Here is a unique proposal – become the newest indigenous people in the world. In other words, Palestinian Arabs, you can write your own future. I dare you to. Or, you can continue to bask in the attention afforded you as you persist in the victimhood imposed upon you years ago by your fellow Arabs, based upon an imaginary past.
Pro-Palestinians want to see one state "between the river and the sea"; in other words, they want Israel to cease to exist. No-Palestinians deny the Palestinian Arabs the right to define their own identity. I am an Okay-You-Want-To-Be-Palestinian-But Not-Like-That kind of person. If you really want a name that symbolizes subjugation and failure, that is your prerogative; but does it mean you really have to be a failed People?
Pro-Palestinians have tried to convince the world that the Palestinian Arabs are indigenous to the land of Israel – saying, in turn, that they are the descendants of the original Canaanites, the original Philistines, or even the original homo sapiens who settled the land eons before Abraham breathed his first breath on Earth. These are all ridiculous claims that hold no water.
For the Palestinian Arabs to even suggest such possibilities is like shooting themselves in the foot. For, if true, it would mean that the Arabs living in the area governed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) are not Arabs at all and, therefore, would negate any claim they would have to being part of the Arab World, or "Uma". And I do not think that they really intend to detach themselves from their glorious Arab roots nor from membership in one of the currently most influential ethnic groups in the world even if that influence is, today, largely destructive.
No-Palestinians use the argument that a sovereign Palestinian Arab state never existed before in all of history and therefore has no right to exist in future. They talk about how Palestine was a Jewish province under Rome during Roman Empire times and later a mandate overseen by Britain after World War I. No-Palestinians go on and on about how there was never a Palestinian coin, flag, newspaper, etc., except for those so named under the British Mandate and adorned with symbols from Judaism with script in Hebrew, Arabic and English. These are all true facts, showing that Palestine originally referred to a region associated with the Jews.
But this historical truth has little bearing on the contemporary situation, except as background, because the future is not decided upon by the past but by decisions made now, based upon either an understanding of, or, demonically, attempts at re-writing, the past or simply ignoring it.
The Arabs living under the PA have a unique opportunity before them today. I do not know if they are courageous enough to take advantage of it, but they have the opportunity to turn themselves into the newest (quasi-)indigenous population on Earth.
An indigenous population is one that has seen its culture, spirituality, language, and traditions develop on a particular geographic space that has sacred significance to the People. That rules out the Arabs who colonized the area of the Palestinian Mandate just as it rules out the Romans whose empire predated the Arab Conquest and the Ottomans who came after the Arabs. If a Roman pigeon came to roost and claim Palestine as its own, one can only hope it would be laughed out of the region. But the Arabs, like the Jews, have had a long-term continuous presence on the land (Arabs, obviously, for a much much shorter time than the indigenous Jews), leading to the current confusion on the part of those who are ignorant of the history of the region or who willfully ignore that history.
The pages of history are rife with stories about the establishment and demise of indigenous peoples around the globe. Some are totally extinct and others, such as the Sami of northern Scandinavia, are under threat of extinction. Many indigenous peoples today are struggling for recognition of their rights to self-rule on their ancient homelands with Israel a role model for how an ancient indigenous people can regain its land. Given the topsy-turvy history of indigenous peoples, there is no reason that a new indigenous or quasi-indigenous people could not arise in modern times.
So, how can the Palestinian Arabs, some of whom are relatively recent migrants and others descendants of colonial invaders, turn themselves into an indigenous population? The only way is if they take advantage of what made losing the war a Nakba for them: the fact that their fellow Arabs rejected them except as useful idiots.
Arab leaders used as pawns in their war against Israel those categorized by UNRWA as Palestinian refugees. Refusing to resettle them in Arab lands, they preferred to see them languish in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon — and even in Gaza and Judea & Samaria (J&S, aka the West Bank) even after the PA took over administration of the disputed territories. In this way, they used, and continue to use, some of their own Umma as human weaponry against the hated Jews. (Their very own PA leadership uses them as milk cows, diverting international aid funds into their own personal coffers.) By doing this, Arabs outside the region turned the Arabs of the former British Mandate of Palestine into a separate population unit and a new Palestinian Arab identity was born.
If the Palestinian Arabs were to play their cards well, however, these abuses can open up for them a way to a life of self-respect and dignity . . . and perhaps sovereignty. It is even possible that the Palestinian Arabs have, by now, become two separate peoples – those of Gaza and those of J&S.
While the Palestinian Arabs share a religion and a language with the Arab Umma (the proportion of Christians is minuscule today – another issue, but beyond the scope of this article), that does not mean that they cannot cement their identity as a thing apart from the rest of the Arabs. They need to decide on the nature of their attachment to the land: does it lie in continuing to see the land as a war-zone for soaking up the blood of dead Jews or can they develop a unique relationship with the land that has nothing to do with anyone else but themselves?
That means believing themselves a people apart from the larger Arab world and not as a unit of martyrs fighting for general Arab honour to be subsumed by the the other Arab countries once their task is over. This would set the stage for the development of a particular culture of their own making – including their relationship with their own religion and with the religious sites they share with Jews and Christians.
This would likely set the stage for "civil" war between them and other Arabs who would not take such a move lying down. The New Palestinians would find that Israel would be on their side of the battle lines and we are a formidable force to have on one's side. That is a kind of Pro-Palestinian the world has not seen and it would put all current so-called pro-Palestinians to shame.
It all depends on the value-culture they wish to develop. Do the Palestinian Arabs want to distinguish themselves as a healthy society with a growing economy that contributes to mankind, or do they prefer to stay wedded to a culture that devours its own by sending them off to knife, car-ram and suicide-bomb Jews for a 72-virgin-prize-in-Paradise fantasy?
The choice is theirs and theirs alone. They just have to decide to re-write their future all by themselves.
Do I believe they can do that, or that they even want to? Not very likely, I think. And even if the answer was "yes", how long would it take me to trust them? A very long time. But I never say never. And the dare stands.
The PalestineArab identity is genographically, about 1/2 ethnic Arabized native JudaeanHebrew, pre Arab empire indigenous, non Arab & 1/2 Arabist empire colonizing PeninsulaArab rooted! The PhilistineGreek identity, was not at all ethnic Arab! The JudaeanHebrew language,is 90% mutually intelligible with her sister common Canaanite dialects! Arabic is about 50% mutually intelligible with common Canaanite! PalestineArab identity, is not indigenous compared with Ashkenazi, let alone Sephardic JudaeanHebrew identity! PalestineArab identity, has a pro Jewish part of it's Arabist empire roots! The Koran is 100% pro Zionist! The Koran defines Islam, as doing your best, to practice social living! Liberating your neighbors from slavery, is a close summary of the Koran's self defining of the meaning of Muslim! The Arabist empire , was not assigned to Arabize the Holy Land! The Holy Land, was assigned to the nation of Israel, by the Koran's recital of Allah's prescribed Zionist bestowal on Israel! The Arabist empire, created a new PalestineArab identity, from a past ,that did not even have a Palestine non Arab identity! Palestine only existed for not more than several hundred years, before the Arabist empire was started. PalestineArab is not PhilistineGreek or JudaeanHebrew Canaanite or anything else Canaanite! PalestineArab is supposed to be Zionist allied, by order of the Koran's self defined goals! PalestineArab is the local Arabist empire identity, like SudanArab or EgyptianArab are! PalestineArab is no more indigenous, than SudanArab killers of Darfur African Muslim non Arabs! PalestineArab identity,is no more indigenous than EgyptianArab is ,while EgyptianArabs kill EgyptiCoptic indigenous non Arabs! PalestineArab is no more indigenous than SyrianArabs killing indigenous SyriacAramaeams or SyrianArabs killing AramaicAssyrians! PalestineArab, is no more indigenous than MauritanianArabs holding African Muslim non Arab slaves! PalestineArab individuals are real people, all right! PalestineArab is a real local Arabist empire colonial identity, for sure! But there are no more Palestinians, than there were Philistine-ians! PalestineArab identity, had better get with the real facts, that the Koran requires 100% pro Zionist action! The Koran does not compromise on it's 100% pro Zionist agenda! PalestineArab identity only exists, because of the Koran defining good Muslims,by their lending their helping hands, to neighbors in need or oppressed,enslaved or captured by outside oppressors! The Arabist empire, had one reason for legit existence! The pro Zionist agenda of the Koran , is spelled that out quite explicitly! PalestineArabs exist, but Palestinians or Palestinian Arabs ,do not. PalestineArabs are the 1/2 brothers of JudaeanHebrew Canaanites, outside of the nation of Israel! If PalestineArabs want to stay in their invisible empire of Arabist klansmen, that is their choice! It is not anybody else's job or mitszva to create a PalestineArab identity. Palestinian, is as redundant as Philistinian! PhilistineGreek was not PalestineArab or Common Canaanite, at all!
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A London-based Infants and Juniors School has benefited from a major building programme which included enlarged classrooms, a computer suite, purpose built kitchens, refurbished play spaces and cloakroom areas.
David Bailey Furniture Systems provided fitted furniture for the school refit to the value of £32,000.
The school chose furniture from David Bailey's highly durable Education range, which has been specially designed to meet the everyday needs of educational establishments.
Products supplied by the school furniture manufacturer included base units, base tray units, wall units, open units and shelving. All cupboard doors were hung on high-quality, durable metal hinges, which have been designed to help prevent children trapping their fingers in cupboard doors. Yellow, red, and silver type 'D' handles were also fitted to the doors. Postformed worktops were used to complete the refit, with a speckled grey colour chosen for the kitchen and bright blue for the IT suite.
The cloakroom furniture included made-to-measure shelving that was hung above the clothes pegs and movable base units to increase storage space. Other bright colours such as red and green were chosen to define the different areas of the school.
Trevor Gilman, Managing Director, said: "We worked alongside T and B Contractor and Haringey Council to complete the project.


We have now reached half-time for the summer grass-cutting season, and Hertfordshire's mowers have covered the equivalent of more than 1,200 football pitches.
Despite the recent mix of sunshine and heavy showers meaning that grass and vegetation grow really quickly, the teams from council contractor Ridgeway have already carried out seven cuts, equal to approximately 10.5million square metres.
And by the end of the summer that figure is expected to reach 16.5 million.
Terry Douris, cabinet member for highways at Herts County Council, said: "Grass cutting and verge maintenance is one element of the wide-ranging highways works we undertake throughout the year to sustain and improve Hertfordshire's roads. Teams will be out around the county over the coming months during the growing season.


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January 13, 2021 by SCRAP
Pottery Type #4: Maya Mopan
There are two more ceramic types left to introduce before we submit a manuscript on our newly established typology (using the names that you voted for) for peer review. The Maya Mopan type is very distinctive in the Alabama ceramic assemblage. The pottery is composed almost completely of rounded quartz sand and the color of the vessels ranges from white to tan to pink. We have only recovered a few rim sherds, and these indicate that the vessels had a fairly standardized rim diameter and were likely squat bowls and/or jars. The composition is consistent with the white soil horizon that you can see when you are driving down the Southern Highway in the Stann Creek District. We are not sure who produced this pottery because the raw materials for its production can be found across a large area so it could have been produced by people living in multiple locations in East Central Belize.
December 13, 2020 by SCRAP
Week 16 SCRAP Reading Group: Tamales!
On Friday, the SCRAP reading group hosted a holiday cooking party online—tamales! Thanks to Claudia Alarcón and Harri Kettunen for joining us to talk about pre-Columbian food! A summary of our reading and discussion questions can be found below (provided by Shawn).
Alarcón Cacheux, Claudia and Verónica A. Vázquez López (2012) Part I: An Introduction to Mesoamerican Pre-Hispanic Cuisine. In Spice it up! An introduction to Pre-Hispanic Mexican Cooking, pp. 3-24. Workshop handbook prepared for the 17th European Maya Conference, Dec. 9-15, 2012, Helsinki.
This handbook was written in support of a 3-day (?) workshop on the history, archaeology, epigraphy, and iconography of food traditions in Pre-Hispanic Mexico for the 2012 European Maya Conference in Helsinki. Both Meaghan and Shawn had the good fortune to participate in this workshop, along with another several years later. Both were organized and led by Claudia and Verónica and their names are still whispered in hushed tones (or loudly proclaimed depending on the beverage involved) when the inevitable topic of food in Mesoamerica comes up. They have been generous enough to provide us with the full handbook for your reading pleasure, and the section on tamales (Part II) is a must. So thank you to both of them. As for Part I, the specific reading at hand, after introducing the general topic of food and outlining the sources available for its study, Claudia and Verónica break down the utensils, ingredients, preparations, and contexts thought to characterize Pre-Hispanic cuisine in Mexico and the archaeological, iconographic, and epigraphic information of these same. Of course, the original workshops paired reading, lecture, and discussion, with cooking, a model we have sought to replicate to a limited extent with this week's reading group. Check out the recipes in Part III of the workbook.
We're guessing that much of our conversation will develop organically as we labour away in the kitchen, but just so that there is some structure (if needed)…
1. Maize, beans, squash and salt. We generally take it for granted that these were the staples of ancient Mayas diets. We expect that maize, beans, and squash were grown, regardless of variations in climate, environment, or soil. Further, it seems clear that, whether locally produced or acquired through well established trade networks, all communities needed salt to meet their dietary requirements and preserve perishable foodstuffs. But what of regional variability? What of the accoutrements? To what extent might we expect food traditions to vary by availability, preservation, or preference?
2. To what degree are the culinary preferences of the core expanded to the periphery? Or the present to the past? To what degree have you been able to shed light on the cuisine of your sites/regions? What challenges have you faced? What solutions have you come up with?
3. A non-archaeology topic: Food is a universal. The preparation and consumption of food punctuates our daily lives. Share some food memories. Go on! Everybody likes talking about food.
November 28, 2020 by SCRAP
Week 15 SCRAP Reading Group: Analogy in Archaeology
This was our 15th meet-up of the Virtual SCRAP Reading Group–we've been meeting every two weeks since the spring (plus a couple breaks here and there). This week, our topic of discussion was on comparative approaches and analogical reasoning in archaeology. Our special guest was Dr. Rachel Horowitz. The short readings were chosen by Shawn, and below you will find his summary and discussion questions.
Horowitz, Rachel A. (2020) Between Rocks and the Maya: The Necessity of Comparative Approaches with Respect to Lithics, Methodologies, and Theoretical Frameworks. The SAA Archaeological Record, 20 (1): 18-21.
Lamoureux-St-Hilaire, Maxime (2020) Comparative Approaches and Analogical Reasoning for Mayanists: Where to Go? The SAA Archaeological Record, 20 (1): 8-13.
Both articles are derived from a special section of the Archaeological Record, in turn derived from a SAA Forum organized by Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire. The two articles chosen work in complementarity, with Max's article serving as a summary and framework for both the forum
and the section and Rachel Horowitz's article as the case study—in this case, concerning lithic production and similarities/differences between sedentary societies and mobile foragers—and a common point of reference upon which we might build our conversation. Both, focus on the concept and use of analogy and cross-cultural comparison in archaeological analysis and interpretation.
Questions for Consideration, as per Max's guidelines (p.9):
How might we identify relevant context-specific case studies for use in cross-cultural comparison? What contexts matter most? Technology? Economy? Ideology? Language? Socio-political structure? To what extent can we profitably extend analogies based on one point of comparison to others? Are we more likely to forward interpretations that defy testing?
What constitutes "appropriate space" in publications or presentations for defining the "loaded terms" we use? Is it sufficient to simply align one's work with established bodies of literature, or should our works be essentially self-contained? What is the role/responsibility of the audience?
Comparison isn't just about noting the similarities, but the differences. Does this change with scope (i.e. micro-scalar vs. macro-scalar)? How have you explicitly or implicitly referenced similarity or differences in your use of analogy?
Archaeology has always been a team sport. In what ways do you engage specialists in other fields or realms of archaeological knowledge in your work. What has this brought to the table (i.e. let's raise a glass and take a moment to sing the praises of our colleagues)?
What is the audience's role with respect to our choice of comparative case studies?
Pottery Type #3: Hell Camp Brown
We are back to presenting our newly named pottery types (our project ceramicist is from the US and things went off the rails a bit around the election)!
The Hell Camp Brown type is not well represented in the ceramic assemblage at Alabama, but it is very distinct. The acidic soils have taken a toll prompting us to refer to this type as "Having a Bad Time Brown" in our initial classifications but it would have had smoothed surfaces that were likely slipped a red color in antiquity. The pottery was made using grog (crushed up pieces of pottery) and limestone temper which has only been documented (to date) in the Late to Terminal Classic Period in northern Belize. Interestingly, the grog temper in Hell Camp Brown most closely resembles pottery produced in the Belize Valley. We are not really sure where this pottery was made but (1) it was made in a way that has only been documented in northern Belize, (2) using grog temper that resembles ceramic vessels produced in the Belize Valley, and (3) has only been identified at Alabama in the Stann Creek District. Let us know your thoughts! It suggests to us that people were moving around and sharing information about pottery production much more than we previously realized.
Week 14 SCRAP Reading Group: Trivia Night!
This week, we took a break from reading and discussing and enjoyed a fun trivia night. In addition to categories on the 80s and Disney Princesses, we had two rounds that focused on Belizean trivia. See below for the questions. Answers are at the very bottom. Enjoy!
Trivia Rounds
October 25, 2020 by SCRAP
Week 13 SCRAP Reading Group: Digital Archaeology
Eleven participants; four countries; two hours. Once again, a great conversation about an important topic. Thanks so much to Heather McKillop for providing our readings, summary, and discussion questions (see below).
Wakefield, C. (2020) Digital Public Archaeology at Must Farm: A Critical Assessment of Social Media Use for Archaeological Engagement. Internet Archaeology 55. https://doi.org/10.11141/ia.55.9
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue55/9/full-text.html
Wakefield discusses and evaluates the use of social media, in particular Facebook, in communicating field excavation information to the public during the Must Farm project in England, with well-preserved wooden posts and objects. Regular postings were critical to maintaining the digital audience, as well as postings by the same person who also excavated. Lack of funding for digital media after the excavations was an issue.
Khunti, Roshni (2018) The Problem with Printing Palmyra: Exploring the Ethics of Using 3D Printing Technology to Reconstruct Heritage. SDH, 2, 1, 1-12. DOI: 10.14434/sdh.v2i1.24590
The arch from a temple at Palmyra, which was destroyed in the war, was 3D printed at full-size from scans and exhibited in public in the USA and England. Khunti notes that the arch was out of context so poorly understood. He criticizes the project for failing to discuss the loss of human life and the destruction of cultural resources.
Mendoza, H. R. (2015) Museums and First Nations Explore 3D Printing as Mechanism for Artifact Repatriation. https://3dprint.com/104091/first-nations-repatriation/
In this web article, Mendoza discusses how the Smithsonian was able to provide 3D printed replicas of headdresses to the Tlingit who had lost many in fires. When used in ceremonies, the replicas became the masks according to the Tlingit. They later acquired 3D printers and make their own replicas.
Cook, Katherine, and Geneveive Hill (2019) Digital Heritage as Collaborative Process: Fostering Partnerships, Engagement and Inclusivity in Museums. SDH, 3, 1, 83-99. DOI: 10.14434/sdh.v3i1.25297
Cook and Hill describe and evaluate a project in which university students worked with museum collections and staff as well as descendant communities to create digital exhibits.The idea of "co-creating" exhibits with the public, descendants, and museum staff is fundamental in the projects. Problems include shortness of time, other commitments of museum staff, lack of institutional support by universities, and large time investment by faculty.
(1) For the Must Farm project, 2 people worked ½ time excavating and the rest creating and posting digital content to Facebook and a web site. Is this a good model? Other models?
(2) Khunti points out issues of lack of context and sensitivity in exhibiting 3D replicas of Palmyra. Are there better uses of 3D printed archaeology?
(3) What are our responsibilities in accuracy in 3D printing? Can 3D printing play a more active role in heritage?
(4) Cook and Hill provide a model of "co-creation," but note many drawbacks. Is this a useful model for archaeologists and could you do this on your project?
Week 12 SCRAP Reading Group: Soilscapes, Soil Memory, and Soil Legacies
Friday's reading group was all about soils! Thank you to Dr. Cory Sills for providing the readings, summary, and discussion questions (see below). Twelve participants in Belize, Mexico, US, and Canada. Two hours of great discussion with a great group of people.
E. Christian Wells and Marlena Antonucci. 2018. "Reframing Heritage: Cultural Soilscapes and Soil Memory." In Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene, eds Alexandra Toland, Jay Stratton Noller, Gerd Wessolek, 447-456. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
E. Christian Wells, Karla L. Davis-Salazzar, and David D. Kuehn. 2013. "Soilscape Legacies: Historical and Emerging Consequences of Socioecological Interactions in Honduras." In Soils, Climate, and Society: Archaeological Investigations in Ancient America, eds John D. Wingard and Sue Eileen Hayes, 21-59. Boulder, CO: University of Press Colorado.
The two articles above were chosen for this week's meeting because I (Cory) wanted to focus the discussion around geoarchaeology including soil chemistry. I am currently analyzing the sediment chemistry from the site of Taab Nuk Na, a submerged salt work in Paynes Creek National Park, that dates to the Late Classic Period. These articles, and many others, on the topic help to situate the sediment chemistry analysis in the framework of soilscapes. Additionally, I have really enjoyed the discussions in this group about public outreach and heritage education. I wanted to further add to our discussion by assigning the "Reframing Heritage" piece. What are some of the ways that we can engage the public with science? How do we situated our research so that the findings are relevant to issues communities face today?
The manuscript titled "Soilscape Legacies: Historical and Emerging Consequences of Socioecological Interactions in Honduras" by Wells, Davis-Salazzar, and Kuehn reports the results of various soil analysis techniques to evaluate the extent of soil erosion as well as providing evidence of environmental degradation in the Palmarejo region of Honduras. The authors use a combination of geoarchaeology, pedological analysis, and archaeology to evaluate the areas soilscape. Soilscape is defined as soils that are altered directly by humans. Specific techniques including geomorphology (changing landforms over time), stratigraphy profiles, soil analysis including pH, loss-on-ignition (measures the % of organics in a sample), and extractable phosphates (% of Carbonate and amounts in mg/kg of Phosphate, Potassium, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus). Their interpretation of the results indicates that stable landforms in the area are the alluvial fans which would be most likely for settlement while terraces (less stable) would likely be cultivated. The soil analysis showed a decrease in nutrient capacity that corresponds to an increase in population suggesting greater cultivation of the soils during the 10th century.
In the manuscript "Reframing Heritage" an environmental anthropologist (Wells) teams up with an art historian and community coordinator (Antonucci) to examine the importance of soils in the heritage and transformation of brownfields in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Brownfields are blighted areas of a community that have been contaminated by chemicals from dilapidated buildings and/or industry. Future farmers, a contemporary-arts collective, created a Soil Kitchen where locals could bring the soil from their yard to be tested for contamination. In exchange they received a bowl of soup in a reimagined spaced that analyzed the soils on site.
How is the environment linked to social processes and behaviors? What are some examples?
What meaning and memory do soils have in the Maya area? For our own projects?
What are the long-term consequences of humans' interactions with soilscapes? What Wells et al. refers to as legacy.
How does social value play a role in the preservation of commodities and resources?
How have Western scientific ideas/analyses hampered the understanding of anthrosols of past societies?
What role can archaeology play in discussions of climate change and current environmental resource management?
What techniques can archaeologists develop to aid in public understanding about scientific results and discoveries?
Week 11 SCRAP Reading Group: All about architecture and planning
This week's conversation focused on architecture and planning. We had 14(!) people join, from Canada, US, Belize, and Mexico. Another great two-hour conversation. See below for Shawn's summary and discussion questions.
Wernecke, Daniel Clark (2005) Chapter 3. Planning and Preparation. A Stone Canvas: Interpreting Maya Building Materials and Construction Technology. Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin.
Houk, Brett A. (2015) Chapter 11. Deciphering Meaning in Maya Cities. Ancient Maya Cities of the Eastern Lowlands. University Press of Florida, Tallahassee.
The two contributions under consideration this week were selected for their complementarity, each serving as a logical extension of the observations and interests of the other. Clark Wernecke's chapter takes a broad approach to a discussion of evidence for planning and preparation of ancient monumental architecture in the Maya area, and at various scales/resolutions from individual structures, to groups, and larger segments of site plans. Through extensive literature review, he attempts to pick apart our perception of planning, distinguishing between what may be demonstrable and what is simply inferred. He considers such dimensions of planning as function, mathematics/geometry, labour organization, ground preparation and foundations, and platform construction. Brett Houk's chapter picks up on this discussion by attempting to examine the significance of monumental planning at the city level. With particular reference to a handful of well-surveyed cities of the Eastern Lowlands, Houk identifies and attempts to make sense of patterns in these plans, and to explain the significance (or not) of the apparent differences.
Intention occupies the highest rungs of Hawkes' Ladder of Inference for a reason. With respect to architecture and the city plan, what do we mean by "planning"? Can we read intention in the layout and construction of individual structures, let alone entire plans? Where? What does it matter (i.e. how would it have impacted the everyday experience/understanding of a site)?
What constitutes evidence for planning at the site level? To what extent might we expect fidelity to any one plan/planner to exist? In other words, to what degree might we expect to read a coherent message in city plans (particularly where developed over centuries or millennia) and are there smaller-scale explanations for apparent planning at the city level?
Different planning principles are more or less readily evoked at different sites. What does this say of the builders, their identities, concerns, and experiences? How might these speak to topics such as stability vs. instability? Continuity vs. discontinuity? Sophistication vs. simplification? Innovation vs. conservatism? Flexibility vs. rigidity? Experience? Familiarity vs. unfamiliarity?
What degree of precision (either in an individual structure or overall plan) is required to demonstrate intention/planning?
Wernecke brings up an interesting point with respect to our perceptions of success and failure. Is a structure that fails in 200 years any less successful than the one that takes 1200 years to reach the same point? To what extent are we, with our gods' eye view blending decades (if not centuries), guilty of dehumanizing architecture and spaces of the ancient Maya? What are the consequences of this? What can we do about it?
In a similar vein (is this just an extension of the previous question?!) Houk specifically addresses issues of maps as static representations of dynamic places. Moreover, he points out that, even at our best surveyed sites, our maps are often idealized and imperfect representations of a palimpsest that likely don't represent an accurate snapshot of the site at any one point in time. Does this matter? What are the implications for our understanding of ancient Maya architecture and cities?
What do regional patterns of plan or construction mean? Is it simply familiarity with techniques and style (Houk's principle of "build what you know")? Is it political emulation? Is it something else? How do we decide?
Finally, how do we read function into our site plans?
September 9, 2020 by SCRAP
Upcoming Virtual Presentation, Sept. 16, 2020
This lecture is being co-hosted by the Archaeological Society of Alberta (Calgary Centre) and the Calgary Public Library (CPL).
To register for the September 16th online lecture please visit: https://calgarylibrary.ca/events-and-programs/programs/building-a-maya-boomtown/
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Ateneo, UP keep blazing form approaching post-season action
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Brian Tamayao
Neighbors and two of the most recent UAAP champions, the University of the Philippines Fighting Maroons and the Ateneo de Manila University Blue Eagles both maintained their dominance in UAAP Season 80 men's football action.
The Blue Eagles took to the field earlier when they defeated the UE Red Warriors, 4-0, in the breakfast time encounter. After lunch, the maroon-clad, league-leading UP team flexed their muscles on their way to a 5-1 victory against the winless — and still pointless — Adamson University Soaring Falcons.
Virtually through to the semis, the two Katipunan-based squads have set their sights on finishing the elimination rounds strongly. By both winning their assignments, they are also keeping the race for first place interesting.
Scoring goals number 14 and 15 of the season, Jarvey Gayoso headlined Ateneo's latest victory. His first goal came off a UE defensive error. The Red Warriors were simply left powerless to handle someone like Gayoso an opportunity to finish in front of goal.
If the first was given, the second was earned when Gayoso sprinted down the left flank before smashing the ball into the back of the net. It was the last goal that UE conceded for the half, as they avoided absorbing further damage before the break.
If Gayoso took center stage in the first half, it was his teammates that stepped it up in the second half. The best spell of Ateneo arrived just before the hour mark. It was during that time when they doubled the already-unassailable two-goal lead.
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Ateneo's thirst for more goals was reflected by the way they notched their last two goals. Rupert Baña got on the end off an Enzo Ceniza's interrupted pass to slide it into the back of the net, 57 minutes in. Three minutes later, another attempt coming from Ceniza's boot resulted in a goal – this time around it was Sam Lim who guided the ball home.
Thrashed yet again by the Blue Eagles, the Red Warriors now face a difficult path towards the Final Four.
Meanwhile, the win locks Ateneo's spot in the Final Four with two games to spare. They also kept themselves within range of the UP Fighting Maroons, who are in first place. Only a point separated them before the latter's match, which was followed by the Eagles' win.
The Fighting Maroons responded to their Quezon City rivals by drubbing Adamson, 5-1, largely thanks to Fidel Tacardon's first half hat trick. The rookie completed the feat within the half to totally reflect the gulf in quality between the league's best and worst teams on the basis of their points tally.
The freshman only took three minutes to get himself into the scoresheet to open the scoring. Becoming more confident, Tacardon doubled his tally after slotting the rebound off a narrowly missed shot made by Christian Lapas.
Ahead by two goals, the Fighting Maroons wanted more, and got what they were looking for 13 minutes before halftime. King Miyagi bagged his ninth goal of the season, the second most in the league, after he finished well from John Abraham.
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That wasn't the end of it in the first half, as a third goal from Tacardon came right before the break. After the match, UP coach Anto Gonzales heaped praise on his stellar recruit.
"Even before his first UAAP game, I think the expectations for him to deliver were tremendous. He's been delivering so far. He's been creating a lot of scoring opportunities for not just scoring himself but also creating [for others]," the UP mentor put into words.
Tacardon has been so good for UP lately that Gonzales is growing concerned about his team's reliance on his individual talent. "We put him out in the second half to see how the team responds and you see how they responded. You change one player and it changes the whole complexion of the game. It shouldn't be that way," Gonzales voiced with disappointment.
Despite dominating the contest throughout, the Maroons failed to do what the Eagles did: keep a clean sheet. A late goal by Lapas made it a five-goal advantage only for it to be cancelled by a Jusuel Pilarca goal. For Gonzales, who holds high standards, this is a cause for concern.
"We don't really choose our opponents. Our performances should not depend on who are opponents are. That's very clear to them. I don't know if it's really being absorbed very well. When they want to be the best, they can be the best. But once they relaxed, they stopped thinking, they switched off, it's not a good sight to see," he went on to say.
Whether that will be improved upon remains to be seen. What's certain now is that the two Katipunan sides will return to the final four. Both teams look forward to the challenge of the Far Eastern University Tamaraws in the upcoming week.
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Mario Balotelli has hit out again at the British press by accusing the media of fabricating stories about him.
The 24-year-old has faced heavy criticism for his performances for Liverpool this season, while his private life has also been scrutinised in newspapers since his return to England.
"I know that if people like or don't like me, they will read what is written about me," Balotelli told BeIN Sports.
Balotelli has scored just two goals in 14 appearances for Liverpool since his £16 million arrival from AC Milan in the summer, but the Italy international believes support from fans will be key to his improvement.
"I know that score is very important for a striker. I remember when I was young, I played 20 minutes and I scored a goal. The fans loved me. Today I play, I don't score, but fans still love me," said the forward.


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Travels and Discoveries in the Levant/Volume 1/Letter XXV
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Letter XXIV
Travels and Discoveries in the Levant Volume 1 by Charles Thomas Newton
Letter XXV
Letter XXVI
Departure for Calymnos—Smyrna—Discovery of Roman Remains near Caravan Bridge—The British Hospital
3871429Travels and Discoveries in the Levant Volume 1 — Letter XXVCharles Thomas Newton
Smyrna, October 10, 1854.
I mentioned in a previous letter that after my visit to Calymnos last year, I applied to Lord Stratford for a firman to enable me to make excavations there. His Excellency having obtained this firman, and very kindly provided me with funds sufficient for carrying on a small excavation, I am now about to take advantage of his assistance, which I should have done sooner had it not been for the necessity of going to England last winter.
I arrived here yesterday on my way to Rhodes, where I have to exhibit the firman to the Pasha. To-day I went to see the new road which extends from the Caravan Bridge nearly to Bournabat. This road, which was made last year by subscription, in order to give employment to the poor in a period of great distress, is a good wide macadamized highway, with a footpath on each side; but the people of the country make little use of it, as they have no wheeled carriages. The mules and pack-horses have worn away a serpentine track through the bed of the road. The smart equestrians of Smyrna usurp the footpath, but nobody uses the road in the sense in which we use roads in Europe, and it will, consequently, be soon worn in patches, and the track in the centre will be broken into holes and puddles as the winter advances. Wherever I have seen an attempt at road-making in Turkey, I have always observed that the traffic is not on the road, but alongside of it, in order to avoid the hard pavement. Large sums were promised for the subscription by the Greeks; but now that the time for payment has come, there seems to be difficulty in realizing their promises. The making this road has led to the discovery of considerable ancient remains. Beyond Caravan Bridge, on the road to Bournabat, is a large Turkish cemetery. Immediately beyond this cemetery great quantities of squared blocks of marbles and mouldings of buildings—all rough-hewn— have been recently dug up; also several sarcophagi, one with ornaments in bas-relief, of a late Roman period; a colossal head of Apollo or Bacchus, which I did not see, but which, judging from a drawing, appeared very hard and mannered; and a fragment of an inscription which seemed to be sepulchral. This spot is probably the site of an ancient cemetery situated outside the old town. At Caravan Bridge a marble lion was found in 1852, which probably marks the situation of a tomb. Part of the ground where these antiquities were discovered belongs to Mr. Whittall, who would probably make an excavation on a large scale if he could get a firman. He is very rich and very generous; he gives away immense smns to the poor, and keeps up a very princely style of hospitality at Bournabat.
At the special request of Mr. Hanson and Dr. McCraith, I went yesterday to see the British hospital, which, I must say, is a disgrace to any nation occupying the position which we hold at present in the East. This hospital at Smyrna is intended for the exclusive benefit of British seamen from ships of war and the merchant navy. It is supported by dues levied on every British ship which arrives in the port at Smyrna. The revenue was formerly administered by the Levant Company, and was by them transferred to the Government. The hospital has remained in statu quo ever since the breaking up of the Levant Company. It is placed in a miserable, dilapidated old house, the ground-floor of which is periodically flooded in bad weather. The rooms on the upper floor are pictures of squalid misery, the plastering decayed and full of holes, the walls dirty,—"with no modern contrivances of any kind. We found three sailors imprisoned in this Black-hole; they were jolly good- humoured fellows, said the bugs were "as big as black currants," and that the bedsteads, though constantly washed with hot water, were so old and saturated with verin that their crevices contained "the essence of bugs." In the holes and corners were worm-eaten old chests, which still bore the name of the Levant Company.
Opposite the British hospital is the Dutch hospital,—a perfect model of neatness and propriety, with a garden kept in order and planted with trees, and that air of comfort both inside and out which contributes so much to the cure of an invalid. I next visited the Greek hospital, which is on a large scale and in excellent order; lastly, the Austrian,— small, but well organized. The French I had not time to see; but I was assured it was admirable. Now, there may be some good reason for the very singular contrast which our hospital presents; but I cannot help thinking that, if the British Government were really aware what a miserable place it is, they would take some more active steps to provide a better. It is no excuse to say that the English hospital at Constantinople is worse; and that there the bugs drop down from the ceiling on the patients' faces. In the course of this war we may want a good hospital for our merchant sailors at Smyrna, and so we may as well get it ready at once. At present the establishment is much more like a Turkish khan than the hospital of a civilized people, and yet we profess to exhibit to the Turks a model to be followed in all things.127
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Ejemplos de tecnología que se usa en cada paso
Rastreo de los contactos de la COVID-19
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La crisis de la COVID-19 ha creado una necesidad sin precedentes de rastreo de los contactos en todo el país, y exige que miles de personas aprendan habilidades nuevas con rapidez. La certificación laboral para puestos de rastreo de contactos es distinta en todo el país y el mundo, y algunos puestos nuevos se abren para personas que tienen diploma de escuela secundaria o un equivalente. En este curso introductorio, los estudiantes aprenderán acerca de la ciencia del SARS-CoV-2, que incluye el período de contagio, el cuadro clínico inicial de la COVID-19, y las pruebas de cómo el SARS-CoV-2 se contagia de una persona a otra y por qué el rastreo de contactos puede ser una intervención tan efectiva de salud pública. Los estudiantes aprenderán cómo se realiza el rastreo de los contactos, incluso cómo establecer una buena relación con los casos, identificar sus contactos y brindar apoyo a los casos y a los contactos para detener el contagio en sus comunidades. El curso también abarcará varias consideraciones importantes de ética acerca del rastreo de contactos, del aislamiento y de la cuarentena. Por último, en el curso se identificarán algunos de los obstáculos que se encuentran con más frecuencia para los esfuerzos de rastreo de los contactos, junto con estrategias para superar esos obstáculos.
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Ética del rastreo de los contactos y herramientas tecnológicas
En este módulo, aprenderá acerca de las dimensiones éticas importantes del rastreo de los contactos, incluido cómo equilibramos la protección de la salud de la población con los límites de la privacidad y la autonomía de cada persona. Hablaremos sobre algunos ejemplos específicos a fin de prepararse para algunos de los problemas que los rastreadores de contactos enfrentan en el transcurso de su trabajo.
Rastreo de los contactos como herramienta común de salud pública2:43
Cuáles son las definiciones de Privacidad, Confidencialidad y de otros términos sobre ética7:45
Cómo equilibrar el Bien común con la Privacidad, la Autonomía y la Confidencialidad10:09
El fundamento del uso de la tecnología para el rastreo de contactos2:08
Ejemplos de tecnología que se usa en cada paso17:49
Resumen1:26
Emily Gurley, PhD, MPH
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[MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: So if technology can help us in case investigations and contact tracing, let's go through some examples and how it can be used in each step. So as we think about technology, we should think about technology that can be used in each of the basic steps for case investigation and contact tracing. So, first, when we interview the case and are assessing their symptoms, we're asking them to isolate and providing support, and recalling information about contacts, so there's some technology we can use there. There's some technology that we may be able to use for notifying contacts, and some additional technology we could use for interviewing the contact. And that includes, again, assessing symptoms, ongoing tracking, and asking them to quarantine and provide support. First, let's talk about electronic case reporting. So when a patient or when someone gets tested for COVID-19, their information is typically entered into some kind of electronic system, because that system is how their information will be linked with their test result. So usually in a jurisdiction, there's a central database where positive test results are reported from the lab. It's going to vary by region exactly how this works, but, usually, there'll be some database that has a list of people and their information who have had a test. And then, when the test results come back from the lab, they'll link up there. And that's where you identify cases. So one problem at this step, is that it can take time to gather data and information on cases for investigations. So if you're doing this manually, looking in one place for patient information, looking in another place for the test results, it can take some time. So one solution, one technological solution, is an automated standardized reporting of positive tests to the case investigators. So there are some applications that have been developed to make this more of an automated process, so that you don't have to go looking through the databases to find cases individually. They'll just be reported out in more of an automated way. The added value of this, is that there's less time between the diagnosis, or when the test results come back, and the call from the public health team. So as a contact tracer, sometimes you'll just be given the list that's already put together of the cases that you need to identify and make contact with. And that often comes from an electronic case reporting system. As you'll recall, a really important step in case investigations and in keeping in touch with contacts is tracking of symptoms. So it's important for cases because if they develop worsening symptoms, that could require medical care, sometimes urgent medical care. You also need to know about their symptoms because you need to know when they've recovered and when they can end isolation. For contacts, it's important to identify if they develop signs or symptoms and need care or if they develop signs and symptoms and maybe to get access to a test because they may have become a COVID-19 case. So for both cases and contacts, it's important to track symptoms. Now the problem here is that the conventional way to do this is a daily call. So you would call cases and contacts every single day to follow up with them, and that can be time consuming for the contact tracer and also for the cases and contacts themselves to have this call every day. So one solution-- technological solution-- that has been proposed is there are applications where cases and contacts can directly enter symptoms into a database. Sometimes there are also text messages that can be sent to contacts in cases to report new or worsening symptoms. And sometimes this is automated. So in some places, for example, each case and contact may get a text message every day to ask if they have a fever that day and if so, what their temperature was. That could save some time. So you don't have to call them, and it's a more convenient way for them to enter in their symptoms each day and track them. Of course, these are going to vary by jurisdiction, but we just want you to know that these are some applications that are used in some places. The added value of this kind of technological tool for tracking symptoms is that there's less time required by the contact tracing team and, again, sometimes less time for cases and contacts. But the cases and contacts should always know that they can pick up the phone anytime and talk to their contact tracer or the local public health department if they need assistance. This doesn't replace the role of discussions and phone calls between contact tracers and cases and contacts, but it just helps it along if you don't need that daily conversation. As you know, asking people to isolate themselves and quarantine is asking a lot of people, and some people may require help with doing this. They may need help getting food or medicine to support quarantine, for example, and people are going to be more likely to isolate themselves in quarantine if they get more reminders. The problem here again is that if you're making daily calls to cases and contacts, it can be time consuming for them and for you. So one solution-- one technological solution that's been proposed-- is that text messages could be sent to cases and contacts to remind them every day that they're still in isolation or they're still in quarantine and remind them of what that means. Those automated messages can also provide them information about where and how to get support services if they need them. That can be useful because even though a contact may not need help the first time you talk to them, a few days later, they may realize that they do need some help with food or other services. So it's important for them to know every day where they can go if they need that service. The added value of this kind of automated communication is that it can require less time, like for the contact tracing team, and cases and contacts also get very frequent follow up. If you're supposed to be doing this by phone and the team is running behind, sometimes you could miss getting cases and contacts important information. So this makes sure that nothing slips through the cracks. It's always very challenging to identify contacts quickly. There can be numerous difficulties with identifying contacts quickly. First, cases may not remember all of their contacts, or they may not want to talk about their contacts with the interview, due to their own privacy concerns. Cases may not know the phone number or the address of their contacts, and phone numbers for contacts may be incorrect. So it takes some time to get the right information from cases about their contacts, and even with your best efforts, you may not have always the information that you need. Once you have that information, it takes time to find those contacts and get in touch with them. Sometimes they may not pick up the first time you call. It may take extra effort. So there are a few possible supportive technologies that you can think about or that you may use in your job that will help with this. If you've been following the news about the pandemic, you may have heard about some way that smartphones were used in other countries to quickly identify contacts. This kind of system is not being used in the United States, but we just want to talk to you about it so you know what the system is. And you can know how it's different than other types of systems that may be used in the US. So in places like China and South Korea, they used a centralized database of phone numbers and locations. So in these countries, phone numbers of all the citizens are available to the government. They're unique identification numbers that each person has, and those are linked with all of their phone records and their medical records. And these are all maintained on a central server. So the government can find any person, and for that person, they know their phone number. They can access their phone's data. So they know where they were, and they also have their medical records. So health authorities can quickly link positive test results with their recent contacts and locations using the GPS data from their phones. So in this kind of scenario, when the government has all of the data linked together about you, if you have a positive test, they can quickly send text messages to all the people you've been in contact with because they know, based on your phone and the GPS records, where you've been, and they know from the GPS records of everyone else's phone who was there at the same time. So the added value of this system, of course, is that all the contact information and contact tracing is done immediately. So public health has easy access to all the information, and they can send out text messages quickly to everyone who was at the same place that you were if you become a case. But this technology does bring in added concerns. So in many countries, people would not agree to having their movements tracked in a centralized database by the government. And this is true of the United States. There is no place now for the government to track our movements via our phone. And the other concern is that a GPS location is not a great way to identify who you had contact with. So let's say just because you were in the same shop with someone for a few minutes, that may not mean that you were really exposed to them. So it's not a great way to identify who's had a potentially infectious contact. So again, this isn't a system that's being used in the US or proposed in the US, but it is a system that was used in other countries to combat COVID-19. In the United States, however, there are some efforts to try to design applications that could use smartphones to identify who you've had contact with. So the idea here is that smartphone users could download an application onto their phone, and that application will communicate with other phones that also have the app. They'll use Bluetooth technology to communicate that you've been in contact, and in contact, we mean again within six feet for about 15 minutes or so just as an example. And so what happens is if a lot of people download this app, as you go about your day, you will come into contact with other people who also have that app on their phones. And so the apps on the phones will recognize each other and send a little message that says, hey, we were in contact for this amount of time. You won't be able to know any information about who that person is. The app will not collect any information about who the person is or where the contact happened. So there's no private or confidential information here. It's just keeping know of which other phones have been in contact with you. So it's basically just a list of those phones if they have the app on them. So then if you or someone else who had this app was diagnosed with COVID-19, you could enter the information in the app, and the app would immediately notify all the other contacts you had automatically if they had the app as well. So the added value with this kind of system is that contacts are notified of their exposure immediately-- well, at least as soon as a person who's infected puts that information into their app-- and then they would be advised to quarantine. So ideally, you're be cutting out some of the time that it might take public health to find you and let you know. Also the identity of the case and their contacts is always kept confidential because you don't know who it was in particular that you had contact with who was infected. This app could be useful, but there are still some added concerns. So it's unclear how the data could be used by public health teams, and the effectiveness of this contact tracing effort would depend on the number of people who use the app. So if you live in a place where no one's really using the app, then it's not going to be that useful. Also, not all of the contacts that are identified through the application may truly have been exposed. So that would be another complicating factor. So as I mentioned, these applications are still being developed. They're not finalized, but we wanted to let you know that they're out there because it's possible that in your contact tracing job, you may be using them one day, or at least in some version. These applications would need to be able to share data with the public health system in some way to make them really useful and valid. So we're still waiting to see how that might be done. I want to walk through with you just a timeline of what that notification app might look like. So you can see or think about how it might really work. So let's imagine this is you at home in the circle, and you have your smartphone. And you have the app on your smartphone. And the two people you live with also have the app on their smartphone. So when you're together in the home, those apps will be communicating with each other, and they will know that you have had contact with each other. Let's say you get on a train to go to work. You'll have some close contacts-- so people who were within six feet of you while you're on the train. You may also have people who are proximate contacts. So they're near you, maybe more than six feet away, but you're on the train together for, let's say, an hour on your commute. So their phones may also tell them that they've had proximate contact with you. When you go to work, you may also have other close contacts or nearby contacts. So people are who are in the same space with you for your workday, even if you did not come within six feet of them, if they have the apps on their phone, their apps are also logging their contact with you through the app. The same is true when you get back home that day. So let's imagine the next day, when you're back at home, you wake up with a fever, and you're sick. So you could put that information into your app, and it would notify both your close physical contacts and people who've been near you and tell them that they should quarantine. So you can see how this would speed up the communication process with close and nearby contacts, but you need to be sure of a few things, including the person entering the information really has COVID-19. So this application information would need to be linked with public health and the test results. You'd also need to know who those contacts are so that public health can follow up with them and make sure that they have all the quarantine and isolation instructions they need and also the social support they may need to carry out isolation and quarantine. So when we think about these technologies that could be useful, there are a few important considerations to keep in mind. Effective public health interventions depend on public trust. So any kind of technology that we use to support case investigations and contact tracing has to be a method that's trusted by the public, and they have to know that it's being done to support them. Sometimes we want to use technology to help contact tracing efforts, but some communities may have limited access to these technological tools. Some people may not have smartphones. Many people may not have good internet at home. So any kind of technology that we use should be usable and should be applicable for the people that we're trying to help. Finally, just knowing about being near someone who had a positive COVID-19 test and being asked to quarantine by text message really might not be enough to persuade people to act. So while sometimes these technological tools can help public health-- maybe they make notifications faster-- they really can't replace the role of public health and supporting people through isolation and quarantine-- so just keep this in mind. [MUSIC PLAYING]


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Home News MDC-T headquarters Harvest House changes name
MDC-T headquarters Harvest House changes name
THE MDC-T's headquarters, Harvest House, situated at Number 44 Nelson Mandela Avenue in Harare, will be renamed after the late party leader, Morgan Richard Tsvangirai, in honour of his work in the fight for democracy and his astute leadership.
Tsvangirai, who died of colon cancer in a South African hospital on February 14, was buried at his rural home in Humanikwa village, Buhera on February 20, where thousands of people from across the globe came to pay their last respects.
The former mine worker who went on to become Secretary General of the ZCTU, was assigned by the labour body to lead the newly launched opposition party in 1999 after a successful People's Convention held in the dormitory city of Chitungwiza to shape the country's political future.
He was to pose the biggest electoral challenge to the ruling Zanu PF, in power since independence from Britain in 1980, beating then President Robert Mugabe in the first round of the 2008 presidential elections.
Tsvangirai, who was a victim of government sponsored police brutality during his time both as the ZCTU leader and President of the biggest opposition party in the country, had to boycott the run-off election citing the safety of his supporters after thousands had been killed in the run up to the plebiscite.
But to recognize a man they loved and respected, the MDC-T National Standing Committee met in Harare Thursday and agreed they should honour Tsvangirai by naming Harvest House after him.
This was revealed in one of the resolutions of the meeting, which was attended by some of the leaders who had been fighting over the party leadership.
"That Harvest House is to be called Morgan Richard Tsvangirai in honour of the late president after consultation with the national members," read resolution number ten of the meeting.
A member of the National Executive Committee who spoke on condition of anonymity said the move was a done deal as the whole national executive was in agreement.
"The Standing Committee made their recommendation and we are going for National Council just to endorse the decision," he said.
– NewZimbabwe
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Q: Crop image using GD library I am using GD library in my Perl script that allows me to draw a true-type-font text. Because I don't know exact size at the beginning, I set
my $i = new GD::Image(3000, 3000);

and then I draw my text
my $black = $i->colorAllocate(0, 0, 0);
my @b = $i->stringFT($black, './ttf/cour.ttf', 12, 0, 0, 0, "\n$text");

where @b contains my crop data.
I wish to execute something like this (incorrect syntax):
$i->crop(0, 0, $b[2], $b[3]);

...but there is no such crop function available.
How can I crop my image? Is there some known work-around?

A: Typically you would use the "copy" methods of GD to move selected data from one image into a new image.
Or if what you really need is just to compute the width and height of a strings drawn with GD, check out GD::Text.

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Third gas plant opposed by NC Utilities Commission staff
Posted on February 18, 2016 March 1, 2016 by Webmaster
Duke Energy-Progress has proposed replacing its coal-fired power plant on Asheville's Lake Julian, seen here, with a complex of natural-gas plants. Frank Taylor / Carolina Public Press
Article by Frank Taylor
Duke Energy-Progress' request to replace its coal-fired power plant at Asheville's Lake Julian with two natural gas units has received a green light from North Carolina Utilities Commission staff. But part of the energy company's proposal, to obtain permission now for a contingency plant that might be needed by 2024, was rejected as unwarranted at this time.
The Utilities Commission is expected to give its staff recommendations heavy weight when the board meets Monday to decide on the fate of Duke's petition for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for the project.
"Duke Energy-Progress' request that the certificate of public convenience and necessity include the construction of a 186 megawatt (winter rating) natural gas-fired contingent … unit at the Asheville plant is problematic," wrote commission staff in their agenda report for Monday's session, which was released late Wednesday.
The report notes that such a plant would only take two years to build once it's approved, which would allow plenty of time for it to be permitted later, should the expected need materialize by the projected date of 2024.
"Not granting a (certificate) for the additional … unit will allow time for advances in generation, transmission and storage technologies that may provide other least costly resource options for the Company to consider …," the report said.
One of the two signatories on the recommendation, Utilities Commission Electric Division Director James McLawhorn, talked with Carolina Public Press by telephone Wednesday about their reasoning. "Other technologies could advance and become more mainstream during that time period," he said.
The staff recommendation parallels the result demanded by many speakers at an Asheville public hearing on the issue in January. Many speakers warned about continued reliance on fossil fuels, which contribute to greenhouse gases and global warming. While several environmental advocates called for outright rejection of the entire proposal, others suggested that denying the contingent plant was an acceptable and reasonable outcome.
But McLawhorn said the staff recommendation is only coincidentally in line with what those speakers demanded. Although he and other staff did attend the hearing and listened to the views of those who addressed the event, current North Carolina law and policy don't allow for global warming concerns to be a consideration in determining whether Duke gets its certificate, he said.
In this specific case the commission is guided by a statute that prefers the replacement of the coal-fired plant with natural gas-burning plants at the site, McLawhorn noted.
Duke Energy has a considerable stake riding on Monday's Utilities Commission decision. In addition to approving or rejecting the company's overall plan, getting the requested certificate will decide whether Duke is allowed a grace period of several years in cleaning up coal ash at Lake Julian. If the project is denied, the deadline for Duke to clean up the ash moves up.
In response to a request for comment from CPP, Duke spokesperson Meghan Musgrave Miles issued the following statement: "We appreciate the Public Staff's thorough investigation into the Western Carolinas Modernization Project (certificate of public convenience and necessity) application, and look forward to the opportunity to explain the customer benefits of the Duke Energy Progress plan for a smarter, cleaner energy future at the (N.C. Utilities Commission) meeting on Feb. 22."
Carolina Public Press (www.carolinapublicpress.org) is a nonprofit news organization focused on in-depth and investigative reporting in Western North Carolina.
Editor's note: for additional background information on Duke Energy's application and environmental advocates' responses, please see our article Regulatory process for new Duke Energy plant speeds down fast track.
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Grant Milin
Three locals unattached to the usual nonprofits separately took it upon ourselves to enter NCUC Petition to Intervene submittals on these matters. I was one of those citizens. As far as I can tell citizens who are not already energy issues insiders have never done this. I submitted my Petition to Intervene first followed by Brad Rouse and Richard Fireman.
And that's part of history!
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Dieback disease hits neem trees in Telangana again.
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About Dieback Disease:
The dieback disease was first noted in Telangana in 2019, but it was originally recorded in the nation in the 1990s near Dehradun in Uttarakhand.
Phomopsis azadirachtae, a fungus, is the primary cause of the dieback disease, which affects neem trees of all ages' leaves, twigs, and inflorescences. In badly affected trees, the dieback disease results in an almost complete loss of fruit production.
Neem trees can experience insect infestations in addition to the fungus that causes dieback, which compounds its impact. Twig blight and dieback disease has been identified as the illness threatening neem trees in Telangana, and it has made a significant comeback in the state this year.
The appearance of symptoms starts with the onset of the rainy season and becomes progressively severe in the later part of the rainy season and early winter.
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2015 marks the 15th year that IR35 has been around, however there is still uncertainty about what it is and what it does within the contracting community. The legislation is under review at the moment but it's still worth looking at what it has meant for contractors and what the likely impact of the current review will be.
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A very brief history of IR35
In March 1999, HMRC issued a press release on how changes were going to be introduced to counter tax avoidance in the provision of personal services. In simple terms, the then Government felt that many contractors were tax avoiders when they provided their services through a limited company, even when carrying out roles similar to permanently employed workers.
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NEVS to auction off last production Saab
Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 10, 2019
Saab's last production car was built in 2013 and only been driven 3 miles since it rolled off the line.
NEVS starts production of electric 9-3s in China
Production of the Saab 9-3 has restarted for the second time, only this time the cars are being built in China, feature electric powertrains, and are to be sold under the NEVS brand. The first NEVS 9-3 rolled off a plant in Tianjin, China on Tuesday, marking an important step in NEVS's plan...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran December 5, 2017
NEVS presents 9-3, 9-3X electric cars at 2017 CES Asia
NEVS on Wednesday at the 2017 CES Asia taking place in Shanghai, China previewed a pair of electric cars destined for production and outlined a new mobility program to be run in the Chinese port city of Tianjin. NEVS is the company that bought the assets of Saab following the Swedish firm's...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran June 7, 2017
Saab 9-3 production to live on… in China
Production of the Saab 9-3 sedan will restart for the second time, only this time around the cars will be sold under the NEVS brand, feature electric powertrains and be produced in China. NEVS, which bought the assets of Saab following the Swedish firm's bankruptcy in late 2011, and briefly...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 31, 2017
NEVS To Supply Chinese Firm With Saab 9-3 EVs In $12B Deal
Earlier this week we learned that Saab owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) was planning to launch a new generation of electric cars based on the Phoenix platform being developed by Saab prior to its bankruptcy. Now we know where much of the funding for the ambitious new model program will...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran December 18, 2015
Saab Owner NEVS Licenses 9-3 Tech To Turkey For New National Car Project
Fresh from securing a deal with state-owned Chinese automaker Dongfeng to help stave off bankruptcy, Saab's struggling parent company National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has now announced a new partnership with the government of Turkey. Tübitak, Turkey's science and research...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran October 20, 2015
Struggling NEVS Shows Off Saab 9-3 Electric Prototype
Antony Ingram August 22, 2014
Saab can't seem to catch a break. Tossed like a hot coal in General Motors' restructuring, its prospects unchanged by Spyker's purchase and now struggling under Chinese-Swedish firm NEVS, watching the story unfold is like watching an old friend on their death bed. NEVS, or National Electric Vehicles Sweden, does at least appear to have been working behind the scenes. The company has produced a limited numbers of reborn Saab 9-3 Aero models, and has now shown its prototype 9-3 electric cars too. According to Green Car Reports, the firm intends to use the prototypes for further technical...
Cash shortage causes NEVS to stop Saab production
Since acquiring the assets of Saab back in 2012, NEVS has started production of the 9-3 sedan at the Swedish automaker's plant in Trollhättan and even fulfilled its promise to launch an electric version of the car, production of which started just last month. Unfortunately, NEVS has...
Nelson Ireson May 21, 2014
Saab Resumes Production, Starts With 9-3
With NEVS' acquisition of Saab and some of the bankrupt automaker's few remaining assets complete, the consortium, made up of Chinese and Japanese interests, is now focused on the launch of its first Saab model. That first model is a 9-3 Aero sedan, production of which commenced today...
Saab's Trollhättan Plant Built A 9-3 Today
No, Saab isn't risen from the dead--yet anyway. But the company that bought the automotive brand after its collapse, NEVS (National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB), has re-started production for the purpose of validating the Trollhättan plant's functionality as of today. So far, a single...
Nelson Ireson September 18, 2013
NEVS close to restarting Saab production
With NEVS' acquisition of Saab and some of the bankrupt automaker's remaining assets complete, the consortium, made up of Chinese and Japanese interests, is now focused on the launch of its first model. The plan is to start production at Saab's main facility in Trollhättan...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran August 22, 2013
First Photo Of The Phoenix-Based Saab 9-3 That Never Was
A few weeks ago we brought you some blurry renderings of a car that was destined to be Saab's next-generation 9-3, had the Swedish automaker not gone bankrupt and its remnants sold off to the highest bidder. Now photos of the actual car, well, a pre-production prototype, have hit the Web. You...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran February 21, 2013
Chinese city buys stake in Saab's new owner NEVS
Viknesh Vijayenthiran January 9, 2013
Saab's new owner National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has just entered a deal with the city of Qingdao, located in China's Shandong-province, which will see the coastal city become the strategic gateway for Saab's cars in China. Qingdao, via its Qingdao Qingbo Investment company, will initially invest approximately $305 million in NEVS, for which it will receive a 22 percent stake in the company. Eventually, Qingdao and NEVS plan to form a joint venture in China to help sell a new generation of Saab cars. A plant to be established in Qingdao will also produce Saab models...
Saab's New Owner Looks At Electric 9-3 Convertible, Gas Models: Report
With NEVS' acquisition of Saab and some of the bankrupt automaker's remaining assets now complete, the consortium, made up of Chinese and Japanese interests, is now focused on the launch of its first model. That first model is expected to be an electric version of the last Saab 9-3...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran November 15, 2012
Saab's Last 900 Cars Head To Auction
If you thought you'd missed your chance to pick up a new Saab before the now-semi-defunct brand was gone for good, despair not: additional units, leftover from port inventory will be heading to dealer auction next week. According to Saab World (via Jalopnik), the first 300 of 900 remaining...
Kurt Ernst June 22, 2012
Mission To Save The Last Saab 9-3 Is A Success
Last week we brought you details about a plan to save what could potentially be the last Saab 9-3 ever built. The plan, organized by a group of Saab loyalists at SaabsUnited, was to raise enough money so that the final 9-3 could be purchased and then donated to the official Saab Museum in...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran May 9, 2012
Mission To Save The Last Saab 9-3 Likely Ever Built
With Saab officially bankrupt and receivers now looking for bids on any remaining assets, activity at the automaker's main facilities in Sweden is winding down and the last orders are being completed. The very last Saab 9-3, a 2012 9-3 Griffin Aero sedan finished in white like the one...
Youngman Reportedly Rebuffed In Bid To Acquire Saab
Sources close to the situation report that Saab's receivers are not interested in entertaining bids for the operation, preferring instead to sell off the remaining pieces.
Kurt Ernst February 3, 2012
Next-Gen Saab 9-3 Revealed Via PowerPoint?
Nelson Ireson October 31, 2011
Today is now officially Leaky Monday: first the FT-86 gets its specs revealed by one presentation, now the next-gen Saab 9-3 appears to have been outed by a similar route. The image of the car, grainy and black-and-white as it is, comes to us by way of Swedish outlet SvD via Autoblog. Showing looks similar to the 9-5, but with a shorter, more aggressively sloped nose and a tighter, more fastback-like roofline, the purported next 9-3 looks like it might just be a winner. Unfortunately, Saab has been mostly a loser of late, barely hanging onto continued existence through a memorandum of...
Saab Licenses Rights To Phoenix (Next-Gen 9-3) Platform For $95 Million
Saab is in trouble. That's been clear for a long while now. Just how much trouble has come into focus in the last few weeks. Now, Saab has decided to license its core next-generation sedan architecture to a "special purpose" vehicle company called Swedish Automobile coöperatief U.A. (SPV). The...
Next-Gen Saab Sedan May Drop 9-3 Name For Historical Alternative
There's a lot of doubt right now about whether there will even be a next-generation Saab 9-3 sedan, but a report today says that should the company survive long enough to build it, it might not be called 9-3. Instead, a name from the company's heritage might be chosen instead. What, exactly, that...
Nelson Ireson August 10, 2011
Saab Design Chief Castriota Named Among Most Creative In Business
Saab might be skating on thin ice, but it has a solid choreographer. Design director Jason Castriota has been named one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People in Business and appears in the third-annual ranking in its June 2011 issue. Castriota attended Boston's Emerson College, then...
Bengt Halvorson May 23, 2011
Swedish Tuners Build V-10-Powered 9-3
Saab's future may or may not be in jeopardy, and that's a shame, because if the brand disappears, we won't see creations like this hopped-up 9-3 wagon anymore. Some crazy Swedish tuners took a crashed Dodge Viper SRT10 and turned it into the Saab 9-3 SRT10 MegaPower. The builders had planned on...
Tim Healey May 16, 2011
Saab Future Still Hazy After Hawtai China Deal Crumbles
Saab began this week with a bright future and what looked like a new deal that would bring it some stability and financial security, but by the end of the week the ailing Swedish automaker seems on even shakier ground than before. Yesterday, a deal with China's Hawtai Motor Group collapsed; the...
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Q: Allow SmithHtmlEditor for Spell Check I'm using the SmithHtmlEditor and it is working fine but we've had the request to add spell checking that is native to WPF <TextBox SpellCheck.IsEnabled=True />  I've simply tried adding that line to the TextBox in the control but I'm not getting the squiggly line and the context menu with suggestions, maybe b/c the WindowsFormsHost.  I'm open to changing controls as well.
            <Grid>
            <TextBox x:Name="CodeEditor"
                     AcceptsReturn="True"
                     AcceptsTab="True"
                     AutoWordSelection="True"
                     VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Auto"
                     TextWrapping="Wrap"
                     SpellCheck.IsEnabled="True"/>
            <WindowsFormsHost x:Name="BrowserHost">
                <wf:WebBrowser x:Name="VisualEditor" />
            </WindowsFormsHost>
        </Grid>

A: This enables spell check to the text editor only. If you go to code mode you will see that spell check is enabled there but only there.
The WebBrowser is WinForms component and you can't add spellcheck in that way.


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FRESNO, Calif. — A federal jury in Fresno today found former Fresno deputy police chief Keith Foster, 53, guilty of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
Also according to evidence presented at trial, between December 23, 2014, and February 2, 2015, Foster conspired with co-defendant Rafael Guzman, 43, of Fresno, to obtain heroin for another person.
Keith Foster resigned from his position on April 3, 2015, one week after his arrest.
This case is the product of an investigation by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorneys Melanie L. Alsworth and Dawrence W. Rice Jr. are prosecuting the case.
Six others pleaded guilty before trial to various offenses related to the drug trafficking conspiracy. Randy Flowers and Denny Foster are scheduled to be sentenced on July 10, 2017. Ricky Reynolds is scheduled to be sentenced on September 11, 2017. On October 11, 2016, Rafael Guzman, 43, of Fresno was sentenced to three years and four months in prison. Jennifer Donabedian, 37, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to concealing a felony and served 12 months' probation. Sarah Ybarra, 39, of Fresno, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana and served one year in prison.
Keith Foster is scheduled to be sentenced on October 10, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii. Foster faces a statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for the count relating to heroin, and a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the marijuana trafficking offense. The actual sentence, however, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of any applicable statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables.