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Sexton's last-gasp drop goal against France voted most memorable Irish sporting moment of 2018
WHAT WAS YOUR most memorable Irish sporting moment from the past year?
In one annual survey, Johnny Sexton's winning drop goal in the Six Nations clash against France in February has come out on top.
Johnny Sexton kicks the winning drop goal in Paris.
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The score received 31% of the vote in the annual Teneo Sports' Sponsorship Index.
The women's hockey team's win on penalties against Spain in the World Cup semi-final is second on 21%, followed by Conor McGregor tapping out to Khabib Nurmagomedov on 15% and Jacob Stockdale's try against New Zealand on 13%.
Ireland celebrate winning the semi-final shoot out.
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The greatest Irish sporting achievement was voted as Ireland's win over the All Blacks (40%), Ireland's Grand Slam victory (15%), Ireland's second place finish at the Women's Hockey World Cup (7%), Limerick's All-Ireland hurling win (5%) and Katie Taylor retaining her WBA lightweight world title (5%).
Katie Taylor celebrates her latest victory.
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Declan Hannon and manager John Kiely celebrate with the Liam MacCarthy.
Gaelic Games surpassed soccer as Ireland's favourite sport with 21% of the vote, Katie Taylor retained her place as Ireland's most admired sports star after claiming 19% of the votes and the Rugby World Cup (26%) is the sports event most people are looking forward to in 2019.
The Ireland men's rugby side (43%) beat the Ireland hockey women's team (17%) to the title of the team of the year.
Ireland defeated New Zealand in November.
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"2018 really was a remarkable year for Irish sport," stated Kelli O'Keeffe, MD of Teneo Sports.
"We've seen everything from a rugby Grand Slam, to world championship golds in boxing and rowing, to success on the athletics track and a World Cup final appearance by an Irish team. There was undoubtedly an abundance of highlights to get the Irish public talking at international level.
"This was the same at national level where we've seen a four-in-a-row for Jim Gavin's Dubs, a breakthrough win for Limerick, a record-breaking crowd for the Dublin ladies success, Cork dominating camogie and a double by Dundalk.
"As may have been expected, rugby and hockey figure prominently throughout the results of this, the ninth Teneo Sport and Sponsorship Index. Joe Schmidt's team and Graham Shaw's side certainly captured the imagination with their outstanding performances.
"To see a team who reached a World Cup final not getting the nod as Team of the Year just shows the impact rugby had on the public consciousness throughout 2018.
"It should also be borne in mind that the research was carried out in the immediate aftermath of the November internationals so the win against the All Blacks would have been very fresh in people's minds.
"The excitement generated by a revamped hurling championship will certainly also have boosted the popularity of Gaelic Games in 2018 and people are really looking forward to the All-Ireland Championships next year. Not surprisingly though, given the successes enjoyed by our rugby team this year we're excited to see what they can achieve in Japan.
"The impact of women in sport throughout 2018 is also clearly visible in the findings. Katie Taylor's popularity endures but now there is a much broader representation of female sport in the findings and that reflects what we are seeing in terms of coverage and interest.
"The findings always cause plenty of debate and that's the beauty of sport! The TSSI provides a snapshot of the general public's views on the sporting year that was and the sporting year to come. Let's hope 2019 can be every bit if not even more successful for Irish sport."
Source: Teneo
The Teneo Sports' Sponsorship Index is a nationally representative sample of 1,000 adults carried out between 30 November and 7 December.
Here are some of the key findings (top 5 only):
What is your team of the year?
Ireland rugby (men) 43%
Ireland hockey (women) 17%
Limerick hurlers 8%
Dublin footballers 6%
Dundalk FC 5%
Ireland rowing 5%
Which of the following sports stars do you most admire?
Katie Taylor 19%
Johnny Sexton 11%
O'Donovan brothers 10%
Peter O'Mahony 6%
Conor Murray 4%
What was the most memorable Irish sporting moment of 2018?
Johnny Sexton's drop goal vs France 31%
Women's hockey penalty shoot-out vs Spain 21%
Conor McGregor tapping out vs Nurmagomedov 15%
Jacob Stockdale's try vs New Zealand 13%
Nickie Quaid's save for Limerick vs Cork 6%
What was the greatest Irish sporting achievement of 2018?
Ireland's win vs All Blacks 40%
Ireland winning the Grand Slam 15%
Ireland hockey winning silver at World Cup 7%
Limerick's All-Ireland hurling victory 5%
Katie Taylor retaining WBA lightweight world title 5%
What are you most looking forward to in 2019?
Rugby World Cup 26%
All-Ireland senior inter-county championships 19%
Six Nations 11%
Euro 2020 Qualifiers 10%
UEFA Champions League 7%
What is your favourite sport?
Gaelic Games 21%
Soccer 19%
Rugby 14%
Golf 3%
Athletics 3%
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Winning the golden ticket allowed for me to meet both of my ICRE goals within the first 10 minutes of my arrival to the conference. It was a personal, casual, and meaningful way for me to get to know these two doctors. It made the meeting and encounter not awkward at all, we were all just a couple of surgeons coming into town to talk about how great teaching is and how much better it can become. This casual conversation was interrupted by the plenary, and continued throughout the weekend at lectures, dinner, and the occasional hotel bar.
Winning the golden ticket provided me with a wonderful chance to meet some heroes of medical education. It also made me realize that most people in the medical education community are like me: approachable, passionate, friendly, and looking to hear from new educators/learners. My advice is to tweet your #ICRE2018Goals and make some new medical education friends. Some of the friendships you make at ICRE can span the globe and last a lifetime. I would have to say I interact with Simon through twitter more than some of my co-residents at other hospitals on a daily basis. If you don't win a golden ticket but want to meet some new people, I will be following #ICRE2018Goals and #ICRE2018MeetUp if you want to meet me (@ColmJMcCarthy) and some like-minded people.


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Eleazar b. David Flekeles či Eleasar b. David Fleckeles (též El'azar, Elieser b. David Fleckeles, hebrejsky , 26. srpna 1754, Praha - 27. dubna 1826 tamtéž) byl pražský rabín, významný kazatel, roš ješiva a talmudista.

Život
Fleckeles byl žákem pražského rabína a poseka Ezechiela Landaua, kterého uznával jako celoživotního mistra. V roce 1779 byl jmenován rabínem v moravském Kojetíně a později v Tovačově a v roce 1783 se stal členem Landauem založeného bejt din.  Jako rabín v Praze na sebe později upozornil svými kázáními. Vedl intenzivní boj proti frankistům a v průběhu let se těšil velkému renomé rabína a židovského vůdce.

Jako významný představitel ortodoxního židovství vedl kampaň proti Mojžíši Mendelssohnovi, Hartwigu Wesselymu a haskale. Byl odpůrcem jakékoli reformy tradičního židovského učení a osvícenských myšlenek.  Kritizoval "nové svobody", které přinášely nové hříchy, jako je zanedbání studia tóry ve prospěch jiných věd.

Jeho literární tvorba v oblasti židovského bádání byla vynikající, za což si zaslouží zvláštní zmínku jeho sbírky respons a kázání, která byla vydána v několika svazcích.

Reference

Literatura
 Jacob Katz: The Suggested Relationship between Sabbatianism, Haskalah, and Reform, in: Ders.: Divine Law in Human Hands. Case Studies in Halakhic Flexibility, Jerusalem 1998, s. 504–530.
 David Kaufmann: Der Stammbaum des R. Eleasar Fleckeles, eine Ahnenprobe Moritz Hartmanns, in: Monatsschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums 37 (1893), s. 378–392. (Einzeldruck  bei Schottländer, Breslau 1893.)
 Salomon Hugo Lieben: Rabbi Eleasar Fleckeles, in: Jahrbuch der Jüdisch-Literarischen Gesellschaft 10 (1912), s. 1–33.

Externí odkazy

 Solomon Schechter, N. T. London: FLECKELES, ELEAZAR BEN DAVID. In: Isidore Singer (nakl.): Jewish Encyclopedia. Funk and Wagnalls, New York 1901–1906.
 Michael K. Silber: Fleckeles, El'azar ben David, in: YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, 27. října 2010.

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Kate Garraway husband health latest: Presenter's spouse 'unresponsive' with coronavirus
Kate Garraway is an English broadcaster appearing on ITV's Good Morning Britain and appeared in I'm A Celebrity Get Me Outta Here! last year. Kate has been enduring a harrowing time of late as it has been reported her husband, Derek Draper is still struggling with COVID-19 and remains unresponsive. What are the symptoms to spot?
Coronavirus symptoms: Warning signs in the eyes to look out for
Kate's husband of over a decade has been in intensive care for quite some time now after falling ill with coronavirus.
Derek was put into an induced coma and reportedly remains unresponsive after his month-long battle with the deadly virus.
Kate continues to speak with him every night as he continues to fight the COVID-19 infection.
Derek was taken to hospital over a month ago after displaying symptoms of COVID-19.
As the COVID-19 pandemic surges on, doctors, health experts and scientists are learning more about some of the lesser known and odd symptoms being reported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has expanded its list of possible symptoms of coronavirus, a step which signifies how the deadly virus has such a broad variation and unpredictability in the way it can affect individual patients.
The health agency changed details on its website to cite new symptoms.
As most know, the common symptoms of COVID-19 include a new, persistent cough, shortness of breath and a fever.
However, other warning symptoms have included loss of taste and smell, burning or tingling on the skin, a buzzing or fizzing feeling in the body, nose congestion, diarrhoea and vomiting.
Director of epidemiology education at Indiana University said: "Eventually, if all goes well, your immune system will completely destroy all of the virus in your system.
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"A person who is infected with and survived a virus with no long-term health effects or disabilities have recovered.
"Still, many uncertainties remain. It's not clear how many people have recovered, how the illness will affect them in the long run or how long they'll be immune."
Kate had previously applauded the work of the NHS saying: "The NHS team who have been working on him have all been extraordinary.
"I know that it's only their professionalism, dedication and bravery that has kept Derek with us so far.
"I also know that they are working just as hard on all the patients in their care.
"It's hard to find the right words because thank you alone just doesn't seem enough, but I do thank them with all my heart, as I know Derek would also if he could."
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Q: MacBooks are destroying SSDs I'm opening this topic to find the cause of our SSD failure rate of +50%. We work with Mac (13" Macbook Pro & 13" Macbook Air), with installations of both Mac OSX Mountain Lion and Ubuntu. 90% of the users develop websites, the others do basic office work.
For now I tried the following brands:

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*OWC Mercury 6G: destroyed 5

*OWC Aura Pro: destroyed 3

*Intel 500: destroyed 2

*Standard Apple SSD (sm256c): destroyed 2

All of this in less than one year!
The symptoms of a failing SSD are always more or less the same:

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*Extremely low read/write speeds (10MB/sec sequential)

*Amnesia (chmod a directory, 5 minutes later the permissions are restored)

*Lost files (/etc/hosts was gone)

*Random crashes/hangs of software

From this I can conclude that the brand doesn't matter, enabling trim also doesn't make a difference. I also recommended leaving at least 30GB disk space free -> no difference.
What else could be the problem? We do run Mysql and Postgres databases on the machines, but I can't believe we're the only one having this problem. Is there some way we can track down what is causing our SSD's to fail?
Edit: So I think we all agree this isn't a normal behaviour. Do you know some OSX Applications which can monitor disk writes per application/process? I found some for Linux, but the majority of my users with this problem work on Mac OSX 10.8. Htop for example doesn't show me disk reads/writes in OSX, even under root.

A: I have not seen such high numbers or SSD failure rates on MacBooks in my organizations...
Things to consider:

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*Typically the SSD failures will be a result of wear out from write activity. Check to see if there are any processes/programs common to the laptops that may cause more wear than normal.

*Use a tool like SMARTReporter to track S.M.A.R.T. diagnostics and indicators on the drives.

*Ubuntu probably isn't the best OS to run natively on a MacBook. What do you do about firmware and platform updates?

*OWC stands behind their products and have extremely long warranties on their SSDs. You should be in touch with their support to understand why the devices are failing. They may be able to give you more information than we can.

*Please don't fill these drives up. I try to keep things below 70% utilization. Spec larger drives if you must.

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For monitoring system and I/O activity, Apple's Process Monitor or something like gkrellm will help record read/write activity. It should be clear which processes become resource hogs.

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An Irishman's Diary on a prophetic play by Terence MacSwiney
Centenary of publication of 'The Revolutionist'
Brian Maye
Terence MacSwiney wrote five plays in all and the fifth, The Revolutionist, was published 100 years ago this year. Historian Patrick Maume has described it as "an important statement of MacSwiney's philosophy of self-sacrifice".
Terence MacSwiney is probably still remembered today for the way his 74-day hunger strike in Brixton Prison in 1920 drew world attention to the independence struggle going on in Ireland at the time but he would be less well remembered as a poet and playwright. He helped to set up the Celtic Literary Society in Cork in 1901 and seven years later co-founded the Cork Dramatic Society with Daniel Corkery; they hoped that the society would become Cork's version of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin.
He wrote five plays in all and the fifth, The Revolutionist, was published 100 years ago this year. Historian Patrick Maume has described it as "an important statement of MacSwiney's philosophy of self-sacrifice".
The play's main character, Hugh O'Neill (a name that resonates in Irish history), wants to rescue the Irish people from the secret political societies that are widespread in the country as home rule is about to be brought in. He will not align himself with his revolutionary colleagues, who support the secret societies, because he believes they must keep "the fight straight and consistent". He fears that secrecy will be divisive and stop the people working together against the English.
Throughout the play, Hugh strives to find a way to reconcile the growing divisions among the people and he comes to the conclusion that his sacrificing of himself may be the best means of uniting them. He takes Robert Emmet as his model and, with Emmet's famous speech from the dock in mind, asserts: "Emmet's last words move us more than any possible oration he might have delivered as first president of the Irish Republic."
Hugh believes that other men can emulate Emmet and he gives his own life in the service of his country. MacSwiney's message is that the hero who sacrifices himself can unite a people and galvanise the country into action.
A year after the play was written, the old Fenian O'Donovan Rossa died and his body was brought back to Ireland and buried in Glasnevin Cemetery, with Patrick Pearse delivering his famous graveside oration. MacSwiney wrote a memorial pamphlet in which he portrayed Rossa as the ideal of the Irish hero. He referred to seeing him doing his "Easter duty" in Cork cathedral as an old man, "and the picture I have in mind of him . . . makes for me a perfect picture of the consistent life".
MacSwiney quoted Rossa's forthright defence of himself against treason at his English trial, "I believe in God, but I defy the devil", and commented: "If we all have as pure a faith as Rossa's and act up to it with as fine a constancy, Ireland shall have no need to despair." Here he was presenting the Irish people with the means of saving the nation – similarly to how he had presented the character of Hugh in The Revolutionist.
But he was not content simply to provide the people of Ireland with literary or historical prototypes, and during the War of Independence, he took on and lived the heroic role he had prescribed for Hugh and assigned to Rossa. While lord mayor of cork and commandant of the First Cork Brigade of the Irish Volunteers, he was arrested by the British and sent to Brixton Prison. After a long and highly publicised hunger strike, he died there on October 25th, 1920.
The press often used theatrical metaphors to portray his long ordeal, conveying the idea that it was a role anyone could perform if they possessed the inner strength to do so. Under the headline, "Patriot of Plain Men", the Irish Independent wrote that "it is in all of us to become a MacSwiney, dare we but put away as he did all self-seeking and insincerity".
That is exactly the message MacSwiney himself wished to convey, as is clear from his own oft-quoted assertion: "It is not those who can inflict the most but those that can suffer the most who will conquer."
After his death, WB Yeats decided to put The Revolutionist on in the Abbey Theatre (it was the play's first performance). He predicted the play's final scenes "would greatly move the audience who will see the Mayor in the play's hero". It was a huge success.
MacSwiney greatly influenced Indian nationalists, such as Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
He also influenced Ho Chi Minh, who was working in London at the time of MacSwiney's death. He declared: "A nation that has such citizens will never surrender."
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The prospects of the eurozone's nascent economic recovery were boosted on Monday (18 November) after figures revealed that the bloc's trade surplus in 2013 was on course to double 2012.
According to data published by EU statistics agency Eurostat, the eurozone recorded a trade surplus of €109.6 billion with the rest of the world in the first nine months of 2013, up from €50.2 billion last year.
The eurozone's surplus with the United States remained almost unchanged at €47.6 billion, while its balance with Japan has shifted from a €4.2 billion deficit in 2012 to a €500 million surplus. China and Russia are the only major economies from whom the eurozone imports more than it sells.
Germany and the Netherlands were the strongest performers racking up surpluses of €127.8 billion and €36 billion, respectively, although both countries saw their export levels fall by 1 percent and 2 percent respectively.
The statistics come just days after the European Commission warned Germany that it would investigate whether its trade surplus, which is worth around 7 percent of GDP, was hurting other eurozone economies.
Meanwhile, embattled France, which has been repeatedly warned by the European Commission to take further steps to liberalise its labour market, saw a 2 percent fall in its export levels and a trade deficit of €50.1 billion.
Outside the eurozone-17, the UK has run the largest deficit at €44.5 billion so far in 2013.
However, the eurozone's crisis-countries are among the strongest performers, suggesting that their economies are rebalancing.
The figures will offer comfort to EU officials whose austerity programmes have focused on the bloc's southern periphery economies becoming more export oriented and reducing domestic consumption.
Spain, which will exit its €41 billion bank rescue package in January, has the fastest growing exports sector in the EU, with total exports valued at €157.9 billion, up on €150.5 billion in 2012.
At the same time, the country's imports have fallen from €174.5 billion to €166.9 billion, meaning that Spain is likely to export more than it consumes in 2014 for the first time since the 1970s.
Greece, Portugal and Cyprus are also among the handful of other European economies to see rising exports combined with falling imports.
But Italy bucks the trend, with its €19.3 billion surplus almost entirely the result of a 7 percent cut in consumption.
However, all four southern countries continue to experience high levels of unemployment.
French finance minister Christine Lagarde has traded barbs with her German counterparts over Berlin's export-driven economic model and its potentially negative effects on the eurozone's troubled south.
A World Trade Organisation report published on Wednesday repeats an earlier forecast of a 10 percent fall in world trade levels this year, while the quicker economic recovery expected in Asia is likely to see China overtake Germany as the world's largest exporter.
The surprise world trade deal agreed over the weekend in Bali is expected to be a boost for strong exporting EU nations like Germany and Britain.
The past year was better than 2012, at least as far as the eurozone economy is concerned, but not much better.


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The past week has again seen geopolotical issues dominate with renewed trade worries out of the US, the cancellation and then possible resurrection of the North Korean summit, rising angst around the formation of a populist government in Italy and political uncertainty in Spain. US shares managed a 0.3% gain, but Eurozone shares fell 1.3%, Japanese shares fell 2.1%, Chinese shares lost 2.2% and Australian shares fell 0.9%. Bond yields continued to blow out in Italy but declined elsewhere helped by safe haven demand. Commodity prices were mixed with gold & metals up but iron ore down and oil down as Saudi Arabia said OPEC and Russia will likely raise oil production. The $A managed a small rise despite a further rise in the $US.
Turn down the noise on Trump. There is no denying that Trump's comments add to market volatility and the risks around Trump are greater this year than last (with tax reform and deregulation behind us, the mid-terms approaching and the Mueller inquiry getting closer to Trump). However, much of what he says is just open mouth thought bubbles, bluster and posturing. Yes, he should be taken seriously, but not literally. For investors its best to focus on the investment fundamentals around growth, profits, interest rates, etc, and to turn down the noise on Trump.
Back to the Eurozone crisis? Investors are right to worry about a populist Government in Italy – its proposed fiscal policies will blow the Italian budget deficit through the EU limit of 3% of GDP leading to conflict with the EU, sanctions, the ECB excluding it from its bond buying program and ratings agency downgrades. However, anticipation of this and the risk that 5SM and the Northern League return to their policy of wanting Italy to exit the Euro is already pushing Italian bond yields sharply higher as bond holders try to protect against redenomination risk or default. So far this month Italian 10-year bond yields have been pushed up by 66 basis points to 2.44%. This is a long way from the 2011 crisis highs around 7%, but the more yields rise from here the more it will hit Italian banks, borrowing costs and hence the Italian economy. Ultimately the Italian Government will have to back down as a result and it will all look a bit like what happened with Syriza in Greece, with Italy remaining in the Euro (because it's too costly to leave). But in the process, it will be bad news for Italian bonds and shares, will act as a drag on the Euro and will cause occasional bouts of volatility in share market (including Australian shares - recall the volatility around Grexit). The risk of a move by Italy to exit the Euro triggering contagion to the rest of the Eurozone though is low as countries like Spain, Portugal and Ireland are stronger than in the crisis years and popular support for the Euro is high. Political uncertainty in Spain following a corruption scandal that may see a new election doesn't help, but does not threaten Spain's commitment to the Euro.
US data remains solid. While home sales slipped in April, home prices continue to rise, underlying durable goods orders rose solidly in April and the Markit business conditions PMIs rose further in May. Meanwhile the minutes from the Fed's last meeting didn't tell us much that we didn't know: the meeting leant to the dovish side with Fed upbeat on the economy and on track for another hike next month, but tolerant of a temporary inflation overshoot of 2% as its consistent with the symmetric inflation target so just because inflation goes above 2% doesn't mean it will slam on the brakes. However, its comments are consistent with three more rate hikes this year (starting in June) whereas the money market is still not there yet.
In the US, it will be a big week on the data front with inflation and jobs data the focus. The core personal consumption deflator (Thursday) is expected to show inflation remaining at 1.9% year on year or May, just below the Fed's target. Labour market data (Friday) is expected to show a solid 185,000 rise in payrolls, unemployment holding at 3.9% and wages growth edging up to 2.7% year on year. In other data expect: consumer confidence (Tuesday) to remain strong; May personal spending (Thursday) to have remained solid; pending home sales (also Thursday) to rise around 1%; and the May manufacturing ISM (Friday) to have remained strong at around 57-58. All of which, supports another Fed rate hike next month.


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A Short History of Woven Boats
Under the green and rolling hills of Scotland, a dozen kilometres from the seaside, several people lay buried for four thousand years. Around them lay what we guess to be their keepsakes; beads, a bronze knife, tools and a battle-axe. Most interesting, though, was that at least one of them – a teenager when he died, curled up like a baby – lay in what was guessed to be a wicker coracle, like those used on these islands into the 20th century. He was buried in his boat.
Stop and consider a few things about this. First its antiquity: Before the Ancient Greeks or the Hebrew prophets, before all but the earliest pyramids, there were Scots, or at least people of Scotland. Also, you don't see boat-burials every day; perhaps it was the youth's most prized possession, like someone today might be buried in their Rolls-Royce. Finally, consider this was a giant basket, woven together by hand, and that it carried people safely across vast stretches of cold water. (1)
That's not as strange as it sounds; humans around the world, whether jungle tribes or Eskimos, whether in the Stone Age or the Industrial Revolution, used similar woven boats. Who first thought of it we don't know; the first basket fragments we have were about 13,000 years old, but we have circumstantial evidence that humans might have been weaving baskets the size of boats almost four hundred centuries earlier. Not four hundred years, by the way – four hundred centuries.
You see, early humans first appeared in Australia about 50,000 years ago, and even with the ice age lowering sea levels, you still can't walk there. To get there from Asia (presumably, because anything else would be even stranger) they would have had to set out on the ocean -- whole families in boats, not knowing if there was land out there. Obviously they floated on something, and we know of no other kind of boat-making technology for tens of thousands of years to come. Even if they only lashed logs together to make rafts, as you see in so many castaway films, they would have had to use the similar technology of weaving fibres together to make knots.
In the centuries since, cultures around the world wove boats: Tibetans floated in Ku-Drus of woven wood and yak-skin, Eskimos lashed sealskin around their long umiaks, Arabs traversed the Tigris and Euphrates in quffahs, and the Celts of the British Isles – Irish, Scots and Welsh -- had an amazing variety of coracles for fresh waters and curraghs for the sea.
Most were woven from some local pliable wood – although Eskimos used sometimes used bones -- then covered with some kind of skin, and finally waterproofed in some way. They were often rounder in flat water, like the Irish coracles, and more oval or pointed in running or sea waters, like the Irish curraghs or Eskimo kayaks. They also tended to be alarmingly tiny crafts, often just big enough for one – although a traveller to Iraq in the 1930s reported seeing woven boats large enough to carry several human passengers and a few horses. (2)
Coracles in particular had the basic shape of a bowl, and its users needed substantial practice to avoid tipping over. The advantage, however, was that once the user reached shore, the small and lightweight craft could be lifted and carried on one's back. An English poet in the 1600s described "salmon-fishers moist, their leather boats begin to hoist," looking like turtles as they walked away from the water carrying their boats upside-down across the countryside. (3)
On these islands coracles and curraghs were used from ancient times – the ancient Welsh myth cycle the Mabinogion mentions them, as did Julius Caesar on his trip to Britain. Irish monks like St. Columba in the sixth century travelled around isolated islands in a hide-bound boat, and Hector Boece's 1527 history of Scotland describes their frequent use of coracles:
How be it, the Highlanders have both the writings and language they had before, more ingenious than any other people. How may there be any greater ingenuity than to make any boat of any bull-hide, bound with nothing but wands? This boat is called a curragh, and with it they fish salmon … and when they have done their fishing they bear it to another place on their back as they please.
Fishing was not just a pastime for such people, but a matter of survival; the protein they brought in was precious, especially in Catholic countries where meat was forbidden part of the year. Another common use was to gather fish and eel traps from rivers and lobster pots from the sea – also, of course, woven of wood like baskets. The traps operated on a simple principle; a bit of bait could lure an animal into the trap but, if it were shaped properly, they would be unable to escape.
Coracles also proved useful in other ways; when shepherds washed their sheep, for example, coracle-men positioned themselves downstream to catch any sheep that might be carried away. And, of course, they offered simple transportation across a landscape lined with lakes, rivers and canals, and among many islands separated by the sea.
Each region had its own design – not just region as in "Europe," but as in each local village or stream; small Welsh rivers like the Teifi, the Taf, the Wye, the Monnow, the Lugg, the Usk, the Dee and the Severn each had their own styles of coracles, each apparently made for the conditions of that place. (4)
Irish coracles and curraghs were woven from willow or hazel, and typically built upside-down. Locals here began by planting a row of hazel rods straight into the ground, continuing in a wide curve until the row came back to where it began. Then, when the rods looked like the bars of a large cage, they wove withies – thin strips of wood – back and forth between the rods along the ground. This would be the gunwale – the "rim" of the boat – when it was flipped over.
Then the hazel rods --- the bars of the cage, as it were -- were bent down across the oval to make a wicker dome, until the whole structure formed a large, solid basket. Then a covering was lashed to the frame – cow-hide was typical, although horse-hide and seal-skin were also used. Finally, the cover was waterproofed – in recent years with tar or some other petroleum derivative, but originally with tallow or butter.
Such ingenious craft opened up new industries, crafts and food sources for ordinary hunters or farmers, allowing them to traverse lakes and rivers easily and travel between islands. They allowed people on islands or in remote areas communicate and trade with the rest of the world. They let people create their own craft for the unique conditions of their place, with nothing more than local resources, knives and skill. In short, for tens of thousands of years human survival depended on such small and unlikely-looking creations.
Originally published in Mother Earth News. Photo: Men on coracles in a Welsh River. Courtesy of Wikicommons.
1) T. Watkins, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration, 1980
T. Watkins, The excavation of an Early Bronze Age cemetery at Barns Farm, Dalgety, Fife, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 112 (1984) p. 48 – 114
2) James Hornell, "Coracles of the Tigris and Euphrates," The Mariner's Mirror, Volume 24, Issue 2, 1938
3) Andrew Marvell, "Upon Appleton House," 1651.
4) James Hornell, Water Transport Origins & Early Evolution, 1936.
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'Indian Armed Forces are being modernized in phases' : AK Antony
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Every Indian Air Force Equipment has a specified life. Once the life term is complete, the equipment is considered obsolete. The IAF is continuously modernizing its fleet of equipment by phasing out the obsolete equipment upgrading/extending the life of equipment (where technically feasible) and procuring new equipment.
It is not in the interest of the security of the country to divulge information on existing number of Aircraft & other equipment along with their year of induction.
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The C&O Canal trail is a 185 mile trail that leads from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington D.C. The trail is an old mule towpath along the Canal that runs parallel to the Potomac River.
We went back and forth for a while about taking this trail. People told us it's "rough." The lure of its beauty ultimately made us decide to take it, and we also had to prove we're real bike tourers now and we don't need fancy rails to trails to be happy. We're rough.
It didn't take long on the trail before I felt like I was perpetually catching myself from falling down. Deep mud ruts had hardened in the afternoon sun and seemed to have more control over where our bikes went than we did. We camped at a free hiker/biker site for the night and planned on making tuna melts and tomato soup for dinner. The last time we had that meal was in Montana, and it rained during the meal. Sure enough, the rain came before we could melt anything and we ran to our tents. We were in our tents for 12 hours. It was pouring rain in the morning. From my tent I watched a couple groups of bikers shout sarcastic comments about the weather to us as they passed. "Great day for a ride." Once you're riding the rain is no big deal, but getting out of your tent and packing up when it's raining is harder than making a habit of flossing. Coffee made the morning better and soon enough we were shirtless and ready to face the rain.
The road was full of sticks and puddles. It always amazes me how people, even myself at times, put limitations on the capabilities of bikes. At 15 mph our bikes tore through the wet and the debris. Our day ended in Hancock, MD and a historic Presbyterian church took pity on us and treated us to a motel room. We also got to do laundry for the first time in two weeks.
The third day on the trail was a perfect day to ride your bike through the forest. We cruised along the Potomac and marveled at how fortunate we were. It this trail was a little easier to ride, I'm convinced it'd be one of the top trails in the U.S.
Our last day on the trail left us with around 70 miles to DC and lots of rain. What started with a little morning rain lead to a downpour and a flooded trail. We rode on. After 20 miles we stopped in the town of Brunswick for a coffee with our new trail friend Robin who was riding until the money ran out. She was in her late 50's. We decided to get off the trail and try our luck on the streets but we still had 10-15 miles of trail before we could do that. Those next 10-15 miles were, without exaggeration, some of the most intense riding I will likely ever do. We rode more on water than trail. Inches of water masked the potholes and twigs of the trail. Our tires squirmed and fishtailed in this mud patches. We rode on. At times the rain was so heavy it was like trying to open your eyes under water. We rode on, smashing through branches like they were twigs and managing to stay mostly upright.
We eventually found streets and rode another 35 miles into DC. We hosed ourselves and the bikes off leaving no trace of the morning fun and met up with our dear friends Erica and Matt. They comforted us with food and wine in their new home; our home for the next three days.
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Editor's Preface: The article attached here in PDF version, My Basic Plan for Document Reviews: The "Bottom Line Driven" Approach, is a complete rewrite and update to earlier blogs written to explain the review methods I have developed over the years. Here is the HTML rewrite version.
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Ralph, this current post and your recent Search series have raised the bar higher for all of us out there on the edisco speaking circuit, as you have done a wonderful job of educating the legal community on the present gap between a wave of technology-assisted review overhype, and the reality that we, as lawyers, still have important roles to play in any e-discovery review process. Anyone who thinks technology-assisted review is a "solved problem" for the legal profession needs to go back to re-read your columns!
As a point of privilege, I'd like to just say that I am not quite as dystopian as you may have suggested to your faithful readers. It is not so much that we are drowning in information that concerns me (although I do dream of e-mail free Fridays to actually accomplish some work). Rather, the exponentially growing amount of information — especially in the public sector — amounts to a vast, dark, and de facto inaccessible universe, not practically reachable by means of e-discovery, FOIA, or otherwise. That is why I have been on a quest for the past decade or so to find more powerful search techniques than mere reliance on keywords, so as to be able to properly categorize and extract knowledge from the vast e-haystacks of records that are accumulating all around us, as efficiently as possible. I actually am hopeful that in an "arms race" between on the one hand, preserving the newly created exabytes of record information and beyond, and on the other, employing new forms of AI to extract meaning from big data sets, that the AI will in the end win.
I can't think of anything more exciting for a young lawyer to contemplate than thinking about how to apply state-of-the-art technology in continuing to tackle the volume and complexity issues posed by e-discovery. IMHO, your recent columns should be required reading in every civil procedure course taught in US law schools. Doug Oard and I actually have your search columns already listed on our syllabus for the e-discovery course we're teaching this Spring to PhD and Masters candidates at U. Maryland's School of Information Studies.
Thanks Jason. As usual, you were right about what we need next in e-discovery, namely standards. I am once again following in your footsteps by working on a foundation for these standards. Also, thanks for tolerating my false emphasis (I would rather say poetic license) of your information dystopia comment to serve as my foil. Dear readers, Jason is not really a prophet of doom. In fact, he is one of the funniest people I know.
4) production: costs of tiffing, converting data to media for production, costs of hardware.
All those costs have to be factored in when you are trying to determine the total cost per document ultimately produced.
Therein lies the challenge. Sorry to add to your already herculean effort to create standards but, to the extent that we are seeking standardization, I believe we ought to aim for creating processes that will give clients complete cost predictability and visibility. Thanks.
In my experience, most litigation is asymetrical, in that one party (usually plaintiff or government agency) is the recipient of far greater amount of documents than the responding party. So the responding party only has to worry about hosting its own documents, and the requestor has to worry about hosting the docs produced to them.
Even if the litigation is symetrical, the production volume is about 10% of the collected volume by the other side, so the relative added burden to the recipient is not that great.
I just finished reading your blog entry about Bottom Line Driven Proportional Review, and my initial response is that I am not sure if I buy into it.
I certainly agree that the bottom line is important and that any review should be proportional to the amount at issue in the case, but I find something inherently discomforting about deciding how many documents to review based upon a predetermined budget. If there are truly 30,000 relevant documents in a matter, how can I say I will only look at, and potentially produce 10,000 of them? Is this not a partial truth? If so, how is that really justice?
Of course proportionality must have its place. My concern with your method is that it may place too much emphasis on being able to choose what you will review and produce based on budget alone (ignoring the reality of how many responsive documents there are), and provide lawyers and clients an easy out that allows them to artificially truncate document review. To use a simplified (and perhaps somewhat antiquated) analogy, if you had a case about a motorcycle accident, I would argue it would be difficult to not use the search term "motorcycle accident" simply because it returned more hits than you budgeted for.
I think you attempt to address my issue by cautioning that you have to get your hands dirty and understand the data before creating a budget, and ideally, this would help. Unfortunately, in practice, too often the budget is created without input from e-discovery experts, and/or at times, the people creating the budget are not allowed access to the data until after they have submitted a budget and then been engaged for the work.
As I said, I just read this, so I need to think about it more, but I am left with the feeling that I have to choose between proportionality and the "complete" truth, and furthermore, that Bottom Line Driven Proportional Review may become a tool for abuse and misuse. Perhaps I am being cynical and need to have more faith in my fellow colleagues. Regardless, I do appreciate that you are trying to solve a significant problem, and therefore, whether or not I ultimately agree with you, what you wrote certainly has value to me.
Because you can't know you have 30,000 relevant documents in a matter going in. In fact, you can never know how many relevant documents there are even after you're done with the review! This is because you don't know how many were missed by culling or by the reviewers.
It's a world where a multiplication of imperfections add up to reasonableness. You are going in blind, but you're coming out only with somewhat better vision. How much better? You'll never know, unless the universe of documents can fit in a stack of paper on your desk.
"Complete truth" is not absolute. It's the complete truth within the universe that makes sense given what's at stake in the case. That's your proportionality.
Hallelujah. I believe in your dream and I think it is essential that it come true.
This article is required reading for the "Budgeting, Risk Management, and Cost Control in E-Discovery" class taught by Scott Cohen at Bryan University. Many of us in the e-discovery program there subscribe to your blog and are better educated for it. Thank you.


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Johnson, Macron to honour French Resistance fighters in London
By Estelle Shirbon
LONDON (Reuters) - Four men who played significant roles in the French Resistance during World War Two will be honoured by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron during a ceremony in London on Thursday.
FILE PHOTO - Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses with French President Emmanuel Macron during a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron/Pool
Macron, on his first trip outside France since the start of the coronavirus lockdown in March, will also meet Johnson at 10 Downing Street to discuss their governments' responses to the pandemic.
They are also likely to discuss Brexit, an issue that has been rising back up the political agenda in recent weeks as pressure increases on Britain and the European Union to agree and ratify a trade deal before a Dec. 31 deadline.
Macron's visit marks the 80th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's radio address to the French nation, shortly after the Nazi invasion of France, in which he laid the foundations of the Resistance.
The address was broadcast from London by the BBC on June 18, 1940, with permission from Winston Churchill.
To mark the occasion, Britain will bestow awards on four Resistance fighters: Edgard Tupet-Thome, 100; Daniel Cordier, 99; Hubert Germain, 99, and Pierre Simonet, 98. They will not be present, but will receive their awards in France later.
The four are the only surviving holders of the Croix de la Liberation (Cross of Liberation), an honour bestowed by De Gaulle on 1,038 men and women who distinguished themselves in the struggle to liberate France.
Johnson said the men symbolised "the enduring depth and strength" of Franco-British friendship - which has been tested by Brexit turbulence since Britain voted to quit the European Union in a 2016 referendum.
Macron will take part in a ceremonial event with Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, and his wife Camilla. The French leader will also be treated to a joint flypast by the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force's aerobatic team, and their French counterparts, the Patrouille de France.
A statue of Churchill that stands on Parliament Square was uncovered for Macron's visit. The statue had been boarded up since last week to prevent it from being damaged by Black Lives Matter protesters.
Editing by Stephen Addison


September has been named "Bourbon Heritage Month" so it's a great excuse to celebrate by drinking as much great bourbon as you can!
One of our friends is a "Bourbon Connoisseur". Most of the rest of us are willing to drink anything someone else has bought. That being said, our friend threw a great party – an idea you may want to replicate in your own neighborhood. Our bud lives in the suburbs of Seattle, so I dubbed it "Suburban Bourbon".
Six or Seven assorted quality Bourbons. Our friend included his every day favorites like Woodford Reserve and Markers Mark 46. Then he this as an excuse to buy a few "small batch" specialty Bourbons like Basil Hayden's, Jefferson's and Four Roses as well. He wrote little descriptive cards so we got a little education with our drink.
He had a stack of 1 oz. plastic mini shot glasses so you could "taste" each of the Bourbons before settling on one. Keeps you from wasting a lot of good booze if one isn't to a guests' personal taste.
His wife made a batch of large "ball" ice cubes. Whiskey Ball makes primo molds and even sent me this photo to use here. Those are the ones we have and make at our house. Mrs. Bourbon added a twist of orange rind in some but plain ice works just fine. The purpose of the large ball cube is to chill the Bourbon without diluting it with quick melting ice.
They put out some snacks – the usual cheese and crackers, spinach artichoke dip from Costco, some bite sized brownies and invited a handful of friends.
Have a handful of cigars or invite guests to bring their own to enjoy out on the back patio or around the fire pit. A good cigar is the perfect companion to a nice bourbon.
There you go, the recipe for a GREAT party friends may never remember (depending on how much Bourbon they sample). Of course, be sure there is a designated driver, Uber app at the ready or better yet – just invite neighbors so they can walk – or stagger home at the end of the evening.
Not a Bourbon lover? No reason why this wouldn't be equally as fun with Tequila – flavored Vodkas – any number of liquors. Of course, you'll have to come up with your own catchy name – but if you throw one of these parties – be sure to invite ME!
Thanks for the plug. We did had a good time with great friends. Once the new house is together we will have to have another; next time we'll have other Premium Spirits.