Since January 2014, the Burkinabe National Biosafety Agency (NBA) has been converting the status of the organization to a technical and scientific public institution (EPSET) for greater autonomy. Legal texts have been submitted to parliament for adoption. The Burkinabe National Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA) would like to conduct confined field trials on Bt cowpea with two local varieties. If authorized by the NBA, research could start this 2014/2015 agricultural campaign. Monsanto research on Bolgard II Roundup ready flex cotton, which started in 2006, is undergoing confined field trials. The company will start developing hybrid corn later in 2014. WAEMU, CILSS, and ECOWAS met in Mali in July 2014 and arrived at a consensus on the common regional biosafety law. A final draft could be issued by the end of 2014. In April 2014, Senegal finally assigned a new director to head the National Biosafety Authority (NBA). In May 2014, the Government of Cote d'Ivoire adopted a bill to authorize correction of an error made on the Cartagena Protocol draft law seven years ago.
A year after the President of Burkina Faso signed the amended biosafety law in February 2013, the National Biosafety Agency (NBA) started the process of registering the agency as a scientific and technical public institution in January 2014 to be more autonomous in decision making and flexible to distribute tasks among ministries. Documents as well as twenty legal texts have been submitted to the parliament for adoption.
A national biosafety laboratory was built and equipped with new instruments, and the NBA recruited staff.
The Government of Burkina Faso (GOBF) continues to support Bt cotton production. It is anticipated to reach 80 percent of Bt cotton for MY 2014/15 compared to 69 percent in MY 2013/14.
Monsanto, which opened a regional office in 2013 in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso), continues to conduct research through the National Institute of Environment and Agricultural Research (INERA) on Bt cowpea and hybrid corn. Bt cowpea Confined Field Trials (CFTs) could start during 2014/15 agricultural campaign if authorized by the NBA. About 40 variety of hybrid corn will be tested in 2014 throughout the country.
In July 2014, the three organizations WAEMU ((UEMOA) - West African Economic and Monetary Union members includes: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo), ECOWAS(members include: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo), and CILSS (members include Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Chad Cape Verde) met in Mali to discuss the regional biosafety law. They arrived at a consensus to harmonize positions. Post met with the WEAMU biosafety program director who believes that a final draft could be issued by the end of 2014.
In April 2014, the Government of Senegal (GOS) nominated a new Executive Director for the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) to replace the former one who resigned in September 2012. Post and FAS Washington are working with the International Food Information Council (IFIC) to organize a two and a half day regional communication workshop for policy makers and media in August 19-21, 2014 to help them better understand and articulate agricultural biotechnology. Seventy participants from WAEMU countries, four speakers from the States, and five from West Africa are expected to take part to the event. Cartagena Protocol focal points from nine West African Countries are expected to attend.
MY 2014/15, farmers forecast planting 80 percent of Bt cotton, representing 11 percent increase.
Monsanto has been issued a new authorization from the NBA to continue commercialization of Bt cotton for ten years (2013-2023). Meanwhile, the NBA will perform socio-economic studies on Bt cotton.
The National Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (INERA) continues work on developing Bt cowpea resistant to the Maruca pod borer. The research institute requested an authorization by the NBA to start confined field trials (CFTs) with two good local varieties containing Bt gene. The NBA told Post it will study the request and if approved, INERA could start trials during 2014/15 agricultural campaign.
INERA has conducted a gene flow study on bio-fortified sorghum, but research has not started yet.
Monsanto opened a new office to cover West Africa in September 2013 in Bobo-Dioulasso and recruited new employees. The company commercializes Bt cotton seeds through cotton companies. Foundation seeds are produced in partnership with INERA. Monsanto started developing hybrid corn in 2014 and experimentation should start during the MY 2014/15 campaign supported by $2.6 million from WAEMU. The best corn varieties will be selected. Monsanto believes that they could start commercialization of hybrid corn within two years. Monsanto also started experimenting with Bt cotton in Ghana and Nigeria and may proceed to Benin and Togo. The Bolgard II with Roundup ready flex cotton has been tested since 2006 in Burkina Faso. Tests remain at the CFTs level.
SOFITEX, the largest cotton company in Burkina Faso, aims to obtain certification of its seed laboratory by the International Seed testing Association (ISTA) with the assistance of Monsanto.
Bt cotton is the only crop commercialized in Burkina Faso and Francophone West Africa. The next GM crop will probably be Bt cowpea.
SOFITEX is planning to produce enough Bt seeds to sell to other cotton companies and to neighboring countries such as Ghana and Nigeria which express a demand. Togo and Benin may be the next customers in the longer run.
Bt Cotton production has increased by 11 percent from a low of 69 percent in MY 2013/14 to 80 percent in MY 2014/15. This is the maximum percentage allowable as 20 percent must be left for conventional cotton. There was no shortage of seeds.
SOFITEX is planning to supply Bt cotton seeds to neighboring countries produced by irrigated systems. The textile cotton company will plant about 2,000 hectares of Bt cotton seeds.
In francophone West Africa, Senegal imports 80 percent of its food, and part of it could contain GE product. In 2012, Senegal imported 22,913 MT of soybean meal in 2013. Argentina supplies 75 percent of the market followed by the United States (25 percent).
Of the francophone West African countries, Senegal, Mali, and Burkina Faso are food aid recipients.
Post met with the WAEMU biosafety regional coordinator to inquire about the status of the regional ECOWAS/WAEMU biosafety framework. Since experts met in Abjuja in 2012, the three regional organizations CILSS, WAEMU, and ECOWAS have been working to harmonize their positions regarding the draft of the regional biosafety law. Discordance was mainly on the repair and reparation in case of damage, and on intellectual property. After two years of discussions, the organizations finally met in Bamako and arrived upon a consensus in July 11, 2014. The law will be readjusted accordingly and adopted by the three entities. The regional coordinator hopes to see the process completed by December 2014, and ECOWAS will likely be the implementing body.
As mentioned, Burkina Faso amended its biosafety law which was signed by the President in February 2013. What distinguishes this amended law from the previous one is: the new law does not address derived products; the strict liability sanction with imprisonment has been removed; and the paragraph on damage, redress, and responsibility determine the liability of all actors and how redress should be conducted.
In January 2014, the NBA started the process of changing the status of the agency. It will be transformed into a technical and scientific public organization (EPSET) in order to be administratively independent, allowing it to take sovereign decisions and better manage administrative tasks among government institutions. All the necessary documentation was sent to the parliament for adoption including twenty legal texts.
Burkina Faso built a national biosafety laboratory which has been equipped with new instruments. Staff is being recruiting and will likely probably need practical training.
The next GM crop in Burkina Faso could be Bt cowpea for which authorization for confined field trials has been submitted to the NBA. Tests could start this 2014/15 agricultural campaign.
The NBA issued a new authorization to cover the period of 2013-2023 to Monsanto to continue the commercialization of Bt cotton. During this period, the NBA will continue to consider socioeconomic impacts.
There has been no development on Malian Biosafety activities except for the signature of the biosafety law in December 2008 and the decree to adopt GE testing procedures in December 2010.
The Malian National Rural Economy Institute (IER)'s Board of Directors authorized research on GE cotton in collaboration with Compagnie Malienne des Fibres Textiles (CMDT) in 2011, but nothing has been done yet. Cotton producers have expressed willingness to plant Bt cotton. However, the Government will need to revise its biosafety law to better facilitate development including trade and research of GM crops.
The African Biosafety Network of Expertise (ABNE) is planning to organize a Workshop on "Key Considerations for Confined Field Trials of GM crops" this year. Mali is involved in the genetically modified mosquitoes "project which should start this year, and recently, in a new regional project for a "Plea for the Adoption and Safe Management of Biotechnology in West Africa funded by USAID under the "Feed the Future" initiative". This regional project will assist participating countries to build regulatory systems so that research biotech crops can be conducted.
Senegal appointed a new head of the National Biosafety Authority (NBA) in April 2014 to replace the former one who resigned in 2012. His priority is to increase the visibility of the NBA by creating a logo, to revitalize the NBC and NBA, and to reinforce collaboration with the biosafety laboratory at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD) for control and inspection in biotechnology. He also wants to sensitize the Senegalese authorities to move forward.
There are still eight ministerial orders that need to be written to complement the law. It is one of the NBA priorities, and it has decided to issue a tender to have them written by experts. The NBA needs help in improving communication in biosafety and biotechnology. Post and USDA-FAS Washington will assist the NBA to organize a regional communication workshop in August for regulators and media in partnership with the International Food Information Council (IFIC).
In the long run, the NBA would like to revise the actual law and align to other West African countries.
Since 2013, Togo is revising its biosafety law to ensure it is in line with the Nagoya protocol and more practicable. A draft has been adopted during a stakeholders meeting two months ago. The Government of Togo, which is supporting the process, is now drafting implementing regulations. An internal committee including researchers and government bodies has been created to monitor the process of revising the law and make sure the road map is followed. Togo is interested to develop Bt cowpea and Bt cotton.
In 2007, the President of Cote d'Ivoire could not sign the Cartagena Protocol due to an error on the word "biotechnical" instead of "biotechnology on the draft law." Seven years later, the council of ministers adopted a draft law in May 2014 which authorized making a correction that attests to the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) willingness to adhere to the Cartagena Protocol on biological diversity. The declaration stated that "the accession of the country to this instrument appears increasingly urgent in light of the expansion of transgenic crops in the world and in the WAEMU countries." Post met with the Director of the National Laboratory of Biotechnology in Cote d'Ivoire who mentioned that a previous biosafety law was submitted to the GOCI for approval in August 2012. It has since been revised in July 2014, and resubmitted to the Ministry of Environment for approval by the parliament. To get an early start, the Ministry of Agriculture requested proposals to draft a National Strategy of Development on Biotechnology and Biosafety. It was awarded six months ago to the French research center Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). It will conduct a feasibility study on genetically modified cotton in Cote d'Ivoire to determine its feasibility. Post was told that the study had been completed, but not yet released.
The next GM crop in Cote d'Ivoire could be cassava, resistant to the mosaic virus and papaya, resistant to ringspot virus.
The only country in francophone West Africa that has approved a GE crop for cultivation is Burkina Faso. Bt cotton, developed by Monsanto in collaboration with INERA, is the only GE crop approved and registered in Burkina Faso for cultivation.
Only Burkina Faso allows field testing of GE crops.
Bt cowpea resistant to the Maruca Vitrata pod borer causes significant yield loss to the cowpea crop in West Africa. The Bt gene has been introduced to local varieties of cowpea in Burkina Faso. The National Research Institute (INERA) has submitted an authorization to conduct Confined Field Trials (CFTs) on two selected varieties. Tests could start in 2014/015 agricultural campaign.
Monsanto through INERA will start hybrid corn field tests for 42 varieties in 2014. Tests will be performed in different stations throughout the country. The selected variety could be commercialized within two years.
Seed registration is required as well as re-registration in Burkina Faso.
There are no trade barriers. Importers should follow the regulation based on the country biosafety law.
Mali ratified the Cartagena protocol in 2002.
Senegal ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in October 2003.
Togo ratified the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in 2004.
Burkina Faso ratified the Cartagena protocol in July 2001.
Mali, Burkina Faso and Senegal are members of international organization i.e. FAO, Codex Alimentarius.
All biotechnology research in Burkina Faso is related to Bt cotton and Bt cowpea for pest resistance and nutrition and bio fortified sorghum food security.
WAEMU countries received laboratory equipment to monitor and test for GE products. However, tests are not active yet.
Countries do not have a policy on low level of presence.
Among all Francophone West African countries, Bt cotton is the only commercialized crop. It is grown only in Burkina Faso where government and farmers support the initiative.
a. Market acceptance: The president of Burkina Faso supports Bt cotton, and cotton farmers have increased Bt cotton planting from 69 percent in MY 2013/14 to 80 percent in MY 2014/15.
b. Public/private opinions: The NBA organizes communication workshop to sensitize farmers, students, and all actors including regulators, government members, and parliament about biotechnology and biosafety.
c. Marketing studies: Post is not aware about any marketing studies of GE Plants.
• Training laboratory staff for new equipment donated by the organization for detection, analysis, and dosage methods. Eight national laboratories will be working collaboratively. The one in Burkina Faso will serve as the reference laboratory.
b. Post will be facilitating a two-and-a-half day communication workshop under the initiative and funding of the USDA – FAS Office of Agreements and Scientific Affairs, New Technologies and Production Methods Division. The workshop will be organized by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) in partnership with the Senegalese NBA. It will be a regional workshop with 70 participants including all national focal point from WAEMU countries and international speakers taking place from August 19-21, 2014. The third day is dedicated to the media to train them on how to better communicate in biotechnology and biosafety.
• Promote women's participation in the organic cotton sector and upholding standards to prevent child labor.
INERA, in Burkina Faso, has requested authorization to start working on Metarhizium anisopliae, a fungi which has demonstrated effectiveness against anopheles larvae to help fight malaria.
Mali is also involved in the genetically modified mosquito project which could start in 2014.


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Permalink Reply by JHK on May 9, 2013 at 10:09am
Whoa! You're right about GL; I forgot about him. How could they depict the green beams and vulnerability to yellow? Aside: GL writers Broome and Fox had an annoying tendency to describe the panel action in the narrative, so even if you didn't see any yellow, they'd make sure you knew it was there. Redundant and boring. Stan Lee taught me to read the narrative captions because they had so much personality.
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Permalink Reply by Craig Boldman on May 9, 2013 at 10:41am
In my writing for Archie, I learned early on that if there was something essential color-wise going on in the story, to have one of the characters mention the color in their dialogue; made it much more likely that the colorist would get the message. Too often color notes in the script would get lost along the assembly line.
Actually, I think that DC would probably publish anything they find lying around containing Supes's picture if the release of Man of Steel creates enough demand for it, even when the lack of color makes for confusing reading--this is the same company that, in SP: Superman #4, treated us to that classic old tale "The Amazing Story of Superman-White and Superman-White".
Permalink Reply by Doctor Hmmm? on May 9, 2013 at 4:05pm
I don't care who you are, that there's funny!
Permalink Reply by Captain Comics on May 9, 2013 at 5:09pm
Thanks for the plug on my review, Figs! Now that school's over (woo-hoo!) I'm going to catch up on my to-review pile and then try to get on a regular schedule for the weekly stuff that's sent to me, either in print or digital form. All in the Reviews section folks! For free and everything!
As to the point of this thread, I'll be getting anything that reprints stuff from before, say, 1980. I have just about everything from the early 1960s onward, but I get the Silver Age stuff because I always wanted that stuff in collected form and because I fear handling my own books any more than necessary. And I get the 1940s and 1950s collections, no matter how awful, because they're old comics I've never read before, and that's good enough for me.
So that means I'll be picking up everything except DC Comics Presents and Men of War.
Permalink Reply by Mr. Silver Age on May 9, 2013 at 5:42pm
this is the same company that, in SP: Superman #4, treated us to that classic old tale "The Amazing Story of Superman-White and Superman-White".
LOL! That story probably was a little confusing in b&w. Not that it really mattered which one was doing what.
As you note, with Man of Steel imminent, it's amazing that DC hasn't put a new SP: Superman out on the shelves, especially as those stories are really good. Even if sales on #4 were low, and I don't know why they would've been, I'd think they'd consider the new movie might bring in more people if a new book was being promoted. It's a puzzlement.
I'll be getting anything that reprints stuff from before, say, 1980.
I considered that, but the sheer volume of stuff--and the low, low prices my SA comics would bring in if I ever tried to sell them--has kept me from buying ones that I have the comics in. But it would make one heckuva bookcase! Where do you keep all those books?
I keep it all in the Comics Cave. Which, perversely, is over my house rather than under it.
Speaking of the classic tale of "Superman-White, Superman-White," there have been a number of times -- and I think we've discussed it here before -- where words were printed in a solid color with no black in the original comics, making them invisible in the B&W reprints. I remember one such cover, probably in a World's Finest Showcase, where S, B &R are staring at a blank sign in amazement, stammering things like, "What does it MEAN?!??"
Of course, I also remember a 1950s World's Finest story, where Batman had Superman's powers, and when Batman catches Superman in flight, he thinks "Isn't this queer!"
Yes, Batman, it was.
Permalink Reply by Andrew Horn on May 21, 2013 at 6:59am
I was doing a bit of research on Amazon and found this...
...release date Aug 27, 2013
http://www.amazon.com/The-Captain-Comet-Archives-Vol/dp/1401241085/...
I didn't see that one coming, though god knows we've been talking it up over the years. I'm very tempted, though I fear it might be for academic purposes only. Personally I was hoping for a TBP.
What's rather odd is that it lists as being 400 pages - already very unusual for an archive book. Since GCD lists only 40 original appearances ranging from 6 to 10 pages, I can only assume that they are reprinting some much later stuff, no?
Permalink Reply by Luke Blanchard on May 21, 2013 at 7:32am
DneColt posted its intended contents here.
Thanks Luke, I guess I missed it there. But the good news is that Amazon is now offering it for 53 bucks, not 75.
Permalink Reply by Mr. Silver Age on May 21, 2013 at 8:51am
I'd like to see them do more SP volumes without an earlier Archive, and they've done a bunch lately. I'm not sure how they decide how to do each. Maybe the combination of a fairly well-known name and the earlier material that needs more production made them go this way.
It's too bad, as it might not sell well enough for another volume, which means they may not get enough to do an SP down the road. The Suicide Squad was put out in a smaller, color paperback, and only one was done. I would bet it would've done much better as an SP volume, as was originally planned. OTOH, they did two SSOV hardcovers and never produced an SP.
But the good news is that Amazon is now offering it for 53 bucks, not 75.
But the bad news is it was $45 back when we initially found it, and I think that price would've been locked in if we'd ordered it then. OTOH, these often wind up at half-price at cons within a year after publication. That's how I bought the SS TPB last month. (I also got SP: Rip Hunter for $8, yay).
Permalink Reply by Runt Hipper...Time Waster on May 24, 2013 at 4:35pm
The "Showcase Presents: Superman Family #4" cover leaped to mind yesterday, after the occurrence on I-5 north of Seattle--yeah, I've gotta get out more.
And thank God for a disaster where no one got killed.


"So, where are you coming from?", when we ask the 29-year-old Rishabh Puri, who penned a book, Inside the Heart of Hope, self-published by Partridge, he replies jokingly, "from my home".
Born and brought up in Nigeria, Africa, Rishabh shares that he suffered multiple medical conditions as a kid and even when he was growing up. "I was only six months when I suffered from hyperlipidemia because of which I developed a heart condition. I had a bypass surgery when I was only 19," he says. While Rishabh states that writing, painting, sketching and watching sitcoms came to his relief when he was down and out, he took a strong liking for writing. "I wanted to write a book, which is loosely based on me, so that even if I could inspire one person through my story; that would serve my goal," he says.
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Q: IntelliJ invalid Maven location when switch OS I have IntelliJ Idea Ultimate installed on both Windows 8.1 & Ubuntu 16.04 on the same laptop, but different partitions. If I'm using Windows and set up the maven directory to the installed one on Windows's local disk C, it works, but after I'll restart the computer on Ubuntu, when entering IntelliJ I get a notification saying Maven directory is invalid, because it somehow remains the one from Windows, despide I also have Maven installed on Ubuntu on a separate Ubuntu partition. Of course I can set the path for the Maven's location on Ubuntu, but I don't want to do this all the time I'm switching operating systems.
I'm not sure, does these two IntelliJ's (the one from Windows & the other one from Ubuntu) communicates somehow?
I'm not having problems using Tomcat, for instance, which I also have on both Windows & Ubuntu.
Invalid Maven home directory configured
C:/apache-maven-3.5.2
Bundled maven 3.3.9 will be used.  Configure Maven home.

A: On your Linux OS, check the file permissions of the maven.jar file in the ../plugins/maven/lib folder.  Pretty sure it should have execution rights for at least your user if not the group as well.
Seems like some of those maven jar files have not always been marked executable in the past when they should have been.
I think I found this beginning with IntelliJ 2016 and on.
You might try comparing the permissions of your personal install of maven with those "bundled" with IntelliJ to ensure they have the same permissions.
Also, make sure that the "program" files, and scripts, are executable.  These are found in ../plugins/maven/lib/maven3/bin

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Q: python compare strings in a table and return the best string I have a table with 3 columns delimited by whitespaces
A1 3445 1  24
A1 3445 1 214
A2 3603 2  45
A2 3603 2 144
A0 3314 3   8
A0 3314 3 134
A0 3314 4  46

I would like to compare the last column with the ID (e.g. A1) in the first column to return the string with biggest number. So, the end result will be like this.
A1 3445 1 214
A2 3603 2 144
A0 3314 3 134

I have done up to spliting the lines, but I don't get how to compare the line.
A help would be nice.

A: dataDic = {}
for data in open('1.txt').readlines():
    id, a, b ,num = data.split(" ")
    if not dataDic.has_key(id):
        dataDic[id] = [a, b, int(num)]
    else:
       if int(num) >= dataDic[id][-1]:
           dataDic[id] = [a, b, int(num)]

print dataDic

I think, maybe this result is what you want.

A: Use the sorted function, giving the last column as the key
with open('a.txt', 'r') as a:  # 'a.txt' is your file
    table = []
    for line in a:
        table.append(line.split())

s = sorted(table, key=lambda x:int(x[-1]), reverse=True)
for r in s:
    print '\t'.join(r)

Result:
A1  3445    1   214
A2  3603    2   144
A0  3314    3   134
A0  3314    4   46
A2  3603    2   45
A1  3445    1   24
A0  3314    3   8

A: data = [('A1',3445,1,24),  ('A1',3445,1,214), ('A2',3603,2,45),
        ('A2',3603,2,144), ('A0',3314,3,8),   ('A0',3314,3,134),
        ('A0',3314,4, 46)]

from itertools import groupby
for  key, group in groupby(data, lambda x: x[0]):
    print sorted(group, key=lambda x: x[-1], reverse=True)[0]

The output is:
('A1', 3445, 1, 214)
('A2', 3603, 2, 144)
('A0', 3314, 3, 134)

You can use this function groupby.


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Morning on the Charles Bridge
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Charles Bridge (Czech: Karlův most) is a historic bridge that crosses the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic. Its construction started in 1357 under the auspices of King Charles IV. The bridge replaced the old Judith Bridge that had been badly damaged by a flood in 1342. This new bridge was originally called Stone Bridge (Kamenný most) or Prague Bridge (Pražský most) but has been "Charles Bridge" since 1870. As the only means of crossing the river Vltava (Moldau) until 1841, Charles Bridge was the most important connection between Prague Castle and the city's Old Town and adjacent areas. This "solid-land" connection made Prague important as a trade route between Eastern and Western Europe.
The bridge is 621 metres long and nearly 10 metres wide, following the example of the Stone Bridge in Regensburg, it was built as a bow bridge with 16 arches shielded by ice guards. It is protected by three bridge towers, two on the Lesser Quarter side (including the Lesser Town Bridge Tower) and one on the Old Town side, the Old Town Bridge Tower. The bridge is decorated by a continuous alley of 30 statues and statuaries, most of them baroque-style, originally erected around 1700 but now all replaced by replicas. (source: Wikipedia)
Photographing on the bridge
Charles Bridge by AG PHOTOGRAPHE
One of the statues making an interesting foreground
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Photographs taken directly from the Charles Bridge can use the beautiful statues and historical lanterns as a very interesting foreground that adds depth to the scene. In the eastern direction the bridge leads eyes to the Old Town Bridge Tower, while the western direction is dominated by the Lesser Town Tower Bridge and particularly the Prague Castle. Equally impressive results can be achieved by focusing on some of the statues and leaving the Bridge Towers out of composition (or giving them only a minor role).
The bridge is very popular, expect a lot of people there, particularly since late morning to late night. One option to avoid the crowds is to be there early, dawn to sunrise is a very good time when you can only expect few other photographers. Another option is set up a long exposure (certainly tripod is a must then) and either blur movement of the crowds, or get rid of all the people entirely.
From the right side of Vltava
The right Vltava embankment is the most popular spot to photograph Charles Bridge, because the photographs can include it together with the Prague Castle. These two gems work very well together, the Bridge can lead eyes to the Castle, resulting in some very pleasant compositions.
The two historical landmarks can dominate photographs taken either very close or further South from the Bridge. The spots to the North are less popular, but they also deserve your attention.
Dusk is probably the best time from this direction, since the light is already soft and both the Bridge and Castle start to be nicely illuminated by artificial lights. The same generally applies to Dawn up to Sunrise. Sunsets usually don't cast enough light to the Prague Castle, because both the Castle and Sun are in the western direction. Only in Winter Sun sets early enough in North-West to cast its warm evening light on the Castle.
Prague panorama by Zbyněk Hruboš
Very classical panorama of Prague, with a depth added by railing
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From the left side of Vltava
Charles Bridge in Blue by Adelheid Smitt
Charles Bridge from the left bank of Vltava
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While spots on the left side of Vltava can't offer compositions with the Prague Castle, they are really worth checking out! The Charles Bridge can lead eyes to the beautiful Old Town Bridge Tower and also several more nice old buildings can be included. The left side has the benefit of missing massive embankment and so you can be right next to the river, which lets you to include some interesting foregrounds, like rocks or birds (most often swans), or get the perspective from below the Bridge.
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We were funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to look at how a range of a UK based social innovations had scaled-up, and what lessons land based social enterprises could learn.
Having an opportunity to expand what you do is always exciting, but as well as posing operational and financial risks, taking an opportunity to grow can challenge your goals, values or motivations.
We undertook research to identify five contrasting social innovations that had scaled up in order to understand what had worked, what had not, and the different ways in scaling up can impact on an organisation or an emerging social enterprise sector.
We identified five key tensions that social sector organisations need to navigate when making decisions about scaling up, and created a toolkit to help them make better decisions about scaling.
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This report contains five case studies, each exploring how a different community-led innovation in the UK approached the challenge of scaling up. It supports our Scaling Land Based Social Enterprise : Decision Making Toolkit. The work was funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. [Read the full report here]
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We live in amazing times and things are progressing fast. Those who clamor for change will be heard and those who detest the old order will see it disappear. Change will come and it will exceed or defy any predictions. Everything will change in often surprising and completely unexpected ways. There will be more change than anybody could ever have imagined.
To tell about oneself and satisfy narcissistic urges.
To show how clever one is, in order to become admired or envied.
To proselytize, convert, recruit for a religion, philosophy, or ideology.
To advertise goods or services one wants to sell.
To beg for a donation or a nod on social media.
To keep oneself busy, because doing nothing could let you slip into depression.
To distract oneself from the pointlessness of ones life.
To find like-minded people, friends, a mate.
To start a conversation and have some kind of social interaction.
To counter the horrible, despicable, gut wrenching mainstream media propaganda.
To discuss topics where one has enough expertise to contribute essential thoughts.
To warn about impending dangers and discuss ways of preparation or prevention.
To teach the reader skills that oneself has acquired.
To uplift spirits, to describe the beauty of nature, of art, of life in general.
Please tell me, if I forgot an important reason.
To teach skills and to uplift spirits, that is what I would like to do, but most times I get stuck in dire warnings and apocalyptic predictions. Sad as it is, I have to admit to myself, my blog posts about violence, destruction, death, environmental collapse, and the poisoning of everything will not uplift spirits.
Shall I stop discussing politics and ecology?
One could surely just ignore the dark clouds on the horizon, the writing on the wall, the forebodings of catastrophe, but that would leave everyone unprepared and no measures would be taken to alleviate the pain when disaster finally strikes.
Another method to cope with a dire situation and keep ones sanity is to stay calm and relaxed, to rationalize, and to control ones emotions, especially the fight-and-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system.
Bad news continue to come in as reliably as night follows day. Scientists have uncovered, that stratocumulus clouds could disappear with rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere. This particular effect, the melting permafrost in the north of the globe, and a collapse of oceanic ecosystems are the main positive feedback loops which could cause unstoppable "runaway" climate change and raise temperatures on earth by 8 degrees Celsius or more.
Climate change indirectly led to the Syrian war, and the Arab Spring of 2011 was catalyzed by high grain prices which were in turn caused by a severe drought. There will be more of this as the climate worsens. Food insecurity is the biggest cause of unrest and hot weather is known to magnify unrest and violence in such a situation.
And yet, it seems, that the movers and shakers in the higher echelons of the global government are not concerned about global warming, probably because a nuclear war, even a limited regional one (for instance between Pakistan and India) would more than offset the warming and cause a nuclear winter by the dust clouds from nuclear explosions.
The USA suspended compliance with the INF (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and New START maybe next. What will happen when the USA and Russia position submarines with nuclear hypersonic missiles just outside each territorial waters, reducing warning time to a few minutes and making a decapitation strike against each other not only possible but nearly inevitable?
Therefore, as nuclear war and a nuclear winter become increasingly likely, why should anybody bother about global warming?
Why should anybody care about the future?
Humans may disappear in a firestorm or a dustbowl. So what?
We are most likely not that exceptional, we are most likely not the center of the universe. Without an abundance of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen, life based on proteins, RNA, and DNA would not have emerged. And if an asteroid hadn't struck the Yucatan 66 million years ago, dinosaurs might still rule this planet, and humans might never have evolved.
Life will go on without us or reemerge after some thousand years, and nobody will miss us. Anyway, get used to the idea: We all have to die one day!
In the great, great scheme of things, it will not make a difference. Just look at the stars, look at the majestic firmament. The stars will shine down on this planet even if it has become as habitable as Mars.
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Sometimes it's hard to say what's more frustrating: the fact that these deadly imperialist regime change power grabs keep happening, or the fact that people keep buying the same tired old stories that are used to sell them.
The facial muscles are connected to the brain via the cranial nerves. The facial motor nucleus (cranial nerve VII) receives cortical input from the primary motor cortex in the frontal lobe of the brain, but the limbic lobe and especially the amygdala are also involved. This is important, because limbic lobe and amygdala are well known for their central role in mediating emotional behavior.
The autonomic nervous system is also in play, demonstrated by involuntary facial expressions (reactions to odors, sights, and sounds). Like all bodily functions which are controlled by both the autonomic nervous system and the conscious mind, relaxing muscles consciously will activate the parasympathetic part of the autonomic nervous system and increase overall calmness and composure.
A genuine, natural smile helps to loosen the facial muscles, including those controlling the cheeks, lips, and eyes. There are hundreds of wellness or meditation sites on the internet describing hundreds of methods to improve ones smile, but I have no time to check them and separate the ones who are sincere from the ones who just try to advertise and sell courses, books, or cosmetics.
A genuine smile relaxes all muscles with one exception. The risorius muscle, located on both sides of the mouth, pulls mouth corners laterally (outward) and forms dimples in the cheeks. The bright, wide smiles seen in show business, advertising, TV, Hollywood, and election campaigns uses the risorius muscle. This kind of smile is not what we are talking about here.
The genuine smile, sometimes called "enlightened smile," is the one seen on serene statues and pictures of the meditating Buddha. It is no simplification to consider this kind of smile and the complete relaxation of ones face to be the same thing.
Switching a few times between smiling naturally, spontaneously, and relaxing the facial muscles, will make clear that these are only two different approaches of the same process.
The little experiment will also make clear that smiling improves your mood, makes life easier, helps you to find friends, and appeases your adversaries. One can smile everywhere, at any time, in (nearly) any situation. One doesn't need a yoga cushion, a quiet room, incense burning, Buddha statues, singing bowls, though it would be surely nice to have all these meditation paraphernalia at hand.
Smiling works without all this, you just remind yourself and smile. Again, and again, and again… Smile a thousand times, over month and years, it will become a part of your personality, it will change your life.
Most of the things you read about smiling in the preceding paragraphs also apply to breathing. Breathing is the most vital bodily function that can be either autonomic or consciously controlled. Because of this duality, breathing can function as a bridge between body and mind, it can be a balancing device and a tuning tool that allows conscious control of ones emotions and access to states of deep relaxation, serenity, and harmony.
The way we breathe, in other words, directly affects the chemistry of our brains in a way that can enhance our attention and improve our brain health. The levels of neurotransmitters (for instance noradrenalin or acetylcholine) will change with the way we breathe.
Slow, deep breathing is probably the oldest folk remedy to counter distress. People often do it instinctively ahead of public performances or dangerous employments. It works in almost any scenario where the fight-or-flight response of the sympathetic nervous system is activated because of a perceived danger, but one nevertheless should better remain calm and focused.
Slowing and deepening breathing improves arterial oxygenation, cardiac output, pulmonary gas-exchange efficiency, and other functions that are important in a body state of physical exertion. Not only that, breathing slower and deeper is a signal for the body to switch off the fight-or-flight response and activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which will trigger detoxing, regeneration, and healing processes.
Slowing and deepening breathing though is not the whole story. One has to breath through the nose, and one has to use diaphragmatic breathing (breathing with the belly rather than with the chest).
In The Zhuangzi, one of the two foundational texts of Taoism (the other being the Tao Te Ching), it is said that ordinary men "breathe from their throats, while the sage breathes from his heels" (meaning: with his whole body).
Learning diaphragmatic breathing can be life changing. A study in India concluded that the average volume of air inhaled can be increased by up to 50 percent after just 15 minutes of deep diaphragmatic breathing and that the average number of breaths per minute reduced from 15 to just 5 breaths a minute, thus making breathing more efficient, energy producing, and stress reducing.
Both Qigong (which literally means "energy work" or "breathing skill") and Yoga teach a basic form of diaphragmatic breathing that can be learned and practiced easily and without complex instruction.
There are many guides about diaphragmatic breathing on the internet, especially on YouTube. Some of them are even useful.
Always start by exhaling. Exhale deeply but not forcefully — just let the air flow out. Relax your ribcage and allow your bellybutton to move in towards your spine, so that it feels like your stomach is moving inward. Exhaling could eventually be coupled with a heightened awareness of the area below the navel, the guts (vagus nerve), and the spine, though it is better not to force anything.
Wait till the inhaling reflex starts automatically. Don't expand you chest, don't elevate your shoulders. When you inhale, the diaphragm flattens downward, expanding the volume of the lungs. Only the diaphragm should be involved, your stomach will be moving out, your waist will get wider.
Rest a moment, then let the air flow out again.
One will find many deviant breathing methods. Check them out and select what fits you best. Lower your expectations and brace yourself for disappointments. Like with smiling (and most other skills one needs to acquire), persistence, endurance, and patience is necessary. One has to start again and again thousands of times over years and decades.
And then there is the brain chatter, the steady flow of notions, pictures, sounds, episodes, emerging from nowhere and igniting never-ending chains of associations which are irritating and distracting. The gurus and yogis will tell you: Let them pass, don't bother, they will fade away. The gurus and yogis are right, but quieting the brain chatter is nevertheless something one has to learn, and it can take a long, long time. It can take a whole life.
Some readers may be discouraged by the necessary longtime investment of time and effort. If it just would work immediately, like checking out at the cashier and taking the desired ware home. Instant gratification, that is what we are used to.
Starting these scheme, reminding oneself constantly to smile and consciously breathe would just add another burden, and we are already burdened enough in this complicated consumer world.
But the reservations are unfounded. This would not add another burden, to the contrary, it would lift the burdens from ones shoulders. It would be gratifying, though not from one moment to the other. Sensitive persons would feel the benefits instantly, patient ones would watch them grow by and by.
You may come home, exhausted after a busy day; or you may sit down in the kitchen, tired from the household chores; or you may lay in bed in the middle of the night, woken up by the hauling winds of a storm.
Then you remember to smile, to exhale softly, and relax. The brain chatter starts, but you smile and breathe again. And again. And one more time again. And then, unexpectedly and suddenly you feel a steadily growing stream of happiness and love flowing through your body — from your toes to your fingertips to your forehead and the back of your head.
How could you ever manage to carry on without this?
How can anybody live differently?
https:www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/cat-psychopaths/583192/ Why cats think that humans are psychopaths.
Rising seas are poisoning farmland, causing salty soils, ruined crops, and shortage of potable water. As salt crystals rise out of the mud and make the soil sparkle in the sunlight, once-rich coastal land is turning barren. The trend is expected to worsen as the world continues to warm.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/pollution-chemicals-hormone-disruption-whales-reproduction-gender-a8798376.html It's not true that chemicals are not tested for toxicity, they are tested every day on all of us and the results will come out over the next years.
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/03/article/paradise-lost-in-the-solomon-islands/ Just the usual corporate crime story happening thousands of times all over the world.
https://truthout.org/articles/endangered-wildlife-are-getting-dosed-with-rat-poisons/ Useless critters. Let's kill them all.
Apple has lost its edge. Fewer people are buying its jewelry, which is what any phone costing more than £200 appears to be to me.
And now Tata has written off more than £3 billion of investment in Jaguar Landrover. It's true that the loss of faith in diesels has a lot to do with that. Which is good news for the planet. But so too, I suspect, is the fact that its jewelry (because most of its cars do sell on the basis of being bling) has less appeal these days.
This may just be consumers spotting the economic downturn early this time.
It could just be those same consumers can face no more debt.
And it could be they have rumbled the marketing myths.
But what it says to me is that the time for a rethink of the economy is arriving, and fast. Markets are not supplying what people want.
And much of what people really want, from secure and suitable housing for everyone, to long term economic security, to proper social care as well as decent eduction and functioning public services, all wrapped in a green transformation, can only be supplied by the state.
I have nothing against the market. It does some things extraordinarily well. But I am beginning to think people are realizing that bling is no substitute for what those who have been buying it want for their children and their parents. And the mood is changing.
http://evonomics.com/the-real-reason-why-stock-buybacks-are-a-problem/ Stock buybacks are a massive tax dodge for shareholders.
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190212-how-to-save-money-with-a-no-buy-year? How irresponsible to publish such an article! This can't be good for GDP growth, especially when the economy is already strained by BREXIT.
Since 2011 domestic security spending in China has rivaled the military's budget. Journalists may view Chinese authorities as somewhat incompetent, but the unravelling of CIA operations in China from 2010 to 2012 offers a compelling counterexample. One CIA source was killed in public right in front of his colleagues.
The Russian military has recently banned smartphones, tablets and laptops. Phones with basic calling and messaging facilities can still be used. Meeting security objectives often entails sacrificing the convenience of technology.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/02/20/cens-f20.html Facebook allows only Western propaganda, Eastern propaganda (Russia, China) is banned. If you are interested in views from non-Western sources, you have to use VK (Vkontakte).
https://truthout.org/articles/big-brother-steps-closer-as-parents-shackle-teens-to-ankle-monitors/ Ankle monitors. Get used to them. In a few years, so they hope, everybody will be obliged to wear one. Those who resist will be second class citizens, losing social benefits, being excluded from higher education and well paid jobs.
And you'll still know nothing 'bout me.
Yes, that's the same guy who wrote "Every Breath You Take," a song often misinterpreted as love song, but in fact intended to depict an obsessive stalker.
The US Federal Reserve increased interest rates four times in 2018, pushing up the value of the US dollar, thereby making imports cheaper and increasing the price of exported US goods and services. This is good news for consumers and bad news for employees in export depending businesses, who may be laid off when sales slump.
The deficit in traded goods hit an all-time high of 891.3 billion US$ last year, an increase of 10 percent. After tourism, education and banking were taken into account, it was still 621 billion US$, the highest level in ten years.
The deficit with China, the major target of Trump's trade war measures, reached a new record, as did the deficit with Mexico. The goods deficit with China widened by 44 billion US$ last year to reach 419 billion.
Corporate America has routed its supply chain so deeply into China that by now 3.5 times as many goods are imported from China to the USA than are exported from the USA to China.
Corporate America is largely responsible for the trade deficit. No one forces companies to run their supply chains through China and around the world, but incentives in the US tax code and cheap labor overseas make it very profitable.
While the systems in China, Japan, and Germany coddle their local exporters, and impede imports, the US system does the opposite: It coddles US importers, and they range across the whole economic spectrum, from Walmart and GM to Apple and Pfizer.
It appears that the expansion of the trade gap is accelerating. It increased by 18.8 percent in December to almost 60 billion US$, larger than economists' predictions, as exports fell by 1.9 percent and imports increased by 2.1 percent.
The federal deficit in 2018 soared to 779 billion US$ and is projected to approach 1 trillion in 2019. The national debt is 21 trillion US$ and counting.
And yet, as the sole manufacturer of dollars, whose debt is denominated in dollars, the US government can never become insolvent, i.e., unable to pay its bills. In this sense, the government is not dependent on credit markets to remain operational. The United States will be able to pay any debt it has because it can always print the money to do that.
Being the sole superpower with the biggest military force the earth has ever seen has clear advantages.
https://covertactionmagazine.com/index.php/2018/08/11/american-exceptionalism-the-naked-truth/ Keeping the flame burning.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/15/amaz-m15.html Read this before you order something from Amazon.
https://theconversation.com/the-mental-health-crisis-among-americas-youth-is-real-and-staggering-113239 The future shape of society.
The Trump administration proposes to give the Pentagon an increase nearly double that sought by the military establishment itself: A 4.7 percent rise over current spending, double the 2.4 percent increase for which Defense Department officials had been planning. The dollar amount of the increase is 34 billion US$, while the Pentagon asked for only 17 billion.
Total US military spending of 750 billion US$ would be larger than the 2018 military spending of the next 14 countries combined (they are China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, South Korea, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Israel, and Iraq)).
Perhaps the most startling and ominous figure in the budget request is the proposed increase for Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), the all-purpose war-fighting category that includes funding for the US interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, drone warfare across the wider Middle East including North Africa, and the US military buildup on the borders of Russia (European Deterrence Initiative). While the fiscal year 2019 budget provides 69 billion US$ for OCO, the request for fiscal year 2020 balloons to a staggering 164 billion.
The Trump administration issued a decree to the US Congress extending a declaration of "national emergency" over Venezuela, describing the country as an "unusual and extraordinary threat" to US national security. The extraordinary threat is apparently constituted by the fact, that Venezuela's oil reserves, the largest on the planet, are not under the control of US energy conglomerates, and that Caracas has forged close economic and political ties with Beijing and Moscow.
Since 1999 (the start of the "Bolivarian Revolution"), Venezuela has been consistently demonized and misrepresented in Western media, but with President Donald Trump's embargo, stealing of Venezuelan property (CITGO), sabotage of the electrical grid (Guri Dam), and possible preparations for an invasion, the media's Venezuela-baiting has been turned up to until now unseen levels, reminding of the month before operation Desert Storm.
Mainstream media has always attacked progressives, liberals, leftists, or whatever they are called, for their positions on Venezuela, and at the moment Tulsi Gabbard is the main target. She gets the treatment of a deranged and irrelevant outsider.
Progressive flags bearer and potential presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was never fond of President Nicolas Maduro, alleging that his 2018 re-election was a vote "many observers said was fraudulent" (the elections were watched over and endorsed as free by over 150 international observers).
Sanders condemned Maduro's "violent crackdown on Venezuelan civil society" ("civil society" is a term usually reserved for the US-oriented white upper class) and insisted "humanitarian aid" be allowed into the country (UN and Red Cross have rejected US aid as politically motivated and have worked closely with the Venezuelan government in supplying and distributing genuine international aid).
Are Tulsi Gabbard, Ilhan Omar, Cindy Sheehan, Ann Garrison, Bruce Dixon, and Glen Ford really the only US-Americans who oppose war and are brave enough to make their voices heard?
Since she arrived on the political scene, congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has been subjected to the usual narrative control subversion for her opposition to US interventionism in Syria, Venezuela, and Iran, her criticisms of disastrous US interventionism in Iraq and Libya, and her calls to end the new cold war against Russia.
Thus Gabbard capitulated to narratives she knows well are highly questionable in a vain attempt to appease the quibbler. This is counterproductive, this is not how you beat these thugs.
https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Thuggish-Trump-Imposes-Visa-Bans-on-ICC-Staff-Probing-US-War-Crimes-in-Afghanistan-20190315-0015.html US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just said that the USA will not give visas to ICC (International Criminal Court) employees and will not allow the tribunal, based in The Hague, to investigate US troops or those of allies like Israel. So, international law is suspended from now on.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/leaked-wikileaks-doc-reveals-how-us-military-uses-of-imf-world-bank-as-unconventional-weapons/254708/ World Bank, IMF, and OECD. WTO, free trade agreements, arbitration courts, big investment banks, and the petrodollar need to be added to this list.
https://truthout.org/articles/torture-fans-and-war-criminals-determine-u-s-foreign-policy/ For simple minded people, like the ones who shape US foreign policy, war is the universal and easily fathomable solution to all problems.
https://www.juancole.com/2019/02/israeli-bulldozers-palestinian.html Another outrage mainstream media never will report.
Rita got spayed. A feral tomcat was straying around the house and though Rita was still resisting it would have been only a few days for her to get into heat (estrus). The veterinarian performed the least invasive surgery, only removing the ovaries.
Rita recovered astonishing fast. After only three days she is as active as ever and only the plaster on her belly signals that she had surgery.
The tomcat in the meantime has given up and fortunately leaves us alone. Maybe Linda or Gandhi Jr. shooed him away.
Rita has already got a base vaccination against FPV (feline panleukopenia), FHV-1 (feline herpesvirus-1), and FCV (feline calicivirus). I was considering to get here a second vaccination and in addition also a vaccination against FeLV (feline leukemia virus), because the nearby farms all host colonies of cats who never get any veterinarian treatment and carry all kind of diseases. These cats are practically feral cats and the straying tomcat who courted Rita most likely came from one of these colonies.
When I talked about the issue with a friend who works part-time as an assistant in a veterinary clinic, she told me that she herself didn't let her cats (of whom she has a two digit number) vaccinate against FeLV, because she has already seen two cases in the clinic where cats died from a very aggressive injection-site sarcoma probably caused by a FeLV vaccination.
This kind of cancer is incurable, is deadly. Nothing helps, no surgery, no radiation or chemo therapy. It always comes back after a few month or even weeks and the invasive treatments only cause unnecessary suffering. If the cancer diagnosis is confirmed without a doubt by a biopsy the only rational and sensible decision is to euthanize the cat.
As soon as I got home I researched on the internet and found, that feline injection-site sarcoma indeed has become a concern for veterinarians and cat owners alike and has resulted in changes to official vaccine protocols. Especially the FeLV vaccination is recommended only in rare situations. The risk that a cancer develops is one in thousand, but all my cat friends (except Rita) got two FeLV shots, Lucia and Wendy got even three, which theoretically increases the risk to one in 500 respective one in 333. This is a risk I personally wouldn't like to take, but the cats didn't have a chance to reject the treatment because I didn't ask them.
I should have asked them!
And I know what their answer would have been.
I'm devastated and I already imagine how I will hold my dying feline friends in my arms, whisper softly to them, listen to their purring, caress them till the deadly injection is applied. If indeed one of them gets cancer, it would be a heavy burden and the feeling of guilt would haunt me till the end of my life.
I never wanted to learn that much about feline injection-site sarcoma. The veterinarian should have warned me. Maybe she didn't know either, maybe she just wanted to sell the vaccines no matter what. Overall I have a rather good impression of her and Ritas surgery was perfect.
Maybe her mind is squirming just like mine under the load of more and more information poured onto us in a more and more complicated, technology driven world, where making business means to make a quick buck to succeed and destroy the competitors.
In the end, it is my responsibility. I was careless, naive, and again forgot a key principle which served me well all my life: In case of doubt, just let it be as it has been naturally.
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Oost-Timor nam deel aan de Olympische Zomerspelen 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilië. De olympische ploeg bestond uit drie atleten, actief in twee sporten. Voor het eerst in de olympische geschiedenis van het land werd deelgenomen aan een andere sport dan atletiek.

Deelnemers en resultaten
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Atletiek

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Presently we heard the rustling sound of silk as my lady came down the flight of stone steps. She stepped round to look at us; she was a tall, proud-looking woman, and did not seem pleased about something, but she said nothing, and got into the carriage. This was the first time of wearing a check-rein, and I must say, though it certainly was a nuisance not to be able to get my head down now and then, it did not pull my head higher than I was accustomed to carry it. I felt anxious about Ginger, but she seemed to be quiet and content.
York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself -- one hole, I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up. Then I began to understand what I had heard of. Of course, I wanted to put my head forward and take the carriage up with a will, as we had been used to do; but no, I had to pull with my head up now, and that took all the spirit out of me, and the strain came on my back and legs.


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New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Yet again Vitamin String Quartet (VSQ) melts the barriers between classical, dance, hip-hop and more, tapping Soundcloud DJ and producer Big Chocolate for 'VSQ Performs Björk - The Remixes' out June 7th.
The EP reimagines five tracks from the collective's latest Billboard Top 10 album — 'VSQ Performs Björk' (available now) — to create an undeniable hybrid of lush, cinematic strings and psychic, celestial synthetic layers.
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