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Home Government Banditry Security: Ohanaeze, Afenifere, Others Tackle FG Over Court Order
Security: Ohanaeze, Afenifere, Others Tackle FG Over Court Order
Magnus Eze, from Enugu, Tony Osauzo, from Benin, Noah Ebije, from Kaduna, Tony John, from Port Harcourt, Sunday Ani and Chukwudi Nweje.
On November 25, a Federal High Court in Abuja had declared the activities of all bandit groups in the country as acts of terrorism.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, said during appearance on a Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) programme, yesterday, said court order had not been given effect because government was yet to gazette the order declaring bandits as terrorists.
The reasons adduced by the Federal Government for not designating bandits as terrorist over one month after court's pronouncement has drawn the ire of groups and individuals.
But he revealed that the process of gazetting the court order would be completed within a few days.
"Government has a responsibility to act but within the context of acting. You're equally expected to operate within the confines of international best practices associated with engagement, and one of such best practices is that you can only use maximum force on groups, individuals that are declared terrorists and that is where the application of the Terrorism Act comes in place.
"Whatever military hardware you acquire, there are limits within the context of the international convention as to how it can be used, when it can be used, and against who it can be used. And that is how the idea of looking at the activities of the bandits, cattle rustlers, kidnappers come into being.
"Our assessment took into consideration that they are causing a major threat to the territorial peaceful co-existence and causing a major threat to lives with weapons. The idea then came about that indeed they (bandits) have satisfied the criteria of being declared terrorists within the context of the law so that whatever military hardware at the disposal of the Federal Government can best be used against them within the context of the international convention and within the context of the law.
But groups and individuals including Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Afenifere, Arewa Youth Consultaive Forum (AYCF), Senator Roland Owie and Livingstone Wechie told Daily Sun last night that the explanations were bizarre and untenable.
National Publicity Secretary of Ohanaeze, Alex Ogbonnia, said appropriate measures were needed to solve the problem of insecurity.
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"For example, if the bandits are declared as terrorists, it would require a higher nature of containment and it is the will power to apply this appropriate higher measure of containment that is lacking and that is why the government is still foot-dragging. The will power is not there because of the sentiments attached to it and so long as the government continues to live in denial, the problem will continue to replicate itself. So, it is advised that we call a spade a spade so that we will be able to map out the appropriate technology to contain the problem."
National President of MBF, Dr. Pogu Bitrus, also blamed government for lacking political will to do the needful.
"Let there be the political will to rout both the terrorists and bandits who are now classified as terrorists from existence. Let the Federal Government have the political will to do the needful and declare war on them and not just to send soldiers to protect communities."
Similarly, the National Publicity Secretary of Afenifere, Jare Ajayi, said Nigerians were not interested in gazettes or who the courts declared a terrorist and tasked the Federal Government to live up to its constitutional responsibility to ensure security and welfare of the citizens.
"Giving reasons why the judgment has not been gazetted is not what we are interested in. The Federal Government should ensure Nigerians are free to move from one point to another and their property secured. The primary essence of government is to ensure security and welfare of the citizens."
Reacting, leader of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, said the classification of bandits as terrorists was overdue and the excuses by Malami lacked traction.
"The excuse that they want to follow international best practices is not acceptable. I don't know what the bandits are doing that is not an act of terrorism. The Federal Government must muster the political will to do the needful before we are all consumed. I am of the view that relying on international best practices is not in our best interest. I've seen a situation where their interest may conflict with ours. We have our own peculiar case and we should deal with it our own way."
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Schroders Acquires Majority Stake in Renewables Infrastructure Manager Greencoat for $474 Million
Global investment manager Schroders announced today an agreement to acquire a 75% stake in renewables infrastructure manager Greencoat Capital Holdings Limited for an initial consideration of £358 million. The deal also includes a potential earn out, subject to stretch revenue targets and the continued employment of the senior management team, capped at £120 million. Additionally, options are in place for Schroders to acquire the remaining 25% over time.
Established in 2009, Greencoat is one of Europe's largest renewable infrastructure managers, with £6.7 billion of AUM. The company focuses on wind, solar, bioenergy, and heat, and operates nearly 200 power generation assets across the UK, Europe, and the US, with an aggregate net generation capacity of over 3 GW.
Peter Harrison, Group Chief Executive of Schroders, said:
"We are pleased to welcome the Greencoat team to Schroders. Greencoat is a market-leading, high growth business, with an outstanding management team, which provides access to a large and fast-growing market in high demand among our clients. Its culture is an excellent fit with ours and Greencoat's focus aligns very closely to our strategy, continuing our approach of adding capabilities in the most attractive growth segments we can provide to our clients."
The transaction aligns with Schroder's strategy to build a comprehensive private assets platform. According to the company, Greencoat operates at the intersection of two growth opportunities, including the US and European market for renewable energy assets, which is anticipated to grow by more than $1 trillion through 2030, and accelerating institutional client demand for environmentally positive products.
Richard Nourse, Founder of Greencoat, said:
"We are all delighted to have found a partner in Schroders who sees the potential of our business and believes deeply in our mission to build a global leader in renewables investing. We are extremely proud of what the brilliant team at Greencoat has together achieved, creating a market-leading renewables asset management firm in the UK and Ireland, a strong platform in Europe and an important expansion into the US."
Greencoat will become part of Schroders Capital, Schroders' private markets division, and it will be known as Schroders Greencoat.
Nourse, added:
"Combining this team with Schroders' global distribution network and expertise will enable clients to capitalise on the unequalled opportunity that our sector represents – a trillion dollar investable universe – and the chance to meaningfully support the global transition to net zero."
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The back-and-forth between Flipping Out stars, Jeff Lewis and Jenni Pulos continued this week, as Bravo sets to spin the high-profile fallout. The finale episode of the design reality series will air next week, giving viewers a look into what triggered the personal/professional split. Jeff and Jenni parted ways in May.
Jenni appeared on Watch What Happens Live on Monday, and responded to Jeff accusing her of crying abuse to Bravo production.
Andy Cohen asked Jeff if he could envision renewing his collapsed friendship with Jenni, during a recent sit-down on the late night chat show.
"When someone reports you for abuse to your bosses, that's kinda something that's kinda hard to get over," Jeff said to Andy.
Jenni responded to Jeff's comment, denying his description of what went down.
Jeff brushed off Jenni's denials as "semantics" on a recent installment of his Sirius XM radio show, Jeff Lewis Live.
The future of the popular series remains uncertain, in the wake of the exposed rift. Jeff has claimed that any professional connection with Jenni is simply Bravo fakery — a claim that the mom of two denies.
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One of the things I continually hear from colleagues in educational development is that we struggle to say "no" to the ever-increasing demands that we face in our roles. In order to help us establish our key priorities and goals for 2014, our educational development unit recently embarked on a strategic planning process to help us address this very dilemma. During a one-day retreat, we used the following 4-step process to help us define our key priorities for 2014.
Step 1: What metrics do we use to evaluate our success?
During this first step we defined and prioritized the metrics that we use to evaluate our success. We first individually brainstormed the qualitative and quantitative methods that we use to evaluate our success as a unit.
Guiding question: What metrics (qualitative & quantitative) should we use to evaluate our success as a unit?
After clustering and summarizing the key metrics we used a 2 x 2 matrix (Effort: easy/hard vs. Impact: high/low) to rank these metrics in terms of being able to evidence and communicate our impact.
Guiding question: How would we prioritize these metrics in terms of being able to evidence and communicate our impact?
Step 2: What key strategic directions should guide our practice?
Our next key step was to discuss how current strategic institutional, unit and educational development approaches align with our practice. Here, we discussed our current mandate and practices, 2013 integrated planning goals, institutional strategic directions (e.g. as communicated in the University of Guelph's Strategic Mandate Agreement and Integrated Plan), as well as some broader strategic approaches affecting educational development practices.
Guiding questions: Which strategic institutional, unit and educational development approaches should most inform our ED practices for 2014? Where are the gaps? Where should we focus? What are our top 3-5 strategic areas of focus?
Using evidence-based approaches, the ED unit supports educators and provides expertise to enhance pedagogical practices at the University of Guelph.
Promoting highly effective learning opportunities that foster deep learning and student engagement.
Embedding internationalism throughout the curricula (e.g. learning outcomes, courses, and programs).
Supporting Community Engaged Scholarship and Community Engaged Teaching and Learning.
Step 3: What should we start, stop (or do more efficiently), and continue doing?
Our third step in the afternoon involved evaluating and establishing our key priorities and goals for 2014. To do this, we first reflected back on the outcomes of the previous 2 steps and engaged in a process familiar to educational developers – a start, stop, continue exercise. Not surprisingly, the most challenging area for discussion was what we should "stop" doing. However, we found that we could negotiate this challenge by expanding our frame of discussion to what we should stop and/or do more efficiently. During this step it was extremely important to maintain an open frame of mind to ensure there was a free flow of creative thought amongst team members. This is a key step to the process and it is critical to ensure that all ideas generated are recorded without judgement or censorship.
Guiding Question: Based on these strategic approaches and the metrics we will use to evaluate our success, what should we start, stop (or do more efficiently) and continue doing as an ED Unit?
Step 4: What are our key ED unit goals for 2014?
The final step in the process was to define our goals for 2014, while taking into consideration to outcomes of the three previous steps. This collaborative process flowed naturally from the previous discussions that had occurred during the day.
Guiding Question: What specific and measurable goals would we like to achieve as a unit for 2014?
During this next step our unit was able to successfully define our key goals and priorities for the 2014. One additional step that will help to provide focus is to now take these goals and further prioritize them using a 2 x 2 matrix (importance vs urgency). This would help us to define our highest priority tasks (High Importance, High Urgency), and where we should be spending our most time (High Importance, Low Urgency).
After a much deserved holiday break, our unit DID come together to prioritize our goals based on the above noted Importance vs Urgency Matrix. The results helped us to clearly define our high priority goals (high importance, high urgency), as well as where we should be spending most of our time (high importance, low urgency). We were also able to simplify our goals, removing any that fell into the quadrants of low importance. In the end, we removed 6 of our 25 previously defined goals, leaving us with 19 annual goals upon which to focus our practices as a team. As and added benefit, the process of coming back to these goals after 2 weeks provided us with an important opportunity to reflect upon and further clarify and refine each of our goals.
As we work to align our individual goals with these priorities they will certainly provide a key frame of reference for focusing our time on areas that are certain to have impact on our individual and collective success for 2014 (a.k.a. on things that really matter)!
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Hi Natasha. After reading your post the steps you have gone through can be really helpful for any sector – not just Education Development. As a sector I work in for strategic development, the steps show a priority and analysis for objectives. Similar to the SMART matrix. Great article! Thanks!


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Japan Business Ability Authorized Association (JBAA) carried out First Business Training Program in Malaysia
eeevo malaysia Sdn. Bhd, a Japanese IT company in Malaysia, as the only agent for Japan Business Ability Authorized Association (JBAA) in Malaysia, carried out first business training program.
The company training was conducted in Nichia (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd, based in Shah Alam.
The JBAA training will be conduct on 2nd April and 9th April, for a total of 12 hours. The training instructor is Ms. Akiko Nishio, principal of A to Z Language Center, who is a certified JBAA instructor. The content of the training are to further the understanding of Japanese culture, Japanese way of thinking and way of working with specific examples.
The training was basically conducted in English, but most of employees had taken Japanese language classes, therefore, there are mix of Japanese Language.
Nichia (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd is a Malaysia based of Nichia Corporation, HQ in Tokushima Prefecture. A factory operating 24 hours produces 100 million LEDs monthly and exports it overseas.
According to Nichia's Managing Director Mr. Toshihiko Kume, 20 employees who attended JBAA training this time are managers who have a long services among the 67 employess who are taking Japanese classes held for employees.
According to Mr. Kume, Nichia Malaysia is promoting localization, with the aim of creating a system that allows local managers in Malaysia to directly interact with the departments in charge at the head office in Japan.
"Besides Japanese language education, for example, ability to improve ability to carry out work in charge such as reporting, communicating and making decision regarding problems, in order to strengthen the management power of Malaysia, as well as to create a system that can cultivate Malaysian staff with reliable knowledge and communicate directly with each department in charge at the head office. For that purpose, we continuously provide various education such as Japanese language classes "(Mr. Kume)
In Nichia Malaysia, Japanese-language cultural activities are carried out, such as Malaysian engineers will visit the head office in Tokushima Prefecture in several months to acquire skills, and employees who have acquired Japanese language communicate with the head office in Japanese. While working at the company, there are many employees who have become interested in Japan and Japanese culture.
Among the 20 employess who participated in JBAA business training this time, most of them are more than 10 years of service, and during the training, various examples are given in response to the question of the instructor "What do you think in this situation?"
JBAA's certification exam will be conducted in-house one week after the training is over.
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LOS ANGELES, CA (March 9, 2018) – The Los Angeles County Air Show presented by Lockheed Martin is ready for the weekend. Aircraft and displays have been arriving on a daily basis at Fox Field. The weather is going to be perfect and the action-packed weekend promises fun for everyone.
The headliner this year, Maj Paul "Loco" Lopez performing with the USAF F-22 Raptor Demo Team, something you don't want to miss. It's their first-time appearance at the LA County Air Show.
In addition to the headliner, spectators will enjoy the weekend with accomplished aerobatic performers, WWII warbirds, skydivers / swoopers, pyrotechnics, and an impressive static display including one if not the largest STEM Exhibition and Heroes and Legends Historical Panels you won't see anywhere else.
General admission gates open at 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on both Saturday, March 24 and Sunday, March 25, 2018 at General William J. Fox Airfield in Lancaster. Aerial performances are from approximately noon to 3:30 p.m. each day of the two-day show.
For more information on the Los Angeles County Air Show, STEM Expo, Heroes and Legends History Panels and tickets, please visit www.lacountyairshow.com. Kids six and under free admission, military discounts, family packs, weekend and parking passes available online. Follow the Los Angeles County Air Show on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for updates and announcements as schedules and acts are subject to change.


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No these are not dogs practicing social distancing ….
I've written a companion piece to my blog on cat stories, cat pictures, and a literature about cats: I make the case that dogs have been used and depicted, especially in fiction and legend as examples making a strong case for animal rights, their animal's consciousness as somehow equivalent to people … Stories about dogs are focuses in the development of feelings and arguments on behalf of abolishing cruelty, respecting animals as we would want to be respected …. The second half I go into wonderful later 19th century novels, stories for children, and then recently a new breed which is non-fiction meant for adults, not sentimental sometimes with the dog as POV — from Woolf's "Gypsy, a mongrel," to Auster's Timbuktu (about a dog living with a homeless man who is dying, both of them poignantly worried about the near future), to Garnett's Lady into Fox, and finally Ackerley's My Dog Tulip and the wonderful animated film.
A photograph of Ackerley's female German shepherd, Queenie, re-named Tulip in the memoir
What strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of humans, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend. Stupidly loved, stupidly hated, acquired without thought, reared and ruled without understanding, passed on or "put to sleep" without care, did they, I wondered, these descendants of the creatures who, thousands of years ago in the primeval forests, laid siege to the heart of man, took him under their protection, tried to tame him, and failed — did they suffer headaches? — from Fierlinger's animated masterpiece film My Dog Tulip
Dear friends and readers.
Here is a companion piece to my Cat stories, cat pictures, cat poetry: there is a literature of cats (no those cats are not practicing social distancing), though the two do not quite correspond. In cat stories I tried to single out what distinguishes the way people write about cats, especially when the cat is your pet, from the way they write about pets and animals in general, some quality and feeling evidenced in the stories (as admiration for them in situations where it's a question of endurance, understanding, something that provokes resilience, resourcefulness, a stalwart demeanor, at the time time as having the tenderest fondness for them as adorably affectionate). I also cited scholarly studies of art and poetry about cats.
In this blog I am not going to single out a dog's or dog traits because so far as I can tell stories about dogs, photos, art do not marvel at this animal nor have I to hand (because I have not read) a history of the depiction of dogs (I think it would be long). Instead I mean to make the case that they have been used and depicted, especially in fiction and legend as examples making a strong case for animal rights, their animal's consciousness as somehow equivalent to people. I think of how Montaigne wrote of a dog coming to a crossroads, and having to decide which was to go next, "the dog discourseth to itself thus … ". Stories about dogs are focuses in the development of feelings and arguments on behalf of abolishing cruelty, respecting animals as we would want to be respected. Why? because they publicly, shamelessly love us, yearn for us, are faithful, hard-working, constant, single-hearted, incorruptible. They deserve rights …
An ancient Roman mosaic
I begin with the earliest part of human history: non-human animals often pictured on caves, usually ones people hunted, religious rituals where animals signal aspects of humanity people want to develop, admire, increase, and so ingest – where the earliest dogs are pictured as companions, fellow hunters, with men as the leader of the pack. Unlike early cat pictures, these are about human beings: people using animals to define themselves, caring about animals insofar as they relate to us, aid us, are our friends. The second early manifestation I'll mention is an opposing kind: satire, the beast fable, Aesop's fables which are satiric classical stories: you reduce people to animals to expose us. Chicken Little an American story, the ant and the grasshopper (I'm with the grasshopper and think the ant a self-righteous prig), fox and grapes – many many of these, all with morals, sometimes ironic. Are any of these about dogs? One 18th century anomalous novel is: Francis Coventry's Pompey the Little, or the Life and adventures of a Lapdog. It is a bitter send-up of humanity, a variation on the "it-story" so favored by semi-pornographers of the era (stories where a sofa tells all, a necklace), except (significantly) the dog is given a consciousness, becomes narrator and will worry human-like questions, for example, is a dog property? is owning a dog wrong? Alas, Coventry never takes this far enough to be an abolitionist of slavery. The form of beast fable, Aesop tale (as in the brilliant poetry of La Fontaine) did have a resurgence in the 18th century, but its concern is not non-human animals but people.
It's when you begin to find depictions of a dog saving people, of their attachment to us, and ours to them, we begin to see the turn taken towards the development of animal rights — Edward Landseer made a career out of this: if you click, you'll find as many pictures of people with horses as dogs
Attachment (1892) – he was a foremost animal painter in the 19th century, specializing in dogs
There is more than a core truth about this focus: it is the center of Ackerley's brilliant 1956 My Dog Ackerley — continually Tulip fixes our hero with her "anxious bright eyes."
This is also the core of the 1970s poignant also somewhat comic tale by Paul Auster, Timbuktu about Mr Bones, who loves his master dearly, accompanies Willy G. Christmas, a homeless mentally disabled man everywhere, with his (the dog's) heart-breaking because Willy is dying. Willy's mission is to find an English teacher he last communicated with shortly after leaving college, who encouraged and respected him: they are seeking out a 20 year old address in Baltimore in the hope she will take Mr Bones in, for Willy fears for Mr Bones's life and spends much time warning him to stay away from "shelter" people. Meanwhile Mr Bones has gathered there is an afterlife called Timbuktu and Mr Bones fears he will not be able to get in. What Auster does is imitate the state of mind he imagines that a homeless person must know — loinliness, aimlessness, coming near death through accidents, alienation — and mate that to Mr Bones's faithful loving state of mind. Half-way through Mr Bones dies (in a half-dream sequence) and Mr Bones is on his own: we are into a (to me) deeply engaging picaro narrative invested with extraordinary depth. The dog tried to kill a pigeon in order not to starve but does not know how. Eventually he feeds on thrown away ice–creams, garbage. Just before taken in by a boy (first adventure) he begins to howl. Piercing unforgettable moment.
I think of how I've watched a psychiatrist succeed in communicating with a withdraw child by taking out an animal puppet who is reminiscent of a dog. Not threatening. So early on in children's literature (in Dickens, as in the disabled Barnaby Rudge and his raven), there is deep camaraderie in a child and his or her dog — and animals are made to talk.
Barnaby and his Raven by Fred Barnard
By the later 19th century when fine literature for children emerges beautiful tales: usually the animal is badly oppressed or abused and child loves her and the animal the child: so Anna Sewell about cruelty to a horse in Black Beauty (often a horse substitutes for a dog, or vice versa), or Wilson Rawls on two faithful loving dogs and a boy (Where the Red Fern Grows – socialist really, pro Indian). A Canadian early classic, Margaret Saunders's Beautiful Joe about a real dog who endured terrible cruelty – as many non-human animals do.
Behind this a history of people in the Enlightenment first valuing non-human animals for themselves, keeping them as pets, companions, and legislation for animal rights – they are still owned by people and people have complete control. Earliest legislation on behalf of the dreadfully badly treated horse. People don't want to hear what happens to make a horse race. Kathryn Shevelow's book For the Love of Animals traces the rise of the animal proection movement memorably. We have not solved the problem of stopping human beings being cruel to animals for fun, torturing animals to madden and terrify them. No rooster was born with a steel spurs in its head (as Winston Graham's Demelza tells Ross Poldark in Poldark) — Graham's books manifest a real identification with and concern for all animals' vulnerability.
For longer than the last half-century, a specialty in animals studies is the woman scientist who goes to live with a group of animals to study and observe them — from Jane Goodall's wonderful books about her 30+ years with chimpanzees, to Diane Fossey with gorillas, Birute Gildikas with orangutans, and lesser known, Sy Mongomery's several studies, e.g., Walking with Great Apes. Women are willing to give up their ego and identity to be with the animal. Sooner or later, they take on the role of protector.
This was what I found myself developing when I sought to introduce the peculiar take of the Bloomsbury circles when they came to write memoirs of pets and about animals — as context for Ackerley's peculiar memoir. As usual, they took angles that led to new insights — or so they tried to. They wrote wrote pro-animal imaginative literature for adults that is not sentimental. Or they try not to be. It is not instructional: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas writes books about the nature of dogs and how you take of them, ditto for cats. You don't read My Dog Tulip, or Francis Power Cobbe's The Confessions of a Lost Dog, Woolf's Flush, a biography; or David Garnett's Lady Into Fox or the recent Paul Auster's Timbuktu (see above) for advice on how to take care of your dog. All of them are about us too, about our nature, and how we are aligned to, closely related to animals, they are critiques of us, our society through the animal's life and personality alongside of and observing us.
The earliest edition of Flush: A biography resembled the layout and picture of Cobbe's dog and book
Earliest version of this comes before the Bloomsbury 1910 date:
by Francis Power Cobbe, an important suffragette, who was among the first to try to stop useless and cruel animal experiments, especially vivisection, the use of animals for experiments; her slender novella anticipates Woolf's Flush, and I would be much surprised if Woolf had not read Hajjin's story. The Confessions of a Lost Dog include being taken in by a very genteel controlled single lady, and both have as the central incident how the dog is kidnapped held up for ransom, mistreated and nearly killed. Because that happened a lot in Victorian England. Cobbe also wrote non-fiction, "The Consciousness of Dogs" (Quarterly Review), then "Dogs I have Met," which dogs have sometimes had very bad times (boys' careless cruelty, eminent scientist's' deliberate torture, a man who kept a rat pit in Paddington and aristocrats shooting pigeons sprung from traps).
Flush was a present from Sackville-West; and Woolf's book is a researched biography of both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her dog, from a dog's point of view insofar as Woolf could do it. There are letters, documents, and Woolf is brilliant at not overstepping so that the dog somehow understands others the way a dog might (not through language). I taught the book as a canonical modernist biography. To this I have added (for the class I'm teaching) from Woolf's The Complete Fiction, a touching short fictional memoir,
"Gypsy, a mongrel," about Tom Bagot's memories of a dog he loved, whom he tried to kill and could not (because of the way she looked into his eyes and grinned), who was a burden, bothering the cats, getting into mischief, but then falling in love (it seems) with a pedigree male, Hector, and when Hector was removed (as too much of a burden) so pined for him, that she disappeared one day in search of him. The retrospective memoir begins after Gypsy has vanished and is by turns poignant and funny.
Woolf had a dog who one day just disappeared.
Then there's Bunny or David Garnett's (yes he is Constance Garnett the translator's son) Lady Into Fox.
It is a chilling book (not horrifying in the way of Kafka's Metamorphosis where a man wakes up one morning to find he's become a cockroach in body). One morning the narrator's wife wakes to find herself become a fox. The first thing Garnett has to do is kill two perfectly fine dogs lest they kill his wife — we feel these as murder. She is regarded by all the world as vermin, as there to be killed. Gradually her eyes and whole demeanor become less and less human woman, more and more a fox as she mingles with other foxes, has a liter. Our narrator tries to become fox-like too Doesn't work. He is not accepted. The book has a tragically felt ending.
It is sometimes printed with Garnett's The People in the Zoo (in this one you see the original origin of animal literature in the satiric beast fable.)
So to come to Ackerley's comic masterpiece; he might be said not to practice so much as to undermine the dog memoir. It is a love story, the story of his devotion to his female German shepherd whom he wants to have full life – not to miss out on anything, and that means for him, mating, sex, pups. As told it is surely a man's idea of what sex is, and the obsessiveness of the quest (and graphically told failures) reveal Ackerley's purpose as also to make fun of heterosexual sentimentalities about sex and marriage (as well as homosexual ones). As in portrait biographies, we also learn as much about Ackerley as Tulip. The humor is exquisite: it's a matter of language and tone: our narrator is every so polite and impeccable, very dignified in the language he chooses; also startling and inventive: he began to think he had an "undoctorable dog." He shows the cruelty indifference and urge to master and make others bend to your will in how many owners treat their ever so yearning dogs. I began to realize how many dogs might be emotionally abused.
Here is Dean Flower from the Hudson Review:
As he put it in his autobiography, My Father and Myself, "peace and contentment reached me in the shape of an animal, an Alsatian bitch … [who] entered my life . . . and entirely transformed it":
She offered me what I had never found in my sexual life, constant, single-hearted, incorruptible, uncritical devotion, which it is in the nature of dogs to offer. She placed herself entirely under my control.
From the moment she established herself in my heart and home, obsession with sex fell wholly away from me. The pubs I had spent much of my time in were never revisited, my single desire was to get back to her, to her waiting love and unstaling welcome. So urgent was my longing every day to rejoin her that I would often take taxis way, even the whole way, home to Putney from my London office, rather than endure the dawdling of buses and the rush-hour traffic jams in Park Lane. I sang with joy at the thought of seeing her.
Here is the language of a man in love, for the first time and irrevocably. The scales fell from his eyes. This was love, as he had never understood it before. He does not voice it so directly in My Dog Tulip, choosing rather to dwell on his own innocent confusions and anxieties—a con firmed bachelor of refined tastes at the center of London's literary life, driven to care for a creature who cared so utterly for him. For Ackerley, loving Tulip (whose actual name, Queenie, was deemed too prosaic for the book) meant understanding her desires, her emotions and charac ter, her spiritual as well as her sexual and excretory nature, her myste rious and essential beauty as well as her irreducible dogginess. Inevi tably, that led to some comic incongruities, which Ackerley skillfully played. … Recent admirers too have commented on Ackerley's excessive, perhaps ironic use of Renaissance sonnets as sources for these bursts of eloquence:
Her ears are tall and pointed, like the ears of Anubis. How she manages to hold them constantly erect, as though starched, I do not know, for with their fine covering of mouse-gray fur they are soft and flimsy; when she stands with her back to the sun it shines through the delicate tissue, so that they glow shell-pink as though incandescent. Her face also is long and pointed, basically stone-gray but the and lower jaw are jet black. Jet, too, are the rims of her amber eyes, though heavily mascara'd, and the tiny mobile eyebrow tufts that set like accents above them. And in the midst of her forehead is a kind of Indian caste-mark, a black diamond suspended there, like the jewel on the brow of Pegasus in Mantegna's Parnassus, by a fine dark thread, no more than a penciled line, which is drawn from it right over her poll midway between the tall ears . . . her skull, bisected by the thread, is two primrose pools, the center of her face light gray, the bridge of her nose above the long black lips fawn, and upon each a patte de mouche has been tastefully set.
But here again the language of love is unmistakable. The elaborate anatomizing, the fine penciling and drawing, the chiaroscuro, the classical allusions and chiasmus ("are jet . . . Jet are") all attest to the lover's devout gaze. What may be harder to see is that Ackerley had no wish to be witty or extravagant in passages like these, least of all ironic. He put all his art and heart into them. Yet many readers were disgusted nevertheless. Why did Ackerley have to focus so relentlessly on feces and urine; or in the chapters concern ing sex, i.e., his efforts (all failures) to find Tulip a mate, why did he have to dwell on vaginal lubricants and penile stimulation and the odors of a bitch in heat? The answer is at least threefold: (a) nothing—again —is by love debarred; (b) the problem is with humans, not dogs; and (c) Ackerley chose that means to demonstrate something fundamental about love and sex. As to (a), Ackerley earnestly sought to understand the facts of canine sex, on Tulip's behalf. He consulted her most trusted veterinarians, but also dog breeders and other self-professed experts, plus all the books available, and learned that the process of "marrying" two dogs is not simple or straightforward, and that a great deal of ignorance, misinformation, and mystery still surrounds it.
On the film, from "One man and his dog," The Spectator (V315, #9532, 7 May 2011, p. 48 — no author cited)
a labour of love, the visuals mesh with the words perfectly and capture all the various moods, from melancholy and autumnal, to comic and skittish. The film comprises nearly 60,000 drawings hand-drawn digitally (that is, on to a computer), and are just so lovely, like the best ever watercolours come to life … Tulip has her foibles. Tulip can be flirtatious one minute and fiercely possessive the next. Tulip can be infuriating. Tulip sometimes earns herself a biff on the nose. But, all the while, Ackerley marvels at her every detail, rhapsodising not just about her beauty and constancy, but also her defecations and urinations. There isn't a bit of Tulip he doesn't find fascinating, or isn't curious about. Occasionally, the animation leeches into black and white pencil sketches where Tulip appears half human wearing a little skirt and holding court. … The film, like the book, does not directly address Ackerley's loneliness and homosexuality and childlessness, but it is there in the chinks … It's marvellous, probably the best dog-flick you are ever going to see, based on the best dog-lit you are ever going to read. What more can I say?
There are three levels of cartoon: beyond the beautiful colored pictures, which dissolve at the edges and turn into black-and-white satirical exposures of the less than admirable passions and impulses driving the characters, which turn into lovely lines of classical gods (now archetypally psychoanalysing).
Once again here is the vimeo:
Posted in 18th century picturesque, 19th century novels, 20th century culture, 21st century culture, environmentalism conservation, literary scholarly work, nature writing, restoration ecology, Winston Graham, women's novels | Tagged 19th century art, animal literature, animal rights, Flush, Frances Power Cobbe, Hajjin, Lady into Fox, My Dog Tulip, Paul Auster, stories about dogs, Timbuktu, Virginia Woolf | 10 Comments
on July 11, 2020 at 7:39 am | Reply Stella Day
I enjoyed this post very much indeed. Animals are a huge part of our lives, perhaps especially now in lock-down.
on July 11, 2020 at 7:45 am | Reply ellenandjim
Oh very much. Thank you for this comment. Ellen
on July 11, 2020 at 8:37 am | Reply gothicwanderer
Interesting post, Ellen. Yes, I agree these dog books helped raise awareness of animal cruelty. However, there were critics who spoke out against them, saying we were anthropomorphizing them. One critic was George Shiras III, the famous wildlife photographer and an advocate for wildlife conversation, who was friends with Theodore Roosevelt (Shiras lived here in Marquette.). A new biography about him titled "Camera Hunter" by James McCommons discusses this. Jack London is a major player in this depiction of dogs as thinking beings and cannot be overlooked as well. I believe Shiras disliked London's stories.
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on July 11, 2020 at 4:09 pm | Reply ellenandjim
My history of the literature focusing on dogs (or horses – they seem to be interchangeable) is by no means complete. I had in mind what I wrote for cats. Jane Goodall makes a strong argument against the idea we are anthropomorphizing when we attribute (without language from them to make sure what we are inferring) by arguing that this is the result of people wanting to absolve themselves of responsibility for the ways in which they use their power. She makes a strong case for the use of layman's language and the "as if" clause.
I'd bring in Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals. Darwin is a cagey polemicist. He begins with the idea that because what we see in gestures seems so uncannily alike, we cannot say for sure that behind these parallel gesture are equally complex emotions. Maybe animals are not so subtle as we claim to be. But by the time Darwin finishes he can be said to prove how alike in mammals we can study closely some of our fundamental emotional spontaneous reactions and needs are. Maybe I should have brought him in in the blog so I'm glad you have led me to cite Darwin.
I detest the hunting and slaughter of animals as sport. The spectacles dependent on provoking terror for their lives and rage in animals are to me unspeakably barbaric. People who do that should be put in prison — not long terms, but each time they do it, so they will stop.
Watch Hannah Gadsby's Douglas:
I laughed! Deep idea: if I can stand this inance, cruel society, so can you. Autism is seeing what others never notice. Lesbians exist, & are good & interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Gadsby
on August 8, 2020 at 8:23 pm | Reply A couple of rough weeks | Under the Sign of Sylvia II
[…] for this with a heart for a poor loving dog, Paul Auster's Mr Bones, from his inimitable story of a dog's life (scroll down), […]
on August 9, 2020 at 10:17 am | Reply ellenandjim
This from the Victoria listserv, might be of interest to read about as well as read itself: what strikes me first (I may not be correct at all) is the Bloomsbury animal fables and the one I just read, Auster's Timbuktu, do not fit this paradigm
I am happy to announce that my book Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire (2020) has just been published. It is part of the Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature series.
I'd be grateful if you could forward the info to any of your colleagues who might be interested. The book would particularly appeal to those who are interested in animal studies and colonial/postcolonial issues. For more information, please visit: https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030514921
About the book: This book coins the term 'imperial beast fable' to explore modern forms of human-animal relationships and their origins in the British Empire. Taking as a starting point the long nineteenth-century fascination with non-European beast fables, it examines literary reworkings of these fables, such as Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books, in relation to the global politics of race, language, and species. The imperial beast fable figures variably as a key site where the nature and origins of mankind are hotly debated; an emerging space of conservation in which humans enclose animals to manage and control them; a cage in which an animal narrator talks to change its human jailors; and a vision of animal cosmopolitanism, in which a close kinship between humans and other animals is dreamt of. Written at the intersection of animal studies and postcolonial studies, this book proposes that the beast fable embodies the ideologies and values of the British Empire, while also covertly critiquing them. It therefore finds in the beast fable the possibility that the multitudinous animals it gives voice to might challenge the imperial networks which threaten their existence, both in the nineteenth century and today.
Kaori Nagai is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent, UK. She is the author of Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland (2006). She has edited Rudyard Kipling's Plain Tales from the Hills and The Jungle Books for Penguin Classics, and is the co-editor of Kipling and Beyond (2010), and Cosmopolitan Animals (2015).
on September 4, 2020 at 1:30 pm | Reply Lexlingua
My favorite was the picture on dogs not practising social distancing! I have a similar fascination with foxes. 😀 Thanks for the wonderfully detailed post; raises some very interesting points
on September 4, 2020 at 1:44 pm | Reply ellenandjim
Thank you for the comment and praise. Ellen
on December 21, 2020 at 7:59 am | Reply Christmas returns: tonight I discovered why Louise Gluck's poetry can be so good | Under the Sign of Sylvia II
[…] compassion, beauty and truth in it: well, J. R. Ackerley's tribute to his canine beloved, My Dog Tulip (non-human animals living lives as valuable as worthy as ours), Marjolaine Boutet's Un […]


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Q: python multiprocess queue with infinity loop I create 3 processes and want the function wirte1 to write value 'A,B,C' to queue1 ,and function read1 read value from queue1 and put it to queue2 ,in the same time, function read2 read value from queue2, but value B,C can't read from queue2 in time and the process finished.
from multiprocessing import Process, Queue,Manager,Pool,Lock
import os, time, random

#向队列1写数据
def write1(q1,lock):
    lock.acquire()
    for value in ['A', 'B', 'C']:
        print ('Put %s to queue111...%s' % (value,str(os.getpid())))
        q1.put(value)
        time.sleep(1)
    lock.release()

#从队列1读取数据并写入队列2
def read1(q1,q2,lock):
    lock.acquire()
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)
        value=q1.get()
        # if value is None:break
        print('Get %s from queue111.%s' % (value,str(os.getpid())))
        q2.put(value)
        print('Put %s to queue222...%s' % (value,str(os.getpid())))
    lock.release()

def read2(q2,lock):
    lock.acquire()
    while True:
        # if not q2.empty() or not q1.empty():
        time.sleep(2)
        value=q2.get(True)
        print('Get %s from queue222.%s' % (value,os.getpid()))
    lock.release()

if __name__=='__main__':
    manager = Manager()
    # 父进程创建Queue,并传给各个子进程:
    q1 = manager.Queue()
    q2 = manager.Queue()
    lock1 = manager.Lock()
    lock2 = manager.Lock()
    lock3 = manager.Lock()
    start=time.time()
    p = Pool()
    # pw = p.apply_async(write1, args=(q1,lock1,))
    pw = Process(target=write1,args=(q1,lock1,))
    # time.sleep(0.5)
    # pr = p.apply_async(read1, args=(q1,q2,lock2,))
    # pr2 = p.apply_async(read2, args=(q2,lock3))
    pr=Process(target=read1,args=(q1,q2,lock2,))
    pr2 = Process(target=read2,args=(q2,lock3,))

    pw.start()
    pr.start()
    pr2.start()

    # p.close()
    # p.join()
    pw.join()
    pr.terminate()
    pr2.terminate()

    end=time.time()
    # print
    print('finished!!')
    print(end-start)

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    Put A to queue111...77678 Put B to queue111...77678 Get A from queue111.77680 Put A to queue222...77680 Put C to queue111...77678 Get A from queue222.77681 Get B from queue111.77680 Put B to queue222...77680 Get C from queue111.77680 Put C to queue222...77680 finished!! 3.025238275527954

A: You can't use terminate to control a system like this: it races with completing the actual work.  Instead, make your loops not be infinite, probably by using a sentinel value in each Queue (as in one commented-out line).

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Q: How to get an equation of a line, given an equation for y and an equation for x? I have to generate a graph, with $y = e^{a\cdot t} - 1$    and $x = e^{b\cdot t} - 1 $
for all possible values of t. Constants a & b are given.
In other words, the curve generated will be the locus of all points having all possible values of t.
Thanks for your help!

A: I will assume that $a,b$ are real constants and $t$ is a real variable.
You could invert the formula for $x$, to get
$$t = \frac {\log (x+1)} b$$
and then plug it in the formula for $y$, to get
$$y = \exp\left({\frac a b \log (x+1)}\right) - 1 = (x+1)^{a/b} - 1$$
The domain for this formula is $x > -1$.


This year I received a Hach Grant to purchase new molecular model sets for my classroom. I have been using the same old Sargent Welch model kits made of wood for many years. While they did a good job for organic molecules they were lacking for any geometry that had more than four ligands. I applied for this grant because I have been expanding what I am doing with model kits in my classroom and was fortunate enough to get it. I chose a kit from Carolina.
I am a very firm believer that the world of physical science can be visualized and is an excellent medium for teaching students to model and to picture what happens at the molecular level. The first topic we decided to explore was balancing chemical equations. This seems like such a simple topic to chemistry teachers but I have found that it can be quite challenging for many of my inner city students. The first thing they ask me for is a list of rules that they can follow. We can discuss the problems of algorithmic teaching in a later post! For the time being let's talk about how to get students to understand why they need to balance equations and discuss what we can call "Conservation of Atoms". My colleagues and I came up with an activity where we have several simple chemical reactions that occur in different ratios.
I have the student build simple models of H2 and Br2. Once complete I ask them to close the model kit and not reopen it until we give them the okay. I want them to take the model pieces they have and turn them into the product HBr. We can all see where this is going! They end up with HBr and "leftovers". Many of them will catch on quickly at this point to make another HBr. We have started to explore the idea of balanced equations now. It is misleading to some of the students because they believe at first that all reactants are balanced to begin with. So we need to find a reaction where the reactants need balancing also.
I then have them take over with the formation of methane.
I really like this because of how odd the numbers turn out to be. There are not enough atoms to build even one NH3. So the activity now goes into the idea of balancing before you start building. The same idea applies here, build the reactants in the balanced ratio, close the box and convert them to products without leftovers. It is often helpful to have extra sticks out for bonds. We can discuss valence and bonding later in the year.
I think you can picture going through a few more of these for practice and then extending it to the idea of reaction prediction. I ask them to assemble a model of Zinc and two of HCl. They then get to try to figure out what it can be changed into.
I have a different way of grading this lab. I walk around the room while they are doing it with a rubber stamp. Once I see a properly built and balanced set of reactants I give them a stamp next to the question. I come back again in a few minutes and stamp a second time if they have the properly built products. All I have to do is look at their paper and see how many stamps they have and that determines their score. It provides very quick feedback to the students and saves me time. Some of my colleagues who are doing this also have come up with their own stamps and we can allow students to make up the lab or finish an incomplete lab with another teacher and we know where they did it based on what stamps are on their paper.
Article Ref: MMS-002 - 64.
Thanks to my colleagues at Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School, Los Angeles, California.
Is there an accompanying student paper to go along with this?
Thanks for reading. You should find the Student Document near the bottom of the page...under Preparation and Attribution. It is in pdf format.
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After contacting the admin, they suggest you sign in to the site and try again. I apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your interest.
I like that very much. By simple try and errors the learner constructs first the "sense" and meaning of such numbers that will then be called with a chemestrian term "stoichiometric coefficients", in such way to debunk the high consideration that most teachers deserve to balancing, to the point that balancing becomes more important of understanding the meaning of a chemical reaction.


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Q: Correct way to isolate separate websites on same VPS I have a server running multiple websites (mostly WordPress) and want to separate them from each other so I can give a person access to one site and not the others, and also so any code run on each site cannot access the other sites. I feel as though the answer is in separate user accounts but I'm not sure what to search for to find tutorials.
My current setup is - LEMP Stack on Ubuntu. All sites in their own directory under /var/www/sites/ where everything is owned by www-data. They all share an instance of mysql though with different mysql users for each site. I only have one user for the server who is non root with sudo privileges.

A: To get started, check out What permissions should my website files/folders have on a Linux webserver? - I'm not certain what specific tweaks to that you might need to do when using nginx instead of Apache, but I think that post and the answer(s) will give you a good foundational understanding.

A: The solution I needed was:

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*have different website files placed under different user accounts i.e. home/USER/website instead of all under var/www/. These files should be owned by that user as opposed to www-data or similar.

*Configure Nginx hosts to point to the new location for each site.

*Configure PHP to run as a specific user for the sites under that users account - more info.

This keeps files separate for each user, assuming you have correct permissions configured, and also allows php to rwx since php process is running as the same user the files are owned by.

A: I think you can use listen in nginx to listen to different ports, so that you can visit your website via different ports.