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Endangered Animals From the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Susan Dorling
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Per square mile, the Democratic Republic of Congo is the most resource-rich country in the world, containing two-thirds of the world's remaining rain forests. Sadly, years of armed conflict, rapid deforestation, overhunting and the illegal bushmeat and exotic wildlife trade have had a devastating effect on many animal species in this war-torn country. Mammals, birds, amphibians, fishes and arthropods are among the 51 species on the 2013 IUCN Red List of endangered animals.
Threats to Native Mammals
Habitat destruction and fragmentation, deforestation, human intrusion from mining and agricultural operations, and, formerly, commercial whaling, threaten the mammals of DR Congo. Nine terrestrial species and two marine species are already endangered. In addition, pressure by locals, who heavily depend on the forest and its animals for their entire subsistence, has played a major role in the decline of wildlife. The people of DR Congo are among the poorest in the world. Ravaged by war, with few other economic opportunities, they have turned to the illegal trade of bushmeat for clothing, medicines, soap, spices and other necessities. They also consume bushmeat as their primary source of protein and contribute to deforestation by relying solely on the forests for fuelwood, charcoal and other raw materials. The illegal exotic wildlife trade also contributes to the decline in primate populations.
Endangered Primates
Endangered primates in DR Congo are: the endemic bonobo (Pan paniscus), also known as the pygmy chimpanzee, the common chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), and the eastern gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), consisting of two sub-species -- the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei), of which only 800 individuals remain in their natural habitat, and the Grauer's gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri), also called the eastern lowlands gorilla. Victims of the illegal bushmeat trade, and in the case of chimpanzees,the exotic pet trade, the animals known as the "great apes" are perilously close to extinction.
The African Wild Dog
In the case of the endangered African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted hunting dog or cape hunting dog, a number of factors have contributed to their rapidly declining numbers; more than half of all adult deaths are due to human activity. Ranging outside their protected areas, they encounter high-speed vehicles, guns, snares and poisons. Encounters with domestic dogs also represent potentially lethal diseases, such as rabies and canine distemper. Initiatives to save African wild dogs include conservancies on private and communal land which protect them from people and domestic dogs, as well as education programs to reduce the deliberate killing of the dogs by the locals in and around protected areas.
Endangered Shrews and Rats
Some species of shrews and rats are dwindling, their declining populations indicative of the devastating effects of deforestation in the DR Congo. The following species are endangered: the Kivu long-haired shrew (Crocidura lanosa), the Montane mouse shrew (Myosorex blarina), the Tarella shrew (crocidura tarella), the narrow-headed shrew (Crocidura stenoceph) and the Rahm's brush-furred rat (Lophuromys rahmi).
Endangered Whales
Marine mammals, the fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) and the sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) are on the IUCN endangered list, however, their endangered status is reversible and numbers are increasing due to the cessation of commercial whaling. Native to DR Congo their populations were decimated by nearly 70 percent over the last three generations.
Endangered Birds
Major threats for 14 species of endangered birds in the DR Congo are pollution, and habitat degradation and fragmentation, from mining and farming operations, resulting in a loss of foraging range and reduced availability of food. For vultures, the poisoning of carcasses has also taken a toll on their populations who congregate in large numbers to feed on carrion. Other contributing factors in their decline is the trade in live specimens, and electrocution and collision with power lines. Endangered vultures are the white-backed vulture (Gyps africanus), the Rueppell's vulture (Gyps rueppellii), the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus) and the hooded vulture (Necrosyrtes monachus). Other endangered birds are the Congo bay owl (Phodilus prigoginei), the golden-naped weaver (Ploceus aureonucha), the Grauer's swamp warbler (Bradypterus graueri), the gray-crowned crane (Balearica regulorum), the Madagascar pond heron (Ardeola idae), the Itombwe nightjar (Caprimulgus prigoginei), the Nahan's francolin (Francolinus nahani), the Prigogine's greenbue (Chlorocichia prigoginei), the spotted ground thrush (Zoothera guttata)and the Turner's erommomeia (Eremomela turneri).
Endangered Amphibians
Three amphibian species are endangered in the DR Congo; the Hyperolius leleupi, the Hyperolius leucotaenius and the Leptopelis karissimbensis. The major threat is likely to be habitat loss for agriculture, livestock and human settlements. As well, political instability continues to threaten the remaining habitat in their range.
Endangered Fishes
Native freshwater and oceanic fish in the DR Congo are threatened with exploitation from continued intensive unregulated fishing, agricultural chemicals, toxic plants used for fishing, small-mesh-size nets in which they are caught as the "bycatch" of other species' fishing, pollution and habitat modification through erosion and urbanization. The 21 endangered fish species, listed by their common names where applicable, are the albert lates (Lates macrophthalmus), the Alestopetersius nigropterus, the Amphilus lamani, the Dasyatis margarita, the dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus), the forktail lates (Lates microlepis), the Hemichromis cerasogaster, the hummingbird lampeye (Poropanchax myersi), the Lamprologus tumbanus, the Lubbert's guitarfish (Rhynchobatus luebberti), the Mai-ndombe dwarf sprat (Nannothrissa stewarti), the Nanochromis transvesititus, the Synodontis dorsomaculatus, the Tanganyika lates (Lates angustifrons), the Tylochromis microdon, the pincushion ray (Urogymnus ukpam), the Nothobranchius polli, the Nothobranchius resenstocki, the Nothobranchius symoensi, the Oreochromis lepidurus and the Victoria robber (Brycinus jacksonii).
Endangered Arthropods
Endangered arthropods in the DR Congo are two crustaceans, Potamonautes gonocristatus and Potamonautes idjiwiensis. Both endemic to the DR Congo, they have only been known to scientists for 55 and 60 years respectively. Now found mostly in museum collections, only a few thousand exist in their natural freshwater habitat of streams, in and around the Lake Kivu area.
Virunga National Park, Gorilla.CD: Protecting Virunga
Endangered Species International: Stop the Bushmeat Trade
World Wildlife Federation: Congo Basin
Heal Africa: History of the Congo
Endangered Species International: Bushmeat Crisis
Endangered Species International: Bonobos
Steppes Discovery: Forest Elephants
Earth's Endangered Creatures: Endangered Animals of Africa
International Union of Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: African Wild Dog
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Bonobo
USA Today: Congo Civil War
Virunga National Park: First Gorillas Found in Rebel-Held Territory
Steppes Discovery: Forest Elephant and Lowland Gorillas in the Congolese Rainforest
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Gorilla Beringei (Eastern Gorilla)
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Chimpanzee
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Fin Whale
National Primate Research Center, University of Wisconsin : Bonobo
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Pond Heron
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Grey-Crowned Crane
International Union for Convservation of Nature and Natural Resources: Red List: Grauer's Swamp Warbler
Based in Ontario, Susan Dorling has written professionally since 2000, with hundreds of articles published in a variety of popular online venues. Writing on a diverse range of topics, she reflects her passion for business, interior design, home decorating, style, fashion and pets.
Habitat of the Short-Tailed Chinchilla
Reasons Why the Volcano Rabbit Might Be Extinct
Endangered Species in the Sahara Desert
What Are the Wild Pig's Predators?
List of Endagered Animals in Ecuador
Middle Eastern Endangered Animals
Endangered Species in Belize
Animals of the Brazos River
Caribbean Monk Seal Habitat
About the Turanian Tiger
What Animals Are Native to Paraguay?
Endangered Species in Germany
What Native Animals live in the Murray-Darling Basin?
Animals Who Share a Habitat With the Tiger
Rare Animals in the Everglades in Florida
Endangered Species of the Mixedwood Plains
Animals in Oaxaca
Indigenous Animals in Ireland
List of Animals Living in the Australian Tropical Savanna

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In this issue: A Nepal tapestry from Jeff Greenwald, Lonely Planet's book of Natural Wonders, and an account of a 16,000-mile sailing journey.
Jeff Greenwald's memoir of Nepal in the 1990s has the flow and momentum of a good novel. And like a novelist, Greenwald fleshes out his story with idiosyncratic characters, jazzy dialogue, chance encounters, love affairs, close shaves, violence, and mystery. I counted four or five major story lines woven into this narrative of 373 pages.
Ingeniously, Greenwald (a writer for this webzine—an excerpt from his book appeared in December 2010) offers the reader an indirect portrait of the little known Kingdom of Nepal—offers it as a backdrop to his day-to-day life in the expatriate community of Kathmandu. This is a time-honored technique. Hemingway used it in The Sun Also Rises: Jake Barnes leaving a cafe and walking down Boulevard Saint-Michel, the sights, smells and sounds of Paris unreeling before him—as Jake encounters them, not as in a National Geographic travelogue.
And like a Hemingway novel, romantic entanglements play a prominent part here. By page twenty-eight, Greenwald (who was thirty-six in 1990) has met a lissome young American photographer named Grace, and you find yourself pulling for the two expat journalists as they warily circle each other, draw close, draw apart, then reunite, and on and on.
Greenwald's second love—a hopeless and frustrated long-distance love for his younger brother, Jordan—colors nearly every page of Snake Lake. Portrayed by the author as a brilliant linguist, scholar, artist, and philosopher, the solitary, self-destructive Jordan resists nearly every effort made to help him. Greenwald seems to find himself on the wrong side of the globe whenever Jordan's latest crisis occurs; his desire to reconnect with (and to save) his younger brother has a grim fatality about it, as if Greenwald were caught in some terrifying familial bond that he is helpless to escape.
Amid these personal stories, Greenwald also writes of the 1990 People's Movement in Nepal, an upswelling of revolution that eventually overcame the monarchy of King Birendra (the same king who, with his wife, Queen Aiswarya, was murdered in the grisly 2001 Royal Massacre, purportedly by his son). In 1990, Greenwald was a journalist filing stories for the San Francisco Examiner; thus, much of Snake Lake is an eyewitness history. For Western readers who think of Nepal in terms of prayer wheels, Buddhist monks, and Sir Edmund Hillary, Greenwald's account of riots, beheadings, torture, imprisonment, royal corruption, and police gunning down protesters in the streets makes for a horrifying education in the history of the Himalayan plateau.
Snake Lake is also a memoir of Greenwald's attraction to and embrace of Buddhism—this by a quick-witted, savvy world traveler from the Bronx. At times, Greenwald's depiction of religion in Nepal sounds like a riot of competing gods, goddesses, demons, myths, legends, festivals, hashish, dementia, and scary mobs of besotted practitioners. Thus: the palpable relief felt by reader and author alike, when Greenwald makes his way to a nearby Buddhist monastery and sits at the feet of its abbot, Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche (the word rinpoche is an honorific). Among the dozens of characters inhabiting Snake Lake, the witty, astute, and mischievous Chokyi Nyima is the sanest and wisest. In his maroon robe and red silk vest, he addresses the public every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., and Greenwald attended every lecture that he could.
The Rinpoche looked out the window, toward the saucer-shaped stupa of Boudha. "I think," he said, "that I now understand something. I understand why Western people love the ocean. Because the ocean is the one thing, really, that you cannot judge. The ocean is the one you cannot change. Even if you judge, even if you complain, it makes no difference. Even if you worry--'Oh, wave too small, wave too big, water cold, water hot, big shark coming'--no difference! I think this must be why Western people feel so relaxed near the ocean. It is the one thing, the only thing, they cannot change."
Snake Lake contains many passages of humor, ease, and happiness, but it seems clear that Greenwald wrote it to purge himself of the demons he had been carrying since the 1990s: anguish over his lost brother, the loss of Grace, the horror of watching his adopted country descend into violence and chaos. No wonder he kept returning and returning to the monastery all those Saturday mornings.
Edited by Anna Metcalfe. Written by Andrew Bain, Sarah Baxter, Paul Bloomfield, Matthew D. Firestone.
Of the fifty-one natural wonders featured in Lonely Planet's The Traveler's Guide to Planet Earth, I've set foot in exactly three: the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, and Carlsbad Caverns. On second thought, I can't lay claim to the last, since the chapter in question concerns Lechuguilla Cave, a 500-meter-deep subdivision of Carlsbad—off limits to tourists. In terms of wanderlust and bravado, I probably rank in the bottom one-half of one percent of this magazine's readers and contributors.
Planet Earth is a companion book to the BBC's television series of the same name: an eleven-episode documentary first broadcast in the U.K. in 2006, then shown in the U.S. on the Discovery Channel in 2007. Lonely Planet's print version can't really be called the companion book to the documentary, since the BBC had already published four other volumes, in keeping with a mega-corporation's quest for maximum merchandising. In the world of Planet Profit, you don't want to leave a single coin uncaptured. As it happens, the BBC is Lonely Planet's parent company, with 75 percent ownership.
Still, the present volume is a handsome book, over 300 pages, with hundreds of staggeringly beautiful color photographs of nature's virtuosi. (The photos are so beautiful that you wish the book were larger—coffee-table-sized, say, instead of 6½ X 8¼ inches.) An astounding, downward-looking shot of Angel Falls in Venezuela (3,000 feet high, the world's tallest waterfall) should carry a warning for readers prone to acrophobia. Same goes for a shot of a BASE jumper, limbs flung, plummeting into the black insanity of the 1,300-foot-deep Cave of Swallows in Mexico. Cave-jumping?! Whatever happened to the ordinary summer pastime of parachuting off the Chrysler Building?
Planet Earth is a book of wild places, with special emphasis placed on the highest, deepest, coldest, driest, wettest . . . or best place to encounter a polar bear or be eaten by a shark or fall into a volcano. Well, such are the exigencies of a television documentary that cost £16 million.
The book, like the series, is arranged by theme: mountains, caves, deserts, jungles, etc. You find yourself flitting all over the globe, rather than making a methodical tour via cartographic progression. Of the fifty-one featured sites, those devoted to England, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark add up to a grand total of zero. North America merits eight chapters. Predictably, each chapter is arranged magazine-style (i.e., webpage-style), full of graphics, sidebars, and insets called "Fast Facts," or "Getting You There." God forbid that a modern book-buyer be asked to read three or four pages of uninterrupted prose.
My favorite chapter is "The Rarest Cat in the Remotest Forest," about the Amur leopard in Russia's Far East (to get there, first take the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok). There are currently forty Amur leopards surviving in the wild. For those determined backpackers who follow Planet Earth's travel tips and actually reach the Black Mountains, twenty kilometers from Vladivostok, their chances of sighting an Amur leopard are close to nil. Still, a frigid BBC cameraman managed to photograph a mother and cub.
Planet Earth touches on many of the big-ticket items in world geography: the Sahara Desert, Sequoia National Park, Australia's Outback, Antarctica, the Tibetan Plateau. But it especially relishes introducing Western readers (i.e., readers who aren't professional mountaineers, deep-sea divers, or members of television expeditions) to less well known places: the Teak Forests of India, the Atacama Desert in Chile, Eastern Mongolia. In such wise, Planet Earth delivers the goods, whether as a companion book for devoted BBC viewers, or a "how-to-get-there" guide for hardy explorers, or an encyclopedia for the general reader.
Like many committed landlubbers, I'm addicted to sailing books. I've read Sir Francis Chichester's Gypsy Moth Circles the World; and William F. Buckley, Jr.'s Airborne; also several of Lin and Larry Pardey's homey travelogues; Tania Aebi's Maiden Voyage; and Gordon and Nina Stuermer's Starbound, with its set of tiny photos on the back cover, one of which was of a naked Polynesian beauty named Bebe. (And not a single follow-up photo of her inside the book, no matter how many times I maniacally scoured each page.) I own six or seven Horatio Hornblower novels—which for years I ignorantly believed were boys' adventures. But chiefly, I've read and reread Hal Roth's sailing books—in particular, Two Against Cape Horn, the 1978 account of a voyage through the Chilean archipelago to the famed southern-most tip of South America—Mt. Everest for ocean-going adventurers.
Author/sailor John Kretschmer heard the siren call of Cape Horn when he was in his twenties, a college dropout, with barely three or four years of ocean sailing to his credit. Cape Horn to Starboard is his 1986 book describing a daunting 16,000 mile journey he made two years earlier, from New York to San Francisco via the Horn—a re-enactment of the famous clipper-ship transits of the nineteenth century. Those clipper ships of the 1850s were over 200 feet long, with three masts, and eighteen or twenty sails. Kretschmer embarked in an English-made fiberglass Contessa 32 named Gigi, thirty-two feet long—a toy boat, in other words. Ithaca, New York's Burford Books has lately reissued Cape Horn to Starboard, with a new introduction and afterword by the author, in part, according to Kretschmer, because the Contessa 32 is a much beloved boat design among bluewater sailors (especially British sailors) and the U.K. readership of the book has held steady over the years. Also, because it's a fine, rollicking adventure book.
Today, Kretschmer is a professional sailor, explorer, author, and instructor, but back in 1986 he laudably portrayed himself as a callow, slapdash, brash, overconfident, mistake-prone novice seaman: "In the morning I had to admit to my fearless crew that, although we were not lost, I wasn't quite sure where we were."
When he left New York, Kretschmer hoped to arrive in San Francisco in 120 days, a typical clipper-ship transit. He made it in 161 days. The author/captain sailed every mile of the trip, and was joined by various crewmates on successive legs: his girl friend, Molly Potter; Ty Techera, Gigi's legal owner; and fifty-year-old Bill Oswald (called Oz). Relationships aboard a cramped vessel tend to be strained, to put it mildly, and Kretschmer describes a number of near mutinies. Cape Horn to Starboard is filled with the kind of oceangoing storms, gales, monster waves, capsizings, and hurricanes that we readers visit only in our nightmares. On both the Atlantic and Pacific passages, Gigi had to sail through ancient-mariner-style doldrums, where daily runs of 100-150 miles dropped precipitously. In one twenty-four hour span, Gigi advanced only six miles. By this time, Kretschmer's dreams of breaking speed records or even matching the clipper-ship average were long gone. He and Oz nearly came to blows. Getting to San Francisco and off their damn boat was all they could dream of. At one point, they drew up a list of their fantasies: "1. Cold Beer, 2. Women, 3. Ice Cream, 4. Oranges. . . ."
For many readers, there's something comforting about the sight of heroic adventurers being humbled. Well, no doubt, such satisfaction is just our own envy and cowardice breaking through. In the end, one admires Kretschmer both for his grand seaborne victory and for his frankness in describing the despair engendered by a flat, windless sea. The doldrums will do it to anyone.
William Caverlee is a contributing writer to The Oxford American Magazine, and the author of Amid the Swirling Ghosts and Other Essays, from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, www.ulpress.org. His work has appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Flight Journal, Aviation History, and has been reprinted in a university textbook, The Writer's Presence-Sixth Edition.


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Высо́кое, до 2016 года Артёмовка — село, Шляховский сельский совет,
Кегичёвский район, Харьковская область.

Код КОАТУУ — 6323186003. Население по переписи 2001 года составляет 374 (190/184 м/ж) человека.

Географическое положение
Село Атёмовка находится на расстоянии в 1 км от села Козачьи Майданы, в 2-х км — село Шляховое.

По селу протекает пересыхающий ручей, один их истоков реки Вшивая.
В селе несколько прудов.

История
 1876 — дата основания.
 После гибели основателя ДКР Артёма (Сергеева) село было переименовано в Артёмовку.

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Объекты социальной сферы
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Rapper Wale Slams Terry Crew Over His Support For Liam Neeson Some have called for him to be banned from the Oscars or even put out of work for good. Yet the social media backlash has continued unabated.
Below are the starters and reserves selected by James and Antetokounmpo, in order. With the final two picks, Dirk Nowitzki and Dwyane Wade, James will get first dibs. Trade rumors about Davis joining LeBron James in Los Angeles circulated right up until the deadline.
Antetokounmpo replied that he was "playing mind games" with James, but the all-star ultimately most fazed by Simmons's selection and subsequent trade was Philadelphia's Joel Embiid, who had been picked fourth overall by Antetokounmpo and took to social media to react to the turn of events. He previously hinted at taking the Warriors guard with his first pick, returning the favor of Curry taking Antetokounmpo with his first selection previous year. James took Wade, his former Miami and Cleveland teammate and longtime close friend.
Milwaukee's Mike Budenholzer will coach Team Giannis, his second time leading an All-Star team.


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Ken Riley and Ken Anderson added to the Cincinnati Bengals inaugural Ring of Honor class
Charlie Goldsmith
Former Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Ken Riley used to speak with his son, Ken Riley II, about the possibility of the Bengals creating a Ring of Honor one day.
"It was always something in the back of his mind (that) it would be great for Cincinnati to have something like that," Riley II said Thursday.
In 2021, the late Ken Riley and former Bengals quarterback Ken Anderson will receive some long-deserved recognition. The Bengals announced on Thursday that Riley and Anderson will be a part of the Bengals inaugural Ring of Honor.
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On Sept. 30 during halftime of the Bengals Thursday Night Football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Riley, Anderson, Hall of Fame offensive tackle Anthony Muñoz and team founder Paul Brown will be inducted into the Bengals Ring of Honor on the east side of Paul Brown Stadium.
"Hopefully this can be the start that the Bengals are recognizing their greats," Riley II said. "It's something that can propel them to hopefully the Pro Football Hall of Fame … There have been so many Bengals greats that are deserving of not only the Ring of Honor but that Pro Football Hall of Fame."
Riley, who died in 2020, and Anderson will be honored alongside Muñoz and Brown as the team's first Ring of Honor class. When the Cincinnati Bengals announced in April they would create a Ring of Honor in 2021, the Bengals included Brown and Muñoz as a part of the inaugural class.
"I think sometimes people forget today, especially around the country, that the Bengals have a long and rich winning tradition in the National Football League," Anderson said. "I'm really glad we can focus on that."
The franchise included its season ticket holders in the selection process, and Bengals director of strategy and engagement Elizabeth Blackburn said Riley and Anderson were the clear top two vote getters.
"The Bengals Ring of Honor represents the best of the best," Blackburn said. "Both were great players. They did it the right way, worked hard, were coachable, made their teammates better and were essential to creating a great team that took us to a Super Bowl. Second, both demonstrated excellent character and represented the Cincinnati Bengals so well."
Anderson and Riley have both picked up traction as Hall of Fame candidates recently, and the Ring of Honor induction will also celebrate the great Bengals teams of the 1970s and 1980s.
Anderson played in Cincinnati for his entire career, from 1971 to 1986. He's one of five quarterbacks in NFL history to win at least four passing titles, and Anderson has the most passing yards in Bengals history with 32,838.
He won one of the two MVP trophies in Bengals history in his 1981 season. He led the Bengals to a Super Bowl appearance in 1981, and Anderson completed 62.6% of his passes for 3,754 yards that season.
"I feel good because it's not an individual award, really," Anderson said. "It's a collection of the teammates that I've had over the years, and I think when you talk about that period of time, from the 60s, the 70s, the 80s, what made us special is how close we were and the friendships that still remain."
Riley also was a standout on the 1981 team and is one of the best players in Bengals history.
Riley ranks fifth in NFL history with 65 interceptions. He played for Cincinnati from 1969-1983, and holds the team record for games played.
"The Cincinnati Bengals have always been a class act, especially with my father," Riley II said. "They gave him his first opportunity and his only opportunity because he played for 15 years, but they've always been supportive. People have always kept that relationship not only with coach Paul Brown but Mr. Mike Brown."
Season ticket holders voted for Anderson and Riley in a nominee class of 17 former players across Bengals history. Other nominees on the ballot included Willie Anderson, James Brooks, Isaac Curtis, Corey Dillon, Boomer Esiason, Chad Johnson, Tim Krumrie, Dave Lapham, and Lemar Parrish.
Blackburn said all of the nominees will be invited to the Thursday Night Football game and will be on the ballot in the future.
"We believe it's so important to continue to recognize them," Blackburn said, "and create the camaraderie of a team across generations of Bengals legends."


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Dot-Bit-enabled websites end with ".bit" instead of ".com" or something similar. Dot-Bit uses Bitcoin technology to decentralize and free website addresses, just like Bitcoin decentralizes and frees money.
Dot-Bit allows you to access supported websites without DNS censorship (like SOPA would have implemented).
Just because a website uses HTTPS doesn't mean it's secure! Dot-Bit verifies that the websites you visit aren't being impersonated, even if an impostor has compromised the standard HTTPS infrastructure. And did we mention that secure HTTPS for website owners is free with Dot-Bit?
Dot-Bit eliminates DNS surveillance, one major method used by corporations to track your browsing habits.
Dot-Bit data propagates the network in 40 minutes instead of days, and lookup operations occur in under 3 milliseconds instead of tens or hundreds of milliseconds. This makes websites load faster and reduces website downtime.
Dot-Bit consists of free and open-source software that anyone can audit. You should demand nothing less from software you rely on.
What's DNS? And why does Dot-Bit matter?
DNS is like the phonebook of the Internet. When you type in www.google.com, your computer asks a digital phonebook on the Internet (called a DNS server) what the address means, and gets back a series of numbers like 74.125.239.19. The problem is that these DNS servers are controlled by governments and large corporations, and could abuse their power to censor, hijack, or spy on your Internet usage. This happens on a regular basis across the world, including in countries like China as well as in countries like the United States.
Dot-Bit-enabled websites are immune to these problems, because instead of the phone book being a corporation or government, the digital phonebook is on your own computer. Bitcoin technology ensures that every user in the world has the same phonebook data on their computer, without anyone being able to illegitimately change that phonebook data.
With standard DNS, the digital phonebook can direct you to fake websites that steal your passwords (or worse). So-called experts claim that HTTPS (the "secure" website protocol) prevents this kind of hijacking, but it doesn't. Dot-Bit prevents hijacking for real. How can this work? Standard HTTPS allows CA's, or "certificate authorities" (run by governments or large corporations), to vouch for the legitimacy of a website. If a single CA (there are thousands) gets broken into by criminals, makes a mistake, or is forced by a government, they can issue fraudulent credentials that allow someone to impersonate any website. Dot-Bit's decentralized digital phonebook does the security job that a CA would normally do, without relying on a CA; this means that no one can easily hijack Dot-Bit-enabled websites for the same reason that no one can easily steal your bitcoins. It also means that Dot-Bit-enabled HTTPS is free for website owners.
With standard DNS, when a website switches configuration (e.g. due to moving datacenters), the phonebook doesn't notice for about 24 to 48 hours. This causes unnecessary downtime in many circumstances. Dot-Bit's phonebook updates within 40 minutes on average with default settings. Standard DNS servers also take time to look up a website's information, which can take 100 milliseconds or more if you're unlucky. Since Dot-Bit keeps the phonebook on your own computer, looking up a website usually takes under 3 milliseconds. Dot-Bit makes websites load faster and reduces website downtime.
Dot-Bit's digital phonebook entries can point to anonymously hosted websites on the Tor and I2P anonymity networks. Unlike Tor's .onion domains, which consist of random letters and numbers, or I2P's .i2p domains, which can point to different websites for different people, Dot-Bit enables proper, human-readable, deterministically resolvable DNS for Tor- and I2P-hosted services. Note that while Dot-Bit may be able to hide the location and IP address of a domain owner if the domain was registered using Tor, it will probably still be possible to link the domain owner to his or her other transactions (e.g. withdrawing funds from an exchange), which could reveal the owner's identity.
Dot-Bit is powered by Namecoin, a free and open source software project based on Bitcoin, and other free and open-source software packages. Dot-Bit software can be audited by anyone, and historically security issues have been resolved promptly without incident. You should demand nothing less from any software to which you entrust your security.
Learn how to browse Dot-Bit-enabled websites. And if you have your own website, learn how to enable it for the improved censorship-resistance, security, privacy, and speed that Dot-Bit offers.


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Debra Katz Profiled by Washingtonian
This article appears in the June 2018 issue of Washingtonian Magazine.
KMB and Vogel, Slade & Goldstein Represents Qui Tam Whistleblower in Successful False Claims Act Case
Katz, Marshall & Banks represented a whistleblower in a successful False Claims Act case against Inchcape Shipping Holdings Limited, a defense contractor, and one of the largest providers of marine support services in the world. Find coverage from the Washington Post here, and Law360 here. Read the press release below....
The Implications of SCOTUS' Labor Decision
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra Katz was quoted in a Washington Post article titled, "'A nail in the coffin': What the Supreme Court's decision this week means for workers." The Supreme Court ruled recently that the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) permits employers to enforce mandatory arbitration clauses that...
Ex-TIAA Employee Claims His Firing Was Racially Motivated
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Adam Herzog was quoted in an Ignites article, "TIAA Fired Me Over Race, Not Rule-Breaking: Ex-Staffer." Sean Lawrence, an ex-TIAA employee who is African-American, claims that his termination last year was racially motivated, and that the company's justification – that he used the company's...
Why Mandatory Arbitration is so Harmful, and What's Being Done to End it
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra Katz authored an opinion piece for the Washington Post titled, "30 million women can't sue their employer over harassment. Hopefully that's changing." The statistic, calculated by the Economic Policy Institute, shows that since the mid-1990s, mandatory arbitration clauses have become...
SEC's Increase in Cybersecurity Enforcement Opens another Avenue for Whistleblowers
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Alexis Ronickher was quoted in a Wall Street Journal blog titled, "Cybersecurity Whistleblowers are Growing Corporate Challenge." The SEC sent a message to companies in April when it fined Altaba Inc. (formerly Yahoo) $35 million for its negligent handling of a 2014 cyber hack. The agency's...
The Federal Court System Must Address Sexual Harassment Head On
Katz, Marshall & Banks associate Stacy Cammarano authored an op-ed in the Washington Post titled, "#MeToo in the federal court system is doomed to fail." As an extended version of her blog for KMB's Employment Law Blog, Ms. Cammarano explains how the system for law clerks who are victimized fails, and calls on Congress to...
Update on the Feminists United Title IX Case Against the University of Mary Washington
The Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit held oral arguments today in the case, Feminists United et al v. University of Mary Washington et al in which the U.S. Preeminent Constitutional Law Scholar Erwin Chemerinsky argued the case for the Plaintiffs. KMB attorneys Carolyn Wheeler, Joseph Abboud and...
Cosby's Conviction to Strengthen #MeToo
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra Katz was quoted in the Associated Press article "#MeToo Leaders: Cosby's Conviction Will Bolster the Movement." Cosby, an American comic and TV icon for decades, was convicted Thursday of drugging and molesting Andrea Costand, a Temple University employee, in 2004. It is a significant...
The 2018 Enough is Enough Summit
Katz, Marshall & Banks partner Debra Katz, and senior counsel Carolyn Wheeler spoke at the 2018 Enough is Enough Summit. The summit is an all-day event of panels and speeches from a variety of legislators, activists, academics, and survivors dedicated to addressing sexual violence and harassment. Ms. Katz spoke...


Off Wellman Way: Okay, Okay, I've Figured Out Who I Am! Dory!
Bree, my daughter in Arkansas, called me...I hope I can get this straight...she asked about the horse because she read my blog. "Sonny is SICK again?" I told her no, I just forgot to mention that he got better. You know, the beach, fair, two of my other kids are moving back to Santa Paula from far away. (with their families lol) AND all their stuff.
I got up from the phone and went into the kitchen and threw away a soda can in the recycle bin. Thought, "I'm hungry." And, while I was thinking about that, I saw this magazine. It was a gossip magazine. I never read those--just look at them in the market and if you ask my husband he will tell you I've only gone in Von's twice since the remodeled. Actually, I'm the only one in town that NEVER goes to the market.
Now who did that remind you of...Dory or someone else? Yes, I know. Ha..Ha..Ha.. Shut-up!


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It sounds like the least relaxing nap possible, but Stephen got some rest in the communal dorm
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Siesta & Go review: What happens when you pay for an afternoon nap in Madrid city centre
Madrid's hottest new opening is a place where you can book in for a quick siesta. Stephen Phelan tries it out
Stephen Phelan
Thursday 20 July 2017 12:14
There was a time when the whole kingdom of Spain fell asleep every afternoon as if drugged or bewitched. In some corners of the country – small towns, certain islands – the siesta remains a natural law, like gravity, pulling down shutters and eyelids against the heat of the day. These days, its grip on big cities is weakening – especially in the capital, where working hours don't allow for the long lunches and leisurely naps of old.
But here in Madrid, in the gleaming futurist business district of Nuevos Ministerios, the outmoded concept of daylight dozing has been revived by a new startup. Open daily from 11am to 7pm, Siesta & Go is a "nap bar" that rents out beds by the minute, as well as comfy armchairs with foot pouffes and quiet workspaces where you can nod off and faceplant into your keyboard without fear of reproach.
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The health benefits of a good siesta are extolled in the promotional blurb – relief from tension, enhancement of creative faculties, reduced risk of heart attack, increased "luminosity and freshness". According to its website, studies show that a siesta can even help "prevent ageing and prolong life with a repairing effect that fights free radicals".
Not being Spanish, I wasn't raised to sleep while the sun shines. But as a long-time freelancer, well used to working from home, I've turned into a semi-professional napper, and consider myself supremely qualified to evaluate the place.
Inside Madrid's new siesta hub
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The siesta is a great Spanish tradition
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Amenities are available for purchase
Not everyone comes to sleep
the bunks are pine-made and have privacy curtains
The firm claims science says siestas are good for you
Purchase amenities for the full hotel experience
The siesta place is located in the middle of Madrid's modern business area
The bunks provide privacy with individual curtains
No it's not a hipster cafe, it's a siesta place
If I can find it, that is. This so-called "relaxation centre" is tucked into the shadows of Madrid's tallest office towers, enclosed by a dystopian maze of subterranean shopping arcades, concrete tunnels and split-level concourses where my 4G phone-map keeps losing my location. Pretty agitated by the time I stumble across the entrance, I am soothed by a friendly attendant named Joan.
He offers me a private room at 23 cents (20p) per minute, but I go for the more basic option, an upper bunk in an open dorm for 13 cents (11p) a minute – €8 for a full hour. You can also block-book for repeat visits at discounted rates, with inclusive coffee and snacks. Joan says Siesta & Go already has regulars who pop in every day to occupy a bed, chair or desk for as long as they can afford to – students, shift-workers and frequent travellers en route to or from Barajas airport.
It's a haven for them, he suggests. "Like a hiding place." He gives me free earplugs and slippers (eye-masks, hairbrushes, dental kits and various hand and face creams are available for sale), and leads me to my assigned slot in the main chamber. The interior is dark, cool and quiet, with rows of bunks that look like cocoons under veil-like partitions and dim reading lights. It reminds me a little of the hospital basement where mad doctors harvest live bodies in 1970s sci-fi movie Coma.
The security cameras in the corners are vaguely disconcerting, but make sense in a mixed-gender dorm. My bigger fear is that not so different from the backpacker hellholes of my youth in terms of the animal sounds and smells emitted by others in their slumber. As it happens, I can't tell if I'm alone in here, or entirely surrounded. I can only detect a pleasant pine scent from the timber-cut bedframes. Climbing up my stepladder; lying down on fresh sheets and fluffy, textured pillows (which are changed after every guest); plugging out the ambient noises of circulating city traffic and high-powered air-conditioning, this feels more like entering a sensory deprivation tank.
I had also been concerned that I might disturb my fellow day-sleepers. My napping style is similar to my dog's – all growls and whimpers and twitchy legs. I suffer from odd attacks of sleep apnea that make me sit up and hiss as if staked through the ribs by a vampire hunter. Self-conscious about this, I just lie still and mindful for a while, then sink into a dormant, twilight standby mode, like the half-awake state you often drift into on long bus or train journeys. I'm under just deep enough for one brief, boring dream about waiting for a table in a busy Viennese cafe. But I'm also far gone enough to lose all sense of time and place.
Siesta & Go patrons have free wi-fi and the option of setting their own alarms. I prefer to go the whole hog, and turn my phone off, having taken Joan up on his offer to wake me after an hour.
Being woken up by Joan whispering in my ear and gently tapping me on the shoulder could be creepy. But thanks to his kindly, monkish bedside manner, it isn't at all.
On the way out, I remember what he said about people hiding in here. The appeal, it seems to me, is not just the promise of the siesta itself, but the prospect of disappearing from the world.
Your little blue blip can vanish off the map for as many minutes as you like. But until Joan wakes you up, you get to absent yourself from the blare and glare of waking life. You are nowhere. You are not to be found.
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How to take a siesta in the middle of Madrid


Happy new year! New year means NEW video. Below is the video of the much requested "Running Fox Trail". I hope you guys dig it and if you do feel free to share with anyone that may like this.
Im also very excited to be coming to Spain, Greece and India as part of my Winter 2017 tour.
Interested in learning guitar from me? Well, I'll be one of the teachers at this years Spain guitar workshop (Jan 28 - Feb 4, 2017). If you'd like more info on joining us please visit www.guitarworkshopspain.com as we only have a few spots left!
Beautiful tune. Inpiring. Thank you very much.


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How Genuine Advantage Notifications Work
by Dave Roos
Installing Genuine Advantage Notifications
Microsoft originally placed GAN under its security shield.
Microsoft product screen shot reprinted with permission from Microsoft Corporation.
To begin installing Genuine Advantage Notifications, first you have to download the installation software. Microsoft has added Genuine Advantage Notifications to its Windows Update and Microsoft Update services. Both of these services notify a Windows user when there are security or other updates available for their Microsoft software. Windows Update is built into Windows XP and Vista and offers updates for the operating system. Microsoft Update is an optional service that provides security updates for all other Microsoft products like Office and Outlook.
You can also follow this link to download Genuine Advantage Notifications directly from Microsoft's official Download Center. Once you've downloaded the small, 1.3 MB (Megabyte) file, an installation wizard will walk you through the rest of the process:
The wizard introduces Genuine Windows Notifications and explains that if your copy of Windows software isn't genuine, you'll receive periodic notifications on how to correct the situation.
You're asked to read the terms and conditions and privacy statement of Genuine Advantage Notifications. You can click "I Do Not Agree" or "I Agree" and choose to print the documents.
If your software is genuine, you'll receive confirmation immediately. The wizard explains that the program may run periodically to re-validate the operating system software.
Sometimes, says Microsoft, the validation cannot be completed due to a system or network error. In this case, you can wait until the next notification to try again.
If your software fails the validation process, you can see if you qualify to receive a free replacement copy of Windows software. This is reserved for victims who purchased high-quality fake copies. Or you can purchase a genuine Windows XP product key to immediately resolve the issue.
If you believe your system was wrongfully diagnosed as fake, you can contact Microsoft for further troubleshooting assistance.
Now let's hear what the critics are saying about Microsoft's anti-piracy system.


The parish priests are responsible for the sick within their own parish.
In addition, Priests of the churches closest to the hospitals are also available for any hospitalised Catholic who requires a priest's attention.
In cases of an emergency, when a patient requires the Anointing of the Sick and a priest from the nearby church is unavailable, our Priests can be contacted anytime to administer the said sacrament.
The Anointing of the Sick can be administered to any Catholic who is seriously ill and care providers are advised not to wait until the patient is critically ill or when death is imminent.
Our Ministry to the Sick is available for home communion when a sick parishioner is confined to bed at home, for the aged and residents of Nursing Homes.


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REVS DENIED SWEEP
(June 21, 2018) -- The York Revolution came up short in their bid for a four-game sweep of the Road Warriors, losing 8-3 Thursday night in front of 3,802 fans at PeoplesBank Park. The Revs did win the series, earning their seventh series win of the season by taking three out of four, and will host the Sugar Land Skeeters as the homestand continues on Friday night.
The Revs got on the board first on Jose Cuevas' sac fly off Road Warriors starter Felix Baez, scoring Jared Mitchell in the bottom of the second.
The Road Warriors came right back in the top of the third, pushing across three runs against Revs starter Joe Van Meter. After Matt Hibbert led off with a double, Gustavo Pierre brought him home with an RBI single to tie the game. Later in the inning, Geraldo Valentin hit a two-out, two-RBI double down the first base line into the right field corner, giving the Road Warriors a 3-1 lead.
In the fourth, the Road Warriors added two runs on Osvaldo Martinez' RBI single and Jorge Fernandez' RBI double, making it a 5-1 game.
Down 5-1 in the sixth, the Revs got to Baez, who cruised through the first five innings. After Travis Witherspoon led off with a bloop single to right, Alexi Casilla doubled off the Arch Nemesis to bring in Witherspoon from first base. With two outs, Melky Mesa singled to left to score Casilla, bringing the score to 6-3, but that was as close as the Revs would get.
Jailen Peguero fired two scoreless innings to keep it a three-run game, but the Road Warriors tacked on two more runs in the ninth on RBI singles by Melvin Rodriguez and Isaac Wenrich.
Baez (2-5) earned the win for the Road Warriors, allowing three runs on four hits in 5.1 innings.
Van Meter (2-2) suffered the loss, charged with five runs on nine hits in 3.2 innings.
Notes: Ricardo Gomez pitched the ninth inning for the Revs, becoming the third pitcher in Atlantic League history to reach 300 career appearances, joining Ross Peeples and Ben Grezlovski.
Up Next: The Revs (25-24) start a three-game home series with the Skeeters Friday at 6:30 p.m. LHP Robert Carson will start for the Revs and be opposed by LHP James Russell for the Skeeters. It is Summer Kick-off Night at PeoplesBank Park. Tickets are on sale at YorkRevolution.com, (717) 801-HITS, and in-person at the Revs Ticket Office.
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Opened in 1867 the line between Lincoln and Doncaster formed part of the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway built primarily as a freight route between Cambridge and Doncaster, approximately 123 miles.
Today you can explore further than just the railway. Discover the historic city of Lincoln with its impressive Cathedral, take a walk along England's oldest man-made waterway in Saxilby, discover the magnificent medieval manor house in Gainsborough and have a day out at the races in Doncaster.
Passengers are advised to use the City's park and ride bus. Click here for information.
Parking is available at Doncaster station.
Lincoln and Doncaster bus stations adjoin both railway stations.
Regular trains connect Lincoln with Newark, Nottingham, Peterborough and Sheffield. Irregular services operate to Grimsby and London (in the morning and evening peaks only).
Doncaster is a principal rail hub with frequent trains connecting with London (90mins), Leeds (30 mins) and York (30 mins).
An historic market town, at the southern edge of Yorkshire, Doncaster is renowned for its horse racing, rich railway heritage and its wealth of Georgian and Regency architecture. Doncaster Minster was built to the designs of George Gilbert Scott between 1854-1858, after the medieval church was destroyed by fire in 1853. The Treaty of Durham of 1136 placed Doncaster under the control of King David of Scotland. Historians claim the treaty is still valid.
Once a busy inland port on the River Trent, the Riverside Walk connects the 1791 bridge with a town centre that abounds with history. The Old Hall, a 15th century manor house associated with the Pilgrim Fathers, the Heritage Centre in the old post office, and the ghostly presence to be found in the Old Nick, are just some of the town's attractions. They are all a short 20 minute walk from Gainsborough Lea Road Railway Station.
Get your walking shoes on and explore Saxilby with many walking routes easily accessible from the station. Make sure you explore the Fossdyke Navigation – it's claim to fame is that it is England's oldest man-made waterway.
Lincoln, home to one of the original copies of the Magna Carta, is a city steeped in history. The Gothic cathedral was built with money loaned by a Jewish merchant. The city retains a Jewish quarter complete with synagogue. A Victorian Arboretum, restored in 2003, offers a restful spot from the city centre bustle.
Doncaster, Gainsborough and Lincoln all offer great shopping experiences. Gainsborough's Marshall's Yard is a shopping experience with a difference being set in the former works of Marshall, Sons & Co, manufacturers of renowned agricultural machinery exported across the world.


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Q: Angular .then() at the controller wrongly returns the same data from the a service I'm new to Angular and I'm using some of the features to post data to a endpoint - a endpoint that I have complete control over. Its a very simple endpoint with CRUD capability allowing me to work with "customer" entities for educational purposes.
I have a partial view that basically lists all the customer. On each row, there is a delete button that allows me to delete that customer. When deleting a customer a request is sent to the endpoint. The endpoint will then check if a customer is "admin", if so, return a JSON response which says "You cannot delete a admin", otherwise, delete the customer and send back "Customer deleted" JSON response.
Upon receiving a response from the server, the angular application should do logic depending on the response data. The endpoint is working as intended. However, I'm getting some strange/unexpected result.
Here is what my code looks like:
In a" SecretsController", I have the following:
   $scope.deleteUser = function (userName, $event) {
                    credentialsService.removeRegistredUser(userName).then(function (response) {
                        if (response.data.Feedback === "Error") {
                            $rootScope.currentStatus = "There was a error raised: " + response.data.Message;
                        } else {
                            $rootScope.currentStatus = "User sucessfully removed.";
                            var currentRow = $event.target.closest("tr");
                            $(currentRow).fadeOut(1500, function () {
                                currentRow.remove();
                            });
                        };
                        fireResponseToGui();
                    }, function (error) {
                        $rootScope.currentStatus = "Invalid request: " + error.status + ". The response is: " + error.statusText;
                        fireResponseToGui();
                    });
                };

And in :
             var deffered = $q.defer();

            var credentialsServiceFactory = {};

credentialsServiceFactory.removeRegistredUser = function (userMail) {
                $http.post(registratedUsersEndpoint + apiDelete + userMail + "&token=" + token)
                    .then(function (response) {
                        deffered.resolve(response);
                    }, function (error) {
                        deffered.reject(error);
                    });

                return deffered.promise;
            };

And there is the problem. After some checking with console.log(), the "return deffered.promise" line in the service seems to return the exact same result although the response object in the service is different. Anyone now what I'm doing wrong here?

A: To elaborate on my comment, the deferred object you return in removeRegistredUser is declared outside the function and thus will survive longer than the initial use. I'm not entirely sure but at a guess, I'd say you cannot resolve a promise more than once.
Simply return the promise created by the $http service
return {
    removeRegistredUser: function(userMail) {
        return $http.post(registratedUsersEndpoint + apiDelete + userMail + "&token=" + token);
    }
};

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NSCI 585a: Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Adult Nervous System
This seminar course, through original papers in the literature, examines our current knowledge of adult neurogenesis and neural stem/progenitor cells. We study the advantages and disadvantages of transplantation techniques vs. recruitment of endogenous progenitors for repair of the damaged nervous system, in a variety of animal models. The focus is on consensus work, but we also delve into the controversies of neural stem cell research. The strengths and limitations of various techniques are examined. The term ends with a survey of progenitor cells used in clinical trials.
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A genetics course taught jointly for graduate students and medical students, covering current knowledge in human genetics as applied to the genetic foundations of health and disease.
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Aspects of comparative genomics, construction of genetically altered mice, mouse phenotyping and study design relevant to the use of mice in the study of human disease. Prerequisites: an undergraduate level knowledge of genetics and mammalian anatomy and physiology.
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Belize Geography
April 18, 2019 May 9, 2020 transporthint
Belize falls into two main geographical regions. The coastal part of the country is low and swampy, shielded by a number of coral islands and America's largest coral reefs. The coral reef is also the largest in the northern hemisphere, and is on UNESCO's World Heritage list. The coastal plain in the north is drained by several navigable rivers, the largest being the Belize River.
The southeastern region is dominated by the Mayan mountains, which rise steeply from the coastal plain. The highest point is Victoria Peak (1120 meters above sea level) in the Cockscomb chain. Within the coral reef there are a number of small islands (cayes), several of which are developed for tourist purposes.
The climate is tropical, with a dry season from February to May and a rainy season from June to November. The average temperature in Belize City is 24 °C in December, 28 °C in August – September. The rainfall varies from 1300 millimeters in the north to 4600 millimeters in the south. Belize City has 1750 millimeters of precipitation a year.
Plant and wildlife in Belize
Nearly half of the country's area is wooded. In the north, the forest is deciduous with species such as mahogany and sapote. In the south, oak, pine and West Indian cedar, Cedrelaodorata, grows, while the coast has mangrove vegetation.
Plant and animal geographies belong to Belize in the Neotropical region, and the rich fauna consists largely of the same species as in Guatemala and eastern Mexico. Of mammals, mention should be made of poppy rats (opossums), harnesses, ant swallows, broodlings, half bears and marsh animals. The cat animals include both small species such as tiger cat and ocelot and larger but less frequent species such as cougar and jaguar. Baird tapir occurs in the swamp forests. Characteristic bird families include: parrots, toucans, trogons, hummingbirds, mannequins and tyrants.
North America Belize
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Re: FES Book Club
another fantastic book in the culture series. the story centers around the culture's reaction to a so-called "outside context problem":
The usual example given to illustrate an Outside Context Problem was imagining you were a tribe on a largish, fertile island; you'd tamed the land, invented the wheel or writing or whatever, the neighbors were cooperative or enslaved but at any rate peaceful and you were busy raising temples to yourself with all the excess productive capacity you had, you were in a position of near-absolute power and control which your hallowed ancestors could hardly have dreamed of and the whole situation was just running along nicely like a canoe on wet grass... when suddenly this bristling lump of iron appears sailless and trailing steam in the bay and these guys carrying long funny-looking sticks come ashore and announce you've just been discovered, you're all subjects of the Emperor now, he's keen on presents called tax and these bright-eyed holy men would like a word with your priests.
excession pretty much consists of three concurrent threads: some cloak-and-dagger shit between the hyper-intelligent AI minds that run the culture, some idiot space boomer who loves space nazis, and lore. lots and lots of lore.
i found this to be a much more confusing read than phlebas or player or games. the cloak-and-dagger shit between the minds was sort of hard to follow. but banks is kind enough to provide a summary at the end in the form of blunt-force character exposition.
hella good. 9/10.
tbh there's really not a lot i can say about this one without giving away spoilers. if you like slow-burn spyshit that is mostly just a long series of conversations, then you'll really like this. i loved it.
also hella good. 10/10 tbh.
Dionysios
'The Atom Spy Hoax'
By William A. Reuben
Written by a personal friend of the Rosenbergs who organised their international support network, this book does not quite deny that the Soviets had any spies whatsoever, but it comes closer to it than any book I know. It's as die hard anti-McCarthyism as it gets.
Unfortunately even most of the American left surrenders to these two McCarthy style American writers John Earl Haynes and his colleague Klehr who both write about so-called Venona secrets as proof of Soviet spying viewing any evidence that the Soviet Embassy or USSR had communication whatsoever with any Americans likely constitutes spying or some kind of illegal activity. If I find a writer falls into that line of thinking, then I donate their book to the garbage can.
I actually discovered that Haynes and Klehr describe William Reuben as the equivalent of a holocaust denier. Of course, William Reuben represents the opppsite of that. The the fact that they hate him so much because he doesn't surrender to their falsehood means that such slander was the best best they could do. There is an old saying that to be insulted by a heretic is a great honour.
I was very pleased to happen across this gem of a book which takes the received wisdom about alleged Soviet evil during the McCarthy era and successfully flushes it down the toilet.
A mid-1980's interview of the author:
john le carre died. damn. rip in peaces.
https://apnews.com/article/international-news-john-le-carre-coronavirus-pandemic-fiction-ec0c3a65f37f4f37dc5be42a243307e9
where there's smoke there's wires
Quote from: garygreen on December 14, 2020, 12:04:57 AM
Damn. He got me in to reading for fun... 13 year old me was all about Le Carré, Follet, Higgins
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Crudblud
A Moist Delectable Gentleman
Recent reads (with ratings out of five stars):
Stephen E. Ambrose/Douglas G. Brinkley - Rise to Globalism: U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1938 ****
David Black - The Plague Years: A Chronicle of AIDS, the Epidemic of Our Times ****
John Banville - Birchwood **
Francis Wheen - Karl Marx *****
Norman Stone - Europe Transformed 1878-1919
Also I recently bought myself Jens Malte Fischer's biography of Gustav Mahler as an early birthday present. I was going to read the Stone anyway, but it seems like now is a good opportunity to give myself a better sense of Europe in Mahler's time before moving on to the Fischer.
Quote from: la xasop on October 28, 2020, 10:49:42 AM
The logs validate Crudblud's story.
It's difficult to love a woman whose vagina is a gateway to the world of the dead...
Steve is madly in love with his eccentric girlfriend, Stacy. Unfortunately, their sex life has been suffering as of late, because Steve is worried about the odd noises that have been coming from Stacy's pubic region. She says that her vagina is haunted. She doesn't think it's that big of a deal. Steve, on the other hand, completely disagrees.
When a living corpse climbs out of her during an awkward night of sex, Stacy learns that her vagina is actually a doorway to another world. She persuades Steve to climb inside of her to explore this strange new place. But once inside, Steve finds it difficult to return... especially once he meets an oddly attractive woman named Fig, who lives within the lonely haunted world between Stacy's legs.
Torn ... should I read it, should I find something better to do with my time?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Haunted-Vagina-Carlton-Mellick-III-ebook/dp/B005F645MS
Quote from: Toddler Thork on December 30, 2020, 04:52:31 PM
I say read it. It's an award-winning author, that must count for something. Let us know how it is.
Two Time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle would probably be more up your alley, Thork. Or down your alley, as the case may be.
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I am about a third of the way through Jens Malte Fischer's biography of Gustav Mahler. It is most excellent.
junker
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Many spoilers ahead.
First published in 1924, We is a story of a niceguy stemlord who lives in a dystopian society purely based on fAcTs aNd LoGiC (~500 years or so into the future). Our protagonist, D-503 (OneState is too rational for regular names), would also be a nerdvirigin incel if it weren't for the fact big brother assigns people to bang each other on a schedule. Everything has a schedule. D-503 spends most of his time fellating his rational mind by thinking about numbers and equations. He is also the builder of a rocket ship that is going to carry their great society to pacify any potential savages that may exist beyond earth. He has been tasked with keeping a journal so if they encounter any aliens, said aliens will quickly come to understand why OneState is the best state (and will force them to comply with lasers & shit if needed). D bumps into a girl other than his banging partner and accidentally discovers feelings. He does a bunch of dumb shit to impress a woman who probably won't ever really love him. Something to note is that OneState typically executes anyone doing dumb shit.
This text was the inspiration for Brave New World and 1984, and it is easy to see how those works were derived from We. Although this is a bit of a pseudo poem. The prose gets lengthy and flowery once D discovers he may have a soul after he gets shitfaced drunk one night (alcohol and tobacco also punishable by death). Like a dipshit moron in love, D keeps all of his transgressions documented in his journal for literally anyone to read. The prose mostly laments the knuckle-dragging history of mankind. A lot of complaining about Christianity but also implying it was hella right.
Anyway, there is a secret rebellion being plotted against OneState. Unlike 1984, this is actually a real rebellion, not just a honeypot. D gets caught up in the mix and it looks like they are going to topple OneState, but then big brother pulls the rug out. Also unlike 1984, We skips all lengthy brainwashing to make our hero love big brother. OneState has a procedure where they cut out the part of the brain responsible for imagination, which is apparently the root of the problem with the defectors. D gets this brainjob in the last couple pages and is back to usual logical self, compartmentalizing all those dumb feelings he recently had (which occupied ~200 pages of this 225 page novel). The rest of the rebel scum that scammed him into helping them are tortured and executed by OneState while D watches on happily. The end.
Mixing math/science with poetry was a bad experiment and people shouldn't do it.
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Okay, but did you like it?
ur retartet but u donut even no it and i walnut tell u y
Quote from: honk on February 01, 2021, 05:19:38 AM
I am still processing my feelings on that; I probably posted about it too soon as I only finished the book a few hours ago. Right now, I like it like I like the FF7 remake. Super into it initially, then just a grind to get to the important bits and ending.
The Peculiar Exploits of Brigadier Ffellowes
The Curious Quests of Brigadier Ffellowes
Two collections of fantasy short stories by Sterling E. Lanier. They center on the exploits of retired brigadier Donald Ffellowes, told by him to the patrons of a club he belongs to, always to mixed reactions of awe and skepticism. The basic format of an adventurer telling fantastical tall tales was pioneered by the Jorkens stories of Lord Dunsany (one of the most innovative and influential fantasy writers of all time, despite his relative obscurity - one day I'll discuss his works in greater detail), but where Joseph Jorkens is a comical figure and his tales are almost always goofy and lighthearted, Ffellowes's stories are grim and eerie in tone. That being said, I wouldn't go so far as to call them horror, as they're simply too action-packed, lively, and generally just fun.
The common theme that unites most of these stories is the idea of essentially recontextualizing ancient mythologies and folklore. In each story, Ffellowes encounters elements of or believers in a particular belief system, but sees it stripped of myth and presented in a more modern fantastical context. And typically, that means he discovers a monster or a cult at the bottom of it all. It's a great idea, and it's very enjoyable to see how Lanier interprets each religion. But then when the story focusing on Irish folklore comes around...this was such a groaner for me. The subject of Samhain, the Celtic harvest festival comes up, and the story makes it clear that the characters pronounce it as sam-hayne. It's actually a plot point. Ffellowes hears the name and thinks it's someone named "Sam Hayne," not realizing until the last second what it refers to. That's not how it's fucking pronounced. I've always heard it pronounced as sow-win, and I guess other regions have slightly different ways to pronounce it, like sah-win, but in no Celtic country has it ever been pronounced as sam-hayne. These stories were written back in the sixties, and I know they didn't have the Internet back then, but they had encyclopedias. Imagine just assuming that a foreign word is pronounced the same way an English word of the same spelling would be and not bothering to do any research to confirm it.
But that facepalm aside, these stories are delightful romps.
nthurd
Neal Stephenson, "Interface" (1994).
Had to check multiple times during reading that it was not written this year.
i forgot to post when i finished the honourable schoolboy, part 2 of le carré's smiley v. karly trilogy. i enjoyed this one much more than tinker tailor. i especially liked the westerby plot and the ensuing deep dive into the life of a field operator. plus all the southeast asia shit.
my only beef with the book in general was that it was at least twice as long as it should have been. i dunno who edited it, but they did a shit job in that regard imo.
also tiu is a spider bastard.
Quote from: Iceman on December 14, 2020, 02:06:29 AM
if you have any recommendations on good spyshit, holler at ya boy
Havent read any spyshit since Ludlum after watching Matt Damon as Jason Bourne.
Been reading almost exclusively nordic noirs. Rankin and Nesbo being the best, but James Thompson is good, and I like Arnaldur Indridason, but that's probably just because I liked the fact that I'd been to so many of the spots in Iceland he mentions.
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Mission boys have turned philosophy into victories
Police seek help finding missing 15-year-old East Bay teen
Mitch Stephens
Quick: Can you name the Bay Area boys public-school basketball program with the most wins since the start of the 2014-15 season?
The answer: Mission, in the heart of San Francisco.
The Bears have won 79 of their past 94 games. At 25-1 this season, they are off to the best start in school history. The only Bay Area school with more wins is defending Open Division champion — and private-school power — De La Salle-Concord with 80.
At the root of Mission's success — which includes four San Francisco Section championships in five years — is a philosophy introduced a decade ago by two of then-head coach Judson Steele's assistants: Graham Betchart and Arnold Zelaya.
"Don't stop. Keep playing. Next play," said Zelaya, now in his ninth season as the head coach. "You're going to screw up in life and on the court, but keep going. If you're down 20 late, then get it to 10. If up by 20, don't dwell on it or soak up success, just play. Right now."
Betchart, an off-campus coach who back then was starting a new career in mind training and life coaching, reinforced Zelaya's approach.
"I learned a ton from Graham and I think he learned from me as well," Zelaya said of his former colleague who is now the Director of Mental Training for Lucid Performance Inc. "We had two big personalities but we were always on the same page. It wasn't fake. We picked up on each other's strengths. It was fun. His energy was infectious."
Betchart and Zelaya recalled a breakthrough early in the 2007-08 season.
Harry Howard, a senior guard, went 2-for-28 in a 60-32 loss to Riordan at the Crusader Classic. The next night, Howard scored 35 in a loss to San Ramon Valley-Danville. He would average 19.2 points as Mission (26-5) won its first section title in 15 seasons.
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"To fail that big and not lose confidence and respond the next game with 35 told me the program was in good shape," Betchart said.
With Betchart long gone and Zelaya in charge, the Bears have been getting it ever since then.
Though last season's 27-7 team might have been Zelaya's most talented, the current Bears — led by reigning AAA Player of the Year Niamey Harris (14.6 points, 5.6 rebounds, 3.7 steals), Jayden Foston (14.1 ppg) and Jamion Wright (12.9 ppg) — have been more successful because of their discipline on defense.
"We don't take as many chances and we're actually comfortable slowing it down and playing in the halfcourt, which wasn't the case before," Zelaya said."We lost 10 seniors off last year's team, including some really talented kids. If you would have told me we'd be 25-1 at this point, I would have thought you were crazy."
Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.
Mitch Stephens has been writing about high school sports in the Bay Area since LeBron James was born (1984). He spent 16 years in the Alameda Newspaper Group and two years as a freelancer before landing as The San Francisco Chronicle's prep editor in 2002. He accepted a national columnist post with CBS/MaxPreps.com in 2007 and the next year took on both MaxPreps and Chronicle prep content provider roles.
Though he deeply enjoys athletic competition and the games, his speciality is human interest and profiles. He won back-to-back California Prep Sports Writers Association awards for feature writing. Among the many elite Bay Area athletes he's covered as preps are Jason Kidd, Gary Payton, Jahvid Best, D.J. Williams, Maurice Jones-Drew and Jeremy Linn. There's no sport Mitch doesn't relish covering and no profile he doesn't find interesting. The high school landscape is a minefield for rich, personal stories.


Most of the kids know the fairy tale about Buratino-Pinocchio. The little wooden boy's dream was to bury five gold coins near the City of Simple Simons and grow a tree loaded with gold pieces. However, it is a fairy tale; in real life there are no fields of wonders. Of course, except for the Sverdlovsk Region. Here, one can dig out "gold" pipes of the Soviet period. The trove is appraised in millions of rubles. The "RusBusinessNews" columnist has found it out that "fields of wonders" are excavated by dummy companies that serve as a cover for business big shots of federal caliber.
In May 2010, at the height of the spring sowing, agricultural land of the Sverdlovsk Region went through extensive excavation. Fields were trenched by TekhnoStroy, an unrenowned company, which was interested in the pipes of the melioration system. The "outsiders" showed the farmers, who leased the plough land, the agreements they had entered into with municipal authorities to purchase underground systems. That particular fact agitated the farmers most of all, as the local government bore no relation to the melioration systems.
The irrigation network was built in the time of the USSR. The reforms gave an opportunity to private entrepreneurs to lease the land, but the irrigation systems remained publicly owned due to the ban on their privatization. Very soon they actually became abandoned, having no owner at all. The farmers are sure that the authorities intentionally tried to wreck the melioration systems. In 2004 - when the Federal Agency for State Property Management was established - the systems were not included in the register of state-owned property. Leaving aside how it could happen, we face another puzzle: none of the government institutions had filed a lawsuit, trying to regain the right for the lost property. Furthermore, federal officials made no attempt to apply to law enforcement authorities when municipalities, without preliminary permission, started selling through auction the buried property they did not own.
Head of the Revda urban district Andrei Semyonov notified the farmer Andrei Savchenko that the remnants of the melioration system would be extracted from the land leased by the farmer. Herewith, the farmer will receive no compensation for the intrusion of the uninvited guests. The pipes will be dug out by their new owner that will be selected through the tender by the city administration. The letter from the district head went down like a bomb for the farmer: besides that the systems are a priori the state-owned property, the land where the tenant grows potatoes was not duly delimitated and, consequently, remains in the federal ownership.
The arguments given by A. Savchenko did not embarrass the municipal officials who did not lose time to arrange an auction. The participants were TekhnoStroy LLC and Soyuztekhnostal LLC. The winner (TekhnoStroy LLC) was awarded a purchase and sale agreement. The wording of the document was quite artful: the administration sold the pipes without indicating their location - probably, to prevent any risk of criminal prosecution. On behalf of TekhnoStroy, the agreement was signed by the representative of the General Director Ivan Labzeyev, acting under power of attorney. As it was found out later, the power of attorney was fake, i.e., de jure, TekhnoStroy did not buy anything. However, it did not prevent the company, which even did not have a compulsory excavation plan, from starting operations on extracting of the pipes.
At first, the municipal police brought the excavation to a halt, threatening the TekhnoStroy representatives with arrest for arbitrary behavior; however, on the next day the police tempered justice with mercy. Andrei Savchenko filed a lawsuit, after which the bailiffs suspended the trenching operations. However, later, they also admitted their powerlessness: it turned out that the party in fault was the buyer who performed excavation rather than the municipality that illegally sold the property it did not own.
Then the plough land tenant applied to public prosecution that judicially tried to declare the agreement, under which the irrigation system was sold to TekhnoStroy, null and void. The "triumph" of the law looked as follows. The judges managed to declare that the pipes buried in the field were movable property (!), because "the complex of hydro-technical facilities was not operating". During the court proceedings, the TekhnoStroy representative informed that 70% of the extracted pipes had been scrapped due to their non-serviceability. The court judgment - the contested transaction did not violate anyone's rights, therefore, TekhnoStroy may proceed with its excavation.
In the meantime, experts deny that the irrigation system in the fields of the former state farm Revdinsky had decayed and had been scrapped. According to specialists of the Sverdlovskmeliovodkhoz Federal Department, the pipes were coated with bituminous layer, whereas the walls were 8-12 millimeters wide, thus being able to operate during 70 years. Those who were present during the excavation state that after the pipes had been extracted from the ground, the TekhnoStroy employees treated them with solution and burnt. The bitumen-free pipes were transported to the factory where through sandblasting they were returned to the marketable condition. By the way, experts assert that it is extremely difficult to arrange for old pipes being treated at the Pervouralsk Restoration Pipe Plant: far from all orders are accepted. The owners of this enterprise are individuals who represent interests of the leading Russian pipe manufacturers, and the "admission" ticket is given only with their approval.
TekhnoStroy LLC is a classic example of a dummy company. Its registered office is located in the boiler house of one of the Ekaterinburg saunas. The attorneys from the Skolot Group representing interests of TekhnoStroy offered to forward subpoenas to the office of Soyuztekhnostal. This company participated, along with TekhnoStroy, in the auction that was held in Revda. Furthermore, Oleg Shutrov, the owner of Soyuztekhnostal, being in charge of the excavation on the land leased by A. Savchenko, introduced himself to the bailiffs as the head of the Procurement Department of TekhnoStroy LLC.
Soyuztekhnostal LLC deals with trading of drill and rehabilitated pipes. The participants of the pipe market assume that the actual owners of this company are affiliated with the owners of the Pipe Metallurgical Company OJSC, specializing in pipes for the oil and gas complex.
It appears that TekhnoStroy LLC was set up in June 2009 specifically for the project of "privatization" of state-owned melioration networks. The game was worth the candle. Nadezhda Ilinykh, Deputy of the Bailkalovo District Duma, states that in the former collective farm Krasnaya Zvezda alone, TekhnoStroy dug out about 6 kilometers of pipes, which can be appraised at more than 6 million rubles. The farmer Andrei Savchenko thinks that the total earnings received by the businessmen from the pipes amount to at least 45 million rubles.
The farmers who incurred damaged due to vandal excavations intend to request assistance from the Prime Minister of the country. The authorities of the Sverdlovsk Region cannot help them: apparently, the "fields of wonders" came to hand of top-level businessmen. In Russia, only Vladimir Putin is able to clip their wings. This process is called "manual control".


Education: Completed a year long Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy Fellowship at the Aspen Foundation for Sports Medicine in Aspen, Colorado. He completed his residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and attended medical school at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Dr. Cummins also has a Masters degree in Evaluative Clinical Science from Dartmouth College.
Education: Arthroplasty Fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Brigham and Women's Hospital is a teaching affiliate to Harvard Medical School. Graduate of the Orthopedic Surgery Residency program at Dartmouth and attended medical school at the University of Minnesota.
Board Certified: American Board of Orthopedic Surgery.