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F1 team names
Can you change your team name in f1 2020?
From the livery and colours to the race suits, logo or even your team's name , you can change whatever you like, whenever you like. If you fancy changing your look for the new season or to roleplay a redesign after a new title sponsor or engine supplier, you can do it.
Which engines do f1 teams use?
Four engine manufacturers provide their engines : Ferrari, Honda, Mercedes, and Renault. Honda is the only one that does not also compete as a constructor. Since 2014, all F1 engines must be 1.6-liter V6 units with turbocharging and hybrid-electric technologies.
Who is the best f1 team?
What is the name of f1 −?
Formula One – A Racing Sport F1 is the highest level of single-seat, open-wheel and open-cockpit professional motor racing contest. Formula One racing is governed and sanctioned by a world body called the FIA − Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile or the International Automobile Federation.
What are the 10 f1 teams?
F1 Teams 2020 533. Pts. Mercedes. Lewis Hamilton. 274. Pts. Red Bull Racing. Max Verstappen. 171. Pts. McLaren. 154. Pts. 144. Pts. Renault. Daniel Ricciardo. Esteban Ocon. 131. Pts. Ferrari. Sebastian Vettel. Charles Leclerc. Pts. AlphaTauri. Pts. Alfa Romeo Racing . Kimi Räikkönen.
What engines do f1 cars use 2020?
The specifications are four-stroke, turbocharged 1.6 liter, 90 degree V6 turbo engines. The maximum engine power rotational speed is 15,000 revolutions per minute (rpm). Coming to the amount of power generated, the exact numbers are highly classified in nature by the engine providers.
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Will Aston Martin make f1 engines?
How big is an f1 fuel tank?
Who made f1 2020?
Why is Ferrari so slow in f1 2020?
Why have Ferrari been so slow ? Ferrari's main issue is that they've lost a huge amount of straight-line speed. Why's that? Well, their current woes can be traced back to the end of 2019 – a season in which they were by far the fastest team on the straights.
How much do f1 drivers make 2020?
Sebastian Vettel follows Hamilton's $47 million with a total salary of $35 million. The four-time world champion is the second-highest earner on the grid, with Daniel Ricciardo being the third-highest earner as Renault pays him $20 million. Here's a list of the 2020 grid's salary table: Lewis Hamilton, $47 million. 6 дней назад
Do f1 cars have clutch pedals?
No. Formula 1 cars just have a Brake Pedal and an Accelerator Pedal , both operated by foot of course. Although no foot operated Clutch , they have hand operated Clutch paddles.
How do you start a Formula 1 car?
You can see these used at the start of every race – the cars are started in the pit garage (very complex starting sequence, begins by heating the engines, coolant kicks in, the oil, and they won't start if "cold") then the cars are driven to the grid (this is called the installation lap), and shut down.
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How do f1 drivers pee?
So well, you might be thinking, man, this stuff is so cool and surely they have some kind of a system for peeing integrated into the racing suits . Yeah well, THEY DONT have any such set-up! Instead, F1 drivers pee inside their race suits during the race.
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This book gathers all up-to-date information regarding the historical perspectives, clinical manifestations, pathomechanism, diagnostic methodology, and therapeutic strategies for a life-threatening, blistering skin disease called pemphigus vulgaris. The medical community has come a long way in discovering its disease mechanism down to the molecular level and found excellent treatment options for patients suffering from this horrific disease. Compared to the pre-corticosteroid era when the mortality rate was greater than 90% to present day mortality, which is extremely rare, we have indeed made great medical progress toward curing this disease.
The scientific and clinical advancements notwithstanding, patients affected by this disease still face a mortality rate two to three times higher than the general population, indicating that the research of this disease has not yet been completed. While this book is focused on pemphigus vulgaris, it also includes four clinical variants of pemphigus vulgaris: drug-induced pemphigus, paraneoplastic pemphigus, pemphigus vegetans, and IgA pemphigus. Accompanied with extensive reviews of scientific literature are clinical photos illustrating the various clinical presentations of the disease, as well as histological and immunohistological patterns of this disease that would serve as outstanding references for practical usage in emergency rooms, hospitals, and outpatient clinics.
This book is intended for: medical students whom require comprehensive knowledge of a well-classified organ-specific autoimmune disease; dermatology residents solidifying their ability to diagnose and treat this group of patients; practicing physicians whom need to update their skills in managing patients suffering from this disease; emergency physicians in order to properly triage their patients; scientists completing their understanding of the disease pathophysiology; and pharmaceutical industries searching for even better treatment options for these patients.


Despite the supposed emotional farewell, at Stamford Bridge, on Saturday, against Nottingham Forest, it looks as if Cesc Fabregas' move to Monaco isn't as clear cut as everyone thought.
According to the news source, the Standard, whilst Chelsea are willing to bid farewell to the 31-year-old midfielder, they're not going to let him just walk away from the club for nothing.
With the player still under contract, Chelsea want some kind of transfer fee for the Spaniard, but, according to our referenced source, the magnitude of the fee has yet to be agreed upon.
If the indecision continues, is there, possibly, a chance that we may see the man with the magic hat wear a Chelsea shirt just one last time, or will it be considered too risky for all concerned with the possibility of an injury being picked up?
It's a funny old game as one TV pundit used to regularly say a few years back!


December 2, 2018 by New Music Billboard in MAGIC!
What happens when you love a girl and her wealthy family doesn't accept your manners?
You simply marry her and prove your rudeness to the opponents. In few words, this is the story of the debut single 'Rude', which transformed the Canadian band Magic! Into the new Maroon 5.
Based on a real-life event, 'Rude' is both a message dedicated to the arrogant family of the girl and herself, since she accepts to a certain moment the need of cleavage between rich and poor, refinement and modest lifestyle. The song was written by the members of the band, along with Adam Messinger, who previously collaborated with the vocalist of Magic!.
Although little is known about Nasri Atweh, he is in fact the winner of a Grammy for production, creating songs for Christina Aguilera, Boyzone or Michael Bolton, as consequence the album of the band, 'Don't Kill the Magic' has all the chance to win several Grammies including production and vocal performance.
The pop style mainly adopted by Nasri, the frontman of Magic!, is mixed with a mild reggae rhythm, transforming 'Rude' into a song to be hummed all the time. If you add to its catchy line, the bright colorful background of an artist room or the marriage ceremony, it can be considered a modern Romeo and Juliet-based story.
The video is divided into two sequels: the musical performance in a garage or another space that young musicians use for rehearsal and the glamorous house of the girl. The debut of the video suggests that the artist and his girlfriend are determined to let her parents know about their relationship, but soon the singer is rejected by her father, who had a better option for her, a young man of the same social status.
'Rude' is a matter of choice. Seeing the way his boyfriend is treated, the young girl can forget about him, listening to her family or choose to follow him. Although she made her choice, she returns along with the band, her new family, to ask for parents' acceptance. Rejected once again, the couple will find their happiness in the modest garage, singing and dancing.
'Rude' was released in October 2013, but became very popular in May 2014, being accompanied by a simple, yet suggestive video released in the same period of time. Intuitively, the story of 'Rude' is continued under a different shape in 'Don't Kill the Magic'.


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Q: How we can detect lists and tables in a PDF? When I used autotagging option in Adobe it is auto detecting lists and tables and tagging it. How it know is it a list, table , Image and paragraph. How It is accurately detecting?
Now I have to detect like same in my PDF by using code. And I tried to detect using content stream information, There is no clue I found.
This will be so helpful to me. How can I achieve this?

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Die Renault Be Bop sind zwei Konzeptfahrzeuge von der Firma Renault, die im Jahre 2003 auf der IAA in Frankfurt vorgestellt worden sind. Der Be Bop ist ein SUV und der Be Bop der passende Sportwagen dazu.

Die Bezeichnung wurde von 2009 bis 2013 auch für ein verkürztes Sondermodell des Renault Kangoo verwendet.

Motor
Der Be Bop wird von einem Vierzylinder-Ottomotor mit 1600 cm³ Hubraum mit 84 kW (114 PS) angetrieben. Die Antriebsleistung wird über ein Sechsgang-Getriebe und eine Elektrokupplung auf die 21 Zoll großen Räder übertragen. Die 210 mm Bodenfreiheit ermöglichen auch Fahrten abseits von befestigten Straßen.

Der Be Bop hingegen wird von einem 2,0-l-Turbomotor mit 2000 cm³ Hubraum mit 165 kW (224 PS) angetrieben dessen maximales Drehmoment 300 Nm beträgt. Geschaltet wird über ein sequentielles Sechsganggetriebe.

Innovation
Beide Versionen des Be Bop sind mit einer Unterbodenverkleidung ausgestattet, der die Aerodynamikwerte verbessern und somit den Verbrauch verringern soll. Die Linienführung verläuft in Rundungen. sind eine große angerundete Frontscheibe und eine Panoramaglasdach wesentliche Lichteinlässe für den Innenraum. Im Innenraum ist ein großer Bogen von vorne nach hinten gezogen, der gleichzeitig als Befestigung der vier einzelnen Sitze dient. Dieser Bogen enthält unter anderem den Schalthebel und die Bedienelemente für die Heizung, die Klimaanlage, das Radio usw. Zwei übereinander angeordnete LC-Displays zeigen die Fahrgeschwindigkeit und die Motordrehzahl in 3D-Darstellung an. Alle anderen Informationen kann man auf einem drehbaren, versenkbaren Display ablesen. Außen sind Scheinwerfer mit Diodentechnik und am Heck Lichtstreifen verbaut. Die Heckklappe öffnet sich in zwei Schritten. Erst schwenkt die Scheibe in die Höhe, dann wird der Ladeboden nach unten abgesenkt.

Zusätzlich kann man im Be Bop die hinteren Sitze unter den Vordersitzen verschwinden lassen, um einen größeren Stauraum zu haben.

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Q: Eigenkets of degenerate perturbation theory Suppose the original Hamiltonian is $H$ and we perturb it by a small potential $V$.  The basis kets of the original hamiltonian $H$ contains some degeneracy.
Since there's some degeneracy, we take the set of degenerate eigenkets of the original hamiltonian $H$ and diagonalise it with respect to the small potential $V$.  The result is a set of eigenkets of the full Hamiltonian $H+V$.
Since these are exactly the eigenkets of the full Hamiltonian $H+V$, does it mean that there are no higher order perturbation terms?

A: No, you diagonalize in the truncated degeneracy subspace D, so your eigenkets are definitely not eigenkets of the full hamiltonian!
Most texts are needlessly formal and lose you in a  thicket of abstract formalism, and you never thought to illustrate them by a daft minimal example. Here is one.
Take
$$
H_0+\lambda V=  \begin{pmatrix}
 1  &  0 & 0 \\
  0 &  1 & 0 \\
0 & 0 & 2
\end{pmatrix} +\lambda  \begin{pmatrix}
 0  &  1 & 2 \\
  1 &  0 & 3\\
2 & 3 & 7
\end{pmatrix} .$$
Consider
$$|1\rangle=\begin{pmatrix}
1 \\
0 \\
0
\end{pmatrix}  ,\qquad |2\rangle=\begin{pmatrix}
0 \\
1 \\
0
\end{pmatrix}  , \qquad |3\rangle=\begin{pmatrix}
0 \\
0 \\
1
\end{pmatrix}  ,$$
$$ |a\rangle=  \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} \begin{pmatrix}
1 \\
-1 \\
0
\end{pmatrix}  , \qquad |b\rangle= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix}
1 \\
1 \\
0
\end{pmatrix}  ,$$
so the orthogonal states $|a\rangle, |b\rangle$ diagonalize the 1-2 subspace perturbation, but obviously not the entire hamiltonian.
You must check by direct calculation, and also pursuant to your text or WP, that, to lowest order in λ, that is ignoring its square,
the  energy eigenvalues and  eigenstates are
$$
E_A= 1-\lambda; \qquad E_B= 1+\lambda; \qquad E_C=2+\lambda 7 ;\\
|A\rangle= |a\rangle + \frac{\lambda}{\sqrt{2}}  |3\rangle= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix}
1 \\
- 1\\ \lambda
\end{pmatrix} ~; \qquad  |B\rangle=  |b\rangle -\lambda  \frac{5} {\sqrt{2}}|3\rangle= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}\begin{pmatrix}
1 \\ 1\\
-5\lambda
\end{pmatrix} ~; \\
|C\rangle=  |3\rangle   -\lambda  \frac{1} {\sqrt{2}}|a\rangle +\lambda  \frac{5} {\sqrt{2}}|b\rangle= \begin{pmatrix}
2\lambda \\ 3\lambda\\
1
\end{pmatrix} ~.
$$
Recall normalizations, orthogonalities, etc... all work to $O(\lambda^2)$ only.
In conclusion, $|a\rangle, |b\rangle$ are not exact hamiltonian eigenstates--and you have all perturbation orders survive, in principle. They merely avoided zeros in the denominator of the resolvent, having removed the degeneracy. That is, they ensured that $|A\rangle$ will have no $|b\rangle$ correction to first order, and, likewise, $|B\rangle$ will have no $|a\rangle$ correction, because this basis has diagonalized V, so it fails to connect $|a\rangle$ with  $|b\rangle$ and they do not impact each other, so far. But higher orders are another matter.

*

*Fine print (wonkish) footnote on the above "so far": avoid until 3rd reading.

In actuality, an extra arbitrary piece $\propto \lambda |b\rangle$ in $|A\rangle$ and  $\propto \lambda |a\rangle$ in $|B\rangle$ has no impact (linkage) on the eigenvalue equation at the first order in λ discussed above, as you may readily check: the O(λ) potential has superselected them out to this order. However, as you may check in Courant-Hilbert  Methods of Mathematical Physics, v1 p 248 , and discussed in this question , you do get two innocuous (impact-less) pieces to this order, namely
$$
|A\rangle=\hbox{ above } - \lambda \frac{5}{4} |b\rangle,\qquad
|B\rangle=\hbox{ above } + \lambda \frac{5}{4} |a\rangle,\\
\langle b|A\rangle=\frac{\lambda}{2}\langle b|V|3\rangle \frac{1}{E^{(0)}_{a,b}-E^{(0)}_{3}}\langle 3|V|a\rangle=-5/4, \qquad \langle a|B\rangle=5/4.
$$
These pieces, bilinear in the potential!,  structurally  "fell off" the 2nd order calculation, where λ2 was discounted by a λ in a subspace denominator $ E^{(1)}_{b}-E^{(1)}_{a}=2\lambda$. The particular 5/4 coefficients are fixed by consistency with the next order energies. But you have already seen this subtlety above, in zeroth order:   $|a\rangle, |b\rangle$ of  $O(\lambda^0)$  actually  were specified by  $O(\lambda)$ potential considerations. In any case, for reassurance, compute
$$
E_A= 1-\lambda -\lambda^2/2 + 7\lambda^3/8+...; \\ E_B= 1+\lambda-25\lambda^2/2+625\lambda^3/8+...; \\ E_C=2+7\lambda  +13\lambda^2-79\lambda^3+...
$$


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Mexican Police Revolt Against National Guard Plan
Deployments to southern border begin
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Posted Jul 3, 2019 7:00 PM CDT
Hundreds of Mexican federal police protest Wednesday at a police command center in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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(Newser) – Hundreds of federal police blocked highways in and around the Mexican capital Wednesday in open revolt against plans to absorb the officers into the newly formed National Guard, a move that police fear could upend their jobs. The protests came as the government officially began deploying the National Guard to seal the porous southern border and control immigration and crime, the AP reports. The demonstrations threatened to complicate formation of the new force, which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has bet Mexico's future security on. Uniformed officers blocked a major capital highway in front of federal police offices, and another contingent blocked the highway between the national capital and a state capital, Pachuca. Federal police at a Mexico City command center demanded a meeting with the security secretary. The president has been dismissive of the federal police, characterizing them as a failed security force. He gave military officers the bulk of the responsibility for the National Guard. The new agency is also seeking new recruits.
Protesting police at the command center in Mexico City's Iztapalapa borough said their seniority, rank, and benefits would not be recognized within the National Guard. National Guard Commandant Patricia Rosalinda Trujillo Mariel, one of the few leaders of the new force who came from the federal police, was jostled by the crowd as she came to meet the protesters and asked them to put forward representatives to talk. Last week, the newly appointed head of the National Migration Institute apologized for calling some federal police officers "fifi," or posh, when they complained about difficult conditions in the effort to reduce the flow of migration through Mexico toward the US. Mexico sent 6,000 National Guard members to the southern border, and thousands more have been deployed to the northern border to deter illegal border crossings. Critics say the immigration enforcement mission could distract the force from its primary responsibility of curbing violent crime.
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Church Leaders Concerned with low ART Drug Stock levels.
Post Courier, April 3, 2018
The heads of churches who are members of PNG Christian leaders alliance on HIV and AIDS secretariat have expressed concern about the level of anti-retro viral treatment (ART) drugs currently available. In a meeting last week, they expressed this saying that people living with HIV (PLHIV) were experiencing shortages in relation to accessing a full ART drug supply and intake in some centres. "With the current situation where PLHIV are not accessing full medical supply of ART is not good for our national HIV response because the viral load of people living with HIV will increase as a result of not getting it. "The government must act now before our PLHIV will become resistant to ART as a result of not taking the prescribed amount of ART drugs on a daily basis," chairman of the PNG Christian leaders alliance on HIV and AIDS secretariat Cardinal John Ribat said.
Sir John said when people become resistant to ART it would be very expensive to pay for their drugs and that would even become more worrying problem for PNG. He said the government must act quickly before the situation creates more drug resistant PLHIV.
Children's rights in prison a concern
April 3, 2018 The National
A JUDGE has questioned why two toddlers forced to live with their mothers in prison are deprived of appropriate food and facilities. Justice Panuel Mogish, who visited Bomana Prison in Port Moresby on Wednesday, told The National that human rights advocates and non-governmental organisations should be raising their concern over the rights of such children to be cared for properly, especially what food they are given to eat. Justice Mogish said there were 30 female inmates in Bomana and among them were two innocent children. He said the child could be taken away and looked after by relatives after turning three years old. "But in the meantime they are not given enough nutritional requirements that their bodies require. "They just eat the common food that every other convict or inmate eats, so if it's rice and tinned fish, they all eat rice and tinned fish.
He said the innocent children were forced to be living against their will because under PNG laws, a child can live with the inmate mother until the child reaches three years. "Most of the mothers do not want to leave their babies outside for others to look after and insist on taking them in the prison. It comes naturally for mothers to do that but there are no facilities to properly care for the child."
Justice Mogish said the plight of convicted mothers with children in jail was "a very big problem".
"We see people who promote gender-based violence against women and breaches of human rights but they are not doing anything about the rights of the children.
Child abuse 'part of life' in PNG
CHILD abuse has become so common in Papua New Guinea that it is part of everyday life, a workshop at the University of PNG heard. Pikinini Watch PNG told the workshop that the rate of abuse is among the highest in the world outside a conflict zone. Most children in this country are brought up seeing their mothers and siblings being regularly beaten, the organisation said. According to the organisation, child labour is different from child work. Child labour is seen as loads of work given to a child that is not fitting or appropriate. For example, a six-year-old child taking care of a baby is child abuse but in most cases in PNG it is very common.
Child work on the other hand is work given to a child that is appropriate for their age, like asking a five-year-old to put away his or her dirty clothes in the laundry basket, the workshop heard.
More than half of all Medecins Sans Frontiers consultations for survivors of sexual violence in Tari and Port Moresby in 2014 and 2015 were with children.
Court to review cases of inmates with mental health problems
TWENTY-two inmates with mental health issues who have been undergoing psychiatric treatment in Port Moresby since 2015 will have their cases reviewed by the Bomana National Court this week.
Justice Panuel Mogish told the media after visiting Bomana Prison with other members of the legal fraternity last Wednesday that the 22 people indicated that they had completed their check-ups and were awaiting repatriation. "These 22 people are the forgotten people. We bring them here and we forget about them," he said. Justice Mogish said courts outside Port Moresby had ruled the inmates in question had psychiatric disorder. He said the Bomana National Court was supposed to review their cases on Thursday but constant power supply interruptions in the area forced the court to defer the matter to this week.
He said his jail visit was purposely to follow up on such groups of people who had been forgotten.
He said under the law, a person should be mentally fit and sane to be able to plead to charges.
"He must also be able to understand the charge and be mentally fit to understand and think," he said.
Pomio landowners have a major court victory over logging giants
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LAE – A group of customary landowners in Papua New Guinea has regained access to their land following a significant legal victory against supporters of a Malaysian logging company. Seven people from Pomio in East New Britain were barred from entering their land for the past six years after a restraining order was issued against them in 2012. The landowners include Paul Pavol Palusualrea and Nobert Pames who have been vocal against 'land grabbing' and widespread deforestation in the remote district. The National Court in Kokopo set aside the restraining orders after finding there was a lack of evidence. The landowners were represented by lawyers from the Centre for Environmental Law and Community Rights (CELCOR). "We are happy to have won the case for our clients, who are from the forested communities of West Pomio whose resources have been exploited through SABL [Special Agriculture Business Leases]," said lawyer Everlyn Wohuinangu.
The Pomio District is the site of a controversial SABL where large tracts of rainforest have been logged and replaced by oil palm plantations. The dispute over the logging and land grabbing triggered the six-year legal battle between the landowners and local companies sponsored by the Malaysian logging company.
Church group helping inmates gain new skills
A CHURCH organisation is visiting prison inmates to teach them trade skills as part of their rehabilitation. Members of the Catholic organisation Mercy Works in Mt Hagen have been teaching inmates at Baisu prison things like sewing, music, and how to prepare stock feed. It is hoped that the inmates can use those skills to find work then they are released. Mercy Works coordinator Sister Mariska Kua said they were making regular visits to the women's prison, juvenile's prison and the minimum security prison. She said inmates who had been released were already putting the skills into good use. "We provide food for the prisoners and right now I see that this visit is not a waste but has bigger impacts," Kua said. "These people have skills and talents." Kua said God created everyone for a purpose and Mercy Works was using that principle to educate the inmates to look after themselves
Children in quake-affected areas face 'serious health risks'
CHILDREN face serious health risks because of the trauma they suffered from the earthquake last month, according to a United Nations agency, Karen Allen, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) representative in PNG, said the earthquake had left families devastated, homes destroyed, and victims displaced and traumatised in the four Highlands provinces. "Children are still being confronted by fear, loss, confusion, family separation, deteriorated living conditions and disruption of social and school activities," she said. She said children in such conditions faced greater health risks such as mental health disorders, delay in brain development, anxiety, depression, self-harm and suicide. Even before the earthquakes, she said children in PNG had already experienced a high risk of violence and abuse. "Available data indicate that girls and boys in PNG experience some of the highest rates of violence in the Asia-Pacific region. "About 75 per cent of children report experiences of physical abuse and 80 per cent experience emotional abuse during their lifetime."
A recent Medecins Sans Frontieres report showed that 12,000 cases of family and sexual violence are treated each year at the Tari Family Support Centre in Hela.
Problems of addiction are blighting many of our families
16 April 2018. The National
KUNDIAWA – Alcoholism and drug addiction are progressive and fatal diseases that undermine the family unit. Addiction is a family problem with every member, not just the addict, suffering from its effects. In our highlands society, families operate as a system and family members interrelate to each other for a common purpose. When there is no food, all family units work to find some. When there is no money to pay school fees, the family rallies to get it. When a family member is sick, the others provide care and comfort. However, in families where a member is an alcoholic, drug addict or gambler, this balance is lost and there looms a great risk of dysfunction including divorce or separation, child abuse, sexual exploitation, economic manipulation, intimidation, psychological abuse and much more.
Children of alcoholics and drug addicts exist in a dubious moral environment and frequently lack a full understanding of the difference between right and wrong, good and bad, lawful and unlawful.
Juvenile delinquency or youth crime is increasing especially in urban areas. Psychological and spiritual problem are common among the children of alcoholics, who become confused and lose a sense of who they are.
Risk just grown for HIV kids
April 13, 2018The National
MORE than 300 children living with HIV/AIDS in the earthquake-affected areas cannot access anti-retroviral treatment drugs due to tribal fighting, United Nations AIDS consultant Dr Shinsuke Miyano says. Before the earthquake, 7000 people living with HIV/AIDS were receiving treatment from the 39 clinics in four provinces. It included 300 children. It is estimated that about 9800 people with HIV/AIDS live in four provinces – Hela, Southern Highlands, Enga and Western.
"Those below the age of 15 are considered children and above are adults," Dr Shinsuke said.
"For the younger children below five years, they got the virus from their mother during childbirth or breastfeeding. "Some children contacted HIV by abuse, gender-based violence and rape."
The recent earthquake damaged five ART (anti-retroviral treatment) clinics serving more than 100 patients. "We are concerned about the people. A month is too long to live without the drug," he said. "It will surely have a big effect on their wellbeing.
Climate leads Catholic agenda
April 13, 2018 The National
Catholic bishops have been urged to become advocates of climate change in the Oceania region.
A conference for the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania (FCBCO) is underway in Port Moresby with at least 80 bishops from across Oceania taking part.
The focus was the effects of climate change on nations and their economies.
Speaking at the opening in Port Moresby yesterday, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, from the Vatican, conveyed a message from Pope Francis calling on the bishops to focus on climate change.
Cardinal Pietro is second to the Pope in the Catholic Church.
"We all share a common home which we call planet Earth," he said.
"While this may be obvious on one level, if this truth is accepted, then there are ethical implications for everyone as to how we use the treasures of the land and sea."
The Cardinal pleaded for a deep-seated conversion of attitudes towards God's gift of creation. In particular, he named politicians and policymakers to put into practice a life of responsible and modest living.
Care centers still at high risk of disease
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Although things have quieted down in most of areas affected by the earthquake last week, paramedics from an emergency medical team have highlighted that the critical phase of medical relief operations is far from over.
New South Wales based St John Ambulance paramedic, Ben Fisher told Post Courier last Friday that the risk of communicable diseases now increases exponentially as locals begin to congregate at care centers. "Like anywhere where there's been a disaster, a lot of people have been displaced from their homes and they are now living together in large groups whether it's in a church or a school yard or whatever. The big problem now is sanitation, infection and nutrition," said Fisher.
"It's likely that they will be exposed to Typhus, Diphtheria and Diarrhoea; because they are a tight group they are very communicable and easily spread due to sanitation issues."
"Especially in some developing countries, things like diarrhoea in children and fluid loss is still unfortunately a life-threatening problem.
Hey men – let's make our streets & buses safe for women and girls
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PORT MORESBY – It was busy Friday and I was amongst the people walking through the Ori Lavi building when a stranger whispered to me, "Hey, lush you, perfume stap olsem yu iet.''
Before I could react he had disappeared into the crowd; frustratingly because it was third time in a week this had happened to me and I could have slapped the guy with force and give him a lesson to think about a thousand times before doing it to anyone else.
This is not a new or unusual incident for any Papua New Guinean girls in public places or who use public transport in our urban areas. It's the kind of daily challenge to our safety that occurs whenever women and girls step out of their homes.
A stupid remark like "Hey stack one, nogat makmak," being spat out on the street by a stranger is something many women and girls experience. It may seem like just a bit of harmless fun but street harassment is really about power and control and I know from personal experience that it can easily turn to violence. It's upsetting to see women and girls being harassed by name calling, unwanted comments or touching when they pass a group of strangers on the street of Boroko or around Gordon's market. If young girls walk to a bus stop in their shorts, men will leer and start whistling, catcalling and making demands. Taxi drivers follow them around, hooting their car horns. Lewd comments are hurled from all angles..
Most women in PNG experience this form of harassment and they feel unsafe in public places and take steps to avoid harassment by varying their routines, changing the way they dress, refusing eye contact or even avoiding make-up. Others travel in groups or are always accompanied by men while some even employ their own defence mechanisms such as walking with keys between their knuckles. [For the rest of this article, see the url above.]
104 arrests made in 1107 family, sexual violence cases last month
https://www.thenational.com.pg/104-arrests-made-1107-family-sexual-violence-cases/
PROVINCIAL police commanders are the ones to recommend the establishment of Family and Sexual Violence Units in their provinces, an official says. Police family and sexual violence unit coordinator Job Eremugo made the statement after releasing last month's statistics on the reported cases of family and sexual violence in 15 provinces.
"A total of 1107 cases were registered, and 104 arrest were made," he said
He said 70 interim and permanent protection orders were served to the perpetrators, 120 cases were treated as civil, 143 were attended to by the village court, 157 were referred to welfare, clinics and counselling, and 517 cases were pending. According to last month's report, Manus, Western, East Sepik, New Ireland, Chimbu, Gulf, Hela and Jiwaka did not submit their reports
Jiwaka and East Sepik have not properly set up their units. Gulf, Manus, Western and New Ireland are out of communication. Chimbu did not provide its statistics due to a change in the management.
Hela is closed because of the natural disaster and tribal fights.
It is in times of crisis the true worth of a leader is measured
19 April 2018. http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2018/04/it-is-in-times-of-crisis-the-true-worth-of-a-leader-is-measured.html
FRANCIS NII KUNDIAWA – Madang, a town once dubbed as 'Beautiful Madang' and in even earlier days 'The Pearl of the Pacific' because of its scenic beauty has been experiencing serious civil unrest including murder and destruction of businesses and state property in recent times. This crime and disorder has disturbed the tranquil blue waters, large furry flying foxes, arrays of colourful crotons and hibiscus, pleasant hotel facilities and, perhaps most regrettably, the renowned friendliness of the local people. The latest incident involved the death of three local youths believed to have been murdered by settlers, a tragedy that led to further public panic, civil unrest and disruption to the town's water supply. But, unlike major unrest in other years that continued for weeks, last week's unrest was quelled in reasonable time with services and businesses quickly restored thanks to the presence and leadership of Bryan Kramer, the Member for Madang in the national parliament, along with police and other community leaders. Bryan Kramer played a decisive role in restoring peace and reinstating the water supply, a vital utility in an urban area which had been damaged during the unrest. Kramer went to the site of the water supply with police, PNG Water and PNG Power and assessed the damage to the water pump. PNG Power went to collect parts to replace those that were damaged, but didn't return. Kramer didn't leave. He stayed at the reservoir cajoling PNG Power personnel to return with the parts and get the pump fixed, only departing with the police after the water started flowing again.
Dept: Drug, alcohol abuse rising
April 19, 2018 The National Main Stories
ABUSE of alcohol and drugs has increased drastically in the country, Department of Justice and Attorney-General Secretary Lawrence Kalinoe, says. Kalinoe said the abuse of marijuana, especially among young people in villages, towns and cities had resulted in the upsurge in crime, violence and corruption. He was speaking during the opening of the two-day induction workshop by the National Narcotics Bureau on data and information collection in Port Moresby. "Drug abuse has spread to various age groups and the trend that it is spreading is very frightening and is a big threat to our future," he said.
"Abuse of drug has led to the destruction of individual life, family units and the entire communities and it undermines national economies." He said another consequence associated with intravenous drug abuse was the high risk of spreading HIV/AIDS. "The scope of the narcotics problems today in Papua New Guinea has only begun to be realised on the socio-economic front and there is no longer a question of social consequences of widespread drug abuse," Kalinoe said. According to the coordinator of Rehabilitation, Treatment and Counselling, John Mark, there were new methods of consuming drugs already in use in some parts of the Highlands. Mark said people were preparing it with food and eating as well drinking them.
The lure of the 'kaikaiman' – and the courage to speak & write truth
LAE – The greatest challenge facing journalism in Papua New Guinea is that there is no freedom of the press. Journalists need much courage to speak and write the truth and to know how to use the right medium to express their views. Almost everything that is printed in the press is scrutinised and controlled by the government or an agent in the newsroom – usually the editors. Every day, Papua New Guinean journalists face a big challenge as they have to write according to what their editors will accept, or they can get sacked for insubordination. In PNG, the term 'kaikai man' is used to refer to someone who writes propaganda in return for favours.
This syndrome is already deeply rooted and one cannot get away from it, even the reporter with full knowledge that someone is corrupt or lying will continue to write good about them. Glorifying parliamentarians and government bureaucrats is common in PNG. So how do we expect a graduate journalist to deviate from this trend, which continues year after year? The what, when, where, why and how questions we were trained to use have gone to the bunker. No journalist has the courage to ask such questions anymore. Journalists in PNG get assaulted and some get taken to court. Not because they did the wrong thing but because of standing up for the truth. And of course the truth hurts. The media has been suppressed by the very people it is supposed to keep in check and balance. So where stands democracy and media freedom in Papua New Guinea?
All in all, the media in PNG cannot be defined as free. We face a lot of challenges to find our worth in this society of ours.
B'ville HIV cases double in 5yrs
THE number of people infected with HIV in Bougainville has doubled in the past five years.
This was highlighted by Catholic coordinator for HIV Stella Morokana during an HIV/AIDS awareness and testing event at Pitpit in Wakunai district on Monday. The diocese team conducted a HIV voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) on employees of the Raibro Construction Ltd, a firm undertaking a major road sealing project. Morokana said there were 53 registered cases at the Mary Mother of Hope VCT facility in Hahela Parish while Our Lady of Mercy VCT Facility in Arawa had 25 registered cases. The figures for St Vincent De Paul VCT facility in Buin and Buka General Hospital were not included. Morokana said in 2012, there were 23 HIV cases registered at Hahela.
By 2017, it had risen to 53. She said in most cases men were infecting their wives. She said more children were born with HIV as a result of infected couple not getting up-to date HIV/AIDS treatment. Catholic church health service in Bougainville as one of the key organisation combating the HIV/AIDS had been faced with funding and not enough HIV counsellors in past years.
Peace committee records 100 reported sorcery deaths
THE peace committee of the Nahu-Rawa local level government in Raicoast, Madang, has recorded up to 100 deaths since 2012 related to sorcery. Committee chairman Vini Arihafa said the figure was for the killings reported to them. There were others killed and their homes burnt in the inland villages which were unaccounted for. Arihafa, a former primary school teacher, told The National that sorcery-related killings were ongoing despite a surrender ceremony between the Hausman and suspects' factions held at Ramu Sugar Township in February last year. While waiting for the reconciliation ceremony to be held by the Nahu-Rawa local level government administration, four more people were killed. Arihafa said occurred at the Ranara Primary School on Tuesday last week.
"The incident occurred at the school grounds and forced the teachers and students to close the school indefinitely. Some teachers vacated the school in fear of their lives," Arihafa said.
More Midwives Needed in the Country
Post Courier April 24, 2018
PAPUA New Guinea needs more midwives to save lives. This is for mothers and children during child birth, says University of Goroka's (UOG) bachelor of midwifery program co-ordinator Paula Puawe.
"Child birth is not a disease and yet we continue to hear of big number of women dying during child birth because we do not have enough skilled midwives. "At the same time, there are a high numbers of infants dying from preventative diseases," she said. Currently at UOG, there are 38 midwifery students studying under the program. According to Mrs Puawe, the midwifery program started in 2012 and has enrolled students from all over PNG. "Midwifery in the country is low so when we started this program, which is funded by DFAT, we started with 500 midwives being registered.
"Over the five years, we have trained more midwives and according to the PNG Nursing Council, there are more than 800 midwives registered in the country, however this is not enough," she said.
She said the situation in the country is that there are 733 maternal deaths per 1000 live births which are too many PNG women dying every year and many more continue to die in the rural areas.
"Neonatal period is the period from birth to 28 days of life or the first month of life. This period is crucial for the mother and her baby as this is where midwives are required not nurses….
Funding cuts affecting church health services, says official
SOME church health service centres are facing problems because of the cuts in their funding, an official says. Representatives of the centres around the country are attending their annual conference in Port Moresby. The church health service secretariat manages all church-run health facilities and training schools in the country. Chairman of church health service board Japalis Kaiok said cuts in funding were affecting their operations. "Most of us are experiencing issues with keeping the students and training going. Shortages in funds might affect the training programmes for this year," he said. He, however, thanked the Minister for Health and HIV-AIDS Sir Puka Temu for supporting the church health services. "We thank the government for the continuous recognition of the Christian training institutions and church health funding," Kaiok said.
Sir Puka said the government was prioritising health systems to meet the issues. "Our priority area is health and health systems, and we will be putting funds for all health programmes whether run by the government or a church," he said.
Cult activities force school to suspend enrolment
A HIGH high school has suspended grade 11 enrolment this year because of cult activities. The school is Aiyura National High School at Goroka, Eastern Highlands. Karl Puluma said the suspension of grade 11 was part of an effort to eradicate cult activities in the school. The suspension of grade 11 was among the three recommendations by a committee.
The recomendations are:
A complete shutdown of the school;
converting Aiyura into a college; and,
Stopping grade 11 enrolment for a year and allowing grade 12 students to leave without influencing the younger pupils.
"We adopted the third recommendation and have now eradicated cult activities in Aiyura. We are a new, fresh and free Aiyura National High School," Puluma said.
95% of PNG Population Live in High-Risk Malaria Areas
Post Courier, April 24, 2018
Nearly 95 per cent of Papua New Guinea's populations live in areas of high risk for malaria transmission and Kuriva community in the Central Province is no exception, according to the health department. In commemorating World Malaria Day today, students attending the Kuriva Primary School were given access to early diagnosis and treatment at the school grounds. During a visit to the school today, Health Department's Central Public Health Laboratory Quality Assurance officer Dorothy Abala told this paper that since the start of the screening program at the school ground on Monday this week, out of more than 70 children tested, about 27 were tested positive with Malaria parasites. "Many of these children did not look sick but after being tested, we found out that many of them had Malaria," she said.
Tightening the belt? Chinese soft power in Papua New Guinea
Development Policy Blog. By Sarah O'Dowd and Grant Walton on Apr 26, 2018
As PNG prepares to join China's Belt and Road Initiative, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill has stated that his administration is entering "very tough negotiations" with Beijing to ensure that PNG's interests are put first.
Concerns about Chinese investment in PNG are not new. Some argue that the increased flows of non-conditional and commercial investment from China have exacerbated corruption and mismanagement. Investments by Chinese companies in PNG, such as the controversial Ramu nickel mine, have received particular criticism. A small number of researchers, including the ANU's Dr Graeme Smith (see here and here), are asking questions about the implications of growing Chinese investment on governance and development outcomes in PNG.
Their concerns are supported by analysis of data from the China Global Investment Tracker, which monitors Chinese investments of over US$100 million. It reveals that between 2005 and 2017, only two Chinese companies were awarded multiple contracts worth over US$100 million by the PNG government. These two companies, China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) and China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), share one concerning trait: they were both blacklisted by the World Bank for fraudulent, corrupt, collusive, coercive or obstructive practices.
It must be noted that the World Bank blacklist has no impact on national or private deals and only prevents blacklisted companies from securing contracts that are financed by the World Bank. PNG is also far from the only country that has procured the services of CCCC and CSCEC, which are two of the largest companies in their industries globally. Yet the blacklisting casts doubt over their accountability and effectiveness.
CSCEC was blacklisted by the World Bank for fraud, corruption or collusion from 2009 to 2015 but was still engaged for a project in PNG in 2014; this was in addition to another project in 2016, the year after the ban was lifted. These projects were cumulatively worth at least US$430 million. While neither of these CSCEC projects generated significant controversy, the same cannot be said for CCCC investments in PNG.
Although CCCC and its subsidiaries were blacklisted by the World Bank for fraud from 2011 to 2017, it invested at least US$590 million through three separate projects in 2012, 2013 and 2015. While the latter two projects are reportedly on target, PNG is still suffering the fallout from the CCCC's first project in PNG: the Lae port. While construction was ostensibly completed in late 2014 by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC), a subsidiary of CCCC, the discovery of significant structural defects prevented the port from becoming fully operational. Government reports allegedly found that CHEC's defective work will cost more than US$62 million to rectify, but the O'Neill administration has refused to publicly release the findings of government inquiries into CHEC's mismanagement. By failing to do so, the PNG government has prevented the public from knowing about how mistakes occurred and what measures are needed to prevent similar errors in the future. [See the url above for the rest of this article]
Short on funds
THE Government is yet to pay out to schools K97 million in tuition fees for the final term last year, plus another K50 million for the first term this year. Education Minister Nick Kuman said this was because of the increase in the number of enrolments caused by the TFF policy. He said while the allocation in the national budget remained at K600 million, the number of students enrolled in schools was continuing to increase. "When there is an increase in the enrollment rate, it is really hard for us to accommodate that K600 million. And it is all paid on a quarterly basis," Kuman said.
Some schools have complained that they have not received their allocation last term and are pressing the education department to pay it. Kuman said the ministry had to take into consideration "elementary all the way up to the boarding schools" in allocating was being made available….
Lutheran missionaries
April 20, 2018 The National Letters [Responding to order that some Lutheran missionaries be deported or not permitted to return to PNG]
THE newspaper article, "No support for deported missionaries", in The National on Monday (April 16) raises many questions and concerns. Our day-to-day contact with pastors, members, and churches of the Gutnius Lutheran Church is quite different than what was reported.
Our experience reveals that there is a high level of support for the missionaries, both past and present, of the Concordia Lutheran Professional Mission Services rather than "No support" as indicated by your headline. The Concordia Lutheran Professional Mission Services (CLPMS) was established in 1991 under the laws of Papua New Guinea to serve the people and churches of PNG.
It is the successor of New Guinea Lutheran Mission (NGLM) which was founded in 1948 to serve and bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to the people of the Enga. The NGLM helped found the Wabag Lutheran Church which eventually became the Gutnius Lutheran Church. As independence came in 1975, the NGLM was dissolved and ultimately became the CLPMS. The missionaries labelled as bad missionaries in the article have served the people in PNG in many capacities for many, many years: Pastors, translators, teachers, doctors, nurses, etc. They have engaged in many areas including theological education, Bible translation, creating literature for churches and schools, providing books and educational materials for churches and schools, providing training for pastors and teachers, AIDS awareness, human care, building airstrips in remote areas, construction and maintenance, addressing the sanguma problem and rescuing victims, earthquake relief, among many other things.
One American missionary who they attempted to deport in 2014 had spent his entire life translating the Bible into Ipili, a language of the Porgera area. But he had already died earlier that year after a long battle with cancer. One CLPMS missionary who is overseas and has been blocked from returning to PNG was even recognised by the Queen for her services to PNG. Was the Queen wrong when she recognised this woman for her services to PNG?
Do we have disagreements with some people in PNG? Yes, of course, as might be expected when people work together, especially when waste of resources or fraud are involved. Please understand: We have a responsibility to our sponsors and financial supporters in America and Australia.
But we will always stand for what is the best for the nation and the people of PNG and for our mission: to proclaim the Good News of our salvation through Jesus Christ.
Concordia Lutheran Professional
Why the Church speaks on social and political issues
http://cbcpnews.net/cbcpnews/why-the-church-speaks-on-social-and-political-issues/
WHY does the church speak on social and political matters? This question betrays the belief that the spiritual has nothing to do with the mundane, with the worldly. The church's sphere is the spiritual, so they claimed, so it should keep silent and be aloft over such worldly matters as politics, business and society in general. This way of thinking, however, is foreign to the mission of Jesus, because he has come to save the world—to renew everything, including social realities! In fact the end game of the plan of salvation is "the New Heavens and the New Earth".
The Holy Book tells us: "According to his promise we await new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." (2 Pet 3:13) All things came from God and all things have to be brought back to him. So all reality, including the temporal order or the order of this world, will have to be permeated with the Spirit of God. "Our redemption has a social dimension because 'God, in Christ, redeems not only the individual person, but also the social relations existing between men'. To believe that the Holy Spirit is at work in everyone means realizing that he seeks to penetrate every human situation and all social bonds." (Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium, 178)
Therefore the Holy Father clearly teaches: "No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions, without a right to offer an opinion on events affecting society." (Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium, 183)
There are values that are needed in social life. These are truth, justice, peace and love. We need these in order to have a human society, that is, a society that is worthy of human beings. These virtues are to be implanted in all institutions in order that people can live and work together in harmony. These virtues are needed not only in the church and in families. They are also needed in politics and in business. Woe to us if there is no truth in politics. No business will prosper if there is no justice. There will not be peace if there is no justice. Love makes people at home not only in their homes but also in their workplaces. Not only are these virtues or values needed but they cannot exist alone. They all come together. The absence of one will not make the others effective. There can be no love if people are not truthful to each other. There is no justice if there is no love and vice versa.
These values—truth, justice, peace and love—are all kingdom values, that is, values of the kingdom of God that Jesus has come to bring about. All institutions therefore, including the Church have to strive to operate according these values.
In the light of this, we have the marching orders of Pope Francis: "The Church's pastors, taking into account the contributions of the different sciences, have the right to offer opinions on all that affects people's lives, since the task of evangelization implies and demands the integral promotion of each human being." (Pope Francis' Evangelii Gaudium, 182)
Religion has a role in political debate, not in providing concrete political solutions, which lies outside the competence of religion, but to recall to society the objective moral norms as the basis of justice, truth, peace and love.


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Q: How to abandon or deadletter messages on ServiceBus BrokeredMessage level on AzureFunction V2? I am encountering one major road block issue when trying to use ServiceBusTrigger in azureFunction. I am trying to abandon, or deadletter, a service bus message in V2 ServiceBusTrigger, How can I do so? I've tried the following solution, but I didn't get anywhere.
Here is the codeSample I used:
public async static Task Run(Message myQueueItem, TraceWriter log, ExecutionContext context)
{
   log.Info($"C# ServiceBus queue trigger function processed message delivery count: {myQueueItem.SystemProperties.DeliveryCount}");

   QueueClient queueClient = new QueueClient("[connectionstring]","[queueName]");

   ////await queueClient.DeadLetterAsync(myQueueItem.SystemProperties.LockToken);
   await queueClient.AbandonAsync(myQueueItem.SystemProperties.LockToken);
 }

Solution 1: I tried to substitute Message myQueueItem  for BrokeredMessage like in V1, I then can call myQueueItem.Abandon, or deadletter, on the message lever. However It came back with exception:

Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Host: Exception binding parameter 'myQueueItem'. System.Private.DataContractSerialization: There was an error deserializing the object of type Microsoft.ServiceBus.Messaging.BrokeredMessage. The input source is not correctly formatted. System.Private.DataContractSerialization: The input source is not correctly formatted."

At least I can go one step further. to
solution 2. Solution 2: is to use:
 QueueClient queueClient = new QueueClient("[connectionstring]","[queueName]");
 ////await queueClient.DeadLetterAsync(myQueueItem.SystemProperties.LockToken);
 await queueClient.AbandonAsync(myQueueItem.SystemProperties.LockToken);

I can use the lock provided in the Message Object, however, when I try to send it with queueClient, It said the message gone from the queue. or no longer available.
Can anybody let me know if i am on the right track? If I am not, please kindly guide me in the right track.

A: Service Bus messages are automatically completed or abandoned by Azure Functions runtime based on the success/failure of the function call, docs:

The Functions runtime receives a message in PeekLock mode. It calls Complete on the message if the function finishes successfully, or calls Abandon if the function fails.

So, the suggested way to Abandon your message is to throw an exception from function invocation.


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The Food Lab's Soup Month: Creamy Chanterelle Mushroom Soup
Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science.
J. Kenji López-Alt
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Published: January 31, 2014 Last Updated: August 10, 2018
[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]
Editor's Note: All month, the soup's on, with over a dozen new recipes coming at you for everything from simple 15-minute meals, to updated homemade versions of the canned classics you loved as a kid, to all-dayers that are hearty enough to eat like a meal. Check out all the recipes right here, and be sure to come back—we'll be updating all month!
Creamy Chanterelle Mushroom Soup
On Monday, I showed you how to make creamy soup out of virtually any vegetable. In that article, I mentioned that my old chef, Jason Bond, showed me how to make a creamy chanterelle mushroom soup. Tasting that soup for the first time was one of the high points of my culinary education. Today, by popular request, I'm going to share with you Chef Bond's chanterelle soup technique; the recipe for Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup on crack. It's fitting that the first truly great soup I ever made is the last recipe in this month of soups. But don't worry, there will always be more recipes to come.
For the record, this exact same technique will work for virtually any mushroom. Even the mild-mannered button will turn into liquid love when you treat him like this.
And now it's time to play a game called "Have You Met Tim?"
Have you met Tim?
Tim is a chanterelle. That buddy of his lying next to him? That's Tim too. So are the two chanterelles behind the first two Tims and the ones behind them. They're all Tim. In fact, all chanterelles are named Tim. This is because every chanterelle I've ever had has met with a horrible, gruesome fate within hours or days of meeting them. Giving them all the same name keeps me from getting overly attached.*
*It's the same reason all of my goldfish and neon tetras and mollies and other tropical fish are all named Jeff the god of Biscuits. But that's another story.
Today you're going to witness one of those grisly deaths: we're going to turn Tim and his Tim-buddies into Tim-soup.
First things first: he needs a haircut. A mushroom's gotta look his best when he goes up to meet that great big Vita-Prep in the sky.
Some chanterelles are tender and clean enough to cook with very minimal trimming. Others tend to get a little woody at the bottom. To remove that woodiness, hold the chanterelle in one hand and gently scrape its side with the blade of a sharp paring knife. The sides should peel right off easily and stay connected at the very bottom, like a tiny banana.
Stay connected, that is, until you...
...scalp poor Tim.
Trim off the bottom of the chanterelle and those peels should come right off. Just like any other scalp, these ones should be collected. Place them all in a medium pot and cover them with a quart and a half of chicken stock, and bring them to a simmer while you finish prepping. This will give you an intense, mushroom-scented chicken broth to cook with later on.
Here's Tim and all his Tim-buddies, looking and feeling their best, ready to tackle the world, perhaps to chat up that sassy-looking mousseronnette over in the corner. Little do they know how short for this world they really are.
But don't let them in on the little secret yet. First, let 'em know that they look great, but they need a wee bit of a boost in the aroma department if they really want to impress the ladies. Shallots and garlic should do nicely.
As with any vegetable soup, you can use whatever aromatics you like to start your base. Regular onions and leeks are both swell, as is celery. In this case, I like the mild sweetness of shallots and garlic slowly sweated in butter. It boosts that mushroom flavor without overwhelming it, just the slightest hint of cologne to brighten Tim's naturally sweet and musky aroma.
Here's where things start to get a little frightening.
AHHHHOOOHHHHHHNOOOOOEEEEEESSSSS!!! WHHHYYYYYYY??? Scream a few dozen Tims all at once as they realize that they aren't going on a date after all, but rather are being fried in hot butter.
In point of fact, Tim makes no noise at all. He's just a mushroom. He sits there and takes every bit of punishment you have to give him.
As the chanterelles cook, they'll give off liquid, which should pool in the bottom of the pot. The goal here is to drive off and concentrate that liquid without actually giving the mushrooms or alliums any real color. We want clean, sweet, bright flavors here.
The best way to tell when your mushrooms are done sweating is to listen. When there's still liquid left in the pan, it'll make a faint simmering sound, sort of like "fwthpthfwthpthfwthpthfwthpfh."
As the liquid slowly evaporates and you're left with just fat on the bottom of the pan, it'll transition into more of a sizzling sound with the occasional POP or CRACK, like "szzszsK!szsPA!szzsKR!szzszs"
This is how you know that Tim is really, truly dead, and it's time to start covering up the evidence by converting his carcass from what looks like misshapen pieces of soggy orange pasta into something creamy, smooth, and delicious.
We start with a bit of flour.
The flour is not 100% necessary, and the large amount called for in many creamy mushroom soups can indeed overwhelm the flavor of the mushrooms, making it taste more like a mushroom sauce than anything, but a single tablespoon for a quart and a half of soup is enough to help the fat we're going to add later on emulsify properly without tasting stodgy or thick.
Next up, a splash of dry sherry or white wine. You may notice I've deviated again from my standard vegetable soup technique. You all know how important acid is to flavor, right? Sometimes—most of the time—I'll add acid at the very end of cooking, so that I get the brightest possible flavor. In this case, however, adding acid at the end gives this soup too much brightness, when really it's all about being rich and velvety.
So instead, I use wine or sherry, which adds brightness and complexity, but mellows out with some simmering.
Remember those mushroom scalps we had simmering a while back? Well now's the time to use it.
Set a strainer over the pot and strain the mushroom-scented broth through it. Isn't this extra brutal? We're pouring Tims' decapitated scalps right back over them, only to whisk them back away and dump them in the trash.
*It's kind of like Hannibal Lecter holding your amputated hand in front of you before tossing it in the trash and muttering in that Anthony Hopkins voice "I would not waste a fine bottle of chianti or fava beans on mere scraps."
So far, so simple. Time to complicate things a bit.
Ok, so not too complicated. All I've added is a couple bay leaves and some thyme sprigs and set the soup to simmer for about half an hour. At this stage, it should smell intoxicatingly delicious. I mean delicious.
Once it's simmered, we're pretty much done. You can discard the bay leaves and thyme and puree the sucker with a hand blender if you'd like, but you'll get much better results out of a real blender.
A real blender is also better for the fat emulsification stage that's so essential to giving a vegetable soup some body and mouth-coating richness.
Many cream of mushroom soups call for actual heavy cream or milk. I find that these ingredients, while they can be delicious, end up diluting the flavor of the mushrooms a bit. Rather, I like to just create what Modernist Cuisine calls a "constructed cream." That is, a smooth emulsion of fat and liquid, in this case, using actual butterfat as the fat element, and the mushroom-y broth as the liquid. With the blender running, I slowly add pats of butter, letting them get completely incorporated before adding a new one.
This was always my favorite part when I made this at the restaurant. We worked in bulk so I got to shove my hand into a big ol' bowl of butter and throw it into the blender by the fistful. I don't think I've had a literal fistful of butter since I stopped working at restaurants. This oughta change.
For the ultimate in creaminess, you should press your soup through a chinois or a regular fine-mesh strainer to catch any bits of Tim that have escaped un-pulverized by the blender. At this stage, Tim has gone from being Tims, plural, to simply One Great Tim, a homogenous stew that's greater than the sum of its Tims.
Ain't that just beautiful?
At the restaurant, we'd serve this soup with a lobster, almond, and haricots verts salad, and the waiter would take the pitcher of soup and pour it out table-side, all pretty-like. You can do the same if you want (there is something special about watching how soup flows over and around any garnishes in the bowl, giving you a sense of what you're about to taste even before it hits your lips), but rather than those fancy beans and lobster, might I suggest you go mushroom-squared by using more mushrooms as a garnish?
Here I'm simply sautéeing some chanterelle, black trumpet, and maitake mushrooms in olive oil before hitting them with a little bit of butter and some minced shallots and thyme.
The final soup tastes like rich, velvety, liquid mushrooms, which is really precisely what it is, but I have no better way to describe it. It's satisfying, creamy, and delicious. It's a fitting and bittersweet way to close the short, sweet, and blissfully tortured life of Tim.
Tim, I will never forget you. Because there are millions more just like you.
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Tunisian National GuardFIEP_France2018-06-11T09:30:18+02:00
Ministry of Interior;
Garnison: El Aouina
6th September 1956: Signature of the decree giving birth to the National Guard
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The Tunisian National Guard was created in 1956 by Taïeb Mehiri, the interior minister appointed by Habib Bourguiba, and replaces the French national gendarmerie who returns to France after Tunisia's independence. It is then headed by Tijani Ktari.
On 3 October 1956, custody became a fully independent force for the protection of territory and borders.
It serves both as a defense against external threats and as a security force against internal threats.
The National Security Guard are usually responsible for security in rural and non-urban areas.
The Tunisian National Guard occupied around 87 percent of the Tunisian Territory and 58 percent of the total population.
It has a lot of missions like:
Keeping order and public security.
Protecting people and their properties.
Protecting land and maritime borders.
Supervising the law of navigation and fishing.
Supervising road traffic.
Exercising judicial and administrative police.
Controling explosives.
Taking over criminal and investigative expertise.
Stopping crime, arresting criminals and applying judiciary investigation.
Helping with the execution of sentences and administrative procedures.
Collecting intelligence in political, economic, social and cultural fields.
The Tunisian National Guard contain 05 General Directions which are:
The General Inspection.
The General Direction Of Public Security.
The General Direction Of Public Maintain.
The General Direction Of Borders.
The General Direction Of Common interests.
It contain also 06 individual Directions which works directly with the General Director:
Direction Of Research and Investigation.
Direction Of Anti-Terrorism.
Direction Of Studies, Strategic plan and International Cooperation.
The Special Unit.
The Central Secretariat.
The Central Operations Room.
Missions of each General Direction:
GENERAL INSPECTORATE:
Taking over administrative investigation.
Controling financial management.
Handling and running inspections over all units.
Observing and analysing central and regional inspections.
GENERAL DIRECTION OF COMMON INTEREST:
Managing recruitment exams for officers and non-commissioned officers.
Managing basic and continuous training.
Managing human ressources.
Providing social and cultural care for the personnel of the National Guard.
Managing the budget of the National Guard.
Observing the management of equipment and infrastructure.
GENERAL DIRECTION OF PUBLIC SECURITY:
Providing public security and preventing crime.
Dealing with judiciary and administrative police.
Providing tourists security.
Observing and enforcing traffic laws.
There are 21 districts, and 52 regional sectors:
GENERAL DIRECTION OF BORDERS:
Providing the necessary plans for the security of frontiers and maritime borders.
Coordinating all kinds of intervention among frontiers and maritime borders stakeholders.
Preserving maritime wealth.
Fighting pollution.
Protecting frontiers and maritime borders.
Fighting border crossing and smuggling.
Enforcing laws related to fishing, hunting and navigation.
Participating in Search and rescue operations and protecting environment.
Providing logistics for terrestrial and maritime frontiers.
GENERAL DIRECTION OF INTERVENTION:
Keeping public order.
Providing support for other units to enforce general order.
Protecting vital national installations.
Fighting terrorism.
Participating in planes and ships protection.
Bilateral cooperation:
Algeria, China, Turkey, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Qatar, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, United States, Spain, Saudi Arabia.
Multilateral cooperation:
THE NATIONAL GUARD EMBLEMS:
The emblem of the Tunisian National Guard that you can find in it our symbol: Redemption for the Homeland.
The General Command in The Headquarter Of The Tunisian National Guard
General Direction of Order Maintain
General Direction of Public Security
Direction of Training
General Direction of Borders
Direction of Special Units
Direction of Armored Units
Direction of Aviation Brigade
Direction of Road Guard
Mutual of National Guard Staff
THE MAIN ACTIVITIES OF NATIONAL GUARD FROM ITS BEGINING
« This is due to the fact that the vast majority of the National Guard were not the new era of struggle and steadfastness and compliance, but they were those who fought fighting and were known to sacrifice and self-denial because they were in the line of popular resistance that was selected from the heart of the people in the circumstances of the national struggle.»
National Guard Homecoming in all adversities.
The leader HABIB BOURGUIBA Ramada – August 1962
The last bastion of French gendarmerie occupied by the National Guard in the house of BourguibaAmong the strongholds abandoned by the French occupation army in the state of Bizerte is the center of the house of Bourguiba, in which the patriots tasted during the liberation struggle the colors of torture, injustice and exhaustion.The men of the National Guard have a historical relationship – historians will not forget – in this stronghold, as it is a bitter struggle and a link of jihad in order to rid the country of the grip of the angry colonizer. This relationship is what happened to the person who was then commander of Mahjoub bin Ali in this stronghold of the abuse of the gendarmerie agents in the black days and then in the drop of their grip on one of the nights created by destiny and God wanted to have an impact in the course of the national struggle in the north-east and the mountains to be A gang faces the injustice of gendarmerie and the occupation army.
On March 20, the day of the National Independence Day at 9 am, the Bourguiba Center was inaugurated by the National Guard Commander and the Governor of Bizerte, Nasser Ben Jaafar, the last center in the Tunisian Republic occupied by the National Guard.
National Guard wire is an armed civilian preventive and repressive force with regard to the land borders and by maintaining public order and to protect the security of individuals and property in general.Protection of land and sea borders, traffic and road and road safety, monitoring ,public security ,the examination of crimes and research in their circumstances ,conducting judicial research as required by legal procedures and to do all the tasks required by these tasks of art within the scope of criminal tests and security investigations ,assist in the implementation of judicial decisions and administrative arrangements and to inquire about all aspects of economic, social and cultural life and tourism security by monitoring explosive and dangerous materials and mobilization, recruitment and intervention with the first and second incremental level in the entire territory of the Republic.
The Tunisian National Guard after the independence
We can watch here the first patrols managed by the Tunisian National Guard using camel to protect
the borders and to maintain order in all the territory.
Competent all over the national territory, in towns as well as in the countryside. It cover 85% of the territory and more than 55% of the Citizen.
Missions:
– Judicial missions: The Tunisian National Guard putting in place highly skilled professionals in terms of criminal investigation, and developing its capacity in terms of forensics. We are concentrated on finding information, the modern means of data processing, the training of personnel in judicial matters and in the investigation techniques.
– Administrative missions: It is based on the surveillance of the areas where the Gendarmerie is in charge of public security, particularly through contacts with the population and to learn officers and sub-officers how to conduct to protect the properties andto be near to people to know more there problems and to help them in a better condition (comunity policing).
– Military missions: It consists on the big work that the Tunisian National Guard do with the millitary units
to protect the borders by doing daily patrols and ambushes to protect the territory from terrorism and
the organized crimes.
The Tunisian National Guard officers contribute also in peacekeeping missions
especially in Africa (Mali,Central Africa,Darfur,Congo..).
Territorial National Guard: It first responsability is to keep order in all the territory and the conbtibution to the general public security.
It contains:
Territorial unit: It is divised into regions, companies and brigades.
The Region:
It is an intermediate between the general command and the territorial units.
We find under each region between 02 and 04 companies and units from the maritime national guard.
The region commander is the representative of the general commander in his region, he command all the operations in his region with the immediate coordination with the general commander.
He collaborates with the judicial, administrative and military authorities in the region.
In addition to his staff the region commander has:
-brigade of municipal national guard,
-brigade of intervention Anti-terrorism,
-brigade of Transfer of detainees,
-brigade of Transfer of explosive.
It depend directly to the regional commander,and contain number of brigades commanded by officers.
The commander of the company works in the field and supervise the work between the brigades and command also weekly a security compaign.
We can find in each company between 04 and 05 brigade.
The brigade:
It is a unit composed of posts commanded by an officer who supervise thge work of each post.
We can find in each company between 04 and 05 brigade like :
-brigade of public security.
-brigade of investigation.
-brigade of road safety.
-brigade of public road…
The Mobile National Guard:
It is located in major cities and it is composed of squadrons and platoons.
The main mission is:
-Keeping public order.
-Providing support for other units to enforce general order.
-Protecting vital national installations.
-Fighting terrorism.
-Participating in planes and ships protection.
The Air National Guard Unit:
It secure the land and maritime borders in coordination with borders brigade and units and intervent in the public security road and address the crises.
They exercise all the attributions assigned to them by the laws and regulations.
The Special unit of the National Guard:
Is an elite force of the National Guard of Tunisia, specialized in the implementation of special operations such as the resistance of terrorism and the release of hostages in addition to the monitoring and raid behind enemy lines.
The competent unit of the General Administration of the National Guard shall follow the core of the National Guard's special units. The Unit shall carry out the tasks entrusted to it by the governmental authorities of the Ministry of the Interior. In addition to its functions, especially in recent years, the unit is involved in the implementation of plans and strategies to combat and suppress terrorism within the national territory. In addition, the Unit is involved in several training missions outside the country, in cooperation with the Delta Force and special forces from European countries.
Signed in 1980 by the Tunisian leadership during the era of Habib Bourguiba under the supervision of American experts in the scope of Tunisian-American cooperation, especially the US Global Program to Combat Terrorism in the world. After the meeting of the parties (the American and Tunisian), which consists of leaders of the security services of the National Security and National Guard and after several discussions and issues, the US team decided to assign the General Directorate of the National Guard of this unit, which entered the advanced training and difficult to require high fitness and intellectual presence superior to carry out special tasks Tough and high-risk.
The National Guard Unit was called in 1985 by the EKO Cobra Einsatzkommando-Cobra to participate in international matches in several international teams. Following the matches, the competent unit met and left a remarkable impact on the success of the most powerful international teams such as ECO COBRA GSG9, GIGN, DELTA FORCE and other teams and ranked fourth in these matches.It also ranked the first specialized unit in the Arab, African and sixth world after the United States, Russia, Britain, France in international matches in Austria.
In 1986, after a meeting between the leaders of the Tunisian Ministry of the Interior represented by the Minister of the Interior and the leadership of the General Directorate of the National Guard and ordered this division in that period, which was called 'Talai' (USGN unit) today, and on the other the US military commander rank of the General Commander of the General Supervisor and Executive Director (Treaty and Agreement on the Formation of a Special Anti-Terrorism Task Force), which was evaluated by the American side and decided five years later to include them in the internationally recognized special forces. The unit has also been repeatedly assigned by US and European military experts as one of the world's most valuable units.
In 1985, a team of elite national guard unit was sent to the city of Ain Dharam in northwestern Tunisia to supervise the formation of the first joint session. Of national security, which now claims to be the Anti-Terrorist Task Force (BAT).
The land borders units:
The Tunisian national guard is the first responsable of the protection of the borders in coordination with the millitary units and the main responsability is :
-Providing the necessary plans for the security of frontiers borders.
-Coordinating all kinds of intervention among frontiers borders stakeholders.
-Protecting frontiers borders.
-Fighting border crossing and smuggling.
-Enforcing laws releted hunting and navigation.
-Providing logistics for terrestrial and maritime frontiers.
We can note also that the land borders units have a bi grole in prevention against terrorism and the organized crime and were able to fight this kind of crimes and arrest and destroy a lot of terrorists after the revolution who wanted to across borders and do terrorist attacks.
The maritime borders units:
The tunisian national guard is also the first responsable of protecting the maritime borders and the main responsability is :
-Providing the necessary plans for the security of maritime borders .
-Coordinating all kinds of intervention among maritime borders stakeholders.
-Preserving maritime wealth.
-Fighting pollution.
-Protecting maritime borders.
-Enforcing laws releted to fishing and navigation.
-Participating in Search and rescue operations and protecting environment.
-Providing logistics for maritime frontiers.
Sport Activities:
Sport is very important in the National Guard Force, not only because it is synonymous with military life, but also because it plays an important role in the fitness, culture and spirit of sacrifice associated with its members.
The Tunisian National Guard members participates in national sporting competitions with top quality athletes.
Recruitment and training:
In search for reaching the highest level of professionalism and recognition, the best training courses in cooperation with a lot of foreign countries are given in the training ideology of Tunisian National Guard Forces.
During their career, officers and sub-officers get both career courses, and specialist training to meet the (operational) requirements for the next function.


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(LEAD) Top diplomats of S. Korea, Japan, U.S. agree to seek action against N.K.
All News 16:47 September 09, 2016
(ATTN: RECASTS headline, lead; ADDS info on telephone talks with John Kerry throughout)
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Yonhap) -- Top diplomats of South Korea, Japan and the United States agreed on Friday to push for "additional" and "strong" measures against North Korea's latest nuclear test, suggesting that there will be more punitive action against the communist country's defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons.
A magnitude 5 earthquake was detected at the North Korea's nuclear test site in its northeastern region at around 9:30 a.m. The North later confirmed that it has successfully conducted a nuclear detonation test.
South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se and his Japanese counterpart, Fumio Kishida, held talks via phone for about 20 minutes and exchanged their views and countermeasures in response to the North's fifth nuclear test, according to the foreign ministry.
Yun, currently in Laos accompanying President Park Geun-hye on the last leg of her three-country visit, and Kishida strongly condemned the nuclear provocation and promised to closely cooperate along with the United States in draw up "swift" measures from the United Nations Security Council.
In a separate telephone conversation, Yun and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shared their concerns and agreed on the need for "strong" measures in accordance with the gravity of the issue, the ministry said.
They agreed to closely work together with the international community in a way that would produce tough UNSC resolutions and other additional sanctions that they expect would fill up any "loopholes" in previous measures and make the North feel the additional pinch.
The two sides also vowed to induce cooperation from China and Russia in putting pressure on the North, while reaffirming the strong alliance between Seoul and Washington. They said that they remain "on the same page" when it comes to their stance on Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, according to the ministry.
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What a neat bag! Did I just use the word "neat" - yes, yes I did! I'm constantly swearing at my printer. I have "low mechanical frustration tolerance." At least that's what I call it.
FutureLint: You said "neat" because that's just what it is. :o) Wow, what a neat bag!!!! And let us not forget the beautiful dress, made cool by the leather jacket.
HAHAHA! I have technology rage too, it is really bad... especially at work because I EXPECT my computer to work so I can do my job!
lies! that is a flask and it contains vodka!
I have a little silver bag that opens that exact same way! I love it - it's always fun to show people.
Stunning! I love your dress - it looks like 20's wedding gown and the lether jacket fits so well. Love it!
Very tastefully chosen peaces! The dress is gorgeus and I love the leather jacket.. fits perfect! The shoes are wonderful..
My wife and I shop Ottawa St. frequently, and you have a pretty blue dress displayed in your window.
Could you let me know the sizing and cost? I looked in on the weekend, but the tag was facing the other way.
Thanks - and great to see an entrepreneur thriving.
Hi Mitch! Thanks for the compliment! There were two blue dresses in the window this weekend at various times. There was a one shoulder blue and teal one from the 50's that is probably a 4/6 and is $100. And the other one was a blue and red cotton dress from the 70's that is about the same size and is $38 I believe? I can check further measurements if you wish when I get in the shop ok Wednesday:) take care!


Well, the one I got was $150.
So, if you look on the DealersDen, Furbuy, Furbid, or any other ones out there, it may not be too hard to find one cheap, if you want one to start with.
I tend to prefer the more realistic style myself. here is a pic of the WIP. not airbrushed and no eyes installed yet but she is getting there!
http://born-imperfect.deviantart.com/#/d3blzia Born-Imperfect is making it! she is pretty cheap and very talented, she is just starting out too so im realy impressed. the whole partial (head, tail and shoulder length arm-sleaves, no foot paws yet) only costed 375$ and my character has a mohawk and a realy complicated design.
I don't have a fursuit, but I might get one some time. I've never really cared much for costumes though. I have a question for someone who owns one though. Does it get really hot in them? Because it seems like it would to me.
They do, I wore mine outside during the winter and I still got really hot. Summer is the worst dude. I wore it alot the first summer After I made it and jeez, I felt like I was going to die sometimes.
5 minutes. It took me 5 minutes when I first got my head on, to feel like I was dying.
I'm planning on getting a body suit, considering that my actual fursona doesn't have any fur to begin with and just slick skin.
And then a regular mask sort of thing---but nothing furry, probably resin or plastic.
Do you think that would solve the heat problem?
Well, at the very beginning of the year, I got the oppertunity to try on a fursuit head. It was actually nice inside of it.
The thing is, his head was ventilated. it had a lot of air flow going through it, which kept it much cooler.
So, if you want to cut the heat, get something ventilated. If you are commissioning someone, it may cost a little more, but you can ask them to make the head larger, as to accomidate a small internal fan to circulate the air.
THe night I got my suit, I went outside with a group of people, and it felt nice. It was about 28F outside, and the only part of me that was cold was my body, which was only covered by a shitr. They would make decent winterwear, if you would want to use one for that.
I still don't have a fursuit, but I still want to at least try one someday.
2. Drink lots of water, try to get one of those long staws so that you can put it in through the mouth and drink.
3. Some heads can fit little fans inside, so that helps too.
4. It's a matter of getting used to, it does seem wickedly hot and breathable at first, but after spending plenty of time inside of it your body does get used to it.
5. Just don't push yourself!
2. In college (I don't want to outgrow my suit, and think I'll be somewhat of a normal height in college, that's why).
Luke, are you looking for a fullsuit or a partial?
Full suits you do have to mind height, although for a partial, it is not as big a concern.
I don't have a fursona and I still think fursuits are about the creepiest things on earth - big, dumpy, awkward and laughable cartoon mascot costumes is all they are - so no. No fursuits for me.
Though, I think some look pretty cool and are rather amusing, I would never buy one. Simply because I wouldn't really want to draw attention to myself, I don't think they're ultimately worth the amount they cost and I have very poor sewing skills so I could not make one, myself.
Some are a little creepy, but you have to admit, the work put into those to make them look somewhat realistic is impressive.
I don't think they're ultimately worth the amount they cost.
The reason I have my current one is to get used to how a suit feels, and to maybe do some entertainment. I know of a few other people who use their suits for entertainment as well, some for volunteering, and I've heard of some people using their suits for their jobs. So, it depends on what you plan to use your suit for, as to if you are willing to spend money on one. But I still see the point you are making.
Not toon things. That's what Five is talking about--giant mascot suits- not realistic suits.
CC is the forerunner of realistic suits. Hers are not ungainly or awkward.
But graceful, animalistic, and cool.


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The Rocks District is Oregon's second-smallest viticultural area. The smallest is Ribbon Ridge near Newberg with 3,350 acres. Fewer than 250 acres of wine grapes are planted in The Rocks District.
The Rocks District is considered one of the most unusual and distinctive grape-growing regions in the Pacific Northwest.
Its primary feature is an alluvial fan formed by the Walla Walla River at the end of the last ice age, about 15,000 years ago. The result is miles of cobblestone that, as it turns out, are perfect for growing wine grapes.
The Rocks District has long been used for agriculture, particularly orchards. In April 1996, French native Christophe Baron came through Walla Walla to visit a friend. He'd planned to move to the Willamette Valley to make wine there but was staying with his buddy Scott Byerley.
Châteauneuf-du-Pape is a region in France's southern Rhône Valley whose red wines are made with such grapes as Syrah, Grenache and Mourvèdre. And it's famous for cobblestones that cover the ground.
Byerley told Baron he knew of a place that looked like Châteauneuf-du-Pape, so they drove south toward Milton-Freewater.
"This is where I first met the stones," Baron said.
He quickly understood the opportunity before him and bought the land. By March 1997, he began planting Syrah between the grapefruit-sized cobbles. This was the first commercial vineyard in the area for at least 40 years.
Baron launched Cayuse Vineyards, and his wines have become some of the Northwest's highest-scoring wines with such publications as Wine Spectator and Wine Advocate.
Since then, other winemakers have bought land and planted vineyards in The Rocks District, including Rich Funk, owner of Saviah Cellars south of Walla Walla. In 2006, he bought land, planting 10 acres of Syrah and Cabernet Sauvignon. Funk uses grapes from throughout the 11-million-acre Columbia Valley, and he said grapes from The Rocks District are distinctive.
Also intrigued by The Rocks District was Kevin Pogue, a geology professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla and expert in how soil can affect grape growing. He joined with several winemakers and grape growers who wanted to petition the federal government to form The Rocks District.
During the process of his research, Pogue found Cinsault grapes growing wild in fields that were abandoned in the '30s. He also found that nearly all of the new AVA has the same soil type.
"I don't know of any other AVA that has 97 percent of the soils in one soil series," he said.
He said the nation's smallest AVA — Cole Ranch in California's Mendocino County — is just 175 acres in size, yet it has eight distinctive soil types.