where they broke open the locked metal gate and a further locked door in the interior of the building, which provided them with access to the animals. They proceeded to shoot the 4-year-old male and remove its horn, probably with a chainsaw. The animal's second horn was partially severed, suggesting that the intruders were disturbed or their equipment malfunctioned. The other two rhinoceros were left unharmed. The crime took place despite the presence on site of 5 members of staff and security cameras.
Rhinoceros horn is highly sought after in illegal markets for traditional medicine, despite a complete lack of scientific evidence of its effectiveness in treating any medical condition. In 2015, reports suggest that 1kg of rhinoceros horn could fetch €51,000 on the black market. All 5 species and 11 subspecies of rhinoceros are threatened with extinction in the wild.
The animal killed by the poachers was born at Burgers Zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands at the end of 2012, and arrived at Thoiry in March 2015. Since the 19th century, when it was estimated that only 25-30 Southern white rhinoceros (the subspecies of the animals at Thoiry) still lived in the wild, numbers have risen gradually to around 20,000 individuals, of which 18,000 or so live in South Africa. The protection of this endangered subspecies by breeding programmes and zoos is therefore crucial to its survival. The 250 individuals of the Southern white rhinoceros in European zoos are managed via EAZA's European Endangered Species Programme (EEP), the highest level of management among European zoos.
South Africa has seen high levels of poaching in the last few years. In the years between 2007 and 2015, poaching of white rhinoceros has increased from 14 individuals to 1,175 individuals killed annually. In February 2017, several young rhinoceros were killed at the Thula Thula rhinoceros orphanage in South Africa, and the staff were attacked. While thefts of rhinoceros horn have increased across Europe recently, this appears to be the first time an animal has been killed by poachers at a European zoo.
Thoiry has been highly involved in the fight against poaching and trafficking of rhinoceros horns, holding a conference on the subject in 2013 which brought together multiple stakeholders from government ministries, anti-trafficking groups and conservationists. The sale of any item containing rhinoceros horn or elephant ivory is illegal in France and punishable by severe sentences. Wildlife crime is the world's fourth biggest sector for organized crime after drug trafficking, counterfeiting and human trafficking.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) has noted with concern reports in the British media regarding South Lakes Safari Zoo and high levels of animal mortality at the institution. South Lakes Safari Zoo is a Temporary Member of the Association, and EAZA has been involved in discussions with the zoo and Barrow Council during their review of the facility.
As part of the EAZA Accreditation Programme, a cyclic review of Members and their facilities, EAZA inspected South Lakes in 2015. While the screeners found that the institutions facilities met many of the EAZA Standards for the Accommodation and Care of Animals, the decision was made to downgrade the facility to Temporary Membership pending the outcome of the license hearing and the concerns raised therein. EAZA recognizes the need for improvements in management practice and strongly supports the institution's change to a new management regime. It should be noted that Cumbria Zoo, who took on the operation of the zoo in January 2017, have independently applied for a zoo licence from Barrow Council, based on evidence that they have made improvements to the institution in line with the Council's demands. EAZA is committed to working with the new managers of the zoo to ensure full compliance with our Standards and good welfare practice, and has confidence in their ability to meet our requirements.
It should be noted that the issues surrounding this case do not in any way negate the value of good zoos: figures compiled by the Association show that in 2015, our Members contributed nearly €10million to 300 conservation projects worldwide. Our Members provide educational experiences to millions of visitors every year and are involved in long-term research to judge their effectiveness. Our Members have conducted research that assists conservationists in their work as well as improving the welfare of zoo and aquarium animals. EAZA Members also contribute to the 400 breeding and monitoring programmes aimed at providing ex situ support and protection for species. EAZA Members are also active in supporting the work of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, of which the Association is an active Member, providing staff and support for the Species Survival Commission Specialist Groups, the Commission on Education and Communication and more.
EAZA Members are expected to fulfill the welfare needs of individual animals as well as providing wider scale protection for species and we stand ready to assist any local authority in Europe and the Middle East to review standards and compliance of our Members. In common with other institutions, South Lakes Safari Zoo is required to remain up to date with the latest knowledge we have about species and their needs, a constant process of improvement. There is no doubt that there have been serious failings at the zoo; however, EAZA has confidence in the institution's ability to make the improvements required and make a valuable contribution to the protection of nature.
The EAZA Canid and Hyaenid TAG is proud to present the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Dhole (Cuon alpinus). This document gives an overview of the general biology of the species and takes a closer look at conservation status and activities , feeding and hunting behaviour as well as reproduction. Other topics addressed are enclosure design, feeding and pack management as well as handling/transport issues, veterinary care and reproduction in zoos. For questions, please contact heike.maisch@erfurt.de.
The EAZA Great Ape TAG is proud to present the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). This document reflects our current knowledge about general biology and keeping requirements to provide adequate levels of well being for Gorillas, the biggest size great ape species, in human care. It provides information about different aspects that should be taken into account when managing gorillas in human care to ensure a healthy and self-sustaining population, as well as helping the development of a global "ex situ conservation" programme. Furthermore, information is given about the situation of the species in the wild and field conservation work in host countries to which all the zoo institutions keeping gorillas are encouraged to provide support following the IUCN strategy of One Plan Approach. For questions, please contact mabello@bsmsa.cat .
The EAZA Callitrichid TAG is proud to present the Spanish version of EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Callitrichidae, which have a clear focus incorporated on integrating and supporting field conservation work in host countries. This version has been published in collaboration with the Latin American Zoo and Aquaria Association (ALPZA). For questions, please contact miranda.stevenson@btopenworld.com.
Good news! Today, the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has voted to protect all eight species of pangolins - small and reclusive scaly mammals being driven to near extinction by unsustainable poaching. Pangolins will be uplisted to CITES Appendix I, which bars international trade and provides for better domestic protection in key countries such as Vietnam and China.
"Rarely has CITES been so united. This action today was much-needed if pangolins are to survive and may be one of the most important outcomes of this meeting," WildAid CEO Peter Knights said from the CITES Conference of the Parties in Johannesburg. "That these proposals to protect pangolins came from countries like Vietnam and were passed with near-unanimous support is highly encouraging. The challenge now is law enforcement and demand reduction, but the uplisting will help both. Penalties will now be much higher in key countries."
WildAid is already engaged in reducing demand in China and Vietnam in celebrity led campaigns and has released footage of pangolin capture and trade. Our report Pangolins: On the Brink identifies consumer demand for pangolin scales and meat as the primary driver of the eight pangolin species' sharp decline throughout Africa and Asia.
Demand for pangolin scales (used in Traditional Chinese Medicine) as well as pangolin meat, considered by some as a delicacy, is highest in China and Vietnam. Though there is no scientific evidence to support alleged curative properties or the keratin scales, a 2015 WildAid survey found that 70% of Chinese believe pangolin products have medicinal value; scales are used to "cure" rheumatism, skin disorders and wound infections. In Vietnam, 64% of survey respondents said they had heard about the "curative" properties of pangolin scales.
Pangolins are especially vulnerable to poaching because of their slow reproductive rate, their sensitivity to capture-induced stress and an instinct to curl into a ball when threatened, rather than try to escape. Because of a specialized diet pangolins are very hard to maintain in captivity; commercial breeding is not a viable means of supply.
The EAZA Parrot TAG is proud to present the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for the Ecuadorian amazon parrot (Amazona lilacina). This species is found only on the central and south west coast of Ecuador and is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List. The species is managed in human care as a European Endangered Species Breeding Programme (EEP) which acts as an insurance for the wild population. Ecuadorian Amazon parrots have been kept and bred well in human care for the last thirty years. These EAZA Best Practice Guidelines document methods for the successful husbandry of this species (and might also be useful for other amazon species). Recommendation boxes in this document highlight the important key points of each section, which readers should pay particular attention to. For questions, please contact Becca Biddle at b.biddle@chesterzoo.org.
International conservationists and the global zoo community are joining forces with the Indonesian national government for the first time to support species conservation in the country. Zoo associations in South-East Asia, Europe and North America are linking up with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), species specialists and departments of the Indonesian government. It's likely that you have never heard of the species in question.
The banteng and anoa are wild cattle, while the babirusa is a pig; the teeth of males grow upward through the roof of the mouth and curve toward their eyes. All are threatened with extinction, with two species being listed classified as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This joined-up approach to conservation will bring together the skills of top zoos –conservation breeding, animal husbandry, veterinary treatment, education, population biology – with those of local experts, conservationists and sanctuaries on the ground. Conservationists call it the One Plan approach, with international zoos and local experts sharing knowledge to work in a more effective way.
This collaboration is truly international; the aim is to build healthy global zoo numbers as insurance against the loss of populations in the wild. Banteng, anoa and babirusa are all declining due to hunting for food and because of habitat loss.
"The Global Species Management Plan (GSMP) under the auspices of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) offers an unique platform for partners from the global zoo community, in this case the South-East Asian Zoo Association (SEAZA), the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) in North America, to work together with partners and authorities in Indonesia contributing to the conservation of these three species", says Simon Tonge, chair of the WAZA Committee for Population Management.
"Babirusas are an important icon of Indonesia's unique biodiversity and a species with high socio-cultural value. The IUCN SSC Wild Pig Specialist Group is very excited about this opportunity to achieve real positive conservation outcomes for the species", says Erik Meijaard, chair of this group.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) welcomes the EU Action Plan against Wildlife Trafficking, which was released this Friday 26 February. The plan outlines the EU's strategy on wildlife trafficking, a necessary step in reducing the role of Europe as a hub for the illegal trade in wildlife. Wildlife trafficking puts further pressure on endangered species all over the world and the EU, as the world's biggest trade bloc has made clear its commitment to tackling this threat.
EAZA was at the launch event on 2 March and is looking forward to working with the European institutions and Member States closely on the reduction and eventual elimination of wildlife trafficking. The steps EAZA accredited zoos take in ensuring that they do not acquire wildlife illegally has been recognized in the TRAFFIC study which supports this EU Action Plan. EAZA and its members have been identified as being able to contribute extensive experience and knowledge to help fight this global threat to biodiversity. EAZA urges Member States to take the action plan seriously and allocate sufficient resources towards its implementation.
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) member Odense Zoo have informed us of their intention to carry out dissections of animal cadavers over the weekend of 16-17 January 2016. The animals, a 9 month old male lion culled in 2014 and year old male sitatunga culled in 2015, will be dissected in front of a self-selected audience, with commentary from zoo guides and the veterinarian carrying out the procedures.
The animals were culled humanely and in accordance with EAZA's Culling Statement (2015); their dissection cannot compromise their welfare. As we have noted previously, dissection of animals provides a useful scientific learning experience that is consistent with Danish cultural norms. While we recognize that some cultures are less comfortable than others with the display of animal cadavers, EAZA strongly supports the view that scientific education is an essential part of learning. Provided that animal welfare is respected, educators have the right to use all tools that are consistent with the culture in which they operate.
It is EAZA's position that culling of animals is one of a range of scientifically valid solutions to the long term genetic and demographic sustainability of animal populations in human care. This management tool is given equal consideration in the effective management of populations, along with others such as contraception and translocation. Each case is considered by the member institution on its own merits, and in conjunction with breeding programme coordinators where applicable. The animals in question were culled as the result of a comprehensive review of the options, and the procedures were carried out humanely and without compromise of the animal's welfare.
EAZA members contribute significantly to the protection of species and habitats across the world through breeding programmes and collaborative work with field conservationists, supported by scientific research. This is a challenging mission and one that requires them to make hard choices from time to time, including (where permitted) culling animals that cannot contribute to a sustainable population or further the goals of species conservation. EAZA members also strive to maximize the learning outcomes of visitors to our institutions, both in the fields of conservation awareness and more specific biological education; in this case, and bearing in mind the validity of the choice to cull the animals as well as the cultural context of Denmark's educational system, we believe that the use of the animal cadavers for public education of anatomy is in line with these aims.
The EAZA Amphibian TAG is proud to present the EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Sardinian brook salamander (Euproctus platycephalus). The information in these Best Practice Guidelines has come from a variety of sources including an extensive literature review, the experience of the authors and others in the captive husbandry, as well as direct observations of the species in the field. Amphibian husbandry is a rapidly evolving field and there are many aspects that still require further research.
Key husbandry points covered in this version are egg and larva sensitivity to mildew and pathogenic fungus, seasonal temperature regimes and monitoring and management of water quality. Please visit the EAZA website for these guidelines. For questions, please contact Ben.Tapley@zsl.org.
EAZA Best Practice Guidelines are produced by the various TAGs to merge expert husbandry knowledge and make it widely available within and outside the borders of the EAZA community. The guidelines show best practice standards, which EAZA zoos aim at achieving. They have been compiled using a template and made user-friendly to facilitate reading and the finding of necessary information. The guidelines are of particular interest when building new enclosures, when deciding upon the nutrition of animals or when seeking information on the biology of the species. EAZA members strive to house animals adequately to their needs and to give advice where needed to help further animal welfare. Please also check out the other Best Practice Guidelines currently available and view the EAZA Standards for the Accommodation and Care of Animals in Zoos and Aquaria.
The EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros unicornis) are now available on the public part of the EAZA website. These EAZA Best Practice Guidelines reflect the long-term experience gained for this species in human care and summarizes the latest information available. The first section focusses on the biology and field data of Greater one-horned rhinoceroses. This information is essential in order to translate the rhinos' needs into good husbandry, good husbandry is needed to keep a healthy population in human care, which itself serves as a backup for the wild population. The information also shows that ex situ breeding efforts and support for in situ rhino conservation projects have become an important role for each zoo keeping rhinos. The current poaching crisis is dramatic and threatens the in situ populations. Cooperation between in situ and ex situ rhino conservation partners is more important than ever and it is one of the aims of the EAZA Rhino TAG to link in situ rhino conservation efforts with ex situ rhino conservation efforts.
The second section deals with the zoo management of this species. Greater one-horned rhinoceroses have been kept successfully in zoos for over sixty years now. The key husbandry issues in this species are chronic foot disease and aggressive behaviour during introduction for breeding. Both subjects are discussed in great length in this paper and ideas are presented on how to prevent foot problems and how to improve breeding. Specific attention is also paid to the feeding regime of this species.
The EAZA Best Practice Guidelines for Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) are now available on the public part of the EAZA website. These guidelines reflect current knowledge of keeping this species in human care. The Guidelines include current knowledge of the species in the natural environment using the most recent taxonomic information. A section on management in zoos covers housing, feeding, social environment, breeding and behavioural management. As managed programmes rely on the movement of animals between zoos, advice on capture, handling and transport is provided. A veterinary section also provides information on current knowledge on medical care. It is essential that all keepers of these wonderful animals frequently refer to these Guidelines and contact Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) members with any concerns or queries.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) has been informed by its member Odense Zoo, Denmark, that they will be conducting a dissection on a lion culled at the zoo nine months ago. The animal was culled after numerous attempts to find another institution of similar high welfare standards to take it were unsuccessful. The dissection will be carried out on Thursday 15 October in front of a self-selected audience of local people and away from general zoo visitors.
It is EAZA's position that culling of animals is one of a range of scientifically valid solutions to the long term genetic and demographic sustainability of animal populations in human care. This management tool is given equal consideration in the effective management of populations, along with others such as contraception and translocation. Each case is considered by the member institution on its own merits, and in conjunction with breeding programme coordinators where applicable. The animal in question was culled as the result of a comprehensive review of the options, and was carried out humanely and without compromise of the animal's welfare.
EAZA further takes the position that the dissection of an animal carcass for educational purposes is a valid choice of the zoo. It should be noted that public understanding of a species, including the challenges it faces in the wild and the nature of its anatomy can be well served by such demonstrations. EAZA recognizes that such demonstrations may not be as widely accepted in some cultures as in others; regardless, it should be noted that the culling itself was carried out transparently, without any reaction from the media and public of any country. The welfare of an animal that has been humanely culled cannot be compromised by the decision to dissect its carcass.
EAZA believes that the future of the natural world, which is in a crisis unparalleled in human history, can be secured only if younger generations are well educated and realistic about the challenges faced by ecosystems and species. Different countries may not agree on the best way to achieve this outcome; nonetheless, attempts by some in the media to generate moral outrage regarding this scientifically valid management tool and accepted educational opportunity will not serve to protect endangered species - and may even hinder educators and conservationists in their mission to do so. Consequently, EAZA welcomes all scientific approaches to increasing public awareness of nature that are appropriate for the country in which the zoo is located.
We have been informed by Zoo Krefeld in Germany of the theft of 1.2 golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia). The animals were stolen from the facility in the night from 23 to 24 July and authorities have been notified.
Nonetheless, we would ask you to contact Dr. Wolfgang Dressen wolfgang.dressen@zookrefeld.de if you are approached regarding the possible purchase of these animals, or if any information comes to light that may help with the recovery of these animals.
An overview of identification information on the stolen animals can be found here.
EAZA's Journal of Zoo and Aquarium Research has just published its latest issue at http://www.jzar.org/jzar. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.
EAZA welcomes the recent publication of the European Commission 'EU Zoos Directive Good Practices Document'. Numerous stakeholders and experts contributed to this work, including EAZA members and the Executive Director. The document aims to support Member States achieve the overall objective of strengthening the role of zoos in the conservation of biodiversity.
It also specifically recognises the good initiatives of EAZA in strengthening contributions to biodiversity conservation. The work of EAZA Members in producing guidelines to help improve husbandry standards and professional competence in zoos, contributing to scientific research, and specific case studies from EAZA Members are used to highlight best practice.
This is a great example of the cooperative opportunities between EAZA and the European Union to support effective implementation of the EU Zoos Directive as well as demonstrating the high standards of EAZA zoos and aquariums across Europe. EAZA will continue to work with the European Union and Member States to build capacity and strive for zoos and aquariums to achieve their full potential for biodiversity conservation.
The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) is shocked to hear of the flooding of the city of Tbilisi and its zoo, which resulted in the death of three members of zoo staff, and the escape and shooting of many of its animals. Tbilisi Zoo is a Candidate for Membership of EAZA, and has been developing its facilities and working practices to meet the standards of the Association under the supervision of an experienced mentor.
EAZA members Prague Zoo (which has had experience of reacting to catastrophic floods) Jerusalem Zoo and Ramat Gan Safari Park, will be sending teams of keepers and veterinarians to Tbilisi to assist with efforts to recapture and contain escaped animals, and make the facility safe for the staff and animals as the water recedes. EAZA is obliged to repeat the call from the Director of Tbilisi Zoo, Zura Gurielidze, for citizens to remain calm and contact authorities if they encounter any wild animal in the city or the surrounding area.
On no account should private citizens attempt to recapture or shoot the animals, which should be considered dangerous. EAZA is gathering information from sources in Tbilisi and elsewhere to build a complete picture of the situation and will be in contact with our members to ascertain how we as a community can most effectively assist. At this stage, we do not know if and when the zoo site will become safe enough for the return of staff and animals; nonetheless, EAZA and its members will do everything possible to assist the local authorities and the management of the zoo ensure the security of the facility and the welfare of the animals.
The EAZA community offers its sincere condolences to the families of the staff who lost their lives. The Association also offers its condolences to the staff of the zoo who have lost not only their friends and colleagues, but also many of the animals they cared for.


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Thornton recorded its first snow of the season today with 1 1/2″ falling during the night and morning.
As usual though, it didn't stick around long and was melting by the end of the day.
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Trump Administration: Life Begins at Conception
by Stephen Wynne • ChurchMilitant.com • October 13, 2017
HHS adopts pro-life perspective in new strategic plan
WASHINGTON (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a major break with Obama-era policy, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is recognizing that life begins at conception.
The HHS, last week, released a draft of its 2018–2022 strategic plan for public review. Analysts have since recognized a significant shift in stance consistent with the Trump administration's pro-life ethic.
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Under Obama, the HHS described its organizational structure in this way: "HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving Americans at every stage of life." Now, under Trump, the organizational structure has been modified: "HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception."
Likewise, the agency declares its first strategic goal is to "Reform, Strengthen and Modernize the Nation's Health Care," to better serve all Americans: "HHS seeks to improve health care outcomes for people we serve. While we may refer to the people we serve as beneficiaries, enrollees, patients or consumers, our ultimate goal is to improve healthcare outcomes for all people, including the unborn, across healthcare settings."
Again, the strategic plan outlines the agency' work to "Strengthen the Economic and Social Well-Being of Americans across the Lifespan:" The plan reads, "A core component of the HHS mission is our dedication to serve all Americans from conception to natural death, but especially those individuals and populations facing or at high risk for economic and social well-being challenges, through effective human services."
The changes at HHS are a direct outgrowth of President Trump's pro-life advocacy. In spring, the commander-in-chief appointed several strongly pro-life figures to leadership positions inside the agency, including Teresa Manning, a professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and writer and political commentator Charmaine Yoest.
Charmaine Yoest, HHS assistant secretary of public affairs
Manning, a former lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee and legislative analyst for the Family Research Council, was named deputy assistant secretary for population affairs.
Yoest, former CEO of Americans United for Life, was selected to serve as assistant secretary of health and human services in charge of public affairs.
Both are vocal opponents of abortifacient intra-uterine device (IUD) contraception. They also publicly refute the abortion lobby's assertion that increased access to contraception reduces the number of abortions. In a 2011 PBS interview, Yoest explained, "It's really a red herring that the abortion lobby likes to bring up by conflating abortion and birth control."
Manning, in fact, has blasted contraception in general as "anti-family." Speaking to NPR in 2003, she affirmed that "the incidence of contraception use and the incidence of abortion go up, hand in hand."
HHS will be accepting public comment on its draft strategic plan until October 27.