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STAGE 2: CONTENT
Vid: Theatre Fundamentals Backstage
PPT: Theatre Safety & Tools
Unit 1: The Audition
An important component of being career and college ready is for the students to gain "soft skills" during their time in high school. The CTE Department has committed to including the following objectives into their
10th grade pathway classes, which will allow the students to receive an industry-recognized certificate/badge upon completion of the course.
Students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to fill out an application.
Compose a cover letter.
Create or enhance a resume.
Illustrate the use of professional email.
Practice taking and employing a professional headshot.
Participate in a mock audition/interview where they will be scored on dress attire, composure, answering open ended questions, and accurate execution of basic acting and theatre knowledge.
Describe how to resign.
Unit 2: The Festival
Reconnect with the performance and design skills developed in Introduction to Professional Theatre as you develop a submission for a regional theatre festival that looks to advance the education of high school theatre arts
students by offering opportunities to strengthen, promote and share artistic skills within an interactive and supportive educational environment. Prepare a monologue, duo scene, one act play, musical scene, or designs for sets or costumes from conception, through to public preview, then on to adjudication at the festival.
Research industry specific materials to develop inspiration for creative works.
Adhere to industry standards regarding copyright, fair use, etc.
Compose design work in line with industry standards.
Create performance ready presentations in line with industry standards.
Organize and implement a live preview performance in line with industry standards.
Participate in a regional festival as audience as well as performer/presenter.
Unit 3: The Play
Work as a team to see the production of a play from start to finish serving as designers, producers, cast and crew.
Develop a production timeline.
Organize the theatre space.
Identify the requirements of securing the rights to performance material.
Aid in adherence to a budget.
Assess skills to assign production staff roles and participate in production staff meetings.
Develop casting criteria and participate in auditions.
Identify technical elements required of the text (costumes, set, lighting, properties, effects, etc.) and will design and construct needed elements.
Rehearse the play, practicing the full range of acting skills required to create, maintain, and perform a character.
Devise and implement a publicity campaign.
Produce a program for distribution at the performance.
Evaluate the needs of the box office and implement efficient and accurate operation of business transactions.
Discern the needs of house management and implement efficient and safe operation of the public space during performances.
Solve the backstage organizational needs of the production and carry out routines that ensure it remains efficient, safe, and professional.
Develop means to document the process of producing the play as well as carrying out the productions as a way to better their professional practice.
Synthesize each of the aforementioned elements to produce professional-quality live performances for the community.
Deduce the post-production needs of the production to ensure the operations of the theater space returns to its base state and that newly acquired materials and resources are documented and stored correctly.
Unit 4: The Musical
Work as a team to see the production of a musical from start to finish serving as designers, producers, cast and crew.
Assess skills to assign production staff roles and participate in production staff meetings
Learn the music of the play, practicing the full range of vocal skills to create, maintain, and perform a character through song.
Choreograph and learn the dances of the play, practicing the full range or physical skills to create, maintain, and perform a character through dance.
Unit 5: The Show On The Road
Work as a team to see produce a series of short scenes from classic storybooks to take "on the road" for a tour of local primary schools.
Organize the needs of a mobile theatre space.
Rehearse the scenes, practicing the full range of acting skills required to create, maintain, and perform a character.
Learn any music required of the scenes, practicing the full range of vocal skills to create, maintain, and perform a character through song.
Choreograph and learn any required dances of the scenes, practicing the full range or physical skills to create, maintain, and perform a character through dance.
Develop means to document the process of producing the production as well as carrying out the productions as a way to better their professional practice.


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Q: CSS div tags not the size of parent when using percents I am trying to make the div tags in my HTML a percent of the size of the parent div, without being too small or too large. What I get when I check the size of the div with this code:

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    margin-left: 1%;
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The blue box is the inner div tag. Here is a better picture of the problem

A: You will need to have units on your width and height such as px, em, rem, %, vh, vw.

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*See more here at
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*Solution from your example

A: All the properties of #main require a measurement unit...
#main {
width: 800px
height: 800px;
margin: 0px auto;
}

For you example, px is good.

A: The problem is h1 margin. Browsers have default style for line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on. However, you can solve your problem by giving margin:0; to the h1 element or use css reset to solve your problem.
h1
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    width: 800px;
    height: 800px;
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    width: 61%;
    margin-right: 2%;
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.sidebar, .content {
    background: #888;
    height: 100%;
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    text-align: center;
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Hello!

Hello again!

A: It's happening because you have a top margin on your H1 tag.

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The "4. HR management" solution enables you to fully manage staff personal data and all other related data, such as: contract documents, additional letters/references, etc.
Therefore, staff can be organised in a "tree" thereby realistically reproducing your company's organization chart. Depending on the position occupied in the tree, employees can then be granted different levels of access (more or less restricted) within your "6. Intranet".


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2. Shape a heaping tablespoonful of dough into a 6-in. log. In a shallow bowl, combine cinnamon and remaining sugar; roll log in cinnamon-sugar. Loosely coil log into a spiral shape; place on a greased baking sheet. Repeat, placing cookies 1 in. apart. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar.
Hello friends, I'm back from vacation! Did you miss me? I know I missed you all! We had a fabulous week in Clearwater Beach, Florida but it feels good to be home. If you follow me on social media at all then you got to catch a glimpse of my trip. If not, don't fear! I'll be sharing an overview later this week along with some pics just so you can see what I was up to!
For now, let's talk Mexican food. Do you love it or hate it? I am a HUGE fan! Honestly, I could eat a Mexican dish every day for the rest of my life. Tacos, enchiladas, burritos...you name it, I love it.
This month is Mexican month for the Blogger Recipe Challenge group. I can't wait to share some of my favorite recipes with you! This first one isn't your traditional Mexican dish. I created a delicious fruit salsa and paired it with cinnamon sugar tortilla chips. Everyone has a traditional salsa and chips recipe, so I wanted to mix things up a bit!
PREPARATION In a large bowl, combine the pancake mix and water, stirring until smooth with no lumps.


Manchester sits on the banks of the Merrimack River in south central New Hampshire. Once a depressed mill town, it has gained new strength from a recent facelift. The new Manchester is an attractive, upscale community.
Dining out here is an ethnic affair with a variety of choices from Chinese to Middle Eastern. There's a heap of culture, too. For live entertainment, the Palace Theater has been a favorite for decades. The Currier Museum of Art is a renown institution featuring great American and European sculptures and artwork. And for fine-tuned musical appreciation, there's The New Hampshire Philharmonic.
The Massabesic Audubon Center is a museum offering educational hands-on experiences for children and adults. Hiking through its five miles of nature trails is a pleasurable trek through numerous environmental habitats. On the Merrimack River, The Amoskeag Fishways Learning and Visitors Center thrills anglers with exhibits, workshops and field trips.
Sports are part of what makes Manchester special. Whether it's cheering for the Manchester Monarch's hockey team at the newly-constructed Verizon Wireless Arena or going out to the ball game at the Fisher Cats Baseball Stadium, spectator sports are alive and well in Manchester.
It's not only about watching sports ... the Manchester lifestyle is about participating in active sports, as well. Fishing in the Lake Messabesic Watershed for small mouth bass and yellow perch is a satisfying pastime. The watershed is also a haven for wildlife and a favorite spot among naturalists.
Hiking trails are available at Lake Messabesic. For a round of golf, the Derryfield Country Club is open to the public. And, downhill skiing can be found at McIntyre Ski Area in North Manchester. Many inns and motels in the area also offer snowmobile and snowshoeing trails, as well as sleigh rides.


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Too Often, Blinded By Inertia by Al Sikes
December 23, 2019 by Al Sikes 1 Comment
Human re-shaping of our natural infrastructure has confronted us with existential issues. This column is one in a series that began with, The Issue of Our Time.
September 11, 2001, remains a searing event in my memory. My wife and I were living in Manhattan on that day and were intensely interested in investigations that followed. Who knew what? When? And, how diligent were the authorities in investigative follow-through?
An informal view that resonated with me concluded that it is hard, if not impossible; to prevent what cannot be imagined. Commandeering passenger planes and flying them into buildings seemed the stuff of movies. Intelligence officials and their elected bosses failed to process evidence of a potential attack to a timely and logical conclusion and preventive actions.
The threats as a consequence of climate change face a similar obstacle. The threat is even more troubling as the attackers are us, 7.5 billions of us. Generations of actions have created the risks; yet, we are told that society must be reordered, now!
And, we all know the overriding incentive that leads to self-denial. We continue behaviors that are proven to be harmful because they give us pleasure.
I grew up several miles from a farm my grandparents owned. I know what "hoeing cotton" means. Farmhands, using hoes, chopped the weeds that were competing with the cotton plants. As I would ride with my Grandfather to the farm, rows of workers were evident as they, to use another long gone phrase, were "chopping cotton". Given the time and costs associated with this labor intensive effort, "poor land" was not planted.
The unplanted spaces were in tree rows with grasses and bushy plant life on either side. Today it might be called a pollinator or wildlife corridor.
What displaced these labor intensive practices in agricultural were chemicals that kill plants, generational improvements in farm machinery and government subsidies; they combined to eliminate wildlife corridors. There was certainly not a plan of action to eliminate the bees and butterflies or to release more CO2 in the atmosphere, but there was a plan of action to scale-up to maximize profit. Scaling up is capital intensive and turned into an invitation for intense commercialization. Return on investment is the dominant principle.
As the farmers, now mostly corporate, were maximizing profit, so too were the chemical and machinery industries. Reshaping nature was not explicit and that is a part of the problem—the formula: all reward no risks. Commodity production was the goal—traditional farm economics and environmental risks were overwhelmed.
Damming rivers also became an aggressive intrusion on nature's balance during my lifetime. A cluster of special interests began an insistent campaign for more lakes. While flood control of river basins was said to be the reason, recreation was often the motivating force. My Dad's business had several hundred square feet devoted to fishing and hunting equipment. Bass Pro Shop's retail stores today are thousands of square feet and its catalog is thicker than many dictionaries.
Technology helped serve our pleasure with lower commodity prices and new ways to spend our discretionary dollars. We went along for the ride—only our out-of-pocket costs were influential. Environmental costs were mostly not considered.
As earlier noted my wife and I live on a farm called Nature's Reach and over several years we have given nature some help by re-creating wetlands, meadows and a tree grove.
We also started beekeeping with several colonies of honey bees and have become fascinated by their activities. But, more important than our honey bees, are the thousands of pollinators that now make Nature's Reach their home. I should add: our garden flourishes.
My point is not to extoll obsolete and labor-intensive farming or what we have done at Nature's Reach, but simply to point out what big feet humans have and how nature responds. Unfortunately we, for our own comfort, have often chosen to be imperious Kings and Queens of nature, not stewards.
Much of what we value we count. We know about our own dollars and cents and the news media tell us each day whether the stock market is up or down. But, if I asked about the comparative population of pollinators in say 1960 and 2018, a satisfactory answer could not be found. Indeed only scientists would even attempt an answer. Fortunately I do not need to rely on computer models; I can see the dramatic changes on my farm.
I use pollinators illustratively, because of my personal experiences. Much more importantly, pollinators are as essential as clean water and air. They are keystones of nature's balance. Our failure to protect them is a systemic failure—likewise climate change.
As I wrap this up, let me return to the central narrative—humans make a huge difference and those who have an intense interest in continuing to do things without due regard for the environmental consequences are quite good as my Dad would say, at "selling us a bill of goods."
We need to comprehend our role in damaging nature's profound balance and take the lead both at home and globally to reverse damaging trends.
Al Sikes is the former Chair of the Federal Communications Commission under George H.W. Bush. Al recently published Culture Leads Leaders Follow published by Koehler Books.
Filed Under: Al Sikes Eco, Top Story
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Marcia Yeager says
We were in downtown Brooklyn on Sept. 11 and witnessed everything. I remember a report coming out almost immediately that a flight instructor in Iowa had contacted the FBI that 2 men had taken flying classes and were not interested in learning how to land. The FBI did not follow this information up. Maybe in this case something could have been done.

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Arthur Lee (7. březen 1945, Memphis, Tennessee, USA – 3. srpen 2006, tamtéž) byl americký hudebník, producent, skladatel a multiinstrumentalista, nejvíce známý jako frontman skupiny Love.

Narození v roce 1945
Úmrtí v roce 2006
Američtí multiinstrumentalisté
Hudebníci psychedelického rocku
Členové Love
Američtí hudební skladatelé
Američtí hudební producenti
Američtí kytaristé
Američtí zpěváci
Američtí hráči na foukací harmoniku
Protopunkoví hudebníci
Úmrtí 3. srpna
Muži
Narození v Memphisu
Narození 7. března

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BASE_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd | sed 's/\/$//g' )"

SNAPSHOT_PREFIX="$1"
SNAPSHOT_SUFFIX="$(grep "#SUFFIX:" "$BASE_DIR/docker-compose.yml" | sed 's/#SUFFIX: //g')"

if [ -z "$SNAPSHOT_PREFIX" ]; then
  echo "Must provide snapshot prefix as only argument."
  exit 1
fi

if [ -n "$(docker images | grep "^$SNAPSHOT_PREFIX")" ]; then
  echo "Already have images that start with $SNAPSHOT_PREFIX"
  exit 1
fi

ALL_CLUSTER_NODES="$(docker-compose ps)"
RELEVANT_CLUSTER_NODES="$(echo "$(echo "$ALL_CLUSTER_NODES" | grep "^ambari " && echo "$ALL_CLUSTER_NODES" | grep "^centos6")" | awk '{print $1}')"

echo "Relevant containers: " $RELEVANT_CLUSTER_NODES

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echo "$RELEVANT_CLUSTER_NODES" | xargs docker-compose pause

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  docker commit $node "$SNAPSHOT_PREFIX"_"$node$SNAPSHOT_SUFFIX"
done

echo "Unpausing nodes."
echo "$RELEVANT_CLUSTER_NODES" | xargs docker-compose unpause

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The growth of vegetarianism in Luxembourg has given rise to the launch of the country's first vegetarian butcher.
Entrepreneur José Da Costa is one of six people driving the Vegetarian Butcher concept, starting in April 2013 with the opening of a new vegetarian restaurant in Kirchberg. A vegetarian himself, he knows just how hard it can be to find tasty meat alternatives or "faux meat" which tastes as good as the real thing.
"When I became vegetarian four years ago the types of products available here in Luxembourg sucked. There's a lot of selection but companies trying to imitate meat just aren't there yet," he said, adding: "With 38 years experience of eating meat, it's very difficult to fool me."
José Da Costa, 42, explained that the Vegetarian Butcher concept derives from the Netherlands. There, a former eighth generation livestock farmer who became vegetarian and an animal rights politician worked to produce meat-free products from soja and lupini beans, which tasted and had the same texture as real meat.
After reading about the initiative last year, José and his wife went directly to the Dutch Vegetarian Butcher head quarters in Den Hague to taste the products. "We were amazed. For a big part of our lives we had eaten meat and fish. Here we had vegetarian or vegan products that tasted identical," he said.
Our mission is to free animals from the food chain by offering a complete and delicious alternative to meat. This will not only provide a huge benefit in terms of efficiency, nature, environment, climate, bio diversity and the world food supply, but also in terms of animal welfare. The same way horses that were once used to pull the plow have been replaced by mechanical horsepower, slaughter animals will also become obsolete because of our products.
Vegetarian Butcher products have exploded in the Netherlands during the last two years and are available to purchase in more than 500 different places. This growth is largely a result of food scandals and concerns about the provenance of meat. Given the recent horse meat scandals which rocked Europe, José thinks now is a good a time as ever to promote vegetarian products on the Luxembourg market.
But, before doing so, he reworked the image of the typical vegetarian. "Often, vegetarianism has been linked too much with this alternative lifestyle. We want to make it more normal for people to eat vegetarian food and to move away from this stereotype," he said.
He hopes that the somewhat antithetical brand name, the Vegetarian Butcher, will begin the process by sparking debate on the subject. He is currently in the process of expanding the Vegetarian Butcher.
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Die Liste der Baudenkmale in Burgwedel enthält alle Baudenkmale der niedersächsischen Stadt Burgwedel und der Ortsteile Engensen, Fuhrberg, Großburgwedel, Kleinburgwedel, Thönse und Wettmar. Die Quelle der Baudenkmale ist der Denkmalatlas Niedersachsen. Der Stand der Liste ist der 20. Dezember 2021.

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Literatur
 Denkmaltopographie Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Baudenkmale in Niedersachsen, Region Hannover, Nördlicher und östlicher Teil, Band 13.2, herausgegeben von Christiane Segers-Glocke, bearbeitet von Carolin Krumm, Verlag CW Niemeyer Buchverlage, Hameln, 2005. ISBN 3-8271-8255-7

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Teaching and Learning manages the University of Canberra's virtual learning environments (VLE), the Library, and the Library Commons.
The University of Canberra provides students and staff with learning environments that support students' engagement with their learning, whether students are studying on campus, online or flexibly.
The learning management system, Canvas, is the hub of UCLearn. Through Canvas teaching sites students and staff can access and use the tools and services that make up the VLE.
InterFace is a web-based dashboard designed to support the development of learning and teaching partnerships.
The student facing dashboard displays information about their own progress and engagement relative to the performance of peers in the same unit. It is the primary method of receiving feedback from students on their satisfaction with their enrolled units throughout the teaching period. Weekly satisfaction is shown in the 'worm', and satisfaction sought through the InterFace Student Experience Questionnaire (ISEQ), is delivered to students in Weeks, 3, 7 and 11 of each semester (Weeks, 2, 4 and 7 in Winter Term, and adjusted as appropriate for other teaching periods).


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Dizran (; also known as Deh Zarūn, Dīzān, and Dizroon) is a village in Kahduiyeh Rural District, Nir District, Taft County, Yazd Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 264, in 73 families.

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Populated places in Taft County


21 relations: Area, Chi (unit), Chinese units of measurement, Floor area (building), Garret, Ge (unit), Hong Kong, House, Japanese units of measurement, Kan (unit), Ken (unit), Korea under Japanese rule, Korean units of measurement, Mainland China, Nagoya, Real estate, Shaku (unit), South Korea, Studio apartment, Taiwanese units of measurement, Tatami.
The chi is a traditional Chinese unit of length.
A garret is a habitable attic or small and often dismal or cramped living space at the top of a house or larger residential building.
The ge is a traditional Chinese unit of volume equal to sheng.
Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō (尺貫法, "shaku–kan system") is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago.
The kan is a traditional unit of measurement used in Korean architecture still found in use today primarily to describe palaces, Buddhist temples and shrines, and Confucian school buildings, from the Joseon era.
The is a traditional Japanese unit of length, equal to six Japanese feet (shaku).
Korean units of measurement, called cheokgwan-beop or cheokgeun-beop in Korean, is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Korean peninsula.
The or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese chi, originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger (compare span).
Taiwanese units of measurement are the customary and traditional units of measure used in Taiwan.
A is a type of mat used as a flooring material in traditional Japanese-style rooms.
P'yong, P'yŏng, Ping (unit), Py (unit), Pyeong (unit), Pyong, Pyung, Pyŏng, Tsubo, 坪, 평.


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Q: Frequently Modified Files in Clearcase I am very new to Clearcase and one of the task that I have got on my hand is to find frequently modified  files in ClearCase, Suppose we have an integration stream and there are numerous files in our stream, need to know of certain files which are modified frequently like a certain file is modified 5 times in last two months.
I have access to ClearCase commands as well as GUI
Is there a way we can have solution to this problem.
Thanks

A: You can do, following find examples, a search between two dates:
cleartool find . -version "{created_since(date1) &&
                           !created_since(date2) &&
                           brtype(myIntStream)" -exec "cleartool descr -fmt "%En"\
|sort| uniq -c | sort -n

(This is the Windows syntax, which means you need GoW (Gnu On Windows) installed for the v  and uniq commands.
As Brian Cowan adds in the comments, the command would be:
cleartool find -all -version "{created_since(date1) &&
                           !created_since(date2) &&
                           brtype(myIntStream)" -exec "cleartool desc -fmt \"%En\n\" \"%CLEARCASE_XPN\"" \
|sort| uniq -c | sort -n

On Unix:
cleartool find -all -version "{created_since(date1) &&
                           !created_since(date2) &&
                           brtype(myIntStream)" -exec  'cleartool desc -fmt "%En\n" "$CLEARCASE_XPN"' \
|sort| uniq -c | sort -n

-all instead of the current directory format, to avoid issues if the command isn't run at the VOB root.

If you don't care about the interval, but only want the last 2 months, drop the !created_since line.
Alternatively, use "today" as the second date, though that would everything modified since midnight your local on the day you run the command.


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Water Wars on the Russian River
The Russian River watershed, just north of San Francisco, is surely one of the more progressive and resource-conscious areas of the country. I was staying in Guerneville on the river for a few days, about midway between Santa Rosa and the coast, and I got into a conversation with a local couple about the river and related water issues. They were in their sixties. They had lived in Guerneville over 30 years, raised their kids there and remained involved in the community.
When the topic of water use came up, the man spoke with deep resentment. I'll paraphrase:
Santa Rosa just keeps dumping on us. Literally! This has been going on for decades. They take the water out of the river for development, always more development. The more water they use, the more waste they'll wind up flushing downstream.
Once we proposed that they put their own intake pipes downstream from their effluent, so they'd need to use the same water we do. They looked at us like we were crazy. "Why would anyone want to do that?" they asked.
I asked him if there was any solution that might work. He smiled.
Well, we had a farmer around here who once drove up to Santa Rosa City Hall and dumped a truckload of manure on the steps. I think that got their attention.
His wife added that another step, at least as effective, had been the construction of a pipeline that ships treated wastewater to the Gysers steam fields – over 10 million gallons per day – where it helps produce enough electricity to power all of San Francisco.
Since then I've been intrigued by the question of water use along the Russian River. One important pitfall which that conversation highlighted: the temptation to frame a resource crisis as a conflict between two opposing groups, in this case the city upstream and the town downstream. Here's what I've learned so far, and some big questions that remain unanswered.
Downstream Residents: the river provides most of their water supply; sufficient water quality and flow is also needed for tourism and recreation (swimming, canoeing, fishing) which is vital to the local economy
Fish: Endangered species such as the Coho and Chinook salmon need unpolluted rivers for spawning with sufficient forest cover to provide shade and erosion control along the riverbank. However, apparently they also require LOW overall flow rates on the lower river near the estuary.
Agriculture: Sonoma county vineyards and other agriculture use the lion's share of water. But extractive industries, including logging and gravel mining, also require water for their operations.
Urban Residents and Development: Earlier this year, water contractors representing Santa Rosa water users successfully fought a proposed 30% increase in water rates. Meanwhile, the Sonoma County Water Agency continues to try to increase the amount of water it draws from the river from 76,000 to 101,000 Acre Feet/Year (over 30 billion gallons).
Of course there are many more groups and subsets of groups at work, and agencies that represent different interests and mandates. Brenda Adelman at the Russian River Watershed Protection Committee has been reporting on these issue now for some time: see www.rrwpc.org/articles.html
Are there any solutions on the table that would balance the needs of all the impacted groups fairly> Could pricing water use in accordance with its scarcity and high environmental impact not only curb unsustainable development in urban/suburban areas like Santa Rosa (by reducing the economic incentives for developers) but also reduce waste discharges downstream. Less water used equals less wastewater discharged.
My biggest question is this: if Guerneville and Santa Rosa can't make peace over the Russian River, what are the chances for India and Pakistan over the Indus?
(Photo Credit: brian-m under a Creative Commons Attribution License
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Cocoa Bucks
Endangered Species Belgian Chocolate Bars - Chimpanzee Smooth Dark Chocolate
Like many people I've been paying more attention to prices at the grocery store and to what's on sale. So when I noticed a row of organic chocolate bars on sale at Rainbow Market, I decided to go for that instead of the pricier choice. Never mind that the best choice all around would have been: no chocolate.
Standing at the checkout line, I looked at my selection. It was Endangered Species Chocolate: specifically, the bar with the Endangered Belgian Chimpanzee on it. Or maybe it was just the chocolate that was Belgian. I wondered why I had never tried it before. Even now, about to buy it on account of the dollar discount, it just wasn't…. appetizing.
I care about endangered species. I appreciate that this company donates 10% of their profits to wildlife conservation. I will even generally pay a little more to support fair trade imports. So why my resistance to this product?
I think it's the juxtaposition of the endangered chimpanzee (or bat or butterfly) on the wrapper versus the chocolate bar inside. I'm used to packaging doing one of two things:
the more usual scenario, showing us an appetizing or stylized vision of what we're about to eat.
the more visceral strategy of luring us with a picture of some celebrity or model — and the implied promise that by eating this food, we will become more like they are. I think this is related to some mythic impulse to ingest our deities and heroes — without the mess of actually eating, say, Lance Armstrong.
There may be other categories, like the cartoon monsters on cereal boxes that little kids eat, but anyway — the point is, when I'm craving chocolate, I'm rarely also in the mood to either eat or become an endangered chimpanzee.
"The chimpanzee isn't in the chocolate, silly," my friend said as we sat outside finishing our lunch and eying desert. She had bought fruit.
"I know, but instead of helping the chimpanzee, I feel like I'm eating him."
"What you're eating is your paycheck," she pointed out.
"Well, if they had a picture of my paycheck on the wrapper, I probably wouldn't have bought it now would I?"
She did not argue with this logic. But it reminded me of something even more remarkable. Chocolate used to be money.
I told her about the presentation on sustainable economics at the Green Festival. The speaker was Daniel Pinchbeck and he was talking about Ithaca Hours, a local currency in Ithaca NY which encourages people to spend their earnings within their community. Afterwards someone asked what happens when this currency pools — when one business is stuck holding alot of the Ithaca dollars but needs to pay suppliers that don't participate in the program. After looking at different mechanisms for dealing with this scenario, Pinchbeck took a longer view of the issue.
Our current economic system encourages investments that will yield the highest short-term return regardless of the long-term consequences. But what if we could measure and reward investments according their ability to sustain community? Currency only has value as long as it's in play. Pinchbeck mentioned the work of Bernard Lietaer, architect of the Euro, and alternative systems that Lietaer had proposed including currency that would depreciate over time — a kind of negative interest.
The Ancient Aztecs, Pinchbeck noted, traded in cocoa beans. The actual unit of currency decayed over time and lost value. The point was to spend and trade wisely, not hoard the wealth.
With this in mind, I let go of any impulse I might have had to hold onto that chocolate bar with the picture of the chimp on it, to use it as a hedge against an uncertain future. I broke off a small piece for my friend, and before we knew it, the whole thing was gone.
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It's like a full moon or a really low tide. It comes once a month and often catches me by surprise: on a Friday night I'll be heading through the Mission or Market street and see a mass of cyclists and the flashing bike lights. It's carnival time and the circus passing through town. But even if I'm riding my bike, I always have somewhere else to go. Or I decide that the crowd looks a little too raucous. And being all raucous like that really doesn't further a serious cause like transportation alternatives now, does it…
Maybe under that judgement is the wistfulness of the kid with too much homework and a curfew who wishes he could join in the fun. If I can't have fun, then having fun must be wrong. Right?
Tonight I landed right in the middle of the surging crowd of cyclists riding up Division St. and just fell in without giving it too much thought. We rode up Valencia to 22nd, then to Mission St., looped back to Valencia and up Market toward the Castro. There must have been 1000 cyclists in a sprawling caravan of tinkling bike bells and blinking red tail lights as far ahead as I could see.
It was an unexpected feeling of solidarity and closeness. There were a few DJ's with huge speakers on bike trailers booming and I'd find one I liked the sound of and keep pace with it pedaling in time to the beat. When you're a driver among other drivers, you're alone in your cacoon of music or silence or your cell phone conversation. If you interact with other drivers it's often out of anger and righteousness. They disobeyed some rule or did something stupid, so you become irritated and honk at them.
Well, obviously, being in the middle of critical mass feels different from being in a car in a traffic jam. But it's also different from riding to work on the Folsom St. bike lane from the mission to downtown, which I used to do on a daily basis. I mentioned that to my neighbor and she agreed, then added how when you go a distance along a bike lane, it's like these little families or tribes that spontaneously cluster then disperse. "You ever notice," she said, "how there will be like a mom and a dad and then a sister and a little brother, and you'll be riding along together and it's like this little family that just assembled itself on the fly. You can imagine everyone's personality and the role they'd play. And then you get to 4th street and — Woosh! sister goes off to college and then at 2nd St. — Whoosh! mom leaves home without saying goodbye."
In the transition from small virtual family to large mobile village comes not just stability, but safety. I guess that's why they call it Critical Mass. I'd never realized that constant note of fear that plays in the background every time I ride my bike on a road shared with cars, fear that a car might run a stop sign or make a turn, the uneven stakes in terms of what it would mean for the car and what it would mean for me. And now that note of fear is gone, and that absence is the most unexpected and exhilarating aspect of the experience.
Most of the people in the cars were smiling or tapping on their horns or waving out the window. But at a few intersections I'd see drivers leaning on the horn, or screaming through their windshield at the cyclists who just kept coming like a parade, regardless of the traffic lights. One well-dressed driver stepped out of a sports car and was ranting at the bikes in front of him. "Look at the light! It's my light! It's a green light!"
It was my first ever night of riding with Critical Mass, and already I wanted to stop and and give him a helpful lecture: "Every night of the month, it goes by those rules, except once a month, on the last Friday, the rules change, like carnaval. you know, just to remind us that all invented systems can be changed if we decide to change them."
Instead of delivering this speech, I kept on going, and saw other riders who seemed more familiar with the sort of thing just surround his car with their bikes and quietly calm him down. That seemed like a better way of diffusing the situation, but as I rode on, I continued my imaginary conversation with the angry driver:
We get to feeling that a car is an essential tool, or even an inalienable right. Anyone who interferes with your car is disrespecting you as well as the rules. But who invented those rules? Who benefits by them? Do cars have rights?
Once in I remember a cab driver complaining to me about the foot traffic in American cities, all the jaywalkers. In his country, he told me in heavily accented English, the cars get more respect. The pedestrians know that if they don't jump out of the way, they will be killed by the cars.
In your country, he said, there are too many laws against killing the people.
Well, we choose to have a system where hitting people with cars is not cool. We could also have system where it was easier and safer for people to ride bikes. It's up to us.
As I put my bike in the garage and walked up the steps of my house, I had a lingering image of the angry drivers, who were kept from their plans by some random, unfair event. I imagined their reaction: "If it's not a construction crew or an accident, it's a bunch of freaks on bicycles."
Maybe in regards to them, Critical Mass doesn't measure up. To those who are already bicycle believers, it's an affirming experience. But for those who are dependent on their cars, or who just believe that they are, we probably hadn't opened their mind to other points of view. More likely that they felt confirmed their sense of their own righteousness — and victimization — in the face of irresponsible and raucous people who had nothing better to do on a Friday night than ride their bikes around, having way too much fun.
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Children of the Amazon: a new documentary
Children of the Amazon is an exquisite film, and a very personal look at a vital issue.
Clips on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/ZDFilms
Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol of Brazil recently returned to the Amazon to find some of the indigenous people whom she had met and photographed there almost 20 years before. She documents how their lives had been altered by the construction of roads and clearcutting of the forest to make way for cattle, logging and mining, and how they gradually acquired the awareness and the organization to have a voice in these changes.
Those 15 years between her two visits are a critical time span. Several of the tribe members she interviews refer to "tempo de floresta," forest time, before all the changes came. The children of the amazon whom she photographed, within their lifetime, have witnessed the destruction of their land and their way of life. As she shows them the photos she had taken of them, it turns out they had never seen photographs of themselves as children.
It's a very personal and inspiring film: it translates the movements of peoples and continents to the scale of an individual, a family, a village. It doesn't sentimentalize, but it's hard not to be affected by the story of Chico Mendes, who had organized and represented the rubber tappers in that region.
Though not indigenous, the rubber tappers depended on the Amazon forest for their livelihood, so ultimately they joined forces with the native peoples to resist the ranchers and other forces of development. Zmekhol remembers her conversations with Chico over the years, interweaving photographs and video footage with recent interviews she conducted with his surviving family and friends.
Chico was assassinated in the intervening years, along with several other leaders of the movement to resist deforestation. One of the young girls whom Zmekhol had photographed and hoped to meet up with again had also been killed. She drank some poisoned juice that had been intended for her father, a chief of the Surui tribe.
Watching this movie, I found myself wondering about all the all the indigenous peoples throughout history whose lands and lives gave way to invasion, genocide and other forms of progress, from the Aztecs and Native Americans all the way back to the Ancient Hebrews, Gauls and Celts under the Roman Empire. It's a pattern as old and as inevitable as the progress of time. Two thousand years ago Virgil's Aeneid told the story of Turnus, a mythological prince who resisted the first Roman invaders. Virgil ascribed to Turnus the noble yet misguided heroism of a man devoted to a lost cause.
I find myself thinking, or hoping, that this story might yet turn out differently than all those others, that the children of the Amazon might actually stand a chance — because their land and way of life is as important to our survival as it is to theirs. The film is not a polemic, and does not preach. But biodiversity — and the role of indigenous peoples in preserving it — has gradually been recognized as essential to the continuity of human life.
Consider this : the amazon forest is home to one third of all plant and animal species on the planet, and source of about 20% of the world's supply of oxygen.
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Q: MacBook Pro 15" 2017 takes a few seconds to power on display after standby Every time my MacBook goes into standby mode and I wake it up,the display takes a few second to power up. Is this a normal behaviour or should it wake up immediately?

A: For the most part this is normal, unless it's happening even when it's only been asleep for a few minutes. There are actually two different sleep modes, basic standby and hibernate. If it's been asleep for a long time, the computer will power down more than usual (it's already written everything in RAM to the disk), and in order to get out of that mode it has to read from disk back into RAM. This can take a small amount of time.
For more information, see this article (it's pretty old) or man pmset in Terminal.


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Byzantine Military
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"Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity."
- - - - Princess Anna Comnena (1083–1153) - Byzantine historian
The Varangian Guard
The Varangian Guard was an elite unit of the Byzantine Army in 10th to the 14th centuries, whose members served as personal bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperors.
The guard was first formed under Emperor Basil II in 988, following the Christianization of Kievan Rus' by Vladimir I of Kiev. Vladimir, who had recently usurped power in Kiev with an army of Varangian warriors, sent 6,000 men to Basil as part of a military assistance agreement.
This man is of Scandinavian origin, migrated in Kievan Rus kingdom. The shield depicts the crow-symbol of god Odin and he holds Danish Axe. Greaves, hand protection, chest leather strips and pteryges, are obviously Byzantine, borrowed from the Imperial arsenal.
Normans vs Byzantines - The Battle of Dyrrhachium
In 1071 the Romans experienced their greatest defeat ever at the Battle of Manzikert. The eastern provinces of the Empire were being overrun by Muslim Turks. It was at this moment that the Normans chose to invade the Roman Western provinces to carve out an even greater empire for themselves at the expense of fellow Christians.
The Battle of Dyrrhachium (near present-day Durrës in Albania) took place on October 18, 1081 between the Roman Empire, led by the Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, and the Normans of southern Italy under Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria. The battle was fought outside the city of Dyrrhachium (also known as Durazzo), the Byzantine capital of Illyria.
Following the Norman conquest of Byzantine Italy and Saracen Sicily, the Byzantine emperor, Michael VII Doukas, betrothed his son to Robert Guiscard's daughter and sent her to Constantinople.
Guiscard's ambitions drew him east, for the new Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus was deeply involved in recovering Asia Minor after a disastrous defeat by the Turks at Manzikert in 1071.
Guiscard conscripted all men of a fighting age into the army, which he refitted. He sent his son Bohemond with an advance force towards what is modern Albania. Bohemond landed at Aulon, with Guiscard following shortly.
The Norman fleet of 150 ships including 60 horse transports set off towards the Byzantine Empire at the end of May 1081. The army numbered 30,000 men, backed up by 1,300 Norman knights. The fleet sailed to Avalona in Byzantine territory; they were joined by several ships from Ragusa, a republic in the Balkans who were enemies of the Byzantines.
Robert Guiscard
Duke of Apulia and Calabria
Robert soon left Avalona and sailed to the island of Corfu, which surrendered because of a small garrison. Having won a bridgehead and a clear path for reinforcements from Italy, he advanced on the city of Dyrrhachium, the capital and chief port of Illyria.
The city was well defended on a long, narrow peninsula running parallel to the coast, but separated by marshlands. Guiscard brought his army onto the peninsula and pitched camp outside the city walls. However, as Robert's fleet sailed to Dyrrhachium, it was hit by a storm and lost several ships
Meanwhile, when Alexius heard that the Normans were preparing to invade Byzantine territory, he sent an ambassador to the Doge of Venice, Domenico Selvo, requesting aid and offering trading rights in return.
The Doge, alarmed by Norman control of the Strait of Otranto, took command of the Venetian fleet and sailed at once, surprising the Norman fleet under the command of Bohemond as night was falling. The Normans counter-attacked tenaciously, but their inexperience in naval combat betrayed them. The experienced Venetian navy attacked in a close formation known as "sea harbour" and together with their use of Greek fire "bombs", the Norman line scattered, and the Venetian fleet sailed into Dyrrhachium's harbour.
Durrës Castle, Albania.
Durrës (Dyrrhachium) was the center of a battle between invading Normans and the Roman Empire. The castle was built by Emperor of the Byzantine Empire Anastasius I originating from Durres, which transformed it into one of the most fortified cities on the Adriatic.
The Roman emperor Caesar Augustus made the city a colony for veterans of his legions following the Battle of Actium, proclaiming it a civitas libera (free town). In the 4th century, Dyrrachium was made the capital of the Roman province of Epirus nova.
Near the port of Durrës is the ancient Byzantine city wall.
Siege of Dyrrhachium
Robert was not discouraged by this naval defeat, and began his siege of Dyrrhachium. In command of the garrison at Dyrrhachium was the experienced general George Palaeologus, sent by Alexius with orders to hold out at all costs while Alexius himself mustered an army to relieve the city.
Meanwhile, a Byzantine fleet arrived and – after joining with the Venetian fleet – attacked the Norman fleet, which was again routed. The garrison at Dyrrhachium managed to hold out all summer, despite Robert's catapults, ballistae and siege tower. The garrison made continuous sallies from the city; on one occasion, Palaeologus fought all day with an arrowhead in his skull. Another sally succeeded in destroying Robert's siege tower.
Robert's camp was struck by disease; according to contemporary historian Anna Comnena up to 10,000 men died, including 500 knights.
Norman infantry reenactors.
"Not being satisfied with the men who had served in his army from the beginning and had experience in battle, he formed a new army, made up of recruits without any consideration of age. From all quarters of Lombardy and Apulia he gathered them, over age and under age, pitiable objects who had never seen armour in their dreams, but then clad in breastplates and carrying shields, awkwardly drawing bows to which they were completely unused and following flat on the ground when they were allowed to march."
Princess Anna Comnena
describing Robert Guiscard's conscription.
Norman Cavalry Charge
Norman Cavalry Attacking
Norman Cavalry.
"Alexius was undoubtedly a good tactician, but he was badly let down by the indisciplined rush to pursue the beaten enemy wings, a cardinal sin in the Byzantine tactical manuals. He failed to take adequate account of the effectiveness of the Norman heavy cavalry charge, which punched through his lines with little resistance."
Historian John Haldon's assessment of the battle
The situation of the Dyrrhachium garrison grew desperate because of the effects of Norman siege weapons. Alexius learned of this while he was in Salonica with his army so he advanced in full force against the Normans.
According to Comnena, Alexius had about 20,000 men. It consisted of Thracian and Macedonian tagmata, which numbered about 5,000 men; the elite excubitors and vestiaritai units, which numbered around 1,000 men; a force of Manichaeans which comprised 2,800 men, Thessalian cavalry, Balkan conscripts, Armenian infantry and other light troops.
As well as the native troops, the Byzantines were joined by 2,000 Turkish and 1,000 Frankish mercenaries, about 1,000 Varangians and 7,000 Turkish auxiliaries sent by the Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Alexius also withdrew the tagmas from Heraclea Pontica and the remaining Byzantine holdings in Asia Minor and by doing so, he effectively left them to be overrun by the Turks.
Alexius advanced from Salonica and pitched camp on the river Charzanes near Dyrrhachium on October 15. He held a war council there and sought advice from his senior officers; among them was George Palaeologus, who had managed to sneak out of the city. A majority of the senior officers, including Palaeologus, urged caution, noting that time was with the Emperor. Alexius, however, favoured an immediate assault, hoping to catch Guiscard's army from the rear, while they were still besieging the city. Alexius moved his army to the hills opposite the city, planning to attack the Normans the next day.
Guiscard, however, had been informed of Alexius' arrival by his scouts and on the night of October 17, he moved his army from the peninsula to the mainland. Upon learning of Guiscard's move, Alexius revised his battle plan. He split his army into three divisions, with the left wing under the command of Gregory Pakourianos, the right wing under the command of Nikephoros Melissenos, and himself in command of the centre. Guiscard formed his battle line opposite Alexius's, with the right wing under the command of the Count of Giovinazzo, the left under Bohemond and Guiscard facing Alexius in the centre.
Bad Day at Dyrrhachium- A Varangian Perspective
The Varangians had been ordered to march just in front of the main line with a strong division of archers a little behind them. The archers had been commanded to move in front of the Varangians and fire a volley before retreating behind them. The archers continued this tactic until the army neared contact.
As the opposing armies closed in, Guiscard sent a detachment of cavalry positioned in the centre to feint an attack on the Byzantine positions. Guiscard hoped the feint would draw up the Varangians; however, this plan failed when the cavalry was forced back by the archers.
The Norman right wing suddenly charged forward to the point where the Byzantine left and centre met, directing its attack against the Varangian left flank. The Varangians stood their ground while the Byzantine left, including some of Alexius' elite troops, attacked the Normans. The Norman formation disintegrated and the routed Normans fled towards the beach. There, according to Comnena, they were rallied by Guiscard's wife, Sikelgaita, described as "like another Pallas, if not a second Athena".
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos
Byzantine collapse
In the meantime, the Byzantine right and centre had been engaging in skirmishes with the Normans opposite them. However, with the collapse of the Norman right, the knights were in danger of being outflanked.
At this point, the Varangians (mainly Anglo-Saxons who had left England after the Norman Conquest) joined in the pursuit of the Norman right. With their massive battle axes, the Varangians attacked the Norman knights, who were driven away after their horses panicked. The Varangians soon became separated from the main force and exhausted so they were in no position to resist an assault.
Guiscard sent a strong force of spearmen and crossbowmen against the Varangian flank and inflicted heavy casualties on them. The few remaining Varangians fled into the church of the Archangel Michael. The Normans immediately set the church on fire, and all Varangians perished in the blaze.
Meanwhile, George Palaeologus sortied out of Dyrrhachium, but failed to save the situation. Worse, Alexius's vassal, King Constantine Bodin of Duklja, betrayed him. The Turks who had been lent to him by the Seljuk Sultan Suleyman I followed Constantine's example and deserted.
Deprived of his left wing (still in pursuit of the Norman right), Alexius was exposed in the centre. Guiscard sent his heavy cavalry against the Byzantine centre. They first routed the Byzantine skirmishers before breaking into small detachments and smashing into various points of the Byzantine line. This charge broke the Byzantine lines and caused them to rout. The imperial camp, which had been left unguarded, fell to the Normans.
Byzantine Tagmata
The Roman Army at Dyrrhachium included
Thracian and Macedonian Tagmata, which
numbered about 5,000 men.
Alexius and his guards resisted as long as they could before retreating. As they retreated, Alexius was separated from his guard and was attacked by Norman soldiers. While escaping, he was wounded in his forehead and lost a lot of blood, but eventually made it back to Ohrid, where he regrouped his army.
The battle was a heavy defeat for Alexius. Historian Jonathan Harris states that the defeat was "every bit as severe as that at Manzikert." He lost about 5,000 of his men, including most of the Varangians. Norman losses are unknown, but John Haldon claims they are substantial as both wings broke and fled. Historian Robert Holmes states: "The new knightly tactic of charging with the lance couched – tucked firmly under the arm to unite the impact of man and horse – proved a battle-winner."
George Palaeologus had not been able to re-enter the city after the battle and left with the main force. The defense of the citadel was left to the Venetians, while the city itself was left to an Albanian, Komiskortes.
In February 1082, Dyrrhachium fell after a Venetian or Amalfian citizen opened the gates to the Normans. The Norman army proceeded to take most of northern Greece without facing much resistance. While Guiscard was in Kastoria, messengers arrived from Italy, bearing news that Apulia, Calabria, and Campania were in revolt.
He also learned that the Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, was at the gates of Rome and besieging Pope Gregory VII, a Norman ally. Alexius had negotiated with Henry and given him 360,000 gold pieces in return for an alliance. Henry responded by invading Italy and attacking the Pope. Guiscard rushed to Italy, leaving Bohemond in command of the army in Greece.
Varangian Guards.(in ceremonial costumes)
Nea Moni-Chios Monastery-1040's.
Alexius, desperate for money, ordered the confiscation of all the church's treasure. With this money, Alexius mustered an army near Thessalonica and went to fight Bohemond. However, Bohemond defeated Alexius in two battles: one near Arta and the other near Ioannina.
This left Bohemond in control of Macedonia and nearly all of Thessaly. Bohemond advanced with his army against the city of Larissa. Meanwhile, Alexius had mustered a new army and with 7,000 Seljuk Turks sent by the Sultan, he advanced on the Normans at Larissa and defeated them. The demoralised and unpaid Norman army returned to the coast and sailed back to Italy.
Meanwhile, Alexius granted the Venetians a commercial colony in Constantinople, as well as exemption from trading duties in return for their renewed aid. They responded by recapturing Dyrrhachium and Corfu and returning them to the Byzantine Empire. These victories returned the Empire to its previous status quo and marked the beginning of the Komnenian restoration
The Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081 A.D.)
Byzantine infantry reenactor
(Durres Castle)
Charles Oman - The art of war in the Middle Ages, A.D. 378-1515 (1885)
Normans in the Mediterranean (1050-1150) Battle of Dyrrhachium
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Constantine the Great
Founder of Constantinople which would later be the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over one thousand years. Proclaimed religious tolerance of all religions throughout the empire. (306 - 337)
Julian the Philosopher
Born in the new city of Constantinople. Described himself as "first among equals", participated in debates and made speeches in the Constantinople Senate, fired thousands of bureaucrats, proclaimed that all the religions were equal before the law, author. (361 - 363)
Theodosius II
Emperor 408 to 450. Known for the Theodosian law code, and the construction of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople. When Roman Africa fell to the Vandals in 439, both Eastern and Western Emperors sent forces to Sicily, to launch an attack at the Vandals at Carthage, but this project failed.
Leo I "The Thracian"
Emperor from 457–474. He was born Leo Marcellus in Thracia or in Dacia Aureliana province in the year 401 to a Thraco-Roman family. He served in the Roman army, rising to the rank of comes. Leo is notable for being the first Eastern Emperor to legislate in Greek rather than Latin. He worked to liberate North Africa from the Vandals with an expedition in 468 of 1,113 ships carrying 100,000 men, but in the end lost 600 ships.
Justinian The Great and Theodora
Emperor 527 to 565. Justinian was the last Roman Emperor to speak Latin as a first language. Justinian's reign is marked by the ambitious but only partly realized renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the Empire". His general Belisarius conquered the Vandal Kingdom in North Africa, extending Roman control to the Atlantic Ocean. Subsequently Belisarius, Narses, and other generals conquered the Ostrogothic Kingdom, restoring Dalmatia, Sicily, Italy, and Rome to the Empire after more than half a century of barbarian control. The prefect Liberius reclaimed most of southern Iberia, establishing the province of Spania. Under his rule there was a uniform rewriting of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, which is still the basis of civil law in many modern states. His reign also marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture, and his building program yielded such masterpieces as the church of Hagia Sophia.
Emperor from 582 to 602. A prominent general in his youth, Maurice fought with success against the Sassanid Persians. Once he became Emperor, he brought the war with Persia to a victorious conclusion: the Empire's eastern border in the Caucasus was vastly expanded and for the first time in nearly two centuries the Romans were no longer obliged to pay the Persians thousands of pounds of gold annually for peace. Maurice campaigned extensively in the Balkans against the Avars – pushing them back across the Danube by 599. He also conducted campaigns across the Danube, the first Emperor to do so in over two hundred years. In the West, he established two large semi-autonomous provinces called exarchates, ruled by exarchs, or viceroys, of the Emperor. Maurice established the Exarchate of Ravenna, Italy in 584, the first real effort by the Empire to halt the advance of the Lombards. With the creation of the Exarchate of Africa in 590, he further solidified the empire's hold on the western Mediterranean.
Emperor 610 to 641. Heraclius' reign was marked by several military campaigns. The year Heraclius came to power the Empire was threatened on multiple frontiers. Heraclius immediately took charge of the ongoing war against the Sassanid Persians. The first battles of the campaign ended in defeat for the Byzantines; the Persian army fought their way to the Bosphorus. However, because Constantinople was protected by impenetrable walls and a strong navy, Heraclius was able to avoid total defeat. Heraclius drove the Persians out of Asia Minor and pushed deep into their territory, defeating them decisively in 627 at the Battle of Nineveh. Soon after his victory he faced a new threat of the Muslim invasions. In 634 the Muslims invaded Roman Syria, defeating Heraclius' brother Theodore. Within a short period of time the Arabs would also conquer Mesopotamia, Armenia, and Egypt.
Constantine IV - "The Bearded"
Emperor 668 to 685 AD. His reign saw the first serious check to nearly 50 years of uninterrupted Islamic expansion. Constantine organized the Empire for the massive First Arab Siege of Constantinople in 674–678. If Constantinople had fallen all of Europe would have been open to Islamic invasion.
Leo III - The Isaurian
Emperor 717 to 741. Defended the Empire during the Second Siege of Constantinople against an invading Arab army of 80,000 men and a fleet of over 2,500 ships. Leo reformed the laws with the elevation of the serfs into a class of free tenants. Leo began the iconoclast campaign.
Irene of Athens
Irene of Athens Byzantine Empress Regnant from 797 to 802. Prior to becoming Empress regnant, Irene was empress consort from 775 to 780, and empress dowager and regent from 780 to 797. It is often claimed she called herself basileus 'emperor'. In fact, she normally referred to herself as basilissa, 'empress', although there are three instances of the title basileus being used by her. Irene was born to the noble Greek Sarantapechos family of Athens. She married Leo IV in 769. Upon Leo's death she became regent for the future Constantine VI. Irene was almost immediately confronted with a conspiracy against her close to home and in Sicily. Irene withstood an invasion by a large Arab army. She subdued the Slavs of the Balkans and laid the foundations of Byzantine expansion and re-Hellenization in the area. Irene's most notable act was the restoration of the Orthodox veneration of icons (images of Christ or the saints). Pope Leo III, who needed help against enemies in Rome and who saw the throne of the Byzantine Emperor as vacant (lacking a male occupant), crowned Charlemagne as Roman Emperor in 800.
Empress as the spouse of the Byzantine Emperor Theophilos, and regent of her son, Michael III, from Theophilos' death in 842 to 855. She carried on the government with a firm and judicious hand, and replenished the treasury. The Empress organized the Roman navy and army in multi-front wars against the Arabs and deterred the Bulgarians from an attempt at invasion.
Nikephoros II Phokas
Emperor from 963 to 969. His brilliant military exploits resulted in the conquest of Cilicia and the re-conquest of the island of Cyprus from the Muslims. He conducted raids into Upper Mesopotamia and Syria. In the West he lost Sicily completely to the Muslims and faced Magyar raids deep into the Balkans. He was assassinated in his apartment on December 11, 969. On the night of the assassination the Empress Theophano suspiciously left the Imperial bedchamber, leaving the doors unbolted. General John Tzimiskes entered, killed the Emperor, and then declared himself Emperor. It was thought the General and the Empress had been lovers.
Basil II - The Bulgar Slayer
Emperor 976 to 1025. Basil oversaw the stabilization and expansion of the Byzantine Empire's eastern frontier, and above all, the final and complete subjugation of Bulgaria, the Empire's foremost European foe, after a prolonged struggle. For this he was nicknamed by later authors as "the Bulgar-slayer" by which he is popularly known. At his death, the Empire stretched from Southern Italy to the Caucasus and from the Danube to the borders of Palestine, its greatest territorial extent since the Muslim conquests four centuries earlier.
Zoë Porphyrogenita
Zoë (c. 978 – June 1050) reigned as Byzantine Empress alongside her sister Theodora from April 19 to June 11, 1042. She was also enthroned as the Empress Consort to a series of co-rulers beginning with Romanos III in 1028 until her death in 1050 while married to Constantine IX. Theodora and Zoë appeared together at meetings of the Senate. Theodora was the junior empress, and her throne was situated slightly behind Zoë's in all public occasions.
John II Komnenos and Irene of Hungary
Emperor from 1118 to 1143. The greatest of the Komnenian emperors. In the course of his twenty-five year reign, John made alliances with the Holy Roman Empire in the west, decisively defeated the Pechenegs in the Balkans, and personally led numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor. John's campaigns fundamentally changed the balance of power in the east, forcing the Turks onto the defensive and restoring to the Byzantines many towns, fortresses and cities right across the peninsula. In the southeast, John extended Byzantine control from the Maeander in the west all the way to Cilicia and Tarsus in the east. In an effort to demonstrate the Byzantine emperor's role as the leader of the Christian world, John marched into Muslim Syria at the head of the combined forces of Byzantium and the Crusader states.
Michael VIII Palaiologos
Reigned as Emperor 1259–1282. Michael VIII was the founder of the Palaiologan dynasty that would rule the Empire until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. He recovered Constantinople from the Latin Empire in 1261 and transformed the Empire of Nicaea into a restored Roman Empire. During his reign there was a temporary naval revival in which the Byzantine navy consisted of 80 ships.
Constantine XI Palaiologos
The Last Emperor of the Romans 1449 to 1453. Constantine faced the siege of Constantinople defending his city of 60,000 people with an army only numbering 7,000 men against an Ottoman army of over 80,000. He personally led the defense of the city and took an active part in the fighting alongside his troops in the land walls. At the same time, he used his diplomatic skills to maintain the necessary unity between the Genovese, Venetian and the Greek troops. When the city fell to the Turks he tore off his imperial ornaments so there would be nothing to distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.
The Byzantine "Castle of the Angels"
Byzantine Military Theme of Longobardia
"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It is us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning its illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach." - - - Rorschach, Watchmen (1986)
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Founded by by Constantine the Great in 324 AD, Constantinople was the captial of the the Eastern Roman Empire and the center of Western civilization for centuries.
Byzantine Algeria
The 6th century Byzantine walls, popularly known as "Solomon's Walls" and flanked by thirteen square towers.Tebessa, Algeria. At its peak the Empire stretched from Morocco and Spain to Italy, Egypt, the Euphrates River, the Caucasus Mountain to the Danube River.
Byzantine Mesopotamia
The citadel of the Roman-Byzantine fortress of Zenobia near Halabiye, Syria. View from the southern wall looking down to the Euphrates River.
Byzantine Italy
The Castle of Sant'Aniceto (also San Niceto) is an Eastern Roman Empire castle built in the early 11th century on a hill in Motta San Giovanni, now in the province of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy. It is one of the few examples of High Middle Ages architecture in Calabria, as well as one of the few well-preserved Byzantine fortifications in the world. The name derives from that of St. Nicetas, a Eastern Roman admiral who lived in the 7th-8th centuries. The castle is one of the few Byzantine fortifications subjected to the work of restoration and recovery.
Byzantine Croatia
The Byzantine Fortress of Tureta in Croatia. The fortress is the most significant structure on the Kornati islands dating from the Byzantine period. It is located on the island of Kornat and was probably built in the 8th century. It is assumed that the fortress was built up for military purposes to protect and control the navigation in this part of the Adriatic Sea.
Byzantine Egypt
Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. The fortified monastery was built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century AD, although there was already a church at the site erected by the Empress Helena in 330 AD. The Monastery also has a copy of the Achtiname, in which Muhammad bestowed his protection upon the monastery.
Byzantine Greece
Angelokastro or "Castle of the Angels" is one of the most important Byzantine castles of Greece. It is located on the island of Corfu at the top of the highest peak of the island's shoreline in the northwest coast near Palaiokastritsa and built on particularly precipitous and rocky terrain. It stands 1,000 ft (305 m) on a steep cliff above the Ionian Sea and surveys the City of Corfu and the mountains of mainland Greece to the southeast and a wide area of Corfu toward the northeast and northwest.
Byzantine Anatolia
The Roman-Byzantine Castle of Harput in Anatolia. The strong point Harput was part of both the Roman and Byzantine defensive systems. Eastern Anatolia saw many huge military campaigns from Roman to Byzantine times. This area was involved in multiple wars with the Persian Empire, Arabs and Turks.
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Karolina Gronowiczowa, född 1752, död 1800, var en polsk skådespelare och operasångare, aktiv 1774–1800.

Hon engagerades vid nationalteatern i Warszawa 1774, där hon blev en av de mer bemärkta scenkonstnärerna och kom att räknas till nationalteaterns främsta artister. Hon beskrivs som intelligent, naturlig, och med en talang för komedi, och framhålls främst som subrett. Bland hennes främsta roller som skådespelare nämns Ludwisia i Mieszczki modne, Helenka i Zwady miłosne och Regina i Człowiek jakich mało na świecie. Hon var också verksam som operasångare, där hennes främsta roller ansågs vara Zerbina i Sługa panią och Anna i Nędza uszczęśliwiona (1778).

Hon var gift med teaterns vaktmästare Michał Gronowiczow.

Källor

 Laurence Senelick: National Theatre in Northern and Eastern Europe, 1746-1900, 1991
 Źródło: Słownik Biograficzny Teatru Polskiego 1765-1965, PWN Warszawa 1973

Polska skådespelare under 1700-talet
Födda 1752
Avlidna 1800
Kvinnor
Operasångare under 1700-talet


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Field Studies 2006/2007 – St. Petersburg – Fresh catalog available..
In 2006/2007 I participated in the program Field Studies – public art in Russian, Scandinavian and Finnish artist in St.Petersburg. It was produced by the National center for contemporary art, St.Petersburg branch and I contributed with my piece Re-arranged Movement (1999).
The performative piece was executed in the passages of the Art Center Pushkinskaya 10 in St. Petersburg.
Other participating artists in the NCCA – Field Studies project: Lars Arrenius (SWE), Viktoria Ilyushkina (RUS), Année Olofsson (SWE), Anne-Brit Rage and Gunnhild Bakke (NOR), Victor Remishevsky (RUS), Ann Rosén (SWE), Pavel Shururov and Group 33+1 (RUS) and Video artists from Nordic Countries and Russia.
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Bees /
Two more 'murder hornets' turn up on…
Two more 'murder hornets' turn up on B.C. mainland
One nest found last month in neighbouring U.S. town
Posted Nov. 11th, 2020 by Dave Bedard
Asian giant hornets have noticeably large orange heads and black eyes; worker hornets are about 3.5 cm in length; queens can be up to four to five cm in length, with a wingspan of four to seven cm. (B.C. Ministry of Agriculture)
Beekeepers in British Columbia's Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland are asked to keep an eye out for so-called "murder hornets" after two were found in the region within a week.
A single Asian giant hornet was found Saturday at Aldergrove, near the intersection of Fraser Highway and Highway 13 — about five km from where another was found at Abbotsford, on the 7000 block of Bradner Road, on Nov. 2.
No nests have yet been discovered in the area, and any Asian giant hornet activity is expected to decline "rapidly" as colder temperatures arrive.
Nevertheless, the provincial ag ministry on Tuesday called on beekeepers and the public to continue reporting any sightings to the Invasive Species Council of B.C.
The two new findings are believed to line up with a phase in the giant hornets' life cycle, in which they disperse from their nests and seek out new hornets for mating, the province said.
The giant hornet is widely distributed in Asia, from southern China through to the Korean peninsula and northern Japan. It's not known how it got to Canada's West Coast but container ships have been suggested as the most likely mode of transport.
Apart from the risk to people and animals from stings — known to be particularly painful, given the size of the hornet — the main concern for farmers and honey producers is the risk to bees and other pollinators if the giant hornet is able to get established in the region.
Asian giant hornets hunt insects for food, are able to feed on honeybees and can destroy beehives within a short time period. They're known to attack people or animals only if the hornets' nests are disturbed.
Survey efforts in B.C. have so far focused on surveillance and trap monitoring along 0 Avenue — a road running parallel to the U.S. border, from the Peace Arch east to Abbotsford — and on Vancouver Island at Nanaimo, where a nest was found and destroyed last year.
Single hornets were found at White Rock and Langley in 2019, and on 0 Avenue at Langley in 2020, the province said, noting no nest has never been found in B.C.'s Fraser Valley or Lower Mainland.
However, the province noted, state entomologists in neighbouring Washington last month eradicated a nest after "multiple" findings of single Asian giant hornets in the same area of Blaine, just across the Canada-U.S. border from White Rock.
Asian giant hornets have noticeably large orange heads and black eyes, and are known to nest in the ground, rather than in trees or buildings.
The worker hornets of the species are usually around 3.5 cm long, while the queens can grow up to four to five cm long, with wingspans of up to seven cm.
Several large insects common to the region, including yellow jackets, bald faced hornets, elm sawflies and horntail wasps, could be mistaken for Asian giant hornets, the B.C. ag ministry said. — Glacier FarmMedia Network
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MLB.com's Jesse Sanchez blogs from the site of the 2007 XM Satellite Radio All-Star Futures Game.
Players are starting to pull out their digital cameras and take photos that I'm sure they will hold dear forever.
I hear some guys rumbling about food. It's been a long day and although a protein shake might be filling (they have shakes provided for them in the clubhouse), it doe not sound very good to these guys at this point. They are hungry. Still excited, just hungry.
It's very sunny and very chilly here in the dugout. Nice weather … if you are prepared for it.
Mets prospect Deolis Guerra is the next star for MLB.com. He has been mic'd all day and providing insight on and off the field. Check it out.
The world behind the World team is made up of Sylvia Lind, Ana Cariello and Freddie Hernandez of MLB. Lind and Cariello have been integral parts of the Futures Game, especially the World team, since the game's inception in 1999. Hernandez joined the duo this season. Their duties are countless (ranging from organizational to administrative duties to translating) and let's just say the World team would not be able to function without them. If you are watching on television and you watch the World dugout close enough, you might see them ducking out of the way of a camera shot or two.
Justin Upton just went deep for USA. A lot of oohs and aahs from the World dugout …then silence.
It's 2-0 World heading into the bottom of the second inning. Juan Marichal just received a standing ovation in his own dugout and went out for a curtain call on the top step. His players are pretty much in awe of him. He is being interviewed by ESPN's Erin Andrews as we speak.
Let's play ball!! The guys in the dugout are pretty excited. There is a lot of chatter going on — mostly in Spanish — and everybody seems pretty pumped up about the game. I don't know who is going to win, but I know one thing is certain — this World team is going to have some fun. Lot of laughter going on right now.
These guys are going to hate each other in a few years when both make it to the big leagues. The Rangers (German Duran) and The Angels (Freddy Sandoval) are in the same division, are rivals and can't stand each other, right? Wrong. Most of the relationships developed between baseball players start at events like the Futures Game, in the Minors, or in the Winter Leagues. By the time the guys make the big leagues a lot of them are already good friends end up spending time eating dinner together after the games or with each other's families. It's a tight-knit group, especially among Latino ballplayers.
Juan Marichal is the manager of the World team and trust me, that's a big deal. The Hall of Famer is a living legend in Latin American and so revered in the Dominican Republic that he could probably run for president of the country and win — in a land slide. He met with Dominican media during batting practice and everybody talked about how he was going to manage the Dominican team in the 2009 World Baseball Classic. That came as a surprise to Marichal. He says he has never even thought about it, but he would definitely consider it an honor if he was asked. He said it took him about five seconds to accept the position as World team manager.
Here's a look from arguably the best pressbox in my favorite park in the National League. It's hard to say I love this park more than I do The Ballpark in Arlington, but it's close …very close. This park is a must-see for all baseball fans. It's so scenic and there is definitely a cozy feeling going on here. It reminds me a lot Minute Maid Park in that way.
The World is yours baseball fans. The World team anyway. I'll be blogging away live from the World dugout in Sunday's Futures Game in San Francisco, keeping everyone updated with tidbits, notes and photos from tomorrow's stars today. If you have any questions about the game, its players or what the World means to you, hit me up with a comment and I'll get back to you. See you at the park.