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Cats and foxes are driving Australia's mammals extinct
The platypus is threatened by a number of factors, including predation by cats and foxes.
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By Sarah Zielinski
Of the 84 mammal species that are known to have gone extinct since the 1500s, 35 percent are from Australia, a new study finds. Since the 1840s — less than 60 years after the arrival of Europeans — the continent has lost one or two species every decade. This rate of loss is especially surprising because Australia is not a place you might expect a lot of extinctions: Except for a few spots along the coasts, the continent is sparsely settled. There are large swaths of untouched country. And the nation is fairly affluent. So what happened?
John Woinarski of Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, and colleagues have an unexpected answer. They place most of the blame for the loss of those mammals, and the continued decline of many other species, on the spread of foxes and feral cats, along with changing patterns of fires. (Aboriginal people managed the land with fire for thousands of years, but that stopped when Europeans arrived.) The researchers make their case February 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The cats and foxes are prime suspects for a few reasons. Mammal losses began in the southeastern portion of the continent in the 1840s, spread to central Australia in the 1890s and decades later to northern Australia, the researchers note. "Much of this timing was coincident with the continent-wide spread of the introduced cat Felis catus and the slightly later and only marginally less extensive spread of the introduced red fox Vulpes vulpes," they write. Also, seven once-common species that have disappeared from Australia can still be found on islands where cats and foxes have never been introduced.
And unlike in other parts of the world where large mammals have been the most likely to go extinct, in Australia the "critical weight range" has been a mere 35 grams to 5.5 kilograms. "The lost species are 'meal-sized' for, and accessible to, these introduced predators," the team notes.
There are other factors that have contributed to the devastation: Cane toads spreading across the northern reaches of the continent have poisoned predator species, such as the northern quoll. A transmissible cancer is killing off Tasmanian devils. A possum species lost nearly half its range to a particularly devastating fire in 2009. The list goes on — dogs, pollution, drought, habitat destruction, introduced diseases and even climate change. But the effects of the cats and foxes have overwhelmed all those other causes.
Another recent study, published February 2 in the Journal of Biogeography, shows the true extent of the danger that cats pose to Australia's native wildlife. Tim Doherty of Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia, and colleagues tallied up all the reports of what cats had eaten and came up with a list of 400 vertebrate species. The one bright note was that kitties appear to prefer to eat rabbit — another devastating invasive species. But when there are no rabbits, nothing else is really safe from the predators.
What is to be done? There have been some successful efforts at reducing the fox population, the authors of the PNAS study note. And threatened mammal species have benefitted from an expansion of private conservation areas in recent decades. But no one has figured out how to control the feral cat population without harming people's pet cats. "It's a formidable challenge," the team writes.
About Sarah Zielinski
Sarah Zielinski is the Editor, Print at Science News Explores. She has a B.A. in biology from Cornell University and an M.A. in journalism from New York University. She writes about ecology, plants and animals.
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Now that the wildfire is contained, what happens to Burns Bog?
By: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/burns-bog-wildfire-1.3668405
Now that crews have contained the 78 hectare wildfire that has been burning in Burns Bog since Sunday afternoon, ecological experts are anxious to visit the site so they can survey the damage.
Delta Mayor Lois Jackson said it is essential the recovery of the bog is guided by science.
"We determined that we had to have a Scientific Advisory Panel to oversee the bog and we have one of those," said Jackson.
"We will meet with them as soon as we can."
Dr. Richard Hebda with the Royal B.C. Museum is an expert on the bog.
He is concerned that if the bog floor has been damaged, it will open the door for invasive species to move in.
"It's like you're scraping your hand, you create a wound on the surface and it's a perfect place for bacteria to grow. Well, you can think of these invasive species in a similar manner," he said.
"Before the healing takes place of native species, birches can get in there and pump out thousands of seeds onto the landscape and take over the trajectory of the recovery of the bog as we want it."
Public Access?
Jackson is urging people to stay away from the site.
She says humans can cause major damage to the fragile ecosystem.
However, Burns Bog Conservation Society President Eliza Olson believes people would have a greater appreciation of the bog if they were allowed to see it.
"I can see where the mayor is coming from but I believe that we need controlled access because people are curious about what is in the bog," she says.
"They've seen beautiful pictures and they want to see if that's true."
Hebda said the public has a much greater understanding of how unique the area is than in the early 2000's, partly because of an even bigger wildfire that tore through the bog in 2005.
"People recognize and understand that raised bogs, and this bog in particular, are very special places," Hebda said.
"You're not asking if the bog is important, you already know that it's important in the back of your head, even if you don't know all of the details."
Marg Carruthers says:
People carry seeds of all kinds of weeds on their footwear and their clothes. It's probably better to ask people to stay off the site for a while.
Eliza Olson says:
I appreciate the comments about invasive species and I certainly don't recommend anyone going into the burned out area at this time. What's a greater danger to the bog is not people going in on a controlled basis, it is development on the "lagg" of Burns Bog. E.G. 155 acres owned by MK Delta. It is part of the "missing 500 acres" that Jack Mathews refused to sell in 2004 to 4 levels of government. The 2000 Burns Bog Ecosystem Review did not consider these 500 acres essential to the protection of the 5000 acres that became the Conservancy Area. I am quite confident that will all the knowledge gained since 2000, the writer's of the Ecosystem Review would make the same statement in 2016. I urge anyone worried about climate change–and especially in light of the fires in Fort McMurray and Burns Bog, to go to the Burns Bog Conservation Society's website; read the information on the MK Delta proposal, and the petition. The Society has already received international support in opposing MK Delta's plan to turn 155 acres of regenerating bogland into an industrial site. This proposal is not consistent with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, Canada signed onto at COP 21 in France, October 2015. 7 of the 17 goals either impact or affect our disappearing wetlands.
Correction:" I am quite confident that…the writer's of the Ecosystem Review would NOT make the same statement in 2016…"
Steven Faraher-Amidon says:
It is important that the work to protect the bog continues; so the public must be careful, and, as of now, it is illegal to go in anyway. Except for the Delta Nature Reserve, which is actually ancillary to the bog. However, the support for the bog requires understanding, and a first part is to actually see it and get a sense of what it is like. That will only occur if officials such as the CVRD support a process to allow access and only then will support be actualized into better understanding of the environmental importance of the Bog as a conduit for CO2 and for many other things including as a habitat location for animals and hundreds of creatures which inhabit it. The "Lungs of the Lower Mainland', should be reinforced as a source of importance; that will occur more when people understand it better first hand. Keeping it a mystery makes it easier for politicians to use it for political benefit. The Bog was purchased with public tax money; people should be able to see how their tax dollars are being used.

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The summers of my childhood were defined by three things: books, mangoes and power cuts. Often the three would come together and I would eat through plates of raspuri and langda, while sprawled on the floor reading by the light of a kerosene lantern. I devoured entire series through the summers, graduating from Enid Blyton to Caroline Keene, but Ruskin Bond was my perennial favourite. As the mercury climbed, I would immerse myself in his stories of the hills and forests and the people who lived in them, almost feeling the cool mountain breeze against my sweaty skin.
On my first trip to Mussoorie last May, I craned my neck out of the car while driving up from Dehradun, to take in the verdant Garhwal hills I had read so much about. Summer had left the hills parched and the trees drooping, but human activity had also rendered large patches of the hillsides barren and brown. Mussoorie was as crowded as the Delhi metro during rush hour. The major attractions—Mall Road, Kempty Falls, Company Garden, Gunhill Point—were pretty, but crammed with tourists.
Looking for an escape from the madding crowds, my friend and I chanced upon a poster for Jabarkhet Nature Reserve at a café on Mall Road. It seemed relatively unknown; no taxi driver hawked it, and one even wondered why we wanted to go there. On a whim, we postponed our plans to visit Lal Tibba and took a taxi to the reserve.
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A half-hour drive up the narrow, winding Tehri Road from Library Bus Stand brought us to the entrance of Jabarkhet. Due to the impromptu nature of our plans, we did not have a guide, but the ticket collector handed us field guides, detailing the eight trails and the flora and fauna we could hope to see along each. We chose the Leopard Trail, one of the longest, which would take us through most of the reserve's major viewpoints.
The first thing that struck me was the silence, the pin-drop silence my schoolteachers had often demanded. Slowly I realised that it wasn't complete silence, but the absence of the city's white noise, the commotion of vehicles and people that I was used to. Alongside the crunch of our shoes on fallen leaves, I heard the screech of a magpie, the guttural cry of Himalayan griffon vulture, the occasional tok-tok of a woodpecker, and the whistling of the wind through the trees.
As we walked, I picked out some of the plants mentioned in the field guide: pinpricks of yellow kingol (barberry) flowers, lichen coating the lyonia trees, and the orange Himalayan raspberry peeping through a copse of ferns. After half an hour of walking, we emerged from the tree-lined forest trail to a hillside clearing. The hills stretched before us, carpeted with old-growth forests of deodar, oak, pine and maple. The rhododendrons were in bloom—streaks of red interspersed with myriad shades of green. We strained our eyes to see the snow-dusted peaks of the Himalayas, but they were hidden by misty shawls.
We took a narrow path higher into the hills to the "Lone Oak" at top of the trail, a clearing around an oak tree with some wooden benches—the sort of place where one might encounter a character from Bond's stories. The bilberry-loving Binya from "Binya Passes By" perhaps, or any of the ghosts from A Season of Ghosts. Maybe even the writer himself on one of his mountain walks. We didn't meet anyone, but were free to conjure up some of our own characters while we revelled in the picturesque solitude of the mountains.
On the way back, we took a detour through the Mushroom Trail. Walking through dense thickets, we kept an eye out for fungi and were rewarded with glimpses of puffball and inkcap mushrooms growing near tree roots. The trail opened out into wildflower meadows, near a small abandoned hut. A sea of daisies greeted us, spread like a white bridal veil over the grassy hillock. I sat on a log and daydreamed of being a Garhwali Heidi, of milking goats in the hut, scampering behind butterflies amidst the wildflowers, and waking up every morning to a view of the hills.
Later, back in Mussoorie, I stood in a queue to meet the man who had triggered my wanderlust with his tales of the hills. Ruskin Bond makes the trip from his cottage in Landour to Cambridge Bookstore in Mall Road every Saturday to autograph books. As he smiled at me with twinkling eyes, I was bubbling over with stories to tell him, especially of my recent walk in the Jabarkhet woods. Ultimately, I stuck to a simple thank you, for sharing his love of the hills through his stories, and a decision to write some of my own stories down instead.


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The sites of two major fires in downtown Bellefonte could be transformed into apartments as soon as 2015, thanks to federal tax credits and funding awarded this week to a local developer.
Ara Kervandjian received almost $2 million in federal tax credits and PennHOMES funding this week to build affordable, multiple family dwellings where the Garman Theater and Hotel Do De once stood, and where the shell of the Cadillac Building remains.
Kervandjian called the funding for his Bellefonte Mews development a "huge win for the families displaced by terrible fires and for historic Bellefonte."
He previously purchased the buildings and planned to turn them into 32 workforce housing apartments. The timeline for the project has become more clear now that the project has been awarded federal funding.
Kervandjian said he hopes design work is finished by the end of the year, groundbreaking happens by early 2015 and the project is done by the end of that year.
"We're ecstatic that things are starting to take shape," Borough Manger Ralph Stewart said.
Gov. Tom Corbett announced that 24 affordable housing projects across the state will be built with this round of federal tax credits and funding.
"Affordable, quality housing should not be a dream for Pennsylvania families, it must be a reality," Corbett said in a statement. "Through this combination of tax credits and PennHOMES funding, we are creating a stronger Pennsylvania."
The tax credits are administered by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency and were approved by its board.
"These low-income housing tax credits are the best investment tool available to us to support the construction of affordable rental housing across Pennsylvania," said Brian Hudson Sr., PHFA executive director and CEO.
Hudson attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony this month for another project developed by Kervandjian.
Kervandjian received low-income tax credits to finance Limerock Terrace in College Township, and now rents the homes out to families who make 60-, 50- and, in some cases, 20-percent of the area's median income, he previously said.
Hudson said the process that led to the development is "exactly the model we want to use, not only in the commonwealth, but across the nation."
"The need for affordable housing is what we're fulfilling," Kervandjian said Friday of the projects.
Stewart said the Bellefonte development will bring new families and businesses to downtown, will add to the tax rolls and will replace historic buildings that were unfortunately destroyed by fires.
"We're moving forward filling that (space), putting new structures, new people, new families into the community," Stewart said.
Kervandjian and Stewart both said they hope the projects will attract more developments to the borough.
"He is the first major developer to come in recent years," Stewart said. "Obviously we're in the middle of the waterfront (project), looking to attract developers. Just the news that downtown is going to have some holes filled, bringing people into town (will help)."
Matt Carroll can be reached at 231-4631. Follow him on Twitter @Carrollreporter.
http://www.centredaily.com/2014/06/13/4223122/developer-gets-funding-tax-credits.html#storylink=cpy
Developer gets funding, tax credits for Bellefonte Mews


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Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch review and features
Jan 13, 2023 Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Pro features, MacBook Pro review
Apple actually sells this Intel MacBook Pro yet just arrangements that beginning at $1,799. Look at our MacBook Pro with M1 survey assuming you're searching for the freshest Apple MacBook Pro fueled by Apple Silicon beginning at $1,299.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro 2020 conveys an incredible mix of figuring solace and unadulterated power. The new Magic Keyboard is the greatest update on this PC ($1,799 as tried), which jettison the shallow Butterfly console and has a major effect.
Macintosh additionally offers Intel tenth gen processors on the 13-inch MacBook Pro, as well as quicker RAM and twofold the stockpiling. However, remember that you'll have to pay something like $1,799 to get an Intel CPU.
As you'll find in my full MacBook Pro 13-inch audit, the plan of this PC is looking dated as of now, as I might want to see more slender bezels. Many will favor the MacBook Pro M1, which offers quicker execution and longer battery duration however only two Thunderbolt 3 ports to the Intel model's four.
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The MacBook Pro 2020 had a delivery date of May 7 and is accessible through Apple.com and various other internet based retailers. Macintosh keeps on seeling the Intel-controlled MacBook Pro 13-inch, yet it begins at $1,799 . That form incorporates a strong tenth gen Core i5 processor alongside quicker 16GB 3733MHz RAM, in addition to 512GB of stockpiling.
The $1,799 MacBook Pro has four Thunderbolt 3 ports (two on each side), while the MacBook Pro with M1 Chip (Apple Silicon) begins at $1,299 and accompanies two Thunderbolt ports.
The $1,999 MacBook Pro 13-inch packs 1TB of stockpiling. A redesign from 16GB to 32GB of RAM costs $400 and you can choose 2TB ($600) or even 4TB ($1,200) of capacity.
Subsequent to seeing the 16-inch MacBook Pro and how Apple thinned down the bezels, the "new" 13-inch MacBook Pro feels like a stage in reverse. It's the standard, worn out block of unibody aluminum, which looks and feels strong yet deadened. The top bezel specifically is thick, particularly contrasted with any semblance of the Dell XPS 13.
The MacBook Pro 2020 is a thick chunk of a PC given its 13-inch screen size. It measures 11.97 x 8.36 x 0.61 inches, making it somewhat heavier and thicker than its ancestor (3.02 pounds and 0.59 inches thick). On the other hand, the Dell XPS 13 weighs simply 2.8 pounds and is a lot sleeker 11.6 x 7.8 x 0.6 inches and the HP Specter x360 is 2.7 pounds and 12.1 x 7.7 x 0.7 inches.
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As of now I don't anticipate seeing standard size USB-A ports any longer on MacBooks, however I really do figure picture takers might basically want to see a SD Card space or microSD card opening.
Tear Butterfly console. You won't be missed. Like the 16-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air, the 13-inch MacBook Pro presently includes a Magic Keyboard, which utilizations scissor changes to accomplish 1mm of key travel. Joined with an Apple-planned elastic vault and new keycap structure, the general composing experience is much more agreeable than previously.
The Magic Keyboard's keys feel pillowy delicate, while the Butterfly keys on my more seasoned MacBook Pro feel like I'm composing on a stone. I composed just a little quicker on the new MacBook Pro 2020 at 78 wpm versus 77 for the 2019 MacBook Pro, and I was somewhat more precise on the fresher Magic Keyboard at 97% versus 95% on the past model. Be that as it may, it's truly more about how your hands and wrists feel while you're composing, and there's a gigantic distinction here.
The Magic Keyboard likewise incorporates a devoted actual Esc key, so it's not generally concealed in the Touch Bar. Apple has additionally changed the bolt keys to a modified T game plan, which causes them more straightforward to find by to feel.
The MacBook Pro's 2560 x 1600-pixel show stays unaltered, yet it's still among all that you can get on a 13-inch PC. No, there's not a 4K choice, but rather you're getting a brilliant and sharp board that is perfect for altering photographs, watching recordings and finishing work.
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WYNDHAM LEWIS : The Enemy Speaks
Format: CD [LTMCD2411]
Label: LTM
'A CD audiobook of readings by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), the influential British modernist writer, artist and self-styled 'Enemy' feted both by T.S. Eliot and Mark E. Smith. Lewis is best known as the founder of the Vorticist art movement, an English variant of Italian Futurism. Publication of their journal Blast was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, after which Lewis the artist pursued a parallel career as a writer of fiction, satire and criticism.
The Enemy Speaks gathers together rare broadcast recordings made by Lewis in 1938, 1947 and 1951 on various subjects in art and politics, as well as readings of three poems from One-Way Song recorded at Harvard in 1940. The CD also features a dramatized extract from his Bloomsbury-baiting satire The Apes of God, recorded in 1951 with an introduction by the critic V.S. Pritchett. The CD closes with the recording of Sympathy which so vexed Lieutenant Lewis in a shared dug-out near Ypres in 1917.
CD booklet features archive Lewis images and historical notes by James Hayward. Album released in association with the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust.'
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CD tracklist:
1. When John Bull Laughs (1938)
2. End of Enemy Interlude (1940)
3. Song of the Militant Romance (1940)
4. If So the Man You Are (1940)
5. A Crisis of Thought (1947)
6. The Essential Purposes of Art (1951)
7. The Apes of God (extract) (1951)
8. Sympathy (sung by Nelson & Leigh) (1917)
"Archive spoken word recordings by the iconic British artist, writer and Vorticist Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), recorded between 1938 and 1951. Released by kind permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust."
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A Florida farmer was surprised to discover her cow gave birth to a two-headed calf.
The calf's name is Annabelle and she has two separate heads, four eyes, two noses and two mouths.
Farm owner, Carolyn Crews says the calf's heads are so heavy, the calf can't stand and therefore can't feed from its mother. Crews bottle feeds both of the calf's heads four times a day.
At a convenience store nearby, many were surprised by images of the Florida community's newest addition.
"That it's weird...but, like, in a good way," one woman said.
"I hope it survives," another local said.
Crews says Annabelle's heavy breathing is worrying and could be pneumonia. The likelihood of a cow giving birth to a two-headed calf are one in 400m, according to NBC.


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What do you think? Is it worth it??? Do you like my new jewelry organizer?


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Wiley Britton, Memoirs of the Rebellion on the Border 1863.
Preface. Chapter 1 : Chapter 2 : Chapter 3 : Chapter 4 : Chapter 5 : Chapter 6 : Chapter 7 : Chapter 8 : Chapter 9 : Chapter 10 : Chapter 11 : Chapter 12 : Chapter 13 : Chapter 14 : Chapter 15 : Chapter 16 : Chapter 17 : Chapter 18 : Chapter 19 : Chapter 20 : Chapter 21 : Chapter 22 : Chapter 23 : Chapter 24 :
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Chapter 10 :
The Author's return to his division at Scott's Mill's
-- Colonel Phillips' popularity with his troops -- rebels returning and taking the oath of allegiance -- Indians make good troops to fight, bushwhackers -- increase of wild game since the war -- a detachment of Federal troops worsted in a skirmish with guerrillas -- Captain Conkey loses eleven men by capture -- guerrilla chieftains commissioned by the rebel authorities -- Comments on plans proposed by some to break up the guerrilla warfare -- sickness and heavy mortality among the Indian refugees at Neosho -- sick and wounded being removed from Fayetteville to Fort Scott -- the classes of the enemy the Federals have to deal with -- bushwhackers -- guerrillas -- detachments returning to and leaving the State- -- the regular forces -- in our front -- illustrations-incidents from the expedition to low Jack -- the battle of Coon Creek -- Concluding remarks on the Indians.
The 12th of February I joined the Indian division at Scott's Mills, McDonald County, Missouri, on the Cowskin river, twenty-two miles south west of Neosho, and about the same distance north of our old camp at Maysville. The bottom lands along the stream are excellent, and there are numerous fine farms, on most of which fine crops were raised last year. The movement of the division to this place is not regarded as retrograde or falling back, bat, simply for the purpose [126] of more easily supplying our animals with forage and provisioning the refugee families with us. The mills here are in very good condition, and daily turn out large quantities of meal and flour, which will do much to relieve the demands of hunger among the refugees. Since we left Elm Springs as a separate command, Colonel Phillips has steadily grown in popularity with his troops, and we now believe him to be an able and judicious commander. At the end of a month he has made no mistake, but on the contrary has managed the affairs of his District in a manner deserving the warmest commendation.
The active operations of this command, and of the troops at Neosho under Major John A. Foreman, against the guerrillas in this section, are beginning to have a wholesome effect. Scarcely a day passes that a squad of rebels do not come in and take the oath of allegiance and ask the protection of the Government. Those who come in generally express the opinion that many more would come if they knew that they would be protected and allowed to live at home instead of being sent north at prisoners. They are mostly regarded with mistrust, for it has sometimes turned out that those whom we received and treated kindly, soon became dissatisfied with the situation, and went south again and joined the guerrillas. Until we came here, bushwhackers were as plenty as wild game up and down this river, but during the last two weeks, quite a number have been killed by our troops. They will hardly be able to find a safe retreat anywhere in the [127] vicinity of this command. An Indian seems to me to almost scent a secret foe. I think this trait or characteristic may be to some extent accounted for by many of them following their natural mode of life — that is of hunting in the woods for game for miles around the camp.
It is well known to every one in the least familiar with this section during antebellum times, that the game in this region, such as deer and wild turkeys, have increased in great numbers the past two years. Many hogs have become wild in the river bottoms and flee from the sight of man like a deer. When the houses have been burned and the fences around the farms destroyed, as we find here and there, animals like hogs, that live without constant attention from man, soon run wild. The game that the Indians have killed this winter would probably, if we could estimate it, form quite an item in the way of maintaining their families.
It occasionally happens that, in a contest with the guerillas in this section, small detachments of our troops get worsted. On the first instant, a detachment from the command at Neosho had a skirmish with a company of guerillas on Burkhart prairie, twelve miles north-west of that post, and had two men badly wounded, without inflicting any loss on the enemy as far as is known. The commanding officer of the post, Major Foreman, immediately sent out a larger force, about a hundred men, to the vicinity where the skirmish took place, but it returned to its [128] station after having captured one wagon loaded with plunder, and having chased the enemy several miles through the woods.
Captain Theo. Conkey, of the Third Wisconsin cavalry, who has recently been operating along the Spring River, in Jasper County, against the guerillas, had a lively contest a few days ago with Livingston's band, and in the affair, had half a dozen of his men captured. The loss sustained by the enemy, if any, I have been unable to ascertain, as Captain Conkey receives his orders from the commanding officer at Fort Scott. Livingston, we understand, is commissioned by and acting under regular orders from the rebel authorities, and is not accused of killing his prisoners like Quantrell, whose operations are confined chiefly to Jackson and Cass counties, and with whom we had a number of skirmishes last May. But Livingston attacks our supply trains, and his numerous predatory actions about unprotected points have given him considerable prominence during the last year. Whenever our troops come upon him with equal, or perhaps; somewhat superior numbers, he never stands, but soon scatters his men in small squads, permitting them sometimes to return to their homes for a few days. But between Neosho and Fort Scott, a distance of eighty miles, there is no point, except a camp on Dry Wood, fourteen miles south of Fort Scott, where we have any troops stationed. This large space of unoccupied country gives a wide field of operations for such an organization as Livingston's. And until we can establish [129] more numerous stations along the western border tier of counties in this State, it will probably be difficult, if not impossible, to entirely break up such guerilla bands and also bushwhacking. To accomplish this object, there are some who favor applying the torch indiscriminately, to the houses of Union people and rebels. I can never conscientiously favor such a scheme; nor do I believe that the evil requires such heroic treatment at our hands. I have seen the standing chimneys and smoking ruins of desolated homes of Union people as well as rebels too often to wish to see such scenes renewed in a wholesale manner. Nor do I believe that such acts on our part would remedy the evil which we wish to extirpate. It seems to me that the enemy could occupy the desolate country all the same, and make his incursions into Kansas and into the counties of Missouri still further to the east. Though my age and position would not, to the minds of many, justify my presuming to criticise the actions of those whose maturer years have given them more varied experiences, and in many things a sounder judgment, yet I venture to think that our officers have too often permitted the indiscriminate destruction of private property, which should not have been destroyed, thus causing a needless amount of suffering among those whom we should endeavor to protect in the possession of their lives and property. I am perfectly willing, however, to do such officers the justice to believe that they seldom or never permit such acts, after thinking over the [130] consequences, with such deliberation as I may be able to do when setting down to write on the subject. An officer marching through the country at the head of his squadron or regiment, without the thought of an enemy being near, is suddenly fired upon at a certain place by a party of guerrillas, and gets one or more of his men killed or wounded. His first thought is likely to be, that the family living on the place have been giving the enemy aid and comfort. This may be true or may not. But the chances are that the house will be burned, without making a thorough investigation to ascertain whether those .occupying it were in sympathy with, or knew anything about the presence of, the enemy.
Then there are people whose sympathies are divided concerning the issues involved in the war; I mean by this that, taking a large number of citizens such as we have to deal with, their loyalty would perhaps range from slight to complete without qualification. Some again, though they sympathize with the Government, and really wish its success, yet having relatives and friends in the rebel army who are very dear to them, have not the courage to utter their convictions in a strong and positive manner. The question arises, should the slightly loyal receive the punishment or be treated the same as the disloyal who are tooth and .nail against us? It will thus be seen that an apparently very simple question, becomes quite involved, when looked at closely. It is therefore useless to suppose that the sturdy soldier will enter into all these [131] hair splitting niceties before giving his orders. He looks at things just as they present themselves to him, and if injustice is done, it may be, that after reflection, no one would regret it more keenly than himself. Taking this view of the matter, relieves in a measure our officers of the charge of permitting unnecessary destruction of private property. In all those extraordinary cases where private property has been destroyed by our troops, that clearly should not have been destroyed, the Government should, and probably will, in time, pay for, provided of course, that the parties to whom it belongs are loyal to the United States. I would not destroy even the property of rebel citizens except in cases of military necessity; and then it is not supposable that any demand will ever be made upon the Government for payment. But let us pass from this question which, in a few years, will doubtless engage the attention of legislators.
Parties coming from Neosho report that there is a great deal of sickness among the Indian soldiers and their families at that place. Taking into account the number of Indians there, and the number sick, the mortality amongst them is considered very high. The prevailing type of disease which is now taking off so many of them, I understand is typhoid fever. The hardships incident to leaving their homes in the Nation, and innutritious food and insufficient quantities of food, together with the poorly clad condition of many, are probably among the causes of this high mortality in some of the families. But of course the [132] remark in regard to food and clothing cannot apply to the Indian soldiers, for they are as well fed and clothed as we are, that is, they have had their regular allowances during the winter. But the families and each member thereof have not perhaps had full rations during the winter. Though great care and interest have been manifested by Colonel Phillips in looking after them, yet it has been impossible to make them as comfortable as at their homes. The want of proper sheltering has also probably in many cases contributed to their discomforts and sickness. Home sickness, from being exiles, also doubtless has a depressing influence amongst some of them.
Such of the sick and wounded at Fayetteville and in the field hospitals of this division as will bear removing, are being taken to Fort Scott. The General Hospital at that place is better provided with everything essential to their proper care and treatment. The great difficulty is to get them there without increasing too much their suffering. But men convalescing from the effects of wounds, and placed in ambulances, and the ambulances driven carefully, should be taken the distance from Fayetteville to Fort Scott, say one hundred and fifty miles, without great inconvenience, except while en route they should be struck with a change of extremely cold weather, or a storm of sleet or snow. Even then, the heavy woolen blankets with which every soldier is provided, would enable them to get through without much suffering. Should [133] the present fine weather continue a few days longer, they will have reached their destination in good condition.
Yesterday (15th), Colonel Phillips sent a squad of ten rebel prisoners that we recently captured, to Neosho, Missouri, to be held until there is an opportunity of sending them to Fort Scott or Leavenworth.
We have four classes of the enemy to deal with in this section. First, the bushwhackers, who are unorganized and generally found singly, but, as sometimes happens, in squads of two to half a dozen. They are generally men who stay around in the vicinity of their homes, and fire upon our troops from bluffs or other inaccessible points, or when they see one of our soldiers alone on dispatch or courier duty shoot him off his horse with their rifles, and despoil him of his arms, clothing, money and equipments. Since we came into this region last autumn, we have had quite a number of men who were either with the advance or rear guard, or on escort duty to trains, killed and wounded by bushwhackers. Though of course bushwhackers are all rebels, yet I think that most of them are men of bad blood, men whose natural inclinations and evil tendencies lead them to follow a robber life. They only take advantage of the existing chaotic state of things to show their true characters. Should the war immediately cease, probably only a small percentage of such desperate characters would return to or adopt [134] an honest mode of life. But putting themselves outside the pale of civilized warfare, they will likely nearly all be killed off in a few years. I may be judging them too harshly, but in the light of such facts as have come under my notice, I don't think so. Second, guerrilla bands, men having some sort of military organization, and whose movements are directed by a leader. Most of the leaders of the guerrillas with whom we have to contend, I have frequently heard, hold commissions from the Confederate government, or the fugitive Governor of Missouri. Livingston whom I have already referred to, may be cited as an instance. The function of guerrillas is similar to that of privateers. While the privateer is commissioned by the rebel authorities to prey upon our marine commerce, the guerrillas are commissioned to prey upon our inland commerce, destroy public property, such as trains, &c., and to impede our movements in every possible manner. Though as I have mentioned, Livingston is not accused of murdering his prisoners in cold blood, yet our soldiers feel, and I think justly so, that their lives would be very insecure in the hands of most guerrilla leaders, like Quantrill for example. We have to be always on the lookout for guerrillas, and our trains are obliged to be always well guarded, for if the enemy capture a courier with dispatches, or a soldier from a scouting party, they may get information that will enable them to concentrate at a given point and attack our escort and trains from an ambush. This mode of warfare often enables a small force to [135] defeat a superior force encumbered with trains. In fact the concealed enemy has a great advantage when he attacks about an equal number of our troops. An enemy of a hundred men concealed in a favorable position, might kill and wound half a company of soldiers the first volley. The rest, if not thrown into confusion by such a sudden burst of destruction, would in such case be unable to cope with the enemy flushed by his success. To guard against such disasters a military commander must be always wide awake and on the alert, and he must know the strength of the enemy in his rear as well as in his front. We now believe that the enemy, in whatever manner he may choose to operate against us, will have to be exceedingly industrious and wide awake to gain a point on Colonel Phillips. His movements on the military chessboard show that he is not likely to be checkmated or broken up by an opponent handling an equal number of men. Third, rebels returning to their homes in that section of the State from which they entered the rebel army; or rebels leaving the vicinity of their homes in detachments to join the rebel army, or to remain south during the progress of the war. Whether leaving the State in detachments, or returning to it in detachments, they rarely show an inclination to assume the offensive, seeming to prefer to pass through the country unobserved. But those leaving the State, when they find that there is a fair prospect of capturing property that can be taken along without impeding their movements, [136] are not so careful to avoid contact with our troops. Even if their attacks be unsuccessful, and they completely fail in any given design, they can continue their march southward without increasing the danger of being intercepted and captured. Only a few weeks ago, at Neosho, our pickets were fired into one night, as was supposed, by quite a force of the enemy going south, but as they found that we were not to be surprised, decided to make no further demonstration.
The enemy returning to the State may have either of two objects in view. He may be intending to follow a guerrilla warfare, or he may be intending to concentrate at some point designated, to make a combined movement against some place occupied by a given number of our troops. A combined movement of this kind he made against Lone Jack in Jackson county, Missouri, on the 15th and 16th of last August, resulting in the defeat of our troops with a heavy loss in killed and wounded, and the capture of a section of the Third Indiana Battery.1 We marched day and [137] night from Fort Scott to Lone Jack, to reinforce our troops, but when we arrived on the ground we were mortified to learn that the battle had been fought the day before. The enemy under Generals Shelby and Cockrell were still encamped on the field; but when we came in sight, instead of giving battle, as we anticipated they would after their recent victory, they retreated. It was about six o'clock when we came up, and General Blunt immediately commenced to form his troops in line of battle, as the enemy seemed to be making some kind of hostile movements. I was with Colonel Jewell and General Blunt, and some of his staff were near us. We expected every moment that the enemy were going to open fire upon us, for we could plainly see him coming down the road towards us about half a mile off. We could also see, that when they came to a certain point they seemed to file to their left, which was our right, as we had formed in line. We supposed that they were aiming to turn our right, and General Blunt threw out skirmishers to discover their intentions. Our infantry, consisting of the Ninth and Twelfth regiments from Wisconsin, [138] which had been put into four-mule Government wagons at Fort Scott, had just arrived, but it was now getting dark, and an approaching storm, together with our ignorance of the topographical condition of that section, made it impossible to commence an immediate attack. The rain came down in torrents, and it was soon intensely dark. We quickly discovered, however, that the road half a mile beyond the head of our column diverged, coming toward us, and that the enemy, instead of preparing to make the attack, had taken the left-hand road at the point of divergence, and were in full retreat. We moved about cautiously in the darkness of the night, for the country was badly cut up by ditches or wash-outs, and quite a number of our ambulances, caissons and artillery wagons got partially or completely upset, and into positions from which it required much labor to extricate them. The trail of the enemy was discovered during the night, and when the dim light of morning came, our advance was just in sight of the rebel rear guard. But neither the enemy nor our forces had marched many miles during the dark rainy night, for we were forming our squadrons here and there, expecting every moment to run into the rebel cavalry. The entire force of the enemy, numbering fully twenty five hundred men, had moved around us during the night, and now commenced a hasty retreat towards the southern part of the State. We pursued them day and night, giving only a few hours each day to ourselves and to our animals to take food and rest, and struck them with our [139] cavalry about one hundred miles south of Lone Jack at Coon Creek, in which engagement twenty-six men were killed and wounded in the company to which my brother belonged, and, as I have already stated, he was among the wounded. Captain H. S. Green of the Sixth Kansas cavalry was among the severely wounded while gallantly leading his men. We could not hold the rebel force until the rest of our cavalry, artillery and infantry came up, and this affair practically ended the expedition, though a portion of the cavalry continued the pursuit almost to the southern line of the State.
I have entered somewhat into details because we did some extraordinary marching, and also because I wished to point out how an enemy passing us in small detachments, may form in our rear a formidable army.
The Fourth class of the enemy we have to deal with, is his organized or regular forces which we expect to find in our front. Whether we. shall seek him or he shall us, it may take the approach of spring, or even summer to decide. In the meantime we shall endeavor to hold our own ground in this section, keep our animals in as good condition as possible. and not permit our arms to rust.
We have very favorable reports from Captain A. C. Spillman of this division, who has been in command of the post at Neosho since Major Foreman left there. Captain Spillman is showing himself to be a very competent and energetic young officer. His scouting parties are active in hunting down bushwhackers, and [140] in making that section an unsafe and an uncomfortable retreat for them. Colonel Phillips has not only shown sound judgment in the general management of his division, but also in the selection of officers for his staff as confidential advisers, and also other officers of special fitness for special duties. Probably few officers could be found who would make a better Assistant Adjutant General than Captain William Gallaher, or a better Judge Advocate than Captain Joel Moody. Of Captain Gallaher I can speak from personal knowledge, as I have known him since I entered the service.
Colonel William F. Cloud, Second Kansas cavalry, who is now in command of the District of Southwest Missouri, with head quarters at Springfield, was at Neosha yesterday, 20th instant, with a detachment of the 7th Missouri State Militia and one company of his own regiment, having been on a scout of several days in search of Livingston's band. If the remainder of General Blunt's division, which separated from us at Elm Springs, is occupying the country around Springfield, it would seem Colonel Phillips' division is now occupying the most advanced position of any of our troops in the west. It would also seem that he is holding a more important position, and actually doing more service than any two brigadier-generals in General Schofield's department. We have here a few illustrations of the manner in which meritorious military service is too often regarded. It is thought by some that General Schofield would prefer to reward [141] with promotion an incapable volunteer officer than a really deserving one. I have heard the remark, that "if he could have a division of troops and review them once a week on a level plain in fair weather, perhaps there are few officers who could shine equally with him, but that as an active field officer, who will accomplish deeds such as to win admiration even from the foe, recent experiences show him to be almost a complete failure." It may be, however, that in the light of just and intelligent criticism, his merit would shine with a brighter lustre than it does with us. In some other field, if he goes to the front, it may not be difficult to inspire his troops with confidence. But there are many who think that for the good of the cause for which we are fighting, he should be removed from this department.
The Cherokee Council, which has been in session several weeks, adjourned on the 22nd, sine die. Most of the prominent men of the Nation were present, and, made speeches in regard to the passage of certain laws touching the interests of the Cherokee people. One of the most important measures which they have had under discussion, has for its object the abolition of slavery in the Cherokee Nation at an early day. While slavery has for some generations existed in the Cherokee Nation, it has never existed in that form which characterized the institution in the Southern States. The Indians have been with us now upwards of six months, and, from what we have seen, it is doubtless true that slavery of the negroes amongst [142] them has been only in name. They never act towards the Indians with that reserve and sign of respect noticeable when they come into our presence. I am satisfied that the hardships of slavery amongst the Indians were never comparable to the hardships of slavery in the cotton-raising States. It would perhaps be difficult to impress any negro with the idea that there is as great a distance between him and an Indian as there is between him and a white man. In some respects I think myself that there is very little difference, particularly in matters involving social status. The possibilities of a negro here are probably very nearly, if not quite, equal to the possibilities of the Indian, as far as intellectual force is concerned. And from my own observations I believe that they are, as a race, more able to stand contact with what we call high civilization, than the Indians. When I traveled over several of the cotton-raising States, a year before the war commenced, from a good many inquiries which I made, I became convinced that the degrading, and in many instances even hard life of slavery, had not perceptibly diminished the reproductive powers of the negroes. Careful inquiries might, however, show, in certain sections, where both sexes have been worked very hard on the plantations, that their reproductive powers have perceptibly diminished. Though it has been but a few centuries since they were brought to this Continent, yet when we contrast their peculiar traits of character with those of the Indian, we are ,sure to be led to the conclusion that they will exist as [143] a distinct race among us, after the Indian shall have disappeared, and shall only be referred to in history as an extinct race. It will probably not be many generations before we shall be contriving means, not how to kill off the Indians, but how to preserve the few which are left. Even should the fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokees amalgamate with the whites, it is not likely that, in the course of a dozen generations, there would be more than a slight trace of Indian blood in their descendants. Amalgamation has already taken place rather extensively, as our Indians here plainly show. Indeed, the half-breeds and quarter-bloods form a considerable part of the population of the Nation. But they are, I have been informed, mostly the offspring of polygamous marriages and unions, such as would not be sanctioned amongst us. We know very well that since this country was first settled by Europeans, traders and adventurers have lived amongst the Indians, and it seems that, by forming temporary unions, and sometimes lasting ones, with the native women, they gain certain rights and privileges that are not accorded to those who will not enter into such alliances. Many of the Cherokee women have very good features, and white men who desire to get wived may perhaps, often be congratulated upon their choice, We therefore frequently see amongst these "half-breeds," "quarter-bloods," &c., men of much intelligence and force of character. It is not unusual, however, for them to display the adventurous spirit of their white fathers, and the fierceness [144] of their native mothers. But these people are capable of making great advances in civilization, before their veins shall have been drained of the last drop of Indian blood.
1 The following casualties at the battle of Lone Jack on the Federal side, I have gathered from official data : Second battalion Missouri State Militia, killed, enlisted men, 4; wounded, officers, 1 ; enlisted men, 5; missing, officers, 1 ; enlisted men, 5. Sixth Missouri State Militia, killed, enlisted men, 9 ; wounded, officers, 5; enlisted men, 35 ; missing, enlisted men, 17. Seventh Missouri Volunteer cavalry, killed, officers, 2 ; enlisted men, 19; wounded, officers, 3 ; enlisted men, 62; missing, enlisted men, 11. Two Companies Seventh Missouri State Militia cavalry, killed, enlisted men, 6 ; wounded, officers, 1; enlisted men, 14 ; missing, enlisted men, 6. Eighth Missouri State Militia cavalry, killed, enlisted men, 9 ; wounded, officers, 2 : enlisted men, 28; missing, enlisted men, 4. Third Indiana battery, killed, enlisted men, 5; Total killed, officers, 2; enlisted men, 51 ; wounded, officers, 13; enlisted men, 144, exclusive of the Third Indiana battery ; missing, officers, 1; enlisted men, 43.
Major Emory S. Foster, Seventh Missouri cavalry, who commanded our troops in the engagement, reports that he had about 800 men, and that one-third of this force were killed, wounded and missing. This was one of the most gallant fights of the war, for a small force. The enemy had 2,500 men.
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I have one more post on the beautiful buildings and sights of Potsdam.
Alexandrowka: it is a set of houses built for 12 Russian singers who were the surviving members of a 62-men choir made up of soldiers. They were built between 1826 and 1827 under Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm III and named after Czar Alexander 1. It is one of the UNESCO Heritage Sites in Potsdam.
Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church: is a historic Russian orthodox church around Alexandrowka. It is actually the oldest Russian orthodox church in Germany, built between 1826 and 1829. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.
Einstein Haus Caputh: Located 6 kilometers south of Potsdam, this was Albert Einstein's house from 1929 to 1932.
Einsteinturm (Einstein Tower): is an astrophysical observatory built from 1919 to 1921 located in Albert Einstein Science Park in Potsdam. Built by Erich Mendelsohn, it houses the solar telescope which supports the experiments to validate (or disprove) Einstein's Relativity Theory.
Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg (Belvedere on the Pfingstberg): is a palace located on the Pfingstberg mountain and was built between 1847 and 1863. The twin-towered building was modeled on Italian Renaissance architecture.


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A guide to the 2011 Copa America: Part Four – The Over-Achievers, Paraguay and Ecuador
Your fix of football that doesn't contain gossip and speculation is here. Part four of David N's guide to the Copa America.
Having firmly established themselves as one of the top four teams in the continent, Paraguay go into this Copa America with genuine hopes of winning it. This would be a great achievement, but then to raise Paraguay to its present level as a football nation has been an impressive achievement in itself. Paraguay is a relatively small nation, with a relatively small population, landlocked between the larger countries of Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina. But Paraguayans are famed as the toughest people in South America, and they delight in overcoming difficult odds.
They have done that, and then some. Having previously only done so in 1986, the national team has qualified for three of the last four World Cups, making it to the quarter finals in South Africa in 2010. Success in the Copa America is a more distant memory though, having come with wins in 1953 and 1979. But this generation of Paraguayan players, some of whom have been playing under coach Gerardo Martino since 2005 and may be playing their last tournament in Argentina, have the quality and experience to beat any of their continental rivals.
They consistently upset the "bigger" teams, beating both Brazil and Argentina in Paraguay in the qualifiers for South Africa. As their campaign in that tournament showed, they are, at the very least, extremely tough to beat, wringing a draw from Italy, beating Japan on penalties after another stalemate and losing by a single goal to eventual champions Spain. If they scored few goals at the World Cup, they can perhaps be excused. Their centre forward and best player, the stocky and skilful little Club America striker Sergio Cabanas, has not played since he was shot in the face in a bar in Mexico City in January 2010, though, displaying typical Paraguayan grit, he has apparently fully recovered. He has still not quite been replaced in the team, and goals will likely still be a problem for the Paraguayans.
That is hard to say with any certainty, for Paraguay are notoriously poor in friendlies, needing the heat of competition to play to their potential, so it's impossible to say what sort of form they will bring to the Copa America.
Argentine coach Martino is a protege of Marcelo Bielsa, having captained the Newells Old Boys side coached by Bielsa, and he shares some of his mentors gifts without slavishly copying him. He likes to play a 4-3-3 but keeps it flexible depending upon the opposition. Facilitating this and providing much of Paraguay's strength is a solid midfield full of impressive all-rounders like Enrique Vera of LDU Quito, Atalanta's Edgar Barreto and Victor Caceres (right) of Paraguayan giants Libertad, who give their defence a screen but also support the strikers. Caceres may be the key player at the moment, providing a calm, disciplined fulcrum around which the rest of the team revolves, but an injury incurred in a recent friendly may well prevent him from playing. If that is the case, he will be replaced by either Olimipia's Osmar Molinas, a disciplined holding player, or Oswaldo Martinez of Monterrey, more of an attacking midfielder who can also play as a support striker.
Behind this midfield lies an ageing but still impressive defensive line, the replacement of which may prove troublesome for the Paraguayans over the next few years. Wigan's Antolin Alcaraz, Libertad's Carlos Bonet, Zaragoza's Sunderland flop Paolo DaSilva and Pumas' Dario Veron are all in their 30s now, and Brazil in 2014 will probably be one tournament too far for them. But for the moment they remain a stubborn team, disciplined and hard to break down, except for the lack of a regular right-back.
As for a replacement for Cabanas up front, the most obvious successor appears to be the naturalised, Argentina-born Lucas Barrios (top). He has just completed an incredible season with Borussia Dortmund, winning the Bundesliga as one of their key players and scoring hatfuls of goals.
He could be part of a trio of attackers, with Roque Santa Cruz filling another of the spaces in what he claims will be his final competition. An ailing veteran at 29, a fully fit "Rocky" is still a potent weapon, terrifying in the air, handy on the ground, able to score goals and link the play. His inclusion may seem odd to European fans when they see that Benfica's Oscar Cardozo has been left out. Prolific and effective in Portugal, he has never impressed for his country, scoring five goals in 37 games, and Paraguayan fans are not as wowed by European success as we might like to think, so his exclusion has barely been noticed.
Likely to compete to play upfront alongside Santa Cruz and Barrios are Edgar Benitez of Pachuca and Haedo Valdez of Hercules, each of whom can play on the flank and score goals. Valdez is also dominant in the air, and he and Santa Cruz formed a formidable, dominant partnership in a recent friendly against Bolivia.
Despite this slight worry over where goals will come from, Paraguay will approach their games with confidence. They share Group B with the eminently beatable Venezuela, Ecuador, and the not-quite-so-beatable Brazil. They will go into all of those games absolutely without fear and with the reasonable belief that they can win the group. Once that is accomplished, or more likely if they snag second spot, they will be only three games from winning the tournament, and anything can happen.
Ecuador are in a tricky transitional phase. The golden generation of players who drove them to the unprecedented success of two World Cup tournaments in 2002 and 2006 (when they reached the last 16) is breaking up and there seem to be no equivalently talented young players bound to replace them.
The rise of Ecuador over the last fifteen years or so is an amazing story considering that prior to 2002, they had never qualified for a World Cup. Their Copa America record, however, is still abysmal, since they rarely go any further than the group stage – even in this period of World Cup success.
Partly this is down to a change in CONMEBOL's qualifying system. The introduction of a marathon single group stage, meaning each country played each of the others home and away for the 1998 World Cup, immeasurably assisted the likes of Ecuador, who are fearsome at home at altitude in Quito. This combined with the rise of a group of players led by centre-forward Agustin Delgado and a strong defence centred on Ivan Hurtado, and the arrival of a series of Colombian coaches who imported some of that countries football culture and nous and allied it to Ecuadorean speed and strength to create an extremely competitive and talented team.
But Delgado and Hurtado have both retired, and their replacements are simply not of the same calibre. Almost the entire defence plays for one of the two giant Quito clubs – LDU or Deportivo – with only captain Walter Ayovi playing abroad, for Monterrey. Coincidentally he is the only really outstanding player in the backline, a marauding wingback who likes to shoot from distance.
The two starting forwards will be familiar names to English fans: Cristian "Chucho" Benitez, who, two years ago, had a loan spell at Birmingham City from his parent club, Santos Laguna of Mexico; and Felipe Caicedo (above) of Manchester City, who spent last season very successfully on loan at Levante. Caicedo was the wonder boy of Ecuadorean football a few years back, but hasn't quite met expectations, though his form this season has been encouraging. Benitez is a big game player for his country, a creator and finisher and a prodigious workhorse, with a record of 15 goals in 36 games for his country. Caicedo's Levante team mate, Jefferson Montero, is the best option off the bench, a tricky second striker, with Jaime Ayovi representing plan B.
Colombian Coach Reinaldo Rueda, who did well to get Honduras to the 2010 World Cup, generally likes a 4-4-2, with his creativity coming from the wings in the form of Manchester United's Antonio Valencia (left) and Michael Arroyo of San Luis. In the centre he prefers solidity, with the experience of Segundo Castillo alongside Cristian Noboa's string-pulling. Midfield is probably Ecuador's strongest area, and it ensures their games are generally tight battles, though defensive deficiencies have hurt them of late.
They join Paraguay and Venezuela in Brazil's group, and seem to partly view this tournament as a rehearsal for qualifiers for 2014, when Rueda will be better settled in the job and a few of his younger players may have grown into the team.
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The Ljubljana Botanic Garden was among the first in the world to receive the botanic gardens accreditation from the Botanic Gardens Conservation International.
Only six other botanic gardens, in addition to the one in Ljubljana, received the aforementioned accreditation. The Botanic Gardens Conservation International awarded three types of recognitions, and the Ljubljana Botanic Garden received an accreditation certificate with a golden seal valid for five years, which means, it satisfied all required criteria.
Among other criteria were education and training as well as cooperation with the local community and other gardens.
The Ljubljana Botanic Garden has been in operation ever since 1810. It was designed by Franc Hladnik (1773-1844), who was its first principal and also a natural science and botany lecturer.
Since 1991 the Botanic Garden on Ig Street is protected as a monument of designed nature on the local level and in 2008 it was also awarded the status of a monument of national importance. It is considered the oldest botanical garden in the south-eastern part of Europe, and on the European scale it is of medium age.


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UWA moves quickly to online learning
UWA has transitioned rapidly to an online mode to ensure continuity of teaching for students as well as the safety of its workforce.
Aligned with Federal and State Government announcements restricting travel and strengthening physical distancing, the University is encouraging all staff to work from home.
UWA Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane den Hollander said 75 to 80 per cent of staff had been supported to transition to work from home, with the exception of select roles that were critical to maintaining student and staff support services and essential campus operations.
"To facilitate home-based work, we have developed a streamlined procedure that considers occupational health and safety aspects of the home work environment, equipment required and provides flexible options for parents who are working from home with caring responsibilities," Professor den Hollander said.
In response to feedback from staff and students, the University will provide an additional tuition-free week from April 6 to 9.
This will be followed by the Easter break and scheduled mid-semester break from April 15 to 17.
"This will provide staff with two weeks to adapt more fully to online teaching, with the extra week of teaching made up at the end of semester to guarantee students receive the full 12 weeks of semester," Professor den Hollander said.
"Solutions are well advanced to provide robust online examinations and to ensure fair and equitable assessment processes for our students.
"I recognise the agile and innovative efforts of staff across all areas of the University to move our operations and teaching into the virtual environment in such a short time.
"As a University committed to truth and to research-informed decision-making, we have maintained a calm and evidence-based approach to inform our response to the virus and carefully consider how best to keep our students and staff healthy and safe.
"Our response to this unprecedented situation exemplifies UWA's well-embedded tradition of endeavour and commitment to finding solutions to current challenges."
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Herkunft und Bedeutung
Kertész ist ein ursprünglich berufsbezogener ungarischer Familienname mit der Bedeutung "Gärtner", abgeleitet von dem ungarischen kert für "Garten", analog dem deutschen Familiennamen Gärtner.

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 Adolf Kertész (1892–1920), ungarischer Fußballspieler
 Ákos Kertész (1932–2022), ungarischer Schriftsteller, Dramaturg und Drehbuchautor
 Andor Kertész (1929–1974), ungarischer Mathematiker
 André Kertész (1894–1985), ungarischer Fotograf
 Daniella Kertesz (* 1989), israelische Schauspielerin
 Géza Kertész (1894–1945), ungarischer Fußballspieler und -trainer

 Imre Kertész (1929–2016), ungarischer Schriftsteller
 István Kertész (1929–1973), ungarischer Dirigent
 József Kertész (* 1940), ungarischer Eishockeyspieler
 Mihály Kertész, Geburtsname von Michael Curtiz, ungarischer Regisseur
 Vilmos Kertész (1890–1962), ungarischer Fußballspieler

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 Mihalj Kertes (1947–2022), serbischer Beamter und Politiker
 Susi Kertes (1914–1948), ungarische Theaterschauspielerin, die in der Schweiz wirkte

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Top U.S. Military Official Takes 'Full Responsibility' For Controversial Yemen Raid
By Merrit Kennedy
Published March 9, 2017 at 6:29 PM EST
Yemeni residents inspect a house that was damaged during a Jan. 29 U.S. raid on the tiny village of Yakla, in central Yemen.
A top U.S. military official told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that he accepts "full responsibility" for the widely criticized U.S. ground raid into Yemen in late January.
At the same time, Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of U.S. Central Command, said he was "satisfied" after a review found that the tragic outcome of the raid was not a result of "incompetence or poor decision-making or poor judgment."
As a result, he said that he has decided there is "no need for an additional investigation into this particular operation."
The raid has been repeatedly hailed by the White House as a success, because of intelligence that was gathered. A U.S. Navy SEAL, William "Ryan" Owens, was killed during the operation.
Votel was blunt: "We lost a lot in this operation. We lost a valued operator, we had people wounded, we caused civilian casualties, lost an expensive aircraft."
At the same time, he insisted that because of the raid, "we did gain some valuable information that will be helpful for us."
The value of some of this information has been questioned. As NPR's Philip Ewing has reported, "A terrorist video released ... by the Pentagon to show what it called intelligence gleaned by the recent raid in Yemen actually was made about 10 years ago."
There have been varying reports of the number of civilian casualties in the raid. One local man told NPR that 24 people were killed in the operation, including nine men, six women and nine children. It was not clear exactly how many of the dead were civilians. Among the children killed was the 8-year-old daughter of Yemen-American terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki.
Today, Votel stated that a "determination based on our best information available is that we did cause casualties, somewhere between four and 12 casualties that we accept, I accept responsibility for."
NPR's Alice Fordham and Tom Bowman have provided an account of the raid, based on conversations with local residents and U.S. military officials, which you can read here.
Votel said officials are still carrying out an investigation into the loss of the aircraft. As NPR has reported, the "$90 million Osprey, a tilt-rotor aircraft, was destroyed after crash landing."
The White House has said that planning for the raid began under the Obama administration. It was the first military operation authorized by President Trump.
Merrit Kennedy
Merrit Kennedy is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She covers a broad range of issues, from the latest developments out of the Middle East to science research news.
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Mariah Carey, Isley Brothers, The Neptunes, Steve Miller Inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame
Jan 16, 2020 @ 11:54am
Mariah Carey, Steve Miller, The Isley Brothers, and the Neptunes–the production duo of Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo–are among the 2020 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
"This is truly one of the greatest honors of my career," Carey tweeted after the announcement hit. "I'm so proud and humbled to be in the company of such legendary songwriters — both previously inducted as well as the incredible class of 2020!" Others inducted this year include The Isley Brothers collaborator Chris Jasper, William (Mickey) Stevenson, Rick Nowels–who has worked extensively in recent years with Lana Del Rey–and The Eurythmics, featuring Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. The musicians will be formally inducted at a June 11 event at Manhattan's Marriott Marquis Hotel.


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