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Nationwide protest by lawyers; 40 hurt in Lahore baton-charge
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE, March 12: As the nation waited with bated breath for the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) to proceed against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, lawyers' anger against the action burst out across the country on Monday.
Police stood ready in major cities to act against angry lawyers and succeeded in keeping the protests under control in all cities, except in Lahore, where they baton-charged lawyers breaking through police barricades, causing injuries to 40 and arresting about 25. Included among the injured were PPP Senator Advocate Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Advocate Mehreen Raja MNA and SCBA Secretary Zulfikar Bokhari.
Lawyers in Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar, Muzaffarabad and other cities and towns also boycotted courts to protest the government action of making the chief justice 'non-functional' without waiting for the SJC decision on the reference filed against him.
In Islamabad, heavy contingents of riot police, barricading the Supreme Court, presented an ominous sight.
In the morning, a large number of Supreme Court advocates gathered outside the court No. 1 in the Supreme Court where acting Chief Justice Javed Iqbal was presiding over a three-member bench to hear a long list of service matters.
The lawyers also surrounded the Leader of the House in the Senate, Advocate Wasim Sajjad. They started shouting 'shame, shame' and 'black sheep' the moment he came out of the courtroom after attending a brief hearing.
Right from the court of civil judge to the Supreme Court, normal proceedings could not be held because of the lawyers' boycott, said Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) president Munir A. Malik while addressing a press conference later in the day.
Mr Malik expressed apprehensions that he and other senior members might be picked up by security personnel to break the association's unrelenting commitment to the cause of the judiciary, but assured the media that a second line of leadership had already been formed to continue the struggle in case anything happened to the leaders.
He asserted the lawyers would attend a conference called by the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) before the SJC proceedings.
"If we meet any resistance, we will hold our meeting on the road right on the spot where we are blocked," he told reporters at the association's office here.
He congratulated the lawyers' community "for showing absolute unity" and said the successful strike reflected that "our cause was just".
The association would also file an application before the SJC to consider it as a party to defend Justice Chaudhry as his counsel. A book had been placed at the office of the association to be signed by lawyers willing to join the team constituted to defend Justice Chaudhry, he added.
"We will also lay a virtual siege to the premises where the SJC would meet," he announced.
He said like Lahore and Islamabad, complete strike was observed in Karachi where lawyers staged a sit-in on M.A. Jinnah Road, while no court proceedings could be held in Peshawar, Multan, Sukkur, Nausheroferoz and Quetta.
Reports late in the night suggested that Mr Malik had gone underground to evade arrest to be able to take part in protests on Tuesday.
LAHORE: At least 40 lawyers and 15 policemen were injured when they clashed on The Mall during a protest march. Police also detained around two dozen lawyers.
"This is just an example of state terrorism," PPP Senator Khosa told Dawn.
The lawyers were peaceful and had no intention to disturb law and order, he said, adding that it was the police that went violent.
However, the police said the lawyers dishonoured their commitment.
"Lawyers had given an undertaking that they would not march on The Mall. They had given an assurance that they would keep their protest within the premises of the high court and Aiwan-i-Adl," Lahore police chief Malik Mohammed Iqbal said.
He claimed that 35 policemen, including an SP and two DSPs, were injured.
"The police acted only to guard public property and control law and order," he said.
In reaction to the police claim, lawyers' bodies said the number of injured lawyers was over 200.
Before getting onto The Mall, the lawyers boycotted all court proceedings and held a meeting on the Lahore High Court (LHC) premises.
Chanting slogans 'Go Musharraf Go' and 'No Musharraf No', hundreds of lawyers broke a police siege at one of the LHC's gates and reached The Mall at the GPO Chowk.
A heavy contingent of police surrounded the protesters as they reached the Regal Chowk and refused to let them proceed further. The police said the lawyers then started pelting them with stones and bricks.
The lawyers, however, said it was the police that started charging them with batons without any provocation.
In the meantime, another group of lawyers marching from Aiwan-i-Adl on the Lower Mall joined the protesting advocates at the Regal Chowk, which literally turned into a battlefield. Several lawyers and policemen sustained injuries. The police managed to push the protesters back to the GPO Chowk and further inside the high court. After about 20 minutes, the lawyers again emerged from the high court and attacked the police with bricks and stones, who took to their heels.
The police ran helter skelter and regrouped again when operations police chief SSP Aftab Cheema joined them. The police chief tried to clam down the lawyers, but to no avail. Responding to the police chief, Lahore High Court Bar Association's President Ahsan Bhoon began addressing the protesters, saying that the protest "against the state terrorism" would continue.
The clash continued for over half an hour. Injured lawyers and policemen were rushed to nearby hospitals.
QUETTA: All cases in the lower courts on Monday were adjourned to next dates in the wake of lawyers' boycott.
However, a partial boycott was observed in the Balochistan High Court as some lawyers appeared before a division bench, comprising Chief Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani, for the hearing of cases.
A meeting of the Balochistan Bar Council (BBC) which was to discuss the ongoing judicial crisis could not be held as the advocate-general of Balochistan, who is the chairman of the council, was out of station.
In a statement, BBC Vice-Chairman Amanullah Kanrani said that the council had not formally decided whether to support or oppose a call for boycott given by the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) and the SCBA. All members were free to take their own decision, he added.
MUZAFFARABAD: Lawyers in Azad Jammu and Kashmir also boycotted court proceedings and held demonstrations.
In Muzaffarabad, the lawyers took out a procession from the district courts and marched on the main road in spite of heavy downpour.
In Islamabad, the All Pakistan Newspaper Society, during a scheduled meeting, decided to send a delegation to the residence of the Chief Justice to meet Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. However, when the delegation, led by APNS president Mir Shakilur Rahman, went to the CJ's residence, it was stopped at a distance and not allowed to proceed.
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Who'll serve as AI's watchdog? Experts trade suggestions at AI2 policy workshop
by Alan Boyle on March 7, 2019 at 5:25 pm March 7, 2019 at 5:57 pm
BOT or NOT? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.
Seattle University's Tracy Kosa, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman and Rice University's Moshe Vardi take questions during an AI policy workshop at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, moderated by AI2 CEO Oren Etzioni. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle)
Do we need a National Algorithm Safety Board? How about licensing the software developers who work on critical artificial intelligence platforms? Who should take the lead when it comes to regulating AI? Or does AI need regulation at all?
The future of AI and automation, and the policies governing how far those technologies go, took center stage today during a policy workshop presented by Seattle's Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, or AI2. And the experts who spoke agreed on at least one thing: Something needs to be done, policy-wise.
"Technology is driving the future — the question is, who is doing the steering?" said Moshe Vardi, a Rice University professor who focuses on computational engineering and the social impact of automation.
Artificial intelligence is already sparking paradigm shifts in the regulatory sphere: For example, when a Tesla car owner was killed in a 2016 highway collision, the National Transportation Safety Board took a critical look at the company's self-driving software. (And there have been other such accidents for the NTSB to investigate since then.)
The NTSB, which is an independent agency funded directly by Congress, may be a useful model for a future federal AI watchdog, said Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland at College Park. Just as the NTSB determines where things go wrong in the nation's transportation system, independent safety experts operating under a federal mandate could analyze algorithmic failures and recommend remedies.
One of the prerequisites for such a system would be the ability to follow an audit trail. "A flight data recorder for every robot, a flight data recorder for every algorithm," Shneiderman said.
He acknowledged that a National Algorithm Safety Board may not work exactly like the NTSB. It may take the form of a "SWAT team" that's savvy about algorithms and joins in investigations conducted by other agencies, in sectors ranging from health care to highway safety to financial markets and consumer protection.
Ben Shneiderman, a computer science professor at the University of Maryland at College Park, says the National Transportation Safety Board could provide a model for regulatory oversight of algorithms that have significant societal impact. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle))
What about the flood of disinformation and fakery that AI could enable? That might conceivably fall under the purview of the Federal Communications Commission — if it weren't for the fact that a provision in the 1996 Communications Decency Act, known as Section 230, absolves platforms like Facebook (and, say, your internet service provider) from responsibility for the content that's transmitted.
"Maybe we need a way to just change [Section] 230, or maybe we need a fresh interpretation," Shneiderman said.
Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who focuses on AI policy, noted that the Trump administration isn't likely to go along with increased oversight of the tech industry. But he said state and local governments could play a key role in overseeing potentially controversial uses of AI.
Seattle, for example, has an municipal ordinance that requires agencies to take a hard look at surveillance technologies before they're approved for use. Another leader in the field is New York City, which has set up a municipal task force to monitor how algorithms are being used.
Determining the lines of responsibility, accountability and liability will be essential. Tracy Kosa, an adjunct professor of law and business at Seattle University, went so far as to suggest that software developers should be subject to professional licensing, just like doctors and lawyers.
"The goal isn't to change what's happening with technology, it's about changing the people who are building it, the same way that the Hippocratic Oath changed the way medicine was practiced." she said.
The issues laid out today sparked a lot of buzz among the software developers and researchers at the workshop, but Shneiderman bemoaned the fact that such issues haven't yet gained a lot traction in D.C. policy circles. That may soon change, however, due to AI's rapid rise.
"It's time to grow up and say who does what by when," Shneiderman said.
Odds and ends from the workshop:
Vardi noted that there's been a lot of talk about ethical practices in AI, but he worried that focusing on ethics was "almost a ruse" on the part of the tech industry. "If we talk about ethics, we don't have to talk about regulation," he explained.
Calo worried about references to an "AI race" or use of the term "American AI" by the White House. "This is not only poisonous and factually ridiculous … it leads to bad policy choices," Calo said. Such rhetoric fails to recognize the international character of the AI research community, he said.
Speaking of words, Shneiderman said the way that AI is described can make a big difference in public acceptance. For example, terms such as "Autopilot" and "self-driving cars" may raise unrealistic expectations, while terms such as "adaptive cruise control" and "active parking assist" make it clear that human drivers are still in charge.
Over the course of the day, the speakers provided a mini-reading list on AI policy issues: "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff; "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil; "Ethically Aligned Design," a white paper distributed by IEEE; and "Normal Accidents," an oldie but goodie by Charles Perrow.
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Between the Gulfshore Playhouse premiere and the annual Hats in the Garden event at the Naples Botanical Garden I can say with certainty that season is here.
Veteran producer and owner of FirstStar Digital Media Kathy Rivera worked with me and our associate producer Nick Romary to shoot footage of the event.
Over 600 women wearing colorful hats arrived to perfect weather, live music, cocktails, and a newly planted garden. After touring the grounds and socializing with friends the guests ate lunch and enjoyed a fashion show.
We had an amazing experience working with Kathy and the always impressive staff of the Naples Botanical Garden. Thanks to their hard work and leadership we were able to come away with a ton of beautiful footage.
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On the night of October 30, 1891, in the space of three hours, much of the Main Street business district of North Baltimore, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. This is the story of the fire and how it affected the town.
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Q: Is the "If you have" part in "If you have out of six attempts" extra? At about 4:54 into a video (the link starts at 4:49), the speaker says

If you have out of six attempts, you're choosing two of them to have scores, how many ways are there?

Is the sentence complete and grammatically correct.
Is the "if you have" part extra? In other words, does the following sound more natural than the original one?

Out of six attempts, you're choosing two of them to have scores, how many ways are there?

A: The auto-caption function is not helping, neither is the modern trend to use an ellipsis show cut off speech rather than a dash as was used in the past.
When I rewrite it like this:

Well, how—
If you have—
Out of six attempts you're choosing two of them to have scores: how many ways are there?

You can see that he has started three sentences, but two of them he cut off after only two or three words as his thoughts progressed.
So the way suggested in the question doesn't so much sound more natural as it is sounds comprehensible by being better structured. Note that I have used different punctuation. Commas are poorly used in English but that's rather beyond the scope of this question.

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Little of the $13.5 billion pledged by the international community after the earthquake ever made it to Haiti's people or into its economy. Most of it (94%) went to private contractors, donor nations' own civilian and military entities, international non-government organisations, and UN agencies.


You're a financial controller. You get an email from your CEO (who's abroad on business) addressing you by your first name, apologising for the email late on a Friday, but requesting you urgently make a payment to a trusted regular supplier, with account details helpfully provided in the email to save time. You'd pay it, right?
CEO fraud is an increasingly common type of phishing attack, where a threat actor impersonates a senior executive, and attempts to coerce an employee into transferring funds or personal information to the attacker's account. The average cost of a CEO fraud attack has risen to £35,000, with one company being fleeced out of £18.5 million because of one unsuspecting financial controller.
But how do they keep getting away with it?
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Looks like a legitimate email, right?
There's little point requesting someone to make a wire transfer who isn't authorised to do so. As part of their research, attackers will find out who's authorised to make transfers or change account details, and they'll target that person. In 2017, Dublin Zoo fell victim to such an attack, where cyber criminals intercepted genuine invoices, changing payment and account details, so the attackers got nearly USD $600,000.
But it's not always the finance department that gets targeted – threat actors can also request personally identifiable information (PII) from your HR team, such as tax information, which can be used for further attacks. For a quicker payday, an attacker can email the HR department requesting to change the account their salary gets paid into (diverting money to the attacker's account). Again, it's in line with what the target does, and isn't too unusual a request for an employee to make.
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Q: Filtering multiple items in a multi-index Python Panda dataframe I have the following table:
NSRCODE  PBL_AWI          Area
CM       BONS             44705.492941
         BTNN            253854.591990
         FONG             41625.590370
         FONS             16814.159680
         Lake             57124.819333
         River             1603.906642
         SONS            583958.444751
         STNN             45603.837177
         clearcut        106139.013930
         disturbed       127719.865675
         lowland         118795.578059
         upland         2701289.270193
LBH      BFNN            289207.169650
         BONS           9140084.716743
         BTNI             33713.160390
         BTNN          19748004.789040
         FONG           1687122.469691
         FONS           5169959.591270
         FTNI            317251.976160
         FTNN           6536472.869395
         Lake            258046.508310
         River            44262.807900
         SONS           4379097.677405
         burn regen      744773.210860
         clearcut         54066.756790
         disturbed       597561.471686
         lowland       12591619.141842
         upland        23843453.638117

Note: Both NSRCODE and PBL_AWI are indices.
How do I search for values in column PBL_AWI? For example I want to keep the values ['Lake', 'River', 'Upland'].

A: Also (from here):
def filter_by(df, constraints):
    """Filter MultiIndex by sublevels."""
    indexer = [constraints[name] if name in constraints else slice(None)
               for name in df.index.names]
    return df.loc[tuple(indexer)] if len(df.shape) == 1 else df.loc[tuple(indexer),]

pd.Series.filter_by = filter_by
pd.DataFrame.filter_by = filter_by

... to be used as
df.filter_by({'PBL_AWI' : ['Lake', 'River', 'Upland']})

(untested with Panels and higher dimension elements, but I do expect it to work)

A: Another (maybe cleaner) way might be this one:
print(df[df.index.isin(['Lake', 'River', 'Upland'], level=1)])

The parameter level specifies the index number (starting with 0) or index name (here: level='PBL_AWI')

A: A simpler approach using .loc would be
df.loc[(slice(None),['Lake', 'River', 'Upland']),:]

or for Series
df.loc[(slice(None),['Lake', 'River', 'Upland'])]

slice(None) means no filtering on the first level index. We can filter the second level index using a list of values ['Lake', 'River', 'Upland']

A: You can get_level_values in conjunction with Boolean slicing.
In [50]:

print df[np.in1d(df.index.get_level_values(1), ['Lake', 'River', 'Upland'])]
                          Area
NSRCODE PBL_AWI
CM      Lake      57124.819333
        River      1603.906642
LBH     Lake     258046.508310
        River     44262.807900

The same idea can be expressed in many different ways, such as df[df.index.get_level_values('PBL_AWI').isin(['Lake', 'River', 'Upland'])]
Note that you have 'upland' in your data instead of 'Upland'

A: df.filter(regex=...,axis=...) is even more succinct, because it works on both index=0 and column=1 axis. You do not need to worry about levels, and you can be lazy with regex. Complete example for filter on index:
df.filter(regex='Lake|River|Upland',axis=0)

if you transpose it, and try to filter on columns (axis=1 by default), it works as well:
df.T.filter(regex='Lake|River|Upland')

Now, with regex you can also easily fix upper lower case issue with Upland:
upland = re.compile('Upland', re.IGNORECASE)
df.filter(regex=upland ,axis=0)

This is the command to read above input table:
df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(inpute_table), sep="\s{2,}").set_index(['NSRCODE', 'PBL_AWI'])

A: You can also use query:
In [9]: df.query("PBL_AWI == ['Lake', 'River', 'Upland']")
Out[9]:
                     Area
NSRCODE PBL_AWI
CM      Lake     57124.82
        River     1603.91
LBH     Lake    258046.51
        River    44262.81

However, due to case sensitivity, 'upland' (lower case) won't be found. Therefore I recommend using fullmatch and set case=False:
In [10]: df.query("PBL_AWI.str.fullmatch('Lake|River|Upland', case=False).values")
Out[10]:
                       Area
NSRCODE PBL_AWI
CM      Lake       57124.82
        River       1603.91
        upland   2701289.27
LBH     Lake      258046.51
        River      44262.81
        upland  23843453.64

A: This is an answer to a slight variant of the question asked that might save someone else a little time. If you are looking for a wildcard type match to a label whose exact value you don't know, you can use something like this:
q_labels = [ label for label in df.index.levels[1] if label.startswith('Q') ]
new_df = df[ df.index.isin(q_labels, level=1) ]


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Home Sports Ricky Rubio: "In the NBA I don't have much left"
Ricky Rubio: "In the NBA I don't have much left"
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The Cleveland Cavaliers player Ricky Rubio assured that he wants to return to the courts after his long knee injury but indicated that he has two or three years left at most to play in the NBA, since he wants to return in the near future to his house, to Badalona.
"In the NBA, to be honest, I don't have much left. When my son starts school, I would like to be settled in my house in Badalona. I would say I have two or three years left," he said in the new episode of 'El Reverso' podcast with Gonzalo Vázquez and Andrés Monje.
However, while his journey in the NBA lasts, he considered that his home is Cleveland. "I think I've found my place in Cleveland, I'm comfortable and I want to get to the top with this project. I dream of living the experience of playing in the Finals," he opened up.
"This injury has been a roller coaster, with many emotions on my mind, from desire, excitement, fear, intrigue," he commented on his knee injury. "But the one that stands out the most is the illusion," he added about the torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, suffered in a game against the New Orleans Pelicans eleven months ago. Injury that he already suffered in 2012.
Thus, in that emotional roller coaster, one of his supports was his wife. "I remember one day, when I arrived in El Masnou two weeks after surgery, I was on crutches and I didn't know how to go down the stairs of my house. It was 5 in the morning, with jet lag, and I started to cry," acknowledged.
"Then my wife hugged me and that was enough, I knew it was going to be hard but that I was going to have her by my side. And that has helped me a lot in hard times," he explained.
On the other hand, the man from El Masnou assured that over the years he has realized the importance of the figure of the coach. "When you start playing you think that the coach is not that important. Looking back on my career, in the end the player is only as good as the confidence the coach has in him," he said.
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Карп Васильевич Овчаров (1880—1917) — участник революционного движения, борьбы за установление Советской власти в Семиречье, Верном.

Биография
Карп Овчаров родился в 1880 году в селе Кологреевка Сердобского уезда Саратовской губернии в семье крестьянина-бедняка. Участвовал в забастовках рабочих слесарно-механических мастерских в Баку, за что был уволен с работы. В 1901 году был призван в армию, служил в Верном, участвовал в русско-японской войне. Вероятнее всего, именно в 1905 г. вступил в ряды РСДРП(б). По возвращении в Верный открыл механическую мастерскую, которая явилась местом сбора революционеров.

В 1908 г. организовал «Общество рабочих-каменотёсов Семиреченской области» — первый профсоюз не только в городе, но и в области, занимавшийся экономическими и политическими вопросами. В августе 1914 года организовал профсоюз ремесленников для оказания материальной помощи семьям ушедших на фронт.

После февральской революции был избран руководителем местной мещанской управы, вёл большевистскую агитационную работу среди вернувшихся фронтовиков. Организовал и 8 июня 1917 года провёл митинг ополченской дружины с требованием о реорганизации местного совета солдатских и рабочих депутатов, вскоре — митинг трудящихся в помещении мещанской управы с аналогичными требованиями. Собрание солдат-фронтовиков избрало делегатов для участия во всех местных комитетах с правом решающего голоса. Работал в комиссии по проверке деятельности областного продовольственного комитета, обвинил членов облпродкома в создании продовольственного кризиса. Критиковал Временное правительство и его органы также на собраниях солдат Сибирской дружины и со страниц «Семиреченской крестьянской газеты». 7 октября 1917 года был арестован в составе группы большевистски настроенных солдат, что вызвало возмущение солдат 240-й Симбирской дружины; в результате К. В. Овчаров был освобождён.

14 декабря, выступая на заседании Верненской городской думы, в соответствии с постановлением Совнаркома Туркестанской АССР от 6.12.1917 о роспуске думы потребовал передать власть Советам. 16 декабря призвал солдат 240-й Симбирской дружины не подчиняться «Войсковому правительству» и выступить на стороне рабочих.

В соответствии с решением Верненской городской думы «за агитацию против действий и распоряжений властей и за возбеждение населения к самочинным и незаконным действиям» 17 декабря вместе с А. П. Березовским был арестован казаками; 19 декабря 1917 года они оба были убиты на 12 километре Верхнекульджинского тракта. 9 марта 1918 года, после установления в Семиречье советской власти, прах К. В. Овчарова и А. П. Березовского был торжественно перезахоронен в Городском парке (ныне — ; точное местонахождение могилы в настоящее время неизвестно).

Семья
Жена — Акулина Кондратьевна; дочь — Мария.

Примечания

Литература

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Революционеры Казахстана
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I was reading the article below over the break and it further hit home the thoughts I have had and mentioned at the Global Business Camps events over the last few years. The is so much disruption happening already and some of the things below may not happen and some may take longer to occur.
The thing that I like about this article is that it gets you thinking. Well it certainly got me thinking. Our business life and our life in general will change so much over the next few years. It is up to us to look for the opportunities and not be the ones that are left behind.
I challenge you to read the below article (courtesy of www.DrBobGoldman.com) and not start thinking about what's going to change in your industry.
So as you see there are many different predictions. Some far-fetched but many years ago some of the things we take for granted we thought were far-fetched. What are you doing about your business and your life now to help keep you moving forward and at the forefront?


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I had the great pleasure on 22nd of February 2012 week to attend the launch of the Compass Community Housing Services "Grow a Star" program.
The evening was memorable for a few reasons. Firstly we heard an inspirational address from ABC Broadcaster Craig Hamilton, who wrote Broken Open, dealing with his challenge to overcome bi-polar disorder. He spoke frankly and honestly of coming to grips with this illness, the impact on his career and family, and how he overcame it. It reminded me of our recent survey of Lions Clubs who ranked "Mental illness" as one of the top three issues we should be dealing with in the future.
Secondly, it would be a rare function indeed when I didn't get to meet someone who has been helped by our Association. In this case I was seated with representatives of the Hunter Medical Research Institute who spoke glowingly about the support of local lions over many years for the important research being conducted. The message I recieved was about how important it is to sponsor early investigations and research that will enable the Institute to attract significant Federal research grants in the long term.
I also had the opportunity to speak with a number of younger business people, who are less familiar with the work of our Association, and hopefully open a few eyes and hearts to contributing in the long term.
Finally, however, the highlight of the evening were the games! We all know of those evening functions where you are stuck at a table, listening to speeches, eating too much food, and only meeting the two people either side? This wasn't one of those occasions!
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Church gunman tells jury he still feels he 'had to do it'
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By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press • 11 January 2017, 12:00AM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof threw away one last chance to plead for his life in front of the jurors who convicted him of killing nine black churchgoers, telling them Tuesday: "I still feel like I had to do it."
The jury's decision must be unanimous. If the panel is unable to agree on whether the white gunman should be executed, he automatically gets a life sentence.
Roof walked to the podium less than 10 feet from the jury box with a yellow sheet of paper. He put it down and looked past jurors for about 30 seconds before beginning to read off the page.
Every juror looked directly at Roof as he spoke for about five minutes. A few nodded as he reminded them that they said during jury selection they could fairly weigh the factors of his case. Only one of them, he noted, had to disagree to spare his life.
"I have the right to ask you to give me a life sentence, but I'm not sure what good it would do anyway," he said.
Roof paused several times, but jurors never took their eyes off him. After one of the pauses, he abruptly said, "That's all," quickly gathered his sheet of paper and walked back to the defense table.
Jurors began their deliberations early Tuesday afternoon.
The attacker specifically picked out Emanuel AME Church, the South's oldest black church, to carry out the cold, calculated slaughter, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson said.
The 12 people Roof targeted on June 17, 2015, opened the door for a stranger with a smile, he said. Three people survived the attack.
"They welcomed a 13th person that night ... with a kind word, a Bible, a handout and a chair," Richardson said during his closing argument. "He had come with a hateful heart and a Glock .45."
The gunman sat with the Bible study group for about 45 minutes. During the final prayer — when everyone's eyes were closed — he started firing. He stood over some of the fallen victims, shooting them again as they lay on the floor, Richardson said.
The prosecutor reminded jurors about each one of the victims and the bloody scene that Roof left in the church's lower level.
The jury convicted him last month of all 33 federal charges he faced, including hate crimes. Roof did not explain his actions to jurors, saying only that "anyone who hates anything in their mind has a good reason for it."
In his FBI confession, Roof said he hoped the massacre would bring back segregation or start a race war.
Nearly two dozen friends and relatives of the victims testified during the sentencing phase of the trial. They shared cherished memories and talked about a future without a mother, father, sister or brother. They shed tears, and their voices shook, but none of them said whether Roof should face the death penalty.
Richardson recalled Jennifer Pinckney's remarks about her husband, Clementa, who was remembered for singing goofy songs and watching cartoons with their young daughters in his spare time. He was the church pastor and a state senator.
Roof acted as his own attorney and did not question any witnesses or put up any evidence.


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China's Exports Fell In December, But Trade Surplus With US Is Growing
The Chinese government announced that exports were down more than 4 percent last month, but its 2018 trade surplus with the U.S. was $323 billion.
Article by Cristina Mutchler
China just announced a pretty big trade surplus with the U.S., despite seeing a decline in exports for December.
The country's exports were down more than 4 percent last month, and several outlets report that it was China's worst month in two years.
But Chinese officials say the country's 2018 trade surplus with the U.S. was $323 billion, which, according to Reuters, is the highest it's been in more than a decade.
The new numbers come just after the latest round of trade talks between American and Chinese officials appear to have wrapped up last week on a positive note.
The two countries have implemented tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of each other's goods in the past year, but they've agreed to a short-term trade truce.
On Monday, President Donald Trump echoed that optimistic attitude.
"We're doing very well with China. They're having a hard time with their economy because of the tariffs. We're doing very well with our economy where it records — our unemployment numbers just hit a record, another record," he said. "I think that we are going to be able to do a deal with China."
Economists say the latest data doesn't just highlight effects of the tariffs, but it also points to signs of economic stress.
After a lot of growth, experts say China's facing an economic slowdown, with 2018 projected to have its slowest growth on record since 1990.
Additional reporting from Newsy affiliate CNN.
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Thinking back to this time last year when Ellie was just a couple weeks old and how excited I was that she was here in time for Mother's Day. I had only gotten such a short glimpse into my journey as a mom and had no idea what was in store for the next year. A very special thank you to this sweet little girl for making me a mama + giving me the best gift in the world. Being your mom is the best, most challenging, most fulfilling job ever, and it has totally exceeded all of the little girl expectations I had of one day becoming a mama. I love you more than words can say!
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Psychosocial risk and protective factors of secondary school dropout in Luxembourg: The protocol of an exploratory case-control study
Pascale Esch*, Valéry Bocquet, Charles Pull, Sophie Couffignal, Marc Graas, Marie Lise Lair, Torsten Lehnert, Laurence Fond-Harmant, Marc Ansseau
Public Health Expertise
Background: In Luxembourg, the extensive phenomenon of school dropout is a prime policy concern in the light of individual, social and economic consequences. Although the authorities report an overall decrease of the national dropout rate, the proportion of early school leavers who remain without any specific occupation is still alarming. Therefore, this study intends a shift of focus from system-inherent to individual factors, including mental health and family correlates, to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the dropout phenomenon. Methods/Design. The objectives of this study are to investigate the type and prevalence of psychiatric disorders among school dropouts and to compare the findings with those by a matched control group of regularly enrolled students. Furthermore, family variables and socioeconomic status will be analysed, as they are factors likely to interfere with both educational attainment and mental health. A trained psychologist will use structured interviews and self-report forms to investigate for mental health issues, information on schooling, socioeconomic situation and family life. Controls will be matched for gender, age, school type and educational grade. Discussion. As school dropouts face a serious risk of long term professional and social marginalization, there is an evident need for action. Identifying psychosocial risk and protective factors of school dropout will deliver solid insight on how to conceive public health strategies for young people who may need a more customized support to carry out their academic potential. Trial registration. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01354236.
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Student Dropouts Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
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Esch, P., Bocquet, V., Pull, C., Couffignal, S., Graas, M., Lair, M. L., Lehnert, T., Fond-Harmant, L., & Ansseau, M. (2011). Psychosocial risk and protective factors of secondary school dropout in Luxembourg: The protocol of an exploratory case-control study. BMC Public Health, 11, [555]. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-555
Esch, Pascale ; Bocquet, Valéry ; Pull, Charles et al. / Psychosocial risk and protective factors of secondary school dropout in Luxembourg : The protocol of an exploratory case-control study. In: BMC Public Health. 2011 ; Vol. 11.
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Esch P, Bocquet V, Pull C, Couffignal S, Graas M, Lair ML et al. Psychosocial risk and protective factors of secondary school dropout in Luxembourg: The protocol of an exploratory case-control study. BMC Public Health. 2011;11:555. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-555


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According to Zimmer, Yoga philosophy is reckoned to be part of the non-Vedic system, which also includes the Samkhya school of Hindu philosophy, Jainism and Buddhism:[46] "[Jainism] does not derive from Brahman-Aryan sources, but reflects the cosmology and anthropology of a much older pre-Aryan upper class of northeastern India [Bihar] – being rooted in the same subsoil of archaic metaphysical speculation as Yoga, Sankhya, and Buddhism, the other non-Vedic Indian systems."[61][note 6]
The spiritual sense of the word yoga first arises in Epic Sanskrit, in the second half of the 1st millennium BCE, and is associated with the philosophical system presented in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with the chief aim of "uniting" the human spirit with the Divine.[24] The term kriyāyoga has a technical meaning in the Yoga Sutras (2.1), designating the "practical" aspects of the philosophy, i.e. the "union with the supreme" due to performance of duties in everyday life.[25]
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^ James Mallinson, "Sāktism and Hathayoga," 6 March 2012. PDF file Archived 16 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine [accessed 10 June 2012] pp. 20–21 "The Buddha himself is said to have tried both pressing his tongue to the back of his mouth, in a manner similar to that of the hathayogic khecarīmudrā, and ukkutikappadhāna, a squatting posture which may be related to hathayogic techniques such as mahāmudrā, mahābandha, mahāvedha, mūlabandha, and vajrāsana in which pressure is put on the perineum with the heel, in order to force upwards the breath or Kundalinī."
The Rigveda, however, does not describe yoga, and there is little evidence as to what the practices were.[7] Early references to practices that later became part of yoga, are made in Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the earliest Hindu Upanishad.[67] For example, the practice of pranayama (consciously regulating breath) is mentioned in hymn 1.5.23 of Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (c. 900 BCE), and the practice of pratyahara (concentrating all of one's senses on self) is mentioned in hymn 8.15 of Chandogya Upanishad (c. 800–700 BCE).[68][note 8] The Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana teaches mantra repetition and control of the breath.[71] https://www.facebook.com/Buzzing-Offer-Self-Help-342022286679901/
^ Housman & Dorman 2005, pp. 303–04. "The linear model supported previous findings, including regular exercise, limited alcohol consumption, abstinence from smoking, sleeping 7–8 hours a night, and maintenance of a healthy weight play an important role in promoting longevity and delaying illness and death." Citing Wingard DL, Berkman LF, Brand RJ (1982). "A multivariate analysis of health-related practices: a nine-year mortality follow-up of the Alameda County Study". Am J Epidemiol. 116 (5): 765–75. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a113466. PMID 7148802.
In contrast to strongman or powerlifting competitions, where physical strength is paramount, or to Olympic weightlifting, where the main point is equally split between strength and technique, bodybuilding competitions typically emphasize condition, size, and symmetry. Different organizations emphasize particular aspects of competition, and sometimes have different categories in which to compete.
Rāmānuja (1017–1137 CE) is of the most important theologians of Bhakti yoga, breaking with the Advaita tradition's absolute nondualism and instead arguing for a "qualified nondualism" (Viśiṣṭādvaita) which allows for a certain difference between atman and Brahman and thus it provides a strong theological foundation for devotional theism.[263] Another influential figure of this tradition is Madhva (1238–1317 CE), who argued for a form of dualism between God and soul.
To combat steroid use and in the hopes of becoming a member of the IOC, the IFBB introduced doping tests for both steroids and other banned substances. Although doping tests occurred, the majority of professional bodybuilders still used anabolic steroids for competition. During the 1970s, the use of anabolic steroids was openly discussed, partly due to the fact they were legal.[9] In the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990, U.S. Congress placed anabolic steroids into Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). In Canada, steroids are listed under Schedule IV of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, enacted by the federal Parliament in 1996.[10]
Sandow was so successful at flexing and posing his physique that he later created several businesses around his fame, and was among the first to market products branded with his name. He was credited with inventing and selling the first exercise equipment for the masses: machined dumbbells, spring pulleys, and tension bands. Even his image was sold by the thousands in "cabinet cards" and other prints. Sandow was a perfect "Gracilian", a standard of ideal body proportions close to those of ancient Greek and Roman statues. Men's physiques were then judged by how closely they matched these proportions.
The Bhakti movement was a development in medieval Hinduism which advocated the concept of a personal God (or "Supreme Personality of Godhead"). The movement was initiated by the Alvars of South India in the 6th to 9th centuries, and it started gaining influence throughout India by the 12th to 15th centuries.[177] Shaiva and Vaishnava bhakti traditions integrated aspects of Yoga Sutras, such as the practical meditative exercises, with devotion.[178] Bhagavata Purana elucidates the practice of a form of yoga called viraha (separation) bhakti. Viraha bhakti emphasizes one pointed concentration on Krishna.[179]
The Yoga Yajnavalkya is a classical treatise on yoga attributed to the Vedic sage Yajnavalkya. It takes the form of a dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Gargi, a renowned philosopher.[162] The text contains 12 chapters and its origin has been traced to the period between the second century BCE and fourth century CE.[163] Many yoga texts like the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, the Yoga Kundalini and the Yoga Tattva Upanishads have borrowed verses from or make frequent references to the Yoga Yajnavalkya.[164] The Yoga Yajnavalkya discusses eight yoga Asanas – Swastika, Gomukha, Padma, Vira, Simha, Bhadra, Mukta and Mayura,[165] numerous breathing exercises for body cleansing,[166] and meditation.[167]


The allure of psychoactive substances for many is the ability to slip into another realm of perception – a world dominated by exaggerated sensations. While psychedelic substances like LSD are known primarily for visual and auditory hallucinations, cannabis can also provoke similar effects on sensation and perception. But one particular sensory effect – known as synesthesia, or the mixing of the senses – can occur independently without the help of external substances.
Synesthesia is a fascinating and rare experience that has perplexed and delighted physiologists since it was first discovered.1John Locke is credited with recording the first written account in 1690.2 Many years later, in 1883, Francis Galton described this peculiarity of the senses in greater detail. So, what exactly is synesthesia?
While scientists aren't exactly sure what causes synesthesia, it is likely that wires in the brain got crossed somehow during development. But, people whose brains are not mixed up can still experience synesthesia by taking certain substances.
While psychedelic substances are well known for their effects on mixing of the senses and exaggerated perception, there are a few reports of cannabis-induced synesthesia. In these cases, people reported experiencing auditory-visual synesthesia; it is also believed that these cases only occur at very high doses.4-7 These data are taken from surveys or anecdotes and therefore do not represent rigorous measures from clinical studies.
So, is cannabis-induced synesthesia fact or fiction? Case reports suggest that it is possible but, until we have consistent evidence from controlled studies, the fact of the matter is still up for debate.
Tart, C., "Marijuana Intoxication: Common Experiences",Nature, 1970, Volume 226, pg. 701-704.


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Congratulations are in order for the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants actress Amber Tamblyn and her husband, David Cross, as it has been revealed the couple are expecting a little girl.
About to welcome a little girl into her life it is no surprise that the 33-year-old has been thinking about women in today's society, touching on the US election in particular.
"After I'm done writing this, I'll go back to my desk and fill out my absentee ballot. I'll be voting for more than just a woman; I'll be voting for a revolutionary idea. I'll be voting for a future for my daughter where conversations about our bodies and our lives are broader than what value they have for men," she adds.
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Amber's Glamour post comes not long after she shared her story of abuse on Instagram in response to Trump's leaked tapes.
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Review: Can Main Kitchen Redefine Hotel Dining?
The restaurant inside downtown's brand-new J.W. Marriott dreams big.
Photography by Scott Vogel 1/4/2015 at 11:59pm Published in the January 2015 issue of Houstonia
Roast pork with spaetzle
Image: Kate LeSueur
To say that most hotel restaurants are a disappointment is to speak charitably. The dining rooms depress us, the waitstaffs leave us wanting, and the cuisine tends to fall somewhere between execrable and abominable on the awful scale. This is inevitable, at least in part. Chefs are inspired by the prospect of a loyal following, impossible when one's patrons are conventioneers from Phoenix. Plus, good restaurants depend on cooking talent, as any good restaurateur will tell you, while hotel restaurants do not, as any victim of the Fargo Holiday Inn's beer-battered cheese curds will tell you. And while the overpriced, underwhelming menus in most hotels may not faze the expense-account circuit, they're a cold slap in the face to the rest of us.
A 13-foot griffin watches over the dining room.
It seemed to us that the new J.W. Marriott lobby—cold, asymmetric, somewhat homely—did not make the downtown property look much like your typical luxury hotel, and that wasn't the only thing that stopped us. Not far away sat the cozy 806 Main Lounge bar, complete with a 13-foot bronze griffin standing guard—the literal embodiment of the hotel chain's mascot—over the Marriott's restaurant, Main Kitchen. That too did not appear like your typical hotel establishment. It carried heavy reminders of a former life, of the 1910 Samuel F. Carter building—the city's first skyscraper—and the Second National Bank, out of which the restaurant was carved. The Carter's signature features, especially its riveted iron columns, were now exposed and lovingly lit. There was an open kitchen and a large farmhouse table, because there must be these days, along with a hip and moody vibe, but also window nooks furnished with plush, high-back armchairs around café tables, perfect spots for casually romantic evenings, not to mention prime viewing areas for near-collisions between pedestrians and the Main St. METRORail line.
The dinner menu was a happy blend of old and new, as fine and interesting as any in the city, so much so that one can fully imagine Main Kitchen being patronized not just by travelers but all who love journeying to new palatal destinations, Houstonians included—many of whom are already flocking to try its updated takes on standard American fare. One of these is—or was—the duck and fig pizza, which besides its eponymous elements is composed of butternut squash, smoked mozzarella, and something called pumpkin seed pesto. Sadly, that divine mélange of sweet and savory is only available seasonally. But watch for it next fall, as it's one of the great new creations in town.
Main Kitchen terms its appetizers Sharables, which is ironic, since in a number of cases you may find yourself reverting to an earlier, pre-sharing state. That's true of the pizzas, but also the celeriac gratin, which if nothing else, will have you wondering again why celery root is so often neglected in American cooking. The non-local oysters on the half-shell needed all the help the accompanying pink peppercorn sorbet could give them, but both the crudo and purslane salad were bright and tangy, thanks to kaffir lime oil and a yogurt vinaigrette respectively.
The one bona fide sharable Sharable is Main Kitchen's charcuterie and cheese board, a well-chosen and artfully displayed collection of Challerhocker, a soft and salty Swiss cheese; Lomo Americano, a delicious Iowa salumi; and many more wedged and sliced surprises. We could have used a few more lavash crackers, but then we might have gotten too full for Main's main courses, whose healthy portions earn their immodest prices. For our dinner companion, the deliciously juicy roasted pork meant leaving the adjacent spaetzle untouched, although we more than made up for it by devouring an entire plate of strip loin in seconds. Each sliver of beef was beyond tender, after all, and paired with a perfect red pepper sauce.
In telling you that Main's carnivorous, carnivalesque kitchen is run by two women, Erin Smith and Sharon Gofreed, some have accused us of promoting a feminist agenda. (Really—someone actually did that.) This spurious claim shows not only the depressing state of gender studies these days, but also an ignorance of our true agenda. Smith, you see, is a native Houstonian, and what captivated us most about the Main Kitchen experience is not that women prepared our food (women have been doing that for most of our lives, you see) but how successfully the restaurant captured Houston—its tastes, its aesthetic, its unity of opposites—at this moment in time. The hazards and pleasures of this town we call home are particularly well-represented on the dessert menu. Gofreed's chocolate hazelnut timbale was a hazard, it must be said, an oddly unsweet concoction that counts black garlic among its ingredients and resembles nothing so much as plated road kill. Her tres leches cake, however, was a pleasure, although that is perhaps too weak a word for the inspired infusion of mango and coconut that she has somehow incorporated into that local favorite. It was wet and wild and wonderful, the perfect end to an evening that was, in the main, delightful.
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Gray on Pink Ground
by Irene Godfrey
It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism.
My concerns project both back and forwards in time to embrace both topophilia (a love of place imbued with a sense of history) and ecopoetics (creative and critical engagement with the emerging set of environmental challenges now facing life on earth).
My approach to making work mirrors and parallels the topophile's way of seeing. So the work can be inspired not only by an idea or an image but also by the paint itself. Starting a painting without a preconceived endpoint brings with it the potential for a new work to be found from within the materials. The work develops mark by mark as a response to what has gone before. Paint is repeatedly erased and added creating fragmentation, pathways, depth and ambiguity.
BA Fine Art, Cass School of Art, London Metropolitan University, 2012.
Grad. Cert. in Ecology and Environment, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2010.
Hundreds and thousands, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2015
Summer Salon, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, 2015
The Windows are Illuminated, Embassy Tea Gallery, London, 2015
Diamond Bullet, James Freeman Gallery, London, 2014
'Scape, Espacio Gallery, London, 2013
Show Of*!, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 2013
Strike Against Art, the Nunnery, London, 2013
20/20 Collective Exhibition, the Vyner Studio, London, 2012.
Reveal: Graduate Art Show, Guerrilla Galleries at the Daniel Libeskind Space, London, 2012.
Degree Show, Cass School of Art, 2012.
Pre-degree show, Arbeit Gallery, London, 2012.
Melt Art Fair, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, 2010.
10 Artists, Lauderdale House, London, 2010.
Drawn Together, Shoreditch, London, 2008.
Prizes/Awards
The University Vice- Chancellor's Purchase Prize, 2012.
The Owen Rowley Prize, 2012.
The Ellen Clarkson Award, 2010.
Bibliography/Publications
Qand A with Irene Godfrey
NEW MASTERS 2013, Verfhond's List:
The History of the world in 100 objects, audio link piece, BBC Radio 4
Work is represented in the London Metropolitan University Collection and private collections within the UK.
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There is much to do on this 10 day Wild Namibia, Kaokoland & Damaraland Safari. From admiring stunning scenery to spotting the desert adapted animals such as the Elephants, Springbok and much more. Another highlight on this safari is going on a mountain hike to see the White Lady Bushman painting.
There is both a fully guided option and a self drive option - accommodation is mostly camping on this safari tour.
Accommodation and meals are as stated in itinerary.
Alternatively there is also a guided or self-drive option with lodge/hotel accommodation instead of camping - please enquire for more info on this option.
The group will depart from Windhoek in the morning and head north via Otjiwarongo to the Kamanjab area. This can also be done whereby a self-drive group drops off their vehicle (Okaukuejo or similar) and the guide meets the group in Etosha or a pre-arranged place.
Guided & self-drive: Overnight at Otjitotongwe Lodge. Otjitotongwe Lodge and Cheetah Park is only some 24 kilometers outside Kamanjab and is home to the Save the Cheetah project in this area. Breakfast and Dinner is included.
Head north today to the Kunene River, the Ruacana Falls and then along the river to Kunene River Lodge. The first section of the road is not very interesting but as one approaches, the Kunene River, there are many rural villages where the local people tend their cattle and goat herds.
From the Kunene, drive south to the town of Opuwo and then west via Kaoko Otavi to Orupembe, known as the place of wide open spaces. This area offers superb scenery, wild wilderness areas as well as traditional Himba villages. A full day is set aside to explore this beautiful but remote area of northwest Namibia doing a roundabout day drive to the edge of the Skeleton Coast Park.
From here the group will head south to the community campsite on the banks of the Hoaruseb River at Purros. If you are really lucky, you will be able to see some desert Elephants as well as Springbok, Ostrich, Oryx and possibly the elusive mountain Zebra. A full day is set aside in the harsh but beautiful area to vist the local Himba/Herero village as well as to look for the desert adapted elephants.
The route goes east through the wide open plains of the Giribes, where herds of springbok, oryx and desert adapted giraffe can be seen. Then onwards to Sesfontein and then on to Palmwag Lodge.
Palmwag Lodge is an oasis paradise on the Uniab River in northwest Damaraland. Waving palms whispering in the wind, spectacular surroundings which harbour the famous desert elephant, rare black rhino, giraffe, zebra and many more. Accommodation in thatched bungalows or luxury tents and a variety of extra activities on offer such as hiking trails, game drives and daily tours.
Head south through mountains and dunes areas to the heart of Damaraland. This region is truly wilderness, home to a wide variety of desert animals, especially the Elephants who have made the Huab River valley their home.
A full day is set aside in this area to visit the Twyfelfontein rock engravings, Huab River wetlands, dunes, etc. This is also a superb area to do some walking during your Namibia tour.
On this day of your Namibia safari tour, you will travel through some rough roads, to the banks of the dry Ugab Riverbed, with an afternoon excursion to the Brandberg Mountain for a hike to see the White Lady Bushman painting or travel on to the Spitzkoppe granite hills.
Self-drive: Accommodation at campsite - no meals included.
Early morning rise for a short walk and then head back to Windhoek. En route, the group will stop over at the Spitzkoppe granite hills, a beautiful area with Bushman paintings as well as stunning rock formations. Arrive in Windhoek mid-afternoon where this Namibia safari will end.
Camping equipment if a camping safari. This includes bedding (bedrolls), tents and all kitchen equipment.
Game drives in all parks. Game drives at lodges and / or concession areas are not included in the intinerary.
First Aid Kit but this only includes items and medical equipment to treat bruises, cuts and stings. Guides are NOT qualified to carry out medical duties and clients are advised to bring their own medicine for allergies.
All accommodation except when camping at community campsites.
Meet and greet by a company representative the day the guests arrive in Windhoek.
Fuel or any vehicle costs.
Meals unless included as per the itinerary.


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