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Climate grief group has nine step program
I nearly headlined this: Climate grief group meets at someone's house, Grist covers it. That's pretty much all this program is. No one even counts to nine in this story.
Depressed about climate change? There's a 9-step program for that.
Imagine Alcoholics Anonymous mixed with an environmental humanities course, and you'll begin to get a sense of the "good grief" group started by Schmidt. Its goal is to help people cope with what's been called "climate grief" — anxiety, sadness, depression, and other emotions provoked by awareness of the planet's march toward a hotter,… future…
What she found was that feelings of sadness and anxiety, and even literal nightmares, were common. Last year, with the help of her partner, Aimee Reau, Schmidt developed a nine-step program for building resiliency loosely modeled on AA…
But this is big:
About a dozen people attend each session and 50 subscribe to its mailings.
If I get 12 people to my house, and have 12,000 subscribers, do you think Grist will write it up?
Perhaps they have some good results?
Perhaps not:
Schmidt, who now works as an outreach coordinator at the environmental group HEAL […]
April 9th, 2017 | Tags: Mental Health, Psychology, Satire & Parody | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, Pseudoscience, Psychology, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
The Unskeptical Guide to the Skeptics Handbook
It's taken 21 months, four professors, and three associate/assistant professors, and THIS is the best they could come up with? The printed version listed no author (the pdf has been updated with John Cooks name*) yet wears the logo of the University of Western Australia (UWA), which will embarrass that university as word spreads of the intellectual weakness of their "Guide".
Did UWA commission this piece of rather inept, qualitative "feel-good" science and clumsy reasoning? Stephan Lewandowsky invited John Cook to speak at UWA and "offer assistance".
The booklet uses a mislabeled graph with a deceptive scale, won't show the damning graphs it supposedly debunks, assumes positive feedback occurs despite the weight of empirical evidence against it (Douglass, Spencer, Lindzen), and repeats irrelevant information even though The Skeptics Handbook describes why rising sea levels and glaciers and ice sheets can't possibly tell us what causes the warming. It misleadingly discusses a different fingerprint — one that isn't the key point and isn't disputed by skeptics. Cause and effect are mixed up, and naturally there are strawmen arguments to unnecessarily destroy for the spectacle of being seen to do something. To top it off, Cook still thinks a measurement is […]
July 5th, 2010 | Tags: Cook (John), Debunking, Debunking The Skeptics Handbook, Diurnal Temperature Range (DTR), Hot Spot, Missing Hot Spot, Sherwood (Steven), SkepticalScience (debunking), Tropospheric temperatures (upper) | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Thai Translation – The Skeptics Handbook
The volunteers keep coming. Please take a moment to appreciate how much work it takes to do a proper translation, to check it, to edit it, and to edit and arrange the artwork. Then take another moment to think of old friends and contacts who might find it interesting, and e-mail it on. Thanks.
The reach of our global human network is changing polls.
Thanks to Weeraboon Wisartsakul for his expertise and patience.
See www.wwisartsakul.wordpress.com for his Thai blog.
Thanks to Jimmy Haigh for the double-checking and help.
Click on the image to download the pdf.
Volunteers have translated the first Skeptics Handbook into German, French, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese, Balkan, Spanish, Thai, Czech and Lao. The second Skeptics Handbook is available in French and Turkish. See all posts tagged Translations.
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March 12th, 2010 | Tags: The Skeptics Handbook, Translations | Category: AGW socio-political, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Help! How do I know?
How do you tell a scientist from a non-scientist? Where does science end, and propaganda, politics, and opinion begin? You only need to know one thing:
Straight away, this sorts the wheat from the weeds. We don't learn about the natural world by calling people names or hiding data. We don't learn by chucking out measurements in favor of opinions. We don't learn by suppressing discussions, or setting up fake rules about which bits of paper count or which people have a licence to speak.
A transparent, competitive system where all views are welcome is the fastest way to advance humanity. The Royal Society is the oldest scientific association in the world. Its motto is essentially, Take No One's Word For It. In other words, assume nothing; look at the data. When results come in that don't fit the theory, a scientist chucks out his theory. A non-scientist has "faith", he "believes" or assumes his theory is right, and tries to make the measurements fit. When measurements disagree, he ignores the awkward news, and "corrects", or statistically alters, the data–always in the direction that keeps his theory alive.
March 9th, 2010 | Tags: Science, Scientific Method, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, Logic & Reason, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Spanish translation of Skeptics Handbook I
Spanish Translation – The Skeptics Handbook I
I am delighted to announce that finally, after drafts have been sent between three continents, the Spanish translation is ready to share. With over 330 million native speakers of Spanish, I expect it will be one of the most popular of all the translations.
Download the 1.2Mb emailable version.
Thanks especially to Víctor González García in Mexico, who did most of the work and coordination, and with editing help from Pepe Salama in Spain.
Please send links to this page or to Pepe's blog page to your Spanish speaking friends, so they can download copies from either site. And consider PePe's page as the main home for discussion of the Handbook in Spanish.
There is a larger 7Mb version here for printing.
All translations and versions are available on this page.
Volunteers have translated the first Skeptics Handbook into German, French, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Portuguese, Danish, Japanese, Balkan and Spanish. The second Skeptics Handbook is available in French and Turkish.
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March 7th, 2010 | Tags: The Skeptics Handbook, Translations | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
4. Carbon dioxide is already absorbing almost all it can
Here's why it's possible that doubling CO2 won't make much difference.
The carbon that's already up in the atmosphere absorbs most of the light it can. CO2 only "soaks up" its favorite wavelengths of light, and it's close to saturation point. It manages to grab a bit more light from wavelengths that are close to its favorite bands, but it can't do much more, because there are not many left-over photons at the right wavelengths.
The natural greenhouse effect is real, and it does keep us warm, but it's already reached its peak performance.
Throw more carbon up there and most of the extra gas is just "unemployed" molecules.
This graph shows the additional warming effect of each extra 20ppm of atmospheric CO2.
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February 17th, 2010 | Tags: Log Curve, Spectroscopy, The Skeptics Handbook | Category: AGW socio-political, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Consensus? What consensus?
How many scientists does it take to prove the debate is not over? More than 30,000 scientists have signed The Petition Project. More than 9,000 of them have PhDs (not that that proves anything about carbon, but it does prove something about the myth of "consensus"). The petition's wording is unequivocal:
"There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth." Source: www.petitionproject.org
The Petition Project is funded by donations from individuals and run by volunteers. It receives no money from industry or companies. In late 2007, The Petition Project re-did the petition to verify names again.
AGW says: Everyone knows the petition is bogus and filled with duplicate and fake names.
Skeptics say: Name 10 fakes.
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January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Cartoon, Consensus, Petition Project, The Skeptics Handbook | Category: AGW socio-political, Global Warming, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Pub questions
From the first Skeptics Handbook (p 14-15). The very short answers to questions you might get in a bar, or in the media tent at the UNFCCC. Point 1 below was the single most popular riposte from supporters of the greenhouse theory at COP 13 in Bali.
1. How can so many scientists be wrong? Most scientists are not wrong, but they're not studying the central question either. Instead they're researching the effects of warming — not the causes. Whether orangutans in Borneo are facing habitat loss tells us nothing of what drives the weather. Likewise: wind-farm efficiency, carbon sequestration, and insect-borne epidemics. Warm weather changes these things, but these things don't change the weather. Consensus proves nothing. It takes only one scientist to prove a theory wrong. Theories fit the facts or they don't. Instead of saying "Which side has more PhDs?" a better question is "Where's the evidence?" Once upon a time, the masses thought the world was flat, that no machine could fly, that the sun went 'round the Earth.
The only thing we know for sure about climate change is that big government-funded committees […]
December 30th, 2009 | Tags: Precautionary Principle, The Skeptics Handbook | Category: The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Carbon rises 800 years after temperatures
Ice cores reveal that CO2 levels rise and fall hundreds of years after temperatures change
In 1985, ice cores extracted from Greenland revealed temperatures and CO2 levels going back 150,000 years. Temperature and CO2 seemed locked together. It was a turning point—the "greenhouse effect" captured attention. But, in 1999 it became clear that carbon dioxide rose and fell after temperatures did. By 2003, we had better data showing the lag was 800 ± 200 years. CO2 was in the back seat.
December 14th, 2009 | Tags: Al Gore, Correlation Is Not Causation, Evidence, Vostok Ice Core | Category: Geology, Global Warming, Holocene, Paleolithic, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |
Skeptics Handbook II! Global Bullies Want Your Money
Finally, Part II in the Skeptics Handbook series – the bluster and bluff, the deceit, and the money. Enjoy & Share.
It's unthinkable. Big Government has spent $79 billion on the climate industry, 3000 times more than Big Oil. Leading climate scientists won't debate in public and won't provide their data. What do they hide? When faced with freedom-of-information requests they say they've "lost" the original global temperature records. Thousands of scientists are rising in protest against the scare campaign. Meanwhile $126 billion turned over in carbon markets in 2008 and bankers get set to make billions.
November 21st, 2009 | Tags: Bullying, Climate Money, ClimateGate, Coercion, Science Communication, The Skeptics Handbook, The Skeptics Handbook II | Category: Global Warming, The Skeptics Handbook | Print This Post | |

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We love it when our clients win awards, which is why we're cheering this week -- Kettler, a local real estate firm that's among the nation's top 20 multifamily developers, was honored by the National Association of Home Builders for having the Best Corporate Website. Kudos to Peyton for his award-winning design. Now ... To the blogs!
Earlier this week, Rob told us about jQuery's animate () function, and gave us the code he used to make three very cool versions of tabs -- all of which illustrate his love for Macs. Doug then described the mysterious "save for web" color shift after discovering the issue through his work on ODEO. Doug decided to drop some knowledge on fellow designers; specifically by providing three steps to color perfection. This set off a firestorm of great comments, and the masses showed the value of this kind of platform by sharing more information that further explained the problem and uncovered solutions. Samantha, after trying to explain a few concepts like blogging to her mom and her grandmother (who has never touched a computer), asked us for advice, specifically, "How do you describe what you do on the Internet to someone who has no concept of it?" Well?
Ryan continued his watch over major brands' efforts at gaining a foothold in social media marketing, this week specifically citing Coca-Cola. He said, "What Coca-Cola is learning, as are other brands that are joining the conversation with their customers, is that it requires a long-term commitment to nurturing those relationships. Relationships that, quite frankly, need to built on their customers' terms." Josh, in his post on the confusion of digital marketing mentions a DirecTV commercial series that highlights -- with a strategically awkward, "The Office"-style wit -- how traditional organizations try to leverage social media without truly understanding its use or potential. He cites an AdAge report that says only 5-10 percent of most advertising budgets are allocated to digital media. I fully expect this percentage to increase dramatically over the next few years, particularly if overall economic conditions create budget pressure and marketers feel the need to measure, justify, and more closely manage every aspect of their budget. Thanks to everyone who checked out Social Media Club last night at our headquarters; it was great having you. Have a super weekend!


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Q: Django - Unit Testing an AdminForm I am very new to unit testing and am probably doing something wrong, but when I simulate a post to update a model via the admin backend it seems like my save_model method in my AdminForm isn't being called.  I am trying to test this method - what am I doing wrong?
My second, less relevant question is in general how can I make sure a method is being called when I use unit testing?  Is there some way to list all the methods that were hit?
Below is the code my test is running.  In my save_model method in my AdminForm for this model, I set this model's foobar attribute to the username of the currently signed in user.  Below is my test:
self.client = Client()
self.client.login(username='username',password='password')
# self.dict is a dictionary of field names and values for mymodel to be updated
response = self.client.post('/admin/myapp/mymodel/%d/' % self.mymodel.id, self.dict)
self.assertEqual(response.status_code,200) # passes
self.assertEqual(self.mymodel.foobar,'username') # fails
self.client.logout()

It fails because it says that self.mymodel.foobar is an empty string.  That was what it should have been before the update.  No value for foobar is passed in the self.dict but my save_model method is designed to set it on its own when the update happens.  It is also worth noting that my code works correctly and save_model seems to work fine, just my test is failing.  Since I am a total noob at TDD, I'm sure the issue is with my test and not my code.  Thoughts?

A: From the code it looks like the problem is that, after posting the form, you don't reload self.mymodel from the database. If you hold a reference to a model object stored in the database, and one or more of the fields on that object is changed in the database, then you will need to reload the object from the database to see the updated values. As detailed in this question, you can do this with something like:
self.mymodel = MyModelClass.objects.get(id=self.mymodel.id)

To answer your second question, probably the most useful way to see what is happening would be to use logging to output what is happening in your save_model method - this will not only help you debug the issue during testing, but also if you encounter any issues in this method when running your application. The django guide to logging gives an excellent introduction:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/logging/

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Debian Developers' Corner / How You Can Join
How You Can Join
The Debian Project consists of volunteers, and our products are developed entirely by volunteers. We are generally looking for new contributors who have an interest in free software, and some free time.
If you haven't already, you should read through most of the web pages to get a better understanding of what we are trying to do. Pay particular attention to the Debian Free Software Guidelines and our Social Contract.
A lot of communication in the project happens on our mailing lists. If you want to get a feeling for the inner workings of the Debian project, you should at least subscribe to the debian-devel-announce and debian-news lists. Both are very low-volume and document what's going on in the community. The Debian Project News (published on debian-news) summarizes recent discussions from Debian related mailing lists and blogs and provides links to them. As a prospective developer, you should also subscribe to debian-mentors, an open forum trying to help new maintainers (and also, though less often, people who are new to the Project and want to help with something else than package maintenance). Other interesting lists are debian-devel, debian-project, debian-release, debian-qa and, depending on your interests, a lot of others. See the Mailing List Subscription page for a complete listing. (For those who wish to reduce the number of mails, there are "-digest" lists as read-only, digestified versions for some high-traffic lists. It's also worth knowing that you can use the Mailing List Archives page to read the mails on various lists with your web browsers.)
Contributing. If you are interested in maintaining packages, then you should look at our Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list to see which packages need maintainers. Taking over an abandoned package is the best way to start out as a maintainer – not only does it aid Debian in keeping its packages well maintained, but it gives you the opportunity to learn from the previous maintainer.
You can also aid by contributing to the writing of documentation, doing web site maintenance, translation (i18n & l10n), publicity, legal support or other roles in the Debian community. Our Quality Assurance site lists several other possibilities.
You don't need to be an official Debian Developer to carry out just about all of these tasks. Existing Debian Developers acting as sponsors can integrate your work into the project. It is generally best to try and find a developer who is working in the same area as you and has an interest in what you have done.
Finally, Debian provides many teams of developers working together on common tasks. Anybody can participate on a team, whether an official Debian Developer or not. Working together with a team is an excellent way to gain experience before starting the New Member process and is one of the best places to find package sponsors. So find a team that suits your interests and jump right in.
Joining. After you have contributed for some time and are sure about your involvement in the Debian project, you can join Debian in a more official role. There are two different roles in which you might join Debian:
Debian Maintainer (DM): The first step in which you can upload your own packages to the Debian archive yourself.
Debian Developer (DD): The traditional full membership role in Debian. A DD can participate in Debian elections. Uploading DDs can upload any package to the archive. Before applying as an uploading DD you should have a track record of maintaining packages for at least six months. For example uploading packages as a DM, working inside a team or maintaining packages uploaded by sponsors. Non-uploading DDs have the same packaging rights as Debian Maintainers. Before applying as a non-uploading DD, you should have a visible and significant track record of work inside the project.
In spite of the fact that many of the rights and responsibilities of a DM and a DD are identical, there are currently independent processes for applying for either role. See the Debian Maintainer wiki page for details on becoming a Debian Maintainer. And see the New Members Corner page to find out how to apply for official Debian Developer status.
Note that during much of Debian's history, the Debian Developer role was the only role; the Debian Maintainer role was introduced on 5th August 2007. This is why you see the term "maintainer" used in a historical sense where the term Debian Developer would be more precise. For example, the process of applying to become a Debian Developer was still known as the "Debian New Maintainer" process until 2011 when it was renamed to "Debian New Member" process.
Regardless of which role you choose to apply for, you should be familiar with Debian's procedures, so it is recommended to read the Debian Policy and the Developer's Reference before applying.
Besides the many developers, there's many areas you can help Debian with, including testing, documentation, porting, donations of money and use of machines for development and connectivity. We are constantly looking for mirrors in some parts of the world.
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August tied July as the hottest month on record, according to NASA data released this past week. This year we've seen half a dozen thousand-year floods, along with epic droughts. Mother Nature is telling us there's a problem. The long-term trend lines are clear. Yet we have a Republican presidential nominee who has repeatedly called climate change a "hoax." "Perhaps there's a minor effect," Donald Trump told The Washington Post's editorial board, "but I'm not a big believer in man-made climate change." So it goes in the madhouse of the climate debate. Even as the evidence has become unmistakable, and even though the alarm has been sounded several times, public policy has been paralyzed — sometimes from ignorance, sometimes from uncertainty, but often from a campaign of deliberate misinformation. Here are some of the worst offenders.
"Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Barton, a Republican congressman from Texas and a former chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has an environmental record so dismal that he earned the nickname "Smokey Joe." He has proved especially proficient in climate change denial, commissioning a now discredited report attacking evidence of the unprecedented nature of modern global warming. He also apologized to British Petroleum for the "shakedown" it received when others sought to hold it accountable for the environmental damage done by the Deepwater Horizon oil-rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. He has received considerable largesse from the fossil fuel industry over the years.
The former Alaska governor has had a close-up view of thawing permafrost and retreating sea ice. While in office she established the Alaska Climate Change Sub-Cabinet, which she tasked with, among other things, investigating "the potential benefits of Alaska participating in regional, national, and international climate policy agreements and greenhouse gas registries" and "the opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." But on the national stage she has referred to symptoms of climate change as "natural, cyclical environmental trends" and generally sought to cloud the consensus on human impact. She was especially unhelpful during the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, promoting a laundry list of false allegations against climate scientists in a Washington Post op-ed.
The oil mogul brothers, the greatest potential beneficiaries of the Keystone XL pipeline, have used their immense financial resources to support groups that advocate delay and inaction on climate change. Indeed, most of the residents in the Potemkin village of climate change denial receive or have received Koch funding. Prominent recipients include Americans for Prosperity, which has spent hundreds of millions of dollars supporting climate change-denying politicians; the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which was instrumental in blocking greenhouse gas emission regulations during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations; and the American Legislative Exchange Council, which has pushed state bills seeking to undermine environmental regulations, deny the risks of climate change and undermine efforts to incentivize renewable energy.
A self-styled "skeptical environmentalist" who brandishes a Greenpeace T-shirt as evidence of his unassailable environmental bona fides, Lomborg represents an insidious form of climate change denial. He doesn't dismiss the scientific evidence outright; he denies the seriousness of the threat and the monumental nature of the effort required to avert it. His arguments often have a veneer of credibility, but he lowballs climate projections and underestimates the potential damage and cost. In one op-ed, he stated that "a 20-foot rise in sea levels . . . would inundate about 16,000 square miles of coastline, where more than 400 million people live. That's a lot of people, to be sure, but hardly all of mankind." What's 400 million people among friends?


Over the last couple of years it has been realized that the vast computational power of graphics processing units (GPUs) could be harvested for purposes other than the video game industry. This power, which at least nominally exceeds that of current CPUs by large factors, results from the relative simplicity of the GPU architectures as compared to CPUs, combined with a large number of parallel processing units on single chip. To benefit from this setup for general computing purposes, the problems at hand need to be prepared in a way to profit from the inherent parallelism and hierarchical structure of memory accesses. Investigating possible advantages of GPU over CPU based systems for the case of studying classical spin models of statistical mechanics by Monte Carlo simulations, we find that only an explicit tailoring of the involved algorithms to the specific architecture under consideration allows to harvest the computational power of GPU systems. A number of examples, ranging from Metropolis simulations of ferromagnetic Ising models, over continuous Heisenberg and disordered spin-glass systems to parallel-tempering simulations have been investigated. Significant speed-ups by factors of up to 1000 compared to serial CPU code as well as previous GPU implementations are observed.
The code for single spin-flip Metropolis simulations of the ferromagnetic Ising model on a two-dimensional lattice with periodic boundary conditions is available here. This software is distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2).


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Programme & Tickets 2019
LitFest Walks
Travel & Tourist Information
LitFest Young Writer Competition 2020 – Now Open!
Flash Fiction Competition 2020 – Now Open!
Worcestershire Poet Laureate Competition 2020 – Now Open!
WPL, Charley Barnes – Blog post #1
Worcestershire LitFest & Fringe
Read all about it! Write now!
And the Worcestershire Poet Laureate shortlist is…
May 25, 2018 May 24, 2018 Charley B1 Comment
Every year our chosen judges work tirelessly towards choosing a new Poet Laureate for the county of Worcestershire and this year is certainly no exception. Seasoned judges Steve Wilson and Polly Stretton are joined by Nina Lewis, the current Worcestershire Poet Laureate, and Rachel Evans, the current Young Poet Laureate for Worcestershire, to make their decision on who is next in line to represent the literary community of Worcestershire and after much deliberation they have narrowed their options down to a final three…
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Our three finalists for this year's competition are:
Peter Sutton
Sarah Leavesley
Betti Moretti
A huge congratulations to our three finalists, and commiserations and deep gratitude to everyone else who entered. We were delighted to see the wonderful entries that stacked up this year and we hope that those who entered alongside the three finalists will consider entering again in the future.
Peter, Sarah, and Betti will be performing their themed poem alongside one personal poem at the launch of this year's festival on June 10th, at The Angel Centre, Worcester, after which we will discover who will be crowned WPL for 2018/2019.
For more information on this event, and many others that we are hosting throughout the festival week, please do have a peek at our programme which you can access by clicking here.
'I am John Clare' – A revealing and outstanding performance!
May 9, 2018 Charley B1 Comment
In a collaborative event between Worcestershire LitFest and Fringe and Evesham Festival of Words, the peasant poet John Clare was revived for one night only in the Almonry Museum, Evesham, last Thursday.
Written by Stephen Loveless and performed on the stage by Robin Hillman, the evening promised to be a feast of poetic brilliance and historical wonder.
Now Worcestershire LitFest and Fringe Committee Member, Daniel Burton, shares his thoughts with us on what was undoubtedly an informative and emotional evening.
8th March 1860. John Clare, peasant poet and the son of a farm labourer, has been committed to the General Lunatic Asylum in Northampton after years of 'poetic prosing', confused and unsure about his identity.
3rd May 2018. Robin Hillman brings Clare back to life for a 21st century audience with a thought-provoking performance as the peasant poet himself. Evesham's Almonry Museum provided the perfect stage to welcome Clare to modern-day England, surrounded by historical artefacts in a beautiful venue.
Delivering his performance with passion, Hillman enabled the audience to gain an insight into the mind of one of the 19th century's most important and influential poets. He effortlessly switched from exuberance to humility and you really got the sense that you were having a conversation with Clare as a result of Hillman's performance. You could say it was like having Clare in the room with you!
Anyone unfamiliar with Clare's poetry was treated to a fantastic lesson! Hillman blended in Clare's poetic inspirations, namely nature and birds, with the poet's sense of confusion using imagery and his delivery. He also captured the essence of the difficulties that Clare would have endured throughout his life and career.
Balancing the need to write poetry and the need to make money for his family took its toll on Clare. He had difficulties with his mental health and even claimed himself to be Lord Byron and Shakespeare on several occasions, according to historical records. Hillman portrayed this emotional turmoil with great confidence – every member of the audience felt a strong, deep connection with him and, importantly, with Clare and his situation.
Hillman's performance was made possible by the research and incredible writing of award-winning writer Stephen Loveless. During a Q&A session after his performance, Hillman revealed that even though the script for 'I am John Clare' was written fairly quickly, it was only after the weeks and weeks of intense research Loveless carried out beforehand. This attention to detail and facts, Hillman also revealed, was how he was able to get into Clare's mind and put on such a great performance.
Opening with Hillman/Clare playing the fiddle whilst making his entrance, 'I am John Clare' took place surrounded by an array of historical artefacts and instruments. The location took the audience to the days of Clare, almost putting them 'into' the scene themselves, as though they were meeting Clare in person back in 19th century England.
With a charismatic and talented performance by Robin Hillman and the perfect location in the Almonry Museum, 'I am John Clare' was educational and emotional all rolled into one fantastic evening. It was a pleasure to attend the event and learn about the struggles and personality of one of England's poetic geniuses.
Review written by Daniel Burton.
I am John Clare – A collaboration between Worcestershire LitFest and Evesham Festival of Words!
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The Worcestershire LitFest and Fringe team are delighted to have teamed up with Evesham Festival of Words for a collaborative event; a one-night-only performance of the marvellous I am John Clare! To be hosted at the Almonry Museum in Evesham on Thursday, May 3rd, this evening of poetical 'madness' promises to be a night to remember!
After years of being addicted to 'poetical prosing', John Clare, known as the peasant poet, found himself committed to Northampton General Lunatic Asylum in the closing weeks of 1841. We join him there on the night of 8th March 1860.
Subtitled 'One night with a poet in a madhouse', the Almonry provides the perfect setting for this one-man play, written by award-winning writer, Stephen Loveless, and performed by actor, fiddle-player and singer, Robin Hillman. The play will be followed by a Q&A session.
Tickets are £6 and this grants you entry to the event plus a glass of wine, and you can buy them online now just by clicking here (although tickets will also be available on the door on the night of the performance itself).
We're tremendously excited for this event and we'd love it our friends and patrons could come along in support of the evening as well. See you there!
The Countdown is on for our 2018 Competitions!
We are delighted by how many entries we have received for our 2018 competitions so far, but we're here to give you a gentle reminder that if you're thinking of entering yourself then it's time to get your skates on.
Our Young Writer Competition is open until Friday, April 27th (this Friday!) and the details on how to enter can be found just by clicking here.
Our hunt for the new Worcestershire Poet Laureate will also come to an end this Friday (April 27th) but we're still accepting entries throughout this week, so if you fancy yourself a WPL type then get involved by clicking here.
Last but by no means least, our wonderful Flash Fiction Competition will also draw to a close this Friday but we are accepting entries up until midnight Friday evening so if you've got some fabulous flashes stashed away somewhere, have a peek just here to see how you can submit them.
We've had some wonderful submissions so far but we'd like even more before we shut our doors completely! Spread the word and get involved – and maybe you'll even feel moved to send something in yourself…
World Poetry Day – now we've fully recovered!
March 27, 2018 Charley BLeave a comment
Worcestershire Poet Laureate Nina Lewis cooked up an absolute storm for the Worcestershire writing community last Wednesday to honour World Poetry Day.
A room packed full of some of the best poetic and literary talent that Worcestershire has to offer, including a host of Poet Laureates, past and present too! Nina filled our hearts and minds – and has no doubt helped to fill a few notebooks as well.
Now we're fully recovered from all of the excitement – between World Poetry Day and Earth Hour, it was quite a week – we'd like to thank the wonderful Nina Lewis, and everyone else who came along to support her, for such a memorable World Poetry Day celebration.
For a full run down of the evening's events, you can have a peek at Nina's own blog too, available here.
Worcestershire Poet Laureate needs YOU and your inspirational women!
March 3, 2018 March 2, 2018 Charley BLeave a comment
Worcestershire Poet Laureate, Nina Lewis, is looking to mark International Women's Day (March 8th) with a special kind of celebration this year. She's put out an open call not for poetry, but for inspirational ladies in all forms! Nina is looking for submissions of the following:
A poem/poet to read.
Female inspirations – and why they inspire you!
Influential women who got you into writing or supported this path for you (personal rather than famous.)
Something you have grown wise to in womanhood (that you may have wished you'd known sooner).
So if you have wise words – or indeed, wise women – that you want the world to know about then now is your time to share them! All submissions should be sent to worcspl@gmail.com with the subject heading IWD. Submissions MUST be sent before March 6th, as Nina will need time to read submissions and compile them before the day itself. It's also worth noting that you can submit anonymously – as long as you make this wish clear in your email.
For a closer look at Nina's plan you can have a peek at her personal blog by clicking here.
Nina's WPL blog – December to February
March 2, 2018 Charley BLeave a comment
Well here we are, I have just a quarter of my term left as Laureate – where did that time go? Here's my review of December to February in case you have somehow missed everything!
PS: Don't miss World Poetry Day 21st March 7 PM start at Café Bliss.
Submissions for Contour – the Worcestershire Poet Laureate Poetry Magazine – opened. This time the theme was Love as I was editing for February release.
A Tale of Two Cities, my Transatlantic poetry project, was launched with 46 poets from the USA and UK. All the poets were partnered up and our 'Call' poems were shared.
My poem from the Hanbury Hall Poets project went on display at an Exhibition at the Maltstones in Cutnall Green, with thanks to Stephen Evans for this.
I was a Guest Poet along with Kevin Brooke and Holly Magill at Suz Winspear's Book Launch, 'The Awkward People', her WPL collection was published by Black Pear Press. It was a wonderful event and I have now read the full collection. If you haven't bought a copy I urge you to do so, you will not regret it! It's available here.
I shared poetry with Tammy Gooding on BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester.
Poets involved in AToTC started working on 'Response' poems with their partners. I became an expert on Salmon!
I started planning World Poetry Day (my official event from WPL remit). It is going to be a lot of fun. I devised the creative elements and booked some of the performers for the evening.
I started preparing school workshops (booked for March) and had some face to face meetings. I am very excited to get back into schools in this role and this is definitely something I want to pursue in the future.
I planned a Suffragette Workshop to coincide with the exhibition at The Hive. The workshop took place on February 10th. There were 12 participants on the day and several additional poets online. Work submitted from this event will appear in an anthology published on the website in April.
I continued editorial work on ATOTC, the deadline for 'Response' poems came and went; I am now in proofing stages and the Special Edition Contour is due for release in April.
The 2nd Issue Contour Love was published on the 12th February. This issue is nearly twice the size of the last one and includes interviews with SpeakEasy Featured Artists as well as PL News and of course, poetry. There were over 600 readers in 24 hours of release!
All the poets have now been confirmed for World Poetry Day.
Haiku Raffle tickets have been produced and an open submission call is still currently open (deadline 10th March) for Little Poems, these will be used as part of the Poetry Take Away at the end of the evening and can be previously published. For more details click here.
I had my BBC Hereford & Worcester Radio Interview with Tammy Gooding and this month it was a slightly extended recording due to us discussing love poetry and the work of Pablo Neruda! It was fun and I shared the love poem recently published in Contour.
I met with Carolyn Baldwin at the Jinney Ring to finalise our plans for an exhibition of poetry produced in my Sculpture Trail Poetry Workshop back in September. I am delighted to announce our work will be on display in the restaurant for the whole of April. So treat yourself to tea, cake and poetry!
Promoting the Poet Laureate competition is something I have been involved in for the past month or so, it is really painful because it makes me feel like this is over, when in reality I am just ¾ of the way through my term. I look forward to discovering who the next WPL will be though.
Jess Charles at Worcester News asked me for some words about it and used my copy to produce an article, which you can read here. If you are thinking of entering the competition, you have until 30th March. Do it!
At the end of November I was invited to be an International Guest Poet at Perth Poetry Festival, I spent a lot of December researching Grant opportunities and jumping around in a very excited manner!
WMRN Reader in Residence at Rugby Library. I had fun compiling a 12 month Reading Challenge List for 2018.
Interview for Brum Radio Poets with Rick Sanders, including readings from Fragile Houses, V. Press.
Came 2nd in the Haiku Poetry Slam at Grizzly Pear (Birmingham) and won workshop tickets for Verve Poetry Festival.
V. Press were nominated for the Michael Marks Publishers' Award. The pamphlets that V. Press had in for this year are: Alex Reed's A Career in Accompaniment, Nina Lewis' Fragile Houses, David Clarke's Scare Stories and Stephen Daniels' Tell Mistakes I Love Them.
I performed poems in Songs of Apollo – Poetry is Life: Colour, Light & Shade, devised by Cordula Kempe. A night of poetry and music at Kempe Studio, Stratford-upon-Avon, with RSC & NT actors and Angela France.
I performed at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival as part of the WoLF Collective, sharing poems from Fragile Houses.
WMRN Rugby Library Writing a Book Review Workshop, Reader in Residence.
Verve Poetry Festival (15-18th) Birmingham Waterstones, I was the official blogger this year and my reviews can be read just here.
Stay tuned for my next update in the coming months and, if you don't want to wait that long to see what I've been up to, you can always have a look at my WPL blog!
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Public Release: 17-Jan-2018
Why don't turtles still have tail spikes?
Researchers explain why tail weaponry is rare
IMAGE: Two Ankylosaurus exchange blows using their tail clubs. view more
Credit: Jack Mayer Wood (used with permission)
We're all familiar with those awesome armored giants of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods - Stegosaurus and Ankylosaurus - and their amazing, weaponized tails. But why aren't similar weaponized tails found in animals living today? In a study covering 300 million years of evolutionary history, researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences found four necessary components to tail weapon development: size, armor, herbivory and thoracic stiffness.
"Weapons like tail clubs and bony spikes are found only in a few extinct animals - such as ankylosaurs, glyptodonts (large extinct armadillos) and in some ancient turtle species," says Victoria Arbour, former postdoctoral student at NC State, current postdoctoral fellow at the Royal Ontario Museum and corresponding author of a paper describing the research. "These same weapons just don't occur in modern-day animals, and we wanted to know why they were so rare even in the fossil record."
Study co-author Lindsay Zanno, professor of biological sciences at NC State and head of paleontology at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, agrees, "We kicked off this study with a simple observation: most animal weapons used for combat are located on the most critical part of the body for survival, the head, as opposed to more expendable ones such as the tail. Why, we asked, wasn't evolution producing more animals with weaponized tails, when this would seem to be far less dangerous?"
To answer this question, Arbour and Zanno looked at a data set of 286 amniote species, both living and extinct, to see if there were patterns that pointed to the evolution of three specific types of tail weapons: bony spikes, a stiff tail or a bony knob at the tip of the tail. Amniotes refer to backboned, four-legged reptiles and mammals, as well as birds.
In the case of bony tail weaponry, the researchers found the animals had four things in common. First, they were usually large, weighing over 200 pounds (or 100 kilograms) - about the weight of the glyptodonts that used to roam South America or a living mountain goat - or were over three feet (a meter) long.
Second, armor was key. Ancient turtles, armadillos and armored dinosaurs were covered in some sort of hard carapace or bony plated armor. Thoracic stiffness - referring to a body that doesn't bend side to side easily, perhaps so that it could easily counteract the forces needed to swing a large clubbed or spiked tail - was also important. Finally, every animal in the fossil record that developed elaborate tail weaponry was an herbivore, or vegetarian.
"It's rare for large herbivores to have lots of bony armor to begin with," Arbour says, "and even rarer to see armored species with elaborate head or tail ornamentation because of the energy cost to the animal. The evolution of tail weaponry in Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus required a 'perfect storm' of traits that aren't seen in living animals, and this unique combination explains why tail weaponry is rare even in the fossil record."
Zanno continues, "This study is an elegant example of how the fossil record can be used to better understand the world around us today."
The research appears in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The research was funded in part by the Jurassic Foundation.
Note to editors: An abstract of the paper follows.
"The evolution of tail weaponization in amniotes"
Authors: Victoria Arbour, University of Toronto and Royal Ontario Museum; Lindsay Zanno, North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Published: Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Weaponry, for the purpose of intraspecific combat or predator defense, is one of the most widespread animal adaptations, yet the selective pressures and constraints governing its phenotypic diversity and skeletal regionalization are not well understood. Here we investigate the evolution of tail weaponry in amniotes, a rare form of weaponry that nonetheless evolved independently among a broad spectrum of life including mammals, turtles, and dinosaurs. Using comparative methods, we test for links between morphology, ecology, and behaviour in extant amniotes known to use the tail as a weapon, and in extinct taxa bearing osseous tail armaments. We find robust ecological and morphological correlates of both tail lashing behaviour and bony tail weaponry, including large body size, body armor, and herbivory, suggesting these life history parameters factor into the evolution of antipredator behaviours and tail armaments. We suggest that the evolution of tail weaponry is rare because large, armoured herbivores are uncommon in extant terrestrial faunas, as they have been throughout evolutionary history.
Tracey Peake
tracey_peake@ncsu.edu
@NCStateNews
http://www.ncsu.edu
Proceedings of the Royal Society B
Jurassic Foundation
Ankylosaurus Fighting (IMAGE)
https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/01/arbour-zanno-tail/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.2299
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Q: Dataset for experimenting with road networks with graph algorithms I'm working on a kind of geographic problem, specifically finding the fastest path for an Electric Vehicle.
So to facilitate the experimentations of the algorithms I've created I need some kind of road network dataset. I have been looking at some real world data sets such as OpenStreetMap, but this seems like an awfully complicated thing to integrate.
All I really need is a road network dataset that contains distances and speed limits, being able to work with it in python is preferable.

A: Researchers frequently use graphs from the 9th DIMACS Implementation Challenge for experiments with their shortest-path algorithms. Coordinates, distances, and estimated travel times all are provided. The format is simple and textual; I estimate that a dozen lines of Python would suffice to read them.


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Can Cutting Carbs Actually Throw Your Heart Out of Whack?
The trendy weight-loss strategy may have a serious potential side effect, new research suggests.
By Selene Yeager
Irina MarwanGetty Images
Studies show long-time endurance athletes may be at higher risk for atrial fibrillation (AFib), a common heart rhythm disorder that raises risk of stroke.
Now, a new study set to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting suggests that people following a low-carb diet may also be at higher risk of developing AFib, too.
Those eating less than 45 percent of their calories from carbs might eat fewer vegetables, fruits, and grains—foods that are known to reduce inflammation, which has been linked to AFib.
Cutting carbs has become a go-to strategy for cyclists and runners looking to cut weight. Now, research suggests it might be wise to cut that out, or at least approach cutting carbs with caution.
That's because people consuming a low proportion of their daily calories from carbohydrates like grains, fruits, and starchy vegetables appear to be significantly more likely to develop atrial fibrillation (AFib)—an irregular heart rhythm that can raise your risk of blood clots or stroke, according to preliminary research set to be presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting.
The study analyzed the health records and dietary intake of nearly 14,000 people from 1985 to 2016. At the beginning of the study, none of the participants had AFib. Nearly 1,900 were diagnosed with the condition over the course of 22 years.
The researchers discovered that those who reported having a low carbohydrate intake were the most likely to develop AFib. Specifically, those who ate fewer than 45 percent of their diet from carbs were 18 percent more likely to develop AFib than those who had a moderate carb intake of 45 to 52 percent of daily calories from carbs. They were also 16 percent more likely to develop the heart rhythm disorder than those eating a high-carb diet of more than 52 percent of calories from carbs.
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"Low carbohydrate diets were associated with increased risk of incident AFib regardless of the type of protein or fat used to replace the carbohydrate," said the study's lead author Xiaodong Zhuang, M.D., Ph.D., a cardiologist at the hospital affiliated with Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, in a press release.
Why Cycling Is One of the Best Ways to Lose Weight
Why You Should Just Eat the Damn Carbs
AFib is a common heart rhythm disorder where the electrical activity in the upper chambers of the heart goes haywire and starts firing in disarray, causing symptoms like rapid heart beat, fluttering or palpitations, shortness of breath, and chest discomfort.
People with AFib are five times more likely to have a stroke and are at a higher risk for heart failure than those without the disorder. Long-time endurance athletes, who can naturally develop enlarged hearts, are also more likely to develop AFib (though it's more likely to be intermittent, than persistent, in athletes).
Several potential mechanisms could explain why restricting carbohydrates might lead to AFib, Zhuang said in the release. One is that people eating a low-carbohydrate diet tend to eat fewer vegetables, fruits and grains—foods that are known to reduce inflammation, which has been linked to AFib. Eating more protein and fat in lieu of carbohydrate-rich foods may lead to cell-damaging oxidative stress, which has also been associated with AFib. Finally, the effect could be related to an increased risk of other forms of cardiovascular disease.
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that carbohydrates make up 45 to 65 percent of total daily calorie intake. "Considering the potential influence on arrhythmia, our study suggests this popular weight control method should be recommended cautiously," Zhuang concludes in the release.
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You control four characters and configure what skill sets they learn along the way. You..
The land was safe and peaceful until one day, when the sky shattered... You have to fight evil creatures as you make your way through forests, trying to figure out what happened. Find treasures, equip new weapons and skills, and meet new heroes who will join you in your journey. Can you reveal the mystery in the new adventure?
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package org.openmhealth.shim;

import java.util.Map;

/**
 * @author Danilo Bonilla
 */
public class AuthorizationResponse {

    public enum Type {
        AUTHORIZED,
        DENIED,
        ERROR
    }

    private Type type;
    private String details;
    private AccessParameters accessParameters;
    private Map<String, String> requestParameters;

    public Type getType() {

        return type;
    }

    public void setType(Type type) {

        this.type = type;
    }

    public String getDetails() {

        return details;
    }

    public void setDetails(String details) {

        this.details = details;
    }

    public Map<String, String> getRequestParameters() {

        return requestParameters;
    }

    public void setRequestParameters(Map<String, String> requestParameters) {

        this.requestParameters = requestParameters;
    }

    public AccessParameters getAccessParameters() {

        return accessParameters;
    }

    public void setAccessParameters(AccessParameters accessParameters) {

        this.accessParameters = accessParameters;
    }

    public static AuthorizationResponse error(String error) {

        AuthorizationResponse response = new AuthorizationResponse();
        response.setType(Type.ERROR);
        response.setDetails(error);
        return response;
    }

    public static AuthorizationResponse denied() {

        AuthorizationResponse response = new AuthorizationResponse();
        response.setType(Type.DENIED);
        return response;
    }

    public static AuthorizationResponse denied(String details) {

        AuthorizationResponse response = new AuthorizationResponse();
        response.setType(Type.DENIED);
        response.details = details;
        return response;
    }

    public static AuthorizationResponse authorized() {

        AuthorizationResponse response = new AuthorizationResponse();
        response.setType(Type.AUTHORIZED);
        return response;
    }

    public static AuthorizationResponse authorized(AccessParameters accessParameters) {

        AuthorizationResponse response = new AuthorizationResponse();
        response.setAccessParameters(accessParameters);
        response.setType(Type.AUTHORIZED);
        return response;
    }
}

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Crimen de autor (Roman de gare en francés) es una película francesa del 2007 dirigida por Claude Lelouch, quien aparece en los créditos con el seudónimo Hervé Picard. Narra las peripecias de una novelista, de su escritor fantasma y de una joven cuando un encuentro casual en la carretera entre estos dos últimos termina por romper el delicado equilibrio de sus vidas. El actor Dominique Pinon realizó un trabajo notable en este su primer papel protagónico. El título original es una expresión popular que significa "novela basura que se lee en un tren o en una estación de tren", similar al equivalente inglés beach book.

Argumento
Una escritora que acaba de publicar un best-seller está siendo interrogada por la policía acerca de un asesinato. La historia viaja abruptamente en el tiempo hacia la escena en la que una joven es abandonada por su violento compañero de viaje en un punto casi solitario. Un hombre que allí aparece se ofrece amablemente a darle un aventón.

Después, comienzan a presentarse personajes con identidades misteriosas: un violador-asesino que ha huido de la cárcel puede ser también el mismo hombre que presume de sus habilidades con los trucos mágicos. Otro hombre ha abandonado a su familia. Y un tercero es el ayudante de una escritora. ¿Cuál de estos tres corresponde al desconocido que ayuda a la mujer abandonada en la carretera?

Él resulta particularmente sospechoso cuando comienza a dictar, a una grabadora en secreto, la historia de una mujer que se halla en peligro. El hombre y la mujer viajan desde el punto donde ella fue abandonada en la carretera hasta casa de sus padres, donde también vive su hija. (La mujer vive en París y su ocupación verdadera no queda clara.) El hombre, que estableció repentinamente una cercana relación con la hija, desaparece después durante varias horas...

Al final, los cabos se van atando y el público termina por identificar a cada uno de los tres personajes misteriosos, lo mismo que el papel que juega la escritora.

Acogida
La película se estrenó en los Estados Unidos en abril del 2008 con críticas positivas, y ganó un 87 por ciento de los votos por parte de los usuarios del sitio web rottentomatoes.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Página oficial de la película

Véase también
 (El) escritor fantasma o El escritor oculto, película de Roman Polanski del 2010.

Películas de 2007
Películas de suspenso
Películas de misterio
Películas de Francia
Películas dirigidas por Claude Lelouch
Películas rodadas en Francia

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Germany is the largest country in Central Europe. Germany is a federation of 16 states, each with its own distinct and unique culture. If you have perceptions of Germany as homogeneous, it will surprise you with its regions and diversity.
A great number of visitors will be particularly interested in Germany's historical sights such as it's cathedrals and castles, or it's traditions such as Bavarian food and the beer culture. But at the same time, it is a very modern country that offers a cutting-edge music scene, superb night life, avant-garde art and a significant body of left-wing literature.
Travel by Train in Germany and Benelux.
Travel by Train in Germany and Denmark.
Travel by Train in Germany and Austria.
Travel by Train in Germany and Czech Republic.
Travel by Train in Germany and France.
Travel by Train in Germany and Poland.
Travel by Train in Germany and Switzerland.
Combine car rental & train travel exploring German.
As Berlin strengthens its role as capital, increasing numbers of trains are speeding their way into town. All points of the country, especially Frankfurt, Munich, and Bonn, maintain excellent rail connections, with high-tech, high-speed improvements being made to the country's railway system virtually all the time. Unlike many other European countries whose rail service is highly centralized, Germany uses a multihub system, which means you rarely have to wait long for a train.
German's ICE (Inter City Express) train is renowned not only for its speed, but for its high-tech and outrageously comfortable accommodations as well. We give an enthusiastic "Yes!" to First Class, with its large, plush leather seats. Plus, the newest ICE trains also feature individual video entertainment systems, and a glass separation between the driver's cabin and the passenger area. So you can head to the front of the train to truly experience a rail ride (at 186 mph!) like no other. There are actually several different types of ICE trains, ranging from the older buy incredibly spacious domestic ICE 1 trains to the newer ICE T trains that use tilting technology and travel internationally.
All ICE trains offer state of the art amenities, which may include electronic seat reservation displays, personal audio system (and even personal video screens in first class), luggage storage lockers, fold down tabletops, and computer ports. Some ICE trains have panoramic lounges that offer excellent views of the surrounding landscape. The ICE network significantly reduces travel time, making transit north to south or east to west across the country easily in the course of a single day.
Slightly slower are the hundreds of InterCity (IC) passenger trains, travelling up to 124 mph (200kmph) which service every hour or two to the centers of some 60 German cities. IC trains have adjustable cushioned seats and individual reading lights. Bars, lounges, and dining rooms are available, too. A network of EuroCity(EC) trains connecting Germany with 13 other countries offers the same high standards of service as those of IC.
Interegio-Express (IRE) trains, some with double decker compartments, handle inter-regional service and stop at more stations than the InterCity trains. Regionalverkehr (RV, RB, and RE) trains are local trains that stop at every station on their route.
CityNightLine (CNL) trains are exceptionally comfortable, including some double decker night trains that run domestically as well as between Germany and surrounding countries, such as the route from Berlin to Zurich, or Frankfurt to Vienna or Copenhagen. They offer four categories of comfort, from private cabins with bathrooms to reclining seats. Similarly, the EuroNights provide night service on major international routes, including Munich to Budapest.
German trains are invariably crowded, and even though they aren't required on most IC or ICE routes, many people reserve seats. We strongly recommend that you do too, if you don't want to end up standing. Reservations cost 1.50 € to 3.50 € extra; Reservations for the ICE Sprinters are mandatory and should be made as far in advance as possible, especially if you're travelling on an international route; sleeper reservations are normally included in the price of the ticket or pass supplement that you pay. Seat reservations can be made at all train stations or can be reserved through Rail Europe.
If you're planning for an excelent trip in Germany, I strongly recommend investing in Rick Steve's Germany guide book, and the relevant Lonely Planet Guide for in-depth country information on the sights to see, places to stay, places to eat. They're both are very very useful.
All German trains, even the smallest, have a first-class section or cars (offering more leg space and comfier seats). Train are generally clean and comfortable. All trains are non-smoking.
ICE trains have a buffer or restaurant car (called BordBistro or BordRestaurant) that sells drinks, meals, and snacks. The quality is usually good. IC trains generally have an attendant who pushes around a small cart from which coffee, tea, mineral water, sandwiches, potato chips, and other snack items are dispensed. These are more expensive than the same things bought from a supermarket, so if you're on a tight budget buy them before boarding the train.
Night trains offer first and tourist class. Sleeping accommodations in first class include single or double compartments with shower and toilet and are equipped with key cards, phones for wake up service, luggage storage, and other amenities. Tourist class offers four bed cabins with shared bathrooms as well as open seating with sleeperrettes (reclining seats). Trains are equipped with a restaurant and bistro car, and breakfast is included in the first class fare.
The national rail corporation in Germany, Deutsche Bahn (DB) will arrange assistance for travellers with disabilities (getting to and boarding trains, among other things), provide you call their Mobility Assistance Center (01805/512-512) at least a day in advance.


Traveler Review for Private Tour in Copenhagen, Denmark by Tour Guide Paul H.
About Paul H. Message Paul H.
Paul took us on an excellent walking-ferry tour. No car, but we didn't need one, The city is compact enough to walk or take a ferry over a longer distance. He imparted fascinating details about what we saw and added much personal background information that touched us deeply. We invited him to have lunch with us and enjoyed luscious forms of herring that we never would have tried. Paul talked all through our time together, which we really appreciate. We learned a lot throughout an active, fascinating day.
TOUR GUIDE RESPONSE: Thank you very much , I enjoyed the tour too - and "velbekomme" regarding the herring ("bon appetit" in Danish.


The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over the National Assembly invasion by security forces.
Secondus in a statement by his Media Aide, Ike Abonyi, on Tuesday said the invasion was an indication that President Buhari and the ruling APC were out to destroy the nation's democracy.
Secondus claimed that the plan to invade the National Assembly was perfected when Senator Godswill Akpabio, met with President Muhammadu Buhari in London, few days ago.
"The final plan for the invasion of National Assembly was concretised when the Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio visited the President in London at the weekend.
"Therefore, I call on President Buhari to resign and pave way for the sustenance of democracy since it is now obvious that he has lost legitimacy to continue as an elected President," Secondus said.
Secondus, however, commended Vice President Yemi Osinbajo for sacking the Director General of the DSS, Lawan Daura, saying that showed Nigeria cannot be hijacked and ruled by a cabal.


Collection of four vintage picture frames.
Tripod of the Pourtales collection, vintage engraved illustration.
Teeth of a horse four years, vintage engraved illustration. Natural History of Animals, 1880.
Four reins of horse riding in hand, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of four reins of horse riding in hand.
Propagation of light in non-inertial reference frames, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of Propagation of light in non-inertial reference frames.
The landammanns of Trun, vintage engraved illustration.
Collection of Mr. Arthur Forges. - Antique Bronze. - Drawing of Edward Garnier, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1875.
Plan of cannon, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
Beached whale. - Drawing Bocourt, after a print of the collection Mouilleron, vintage engraved illustration. Beached Whale. Magasin Pittoresque 1875.
Type of rotary pump with a single axis and four pallets, vintage engraved illustration. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
Four o' Clock Flower or Marvel of Peru or Mirabilis jalapa, vintage engraving. Old engraved illustration of a Four o' Clock Flower plant.
Old engraved illustration of Four-Candle Chandelier from inside isolated on a white background. Industrial encyclopedia E.-O. Lami - 1875.
Rotating frame of the hematocrit, vintage engraved illustration.
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tengiz expansionsupersizing the output of a supergiant field
Deep beneath the western Kazakhstan steppe is a giant reservoir known as the Tengiz Field, where the oil column measures an incredible 1 mile (1.6 km) across. With a surface area more than four times that of Paris, France, Tengiz ranks as the world's deepest producing supergiant oil field and the largest single-trap producing reservoir in existence. Nearby is another world-class reservoir called the Korolev Field. Chevron holds a 50 percent interest in Tengizchevroil (TCO), which operates the two fields.
Today, the fields' yearly output could satisfy the annual oil demand of entire nations. Net daily production in 2019 (Chevron share) averaged 290,000 barrels of crude oil, 419 million cubic feet of natural gas and 21,000 barrels of natural gas liquids.
The integrated Future Growth Project-Wellhead Pressure Management Project (FGP-WPMP) is designed to further increase total daily production from the Tengiz reservoir and maximize the ultimate recovery of resources.
The FGP will use state-of-the-art sour gas injection technology, successfully developed and proven during TCO's previous expansion in 2008, to increase daily crude oil production from Tengiz by approximately 260,000 barrels per day.
In parallel, the WPMP maximizes the value of existing TCO facilities by extending the production plateau and keeping existing plants producing at full capacity. First oil is planned for 2022.
Tengiz and Korolev are located about 6 miles (10 km) east of the Caspian Sea.
building capacitygrowing the use of kazakhstani goods and services
Since the start of the FGP-WPMP, we've worked to identify and develop viable, sustainable opportunities to maximize the use of Kazakhstani goods and services. One way we're doing this is through the TCO Small and Medium Business Loan Program. Since the start of this TCO program, we've provided $9 million in interest-free loans to entrepreneurs and small businesses, like MontazhSpetsStroy JSC (MSS), Kazakhstan.
TCO has worked extensively with MSS, a 100 percent Kazakhstani-owned and -operated engineering, procurement and construction company, to upgrade the firm's health, environment and safety practices to meet TCO standards. As a result of that effort, MSS won a second contract with TCO and is on track to further build its safety capabilities and skills.
In 2015 overall, TCO spent $2.4 billion on Kazakhstani goods and services.
TCO's major capital projects are big generators of Kazakhstani-supplied content. For example, the last expansion of Tengiz, the Sour Gas Injection-Second Generation Project (SGI-SGP), invested more than $2 billion in local jobs, goods and services. More than 200 Kazakhstani companies and their workers were engaged in the SGI-SGP expansion.
FGP-WPMP will continue to grow TCO's investments in Kazakhstan through many new jobs and large-scale use of local goods and services that will contribute to the regional and national economy. TCO has engaged Kazakhstani entities to participate in FGP-WPMP engineering, procurement and fabrication services and, as of end of June 2016, has pre-screened more than 1,600 Kazakhstani companies.
"Energy development has been critical in generating Kazakhstan's growth and prosperity. At Chevron, we are very proud to play a supporting role in generating Kazakhstan's success and its goal to become a nation of global prominence."
John Baltz
Managing Director, Chevron Eurasia Business Unit
our Tengizchevroil (TCO) joint venture's direct payments to Kazakhstani entities1
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1From 1993 to March 2016. Includes Kazakhstani employees' salaries, purchases of Kazakhstani goods and services, tariffs and fees paid to state-owned companies, profit distributions to Kazakhstani shareholders and taxes and royalties paid to the government.
workforce developmentbroadening the skills of the kazakhstani workforce
The name "Future Growth Project" can apply to skills local workers are gaining as well as to production. Over the life of the project, TCO anticipates creating approximately 20,000 jobs. TCO joint ventures with partners such as Chevron are facilitating the transfer of knowledge, technologies and skills. Through Chevron's international development assignments, TCO employees have been able to build their knowledge overseas and share what they've learned with those back home. As part of the FGP-WPMP, professional training programs are being extended to train Kazakhstani workers across a range of disciplines.
helping our employees grow
Meet Ulzhan Shonataeva. As an employee of our Tengizchevroil joint venture in Kazakhstan, she is gaining new skills while on a two-year development assignment at Chevron headquarters in California. Other Kazakhstani employees are building their knowledge in finance, technology and operations.
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technologiesadvancing tengiz to the next generation
FGP-WPMP can be described as the third generation in a two-decade-long process that has steadily increased production from Tengiz. FGP-WPMP will reinject all of the naturally occurring hydrogen sulfide, or "sour gas," produced by oil processing, maintaining pressure in the reservoir. TCO is developing FGP-WPMP with a demonstrated commitment to local (Kazakhstani) content, worker safety, environmental and social performance.
The project's approach to construction of the FGP-WPMP facilities is to use large, fabricated equipment blocks called modules. The main FGP-WPMP equipment will be fabricated in South Korea, Kazakhstan and Italy, and pre-assembled for transportation to Tengiz for final assembly and hook-up.
Did you know? TCO is the leading energy producer in Kazakhstan, contributing about 30 percent of Kazakhstan's total oil and gas output.
"The Tengizchevroil joint venture was founded in 1993 with the objectives of delivering stable, reliable production from the Tengiz oil field while steadily increasing our national workforce and our use of Kazakhstani goods and services."
Eimear Bonner
General Director, Tengizchevroil LLP
environmentdriving environmental progress
When TCO was established as operator of the Tengiz Field in 1993, the field's ongoing operations included the routine flaring of associated natural gas (naturally occurring gas, not produced for commercial sale). Since then, TCO has initiated a series of major capital projects that ultimately eliminated routine flaring. Such investments have enabled TCO to reduce total natural gas flaring volumes by 85 percent since 2000; increase the gas utilization rate to more than 98 percent; and reduce total air emissions generated per tonne of oil by 73 percent—all while increasing annual crude oil volume by 159 percent.
Since 2000, TCO has invested more than $3 billion on projects that have reduced its environmental impact.
Through significant investments in environmental standards and technology, TCO's workforce is continually improving environmental performance.
Tengizchevroil LLP is operated by Chevron in joint venture with ExxonMobil, KazMunayGas and LukArco.
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Visa index: Morocco gains five places
Morocco is among the countries that have made the most progress in terms of visa openness, gaining five places this year. This is according to the 2021 Africa Visa Openness Index (IOVA) report.
Morocco obtained a total score of 0.132 in 2021 and is positioned at 41st position out of 54 African countries, indicates the 2021 report of the Africa Visa Openness Index, published by the African Union Commission and the African Development Bank (AfDB). The kingdom improved its visa rating by 17% compared to the previous year, gaining five places on the IOVA, which allows it to regain its rank in the 2016 and 2017 rankings. In 2021, 13% of citizens of African countries were able to enter Morocco without obtaining a travel visa, says the same report. This rate was 11% in 2019 and 2020, and 17% in 2018.
In North Africa, the kingdom ranks second in terms of visa opening to Africans, followed by Tunisia (25ᵉ), Algeria (43ᵉ) and Egypt (45ᵉ). With a total score of 0.830, Mauritania tops the Maghreb Union ranking, followed by Tunisia (0.415 points), Morocco (0.132) and Algeria (0.113). Benin, Seychelles and Gambia take the lead in the 2021 ranking. They are followed by Senegal (2ᵉ), Ghana (3ᵉ), Rwanda (4ᵉ), Nigeria (5ᵉ), Uganda (6ᵉ) , Guinea-Bissau (7ᵉ) and Cape Verde (8ᵉ).
The Africa Visa Openness Index measures the visa flexibility of African countries by examining the documents required from citizens of other African countries who wish to enter a state's territory. It aims to identify at a glance the countries that facilitate the movement of nationals of other countries and the measures taken for this purpose: visa waiver, visa issuance on arrival or the need to obtain a visa before departure.
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How Motorcycle ABS Works
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Published: 2 Aug 2013, 16:17 UTC • By:
Florin Tibu
ABS, or the Anti-Lock Braking System, is a word we get to hear on an almost daily basis, but there are rather many fellows out there who don't know exactly what this system does and why they should mind it. The purpose of this short guide is to put some light on how the ABS works in motorcycles.
Apparently, being invented by Gabriel Voisin in the late 20s to solve some braking problems for airplanes, the anti-lock brakes have been used in the automotive industry first. Almost 50 years have passed from the invention of the most primitive designs to the first fully-operational modern-era ABS brakes.
It's of rather little importance who did what and when, suffice to say that the first ABS brakes began to be developed in the mid-80s, with the first ABS-equipped motorcycle presumably being BMW's 1988 K100.
The ABS technology came a very long way until the present day, and despite the principle behind its operations remaining basically the same, numerous upgrades in performance and design have been made. Without any trace of doubt, we can say that the actual ABS systems equipping modern motorcycles are the most advanced and the safest brakes ever to be present on a two-wheeler.
What does ABS do?
The necessity for a safety system such as the ABS became obvious under hard braking conditions and when having to slow down on slippery surfaces, say wet asphalt. One of the biggest problems of braking hard when riding a motorcycle is the wheel or wheels lock-up.
As the rider detects a dangerous obstacle and squeezes the brakes, applying excessive force may cause the wheel to stop spinning and this leads to losing the grip. With no firm contact between the tire's contact patch and the asphalt or concrete, the bike becomes unstable and a crash is imminent.
The role of the ABS is to detect the wheel slip fractions of a second before it would normally occur because of the braking force and adjust or modulate the said force, allowing the wheel to keep turning back within the limits of grip.
Now, some would say that a system that counteracts the braking force is silly. It may look so at first, but the technology is really working to the rider's advantage.
The big problem with wheels slipping on the riding surface is that losing control of the whole motorcycle usually occurs in fractions of a second and restoring traction while keeping the bike balanced is only a result of luck, or extreme training, as is the case of professional stunt riders who drift.
Studies have showed that it's way better to prevent the wheels from slipping due to excessive braking force than it is to compensate for losing control, if any such compensation was truly possible.
So what the ABS does is actually limiting the braking force the rider exerts by either squeezing the lever or pressing the foot pedal and keep the wheel spinning. Once the imminence of the locking (and therefore skidding) is avoided, the system re-applies the maximum braking force until the next skid is anticipated. By limiting the max force of the braking maneuver, the ABS systems practically allow riders to use the greatest stopping force possible without locking the wheels.
How does the ABS know wheels would lock?
Good question! While the first ABS brakes relied on purely mechanical components and were terribly imprecise and often showed a very big lag, modern-day electronic technology has made things simpler.
Basically, ABS includes 4 major components: the sensor array, the control unit, the pump and the valves which physically regulate the braking force.
Sensors. While the early ABS technology proved to be unreliable due to a plethora of reading and interpretation errors, the modern systems are equipped with extremely precise sensors, redundant architecture and more safety/ failsafe systems.
The main sensor on a typical ABS is the speed sensor. Motorcycles equipped with ABS are easy to recognize by a special design of the brake discs: slotted design close to the center of the rotor tells even to the untrained eye, that the specific model is an ABS version. Those slots, called pulser rings act like measuring units for the sensors: the more times the sensors can read one another in a given period of time, the greater the speed.
Speed is measured constantly for feeding real-time data to the ABS ECU. While some bikes only have one-wheel ABS, most modern systems have dual-channel ECUs, meaning they receive info from both wheels.
A notable thing must be added: these sensors are detecting the actual speed of the wheels themselves, and not the absolute speed of the motorcycle in relation to the ground: it's exactly this variable that allows the ABS ECU to help detect whether wheel slip will occur in certain situations, as you'll see ahead.
Alongside wheel speed sensors, modern ABS also comprises gyroscopes and handlebar sensors for detecting the leaning angles of the bike. Knowing the bike's lean angle helps present-day ABS provide extended functionality when turning.
ECU. The ECU or Electronic Control Unit is the brain of the ABS: it receives info from all the sensors, analyzes the data, compares the results with the specific values and when needed, uses special algorithms to regulate the braking force.
This miniature computer is specialized in such operations and higher-spec ECUs can be constantly updated and can "learn" a lot of scenarios or maps to be used in certain situations.
Even street-oriented bikes come with different ABS mappings, maximizing the riding performance and providing safe braking in various scenarios. Thanks to the digital technology, these ABS mappings can be recalled and cycled through with just a press of a button and they become operational in milliseconds.
The ECU receives multiple readouts from all the bike sensors it is connected to and whose info it can interpret: the higher the frequency of these readouts and the comparison computations, the higher the efficiency of the ABS.
In case the ECU detects a scenario that matches to what the real world would see as a locking wheel followed by the inevitable skid, this computer sends a command to the pump and valves adjusting the braking force as necessary.
The pump and the valves. These are the physical elements used by the ABS to control the braking force. Since the ABS is regulating the pressure in the brake lines, it needs a pump to work both ways, that is, decreasing and increasing the pressure to normal specifications.
While the pump acts like any casual electric pump using a master cylinder and a piston, the operation of the valves is equally simple. When the ABS kicks in, it means the braking pressure the rider applies to the discs is too big, and the ECU calculates how much it should lower it to prevent the wheels from losing grip.
The amount of "release" is sent as electronic data to the solenoid valves which are moved in the right position to decrease the pressure pushing the caliper pistons, easing the stopping force. As the wheel slip potential is eliminated, the ECU sends another command to the pump and moves the valves in another position, allowing the pressure of the initial braking maneuver to be restored and basically re-applying the hard brake.
This process only takes fractions of a second and it will be repeated until the bike stops. When the ABS works, riders will feel slight vibrations in the lever or pedal, as the pressure in the line is constantly modulated.
While some say that the same braking can be obtained by a professional trained rider, this is only partially true, as the human brain cannot have the processing and precision of the digital system in assessing the various riding environments.
How does it help, is it dangerous?
There still is a debate whether the ABS takes away the pleasure of riding or not, with most of the riders saying it actually doesn't. Considering that the ABS only works when the rider brakes very hard and there is a real risk of a wheel locking and skidding, it is completely inert the rest of the time.
While riding off-road on surfaces covered in sand or gravel, ABS might engage and cause a bit of trouble, as the ECU might erroneously interpret the data form the sensors, lean angle and the like. With riding on such surfaces usually involving riding on a shifting ground, only the latest ABS would be able to understand the "bigger picture."
It is said that the next BMW R1200GS Adventure will be equipped with an off-road dedicated ABS mapping, but other bikes such as the KTM 1190 Adventure and more are using the technology. As for the other bikes, engaging and disengaging the ABS is done via push-button, with optical warning lights.
Bikes with ABS brakes benefit from two things: more stability during hard brakes and shorter stopping distance.
Myth. A common misconception among riders is that once they throw a leg over a bike equipped with ABS, all their problems are solved in an almost magical way. It's sad to admit it, but it's mostly such fellows who are getting into serious trouble because they are less aware while riding, relying on the false hope that the ABS brakes will compensate for their poor riding.
ABS is, by all means, a system developed to aid the rider in tight situations and it was never designed to take over basic safety precautions and maneuvers.
By allowing the rider to apply the absolute maximum braking force possible repeatedly without losing grip, the bike will obviously stop faster.
Seasoned riders who know their bikes well can also predict when they are about to "lose" one of the wheels, and will ease the braking, reapplying the (almost) full force immediately, also avoiding wheel lock and slip. Well, this is exactly what ABS does, but thousands of times faster. This explanation should have cleared things.
More ABS magic
Modern ABS brakes in new machinery also come to the aid of the riders and contribute to greater safety. They are now interlinked with multiple other systems present on the bike and work together, providing their interpreted data and receiving feedback from other ECUs to offer safer launches, safer turning and easier braking.
Launch Control. When riding from a complete stop, the transmission has to deliver quite a lot of power to defeat inertia and get the bike moving. In quite a lot of such scenarios, a slightly excessive throttle can cause the rear wheel to slip and skid the bike out of control.
By predicting the slip, ABS sends the critical data to the bike and either brakes by itself or limits the fuel delivery, regardless of the throttle position. The bike will launch with the max power possible without any dangerous wheel slip.
Stability Control. A feature commonly met in powerful bikes, the SC helps the rider automatically ease the throttle and avoid skidding even while riding at high speed. Together with the info received from the leaning sensors, wheel sensors, throttle position and the bike's speed relative to the ground, the motorcycle's ECU array can detect whether the rider will be in trouble even before he or she manages to assess the danger.
Over- and understeering are happening all the time, but in some cases, they can lead to very bad results, such as the infamous highside crashes (when oversteering) or going wide, off the road, into guard rails and roadside vehicles/obstacles (when understeering).
While the trajectories through a turn are a complex combination of multiple factors, such as bike speed, leaning angle, road condition, tire type and condition and last but not least, rider experience, mistakes and errors occur at every few turns. The role of the ABS is to compensate the wheels' speed and maintain the best grip on a predictable track.
Finally, distributed ABS brakes now equip motorcycles, and they are so advanced so as to control the braking force for both the front and the rear wheel being only given a single command, i.e. pressing the brake pedal.
Working the same way all the way around, a corresponding rear brake force modulation is produced as the rider squeezes the front brake lever. All these new functions that ABS systems have today are also contributing to better bike stability when braking and swerving past obstacles in critical situations.
Given the major difference that stopping 1 or 2 meters earlier can make when a vehicle cuts a rider off or in any similar emergency scenario, buying a bike equipped with ABS seems a good investment in personal safety and property.
In Europe, ABS will become mandatory for any new bike greater than 125cc, manufactured and sold from 2016.
For more on braking on a motorcycle, please check out these 3 Autoevolution articles.
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St. Louis family to open daycare in former Bayer building in Hampton | Metro St. Louis News | Saint Louis
Monika Obradovic
Leela and Dylan Weyer already own and operate Grow Gear Garden Supply in Lindenwood Park.
A new garden store will open on the site of the former Bayer's Garden Shop on Hampton Avenue in the spring.
The Garden Shop, headed by couple Leela and Dylan Weyer, does not yet have a set opening date, but will take over the former Bayer premises in April, Leela Weyer said. RFT.
Bayer closed its offices in the southern city and empire in June after more than 80 years of operation. At the time, owners Greg and Jason Bayer said After sending that low sales and constant shortages of staff led to the closure of an outdated business. The brothers' grandparents founded Bayer on Hampton Avenue in 1941. Over time, this business has grown into a staple for St. Louis gardeners.
The Veyers hope to breathe new life into the former Bayer space. The garden store will sell gardening supplies such as plants, pots, tools and turf, pumpkins for sale in the fall and Christmas trees during the holiday season. Lila Vayer says they will do their best to match Bayer's selections and follow the store's heritage.
"We probably won't be able to match the inventory level they had in their first year, so we hope people will tolerate us," she says.
Leela Weier adds that supporting other small businesses is important to her and her husband, so their new store will also have a section dedicated to local small-scale manufacturers.
Former Bayer's Garden Shop in the Hamptons before closing last summer.
Although they didn't have a plant nursery before, the Wyers are no strangers to small business. The couple ran a 50-acre medical cannabis collective in California before they moved to Missouri in 2018. They opened Grow Gear Garden Supply (3217 Ivanhoe Avenue) in Lindenwood Park shortly after moving to the Midwest.
Grow Gear sells indoor and outdoor grow products, but not plants. The Weiers plan to run the store along with their new garden store.
The couple's acquisition of Bayer's former seat follows a push to take over after Leela Weier learned of Bayer's closure this summer. She says she immediately began looking for information about the Hampton Avenue garden store's property and drove to the Bayer Imperial store to deliver the letter to the store's former owners.
They eventually made contact, and the Byers have been a huge help ever since, says Leela Weyer. She adds that since this is the first kindergarten in her family, she needs to study here. But they hope to follow in the footsteps of the southern city's institution.
"We're just really excited to continue the tradition at this location after 81 years and keep the family plant nursery there," says Leela Vayer.
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