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Nature Scribe
Nature is home, even if we live in cities. I'm a Tasmanian-based writer who loves learning and writing about the natural world, from the smallest bugs to the broadest landscapes. That passion led me to co-found the Wildcare Tasmania International Nature Writing Prize back in 2002. It's the world's first literary award for unpublished nature writing. © All material in this blog copyright Peter Grant (unless otherwise stated)
A Half Open Door: Nature Writing and Environmental Cringe
[published in Island #53, Summer 1992 - the piece that started me on the nature writing path]
There is a startling passage in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek that could have been written in any particular place, but I find it hard to imagine it being written by an Australian.
The mating rites of mantises are well known: a chemical produced in the head of the male insect says, in effect, "No, don't go near her, you fool, she'll eat you alive." At the same time a chemical in the abdomen says, "Yes, by all means, now and forever yes."
While the male is making up what passes for his mind, the female tips the balance in her favor by eating his head. He mounts her. Fabre describes the mating, which sometimes lasts six hours, as follows: "The male, absorbed in the performance of his vital function, holds the female in a tight embrace. But the wretch has no head; he has no neck; he has hardly a body. The other with her muzzle turned over her shoulder continues very placidly to gnaw what remains of the gentle swain. And, all the time, that masculine stump, holding on firmly, goes on with the business!"
A less confronting, more plainly American piece is Edward Hoagland's The Tugman's Passage.
A tree swallow darts high with a feather, drops it deliberately, then swoops to catch it again. A woodchuck is raising a family in her summer depot the same den that she hibernated in; that's back in the woods, headquarters for a skunk family now. Once when the woodchuck sat up close to his tent, as brindled-brown and husky-torsoed as a grizzly bear, he thought he might be camping in Alaska – except that, at the same time, a catbird overhead was mimicking the song of the Southern bird that the catbird, too, may have heard in Georgia last winter.
What Hoagland shows in his unexceptional way is he is perfectly at ease in describing the creatures that live around his Vermont home. He writes expecting the smile of recognition or shared experience which is the bond between reader and writer (which may be a grimace in Annie Dillard's case). This is not something we might expect in Australian writing. Such intimate observations are absent from most of our writing.
We have a strong tradition of bush literature, even though it is execrated from time to time. But this focuses on the Big Country – Australia wide, brown and large. We lack a tradition of intimate "nature writing" akin to the rich tradition among the English, beginning perhaps with Gilbert White's A Natural History of Selborne, and continuing through the likes of Richard Jefferies up to the present. Even provincial newspapers in Britain have a nature diarist of one sort or another. This tradition unashamedly loves the countryside and its inhabitants. What's more, it writes for a public that knows – or at least wants to know – something about it.
In the United States the tradition is younger, if no less passionate. Thoreau is the patron saint. The Sierra Club and Audobon Society are among the evangelists. A latter day disciple, Stephen Graham, wrote in The Gentle Art of Tramping:
As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged on the shingly beach of a mountains stream, the great door, that does not look like a door opens.
In Australia, "the great door" is only half-open. We've barely begun to integrate the Australian environment into our writing. Geoffrey Dutton, in Snow on the Saltbush calls this our "environmental cringe", pointing to the hostility many writers have to non-urban Australia. ……. Their message has been one of intense guilt over the despoiled Australian environment (and) hostility against the bush tradition……Australians raped the country and massacred the ancient, indigenous population. The hostility has seemed to extend even to nature itself, as something undeniably large but irrelevant, except in the political confrontations of conservation campaigns.
The same sense of hostility to nature comes through in our mythology. In Intruders in the Bush: The Australian Quest for Identity, sociologist John Carroll argues that our great myth is the uncaring vastness of nature in Australia.
Drought, bushfire, blasting heat, hurricane, and the sheer monumental vastness of nature, of oceans, cliffs, deserts, mountains, and the sky itself-much larger and brighter than in Europe-will always make man feel a nobody on this continent. This is our greatest asset in an age in which man has the vanity of believing that he can do anything, that nothing in nature can check him, that his technology and his medicine will protect him from any threat. Australians are lucky that in spite of their fearlessness of God, they
must submit to a nature with many of the implacable and punitive powers of their lost divinity.
This antagonistic and Eurocentric view of Australian nature (which not surprisingly sits uneasily with Aboriginal mythology) is reflected in much white European-Australian literature, where it is hard to find a protagonistic view of nature. Instead much of our literature describes an almost gothic hostility between ourselves and nature, such as Marcus Clark's demonising of Van Diemen's Land in For the Term of His Natural Life. A similar brooding sense of hostility can also be found in recent works like Tim Winton's In the Winter Dark.
Whether the horror of the bush is intrinsic or extrinsic is never quite resolved, but it is hard to escape the feeling that we are not at home in our own homeland. The central character in Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom is unusual precisely because he alone of the whites in the story does not feel an alien in Australia. Instead, he begins to share the bond which his Aboriginal guardians have with the land. Similarly Mary O'Halloran in Tom Collins' classic Such is Life is exceptional in being a "child of the wilderness, a dryad among her kindred trees", and therefore knowing the names of all the trees and "the dwelling-place of every loved companion".
So why is it that so few Australian novels celebrate the Australian environment in an unselfconscious way? Consider D H Lawrence and Mollie Skinner's response to Western Australia in The Boy in the Bush.
It was spring in Western Australia, and a wonder of delicate blueness, of frail, unearthly beauty. The earth was full of weird flowers, star-shaped, needle-pointed, fringed, scarlet, white, blue – a whole world of strange flowers. Like being in a new Paradise from which man had not been cast out.
Had Mollie Skinner written this alone, would it have been accepted as widely as it was? Perhaps environmental and cultural cringe share the same bed.
In Britain there is also a rich vein of nature fantasy that is absent in Australia. The most recent examples have tried to go beyond the animals-dressed-as-people variety popular in tales like The Wind in the Willows. Richard Adams' Watership Down, an early and influential modern example, was based in part on the scientific study of rabbits and rabbit behaviour. It did not altogether escape anthropomorphic tendencies, but at least Fiver, Hazel and Co were not dressed up in waistcoats and smoking pipes. What Adams did for rabbits, others in Britain have since tried to do for moles, badgers, eagles, weasels, frogs and hedgehogs. The bookshelves of wildlife naturalists have been plundered as never before.
Regardless of the literary merit of this outpouring of ethologically correct fables, they show an interest in getting the precise details of the natural world right. Their commercial success indicates that they have tapped the broad conservation concerns of many readers, including their love of "nature" and their disquiet over the disappearance of habitats and species. You would think that Australia, which has seen the extinction of more than twenty native animals species since white settlement, and has over half of its total mammal population of 256 species on the vulnerable list, might have a similar market to tap. However there is very little Australian fiction which takes seriously the observed behaviour of our own wildlife. We have no kangaroo quest to Watership Down; no echidna equivalent of Duncton Wood. While a few children's stories such as Leslie Rees's Shy the Platypus take care to get some details right, the general run of Australian nature fiction is happier mythologising the bush and its creatures, as in Blinky Bill or Snugglepot and Cuddlepie.
Magazines such as Australian Geographic and Geo, or more specialists nature journals like Wildlife Australia or Australian Natural History, may appear to be safe-houses for the kind of nature writing I'm discussing. But while they contain some fine writing about Australia, most of it doesn't amount to what I would define as "nature writing". Australian Geographic sometimes comes close, though its format favours the spectacular and the graphic, after the style of the National Geographic. Picture prevails over word. What I am looking for is writing that has no need of pictures; writing that doesn't stand or fall by academic whim.
Another potential haven is the conservation movement. At times though, this movement gives every appearance of being dominated by professional lobbyists who, perhaps unwittingly, push celebratory nature writing to the periphery. Some of the best – and worst – finds itself lost at the beginning of wilderness calendars and coffee-table books; word again subject to image: the door half-closed. To "sprawl wet-legged on the shingly beach" doesn't have the publicity impact of chaining yourself to trees or tractors.
There is an irony in this. By concentrating on the Big Issues the conservation movement risks neglecting the very thing it is fighting for – like a crusading social reformer whose own children run barefoot. Does it celebrate the Australian environment in all its daily humility, as well as its spectacular grandeur?
For surely nature writing is celebration. Even when, as with an Annie Dillard, it is aghast at what it observes, it is still able to maintain a sense of wonder, as this recollection of Bishop Burgmann's bush childhood in An Australian Education shows.
One sat quietly at the foot of a tree, resting against the butt. To move at all was to move as though a baby were near which must not be awakened. At such times the bush is fastening its spell upon you. You breathe slowly. Time stops. Then a cricket is sure to break the silence. He can never keep quiet for long. One becomes conscious of bees in the blossoms above. A bird flits past, but one remains still. It is a pity that the moment must pass, but the babe is awakening. It may be Pan; it is the spirit of the bush; and it lives in the insects, the birds, the animals, as well as in the trees. A black magpie flies overhead with his raucous cry. He is an unruly bird, and doesn't care whom he awakens. A snake may glide past, but he does it quietly.
Presently the babe is full awake and all the dwellers in the bush loose their tongues. Bellbirds, whipbirds, and all sorts of birds enjoy their songs, and as they make high festival the lyrebird can mimic them all. Nature must be taken as a whole. It speaks through its birds, it lives in its animals; man may only join in on Nature's own terms. He can site He can sit and listen and let his fancy run free. He will grow more reverent as his sensitiveness to the presence grows. He will feel privileged to have been admitted into the audience of Nature's moods. Birds and animals may even come to feel that he to some extent also belongs to their exclusive world.
It is foolish for man to think of Nature as below him. If he lives in the bush long enough he will find that reverence is the only worthy attitude. But the bush will take its won time to do the work. It will not speak to a man in a hurry. Its message is worth waiting for. Only the soul that is stilled in its presence can hear the music of its song.
To Burgmann, opening the door is a spiritual labour, and in the fifty years since he wrote few have followed his lead. In that half-century the microscope and magnifying glass have been superseded by the cathode-ray tube and the silicon chip; and awe and wonder have been replaced by mere amusement. By sticking to the myth of the vastness and implacability of nature in Australia, we hasten the retreat into the artificial urban world. Thereafter nature is either malignly ignored, or its downfall is actively plotted. Gilbert White offered a far more sanguine approach to the vastness of nature when he wrote at the time of the First Fleet that "every kingdom, every province, should have its own monographer".
One Australian write who stands out is Eric Rolls. His superb Celebration of the Senses was unusual in the Australian literary context that the blurb writers and publicists fumbled for ways to describe it. Rolls comfortably included observations of wildlife alongside ribald recollections of army service.
We wake to bird calls. In army training camps the first notes of reveille jerked us out of sleep at 6a.m. Tent flaps lifted, cranky soldiers cursed the bugler. "Bow your guts out your bastard!". "Jam the fuckin' thing down his throat!" "Stick it up your arse and play retreat!". During the war in Papua New Guinea, when I woke a signaller to take the next night watch, I stood off and nudged him with a long stick. The Japanese were very close……..all of us were on edge. Bend over a man and wake him suddenly and he would come up ready to kill.
……In the country……I waken gladly to bird calls. All through the night in brief wakings one hears birds. When nesting the male Willy Wagtail maintains his territory day and night. "Sweet pretty little creature" he calls…..Sometimes one wakes to strange cackling laughter. A Spotted Nightjar that did not catch enough insects at dusk is on the wing again, hawking….. Each season has its own
alarm. In winter the cling clang of Pied Currawongs wakes us us fittingly after the sun is well up and the frost has begun to melt…..In autumn when the sunflowers are ripe, two thousand galahs awaken us. They come in rolling pink and grey clouds as noisy as thunder….. In spring so many birds wake us we have to concentrate to recognise them all. The White-winged Triller makes long rolls of two notes. The Rufous Whistler makes a few musical calls, then cracks like a whip, a good alarm. The little Striated Pardalote beats out its two notes
astonishingly loudly.
More recently Rolls was commissioned by the Sydney Sun-Herald to write regular pieces under the title The Cumberdeen Diaries This too is very good nature writing, but one writer doesn't make a tradition. The 1990 anthology Gone Bush edited by Roger McDonald does take seriously the diversity and complexity of both nature and literary style in Australia, with writers as different as Elizabeth Jolley and Frank Moorhouse, Les Murray and Helen Garner, Barney Roberts and Bruce Pascoe all contributing stylish pieces. There are also widely different Aboriginal perspectives from Jack Davis and Mudrooroo Nargin; but it is Geoffrey Dutton who wryly shrugs off his environmental cringe in a wonderful evocation of Kangaroo Island.
Here in the bush around the house by the sea the blue wren hops across the emerald moss of an early winter like a chip of summer sky, and the scarlet robin lies flatly, wings extended, in the bird bath, fluffing out his chest, so much more fiery than that of his cousins in the Northern Hemisphere.
We need more writing of this kind. Frankly, most Australians remain woefully ignorant about the web of life around them and better educated about the badger than the bilby. I have a vivid picture of the utter astonishment of a South Australian visitor to Tasmania's Southwest as an eastern quoll nonchalantly snuffles by in search of food. The woman's face is a mixture of wonderment and mystification. What is this beautiful creature? She not only has no name for it, she has never imagined that such creatures existed.
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Witnessing A Coup
[Written during a visit to Alaska in 2005]
Many of Tasmania's most vivid landscapes have been bequeathed us by ice. Yet even a deep and prolonged association with both the fact and the landscapes only partially readied me for the drama of seeing a working glacier. The U-shaped valleys of Tasmania's Lake Judd have a clean elegance, while the steep sides of Lake St Clair wear a forest-fringed softness. Even the vertiginous cirque walls of Lake Huntly and the sharp aretes of Cradle Mountain have a finished look, as though the ice has stepped back to admire its work. All of Tasmania's glacial landscapes seem to mix even their most abrupt shapes with a sense of mellowed age, a vintaged wine whose astringent elements have been tempered through time in oak or bottle.
While flying over the altogether younger ice-fields and glaciers of Baranof Island in south-east Alaska, there was still a white-wedding aura about the uncomplicated virgin white of the stunning scene. Snow white purity dominated, with the somewhat dowdier peaks and lakes merely making up the wedding party. Given this gentle introduction – and my own Tasmanian conditioning – I was ill-prepared for the shot-gun wedding that is the South Sawyer Glacier. One of Southeast Alaska's many sea-level or tidewater glaciers, South Sawyer extends more than 30km to the sea from the 2,500 metre mountains and ice fields of Canada and the Tracy Arm – Fords Terror Wilderness. The glacier guards the landward end of the vast Tracy Arm fiord, once a glacial valley itself.
The day of our visit is a rare and gloriously blue-skied Alaskan day. But it is the blue of the glacier that initially steals the scene. This is no blushing white glacier, nor even a pale, powder blue one. John Muir truly called it a "quick and living blue". South Sawyer presents a huge rough-cut maw to us across the terminus of Tracy Arm, grinning with deep cobalt ice-teeth. If at first all seems silent, we soon discover otherwise, for this is no stately and static set-piece. Both teeth and 'food' are in motion the whole time we are there. Crashes and clashes of rock, ice and water are seen and heard all around. Meltwater shifts great quantities of rock and silt from the steeply enclosing walls and from beneath the glacier, pouring them into the water in torrents or loosening them for gravity to take its turn. Boulders tumble with loud, echoing thuds. Yet to the eye – fooled by the clear air and lack of vegetation for scale – the boulders look like mere clods of earth, fraying into fragments as they fall. With slow, chaotic regularity bergs of varying size slice off the glacier's face, again seeming mere slivers until the sound reaches us with a thunderous roar. To call these juddering collapses 'calving' – a term that for me has gentle bucolic associations – seems to down play the rugged reality of a birth under the pressure of both gravity and the bullish weight of ice pushing from behind. Or is my perspective overly urban and masculine? Perhaps giving birth – even bovine birthing – really is as noisy, dramatic and messy as this.
As we watch and listen, some of last week's bergs squeeze quietly past us. It is like rubbing shoulders with the ancients. Each luminous blue beast may be literally prehistoric, made up of compressed snow that fell many hundreds of years ago, and has moved from mountaintop to sea at as little as 20 metres a year. We had passed their brethren on the way here, all blue and bobbing in the sun, but growing imperceptibly smaller as they made their relatively hasty way to the sea and oblivion.
In fact glaciers are no drop-in-the-ocean. They hold over 2% of earth's total water, oceans included. And around 75% of the planet's fresh water is held in glaciers. Were all of these beasts to become extinct, sea level rise would be catastrophic. Each ancient berg also carries small loads of silt and dust, some stolen from surrounding rock, some sprinkled on them from the heights, some added by short-lived streams that flow onto the glaciers in summer. All will be added to some far future sedimentary formation, when even the unthinkable depths of Tracy Arm will be forgotten, and a new landscape will joust with ice, rain, heat, fracture or whatever else is thrown at it.
But the present action isn't only mineral. Animal and vegetable stake a claim here too. On the congested ice dump beneath the glacier's snout hundreds of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) dot the ice. With the temporarily solid ice preventing orcas from attacking, the seals loll insouciantly in the sunshine. It must feel quite the opposite of skating on thin ice – at least until hunger forces their next fishing trip.
From the surrounding slopes alder, hemlock and spruce watch and wait as the glacier retreats. In a mere dozen years it has retired hundreds of metres. Eventually, even in this dramatically steep terrain, there will be land ready for colonising. Others may be the first, but the conifers will surely follow. At the Mendenhall Glacier on the outskirts of Juneau, the glacier's retreat has been systematically observed for well over a century. The Visitor Centre, high above Lake Mendenhall and several hundred metres from today's glacier, was built where the glacier had been active as recently as 1935. Where once ice went unchallenged, there is now established coniferous forest. An ordered and predictable succession of growth has been noted, with lichen doing its rock-breaking, soil-producing work first. This is followed by pioneer species such as willow, fireweed and alder. Finally within 70-80 years the conifers start to predominate.
A day in the company of glaciers has me comparing history with geology. We may read blithely of a coup that replaced King A or President B, with years of peace (or otherwise) following. So too we may study geology and read mechanically of the epic landscape-altering work of glaciers. But seeing the violence and mayhem of a glacier up close seems to me like witnessing a coup. History judges a coup by its outcome. So too will geomorphology judge a glacier by its resulting landforms. But what a privilege, albeit a dangerous one, to be there for at least a small episode of this earth coup, and to see first-hand the processes that once shaped so much of my island home, Tasmania.
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A Hymn to Tasmania
[A Welcome Speech to the Interpretation Australia Association (IAA) National Conference in Strahan, Tasmania by Peter Grant, October 3, 2005]
What is this place, this island you have come to that we call Tasmania? In a sense there are as many Tasmanias as there are people who experience it. So I would like to simply share something quite personal of what Tasmania means to me. I call it "A Hymn to Tasmania", adding a warning footnote that not all hymns are "happy clappy". Many of the best have a dark or sombre note through which hope and victory must struggle to shine.
Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa is universally regarded as a magnificent work of art. In addition to the beauty of the subject, there is something about the enigmatic smile that has sparked both admiration and speculation for as long as it has existed. Likewise there is a certain magnificence to Tasmania. Here is an island – an archipelago of islands as our late Premier Jim Bacon liked to say – that is admired across the Strait by the majority of Australians, and loved by the increasing numbers who come to it from further afield.
Here you will find a beguiling mixture of utter wildness and amiable approachability. As American writer and photographer Arthur Rosenfeld put it "nowhere have I seen such breathtaking contrasts arise so naturally from the dialogue between mountain and forest, clarity and cloud, sun and moon. A person can disappear in beauty like this."
But once you have penetrated the beauty of this island you will find, as with the Mona Lisa, that there is also an enigma. Instead of a smile however, it is an enigmatic frown. On this heart-shaped island, there is a feeling that the heart has been hurt if not broken at times. What is the source of this frown; this veiled heart-ache? For me it derives from a sense that something tragic, something sad, flawed or failed has happened here. A skein of melancholy seems woven into the warp and weft of this beautiful place.
And our history bears this out, starting with the Aboriginal tragedy that unfolded here following European invasion. It is difficult to see how we can use any other word than invasion. Surely "discovery" is just plain wrong, and "settlement" euphemistic at best. Even before 1803 there were skirmishes between the Palawa, the original Tasmanians, and the Europeans – as there were also friendly exchanges. But once the English decided to come, their gaze having turned here following their capture of French information on the island, there was little that could stop them. Aboriginal resistance was blunted by both guns and germs. The Palawa, so long isolated from a host of germs, quickly succumbed to European-borne diseases. It was a victory of sorts merely to survive under such circumstances, but Tasmania's Aboriginal people have survived … and we will hear more of that story later.
Not only were the English determined to injure, infect or ignore the island's long-established inhabitants, they also worked to supplant them with convicts. This cargo of human misery was to be transplanted out of the old country – out of sight and mind – to the "end of the world". A place where nature herself was to be one of the keenest gaolers. Thus were culture and nature dubious allies in old Van Diemen's Land.
And then there is our more modern history, in which the worst excesses of Van Diemen's Land were to be expunged through hard labour. But this time the work was not so much for the overseers as for ourselves. We would delve, cut, sow and pluck a new state into being, even changing our name to Tasmania as though to distance ourselves from "the hated stain" of our convict past.
So how have we fared on this rebound from the past? Let me employ an extended analogy. The ancient Hebrew prophet Hosea was given one of the most bizarre jobs in the bible. He was instructed by God to marry a prostitute named Gomer. This was so that he could experience, and then communicate to his peers, what it was like for the Lord to have his "wife" – the people of Israel – constantly unfaithful to him through worshipping false gods.
As I look at modern Tasmania, I sometimes feel a little like Hosea. I love this place, yet Tasmania, like Gomer, seems always ready to run off after false gods. In the post war years this included the idea that we could become a manufacturing centre – "The Ruhr Valley of the South" was the rhetoric of the time – if only we could produce enough cheap power to attract heavy industry. The loss of the irreplaceable Lake Pedder was one result of this short-skirts-and-gaudy-make-up approach. And currently it seems that we are selling off our forests for a cheap drink and a bit of slap-and-tickle, while only the Madam makes any money.
I have recently returned from Alaska, a place with many resonances for a Tasmanian. Alaska is seen – indeed their vehicle number plates proclaim it – as "the last frontier". (We are "Your Natural State".) When Alaska was purchased from the Russians in 1867 for $7.2million (about 2c an acre), it was derided by the press and many politicians as a waste of money for a useless "ice-box". (While no-one had to buy Tasmania, I'm sure some of you consider us to be Australia's bar-fridge in terms of climate! And doubtless Cascade & Boags would be happy to fill that role for you!)
Despite its inglorious beginning, one of Alaska's biggest roles today is as a reminder of what the lower 48 used to be and used to have. In Alaska you will find vast forests, huge wildernesses of ice-fields and glaciers, wildlife in unbelievable abundance. Tasmania plays a similar role for Australia, albeit on a smaller scale, especially in terms of intact wild ecosystems. Chief Geographer Henry Gannett, writing of Alaska in the late 1800s, stated that its grandeur, "is more valuable than the gold or the fish or the timber, for it will never be exhausted." This quote, more than a century old, sets out some of the alternatives both Alaskans and Tasmanians still face today.
And in neither place is it always a straightforward choice. In Alaska the tourists that come to see the grandeur, especially those in cruise ships, can overwhelm the local populace and the unique local culture. Juneau, the state's capital, is dominated as much by its plethora of souvenir and merchandise shops as it is by its stunning mountainous surroundings. The locals know that you only have to go 100 metres up any hill – and there are plenty of those – and you will shake off the exercise-shy tourists. Either that or wait for winter! In Sitka, where I spent most of the last month, the best coffee shop in town, a wonderful Bohemian hang-out, is hidden away at the back of a bookshop, and thus protected from the majority of the "boat people".
Bulk tourism of this kind seems to be a very mixed blessing. Which is where Tourism Tasmania's "Experience Strategy" seems to me to show the way. Here it is recognised that you will only add value to tourism, and win the word-of-mouth game, if you offer an authentic experience. Can you truly experience Alaska by spending several days in a cruise ship, stopping en-masse in ports that sell food and merchandise that comes from the cruise companies, and is usually made elsewhere? And if you seldom meet a local and go no further afield than the shops, how "Alaskan" is the experience? You could see the same scenery, and more wildlife, by staying at home and watching the Discovery Channel. You would also avoid sea sickness.
Tourism Tasmania, to its credit, has recognised that tourists increasingly demand an authentic experience. Moreover they have seen that the key to providing such experiences in Tasmania is interpretation. And so a circle starts to form, cycling through experience, stories and meaning to authenticity … with interpreters central to the whole process. However it will not remain authentic if we Tasmanians "whitewash our tombs"; if we try to gloss over the tragedies of our past or the inconsistencies of our present.
American novelist David Guterson ("Snow Falling on Cedars"), who himself lives on an island, observed that:
Islands fill mainlanders with an unabashed yearning for a life simpler than the one they endure, a pared-down life in which all that is elemental - sea, wind, sun, love, the last light of day, the sand beneath fingernails - is brought to the fore-front of existence.
In Tasmania we can choose to pander to that illusion. We can try to convey that here you will find only blessed and happy people; the cleanest and greenest of economies; food and wine fit for gods; and bounteous wild and untouched wilderness, all in perfect balance. Or we can tell the truth: that the human drama, with all its pathos, comedy, tragedy, farce and struggle, is played out here in the nature culture of Tasmania, just as it is everywhere.
And yet … it seems to me that there are lessons that can be learned from observing Australia's island state closely. Our conference theme is Nature Culture: Interpreting the Divide. Here in Tasmania if we have witnessed, and continue to witness, some of the dreadful results of the perceived divide between the two, there are also positives that have been gained. I have spoken of tragedies in relation to our Aboriginal, convict and resource extraction histories. But each of these also shows us a hopeful side. Despite everything, our Aboriginal people have survived. And their culture and presence is burgeoning, as you will witness when you hear Jim Everett or walk the Henty Dunes. Likewise our convict past, as Richard Davey so eloquently reminds us, managed to produce some unexpected – and at the time unwanted – positives in terms of resistance, ingenuity and the triumph of the human spirit. And our natural resources have not been, and will not be, completely pillaged. Here in Strahan you are on the edge of 1.38 million hectares of World Heritage Area – saved and so-proclaimed through the action of individuals who loved this wild home, and told their rulers so.
As you experience the extraordinary places around Strahan, and around the rest of Tasmania, try to resist the notion that this is a place untouched by what happens where you live. And above all reject the notion that you are an alien here. As Gary Snyder has pointed out, nature is not a place to visit, it is home1. Welcome home.
1. The Practice of the Wild, p 7
Labels: Aboriginal Tasmanians, Alaska, David Guterson, Gary Snyder, Hosea, Lake Pedder, Mona Lisa, Palawa, Premier Jim Bacon, Sitka, Tasmania, tourism, Van Diemen's Land
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To say that Mater the dog had a tough week would be, well, an understatement. Truth is, he spent most of it trapped inside a storm drain.
And getting him out wasn't easy.
Mater's troubles began last Friday evening when, inexplicably, he failed to return home for dinner like usual. His owner, West Virginia native Kathy Olson, had a sneaking suspicion that something was seriously wrong - and she was right. Still, it would take nearly an entire week before she learned exactly what.
As the days passed with no sign of her dog, Olson began to think he might never be found. But then on Thursday, with the help of her neighbors who'd reported hearing the faint sound of a barking dog, Mater was finally discovered in that very tight spot underground. That's when, as the Gazette-Mail reports, they called for help.
Crews from the Pinch Volunteer Fire Department and West Virginia American Water then came to the rescue, tearing up the sidewalk to free the dog.
Here's the moment Mater's long ordeal ended.
Mater is said to be in good health and recovering at home - a happy ending made possible thanks to the dedication of everyone involved.


LOS ANGELES — Jalen Brunson of national champion Villanova and A'ja Wilson of South Carolina won the John R. Wooden Award as national players of the year Friday night.
Brunson also claimed the Bob Cousy point guard of the year award, having averaged over 18 points while helping Villanova win its second national title in three years. Brunson claimed a slew of honors, including The Associated Press men's player of the year. He helped the Wildcats spend a nation's-best eight weeks at No. 1 in the AP Top 25 this season.
Wilson helped South Carolina to its first title last year and averaged 22.6 points and 11.8 rebounds for the team this season before the Gamecocks lost to UConn in the NCAA Tournament regional final. She was also the AP women's player of the year and is expected to be the first pick in the upcoming WNBA draft.
Wilson finished her college career as South Carolina's scoring and blocks leader.
Villanova's Jay Wright received the John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching honor.
n Purdue's Carsen Edwards won the Jerry West shooting guard of the year for his team-leading 18.5-point average to go with 3.9 rebounds and 2.9 assists. West presented his namesake trophy.
n Angel Delgado of Seton Hall received the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar center of the year. He was the Big East's top rebounder for the third time in four years, averaging 11.8 rebounds. He also averaged 13.6 points.
n Villanova's Mikal Bridges received the Julius Erving small forward of the year for a season that saw him average 17.7 points and shoot 51 percent from the field.
n Deandre Ayton of Arizona accepted the Karl Malone power forward of the year award from the Hall of Famer. He was the Pac-12 player of the year and led the league in rebounding. The 7-foot-1 freshman had 24 double-doubles, the most in school history.


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For any requests regarding computers and peripherals (hard- and software), please contact us via the Request Tracker system.
The IT group at the Mathematics department is responsible for the computers and their peripherals, starting with the purchase of the devices, followed by their installation and maintenance, up to the support of the computers in teaching and research.
We also support members of the department in creating and maintaining their websites. Furthermore, we provide suitable web applications for organising meetings and conferences. The IT group is your point of contact for all questions regarding the usage of information technology.
Our student assistants will help you on issues and questions concerning the computers and the printers in the computer room during the opening hours of the computer rooms. During term time: Monday to Friday between 10am and 4pm.
As our student assistants have lectures to attend to, we ask for your understanding that the office in room 146 is occupied only about 20 hours a week.
In order to use your identifier at the Mathematics department (e.g. login into the Linux computers in the computer rooms or for reading the department blog), you need to register with the Kerberos server at the Mathematics department at the following web page.
The Kerberos password is independent of the RRZ password. You can change your Kerberos password at the following web page.
The AFS is the network file system used at the Mathematics department. The home directories and homepage directories are located within the AFS. You can access the AFS from around the world. Thus, you can also use it on your private computer at home.


A hard to find recipe online so thought I'd create one. This recipe isn't very sweet, but refer to the Recipe Notes for some tips on making it sweeter or a stronger Oreo taste.
This recipe can easily be altered based on the number of people, I did a ratio of 3 Oreos per person. In my recipe notes below, I suggest doing 4 Oreos per person if you want a sweeter/stronger Oreo taste in your oatmeal.
When crushing the Oreos I used a plastic bag and a heavy knife. Made the process much easier than a food processor, which would make of cookie crumbs instead of the crushed pieces that we wanted for this. The Vanilla I have was purchased from Amazon, which was cheap for a non-imitation vanilla in this quantity.
A less sweet, and healthier version of Cookies and Cream ice cream that you can have for breakfast or as a dessert.
Heat the milk in a medium saucepan.
While that's heating up, separate the cream filling from the Oreos, and put wafers in a small plastic bag. Crush the wafers until the largest pieces are about 1/4" in size.
Once milk reaches a boil, reduce to a simmer and add in the oats, vanilla, sugar and Oreo cream filling.
Cook for 5 minutes or until oats are of the consistency you want. Oatmeal will still look liquidy.
Let oatmeal cool and thicken off the burner for about 3 minutes.
Mix in crushed Oreo wafers, and serve. Garnish with half an Oreo.
For a one person serving divide the recipe in half.
For a sweeter taste, add an extra two Oreos and 1/2 tablespoon of sugar instead of 1 teaspoon.
Really enjoyed the simplicity of this and the strong taste of the oreo cookies and cream in the oatmeal. Very well balanced, the only thing I could think of would maybe add some powdered sugar instead of granulated since it'll melt better with the cream from the oreos.
Found this after Googling for hours on some fun Oatmeal recipes because my son wanted cookies and cream oatmeal. Oreo only had cookie recipes, but was able to find something that would be kind of healthy and was tasty!


My second book was originally intended to be just a book of household hints and tips, but when I took Bill Bryson's excellent book, At Home, as my first reference point and began to put the tips in context, I soon realised that the history of the homes we live in is fascinating.
The book is hardback, with 173 pages of text, 59 photographs, and 20 line drawings. It was published by Bannister Publications Ltd on 1st March 2017.
The Housekeeper's Tips, Tales and Tipples explores the history surrounding everyday objects, and reveals more of Chatsworth's hidden stories from my 40 years' experience of working at one of the best-loved houses in the land. The care of the precious objects at Chatsworth has been my life's work, and so I am pleased to share some of the tips I have gleaned along the way, together with an invitation to concoct a tipple (non-alcoholic and otherwise), and raise a glass to all of those who share the responsibility of turning a house into a home.
This time, I am delighted that Amanda, Duchess of Devonshire has kindly written a foreword to the book, Janet has once again provided amusing line drawings, and the book is also illustrated with 59 photographs.
Garden Pests: To deter moles, pour stagnant cut flower water into a mole run as they don't like the smell. Another tip is to push a stick into the ground near the molehill so that it protrudes about 15cms (6 inches) above the surface. The theory is that as the wind blows across the stick it causes it to vibrate, and these vibrations are transmitted to the sensitive moles underground.


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The Museum's collections on energy and power illuminate the role of fire, steam, wind, water, electricity, and the atom in the nation's history. The artifacts include wood-burning stoves, water turbines, and windmills, as well as steam, gas, and diesel engines. Oil-exploration and coal-mining equipment form part of these collections, along with a computer that controlled a power plant and even bubble chambers—a tool of physicists to study protons, electrons, and other charged particles.
A special strength of the collections lies in objects related to the history of electrical power, including generators, batteries, cables, transformers, and early photovoltaic cells. A group of Thomas Edison's earliest light bulbs are a precious treasure. Hundreds of other objects represent the innumerable uses of electricity, from streetlights and railway signals to microwave ovens and satellite equipment.
Thomson DC Generator
This model of a direct-current generator was designed by Elihu Thomson to produce a constant voltage. It could also be used as a motor that would maintain a constant speed. It came to the Smithsonian from the U. S. Patent Office, representing patent number 333,573, issued to Thomson on January 5, 1886. The patent itself indicates that no model was submitted (which is not surprising since by that time models were not required), and this example was probably given to the Patent Office at a slightly later date for display purposes.
Thomson and Edwin Houston were school teachers in Philadelphia in the 1870s when they formed a partnership (the Thomson-Houston Company) to enter the new and competitive arc-lighting field. They produced a number of successful generators, motors, meters, and lighting devices. Most of their system employed alternating current, which was as good as direct current for lighting. With the development of the transformer in the mid-1880s, AC systems assumed added importance because electricity generated at a low voltage could now be converted to high voltage for more efficient transmission and then converted back to safer low voltage for use by consumers. But electro-chemical applications (like plating) required DC generators, and, until the invention of a practical AC motor by Nikola Tesla at the end of the 1880s, street railways depended on DC.
Thomson-Houston merged with Edison's company in 1892 to form General Electric.
See US Patent # 333573, Dynamo Electric Machine, issued 5 January 1886, to Elihu Thomson. Claim: "A design with spherical armature and round-type frame to obtain a dynamo-electric machine capable of furnishing a constant potential; or an electric motor capable of maintaining a constant speed." No extant maker's markings. This machine has a revolving circular armature with pulley wheel on one end of shaft and adjustable brushes at the other. Field magnets are supported inside the frame.
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Q: How to set object field from Thymeleaf template? i'm new in Spring and i trying to learn it with help Spring in action 5 (Craig Walls).I'm creating small  Spring Boot MVC-application.Now i have a little problem with Thymeleaf.
I have Controller,View and model as POJO object.When i'm trying to get data from form Intellij Idea told me that something wrong with my Thymeleaf view in this line:
Model
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;

import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.validation.constraints.Size;

import lombok.Data;

@Data
public class Taco {

    private Long id;

    private Date createdAt;

    @NotNull
    @Size(min=5, message="Name must be at least 5 characters long")
    private String name;

    @Size(min=1, message="You must choose at least 1 ingredient")
    private List<Ingredient> ingredients;

}

View
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Taco Cloud</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" th:href="@{/styles.css}"/>

Design your taco!

    <form method="POST" th:object="${taco}">

Designate yor wrap:

                    <input name="ingredients" type="checkbox" th:value="${ingredient.id}"/>

                    INGREDIENT

Pick your protein:

                <input name="ingredients" type="checkbox" th:value="${ingredient.id}"/>
                INGREDIENT

Choose your cheese:

                    <input name="ingredients" type="checkbox" th:value="${ingredient.id}"/>
                    INGREDIENT

Determine your veggies:

                    <input name="ingredients" type="checkbox" th:value="${ingredient.id}"
                    />
                    INGREDIENT

Select your sauce:

                    <input name="ingredients" type="checkbox" th:value="${ingredient.id}"
                    />
                    INGREDIENT

Name your taco creation:

            <input type="text" name="name"  th:field="*{name}"/>

            <button>Submit your taco</button>

    </form>

Controller
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.springframework.ui.Model;
import org.springframework.validation.Errors;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PostMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import tacos.Ingredient.Type;
import tacos.Ingredient;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ModelAttribute;
import tacos.Taco;
import tacos.data.IngredientRepository;

import javax.validation.Valid;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;

@Slf4j
@Controller
@RequestMapping("/design")
public class DesignTacoController {

    private final IngredientRepository ingredientRepo;

    @Autowired
    public DesignTacoController(IngredientRepository ingredientRepo){
        this.ingredientRepo=ingredientRepo;
    }

    @GetMapping
    public String showDesignForm(Model model) {

        List<Ingredient> ingredients=new ArrayList<>();
        ingredientRepo.findAll().forEach(i->ingredients.add(i));

        Type[] types = Ingredient.Type.values();
        for (Type type : types) {
            model.addAttribute(type.toString().toLowerCase(),
                    filterByType(ingredients, type));
        }

        return "design";
    }

    private List<Ingredient> filterByType(
            List<Ingredient> ingredients, Type type) {
        return ingredients
                .stream()
                .filter(x -> x.getType().equals(type))
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }

    @PostMapping
    public String processDesign(@Valid @ModelAttribute("design") Taco design, Errors errors, Model model) {
        if (errors.hasErrors()) {
            return "design";
        }

        // Save the taco design...
        // We'll do this in chapter 3
        log.info("Processing design: " + design);

        return "redirect:/orders/current";
    }

}

And finally i get this error:
org.thymeleaf.exceptions.TemplateInputException: An error happened during template parsing (template: "class path resource [templates/design.html]")

Caused by: org.attoparser.ParseException: Error during execution of processor 'org.thymeleaf.spring5.processor.SpringInputGeneralFieldTagProcessor' (template: "design" - line 64, col 45)

A: I noticed two things on your code.

*

*I don't see th:action on your form that is required for form submission.

*change form method="POST" th:object="${taco}" to form method="POST" th:object="${design}"
Try fixing these two and it should work.

A: I encountered same issue.
Resolution for me was to add getters in Taco.java for name. Somehow lombok is not generating getters automatically at run time.
And th:object="${taco}" should be th:object="${design}"
No need to make changes for th:action. From tutorial

If you take another look at the  tag in your view, you can see that its method attribute is set to POST. Moreover, the  doesn't declare an action attribute. This means that when the form is submitted, the browser will gather up all the data in the form and send it to the server in an HTTP POST request to the same path for which a GET request displayed the form—the /design path.

A: I found two thing in code:

*

*I  do not find any  action your  form in html. You should use th:action tag to add an action.

*in html you used th:object="${taco}" for declare an object for your html form. But you do not add "taco" object in your model in controller method from where you return the html design. You should add the "taco" object in your controller method like below.
model.addAttribute("taco", taco Object);

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Prostanthera hirtula, commonly known as hairy mintbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to the south-eastern continental Australia. It is a strongly aromatic, densely hairy, spreading shrub with narrow egg-shaped leaves and dark mauve flowers, and that grows in exposed, rocky sites.

Description
Prostanthera hirtula is a strongly aromatic, densely hairy, spreading shrub that grows to a height of  and is covered in more or less spreading hairs. The leaves are mid-green, narrow egg-shaped to narrow elliptic, densely glandular on the lower surface,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flowers are borne in leaf axils near the ends of branchlets with bracteoles about  long at the base. The sepals are  long, forming a tube about  long with two lobes, the upper lobe  long. The petals are dark mauve and  long. Flowering occurs in spring.

Taxonomy and naming
Prostanthera hirtula was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham from an unpublished description by Ferdinand von Mueller, based on specimens collected at Mount Buffalo and Mount Disappointment by Mueller and in the Grampians by Carl Wilhelmi. Bentham's description was published in Flora Australiensis.

Distribution and habitat
Hairy mintbush grows on elevated, rocky sites in woodland and open forest in New South Wales from the Blue Mountains to the Budawang Range and in southern Victoria.

References

hirtula
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Lamiales of Australia
Taxa named by George Bentham
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
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NOW TV Raising Sky Sports Price – For The Second Time This Year
September 3, 2019 by Or Goren
Bad news for TV sports fans – again. Seven months after raising the price of the NOW TV Sky Sports Day Pass, Sky is raising it yet again – from £8.99 to £9.99 (per day). Pricing of the Week Pass and the Month Pass remain unchanged.
Cord cutting sports fans don't have a lot of options, unfortunately, to watch sports on TV without a "traditional" cable/satellite contract, with NOW TV's Sports Pass being one of the main options. But if you're only interested in a single event, the Day Pass will now cost you more. (Though there are still ways to get NOW TV for a lower price – check my guide here).
Like the other NOW TV passes, the Sports Pass offers contract-free viewing, with 10 live sports channels on offer: Sky Sports Premier League, Sky Sports Football, Golf, Cricket and more (read my full NOW TV review right here).
Unlike the other NOW TV passes (Entertainment, Cinema and Kids), which are all monthly, the Sports pass offers three subscription tiers – A Day Pass, A Weekly Pass, and a Monthly Pass, as well as Mobile Only Sports Pass which can only be used on a smartphone.
Starting today, Sky has raised the price of the Sky Sports Day Pass by £1, to £9.99/day. Seven months ago, the price was just £7.99, and a year before that, it was £6.99 – so that's a price increase of £3 – or about 45% – in about a year and a half.
The full NOW TV Sports Passes pricing, as of this week:
NOW TV Sky Sports Daily Pass – £9.99 (Previously £8.99)
NOW TV Sky Sports Weekly Pass – £14.99
NOW TV Sky Sports Monthly Pass – £33.99
NOW TV Sky Sports Alternatives
There aren't a lot of ways to replace the sporting events and channels you get on NOW TV, at least not without a cable/satellite subscription.
You can see some sporting events on the BBC and other Freeview channels (don't forget the TV Licence!), and you can subscribe to Eurosport (for £6.99/month as of this writing) via the Amazon Channels service.
Amazon is also trying to up its TV Sports game a little bit, and occasionally broadcasts big events as part of the Amazon Prime Video subscription. These days, for example, you can watch the US Open tennis matches (and you can watch all of them with just the free 30-days Amazon Prime trial – get it here.)
Even with the NOW TV Day Pass price increase, though, the service still gives you the flexibility that a "traditional" Sky Sports contract won't. You can get a Day Pass if there's only one specific game you're interested in, or get a monthly pass if you're all-in, but cancel it on slow months or when you go on holiday, for example. You can't cancel Sky TV contracts mid-contract…
The Mobile-Only Sky Sports Pass Option
If NOW TV's Sports Pass is expensive for you – and you don't have to watch it on your telly – there's a way to get it on the cheap, with the Sky Sports Mobile Pass, which, as the name suggests, only works on your mobile phone. The cost? Just £5.99/month.
The mobile pass includes 4 Sky Sports channels:
Sky Sports Premier League – The home of 126 live Premier League games a season.
Sky Sports Action & Sky Sports Arena – Two channels showcasing a selection of sports, including Rugby Union, Rugby League, Boxing, NFL, Darts and WWE
Sky Sports News – A 24-hour sports news channel, focusing on football.
Keep in mind, the Mobile Pass only works on a smartphone (iOS/Android), and 6 sports channels from the "full" pack are not included: Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports Cricket, Sky Sports Golf, Sky Sports F1 and Sky Sports Mix.
Click Here for NOW TV's Sky Sports Mobile Pass.
Additionally, NOW TV sometimes offers special deals that lower the price for a short period of time, so always check their deals page.
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The Civil Society Development Foundation launches its organisational development program for organisations working with and for young people, especially those with fewer opportunities.
With this program we invite organisations from all over Europe to enroll in a planning and implementing process that can help them to be more efficient in following their mission. Organisational development is a process of continuous assessment, on one hand and planning, implementing and evaluation, on the other hand with the goal to improve the organisation capacity for solving problems/ challenges and managing future changes and trends. Hence, with this program we foresee to have more aware organisations that will put focus on their organisational development in order to be as effective and professional to serve the real needs of young people.
1. Diagnosis – helping organisations to identify current status and possible challenges that may interfere with their effectiveness and assess the underlying causes.
2. Action planning – the organisations will be engaged in an action planning process to assess the feasibility of implementing different change strategies that lead to action.
3. Intervention – based on the action planning, with support from C.S.D.F., organisations will sequence the steps for the actions proposed and progress will be monitored.
– are motivated to bring change in the organisation and can engage seriously on the matter.
Interested organisations are invited to fill in the following survey by 2nd of April 2018: https://goo.gl/h145uw.
The program will start in the first half of April 2018.
For more questions please e-mail us at: odyo@fdsc.ro.
The Civil Society Development Foundation is a Romanian non-governmental organisation founded in December 1994 in Bucharest. Main aim of the Foundation is to develop the civil society organisations and empower citizens' participation both at national and at international level. Since its establishment, CSDF was involved in the development of the Romanian non-profit sector and became one of the biggest, most active and important Romanian NGO. The services provided on information, research, grant making, advocacy and training and consultancy complement and add value to each other, contributing to the civil society development.
This program is developed inside the project "Organisational Development for Youth Organisations", co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union and implemented in a consortium formed by Civil Society Development Foundation (FDSC), Centre for Information Service, Co-operation and Development of NGOs (CNVOS), European Network of National Civil Society (ENNA).


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Q: How to remove a class from the classpath after Gradle build I have a jar that I need to include in my dependencies...
compile files('WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/wls-api.jar')

There's a class inside that jar that is causing trouble that I want to not be on the classpath when I run my app after a gradle build.
How do I get rid of that class after doing a gradle build?

A: it's a bit trickier than it looks like at first blink; because you will modify the original input!
You should create a configuration for the your modified artifact (this is a proof of concept build.gradle snipplet):
apply plugin: 'java'

task filteredJar(type:Jar){
    // you may use a remote artifact by configuring a separate configuration for it and using a jar from:
    // configurations.theConfig.resolvedConfiguration.resolvedArtifacts
    from zipTree('a.jar')
    archiveName 'xx.jar'
    // use standard Copy/Sync like filters here, for the example i used
    include '**/Tool.class'
}

configurations {
    z1
}
artifacts {
    z1  filteredJar
}

dependencies {
    compile project(path: getPath(), configuration: 'z1')
}

or..alternatively, and might be more preferably:
put this magic into some separate project which will repackage this jar into a usebale one.


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The 6 best detox foods to cleanse your body, mind and soul!
From pollutants in the air to chemicals that we ingest, now more than ever, toxins enter our bodies. This is why a cleanse detox is so important. It is because of the everyday toxins that we encounter, that detoxing is essential to keep your body in good health. How do you do a body detox? You'll find the best 6 detoxifying foods below.
How to detoxify – AvocadosThis wonder veggie is full of antioxidants, including glutathione. Glutathione is amazing in blocking carcinogens, while also helping the liver detoxify unnatural chemicals in the body. Don't feel guilty the next time you want to pack your meal with this green vegetable.
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This submittal to Esri(UK) Annual Conference summarises the story detailed on my blog.
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This is a follow-up to Part I explaining oilspill modelling using NOAA Gnome modelling software and Kuwaiti ROPME data, all in the public domain. This has now been posted on ArcGIS Online as a time-aware file geodatabase map package. In this video using a dark grey basemap, the map package shows mock oil dispersal via advanced annotation, inversely proportional to time.
[2018 Update - presented at AAPG Visiting Geoscientist Program in Budapest in 2015 and Szeged in 2018 with open data for 2014 and 2018.
This is Part III of a "A day in the life of..." posts, to introduce basic petroleum data management for professionals who generate prospects. This is a yet even simpler workflow that helps rapid project start-ups for prospectors rather than data managers.
After Das Boot - German U-boat disruptive technology of WWII - it stands here for Data-as-a-Service, Business Opportunity of Things - rather than Internet of Things (IoT); it underscores that without business outcome, we might as well stay home: that is the tenor of GEO Business 2015, in its third year, as it draws together Surveying, BIM, GIS and business.
I attended two shows back-to-back in London yesterday. Esri(UK) Annual Conference was daytime at the QE2 Centre in Westminster a stone's throw from the Parliament. London Geomob was that evening in Shoreditch, the swanky London digital hub where Ordnance Survey just opened the Geovation Hub.
If the 20 min tube ride in between might have been through a wormhole, such was the contrast, both meetups strove to do the same thing, substituting maps for arts as the Bauhaus movement: "founded with the idea of creating a 'total' work of art in which all arts, including architecture, would eventually be brought together".
And now for something completely different - the original posts until Part VI are listed below - I ran across a nice map of Steve Feldman's: He also tried out free data and software to map UK flood maps, an up-scaled version not for professional re-use.
Since www.zolnai.ca will be the landing page for my new business, I spruced it up to reflect my new brand. zolnai.ca is indeed now registered in England as a Sole Trader.
The banner has been changed to show some example web maps created since 2006, a topic will be renewed at center page, and the navigation has been improved.
This is Part II of a A day in the life of posts, to introduc Basic petroleum data manipulation for professionals who aren't data managers. This is however a much simpler workflow that lends itself more to rapid project start-ups for petroleum rather than data professionals.
As I went solo in the new year, I collected my previous works also seen in the banner map gallery, and posted the Esri maps as a map story. Go here if it's too slow to load.


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Will the mania for EV stocks be a highway to hell for investors?
What is it with investors and electric vehicle companies? I get that the demand for battery-powered vehicles is rising. And that the potential market is huge. But what we are seeing right now is a turbo-charged speculative fervour that is off the charts. And to me, that's batty. This is the first in a new,… Continue reading →
This article was originally published by Roger Montgomery
What is it with investors and electric vehicle companies? I get that the demand for battery-powered vehicles is rising. And that the potential market is huge. But what we are seeing right now is a turbo-charged speculative fervour that is off the charts. And to me, that's batty.
This is the first in a new, irregular blog series called That's Batty. How long it lasts will largely depend on how long the current investor exuberance continues.
On 23 September, California state Governor Gavin Newsom announced California will phase out gasoline-powered cars and drastically reduce demand for fossil fuel in California's fight against climate change. Specifically, Newsom issued an executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035 as well as additional measures to eliminate harmful emissions from the transportation sector.
The California announcement was not just another nail in the coffin for the internal combustion engine and the fossil fuel industry; it was also a shot in the arm for a new wave of speculative fervorr fueled by free money and stupid valuations.
Investor enthusiasm and ignorance of fundamentals is the source of spiraling valuations for both privately and publicly-traded EV companies. Wherever and whenever valuations are so ridiculous that a founder can become a paper billionaire, investors will find a conga-line of startups announcing plans to go public.
In the past the route to the public boards was via an IPO, but today Special Purpose Acquisitions Companies (SPACs) have aggregated investors with the common characteristic of being extra idiotic, under the mutually agreed aim of paying a ridiculous price for something that might keep going up given that there must be even more stupid people out there to pay more.
In the EV space investors justify their ebullience by citing better technology, regulatory tailwinds and investment in electrification by traditional automakers all the while ignoring the capital intensity, substantial competition and consequent low returns.
It seems to me that through a failure to understand history, every new generation of investor is destined to repeat the mistakes of the past. Each generation has their boom and their bust. From the go-go years of the 60s to the late 80s, the late 90s, the late 00s, and now the late 10s, each generation must be thrown a giant financial party and then clean up afterwards. As I have said before; the future is only clear once it has passed.
There is no doubt the market for plug-in hybrid and battery-powered vehicles will expand dramatically by the mid-2020s. But it is also the case that the total addressable market is no bigger than the current market for cars.
It is also true that more governments globally are encouraging the use of electric cars just as California has. Once again, it just means existing car companies will need to retool.
Changing the propulsion system of a car doesn't change the economics of making them and, even if it does, the fact that every other manufacturer will enjoy the same economics means that no advantage is conferred. Under that scenario, pricing will reflect the better economics and the returns to owners will settle at about where they are today.
While a plethora of emerging electric vehicle startups that will enter the market hoping to disrupt the incumbents, investors should be aware that it is often better to short sell the losers than to try and pick a winner.
There have been over 2000 car manufacturers that have failed since Karl Benz first drove his horseless carriage in the late 1800s. Trying to pick the winner would be near impossible. You would have been better off shorting blacksmiths.
When a new technology emerges, its ability to change the world gets investors very excited but often it's the consumer that wins rather than shareholders. Think TV, air transport and the motor vehicle – billions, if not trillions, have been lost making this stuff and fighting for market share, with consumers always better off.
And so we come to the latest That's Batty factoid.
A Texas-based truck electrification business, called Hyliion and founded by 28-year-old chief executive officer Thomas Healy, is being merged (subject to SPAC shareholder approval) with cash-box Tortoise Acquisition Corp.
The company is not a truck manufacturer. Hyliion intends to supply hybrid and electric thrust systems that can be fitted into existing long-haul trucks to lower emissions, comply with new regulations and lower running costs.
At this stage the company is not expecting to generate revenue until 2022.
So what should this idea be valued at. How about US$7 billion? Sounds reasonable? That's higher than Auckland International Airport and just shy of Santos and Suncorp.
It gets more interesting however when you realise that not only will Healy have a paper worth of US$1.5 billion but that, based on regulatory filings analysed by Bloomberg, the SPAC's private equity sponsor has invested less than US$7 million into the SPAC and will receive about US$450 million in equity value from the acquisition of Hyliion.
That US$450 is about 80 per cent of the $560 million in cash proceeds Hyliion receives by merging with Tortoise. In other words, there are huge incentives to set these SPACs up and then find some stupid investors to invest in something stupid. Why not EVs?
North American SPACs have raised more than US$40 billion so far this year, according to Bloomberg. And now you know why That's Batty.
When a new technology emerges, its ability to change the world gets investors very excited but often it's the consumer that wins rather than shareholders. It is often better to short sell the losers than to try and pick a winner.
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