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Sun TV to pay Rs. 2.5 Lakhs and Apologize for Vulgar Content in Kalyana Veedu Serial
Vijayan Sankar (Author) Published Date : Sep 18, 2019 12:56 IST
Sun TV to pay Rs. 2.5 lakhs and apologize for vulgar content in Kalyana Veedu serial: BCCC has ordered Sun TV to pay a fine Rs.2.5 lakhs based on several complaints of vulgar scenes and dialogues in the Kalyana Veedu serial. The order further requires Sun TV to telecast a thirty second pre-recorded apology before the start of the serial from 23rd to September 28. It is a unique order by the regulatory body of entertainment channels to maintain dignity and control vulgar content in channel shows.
Is TRP driving channels crazy? Sun TV, which is the much favored Tamil channel for more than 25 years now, is also under pressure of TRP. The much-acclaimed serial director Thirumurgan's Kalyana Veedu serial is aired at the prime time of 7:30 pm for six days a week. It has got millions of viewers not only in Tamil Nadu but also in many parts of the world. Thirumurugan's previous two serials in Sun TV, Metti Oli and Nadhaswaram were super hit among the Tamil people. But all these positives could not withstand the TRP pressure. It is the reason for the recent order of BCCC. Both Sun TV and Thirumurugal somehow got into the TRP muddle to air such vulgar content on May 14 and 15th. Again on June 28, they telecasted the revenge content for it.
BCCC and it's August 23rd order against Sun TV: BCCC or the broadcasting content complaints council is an independent regulatory body formed by the IBF or the Indian Broadcasting Foundation in 2011. I&B or the information and broadcasting ministry refer received complaints to BCCC to take action on them. After receiving many claims on the vulgar content of Kalyana Veedu serial on Sun TV, it sent notices on June 27. After hearing SUN TV and Kalyana Veedu serial producers, it passed the said order of fine and apology on 23rd August 2019.
The vulgar content and its impact: The said scene includes a woman describing to a goon on how to rape her sister and getting herself raped. The revenge scenes are that of the burning of the genitals of the goons. It sure is not the content to be watched by Tamil families across the world. In movies, the sensor board either cuts such scenes or gives an "A" certificate. It is to prevent children and families from avoiding the film. But in the case of channel broadcasting, such provisions are not possible. It could have awkward moments for millions of families in front of the TV during such vulgar content. Also, it may bring in adverse impacts on the younger generation and children. Hence the order is much required one and could set the tone for other channels to not fall prey to TRP and air such vulgar content in the future.
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We talk with Aida Edemariam about her memoir, The Wife's Tale: A Personal History. It's about her Ethiopian grandmother who, over nearly a century of living, experienced the transformation of Ethiopian society and her place in it.
What is it like to live through nearly a century of transformation from a medieval feudal society to one that is fully part of the modern world? And to do it from the point of view of a woman in a society where women are second-class citizens?
That's the story that unfolds in lyric and fascinating detail from the pen of Aida Edemariam in The Wife's Tale.
It's the story of her grandmother Yetemegnu, born into a socially prominent family in Ethiopia around 1916, married at eight and mother at fifteen. The social convulsions of Ethiopian society led to her husband's imprisonment and death. She also experienced the deaths of several of her children and the imprisonment of another.
How she confronted these challenges changed Yetemegnu profoundly, echoing the changes of the world around her. She was a woman of great sorrow but also great joy, beset by fears yet indomitable. She excelled in the domestic wifely arts but also became a businesswoman. And she was a great storyteller.
The New York Times called The Wife's Tale "a sublimely crafted tribute" to the author's grandmother. But it is much more — a vivid portrayal of Ethiopian society, customs, food and history through a century of turmoil and change. The book is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards of Canada.
Aida Edemariam is of dual Ethiopian and Canadian heritage. she is currently a senior feature writer and editor for the Guardian in the UK.
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Russell Steven Powell is the perfect person to the write the story of the New England apple. A writer, visual artist and a magazine publisher, he has devoted his talents to bringing the unique sense of place of the New England landscape to a larger audience. He was the publisher and editor of New England Watershed, a journal of culture, art and ideas.
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All too frequently I speak to girls who've had some success with diets, cleanses and detoxes. The answer is not so great. Just some of them have achieved the goal. Why is it so? Perhaps, they have chosen wrong diet plan or followed it wrong. But in the article, I will tell you how to lose weight without trying and without following the diet. That's easy. You will need to want only. If you do nothing, you could lose up to 5 pounds per month. So, calculate by yourself how long will it take you to get the target weight.
When I was attempting to reduce weight years back, I did silly things, like jumping meals, extreme cardio, together with depriving myself of the foods I actually needed to eat, like chocolate, and carbs. The net result: hunger, rage, bitterness, and no weight loss. But now I know how to lose weight without trying and the training.
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Iker Casillas to end his career at Porto and is convinced that his teammate Eder Militao will succeed at Real Madrid
Rahul Roy
The Spain World Cup winning captain, Iker Casillas has signed a new two-year contract with Porto. He is also convinced that his Porto teammate Eder Militao will succeed at his old club Real Madrid.
Iker Casillas has won every trophy possible as a football player. He has won the 2010 World Cup with Spain and also two EURO Cups in 2008 and 2012. He has 167 appearances for Spain. He also won every trophy possible at the club level with his old club Real Madrid, including the UEFA Champions League and LaLiga. Casillas joined Porto in July 2015. He is in his fourth season at Estadio do Dragao, where he has won the Primeira Liga and Portuguese Super Cup since his arrival. He will turn 38 in May and his new deal – one year plus an option for another – could take him to the age of 40, when Casillas says he will retire from professional football. Casillas has also been honoured by including his name in the LaLiga Icons recently.
Iker Casillas at LaLiga Icons event
Casillas told the club's official website after Wednesday's contract announcement: "Today is a very special day. I feel at home in this club. When they gave me the chance to renew, I did not hesitate. My commitment is with the club, with the city, with the president and my fellow team-mates. I want to stay here until I finish my career as a footballer.
I have great memories of great matches for Porto. The victory in Luz last season, by the way it was achieved, is perhaps the one that had the biggest mark on me. When I came here, many thought it would be to play a year or two and finish. I have only words of gratitude to this club – not only to the club but to the city itself."
Porto president Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa said the 2010 World Cup winner continues the club's tradition of goalkeeping excellence. He said: "Casillas is a world football figure. Porto has always had great goalkeepers. Iker Casillas is in line with the extraordinary goalkeepers Porto has always had and we are sure that we will always continue with great goalkeepers."
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Who Do I Think I Was
'Who Do I Think I Was?' was a participatory arts and heritage project led by Head4Arts and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). During the project, community groups from across the South East Wales Valleys region used collections held in Gwent and Glamorgan Archives to explore First World War history from a personal perspective. Inspired by this primary resource material, participants imagined how their lives might have been affected by the conflict if they had been alive a hundred years ago. Working alongside professional artists, each group interpreted their research through an art form of their choice, including craft, creative writing, visual arts, drama and film. Participating groups included: Blaenau Gwent Rhythm and Ukes, Blaenau Gwent Senior Youth Theatre, Caerphilly Parents Network (Nant y Parc & Trethomas), Cwmbran High School, Dowlais Visual Arts Group, Merthyr Tydfil Library Service Community Writing Squad, Thornhill Craft Group (Cwmbran) and Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni. All of the creative research collected has been uploaded to our website. The produced work was also showcased in a community exhibition display in Gwent Archives between 13 – 22nd July 2016 and in Glamorgan Archives between 2nd – 12th August 2016. Produced material was additionally utilised within two subsequent Head4Arts First World War projects ('The Last Post', 2017; 'Exhibition in a Box', 2018).
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package ch.usi.cloud.controller.doremap.confselectors;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import javax.sql.DataSource;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;

import ch.usi.cloud.controller.common.ConfigurationListener;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.common.ManifestConnector;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.common.ServiceConfiguration;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.common.SystemPropertyNames;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.doremap.models.DoReMapModels;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.impl.AbstractScriptConfigurationSelector;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.impl.TrivialTrainingSampleSelector;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.util.ScriptParser;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.util.ScriptParser.Parameter;
import ch.usi.cloud.controller.util.ServiceManagementUtils;
import dk.ange.octave.OctaveEngine;
import dk.ange.octave.OctaveEngineFactory;

/**
 * This conf selector read the target conf from a file and then stops. It must
 * be used for testing and with the -DSKIP_DEPLOY=TRUE
 *
 * @author alessiogambi
 *
 */
public class DoReMapScriptConfigurationSelectorDummy extends AbstractScriptConfigurationSelector {

	protected Logger logger = Logger.getLogger(DoReMapScriptConfigurationSelectorDummy.class);

	public DoReMapScriptConfigurationSelectorDummy(
			long controlPeriod,
			ManifestConnector mc,
			DataSource monitoringDs,
			DataSource trainingDs,
			String serviceId) throws Exception {
		super(controlPeriod, mc, monitoringDs, trainingDs, serviceId);

		tss = new TrivialTrainingSampleSelector(this.getDataSource(), models);
		octave = new OctaveEngineFactory().getScriptEngine();

		logger.info("System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ABSOLUTE_PATH "
				+ System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ABSOLUTE_PATH));
		if (System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ABSOLUTE_PATH) != null) {
			octgprLocation = System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ABSOLUTE_PATH);
		}

		logger.info("System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ADDITIONAL_PATH "
				+ System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ADDITIONAL_PATH));

		if (System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ADDITIONAL_PATH) != null) {
			octaveScriptsLocation = System.getProperty(SystemPropertyNames.OCTGPR_ADDITIONAL_PATH);
		}

		octave.eval("addpath('" + octaveScriptsLocation + "')");
		octave.eval("addpath('" + octgprLocation + "')");
	}

	@Override
	public void stopWorkload() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	protected void collectData() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void startWorkload() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	// Name of the parameters we must read from script
	private String workloadMixParameterName = "WorkloadMix";
	private String sampleThreadsParameterName = "Threads";

	@Override
	protected Map<Parameter, ArrayList<Parameter>> getScriptAdditionalParameters() {
		HashMap<Parameter, ArrayList<Parameter>> additionalParameters = new HashMap<Parameter, ArrayList<Parameter>>();
		ArrayList<Parameter> sampleParamForWorkloadMix = new ArrayList<ScriptParser.Parameter>();
		sampleParamForWorkloadMix.add(newParameterInstance(sampleThreadsParameterName,
				Integer.class, true));
		additionalParameters.put(
				newParameterInstance(workloadMixParameterName, String.class, true),
				sampleParamForWorkloadMix);

		return additionalParameters;

	}

	protected OctaveEngine octave;
	public static String octgprLocation = "/usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2/octgpr-1.1.5";
	public static String octaveScriptsLocation = "/usr/lib/octave/packages/3.2/octgpr-1.1.5/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-api-v37";

	/**
	 * This implementation of InitModels is App-specific and depends on the
	 * Manifest and the exposed KPIs
	 */

	@Override
	public void initModels() {
		// init models in app-specific way
		models = DoReMapModels.initModels(mc, this.serviceFQN, octave);
		// Pass the Collection of Models to the tss
		tss.setModels(models);
	}

	@Override
	public void init() throws Exception {
		super.init();
		initModels();
	}

	@Override
	public void run() {
		int sampleLineNum = 0;
		try {
			init();

			// BEFORE ANYTHING CHECK THAT THE ACTUAL CONFIGURATION IS REACHED !

			//?? What is the sense of that ???
			//we are comparing the currentConfiguration object to itself ??
			boolean confReached = ServiceManagementUtils.checkServiceConf(this.currentConfiguration,
					this.currentConfiguration);

			int i = 0;
			while (!confReached && i < ServiceManagementUtils.maxIterationsForConf) {
				Thread.sleep(ServiceManagementUtils.cycle);
				i++;
				confReached = ServiceManagementUtils.checkServiceConf(this.currentConfiguration,
						this.currentConfiguration);
			}

			// Start the loop
			for (ArrayList<Integer> conf : scriptParser.getSampleParamsIntegerHashMap().get(
					"Instances")) {

				if (logger.isInfoEnabled()) {
					logger.info("Moving to next sample: " + getVMConfigurationAsString(conf));
				}

				confReached = false;

				final ServiceConfiguration targetConf = getConfForSample(sampleLineNum);

				if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
					logger.debug("Next target configuration: " + targetConf);
				}
				for (final ConfigurationListener listener : confListeners) {
					threadPool.submit(new Runnable() {
						public void run() {
							listener.handleTargetConfiguration(targetConf);
						};
					});
				}

				i = 0;
				while (!confReached && i < ServiceManagementUtils.maxIterationsForConf) {
					confReached = ServiceManagementUtils.checkServiceConf(this.currentConfiguration,
							targetConf);

					if (confReached) {
						break;
					}
					i++;
					Thread.sleep(ServiceManagementUtils.cycle);
				}

				if (!confReached) {
					logger.fatal("System has not reached expected configuration in "
							+ (ServiceManagementUtils.maxIterationsForConf * ServiceManagementUtils.cycle / 1000)
							+ " seconds. Returning from confSelector.run().");
					return;
				}

				PrintAVG runnable;
				Thread t;
				runnable = new PrintAVG();
				t = new Thread(runnable);
				startWorkload();
				// Mark Here the starting time. I.e. wait at least window.size
				// before computing means
				runnable.systemConfiguration = targetConf;
				runnable.threadCount = null;

				runnable.originalStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
				logger.info("Start the data collection at " + runnable.originalStartTime);

				if (System.getProperty("doremap.dummy.WaitTimeBetweenConfigurations") != null) {
					try {

						// This will be blocked after the rampUp and the
						// SleepTime !
						t.start();
						// This wait the end
						Thread.sleep(Long.parseLong(System
								.getProperty("doremap.dummy.WaitTimeBetweenConfigurations")));

					} catch (InterruptedException e) {

					} catch (Exception e) {
						e.printStackTrace();
						try {

							Thread.sleep(60000);
						} catch (Exception e1) {
							e1.printStackTrace();
						}
					}

					runnable.stop = true;
					logger.info("Stop the data collection at " + System.currentTimeMillis());
					runnable = null;
					t = null;

				}

				logger.info("No workload... I'm Dummy ");
				sampleLineNum++;
			}

		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			logger.fatal("Can't read from sample file. Returning from confSelector.run()");
			return;
		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			logger.fatal("Conf selector thread interrupted while sleeping. Returning from confSelector.run()");
			return;
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	private class PrintAVG implements Runnable {

		private Logger dataLogger = Logger.getLogger("kpi-data-logger");
		public boolean stop = false;
		// Default window size
		long window = 60 * 1000;
		// Original start time
		public long originalStartTime = -1;
		// timeout between samples
		long sampleTimeout = 5000;
		public ServiceConfiguration systemConfiguration = null;
		public ArrayList<Integer> threadCount = null;

		public void run() {
			if (System.getProperty("printavg.aggregation.window") != null) {
				try {
					window = Long.parseLong(System.getProperty("printavg.aggregation.window"));
					logger.info("printavg.aggregation.window set to " + window);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					logger.error("Wrong long for window in PrintAVG", e);
				}
			}
			if (System.getProperty("printavg.aggregation.sampletimeout") != null) {
				try {
					sampleTimeout = Long.parseLong(System
							.getProperty("printavg.aggregation.sampletimeout"));
					logger.info("printavg.aggregation.sampletimeout set to " + sampleTimeout);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					logger.error(
							"Wrong long for window in PrintAVG for printavg.aggregation.sampletimeout",
							e);
				}
			}
			if (originalStartTime == -1) {
				originalStartTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
			}
			List<String> slosName = DoReMapModels.getSLOKPIs(mc);
			// All the kpis that contains ReqCount
			List<String> rcounts = DoReMapModels.getTrainingReqCountKPIs(mc);
			// SLO Limits
			Double[] sloLimits = DoReMapModels.getSLOLimits(mc);

			StringBuffer confSb = new StringBuffer();
			if (systemConfiguration != null) {
				for (String vee : systemConfiguration.getVEETypes()) {
					confSb.append(vee);
					confSb.append(",");
				}
			}
			if (threadCount != null) {
				for (int i = 0; i < threadCount.size(); i++) {
					confSb.append("threadCount_" + i);
					confSb.append(",");
				}
			}

			StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
			// Configuration
			sb.append(confSb);
			// SLO
			for (String sloName : slosName) {
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append("-violated");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append("-mean");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append("-median");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append("-variance");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(sloName);
				sb.append("-90qt");
				sb.append(",");
			}
			// RC-Count input feature
			for (String inputFeature : rcounts) {
				sb.append(inputFeature);
				sb.append("-abs");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(inputFeature);
				sb.append("-rel");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(inputFeature);
				sb.append("-tot-abs");
				sb.append(",");
				sb.append(inputFeature);
				sb.append("-tot-rel");
				sb.append(",");
			}
			// RC Total
			sb.append("reqCountAggregate");
			sb.append("-abs");
			sb.append(",");
			sb.append("reqCountAggregate");
			sb.append("-rel");
			sb.append(",");

			dataLogger.info(sb.toString());

			// Build the Configuration string for this sample
			confSb = new StringBuffer();
			if (systemConfiguration != null) {
				for (String vee : systemConfiguration.getVEETypes()) {
					confSb.append(systemConfiguration.getInstancesCount(vee));
					confSb.append(",");
				}
			}
			if (threadCount != null) {
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// Copyright 2012 Traceur Authors.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 'License');
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an 'AS IS' BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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import {FunctionExpression} from '../syntax/trees/ParseTrees.js';
import {TempVarTransformer} from './TempVarTransformer.js';
import {FUNCTION_BODY} from '../syntax/trees/ParseTreeType.js';
import alphaRenameThisAndArguments from './alphaRenameThisAndArguments.js';
import {
  createFunctionBody,
  createParenExpression,
  createReturnStatement
} from './ParseTreeFactory.js';

/**
 * Converts a concise body to a function body.
 * @param {ParseTree} tree
 * @return {FunctionBody}
 */
function convertConciseBody(tree) {
  if (tree.type !== FUNCTION_BODY)
    return createFunctionBody([createReturnStatement(tree)]);
  return tree;
}

/**
 * Desugars arrow function expressions
 *
 * @see strawman:arrow_function_syntax
 */
export class ArrowFunctionTransformer extends TempVarTransformer {

  /**
   * Transforms an arrow function expression into a function declaration.
   * The main things we need to deal with are the 'this' binding, and adding a
   * function body and return statement if needed.
   */
  transformArrowFunctionExpression(tree) {
    var alphaRenamed = alphaRenameThisAndArguments(this, tree);
    var parameterList = this.transformAny(alphaRenamed.parameterList);

    var body = this.transformAny(alphaRenamed.body);
    body = convertConciseBody(body);
    var functionExpression = new FunctionExpression(tree.location, null,
        tree.functionKind, parameterList, null, [], body);

    return createParenExpression(functionExpression);
  }

  /**
   * Shallowly transforms |tree| into a FunctionExpression and adds the needed
   * temp variables to the |tempVarTransformer|.
   * @param {TempVarTransformer} tempVarTransformer
   * @param {ArrowFunctionExpression} tree
   * @return {FunctionExpression}
   */
  static transform(tempVarTransformer, tree) {
    tree = alphaRenameThisAndArguments(tempVarTransformer, tree);
    var body = convertConciseBody(tree.body);
    return new FunctionExpression(tree.location, null, tree.functionKind,
        tree.parameterList, null, [], body);
  }
}


The Bedlam of Beefy: Gran-tastic!
Love this "Granny Glamour" look! Though it looks like it could also be the new "Recessionista". Either way it could be a fabulous throw-together look for tomorrow, Ladies! I mean, for you. Not your Uncle! Heaven's sake! We're perfectly clear on that right? For. You.
All this fashion fabulousity found at julia!
Wow. The elastic seams on the wig aren't very subtle are they? Very grannie clown-tastic!
i love the photos though!
Ha! I don't even have to try! I look like them but not as glamorous!
Those shoes are too funny. There is something about that first photo I love. Sort of reminds me of Jessica Tandy in The Birds.


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The Diversity of the Latin American Furry Fandom – by Rama and Patch.
This started with a guest submission by Rama the Golden Liger, a fur in Honduras. I collaborated with a lot of editing to smooth out the language and add extra info and another point of view. Fred Patten helped connect with even more furries who sent info at his request. Thanks Rama and Fred! – Patch
The Diversity of the Latin American Furry Fandom
We know how furry fandom started in the U.S. As it grew there, the mainstream media, the internet, its memes and popular YouTubers, and other influences put the fandom within a stone's throw for many young people. Now across borders, different cultures are experiencing a growth of furry fandom among many international influences they already have.
Latin American furries are a result of all this exposure. The internet helped many young people get interested in the art, behavior, and culture of the furry creatures they see on the screen. Many Hispanic furry fans are males mostly from around age 15 to their 20's. They came across fandom through friends, memes, anime, manga, and fan art. There are popular YouTubers like Khazoo, who spread the term "furry" through his videos. Of course, there was also Zootopia spreading popularity of anthropomorphic animals around the world.
Khazoo's struggle
(Patch): International reach reminds me of studying animation under an "old master" who in 1989, helped lead a nonprofit mission to Latin American countries to reduce AIDs among street children. They traveled around to test screen educational cartoons on the side of a van. The audience was poor kids who were vulnerable to exploitation and had low access to schools. The films they were shown were life saving, and most importantly to this story, the language of cartoons was universal across borders to all levels of literacy. Of course internet users in 2018 are the main topic here.
Khazoo is an example of how furryness spreads now. This teenage Spanish-language Youtuber from Mexico may not be known to English speakers. He was born in 1999 and only uploaded his first video in 2016, but soared to 31.5K followers on Twitter and nearly 600,000 youtube subscribers so far – much more than any specifically furry internet celebrity! How did he start? According to a wiki about him (use Chrome/Google Translate), Khazoo started with general teen audience content like gaming and cartoons. While he joked about being in love with Judy Hopps, fans called him "furry" but he denied it, until finally admitting it to everyone – a story I'm sure we can all laugh about in any language!
Latin American fandom does have old school furries; those who joined the fandom in the beginning or have been there for more than 15 years. From talking with some of them, they all got into it through comics with art from – for example – Nakira, JK Willard, Kese, or K9. And of course cartoons and books. Later on, the boom of the internet brought them to a community of those who loved anthropomorphic animals.
Even if furry fandom in these regions is still following development in North America, it's already showing exponential growth; not only in the number of people who join every day, but also in the quality of fursuiters, artists, gamers, and more that have come from it.
The amazing works of Coby Wong, the fursuit maker from Brazil. She's considered one of the most qualified makers in Latin American fandom.
Talented artists like GAB SHIBA, Anhes, Peritian, Señor Nutria, and more from Mexico and Argentina.
E-sports gamers like Noah Fox from Mexico, right now living in the U.S.
Coby Wong
Some of them answered questions for this article.
One furry who spoke was @NoahFFox. He discovered furry fandom when he was 16 years old. He's been in the fandom for four years, and since he moved to the U.S. he's become a big Hispanic representative on Smash. He's recognized as the only one using the Toon link.
From the comics partnership of GAB SHIBA – Zurdo is the artist (and Cross is the writer.) Zurdo shared his story about the fandom and how things started. He joined furry fandom 13 years ago when he was 16 and a friend showed him anthropomorphic art. He sees in the Latin American furry community a big opportunity for improvement. It can get a little chaotic because it's now populated almost entirely by youths, but as it develops you can see how much good it can do, as more join year by year. There's fear of the young population misunderstanding what furry fandom is; what role it serves, and that it's not only about porn or yiff art. But he hopes to see more and more mature furries in Hispanic fandom as it grows with time.
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From the same who brought you UBEAR, we bring you the ubearPOOL pic.twitter.com/Q7vm3ksbxw
— GAB SHIBA (@gabshiba) January 26, 2018
*otter in spanish* pic.twitter.com/xpeYJgmB3G
— Señor Nutria (@senornutria) June 9, 2017
(Patch): GAB SHIBA has a smart approach. The comics are frequently wordless, or posted with dual-language for wide appeal – but they don't just stay G-rated. Some are mildy sexy and others are even explicitly adult.
Señor Nutria at Fur Con
The same for Señor Nutria's art. Maybe in the U.S., one may think of some Latin American countries as having conservative religious traditions or maybe not being the most tolerant, but some of his art is up there with the hottest gay yiff porn – showing that wherever furries are, they may spread a certain freedom or even counterculturally unbound expression in their creativity.
At Further Confusion in January 2018, I met Señor Nutria on his first trip to a fur con outside of Mexico. He was super friendly but still a little shy of being on camera, so I got a pic of work in progress at his dealer table instead. He said his younger brother, a teenager, had recently gotten into the fandom from seeing furry art.
Let's not forget Paco Panda, the popular Mexican artist already widely known in fandom. And – Dogpatch Press has generous website admin support from Mexican fandom.
Latin American furmeets and cons
Many countries already have active communities and cons where they gather to exchange experience and knowledge, and socialize with other furs of their region. Some Hispanic countries started to do this as recently as two years ago, some four years. They are getting bigger and bigger. As new as furry fandom is in Latin America, you will notice how the media is interested in it and seek to interview these new animals in their lands. You can also see how many of the fursuits are hand made mostly by fans for themselves. Only a few can afford to buy a professionally made suit. But that's the lovely part. You can see the large amount of effort and love this community is putting into its hobby and fandom.
The biggest gathering right now is the Brazil FurFest. Then there's Vidafur and Fursummer in Mexico, and furmeets in Argentina and Chile. Here's videos, with info about the first con in Mexico below.
(2/22/18) BrasilFurfest sent appreciation and a comment: "Brazilians aren't Hispanic. Latin America is made of countries that speak Spanish, French, Portuguese. Hispanic refers only to people who speak Spanish." (Apart from this, many from the region probably do meet there.)
BrasilFurfest – Brazil
Vidafur – Mexico
Furmeet – Buenos Aires, Argentina
Furmeet – Santiago de Chile
(Patch): There was rare media coverage of Peruvian furries in 2015. The standard "furries 101" article added useful tidbits: It was "still somewhat unusual" to see furries in Lima because their group was little more than four years old, and "the members of this tribe in our country are no larger than 100." It also claimed: "In Latin America, Chile is a privileged country for furry fandom." I'd love to know more.
Mexico's first con – info gathered by Fred Patten.
Leonardo Davalos wrote:
The fandom is growing and very quickly and expanding to other countries, for example here in Mexico, the fandom isn't unknown like it was before, and I'm happy that I had become one of the new members of this fandom.
In Mexico, the first meet was held in Guadalajara in 2008. It was a FurMeet called VidaFur. In 2010 it was held in Mazamitla, and in 2013 it was held in Guanajuato. In 2014 there was no event. The theme in 2017 was Furs in Space. This year it became a great convention with approximately 170 attendees. The name is now changed to Confuror, to be held in November 2018.
There were 27 staff members for the 2017 event. Some of them were Hugo Nieto, Henry J. Doe, EddBear, SoraDezWolfox, Zachary Huslion, An Ju Hope, Nathan de Xolotl, Foxhell, etc.
The activities were the following:
Drawing, traditional drawing, and sock puppet workshops
Writing, character creation and GAB SHIBA speeches
Fursuit Parade and Photoshoot
Relay race
Lazer Wars
There were more than 30 fursuiters in the event. There was no donation. Here is a blog of one of the attendees, Koidel Coyote.
"8 years celebrating local furmeets in our city… We all finally evolved this event to a new level turning it in to a Convention."
Growth of Latin American social networking and more
Mike Retriever of Furryfandom.es, in Madrid Spain, writes:
I've read that article in Spanish, from Furry Amino. Amino is like a 'Facebook' kind of website/platform. Latin Americans like to use it. I don't know of any other furry groups using Amino, only Latin Americans. It has some kind of integration with smartphones or something. Honestly I don't get very good vibes from it, it seems very commercially-driven, like Fandom Wikia. It's a social network geared towards fandoms. I'm very suspicious of non-furry websites catered towards furries. Flayrah's GreenReaper says of Amino Apps they're doomed to fail because they don't allow porn! That's a funny fact!
(Patch): The Furry Amino group has 200,000 members, and Furry Spanish on Amino has 35,000.
In 2008, Greenreaper's Wikifur site launched a Spanish project in collaboration with Latin American furs. It was one of the first on the wikifur.com domain in a foreign language (along with Russian), showing them on the edge of growth.
On Wikifur I found that in 2014, when Mexico's Vidafur didn't meet, the members collaborated in a different gathering of many fur groups in another city, Fursummer. It lists the groups as: Vidafur, GTFur, Enfurry, Urban Clawz, Bicifurros and Tonalli Furs.
How cool is that? Getting small groups from across a country to pitch in and make a bigger meet shows the DIY ethic of fandom around the world. I love that art doesn't need one language, and look forward to sharing more about the diversity it brings. In a small way, this international conspiracy represents a nicer future for everyone.
Like the article? It takes a lot of effort to share these. Please consider supporting Dogpatch Press on Patreon. You can access exclusive stuff for just $1, or get Con*Tact Caffeine Soap as a reward. They're a popular furry business seen in dealer dens. Be an extra-perky patron – or just order direct from Con*Tact.
Filed Under: Conventions, costuming, Current events, Journalism, On the scene, Society and culture, Subculture
Tags: argentina : BrasilFurfest : chile : conventions : fandom : furries : furry : fursummer : honduras : latin america : mexico : Senor Nutria : spanish : vidafur
6 Responses to "The Diversity of the Latin American Furry Fandom – by Rama and Patch."
Atlow93 says:
There's also the small community of furries from Puerto Rico
Patch O'Furr says:
I would LOVE to do a part 2… but the list of projects is so long… anyone interested in helping do a guest post would get assistance to make it really good 🙂
Leonardo Dávalos Maldonado says:
Great blog!!! I was wondering when it was going to be published. I'm happy to know that my information was useful. Hope I can see more information about the latinamerican fandom soon!!!
Ekomon says:
Dogpatch Press, thank you for your blog post.Really thank you! Awesome.
FLRM says:
Dogpatch Press, thanks so much for the post.Much thanks again. Really Cool.
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My kids and I adopted Rosie at the Humane Society. We asked for the sweetest cat they had. They recommended "Jersey". Jersey had been pregnant but lost her babies. We loved her immediately and adopted her. My daughter, Kezia, renamed her Rosie. Rosie is the best cat ever, very cuddly. She likes to sleep under the blankets.


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Before he performs alongside Elton John at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 10, British pop star Ed Sheeran is stopping at an unusual venue: Notre Dame Academy in Hingham.
The screaming in the halls of Notre Dame Academy was so loud that Principal Kathleen Colin decided to make an announcement over the intercom before teachers became alarmed.
On-air personalities at radio station Mix 104.1 had just announced during the "Karson & Kennedy Show" on Monday that Ed Sheeran, a 21-year-old English singer-songwriter who has rocketed up the charts over the last two years, would be performing in the school's auditorium thanks to the efforts of Hannah Paradise, Marissa Gildea and Abigail Rouleau, three students who had organized a collection drive that netted 2,779 donated coats.
School officials have spent the last three days scrambling to ready the school's 875-seat auditorium for Sheeran, who is scheduled to perform alongside Elton John at the Grammys in February.
Representatives for the singer inspected the facility Tuesday and the school has hired a police detail for the private show, which was scheduled for after school Thursday, Jan. 31.
Mix 104.1 hosts Karson, Kennedy and Salt – the trio go with just first names on the air and off – had promised the exclusive show to the school that collected the most gently used coats for the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation. More than 30 Massachusetts schools participated, collecting more than 12,000 coats. Notre Dame managed to gather the most after a week and a half, despite being a small all-girls school.
The three Notre Dame organizers – all devoted followers of Sheeran's music – launched the drive after hearing about the contest and spread the word through paper fliers and a flurry of posts on Twitter. The coats came flooding into the school.
The three organizers have been told they'll get to meet with Sheeran, who has also offered an interview to the student newspaper.
Neal Simpson is at nesimpson@ledger.com.
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The 10 best things to do in Tacoma
Find the top things to do in Tacoma, Washington; filled with family-run eateries and historic spots to uncover
By Lori A. May | Posted: Monday July 9 2018
When you visit the third-largest city in Washington State, you're in for an exciting mixture of old and new. Tacoma is home to repurposed historic buildings, family restaurants passed down through generations, and modern arts celebrated on the waterfront. Be sure to nibble on local salmon and fresh catches from Puget Sound and the Pacific, and take in gorgeous views of Mount Rainier National Park. Plan your next visit to this old port town with our list of top things to do in Tacoma, WA.
Done something on this list and loved it? Share it with the hashtag #TimeOutDoList and tag @TimeOutEverywhere.
Find out more about how Time Out selects the very best things to do all over the world.
Best things to do in Tacoma
Point Defiance Park
What is it? A 760-acre metro park with old-growth forests, saltwater beaches, and family attractions.
Why go? Soak up the sun at Owen Beach, where harbor seals gather, and you'll get a lovely view of Vashon Island. Follow the trails to admire the forests or stroll through the Japanese garden to see cherry trees and a tea house. Then visit the only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest.
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Photograph: Russ Carmack
Charlotte's Blueberry Park
What is it? A public farm within the city limits with free blueberry picking.
Why go? Metro Parks Tacoma manages and preserves this neighborhood farm of more than 3,000 blueberry bushes. The farm began in 1952, formerly as Berg's Blueberry Farm, and now visitors can stroll through picking unlimited blueberries – for free! You'll find five varieties of berries, with prime picking season taking place July through September.
What is it? A 75,000 square foot museum dedicated to fine arts using glass as a medium.
Why go? Renowned glass sculptor Dale Chihuly was born in Tacoma and you'll encounter examples of his stunning work along the Chihuly Bridge of Glass, which connects the museum to downtown. Throughout the galleries, a number of glass artists are represented with permanent and rotating exhibits. Visit the Hot Shop to watch visiting artists transform molten glass into works of art.
Engine House No. 9
What is it? A historic brick firehouse transformed into a brewery.
Why go? Built in 1907, this old firehouse was once home to Tacoma's last horse-drawn fire wagon and used as battalion headquarters. Restored and repurposed first as a tavern in 1972, Engine House No. 9 later became Tacoma's first craft brewery in 1995. It's been recognized as a top mid-size brewery ever since.
Northern Fish
What is it? A casual walk-up eatery on the Old Town waterfront with fresh daily catches.
Why go? This no-frills eatery is popular for hearty clam chowder, halibut fish and chips, and smoked salmon. Seating is available at picnic tables outside, offering waterfront views. Inside, visit the fresh fish counter for regional shellfish, Copper River salmon, and house-made fish dips. Northern Fish has been family-owned for five generations of fisherman.
Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park
What is it? A waterfront garden with a pavilion donated by Tacoma's sister city Fuzhou, China.
Why go? Explore a dark part of Tacoma's history – and modern-day reconciliation efforts – at this waterfront Chinese garden. Take in gorgeous views of Puget Sound and the surrounding mountain ranges as you stroll through stone sculptures and pathways. Pause to visit the stunning Fuzhou Ting pavilion, donated by the city of Fuzhou. Tacoma Moon Festival is held here annually with free admission.
Bluebeard Coffee Roasters
What is it? An independent coffee roaster and café housed in a restored building in the North End.
Why go? Tacoma's 6th Avenue is a bustling hub of business by day, and eateries and nightlife by night. Bluebeard Coffee operates out of a revitalized brick building that's known for its warm community vibe. The large airy space is often packed with college kids and locals lounging with books. Sample cuppings are available while you watch the roaster at work.
America's Car Museum
What is it? One of the top auto museums in the world, with rotating exhibits and special events.
Why go? Take a walk through more than 100 years of automobile history. Get close-up views of Ford Model Ts, classic muscle cars, and so much more with hundreds of vehicles on display. Many of the cars on exhibit were donated by the family of local entrepreneur Harold LeMay, known for owning one of the largest private car collections in the world.
WW Seymour Botanical Conservatory
What is it? A historic glass conservatory with hundreds of regional and tropical flowers and plants, located in Wright Park.
Why go? Open since 1908, this Victorian-style conservatory, with its 12-sided dome, is made of more than 3,000 panes of glass. Explore the flora collection, sign up for mindfulness and meditation workshops, or enjoy the monthly concert series featuring acoustic musicians.
Fort Nisqually Living History Museum
What is it? A National Historic Landmark and interactive museum preserving a nineteenth-century trading post.
Why go? See what life was like here in the 1850s, before Washington became a state, at the Hudson's Bay Company fur-trading and farm post. Some of the buildings are the oldest standing structures in Puget Sound. Staff and volunteers dressed in period clothing demonstrate blacksmithing, sewing, and basket-making.
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Top fossils discoveries of 2018.
Ingentia prima outcropping from the soil.
Paraphrasing Dickens, 2018 was the best of years, and it was the worst of years. Marked by extreme weather, earthquakes, and an intense volcanic activity, 2018 is also noted by amazing fossil discoveries. My top list include:
The oldest Archaeopteryx
Articulated dorsal vertebral column of the new Archaeopteryx, including dorsal ribs and gastralia. Scale bar is 10 mm. (From Rauhut et al., 2018)
The Archaeopteryx story began in the summer of 1861, two years after the publication of the first edition of Darwin's Origin of Species, when workers in a limestone quarry in Germany discovered the impression of a single 145-million-year-old feather. Over the years, eleven Archaeopteryx specimens has being recovered. The new specimen from the village of Schamhaupten, east-central Bavaria is the oldest representative of the genus (earliest Tithonian). The shoulder girdles and arms, as well as the skull have been slightly dislocated from their original positions, but the forelimbs remain in articulation. The skull is triangular in lateral outline and has approximately 56 mm long. The orbit is the largest cranial opening (approximately 16 mm long), and the lateral temporal fenestra is collapsed. There are probably four tooth positions in the premaxilla, nine in the maxilla and 13 in the dentary. The postcranial skeleton was affected by breakage and loss of elements prior to or at the time of discovery.
Tratayenia rosalesi
Fossilized vertebrae and right hip bone of Tratayenia rosalesi. From Porfiri et al., 2018
Patagonia has yielded the most comprehensive fossil record of Cretaceous theropods from Gondwana, including Megaraptora, a clade of medium-sized and highly pneumatized theropods represented by Fukuiraptor, Aerosteon, Australovenator, Megaraptor, Murusraptor, and Orkoraptor, and characterized by the formidable development of their manual claws on digits I and II and the transversely compressed and ventrally sharp ungual of the first manual digit. Tratayenia rosalesi is the first megaraptoran theropod described from the Santonian Bajo de la Carpa Formation of the Neuquén Group. The genus name is for Tratayén, the locality where the holotype was collected. The specific name honors Diego Rosales, who discovered the specimen in 2006. Tratayenia is also the largest carnivorous taxon known from Bajo de la Carpa Formation, reinforcing the hypothesis that megaraptorids were apex predators in South America from the Turonian through the Santonian or early Campanian, following the extinction of carcharodontosaurids.
Lingwulong shenqi
Skeletal reconstruction and exemplar skeletal remains of Lingwulong shenqi. Scale bars = 100 cm for a and 5 cm for b–o. From Xi et al., 2018
Sauropods were the largest terrestrial vertebrates. Their morphology is easy recognizable: a long, slender neck and a tail at the end of a large body supported by four columnar limbs. Sauropods dominated many Jurassic and Cretaceous terrestrial faunas. Although they were globally distributed, the absence of Diplodocoidea from East Asia has been interpreted as a biogeographic pattern caused by the Mesozoic fragmentation of Pangea. Lingwulong shenqi — literally the "amazing dragon from Lingwu" — is the first well-preserved confirmed diplodocoid from East Asia (23 synapomorphies support the placement of Lingwulong within Diplodocoidea with 10 of these being unequivocal). The holotype, (LM) V001a, is a partial skull comprising the braincase, skull roof, and occiput, and an associated set of dentary teeth. The paratype, (LGP) V001b, comprises a semi-articulated partial skeleton including a series of posterior dorsal vertebrae, complete sacrum, the first caudal vertebra, partial pelvis, and incomplete right hind limb. The Lingwulong specimens were found in the Yanan Formation at Ciyaopu, in northwest China. The presence of a conchostracans assemblage (including Palaeoleptoestheria, Triglypta, and Euestheria) is indicative of a Middle Jurassic age. The discovery of Lingwulong undermines the EAIH (East Asian Isolation Hypothesis), forcing a significant revision of hypotheses concerning the origins and early radiation of Neosauropoda.
Ingentia prima
Skeletal anatomy of Ingentia prima (From Apaldetti et al., 2018)
Ingentia prima — literally the "first giant" in Latin — from the Late Triassic of Argentina shed new lights on the origin of gigantism in this group. The holotype, PVSJ 1086, composed of six articulated posterior cervical vertebrae, glenoid region of right scapula and right forelimb lacking all phalanges, has been recovered from the southern outcrops of the Quebrada del Barro Formation, northwestern Argentina. Discovered in 2015 by Diego Abelín and a team led by Cecilia Apaldetti of CONICET-Universidad Nacional de San Juan, Argentina, this new fossil weighed up to 11 tons and measured up to 32 feet (10 meters) long. Ingentia was unearthed with three new specimens of Lessemsaurus sauropoides. The four dinosaurs belongs to the clade Lessemsauridae, that differs from all other Sauropodomorpha dinosaurs in possessing robust scapulae with dorsal and ventral ends equally expanded; slit-shaped neural canal of posterior dorsal vertebrae; anterior dorsal neural spines transversely expanded towards the dorsal end; a minimum transverse shaft width of the first metacarpal greater than twice the minimum transverse shaft of the second metacarpal; and bone growth characterized by the presence of thick zones of highly vascularized fibrolamellar bone, within a cyclical growth pattern.
Caelestiventus hanseni
A 3D printed model of the C. hanseni skull discovered in Utah
Caelestiventus hanseni, from the Upper Triassic of North America, is the oldest pterosaur ever discovered, and it predates all known desert pterosaurs by more than65 million years. The holotype, BYU 20707, includes the left maxilla fused with the jugal, the right maxilla, the right nasal, the fused frontoparietals, the right and left mandibular rami, the right terminal wing phalanx and three fragments of indeterminate bones. The maxilla, jugal, frontoparietal, and mandibular rami of the specimen are pneumatic. The unfused skull and mandibular elements suggest that BYU 20707 was skeletally immature or had indeterminate growth. Based on the relationship between the length of the terminal wing phalanges and wing span in other non-pterodactyloid pterosaurs the new taxon would have a wing span greater than 1.5 m. The significance of C. hanseni lies in its exceptional state of preservation, and its close phylogenetic relationship with Dimorphodon macronyx, indicating that dimorphodontids originated by the Late Triassic and survived the end-Triassic extinction event.
Macrocollum itaquii
Skull of Macrocollum itaquii (From Müller et al 2018)
Macrocollum itaquii is the oldest long-necked dinosaur known. Discovered in 2012, from rocks belonging to the upper part of the Candelaria Sequence constrained as about 225 Ma, the three individuals described as M. itaquii are relatively well preserved. The holotype specimen (CAPPA/UFSM 0001a) consists of an almost complete and articulated skeleton. The two paratype specimens (CAPPA/UFSM 0001b and CAPPA/UFSM 0001c) are both articulated skeletons with one missing a skull and its cervical series. The clustered preservation of the three skeletons also represents the oldest evidence of gregarious behaviour in sauropodomorphs, a pattern seen in other Triassic associations, such as the 'Plateosaurus bonebed' from Central Europe, and the Mussaurus remains from the Laguna Colorada Formation, Argentina. M. itaquii was only 3.5 meters long and weighed about 101.6 kilograms. In contrast to most Carnian members of the group, the teeth of M. itaquii and other Norian taxa are fully adapted to an omnivore/herbivore diet. The neck elongation may also have provided a competitive advantage for gathering food resources, allowing members of the group to reach higher vegetation. The modifications of the hindlimb of M. itaquii could be related to the progressive loss of cursorial habits.
Soft-tissue evidence in a Jurassic ichthyosaur.
Stenopterygius specimen from the Holzmaden quarry. Credit: Johan Lindgren
During the Norian, the evolution of ichthyosaurs took a major turn, with the appearance of the clade Parvipelvia (ichthyosaurs with a small pelvic girdle). They were notably similar in appearance to extant pelagic cruisers such as odontocete whales. An exquisitely fossilized parvipelvian Stenopterygius from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of the Holzmaden quarry in southern Germany, indicates that their resemblance with dolphin and whales is more than skin deep. The specimen (MH 432; Urweltmuseum Hauff, Holzmaden, Germany) reveals endogenous cellular, sub-cellular and biomolecular constituents within relict skin and subcutaneous tissue. The external surface of the body is smooth, and was presumably comparable in life to the skin of extant cetaceans. The histological and microscopic examination of the fossil, evinced a multi-layered subsurface architecture. The approximately 100-μm-thick epidermis retains cell-like structures that are likely to represent preserved melanophores. The subcutaneous layer is over 500 μm thick, and comprises a glossy black material superimposed over a fibrous mat. The anatomical localization, chemical composition and fabric of the subcutaneous material is interpreted as fossilized blubber, a hallmark of warm-blooded marine amniotes.
Pterosaurs and feathers
Type 3 filaments (arrows) and similar structures (triangles). Scale bars: 10 mm in a, c and d; 1 mm in b. From Yang et al., 2018
Feathers were once considered to be unique avialan structures. Recent studies indicated that non avian dinosaurs, as part of Archosauria, possessed the entirety of the known non keratin protein-coding toolkit for making feathers. Primitive theropods, such as Sinosauropteryx and the tyrannosaurs Dilong and Yutyrannus, and some plant-eating ornithischian dinosaurs, such as Tianyulong and Kulindadromeus, are known from their spectacularly preserved fossils covered in simple, hair-like filaments called 'protofeathers'. Other integumentary filaments, termed pycnofibres, has been reported in several pterosaur specimens, but there is still a substantial disagreement regarding their interpretation. J. Yang and colleagues described two specimens of short-tailed pterosaurs (NJU–57003 and CAGS–Z070) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota, in northeast China (around 165-160 million years ago) with preserved structural fibres (actinofibrils) and four different types of pycnofibres. The specimens resemble Jeholopterus and Dendrorhynchoides, but they are relatively small. Pterosaurs were winged cousins of the dinosaurs and lived from around 200 million years ago to 66 million years ago. In the early 1800's, a fuzzy integument was first reported from the holotype of Scaphognathus crassirostris. A recent study on this specimen shows a subset of pycnofibers and actinofibrils. The discovery of integumentary structures in other pterosaurs, such as Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi(another rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur), and these exquisitely preserved pterosaurs from China, suggest that all Avemetatarsalia (the wide clade that includes dinosaurs, pterosaurs and close relatives) were ancestrally feathered.
Rauhut OWM, Foth C, Tischlinger H. (2018) The oldest Archaeopteryx (Theropoda: Avialiae): a new specimen from the Kimmeridgian/Tithonian boundary of Schamhaupten, Bavaria. PeerJ 6:e4191 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4191
Porfiri, J.D., Juárez Valieri, Rubé.D., Santos, D.D.D., Lamanna, M.C., A new megaraptoran theropod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa Formation of northwestern Patagonia, Cretaceous Research (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.014.
Xing Xu, Paul Upchurch, Philip D. Mannion, Paul M. Barrett, Omar R. Regalado-Fernandez, Jinyou Mo, Jinfu Ma and Hongan Liu. 2018. A New Middle Jurassic Diplodocoid Suggests An Earlier Dispersal and Diversification of Sauropod Dinosaurs. Nature Communications.9, 2700. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05128-1
Cecilia Apaldetti, Ricardo N. Martínez, Ignacio A. Cerda, Diego Pol and Oscar Alcober (2018). An early trend towards gigantism in Triassic sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0599-y
Brooks B. Britt et al. Caelestiventus hanseni gen. et sp. nov. extends the desert-dwelling pterosaur record back 65 million years, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0627-y
Müller RT, Langer MC, Dias-da-Silva S. 2018, An exceptionally preserved association of complete dinosaur skeletons reveals the oldest long-necked sauropodomorphs. Biol. Lett. 14: 20180633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0633
Lindgren, J., Sjövall, P., Thiel, V., Zheng, W., Ito, S., Wakamatsu, K., … Schweitzer, M. H. (2018). Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0775-x
Yang Z. et al., 2018. Pterosaur integumentary structure with complex feather-like branching. Nature Ecology and Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0728-7
On Pterosaurs and feathers.
Reconstruction of one of the studied anurognathid pterosaurs. Credit: Yuan Zhang/Nature Ecology & Evolution.
Feathers were once considered to be unique avialan structures. Recent studies indicated that non avian dinosaurs, as part of Archosauria, possessed the entirety of the known non keratin protein-coding toolkit for making feathers. Primitive theropods, such as Sinosauropteryx and the tyrannosaurs Dilong and Yutyrannus, and some plant-eating ornithischian dinosaurs, such as Tianyulong and Kulindadromeus, are known from their spectacularly preserved fossils covered in simple, hair-like filaments called 'protofeathers'.
Other integumentary filaments, termed pycnofibres, has been reported in several pterosaur specimens, but there is still a substantial disagreement regarding their interpretation. J. Yang and colleagues described two specimens of short-tailed pterosaurs (NJU–57003 and CAGS–Z070) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Yanliao Biota, in northeast China (around 165-160 million years ago) with preserved structural fibres (actinofibrils) and four different types of pycnofibres. The specimens resemble Jeholopterus and Dendrorhynchoides, but they are relatively small.
Drawing of of (a) NJU–57003 and (b) CAGS–Z070 with skeletal element identification, outline of
preserved integument, and distribution of the four types of pycnofibres. From Yang et al., 2018.
Types 1 and 4 of pycnofibres occur in both specimens, but types 2 and 3 occur only in CAGS–Z070. This may reflect original biological differences or differences in the taphonomy of the two specimens. The pterosaur type 1 filaments resemble monofilaments in the ornithischian dinosaurs Tianyulong and Psittacosaurus and the coelurosaur Beipiaosaurus. The pterosaur type 2 filaments resemble the brush-like bundles of filaments in the coelurosaurs Epidexipteryx and Yi. Type 3 filaments resemble bristles in modern birds, but surprisingly do not correspond to any reported morphotype in non-avian dinosaurs. The pterosaur type 4 filaments are identical to the radially branched, downy feather-like morphotype found widely in coelurosaurs such as Caudipteryx and Dilong. Functions of these structures could include insulation, tactile sensing, streamlining and colouration (primarily for camouflage and signalling), as for bristles, down feathers and mammalian hairs.
Pterosaurs were winged cousins of the dinosaurs and lived from around 200 million years ago to 66 million years ago. In the early 1800's, a fuzzy integument was first reported from the holotype of Scaphognathus crassirostris. A recent study on this specimen shows a subset of pycnofibers and actinofibrils. The discovery of integumentary structures in other pterosaurs, such as Pterorhynchus wellnhoferi (another rhamphorhynchoid pterosaur), and these exquisitely preserved pterosaurs from China, suggest that all Avemetatarsalia (the wide clade that includes dinosaurs, pterosaurs and close relatives) were ancestrally feathered.
Barrett PM, Evans DC, Campione NE. 2015 Evolution of dinosaur epidermal structures. Biol. Lett. 11: 20150229. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0229
Kai R.K. Jäger, Helmut Tischlinger, Georg Oleschinski, and P. Martin Sander, Goldfuß was right: Soft part preservation in the Late Jurassic pterosaur Scaphognathus crassirostris revealed by reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) and UV light and the auspicious beginnings of paleo-art, https://doi.org/10.26879/713
Craig B. Lowe, Julia A. Clarke, Allan J. Baker, David Haussler and Scott V. Edwards, Feather Development Genes and Associated Regulatory Innovation Predate the Origin of Dinosauria, Mol Biol Evol (2015) 32 (1): 23-28. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu309
Plesiosaurus battling Temnodontosaurus (Oligostinus), front piece the Book of the Great Sea-Dragons by Thomas Hawkins.
In 1811, in Lyme Regis, one of the richest fossil locations in England and part of a geological formation known as the Blue Lias, Mary Anning and her brother Joseph unearthed the skull of an enigmatic 'sea monster'. A year later, Mary uncovered the torso of the same specimen. The Annings sold the fossil to the Lord of the Manor of Colway, Mr. Henry Henley, for £23. The specimen was described by Sir Everard Home in 1814. Although no name was proposed for the fossil, Home concluded that it represented a transitional form between fish and crocodiles. Later, in 1819, the skeleton was purchased by Karl Dietrich Eberhard Koenig of the British Museum of London who suggested the name Ichthyosaur ("fish lizard") in 1817.
Ichthyosaurs are extinct marine reptiles that first diversified near the end of the Early Triassic and remained one of the main predators in the Mesozoic ocean until their disappearance near the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, 30 million years before the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. They had the largest eyes of all vertebrates, sometimes exceeding 25 cm in maximum diameter. They also have one of the earliest records of live-birth in amniotes.
Stephen Jay Gould said that the ichthyosaur was his favourite example of convergent evolution: "Consider my candidate for the most astounding convergence of all: the ichthyosaur. This sea-going reptile with terrestrial ancestors converged so strongly on fishes that it actually evolved a dorsal fin and tail in just the right place and with just the right hydrological design. These structures are all the more remarkable because they evolved from nothing— the ancestral terrestrial reptile had no hump on its back or blade on its tail to serve as a precursor."
During the Norian, the evolution of ichthyosaurs took a major turn, with the appearance of the clade Parvipelvia (ichthyosaurs with a small pelvic girdle). They were notably similar in appearance to extant pelagic cruisers such as odontocete whales. An exquisitely fossilized parvipelvian Stenopterygius from the Early Jurassic (Toarcian) of the Holzmaden quarry in southern Germany, indicates that their resemblance with dolphin and whales is more than skin deep.
Structure and chemistry of MH 432 blubber. From Lindgren et. al. 2018.
The specimen (MH 432; Urweltmuseum Hauff, Holzmaden, Germany) reveals endogenous cellular, sub-cellular and biomolecular constituents within relict skin and subcutaneous tissue. The external surface of the body is smooth, and was presumably comparable in life to the skin of extant cetaceans. The histological and microscopic examination of the fossil, evinced a multi-layered subsurface architecture. The approximately 100-μm-thick epidermis retains cell-like structures that are likely to represent preserved melanophores. The subcutaneous layer is over 500 μm thick, and comprises a glossy black material superimposed over a fibrous mat. The anatomical localization, chemical composition and fabric of the subcutaneous material is interpreted as fossilized blubber, a hallmark of warm-blooded marine amniotes.
Motani, R. (2005). EVOLUTION OF FISH-SHAPED REPTILES (REPTILIA: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA) IN THEIR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 33(1), 395–420. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.1227


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Depart Nairobi/Kigali by Rwandair Express or Kenya Airways. Meet and greet by Peaks of Africa representative. Afternoon city tour including genocide memorial. Overnight at Novotel Umubano Hotel.
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Nashville, TN–I.C.E. Workshop is taking place on Friday January 18th at the Holiday Inn Express Hotel and Suites 2641 McGavock Pike Nashville, TN 37214. The I.C.E. Workshop is for anyone involved in the independent music scene who wants to learn more about the ever-changing music industry. Registration will begin at 8:30 AM and classes will begin at 9AM–5:30PM; the cost is $75 per person cash or money order (please make money order out to Jason Hollis c/o Life-Line Worldwide). This is the second year of the I.C.E. (Independent Christian Entertainment) Workshop classes in Nashville, TN and will also be in it's second year in Atlanta, GA during GMA Dove Week in the spring of 2013. The purpose for the I.C.E. Workshop is to inform independent artists and record labels how to prepare and gain important information about the music industry from both the Christian and Mainstream marketplaces. The I.C.E. Workshop is open to any artists and record labels in Hip Hop, Gospel, Rock, Praise & Worship, or any other genre of music and will be hosted and led by the founders of Infinity Music Distribution, Rick Greene and Jason Hollis .
Rick Greene started working in radio broadcasting on various station formats from Mainstream Talk radio, Top 40, and Christian radio. In the 90's Rick created a program called Planet Rock Radio in Los Angeles, California that helped launch the careers of several local and national Christian artists. During this period he started a very successful nightclub called The Flip Side which had weekly concerts by local and national touring acts in Christian rock, hip hop, and dance artists. Through connections that Rick had made in the music industry led him to a job in distribution sales with Diamante Music Distribution as well as various other companies which have given him over a decade of experience in music distribution.
Jason Hollis has worked in the music and entertainment industry, having served in various capacities for over two decades. He has played with various artists and bands as a touring and recording session musician from the 1980's to the present in both CCM and Mainstream markets. He also has worked in film, video production, television, radio broadcasting, record labels, radio promotions, marketing, booking, as well as national print media magazines such as Billboard Directories and Musician Magazine. Jason has worked in music distribution for over a decade with EMICMG, Diamante Media Group, and various other companies. Over the last 15 years Jason has been doing A&R work signing artists and labels to distribution and label deals working with everyone from Reach Records, Facedown Records, CAJO Records, and Lampmode Recordings just to name a few. His own company, Life-Line Worldwide started in 2008 and since the beginning was created to help teach artists and labels how to do business in a Biblical manner as well as give them a place to express their creativity by bringing positive messages through music to a world that is fixated on the hardships of life rather than the hope and peace in Jesus Christ.
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There will be snacks and beverages provided for all attendees and there will be a break for lunch to build relationships. The I.C.E. Workshop will take place the day before the Radio Reach Awards and the Stellar Awards which is in walking distance to the awards and the Opry Mills Mall.
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Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social Philosophy of Richard Rorty
Kuipers, Ronald A. Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social Philosophy of Richard Rorty. Lanham, Md.: Institute for Christian Studies : University Press of America. 1997.
Recommended in the "Guide to Further Reading"
of The Rorty Reader (Wiley Blackwell, 2010)
Find it on: Rowman & Littlefield
In a critical yet sympathetic examination of Richard Rorty's philosophy, the author uses the biblical figure of "The Stranger" to explore some ethical tensions in Rorty's affirmation of a liberal polity. The book begins with an exegesis of Rorty's work in epistemology and metaphilosophy, especially as these subjects are developed in his magnum opus Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. After appreciating Rorty's critique of epistemology-centered analytic philosophy, the book moves to explore Rorty's peculiar appropriation of pragmatism, and his rejection of philosophy as a foundational discipline or "superjudge" of human cultural practice and belief.
...captures the promise and limitations of Rorty's ideas and the convergence and dissonance Kuipers experiences with Rorty's work.
— M. Njeri Jackson, Virginia Commonwealth University; Religious Studies Review
...a suitable study for graduate students and academicians...a rare sympathetic yet critical treatment of Rorty's influential work...especially from a religious perspective, this book is recommended.
— Tobias Winright, Hubert Mäder Chair of Health Care Ethics, Saint Louis University; Religious Studies Review
...a good introduction and primer to Rorty and his social philosophy.
— Gary E. Dann, University of Notre Dame; Religious Studies Review
...a commendable introduction to Rorty's social philosophy, accessible to college students but of sufficient depth for more advanced work.
— Religious Studies Review
Solidarity and the Stranger: Themes in the Social ...


In this episode, Alisha Interviews Tina Firesheets.
Alisha talks to Tina Firesheets about what it's like growing up Asian in Western North Carolina and about starting a new career in your 40's.
Talking to people who love what they do.
What it's like to go from something you've been doing for 20 years to starting over in a new career.
Going from a dream job to starting over in your career from feeling confident to not knowing what to do.


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Madahar Kalu is a village in the Firozpur district of Punjab, India. It is located in the Zira tehsil.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Madahar Kalu has 16 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 70.59%.

References

Villages in Zira tehsil

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


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You had enough, I know. Now that Easter is over, you probably don't want to see eggs for the next 10 year. Not even in a postcard.
It's ok, don't worry. In today's recipe we will only talk about eggs.
To be more precise, avocado stuffed eggs.
Benedicte, omelette, florentine, chocolate surprise eggs.. you might had it all, but you didn't had the best avocado stuffed eggs.
This is an healthier version of deviled eggs. In fact I have used avocado only, no mayo, no cream, no mustard, no cheese. And as everybody will know, eggs and avocado are very good for weight loss. So this can definitely be classified as one of the many healthy avocado recipes.
Unlike butter or lard, avocado is basically fat heaven for your organism.
Though it's good, you should never exced, it's always a fat.
Trust me when I say that these avocado stuffed eggs are going to be the best choice to get back to a healthier and proteic life style.
How to cook avocado stuffed eggs?
The only raccomandation is that you cook the eggs to a hard boiled point.
Should take 12 minutes all together.
Choose only fresh ripe avocado, and mash it as much as possible.
Mash it with a potato masher if you think, I have used a simple fork.
What to make with avocado and eggs?
I have kept it very simple with a basic mixed leaf salad and a fat free chilly mayo dip.
Protein, carbs, vitamin and good fats: they are all in there.
These are great for a rich starter or for tapas selection lunch.
Lets see what you need to make these yummy avocado stuffed eggs.
As you read above, it needs 12 minutes more or less to have hard boiled eggs.
Save time and start with that, meanwhile you' ll prepare the rest of the ingredients.
Cut the avocado in half, take the seed out, and take the pulp out with a spoon.
Put it in a bowl, and mash it up with a fork.
Prepare the spices on your table, so that you have everything there in one place.
By the time you finish with that, the eggs will be ready.
Let them cool down a bit, then peel it.
Cut the eggs in half and separate the yolks from the white bit.
Put the yolks in the avocado bowl. Add all the spices and mix it up.
Fill each egg with a spoon of avocado mash.
Sprinkle some dried parsley on top and serve.
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Antivirus software company Kaspersky is starting a free global rollout of the bare essentials of its famous antivirus software.
Kaspersky wants to offer basic protection like file, email, and web protection, quarantine function, and automatic updates, to web users who can't afford to buy premium protection. Despite the risks of cyber attack, many users are deterred by the high prices of some leading antivirus software and turn to relying on Windows Defender or downloading and installing freebies that are not necessarily secure.
A free version of Kaspersky therefore provides an effective alternative to both.
Kaspersky filed three antitrust cases against Microsoft for apparently promoting its own basic antivirus, Windows Defender over competitors' products on its Windows machines (something that's denied by Microsoft).
With the creation of a free level for its own antivirus, Kaspersky is now on a par with Microsoft's Windows Defender, which is the default antivirus of Windows 10. If users decide to switch, they may well turn to Kaspersky.
Kaspersky antivirus offers paid-for protection with a yearly licence for £24.99. Premium features like virtual private network (VPN), online payment protection, and parental controls, will not be carried over to the free version. This means that the free version will not, in theory, compete directly with Kaspersky's own premium version.
Kaspersky has argued that the move will benefit existing paid users as the company's databases will now have more user data to trawl through and to feed into machine learning algorithms, thus improving the program for all. The free version is also much lighter on system resources but still able to detect any cyber threat.
There was little marketing promotion for the free version but initial trials in Russia and Scandinavia yielded several million new installations.
Despite this success, Kaspersky is reported to still be focused on raising the overall level of protection on the internet and not necessarily increasing its market share.
Ties To The Russian Government?
Recent US investigations have, however, hinted at possible ties between Kaspersky and the Russian government. Kaspersky has denied this. Nevertheless, a proposed bill has made its way through Congress attempting to block the use of any Kaspersky-related products by the US Department of Defence.
Earlier this month, Kaspersky defended itself from accusations when leaked emails said it was working with Russian security forces.
Kaspersky Free has been in development over an 18 month period. Now that it has been trialled and released in Russia, Scandinavia, and China, it will be rolled out worldwide in the coming months, landing in the UK this October.
Kaspersky is widely recognised as being one of the better types of antivirus software programs available, so the chance of getting a more basic, but still good version of it free may be helpful and cost-saving for individuals and small businesses. As well as promoting its brand globally, and picking up some more market share from Microsoft and from businesses that (after trying Kaspersky) switch up to the full version, freely available antivirus software of this calibre could also create a safer online environment.
Some other attractive features of the free version are that it works with USB sticks and other portable storage media, it provides protection against phishing and infected files being run, and, unlike other free antivirus software, it is ad-free.
It is important to remember, however, that cyber criminals now conduct sophisticated, multi-level attacks, and often target weak spots away from the traditional firewall and antivirus perimeter. There is also the near-future threat of AI being used to get around antivirus programs of all kinds (unless they are modified with their own AI manufacturers). Antivirus should, therefore, be considered as just one element in a multi-level defence that businesses now need to be truly protected against known, popular types of cyber attack.


NAMM 2015: Uli Jon Roth stops by the Jim Dunlop booth to surprise Bob Cedro and Bryan Kehoe. He sits down and plays the new pedals from Dunlop Manufacturing. Uli Jon Roth was a member of the German band Scorpions.


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Hulterstads socken på Öland ingick i Möckleby härad, ingår sedan 1971 i Mörbylånga kommun och motsvarar från 2016 Hulterstads distrikt i Kalmar län.

Socknens areal är 53,44 kvadratkilometer allt land. År 2000 fanns här 277 invånare. Kyrkbyn Hulterstad med sockenkyrkan Hulterstads kyrka ligger i socknen.

Administrativ historik
Hulterstads stenkyrka uppfördes på 1100-talet. Under denna kyrka har återfunnits rester efter en stavkyrka från 1000-talet. I skriftliga källor omtalas Hulterstads socken första gången i ett odaterat brev omkring 1320 och ett daterat från 1346.

Hulterstads socken låg fram till omkring 1720 i Hulterstads härad och  överfördes då häradet upplöstes till Möckleby härad. Juridiciellt och administrativt hörde en del av byn Skärlöv till Gräsgårds härad.

1957 överfördes till Segerstads socken ett område med 1 invånare och med en areal av 0,32 kvadratkilometer, varav allt land.

Vid kommunreformen 1862 övergick socknens ansvar för de kyrkliga frågorna till Hulterstads församling och för de borgerliga frågorna till Hulterstads landskommun. Denna senare inkorporerades 1952 i Mörbylånga landskommun och uppgick 1971  i Mörbylånga kommun.  Församlingen uppgick 2002 i Hulterstad-Stenåsa församling.

1 januari 2016 inrättades distriktet Hulterstad, med samma omfattning som församlingen hade 1999/2000.

Socknen har tillhört samma fögderier och domsagor som Möckleby härad. De indelta båtsmännen tillhörde 2:a Ölands båtsmankompani.

Geografi
Hulterstads socken ligger vid östra kusten av Öland. Socknen består av öppen odlingsbygd med alvarmark (stora alvaret) i väster.

Fornminnen
Boplatser från stenåldern, gravrösen från bronsåldern och ett tiotal järnåldersgravfält finns här, liksom en fornborg ,Triberga borg vid Triberga. Flera runristningar är kända vid kyrkan. I havet utanför Hulterstad ligger regalskeppet Kronan.

Namnet
Namnet (1283 Hulterstadhum), taget från kyrkbyn, består av et förled som troligen är ett mansnamn och efterledet stad, ställe.

Se även
Hulterstads församling
Lista över fasta fornminnen i Mörbylånga kommun (Hulterstad)

Referenser

Fotnoter

Vidare läsning
Hembygdsbok för Hulterstad och Stenåsa. Utgiven av Stenåsa-Hulterstads hembygdsförening  libris
Sveriges bebyggelse : statistisk-topografisk beskrivning över Sveriges städer och landsbygd.Landsbygden. Kalmar län, del 4 Hermes 1957 libris

Externa länkar

Indelningar i Mörbylånga kommun
Socknar i Möckleby härad