My second full day at Imlil, Morocco was the day I did a long unicycle ride. My route took me up a mountain pass and into the next valley over, which meant I was finally the only foreigner in sight. Or sometimes even the only person in sight. In the end, my day ended up being a rollercoaster of ups and downs, but I would do it again in a heartbeat.
Authors's note: you can find more pictures from this ride at the Flickr photo journal here. Trail directions and recommendations are at the bottom of this page. Enjoy!
I'd read stories on the internet about the fabled hospitality of the Berber people. These are tough, proud, mountain people who have lived in these harsh surroundings for centuries, herding goats and sheep and growing crops on cleverly irrigated terraces, but apparently they will almost always welcome you into their homes with a cup of tea. When I heard these stories, I thought that everything on my ride would be sunshine and roses. I would ride a lot, find good single-track, get cool pictures, and get to see what life was like in small, mountain Berber villages.
In the end, I didn't find any single-track, I got chastised for trying to take a photo of some women herding goats, and I didn't get to have any tea. That being said, I had a good day and I saw some cool things and learned a lot about riding in the Atlas Mountains. So let me tell you about it.
The route I chose followed paved or gravel roads up the Tamatert pass and into the valley that neighbors Imlil's valley. The ascent up the pass is pretty rideable, but I hiked it because I'm out of shape and wanted to save my legs for my brakeless descent on the other side. (I've been procrastinating on bleeding my brake for about 4 months now.) You pass a few villages going up, but then it's blissful solitude until you top out the pass into the other valley.
View as the road tops out into the valley directly to the east of Imlil.At the top of the pass, a dirt road forks off to the left and descends in switchbacks down to a Berber village on the west side of the valley. Instead, I followed the road to the right, which leads to the village of Tizi N'Tacheddirt. From this highest point to the village of El Bour, which is a distance of about 25 kilometers, it's pretty much downhill all the way. Obviously, my quads loved this.
I have no idea why they are here, or how long they have been here. But that's a normal thing in Morocco, I think.
I never found the name of this village, which is a small village just downhill from Tizi n'Tacheddirt.
Hey look. It's a picture of my unicycle leaning against something.
You could easily spot the schools due to the bright-colored paint, which stood out so much from the winter-brown surroundings.
It was when I came into my first village in the other valley that I realized that things might not be as idyllic as I'd have hoped. Just before I took that picture of the school, I came across two women ushering a herd of goats down the road. The light was great, and their brightly colored pastel clothing would have made for a great contrast with the neutral goats and wintry surroundings. As soon as I pulled out my phone, however, the lead woman frowned at me and wagged a menacing finger in the air. "No, no" she said, eyebrows low. Chastised, I put my phone away.
I asked my friend Mohamed about this later that evening. It wasn't just women, because some boys did the exact same thing to me later in the day. Why did they not like pictures? The answer, it seems, is that they don't like their pictures being put on the internet, on places like Facebook. Mohamed noted that it was worse with the women, because when his family would get together to take pictures his older female relatives refused to take them. Perhaps it's something to do with modesty and privacy, they don't like the idea of strangers on the internet seeing their likeness. And, honestly? I can kind of respect that.
This guy didn't mind me taking his photo.
Since I couldn't photograph the women from the front, I snuck this one from a girl from behind. If it doesn't show her face, it's probably okay, yeah?
Something else that I'd unknowingly assumed was that people would stop seeing me and thinking "Oh! A foreigner! Let's beg something off of them!". Obviously in the cities and towns like Marrakech and Imlil I expected to be hassled by street-sellers. It's part and parcel of the tourist gig. But when women came across me eating lunch and asked for my bread, which I gave, and then didn't express any thanks but instead just asked for "bon bons", I realized that the world is not always so nice. I started to question myself when I saw children – did they want to see the unicycle, or where they there to beg me for dirhams or chocolate?
Next to a waterfall and looking out over the terraces.
I have to admit that I let this get to me a little more than I should have. I started to speed up when I came to villages, and I was uncomfortable until I'd ridden through and was out on the open road again. And honestly, this is probably why I never got to have any tea! Every time I came to a village I just wanted to speed through it so no one would ask me for stuff. Ah, well.
Regardless, once I adjusted my expectations and settled into the ride, it was pretty fun. I never did find the single-track that I heard about from Freeride Morocco, but I think that's because they ride the goat tracks down below the villages, which I didn't feel comfortable doing. So I stuck on the road, and just put the miles behind me.
I think my favorite thing of the Atlas Mountains was the many irrigation channels that fed water from the snowmelt creeks to the many, many crop terraces that lined the walls of the rocky valleys.
I didn't catch the name of this village either, but it had a really cool vibe. The buildings were built almost a level above the road and practically on top of one another, so when you rode through it felt like you were being swallowed.
It seems the women take the family cows out to the river to drink.
The color of the earth in this brief section reminded me heavily of Moab.
When I finally reached the village of El Bour, it was time to find the trail to cross over the hills and back to Imlil's valley. Of course, I couldn't find it. So me and my exhausted legs wandered blindly up a hillside and then bushwhacked down the steep slope on the other side. Unfortunately, the hillside ended in a small cliff, so I had to traverse sideways and came out onto some terraces with cherry trees. I then wandered through the cherry trees, trying to find my way down as quickly as possible (thunder was echoing off the mountains) but also trying not to damage the trees. In the end, I found myself practically inside some poor lady's house, and I had to apologize and ask for directions down to Imi Oughlad. But I made it!
The last part of the trail required crossing from the east valley back to the valley with Imlil. Theoretically, there was a trail somewhere, but I couldn't find it. I ended up bushwhacking down a steep hillside into terraces and then a lady's backyard. Whoops.
Once at Imi Oughlad, my plan was to take a taxi back to Imlil, but I caught a ride in a van with three guys heading in that direction. They dropped me off about a kilometer or two outside of Imlil, and I reluctantly trudged/rode my way back to Imlil. But I found my new friend Mohamed in Snack Imlil, so I was able to eat a good meal and enjoy the happy atmosphere of the fun-loving locals.
When I finally made it back to Imlil, I headed to Snack Imlil to have a big dinner and hang out with my new friend Mohamed. It's not a particularly amazing cafe, but I really loved it because Mohamed and his friends use it as a hang-out place, so there was always people coming and going and greetings and jokes and laughter. It was a perfect way to end my ride.
What I thought was Imlil, and what you see here, is actually three or four different villages. According to Mohamed, the fields in the center of the village didn't used to be there, but there was a flood that destroyed the houses in the 90s and the buildings were never rebuilt.
From the center of Imlil, cross the bridge west and follow the road up Tamatert pass.
Once at the top, keep following the road to the right.
After about two kilometers, the road does a hairpin right turn or there is a dirt track that goes straight. I took the dirt track on the advice of a Berber shopkeeper.
Follow this road down the valley for kilometers and kilometers. You will pass through several villages.
Once you reach El Bour (a GPS device is recommended, otherwise this is a grey village that the road winds through for a good few hundred meters), look uphill for the track to Imi Oughlad. I hope you find it. I didn't.
From Imi Oughlad, catch a taxi back to Imlil or ride back on the road. Or stay in the gite at Imi Oughled. There are many options!
Download offline Google map and use your GPS to check where you are. Nothing is labeled.
When descending after Tizi N'Tacheddirt, there were often goat tracks and other paths down below the road. This could be the single-track that Freeride Morocco talks about.
Be prepared for people not to want you to take their picture.
Children may ask for dirhams or chocolates. Mohamed says it's better not to give them any.
If you stop and rest in a village, perhaps they will invite you for tea.
You should probably get GPS coordinates for the track from El Bour to Imi Oughlad. Doing what I did for that section is not ideal.


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The Lyminge Project Conference
Posted on May 15, 2015 by Alexandra
It's been a little quiet here recently on the Lyminge blog, mainly because the team have been hard at work organising a conference! As a result, there are lots of things that have been happening at Lyminge Project HQ to catch up with, so there will be a couple of blog posts to cover all the exciting developments.
The view of Canterbury Cathedral from the University of Kent campus, where the Lyminge Project conference was held
On 24th April 1oo delegates and speakers decended on the University of Kent, Canterbury, for the long-planned end-of-project conference entitled 'Early Medieval Monasticism in the North Sea Zone'. The weather was fine and we were all looking forward to a weekend of excellent discussion on the origins and development of monasticism in Northern Europe, with particular reference to the new information gathered from the Lyminge excavations over the past 8 years. The whole project team were excited to hear other academics' perspectives on Lyminge and comparisons to settlements across the British Isles and further afield.
We began the conference weekend with an optional trip to Lyminge on the Friday afternoon, led by Gabor Thomas, our project director. Gabor took around 40 delegates to the village, showing them the areas that have been excavated since 2008, as well as around the church and churchyard, introducing the tour group to Canon Jenkins' 19th century investigations.
Delegates to the conference were taken on a tour of Lyminge, here learning about the St Mary and St Ethelburga's Church from Gabor Thomas. Photo by Carolyn Twomey.
Following the field trip was the keynote address by Professor John Blair on 'Great Hall complexes and minsters in seventh-century England'. John drew together material from his research over the last few years, investigating the planning of Great Hall complexes and their frequent links with nearby Minster sites, putting Lyminge securely into context as both a site that fits this pattern and one that might even have been laid out on a grid system based on 'short perches' of about 15 feet.
Professor John Blair gives the keynote address
John's lecture got us all thinking about the landscapes in which Saxon monasteries and minsters were founded, particularly what kind of historical environment they emerged from. The wine reception that followed was enjoyed very much by all!
Gabor begins the full Saturday of talks with a paper on Lyminge, setting the scene for the conference
We invited speakers who we thought could particularly enlighten the conference topic, and they did not disappoint. In fact, the papers that were given proved to be incredibly cohesive, building a really interesting picture of the state of understanding of Early Medieval monasticism in academia today. Gabor kicked off on the Saturday morning offering a background to the excavations we have undertaken at Lyminge and a context for all the papers that followed that day and the next.
The papers that followed formed the first session, entitled 'Power and Place' were given by Professor Ian Wood of the University of Leeds and Professor Barbara Yorke of the University of Winchester, Professor Dries Tys of Brussels University, and Dr John-Henry Clay of Durham University, setting Early Medieval monasticism into its historical context. If you would like detailed titles and abstracts for any of the papers given at the conference, these are still available to download from the Conference 2015 tab on the main website.
(clockwise from left) Prof. Ian Wood, Prof. Barbara Yorke and Prof. Dries Tys speak in the 'Power and Place' session.
Some of the most important points to come out of Ian and Barbara's papers were the difficulties we have in understanding and identifying 'double monasteries' or indeed the existence of nunneries in England prior to the 8th century, very important points considering Lyminge has been understood to be an early double monastery headed by an abbess (generally thought of as a monastery with nuns and possibly monks or priests to serve the predominently female institution).
Dr John-Henry Clay speaks to the conference delegates on Saint Boniface's mission in 8th centry Germany
Dries and John focused on monastic evidence in Northern Europe, with Dries putting Lyminge into context with the archaeological evidence in the Frankish lowlands, and John showing the impact the Angl0-Saxon missions in the 8th century had on central Germany, examining St Boniface's pastoral strategy and its similarity to practices in Anglo-Saxon England.
The afternoon session on 'Architecture and Layout' was a jam packed one! We squeezed in five papers and began with Dame Prof. Rosemary Cramp drawing together our knowledge of monasteries gathered over the last forty years, and establishing where it leaves us today. This overview was a brilliant summation both of the work that Rosemary and many other archaeologists have achieved over the years and of those questions that as yet remain unanswered, with a particular focus on access ways and points of entry as a possible new approach to understanding pre-10th century monasteries.
Dame Prof. Rosemary Cramp summarises the past forty years of Early Medieval monastic archaeology
The spectacular site of Marmoutier, Tours, France, a settlement and monastery that dates from between the 4th – 14th centuries AD. (Photo: http://www.archearegioncentre.org/Marmoutier.html)
Prof. Elisabeth Lorans provided a view of a completely contrasting monastery from France, (for a time contemporary with Lyminge) summarising excavations at Marmoutier, Tours, where the monastic site sits spectacularly on a cliff edge!
While the archaeology couldn't be more different to our excavations of timber buildings cut into chalk downland, the fact that the topography influenced the development of the site at Marmoutier is an important comparison to the use of the landscape at Lyminge,
Prof. Elisabeth Lorans introduces us to the monastic site at Marmoutier, Tours, France
with the monastic settlement placed up-slope, perhaps a symbolic separation from the royal vill location, making use of the higher ground for higher impact.
Further case studies followed Elisabeth's paper, with the Irish perspective from Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin of University College Cork, talking about the fascinating site of Toureen Peakaun, County Tipperary, founded by Beccán in the 7th century. The site has a high quantity of early sculpture and carving, something entirely absent from Lyminge, and the archaeology includes a large earthwork encircling an area of 7th-8th century activity, with the organising of space a key feature at Toureen Peakaun.
The 'restored' 12th Century church at Taureen Peakaun (Photo: http://www.megalithicmonumentsofireland.com/ANTIQUITIES_of_IRELAND/ABBEYS/SaintPeakauns_Church.html)
Dr David Petts (Durham University) gave us a brilliant reflection on the state of understanding of Northumbrian monasteries, particularly thinking about the way in which they were laid out – again pointing to the difficulties in understanding layout when excavations are often so 'key-hole', but showing that the use of topographic features and landscapes in the division or organisation of space within these sites is a common one.
Dr Tomás Ó Carraggáin and Dr David Petts present their research
The afternoon's session finished with a fantastic paper from Tony Wilmott of Historic England, who has been excavating at Whitby Abbey over a number of years. He explained how much of the very earliest phases of the abbey has potentially been lost to the sea, but that evidence for domestic areas, glass-working and the potential organisation of space with a possible boundary ditch is bringing a much greater understanding of Whitby Abbey and its early monastic origins.
Tony's enthusiasm for the site at Whitby left the delegates excited about the range and types of early medieval monastic settlements and the potential for a far greater understanding of monasteries of the period with more open area archaeology. His passion for the discoveries at Whitby are summed up in the following image taken by delegate Caroyln Twomey!
Tony Wilmott of Historic England shows his enthusiasm for the archaeology of Whitby Abbey! (Photo by Carolyn Twomey)
We were especially pleased at the range of attendees at the conference. While we managed to attract some big names in the world of Anglo-Saxon archaeology and history, we were equally pleased to have members of the Lyminge Historical Society and some of our local volunteers on the project, as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students, and archaeologists who work in the commercial sector too.
Sunday morning saw the panel discussion address the new research questions on monastic archaeology. L-R Dr Helen Gittos, Dr Gabor Thomas, Prof. John Blair, Prof. Barbara Yorke, Dr Tomás Ó Carragáin.
This range of delegates made for really excellent discussion in the panel session on Sunday morning. Dr Helen Gittos (University of Kent) led the discussions, and slightly panicked the audience by asking us all to move into groups! She asked us to talk about what sort of questions we should be asking regarding Early Medieval monasticism, and how we should seek to answer these questions. Of course, once discussion had got under way everyone had a lot to say, so the initial panic was unjustified!
L-R Prof. Barbara Yorke, Dr Tomas O Carragain, Prof. Elisabeth Lorans and Dame Prof. Rosemary Cramp
Drawing the responses together and putting them to the panel made for a really interesting and enjoyable morning, and many delegates commented afterwards that it was wonderful to be able to engage rather than just passively listen to the panel discuss the topics at hand.
It also meant that a highly informed, stimulated and attentive audience awaited the final session of the conference, 'Monasteries as economic central places', which focused on resources and production in early medieval monasteries. Dr Justine Bayley examined the evidence for the production of metalwork and glass in monasteries, comparing it to the evidence from other non-monastic settlement sites in order to understand the types of production taking place in these different site types.
(Anti-clockwise from top) Dr Justine Bayley, Dr Mark McKerracher and Zoe Knapp deliver papers on production and consumption in early medieval monasteries
Dr Mark McKerracher was able to focus in on the environmental evidence from the monastic phase at Lyminge, combining the samples he had analysed from Lyminge with his doctoral research, and showing us that the agricultural strategies employed at Lyminge were a combination of both tailoring their crops to the soil type and 'hedging bets' with a range of crops. Mark showed that it is possible that monastic settlements and 'high-status' sites might share similar archaebotanical 'signatures', and emphasised how rich the samples from Lyminge are compared with other sites.
Lyminge's quite unique pre-Christian zoorchaeological assemblage compared to other sites of a similar date (click to enlarge)
The Monastic phase animal bone assemblage, with proportions of cattle, sheep/goat and pig – completely different to the pre-Christian phase. Click to enlarge.
The conference concluded with the projects' own PhD student, Zoe Knapp, presenting on her findings to-date from her research on the zooarchaeological assemblage at Lyminge. The sheer size of the assemblage has enabled Zoe to show that there are very significant differences in the animals that were kept and consumed in the monastic phase compared to the pre-Christian settlement. Not only do her results suggest a possible way to identify a monastic settlement with good bone preservation, but it also helps us to begin to think about reasons for change in diet. Zoe suggested that the extremely high quantity of fish and the drop off in consumption of pig may indicate ideological changes in the approach to diet.
The conference ended with intense discussion of the last session, and delegates continued to hang around and discuss the events of the past few days, proving to us how significant an event it was in the re-thinking of Early Medieval monasticism. Indeed, we have had some really fantastic comments from delegates and speakers alike, and are thrilled with the review of one delegate who came all the way from Glasgow and praised the what she considered to be a very non-elitest atmosphere. Her blog review of the conference can be found here.
Although the project team were thoroughly exhausted by the end of the conference, we were all immensely pleased with the way it went, and went away with a whole host of ideas perspectives to consider. We would like to thank the speakers for their fantastic contributions and for helping to make the conference such a success, as well as the brilliantly engaged audience! For those who want lots more information on the papers themselves, keep a look out for the conference proceedings which we are hoping to publish soon – we'll put up information about publication dates and further information as we get it.
Amazingly enough, there is a further post-script to this intellectual weekend in Kent!
The end of a long day stone-picking on Tayne Field. The first batch of grass seed failed so we're awaiting the new growth from the second batch very soon! Photo by Paddy Fraser
Gabor holds the buckle pin found during stone-picking
The discoveries continued the following day – we organised a day of stone-picking in Lyminge: following the backfilling of the 2014 trench a rather large number of loose stones remained on the surface, not ideal for the use of the Tayne Field for sports, picnics and dog-walking. With sterling help from Lyminge project volunteers Jackie Hall, Pete Butcher, Paddy Fraser and Andrew Garrett, as well as a team who were completing Community Service (kindly arranged by Richard Chubb of the Parish Council) we managed to rid Tayne Field of at least twenty bags of stones and flints, finding this gem of a 6th century buckle pin in the process!
6th Century buckle pin found by Pete Butcher lying on the surface of Tayne Field
Keep a look out for further blog posts in the coming weeks which will explain what happens next with the project. We are by no means 'done' even though the last AHRC funded excavation finished eight months ago – but this is all for another post!
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How to Use a Caulk Gun
Timothy Dale
Learn how to seal gaps, cracks, and crevices with a smooth bead of caulk.
Caulk is a commonly used product in many home renovation projects. When applied in a smooth bead, it forms a watertight seal in narrow gaps and crevices. In a kitchen or a bathroom, caulk seals moisture in to prevent it from seeping into walls, behind cabinets, or even behind tub or shower tiles.
Used around windows and door frames, caulk can keep out insects, seal out moisture, and reduce the flow of heat through the exterior wall of the home, allowing you to save on heating and cooling bills. However, if not applied properly, caulk can form an incomplete seal along the length of the crack or crevice, limiting the protection it provides to your home.
In order to ensure that you're applying caulk correctly, it's important to learn how to use a caulking gun. This simple tool makes it easy to run a bead of caulk around a window, along the top of a bath, or even between a bathroom vanity and wall to help control moisture. Use this guide to learn more about caulk and how to use a caulking gun.
Types of Caulk and Caulking Guns
Before starting any project, it's a good idea to look into the tools and products involved. You can opt for a battery-powered caulking gun, though the cost of these tools far outweighs the inexpensive price of a manual caulking gun. Unless you plan to frequently use a caulking gun, a manual caulking gun is typically sufficient for DIY projects.
Similarly, when working with a caulking gun, you need to consider the type of caulk, based primarily on the location of your project. For instance, if you are applying the caulk in a kitchen or bathroom, silicone caulk is the best option because it acts as a sealant, repelling moisture, mold, and mildew.
If applying caulk around baseboards or trim, you can use latex caulk to get the job done. Latex caulk expands to fill crevices better than silicone caulk, However, latex is vulnerable to damage from repeated exposure to water and direct sunlight, so it isn't the right choice for high-moisture areas or locations that get a lot of sun.
Marty Baldwin
Learning how to use a caulking gun is relatively straightforward and does not require many tools to complete. Follow the steps below to learn how to use a caulk gun for your home renovation projects.
Cloth or rag
Long nail (optional)
Step 1: Clean and Tape the Area
Inspect the area where you will be working. If there is an old bead of caulk or bits of old caulk remaining, use a putty knife, utility knife, or caulk removal tool to scrape away any residual caulk. When the gap or crevice is clear of the old caulk, use a rag with hot soapy water to thoroughly clean the area.
After cleaning, give the surface time to dry, then apply strips of painters tape on either side of the crack or crevice to protect the surrounding area. This can also help keep your bead of caulk straight when you apply it with the caulking gun.
Step 2: Cut the Tube Tip
The tip of the caulk tube will determine the thickness of the bead, so before cutting it, take a few minutes to consider how thick you need the bead to fill the gap or crevice. If you want a narrow bead of caulk, cut a 45-degree angle near the top of the tube tip with a utility knife or scissors. If you want a thicker bead of caulk, cut a 45-degree angle slightly lower down the tube tip.
Inside the caulk tube tip is a seal that needs to be punctured to release the caulk. You can use a long nail to pierce this seal or you may have a caulking gun with a piercing rod that is specifically intended for this purpose. Similarly, some caulking guns have tube tip cutters built into the body, so you won't need to worry about having scissors or a utility knife on hand.
Step 3: Load the Caulking Gun
Load the caulking gun by pressing the release trigger located on the handle. With the release trigger depressed, pull the metal rod all the way back, then slide the tube of caulk into the cylindrical holder. You will need to insert the flat base of the caulk tube into the back of the holder before slipping the tip of the tube into the front of the gun.
Once the caulk tube is in place, gently push the metal rod back into positioning, taking care not to force the metal rod through the back of the tube. If done correctly, the metal rod will stick out several inches from the back of the caulking gun and the caulk tube will be held firmly in place.
Step 4: Apply Caulk in a Straight Bead
To get a feel for the speed at which the caulk will be released, aim the caulking gun at a scrap piece of wood or paper, then squeeze the trigger. This will move the metal rod forward so that it pushes the plunger inside the tube and forces the caulk out of the tip of the tube. Run a short bead of caulk along the scrap material to test the thickness of the bead and the flow of the caulk.
When you are ready, line up the caulking gun with the gap or crevice and squeeze the trigger of the caulking gun to apply the caulk. Start in one corner and run a single continuous bead to the center, then start in the opposite corner and run a second continuous bead until it meets up with the first in the center.
If you find that caulk stops coming out of the gun, it may be because you have squeezed the trigger as far as it will go. Simply release the trigger, allowing it to return to its normal position, then squeeze the trigger again to resume the flow of caulk. Try to keep your movement along the line as steady and consistent as possible.
Step 5: Smooth the Bead of Caulk
After applying the bead of caulk, finish the job with a process known as tooling. Tooling is simply the process of smoothing the bead of caulk into the gap or crevice. You can use a caulk smoothing tool or your finger to smooth the bead of the caulk by applying light pressure to the caulk as you run your finger along the length of the bead.
When you are satisfied with the results, remove the painters tape and leave the caulk to dry for as long as the manufacturer recommends. Typically, caulk will dry to the touch in a few hours, but it can take up to 48 hours for it to properly cure. Curing is especially important for high-moisture locations, like the kitchen or bathroom, so be sure to read and follow the label.
How to Remove Old Caulk
Caulk can last for many years without a problem, but over time it will gradually begin to break down, so it's recommended to remove old caulk and replace it with a new bead of caulk about once every five years. Some people may try to simply apply new caulk over existing caulk, but this rarely works. Instead, the new bead of caulk is unable to form a proper seal with the old caulk or the surrounding edges, leading to mold and mildew growth, water damage, and rot as water seeps through the ineffective seal.
Removing caulk isn't a difficult task, but it is necessary. In most cases, you can scrape the old caulk off the edges of the tile, baseboard, trim, wall, or any other surface to which it adheres. Simply use a utility knife or putty knife to separate the old caulk from where it is currently installed.
If you are having trouble, consider using a caulk softening solution, a caulk removal tool, or even a set of needle-nose pliers to grip the beads of caulk and slowly pry it out of the gap. Once the old caulk is removed, scrape away any remaining bits with your putty knife, clean the area, and allow it to dry, then apply a new bead of caulk to seal the crack or crevice.
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How do astronomers know the earth rotates?
They have to use an RA (Right Ascension) drive on their telescopes to keep the stars still.
If you are really determined you could model the universe by saying the Earth does not rotate and everything else rotates around it. There are numerous complications to such an approach - the motions of the other planets for one, which do not follow simple paths in relation to a geocentric (i.e. Earth-centred) model.
It is far more reasonable to recognise the Earth as a planet like other planets, rotating on an axis (wobbling a bit) and following a roughly elliptical orbit around the much more massive Sun.
The rotation of the Earth can be detected by the Coriolis effect - an inertial force (a.k.a. fictitous force) observed in a rotating frame of reference. This causes long range projectiles in the northern hemisphere to land to the right of where they are aimed and to the left in the southern hemisphere.


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BMW Boxer scale model in time for lockdown
Motorbike newsNews
· 4th May, 2020 ·1 Comment·2 min read
If you are still restricted from riding due to the pandemic lockdown, you could spend a few hours putting together this BMW Boxer engine scale model with realistic working parts.
BMW's famous Boxer engine is now available as a working 1:2 scale model of the engine from the 1973 BMW R 90 S.
The scale model costs about $A250 through Amazon and features 200 parts which lock together and do not need gluing. BMW claims it will take a bout three hours to put together.
And when it's all finished, all the internal mechanical parts — pistons, crankshaft, valves, pushrods and rockers — move realistically thanks to a small electric motor.
If Lego is more your scene, you can buy a BMW R 1200 GS ($A104), a Harley Fat Boy ($A159.99) or wait a little while for the Lego Panigale V4 R model.
Boxer engine history
The Boxer engine design was invented by German engineer Karl Benz in the 1890s. Yes, the man who helped establish BMW's main competitor, Mercedes-Benz!
However, boxer engines weren't used in motorcycles for a couple of decades and they were all placed with the cylinders in line.
BMW was the first to place the Boxer engine sideways in their R 32 motorcycle in 1923 with the heads sticking out the sides for more effective cooling.
It is called a Boxer engine because the pistons counterpunch like a boxer's firsts.
The R 32 engine was designed by aircraft engineer Max Friz who used lightweight materials borrowed from aircraft manufacture, such as alloys in the pistons for the first time.
It also departed from other bikes of the time with no chain-drive between the engine and the gearbox and no chain or belt leading to the rear wheel. Instead, it had a sealed valve shaft which kept the bike and rider clean and was easier to maintain.
This model is based on the engine in the venerable R 90 S which was the inspiration for modern R nineT.
BMW R 90 S
It had a 49kW 898cc, four-stroke Boxer engine with large Dell'Orto carburettors and was capable of 200km/h.
The R 90 S was also the first series-produced motorcycle to come with a fairing fixed to the handlebars.
BMW Motorradboxer engineengineR 90 Sscale model
andre fritze says:
5th May, 2020 at 10:42 am
I'm gonna order one, even has the gearbox -what's not to like?
brought the Lego BMW & the orange chain drive v twin (for my son)
handy it comes out now because…


The S4 is the surfski version of the hybrid hull – a surfski with some sea kayak touring qualities built-in. Designed for paddlers in the 65-90 kg weight range it will be a very capable touring surfski for light paddlers, a play and racing/work-out surfski for those in the upper part of the range. But since kayak hulls have a forgiving weight margin (it takes 17,6 kg to push the waterline 1 cm!), the S4 will do fine with a 40 kg paddler (though a little wind sensitive) as well as a 100 kg paddler (though a little wet at times).
The S4 is fitted with the SmartTrack rudder system and the nicely incorporated deck hatches.
Axis S4 is fitted with a SmartTrack rudder system to support any paddling style or technique.
To buy a kayak, visit Kajakk & Fritid webshop – or call (32 83 27 10) or mail us (info@kajakk-fritid.no).


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Lessons from a Global Design-Centered Learning Network
October 17, 2017 | By Lisa Jobson
What happens when students and teachers are invited to define the problems they want to solve and design solutions to address them, using powerful technology for creation and collaboration?
Digital Promise Global set out to answer this question through a year-long research study in collaboration with Designs for Learning. Our research focused on the experiences of a global network of Learning Studios located across Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Learning Studios, a program directed by Digital Promise Global as part of HP and Microsoft's Reinvent the Classroom initiative, engages a diverse group of learning centers around the world, ranging from traditional school settings to after-school and out-of-school programs, and supports them in bringing design-centered learning to their students. Depending on the setting, the Learning Studio may be made available to students in a classroom, a repurposed school bus that travels to schools across a single district, or in a creative recycling center.
All Learning Studio sites receive a common bundle of advanced technologies for designing and making – including a Sprout by HP, HP Convertible Notebooks, a Dremel 3D printer, and supplemental tools and resources including Makey Makeys, modeling clay, and take-it-apart construction kits. To support educators in the Learning Studios, Digital Promise Global provides professional learning opportunities, facilitates an online learning community, and develops and curates creative projects for students.
Each semester, sites take on a common Challenge, such as a Global Goals, Local Solutions Challenge focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or a Play to Learn Challenge inviting students to design a game to help players learn something new. These global Challenges have resulted in a wealth of student-produced solutions – from a kid-friendly prosthetic arm, to sustainable cities of the future, to games that teach adults the challenges of being a teenager.
What did we learn from the first year of the Learning Studios program? Not surprisingly, that context matters. The Learning Studios program engaged a broad and varied group of sites and educational environments, allowing us to gain a deeper understanding of the effects of implementation context on technology use and learning, and to capture insights about challenges and best practices that may prove useful to the broader maker learning field.
The Learning Studios Report analyzes student and teacher growth across a number of impact areas, including student confidence as designers and makers, growth in engagement and persistence, agency and ownership of learning, and collaboration and communication skills.
"The main area of growth that I witnessed was in the children's ability to think outside the box, once they got the idea that they were allowed to think outside the box. The children are so used to being rooted in fairly traditional pedagogy. So when you suddenly say, 'we're going to do Learning Studio and you're going to work in groups and come up with solutions to these challenges… That's a big, big change from the teacher standing in front of the group directing the activities."
– Primary School Principal
We hope this research will be useful for school leaders and practitioners who are considering maker learning initiatives in their own contexts. For us, the experiences of schools and youth organizations across such a diverse range of cultures and contexts around the world has been illuminating, and we look forward to continuing to learn with this expanding and increasingly diverse global network.
Visit Learning Studios Research to download the full report.
To access teacher resources and creative projects curated for Learning Studio students, browse the updated Learning Studios Teacher's Guide.
To learn more about joining the Learning Studios as it moves beyond the pilot phase, visit our Professional Services page.
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Lisa Jobson is Project Director of the 360 Story Lab.


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Q: SqlCmd : Login timeout expired from localhost I've setup the instance SQLEXPRESS via SQL Server 2008 R2 installation, added a security login with all server roles, one called 'sqluser'.
The server authentication is SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode. However, when i specify the -S property, login fails.
There is no firewall enabled and SQL server even accepts connections from remote hosts.
C:\Users\user>sqlcmd -U sqluser -P qwerty -Q "Select * FROM testdb.dbo.testtable"

Output:
integer
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      1
      2
      3
      4

(4 rows affected)

However when specifying 'localhost' the query fails... Question is Why?
C:\Users\user>sqlcmd -S localhost/sqlexpress -U cpt -P 1234 -Q "Select * FROM cpt.dbo.testme"

Output:
HResult 0x43, Level 16, State 1
Named Pipes Provider: Could not open a connection to SQL Server [67].
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0 : A network-related or in    stance-specific error .....
Sqlcmd: Error: Microsoft SQL Server Native Client 10.0 : Login timeout expired.

Changing 'localhost' with '%COMPUTERNAME' is same result if someone would be wondering. The server is running as a LocalSystem instance.

A: You need to specify the -S switch to provide the instance name for sqlcmd to connect to, and it should be in the format "localhost\sqlexpress" instead of "localhost/sqlexpress".

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Arcade Fire's Win Butler is now officially a Canadian citizen
Elizabeth Aubrey Jul 10, 2019 1:24 pm BST
Arcade Fire's Win Butler Credit: Getty Images
The Arcade Fire frontman now has dual citizenship with Canada.
Arcade Fire's Win Butler is now officially a Canadian citizen. You can see footage of the moment Butler was awarded his dual citizenship below.
Read More: A brief history of Arcade Fire
Butler was born in California, raised in Texas and later moved to Montreal to study at McGill University. Whilst there, Butler met his wife and Arcade Fire co-founder, Régine Chassagne.
According to an Instagram post which shows the moment of his new citizenship, Butler said he was "very honoured" to receive his dual citizenship, adding that it felt "natural" to have two passports now.
He wrote: "Very Honored to finally be a Canadian Citizen. I've lived in Montreal for half my life, so it feels very natural to have both passports now!
"Had to wear the Canadian Tuxedo, and yes Mounties are real." You can see images and footage of the moment below.
Very Honored to finally be a Canadian Citizen 🇨🇦 I've lived in Montreal for half my life, so it feels very natural to have both passports now ! Had to wear the Canadian Tuxedo, and yes Mounties are real.
A post shared by Win Butler (@djwindows98) on Jul 9, 2019 at 2:42pm PDT
🙏 🇨🇦 🇭🇹 🇺🇸
Earlier this year, Arcade Fire recorded a cover of 'Baby Mine' for Tim Burton's live-action take on Dumbo. The track saw the Canadian rockers taking on the song from the original 1941 Disney film, which appeared as the closing credits played in the film.
Describing their take on the track, frontman Win Butler explained how the film held personal significance for him.
"There is a scene with a locomotive in the original 'Dumbo' that uses an instrument called the Sonovox that my grandpa Alvino Rey made famous in the 1930s. Every time I saw the film I thought it was him. When we were asked to do the [end credit version of 'Baby Mine'], I immediately got all of my grandfather's old guitars and wanted to play them in the song," explained Butler.
"My mom plays the harp on the track, my brother the theremin, my wife sings and plays drums, and our son even plays the triangle, as well as the rest of our 'family' in Arcade Fire. I will forever relate to the song thinking about the people I hold so dear that are so precious to me. Listen for the cameo of my grandpa Alvino's famous Sonovox at the end."
The release came after Arcade Fire previously teased that fans could expect a new single at some point this year.
Speaking on The Ringer NBA Show, Butler said that the group are "just working on a track – it will actually be out sooner than later."
"Really?", the host asked, adding, "Possible Arcade Fire single coming out this year?" to which Butler replied: "Yeah."
Arcade Fire's last record was 2017's 'Everything Now'. In a five-star review, NME wrote: "The Canadian art-rockers are bigger, bolder and more fearful of the future than ever on their colossal fifth album.
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East Central Europe's democratic deterioration is as much about the limitations of mainstream liberal forces as the rise of illiberal populists argue James Dawson and Sean Hanley.
Less than a decade ago the newer EU member states of East Central Europe (ECE) were considered the great success story of post-communist democratisation. This success was held up by scholars as a textbook illustration of how the EU, through the attractiveness of its political and economic model, and the toughness of accession conditions, could make a decisive difference by empowering pro-European liberals in the region's shakier democracies to push their countries firmly on track to liberal democracy (and EU membership).
While poorer and more corrupt than the EU's West European core, ECE was assumed to be a region safe for democracy with good long-term prospects for economic and political catch-up. Today this narrative of democratic progress is dead, replaced by one of democratic backsliding – and even sliding into authoritarianism – under the auspices of populist and nationalist politicians.
What has been especially disconcerting is that it has been the early frontrunners of democratization – Hungary and Poland – where such democratic backsliding has gone farthest and fastest: after winning decisive election victories (Fidesz in Hungary in 2010, Law and Justice (PiS) in Poland in 2015) conservative-nationalist governing parties have moved rapidly to dismantle liberal checks and balances, capturing or neutralising constitutional courts, state agencies, public (and in Hungary private) media and NGOs.
More strikingly still, Fidesz and PiS were not radical outsiders emerging from the fringes, but large right-wing parties once considered part of a pro-Western centre-right mainstream, whose representatives still sit with German Christian Democrats and British Conservatives in the European Parliament. (more…)
Tags: Bulgaria, Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic, democracy, democratic backsliding, discursive institutionalism, East Central Europe, Eastern Europe, Hungary, illiberalism, liberalism, Poland
Beyond Borders: Sexuality and Cold War: On Łukasz Szulc's book 'Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Borders Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines'.
Lisa JWalters28 February 2018
Dr Ula Chowaniec (Impacts of Gender Discourse Series)
Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Borders Flaws in Gay and Lesbian Magazines. Pelgrave, London 2017.
The Myths, the Archives and the Impact of Community Makings
Łukasz Szulc's Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland is not only about Poland and not only about Communism. It is a carefully executed study on the gay and lesbian movement in the so-called Eastern Bloc, it is a thought-provoking analysis of somehow mythical thinking of what is the "East," and what kind of myths of the Central and Eastern Europe are particularly harmful, such as the myth of homogeneity; myth of the essence of the region; the teleological myth of good transition from communism into better kind of democracy and the right kind of ethics. Łukasz Szulc discussed all the just mentioned myths as based on one, more general myth of separation of the CEE countries from the West. Łukasz deconstructs those myths taking into account the stories of the emerging queer culture. This book is also an interesting debate on what "queer" means today and how it shapes our global identity and how those identities are used in geopolitical discourses, directly linked to the actual political decisions. The book actually starts with claiming that "we live in the age of 'queer wars'", where the issues of body politics, namely position on abortion, divorce and homosexuality divide the countries and people.
Filed under gender, sexuality
Tags: Impacts of Gender, LGBT, Poland, Polish Culture, Polish Language, Queer studies, Women's Studies
The First East European Mainstream Film About Lesbians History of Sexualities, Politics and Cinema under Communism in Eastern Europe
The LGBT History Month, February is almost over, but it is never too late to talk about equality, justice and LGBT issues, especially in regions such as Eastern and Central Europe, where many issues, like same-sex marriage, are still to fight for. This text is based on my Lunch Hour Open Lecture, that I delivered at UCL on the 5th of December, 2017 (See below).
Filed under gender, language, Poland, sexuality, Uncategorized
Queering Poland in London
Lisa JWalters20 October 2017
Starting from the century of Polish women's movement, and the LGBTQ politics to Polish art in London and Brexit.
Dr Urszula Chowaniec, Senior Teaching Fellow in Polish Language (Impacts of Gender Discourse Series)
Emancipation now seems to be in a backlash. In October, Polish women again demonstrated to commemorate October 2016, when the whole of Poland was dressed in black; when thousands of Polish women and men demonstrated against a proposal to radicalize already one of the most radical abortion laws in Europe. This was also part of the London story; many Polish women also honoured October 2016 a few weeks ago in front of Polish Embassy. The story of women's emancipation, gender politics and migration was a leading theme of many SSEES' seminars and talks. Let's recall some facts….
When I start my Polish classes, I ask my students about any Polish people; Copernicus, Fryderyk Chopin, Lech Wałęsa… Women hardly ever appear in the list, so I mention, usually to my students' surprise, Marie Curie. (more…)
Filed under gender, Poland, Uncategorized, Women
Tags: Brexit, Impacts of Gender, LGBTQ, London, Poland, Polish Culture, Polish Language, Queer, Women's Studies
Recycling Future or Free Painting
Oskar OK Krajewski, Polish Artist in London, on art, recycling, and migration
Dr Urszula Chowaniec, Senior Teaching Fellow in Polish Language
Thousands of small objects… hundreds of fragments linked together in a seemingly random way create an ideal shape; a colourful space interlaced with light and flickering glimpses, as if just for this sculptured form all the tiny items were intended. Was it only by accident or misunderstanding that they used to be a piece of computer, toy, or TV remote? They really meant to be Recycled Future.
Recycled Future is Oskar OK Krajewski's centre sculpture presented during his exhibition at Oxo show (1-5 November, 2017). It is an amazing piece made of over 25,000 parts of old broken everyday objects. As a central piece, the whole exhibition is called Recycled Future. OK admits that this piece is representative to all his recent artworks. It took Oskar about 5 years to complete the whole show. He never works on one project at the time, rather he distracts himself over many works, and therefore it gets slower to complete the piece. But this is how 'OK' creates.
Recycled Future by Oskar OK Krajewski
Filed under Poland, Uncategorized
Tags: Art, Impacts of Gender, LGBT, migration, Poland, Polish Culture, Polish Language, Queer studies, Women's Studies
Reproductive Justice and Discourses of Childbearing in the Fringes of Europe: Ongoing Discussions with SSEES and Partner Researchers and Activists
Lisa JWalters19 May 2017
Dr Nevila Pahumi, Alexander Nash Fellowship in Albanian Studies
Over the past year, a group of us SSEES researchers have actively engaged questions of reproductive justice and discourses of childbearing in Eastern and Western Europe. Given the commonality of challenges women face in both ends of the continent to practice reproductive choice over their bodies, we have joined forces to give voice to some of the key concerns behind pro-choice and reproductive justice abortion debates now raging across the continent and beyond.
Filed under gender, Hungary, Poland, Women
Tags: abortion, Eastern Europe, Hungary, justice, linguistics, Poland, reproduction, womens rights
Will Brexit affect growth prospects in the EU Members of Central and Eastern Europe?
BlogAdmin26 May 2016
Chiara Amini – Teaching Fellow in Economics and Business and Raphael Espinoza – Lecturer in Economics
UCL SSEES Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies
It is a common view that a UK exit from the European Union would cause significant damage to the UK and to the EU. The Treasury claims that Brexit would make Britain significantly poorer and could result in GDP contracting by as much as 6%. Such a significant impact would not be so surprising, given that trade and investment between the UK and Europe has grown significantly in the last 40 years. In 2014 a study by Ottaviano et al showed that Brexit trade losses would amount to 3.6% of UK GDP, as a result of an increase in taxes, quotas and regulatory legislation. What's really striking is the fact that these losses have the potential of reaching 10% of GDP, if we consider the dynamic effect of trade on innovation and competition. Earlier this year, JPMorgan estimated that Brexit could reduce GDP growth by as much as 1% between 2016-17. At the same time the bank also warned that Brexit could decrease Eurozone GDP by 0.2-0.3%.
Policymakers in the EU countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been vocal in expressing their concerns about Brexit. The countries this specifically refers to are: The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Recently Poland's President, Andrzej Duda, warned that Brexit could have dramatic consequences for the Polish economy. However, formal analyses estimating the impact of Brexit on the region number on the fingers of one hand. Erste Bank argues that direct economic consequences on the region would be relatively minor as UK trade amounts to only 3-6% of total trade. However, countries such as Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia, that run trade surpluses with the UK, are predicted to be most affected. After looking at the macro data, we can argue that Central and Eastern Europe would not only be affected by Brexit directly via a fall in flows from the UK, in terms of migration and remittances, trade and financial flow, but also indirectly through its effect on the Eurozone. As economic shocks spread easily from one country to another, a phenomenon known as 'financial contagion,' the impact of Brexit on the Eurozone would further reduce inflows to Central and Eastern Europe.
Financial flows from the UK to Central and Eastern Europe appear moderate (see Figure 1). The median of UK financial flows to GDP is less than 1%. Trade flows (import and export) are much more important, and they represent around 2.5% of GDP in Central and Eastern Europe.
Figure 1– Median Flows UK- Central and Eastern Europe
However, taken together, UK trade and financial flows make up a sizeable share of the total flows to the region. The proportion of UK remittances to total remittances in Central and Eastern Europe is as high as 8%. As far as trade is concerned, this ratio is 4%. Inevitably, some countries in the region have even stronger links with the UK; for instance, in the Czech Republic, foreign direct investment from the UK constitutes 14% of its total foreign direct investment. Also in the Czech Republic, bank loans from the UK represent 2.5% of GDP. UK remittances also constitute an important part of total remittances sent to Latvia and Lithuania, over 20% of the total.
Moreover there has been a high degree of correlation in the economic growth between Central and Eastern Europe and the UK. This could be the result of financial contagion via other, third party countries. Alternatively, it could stem from both regions' high integration with the two largest world economies, the US and the Eurozone. However, the correlation between growth in Central and Eastern Europe and the UK (at 0.56) is higher than that between the US and Central and Eastern Europe. (0.43, see Figure 2) Disentangling such correlations so as to understand how economic shocks are transmitted between countries has been done in a variety of models.
Figure 2 – Real GDP growth (Year-on-Year; source: OECD and IMF)
Our analysis shows that the UK is a significant source of financial contagion for Central and Eastern Europe. If, as a pessimistic example, estimated by PwC earlier this year, UK GDP fell by 5% as a consequence of Brexit, this would reduce GDP growth in Central and Eastern Europe by no less than 2.5%, as a consequence of third party financial contagion. Since the model is linear, if the fall in UK GDP was only 1%, the impact on Central and Eastern Europe would be only 0.5%.
Historically, shocks to UK GDP have contributed around 20 % of the variance in growth in Central and Eastern Europe. In our research for this piece, we employed a well-known statistical methodology, Vector Auto Regression, to examine how growth in Central and Eastern Europe relates to the economic performance of the UK, US and Europe. The historical decomposition of growth in Central and Eastern Europe (Figure 3) attributes the good performance of Central and Eastern Europe in the first decade of this century to strong growth in the UK. This occurred at a time when growth in the Eurozone was disappointing.
Figure 3. Historical decomposition on GDP growth in Central and Eastern Europe (YoY)
We have come to the conclusion that, although it is uncertain what the short-term impact of Brexit on the UK will be, there are good reasons to think that it will have negative repercussions on Central and Eastern Europe.
Please note: Views expressed are those of the author(s) and not those of SSEES, UCL or SSEES Research Blog.
Tags: Austria, Brexit, CEE, economic growth, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Poland's Jewishness: the Polin Museum of Polish Jews and Paweł Pawlikowski's Ida.
BlogAdmin3 February 2015
Poland's new museum of Polish-Jewish history and Paweł Pawlikowski's film Ida are signs of a shift in Poland's understanding of its Jewish past, writes Uilleam Blacker.
Still from Ida, source: http://www.ida-movie.com/gallery
The opening, in October 2014, of the permanent exhibition of Warsaw's new 'Polin' Museum of the history of Polish Jews marked a shift in Poland's memory of the loss of its Jewish population. Until now, the key memorial sites in this regard have been sites of Jewish death, such as the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the former Warsaw ghetto in Muranów, Warsaw. The new museum has been located in the centre of Muranów, next to the famous ghetto uprising monument, precisely in order to rebalance the commemorative discourse away from the image of Poland as a 'vast Jewish cemetery' and towards recognition of it as a place of flourishing Jewish life, which, of course, it was for hundreds of years. As programme director Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett has noted, "We have a moral obligation to remember not only how Jews died but also how they lived."
The museum is not an isolated phenomenon, but rather the culmination of a long process of the recovery of Jewish heritage and culture in Poland that has its roots in the efforts of activists and intellectuals in the late communist period. Today, there are many small museums in Poland celebrating Polish-Jewish culture and history alongside the many Holocaust memorial sites, as well as countless Jewish-themed cultural events. One of the important achievements of this tendency is to move towards an understanding of Poland's Jewish heritage not as something alien that needs to be looked after on behalf of someone else, but as part of the Polish story. As Kirshnblatt-Gimblett told the FT last year: "We're trying to show the history of Polish Jews as an integral part of the history of Poland." Thus, the museum tells stories such as that of Michał Landy, a Jewish student who was killed during an anti-tsarist protest in Warsaw in 1861 as he lifted a cross that had been dropped by an injured fellow protester.
For decades, memory of Poland's Jews has, of course, been dominated by the Holocaust. This powerful, transnational discourse inscribed the memory of Polish Jews into a wider Jewish story, in which the different cultural backgrounds and experiences of the victims – among them the Polish-Jewish experience – faded into the background. This situation was compounded by the reluctance of the Polish communist authorities to allow discussion either of the anti-Semitic nature of the Nazi occupation or of Poland's Jewish heritage, meaning that for decades the traces of that heritage crumbled, and the Polish-Jewish story remained untold.
Filed under cinema, Holocaust, memory, Poland
Tags: Holocaust, Poland


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Justia Dockets & Filings Ninth Circuit California Eastern District Galasyn et al v. Sleight et al Filing 7
Galasyn et al v. Sleight et al
STIPULATION and ORDER signed by District Judge Troy L. Nunley on 05/30/17 ORDERING that the time for defendants Shaw, Sleight and Galasyn, Inc. to respond to the Complaint is Extended to 06/29/17. (Benson, A)
1 2 3 4 5 6 Nicholas R. Kloeppel, SBN #186165 MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE, LLP Attorneys at Law 814 Seventh Street P. O. Drawer 1008 Eureka, CA 95502 Tel: (707) 443-5643 Fax: (707) 444-9586 Attorneys for Defendants DOUGLAS SHAW, VICKY SLEIGHT, GALASYN, INC. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 William W. Palmer, SBN #146404 PALMER LAW GROUP, PLC 2443 Fair Oaks Blvd., No. 545 Sacramento, CA 95825 Tel: (916) 972-0761 Fax: (916) 917-5397 Attorneys for Plaintiffs EDWARD GALASYN, MARTA A. KINGSBURY in her capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Edward Galasyn 14 15 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA EDWARD GALASYN, MARTA A. CASE NO.: 17-CV-00363-TLN-EFB KINGSBURY in her capacity as Administrator of the Estate of STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DEFENDANTS' TIME FOR Edward Galasyn, FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING Plaintiff, vs. VICKY SLEIGHT, DOUGLAS SHAW, GALASYN, INC., 23 24 Defendants. 25 26 MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE 814 Seventh Street P.O. Drawer 1008 Eureka, CA 95502 ________________________________________________________________________________________ STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DEFENDANTS' TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING 1 1 IT IS HEREBY STIPULATED by and between the parties, plaintiffs EDWARD 2 GALASYN, MARTA A. KINGSBURY in her capacity as Administrator of the Estate of 3 Edward Galasyn ("Plaintiffs"), and defendants DOUGLAS SHAW, VICKY SLEIGHT 4 and GALASYN, INC. ("Defendants"), through their respective attorneys as follows: 5 1. Plaintiffs filed an initial Complaint on February 21, 2017. 6 2. Defendants, who were served with the initial Complaint, are required to 7 respond to the Complaint on or before May 29, 2017, pursuant to a stipulation filed with 8 the Court on April 28, 2017 (ECF Docket No. 5). 9 3. The parties are in the process of locating and informally exchanging 10 documents, and are evaluating the potential for early resolution of this case. The 11 attorneys are working well together and professionally in an effort to conserve the 12 resources of the Court and the parties. 13 4. Defendants have requested and Plaintiffs have agreed to provide an 14 additional extension of time to file a responsive pleading to the Complaint to June 29, 15 2017, in order to continue to discuss the prospect of an early resolution of this matter. 16 /// 17 /// 18 /// 19 /// 20 /// 21 /// 22 /// 23 /// 24 /// 25 /// 26 /// MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE 814 Seventh Street P.O. Drawer 1008 Eureka, CA 95502 ________________________________________________________________________________________ STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DEFENDANTS' TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING 2 1 THE PARTIES HEREBY STIPULATE THAT: 2 1. Defendants' deadline to file pleadings in response to the Complaint on file 3 in this matter is extended until June 29, 2017. 4 IT IS SO STIPULATED AND AGREED. 5 DATED: May 24, 2017 PALMER LAW GROUP 6 By: 7 8 9 DATED: May 24, 2017 /s/ William W. Palmer WILLIAM W. PALMER Attorneys for Plaintiffs MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE, LLP 10 11 By: 12 /s/ Nicholas R. Kloeppel NICHOLAS R. KLOEPPEL Attorneys for Defendants 13 14 ORDER 15 The above stipulation is accepted and it is so ordered. Defendants DOUGLAS 16 SHAW, VICKY SLEIGHT, and GALASYN, INC. shall have an extension of time to 17 June 29, 2017, to file a responsive pleading to the Complaint. 18 19 Dated: May 30, 2017 20 21 Troy L. Nunley United States District Judge 22 23 24 25 26 MITCHELL, BRISSO, DELANEY & VRIEZE 814 Seventh Street P.O. Drawer 1008 Eureka, CA 95502 ________________________________________________________________________________________ STIPULATION AND ORDER TO EXTEND DEFENDANTS' TIME FOR FILING RESPONSIVE PLEADING 3


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By the numbers: Who uses Oregon's Death with Dignity law
Updated: Nov. 13, 2014, 12:25 a.m. |
Molly Harbarger | The Oregonian/OregonLive
Fred Nelligan journeys through ALS to Death with Dignity
Fred Nelligan had surgery to place a feeding tube in when his ALS made it nearly impossible to eat enough nutrients. Post-surgery pain has taken its toll.
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Oregon's first-in-the-nation Death with Dignity law turned 20 this month, establishing a substantial record of who dies and why.
As of last year, 1,173 Oregonians have qualified for lethal prescriptions, and 752 patients have used them to end their lives. The typical participant was white, well-educated, over 65 years old and suffering from terminal cancer.
"The more educated you are, the more choices you have," said Kat West, director of Oregon Compassion and Choices, a nonprofit agency that aids people in making end-of-life choices and advocates for Death with Dignity laws across the country.
The vast majority had health insurance and died at home under hospice care.
To identify end-of-life trends and outcomes under the law, The Oregonian examined statistics from 2003 to 2013 as part of a reporting project on Fred Nelligan, a Milwaukie-area man who began working with Compassion and Choices after being diagnosed with ALS. Before 2003, the state kept data in a format that concealed some information to protect the privacy of the smaller number of people using the law at that time.
That Death with Dignity information is compared with the state's general population by using the American Community Survey's five-year population estimate for Oregon.
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Science - December 8, 2005
Hair betrays hormone use
Researchers at Rikilt have developed a method that enables forbidden hormones to be detected in the hair of cattle. The new technique helps hormone-hunters to get round a problem. If the researchers find the hormones in the hairs they can say with one hundred percent certainty that these have not been manufactured by the animal itself.
'The hormones that we looked at are natural hormones,' says Dr Michel Nielen from Rikilt. 'Boldenone and testosterone, both powerful androgens found in commercial preparations, are also manufactured by cattle themselves. If you test the animals' urine you find conversion products from the hormones, whether they have been given synthetic hormones or not.'
The use of testosterone, boldenone and other growth-promoting hormones is forbidden in the EU. Scientists fear that consumption of hormone-treated meat may have adverse health effects in the long term. Beef farmers, however, couldn't care less about the law. Because they can earn more per cow if they use forbidden substances, a black market for hormone products has arisen. The ministry of agriculture tries to keep the matter under control by carrying out checks.
'In the world of sport, doping police set certain limits when testing urine samples to determine whether athletes have used forbidden substances,' explains Nielen. 'If a metabolite is found in quantities over the limit, then the athlete has used doping. We can't do that with cattle, because the natural fluctuation in hormone levels is too large.'
Nielen has solved that problem by not using urine from cattle but hair. Nielen and his colleagues will publish their findings in the Journal of Chromatography B, Analytical Technologies in the Biomedical and Life Sciences. The new technique makes use of the fact that manufacturers manipulate naturally occurring hormones.
'In commercial preparations containing natural hormones, the hormones have been esterised,' explains Nielen. 'The hormones are attached to a fatty acid so that they circulate for longer in the body. In the body, enzymes remove the fatty acid from the hormone.' This happens so quickly that the esters do not show up in the urine. But those particular enzymes are not active in the hairs, so synthetic hormone esters are stored there unchanged.
Because esterised versions of testosterone and boldenone do not occur naturally, the scientists' discovery makes it possible to provide conclusive evidence that an animal has been given forbidden substances. The method is also sensitive. Nielen and his colleagues at Rikilt and the University of Gent in Belgium found intact esterised testosterone and boldenone in the hairs of cattle that had been given one single injection of illegal growth hormones two weeks earlier. / WK
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Araldo di Crollalanza (1892–1986) was an Italian journalist and politician who held significant posts in Fascist Italy. He was the minister of public works between 1930 and 1935 and a long-term member of the Italian Senate.

Biography
Di Crollalanza was born in Bari on 19 May 1892. He contributed to the newspapers, including Il Corriere delle Puglie, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno and Il Popolo d'Italia.  He fought in World War I and in 1919 established the National Combatants Association of Bari. On 23 March of that year Benito Mussolini appointed him as regional political secretary of the Fascist organization of Apulia and Lucania.

Di Crollalanza joined the National Fascist Party (PNF) in an early age. In 1922 he took part in the march on Rome and in 1924 he was elected deputy from the PNF. In 1926 he was elected the mayor of Bari being the first Fascist to hold the post. When Di Crollalanza was in office he attempted to rebuild Bari as a new centre for Fascist rule and to make the city a bridge between the Orient and the Occident on the directives of Mussolini.

On 9 July 1928, di Crollalanza was appointed state secretary for public works. Di Crollalanza served as the minister of public works in the period 1930–1935 in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini. In addition to these posts Di Crollalanza continued to serve as the mayor of Bari being represented by his deputy Vincenzo Vella. In 1935 Di Crollalanza was named the president of a Fascist youth organisation, Opera Nazionale Balilla. In 1943 he joined the Italian Social Republic. After the fall of Fascism Di Crollalanza was arrested, but was released from prison soon and resumed political activity with the Italian Social Movement. Between 1953 and 1986 he served at the Italian Senate from the Italian Social Movement. in 1982, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, the President of the Senate Amintore Fanfani presented him with a gold medal. Di Crollalanza died in Rome on 18 January 1986.

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Portland protests continue after judge rejects bid to restrict federal agents
Thousands of people joined another night of Black Lives Matter protests on the streets of Portland, hours after a US judge denied the state of Oregon's request to restrict federal police in the city.
Demonstrators, most wearing masks and many donning helmets, stood near the fountain on Salmon Street Springs. They then marched to the Hatfield Federal Courthouse and the federal agents there.
They chanted and clapped along to the sound of thunderous drums, pausing to listen to speakers. Various organised groups took part, including Healthcare Workers Protest, Teachers against Tyrants, Lawyers for Black Lives and the 'Wall of Moms'.
Officials in Oregon claim the presence of federal officers has inflamed the situation (Noah Berger/AP)
"Feds go home"
By 9.40pm on Friday 24 July, crowds of people, pressed shoulder to shoulder, packed the streets chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "Feds go home". They carried signs as they marched to the courthouse.
The federal agents, deployed by Donald Trump, have arrested dozens during nightly Black Lives Matter protests.
Democratic leaders in Oregon say federal intervention has worsened the two-month crisis. And the state attorney general sued to allege some people had been whisked off the streets in unmarked vehicles.
Trumpism didn't come out of a vacuum. It has been brewing for a long time.
Trump becomes the first US president to be impeached twice
But US District Judge Michael Mosman said the state lacked standing to sue on behalf of protesters. He said this was because the legal action was a "highly unusual one with a particular set of rules".
A crisis over the limits of federal power
Oregon was seeking a restraining order on behalf of its residents. This was not for injuries that had already happened, but to prevent injuries by federal officers in the future. That combination makes the standard for granting such a motion very narrow, and the state did not prove it had standing in the case, Mosman wrote.
A medic treats Black Lives Matter protester Lacey Wambalaba after exposure to chemical irritants deployed by federal officers (Noah Berger/AP)
The clashes in Portland have further inflamed the nation's political tensions and triggered a crisis over the limits of federal power. It comes as Trump moves to send US officers to other Democratic-led cities, ostensibly to combat crime.
Protesters in Portland have been targeting the federal courthouse. They're reported to have started fires outside and vandalised the building that US authorities say they have a duty to protect. Federal agents have used tear gas as well as other force to scatter protesters. They've also used ammunition that left one person critically injured.
"Extremely troubling"
The legal action from Oregon attorney general Ellen Rosenblum accused federal agents of arresting protesters without probable cause and using excessive force. She sought a temporary restraining order to "immediately stop federal authorities from unlawfully detaining Oregonians".
David Morrell, a lawyer for the US government, called the motion "extraordinary". He told the judge in a hearing this week that it was based solely on "a few threadbare declarations" from witnesses and a Twitter video.
Federal officers were deployed by Donald Trump in a bid to calm the city (Noah Berger/AP)
Rosenblum said the ramifications of the judge's ruling were "extremely troubling". She added:
While I respect Judge Mosman, I would ask this question: If the state of Oregon does not have standing to prevent this unconstitutional conduct by unidentified federal agents running roughshod over her citizens, who does?
Federal agents exacerbating a tense situation
Before the federal intervention, mayor Ted Wheeler and other local leaders had said a small cadre of violent activists were drowning out the message of peaceful protesters. But the Democrat, who was tear-gassed this week as he joined protesters, says the federal presence is exacerbating a tense situation. He also said that he has repeatedly told them to leave.
Acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf denied federal agents are inflaming the situation in Portland. He said Wheeler legitimised criminality by joining demonstrators, whom Trump has called "anarchists and agitators".
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The goons of Trumplandia working their violent ways upon the people. Lessons being learned by the good people
about the abuse of power. Many thought Trump would declare a war to enhance his election chances for victory.
War upon his own people is a different tack, with tens of thousands of casualties in the Covid War Against Capitalism as well.
His success is judged by the dead as in any war.
But this is in such contrast to everywhere else where lives matter.
Looking forward to the USA election.
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When you're contained by people wearing green they're not a police force they're an army.
Peter Bolton , 14th January 2021
Sophia Purdy-Moore , 14th January 2021
It's just days into 2021, and already a Black man has died after being in police custody
Eliza Egret , 12th January 2021
Disabled people being abused for not wearing masks is peak 2020
The NHS is now on the chopping block. And it shows why reforming capitalism is an exercise in futility.


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Too Many Candidates?
By Leslie Stevens September 1, 2008 July 23, 2015
Retailers have a sale, manufacturers slow production, but what can recruiters do with all those excess candidates? A few talent acquisition leaders are fast becoming inventory-management gurus and they are pursuing innovative ways to deal with all those extra candidates.
"We didn't add any staff because responding to candidates didn't add more work — we just changed our process," says Catie Cowher, candidate experience leader for Recruiting Strategy and Initiatives at Wachovia Corporation.
Wachovia posts some 600 to 800 openings per week on its website, which includes both newly created positions and vacancies, and averages 10,000 applicants. According to Cowher, rejected candidates receive an e-mail informing them about their status and the reasons behind Wachovia's decision. Most candidates are declined early in the recruiting process, following a resume review by a recruiter. Nearly 90% of applicants responding to job postings at Wachovia are declined. Giving candidates immediate feedback about their status was a process change that served up numerous benefits.
Cowher cites anecdotal evidence that she's received through feedback from applicant surveys that making quick decisions and informing candidates about their status has not only improved the applicants' experiences with Wachovia's hiring process, but more specifically their perceptions about Wachovia recruiters. The bottom line is that candidates don't view unresponsive recruiters as overworked — they view them as incompetent. A surprise benefit is that declined candidates often refer a qualified colleague, after gaining a better understanding of the job requirements through post-declination feedback. Wachovia recruiters spend less time fielding calls from candidates requesting a status update, and have a better handle on the inventory of viable candidates.
In addition to informing declined candidates about their status, Wachovia refers them to other employers by including a link in the e-mail to the AllianceQ website.
AllianceQ pools candidates and shares them among member employers. The company has been building inventory since the end of May. For every 1,000 rejection e-mails sent by member companies providing a link to AllianceQ, 25% of applicants have clicked on the link and 89% have then completed a profile, according to the firm's managing director Phil Haynes.
"We don't make any judgments about candidates, and our feeling is that we don't own them," says Cowher. "Timing has a lot to do with whether someone is hired — or maybe they just don't have the skill set we're looking for."
Although there's no formal referral system in place, major Seattle employers Starbucks, Washington Mutual, Weyerhaeuser, and Microsoft sometimes refer candidates to each other, according to Rhonda Stickley, director for recruiting and staffing at Weyerhaeuser, especially when candidates align with positions offered at the other firms. Stickley adds that there has been some internal discussion at Weyerhaeuser about sharing retiree pools among several area employers, which has started a discussion within her team about managing excess human capital inventory more effectively.
In some companies, qualified candidates are referred to other managers when they aren't a fit for one position, and some recruiters stay in touch with surplus hirable candidates through newsletters, phone calls, and touch campaigns. The key is that all resumes are reviewed when submitted and candidates are sorted into categories. Then the candidates are quickly informed about their status so databases remain pure, searches result in a slate of viable contenders, and relationships are built and maintained through the recruiting process.
"Dealing with surplus candidates or even inventory management is a challenge in our industry, and the bottom line is that we're not doing it very well," says Denny Clark, director of the Thought Leadership Institute. "The good news is that we're going to see much better technology coming down the pike which will help with the problem. Another solution that I believe we'll see more of, is a restructuring of the recruiting function so that more people initially screen candidates and stay in touch with passive candidates, so their status remains current in the database."
Leslie Stevens
Leslie Stevens writes for human capital and business publications. She was a senior manager in the staffing industry for more than 20 years and understands how talent acquisition contributes to the bottom line. She likes it when readers share their opinions, innovative ideas, and experiences about overcoming obstacles while fighting the global talent war.
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