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Flood Risk Information and FAQs for Quorn
Flood risk information and frequently asked questions for Quorn can be found below.
Which organisation is responsible for my stretch of river?
The Environment Agency carries out maintenance, improvement or construction work on main rivers to manage flood risk. We are also responsible for working in partnership with the Met Office to provide flood forecasts and warnings. The main river map (link below) shows which rivers are designated as 'main rivers'. At Quorn, the Quorn Brook and the River Soar are main rivers.
Other rivers are called 'ordinary watercourses'. Lead Local Flood Authorities, District Councils and Internal Drainage Boards carry out flood risk management on ordinary watercourses.
To see a map of the Main River network, please visit: https://environment.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=17cd53dfc524433980cc333726a56386
Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA)
LLFAs are county councils and unitary authorities. They are responsible for managing and investigating the risk of flooding from surface water, groundwater and ordinary watercourses (smaller watercourses) and lead on community recovery. For information for your local council, please contact:
www.leicestershire.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/flooding-and-drainage
Internal Drainage Board
Each Internal Drainage Board (IDB) is a public body that manages water levels in an area, known as an internal drainage district, where there is a special need for drainage. IDBs undertake works to reduce flood risk to people and property, and manage water levels for agricultural and environmental needs within their district. However, not all areas are covered by an IDB, and your area does not fall within an internal drainage district.
For more information, please visit: www.ada.org.uk/idb-map/
Who owns my stretch of river?
The owner of a watercourse is usually the owner of the land that the watercourse runs on or under. Where the watercourse is on the boundary of the land, the landowner is responsible for the watercourse up to its centre.
If you own a watercourse, for example a river, culvert, brook or mill stream, you must maintain the river beds and banks and not obstruct the water flow. You should also call the Environment Agency incident hotline 0800 807060 to report flooding, collapsed or badly damaged banks, or any blockages which could cause flooding to main rivers.
Further guidance on owning a watercourse can be found here: www.gov.uk/guidance/owning-a-watercourse
Where can I find details for recent planning applications, and whether flood risk has been considered?
Information on local planning applications can be found on our website.
Planning applications for developments within flood zones require a flood risk assessment to be submitted with the application. Find out more about flood zones and flood risk assessments here: www.gov.uk/guidance/flood-risk-assessment-for-planning-applications
The Environment Agency provides expert statutory and discretionary advice to planners, developers, and communities, provides evidence on the capacity and value of the environment to aid decision-making, and attracts investment into the environment.
The Environment Agency's External Consultation Checklist informs Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) of the types of development where we should be consulted. It describes the categories of development that could potentially impact on the environment and includes those for which we are listed as a statutory consultee in Schedule 4 of the Development Management Procedure Order (DMPO) and current Government planning policy.
With particular reference to flood risk, the Environment Agency is consulted on certain types of development within Flood Zones 2 and 3. Paragraph 155 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) states that where development is proposed in areas at risk of flooding 'the development should be made safe for its lifetime without increasing flood risk elsewhere'. Whilst the onus is on applicants to demonstrate this in a site specific Flood Risk Assessment (FRA), the LPA will ultimately need to satisfy themselves that this requirement has been met. Depending on the particular flood risks to a site, the LPA may be required to seek the views of the Environment Agency and/or the Lead Local Flood Authority.
For further details on specific planning applications, please contact Charnwood Borough Council on 03456 091258.
Where can I find a map that will show the flood risk for my area?
You can view flood risk maps for your area by visiting: www.flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk/map
Type your postcode in the search box on the right-hand side to zoom into your area, and then click and drag the map to pan around. You can switch between maps of flood risk from rivers or from surface water by selecting the different options in the drop-down menu on the left-hand side.
To find out more about your area's long-term flood risk, please visit: www.flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/long-term-flood-risk
What maintenance will be carried out to my stretch of river?
The Environment Agency carry out scheduled quarterly maintenance checks, including vegetation management and tree maintenance, which involves pruning overhanging branches and ensuring trees and bushes don't impede the flow of water, as well as coppicing some trees to ensure bank stability is maintained
To see the maintenance schedule, please visit: www.gov.uk/government/publications/river-and-coastal-maintenance-programme
We also carry out ad hoc maintenance works as and when issues are reported. Please call the Environment Agency incident hotline 0800 807060 to report collapsed or badly damaged banks, or any blockages which could cause flooding to main rivers.
What is the Flood Warning Service and how do I register?
The Environment Agency issue Flood Alerts and Flood Warnings to inform the public of expected flooding.
Flood Alerts are issued when low-lying land and roads are expected to flood. This is an early indication of possible further flooding.
Flood Warnings are issued when property flooding is expected. Upon receiving a Flood Warning, immediate action may be required to protect your property.
You can sign up to receive Flood Alerts and Flood Warnings by phone, email or text message if your home or business is at risk of flooding.
To register for this free service, please visit: www.gov.uk/sign-up-for-flood-warnings
You'll need to provide:
the address you're registering
a phone number which you can be contacted on day or night
an email address
You can also register, update your details or cancel your account by calling Floodline: 0345 988 1188 (24-hour service).
River Levels Online
Current river levels at our gauge stations can be viewed here: https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels.
River levels are updated at least once a day during normal flows, and up to hourly during flooding. For Quorn, levels for the River Soar can be viewed at the nearby Pillings Lock river gauge.
How can I make my property flood resilient?
There are many things you can do to protect your property and your belongings from flooding. A great way to start is by creating a personal flood plan. A template can be found here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/personal-flood-plan
For advice and information on property resilience products and simple ways to reduce the damage caused by flood water, please visit The National Flood Forum (www.nationalfloodforum.org.uk), which is a charity aimed at supporting individuals and communities at risk of flooding.
The National Flood Forum also provide an independent directory of property flood resilience products, called Blue Pages (www.bluepages.org.uk), which can help to advise and inform you of what's available to help reduce the risk of flooding to your property.
Flood Resilience Grants
If you were affected by flooding in the November 2019 or February 2020 floods, you may be eligible for a Flood Resilience grant to help prevent your property from flooding in the future. Please visit www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/flooding_grant for more information.
Where can I get sandbags?
Sandbags are a short-term and relatively cheap way to manage flooding but only if they are filled and placed correctly. However, they are not as effective as purpose-designed flood resilience products (please see www.nationalfloodforum.org.uk for information on such products).
Your local council may have some sandbags ready to deploy at times of flooding, but their priority is to protect the public at large. Find out what our policy is and how you can get access to sandbags before flooding starts (please visit www.charnwood.gov.uk/sandbag_policy).
Remember, during a flood crisis there may be limited stocks per person or supply routes may get blocked. You can buy unfilled sandbags and a supply of sand from most DIY stores and builders merchants, but remember that if there is a flood expected in your area demand may exceed supply as people rush to buy them. In an emergency you can use alternatives such as pillow cases or refuse sacks and fill them with garden soil.
For information on how to use sandbags properly for flood protection, please visit: www.gov.uk/government/publications/sandbags-how-to-use-them-to-prepare-for-a-flood
As a community, you can apply for a grant for a community resilience store, which can be used to store equipment such as sandbags. Please see Question 9 (Additional Grant Funding) for more information.
How can I help my community during a flood?
You can help your community before, during and after flooding by becoming a community Flood Warden. Flood Wardens are volunteers who are trained by the Environment Agency and the Local Authority, and can help prepare the community by:
Monitoring the rivers for obstructions and hazards, and reporting these to the Environment Agency
Contributing to the creation of a community flood plan
Helping to prepare the local community
Offering support during flooding
Keeping residents informed of the ongoing situatio
Monitoring the situation locally and reporting back to the Environment Agency and local authorities
Activities that Flood Wardens do not carry out include:
Putting themselves at risk or entering flood water
Rescuing people or animals (this is the role of the emergency services)
Unblocking watercourses (this must be done by professionals)
Closing roads or diverting traffic
If you are interested in becoming a Flood Warden, please contact the Environment Agency on 0114 282 5312 or enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk, and we will be happy to provide more information. We will let you know if there is an existing scheme in your community which you can join, or help you to set one up.
Additional Grant Funding
As a community, you can also apply for a grant for a community resilience store, which can be used to store flood resilience equipment such as sandbags and flood boards.
For more information, please contact Charnwood Borough Council on 03456 091258. They can help by identifying grant funding from other organisations such as the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee.
Last updated: Tue 13th October, 2020 @ 11:01
Flood Risk Information and FAQs


Village location is excellent for visiting Padstow, Wadebridge and Port Isaac etc.
Village location is excellent for visiting Padstow, Wadebridge and Port Isaac etc. The Old Mill bistro is definitely worth a visit for dinner. The cottage is on the edge of a busy road and it's a little hairy walking to the car at times, unpacking the car outside the door isn't possible. That aside we very much enjoyed our stay.
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Step through a stable door into a sun room with rattan seating to admire panoramic rooftop and rural views.
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Over two floors. Three bedrooms: 1 x double with DVD player, 1 x twin with DVD player, 1 x bunk room with 2'4" beds and door to the bathroom. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Kitchen/diner. Sitting room. Sun room.
Harlyn 2.9 miles; Constantine Bay 4.2 miles; Polzeath 15.6 miles.
Padstow is situated at the head of the Camel Cycle Trail and is a fantastic base for exploring the South West Coastal Path which opens up routes to beautiful Cornish countryside. This delightful fishing port is surrounded by sandy beaches and offers many opportunities to taste the locally sourced produce in celebrity owned establishments. Padstow has something for everyone with watersports, walking, cycling and fishing, you can even take a trip on a local fisherman's boat! The excellent surfing beaches of Harlyn and Constantine are ideal for safe family fun, and Constantine Bay is also home to a golf course, just a few miles away, while a passenger ferry across the river from Padstow to Rock takes you to the beach at Daymer Bay. Just around the corner toward Pentire Head is the surfing paradise at Polzeath, and when the beach no longer calls, there's a golf course nearby, several stately homes and gardens to visit. The fabulous Eden Project is just over twenty miles away.
Note: 13 steep stone steps to the property entrance accessed from road. There is a pavement on the opposite side of the road, but not on the property side. Note: Check in time for this property is 4pm.


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Chinese Revolution glossary A-K
This Chinese Revolution glossary contains words, terms and concepts relevant to the history of China between the Hundred Days of Reform in 1898 to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. This Chinese Revolution glossary has been written and compiled by Alpha History authors. If you would like to suggest a word or term for inclusion in this glossary, please contact Alpha History.
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21 Demands
The 21 Demands were set of political, economic and territorial demands, handed to Yuan Shikai and the Chinese government by Japan in January 1915. China eventually agreed to most of the demands. These concessions consolidated and expanded Japanese influence in Manchuria and northern China.
28 Bolsheviks (or Old Bolsheviks)
The 28 Bolsheviks were a cohort of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders educated in Moscow during the 1920s. They retained close ties to the Comintern and the Soviet Union, hence the name. The 28 Bolsheviks clique dominated the party's leadership, ideology and tactics until the mid-1930s. Their influence was weakened and undermined during the Long March, after which they were supplanted by Mao Zedong at the Zunyi conference.
100 Regiments Campaign
The 100 Regiments Campaign was a major military campaign, carried out by the CCP's National Revolutionary Army divisions against Japanese forces during the Second Sino-Japanese War, August to December 1940. This campaign saw the Japanese adopt a new approach to the conflict ("Kill all, burn all, and destroy all").
228 Massacre (or 228 Incident)
The 228 Massacre was the February 1947 killing of political protesters in Taiwan by Guomindang (GMD) troops. Between 10,000 and 30,000 Taiwanese were killed, after opposing GMD political oppression, economic domination and corruption on the island. The massacre consolidated and finalised the GMD's political control of Taiwan.
Anti-Bolshevik League
The Anti-Bolshevik League was a Guomindang counter-intelligence unit, formed in 1926 to gather evidence about communists and prepare for Jiang Jieshi's planned split with the CCP.
Anti-Rightist Movement
The Anti-Rightist Movement was a campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1957. It aimed to remove suspected capitalists and dissidents from the ranks of the CCP. It was triggered by the weight of criticism received by the government during the Hundred Flowers campaign. Those targeted during the Anti-Rightist Movement were subject to public criticism, condemnation, expulsion from the party, re-education or execution.
Antis (or Three Antis and Five Antis)
The Antis were targets of anti-corruption purges, initiated by the government in the early 1950s. The Three Antis campaign (in Chinese, san fan) was launched in 1951 and urged CCP members to eliminate waste, corruption and excessive bureaucracy. The Five Antis campaign (in Chinese, wu fan) was launched the following year and targeted bribery, tax avoidance, theft from the state, rorting of government contracts and the stealing of 'economic secrets'.
Autumn Harvest Uprising
The Autumn Harvest Uprising was a short-lived rural uprising on the border of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces in September 1927. According to Mao Zedong, he claimed to have gained experience in peasant rebellions and guerrilla warfare during this uprising.
backyard furnaces
The 'backyard furnaces' were small, homemade steel furnaces, constructed and operated by Chinese civilians during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1961). These furnaces were intended to rapidly boost China's steel production, however, the project failed because the furnaces could not produce enough heat and the quality of steel produced was poor.
Bandit Suppression Campaigns
The Bandit Suppression Campaign was the name given to Guomindang military campaigns against communist forces and soviets between 1930 and 1934. Ordered by Jiang Jieshi, these campaigns were aimed at extending GMD political control and eradicating communist influence.
Banner Armies
The Banner Armies were a military system used by the Manchu to conquer and control China. The eight armies, distinguished by different coloured banners, were ineffective in countering the peasant uprisings and foreign incursions in the 19th century.
barefoot doctors
'Barefoot doctors' were ordinary farmers who received basic training in first aid and medical care. They were mobilised as part of a rural healthcare scheme championed by Mao Zedong in the mid-1960s.
Beiyang government
The Beiyang government was the government of the Republic of China that operated in Beijing during the Warlord Era (1916-28). Though it claimed to be a national government, the Beiyang regime was dominated by warlord interests, had no legitimacy and exerted little authority outside Hebei province.
big character poster
In Chinese, dazibao. Big character posters were wall-sized posters or broadsides that used large Chinese characters to express political anger or protest. They were used throughout the Chinese Revolution but were particularly prevalent during the Cultural Revolution.
Blue Shirts (or Blue Shirts Society)
The Blue Shirts were a secret fascist paramilitary faction of the Guomindang. Its members advocated Chinese nationalism and independence, military strength, anti-communism and the expulsion of foreigners. The Blue Shirts emerged in the mid-1930s, modelling themselves on the Blackshirts in Mussolini's Italy. For a time the Blue Shirts enjoyed the tacit support of Jiang Jieshi.
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks were the Russian communist revolutionaries who seized control of Russia in the October 1917 revolution. Within China, the term 'Bolshevik' often referred to Chinese communists with close ties to Soviet Russia or the Comintern.
(In Chinese, Yihetuan) 'Boxers' was a colloquial name for members of a secret nationalist group called the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists. Members of this group trained in martial arts and terrorism, with a view to resisting and eradicating foreign and Christian influence in China.
Boxer Protocol
The Boxer Protocol was a treaty signed in September 1901 by the Qing dynasty, the Eight-Nation Alliance and three other countries, in the wake of the Boxer Rebellion. The protocol proved humiliating for the Qing leadership. It imposed strict military and political restrictions and required payment of $US335 million in reparations.
Boxer Rebellion (or Yihetuan Uprising)
The Boxer Rebellion was the Western name for an uprising by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists ('Boxers') and other Chinese nationalists, erupting in late 1899 and lasting almost two years. The targets of this rebellion were foreigners, Christian Chinese and their economic interests. The Boxer Rebellion caused approximately 130,000 deaths before it was suppressed by military intervention by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
A cadre was a devoted CCP member who worked to achieve revolution and/or implement communist policies. In the People's Republic of China, cadres often worked in rural areas, overseeing the implementation of government policies or initiatives.
capitalist roader
'Capitalist roader' was a derogatory term given to a CCP member suspected of attempting to restore or reintroduce elements of capitalism. The term was used by party leaders and propagandists to denigrate and isolate political opponents.
The Central Committee is the leadership committee of the Chinese Communist Party. During the revolutionary period, it contained between 100 and 300 regular and alternate members. The Central Committee met occasionally in plenums, some of which were significant for their decisions or policies, for example, the Zunyi conference (1935) and the Lushan plenum (1959).
Central Plains War
The Central Plains War was a six-month civil war, fought in 1930 between Jiang Jieshi's Nationalists and the forces of three warlords (Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren and Yan Xishan) who had previously supported Jiang. Jiang's victory reduced warlordism and increased his control of central China, however it came at a great human and financial cost.
Chinese Communist Party (or CCP)
The Chinese Communist Party was a socialist political party, founded in 1921 chiefly by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao. It had its roots in the May 4th Movement. The CCP dominated the left wing of the Guomindang until the Shanghai Massacre in 1927.
Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
See Political Consultative Conference.
collectivisation (or farm collectivisation)
Collectivisation is a system of agricultural production, where small land holdings are merged into large farms. This allows for greater productivity since land, labour and resources can be more effectively managed, usually by the state. The CCP introduced collectivisation in the late 1950s during the Great Leap Forward.
'Comintern' is an abbreviation for the Communist International, an agency formed in 1919 to organise, promote and advance the international revolution. The Comintern was based in Moscow and effectively controlled by the Soviet Union. It provided resources, advisors and advice to the CCP, shaping its ideological and tactical approach until the rise of Mao in the mid-1930s.
A commissar is a political agent of a communist party. Commissars in China were posted to military units or workplaces to monitor conduct, attitudes and productivity, reporting their findings to the CCP.
A commune is a collective of people sharing responsibility for production, security and/or political ideas. In 20th century China, the term 'commune' generally refers to the People's Communes: large farming units formed during Mao Zedong's agrarian collectivisation during the late 1950s.
Communism is a political ideology that works toward the overthrow of capitalism and seeks to replace it with a socialist dictatorship. The ultimate objective of communism is the creation of a classless society that is free of oppressive government, gross inequality and exploitation.
concessions (or foreign concessions)
Concessions were areas of a city or province in 19th and early 20th China under almost complete foreign control. They were regulated by foreign diplomats, officials, military or police units and subject to foreign laws and regulations.
A concubine is a sexual partner or servant outside marriage. The Qing imperial court housed large numbers of concubines, who were tasked with servicing the emperor's sexual needs and bearing his children, but without the privileges of marriage.
Confucianism is a philosophical system and movement derived from the writings of Kong-Fuzi (Confucius), who lived in the 5th century BC. Confucianism is social, political and metaphysical in nature. It emphasises hard work, good conduct, respect for social hierarchies and obedience to one's parents, elders and superiors.
'Criticise Lin Biao, Criticise Confucius'
'Criticise Lin Biao' was a CCP mass campaign, launched Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing in 1973. The aims and development of this campaign are unclear, however, it involved revision of Chinese history and criticism of moderates like Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping.
The Cultural Revolution, or Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a social and political movement initiated by Mao Zedong in 1966 and conducted chiefly by the Red Guards. The stated aims of the Cultural Revolution were to revive and restore Maoist communist ideas by identifying and removing suspected 'rightists' or counter-revolutionaries. The Cultural Revolution led to the restoration of Mao Zedong's political authority, both in the national government and the CCP. It was also a period of destabilisation, terror and anarchy that caused untold misery and disrupted most aspects of Chinese society.
danwei
A danwei is a workplace or work unit in post-1949 China. The danwei served as a link between individuals and the CCP, as well as regulating activities such as education, travel, marriage and child bearing.
See Taoism.
Daqing (or 'Learn from Daqing')
Daqing was a model work unit, located on an oil field in Manchuria and led by the much celebrated 'Iron Man' Wang. Mao Zedong hailed its success in 1964.
Dazhai (or Learn from Dazhai)
Dazhai was a so-called model commune in Shanxi province, publicised by the Mao as evidence of the success of the Great Leap Forward. The achievements of Dazhai were bogus and its production figures were falsified, chiefly because Mao had poured personal funds into it.
Democracy Wall
The Democracy Wall is a wall in Xidan Street, Beijing on which big character posters were pasted during autumn 1978.
Dixie Mission
The Dixie Mission was a three-year diplomatic mission by the US government and American military personnel in China, commencing in July 1944. Dixie mission personnel visited communist-held Yan'an, establishing contact with CCP officials and gathering information.
Double Ten Day
'Double Ten Day' is a holiday commemorating the Wuchang Uprising on October 10th 1911, an event that sparked the Xinhai Revolution.
Double Tenth Uprising
See Wuchang Uprising.
Dowager Empress (or Empress Dowager)
'Dowager Empress' is a title granted to the widow of a deceased emperor. In the case of Cixi, who was a concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor rather than his wife, Dowager Empress was a courtesy title.
A dynasty is a line of hereditary monarchs or rulers, such as the Qing dynasty.
Eight Model Plays (or 'revolutionary operas')
The Eight Model Plays were eight artistic performances (six operas and two ballets) that depicted revolutionary ideas, values and events. They were developed by Jiang Qing during the Cultural Revolution.
Eight Nation Alliance
The Eight-Nation Alliance was a joint military contingent, sent to quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. It contained troops from Britain, France, the United States, Russia, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and Japan.
Emperor Protection Society
The Emperor Protection Society was a group of expatriate Chinese in Japan and North America in the first years of the 1900s. They attempted to prolong the Qing dynasty by opposing republicanism and advocating constitutional reform. Kang Youwei, the driving force behind the Hundred Days of Reform, was the most notable member of this clique.
Empress Dowager
See Dowager Empress.
Encirclement Campaigns
The Encirclement Campaigns refer to several Guomindang military operations against Communist Party soviets, conducted between 1928 and 1935. As the name suggests, these campaigns sought to surround, besiege and eventually capture communist-held territory. The Fifth Encirclement Campaign, which surrounded Jiangxi in 1933-34, inspired the Long March.
A eunuch is a male whose genitals have been removed, often as part of a particular role. Several hundred eunuchs were employed as officials or servants in the Forbidden City during the Qing dynasty.
extraterritoriality
Extraterritoriality was a legal procedure that meant foreigners accused of breaking Chinese law could not be tried by Chinese. Instead, foreign citizens were tried by consular courts made up of their fellow nationals.
Famine is an extreme scarcity of food leading to extreme hunger, malnutrition and starvation. In China, the period between 1959 and 1961 is referred to as the Three Years of Great Chinese Famine or the Three Bitter Years. Natural disasters and CCP policies have been blamed for the tragedy. Some historians claim as many as 45 million people died during this period.
fanshen
Chinese for 'turning over' or 'to turn the body'. Fanshen is a term used to describe the land reforms of the 1950s, when the CCP endeavoured to transform village life.
Fascism is a political ideology emphasising strong and decisive rule by a single figure, nationalism, military strength and obedience to the state. Some believe that Jiang Jieshi's methodology and leadership of the Guomindang contained aspects of fascism.
Feng shui is Chinese for 'wind and water'. It is a belief that man made objects can be positioned or orientated to ensure their harmonious coexistence with the natural world. When done correctly this assists the circulation of qi ('positive life energy').
Fengtian clique
The Fengtian clique was a powerful warlord group of the early and mid-1920s which battled the Zhili clique for control of Beijing. The Fengtian armies were commanded by Zhang Zoulin, whose son Zhang Xueliang was later responsible for the Xi'an incident (1936).
First Five Year Plan
The First Five Year Plan as an economic program developed by the communist government, introduced in 1953 and ending in 1957. It aimed to achieve significant increases in Chinese heavy industry, particularly steel production, as well as infrastructure construction and agricultural reforms. The First Five Year Plan was moderately successful, achieving between 15 and 20 per cent industrial growth.
First Sino-Japanese War
The First Sino-Japanese War was an eight-month long conflict between China and Japan in 1894-95. China's defeat in this conflict allowed the Japanese to seize control of the Korean peninsula. It also signalled the failure of the Self Strengthening Movement and led to humiliation and declining respect for the Qing leadership.
First United Front
The First United Front was an alliance between the Guomindang and Chinese Communist Party. It was formed in 1922, chiefly to achieve the unification of China. The First United Front ended in 1927 with the Shanghai Massacre.
Fists of Righteous Harmony
See Boxers.
Five Antis
See Antis.
Five Man Group
The Five Man Group was a sub-committee formed by the CCP Politburo in January 1965. Its mission was to oversee a 'cultural revolution', to examine anti-socialist and anti-CCP attitudes in literature and the arts. The Five Man Group chose to interpret this is an academic debate, infuriating Mao Zedong. The group was disbanded at the start of the Cultural Revolution in May 1966.
foot binding
Foot binding is the practice of shaping and distorting the feet of young girls by permanently swathing them in tight bandages. It was practised widely in China during the Qing dynasty, despite several attempts to ban or restrict it.
The Forbidden City is the royal palace complex in central Beijing. It was the home of Chinese emperors and government ministers from the 15th century until the end of the Qing dynasty. The complex consists of almost 1,000 buildings and 9,000 separate rooms.
Four Modernisations
A program of modernisation drafted by Zhou Enlai and championed by Deng Xiaoping in 1975. They called for growth and advancement in agriculture, industry, science and defence.
Four Olds
The Four Olds were the declared targets of the Cultural Revolution: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits and Old Ideas. They were outlined by Chen Boda in 1966.
Four Pests Campaign
The Four Pests Campaign was initiated by Mao Zedong during the Great Leap Forward. It required Chinese farmers and civilians to eradicate vermin, chiefly flies, mosquitos, rats and sparrows. The consequences of this campaign were not as Mao expected.
Fujian Rebellion
The Fujian Rebellion was a non-communist rebellion against Guomindang rule in the south-eastern province of Fujian in 1933. Motivated by Jiang Jieshi's appeasement of the Japanese, the Fujian rebels established their own political party and government. Fujian was eventually overrun by Guomindang forces in early 1934.
Futian Incident
The Futian Incident was a purge of Communist Party leaders and Red Army commanders in Jiangxi, initiated in December 1930. It was initiated by Mao Zedong after a Red Army unit mutinied in Futian. The Futian Incident marked the start of Maoist purges in Jiangxi that claimed between 10,000 and 70,000 lives.
The Gang of Four was a quartet of Communist Party leaders: Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan. Loyal to Mao Zedong, they collaborated in the mid-1960s to oversee and implement the radical political and social measures of the Cultural Revolution. The Gang of Four wielded enormous power for almost a decade. They were deposed, put on trial and imprisoned shortly after Mao's death.
generalissimo
Generalissimo is an Italian term meaning 'highest general' or commander-in-chief. The Western media used this term to describe both Sun Yixian and, more frequently, Jiang Jieshi.
Good Swim
See Mao's Good Swim.
A governor is an official appointed to oversee and administer a colony, province or region, usually on behalf of a monarch.
Great Helmsman
The 'Great Helmsman' is a name given to Mao Zedong, to imply he was steering the 'ship of state'.
Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward is the name of a policy of rapid industrial growth and agricultural collectivisation, initiated by Mao Zedong in 1958. Coinciding with the Second Five Year Plan, the Great Leap Forward was intended to produce a surge in Chinese productivity, allowing it to 'catch up' to the West. It proved disastrous, resulting in negative growth, the failure of key projects, human suffering and widespread famines that killed between 20 million and 45 million people.
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
See Cultural Revolution.
Green Gang
The Green Gang was a group of gangsters, racketeers and drug traffickers who held sway in Shanghai before 1949. The Green Gang and their leader, Du Yuesheng, were aligned with the Guomindang until the mid-1940s. Green Gang thugs were responsible for violence and executions during the Shanghai Massacre of April 1927.
Guangfuhui (or 'Revive the Light Society')
The Guangfuhui was a revolutionary party seeking Western republicanism, formed in eastern China in 1904. Its members were later absorbed into the Tongmenghui.
guanxi
Guanxi is the feudal practice of using one's connections for self promotion.
guerrilla warfare
Guerrilla warfare is an unconventional form of combat that avoids open battles and direct confrontation. Instead, guerrilla soldiers rely on speed, mobility, concealment, the element of surprise and the support of sympathetic civilians.
Guomindang or GMD (Wade-Giles: Kuomintang or KMT)
The Guomindang was the Nationalist Party of China, formed by Sun Yixian from other nationalist groups in 1919. The Guomindang dominated Chinese revolutionary politics between 1912 and the Chinese Civil War of the 1940s. Guomindang membership and political ideas were quite broad, encouraging Chinese nationalism, self-sufficiency, capitalism, industrial development and gradual political modernisation. After the communist victory in 1949, members of the Guomindang retreated to Taiwan. It remains a significant political party there today.
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (or The Dismissal of Hai Rui)
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office was a theatrical play written by Wu Han and first performed in Beijing in 1961. The story was widely believed to symbolise Mao Zedong's 1959 dismissal of Peng Dehuai. Critics condemned the play for its anti-Mao overtones, a movement that contributed to the rising Cultural Revolution.
Han (or Han Chinese)
The Han are the majority ethnic group in China, comprising more than 90 per cent of the population.
houmen
Houmen is the feudal 'back door' practice of bypassing official channels.
Huangpu Military Academy
The Huangpu (Wade-Giles: Whampoa) Military Academy was a training facility for Guomindang and communist military officers, located in south-eastern China. The academy, funded by Soviet aid and staffed by Russian and Chinese officers, was opened in 1924 with Jiang Jieshi as its first commandant. Many leading revolutionaries, Nationalist and Red Army commanders received military training at Huangpu.
Hundred Days of Reform
The Hundred Days of Reform refer to a failed attempt to introduce sweeping social and political reforms in late Qing China. They were largely derived from the ideas of Kang Youwei and formally decreed by the Guangxu Emperor in June 1898. Dowager Empress Cixi and Yuan Shikai responded by placing the emperor under virtual house arrest, while the reforms were abandoned.
Hundred Flowers Campaign
The Hundred Flowers Campaign was a brief period in 1956-57 where Mao Zedong invited and encouraged free expressions of speech, particularly opinion and constructive criticism of the Communist Party and the government. It produced a flood of letters and other writing, criticising and condemning the government. Historians disagree on whether the Hundred Flowers movement was an error of judgement or a ploy to flush out opponents.
January Storm
The 'January Storm' was a period in early 1967 when Red Guards and political radicals attempted to seize control of party committees, local government councils and bureaucracies. They had some success, gaining control of the Shanghai municipal government and declaring it a 'People's Commune'.
Jiangxi Soviet (also the Chinese Soviet Republic)
The Jiangxi Soviet was a self-governing communist region formed by Mao Zedong in south-eastern China in 1931. The Jiangxi Soviet trialled socialist policies by forming farming collectives, starting a bank and issuing its own currency. It was encircled and overrun by Nationalist forces in 1934-35 after the communists and the Red Army embarked on the Long March.
A kowtow is a show of deference to the emperor and other important officials in imperial China. Kowtowing required an elaborate series of bows, ending with touching one's head on the ground three times.
Kuomintang
See Guomindang.
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Felice Anerio
Roman composer (1560-1630)
Anerio, FELICE, an eminent Roman composer, B. C. 1560; d. c. 1630. From 1575 he was for four years a boy-soprano in the Papal Choir, studying under the celebrated master Nanini. His first appointment was as choirmaster of the English College in Rome, and his next a similar one under Cardinal Aldobrandini. In 1594 he succeeded Palestrina as composer to the Papal Choir, a post created specially for Palestrina, and which ceased with Anerio's death. Several of his compositions, e.g. an "Adoramus Te, Christe" and a "Stabat Mater", for three choirs, passed for a long time as Palestrina's work. Anerio's compositions (which are very numerous) are characterized by originality and fine artistic feeling. Many were printed during the period 1585-1622. We may mention "First Book of Hymns, Canticles and Motets for eight voices" (Venice, 1596), dedicated to Pope Clement VIII, which was followed later by a second volume, "Three Books of Spiritual Madrigals for Five Voices", "Two Books of Spiritual Concerts for Four Voices". But a large proportion of them exist only in manuscript, and are preserved in various Roman libraries, especially in that of the Roman College.
J. A. VOLKER
Catholic Answers is pleased to provide this unabridged entry from the original Catholic Encyclopedia, published between 1907 and 1912. It is a valuable resource for subjects related to theology, philosophy, history, culture, and more. Like most works that are more than a century old, though, it may occasionally use anachronistic language or present outdated scientific information. Accordingly, in offering this resource Catholic Answers does not thereby endorse every assertion or phrase in it.


I'm sending Happy Easter wishes your way with an alfresco Easter table!
A bunny tablecloth provides a foundation for Bunny eggs plates, layered over aqua and salmon colored napkins.
For an easy centerpiece, I filled a glass vase with jelly beans that look like speckled eggs. To make your own, center a smaller vase inside a larger vase and place your jelly beans or candy of your choice between the walls of your vases. Easter candy is already on sale or stock up at the dollar store to fill your vase. I saved my candy from last year's centerpiece with tulips to use again this year.
I cut some dogwood branches and plum tree blossoms for the centerpiece.
A few colored eggs are tucked in among the branches and around the base of the centerpiece.
Crack your eggs along the top of the smaller end and save your shells to use as vases at the table. Azaleas and plum blossoms fill egg shell vases in floral egg cups at the table. . .
And bunny straws make for festive sipping, hopping in my cart from the Dollar Spot at Target, and adding a little whimsy, paired with my mother-in-law's delicate crystal flutes.
Baby Bunny Cakelets are sweet mini desserts for Easter! Divide your batter in half and add some cocoa powder for mini chocolate and vanilla bunny cakes. Some sprinkled coconut on a dollop of frosting provides a cottontail! Recipe, here.
It's going to be a beautiful Easter weekend here in North Carolina, with temperatures in the 80's. Hope you're enjoying some spring blooms and beautiful weather where you are!
Beautiful table setting. I love the tablecloth!
Elegant and beautiful beside the most beautiful lake setting.
What a pretty spring table, love the bunny plates and the cute cakes.
Mary, your tablescspes are awesome! U r so creative. Happy Easter!
Happy Easter Mary. I will close my eyes and almost smell the flowers, hear he water lapping on shore and feel the warm breeze on my skin. Beautiful!
Your holiday tables are always so cheery and pretty, Mary! Have a Happy Easter!
Spring has sprung at your house. Beautiful. Easter blessings.
Stunning! Have a Happy Easter!
Gorgeous table, I love it, have a lovely Easter.
Such a beautiful table, Mary! I really love the bunny plates and the beautiful centerpiece! Thanks for sharing – hope you have a wonderful Easter! Blessings to you…..
Beautiful as always! Love that pretty centerpiece! Happy Easter!
Your bunny mini cakes look delicious. I like the idea of putting cocoa in the cake mix. Everything is beutiful.
Mary the outdoor scene is peaceful and serene . It makes you want to sit down there and just take in the view.
Mary I love the bunny plates and the display with the eggs and jelly beans.
I love the candy filled vase with the blooming branches, Mary. I do the same thing with candy that I use for decorating!! I finally threw out some conversation hearts that I've used for several years. Your egg cups are so adorable all planted with posies. Happy Easter, dear Mary!
Love love everything about this blog! So sorry I missed the bunny plates several years ago at Pottery Barn. I've tried online to find them with no success….Enjoy knowing how much pleasure you have brought to so many via your blogs….Happy Easter!
Oh Mary, I love the delicate egg cups. Look vintage! Such a lovely setting with the beautiful Lake in the background.
Oh so pretty, spring has arrived. Thanks for sharing.
Just breathtaking, Mary!! The epitome of a fresh spring/Easter table! Soooo pretty with all your special touches.
I'm coveting those darling egg cups, big time as well as the bunny plates.
I wish you a very happy and blessed Easter! I love the airy look and feel of the tablescape. It's so nice that you have been afforded great weather! We're just praying a tornado doesn't descend upon us!!! 😀 Blessings and love!
Mary, I don't know what I like more…the jellybean centerpiece, the floral egg cups, the aqua and coral napkins, the bunny plates, or those adorable cakes!!! Hoping you are able to get out on the lake tomorrow! Happy Easter!
How very pretty Mary! Love the view of the lake! How peaceful. What a blessing to be able to view that every day throughout the different seasons. Today we hit 85 and it was wonderful! Have a blessed Easter.
Hope your Easter is blessed and wonderful!
Happy Easter, Mary! What a gorgeous table in a beautiful and peaceful setting! Love the tablecloth and the sweet napkins with their detail! A stunning centerpiece completes your Easter table!
Very late getting here but so glad I didn't miss this! I keep trying to find 2 vases to fit inside each other so I can do this! We are JUST getting some blooms on the trees, the dogwoods are in bud right now. LOVE this tab;e and especially the napkins. The egg shell vases are great! Hope you had a wonderful Easter!!!!
The napkins are beautiful! Thanks for sharing at Home Sweet Home!
I like the Centerpiece well enough to try this Easter. Do you use artificial dogwood, or real?


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Either synchronize 1-way from Android "Saved to phone" contacts or save calls to DO?
Thread: Either synchronize 1-way from Android "Saved to phone" contacts or save calls to DO?
First, thank you for being so responsive to everyone's comments and suggestions, and pushing out beta upgrades so quickly. That, of course, only makes me want to raise more possibilities, although perhaps they are features already built-in that I haven't figured out yet.
Today's issue is that I don't want to re-populate my phone (an Epic 4G) with a duplicate of the full contact list now stored in DejaOffice, but I would like to create contacts from phone calls and then have them automatically added to the DejaOffice contacts. Is that possible? I have generally stopped synchronizing my contacts etc. with the native Android apps and don't want duplicates. I can think of 2ways of doing this. One is a 1-way synchronization from the "saved-to-phone" contacts to DejaOffice. I'm not sure that's possible, however, because I have only one account listed on my screen for setting up synchronization, which is my gmail account without the "@gmail." I don't get a choice on that screen for the "saved to phone" contacts. (If I did have the choice, I would still want an export-contact or 1-way synchronization option from the phone to DejaOffice, so that I avoided duplicates. An option to erase the contact from the native application after synchronization or export would avoid that issue.) It would probably be even better to have an option to save the contacts created from phone calls directly to DejaOffice, with an option to export existing phone-saved contacts to DejaOffice. Is that possible?


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Artist Susan Dunlap's stone sculpture marks 30th anniversary at Bedwell Bayfront Park in Menlo Park
by Linda Hubbard on April 10, 2015
Artist Susan Dunlap, a Menlo Park resident since 1977, recalls how she felt 30 years ago when the final phase of her stone sculpture at Bedwell Bayfront Park was completed. "A 505-ton sculpture was what I needed to get Christo off my back!" she exclaims with a wry smile. "With that pressure gone, I was released to explore what I wanted to do."
Those explorations include painting, photography and founding a company, Aerulean, that develops plant [as in vegetation] software. But we'd met her at the park to talk stone sculpture.
Some background for people who haven't visited what is called The Great Spirit Path Sculpture. Spread over a three-quarter mile trail, it is the largest sculpture of its kind in the world. The 892 rocks that were used to construct it are from a quarry in Sonoma and a meadow near the Stanford Linear Accelerator. Accompanying the sculpture, described as a "stone poem," is a four-stanza written poem.
A brochure is available for visitors that describes the 53 separate sculptures that make up the whole. It explains that the "rock clusters were inspired by American Indian Pictographs, a visual language system designed and used by various Native American tribes to record events in their daily lives."
"I was on the city of Menlo Park's Beautification Commission at the time plans for the park were being circulated," recalls Susan. "I started thinking about what I could do that would make it an appealing park for the people of Menlo Park and became intrigued by the possibility of using rock.
"Every other park I'd been to used rocks as barriers, but my idea was to use them as a design element. And rock could endure. I marvel at how many are still in good shape."
In the 30 years of the sculpture, some rocks have been rolled down the hill whether by nature or force, and some of those that were epoxyed are no longer together. It's Susan's ambition to continue a restoration effort and she hopes people who are interested in joining her will contact her: susan@aerulean.com.
We'd be remiss if we didn't mention Susan's website of fine art. As she sums up: "Left to do anything, I'll always turn to painting."
Eric Westlund April 15, 2015 at 1:25 pm
I have walked by most of these over the past few years. Very interesting. Some of the descriptions at each one are a bit worn. It would be nice if the park would keep the grasses cut around them.
stephen Cashman March 10, 2016 at 5:15 pm
I have lived in the bay area since 1983 and only now stumbled on to the Great Spirit Sculpture. It was a real treat!


It's been five years since Stacy Erholtz underwent an experimental treatment for blood cancer that used enough measles vaccine to inoculate 10 million people, and she's still celebrating her life, moment by moment.
Erholtz recently was a guest speaker at the International Oncolytic Virus Conference in Oxford, England, where she talked about her life and the exhausting treatments she endured since her diagnosis in 2004, at the age of 40.
"And then I focused on the viral therapies, the measles infusion, and how as cancer patients the chemo and the radiation can be so toxic, it can be so debilitating. The time for travel, the expense of it all, it just kind of drags on forever and you're never finished.
With Erholtz as his living "proof of concept," Russell has spun off a company called Vyriad to advance the use of viruses as a way to target cancers, raising $10 million last year for clinical trials and more recently, $9 million to set up a 25,000-square-foot facility in the old IBM plant in Rochester.
Until about five years ago, Mayo Clinic didn't let its scientists license their discoveries for commercial use. Vyriad was an early beneficiary of a change in that policy. Russell said Mayo Clinic is an investor in the company and also contributed to the $9 million it raised to build offices, a manufacturing facility and research center in a massive building where IBM once made computer hard drives.
Other investors include the Rochester Area Economic Development Initiative Inc. and the Southeast Minnesota Capital Fund, a venture capital firm.
"Stacy is just a really great poster child for the field," Russell said in a telephone interview last week as he prepared for a gathering sponsored by the Mayo to mark Erholtz's fifth year without a general recurrence of the cancer.
Even so, he said, the research has made significant progress.
Using the measles virus to target cancers had a major drawback: Because so many people have been vaccinated against it, they have antibodies that attack it.
Erholtz was unusual. She didn't have antibodies against the measles virus because she'd gone through two stem-cell transplants as part of her treatment for myeloma, which wiped them out. In addition, she sought the measles inoculation relatively soon after the myeloma flared up after her last stem-cell transplant, so the prevalence of cancer cells was unusually small compared with most other myeloma patients who seek treatment.
Finally, her cancer had a large number of mutations, which may have made it stick out to her immune system.
Vyriad switched from measles to vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), which causes skin blisters in cattle in South America and the southern United States. People are not vaccinated against VSV, and few North Americans have been exposed to it, Russell said. Plus, labs have studied VSV for years and it's been engineered for use against a variety of cancers. Vyriad is using it to target colorectal cancer and T-cell lymphoma, a cancer found in the blood or lymph nodes.
Those cancers were selected because there is a significant need for treatment methods, Russell said.
"And we have seen some really quite promising activity, both in our preclinical models and in the clinic," he said.
In animal testing, he said, VSV has proved to be a powerful anti-cancer agent.
The virus that Vyriad is using was modified and tested in pigs by the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Plum Island Animal Disease Center off the coast of New York. It didn't cause blistering in the animals, Russell said. It's now in the early stages of a trial with myeloma patients at Mayo.
Russell said it's been hard to raise money for the research. Venture capital firms liked the idea, he said, but wanted the company to set up shop in Boston or San Francisco to take advantage of the talent pool of regulatory affairs people, manufacturing experts, postdoctoral researchers and other scientists.
Russell, the CEO of Vyriad, said because of the company's strong relationship with Mayo, it made more sense to stay in Rochester. He said the company, with 10 employees, has a strong support team in place and expects to triple its workforce in the coming year and might hire a more seasoned CEO to take it forward.
Erholtz, meanwhile, has gone back to work part time at Grand View Lodge in Nisswa. She has a small foundation that she set up when she thought the measles vaccine was going to be a magic bullet against multiple myeloma. Now, she's planning to use it to set up a website that will highlight clinical trials for viral therapy against all types of cancer.
She said passing the five-year survival mark was just a milestone.
"I'm ready for some friends, for a community who aren't on daily chemos or monthly, weekly infusions," Erholtz said. "My initial hope when I first got diagnosed was to see my eldest of three [children] graduate from high school. I've now seen two graduate from high school, one wedding, another one in the works, and my son plays football for Bethel University. I can go watch him play football; I have energy to do so. It's pretty cool.


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ALTARPIECE (2017)
Fiction | 95 Min | Alvaro Delgado Aparicio | Peru, Germany, Norway
Director: Alvaro Delgado Aparicio
Country: Peru, Germany, Norway
Language: Quechua, Spanish with English subtitles
Original Title: RETABLO
Segundo Paucar, a 14 year old boy wants to become a master story-box maker just like his father to carry on with the family legacy. On his way to a community celebration in the Andes, Segundo accidentally observes his father in a situation that shatters his whole world. Trapped in a chauvinistic environment, Segundo will try to deal in silence with all that is happening to him.
Berlin International Film Festival: Winner, Best Feature Film; Winner, TEDDY Newcomer Award for Best First Feature Film
Chicago International Film Festival: Winner, Gold Q-Hugo
40th International Festival of New Latin American Cinema of Havana: Best First Feature; Best Film, Award of the Havana University; Best Film, Martin Luther King Memorial Center Award
Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival: Best First Feature
Rhode Island International Film Festival: Winner, Grand Jury Prize, Alternative Spirit Award (Feature)
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival: Winner, New Directors' Competition
RETABLO
Peruvian director Alvaro Delgado-Aparicio transitioned from studying psychology and innovation design to attend the London Film Academy. He started in movies directing and writing the short film, Can You See Me? (2010), premiering at the Los Angeles Film Festival and winning the Audience and Jury awards at the Latin American Film Festival. His second film, The Companion (2012), won the Peruvian National Short Film Award, and was a finalist at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and the Rotterdam International Film Festival.


I'm searching for five male and female voices that will be used for short station ID's on a hobby radio station that streams on the internet. No prior experience is necessary.
1) This is the best music station in the world!......Rock 95 FM!
2) The rock you love is the rock we play!......Classic Hits 104.3!
3) We play the music…….you listen to the music…… from Vinyl Rock!
I'm looking for good quality recordings with limited background noise and limited room echo. Record in .mp3 or .wav.
For the voices that are chosen, I'll send you 10 lines with what will be played on the station. You can put them all in one recording or individual .mp3's. Record and send them back. After post production, which will include voice and sound effects, I'll send you the completed lines so you can hear what they sound like.
Since this is a hobby station, there is no compensation for this. It's an opportunity for you to add to your voice portfolio, or for those who are just breaking into voiceovers and would like to use these for other endeavors you pursue.
Station details will be sent to those who are chosen along with the 10 lines.
The deadline to submit is April 1st. Thank you for your participation.


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Baldwin Effect
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The Baldwin effect is named after an American Philosopher, James Mark Baldwin; who is well known for his significant contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and the Theory of Evolution. In Evolutionary biology, the Baldwin effect explains the effect of the learned behavior on evolution. In other words, James Mark Baldwin and his other co-workers suggested during the theory of Darwin in the late 19th century, that an organism has a unique ability to learn new behaviors as to adjust and adapt itself to the new condition in surroundings.
The ability of an organism will affect its reproductive success rate and will in turn have an effect on the genetic makeup of the particular species through natural selection. Though while looking into it, this process appears somewhat same to the Lamarckian evolution that was given by Lamarck. Lamarck proposed that living things inherit the characters that they acquire from their parents. The Baldwin effect has also been proposed independently many times, and even today, it is generally regarded as an essential part of the modern synthesis.
The effect before it was first named, was put forward in 1896 in a paper that contained the title, "A New Factor in Evolution" by James Mark Baldwin. The paper then proposed a mechanism for a specific selection for its general learning ability. Sir Robert Richards, a well-known professor of History of Science & Medicine explained that if any animal is made to enter a new environment or their old environment is rapidly changed, then those organisms can easily respond to this change by learning the new behaviors to survive or adapt. This adaptation would be naturally preserved over several generations to come and thus all the subsequent generations will have the advantage to easily live in the new environment.
It might look that the acquired traits had taken up this hereditary scheme in a Lamarckian fashion as given by Lamarck, but actually, the process is really a neo-Darwinian one. Selected offspring of this Baldwin effect would in no doubt have increased capacity in gaining the ways and learning the new skills rather than being restricted to one genetic code, and also to the relatively fixed abilities. This effect puts up an emphasis on the fact that the sustained behavior of the species or a group of species can give a shape to the evolution of that species.
THEORETICAL PROGRESSION
The Baldwin effect can be better understood while studying evolutionary biology as a phase; in which there occurs a change in any character or any trait. This change that is occurring within an organism as a result of its interaction with its surrounding changing environment, becomes gradually absorbed by an organism into its developmental genome. There was also an update to this Baldwin Effect. It was developed by three scientists namely Jean Piaget, Paul Weiss, and Conrad Waddington in the year 1960. This new version included an extraordinary role of the social environment in shaping the natural change in humans which maybe both, evolutionary as well as developmental.
For the reference, just Suppose that there are some species that are threatened by a new predator and there is a particular kind of behavior that makes it more difficult for the predator to kill every individual of the species. So, in this case, the individuals who learn the behavior more quickly will obviously have an advantage in this. As time changes, the ability to learn the behavior of an individual will improve owing to the genetic selection and a point will come where it will seem to be just an instinct.
In the initial days, Baldwin's ideas were not incompatible with the occurrences, but they were not certain. The ideas regarding the mechanism of transmission of all hereditary information were further put up by at least two other biologists in 1896. They also have very similar ideas like that of Baldwin. In around 1901, Maurice Maeterlinck referred to the adaptations in the behavior of an organism to the climates in different species of bees. The Baldwin effect theory with time became more controversial, with scholars being split between the "Baldwin Boosters" and "Baldwin Skeptics".
The theory was first called out to be the "Baldwin effect" by George Gaylord Simpson in around 1953. He also explained that the idea of Baldwin was theoretically consistent (not inconsistent with the modern synthesis) but at the same time he doubted that the phenomenon occurred very often or in short intervals. In his discussion of the explanation of the Baldwin-effect theory Simpson also pointed out that the theory appears to give us a unique reconciliation between the neo-Darwinian and a neo-Lamarckian theory. At the same time, he argued that the Mendelism and the later genetic theories ruled out the extreme neo-Lamarckian position.
In 1942, the evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley also greatly promoted the Baldwin effect as part of the modern synthesis and said that the concept had been unduly ignored by some of the evolutionists. Paul Griffiths also suggested two major reasons for the continued interest in the Baldwin effect. The first is the role that the mind is understood to play in this effect and second is the connection between the development and evolution in the effect. Thus, the Baldwin effect played a major role in explaining the evolutionary sciences and also became a reference for various researches in further areas.


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Tactics for "breaking" bands have evolved significantly as the music industry has changed. For decades, radio was king. Then, in the 1950s and '60s, tens of millions of Americans' viewing habits were concentrated across three networks and TV took over. MTV, festival slots, and synch licensing have all enjoyed their time in the spotlight, as well. And while each of those tactics is still an important piece of the puzzle, if you talk to any manager or label executive these days, the most coveted prize for a developing artist is clear: a brand partnership.
Thousands of brands, big and small, are looking to align themselves with tastemakers within a number of different categories. Most of these deals take months (or even years) to confirm and come with seven-figure paydays. That said, these deals are more about exposure than dollar signs—at least in the early days of an artist's career.
So, how does one align his or her developing artist with a brand? It all comes down to positioning and packaging. When you pitch an emerging artist to a brand or agency executive, it's likely the first time they've heard of your act, making the initial introduction critical. Like a blind date, you've only got one chance to make a good first impression. If you blow it, the relationship might end before it ever begins.
The biggest mistake artist representatives make when approaching brands is to think of things only from the artist's perspective: how will this brand boost their reputation or market saturation? Is the brand a great fit for their upcoming tour, single, or album launch? Instead, savvy reps approach the conversation from the brand's point of view. They vet the mutual benefits. They ask how can the asset—AKA the artist—help the brand reach its objectives? Those objectives might be to drive sales, increase brand awareness, or connect to consumers via digital content.
In order to reach the brand's objectives, it's imperative that the artist has something to offer. Usually, that means an ongoing opportunity to get in front of people: an opening slot on a big tour, lots of confirmed press, or super-engaged social accounts that are getting a regular flow of new content. Without those tools, the artist essentially has no inventory—which means they have no capacity to create impressions. Brands will not be excited about partnering with an artist who isn't bringing some amount of momentum to the table to help achieve the goals of the campaign.
Above all, authenticity is key. Pairing the wrong artist with the wrong brand is a bad look for all parties involved, and it can be detrimental for the artist in the long run. If the artist does not use the product or isn't aligned with the creative, it's probably not a good idea to do the deal. If something isn't a good fit, pass. Period. No level of exposure or paycheck is worth the potential blow-back that can (and usually will!) come on social media if a partnership proves to be inauthentic…or appear to be inauthentic to consumers.
Many campaigns that launch with a more established artist can provide springboards for developing artists later on. For example, Tennessee Tourism launched its Snapchat channel last September with a partnership with Garth Brooks. More than 6 million viewers watched authentic Snap stories over a three-week period that helped highlight the importance of Tennessee in Garth's career. The campaign culminated with 15,000 people from 46 states and 5 countries making the trip to Nashville for a free downtown concert.
Although Garth helped launch the channel, it's now serving as an outlet for Tennessee to spotlight some of the state's brightest emerging acts. Each month, FlyteVu and TN invite another new star to take center stage. The Snap-umentary series has featured Whissell, Seth Ennis, and Drew Holcomb in recent months. All of these artists have an authentic story about Tennessee. This campaign helps keep Tennessee Tourism's channel fresh, while giving new acts access to an engaged audience to share their music.
Bottom line: brands can be an invaluable resource for artist development, but it's important to get it right the first time. Go for the long play and treat it more like your first date. Also, follow all existing rules and regulations (so you don't inadvertently commit an FTC violation). If you don't, you can ruin a young artist's partnership viability, and therefore one of today's most powerful promotional platforms. When in doubt, look to an expert (or agency of experts) who deal full-time in these types of partnership.


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Los Angeles Shocks the World With Toilet-Themed Restaurant
How many similarly-themed restaurants must exist in order to constitute a trend? If it's two, we may just have a bona fide 'movement' on our hands. I've already written about Taiwan's entry into the burgeoning field of bathroom-themed eateries. Where there's a number one, there usually follows a number two. Now Los Angeles has followed suit with their own poopy-based cafe.
The Magic Restroom Cafe, located in America's entertainment capitol, features seats that are shaped like toilets. The food also comes in toilet-shaped bowls. They also have something on the menu called, sigh, "bloody number two." Don't worry. It's just a vanilla and strawberry sundae. In other words, this restaurant is classy!
Oh, you want even more gross menu items? They also have "black poop" AKA chocolate ice cream, "smells-like-poop" AKA braised pork over rice and "golden poop" AKA rice curry. Did I fail to mention how classy this place is?
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Q: Hightlight line number with bat at fzf preview I have a alias which when you pass a parameter will look like this
rg --trim --no-heading test_based_image $HOME/ -n | fzf --color='preview-fg:110' --preview="cut -d":" -f1 <<< {} | xargs bat "

The first part will return something like
/home/iob/path/some_file.pm:46:test_based_image

The preview will display the source code of some_file.pm.
My problem is i want to replace the bat command with bat -R to highlight the line 46.
i try to do the following
rg --trim --no-heading test_based_image $HOME/ -n | fzf --color='preview-fg:110' --preview="cut -d":" -f1 <<< {} | xargs bat -r $(cut -d":" -f2 <<< {}) "

but this fails showing this in the preview
[bat error]: line range contained more than one ':' character. Expected format 'N' or 'N:M'

Any ideas how can overcome this? i cant get where the complains come from as the bat does its thing when i run it alone.

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The bulk of the Tribunal's work is concerned with the investigation into the possible nullity of marriages. After what is often a painful divorce, people sometimes feel the need for the Church to recognise that there was something not right about their marriage. For some this will achieve closure and sense of peace. For others the benefit is more pragmatic – they seek to remarry in the Catholic Church and can only do so if their former marriage is declared null by the Church. The Tribunal seeks to ease the path for these people while always staying faithful to the teaching of the Church. Applications to the Tribunal should first of all be discussed with a priest and must always be made in writing to the Judicial Vicar at the Curial Offices (50a The Avenue, Linthorpe, Middlesbrough, TS5 6QT). Although the Tribunal is involved in other matters, these are relatively rare.
Much of the work of the Chancery is administrative and designed to help the smooth running of the diocese. The work can stretch from enabling marriages to take place legally; ensuring that the property of the Church is correctly protected and administered on behalf of the people to whom it properly belongs; advice to the Bishop on matters of public good and public order; liaising with outside agencies; enquiries from people regarding the status of themselves or their parishes/churches in Canon Law. In short, the Chancery works to ensure that the Church works properly on behalf of all its members.


Add any links you think would be useful to the forum here. Also any comments about links on this page or other links. Use this topic for forecasting and weather links for Dubai.
bahrainweather.com - has some marine forecasts, usually what happens there is what you can expect to see in the UAE 12 to 24 hours later.
buoyweather.com - Oman virtual buoy map - good reference. Nothing for Dubai though.
www.dubaicoast.org - (moved) live swell and wind readings, tides and photos from camera on top of the Burj Al Arab.
dubiameteo.com - Sharjah based weather service. Not forecasts but gives temperature, humidity and wind readings.
magicseaweed.com - Oman forecasts - excellent! Has reports for Al Ashkarah and Salalah. None for Dubai though.
www.swellfinder.com - UAE/Oman swell forecast - usually not available but useful when they are.
surforecasts.com - Collection of surf and weather forecast links from surfersvillage.com (surf news and other stuff) - see Africa for links for the Indian Ocean, and Australasia West for links for Oman, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Indonesia. Not to be confused with surforecast.com which is for USA only.
uaemet.gov.ae - Dubai - Oman - if they don't work (often happens), try the marine or numerical forecasts. They may not work either but it's quite a good 2 day forecast when it's available. Maybe you need to sign in first? There's a handy temperature reading also, and wind etc.
US Navy 48 hour animated forecast of wave heights for the Oman coast - also shows part of the gulf and often seems to have more accurate readings for Dubai than the Gulf forecast.
windguru.cz - Abu Dhabi - Dubai - Fujairah - 7 day forecast of wind, temperature, rain, cloud and windhuru rating (for wind or kitesurfing), Fujeirah also includes wave height.
tide predictions - for different locations in the UAE - handy graphic.
buoyweather.com - has virtual buoys all over the place including quite a few off the Oman coast. Free 3 day trial or pay annual fee to get extra information.
magicseaweed.com - good longer range forecasts for Oman and elsewhere (swell, wind, water temperature).
wetsand.com - has forecasts for Africa and Maldives and other worldwide spots.
wannasurf.com - worldwide surf guide with home page styled after the lonely planet online guide, includes sections on Oman and Lebanon. Has maps of spots, comments, photos, reports and comments.
Dmoz surfing section - good collection of links related to surfing.
surfersvillage.com - Surf news from around the world, select region to get more localized news.
SOD message board and forum - the best surf discussion forum on the web!
Old SOD message boards - inaccessible directly but the Internet Wayback Machine has them here if you can get around the block in the UAE.
Disclaimer: Any of the information on this website may be incorrect. By accessing this website you agree that you will not hold anyone associated with Surfers of Dubai or the Surfers of Dubai websites liable for any consequences arising as a result of however you use the information available on this website, and any associated websites / blogs / forums / emails / anything else related to Surfers of Dubai. Copyright © Surfers of Dubai 2000-2008. All rights reserved. Last updated 7 October, 2008.


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package com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.ex;

import com.intellij.openapi.diagnostic.Logger;
import com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.FileChooserDescriptor;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.LocalFileSystem;
import com.intellij.openapi.vfs.VirtualFile;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor;
import java.awt.dnd.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class FileDrop {

  private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getInstance("#com.intellij.openapi.fileChooser.ex.FileDrop");

  public FileDrop(JComponent c, final Target target) {
    final DropTargetListener listener = new DropTargetListener() {

      public void dragEnter(final DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
      }

      public void dragOver(final DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
      }

      public void dropActionChanged(final DropTargetDragEvent dtde) {
      }

      public void dragExit(final DropTargetEvent dte) {
      }

      public void drop(final DropTargetDropEvent dtde) {
        dtde.acceptDrop(dtde.getDropAction());
        List<VirtualFile> files = new ArrayList<VirtualFile>();
        try {
          final List list = (List)dtde.getTransferable().getTransferData(DataFlavor.javaFileListFlavor);
          for (int i = 0; i < list.size(); i++) {
            Object each = list.get(i);
            if (each instanceof File) {
              final File eachFile = (File)each;
              final VirtualFile vFile = LocalFileSystem.getInstance().findFileByIoFile(eachFile);
              if (vFile != null && vFile.exists()) {
                if (target.getDescriptor().isFileVisible(vFile, target.isHiddenShown())) {
                  files.add(vFile);
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
        catch (Exception e) {
          LOG.debug(e);
        }
        if (files.size() > 0) {
          target.dropFiles(files);
        }
      }
    };

    new DropTarget(c, TransferHandler.COPY_OR_MOVE, listener, true);
  }

  public static interface Target {
    FileChooserDescriptor getDescriptor();
    boolean isHiddenShown();
    void dropFiles(List<VirtualFile> files);
  }

}

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Interview with Theresa Schwegel: author of 'The Good Boy'
August 7, 2014 July 7, 2016 / Pamela Kramer
Theresa Schwegel, local author of award-winning mysteries, including her latest release, "The Good Boy," is a hard-boiled Chicagoan. She lived in Los Angeles for a while, enjoying the sun and warm weather, then decided she missed the change of seasons. She also missed being a part of the Chicago scene — it was too hard to write about Chicago while not living here.
So she came back to the Windy City. It wasn't too difficult a decision because she also came back to her family (she grew up in Algonquin, Illinois). Even with an 18-month-old daughter, she and her husband are not ready to leave the city for the 'burbs.
Theresa writes about male cops. And it's easy, she says. Why? "They say what they mean." But in her newest release, "The Good Boy," the main protagonist is an eleven-year-old boy. He also says what he means.
In addition to writing, caring for her daughter and two rescue dogs, Theresa spends time appearing in libraries and bookstores, talking about her background and her books. She admits that she gets on her bandwagon about something that really bothers her in society today. "We can't see past the screen of our phone," she tells me. Ironically, sitting in her parked car before our meeting in downtown Libertyville, she was sideswiped by a car with a driver who was on his cell phone. We can't see past the screen of our phone? How true.
It's not only technology that keeps us from seeing what's around us, Theresa believes. In researching for the book, she and her dogs walked the six miles of (her main character) Joel's route often. One wet day she was walking through a questionable neighborhood, and she slipped in the middle of the street. There were workers around, and people out on the sidewalk, but not one person helped her up or asked if she was OK. No one noticed.
Another message that is important to Theresa regards bullying. In the book, Joel bears the brunt of the bullying. He is forced to watch the horrific killing of a neighborhood cat (something that actually happened to a relative of hers).
"Kids are not little grownups," she says, and that's how Theresa feels they are treated now. "More and more we are expecting children to grow up quicker," she explained. Yet science tells us that brains aren't really mature until the mid-twenties. Indeed, the NIH says, "The parts of the brain responsible for more 'top-down' control, controlling impulses, and planning ahead—the hallmarks of adult behavior—are among the last to mature."
She also spent time researching dogs prior to writing the story. She read dog books both fiction and nonfiction, "The Art of Racing in the Rain," by Garth Stein, and "A Dog's Purpose," by W. Bruce Cameron, to name a couple. She met and worked with Tara Poremba of the Chicago Police Department, who is not only an expert marksman but also a K-9 handler of Brix, who is a Malinois/Shepherd mix. They actually staged a search so that Theresa could see the real thing. She commented, "It was amazing to see the change that came over the dog when he saw the Kong." It was as if the dog suddenly thought, Okay, I'm ready to work.
Look for more mysteries — all taking place in Chicago — from Theresa Schwegel.
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E-mails Show That Republican Senate Staff Stymied a Kavanaugh Accuser's Effort to Give Testimony
By Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer
Lawyers for Deborah Ramirez say that she was willing to coöperate with Senator Chuck Grassley and the Judiciary Committee.
Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux for The New Yorker
Throughout Thursday's Senate hearing on Christine Blasey Ford's sexual-misconduct allegation against Brett Kavanaugh, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee claimed that they had tried in vain to secure more information about other accusations made about the judge. "We were moving heaven and earth and even moving the schedule to get to the truth," Senator Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, said. "Every opportunity you have to go and question a witness, every opportunity that we've had to find more truth and to find more facts, we have done it." Senator Chuck Grassley, of Iowa, the chairman of the committee, said, about an allegation of sexual misconduct raised last week by a former college classmate of Kavanaugh's, Deborah Ramirez, "My staff made eight requests—yes, eight requests—for evidence from attorneys for Ms. . . . Ms. Ramirez." He added, "The committee can't do an investigation if attorneys are stonewalling."
On Wednesday, several conservative-media outlets published leaks of some of the e-mail correspondence between Ramirez's team and Republican committee staffers, which appeared to back up Grassley's characterization. But a fuller copy of the e-mail correspondence between Ramirez's legal team and Republican and Democratic Senate staffers shows that a Republican aide declined to proceed with telephone calls and instead repeatedly demanded that Ramirez produce additional evidence in written form. Only then could any conversation about her testimony proceed. The exchange culminated in a breakdown of communication between the two sides, as Republican and Democratic staffers traded accusations of stonewalling.
The e-mails show that Mike Davis, a senior Republican committee staffer, approached Ramirez's attorneys on Sunday evening, shortly after The New Yorker published a piece about Senate Democrats investigating her allegation of sexual misconduct by Kavanaugh during their college years. Ramirez told The New Yorker that Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away. Kavanaugh has repeatedly said that the allegations are false.
From the start, Ramirez's legal team had called for the F.B.I. to conduct an investigation. Her attorney John Clune told Davis that Ramirez was seeking an F.B.I. investigation and said that, "on appropriate terms, she would also agree to be interviewed in person." But when Clune proposed a phone call several times, Davis repeatedly insisted that Clune answer two questions: Did Ramirez possess evidence in addition to what was in the New Yorker article? And was she willing to provide testimony to the committee's investigators?
Clune answered the Republican staffer's questions, suggesting that Ramirez did, in fact, have additional witnesses and other evidence. And, he said, of Ramirez's willingness to testify to the committee's investigators, "We couldn't answer without learning more from you about the details of whatever process you are contemplating. After hearing more, we would advise the client accordingly." Davis then requested that Ramirez's team provide evidence in the form of a letter, e-mail, or statement to the committee's investigators before he would consider a call. Clune continued to try to schedule a call with a Democratic staffer on the e-mail thread, but Davis wrote back to him, saying that, "before we discuss a phone call or any other next steps, again, we need to have the following information," and reiterated the two questions.
At that point, Heather Sawyer, the Democratic staffer who was copied on the e-mails in accordance with committee policy, wrote to Davis, "As you're aware, Ms. Ramirez's counsel have repeatedly requested to speak with the Committee, on a bipartisan basis, to determine how to proceed. You refused. I've never encountered an instance where the Committee has refused even to speak with an individual or counsel. I am perplexed as to why this is happening here, except that it seems designed to ensure that the Majority can falsely claim that Ms. Ramirez and her lawyers refused to cooperate. That simply is not true."
Davis responded, "I have not refused to speak with anyone. I am simply requesting – for the 7th time now over the last 48 hours – that Ms. Ramirez's attorneys provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with any evidence that they have before we move to the next steps." (Emphasis in original.) Finally, one of Ramirez's lawyers sent a formal letter requesting an F.B.I. investigation. The letter said that Ramirez "is willing to cooperate with the Committee," and that her efforts to do so were being rebuffed.
Sawyer did not respond to a request for comment. A Democratic staffer responding on her behalf confirmed that the e-mails were accurate.
Davis did not comment, but he provided a separate personal e-mail sent to one of Ramirez's attorneys, noting that they were acquaintances and saying, "I look forward to working with you on this matter." In a statement, a Republican committee aide said, "Our staff proactively reached out to Ms. Ramirez's attorney just minutes after she went public in the New Yorker, and we did so on a bipartisan basis. As a general practice, the committee requests to review any evidence or statement before determining how best to proceed with an investigation. This is necessary given the sheer volume of claims that the committee receives. Our staff asked on seven separate occasions over the course of 48 hours for any evidence or statement Ms. Ramirez would be willing to provide. Unfortunately, her counsels have not provided the committee with any such material to review." The aide noted that the committee asked Kavanaugh about the allegation during an interview this week.
Ramirez's attorney, Clune, disputed that description of the committee's response, saying in a statement that he had responded "quickly and positively" to each of the committee's inquiries. "Almost immediately in our correspondence, they became less interested in hearing from her and more interested in discovering what witnesses we could bring forward. Since it was only the majority staff that made these demands, as the minority staff questioned those demands as unprecedented, we became suspicious that any disclosures we might file would be shared inappropriately with Judge Kavanaugh or others to prepare and attack Debbie's account," Clune wrote. "Since Debbie's interest was in an F.B.I. investigation where Judge Kavanaugh could be questioned under oath, we didn't feel comfortable releasing this information without their assurances. We continued to attempt to negotiate in good faith by submitting a lengthier letter providing more information as well as Debbie's request for investigation. Other than replying 'received' on Thursday morning, the committee has not responded. It is remarkable that the committee admits they had enough information to question Judge Kavanaugh under oath on Debbie's statements in The New Yorker, yet that very same information was insufficient for Debbie's counsel to earn even a phone call."
Ford's road to testifying was also marked by partisan rancor and allegations of stonewalling by both sides. In an e-mail last week, Ford's attorney Debra Katz wrote to the committee's majority staff, saying, "The imposition of aggressive and artificial deadlines regarding the date and conditions of any hearing has created tremendous and unwarranted anxiety and stress on Dr. Ford." In announcing Ford's agreement to testify after days of tense exchanges, Katz wrote that "many aspects" of the terms under which she would testify "are fundamentally inconsistent with the Committee's promise of a fair, impartial investigation into her allegations, and we are disappointed with the leaks and the bullying that have tainted the process."
Before Ford testified, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee announced that a vote on Kavanaugh would proceed on Friday. After yesterday's hearing, Grassley told reporters that the committee would meet on Friday morning for the vote, as planned.
E-mails exchanged between Ramirez's legal team and Republican and Democratic Senate staffers obtained by The New Yorker have been reproduced below. Contact information has been redacted. The e-mails have also been placed in chronological order.
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