If I had to single out one takeaway from this first volume, it was the indescribably moving dialog and emotions that the epic conveys. When Rama goes to Dashratha's palace one last time before leaving for the forest, a desperate father tries one last attempt to hold his son back, first by exhorting him to "Imprison me and become the king of Ayodhya today!" and then pleading him to stay, if only for one more night - "O son! However, it is night now, when one should never leave. Do not go today. Spend the night with your mother and me, so that we can see you." An equally distraught Rama is still steadfast and speaks a brutal truth - "Even if we obtain these objects with qualities today, who will give them to us tomorrow?"
Kousalya's sorrow is heartbreaking, as she ponders her fate - "Had I not had a son, I would not have been this miserable. My sorrow is greater, since I see that I will now be without a son. Had I been barren, I would have had only one sorrow in my mind. There would have been no torment but for the fact that I don't have a son." and the taunts from the younger and prettier Kaikeyi and other queens - "I have heard many disagreeable words that shatter the heart. Though I am superior to them, I have heard them from my inferior co-wives." Knowing Rama's devotion to his parents, Kousalya makes one last resort, telling Rama that "I am not giving you permission. You should not go to the forest." The dutiful son is caught between his mother and father, and can but utter that "I do not possess the strength to act contrary to my father's words" and then pleads with his mother, "O Queen! Grant me permission to go to the forest. I am requesting you, on my life. Perform the benedictions." If people find an echo of these words and sentiments in twentieth-century drama and cinema, it is a testimony to the Ramayana's immortal human appeal.
Among all, perhaps the most moving plight is that of Bharata. Away at his maternal home with Shatrughna when the banishment of Rama is planned and executed, he returns to a forlorn city and the suspicions of all his loved ones. He has to tell his mother, "Like applying salt on a wound, you have imposed a sorrow on another sorrow. You have made my father die and have turned Rama into an ascetic." Whether it is Kousalya, sage Vasishtha, sage Bharadwaja, the nishada king Guha, or Lakshmana, Bharata is looked upon suspiciously by all. He has to bear the burden of his mother's ambitions, and the text brings out his plight in an extremely moving way.
In chapter 1 of Bala Kanda, when Narada tells the rishi Valmiki about the Ramayana, or in chapter 3, when Valmiki summarizes the Ramayana before composing the epic, there is no mention of Sita's agni-pariksha. It is probably neither here nor there, but given that this episode has acquired a disproportional aura and hue over the millennia, its absence from the summary may suggest something.
A peculiarity that struck me was the occurrence of the word humkara, which occurs four times in the first volume itself. The first is when sage Kapila destroys the sons of king Sagara by uttering the sound of humkara. The second is when Sthanu (Shiva) burns down Kama with the utterance of the sound of humkara. The third is when Vasishtha burns down all one hundred of Vishwamitra's sons with his humkara. The fourth is when Vishnu countered Shiva's bow with a yawn and humkara. There is only one such use of the word humkara in the entire Mahabharata, according to Bibek Debroy. This is another of those peculiarities that leads me to wonder when the use of the word and sound of humkara become common in Hindu texts.
Returning to the point about footnotes, the ubiquitous presence of footnotes was something I had pointed out when reading the Mahabharata translation (see this post), and Dr. Bibek Debroy's footnotes do not disappoint here either. Take, for instance, chapters 51 and 52, when King Viswamitra visits sage Vasishtha's hermitage, and the sage requests his cow, Shabala, to provide a meal for the king and his army. Bibek Debroy tells us that: (i) Shabala means speckled or spotted. This was a kamadhenu, a cow that could yield every object of desire, (ii) that the six types of flavour that Vasishtha requested Shabala to provide food with are 'caustic, acidic, sweet, salty, bitter and alkaline, (iii) the four types of food are those that are chewed (charvya), sucked (chosya or chusya), licked (lehya), and drunk (peya). Or when Rama is about to leave for the forest for fourteen years, and when his mother, Kousalya, asks how will Sita manage, she refers to her as "shyama". Shyama can mean dark, but the footnote (number 209) tells us - "We have deliberately not translated shyama. Usually, this means dark. But shyama also means a woman who has not had children and it is this second meaning that is intended here." Or when King Janaka decides to bestow his two daughters in marriage, he says, "I state this in three ways." The three ways, the footnote tells us, are via thoughts, words, and deeds. Or when Rama prepares for his coronation the next day, he spend the night in Vishnu's shrine. The footnote tells us that this shrine was inside the palace, and the image - idol, murti - is now believed to be in the Srirangam shrine! With more than nine-hundred footnotes, the translation is enriched by these clarifications and explanations.
Unlike the Goldman translation, where the translator went to great pains to assert out that the epic was a work of fiction, here, Bibek Debroy correctly mentions that the factuality of the epic is mostly an irrelevant question when it comes to the translation. One could point to the existence of Ram Setu (also known as Adam's Bridge) at Rameswaram - the place the Ramayana mentions Rama and his army as having crossed over the ocean to Lanka, or to the study that confirmed the existence of all 182 plants, flowers, and trees mentioned in the Ramayana from the north to the south, and so on, but that is a matter for discussion in a different place. A translation is not the place to conduct battles over ideologies or agendas, and this translation steers clear of that minefield. For that matter, while the author broaches the subject of the greater antiquity of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, he steers clear of pronouncing any definitive verdict in the matter. Reading the translation, I certainly got the impression that there is a greater sophistication in the society as described in the epic, and which would seem to suggest that perhaps the events in the Ramayana took place at a later point in time than the Mahabharata, but that is one opinion, and one which is not going to be settled anytime soon.
People who have read the epic in Sanskrit say there is a divine quality, if you will pardon the expression, that translations cannot quite capture. Indeed, as Dr. Bibek Debroy writes, "There is no substitute for reading the original Sanskrit, more so for the Valmiki Ramayana than the Mahabharata." True though that might be, if one lacks the patience for the unabridged or a knowledge of Sanskrit, the next best thing would be to read a faithful translation of the unabridged original. Retellings, adaptations, narrations, abridgements - all have their own space and place, but with such a creative freedom to re-interpret the Ramayana also comes the onerous responsibility to neither inject one's own ideology or agendas nor try and improve upon the original. Sadly, it's a burden more often shirked than borne these days. Hence, for a medium-sized epic like the Ramayana, reading the translation, in full, is certainly something I would suggest, and Bibek Debroy's translation I would heartily recommend.
This review first appeared in OpIndia (@OpIndia_com) on May 16th, 2018.


This is a Three-dimensional 360 degree shooter.
Shoot down incoming planets and defend your homeworld!
This game is made by Unity.
Source codes are published at here.
Superb feeling when you play 3D game with graphics that belongs to the past millennium. Nice one!
The incoming planets start spawning like crazy once you shoot down 18 or so. You home planet ends up providing the cover that the other planets need to destroy your home over all a pretty depressing game if you really think about it.
I really like the perspective you're firing from, everything seems quite immense. Really like the vector chiq as well, very 80s arcadey.
Nice models, you made this shader of wireframe or can you say how you made it ?
Awesome game. Some sort of radar would have been nice but this is so far the most entertaining game I've tried during LD30.
Nice graphical style. I was freaking out at the end, the planets were coming in none-stop and it provoked a strong emotional response from me. But, the audio was a bit rough sounding and by the end I was fearing for the safety of my ears.
Score 14 and my world was destroy with a pretty explosion but i feel something is missing in the gameplay, nice realization.
Very difficult game, couldn't get past 10. Solid effort!
Actually gets top-marks from me on graphics :) I really really liked the Elite-esque artwork.
The actual game was *hard* as the enemy planets spawned relentlessly and I kept getting zapped by a planet spawning behind me.
The laser pulse actually worked really well, and reminded me of my laser shots in LD24 entry.
Very nice game with goo concept! I also like the "Tempest"-like graphics!


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Gajusz Maniliusz () – rzymski polityk, działający w I wieku p.n.e., stronnik Gnejusza Pompejusza.

Pochodził z rodziny plebejskiej (gens Manilia). W roku 67 p.n.e. udało mu się uzyskać trybunat na rok następny, jednak jeszcze w grudniu w roku wyborów starał się przeprowadzić przez zgromadzenie ustawę o prawie do głosowania przez wyzwoleńców w tribus swoich patronów. Kasjusz Dion twierdzi, że próbował to zrobić wieczorem ostatniego dnia roku 67 p.n.e. Pomimo przegłosowania ustawy senat zablokował ją ze względów formalnych (Historia rzymska XXXVI.42).

Zasłynął ustanowieniem prawa nadającego Gnejuszowi Pompejuszowi nadzwyczajną władzę wojskową i administracyjną w III wojnie Rzymu z Mitrydatesem. Propozycja ostro krytykowana przez najbardziej konserwatywnych optymatów z Hortensjuszem i Katulusem na czele, została jednak poparta przez lud. Za jej uchwaleniem optował pretor roku 66 p.n.e. Marek Tuliusz Cyceron, który wygłosił przed zgromadzeniem słynną mowę pro Lege Manilia (a właściwie de imperio Gnaei Pompei, zwaną również Manilianą). Wydarzenia te opisali Wellejusz Paterkulus i Plutarch (Historia rzymska II.33; Pompejusz 30).

Bezpośrednio po ustąpieniu z urzędu trybuna, Maniliusz został postawiony w stan oskarżenia za rzekome malwersacje. Nikt nie miał jednak wątpliwości, że była to zemsta optymatów niechętnych Pompejuszowi. Cyceron, któremu również kończyła się kadencja, a który jako pretor przewodniczył sądowi, został poproszony przez oskarżonego o zwyczajowe 10 dni zwłoki w celu przygotowania obrony. Cyceron odmówił wyznaczając rozprawę w ostatnim dniu swojego urzędowania, co zbulwersowało lud. Przypuszczano bowiem, że to próba przypodobania się stronnictwu senatorskiemu. Wezwany przez trybunów aby wytłumaczył się publicznie, stwierdził jednak, że pozostaje życzliwy w stosunku do Maniliusza i właśnie dlatego wyznaczył rozprawę jeszcze w czasie swojego urzędowania, a w roku następnym podjął się nawet jego obrony (Kasjusz Dion Historia rzymska XXXVI.44; Plutarch Cyceron IX).

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'Hope is contagious…[pass it on]' is the mantra behind Band4Hope: a movement of pay-it-forward copper and zinc wristbands ethically handcrafted in Zimbabwe and inspired by the traditional jewellery of the Himba people of Namibia. Already spotted on the likes of Vivienne Westwood, Annie Lennox, Lily Cole and Aussie VJ Kate Peck, each band is fashioned with a unique ID which enables them and their impact to be tracked via an online map as they are passed from person to person. Part of the purchase price of each band goes to charity and those who the bands are passed on to are also encouraged to make a donation. The perfect gift for someone who has everything, you can buy the unisex bands for $25 online here.
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The 'Tiger King' Zoo Is Closed For Good
It's hard to believe it was just five months ago that Joe Exotic and his menagerie of wild animals came into our lives via Netflix's smash true-crime series Tiger King. Although Mr. Exotic himself went to prison for a variety of charges, his zoo — Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park — remained open under new management.
Now, thanks to the enormous spotlight brought by the show, and the "unfathomable source of income" that came with it, the park will close for good "effective immediately." A post on Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park's Facebook page reveals that the Tiger King zoo is no more (RIP):
The Tiger King phenomenon has definitely changed our lives in many ways. It has brought us more attention than any human deserves, good and bad. It has, and probably will continue to make us a target of every nutjob and animal rights loon in the World, but we are prepared. As of today, we have decided to close the old zoo effective immediately.
The post says the zoo will pivot to becoming "a private film set for Tiger King related television content for cable and streaming services," of which there are many in the works. Nicolas Cage is set to play Joe Exotic in a fictional Tiger King series, and Investigation Discovery is working on their own show about Exotic's life and times.
The Facebook posts also claims that "all the animals will continue to have excellent care, and consequently will no longer be subject to USDA inspections or PETA spies." That's comforting news, assuming you believe it. (If you have watched Tiger King, you might be skeptical.)
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Shaheen Statement on the Passing of Janet Reno
(Manchester, NH) – U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statement on the passing of former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno:
"Janet Reno was an exemplary public servant dedicated to the highest principles of the American justice system," said Senator Shaheen. "Janet was part of a generation of women who achieved 'firsts' and her appointment as the first woman Attorney General of the United States underscored her integrity, hard work, compassion and dedication to justice. Janet will be remembered not only for her service to our country but for her lifelong work to protect children and see fair justice for all. I join her family and the entire country in mourning her loss."


BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview with news magazine Der Spiegel published on Saturday that Turkey has never been less likely to join the European Union than now, as relations between Ankara and Berlin hit a low point.
"Today Turkey is definitely further away from becoming a member of the European Union than ever before," Gabriel said in the interview.
He also said that he always had doubts about whether Turkey should join the EU but found himself in the minority in his Social Democrat (SPD) party.
Before taking power in Germany in 2005, Chancellor Angela Merkel was an outspoken opponent of Turkey's membership and instead called for a "privileged partnership".
Gabriel disliked that idea because he thought it would make Turks feel like second-class Europeans but he said his opinion had changed since Britain's decision to leave the EU.


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Mexico Plans On Opening Tourism Hot Spots -- Cancun, Los Cabos, Riviera Maya In June
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Mexico, along with the US has been taking measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 for the past few weeks. As a result, all nonessential travel between Mexico and the US has been banned since March 21st. Both governments will decide whether to reopen the border on May 19th.
Mexico will also be deciding before May 30th whether or not to lift restrictions on domestic travel. If restrictions are lifted, Quintana Roo and Los Cabos will be welcoming travelers.
According to the Quintana Roo Tourism Promotion Council, new campaigns will be launched this month to attract local, regional, and national tourism.
Darío Flota Ocampo, director of Quintana Too Tourism Promotion Council (CPTQ) says in a statement that airlines will be resuming operations for international travel at Cancun International Airport.
Travelers arriving in Mexico can expect to have their temperature checked by thermographic cameras and if they are symptomatic, they will either be sent home or asked to quarantine in Mexico.
According to a statement given by the tourism board to AFAR, "62 percent of the hotel inventory will resume operations while international airlines like Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest, and Delta have already announced the return to the destination."
Although Mexico has plans to reopen in June, there has been a spike in COVID-19 cases, reported by Reuters/Newsweek. Mexican health authorities have urged residents to stay at home during this time. Quintana Roo, however, has seen a decline in the number of cases.
Mexico's secretary of tourism released new sanitary guidelines for the hospitality industry which includes thoroughly cleaning surfaces, walls, windows, doors and handles regularly with detergent and chlorinated solution.
The Quintana Roo Tourism Promotion Council hopes to attract national and international tourists once travel restrictions are lifted.
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"It was good coffee. A man with big feet could walk on it."
Posted on June 15, 2016 by Museum at Campbell River
In the late 1800s, in an effort to increase production, steam technology began to replace horse and oxen in the logging industry. Until diesel machinery began to be in use in the 1940s, steam donkeys could be seen all over the Pacific Northwest. They were mounted on log sleds and could be towed from one area to another on floats. Steam donkeys were versatile machines that could be used for yarding, hauling and loading logs.
One of the lesser known uses of the steam donkey was also the highlig ht of many a loggers' day – donkey boiler coffee. Arthur "Bill" Mayse, who told his story to Jeanette Taylor shortly before his death, recalled fondly waiting for the engineer to blow his whistle at eleven thirty signalling lunch break. "Woooo woo – one long and one short – and that meant lunch time. So everyone would drop their gloves and head for the donkey engine."
The fireman who stoked the fires of the engine, was responsible for making the coffee. "He would take a great big lard pail, one of the great big storage pails that holds two or three gallons of water, off a hook and he'd reach for what he called his injector hose." The injector hose was a high pressure hose filled with steam from the donkey boiler. "He'd take the injector ho se and whoosh, he'd send a big jet of hot steam into it and would bring it right from cold to boiling in nothing flat. Then the important thing, he'd take about two pounds of coffee, which is quite a lot of coffee, and he'd dump it into this furiously boiling water. Then he'd take what they called the slice bar, one of the steel pokers that they used for poking up the fire in the firebox, and he'd hang his pail with his coffee makings on one end of the slice bar and he'd ram it right into the white-hot donkey boiler. He'd hold it there for a while and let it have a good bubble, good boil. Then he'd set the pail on the donkey deck and he'd grab another of these bags of cold water, drinking water, and he'd pour about two quarts in the coffee; that was to settle it down. And then the coffee was ready for drinking."
The loggers would gather around the steam donkey and each grab an empty tobacco can. "They'd take a dip into the big steaming bucket of coffee and get about a half-pound can of coffee, which is quite a lot. And then there'd be canned milk, "canned cow" we called it, and sugar in bags and we'd fix our coffee the way we wanted it."
The loggers would then find a place to sit and open up their nose bags, which is what they called their brown bagged lunches, and settle in for lunch with their sandwiches, pie and coffee.
"It was good coffee. A man with big feet could walk on it. It was the best coffee I ever tasted in my life, even if you did have to fish bits of burnt twig and charcoal out of it every now and then. But it had a taste, I think maybe from the quick, really savage boil in the white hot steam that no other coffee anywhere else ever got, so we loved it."
An Empire Steam Donkey manufactured in 1916 can be seen at the entrance to the Museum at Campbell River. This fully restored donkey will be fired up for Canada Day at 11:30am and the public is invited to bring their nose bags for a picnic on the Museum grounds, and join us for a sip of coffee in honour of the loggers of the past who once gathered around the steam donkey for this daily ritual.
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Explore Telegraph Cove, Sointula and Alert Bay with the Museum at Campbell River
For the more adventurous traveler the Museum at Campbe ll River is offering an overnight trip to explore Telegraph Cove, Sointula and Alert Bay. The trip departs from Campbell River on Saturday afternoon with a Museum guide joining you right from the beginning to explain points of interest on the trip north. Guests check into cabins at Telegraph Cove and then are free to explore the area and have dinner. The cabins themselves are a point of interest – each of them has a story about the previous inhabitants, most of whom were employees of the sawmill that was in operation at Telegraph Cove throughout the 1930s to 1950s. They have, of course, been restored and are complete with modern conveniences.
Saturday evening is a presentation and tour of the Whale Interpretive Museum at Telegraph Cove. While there, don't forget to look up to get the full force of just how big a whale is!
Breakfast Sunday morning is at the Seahorse Café, at which point you board a boat to cruise over to Sointula on Malcolm Island. Sointula was a Finnish settlement and the name means "Place of Harmony" in Finnish. In 1901 they arrived with the intention of setting up a utopian socialist society. The utopian ideal may not have thrived, but the settlers remained and have built and maintained a lovely community rich in history and natural splendor. You will visit the lovely Sointula Museum at this stop. You can either catch a ride up to the Museum or take the opportunity to stretch your legs on the short walk over.
The next stop on the boat cruise is Alert Bay on Cormorant Island. Alert Bay is a remarkable aboriginal cultural destination, rich in history and cultural tradition. The highlight of this stop is a tour of the U'mista Cultural Centre and the Potlach mask collection on display there. You will also be treated to lunch at the Museum.
Mid-afternoon you will return to Telegraph Cove and board the bus back to Campbell River.
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See Spectacular Desolation Sound on a Historic Boat tour with the Museum at Campbell River
Spectacular fjords, mountains and wildlife are what most people think of when they hear the name Desolation Sound. On the Historic Boat Cruise to Desolation Sound with the Mus eum at Campbell River and Discovery Marine Safaris you will encounter all of that, and also have the opportunity to delve into the region's rich history.
The boat tour leaves Campbell River, cruises past Quadra Island and its iconic lighthouse built in 1898. Guests will then have the opportunity to view Mitlenatch Island, a wildlife sanctuary that houses the largest seabird colony in the Strait of Georgia. It is not unusual in this area to see not only birds, but other wildlife such as sea lions and seals.
Soon you'll be passing Hernando Island, a private island with beautiful sandy beaches, as well as the Twin Islands, which were at one time owned by German royalty.
Just north of Powell River is the community of Lund. The trip stops here at the historic Lund Hotel. Established by the Thulin Brothers in the 1890s, who would then go on to open the Willows Hotel in Campbell River, this hotel has been renovated and provides the ideal stop for lunch.
After lunch the tour heads towards Teakerne Arm and Lewis Channel. Teakerne Arm is known for the stunning Cassel Falls that is located within Teakerne Arm Provincial Park. This park is located on West Redonda Island.
After passing through the north end of Lewis Channel, you will start to return towards Campbell River, passing between Read and Cortes Islands.
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Tour the Thurlow Islands with the Museum
One of the boat tours being offered this season is a tour of the Thurlows, with a lunch stop at Blind Channel Resort. The Thurlow Islands consist of two islands, East Thurlow and West Thurlow. They owe their early development to logging, mining and fishing. Logging began on East Thurlow as the stands of timber in the lower mainland were being used up. Companies like Hastings Mill out of Langley, BC were searching for areas to expand into. As early as 1880, Hastings Mill made Bickley Bay on East Thurlow Island their regional headquarters. Further development was curtailed, however, when gold was discovered in nearby Shoal Bay, also on East Thurlow.
In 1884, the first stake was claimed and by 1890, the gold rush was on. This attracted a large number of prospectors and development. By 1897, there were two stores and two hotels. That same year Shoal Bay became incorporated as a town and the Union Steamships were stopping by four times a week. The plans for a township never developed however, and today, all that remains at Shoal Bay is a privately owned lodge and seasonal residences. Even the famous store pictured here had to be dismantled in 2008.
The government dock is still in good shape and today, pleasure boaters have replaced the working population and the Union Steamships which both left the area in the late 1950s.
The two Thurlows are separated by Mayne Passage, and West Thurlow lies to the northwest. On the south side of the island, location of present day Blind Channel Resort, a sawmill was built in 1910, then by 1918 it disappeared and was replaced by a cannery.
In 'Guide to Blind Channel', Phil Richter says: "The visitor to the area today, might find it difficult to imagine the activity which existed here within less than on e lifetime." He goes on to say that the area attracted people looking for opportunity and an independent way of life. An independent way of life was what attracted the Richter family to Blind Channel in 1969, and by 1970, they had sold their home in Vancouver and purchased the property and existing store there. The family consisted of parents Edgar and Annemarie, sons Philip, Alfred and Robert and grandparents William and Therese. They developed the location into a thriving resort, complete with a first class dining room, general store with a liquor licence and post office; washroom and laundry facilities, and mooring and fuel for boats.
Travellers to the area quickly discover the excellent homemade bread sold in the store and admire the unique artwork created by Annemarie Richter that is comprised of items she collected on local beaches; bits of crockery, jewellery and seashells.
For the tours of the Discovery Islands, the Museum partners with Discovery Marine Safaris, a local wildlife tour operator. Passengers are taken out on comfortable, heated aluminum boats equipped with toilets. The four to five hour trips also include a lunch at Blind Channel Resort's Cedar Post Restaurant. The restaurant is known for using fresh local ingredients to create delicious meals for their guests.
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Experience Bute Inlet on the Homalco Cultural Tour
Posted on April 7, 2016 by Museum at Campbell River
From the distinctive milky blue glacier fed waters to the vertical shoreline that stretches from sea to sky, a trip to Bute Inlet is not soon forgotten. The traditional lands of the Homalco First Nations, Bute is one of several long deep fjords wh ich cuts into B.C.'s coastal mountain range. This summer's schedule of Historic Boat Tours will include three trips to Orford Bay, located midway up this scenic Inlet.
Given the name Bute Inlet in 1792 by Captain George Vancouver it was named after John Stuart, the Third Earl of Bute, whose grandson was serving aboard Vancouver's boat Discovery. In the late 1880's Bute seemed to be destined to play an instrumental role in the early history of the Colony of British Columbia. Entrepreneur Alfred Waddington had ambitious plans, which eventually failed, to build a wagon road from the head of Bute Inlet to the Cariboo goldfields.
On board one of the Discovery Marine Safari vessels this tour sets off from Campbell River's government wharf and is a chance to visit an area rich in history and known for its spectacular scenery. During the two hour trip to Orford Bay one of the Museum's historical interpreters is on board to point out sites of historical significance along the way.
Upon reaching Orford Bay passengers are met by members of the Homalco Band paddling their Salish inspired canoe to greet the boat. The cultural program for the onshore portion of the tour has been developed by Homalco Wildlife Tours and involves a number of Homalco youth interpreters. From the Homalco Band's perspective this program is part of an initiative to reconnect their youth with their culture and traditional lands. The enthusiasm of the youth involved is one of the many highlights of the onshore activities.
Orford Bay is the site of one of the Homalco's winter villages. Located midway up Bute Inlet it is one of the few spots in the Inlet that is protected from the Bute winds. The topography of the inlet is such that the wind can be blowing in different directions at the same time on opposite sides of the inlet. Bute's outflow winter winds are particularly ferocious and can blow for days at a time at speeds gusting over 100 km/h. The severity and force of the Bute winds is known by the Homalco as Xwoxw.
The first stop after disembarking from the boat is the Orientation Centre which features information about this winter village as well as the history and culture of the Homalco people. Other on-shore activities include an opportunity to join in a cedar weaving workshop atop one of the bear observation platforms and weather permitting, paddle the canoe in the bay. The visit concludes with a traditional seafood dinner enjoyed outside on a large deck.
Outstanding scenery at every turn, with exceptional hosts, this trip provides a glimpse into Homalco history and culture.
Posted in Uncategorized	| Tagged Bute Inlet, Campbell River history, campbell river museum, Discovery Marine Safaris, guided historic boat tours, Homalso, Orford Bay	| 4 Replies
Preserving Food for the Cold Months Ahead
Posted on August 22, 2012 by Museum at Campbell River
With harvest season on our doorstep, thoughts turn to gathering and preserving for the colder months ahead. Our ancestors expended a great deal of time and energy keeping food in different ways. From fish to berries, wild and domestic crops and game were prepared in different ways with the purpose of having edible food for the lean months ahead.
First Nations people smoked and dried fish, made oils, and dried berries and seaweed without the use of salt, sugar and jars and our pioneer forefathers and mothers brought with them their European ways of preserving. Fish and meat, fruits and vegetables were canned, pickled, dried, salted, fermented, made into beverages, or where it was cold enough, frozen.
On the West Coast, one of the most proliferate and important food sources has been salmon. As the different varieties of salmon would make their appearance throughout the season, people found it necessary to find ways of preserving it.
"Processing the salmon harvest has been going on for hundreds of years, (William Sovde, longtime logger) Natives dried it (salmon) for their own use and for trading. Early settlers salted it for export."
In 'Nootka Sound Explored' author Laurie Jones tells us that prior to the establishment of canneries, there were several Japanese owned salteries on the west coast of the island. "Herring and later chum salmon were dry-salted and shipped out to markets in China and Japan… the salteries were exporting fish as early as 1902."
Smoking fish as a means of preserving has also been practised the world over for centuries. Explorers were surprised to find the Nootka people of the west coast of Vancouver Island smoking and preparing fish right in their own dwellings. The people of the Nimpkish area were also known to smoke large quantities of fish in their homes.
The smokehouses at U'dzo'la's on the Nimpkish River were described to Leonard Hamm the following way: "The smoke houses at U'dzo'la's were the biggest I ever saw… big enough for four families, with four levels of hanging racks. The fires were carefully tended, so that they did not burn too hot.
Salmon hung for smoking
Maybe six or seven hundred fish hanging at one time. There was a big flat piece of metal put over the fire, so the smoke would to up around the edges, not go straight up the smoke hole."
The process of smoking the fish is described thus: (from Raincoast Kitchens). "Every day, over two hundred fish were brought in, cleaned, filleted and hung up to dry. Those prepared the first day were hung closest to the ceiling of the house, those prepared the following days were hung on lower levels… my job was to turn those which were already hung up. They would have to be turned several times each day."
In 'The North American Indian', Edward Curtis notes that "on account of its keeping qualities, dog-salmon (chum) was the principal storage food, and was used through the winter whenever the weather did not permit fishing." He goes on to say that the blubber and flesh of whales (that were sometimes stranded on shore or hunted) was also smoked and preserved, and the oil was stored.
Captain Cook observed that porpoise was commonly processed by the Nootka on the west coast, "the fat or rind of which, as well as the flesh, they cut in large pieces and having dried them, as they do the herrings, eat them". He also noted that the oil from sea animals was used "in great quantities".
Another fish prized by the native people of the northwest were the eulachon
Making oil from eulachons
(smelt), whose nutrient rich oil was rendered into a grease that is said to have medicinal properties, and would be used to ward off colds and flu in the same manner that cod liver oil has been used by Europeans. Eulachon oil was also an important trade item and a source of wealth. In the 1700s a vast network of eulachon "grease trails" stretched from Alaska to the Fraser River, even crossing the northern Rockies.
Eulachon have also been called 'candle fish', as they are so full of oil that when dried, placed upright, and lit, the fish would burn from end to end like a candle. Eulachon was often dried and smoked as well.
"The return of the eulachon meant the beginning of spring and a renewed food supply, (What's Cooking America) literally saving lives and earning them the name "salvation fish" or "saviour fish." They were the first fish to arrive in the river after a long cold winter when most of the stored food supplies had been depleted.
The oil or grease made from eulachon was rendered in various ways by individual tribes, but mainly the process was to fill a pit or box with the fish, allow them to decay for a week or two, then add boiling water so that the grease would rise to the top so that it could be skimmed off. At room temperature, the grease is solid like butter and would be eaten with other fish or berries. Bread could be dipped in the oil for eating also.
Florence Tickner, whose family were settlers in Knight Inlet, describes how when the eulachon run started, they ate the fish fresh until they couldn't eat any more and how her family always had a stone crock containing eulachon in brine, which would be eaten later. "Preserving food in those days often presented a challenge" she relates: "Mother used jars and put up berries, salmon, deer meat and deer stew. Many people had a smoke house, and smoked salmon, cod, halibut, deer and eulachon."
Differing from the native people, settlers brought with them the idea of leaving salmon in a brine before smoking it. The brine was usually a combination of brown demerara sugar and pickling salt, with the amount of each being varied, depending on how 'candy-like' a person would want their fish to turn out to be. The number of days the fish stayed in the brine and the length of time for smoking the fish varied from individual to individual, as did the addition of certain other flavourings like maple syrup or whiskey. Many people still smoke their own salmon and everyone has their own unique recipe.
Salmon and other seafood was often also 'jarred' or canned. It wasn't long before the commercially minded saw the potential in processing large amounts of salmon for canning, and by 1910, there were about 80 canneries were operating along the coast. Clams were also processed for canning.
Aside from fish, seafood and wildlife, another important indigenous food source was berries. "There were plenty of berries: blackberries, huckleberries, salmonberries, blueberries, saskatoons and wild strawberries. Indian women showed settlers the value of other berries such as the fruit of salal and Oregon grape." (Women of British Columbia). Before the advent of jars, native women were preparing berries for keeping. 'Currants, salal berries, raspberries, red elder berries or a mixture of them were steamed or boiled, then placed in cedar frames, spear on rack and dried slowly over a fire.' (Raincoast Kitchen). These would be formed into cakes for keeping and eating later.
Women settlers were often challenged in making preserves, as finding containers took some ingenuity until glass jars were available, and even when they did become available, were considered to be a luxury.
"We used whiskey bottles" recalls one woman pioneer… "we had to sterilize them [and] to make containers for jam, we tied a string around the bottom of the neck of each bottle, dipped that in coal oil and set it alight, then plunged the bottle into a pail of cold water. Usually the neck snapped off neatly." (Women of British Columbia)
Sealing jams and preserves was another task; settlers could use the hard, glutinous substance in which store-bought bacon was preserved. Pieces of cloth, cheesecloth or paper could also be used. If possible, enough jam was made to last the family through the winter.
The West Coast rainforest also abounded with edible mushrooms which came into fruit at different times of the year due to the mild climate, and these could be dried by hanging them in strings over a wood stove.
Cultivating fruits and vegetables opened up many more possibilities for variety of food and accessibility when the growing season was over. Root vegetables could be stored in a root cellar or house.
"We had lots to eat; potatoes, carrots, parsnips turnips and beets were in the root house… we had over one hundred fruit trees in the orchard, cherries, plums and apples." (Jean Turner, Raincoast Kitchen). Jean recalls that her mother kept a very large garden and would put away five or six hundred jars of preserved fruits and vegetables before the winter. Certain varieties of apples would also remain edible, if kept in a cool place, throughout the year.
Many vegetables were pickled, and cabbage could be fermented and made into sauerkraut. Captain Cook believed that sauerkraut was a 'cure-all' and made it a staple aboard ship in the late 1700's. German and Eastern European settlers brought the tradition of sauerkraut with them to the west. "Barrels of freshly pounded cabbage were kept for about a fortnight in a warm kitchen or stable and later transferred to a cellar or larder where they were kept for the whole winter." (Pickled, Potted & Canned, Sue Shephard)
Today, many food preparation techniques have been continued or revived, despite the advent of refrigerators and freezers. Numerous people today still smoke or jar fish and wild meat, pick mushrooms and berries and make jam because they enjoy the process and enjoy the taste of food that is both wild and prepared by hand. Many of us take pleasure in giving and receiving gifts of food made from favourite recipes for preserving, and with Thanksgiving around the corner, we can be thankful that much of the wild fare our forefathers in this area enjoyed is still available to us today.
'Raincoast Kitchens' is a wonderful collection of old time recipes produced by the Campbell River Museum, and available in the Museum Shop. Books like 'The Women of British Columbia' are available in our Archives collection.
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Tribute to Van Egan at 2010 Haig-Brown Festival
Posted on September 23, 2010 by Museum at Campbell River
The dual passions of well known author and early environmentalist Roderick Haig-Brown, fly fishing and conservation, are being celebrated at the 9th annual Haig-Brown Festival. Again the festival coincides with World Rivers Day and is held on Sunday, September 26, from noon to 4pm. Admission is free, with activities for all ages, good food, music, great displays, tours and more.
The City of Campbell River will again present Stewardship Awards at 1pm to any individuals, groups or businesses who have made an impact in an area of conservation like pesticide and waste reduction, energy and water conservation, habitat awareness or air quality protection.
This year, the festival will commemorate the life of Lavant Gorman Egan (better known as 'Van') who recently passed away in July. Pictured here are Valerie and Ann Haig-Brown with Van Egan. Egan was a friend and neighbour of Haig-Brown and a fellow fly fishing enthusiast, and he was a biology teacher at Carihi, a Campbell River high school. Among his accomplishments, he wrote and taught Canada's first oceanography course, and authored several books including The Tyee Club of British Columbia, Waterside Reflections, Rivers on My Mind, Rivers of Return, and River of Salt. In his most recent book, Shadows of the Western Angler, Egan wrote a wonderful story about the 'Silver Lady'. This special fly is now the 2010 Haig-Brown Festival Commemorative Fly, and you will be able to bid on it at the festival's silent auction.
The Haig-Brown Heritage Site is located at 2250 Campbell River Road (on the Gold River Highway). For a list of this year's participants, visit www.haig-brown.bc.ca. For further information call the Museum at 250 287-3103.
Posted in Events & Exhibits	| Tagged Campbell River, campbell river museum, Carihi, City of Campbell River, Haig-Brown Festival, Haig-Brown Heritage Site, Haig-Brown House, Silver Lady, Van Egan, World Rivers Day	| Leave a reply
One Hundred Years of Education in Campbell River
First school house at Cedar and 9th Ave
One hundred years ago, in 1910, there was no school in Campbell River, but there was a classroom. Pupils came to the Willows Hotel Annex to be taught by Harold Campbell, who later became Deputy Minister of Education in BC. As seven students were required before a school could be opened, a four year old (Arnold McDonald) was included to artificially inflate the numbers. Since only five children attended regularly though, instruction was given for just two months before the 'school' was closed and Campbell was sent to teach elsewhere. However, shortly afterwards, the classroom reopened and the number of students rose to 16, prompting the building of the first school house, the Campbell River School, situated at the corner of Cedar and 9th Avenue. The photo at right is of a class from 1921-22. The Campbell River School accommodated students for the next 10 years, until the Elm Street School was built.
Elm Street School circa 1945
In 1945, School District 72 was created as a result of consolidations recommended by a report of the Royal Commission.To celebrate 100 years since schooling first began in Campbell River, a reunion is being planned for September 9 and 10 to include students attending from 1939 to 1959.
For a complete history of early education in Campbell River, visit the archives where the Museum has a copy of 'The Schoolhouse on the Hill – The Story of a Coastal Community's First School' by Dr. Thomas Fleming (written in 1987).
Posted in Resources & Archives	| Tagged campbell river museum, Elm Street School, School District 72, School in Campbell River, Willows Hotel Annex	| Leave a reply
When Waterways Were Our Highways
Posted on July 22, 2010 by Museum at Campbell River
This summer, the Campbell River Museum is offering historic guided boat tours to the Discovery Islands, whose fascinating history has been the subject of such books as Tidal Passages by local historian Jeanette Taylor. Long before Campbell River became a settlement, there were three thriving centres of importance in the islands area: Rock Bay on the east coast of Vancouver Island, Shoal Bay on East Thurlow Island, (see map) and Thurston Bay on Sonora Island. Such was the importance of these settlements, that even before WW1, there was a telephone line connecting Rock Bay, Shoal Bay and Thurston Bay, several years before Campbell River had telephone service.
SS Cardena Union Steamship
In an era when waterways were the highways, and settlement was moving west from Vancouver, these centres had natural good harbours and the natural resources that expanding companies and settlers were looking for. The easily accessible timber and mineral finds lured loggers and prospectors to the area, and after WW1, the government was granting 160 acre parcels of homesteading land to entice settlers as well. Soon afterward, the Union Steamships made their way up the coast from Vancouver and stopped at all the important settlements.
As early as 1880, logging operations like Hastings Saw Mill out of Langley, BC were looking to expand west of the mainland. They first made Bickley Bay on East Thurlow Island their regional headquarters, then moved their operation to Rock Bay, on the east Vancouver Island, about 40km north of Campbell River. In 'Upcoast' , Richard Rajala explains how "Rock Bay became the first upcoast site of mass production logging – tugboats moved logs from this site to Lower Mainland mills. [Rock Bay offered] accessibility, high-quality timber, efficient logging with oxen and horse teams."
Horse and oxen were soon replaced with railroads starting about 1910. These rail lines were never used to connect Rock Bay with other communities on the island however, and even today, the only way to get to Rock Bay by land is to follow a rough logging road from Highway 19. At one period, Rock Bay had more loggers employed than at any other location on the coast, (about 1500). A hospital was built there in 1904, further increasing its importance, but was closed in the early 1940's when logging activity ceased.
Shoal Bay on nearby East Thurlow Island was a boom town in its own right, owing its growth to mineral finds. The first stake was claimed 1884 and the gold rush followed in 1890. (Jeanette Taylor, Tidal Passages).
Old store at Shoal Bay, now torn down
This caused a great deal of excitement and drew large numbers of prospectors there. By 1897, there were two stores and two hotels, and Shoal Bay was the distribution point for other mines in the area. That same year Shoal Bay became incorporated as a town and the Union Steamships were stopping by four times a week.
The steamships were a vital link to people and supplies, in an era when it was rare for individuals to have their own motorized boat. When it was time to go to civilization, loggers with their paycheques and settlers would take the Union Steamship to Vancouver, enduring the 30 hour trip there and back.
Even as recently as the 1940's, people in the islands used row boats for getting around in. In fact, they rowed astonishing distances – from as far away as Cortes and Quadra Islands to reach destinations like Shoal Bay. In 'Guide to Blind Channel', Phil Richter tells us how a mother who lived at the Green Points settlement on the mainland would row from there to Blind Channel (on West Thurlow Island), a distance of about one mile, to get her children to school. Len Crawford, who wrote 'The Way It Was', remembers rowing as being the main means of getting around. It could be dangerous, as most people didn't wear life jackets—the only available style was too bulky. Len himself never learned to swim, even though he spent his whole life on the water. The water was too cold to enjoy, and as he says "the main thing was to stay out of the water."
Thurston Bay
Thurston Bay on Sonora Island was unique from other coastal communities. Instead of developing as a result of pioneering or exploitation of its natural resources, it was established in 1914 as a BC Forest Marine Service station and according to John Parminter, who for many years was editor of the Forest Marine Service newsletter, it was also a ship building centre for the Marine Service starting in 1917. During its busy years, Thurston Bay had several boat building sheds, floats and bunkhouses and its own electricity, created by a Peltham wheel, and homes were built to house the families that came with the Forest Service Rangers, engineers and boat builders. While rangers were out on patrol or fighting fires, their wives would man the station and keep up radio contact, and homeschool the children. As many families homesteaded in the area, eventually they had a school in Thurston Bay. The community thrived until1941, and kept its status as a Ranger District until 1969, when that was transferred to Campbell River.
By the 1950's, times were changing drastically in the islands. The Union Steamship Company went out of business, and new provincial legislation meant that small logging concerns could no longer get forest licences. Schools were closing due to lack of enrolment and families moved to where the work and amenities were. The era of waterways as highways was over, giving way to recreational boating and floatplanes.
Catch a glimpse of a bygone era and imagine the coastal communities as the vital and thriving settlements they once were this summer. Take a trip on Discovery Marine Safaris comfortable boats and learn about your desination from knowledgeable local guides. Follow this link to the schedule.
Posted in Photos & Stories	| Tagged Bickley Bay, Campbell River, campbell river museum, Discovery Marine Safaris, gold rush, Hastings Saw Mill, historic guided boat tours, Jeanette Taylor, Phil Richter, Richard Rajala, Rock Bay, Shoal Bay, Thurston Bay, Tidal Passages, Upcoast	| Leave a reply
Transformation of a Town
Posted on July 9, 2010 by Museum at Campbell River
Transformation of a Town, the opening of Elk Falls Pulp and Paper Mill in 1952
For many residents of Campbell River, the closing of the Catalyst Pulp and Paper Mill this year marks an historic moment. Symbolic of the changing times in Campbell River, it reminds us of how a village grew into a town due in large part to the influence of the mill and the large numbers of people it employed. It also reminds us of the excitement generated in this small western boom town when the Elk Falls Mill first opened for operations in 1952.
Duncan Bay in 1950, before construction of Mill
Described as 'a milestone in the development of Campbell River' the opening of the pulp mill was an influential factor in the new era of economic growth and job stability in a region that had already received a substantial boost when the John Hart Power Station was built. At right is a photo of the opening ceremonies on September 15, 1952, attended by more than 500 people in the mill warehouse.
As many as 1,000 men worked on the twenty one million dollar mill project during peak construction times. In 'the Edge of Discovery' we are told that "New investor money poured into the area as hotels, landlords, beer parlours and cafes did a landslide business."
Premier W. A. C. Bennett said that the Duncan Bay development was 'free enterprise at its best'.
The Campbell River Courier commemorated the opening of the mill with a special supplement. Included were congratulations from the various local businesses that had benefited from the beginning of the construction of the facility and expected to reap the benefits of being part of a progressive, growing community.
"Advent of the Elk Falls Company had produced a marked change in the spirit of Campbell River". wrote the editor W.B. McCusker of the Campbell River Courier in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Mill, September 1952 Journal. "Housing is still at a premium, although prices are somewhat more reasonable than during the boom period."
When Don McIver transferred from Comox Logging to start work at Elk Falls Mill in 1952, he couldn't find a place to live. Crown Zellerbach (the parent company) had built 26 homes for their key mill employees (see left) like T.B. Hargreaves, the mill manager, who Don remembers as being very sociable and who made a point of getting to know all of the employee's names. The village, however, was still unable to handle the influx of new employees and initially, a number of fellows including Don, attracted by the steady wages at the mill, commuted from Courtenay until places in Campbell River became available. Although the pay was better in logging (roughly $12 a day instead of the $9.70 per day offered at the mill) work at the mill was steady and less dangerous.
A writer from Victoria (Aug 1953) commented: "Campbell River is becoming essentially a settled place—not just the loggers' Saturday night town it used to be." In the same article, A.D. Corker, clerk of the village municipality is quoted as saying: "People are beginning to improve their houses and to build more solidly… Population has leaped to 2600, at least doubling itself in the last few years."
It was the advent of families that helped change the face of the village as well. There were plans to construct three new elementary schools in 1952, due to the fact that it had become a 'young folks town' with the number of children under the age of six comprising 1/6 of the population.
"I arrived to settle in Campbell River after the Pulp Mill had been built (from a letter to Jeanette Taylor).
The company.. moved many of its employees from Ocean Falls to Campbell River. Both economic and social effects (of this) were vital (to the growth of the town). Of course the population grew quickly to man the mill and the necessary services—schools, hospital etc." Initially, the Elk Falls Mill relied on Ocean Falls to supply its pulp, but the Crown Zellerbach pulp mill at Ocean Falls was small and antiquated compared to the brand new facilities at Campbell River, and once Elk Falls started producing its own pulp, it was destined for expansion, whereas the mill at Ocean Falls was destined for eventual closure.
Families coming from Ocean Falls had enjoyed living in a mill town where there were good facilities like an indoor swimming pool. However, Ocean Falls had few roads and most were constructed of boardwalks. Newcomers from Ocean Falls were quite taken with the opportunity to drive for miles in any direction.
Workers and families also came from the Prairies and mills in other provinces. Chuck Saults, who started at the mill construction site in 1951, had come from Calgary. When mill construction was completed, Chuck was offered a job and eventually worked his way up to foreman of Paper machine #5. Chuck remembers that there was a combination of very experienced employees—those who had come from other mills, and very novice workers. The Mill employed about 220 workers in 1952 and by 1958, after the addition of the Kraft Mill and another paper machine, the number had grown to about 500 employees.
Skip McDonald recalls the buoyancy of Campbell River citizens in the 1950's and 1960's and feels it was the busiest time in the history of Campbell River in terms of growth and prosperity. Local business people profited from the continual expansion of the mill and from the presence of contractors and guests of the mill. These short term employees stayed at places like Painter's Lodge and went fishing while they were here. The town of Campbell River also benefited when the municipal boundaries were extended to include Elk Falls mill in 1964, (previously the boundaries had gone just to the bridge at Hwy19) as taxes from the mill provided a new and vital source of revenue to the town.
Some developments in Campbell River in the 1950's include:
First grocery franchise (Overwaitea) 1951
United Church 1952
A new Community Hall 1954
Willow Point School and Campbellton School 1954
Village offices moved into larger quarters (old Lourdes Hospital)
Campbell River & District Hospital opened in 1957
Campbell River Museum established, 1958
The Campbell River Museum archives house a wealth of information about early Campbell River, including a library, archival photos and newspaper clippings. Come visit us soon! Archive hours are Tuesday – Friday, 1pm – 4pm or by appointment – 250-287-3103.
Posted in Resources & Archives	| Tagged Campbell River, campbell river museum, Canadian Pulp and Paper Mill Journal, Catalyst Pulp and Paper Mill, Chuck Saults, Comox Logging, Crown Zellerbach, Don McIver, Elk Falls Mill, Elk Falls Mill first opened for operations in 1952., Ocean Falls, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, Skip McDonald, T.B. Hargreaves, the closing of the Catalyst Pulp and Paper Mill	| Leave a reply


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People who have been to Ecuador in the last 10 days will not be able to go to the UK
UK manages a system of traffic light To facilitate the entry of people from different parts of the world into their territory, reducing the risk of contagion by COVID-19.
There are currently three lists: Verdehandjob Sky u Roza. Ecuador is in the last and for this reason those who have stepped into the field tricolor In the last 10 days they will not be able to enter UK. This was announced by the British Embassy.
This information also appears on the website (www.gov.uk), where also detailed that: "If you have been on the Red List in a country or territory in the past 10 days, you will only be able to enter the United Kingdom if you are a British or Irish citizen, or have Right of residence in the United Kingdom. These rules apply even if people have been vaccinated."
On 20 July 2021, Ecuador was followed by 30 other countries on the Red List, among them: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
Those who do manage to travel for some extraordinary reason should have a COVID-19 test. Extra, a hotel package of quarantine; Including 2 Kovid-19 tests. It is also important to complete the Passenger Location Form. It is important to note that hotel and PCR tests cost; The visitor assumes totality.
The lists are constantly revised, so it is suggested to visit the official page before starting the process of obtaining a visa. "If conditions change in a country or region, it can be moved from the green list to the amber or red list. If any country or region is at risk of being amber on the Green List, it will also be included in the Green Watch List". from embassy They also indicate that only visit visas are currently suspended. Appointments are available for other types of visas.
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Today, I found my groove.
Today was the first day since arriving back in Cartagena that I felt in sync with everything going on around me. I feel like I hibernated a bit after we came home, trying to process the transition back.
When people ask me about living in Colombia, I often talk about the quality of life you are able to have here. What I sometimes fail to mention about living abroad is the mental energy it takes to live your everyday life. This is not a whiny rant, so don't go there. It can be a real struggle to live your everyday normal life where you still can't fully communicate and where the cultural customs can still be quite different from what you would choose. I occasionally have to give myself the "you can do it" pep-talks, but more often, I head into the world armed with google translate, bi-lingual friends and the courage to outlast any awkward situation.
So, today, walking around our city on some solo errands somehow felt like I had found my comfortable place again. The city is always alive and buzzing and I just needed to borrow some of that energy.
So without getting to wordy, here is what we have been up to the last month or so… Swimming, enjoying the coffee and all the views.
It's also no secret that I love animals. We have been treated to so many cool and unexpected encounters since we got back. Red Squirrels, Monkeys, Iguana's, and my favorite was the Sloth.
It may have been a slow start, but that's ok. I need to be reminded that even though we are a year and a half in, this isn't an easy process. There are good days and bad ones, and most days have a little of both.


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Lee Iacocca on leadership: Frank Moss on inventing the future Cryptographer Boaz Barak named Packard Fellow
Kahn and Peterson to hold historic discussion on the future of the Internet
By Teresa Riordan On September 26, 2007 · In computer science, Princeton Engineering alumni
In what is sure to be a historic conversation, Internet visionaries Robert Kahn and Larry Peterson will talk tomorrow with Jennifer Rexford about the future of the Internet.
Kahn is of course one of the fathers of the Internet, having formulated the key concept of open-architecture networking and co-invented the TCP-IP protocols. Peterson, chair of computer science at Princeton, headed the planning group for GENI — aka the Global Environment for Network Innovations — which is the National Science Foundation-backed initiative charged with figuring out how to ensure that the virtual world remains worthy of society's trust. Rexford, who will moderate the Kahn-Peterson conversation, is a professor of computer science at Princeton and also a key player behind GENI.
Josh Fischman, an editor at the Chronicle of Higher Education, recently wrote a cover piece on GENI that opens with Larry Peterson trying to navigate the subway system in New York City.
Fischman cleverly likens Peterson to a packet of digital information and points out the similarities between the mass transit system in Manhattan and the Internet: "Both were cobbled together out of a series of smaller networks; switching from one to another has always been a problem; and people [or packets] have trouble finding the best route to their destinations."
The Chronicle makes clear that GENI is an ambitious effort. "This is our moon shot," Peterson tells Fischman. "It's the computer field's version of the International Space Station. It's our chance to do big science."
GENI has been widely covered by the media — see for example, a recent piece in the Guardian Unlimited. But Peterson tells EQN that often journalists, when writing about GENI, tend to set up a false dichotomy of two diametrically opposed camps of thinking about the Internet, with one camp wanting a wholesale restructuring and the other opposing any kind of restructuring whatsoever.
"We have been battling a misconception about GENI's goals," Peterson says.
"It is an extreme position to believe that we are going to replace the entire Internet." On the other hand, Peterson notes, the Internet itself is a model for its own reinvention. "Thirty years ago the Internet was the crazy clean-slate idea on the block and telecommunications was the entrenched system," Peterson tells EQN.
Peterson does acknowledge that he and clean-slate skeptics — for example that other titan of computer Big Think at Princeton, Ed "The Internet is Broken; Let's Not Fix It" Felten — might have legitimate differences of opinion on how to best implement security on the Internet. But those differences have yet to be been delineated.
If you can't be in Princeton tomorrow to hear the Kahn-Peterson conversation, stay tuned to this blog. Princeton Engineering soon will be posting a webcast of the event, which by the way is being held to commemorate Larry Peterson's appointment as the first Robert E. Kahn Professor at Princeton.
In the meantime, you may want to watch a couple of already historic interviews with Kahn.
Back in 1995 Kahn and Google CEO Eric Schmidt — who by the way is another illustrious Princeton Engineering graduate — engaged in an interesting panel discussion on the future of the Internet. This of course was when we quaintly called the Internet the Information Superhighway.
Schmidt's pre-Google prescience is striking. Said Schmidt in 1995: "I believe that the information age — as driven by the computer revolution and the decentralizing of networks as pioneered by Bob Kahn and his team — will drive restructurings of governments, restructurings of societies, and restructurings of businesses."
You can watch the entire video here.
Also, don't miss this charming interview Kahn did with Robert X. Cringely for NerdTV in 2005. He talks about his graduate days in Princeton's electrical engineering department, fondly mentioning his thesis advisors, Bede Liu and John Bowman Thomas. He also talks about working for Bell Labs back when its headquarters was in New York City overlooking the Hudson River; knowing Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, as a young assistant professor at MIT; playing four rounds of golf seven days a week during one stretch of graduate school; and being told by virtually everybody back in the 1960s that computer networking was a dead-end idea.
Photo: Kahn appearing on 1995 Sunergy panel, courtesy Sun Microsystems


According to our investigation the green flag shown in the video is not Pakistan nation flag but if you browse and see the video you can find it is IUML (Indian Union Muslim league) flag, which is different from the flag of Pakistan. Many times people get confused and make false claim. There are differences in Pakistan and IUML flag.
The Pakistani flag has a white band on the left side. Also, there is a difference in the colour and the angle of the crescent in both flags.
The green represents Islam and the majority of Muslims in Pakistan and the white stripe represents religious minorities and minority religions. In the center, the crescent and star symbolize progress and light respectively. The flag symbolizes Pakistan's commitment to Islam and the rights of religious minorities.
Viral Claim: A video showing a man waving Pakistan flag is going viral on social media platforms like Facebook, Tweeter, and WhatsApp. Someone has captured this video in Congress party rally in North Belgaum in Karnataka, and it has been claimed that the flag of Pakistan's national flag was waved at the rally.
It is associated with the flag used by the All-India Muslim League as an emblem of its aim of achieving an independent Muslim state. Their flag was green, with a central white star and crescent.
The Muslim Youth League (MYL) leaders have come out with the suggestion that the party, which they believe is set to make a major foray into the north Indian states, must rework on the flag, especially the "Pakistani" effect on it.


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A: You can use the pointWidth option:
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  arrange(n)%>%
  hchart(type = "column", hcaes(x = type_1, y = n)) %>%
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"I was dismissive and judgmental, then I started losing a lot of vets in my practice to suicide, and it became a big wake-up call," she said at a symposium focusing on cannabis issues and controversies, reports Healio. "The veteran community has a higher rate of prescription drug overdose, and many vets discovered they can substitute cannabis for the more addictive medications they've been prescribed, which is how we started to examine this."
Pursing this study hasn't been easy for Sisley. She struggled for 7 years with the government to get the go-ahead on her research, and lost her job at the University of Arizona once the study was approved - a classic incident of 'green listing'.
But now that she's secured funding from the University of Colorado, the stage is set for being the world's first controlled clinical study on how smoking cannabis works as a treatment for PTSD.
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That's a name that probably doesn't mean anything to you, but it should. Over the past few years, Rimasauskas orchestrated a sophisticated scheme that tricked two U.S.-based internet companies into wiring over $100 million to bank accounts he controlled. Thanks to the cooperation of the victim companies, their financial institutions, and law enforcement, Rimasauskas was arrested in Lithuania.
The Rimasauskas case should serve as a reminder to companies of all sizes that they can be victims to sophisticated phishing schemes called business email compromise (BEC). The FBI reported last June that over $3 billion had been lost as a result of BEC schemes.
During this type of scam, a company's finance department receives an email thinking it is from the CEO or another executive directing the department to immediately send funds via wire. The email, however, is not from the CEO and your money gets sent to criminals who spoofed or otherwise hacked the email account.
At U.S. Bank we are also seeing tax season variations, asking for sensitive employee W2 data. Sometimes the email is even accompanied by a phone call from a consultant to make the scam even more plausible.
As the chief information security officer of a large bank, I worry about protecting our organization. But more often I see our clients falling victim to this scheme. Businesses come to us when they discover fraud. In some cases, if noticed quickly, banks can stop the wires. Yet once the transactions are complete, the money is usually gone.
That can be devastating to a business.
And if it's your employees' sensitive W2 data, nothing can be done to get it back—businesses have to go into credit protection mode. What can you do?
Talk about these schemes with your finance department, human resources, and your CEO. Ask them to be suspicious of emails that seem out of the ordinary or that come from unusual email addresses. If you get one, don't hit reply. Pick up the phone and call the person you're expecting the invoice from. Create a culture where caution is encouraged.
Further, consider implementing dual authentication for money movement (e.g., wires, ACH) above certain thresholds. Verify changes in payment information to vendors and suppliers. Be judicious with information about your company and employees that is available online.
Finally, have a response plan for what you would do, quickly, if you fall victim. This should include your bank and law enforcement.
Smaller businesses may not always have the luxury of a large information security budget. Use your resources wisely and take these basic, low-cost steps.
Maintain security patches—outdated computer operating systems are extremely insecure.
Remove or strictly control administrator/privileged accounts or access rights to information and email.
Use strong authentication (e.g., one-time PIN tokens) for remote access to the network or remote email.
Ensure anti-malware controls are in place for email, servers, and workstations.
Log and monitor systems and networks.
Training end users—your employees and your executives—is paramount. Teach employees what kind of emails and hyperlinks to avoid, what type of passwords (or stronger authenticators) to use, and what information should never be sent over email. To keep pace with emerging cyber threats, employee education must constantly evolve.
Every business needs to have plans and protocols in place before an incident occurs. Response planning and recovery drills ensure that all relevant parties will be notified of an incident and will know what to do. Include your counsel, communications team, executives, board of directors, and law enforcement partners when planning. Then exercise your plan. You can file a complaint with the FBI if you've been targeted by BEC or another scheme.
Assign one person by name to be accountable for your information security program. For smaller organizations, this may be an added responsibility for an existing person. That person needs to understand your risk tolerance and ensure controls are put in place to manage your program.
The cyber landscape changes daily. Join an Information Sharing and Analysis Center if your industry has one and sign up for the U.S. Chamber's cybersecurity newsletter.


The Carrand Diptych, now in Florence, is composed of two panels of ivory (Shelton 1982; Konowitz 1984). Its classical style relates it to carvings produced at the turn of the fifth century, but its origin, whether Italy or Constantinople, is unknown. The sizes and frames of the two panels indicate that they were designed as a pair.
The left wing portrays Adam making a gesture of speech with his right hand as he names the animals in Paradise (Genesis 2:19–20). He sits in a landscape containing fruit-bearing trees and, at the bottom, the four Rivers of Paradise (Genesis 2:10–14). Adam's relaxed pose and explicit nakedness illustrate verse 25, which states that in his prelapsarian state he was naked and not ashamed. Around him cluster the various animals that he is naming, including the serpent, which arches its back because it has not yet been condemned to crawl upon its belly as punishment for tempting Eve. Adam has no fear of even the fiercest creatures, such as the great lion just beneath him, because before the original sin the animals in Paradise were totally peaceable.
The diptych's right panel represents scenes from the life of Paul the Apostle, who is shown balding, as is customary in traditional depictions of the saint. At the top, the apostle sits between two men, who listen to him as he makes a gesture of speech. The middle register illustrates the miracle of Paul and the viper on Malta (Acts 28:2–6). The apostle stands on the left, his hand being bitten by the snake that has come out of the small fire shown at his feet. Beside him, Publius, the governor of the island, raises his right hand to indicate his astonishment that no harm has befallen the saint. In the bottom register the apostle heals the sick of the island, including the emaciated father of Publius (Acts 28:7–9).
At first sight, the subjects of this pair of panels appear unrelated, but—as we shall see—there is great significance in the pairing.


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In the PR-savvy landscape of commercial sport, the modern tennis press conference remains a last surviving bastion of emotion, honesty and downright awkwardness.
At first sight there's nothing that unique about a tennis player taking to the stage for a post-match press conference. A wall of advertising surrounds them, the complimentary (untouched) drink bottles stand waiting on the table, and just like other athletes, they sit down, covered in sweat, recovering from a loss or happy with their win.
But, it's what gets said thereafter that makes the tennis version of this most stale journalistic interaction worth watching. With no media managers in the wings, things can go off the rails pretty fast and often do.
Of course the most memorable "presser" from this year's Australian Open came just after the tournament got underway. Half-turned to the side, seemingly about to get up, Bernard Tomic suddenly went all guns blazing in an attack on Davis Cup team captain Lleyton Hewitt.
For a couple of minutes, Tomic railed on against the former world number one, with cameras rolling and keyboards tapping.
The accusations came thick and fast, but Tomic's emotions were raw too. Hewitt recognised this, dismissing the comments the next day as simply "Bernie being Bernie." After a passable 2018, Tomic was keen to go deep in his home grand slam but it wasn't to be and he was disappointed.
But not all memorable press conferences in tennis are a 45-shot rally. Sometimes it's the quick volleys that say everything you need to know about a player's anger. German Alexander Zverev kept it short and sweet after his poor showing against Milos Raonic for instance.
"Do you often smash your racquets at tournaments, have you done it in the past?" a reporter asked somewhat bizarrely, inside the first minute of the post-match press conference.
"Have you never watched my matches?" Zverev asked back, levelling a steely stare. "You should watch my matches." Then, silence.
Then there was Maria Sharapova's reaction to a question about the crowd's displeasure at her long off-court break in her match against Ash Barty.
"What do you want me to say to that question?" she asked the reporter challengingly.
"I don't know, just the truth, I guess," the reporter responded, keeping things pretty logical.
"I think that's a silly question to ask," she said.
The hapless reporter then asked another follow up question, but Sharapova stared vacantly out into the room, waiting for someone else to speak. Awkward!
These days, in Australian team sport at least, we seldom see responses like this in press conferences. They are often bland, routine affairs, regularly conducted after the coach or players have had a bit of time to calm down and gather their thoughts.
Or, they are so filled with specific team list questions from niche reporters, that they send the average punter to sleep. To cap it all off, the threat of official reprimands hangs over every sentence, too.
Not surprisingly, the protagonists often stick to a mix of positive mantras and dull truisms, mixed with audible inhalations of breath (presumably so they don't "um" and "argh" too much #mediatraining). About as controversial as things get is when a coach shapes to complain about a refereeing decision but then decides not to. "I can't say anything further on that, otherwise I'll get in trouble," is the popular, if somewhat redundant, line.
But with tennis, the player runs the show. They are the business and the brand and this unique central role means they set the media tone themselves. Roger Federer, for instance, can be bristly but charming at the same time.
"Do you see a bit of yourself in him?" he was asked after his loss to Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Which is essentially like saying "I think that is a silly question to ask" but not actually saying it.
But not everyone can be as nuanced as Roger Federer – which brings me to Nick Kyrgios. We didn't get much of a chance to watch the Canberra Comet on court this year at Melbourne Park as his low tournament seeding meant he came up against a rampaging Milos Raonic in the first round.
Yet, he still had time to show us that he hasn't lost that special press conference magic.
"Is there a rift between you and Lleyton Hewitt?" a reporter asked the 23-year-old, just a day after the Tomic interview.
"Not really," Kyrgios said, with a poker face.
"Not really?" the reporter repeated.
"Is there an echo in here?" Kyrgios asked.
The room laughed and reporters moved on to the next question.
Just further proof that it doesn't matter what question you serve up at a tennis press conference, get ready for a return to come back with plenty of interest.