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Home Awards Innovation Awards Child Language Brokering: spaces of belonging and mediators of cultural knowledge
Child Language Brokering: spaces of belonging and mediators of cultural knowledge
Dr Sarah Crafter, Institute of Education
Young interpreters are almost invisible within UK society but make a deeply important contribution family life, local communities and institutions. The work of young interpreters is very common but highly undervalued and unrecognised (Antonini, 2010). Child language brokers (CLBs) interpret or translate between family members/peers and officials (usually adults) who do not speak the home language. They are referred to as language brokers because the role often requires them to act as negotiators or intermediaries of cultural values, norms and knowledge, and positions them across different spaces of belonging. In other words, they literally "Translate Cultures". The aim of this project is to provide new understandings of how cultural knowledge and identities of belonging are narrated by the child language brokers.
Findings from the PIs previous work have indicated that child language brokers feel a great deal of pride in interpreting for family and peers but do not feel recognised, valued or fully understood outside of this immediate sphere of experience. This project will render their work visible in two novel ways: by researching how cultural knowledge and identities are mediated by language brokering and by producing a documentary film and web exhibition to enhance awareness of the valuable contribution made by young language brokers.
It will do this by using interdisciplinary methodologies combining digital film, ethnographic observations, voice recorded diaries, written diaries and art work e.g. self-portraiture. These combined methodologies have never been used in research with child language brokers and will provide unchartered insight into brokers' identities of belonging and contributors of cultural knowledge. As previously mentioned, a key output will be a documentary film that will bring together a set of non-linear arts activities in a summarising format that speaks to enhancing the awareness of a largely invisible group of young people. The film content will be led by the young people but is likely to include audio/video from the observational ethnography (with respondent's permission), video of a series of arts event activities with commentary about those activities by the young people themselves. Event activities include, but not exclusively so, script writing, suitcase method, and 'self in space' portraiture. Finally, these materials will be co-creatively curated with some of the participating young people into a web exhibition. This in itself is a part of the narrative journey.
The project draws on a range of expertise including the Young Interpreter Network and Routes into Language, who will assist in recruiting respondents. Alan Fentiman (film maker and web designer) has extensive experience working with vulnerable young people through film. Claire Robins runs arts workshops with young people and curates participatory museum exhibitions. Advisory group expertise includes specialist knowledge of children's identities, ethnography, child language brokering and bilingualism (Oxford Brookes University, Open University, University College London, IOE), participatory arts and museum studies (Media, Culture and Communication, IOE), and policy advice (Language Centre Cambridge/Speak to the Future). There will be three full team meetings and two network meetings that will involve the research team, interpreter/language specialists, policy advisors, film/photography makers, and some more 'mature' young interpreters. There will a web exhibition launch and conference event involving the young people, their parents, academics, language networks and policy advisors. We will ask a range of professional networks to show the film and web exhibition on their online sites/TV networks.
Dr Sarah Crafter
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Hi, New to large format. I have standardized on two variable contrast papers. A resin coated, that being Ilford Multigrade IV RC DE LUXE Glossy and a fiber based, that being Oriental Seagull VC-FB II Glossy.
I am using a stabilized Aristo VCL 4500 dual cold light head with a Metrolux II controller.
I am shooting 4X5 Tri-x 320TXP rated at 160 and developing in daylight using a Uniroller drum and roller. I am using HC 110 1:63 dilution H for the film and Dektol 1:2 for the paper.
I have done all the testing for personal film speed, proper proof, and film development times as outlined by Fred Picker.
To produce a Zone VIII on the Ilford rc paper i have to develop my film for 4:45 minutes. This gives me a grey tone slightly darker than the paper base white.
To produce the same Zone VIII tone on the Oriental fb paper I have to develop my film for 6:00 minutes.
Here is my conundrum. I read on the threads of people printing their negative on one type of paper, not liking the colour or surface texture then switching around and using a different paper and if they don't like this then they might try the negative on a third type of paper.
How are they able to do this when my testing seems to show me that the development time for the film is very specific to the paper one is using. In my case there is a 1:15 minute film development difference between producing the same tones on the rc and fb papers.
Does one always have to decide ahead of time which paper is going to be used for the negative one is about to shoot and develop accordingly? That seems to be really limiting but I don't see any way arouind it Am I missing something?
Your using variable contrast paper. Change the contrast filter when enlarging on the different paper.
You're not really missing anything. Any time you switch papers, contrast and curve shape can change. This means Ilford MG at grade 2 likely won't have the same contrast and tone reproduction as Oriental at grade 2. If you are using variable contrast paper, you can compensate for this by changing contrast filtration. As an example, maybe to get a similar print from the same negative, you need a grade 3 filter for the Ilford paper and a grade 2 filter for Oriental. Etc.
Not on the paper but on the film development; a time of 4:45 is regarded as quite short, and brings the risk of uneven development, you might want to look into a higher dilution of your HC 110..
You should set the ISO of the film to produce the zone one density of 0.1 to 0.15 over the film base plus fog and develop to produce the zone VII density of 1.1 to 1.15 as measured with a transmission densitometer. You then change the VC paper grade as required.
Cor: Thanks for the advice. I had a feeling that this was a rather short developing time and figured I would start getting problems with even shorter times when I start to determine my N-1 time. I'll have to start trying out the Dilution F (1:79) or even the Dilution G (1:119).
Luis-F-S: Is there a reason that you place your high value on Zone VII and not Zone VIII? I was following Picker's advice for placement of my high values. I do have access to a densitometer. Of interest, my Zone 1 is 0.11 and my Zone VIII is 1.15. This density gives me a grey tone just slightly darker than paper white when I print on the fiber based paper and use the minimum print time to produce a maximum black. If I strive to get a negative where Zone VII is 1.15 presumably my zone VIII density would go up somewhere around 1.2 to 1.3 and I wouldn't get any tone other than paper white for my zone VIII when using the minimum print time. Would that be a correct assumption?
Zone VIII has no texture. Zone VII is the first hint of texture. That is the way Oliver Gagliani taught it in his workshop (which even Freddie took at one time). You are essentially doing an N-1 development by developing for a Zone VIII of 1.15, but if Zone VIII work for you, I'm good with it. At least you're checking your densities with a densitometer which 99% of photographers never do!


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Dark money, transphobia, and partisanship blight Brown County nonpartisan elections
by John McCracken | Apr 2, 2021 | 0 comments
Brown County's Branch 4 Circuit Court candidate Rachel Maes(left) has faced ongoing anti-transgender attacks along the campaign trail. Her opponent, incumbent Judge Kendall Kelley has remained silent on the matter ahead of the April general election.
A recent physical mailer circulating in Brown County lobs transgender attacks in opposition of candidate Maes while supporting candidate Kelley. The mailer was funded by the Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund, an independent expenditure committee registered with the state of Wisconsin.
This story was produced in partnership with The NEWcomer, an independent, Northeast Wisconsin politics, arts, and culture publication.
Attack ads, outside political money, and partisan lines have taken the spotlight days ahead of the majority nonpartisan April general election in Brown County.
On March 31, International Trans Visibility Day, the Brown County Democratic Party released a statement asking for candidates in the local school board races to denounce transphobic statements from radio talk show host Joe Giganti, who hosts the Regular Joe Show on WTAQ (97.5FM-1360AM) owned by Midwest Communications, Inc. Midwest Communications owns 81 radio properties across multiple midwest states.
On March 29, Giganti made inflammatory, transphobic remarks about Brown County's Branch 4 Circuit Court candidate Rachel Maes and her openly transgender identity by bringing up Maes's marital history, deadnaming the candidate multiple times, and comparing Maes's transgender identity as a lapse in judgment, similar to if the incumbent Judge Kendall Kelley suddenly "decided he wanted to be a leprechaun."
The Brown County Democrats asked candidates and businesses to pull their support of WTAQ in the wake of this segment.
This comes to fruition as legislators across the state have introduced bills to restrict or harm the wellbeing of LBGTQ citizens.
State Representative Barbara Dittrich (R-Oconomowoc) was the lead author on a bill that would restrict transgender students in public K-12 schools from participating in organized sports and mirrors legislation being circulated in the dozens of states in the U.S.
The Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules is co-chaired by State Representative Joan Ballweg (R – Markesan) and State Senator Stephen Nass (R – Whitewater). This committee introduced a bill blocking a state Department of Safety and Professional Standards measure to prohibit conversion therapy, a historically harmful practice that aims to change sexual orientation.
Five days before the April election, Wisconsin school superintendent candidates Jill Underly and Deborah Kerr exchanged heated words regarding allowing trans children to play in high school sports.
Underly said she would reject the bill barring trans girls to play on a girl's team, while Kerr said she supports the bill and has heard from many parents worried about the issue. In nearly every state proposing similar bills, lawmakers can't cite local examples of the issue.
In the Brown County Circuit Court race, candidate Maes has faced ongoing anti-transgender attacks. The incumbent Kelley has been largely silent regarding the anti-trans sentiment his opponent faces and did not respond to repeated requests to comment on the ongoing rhetoric.
Maes has also been the target of a recent physical mailer circulating in Brown County.
Photos obtained by The NEWcomer show an advertisement calling Maes "radical Rachel Maes" and affirming Kelley as the "law and order candidate." The mailer incorrectly states that Maes asked the City of Green Bay taxpayers to pay for her gender transition while also misgendering the candidate.
"The City didn't even cover gender confirmation care until January of this year," said Maes in a phone call.
As a City employee(Green Bay assistant attorney), Maes said she pays for her health care premiums like anyone else.
"How is it any different than someone getting the care that they need from their insurance plan," Maes said.
The attacks against Maes are consistent with a fractured relationship between the transgender community and the health care industry.
'It's just transphobic and othering language," said Maes.
The mailer is paid for by the Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund, an independent expenditure committee registered with the state of Wisconsin. The address listed on the fund's registration forms is associated with a UPS store in Pewaukee.
The phone number the group filed with the state matches that of Forward Brown County, a tax-exempt advocacy organization under section 501c4 of the Internal Revenue Code. 501c4 organizations are dubbed social welfare organizations and "must not be organized for profit and must be operated exclusively to promote social welfare."
Forward Brown County lists three representatives according to their 2018 990 filings: treasurer Brandon Rosner, a Milwaukee healthcare consultant and former Republican State Assembly candidate for District 97, president Rock Kramer, the retired owner of Temployment in Green Bay, and secretary Robert Atwell, CEO and chairman of Nicolet National Bank.
Atwell is the treasurer for the incumbent's campaign committee Re-Elect Judge Kendall Kelley.
The same phone number for Forward Brown County is listed on the Wisconsinites For Liberty Fund's filing and can be found associated with Rosner's Midwest Growth Inc, which loaned the Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund $20,000 in February according to a campaign filing.
Midwest Growth has a history of funding attack ads, according to a 2018 report by RightWisconsin, where it was revealed Rosner was behind attack ads on then-State Representative Andre Jacque.
An April 1 expense report from the fund shows they spent $10,000 on mailers in opposition of Maes and in support of Kelley. A Dropbox link to the April report can be found here.
Atwell and Rosner's direct relationship to the Wisconsinites for Liberty Fund is unclear. Rosner, Atwell, and Kelley's campaign did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls.
Kelley has, however, been speaking with his campaign coffers. The incumbent judge has raised nearly seven times Maes has, according to campaign finance records released on March 29.
Kelley received $14,420 from individuals since the beginning of the year. Major donors include Atwell($2,000), Prevea Health Orthopedic Surgeon Mark Schick($2,000), general litigation attorney George Burnett($1,000), former State Treasurer of Wisconsin and Wisconsin Assemblyperson Cate Zeuske ($1,000), and Green Bay Packaging President and CEO William Kress ($500). Kelley's most recent financial report can be found here.
Maes has not received a single sum donation over $100 so far this year, with a total amount raised of $2,707.98 in 2021. Notable donations come from attorney Gabriel Siehr($100), property claims attorney Crystal Uebelher($100), and UW-Green Bay Director of Inclusive Excellence and Pride Center director Stacie Christian($100). Maes's most recent campaign finance report can be found here.
Two candidates for local school board elections, Angela Hoisington for Unified School District of De Pere and Rhonda Sitnikau for Green Bay Area Public Schools, were asked to pull funding for WTAQ following the attacks on Maes.
There are two challengers to two incumbent seats in the Unified School District of De Pere. Incumbents Dan Van Straten and Jeff Mirkes are up against Hoisington and Chad Jeskewitz. Hoisington and Jeskewitz are the only candidates who have had to file campaign finance reports according to DePere Administrative Assistant Tracy Schrader. All other candidates have filed campaign exemption reports. To be eligible for a campaign finance exemption, the candidate's committee must not accept contributions or expenditures in aggregate of $2,000 in a calendar year according to Wisconsin State Statutes. Hoisington initially filed as exempt but had to amend this filing.
Jeskewitz has raised a total of $9,622 year to date and Hoisington has raised $3,418 according to finance reports received from the school district. All of Jeskewitz's donations have come from individuals while Hoisington received donations from the Republican Party of Brown County($500) and Rebecca PAC, a fund created by former Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch($400).
Hoisington came under fire from the Brown County Democrats for running advertisements on WTAQ, which according to campaign filings, she paid $725 to Midwest Communications in late March. When Hoisington was reached for comment, she was unable to provide one as she was unaware of any communications from the Brown County Democrats.
In Green Bay, two challengers are also up against two incumbents on the school board. Incumbents Sitnikau and Andrew Becker will face Nancy Welch and Bryan Milz in the April general election. Sitnikau was asked by the Brown County Democrats to pull advertisements from WTAQ in the wake of transphobic remarks.
Sitnikau said she is a staunch supporter of LGBTQ rights, but felt the nature of the Brown County Democrats' actions were hypocritical.
"This was marginalization in the most vindictive and inaccurate and false way to rally around marginalization, it is one of the biggest issues we have in politics right now," said Sitnikau.
Sitnikau said adding partisan flavor to nonpartisan elections creates a lot of issues.
Incumbent Sitnikau has since asked that WTAQ pull her advertisements from the Regular Joe Show airtime and be placed somewhere else in their schedule, and according to Sitnikau, the station has agreed.
"The Brown County Democrats attempted to link me with the insensitive comments of the host of the Regular Joe program," said Sitnikau in a statement on Facebook. "His comments do not represent me. Any effort to say otherwise is a complete and total fabrication."
Almost all of the positions up for election this April are supposedly nonpartisan positions. The same can be said for the parties associated with the Brown County Democrats' call to action.
Renée Gasch, Chair of the Democratic Party of Brown County, said they do not endorse local nonpartisan races, but this didn't keep them out of the mix.
"It's within our values to defend the trans community and that's what we did," said Gasch.
Gasch said the party campaigns for LGBTQ rights strongly and has a history of supporting the community, with the sole example of routinely supporting Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin, the first openly LGBT woman elected to the House of Representatives and to the Senate.
"Frankly I worry more about transphobia in the community than I do partisanship," said Gasch.
The recent mailers sent and continued radio rants paint a clear picture for Gasch, who is aware that partisanship is encircling nonpartisan elections.
"We don't endorse in races," said Gasch, "but I can tell you personally there's a clear choice for the candidate that aligns with my values."
Incumbent Kelley publicly lists endorsements from Wisconsin Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher, State Senator Eric Wimberger (R-Green Bay), and Representative Dave Steffen(R – Green Bay) on his campaign website.
The Republican Party of Brown County "recommends" candidates according to their website, but does not formally endorse nonpartisan candidates.
Despite the nonpartisan label, a local expert in the matter said voters are well aware of outside influences on candidates.
"Voters are certainly capable of picking up on partisan or ideological cues in nonpartisan races," said Aaron Weinschenk, UW-Green Bay's Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Political Science, whose work focuses on political behavior in the United States.
Weinschenk said some voters actually prefer partisanship on the ballot, as it helps voters have an understanding of a candidate and can lead to stronger turnouts.
"Voters like and use cues in low-information races and partisan elections tend to see more voter engagement," said Weinschenk.
Weinschenk said for positions in which voters would hope party lines do battle elsewhere, such as judges or justices, there are still internal biases for those in the role.
"If everyone just read laws and policies and knew what they meant, then we wouldn't need judges. There would be no ambiguity," said Weinschenk. "You can probably take any law or rule and interpret it in a variety of different ways depending on your predispositions."
Weinschenk and his students observed these party lines as it relates to State Supreme Court elections in a May 2020 Justice System Journal study.
The study found states with partisan ballots have a tight link between presidential and state supreme court voting patterns, which remained consistent over the timespan studied.
"In states with nonpartisan elections, there has been some variability in the relationship between presidential and supreme court voting patterns, although there has been an uptick in the strength of the relationship over time," according to the report.
When asked about how voters should navigate partisanship with local, nonpartisan elected officials, Weinschenk referenced a March 2001 Political Research Quarterly study which found "nonpartisanship depresses turnout and in nonpartisan contests voters rely less on a party and more on incumbency in their voting decision."
"Perhaps some of the positions that people think are not partisan are partisan after all," said Weinschenk.

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The colourful RPG adventure "Heroland" is coming to the Nintendo Switch and PS4 on January 31st, 2020
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The men's overall competition of the Water skiing events at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto were held on July 22 at the Ontario Place West Channel. The defending champion was Javier Julio of Argentina.

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OC Judge to Consider Jail Depopulation for COVID-19
SANTA ANA (CNS) - An Orange County Superior Court judge today will consider options to cut the county's jail population in half to better manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last month, Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter J. Wilson ordered the jail population reduced by 50%. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes has attempted to appeal the order, but so far has failed, compelling him to submit a plan on how to halve the inmate population.
American Civil Liberties Union attorneys, who filed the lawsuit on behalf of several current and former inmates, said in papers filed this week Barnes failed to submit the plan Wilson ordered.
Instead, the ACLU attorneys argued, Barnes "devotes most of his plan to discussing measures that are unrelated to population reduction. None of these measures address the urgent need for social distancing within the jail. The few measures that could conceivably promote social distancing are woefully inadequate.''
Barnes has asked Wilson to modify his order and is demanding an evidentiary hearing on the merits of the ACLU's claims. The plaintiffs, however, said the county has in the past "repeatedly waived'' the right to an evidentiary hearing.
Earlier in the week, Wilson ordered Barnes to submit a list of the medical and criminal history of every inmate and where they are being housed, ostensibly to determine which inmates should be qualified for some sort of release from the jails, which could include electronic monitoring under house arrest.
Last week, Barnes defended his coronavirus response, saying he has provided personal protective equipment to his staff and to inmates, including face coverings, and has promoted good hygiene and cleaning in the jails. The sheriff also noted how he stopped community visits with inmates as one measure to curb the spread of coronavirus.
Barnes noted he has already released 1,471 inmates to reduce the population in custody. Of those, 183 were declared "medically vulnerable,'' he said, insisting that "everybody who I can release has been released from my jails.''
Releasing more inmates will present a danger to the community, Barnes said.
"Those who remain in jail present significant risk of heinous crimes... or present a risk to the public if I release them back into the community,'' he said.
Barnes maintained that he can manage coronavirus in his jails.
"We take temperatures of all personnel, and we have a very robust quarantine environment... which has proven to work very well,'' Barnes said. "We have proven through our best practices that we can whittle that number (of infected) down.''
Sheriff's authorities had gotten all of the coronavirus cases in the jails down to zero early last month, except for newly booked inmates, but then there was a sudden and swift outbreak of COVID-19 that has infected more than a thousand inmates at a time.
As of Thursday, there were 1,020 inmates infected as authorities await the results of 619 tests. Six inmates are hospitalized. One died from COVID-19 while awaiting trial.


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Understanding Dropshipping
Dropshipping is a retail fulfillment method where a store doesn't keep the products it sells in stock. Instead, when a store sells a product, it purchases the item from a third party and has it shipped directly to the customer. As a result, the merchant never sees or handles the product.
The biggest difference between dropshipping and the standard retail model is that the selling merchant doesn't stock or own inventory. Instead, the merchant purchases inventory as needed from a third party – usually a wholesaler or manufacturer – to fulfill orders.
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The dropshipping model has a number of benefits and drawbacks:
Less Capital Is Required – Probably the biggest advantage to dropshipping is that it's possible to launch an ecommerce store without having to invest thousands of dollars in inventory up front. Traditionally, retailers have had to tie up huge amounts of capital purchasing inventory.
With the dropshipping model, you don't have to purchase a product unless you already made the sale and have been paid by the customer. Without major up-front inventory investments, it's possible to start a successful dropshipping business with very little money.
Easy to Get Started – Running an ecommerce business is much easier when you don't have to deal with physical products. With dropshipping, you don't have to worry about:
Managing or paying for a warehouse
Packing and shipping your orders
Tracking inventory for accounting reasons
Handling returns and inbound shipments
Continually ordering products and managing stock level
Low Overhead – Because you don't have to deal with purchasing inventory or managing a warehouse, your overhead expenses are quite low. In fact, many successful dropshipping businesses are run from a home office with a laptop for less than $100 per month. As you grow, these expenses will likely increase but will still be low compared to those of traditional brick-and-mortar businesses.
Flexible Location – A dropshipping business can be run from just about anywhere with an internet connection. As long as you can communicate with suppliers and customers easily, you can run and manage your business.
Wide Selection of Products – Because you don't have to pre-purchase the items you sell, you can offer an array of products to your potential customers. If suppliers stock an item, you can list if for sale on your website at no additional cost.
Easy to Scale – With a traditional business, if you receive three times as much business you'll usually need to do three times as much work. By leveraging dropshipping suppliers, most of the work to process additional orders will be borne by the suppliers, allowing you to expand with fewer growing pains and less incremental work. Sales growth will always bring additional work – especially related to customer service – but business that utilize dropshipping scale particularly well relative to traditional ecommerce businesses.
All these benefits make dropshipping a very attractive model to both beginning and established merchants. Unfortunately, dropshipping isn't all roses and rainbows. All this convenience and flexibility comes at a price.
Low Margins – Low margins are the biggest disadvantage to operating in a highly competitive dropshipping niche. Because it's so easy to get started – and the overhead costs are so minimal – many merchants will set up shop and sell items at rock-bottom prices in an attempt to grow revenue. They've invested so little in getting the business started so they can afford to operate on minuscule margins.
True, these merchants often have low-quality websites and poor (if any) customer service. But that won't stop customers from comparing their prices to yours. This increase in cutthroat competition will quickly destroy the profit margin in a niche. Fortunately, you can do a lot to mitigate this problem by selecting a niche that's well suited for dropshipping. We'll discuss this more in Chapter 4.
Inventory Issues – If you stock all your own items, it's relatively simple to keep track of which items are in and out of stock. But when you're sourcing from multiple warehouses, which are also fulfilling orders for other merchants, inventory changes on a daily basis. While there are ways you can better sync your store's inventory with your suppliers', these solutions don't always work seamlessly, and suppliers don't always support the technology required.
Shipping Complexities – If you work with multiple suppliers – as most drop shippers do – the products on your website will be sourced through a number of different drop shippers. This complicates your shipping costs.
Let's say a customer places an order for three items, all of which are available only from separate suppliers. You'll incur three separate shipping charges for sending each item to the customer, but it's probably not wise to pass this charge along to the customer, as they'll think you're grossly overcharging for shipping! And even if you did want to pass these charges along, automating these calculations can be difficult.
Supplier Errors – Have you ever been blamed for something that wasn't your fault, but you had to accept responsibility for the mistake anyway?
Even the best dropshipping suppliers make mistakes fulfilling orders – mistakes for which you have to take responsibility and apologize. And mediocre and low-quality suppliers will cause endless frustration with missing items, botched shipments and low-quality packing, which can damage your business's reputation.
As we initially warned, dropshipping isn't a perfect, stress-free way to build a successful business. The model has some definite advantages but comes with a number of built-in complexities and problems you'll need to be able to address.
We'll be examining these problems – and how to best address them – in future chapters. The good news is that with some careful planning and consideration, most of these problems can be resolved and need not prevent you from building a thriving, profitable dropshipping business.
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THEY had their heyday in the 80s and 90s but Aussie Belinda Bartholemew-Walsh is determined to bring them back.
Not a fan of scrunchies? Too bad! We love the 90s and as the new face of Pantene, so does Selena Gomez!
IT'S the humble hair accessory that defined the 90s — but after several decades of being a fashion faux pas, the scrunchie is making a comeback Down Under.
And it's all thanks to Aussie WAG Belinda Bartholomew-Walsh.
Ms Bartholomew-Walsh, who will tie the knot with Newcastle Knights recruit Aidan Guerra this week, is "single-handedly bringing back the scrunchie" after launching her own business, Scrunchie O's, in August.
The 27-year-old, who grew up in rural NSW, discovered her love of scrunchies after suffering from post-partum hair loss following the birth of her daughter Olive, now 20 months.
After hearing scrunchies were kinder on the hair than normal elastics, Ms Bartholomew-Walsh struggled to find any in shops — and so her business venture was born.
"Scrunchies weren't cool at all and I didn't know where I could find a nice one. I found a few at cheap places in Bondi Junction but none that I liked — they were pretty ugly, and while I loved using them they just weren't stylish," she said.
"I thought if I couldn't find one when I had lots of time with just one baby and no work, then maybe other people couldn't either.
"I went online and ordered stacks and stacks of different scrunchies and I asked my girlfriends to try them too. We decided we liked velvet, because it was really soft and in fashion, and the elastic had to be tight but not too tight. After a few glasses of wine I was sitting at home and I thought, 'maybe I should just sell them myself'. The response was overwhelming and I've realised it's a really niche market.
The mum of one hand-picked the material, colours and elastic and personalises each package with a handwritten note — a touch she says keeps her clients coming back for more.
Ms Bartholomew-Walsh said the new-found popularity of scrunchies was part of a wider '90s revival.
"If you have a look around, everything '90s is coming back, like double denim, high-waisted jeans and chokers, so it's just inevitable because we go through fashion cycles," she said.
Ms Bartholomew-Walsh said despite her love of scrunchies, she didn't expect her business to take off as well as it had.
"They sold out within the first few hours of going online. I put them up, went out for dinner and by the time I'd finished eating they'd all completely sold. That's when it hit me that maybe I was on to something," she said.
Scrunchie O's are now being sold online as well as in salons and boutiques, and Ms Bartholomew-Walsh said she struggled to keep up with the demand.
The entrepreneur said she had no prior business experience before launching Scrunchie O's.
"It was really scary and I didn't trust myself at the beginning, but I learnt through trial and error," she said.
Ms Bartholomew-Walsh had some straightforward advice for other young women who might be sitting on a business idea.
"Just go for it — you don't have to know what you're doing in the beginning because you learn along the way," she said.
Scrunchie O's are available in 10 colours, with a new summer range launching soon, and they cost $15 each.


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CHICAGO - On an unusually warm day for a holiday celebration, no one wore snow boots and short-sleeved shirts replaced the down-filled coats; jingling bells could be heard throughout terminal three of O'Hare International Airport.
Army Reserve, Navy and Marine Corps members from the greater Chicago area had come to send off the families participating in the Snowball Express, minus the actual snow, on Dec. 12.
The program is sponsored by American Airlines, coordinating flights from 84 cities via nearly 60 chartered and commercial flights.
The Snowball Express is a nonprofit organization established in 2006, providing an all-expenses-paid trip to families across the United States with a mission of brining hope and new memories to the children of military heroes who have died while on active duty since Sept. 11, 2001.
This year marks the 10th annual celebration, 13 Gold Star families from Northern Illinois were on this flight to Dallas for a weekend getaway of festivities and a memorial service for those family members that have been lost.
"I have been participating in this event for more than five years now," said Jim Frazier, Army National Guard Survivor Outreach Services Support Coordinator, Woodstock, Illinois. "It's hard for the families this time of year. It's especially hard for the children. We hope that this weekend brings a little bit of happiness for them."
In Dallas, approximately 1,700 Gold Star family members will spend an extended weekend together in hope to find cheer during a Christmas season without their mom or dad at home.
The plane from Chicago traveled to St. Louis and Kansas City to pick up more families before arriving in Dallas. During their visit to the Lone Star State, they'll experience a Walk of Gratitude honoring their sacrifice, a tour of the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, a "knight" of jousting fun at Medieval Times and a private concert by Academy Award-nominated actor Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band.
"This opportunity, this time, affords these children to come together and to be in a place with other children that have gone through similar situation as losing a parent. It provides them a level of comfort. It gives them a chance to make life-long friendships, which a lot of these kids have," said Linda Kozma, president of the Veterans and Military Employee Resource Care for American Airlines.
Before the families boarded the plane, the military, police, firefighters and airline members formed a line on the jet way to clap, cheer and shake hands with the travelers to send them off in fashion on their journey. Clark the mascot of the Chicago Cubs was also there providing comic relief and "photobombing of selfies."
Once all were securely onboard, Santa and Mrs. Claus lead the pack that lined the jet way down to the tarmac to wave and salute as the plane taxied out.
As the plane slowly made its way to the runway the fire trucks that had been stationed at-the-ready along the taxi-way opened their hoses and saluted with their water cannons. The service members held their salutes while others clapped and cheered until the American Airlines jet was no longer in sight.
"This is one of our biggest events of the season for the military families," said Franco Tedeschi, vice president American Airlines - Chicago. "I'm glad all of the service members were able to take time out of their schedules to see the families off."
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Ernest Walter Hives (  – ),  Hives, a été le chef de la Rolls-Royce Aero Engine division et président de Rolls-Royce Limited.

Biographie

Hives est né à Reading dans le Berkshire. Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a été étroitement associé à la conception du moteur Merlin ainsi que plus tard à de nombreux moteur à réaction Rolls-Royce. Il a commencé sa vie professionnelle dans un garage local. Cependant, en 1903, il a obtenu un travail à CS Rolls car company, après avoir réparé des Rolls.

Après être devenu pilote d'essai en chef en 1908, il a dirigé l'équipe de Rolls-Royce dans les Alpes autrichienne en 1913. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, l'entreprise a conçu son premier moteur d'avion, l'Eagle, qu'Hives a développé avec succès, puis en 1916 il est promu chef du département expérimental. En 1919, l'Eagle alimente le bombardier bimoteur Vickers Vimy  pour le premier vol direct à travers l'Atlantique . D'autres moteurs notables ont été développés plus tard dans le même esprit qu'Hives. Parmi ceux-ci le Buzzard était le plus important, ce qui a conduit à la « série R », qui a équipé les Supermarine S.6 hydravions qui ont gagné la Coupe Schneider en 1929 et 1931 pour Rolls-Royce, et surtout le fameux moteur Merlin.
En 1936, il est devenu le directeur général de la production et un an plus tard, a été élu au conseil d'administration. En 1937, il pensait déjà que la guerre serait bientôt inévitable, il a préparé la société pour une augmentation massive de la production des moteurs Merlin. Comme le Merlin alimentait les Hurricanes et les Spitfires, c'était une décision d'une importance stratégique vitale lorsque la guerre est venue. C'est grâce à Hives qu'un total de cent soixante mille Merlins ont été produits jusqu'en 1945. En 1941 Hives a rapidement décidé de tout orienter vers les moteurs à réaction, assurant le premier rôle de l'entreprise dans le développement de moteurs à réaction pour l'aviation civile et militaire.
Le vice-chef d'état-major de l'Air Sir Wilfrid Freeman, un des cerveaux derrière les avancées spectaculaires de la production d'avion britannique avant et pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a rendu hommage au dévouement de Hives dans une lettre à sa femme :

Hives est devenu directeur général en 1946 et président de Rolls-Royce de 1950 à 1956. Il a été nommé Compagnon d'Honneur en 1943 et le 7 juillet 1950, il a été élevé à la pairie comme baron Hives, de Duffield, dans le comté de Derby. Il est mort en avril 1965, âgé de 79 ans.

Notes et références

Bibliographie

Lumsden, Alec. British Piston Engines and their Aircraft. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Airlife Publishing, 2003. .
 Pugh, Peter. The Magic of a Name - The Rolls-Royce Story - The First 40 Years. Cambridge, England. Icon Books Ltd, 2000.
 Furse, Anthony. Wilfrid Freeman: the genius behind Allied survival and air supremacy 1939 to 1945. Staplehurst. Spellmount, 2000.

Naissance en avril 1886
Décès en avril 1965
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Baron de la pairie du Royaume-Uni
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Q: DbContext pooling in Azure Functions I have an Azure Function running on a consumption plan. When the function is under heavy load, I've been getting System.InvalidOperationException with the message The timeout period elapsed prior to obtaining a connection from the pool.  This may have occurred because all pooled connections were in use and max pool size was reached.
I'm using dependency injection, and so far I've been injecting my Entity Framework Core DbContext by using AddDbContextPool. Is DbContext pooling recommended for Azure Functions, or should I rather use AddDbContext?
The connection string to my SQL Server only specifies the server and authentication, meaning that connection pooling should also be enabled by default. Is connection pooling also recommended for Azure Functions?

A: Apparently, AddDbContextPool is not the same as connection pooling. Instead, it's a pool of dbcontexts: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48444206/5099097
Also, according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/manage-connections#sqlclient-connections, EF and EF Core implement connection pooling by default since they use ADO.NET and that's the default for ADO.NET.

Your function code can use the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL
Server (SqlClient) to make connections to a SQL relational database.
This is also the underlying provider for data frameworks that rely on
ADO.NET, such as Entity Framework. Unlike HttpClient and
DocumentClient connections, ADO.NET implements connection pooling by
default. But because you can still run out of connections, you should
optimize connections to the database. For more information, see SQL
Server Connection Pooling (ADO.NET).

I think your best bet is to dial down the concurrency like you already said in the comments, but in addition to that I think it's important to note that connection pooling is managed on the client side (Azure Func in this case): SQL Server: where is connection pool: on .net side or server side. So while your func app will be able to take advantage of connection pooling, each instance of the func app will have its own connection pool as it scales out. So the scalability benefits of connection pooling aren't as great as if it were one client side app managing a single connection pool.
Therefore, to get greater benefits from connection pooling per instance of your func app you should do more work per Service Bus trigger. For example, batching several queries together under the same trigger instead of 1 query per trigger. Also, if you're doing writes in other triggers, you can batch several update/insert operations together in 1 func app trigger. According to this, 42 non-query operations is the optimal size per batch in EF Core: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/performance/efficient-updating#batching
But even better than that is using table value parameters for making bulk updates to hundreds/thousands of records at a time. After I made these changes my errors from hitting the connection limit went away.

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Landon M. Perkins is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Tallahassee, Florida. Perkins earned his MFA degree in Printmaking from Syracuse University in 2017 and his BFA degree in Studio Art from Florida State University in 2014. Perkins currently lives and works as an artist in Auburn, NY. Perkins is represented by Kai Lin Art Gallery in Atlanta, GA and is part of the Vox Pop Print Collective. Perkins artworks have exhibited internationally, nationally and are part of private collections throughout the United States, Australia, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.


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Celebrating Five Decades of Osogbo Art Movement
As deeply academic as art, to a large extent, is currently in Nigeria, the revered spot of informal contribution cannot be discounted. Among such revered non-academic space in the practice of art is what the creative sector's vocabulary is regarded Osogbo school of art.
Chief Muraina Oyelami, a first generation of Osogbo artists.
Five decades on, Osogbo art, which has produced quite an army of masters as well as excavated great native potentials in creative enterprise is rolling out the drums to celebrate a golden period. In the forefront of the 50 years of Osogbo Art Celebration are Chiefs Jimoh Buraimoh and Muraina Oyelami. Basically being celebrated with art exhibitions in two cities, the 50 years mark is sponsored and organised by Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) Osogbo. The exhibitions start with
a preview tomorrow at CBCIU while the show continues the next day till January 23, 2017. After the preview, comes launching of the Journal CBClU in Osogbo on Tuesday, January 17, 2017. The exhibition is further scheduled to continue on January 24, 2017 at Thought Pyramid Art Centre, Wuse ll, FCT, Abuja where it will be curated by Mr. Jeff Ajueshi, the Artistic Director of the centre.
On receiving the informtion about 50 years of Osogbo art, the instant curiousity was: from which period is the five decades calculated? Mathematically, it suggests 1966/7. More curious, 1966 was the period that Osogbo artists were left on their own to fate, after the expatriates Uli Beier and Georgina concluded the workshops. From the texts of the 50 years celebration, 1966 seemed to have been declared as the official birth of Osogbo art movement.
Recalling Beier's departing statement, the organisers of the anniversary disclosed that the German described the Art movement as an answer to the colonial contents of European art. And against prophecy of doom for the Osogbo artists, Beier assured: 'Early prediction that Osogbo artist would soon run out of steam after their European Mentors left Nigeria in December, 1966 looks particularly ridiculous.'
And for those who chose to mark five decades of the movement, remembering cynics that Osogbo artists have come to stay is just one of many other factors that inspired the exhibitions. "It is not only this misconception that the Exhibition desires to invalidate, but it is essentially a celebration of an Artistic movement that has not only remained true to its cultural identity and essence."
From the resilient textures of the first generation of Osogbo artists, whose works keep competing in contemporary space; to the activities of the second generation who benefited from Austrian expatriate, Suzanne Wenger; the Osogbo art as an icon in African art is no longer contentious. In fact, Wenger also known as Adunni Olorisa, in 2015 had a posthumous recognition to immortalise her work. A group, Adunni Olorisa Trust (AOT), set up to manage the legacy of the Austrian mentor and the Sacred Grove Artists launched a campaign 'Save Our Art! Save Our Heritage!', in Lagos.
Contents of the exhibition marking the fifty years anniversary include paintings, sculptures, beads, and textiles as well as
other works depicting native Yoruba deities and festival motifs.
Also included are what the organisers described as contents that recognised the inputs of Wenger. And that of Georgina Beier, who "did not deliberately start an arts school or movement," but engaged youths from "Duro Ladipo Theatre to do some art works during the long hours between play rehearsals."
Meeting of elders by Jimoh Buraimoh
Irrespective of the misunderstanding of what the foreign couples were aimed at, the value of their legacy is no doubt enduring. "What should be highlighted now are some of
the distinctive features of the experiment, whose features constitute the reasons why CBCIU Osogbo, plans to celebrate the contributions of the Osogbo School of Art to the global Art community."
Indeed, the CBCIU has every reason to celebrate the Osogbo art movement. Part of the core contents that inspired the ancient town as preferred choice place to establish the facility is the revered recognition of Osogbo art across the world.
Listed among the highlights of the 50 years anniversary are: "Although there were already contemporary artists trained according to modern (western) art techniques and perspectives in Nigeria, the Oshogbo experiment was the first to have succeeded in encouraging a contemporary modern art that would build on and continue the indigenous art traditions; the artists themselves were by and large young men with only rudimentary formal western- style education, after which they became artisans, petrol station
attendants or, in the famous case of twins, a dancer for itinerant medicine peddlers; and easily, the achievement of Georgina and Ulli showed the ability to turn the underprivileged and disadvantaged status of these young men into great assets:
no certificates were required of them to join in the experiment."


Limerick, however, is utterly captivated by everything having to do with writing and words. He can identify all 26 letters in both their uppercase and lowercase forms; he sings the alphabet song all day long; he draws on every surface in the house and cries if you take his crayons or pencils away; and he is starting to realize that the letters can work together to make words.
Last night, my brother was writing names on a paper for Limerick, spelling them out and telling him what they said. Sometimes Limerick would ask for a specific word and my brother would write that one. And every time he picked up the pencil to write, Limerick would crane his head around to get a better view of the writing process, his whole face animated with focus and fascination. It was so neat to watch!
It is always special to see a young child become intellectually excited by something, whether it's patterns and puzzles, cars and trucks, or colors and art, and Limerick's interest in letters is especially fun for me because of how well it ties in to our family culture of books and reading. A love of books and a love of language are such good foundations for a love of learning and the ability to think and critically, coherently, and eloquently – and those are things I definitely want for my children. I see how crippled many of my peers are by an inability to assemble words beautifully or even functionally, and I believe that it is at least partly due to a lack of sophisticated and eloquent aural language input during their childhood years. When we read silently, we can skim over the sentence structure to get the content faster, but in the process we lose the repeated exposure to high-level style that helps develop good language skills.


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Terminator 2 Canal Chase Scene recreated in Grand Theft Auto V
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This, my friends, is why God made the internet…
I'd say I'm not sure exactly how the hell YouTube maestro John Chapman went about this damn near shot-for-shot remake of T2's most famous sequence entirely within the confines of GTA V, but one of the best things about video is the outtakes/making-of portion that follows… which I'm guessing is an equally geeky celebration of the movies of Burt Reynolds! The impressive eye for detail had me riveted, by the time I heard the pubescent shrieks of Edward Furlong, I was outright cackling. Seriously, this is great:
Not to be all gift-horsey, John, but if you're looking for a much more elaborate, far less popular Los Angeles-based follow up, may I humbly recommend this scene from To Live and Die in LA?! My personal favorite car chase of all-time.
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6 thoughts on "Terminator 2 Canal Chase Scene recreated in Grand Theft Auto V"
Shigeruken says:
Can't wait to finish my work so I can watch this.
Great scene! I can always appreciate hard work like this. Maybe someone in the future could do it in Gary's Mod, or Mario Kart 8's Toad Harbor level? They have motorcycles.
moan4stalone says:
I used to do this back in the day. I recorded scenes from die hard with my home alone talk boy and then would put on true lies for the super nes and play the recorded dialogue and pretend I was playing a die hard game. My parents thought it was pretty weird but also genius. I finally got my wish when die hard trilogy was released for the PlayStation and I could retire from recording movies to create my own game experiences. Glad to see over twenty years latter people are still doing this.
Grif says:
I have a question about theTo Live and Die in L.A. chase scene. When they start driving into traffic on the freeway, traffic appears to be on the reversed sides with the opposite traffic on the right side of the driver as opposed to the usual left side. WTF?
krogan-charging says:
When the FUCK is this game coming out for PC?!
TheTingler says:
Simple answer: when they've finished also converting it to Xbox One and PS4. Then all three will be released together.
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Vega operations not impacted in the medium term by the Ukraine conflict
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In relation to recent articles appeared on the press concerning the potential impacts of the on-going Ukranian conflict on the operations of the Vega launcher, Avio confirms that at present no specific impacts on Vega and Vega C continuity of operations are foreseen in the medium term.In particular, the procurement process of the 4th stage engine of Vega and Vega C, manufactured in Ukraine, started...
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No magnitude 5+ Quakes reported today.
Bats vs. Turbines
A new study estimates that more than 600,000 bats are killed each year by the rotation of wind turbines in the continental United States.
Wildlife experts say those deaths are in addition to the large numbers of the flying mammals that are being killed by white-nose syndrome, which is caused by a fungus that has spread rapidly to bat caves and mines across North America.
Writing in the journal BioScience, University of Colorado researcher Mark Hays notes that the actual number of bat deaths from the turbines could be much higher than the conservative estimate of 600,000.
The majority of bat species produce only one young per year, meaning that their populations are slow to recover.
Most bats don't die from actual contact with the turbines since their sonar allows them to avoid the blades.
But subtle changes in barometric pressure created by the rotating blades cause the bats' capillaries to burst, resulting in deadly internal hemorrhaging.
Birds' circulatory systems are different from that of bats, keeping them from being victims of such "barotrauma."
Most bat deaths occur when winds are relatively light because bats can't fly in high winds. And since most turbines shut down when winds go below about 9 mph anyway, experts say increasing the "cut-in speed" to 11 mph would reduce bat deaths by at least 44 percent.
As much as 93 percent of bat fatalities due to turbine barotrauma could be avoided if the cut-in speed was lifted to 15.6 mph, experts say.
New Flu Strain Jumps from Birds to a Human in Asia
A young woman in Taiwan has contracted a new strain of influenza A, which is very similar in structure to the H7N9 bird flu that killed 45 people and infected 139 other in China last year. The H6N1 strain is believed to have come from infected poultry and reacts to the same drugs that combat other strains of bird flu, like Tamiflu and Relenza, according to Taiwan's Centres for Disease Control.
Researchers there say H6N1 is widespread in poultry but no reported cases of transmission to humans have been found.
The Taiwanese patient fully recovered, and no trace of the virus was found in the 36 people with whom the woman had close contact.
Roundup of Global Volcanic Activity:
Etna (Sicily, Italy): The New SE crater has calmed down. Only very occasionally, a weak glow appeared from the summit vent at night, suggesting deep-seated activity still occurs from time to time.
Klyuchevskoy (Kamchatka): Activity has generally decreased over the past days. VAAC Tokyo reported a possible eruption early today, producing a small ash plume rising to 17,000 ft (5.1 km), i.e. a few hundred meters tall. Webcam images at that time are cloudy, but otherwise show the volcano is mostly quiet.
Sakurajima (Kyushu, Japan): Activity seems to increase and decrease in cycles of approximately a week's length. After the series of stronger explosions on 24-25 Nov, the past days have been calmer with fewer and less intense explosions (1-2 per day, ash plumes to 8,000 ft).
Sinabung (Sumatra, Indonesia): Visual activity has decreased. Ash emissions have become less intense and less frequent. However, this could be only a pause, and the risk of larger explosions that can occur unexpectedly remains high.
Dukono (Halmahera): A dense SO2 plume is visible on the latest NOAA satellite data, suggesting that (the ongoing) activity (weak to moderate strombolian explosions) is elevated at the moment.
Popocatépetl (Central Mexico): CENAPRED reports no changes in activity. The number of explosive emissions of gas/steam and minor amounts of ash is very low (less than 10 per day). Weak glow remains visible at night and SO2 emissions elevated.
A volcano-tectonic quake of magnitude 2.2 was recorded yesterday at 04:33 local time.
Santa María / Santiaguito (Guatemala): Activity has been mainly effusive during the past days; no or few explosions occurred yesterday. The volcano observatory reports abundant avalanches from the active lava flows mainly on the NE side of the Caliente lava dome.
Pacaya (Guatemala): INSIVUMEH reports continuing weak strombolian activity. Small ash plumes at altitudes of 2.5-2.7 km drift up to approx. 10 km mainly to the SE.
Fuego (Guatemala): No significant changes in activity have occurred. The volcano produces small to moderate strombolian-type explosions with ash plumes rising up to about 800 m. The lava flows are no longer active.
5.6 Earthquake hits southern Iran.
5.5 Earthquake hits the Anatahan region, North Mariana Islands.
5.3 Earthquake hits south of Panama.
5.2 Earthquake hits south of Fiji.
5.1 Earthquake hits the Santa Cruz Islands.
5.1 Earthquake hits Arunachal Pradesh, India.
5.1 Earthquake hits the Nias region, Indonesia.
5.0 Earthquake hits neat the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
5.0 Earthquake hits the Indian Ocean Triple Junction.
There are no active storms or areas of interest in the eastern Pacific or the Atlantic.
The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season comes to a close on 30 November and was the least active season so far this century, and among the quietest on record since 1950.
Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update
On 27 November, 2013, the National IHR Focal Point of Qatar notified WHO that the Supreme Council for Health and the Ministry of Environment, in collaboration with the National Institute of Public Health and Environment (RIVM) of the Ministry of Health and the Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands, have detected Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in a herd of camels in a barn linked to two confirmed human infections infections.
Space Events
Comet ISON Gets Roasted by Sun and Vanishes – Update
Call it a cosmic holiday miracle. The much-anticipated Comet ISON appeared to disintegrate during its Thanksgiving Day slingshot around the sun Thursday, but something — it seems — may have survived.
A NASA update released early Friday (Nov. 29) confirmed the sighting of what appears to be Comet ISON.
The question remains whether it is merely debris from the comet, or if some portion of the comet's nucleus survived, but late-night analysis from scientists with NASA's Comet ISON Observing Campaign suggest that there is at least a small nucleus intact.
Etna (Sicily, Italy): Although the paroxysmal phase of the eruption ended at night, tremor has remained elevated and strombolian explosions continue to occur from the summit vent of the NSEC.
5.0 Earthquake hits Yunnan, China.
5.0 Earthquake hits Hokkaido, Japan.
5.0 Earthquake hits the Mid-Indian ridge.
In the North Indian Ocean:
Tropical cyclone Lehar is located approximately 215 nm east-northeast of Chennai, India.
The very severe cyclonic storm Lehar weakened to a cyclonic storm Wednesday, as wind speed fell to 90 kmph from 180 kmph, hours before landfall expected on Thursday. It changed direction and may now make landfall as a cyclonic storm between Machilipatnam and Nellore, India.
Winter storm Boreas – Heavy snow piled up Wednesday in parts of the Northeast and Appalachians while rain drenched locations closer to the coast as a winter storm disrupted millions of travellers heading out for Thanksgiving. Nationwide, nearly 475 flights had been canceled and more than 3,600 had been delayed as of late afternoon. Some of the worst delays were at Philadelphia and the three New York City area airports. Although the storm will be long gone by Thursday morning, howling winds in its wake could spell trouble for some of the big balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade in New York City. Snow fell in the Appalachians and portions of the interior Northeast. Snow was reported falling as far south as Atlanta. The city picked up 0.4 inch of snow, which was only the third time measurable snow fell there in November since 1930. Winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories remained in effect as of late afternoon Wednesday in the central and southern Appalachians, portions of northeast Ohio and northwest Pennsylvania, upstate New York and northern Maine. More lake-effect snow was forecast to fly on Thursday around the Great Lakes. Flood watches also remained in effect for drenched eastern portions of the Northeast. Earlier Wednesday, the weather service confirmed that an EF-2 tornado hit Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, injuring two people. This was the same storm that blitzed the Southwest earlier in the week, killing at least 12 people in traffic accidents. More than 43 million people were expected to travel over the long holiday weekend.
A landslide at an open pit coal mine in north China's Shanxi Province has claimed lives of at least three people and buried four others.
Rainfall swept across Trinidad for most of yesterday, causing floods in Monkey Town, Barrackpore, Ste Madeleine, Debe, Penal, Otaheite and Cross Crossing.
Two people suffered minor injuries when the roof blew off their condominium in Atlantic Beach along the North Carolina coast in what the National Weather Service confirmed Wednesday as a tornado.
Ison: Comet of the Century
Comet Ison came from the Oort Cloud, a mysterious, icy region at the furthest reaches of our Solar System.
It has been hurtling towards the Earth, travelling at more than a million kilometres an hour.
Now it is entering the most perilous stage of its epic journey. It will pass the Sun at a distance of just 1.2 million km, effectively grazing its surface.
It will be getting exposed to more and more intense solar heat, and that will start to sublimate the ices (turning them into gas) at an increasing rate.
The Sun's intense gravitational field produces tidal forces that will also have a major effect on the comet.
Scientists fear it could follow the path of Comet Lovejoy, which broke apart after it passed near the Sun in 2011. Or it could run out of fuel and fizzle out. It is hoped Ison's large size could protect it.
Etna (Sicily, Italy): No significant changes have occurred. The New SE crater remains restless with some occasional weak activity, visible from time to time as faint glow on the webcam at night. Tremor is currently low.
Suwanose-jima (Ryukyu Islands): Explosive activity has resumed at the remote volcano in the Tokara Island chain. VAAC Tokyo reported explosions yesterday and this morning, with ash plumes rising to 4,000-6,000 ft (1.2-1.8 km) altitude.
Sinabung (Sumatra, Indonesia): The volcano continues to produce near-constant ash venting. The emissions produce a plume rising to estimated 18,000 ft (5.7 km) altitude. It seems that the more powerful discrete explosions during the past days have somewhat cleared the conduit, allowing for a more constant (and less violent) eruption of magma. The risk of sudden, more powerful explosions remains however high, because the magma involved (likely dacite) is very viscous
5.3 Earthquake hits New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Weak 2013 Atlantic hurricane season draws to close November 30th.
Tropical cyclone Lehar is located approximately 390 nm southeast of Visakhapatnam, India.
Dangerous Category 1 Cyclone Lehar is slowly intensifying as it heads west-northwest at 10 mph towards India's Bay of Bengal coast. Lehar has not been able to form a prominent eye, and is likely having problems getting organized in the face of moderate wind shear. Ocean temperatures are a very warm 28 – 29°C, and Lehar should be able to attain Category 2 strength before landfall Thursday. Cooler waters near shore and an increase in wind shear as the storm nears landfall will likely mean that Lehar will be weakening as it comes ashore.


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The evil Dr. Kochin uses the dragon balls to resurrect his mentor, Dr. Wheelo, in an effort to take over the world. Dr. Wheelo, his body having been destroyed by the avalanche that killed him fifty years before, desires the body of the strongest fighter in the world as his new vessel. Believing Roshi to be the world's strongest warrior, Dr. Kochin abducts Bulma and forces Roshi to surrender himself to save her. When Goku hears of their abduction, he goes to their rescue.
A retelling of Dragon Ball's origin with a different take on the meeting of Goku, Bulma, and Kame-Sen'nin. It also retells the Red Ribbon Army story; but this time they find Goku rather than Goku finding them.
After defeating Frieza, Goku returns to Earth and goes on a camping trip with Gohan and Krillin. Everything is normal until Cooler - Frieza's brother - sends three henchmen after Goku. A long fight ensues between our heroes and Cooler, in which he transforms into the fourth stage of his evolution and has the edge in the fight... until Goku transforms into a Super Saiyan.
The Saiyan named Turles has come to Earth in order to plant a tree that will both destroy the planet and give him infinite strength. Son Goku and the Z Warriors cannot let this happen and duke it out with the invaders for the sake of the planet.
Mr. Money is holding another World Martial Arts Tournament and Mr. Satan invites everyone in the world to join in. Little does he know that Bojack, an ancient villain who has escaped his prison, is competing. Since Goku is currently dead, it is up to Gohan, Vegeta, and Trunks to defeat Bojack and his henchman.
The great King Gurumes is searching for the Dragon Balls in order to put a stop to his endless hunger. A young girl named Pansy who lives in the nearby village has had enough of the treachery and decides to seek Muten Rōshi for assistance. Can our heroes save the village and put a stop to the Gurumes Army?


COSTA RICA NEWS – Thousands of parrots, monkeys, iguanas, toucans, turtles and other rainforest animals are kept as exotic pets in Costa Rica, a practice putting some species at risk, according to experts.
The country, famous for its rich biodiversity, won plaudits from conservationists two years ago for banning sport hunting in a pioneering move to protect wild animals.
But scientists and activists—gathered this week for the country's first-ever conference on the issue of captive wildlife—say tropical animals face another major threat in Costa Ricans' long-time love of exotic pets.
A Spider Monkey sits in an enclosure at the Simon Bolivar Zoo in San Jose, Costa Rica.
"There are no precise figures, but we know it's a problem of great magnitude, because a study by the environment ministry found that 25 percent of households have a parrot or a parakeet as a pet," said Andrea Aguilar of the Instituto Asis, a key figure behind the conference.
That would add up to nearly 400,000 exotic birds in cages, she said.
Aguilar's institute runs a shelter for wild animals in La Fortuna de San Carlos, a lush region in northern Costa Rica that draws large numbers of foreign tourists with its famous wildlife and tropical vegetation.
The shelter takes in wild animals kept as pets that fall sick or are wounded by people, cars or electric shocks.
It gives them veterinary care and, when possible, prepares them for an eventual return to the wild.
"Costa Rican law forbids keeping wild species as pets, but the law isn't enough because there's a very deep-rooted custom. People don't realize that wild animals are not and cannot be pets," Aguilar told AFP in an interview ahead of the First Congress on Wildlife Rescue, Recovery and Freedom in San Jose.
She said people have a range of reasons for keeping pets such as white-faced capuchin monkeys, green iguanas or songbirds. They are drawn to the animals' beauty, they want to entertain their children or they feel it brings them social status.
But the underlying problem is that people are largely ignorant of the animals' diets, growth, life span, habitat, diseases and behavior.
"A family falls in love with a baby white-faced capuchin because it's funny and affectionate, but when it reaches two years old its behavior will change. It will become aggressive, bite and pull people's hair. That's when it becomes a problem at home," she said.
Such animals often end up being mistreated or killed, or, with luck, in a shelter, she said.
By that point returning them to their native environment is difficult. They lack survival skills and are unlikely to be accepted by other members of their species.
The international traffic in exotic animals exacerbates the problem.
The illegal $20-billion-a-year trade has taken a major toll on Costa Rica's biodiversity, as animals are captured and sold abroad, Aguilar said.
One of the goals of the three-day conference is to prod the Costa Rican government to expand environmental education programs for locals, foreign visitors and ecotourism operators.
"It's important to make people understand that wild animals have to live in the forest, because they have different needs from domesticated animals," said Aguilar.
Protecting the environment is also key for the Costa Rican economy, which depends heavily on tourism and attracted 2.4 million visitors last year—many of them drawn by the country's tropical wildlife and forests.
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