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Take a walk through the landscape that inspired Bruegel
Just a few kilometres from the centre of Brussels is the valley of the Neerpedebeek, a stream also known locally as the Pedebeek. The stream passes through some wonderful countryside in the Flemish Brabant municipalities of Lennik and Dilbeek and the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht. Along its route are the picturesque villages of Sint-Gertrudis-Pede, Sint-Anna-Pede (both Dilbeek) and the village of Neerpede (Anderlecht). Despite its proximity to Brussels the area has remained largely rural.
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The undulated green landscape so typical of the Pajottenland, the area of Flemish Brabant to the west of Brussels, make the Valley of the Neerpedebeek a veritable paradise for lovers of outdoor activities such as walking and cycling.
So it is little wonder that the artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder (portrait below), who spent the last ten years of his life (1559-1569) living less than 10km away in Brussels drew inspiration from valley of the Neerpedebeek.
As well as providing an opportunity to take some healthy but not too strenuous exercise, the Bruegel Walk also allows those walking it to get to know a number of works painted by the artist during his Brussels period between 1559 and 1569. No fewer than 11 reproductions of Bruegel's locally-inspired work can be seen along the walk's 7km route.
The route of the walk
The walk gets under way outside the church in Sint Anna-Pede. Bus 118 (Brussels South Station to Schepdaal stops outside the church. The Erasmus metro station is around 3.5km away. The Church of Saint-Anne was built in 1250. The church (photo, below) became world-famous thanks to Bruegel's 1568 painting The Blind Leading the Blind.
A little further we pass by De Ster (The Star). The building is a fine example of traditional architecture. Up until the not so distant past loam was widely used in construction in the Pajottenland area of Flemish Brabant.
The walk then passes by one of the most impressive railway bridges in Flemish Brabant, the 520 metre long viaduct known locally as "The 17 bridges" (photo, below) The viaduct was completed in 1932 as part of the work to build a new express railway line between Ghent (East Flanders) and Brussels.
Toerisme Dilbeek
We then pass by a disused watermill where locally grown grain was ground for hundreds of years until it fell into disuse in 1911.
Bruegel regularly walked the 8 or 9 kilometres from his home on the Hoogstraat in Brussels to paint during fairs or during the harvest. One of the barns we pass between the watermill and the Neerhof children's farm is believed to have been the setting for 'The Peasent Wedding" (reproduction below)
The Neerhof was built in 1740. Today the farm is owned by Brussels Flemish Community Commission that runs it as a children's farm. It is a place where city children (and others) can get to know about farming as it used to be.
After leaving the Neerhof farm we pass through the centre of Itterbeek, a village best-known for it biannual Lambic beer festival.
On we go past the Breugheldal (Bruegel Valley) care home and back towards Sint-Anne-Pede. Just before the end of our walk we pass by the baroque chapel of the Virgin and Child with Saint-Anne (photo below) The chapel used to stand in the middle of a landscape made up of orchards and meadows. Nowerdays, the chapel is surrounded by other buildings.
A map of the route
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Do you know what the Itria Valley in Apulia is renowned for? If your answer to that question was "trulli", you are correct. These stone houses may have a basic architecture but the end result is a delight for the eyes. Their cone-shaped roofs and stonewalls make them look like something out of a fairy tale, and a stay at Trulli Angelo will bring that fairy tale to you.
In a secluded location between the Ionic and the Adriatic See, away from mass tourism, Trulli Angelo is a haven both authentic and luxurious. The lovely private pool allows you to cool down after sunbathing and the secular oak provides the shadow for a welcome nap, perhaps in the hammock. The evening could start with a candlelit dinner coming straight out of the pizza oven, followed by relaxing on cushions scattered on the terrace, gazing at the stars.
Restored with love and respect for its original features, the property is composed of a main building and the original trullo, where two of the master bedrooms can be found. The kitchen is both modern and homely, and there are plenty of relaxing areas, both inside and outside, to read a book or chat, glass of wine in hand. For the guests to be as comfortable as possible in all seasons, Trulli Angelo is also equipped with both air-conditioning in the bedrooms and cozy fireplaces.
The beautiful and quiet white sandy beaches in the south of Torre Canne are only 25 km away. Torre Guaceto would be a recommendation. Ceglie Messapica, the nearest village with good restaurants, shops and supermarkets, is 4 km away. Ostuni 17 km, Martina Franca 19 km and Lecce 88 km.
Apulia is the region of the white, clean villages and towns, and many of them are part of the UNESCO World Heritage. The extraordinary hospitality of its inhabitants and the fantastic food and wine means it is the perfect place for Epicureans. A last tip: head to the nice agroturismo only 2 km away from Trulli Angelo one night for dinner, you will not regret it.
You enter the house from the large terrace through the kitchen with a big dining table. Living room with fireplace. Master bedroom with 1 king-size double bed (1,80 x 2,10 m) and 1 large bed (1,20 x 2,10 m) with exit to the garden, master bedroom with double bed (1,40 m) and 1 large bed (1,20 m), fireplace and exit to the garden, large bathroom with shower and wc, small bathroom with shower and wc.
1st floor accessible only from outside: twin bedroom with 2 large beds (1,05 x 2,10 m), bathroom with shower and wc.
Air conditioning (in the bedrooms), Wifi internet, sat-tv, washing machine, dishwasher, oven, floor heating, bbq, pizza oven, fireplaces with wood. Sunbeds are placed around the pool and a large table for outdoor dining is located under the olive tree.


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Real Estate : campaign seduces but does not sell
However, sales are scarce. In spite of the reverie that this place can bring, its location poses a problem. Indeed, "no one wants to put more than two million euros into a house in the heart of the 20th arrondissement," says David Prazowski, director of the Sotheby's du Marais agency. Potential buyers correspond to a very small part of the clientele.
A neighborhood with unique architecture
Although there was only one sale in 2019, the neighborhood, for example, seduced the former President of the French Republic, François Hollande, who bought a house there. "Campagne in Paris is unique from an architectural point of view, it can't be compared to any other neighborhood," explains David Prazowski. This point is underlined on the one hand by the exclusive presence of the house, but also by its bucolic charm, reminiscent, as its name suggests, of the countryside.
One could have imagined that the confinement would boost sales in this neighborhood. In fact, the presence of gardens could have seduced customers in search of greenery. But this is not the only condition, Parisians want to get away from Paris and prefer to buy in the French Riviera or Normandy. "We have people from the west of Paris, who have spent the confinement in apartments, who look to the east, where prices are lower, to have a house and a garden while staying in Paris," recalls David Prazowski in the face of an average of 10,000 euros per square meter in Campagne.
Finally, this neighborhood has double-edged advantages. Being in a working-class district, which can seduce some rich owners but also repel some. Also, the schools are not at the same level as in other Parisian neighborhoods, which rules out a certain number of potential buyers.
Find the full article here.
Paris West Sotheby's International Realty, specialist in luxury real estate in Paris

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Barbara Baynton's short-story collection Bush Studies is famous for its stark realism - for not romanticising bush life, instead showing all its bleakness and harshness. Economic of style, influenced by the great nineteenth-century Russian novelists, Baynton presents the Australian bush as dangerous and isolating for the women who inhabit it.
Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) had her first short story published in the Bulletin in 1896. Her short stories were collected in Bush Studies and she published a novel, Human Toll.


"It is deplorable," said CUPE Aboriginal Committee Chair Gloria Lepine.
water advisories in various communities."
which is 200 kilometres from Fort McMurray, downstream from the tar sands.
to sign the United Nations Declaration on the Rights on Indigenous Peoples.
apologize for it in another hundred years."
of Canada's First Nations people is a priority.
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Herbivore-mediated facilitation alters composition and increases richness and diversity in ruderal communities
Hierro, José L., Cock, Marina C.
Plant ecology 2013 v.214 no.10 pp. 1287-1297
Euphorbia, community structure, herbaceous plants, herbivores, palatability, plant communities, reproductive performance
Little is known about positive interactions among members of herbaceous plant communities initiating secondary succession (i.e., ruderal communities). Here, we explored the possibility that Euphorbia schickendantzii (Euphorbia), a latex-containing herb, facilitates other ruderals by protecting them from herbivores in recently plowed and overgrazed sites in central Argentina. To test this hypothesis, we compared plant number, height, reproductive output, and herbivore damage for four species when associated with Euphorbia versus in adjacent open zones without Euphorbia. Additionally, we classified species in the community according to their palatability, and compared community composition, richness, and diversity between Euphorbia and open zones. Dominant (66 % relative abundance) and highly palatable species exhibited increased plant number, size, and fecundity, and decreased herbivory when associated with Euphorbia relative to non-Euphorbia zones. In contrast, a physically and chemically well-defended species showed greater number of individuals in the open and no differences in herbivory between sampling zones. In detrended correspondence analysis, ordination scores of most palatable species were closer to Euphorbia, while those of most unpalatable species were closer to the open. Community composition differed between areas, with six species (25 % of the community) occurring exclusively with Euphorbia and three other species occurring only in open zones. Additionally, richness and diversity were greater in communities associated with Euphorbia than in those associated with non-Euphorbia zones. These results support our hypothesis, highlight the importance of facilitation in altering community-level responses, and indicate that positive interactions can play a more significant role in organizing terrestrial ruderal communities than previously recognized. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
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SHOCKING! Kangana Ranaut's Sister Rangoli Claims Hrithik Roshan's Family Used To Sedate Sunaina
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By Madhuri V
The ongoing family dispute in the Roshan family is once again grabbing headlines after Kangana Ranaut's sister Rangoli Chandel made some more shocking revelations about the controversy. Earlier, Rangoli had tweeted about how Sunaina has been calling up Kangana every day for the past month to help her as her family is putting her through various kinds of emotional and physical abuse, before switching off her phone.
Yesterday, Sunaina's boyfriend narrated his version of the story and now reacting to them, Rangoli has made some new allegations.
Rangoli Alleges The Roshans Used To Sedate Sunaina
In her tweet, Rangoli wrote, "For past one month Sunaina called Kangana every single day, she spoke to me and cried all the time, since she spoke to the media her phone is off, she told me her family doesn't only hit her but sadate her as well. Feeling helpless don't know what to do."
For The Uninitiated
Sunaina and her boyfriend Ruhail Amin alleged that the former's family was against their relationship. In an interview, Hrithik's sister alleged that her father Rakesh Roshan even slapped her and her brother Hrithik was supporting him.
It Was Rangoli Who Brought This Story Of Forbidden Love In Public
"Sunaina Roshan is asking Kangana for help, her family is physically assaulting her because she is in love with a Muslim man from Delhi, last week they got a lady cop who slapped her, her father also hit her, her brother is trying to put her behind bars," she had tweeted. Later, Sunaina had confirmed this in an interview with Pinkvilla.
Kangana Ranaut's Reaction
When Kangana was asked about it, she said in a Mumbai Mirror interview, "It is true that Sunaina and I were always good friends and so was her family. Now they claim differently. Yes, she has been in touch with me, but I don't want to take advantage of her family dispute. Sunaina is still a friend but I will not hit somebody when they are down."
Meanwhile, Hrithik's Ex-wife Sunaina Roshan Defended Him In This Controversy
In her Instagram post, she wrote, "As a part of my experience with all concerned and in my life span of being a part of this close knit family, I know Sunaina, to be an extremely loving warm, caring person, who is in an unfortunate situation. Sunaina's father is undergoing a major health crisis. Her mother is herself vulnerable to say the least.
Please respect a family's tough periods, each family goes through such times. I needed to say this as someone who has been a part of this family for long."
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Q: AES-CFB from Go to JS forge I'm trying to write a little something that is not secure. The purpose is to encrypt server-side mp3s so they can't be just downloaded with wget or "save as" and used by the average Joe.
The idea is on the server side, load the mp3, aes-cfb encrypt it, send the key in the header, send the encrypted mp3 in the response body.
Server side is using Go's stdlib and AES-CFB encryption. As first with base64 encoding, then just plain output of the encrypted []byte-s.
Client side I'm using forge to decrypt. I send a xhr, read the arraybuffer, decrypt using forge and write output to the console.
The content of test.txt is "this is just a test and maybe it's working maybe not."
main.go
package main

import (
    "net/http"
    "io"
    "crypto/rand"
    "os"
    "crypto/aes"
    "crypto/cipher"
    "fmt"
)

var (
    key = "1234567890123456"
    fn = "test.txt"
)

func main() {

    http.Handle("/file/", http.HandlerFunc(serveFile))
    http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("public")))
    http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}

func serveFile(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    file, e := os.Open(fn)
    if e != nil {
        fmt.Println(e.Error())
        return
    }
    defer file.Close()
    fi, _ := file.Stat()
    b := make([]byte, fi.Size())
    io.ReadFull(file, b)
    o := AESencrypt([]byte(key), b)
    w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
    //w.Header().Set("Key", key)
    fmt.Println(o)
    fmt.Println(len(o))
    w.Write(o)
}

func AESencrypt(key []byte, content []byte) []byte {
    block, err := aes.NewCipher(key)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    ciphertext := make([]byte, aes.BlockSize + len(content))
    iv := ciphertext[:aes.BlockSize]
    if _, err := io.ReadFull(rand.Reader, iv); err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    stream := cipher.NewCFBEncrypter(block, iv)
    stream.XORKeyStream(ciphertext[aes.BlockSize:], content)
    return ciphertext
}

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>MP3 Player Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
<button onclick="loadFile('1')">Load</button>

<script src="node_modules/node-forge/js/forge.bundle.js"></script>
<script src="assets/reader.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

reader.js
function loadFile(filename) {
    //var context = new AudioContext || new webkitAudioContext();
    var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
    var url = "http://localhost:8080/file/";
    request.open("GET", url + filename, true);
    request.responseType = "arraybuffer";
    request.onload = function () {
        var rt = request.response;
        console.log(rt);
        var decipher = forge.cipher.createDecipher('AES-CFB', forge.util.createBuffer('1234567890123456'));
        decipher.start({iv: forge.util.createBuffer('1234567890123456')});
        decipher.update(forge.util.createBuffer(rt));
        decipher.finish();
        console.log(decipher.output);
        console.log(decipher.output.bytes());
        console.log('--------------');
    };

    request.send();
}

The result is weird.
It is "properly" decrypted however there's a prefix or garbage of random length with each decrypted result.
3 outputs:
ArrayBuffer { byteLength: 69 }  reader.js:10:9
Object { data: "3~æÿK¥=®ªÿÂßthis is just a test…", read: 0, _constructedStringLength: 69 }  reader.js:16:9
3~æÿK¥=®ªÿÂßthis is just a test and maybe it's working maybe not.  reader.js:17:9
--------------  reader.js:18:9
ArrayBuffer { byteLength: 69 }  reader.js:10:9
Object { data: "ÅJÇ9Ë54«ÚV«this is just a test…", read: 0, _constructedStringLength: 69 }  reader.js:16:9
ÅJÇ9Ë54«ÚV«this is just a test and maybe it's working maybe not.  reader.js:17:9
--------------  reader.js:18:9
ArrayBuffer { byteLength: 69 }  reader.js:10:9
Object { data: "ªÕxïÂ`zqA   \cýx#this is just a test…", read: 0, _constructedStringLength: 69 }  reader.js:16:9
ªÕxïÂ`zqA   \cýx#this is just a test and maybe it's working maybe not.  reader.js:17:9
--------------  reader.js:18:9

The output here is truncated but it's the same is the test.txt . As you can see it's always prefixed with random garbage.
What am I doing wrong? Is the forge implementation of AES-CFB wrong or Go's? Why are they incompatible? Or why is it that the decryption differs? And if AES-CFB is a standard why are there different implementations?
I also tried gopherjs as an alternative and that works just fine but a) the code size is too big (~3.7MB) and b) I wouldn't know how to play back the decrypted audio using gopherjs. But that's just as an aside.

A: You're forgetting to remove the IV. This means the IV gets "decrypted" as well, resulting in nonsense.
The nonsense seems to be interpreted as UTF-8, where a character may have a multi-byte encoding, so the size of the IV you print out may differ somewhat.
So remove the IV, and try printing out hexadecimals when debugging binary values.

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How to protect our penguins
#africanpenguin, #bouldersbeach, #bouldersbeachpenguin, #bouldersbeachsimonstown, #capetown, #lovecapetown, #lovesimonstown, #penguin, #simonstown
The Top 5 Threats to Penguins – And What You Can Do to Help
hey say to dress for the job you want, not the job you have. If penguins' black and white getup is anything to go by, these birds would rather be butlers. And who's to blame them? From invasive predators to toxic plastics, penguins around the world face a litany of serious threats. This Friday is Penguin Awareness Day, which means there's no better time to learn about the biggest dangers to penguins — and how you can help the ocean's best-dressed birds thrive for years to come.
1. Overfishing
Jackass penguins rest on the beach near Cape Town, South Africa. African penguins have been hard-hit by overfishing of their preferred prey species. Credit: Sergey Uryadnikov / Shutterstock
Jackass penguins — named for their donkey-like braying — are the only species of penguin to call Africa home. In the 1950s, Namibia's jackass penguins mostly ate fatty, nutritious sardines. But in the 1970s, overfishing triggered a collapse of sardine stocks. Namibian penguin colonies were forced to switch to bearded gobies as their main source of prey. Though these gobies are abundant, they're low in fat and nutrients — making them the penguin equivalent of junk food. A 2010 report blamed this crummy diet for the decline in the country's penguin populations. In South Africa, similar collapses of small bait fish also caused jackass penguins to drop precipitously. And there are fears that in Antarctica, the fledgling krill fishery has the potential to decimate Adelie, chinstrap, gentoo and macaroni penguins if not tightly controlled.
2. Plastic pollution
A fairy penguin killed by plastic trash on Troubridge Island, Australia. Credit: Jane McKenzie / Environment Protection Authority South Australia
By 2050, nearly every species of seabird will be accidentally eating plastic debris — and that includes penguins. This is the conclusion from a 2015 study that warned that, at current rates of plastic production and pollution, 99.8 percent of the 186 species included in the report would be chowing down on plastic trash by mid-century. Eating plastic causes major problems for penguins and other marine animals. If a bird swallows enough plastic, for example, the indigestible scraps can build up in its gut and prevent it from digesting real food. Plastic is also efficient at absorbing industrial toxins from ocean water. These pollutants have been linked to a slew of health problems from neurological and reproductive disorders to cancer and birth defects.
3. Industrial development
Proposed industrial developments threaten the world's largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Credit: Natural Earth Imagery / Shutterstock
In Chile, a cluster of islands off Punta de Choros is home to approximately 80 percent of the world's Humboldt penguins. But this vital nesting site is being threatened by two new open-pit mines, a desalinization plant and a commercial port. Increasing ship traffic and coastal development will expose the region's marine life to pollution, oil spills, disruptive noise and habitat loss. Now, Oceana Chile is partnering with local communities, other NGOs and concerned Chilean citizens to oppose the new development and protect this vital stronghold for Humboldt penguins.
4. Invasive predators
Fairy penguins are the smallest species of penguin — making them perfect fodder for invasive foxes. Credit: EA Given / Shutterstock
On Australia's Middle Island, fairy penguin numbers plummeted after red foxes were introduced on the mainland to control rabbit populations. But foxes quickly learned they could cross to the island at low tide and feast on adult penguins and their chicks. In 1999, there were over 500 resident penguins. By 2006, that number plummeted to fewer than 10. Luckily, a local man had the smart idea of raising Maremma livestock guardian dogs among these blue-hued birds. The puppies imprinted on the penguins and defended them from foxes. Since then, there's been no evidence that foxes have killed a single one of these fish-loving fairies.
Penguins elsewhere are not so lucky. On the Galapagos Islands, made famous by Charles Darwin, resident penguins face an onslaught of invaders they did not evolve to withstand. Introduced black rats and house mice feast on penguin eggs. Nonnative plants destroy nesting habitat. And in 2007, a single house cat at Isabela Island's Caleta Iguana increased the average yearly risk of death for an adult penguin by 49 percent — proving that Little Fluffy can be a voracious killer of wildlife if not kept indoors.
5. Climate change
Climate change is increasing the intensity of storms and decreasing penguins' food supply, which makes life particularly tough for penguin chicks. Credit: 2j architecture / Shutterstock
In Punta Tombo, Argentina, storms are becoming more intense and frequent, and that's bad news for Magellanic penguin chicks. A 2014 study that tracked almost 3,500 chicks from 1983 to 2010 found that rainstorms and extreme temperatures were major causes of death for young penguins. Rain is particularly harmful to chicks as their fluffy down is only insulating when it's dry. Over the 27-year-long study, penguin numbers dropped by 20 percent while the number of storms during each nesting season rose. This makes climate change one of the potential culprits behind Punta Tombo's missing Magellans.
Climate change doesn't just hurt penguin chicks directly. It can also slash the amount of food that their parents can find and bring back to the nest. Rockhopper penguins, which breed on islands and coastlines north of the Antarctic Circle, have seen some giant population drops in recent years. On Marion Island, 1,900 kilometers (1,200 miles) south of Cape Town, rockhopper penguin numbers plummeted by 52 percent from 1987 to 2013. One 2008 study attributed this decline to the underfed conditions of adults — which in turn was bad news for hungry chicks entirely dependent on their parents for food. Warmer water, shifting winds and a host of other climate change induced factors may be to blame for the starving birds.
It can be hard to directly help a penguin in trouble — after all, most of the world's human population lives in the northern hemisphere, and all penguins species live south of the equator. But there are plenty of ways you can support healthy, vibrant oceans.
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CAPE TOWN VOTED BEST CITY IN THE WORLD FOR 7TH YEAR RUNNING
#capetown, #lovecapetown, #lovesimonstown, #simonstown, #simonstownaccommodation, #southafrica, #westerncape
For the seventh year running Cape Town has been voted the best city in the world by more than 39 000 readers of The Telegraph who took part in the 2019 Telegraph Travel Awards.
Cape Town has been described as "a coastal gem, lying in the shadow of a cloud-hugged mountain" where "wine flows, penguins waddle and – not too far away – majestic beasts roam".
The Mother City has retained its position despite major shifts in the top 20, such as Kyoto, a brand new entrant, ranking third.
What makes Cape Town the world's most desirable city?
Geography, weather, Cape Point, Bo-Kaap, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, and Table Mountain were some of the city's highlights that were featured.
Cape Town managed to retain its top position despite the recent water crisis not having been forgotten, noted Member of the Mayoral Committee for Economic Opportunities and Asset Management, including Tourism, James Vos.
"We retained this position as the best city in the world despite The Telegraph also noting our 'earnest notes to flush only when absolutely necessary'. While perhaps a bit of a tongue-in-cheek comment on their part, it is a reminder of the major challenges the City and our tourism sector faced. It is also a reminder of how Capetonians acted together to save water and avert the taps running dry. While we are still in recovery mode, it is encouraging that we have retained our top position despite other major shifts in the rankings. This is something we can be proud of."
MMC Vos added: "The priority for my team and I is to diversify tourism products so more people can benefit from the millions of visitors we have every year. Combined with promoting the already impressive sites and attractions we have in Cape Town, I intend to make tourism a game-changer for our city."
CEO of Cape Town Tourism Enver Duminy says, "Being voted the world's best city for yet another year underscores Cape Town's fantastic tourism offerings and that we remain an unparalleled destination and one whose multiple tourism initiatives have ensured that we can continue to attract visitors from all over the globe. We would like to acknowledge and thank our member products and experiences on delivering on and exceeding the expectations of visitors and locals alike without fail. As high-season approaches lets ensure that everyone experiences world-class tourism in and around Cape Town."
The 2019 Telegraph Travel Awards list of 20 best cities in the world:
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Spring Special at Mariner Guesthouse
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Take advantage of our Spring Special to get 15% off your accommodation and breakfast at Mariner Guesthouse in Simon's Town (CTN) – valid until end November 2019. Contact us for a quote: info@marinerguesthouse.co.za and find more information on www.marinerguesthouse.co.za.
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King Penguin traveled to our shores
#capetown, #falsebay, #kingpenguin, #lovecapetown, #lovesimonstown, #penguins, #sanccob, #simonstown, #simonstownboatclub
Spotting a King penguin on a whale watching trip in False Bay/Cape Town – this certainly came as a wonderful surprise!
This bird is far off its normal range as illustrated in the accompanying map, but is in good shape as confirmed by SANCCOB and will remain under their caring eyes for the duration of its visit.
This rare event is a real treat for birders – I wonder what our local African penguins make of it?
Interesting facts about king penguins
The king penguin is the second largest species of penguin at 70 to 100 centimeters (2.3 to 3.2 feet) tall and weighs 11 to 16 kilograms (24 to 35 pounds). In size it is second only to the emperor penguin.
There are an estimated 2 to 3.2 million breeding pairs.
Lifespan is 15 to 20 years in the wild, and up to 30 years in captivity.
King penguins eat small fish, mainly lantern fish and squid and rely less than most Southern Ocean predators on krill and other crustaceans.
Ice and water in Antarctica is primarily salty, making it impossible for most animals to drink. The king penguins stomach, however, has adapted to drinking salt water. Its powerful stomach can separate the salt completely, allowing the bird to drink without becoming dehydrated.
The body is a dark black and grey mix all down the back. They have dark yellow on their bill and the back of the neck. They also have this yellow color on the front as the bit of black there gives way to the rest being all white.
To keep warm, King penguins have four layers of feathering.The outer layer of feathers are oiled and waterproof, not unlike the feathering of a duck.
The king penguin is one of the most elegant of all penguin species as it's long and slender body helps the king penguin to glide through the water with great ease.
The average cruising speed for a King Penguin while swimming ranges somewhere between 5 and 10 km per hour (3 to 5 miles per hour).
King penguins are excellent divers and have been known to dive as deep as 300 meters (980 ft)!
King Penguins live on the sub-antarctic islands at the northern reaches of Antarctica, as well as Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands and other temperate islands of the region.
King Penguins form gigantic colonies when they come in to shore during the mating season. One colony at South Georgian Island is estimated to have over 200,000 birds.
King Penguins are "serially monogamous" – they mate with only one mate per season, working with their mate to hatch the egg and care for the chick. However, unlike some other species of penguin, they're not so likely to return to the same mate the next year – about 70% will find a new mate the following season.
King penguins are one of the few birds that do not build nests, eggs are incubated under the belly on top of their feet.
It takes 54 days for the eggs to hatch, during which time males and females take shifts incubating them.
After hatching, parental duties continue to be equally shared by both male and female, with one staying on land to brood the chick while the other goes in search of food at sea.
When the chick reaches around six weeks old, it joins a group of chicks known as a creche, thus allowing both parents to go foraging at the same time, in order to bring back enough food for the voracious offspring.
The creche provides the woolly chicks with protection from predators, as well as the benefit of collective warmth.
The chick grows a warm brown fluffy down of feathers. They also grow a thick layer of blubber to keep them warm during the winter months ahead.
The chicks huddle in their creches during the winter months while the parents occasionally come onshore to feed them. In the spring the parents come back and start feeding the chicks again.
At this time, the chicks starts to grow their adult feathers and are ready to go off on their own. Raising a King penguin chick usually takes 10 to 13 months.
Once a young King Penguin does leave its colony it will not return until at least 3 years later when it's able to mate.
At sea, the key predators of King penguins are the leopard seals and killer whales who wait beneath the surface near the shore for unsuspecting birds.
Some king penguin colonies were completed exterminated. This occurred as a result of hunting in the 19th and 20th Centuries. People hunted the king penguins for their skin, oil, blubber and eggs.
King penguins have legal protection from hunting and the collection of their eggs. According to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959, it is illegal to harm or interfere with any penguin or its eggs.
Today, the king penguin populations in the sub-Antarctic Oceans appear to be thriving and better still increasing in numbers with more than two million breeding pairs of king penguins found around the freezing waters.
Like almost all animals, king penguins ordinarily have round pupils in their eyes. However, this all changes when their pupils constrict. Of all king penguin facts, one of the most bizarre is that, when constricted, a king penguin's pupils are actually square in shape.
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Simon's Town Boat Club
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Annual Penguin Festival in Simon's Town 5 October 2019
#annualpenguinfestival, #capetown, #lovecapetown, #lovesimonstown, #penguinfestival, #penguins, #simonstown
Join us at Seaforth Beach at 10am and then follow on to Simon's Town School for a fun-filled festival, in celebration of African penguin awareness.
SANCCOB's 17th Annual Penguin Festival in collaboration with the City of Cape Town, Cape Town Environmental Education Trust (CTEET) and South African National Parks (SANParks) kick-starts with a public release of rehabilitated African penguins for all to witness how they waddle back to where they belong. It's an experience not to be missed as we count down to tip the boxes!
This year Kfm's mascot, Rocket, will also tip a box.
From 10h30 the festival will take place at Simon's Town School in Harrington Road, within walking distance from the beach release site and parking is available at the school's hostel.
There will be educational exhibits with an environmental spin by exhibitors, food vendors, boerewors rolls made with love by the SANParks Honourary Rangers, and a designated craft beer and wine area.
Entry is FREE and children can access the Kids' Zone at R50 per child. Regrettably, no dogs are allowed at this event.
This annual event is a platform to highlight the plight of the iconic African penguin species and educate the public on how to play their part in supporting SANCCOB's conservation efforts and those of all collaborators and exhibitors.
• Parking for the beach release is available at the Navy's parking at the end of Martello Road.
• Attendees can walk up Whalers Way to the Main Road's pedestrian crossing to reach the festival, following the festival signage from the beach release.
• There is a stop and drop option on Harrington Road at the venue's entrance.
• Event parking is available at the school's hostels at the top of Harrington Road.
Find out more at https://bit.ly/2ZqWCVu
Source Credit: SANNCOB


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Koben Systems' smart breaker panel and battery pack enable large EV charging installations
Posted February 26, 2019 by Michael Alba & filed under Features, Infrastructure Features.
As the adoption of EVs continues to ramp up, condo complexes and workplaces will need to provide their denizens with adequate EV charging infrastructure. However, this is easier said than done. A few chargers can be added without surpassing the power available to the building, but as more EVs join the fray, and battery sizes increase, there won't be enough power to go around.
Koben Systems owns and operates a charging network in Ontario, Canada, and produces hardware solutions for consumers, businesses, and energy providers seeking to set up EV infrastructure.
Vic Burconak, the entrepreneur who founded Koben, says he fortuitously stumbled into the industry when he founded the company in 2010.
"The light really came on as to where the future was headed," Burconak told Charged. "And it was pretty unique, because the culmination of my experience in sales and operating a business and engineering and electrical sort of just fit in perfectly at a very timely moment."
Today, Koben Systems operates what Burconak, now the company's CEO, says is the largest charging network in Ontario, consisting of a mix of several hundred Level 2 and Level 3 chargers across the province.
Beyond the operation of its charging network, Koben Systems provides two other products aimed at the EV market: EVOLVE EVSF, a battery pack to pair with EV chargers in workplaces and condos, and the GENIUS smart panel, a breaker panel that adds intelligence to a building's circuits.
"We're heavily involved with integrated solutions and services not only for the EV market but for renewable and demand response," said Burconak. "And now we're starting to deal with utilities as well as providing integrated solutions for EV charging station installers to allow mass deployment in condos and workplaces through integrating battery storage like our EVOLVE system."
The EVOLVE battery pack
"Some of our competitors utilize load splitting or load sharing, which is okay when you have 5 to 10 chargers," said Burconak. "But as the industry improves, and some of the vehicles now have 100 kWh batteries, it's impractical to be doing load sharing and load splitting. You only have 24 hours in a day. And if you try to charge a large bank of 100 kWh EVs with basically 1.2 kW, it's not going to happen."
Koben's solution is the EVOLVE battery pack, a scalable system that can store a building's excess energy capacity and make it available for EV charging. Using what the company calls store-and-forward technology, EVOLVE stores energy from the grid at off-peak rates and forwards it to EV chargers when the demand is high.
"We can ramp up and cluster these battery storage solutions to basically any amount with our smart panel technology that provides proper sophisticated load management to deliver a full 7.2 kW of power for these larger vehicles that are equipped with larger batteries. It makes it much more practical," Burconak said.
The EVOLVE system starts at a capacity of 50 kWh, though it can be scaled up as energy demands increase. Koben manufactures the system and pack enclosure. Burconak anticipates that installations will begin in May or June of this year.
The GENIUS smart panel
Next to EVOLVE, Koben Systems' main offering is the GENIUS smart panel, an alternative to standard breaker panels for residential, retail and commercial sites. The computerized GENIUS panel replaces the standard mechanical panel, providing all the same functionality while adding intelligent monitoring and control of circuit activity. GENIUS provides real-time energy usage data, the ability to integrate multiple renewable sources, and the ability to automatically switch and filter loads. Combined with the EVOLVE battery pack, Burconak sees the GENIUS panel as a way to significantly reduce energy costs associated with EV charging.
"We're seeing a lot of locations that are struggling with high costs," he said. "If you fast forward 5 years from now for what's coming in vehicle adoption, a lot of buildings in North America cannot support that type of volume. We're working on projects with 150 Level 2 [chargers] in one building, up to 400 in another building. So when you do the math for the power, it's huge. Demand charges also play a very large part, and GENIUS can ensure that demand charges are reduced and available capacity is never exceeded. And we specialize in behind-the-meter integration for batteries and our GENIUS panel."
One of the primary ways GENIUS helps facilities manage this power requirement is through the integration of renewable resources such as solar panels. The panels can collect solar energy during the day and store it in the EVOLVE battery packs, and the GENIUS panel will route power as needed. If they like, users can even program the panel to ensure EV chargers are supported only by this solar energy.
This is just part of the control that GENIUS provides users over their circuits. Users can also prioritize their appliances to ensure that, if power demand exceeds the available supply, power is routed to their most important appliances first. In Koben's view, an EV charger is just another appliance – users can program the GENIUS to ensure that their EV is the last item ever to lose power.
"We treat EV charging as an appliance, which it actually is," said Burconak. "So for us the characteristics of an EV charger, or a stove, or a dryer, from an electrical perspective is exactly the same, whether it requires 20 amps or 50 amps to operate."
The GENIUS panel is designed and manufactured in Israel and Manila, and has been deployed globally. Currently, there are two versions of the panel: a North American version and a European version with a smaller footprint for condos. Both are UL-approved. Koben also plans to make the GENIUS panel available to installers of EV equipment.
"We're making the GENIUS available to EV installers because we recognize that a lot of the installers in North America, when they come into an environment and they're going to be installing several chargers, they have to buy an electrical panel in most cases," explained Burconak. "So if you're going to be spending that kind of money on an electrical panel, why not get something that sets you up for the next 25 or 30 years? Something that's interconnected and has the artificial intelligence to carry one through to the next levels."
The integrated approach
In Burconak's view, the strength of the company's energy portfolio lies in the integrated and intelligent nature of its products, EVOLVE and GENIUS.
"We've now recognized that the integrated solution is where everything is going," he said. "Because a charger is a charger like a phone is a phone. And the important aspects are the openness of the platform, making sure they're interchangeable, and the integrated solutions that provide site hosts with the ability to curtail a lot of costs and have something that's truly future-proof and scalable."
Tags: Issue 41 – January/February 2019, Koben Systems


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Would extending Daylight Savings Time year-round have benefits for the environment?
Published Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, 3:12 pm
Dear EarthTalk: Would extending Daylight Savings Time (DST) year-round have benefits for the environment?
– Jane Wyckoff, Soquel, CA
The concept of daylight savings time (DST), whereby we set our clocks ahead by an hour from mid-spring through mid-fall so we can get more done using natural light later into the evening, was first proposed more than 200 years ago by Benjamin Franklin as a way to save money on candles (!). While Franklin's idea didn't catch on back then, Germany instituted a "war effort" version of it to conserve fuel during World War I. The U.S. followed suit in 1918 but scrapped the idea shortly after the war ended.
DST came back to the U.S. during World War II when FDR instituted it year-round as "war time" between February 1942 and September 1945. After WWII, some states adopted summer DST but it wasn't until Congress passed the Uniform Time Act in 1966 that it became standard across the country (initially Arizona and Michigan opted out; these days only Arizona and Hawaii don't observe DST).
This past November, Californians voted in an extension of DST year-round across their state. The rationale is that the twice-a-year time change causes lost or poor sleep which leads to more accidents, aggravates existing health issues and has even been linked to a short-term uptick in suicides. Oregon and Washington are also considering aligning with California so the entire West Coast could be on DST throughout the year.
But according to a 2011 study published in The Review of Economics and Statistics by researchers from Yale and Claremont McKenna, such a change may not be good news for the environment. "Our main finding is that, contrary to the policy's intent, DST increases electricity demand," report researchers Matthew Kotchen and Laura Grant. "Estimates of the overall increase are approximately 1 percent, but we find that the effect is not constant throughout the DST period." According to their data, DST causes the greatest increase in electricity consumption in the fall (estimates range from 2-4%) when dipping temperatures send Hoosiers inside earlier to turn up their thermostats. They estimate that increased energy demand as a result of DST adds ~$9 million a year to household power bills across Indiana while the "social costs" of the resulting increased emissions range from $1.7-$5.5 million annually.
Of course, mileage varies by region. A study by the California Energy Commission found that extending DST would have little to no effect on energy use in that state. Meanwhile, a U.S. Department of Energy analysis of 67 different power utilities across the country concluded that a four-week extension of DST would save Americans ~0.5 percent of electricity per day, or 1.3 trillion watt-hours in total — enough to power 100,000 households for a year.
Whether or not the recent interest in extending DST throughout the year on the West Coast will take hold across the country is anyone's guess. In the meantime, we can all look forward to the second Sunday in March to spring ahead and leave the short and dreary winter days behind us — at least for a few months.
CONTACTS: "Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana," ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v93y2011i4p1172-1185.html; "The Dark Side of Daylight Savings Time," theconversation.com/the-dark-side-of-daylight-saving-time-91958.
EarthTalk® is produced by Roddy Scheer & Doug Moss for the 501(c)3 nonprofit EarthTalk. To donate, visit www.earthtalk.org. Send questions to: question@earthtalk.org.


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Israeli demographics working in Jews' favor
Demographics Expert Yoram Ettinger presents nine-point optimistic analysis.
Hillel Fendel
Yoram EttingerDemographics
Jewish Israeli family (illustrative)Noam Moskowitz/Flash 90
Diplomacy and demographics expert Yoram Ettinger finds that contrary to popular perception and politically-motivated scare tactics, there is actually no "Arab demographic time bomb." Rather, he notes that there is a robust 66% Jewish majority in the entirety of the Land of Israel, including Judea and Samaria - and that it is growing.
There are currently some 6.6 million Jews in Israel, as well as 3.4 million Arabs divided equally between pre-1967 Israel and Judea/Samaria. This number is trending upward, Ettinger states, benefitting from net-positive migration and an unprecedented tailwind of fertility.
Ettinger is the co-founder of the America-Israel Demographic Research Group, and formerly served as Minister for Congressional Affairs with the rank of Ambassador at Israel's Embassy in Washington, D.C.
He has found that the gap of the Jewish-Arab fertility rate (number of births per woman) has all but closed. Arab women in Israel had an average of 6 births more than their Jewish counterparts in 1969 – and this number has now shrunk a hundred-fold to 0.6. As of a year ago, the Arab rate was 3.17 births per woman, and 3.11 for Jews – and 3.4 when both spouses were Israeli-born.
Israel's Jewish fertility rate exceeds the rate in most of the Muslim world. In Iran, for instance, women have an average of 1.83 births, and 2.12 in Saudi Arabia. Ettinger's take is that the dropping Arab fertility rates reflect accelerated modernity, while "the Jewish fertility rate is bolstered by optimism, patriotism, attachment to roots and collective responsibility."
The number of Jewish births in Israel has risen hugely over the last two decades, from 80,400 in 1995, to 136,000 last year – a 68% increase. Over the same period, the annual number of Arab births in pre-1967 Israel has stabilized at 40,000. In 1995, Jewish births constituted 69% of total births in Israel, but are now approaching 78%.
In Judea and Samaria, the Arab birth rate has dropped drastically, from 5 births per woman 20 years ago to 2.76 in 2015.
In terms of migration from Judea and Samaria, Arabs are moving out as Jews are moving in. The negative Arab net-migration from Judea and Samaria has been climbing: 18,000 in 2012, 20,000 in 2013, and 25,000 in 2014. Ettinger says that a pro-active Aliyah policy, which has been suspended since 1993, would produce another strong wave of Aliyah.
Ettinger has long claimed that Arab sources wildly exaggerate the population numbers in Judea and Samaria. In fact, he says, in December of 2014, the PA's Central Bureau of Statistics reported 2.8 million people – when in fact the number was actually only 1.7 million. This 66% over-count was effected, inter alia, as follows:
400,000 residents living abroad for over a year are included, as documented in many sources provided by Ettinger, including a World Bank report.
300,000 Jerusalem Arabs, bearing Israeli I.D. cards, are double-counted as Israelis (by Israel) and PA residents (by the PA).
Over 100,000 Arabs, mostly from Judea and Samaria, are married to Israeli-Arabs and possess Israeli I.D. cards – and are double-counted by both the PA and Israel.
The Palestinian Authority's 2007 population census included Arabs born in 1845 and 1850.
"Israel's fertility rate is unique," Ettinger concludes, "both quantitatively and qualitatively, among the world's advanced economies. It is a source of reality-based optimism, producing substantial economic and national security opportunities."


UPDATE: The CMS Open Door Forum and Follow Up Q&A Call have been postponed until further notice.
CMS's Office of Information Technology (OIT) will hold a special Open Door Forum on the New Medicare Card Project on Tuesday, January 23 at 2:00 PM Eastern. If you plan to attend, please dial in at least 15 minutes before the call.
Following the CMS call, AAA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Tristan North, will moderate a Q&A call for members. To answer your questions, AAA Medicare Consultant, Brian Werfel, Esq.; AAA Medicare Regulatory Committee Chair, Rebecca Williamson; and AAA Medicare Regulatory Vice-Chair, Angie (Lehman) McLain will be on the line.
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This article is about the year 1897.
Millennium:
2nd millennium
1897 in topic
Archaeology – Architecture – Art
Literature – Music
Australia – Belgium – Brazil – Canada – Denmark – France – Germany – Mexico – New Zealand – Norway – Philippines – Portugal – Russia – South Africa – Spain – Sweden – United Kingdom – United States – Venezuela
Rail transport – Science – Sports
Lists of leaders
Sovereign states – State leaders – Territorial governors – Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Works category
1897 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar 1897
MDCCCXCVII
Armenian calendar 1346
ԹՎ ՌՅԽԶ
Assyrian calendar 6647
Bahá'í calendar 53–54
Balinese saka calendar 1818–1819
Bengali calendar 1304
Berber calendar 2847
British Regnal year 60 Vict. 1 – 61 Vict. 1
Buddhist calendar 2441
Burmese calendar 1259
Byzantine calendar 7405–7406
Chinese calendar 丙申年 (Fire Monkey)
— to —
丁酉年 (Fire Rooster)
Coptic calendar 1613–1614
Discordian calendar 3063
Ethiopian calendar 1889–1890
Hebrew calendar 5657–5658
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat 1953–1954
- Shaka Samvat 1818–1819
Holocene calendar 11897
Igbo calendar 897–898
Iranian calendar 1275–1276
Islamic calendar 1314–1315
Japanese calendar Meiji 30
(明治30年)
Javanese calendar 1826–1827
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar 4230
Minguo calendar 15 before ROC
民前15年
Nanakshahi calendar 429
Thai solar calendar 2439–2440
Tibetan calendar 阳火猴年
(male Fire-Monkey)
2023 or 1642 or 870
阴火鸡年
(female Fire-Rooster)
1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1897th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 897th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 19th century, and the 8th year of the 1890s decade. As of the start of 1897, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
further reading and year books
March 4, President William McKinley
January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City.
January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the Oba of Benin. This leads to a punitive expedition against Benin.
January 7 – A cyclone destroys Darwin, Australia.
January 22 – In this date's issue of the journal Engineering, the word computer is first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device.[1]
January 23 – Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only capital case in United States history, where spectral evidence helps secure a conviction.
January 31 – The Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
February 10 – Freedom of religion is proclaimed in Madagascar.
February 16 – The French conquer the island of Raiatea and capture the rebel chief Teraupoo, ending the Leeward Islands War and bringing all of the Society Islands under their control.
February 18 – Benin is put to the torch by the British Army's Benin Expedition. The Benin Bronzes are carried off to London.
February 24 – The Čekan Mekenroff 1897 association football club is founded in Pozsony, in the Kingdom of Hungary.
February 26 – The Sigma Pi fraternity is founded in Vincennes, Indiana.
February 27 – The French military governor of Madagascar, Joseph Gallieni, exiles Queen Ranavalona III to Réunion, abolishing the monarchy the next day.
March 4 – William McKinley is sworn in as the 25th President of the United States.
March 13 – San Diego State University is founded.
March 22 – Emilio Aguinaldo unseats Andrés Bonifacio at the Tejeros Convention, becoming the new head of the Filipino revolutionary group Katipunan.
April–June
April 15 – Drillers near Bartlesville, Oklahoma strike oil for the first time, in the designated "Indian Territory", on land leased from the Osage Indians. The gusher, at the Nellie Johnstone Number One well, leads to rapid population growth.[2]
April 19 – The first Boston Marathon is held in the United States, with fifteen men competing, and won by John McDermott.[3]
April 23 – Representatives of the Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation and U.S. Dawes Commission sign the Atoka Agreement, which becomes an important precursor for creating the State of Oklahoma.
April 27 – 6 May – Greco-Turkish War of 1897: Battle of Velestino.[4]
April 30 – J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[5]
May 6 – John Jacob Abel announces the successful isolation of epinephrine (adrenaline), in a paper read before the Association of American Physicians.[6]
May 10 – 19 zinc miners die of carbon monoxide poisoning at Snaefell Mine on the Isle of Man.
May 11 – A patent is awarded for the invention of the first automotive muffler, with the granting by the U.S. Patent Office of application number 582,485 to Milton Reeves and his brother Marshall T. Reeves, of the Reeves Pulley Company of Columbus, Indiana.[7]
The Stars and Stripes Forever, an American patriotic march by John Philip Sousa, is performed for the first time.[8]
(or May 15) – The Scientific-Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK) is founded in Berlin as an LGBT campaigning organization, the first such in history.[9]
May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released from prison in England, and goes into exile on the continent.
May 26 – Irish-born theatrical manager Bram Stoker's contemporary Gothic horror novel Dracula is first published (in London); it will influence the direction of vampire literature for the following century.[10]
June 12 – 1897 Assam earthquake: An earthquake of magnitude of 8.0 rocks Assam, India, killing over 1,500 people.
June 18 – Kyoto University is officially established in Japan.[11]
June 22 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria is celebrated in the United Kingdom.[12] No other British monarch will celebrate such a jubilee until Elizabeth II in 2012.
Display in celebration of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee on Alma Place in Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ulster
July–September
July 11 – S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 begins. The ill-fated expedition to fly over the Arctic results in the death of the entire team within months.
July 17 – The Klondike Gold Rush begins when the first successful prospectors arrive in Seattle.
July 25 – Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush, where he will write his first successful stories.
July 26–August 2 – Siege of Malakand: British troops are besieged by Pashtun tribesmen in Malakand, on the North-West frontier of the British Raj (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).
July 31 – Mount Saint Elias, the second highest peak in the United States and Canada, is first ascended.
August 10 – At the Bayer pharmaceutical company, pharmacist Felix Hoffmann successfully synthesizes acetylsalicylic acid, after isolating a compound from a plant of the Spiraea family; the company markets it under the brand name "Aspirin".[13]
August 21 – The Olds Motor Vehicle Co. is founded in Lansing, Michigan, by Ransom E. Olds.
August 29 – The First Zionist Congress convenes in Basel, Switzerland.
August 31 – Thomas Edison is granted a patent for the Kinetoscope, a precursor of the movie projector.
October 6, Ethiopian flag.
September 1 – The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground metro in North America.
September 10 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania.
September 11 – After months of searching, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
September 12 – Battle of Saragarhi: Twenty-one Sikhs of the 36th Sikhs regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army post to the death, against 10,000 Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen, in the Tirah Campaign on the North-West frontier of the British Raj (modern-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan).
September 20 – Greece and Turkey sign a peace treaty to end the Greco-Turkish War.
October: USS Baltimore in Hawaii
September 21 – Francis P. Church responds to a letter to the editor that is known as the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" letter.
October–December
October 2 – The first issue of the Australian radical paper Tocsin is published.
October 5 – After a long siege, Brazilian government troops take Canudos in north Brazil, crushing Antônio Conselheiro and his followers.
October 6 – Ethiopia adopts the tricolor flag: green is for the land, yellow for gold, and red is symbolic of strength and the blood shed.
The Joseon Kingdom becomes the Korean Empire, ending the Joseon era which has existed since 1392.
The city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil is created. The construction of the second Brazilian planned city is completed successfully; an immigration of 1,000,000 people is estimated.
USS Baltimore (Cruiser # 3, later CM-1) is recommissioned, since 1890, for several months of duty in the Hawaiian Islands.
October 13 – HMS Canopus, a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy, is launched at Portsmouth, England; she will be deployed widely in World War I.
October 23 – The Kappa Delta sorority is founded in Farmville, Virginia.
November 1 – Juventus F.C. is founded as an association football club in Turin.
November 25 – Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy.
December 9 – The first issue of the feminist newspaper La Fronde is published by Marguerite Durand in Paris.
December 12 – The comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids debuts in the New York Journal.
December 12 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is incorporated.
December 14 – Pact of Biak-na-Bato: The Philippine Revolution is settled, with Spanish promises to reform.
December 28 – The play Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, premieres in Paris.
December 30 – Natal annexes Zululand.
Women study at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Date unknown
France allows women to study at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Karl Lueger becomes mayor of Vienna.
Zhejiang University is founded in China.
The Duke University Debating Society is founded in the United States.
Émile Durkheim publishes his classic study Suicide.
The pan-African anthem "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika" ("God Bless Africa") is composed as a Xhosa hymn by South African teacher Enoch Sontonga.
The British Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry adopts the sub-title Earl of Carrick's Own, in honour of the future King Edward VII.
Dos Equis beer is first brewed in Mexico, in anticipation of the new century. "Dos equis" is Spanish for "two x", a reference to the 20th Century (XX in Roman numerals)
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The summer of 1927 in America was a momentous one, wonderfully recounted by Bill Bryson. Readers will be amazed, informed, and entertained. The most exciting event was the successful flight of Charles Lindbergh in the Spirit of St. Louis from New York to Paris in May. Many others attempted to fly across the Atlantic; most failed. Lindbergh, 25, became an instant celebrity; the last thing he wanted. His visit to New York City of his return to receive a medal was broadcast on radio nationwide.
In the most catastrophic flooding of the Mississippi River in history, over 700,000 American were displaced, but no federal funds were provided. Herbert Hoover was sent to oversee relief efforts, helping him get elected President the next year. "Silent Cal" Coolidge spent three month in the Black Hills of South Dakota, fishing and wearing a cowboy outfit, and declined to run for re-election as President. The carving of Mt. Rushmore began.
Sports and theater captured America's attention in 1927. Large and elaborate movie and Broadway theaters were built, hundreds of silent movies were filmed and Broadway shows with huge casts were popular. Al Jolson spoke on screen in the first "talkie". Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig led the New York Yankees in a record-breaking season. The Jack Dempsey-Gene Tunney boxing match was a huge event.
In 1927, crime also fascinated America. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti were put on trial, Al Capone's Chicago outfit brought in more than $100 million, and the Snyder-Gray murder trial got more publicity than the Mississippi River flood. All told, the summer of 1927 was quite memorable.
The audiobook is narrated by Bryson, an excellent narrator.


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How Can I Get Better In Studies?
Students are constantly worrying about their grades and trying their level best to grow and achieve more. Sometimes, they are willing to work hard for it and other times, they're just looking for an easy way out. Either way, you can only become better in studies if you're smart and motivated.
Manage time wisely: As a student, you have to learn the art of prioritising. Life can be significantly stressful, especially during exam season, but you've got to hold onto your ground and maintain control. Make plans, write them down, decide the best time to study, and schedule your day accordingly. If you know that you have to meet strict deadlines in the coming week, you need to begin its preparation now. Take care of your other social commitments while start researching your assignment writing.
Review lecture notes: One way to make your memory stronger is by actively practising it. Be attentive in class, take notes, and when you come back to your dorm room review and recall the lecture notes. This way you will always be present in the moment and up to date with whatever is happening in your course work. And when the time for quizzes and exams arrive, you will be prepared for it.
Utilise mnemonics: According to the research conducted in psychology by many prolific psychologists, you need to apply the mnemonic technique in your daily life. It is an easy trick to memorise hard information. Chunking is also apt for such situations. These little memory tools are best to produce incredible benefits and make students better in studies. They may seem pretty mundane at first, but when you learn things by making associations or chunks, you can learn more things in a shorter period.
Make a flow chart: By making a flow chart, you can easily learn theoretical stuff. Students of science and even history have major events and processes to memorise and one way to do that is by constructing flow charts indicating each step. This way you can recall each step in detail and when you need to revise, you can easily go through the charts instead of reading the entire material. If you are a visualiser, then you can even learn by making photos which well represent each point.
Set realistic goals: One way to not disappoint yourself and lose interest in studies is by keeping it real. Don't overestimate your abilities and take it slow. Challenge yourself but don't put too much pressure on yourself. If you're learning three topics today, then gradually increase them to five in a week. Your pace will eventually grow and that will become evident in your grades as well.
Reward yourself: And finally, you can't continue to grow if you're only focused on working and never celebrate your daily victories. Always reward yourself for getting good grades or if you perform beyond your expectations. This helps in increasing confidence.


If you have used previous versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework, you might have probably come across the model binding process and even created a few custom model binders. Similarly those who have used ASP.NET WebAPI, know that the binding process is different from that of MVC.
With the new .NET Core, things have changed with both the MVC and WebApi merged into the one ASP.Net Core framework.
So how does model binding now work in the new Core framework?
Interestingly, it behaves closer to the previous WebAPI framework.
This means there are scenarios that will take you by surprise if you were accustomed to the previous MVC framework.
For e.g. Submitting a JSON within the request body is particularly different now when compared to the previous MVC framework and requires you to understand these changes.
In this article, I will describe how Model Binding in ASP.NET Core works, how does it compare against the previous versions of the framework and how you can customize it with your custom binders.
The framework would iterate through the collection of ModelBinderProviders until one of them returned a non-null IModelBinder instance.
The matched binder would have access to the request and the value providers, which basically extracted and formatted data from the request.
By default, a DefaultModelBinder class was used along with value providers that extracted data from the query string, form data, route values and even from the parsed JSON body.
If you wanted to extend the default MVC behavior, you would either create and register a custom model binder, or a value provider.
Along came WebApi which shared with MVC its design philosophy and many of its ideas, but used a different pipeline.
The model binding process was one of the key differences between MVC and WebApi.
Binding from the body followed a different process which involved the added MediaTypeFormatters. These basically deserialized the request body into a type, and the specific formatter to be used was determined from the Content-Type header. Formatters like JsonMediaTypeFormatter and XmlMediaTypeFormatter were added, deserializing the body using Newtonsoft.Json, XmlSerializer or DataContractSerializer.
By default, simple types used the Url binding while complex types used the MediaTypeFormatters.
The framework also provided hooks for the user to be specific about which process should be used and to customize it, with the final set of rules described in its documentation.
In ASP.Net Core, both WebApi and MVC have been merged into a single framework.
However, as you read in the previous section, they had different approaches to model binding. So, you might be wondering how does model binding work in ASP.Net Core? How did it merge both approaches?
The answer is that the new framework followed the direction started by WebApi, but has integrated the formatters within a unified binding process, based on model binders.
The formatters are still there, now abstracted behind the IInputFormatter interface, but these formatters are now used by specific model binders like the BodyModelBinder.
Knowing the model binding process followed behind the scenes is going to be critical for you to customize it.
People who are used to the binding process in the previous ASP.NET MVC framework, might get particularly surprised by the changes!
Not every binding source is checked by default. Some model binders require you to specifically enable a binding source. For example, when binding from the Body, you need to add [FromBody] to your model/action parameter, otherwise the BodyModelBinder won't be used.
In particular, the Headers, Body and Files binding sources must be specifically enabled by the user and will use specific model binders.
There are value providers for route values, query string values and form values. Binders based on value providers can get data from any of these, but won't be able to get data from other sources like the body for example. Although form data is posted in the body as a URL-encoded string, it is a special case parsed and interpreted as a value provider by the framework.
Binding from the body anything other than URL-encoded form data, will always use a formatter instead of the value providers, with the entire model being deserialized from the body. No separated binding for each individual property will be attempted!
A JSON formatter based on JSON.Net is added by default. All the JSON.Net hooks and options to customize how data is serialized/deserialized are available, like custom JsonConverters.
Formatters for XML can be added, both XmlSerializer and DataContractSerializer are available.
The number of different model binders with its providers that are added by default is not a small list. You can customize that list adding/removing providers as you see fit through the MvcOptions.ModelBinderProviders.
If you look carefully at the list of the binder provider names, you can infer that some binders will be selected for specific model types, while others will be selected for specific binding sources!
BodyModelBinder, will be selected when [FromBody] is used, and will just use the request body through the InputFormatters.
ComplexTypeModelBinder, will be selected when binding a complex type and no specific source like [FromBody] is used.
Whether you intend your binder to be used with nested properties. For example, if you create a model binder for properties of type decimal, it will be used when binding a parent model from the Form data, but it won't be used when binding a parent model from a JSON body. In the second case, the InputFormatter deserializes the entire model in one go.
The latter might take most people coming from MVC 5 by surprise and is the scenario we will go through in the following section.
Let's go through a typical example used to demonstrate custom model binders in previous versions of the framework. This is the scenario where dateTime fields are provided as separated date and time properties, but you still want to bind them to a single dateTime field in your model.
As discussed in the previous sections, we will need to handle both scenarios differently.
In the case of the form data, we can create a custom model binder.
However, in the second case where a JSON is posted, we will need to customize the way the JsonInputFormatter will deserialize that property.
If you have any trouble following along, you can download the code from Github.
In this scenario, we have a view where an HTML form is rendered and submitted to our controller. This form will contain separated inputs for the date and time of the AppointmentDate property.
So far, this is all quite standard in any MVC application.
Now we need to create a new custom model binder for our AppointmentDate property. Since this is intended for posted forms, we can use the value providers to retrieve the AppointDate.Date and AppointmentDate.Time form values.
For the sake of simplicity, in the code that follows, I will force both date and time values to be present in the request data. While it suits the purposes of the article, in the real world, you most likely want them to be optional and proceed with the binding as long as one of the two values is found.
A similar remark must be made about the handling of different time zones, formats and cultures. I am sticking with the invariant culture and UTC for the purposes of the article, but double check your use case and needs, in case you need to handle different ones.
Now we need to tell the MVC framework when to use this model binder.
The approach described above requires us to explicitly tell whether a DateTime field in a model will be posted as separated date and time values, so we can add the [ModelBinder] attribute.
Depending on your requirements, you might be more interested in registering a new model binder provider that will create an instance of our binder for any DateTime property, regardless of whether date and time are submitted as a single or separated fields.
Before using this approach, let's rewrite the binder so we can use the default SimpleTypeModelBinder as a fallback in case the separated Date and Time values are not found.
This isn't complicated, we just need to inject a fallback IModelBinder and use it when either Date or Time are missing.
That's it, now our custom binding logic will be used when separated Date/Time values are found, while the default binding logic will be used otherwise.
If you check the code on Github, you can try the update view which uses a single form field for the AppointmentDate.
You might wonder what will happen if you just get the previous form and post it using an ajax call.
The code above will send an ajax request with the Content-Type header set as application/x-www-form-urlencoded. This is critical for the model binding process, as those values will be available in the FormValueProvider and our custom binder will work as expected. Everything will behave the same as when the HTML form was submitted.
You will notice that our model binder is not executed, in fact the model received by the controller action will be null!
The following section will shed some light on this scenario.
When posting a JSON and specifying the Content-Type as application/json, the value providers will have no data available at all, as they only look at the Query string, route and form values!
In this case, we need to explicitly tell MVC that we want to bind our model from the request body where the posted JSON will be found.
However, by doing this we will be using the BodyModelBinder instead of the binder we got before (the ComplexModelBinder). This new binder will internally use the JsonInputFormatter to deserialize the JSON found in the request body into an instance of the Appointment class.
As the entire model will be deserialized, our custom DateTime binder will not be used!
So how can we customize this scenario, and deserialize the separated date and time parts into a single DateTime value?
Since the JsonInputFormatter uses JSON.Net, we can write a custom JsonConverter and inform JSON.Net about it!
Let's start by creating a new converter that will verify that we have our separated date and time values, reading them both and creating the combined DateTime.
Then we can explicitly register it for our AppointmentDate property using the [JsonConverter] attribute.
We are using the default IsoDateTimeConverter as fall back, you might need to set its format/culture properties or use a different fallback converter as per JSON.Net date handling.
The model binding process has changed significantly in ASP.Net Core, especially if you compare it against the binding process used in the previous versions of ASP.Net MVC. Those of you who are used to ASP.Net WebAPI, will find the new binding process closer to what you already know.
Now you need to be aware of the different binding sources, which ones of those are available by default (like the query string or form data binding sources) and which ones must be explicitly activated (like the body or header binding sources).
When customizing the model binding process, being aware of the different model binders and which binding sources these are used with, will be critical. Just creating and registering a new model binder will be enough as long as you plan using binding sources available as value providers (like query string or form data). However other binding sources like the body or the header will require different strategies and extra effort.
As an example, we have seen how to customize DateTime bindings when submitting forms and when posting JSON data. This required a new custom model binder and a new JsonConverter.


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Q: Password does not match for user "postgres" I am trying to raise a service in my docker-compose to use postgres, I can raise the container correctly, the problem is that it does not allow me to authenticate with the password that I am setting in the environment variables
this is my docker-compose service:
version: "3"
services:
  api:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: docker/nodejs/Dockerfile
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    volumes:
      - .:/app
    links:
      - postgresql

  postgresql:
    image: postgres:11-alpine
    restart: always
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: 00000000
    volumes:
      - ~/docker/postgresql:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"

what can be the problem here? i trying to get in with pgadmin. In the console show me the error:
password authentication failed for user "postgres"
Password does not match for user "postgres".

A: The Postgres password is set on the first initialization if the db (when the var/lib/postgresql/data folder is empty). Since you probably ran docker-compose before with a different password, the new one will not take effect.
To fix this, remove the volume in your host machine and have docker-compose automatically recreate it next time you run docker-compose up. Note that removing this volume will delete all data stored in PostgreSQL

A: Another way to fail with POSTGRES_PASSWORD is to set a password with forbidden characters. You won't get any warnings, but you won't be able to login with this password.

A: This might have to do with your volumes. Try pruning your volumes and then bring up your containers again. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T NEED THE VOLUMES BEFORE YOU PRUNE THEM!
To see what existing volumes you have
docker volume ls

And then clear them out if you can
docker volume prune

A: If you are not runing it first time, you could already change it.
You can manualy edit pg_hba.conf file and set trust authorisation type


If you're a Connecticut medical marijuana patient, you face a unique challenge when choosing cannabis strains: their pharmaceutically-inspired names look nothing like those in the mainstream market. This can make research difficult, so we've put together this strain guide to help you translate these names into ones you're more familiar with.
But thank you for putting this together and taking the time to do so!! CT truly makes it difficult for us patients, by not using the recgonized strain names.
*VIP* They need more growers in CT. They always run out, hardly have the same item twice, and the cost has NOT come down. By now it should have. Plus when you get seen by the doctor and he okay's you that is the start date of your yearly. But you don't even have your temporary yet! Not for 10 to 14 business days! So, it is short of a year your card is good. What is that? Plus there is no difference between between applying for the card and REAPPLYING for the card. You fill out the same paper work too, why? The cost is the same why? Go to your Senators, call them, this is all wrong.
Nonetheless and with all due respect, Connecticut is on the map as a state in which one *can* get medical marijuana. As a resident and cancer survivor (so far), I'm still grateful for that. Beats getting my medicine off the street and not knowing *anything* about whence it comes or what it is.
I agree with you. While CT does have some issues and HR points them out very well, it beats having to go into Hartford or the dregs of Windsor to pick up my supply. I have PTSD and without the Kush I'm pretty much a wreck so having easy access to my product is wonderful.
may I ask which Kush you mean?
Thank you for writing what I would have. I agree 1 million %. The dispensaries, use to sell 5 grams of flower, and now it's only 3,5 grams for the price we paid for 5.
Back to the "black market", for "flower", until CT. gets prices in line with other states, like California.
The medibels are so weak, they are not worth buying.
The card renewal is ridiculously pricey.
Also, people deduct medication cost off their taxes if "out of pocket" costs are over $500.00 a year.
Why can't we do that? We are buying from a medical marijuana pharmacy after all.
The dispensary starts nagging you via email, to "renew your card", 4-5 months, before the expiration, because it is taking over a month for people to get their renewal card.
So, because DCP has 2 people handling all of this, we have to keep renewing our card earlier and earlier?
To the 2 people handing all of this, you are doing a great job, and I am not throwing you under the bus at all. I am saying, there should be more people employed, to keep up with the demand.
Plus, the date on the renewal should reflect, the day DCP processes it, not the day we see our doctor again. We lose a month a year, like "Human Rights" wrote above.
I renew mine 3 weeks prior to the expiration date, and that is even too long.
When we renew our driver license's, we get it that day. Now, no picture is required to renew, so why does it still cost, $100.00?
Renewal cards should be $50.00 tops….and the doctors need to cut the rate in half, once you are approved.
I have never understood why I need to see a medical cannabis Dr. for my license, when he needs a letter from my eye Dr. to confirm my glaucoma. All I should need the the letter from my eye Dr. And the cost to renew is ridiculous, especially as how all you going to get is a slip of paper. Something else I found out recently, your monthly refill date is every 30 days, not the 10th every month as an example.
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The info for Connecticut growers needs to be updated. There are many new strains.
Does anyone know what the strain info for Unigen T27 is ? It is an indica from ctps. It seems new and I can't find any info . Tried the strain yesterday, and I'm extremely curious . Anyone?
No LSD is actually recidra , which I tried recently as well and really enjoyed . I found out unigen is G13 hash plant x Scott's og.
update the list. many new strains.
Here is an updated as of 2/16/2018 Ct MMJ Strain List with the program name/street strain names.
Thank you Baily, Leafly, CTMMPS, Dabbing Dad, and all others that contributed to this page, and it's April 2017 update. All additional updates are appreciated as well. Presently.
Y'all really need to update this site.
Does anyone know what Theraplants "Zybrid" is supposed to be?
Please can you provide an updated list for CT?


New York: Philosophical Library, 1973. Hardcover 8vo. 518pp. Green boards with gold lettering. Illustrated text. Fair condition. Previous owner inscription (in ink) the the front, inner board. The binding is somewhat rolled with separation of the text-block from the spine. Some staining to the spine's outer boards. Staining/discoloration to the upper horizontal text-block edge. Toning to pages. Creasing, scratching, rubbing, smudging, toning, and discoloration to the text-block edge, endpapers, pages of the text, and outer/inner boards. The dust jacket is not priced and is in fair condition. Edge-wear. Chipping to the dust jacket's perimeter. Staining to the spine of the dust jacket. Rubbing/foxing to the front and rear covers of the dust jacket. Scuffing, rubbing, foxing, chipping, creasing, scratching, rubbing, smudging, toning, and discoloration to all faces of the dust jacket.


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17 note(s) found in NED.
ring. This ring is the smallest one recognized in the galaxy; a second "outer"
nuclear ring appears at ~1 kpc and is discussed in detail in Knapen et al.
defined, appears over the range of 12^deg^-100^deg^.
actually barred (e.g. Eskridge et al. 2000).
75 km s^-1^ at 16 arcsec.
ratio. Two-armed spiral pattern, with tightly wrapped spiral arms.
Arms have obvious dust lanes and numerous bright star-forming knots.
Tully (14.74 Mpc) and Bottinelli et al. (32.65 Mpc).
evidence for a narrow dust lane approaching within 0.5" of the very center.
PSF, and faint rings and filaments also resemble those of the PSF.
multiple-armed pattern that begins at the center.
The redshift of NGC 278 is v_o = 932 km/s.
corresponding to a linear diameter of 450 psc.
for the large correction to the blue magnitude found in the RSA and RC2.
Bright part has a sharp edge.
Lick Obs. Bull., 497, 1939.


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Climb the left side of a hueco covered pillar and pull a roof at the top. The crux is probably the end.
Hunter S. Thompson Dome towards the right end of the large roof. It is to the left of another bolted line: The De-Nogginizer. Cush belay from a large, flat slab with grea views.
Avoid the X and the hold to the right of it!
About 2/3's up Squire. Photo by JR.